Info-Mac Digest V14 #290
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 17 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 290
Today's Topics:
[A] Funny ASCII mistakes
[A] LC III and external CD-ROM problem
[Q] a "locked" hard drive?
[Q] Energy Saver 2.0.1
[Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
A driver for the selected...
AppleTalk switching itself OFF
Duplicating a Syquest 270 Cartridge
dying Quadra 840AV?
emailer->Eudora via MailConverter 2.2.2
EPS in Claris FileMaker Pro
Funky printing with new Eudora Lite 3.0
Info-Mac Digest V14 #289 (2 msgs)
MSWord Printing Crashes! This sucks!
Netscape & Fetch (Q)
Personal Accounts
Printing Problem with 6100/66
Processing while menu down?
Q: Windows, Fonts & Internet
Radius 8100/110 and 7.5.5
Response to Inquiry/5 Dec 96 Info Mac
System7.5.5
System beeps when uploading file in Netscape
Terminal Tool for Mathematica
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:34:17 +0100
From: Ken Laskey
Subject: [A] Funny ASCII mistakes
As another data point, I occasionally get the "funny ASCII mistakes" on
Info-Mac entries. It does not happen often and I have not tried to find
any pattern. I am presently using Eudora Pro 3.0 (only started recently so
I'm not 100% sure if I've seen this under 3.0) and previously used the
current version of Eudora Light.
Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 96 14:44:04 -0500
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [A] LC III and external CD-ROM problem
Dear Scott:
Sorry to tell you, but the problem is that there is no path in the SCSI
cable for the Audio Data to get to your mac (multimedia CD's work
fine because the sound uses a diufferent path), this is from the
Apple Technical Library). I do not know if this will work on your Mac,
go to the sound control panel, go to the 'sound in' screen, if you can
use the 'optiona' button, click on it and then choose 'playthough cd'
If the the option is grayed out, you are out of luck. I have a
Centris 610 and this issued was discussed a few months back.
The solution is to use headphones or external speakers.
Sincerely,
Romulo Romero
Scott, ([email protected]) wrote:
>I have an LCIII running 7.1 and an external CD-ROM. I can't figure out
>how to run the sound from audio discs through my built-in speakers.
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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 21:21:03 -0800
From: Chris Lalonde
Subject: [Q] a "locked" hard drive?
I'm trying to help a friend with who received an LC 575 as a gift. The hard
drive claims to be locked (it even shows a lock icon in the upper left of
the window). I didn't know you could lock a hard drive without some kind of
security program. I finally managed to get it to startup from the CD drive
and could find no evidence of any security/disk locking program. I ran Disk
First Aid which says the drive needs to be repaired -- but, of course, it
can't repair a locked drive. She's willing to erase the drive and reformat
but it won't let us do that either. What can I do?
-Chris Lalonde
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:29:59 +1000
From: Andrew Martin
Subject: [Q] Energy Saver 2.0.1
I have just upgraded to system 7.5.5 (started with 7.5.2, upgraded to
7.5.3, then to 7.5.5), on my Performa 6200. When I try to run the
energy saver control panel (version 2.0.1), it says that either the
energy saver extension was not loaded at startup, or that my machine
does not support the energy saver control panel. Symbionts (a very
excellent utility by the way-heaps better than extensions manager
says that the energy saver extension is loaded, and using 12,624bytes
of my precious RAM. I know that the energy saver (2.0.x) control panel
is supported on my mac (it has soft power-on, and besides, I read that
it does on the Apple TIL). So what is the problem?? I want to be able
to tell my mac when to turn on. Is there any other utility I can use
to do the same thing?
Thanks to you all in advance.... Please reply to me by Email, as well
as to the whole group.
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:12:39 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: [Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
At 7:23 AM +0100 12/13/96, Benny Korneliusson wrote:
>Is there any way that one can open an avi. file on a Mac, without having
>the Mac-equal of the producing program?
MIcrosoft Internet Explorer will open AVI files. It will even convert them
to QuickTime movies, if you want.
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:29:07 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: A driver for the selected...
At 1:07 AM +0100 12/14/96, Arild Eugen Johansen wrote:
>=ABA driver for the selected AppleTalk connection could not be found. The
>built-in LocalTalk port will be used instead.=BB
>
>Who knows the error message, why is it showing up and what does it mean?
It means that you have selected a network connection method [EtherNet,
TokenRing, etc.] but a driver for that type of connection does not exist.
Here's a way to generate the error on purpose [this assumes you have an
real Ethernet connection available, and that you're running classic
networking]:
1. In the "Network" control panel, select "Ethernet". Close the control
panel.
2. Open the Extensions folder, and drag "EtherTalk Phase 2" to the desktop.
3. Restart your machine. On startup, the error message above will appear.
So, check to make sure you have the correct drivers for your desired
network connection. Apparently, you're selecting something like "Ethernet"
for your network, but pieces of the Ethernet driver software have been
disabled.
