Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 06 Feb 98 Volume 16 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: [*] Acrobat Fill-in [*] Acrobat Forms [*] Cassette Label Pro 1.1 [*] FindText 1.3.3 [*] John's Thousand Clipboards [*] NuEdit1.2.5 Q: more memory - slower Mac?? (A) Diagnosing LC630 DOS (Q) hd recovery (Q) Sound breakup on hourly chime [A] GV x2 and Timbuktu Pro [A]: Hitachi CDR-7930, OS8 and StarMax [A]: Info on PM 6100/60 and 4GB HD problems [Q] Looking for Astrology Software [Q] Looking for Cross Stitch Software [Q]Sound Input Amplification extension Apple's advertising campaign Command-Trash incompatibility... desktop file problems Driver for Panasonic LF-1000 PD/CD-ROM? Duo RAM compatibility: 2300c -> 230 ? Epson StylusColor II G3s Getting info off Classic with dead monitor Htm files Last system to work on an LC MAC OS 8-RUNNING BETA TESTERS NEEDED... Need 10baseT instrux for 10base2 user Need to buy "Video Card" (noun. see definition 3) Now Utilities and OS 8 odd error message and other strange behavior OS 8.0 and the Internet searching for US postal barcode font searching for US postal barcode font searching for US postal barcode font [more] Slow printing with Adobe Acrobat Reader Soln To Desktop Printer Error text to speech to file ? Why not a NuBus modem? Word: Documents automatically saved as Templates Word: Documents automatically saved as Templates Zip 100 ZIP/JAZ problems The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . Email Addresses and Instructions: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with subscribe in the Subject line. * To unsubscribe, send email to with unsubscribe in the Subject line. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. If that fails, try using the list maintenance form at before contacting us. * Please send administrative queries to . * To submit files for the archive, email the binhexed file with a description to . Submissions must be made by the author or with permission of the author. It may take up to a week to process; check mirror sites for the status of new uploads. FTP and Web Addresses and Instructions: * To submit files larger than 800K, email a description to and then use an FTP client to upload the binhexed file to info-mac.org, using the userid "macgifts and the password "macgifts". Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, and Liam Breck. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #27" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:00:53 -0700 From: jmatheny@Adobe.COM Subject: [*] Acrobat Fill-in Acrobat Fill-in - Adobe Acrobat Forms Update is two plug-ins, Forms Author and Forms Fill-in. These plug-ins make it faster and easier to exchange information - either in familiar paper forms converted to PDF, or as dynamic interactive database publishing. The Forms Update allows you to bring the rich capabilities of PDF to the data collection process that comprises an online information transaction. As expected, PDF forms retain the rich look and feel of their paper equivalents. The following example illustrates how the Adobe Acrobat Forms Update can be used to replace a traditional paper form for ordering business stationery. [Archived as /info-mac/text/acrobat-fill-in.hqx; 1983K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:00:55 -0700 From: jmatheny@Adobe.COM Subject: [*] Acrobat Forms Acrobat Forms - Adobe Acrobat Forms Update plug-ins add dynamic features to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) that enable familiar corporate documents to function even more effectively in the online intranet environment. Because PDF forms retain the appearance of traditional business forms, all users on the system can easily request and receive information without having to learn new ways of doing things - because people already know how to use forms. [Archived as /info-mac/text/acrobat-forms.hqx; 5826K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:00:57 -0700 From: dpayne@hotcity.com Subject: [*] Cassette Label Pro 1.1 Cassette Label Pro 1.1 - helps you print out labels for your cassette tapes. [Archived as /info-mac/text/cassette-label-pro-11.hqx; 842K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:00:59 -0700 From: maes@macbel.be Subject: [*] FindText 1.3.3 FindText 1.3.3 FindText is a utility that can search the files on your harddisk for that specific text you know is hiding somewhere. Simply type in the text, tell it what folder or disk to search, and it will find all files containing that text. You can even specify where it has to look in the file: the data fork, the resource fork or both. This saves you having to open ten or more files to get hold of the