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 22:45:23 -0800
From: "David L. Ellis"
Subject: AppleTalk switching itself OFF
Hello,
I have had a problem on a PowerMac 7200/90 running System 7.5.5 and
LaserWriter 8.3.4 with Desktop Printing software 2.0. All of a sudden, each
time I reboot, I have to turn AppleTalk back on even though I have done it
before. It just won't stay on. What am I doing wrong, and what shoule I
look for?
Thanks
David L. Ellis
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 04:05:40 -0800
From: [email protected] (Zplanet)
Subject: Duplicating a Syquest 270 Cartridge
Duplicating a Syquest 270 Cartridge
I am trying to duplicate a Syquest 270 Mg cartridge by using my internal
drive as an intermediate and swapping up and back.
Anyone know what program can do this?
There is a program called CopyThru, but It doesn't seem to run on my Duo
280.
Thanks,
Norm
Please respond: [email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:13:45 -0500
From: [email protected] (D. Crosman)
Subject: dying Quadra 840AV?
It sounds like my Quadra 660AV just before the battery died.
Anyone out there with a Quadra 840AV have the battery die?
D Crosman
[email protected]
>A Quadra 840AV in my department has been acting up lately, with problems
>that may or may not be related. Yesterday on startup it displayed the "?"
>disk icon, and continued to do so after several restarts. When we left it
>alone, it sat there with the disk icon for a 2-3 minutes and then
>spontaneously started to boot properly. Later that day, during normal page
>layout in Quark, it crashed with the message "Floating point co-processor
>not installed." Neither of these problems has recurred since then, but I
>was later informed that over the last couple weeks the monitor occassional
>blacks out with a snapping sound and then immediately reappears. Nothing
>has been changed in the system that might account for this. All normal
>procedures were being followed when problems occurred.
>
>Dana Muller Matthew Medical Books
>(314) 432-1401 x389 http://www.mattmccoy.com
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:49:30 -0500
From: [email protected] (R Shapiro)
Subject: emailer->Eudora via MailConverter 2.2.2
A change in the Metrowerks compiler had the side-effect of introducing a
bug in the Emailer->Eudora conversion module of MailConverter 2.2.2.
MailConverter 2.2.3 will be available very soon, maybe later today, but in
the meantime I would recommend that you not use 2.2.2 for this particular
conversion. Earlier releases of MailConverter should be ok for Emailer
conversion, and other sorts of conversions should be ok with 2.2.2
If you desperately need to convert Emailer folders and you want to
beta-test MailConverter 2.2.3, drop me a line.
--
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:22:03 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: EPS in Claris FileMaker Pro
At 1:08 AM +0100 12/14/96, Arild Eugen Johansen wrote:
>I have not received a reply from Claris (difficult to get in touch with
>them for simple questions that is not answered in the manuals) so I wonder
>if any of you know if it is possible to import/link EPS images into a
>FileMaker Pro database. I have some signs I am drawing in Illustrator and
>they are to appear as pictures in FM. I get the correct font on the screen
>(Frutiger) but when I print I get Courier (completely useless).
The fact that you get Frutiger onscreen and Courier at the printer shows
that the EPS in being imported and printed correctly.
What you're seeing on the screen is the PICT preview, which was built by
Illustrator. So, you get Frutiger there.
When you print to a PostScript printer, however, that preview is ignored,
and the actual PostScript data is sent to the printer. Apparently, that
printer doesn't know what Frutiger is, so you get Courier.
Is the printing happening from a different machine than the one used to
create the graphics? If so, install Frutiger on that machine, and you
should be fine.
It could be that FileMaker doesn't know enough to send along fonts that are
needed for embedded EPS's, in which case you'll need to download Frutiger
to the printer's disk [if it has one] or memory.
If FileMaker is in fact failing to send fonts which are only found inside
EPS, another option would be to include a field on the layout which
contains a single space in Frutiger. This should make FileMaker send
Frutiger along with the job. This won't work under QuickDrawGX, however.
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:11:24 -0700
From: "B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin"
Subject: Funky printing with new Eudora Lite 3.0
I use an Imagewriter printer to print email messages and digest lists. I
have found with the new Eudora Lite 3.0 that these items will not print
correctly at all. There will be 3-4 inches of space at the bottom of each
page, and messages will not continue on the next page, but a new message
will start. I never had problems printing with previous versions of Eudora
before, including 1.5.5, so I am wondering what could be causing this.
Reinstalling Eudora did not help; I am using the most recent Imagewriter
extension available and have also checked all Page Setup options carefully,
as well as paper size (which for myself never changes). I am temporarily
getting around this by either making text clippings or doing a cut and
paste to Simpletext and printing from there--which works out fine for the
time being.
Any thoughts on this problem?
--bj
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:53:39 +1300
From: Kris Lane
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #289
>Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 16:03:49 -0400
>From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
>Subject: [A] How open an avi. file on a Mac
>
>>From: Benny Korneliusson
>>Subject: [Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
>>
>>Is there any way that one can open an avi. file on a Mac, without having
>>the Mac-equal of the producing program?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>> Benny
>
>Microsoft Internet Explorer can view AVI files.
>AVI to QT utility (is supposed to) convert it into movie files but it never
>worked for me. MSIE is your best bet IMHO.
>
>Andrew
Microsoft Internet explorer installs several files to your Extensions
folder,(well it dd for me)
These act like the Apple MPEG extension and add functionality to all
Quicktime aware apps.
Movieplayer will also play the files and if you want you can export them to
=2Emov format.
The extensions that it installs are -
Indeo=AE Video and Intel Raw Video.
kris
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:27:15 -1000
From: Curt Fiedler
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #289
What's the deal with ChatMagic?
You guys posted the file with some comment in InfoMac#289 that the text
portion was too big to post. But when I try to download with Fetch, all
I get is a big, unreadable text file with no program. Is there an
application actually attached to that text file (that I can't read)?
What is the program anyway!?
Thanks,
Curt
--
G. Curt Fiedler
Zoology Department & Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2538 The Mall, Edmondson hall
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Phone: (808)956-4712
Fax: (808)956-9812
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zoology/graduate/CurtPage.html
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:48:54 -0800
From: [email protected] (Jon Froines)
Subject: MSWord Printing Crashes! This sucks!
I know this should go to Microsoft Tech help or soething, but MS is bad bad
bad to their customers in that area. Maybe somebody here can help me. I
use MS Word 6.01 for the Mac on my PowerMac 7500/100 with 48M of RAM,
System 7.5.5, QuickDraw GX, and Speed Doubler. I have Ram Doubler 2 as
well, but it's disabled these days, since it's been bugging me. When I try
to print from MS Word I get the little gray "spooling to printer" box after
hitting return in the print options and such box, but then it freezes.
When I restart, it's always caused damage requiring Disk First Aid. At
first I thought it was my QuickDraw GX stuff, since I've heard plenty of
un-fun stuff about it. However, I discovered that all my other programs
are printing fine. I set up a "Printing Only" extensions set with Conflict
Catcher 3 which had only the printing stuff and MS word stuff, and it still
crashes. I would desparately like to avoid having to reinstall MS Word
>From scratch, because it's on a zillion floppies, but I guess I'll do it if
I have to. Anybody have any ideas? All this Disk First Aid and desktop
rebuilding is getting OLD, and I still haven't printed a damn thing!
Thanks for reading...
- JonYo ([email protected])
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:04:25 -0600
From: [email protected] ("C. Posey")
Subject: Netscape & Fetch (Q)
Mon, Dec 16, 1996 / 3:00 PM CST -0600
______________________________________
At one time I found an AppleScript app that would alter Netscape to auto
launch/use Fetch or Anarchie (user's pref) when a ftp URL was encountered.
I can not seem to get that script to work since switching to Netscape
3.0.x. Anyone no why? Does anyone know the atual RSRC's that I could go in
and edit with ResEdit. I'm sure it's a STR resource - I just don't have
time to locate it.
Please respond via e-mail
- TIA
C. Posey
---
At 1:58 PM -0600 on 12.11.96, Paul M. Sheldon wrote:
> You may already know, fetch will work concurrently with netscape, in
> fact, maybe someone will tell you how to automate the following process
> with fetch as a helper application!
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 01:33:47 +0000
From: [email protected] (Daniel Frampton)
Subject: Personal Accounts
Could someone recommend a simple personal accounts shareware program.
I just want something to keep track of my bank account (especially over the
holidays), and which looks like a bank statement, ie:
Date Description Payments Receipts Balance
I've tried CheckBook 2.0 but it doesn't make payments and receipts very clear.
Thanks in advance for your deposits,
Daniel, London.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:12:49 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gary Smith)
Subject: Printing Problem with 6100/66
I have a Mac 6100/66 printing to an HP Deskjet 870Cse. In printing from
Micrtosoft Word 6.0, I have encountered a strange problem. The text will
print fine for a few lines, then a line of text wll begin outside the right
hand margin on the page. Obviously the remainder of that line is lost
since it is outside the margin. Then the next several lines will print
fine and again a line will begin outside the margin on the next line. This
pattern repeats itself throughout the printing. I have used another Mac to
print to the printer using Word 6.0 and encountered no problems. So I am
reasonably confident it is something in the software of my 6100. Has
anyone else encountered a similar printing problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks for the help.
Editorial comment: Info-Mac is the most useful and valuable service on the
net. Keep up the good work and thanks for the time you invest.
------------------
Gary D. Smith
Assistant to the President
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
118 Madison Hall
Huntsville, Alabama 35899
(205)890-6084
(205)890-6538 FAX
email: [email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:31:38 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Processing while menu down?
At 11:39 PM -0500 12/12/96, Martin Forrester wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anybody remember an extenstion that allows the Mac to continue
>processing while a menu is held down? I trolled through the IM archives a
>while and couldn't find it.
Searching came up with:
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:56:49 +0000
From: "M. Winter"
Subject: Q: Windows, Fonts & Internet
Hi all!