one you're after, and FindText can work in the background, which means you can get on with something else rather than watching the progress bar crawl across the screen. If speed is important, try FindText. FindText needs System 7 or better and runs native both on the PowerMac and the 68020/68030/68040 Macs. FindText is fully compatible with Mac OS 8. Version 1.3.3 is a minor update (see the read-me file). On general request : from now on, you can register FindText via Kagi (creditcard, cash, check, ...). Best regards, Patrick Maes [Archived as /info-mac/text/findtext-133-fat.hqx; 197K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:01:01 -0700 From: jcr2@cornell.edu Subject: [*] John's Thousand Clipboards Or a million. As many as you want. Only ships with 100 though, to save your download time. Duplicate them in the Finder. Clip contents (text only) are saved to disk, and can be easily moved from one computer to another. They can also be renamed, and reorganized in any folders you wish. Requires AppleScript and the scriptable Finder. Tested with WordPerfect 3.5 and Scriptable Text Editor (in WP, it pastes at the insertion point; in STE, the clip replaces current text in the active window). Should work with any application that understands AppleScript's selection property. Free for non-commercial distribution and use. May be included on Info-Mac, AMUG and UMich CDs. John Rethorst [Archived as /info-mac/text/johns-thousand-clipboards.hqx; 338K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:01:05 -0700 From: misawa@da2.so-net.or.jp Subject: [*] NuEdit1.2.5 NuEdit1.2.5 Copyright(I)(J1997-98, by Noriaki Misawa. NuEdit is styled text editor. System Requirements MacOS version 7.0.1 or later Develop Requirements PowerBook1400c/117 (RAM 64M) MacOS 8.1 + JLK What's New... 1.2.5(98.2.4) Add the Export HTML format. Fixed Enter as Return. Fixed a popup menu in preference dialog. Deleted shortcuts in Dates & Times paste. Add Shift Left & Right. Fixed string from Translate Drag&Drop to Translucent Drag&Drop in Preference Dialog. Fixed toggle in window menu. Add enable invisible characters. Fix find routine. Add enable on/off drag&drop in preference dialog.$B!#(J Fix window activate. Fix bugs with styled format SingleStyle and MultiStyle Fix bugs with 68K Drag&Drop Copyright NuEdit is copyright (I)(J1997-1998 by Noriak Misawa All rights reserved. WASTE text engine is copyright (I)(J1993-1998 by Marco Piovanelli. Registration NuEdit is Shareware ($10). Please use kagi software. Support E-mail: Check out NuEdit's home site at: [Archived as /info-mac/text/nuedit-125e.hqx; 351K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:05:49 -0700 From: Don Chesnut and Cathy Jo Cassidy Subject: Maybe someone can point me in the right direction for this... I have converted a mailing list that I recd in PC Excel format to a Mac Clarisworks spreadsheet document. What I really need is the info converted into a database format. Is there an Applescript, macro or suggestion on how this can be done without laboriously copying and pasting each cell into its corresponding field in the db? Thanks Don ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 19:42:23 +0000 From: Michel Treisman Subject: Subject: Sent: 3/2/98 18:42 To: infomac@starnine.com I put out the following query: Hi there! I have a curious problem. I am running MacOs 8 on a 7300 powermac, with FWB disk driver. I used FWB Hared Disk Toolkit to partition my 2G drive into six partitions (volumes), HD A...HD F. Sometimes I view my partitions under "View as Icons" and sometimes under "View as Lists". Only HD F does not allow me to view the contents as a List. I can view it as Icons, or as Buttons, but the contents are not shown when I try to view it as a list. The header says "25 items" as it should but no items are shown. I have tried rebuilding the desktop and reinstalling the driver. Anyone know what is wrong and what I should do next? Mike I now have the answer: when I open a volume, the window normally appears with the cursor in the right hand scroll bar right at the top. Howver, when I opened the volume HD F, for some reason it opened with the cursor right at the bottom, so I was only seeing the lower half of the window, the part without files. Scrolling up solved the problem. Thanks to Stephen Kawalko for pointing out the solution! Mike Michel Treisman Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3UD UK Tel +44 (0)1865 271319 Fax +44 (0)1865 310447 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:43:25 +0000 From: MWINTER@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk Subject: Q: more memory - slower Mac?? Hi all! I'm baffled - I had a Performa 5200 