Maybe someone out there can help? I was intrigued to read about the 486 DOS
card being used in
an LC475, and since I have to use the occasional Windows program (no, not a
game - data
analysis! My prof insists on this program being used!), here's my first
question:
1) As proud owner of a Performa 5200 CDTV with an LC III style PDS slot - can I
use a 486 DOS
card in this slot? Are there different designs of the 486 cards out there (e.g.
is the one for the
Performa 630 different from the one for the PPC6100)?
I also need to show amino acid sequence alignments, e.g
sequence 1 MNGTGGDAF
sequence 2 MAGTAGDAL
where identical letters are white on black and similar ones are shaded, or
boxed characters
etc... . Therefore comes question 2:
2) Does anyone know of a modified courier font which has this shaded
characters?
(P.S. I know the workarounds, e.g use a table in Word (limited to 32!), use
Excel - but its all so
cumbersome ....)
With my next question I have pestered Mac publications for some time without
ever getting an
answer! If I have a modem I can happily send e-mail to a friend (or foe) who is
equally equipped
(notice: no service provider necessary!) by just using his/her phone number.
With a modem I
can dial-up (connect to) a service provider and mail to people using something
like
someone@somewhere. But
3) how do I send e-mail from a service provider or university (using Pegasus
mail or whatever
is available) to someone with a modem but no service provider (using his/her
phone number)?
Considering that my girlfriend lives far, far away, I'm very interested in the
internet phone
possibilities.
4) Does anyone have experience with how it works? Digiphone says "you need
direct internet
access". What is that? Is a modem enough?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Markus
Markus Winter
32 Thirlestane Road 2F2
Edinburgh EH9 1AW
Tel: 0131 - 447 4866
e-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
ICMB
Darwin Building
King's Buildings
Edinburgh EH9 3JR
Scotland
Tel: 0131 - 650 5376
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 96 10:23:45 -0000
From: David Pickering
Subject: Radius 8100/110 and 7.5.5
This has always been a great read and let's us know what is going on in
the world of MAC. Maybe someone can help me out. After installing to an
apple internal (partioned), I have started having problems with
rebuilding the desktop (stops halfway through). On running disk first aid
I have various problems with the extents files. It seems to have a life
of its own since this does not always occur after a desktop rebuild but
occurs randomly with or without extensions running. One other problem
that has been manifesting itself is on opening numerous windows, or
windows with 50 files or more. The mouse freezes over the icon and I must
use the programmer switch to restart. This problem has and continues to
be a problem.
I run two systems on separate hard drives so I am open to most any
suggestions.
Thanks for your good work and in advance for the help.
David Pickering
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:35:58 +0100
From: "Roland S. Jary" (by way of
[email protected] (Andre' C. van der Ham))
Subject: Response to Inquiry/5 Dec 96 Info Mac
Re: Which printer to use:
I had a HP for 5 years - not one problem. Then decided to switch for the
color aspect and got
the Epson Stylus II. Result: Terrible - alignment problems, ink problems,
encoding problems,
slow as a snail. Epson even swapped units with me - still same stuff.
BOTTOM LINE: I'm now
buying the HP 870. By the way, the letters following 870 are strictly the
paper package that
comes with the unit. good luck.
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:58:07 +0000
From: ottoman
Subject: System7.5.5
I'm having problems coping from CDs or floppys,and it seems
to be centered around my ram doubler(1.6.1) I've tried other
versions with no luck. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
ottoman
P.S. It's not that life is too short,
It's that your dead so damn long.
Rock On!
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:18:55 -0500
From: Jeff Frankel
Subject: System beeps when uploading file in Netscape
Whenever I send an attached file with Netscape 3.0, my system beep
sounds repeatedly. This goes on not only while the file is uploading,
but after it is finished as well. The only way I can stop the racket is
to quit Netscape. And while this is going on, Netscape monopolizes the
computer almost totally, so simply lowering the volume does not seem to
be the answer to my problem. The size of the uploading file doesn't
seem to matter. Any ideas, anyone? I'm running a 7100/66 w/ 15 meg RAM
allocated to Netscape out of 40 meg total hard RAM, System 7.5.5, OT
1.1.1, FreePPP 2.5.2.
--
Jeff Frankel
Windsor, Maine USA
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:26:41 +0100
From: Magnus Hoek
Subject: Terminal Tool for Mathematica
Tuesday 17 December -96
Dear Mac Fellows
I'm trying to make Mathematica to use a SUN for the calculations and my
precious Mac for the front-(user friendly)-end.
However, according to the manual I need the Versaterm Telnet Tool (which I
have) and a Terminal Tool (e.g. TTY Tool or VT100 Tool).
Does anybody know where I can get a "Terminal Tool". I believe it's an
extension...
Thanks for any help !
Magnus Hoek
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:10:56 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Visited Links
Im using netscape navigator gold on my ppc 6115 and no matter what
i do I cannot get netscape to record where I have been, my VISITED
Links.
Ive gone into the settings and changed the colors. Ive set it to use
my colors, and to use the pages colors, but no matter what I cant get it
to display my visited links...
My links are also set never to expire...
anybody got any Ideas?
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 17 Dec 96 Volume 14 : Issue 290
Today's Topics:
[A] Funny ASCII mistakes
[A] LC III and external CD-ROM problem
[Q] a "locked" hard drive?