with 16 Mb RAM (2x 8 Mb 72 pin simms) running along nicely (even when using SoftWindows 3.0 for the data analysis program my professor insists on using) ... and then the low memory prices got me to up the memory to 40 Mb (1x 8 Mb, 1x 32 Mb) with the main aim to improve SoftWindows performance. Result: Everything seems to be slower! Starting applications, opening windows, running SoftWindows (although I gave it 30 Mb and changed its delta cache size etc) ... Any ideas anyone? Help would be very much appreciated. Markus Edinburgh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:31:41 CST From: "Tom Kirke (312) 413-5539" Subject: (A) Diagnosing LC630 DOS > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:35:48 +0900 > From: Keith Wilkinson > Subject: Diagnosing LC630 DOS > > I have just purchased an LC630 DOS, but it doesn't > start up: each time I press the power key I get a speaker > click, but that's it -- no video, no fan noise etc. Any > suggestions re. things to try before sending it back? Try reseating all the cables and boards, especially the power cables. If this doesn't fix things, time for "technical intervention". tom ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:33:57 -0500 From: monte ferguson Subject: (Q) hd recovery I'm writing on behalf of a friend. She's trying to recover the internal hd on a Quadra 650, using System 7.1. She's tried two different version of Norton's Utilities, MacTools 3.x and a 2.x I think and a couple of other programs. SCSI Probe is the only one that recognizes the drive is there at all, won't mount it though. The only reason she's putting up with this, and not reformatting is that the owner has items on there that need to be recovered. Further suggestions? thanks monte@iserv.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 23:51:22 -0400 From: Sheldon Forde Subject: (Q) Sound breakup on hourly chime Clock Sound Chime Breakup I have been plagued with an annoying problem on my performa 5200CD for quite some time now but haven't had time to ask for help! When the computer chimes on the hour, sometimes it plays the sound chime well. However on more occasions than I would like to remember, the sound will break up shortly after starting and degrades into a distressing high pitched screech. I have not been able to find anything wrong with my system. (Norton 3.5.2 and Tech Tool Pro used to diagnose). This can become very disturbing when working on a document and a loud screech bursts forth instead of the nice clock chime I have put in. This happens regardless of the sound file used. Additional information: Performa 5200CD with 24MB real RAM, Ram Doubler 2, Speed Doubler 8, System 8.1 This problem has been around since I got the computer and was using system 7.5. I thought upgrading to 7.5.5 and then 8.0 and now 8.1 would solve the problem but it has not. As a matter of fact, when I upgraded to system 8.0 , I even performed a clean install and left off most third-party extensions, but to no avail. I am therefore hoping that someone will be able to help me solve this problem. Please send comments to me or post to the digest. Sheldon Forde -- MechWurks or ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 08:34:42 -0500 From: Scott Coats Subject: [A] GV x2 and Timbuktu Pro >Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:46:05 -0800 >From: Bob Jacobson >Subject: GV x2 and Timbuktu Pro > >I recently upgraded my home modem from a Supra 288 to a GV Teleport 56K >X2. I am vainly trying to configure Timbuktu Pro 4.0.2 to answer with >this modem using direct dial. I cannot find an appropriate script in >the modem description folder for this modem. The generic script lets me >go into answer mode but does not complete the connection when I call in >(via TB2) from my work site (using a Supra 288 modem - a Supraa 288 >modem at both ends did work with their script provided). > >I have not been able to locate an appropriate TB2 connection script from >Global Village's or Farallon's website. Where can I find a connection >script for this modem? The Global Village X2 modem doesn't support ARA protocols, which TB2 relies upon, that's why there isn't an X2 script available--it doesn't exist. Return your X2 modem and exchange it for a KFlex model, which does support ARA and TB2. Regards, Scott Coats Innovative Data Solutions 305/451-4560 333 Third Road 305/451-2411 Fax Key Largo, FL sales@insolution.com www.insolution.com, awesome deals on New, Demo, and Used Mac hardware, software, and accessories. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 14:04:29 -0500 From: shorton@lr.net (Scott L. Horton) Subject: [A]: Hitachi CDR-7930, OS8 and StarMax I too have a StarMax 3000/180 and am running system 8.1. You are correct that the new apple CD-ROM extension won't support the Hitachi drive in the starmax. However, the Apple CD-ROM extension from system 7.6 or 7.6.1 does just fine. (version 5.5.3) When I updated to MacOS8, the CD wouldn't work until I trashed the system 8 driver and replaced it with 7.6.1. The system 8.1 driver works marginally, but is slow and buggy. I again replaced it with the 7.6.1 Apple CD-ROM extension and the CD drive works as well as ever. The older version of the CD extension seems to have no problems with the system 8 or 8.1 software. Good luck, Scott Horton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 14:04:32 -0500 From: shorton@lr.net (Scott L. Horton) Subject: [A]: Info on PM 6100/60 and 4GB HD problems I had the same problem with a Quantum FB 6 GB drive as an external boot disk for my performa 476 (68LC040). The problem is that the ROM chips on the motherboard of my old machine will not recognize a volume larger than somewhere around 2 GB, therefore it won't find a system folder on the large partition even if it's there to boot from. Newer system software will recognize the large volumes, but that won't help during bootup as the ROM on the motherboard is what is active at the time the computer is searching for a startup disk. Solution: be sure that the bootable partition on the new drive is less than 2 GB and the system will boot from your new Hard Disk just fine. At least this works well on my lowly 68K Mac. Good luck, Scott Horton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 05:51:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: [Q] Looking for Astrology Software I am looking for Astrology software on behalf of a friend of mine with a PPC, she would like something that is shareware or commercial that is less than $100. Please CC me the replies if that is possible. Thanks! Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:16:56 -0600 (CST) From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: [Q] Looking for Cross Stitch Software I am also looking for Cross Stitch software on behalf of the same friend of mine with a PPC, she would like something that is shareware or commercial that is less than $100. Please CC me the replies if that is possible. Thanks! Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:25:40 -0800 From: Jim (by way of Info-Mac Moderator) Subject: [Q]Sound Input Amplification extension Hello.. Are there any one can tell me where can I find/download the "Sound Input Amplification extension" ?? I want to use PC's microphone on my Mac, and in a document from Apple said that I need to install this extension......., but I can't find it........ Any help appreciate .... Thank You. Jim. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 19:26:21 -0800 From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" Subject: Apple's advertising campaign I agree. Just consider: Apple has been driven to the wall by people's frantic striving for standardization and they choose to emphasize as a selling point the one thing that makes customers afraid of the brand: it's different. How about better? Mel Martinez wrote: >Is it just me? Or does anybody else here think that Apple could do a hell >of a lot better advertising testimonials like that, rather than begging >folks to 'think different'? Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:30:18 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Fiske Subject: Command-Trash incompatibility... Sorry folks: Apparently my Command-Trash preview 1.1, which I thought I had given support for Mac OS 8, doesn't work on quite a few different configurations. I'll be fixing this as soon as Aladdin sends me my new InstallerMaker key. In the mean time, System 7-users can still use Command-Trash up until its removal from the archive, which I've requested. Verision 1.1.1 of Command-Trash WILL offer Mac OS 8 support. I PROMISE. Sincerely, Mark Fiske Fake-8 Technologies. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 98 20:34:46 -0800 From: Kimberly Andrew Subject: desktop file problems Help! After 6 years I am now sharing my Macintosh with a co-worker. She has _very_ limited knowledge of computers (when I suggested that she should restart during the day she was shocked, thought she would lose everything.) Today I had a major bomb while in M$ Word 5. When I ran Norton's, it found bad desktop files on all three partions of the HD (in 6 yrs. I have never had a corrupted desktop). Fortunately, everything was fixable. I used the "find" feature to see what had been changed/modified since last Friday, and discovered that my co-worker was into EVERYTHING -- including items in the system folder. She had also managed to dump the screen saver files (which I recovered). I also noticed that the trash can was full, but the menu item "empty trash" was greyed out! I would like to know if anyone has any idea what might corrupt the desktop file, & how serious this might be (I was thinking of finding the latest copy of "TechTool" and using it??). Also if you have any ideas on how to protect things from her - please let me know ASAP. Kimberly Andrew kimac@community.