[Q] Energy Saver 2.0.1
[Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
A driver for the selected...
AppleTalk switching itself OFF
Duplicating a Syquest 270 Cartridge
dying Quadra 840AV?
emailer->Eudora via MailConverter 2.2.2
EPS in Claris FileMaker Pro
Funky printing with new Eudora Lite 3.0
Info-Mac Digest V14 #289 (2 msgs)
MSWord Printing Crashes! This sucks!
Netscape & Fetch (Q)
Personal Accounts
Printing Problem with 6100/66
Processing while menu down?
Q: Windows, Fonts & Internet
Radius 8100/110 and 7.5.5
Response to Inquiry/5 Dec 96 Info Mac
System7.5.5
System beeps when uploading file in Netscape
Terminal Tool for Mathematica
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:34:17 +0100
From: Ken Laskey
Subject: [A] Funny ASCII mistakes
As another data point, I occasionally get the "funny ASCII mistakes" on
Info-Mac entries. It does not happen often and I have not tried to find
any pattern. I am presently using Eudora Pro 3.0 (only started recently so
I'm not 100% sure if I've seen this under 3.0) and previously used the
current version of Eudora Light.
Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 96 14:44:04 -0500
From: Romulo Romero
Subject: [A] LC III and external CD-ROM problem
Dear Scott:
Sorry to tell you, but the problem is that there is no path in the SCSI
cable for the Audio Data to get to your mac (multimedia CD's work
fine because the sound uses a diufferent path), this is from the
Apple Technical Library). I do not know if this will work on your Mac,
go to the sound control panel, go to the 'sound in' screen, if you can
use the 'optiona' button, click on it and then choose 'playthough cd'
If the the option is grayed out, you are out of luck. I have a
Centris 610 and this issued was discussed a few months back.
The solution is to use headphones or external speakers.
Sincerely,
Romulo Romero
Scott, ([email protected]) wrote:
>I have an LCIII running 7.1 and an external CD-ROM. I can't figure out
>how to run the sound from audio discs through my built-in speakers.
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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 21:21:03 -0800
From: Chris Lalonde
Subject: [Q] a "locked" hard drive?
I'm trying to help a friend with who received an LC 575 as a gift. The hard
drive claims to be locked (it even shows a lock icon in the upper left of
the window). I didn't know you could lock a hard drive without some kind of
security program. I finally managed to get it to startup from the CD drive
and could find no evidence of any security/disk locking program. I ran Disk
First Aid which says the drive needs to be repaired -- but, of course, it
can't repair a locked drive. She's willing to erase the drive and reformat
but it won't let us do that either. What can I do?
-Chris Lalonde
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:29:59 +1000
From: Andrew Martin
Subject: [Q] Energy Saver 2.0.1
I have just upgraded to system 7.5.5 (started with 7.5.2, upgraded to
7.5.3, then to 7.5.5), on my Performa 6200. When I try to run the
energy saver control panel (version 2.0.1), it says that either the
energy saver extension was not loaded at startup, or that my machine
does not support the energy saver control panel. Symbionts (a very
excellent utility by the way-heaps better than extensions manager
says that the energy saver extension is loaded, and using 12,624bytes
of my precious RAM. I know that the energy saver (2.0.x) control panel
is supported on my mac (it has soft power-on, and besides, I read that
it does on the Apple TIL). So what is the problem?? I want to be able
to tell my mac when to turn on. Is there any other utility I can use
to do the same thing?
Thanks to you all in advance.... Please reply to me by Email, as well
as to the whole group.
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:12:39 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: [Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
At 7:23 AM +0100 12/13/96, Benny Korneliusson wrote:
>Is there any way that one can open an avi. file on a Mac, without having
>the Mac-equal of the producing program?
MIcrosoft Internet Explorer will open AVI files. It will even convert them
to QuickTime movies, if you want.
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:29:07 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: A driver for the selected...
At 1:07 AM +0100 12/14/96, Arild Eugen Johansen wrote:
>=ABA driver for the selected AppleTalk connection could not be found. The
>built-in LocalTalk port will be used instead.=BB
>
>Who knows the error message, why is it showing up and what does it mean?
It means that you have selected a network connection method [EtherNet,
TokenRing, etc.] but a driver for that type of connection does not exist.
Here's a way to generate the error on purpose [this assumes you have an
real Ethernet connection available, and that you're running classic
networking]:
1. In the "Network" control panel, select "Ethernet". Close the control
panel.
2. Open the Extensions folder, and drag "EtherTalk Phase 2" to the desktop.
3. Restart your machine. On startup, the error message above will appear.
So, check to make sure you have the correct drivers for your desired
network connection. Apparently, you're selecting something like "Ethernet"
for your network, but pieces of the Ethernet driver software have been
disabled.
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 22:45:23 -0800
From: "David L. Ellis"
Subject: AppleTalk switching itself OFF
Hello,
I have had a problem on a PowerMac 7200/90 running System 7.5.5 and
LaserWriter 8.3.4 with Desktop Printing software 2.0. All of a sudden, each
time I reboot, I have to turn AppleTalk back on even though I have done it
before. It just won't stay on. What am I doing wrong, and what shoule I
look for?
Thanks
David L. Ellis
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 04:05:40 -0800
From: [email protected] (Zplanet)
Subject: Duplicating a Syquest 270 Cartridge
Duplicating a Syquest 270 Cartridge
I am trying to duplicate a Syquest 270 Mg cartridge by using my internal
drive as an intermediate and swapping up and back.
Anyone know what program can do this?
There is a program called CopyThru, but It doesn't seem to run on my Duo
280.
Thanks,
Norm
Please respond: [email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:13:45 -0500
From: [email protected] (D. Crosman)
Subject: dying Quadra 840AV?
It sounds like my Quadra 660AV just before the battery died.
Anyone out there with a Quadra 840AV have the battery die?
D Crosman
[email protected]
>A Quadra 840AV in my department has been acting up lately, with problems
>that may or may not be related. Yesterday on startup it displayed the "?"
>disk icon, and continued to do so after several restarts. When we left it
>alone, it sat there with the disk icon for a 2-3 minutes and then
>spontaneously started to boot properly. Later that day, during normal page
>layout in Quark, it crashed with the message "Floating point co-processor
>not installed." Neither of these problems has recurred since then, but I
>was later informed that over the last couple weeks the monitor occassional
>blacks out with a snapping sound and then immediately reappears. Nothing
>has been changed in the system that might account for this. All normal
>procedures were being followed when problems occurred.
>
>Dana Muller Matthew Medical Books
>(314) 432-1401 x389 http://www.mattmccoy.com
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:49:30 -0500
From: [email protected] (R Shapiro)
Subject: emailer->Eudora via MailConverter 2.2.2
A change in the Metrowerks compiler had the side-effect of introducing a
bug in the Emailer->Eudora conversion module of MailConverter 2.2.2.
MailConverter 2.2.3 will be available very soon, maybe later today, but in
the meantime I would recommend that you not use 2.2.2 for this particular
conversion. Earlier releases of MailConverter should be ok for Emailer
conversion, and other sorts of conversions should be ok with 2.2.2
If you desperately need to convert Emailer folders and you want to
beta-test MailConverter 2.2.3, drop me a line.
--
rs/[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:22:03 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: EPS in Claris FileMaker Pro
At 1:08 AM +0100 12/14/96, Arild Eugen Johansen wrote:
>I have not received a reply from Claris (difficult to get in touch with
>them for simple questions that is not answered in the manuals) so I wonder
>if any of you know if it is possible to import/link EPS images into a
>FileMaker Pro database. I have some signs I am drawing in Illustrator and
>they are to appear as pictures in FM. I get the correct font on the screen
>(Frutiger) but when I print I get Courier (completely useless).
The fact that you get Frutiger onscreen and Courier at the printer shows
that the EPS in being imported and printed correctly.
What you're seeing on the screen is the PICT preview, which was built by
Illustrator. So, you get Frutiger there.
When you print to a PostScript printer, however, that preview is ignored,
and the actual PostScript data is sent to the printer. Apparently, that
printer doesn't know what Frutiger is, so you get Courier.
Is the printing happening from a different machine than the one used to
create the graphics? If so, install Frutiger on that machine, and you
should be fine.
It could be that FileMaker doesn't know enough to send along fonts that are
needed for embedded EPS's, in which case you'll need to download Frutiger
to the printer's disk [if it has one] or memory.
If FileMaker is in fact failing to send fonts which are only found inside
EPS, another option would be to include a field on the layout which
contains a single space in Frutiger. This should make FileMaker send
Frutiger along with the job. This won't work under QuickDrawGX, however.
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:11:24 -0700
From: "B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin"
Subject: Funky printing with new Eudora Lite 3.0
I use an Imagewriter printer to print email messages and digest lists. I
have found with the new Eudora Lite 3.0 that these items will not print
correctly at all. There will be 3-4 inches of space at the bottom of each
page, and messages will not continue on the next page, but a new message
will start. I never had problems printing with previous versions of Eudora
before, including 1.5.5, so I am wondering what could be causing this.
Reinstalling Eudora did not help; I am using the most recent Imagewriter
extension available and have also checked all Page Setup options carefully,
as well as paper size (which for myself never changes). I am temporarily
getting around this by either making text clippings or doing a cut and
paste to Simpletext and printing from there--which works out fine for the
time being.
Any thoughts on this problem?
--bj
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:53:39 +1300
From: Kris Lane
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #289
>Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 16:03:49 -0400
>From: [email protected] (Andrew Murray)
>Subject: [A] How open an avi. file on a Mac
>
>>From: Benny Korneliusson
>>Subject: [Q] How open an avi. file on a Mac
>>
>>Is there any way that one can open an avi. file on a Mac, without having
>>the Mac-equal of the producing program?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>> Benny
>
>Microsoft Internet Explorer can view AVI files.
>AVI to QT utility (is supposed to) convert it into movie files but it never
>worked for me. MSIE is your best bet IMHO.
>
>Andrew
Microsoft Internet explorer installs several files to your Extensions
folder,(well it dd for me)
These act like the Apple MPEG extension and add functionality to all
Quicktime aware apps.
Movieplayer will also play the files and if you want you can export them to
=2Emov format.
The extensions that it installs are -
Indeo=AE Video and Intel Raw Video.
kris
-------
mailto:[email protected]
Wellington
New Zealand
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:27:15 -1000
From: Curt Fiedler
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #289
What's the deal with ChatMagic?
You guys posted the file with some comment in InfoMac#289 that the text
portion was too big to post. But when I try to download with Fetch, all
I get is a big, unreadable text file with no program. Is there an
application actually attached to that text file (that I can't read)?
What is the program anyway!?
Thanks,
Curt
--
G. Curt Fiedler
Zoology Department & Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2538 The Mall, Edmondson hall
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Phone: (808)956-4712
Fax: (808)956-9812
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zoology/graduate/CurtPage.html
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:48:54 -0800
From: [email protected] (Jon Froines)
Subject: MSWord Printing Crashes! This sucks!
I know this should go to Microsoft Tech help or soething, but MS is bad bad
bad to their customers in that area. Maybe somebody here can help me. I
use MS Word 6.01 for the Mac on my PowerMac 7500/100 with 48M of RAM,
System 7.5.5, QuickDraw GX, and Speed Doubler. I have Ram Doubler 2 as
well, but it's disabled these days, since it's been bugging me. When I try
to print from MS Word I get the little gray "spooling to printer" box after
hitting return in the print options and such box, but then it freezes.
When I restart, it's always caused damage requiring Disk First Aid. At
first I thought it was my QuickDraw GX stuff, since I've heard plenty of
un-fun stuff about it. However, I discovered that all my other programs
are printing fine. I set up a "Printing Only" extensions set with Conflict
Catcher 3 which had only the printing stuff and MS word stuff, and it still
crashes. I would desparately like to avoid having to reinstall MS Word
>From scratch, because it's on a zillion floppies, but I guess I'll do it if
I have to. Anybody have any ideas? All this Disk First Aid and desktop
rebuilding is getting OLD, and I still haven't printed a damn thing!
Thanks for reading...
- JonYo ([email protected])
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:04:25 -0600
From: [email protected] ("C. Posey")
Subject: Netscape & Fetch (Q)
Mon, Dec 16, 1996 / 3:00 PM CST -0600
______________________________________
At one time I found an AppleScript app that would alter Netscape to auto
launch/use Fetch or Anarchie (user's pref) when a ftp URL was encountered.
I can not seem to get that script to work since switching to Netscape
3.0.x. Anyone no why? Does anyone know the atual RSRC's that I could go in
and edit with ResEdit. I'm sure it's a STR resource - I just don't have
time to locate it.
Please respond via e-mail
- TIA
C. Posey
---
At 1:58 PM -0600 on 12.11.96, Paul M. Sheldon wrote:
> You may already know, fetch will work concurrently with netscape, in
> fact, maybe someone will tell you how to automate the following process
> with fetch as a helper application!
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 01:33:47 +0000
From: [email protected] (Daniel Frampton)
Subject: Personal Accounts
Could someone recommend a simple personal accounts shareware program.
I just want something to keep track of my bank account (especially over the
holidays), and which looks like a bank statement, ie:
Date Description Payments Receipts Balance
I've tried CheckBook 2.0 but it doesn't make payments and receipts very clear.
Thanks in advance for your deposits,
Daniel, London.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:12:49 -0600
From: [email protected] (Gary Smith)
Subject: Printing Problem with 6100/66
I have a Mac 6100/66 printing to an HP Deskjet 870Cse. In printing from
Micrtosoft Word 6.0, I have encountered a strange problem. The text will
print fine for a few lines, then a line of text wll begin outside the right
hand margin on the page. Obviously the remainder of that line is lost
since it is outside the margin. Then the next several lines will print
fine and again a line will begin outside the margin on the next line. This
pattern repeats itself throughout the printing. I have used another Mac to
print to the printer using Word 6.0 and encountered no problems. So I am
reasonably confident it is something in the software of my 6100. Has
anyone else encountered a similar printing problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks for the help.
Editorial comment: Info-Mac is the most useful and valuable service on the
net. Keep up the good work and thanks for the time you invest.
------------------
Gary D. Smith
Assistant to the President
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
118 Madison Hall
Huntsville, Alabama 35899
(205)890-6084
(205)890-6538 FAX
email: [email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:31:38 -0500
From: Chaz Larson
Subject: Processing while menu down?
At 11:39 PM -0500 12/12/96, Martin Forrester wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anybody remember an extenstion that allows the Mac to continue
>processing while a menu is held down? I trolled through the IM archives a
>while and couldn't find it.
Searching came up with:
chazl
12.16.96
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:56:49 +0000
From: "M. Winter"
Subject: Q: Windows, Fonts & Internet
Hi all!
Maybe someone out there can help? I was intrigued to read about the 486 DOS
card being used in
an LC475, and since I have to use the occasional Windows program (no, not a
game - data
analysis! My prof insists on this program being used!), here's my first
question:
1) As proud owner of a Performa 5200 CDTV with an LC III style PDS slot - can I
use a 486 DOS
card in this slot? Are there different designs of the 486 cards out there (e.g.
is the one for the
Performa 630 different from the one for the PPC6100)?
I also need to show amino acid sequence alignments, e.g
sequence 1 MNGTGGDAF
sequence 2 MAGTAGDAL
where identical letters are white on black and similar ones are shaded, or
boxed characters
etc... . Therefore comes question 2:
2) Does anyone know of a modified courier font which has this shaded
characters?
(P.S. I know the workarounds, e.g use a table in Word (limited to 32!), use
Excel - but its all so
cumbersome ....)
With my next question I have pestered Mac publications for some time without
ever getting an
answer! If I have a modem I can happily send e-mail to a friend (or foe) who is
equally equipped
(notice: no service provider necessary!) by just using his/her phone number.
With a modem I
can dial-up (connect to) a service provider and mail to people using something
like
someone@somewhere. But
3) how do I send e-mail from a service provider or university (using Pegasus
mail or whatever
is available) to someone with a modem but no service provider (using his/her
phone number)?
Considering that my girlfriend lives far, far away, I'm very interested in the
internet phone
possibilities.
4) Does anyone have experience with how it works? Digiphone says "you need
direct internet
access". What is that? Is a modem enough?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Markus
Markus Winter
32 Thirlestane Road 2F2
Edinburgh EH9 1AW
Tel: 0131 - 447 4866
e-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
ICMB
Darwin Building
King's Buildings
Edinburgh EH9 3JR
Scotland
Tel: 0131 - 650 5376
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 96 10:23:45 -0000
From: David Pickering
Subject: Radius 8100/110 and 7.5.5
This has always been a great read and let's us know what is going on in
the world of MAC. Maybe someone can help me out. After installing to an
apple internal (partioned), I have started having problems with
rebuilding the desktop (stops halfway through). On running disk first aid
I have various problems with the extents files. It seems to have a life
of its own since this does not always occur after a desktop rebuild but
occurs randomly with or without extensions running. One other problem
that has been manifesting itself is on opening numerous windows, or
windows with 50 files or more. The mouse freezes over the icon and I must
use the programmer switch to restart. This problem has and continues to
be a problem.
I run two systems on separate hard drives so I am open to most any
suggestions.
Thanks for your good work and in advance for the help.
David Pickering
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:35:58 +0100
From: "Roland S. Jary" (by way of
[email protected] (Andre' C. van der Ham))
Subject: Response to Inquiry/5 Dec 96 Info Mac
Re: Which printer to use:
I had a HP for 5 years - not one problem. Then decided to switch for the
color aspect and got
the Epson Stylus II. Result: Terrible - alignment problems, ink problems,
encoding problems,
slow as a snail. Epson even swapped units with me - still same stuff.
BOTTOM LINE: I'm now
buying the HP 870. By the way, the letters following 870 are strictly the
paper package that
comes with the unit. good luck.
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:58:07 +0000
From: ottoman
Subject: System7.5.5
I'm having problems coping from CDs or floppys,and it seems
to be centered around my ram doubler(1.6.1) I've tried other
versions with no luck. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
ottoman
P.S. It's not that life is too short,
It's that your dead so damn long.
Rock On!
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:18:55 -0500
From: Jeff Frankel
Subject: System beeps when uploading file in Netscape
Whenever I send an attached file with Netscape 3.0, my system beep
sounds repeatedly. This goes on not only while the file is uploading,
but after it is finished as well. The only way I can stop the racket is
to quit Netscape. And while this is going on, Netscape monopolizes the
computer almost totally, so simply lowering the volume does not seem to
be the answer to my problem. The size of the uploading file doesn't
seem to matter. Any ideas, anyone? I'm running a 7100/66 w/ 15 meg RAM
allocated to Netscape out of 40 meg total hard RAM, System 7.5.5, OT
1.1.1, FreePPP 2.5.2.
--
Jeff Frankel
Windsor, Maine USA
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:26:41 +0100
From: Magnus Hoek
Subject: Terminal Tool for Mathematica
Tuesday 17 December -96
Dear Mac Fellows
I'm trying to make Mathematica to use a SUN for the calculations and my
precious Mac for the front-(user friendly)-end.
However, according to the manual I need the Versaterm Telnet Tool (which I
have) and a Terminal Tool (e.g. TTY Tool or VT100 Tool).
Does anybody know where I can get a "Terminal Tool". I believe it's an
extension...
Thanks for any help !
Magnus Hoek
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:10:56 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: Visited Links
Im using netscape navigator gold on my ppc 6115 and no matter what
i do I cannot get netscape to record where I have been, my VISITED
Links.
Ive gone into the settings and changed the colors. Ive set it to use
my colors, and to use the pages colors, but no matter what I cant get it
to display my visited links...
My links are also set never to expire...
anybody got any Ideas?
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