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 02:56:13 -0800 From: "Gregory T. Samson" Subject: Driver for Panasonic LF-1000 PD/CD-ROM? Hi there - I've asked this question on Usenet and am still getting a trickle of replies, but I thought I'd ask here because, well, it seems you people are pretty knowledgeable :) Briefly: does anyone have a driver they're using successfully for a Panasonic LF-1000 PD/CD-ROM drive with OS8.x? CorelSCSI! 1.0.2 doesn't seem to work with OS 8.x. FWB HD Toolkit doesn't support this model directly; I'm currently on the trail of something called 'Red Line! Utilities 2.0'. Asked at greater length and with details: I have a Panasonic LF-1000 PD/CD-ROM drive that I'm trying to use with a PowerBook Duo 2300, 56M/770M, running OS8.1 (made with the Net Install updater). It's a strange hybrid drive - it reads CD-ROMs at 4x speed and also uses 650M rewriteable optical (PD) cartridges. I bought it mostly for the high stability of the cartridges - they claim a 30-year media life. It's currently in the middle of my SCSI chain, ID 4, with a Zip drive (ID 5) terminating the chain. (Termination is OFF on the LF-1000 and ON on the Zip drive.) It shipped with CorelSCSI! 1.0.2 for PD, which installs a CorelSCSI! extension and a number of utilities. (It also installs some very ancient versions of, e.g., Foreign File Access and ISO 9660 File Access.) Unfortunately, I started having trouble with the drive as soon as I went from 7.6.1 to 8.0 - mostly minor, including some crashes, freezes, or fatal states when trying to use CorelSCSI! Tools (e.g., error message comes up repeatedly and cannot be succesfully dismissed; force-quit causes freeze). Just now, though, after installing OS8.1, I had the OS not recognize that I had changed the cartridge in the drive, and it apparently tried to write some cached directory information for the old cart to the new cart, destroying it. :( After this, I became quite wary of using the drive, fearful that it might destroy other cartridges. Corel now disavows support for the drive entirely, stating to me that CorelSCSI! 1.0.2 for PD is to be the final version, and hasn't been successfully tested with any OS version greater than 7.5.1. A friend suggested to me that I look into FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit - but they do not list support for the Panasonic (aka Matshita) LF-1000 PD/CD-ROM. I've also received one reply from a person who is using something called 'Red Line! 2.0 Utilities' from Spirit Technologies to successfully mount the cartridges. Any suggestions will be very highly appreciated, especially from anyone who is having good luck using their LF-1000 drive with OS8.1! I'm willing to answer any question and try most anything that might help, including but not limited to fiddling with extensions, reinstalling things, shuffling things on my SCSI chain, etc. As you might guess, I'd really love to have this drive work again. Thanks for your attention! I eagerly await any replies! -- Gregory T. Samson, MD - Dr. Evil Microwizard (gtsamson[at]bigfoot.com) "the rain fell, and the ants came." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:16:58 +0000 (GMT) From: James Lawry Subject: Duo RAM compatibility: 2300c -> 230 ? I recently upgraded the RAM in my Duo 2300c from 20MB to 40MB. To do this I removed a 12MB module and replaced it with a 32MB module. I now have an unused 12 MB module. Will this work in a friend's Duo 230? I am told that RAM for 200-series Duos have different part numbers from those for the 2300, but is this just a speed difference? If so, will the faster RAM work in the 230? The modules and their connectors look superficially similar. James Lawry. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:44:09 -0800 From: Roy Travis Subject: Epson StylusColor II I have a problem with a 7200/75 when printing with an Epson StylusColor II. Printing worked normally using sys 7.1 and the problem only appeared after I upgraded to sys 7.6.1. The problem: appletalk OFF printer driver 1.04A system 7.6.1 chooser 7.5.5 If I try to print from an application which I haven't printed from since before upgrading the system software, it invariably brings up an alert saying the printer is out of paper, then an alert saying that it found the wrong paper size. If I open Chooser and select the StylusColor II printer (which is the only printer used), I find that it has the modem port selected. If I change the selection to the printer port and close Chooser, printing works normally and continues to work normally after quitting and restarting the application, and after restarting the computer. If I then open another application which hasn't been printed from recently and try to print, the same old problem appears until I go back into Chooser and select the printer port again. It appears to try to remember serial port assignments on an application by application basis, and if this was the whole problem it would merely be annoying. Unfortunately, it tends to forget the port assignments in an unpredictable manner, and I find I have to keep re-selecting the printer port every few days. This is beyond annoying. Any ideas as to the source of my problem? Thanks, Roy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:45:45 -0700 From: Neil Fiertel Subject: G3s Having read various concerns about scisi drives on G3s let me put in my three cents about my experience with it. I have a Minitower G3 now and it came with only narrow scsi (wheep, sniff) so I immediately installed the fantastic Adaptec 2940 UW board with the latest downloadable software installer to compensate. Did I say compensate? WEll, it is a match made in MacHeaven as it works absolutely flawlessly and until Apple has out a machine that has a similar arrangement built into the whisper board it is the best way I could figure. Sure, I lost a PCI slot and that is no laughing matter what with the soon to be needed DVD board and a video board like a FUSE video capture board but, hey, one does need a fast or ultrascsi hard drive to capture video so there is no choice. I suggest to anyone who needs this capability that they just fill the two slots and then if they need more expansion they get a Magma PCI box and expand to Mars if need be. That is the cost effective way to get a super fast computer from Apple...just third party it... "Just three rusty strands of barbed wire from the North Pole" Professor Neil Fiertel FAB-3-98 Department of Art and Design University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G-2C9 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:54:13 -0500 From: Allan Hunter Subject: Getting info off Classic with dead monitor Chaz Larson : > At 10:20 PM +1100 1/29/98, Stewart Smith wrote: >>i would give you a 9 and 10 but i can't think of anything else. >Here's a #9: > >9. Take the drive out of the Classic, put it in an external SCSI drive >case, then connect it to any Mac. > >External SCSI cases run less than $100; Computer City has them locally for >$65 and I've seen them available mailorder for $30. Here's a 10. Take the drive out of the Classic and swap it for the HD of a used Mac Plus. MediaGuide, Computer Exchange, PreOwned Electronics, Mac Sale International, etc, generally have them for ~$50 and I've seen them in garage sales for $5. Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 07:01:51 -0500 From: Pierre Mercier Subject: Htm files How should we see pictures downloaded in binairies and received in Htm file format ? I allready used UUuncode. TIA Francine Levesque et Pierre Mercier Ste-Rose de Laval merlev@point-net.com T=E9l=E9phone: 514-625-5546 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:40:05 -0600 From: "Bruce A. Bromberek" Subject: Last system to work on an LC Hi all- What is the last version of the MacOS that will run on a plain old LC? Specifically does, 7.5 work? TIA Bruce ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:55:36 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Fiske Subject: MAC OS 8-RUNNING BETA TESTERS NEEDED... I am looking for a few (around 10) Mac OS 8-running beta testers to test new versions of "Command-Trash," an updater that I've made that enables "COMMAND-T" trash-emptying in the Mac OS 8 Finder. E-mail me if interested. Mark Fiske Fake-8 Technologies. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:06:51 -0500 From: Allan Hunter Subject: Need 10baseT instrux for 10base2 user Hi folks! I have only ever ethernetted using 10base2, aka "thin coaxial" or "thin ethernet", and done it all daisy-chain, peer-to-peer. No complexities there, just run the wires from box to box and stick terminators at each end, kinda like SCSI chaining. I have reason to believe that setting up a 10baseT ethernetwork may lie in my future, and from things I've read I gather that a) daisy-chaining isn't the most common arrangement; most people use a hub of some sort and the individual boxes are hooked to the hub; and b) if there are only 3-4 computers and you really don't NEED a hub, you CAN'T just daisy-chain them, you have to...uh, *do something* to the wire, like...uh, cross it over somehow? c) either you don't terminate them or they terminate themselves or you do but no one talks about it for some reason d) there's a newer standard called 100baseT which is much faster but you can use the same basic wiring, only the card (and/or Mac AAUI-to-interfact transceiver?) must change? If from reading the above you are shaking your head and thinking "Stick with what you know, you're clueless and it's complicated", I can probably fudge my way through an excuse for going with 10base2 anyhow. PS--irrelevant pet peeve--why the heck do people insist on referring to LocalTalk networks (the ones that plug into your printer port) as AppleTalk? Of course they tend to be--I doubt if there's a user group of people who run TCP/IP or NetBIOS or Novell over LocalTalk even if such is possible--but I continually get annoyed when reading some passage like "...can be handled by either an ethernet connection or AppleTalk" or "...you will need an AppleTalk adapter for the PCs if you are not using ethernet", etc. You know, I've got an NEC SuperScript 3000 printer and I have to turn AppleTalk *off* to be able to print even though my AppleTalk network is over ethernet, because some bonehead at NEC wrote the driver with the assumption that AppleTalk on means "printer port in use already" and the printer is not set up to run over a LocalTalk connection. I could hang the damn things on my modem port with an A/B switchbox, but sooner or later I'd try to dial the printer and it would probably vaporlock the computer and possibly fry the printer the way trying to dial my MIDI keyboard once fried it. (Shift Alt Rant: why the heck doesn't Apple provide optional extra serial ports? Maybe we don't need no steenking parallel port but a two-ported box is an orifice challenged machine). Anyway, NEC is only partly to blame, cuz if people weren't always equivocating between LocalTalk and AppleTalk they might not have made such an assumption. Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:25:06 -0500 From: Allan Hunter Subject: Need to buy "Video Card" (noun. see definition 3) I need some info / input about the purchase of a video card for my 7100. Yes, that means NuBus. This is my first Mac that didn't have a built-in 9-inch screen, and it came with support for two monitors as you may recall, so I don't have much experience buying video cards for Macs. From that sentence, presumably you understand that I do not mean by "video card" a "card that digitizes video" from TV or camcorder and fills Jaz drives rather quickly with QuickTime files; nor do I mean "I'd like to see "Comedy Central" in a window on my screen. There are probably other things I don't mean that I only dimly understand, but perhaps some that I *do* mean and don't know it yet. To start with, I already bought a video card, a cheap used NuBus card that gives me 24 bit color on a 640x480 display. It cost me $35 plus shipping and handling and for a lark I bought it and hooked up a 3rd monitor and to my amazement became rapidly addicted to having a 3rd monitor. Only problem is, it's.... S L O W and I've discovered that all everything on the other two monitors also comes to a halt until the slowest video is ready to redraw the screen. I won't swear to it but I *think* this OldBus card is/was an Apple 8*24; using a somewhat dated utility called Snooper, I've determined that this monitor/card combination has about 24% the performance of the built-in video of a IIci. So I'd like to replace that card, you see. Not with something that will cause people to fall down laughing to hear that I saved money by putting a G3 NewerTechnologies card in my 7100 instead of buying a G3 Mac, and then blew the savings on a NuBus video card that won't have much use 3-4 years from now. Not with something that has lotsa unnecessary built-in technology targeted at game freaks or video digitizers. But something that is roughly the equivalent in performance, pixels, and bit depth of the built-in video card that the 7100 came with. In other words, 24 bits at 832x624 and no counting to 10 between clicking a "close window" box and regaining the ability to send an instruction to the computer. Oh yeah, it would not be particularly useful if it does all the above but only under system 7.2 or something--I presume those G3 cards mean I will be dragged (kicking and screaming unless Highware gets off their collective posteriors and releases a PopupFolder upgrade) into the brave new world of System 8+. Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:30:52 -0500 From: Josh_English@stream.com Subject: Now Utilities and OS 8 >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 06:02:09 -0800 >From: Phil Winne >Subject: Now Utilities and OS 8.0 > >Hello, all. . >Now Utilities is advertised as being incompatible with Mac OS 8.0. On >another list, Macintosh PCI Discussion List >, 5-6 >people submitted accounts of successfully running Now Menus, Now >SuperBoomerang, and Now WYSIWYG. I, too, have been using Now Menus, >Now SuperBoomerang, and Now QuickFiler's substitute for Apple's Find >File for weeks. > >Only one glitch that I can notice. Now Menus' PopUp menus don't work. >What's your experience? >Phil Actually, Now Utilities was never compatible with OS8, but QualComm, who have acquired Now Software, has announced that they will be making a patch for Now Utilities 6.7.1 to become compatible with OS 8 See www.nowutilites.com for information about this. Josh English jrenglish@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 08:49:31 -0000 From: "David B. Niethamer" Subject: odd error message and other strange behavior I have a Performa 6400 (32 MB RAM, 512 L2 cache, Sys 7.6.1, VM off) which has hummed along very nicely until last night. Then, on startup, I got the following message: "The application "unknown" has unexpectedly quit because an error of type 15 occurred" When I dismiss this message, I can open apps and do some things on them, but not internet connections. PPP returned a message that "not enough memory was available - turn on Virtual Memory". (not true - plenty of memory left) I have the Launcher set to "launch" on startup for my daughter's apps, so I took it out of the startup items folder and restarted. On restart, there was the Launcher, and its alias was back in the startup items folder. This happened on two more restarts. I also trashed the launcher prefs in addition to the removal from Startup Items, and on another restart also trashed the Finder prefs. Same result. Ran Disk First Aid - "Hard Disk OK" Ran Norton Disk Doctor - minor problems on the first try, but OK Ran Disinfectant - nothing found Rebuilt the desktop with TechTool 1.1.4 After all this, the computer at least functioned to let me get my mail. This morning, same error message, although after dismissing the message, the computer seems to be functioning. My two latest installations are MacInTax and Quicken 98, which have each run fine for a week. Any help or ideas for a "Quick Fix" greatly appreciated. reply to my private address also appreciated, as I may not see this list in a very timely way. TIA David Niethamer dnietham@richmond.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:36:26 -0800 From: Alkat@thefuture.net Subject: OS 8.0 and the Internet I have a problem that has a few of us stumped. I finally got around to installing OS 8.0 on my 040 575, I love the new features and several small bugs that had developed disappeared. The world was great until I tried going online. I could connect to my dial-up account using PPP but when I launched any software, nothing worked. I tried connecting with the copies of Netscape and Eudora that I was using with 7.1 and they wouldn't connect. I tried the copies of Netscape and Claris E-Mailer that came with the disc and still nothing. I finally had to install 8.0 on a zip disc and use it except when I go on-line then its back to the hard drive and 7.1. Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure there is a simple explanation. Alan alkat@thefuture.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 01:02:35 -0500 From: Marlon Deason Subject: searching for US postal barcode font I can't help you with the mac barcode font. But, if you can find the Windows version, there is a utility (may be in the archive) called "TTconverter. This utility is invaluable since it adds the necessary resources to the windows .ttf file to make it a truetype font. I believe that if a Mac version does not exist, that you are in the clear copyright-wise if you modify it in this way to run on a Mac. Since no comercial Mac version was released, it is their loss if they choose to ingnore the Mac market. Yippee free software! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:40:38 -0500 From: Stan Hadley Subject: searching for US postal barcode font Besides Address Book, what be even more useful to you is a Wordperfect extra for doing postal addresses. It even includes the font you need. You can find it at: ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/WordPerfect/WPMac/Macros/POSTNET.hqx I happened to run across it checking the Wordperfect site, looking in vain for whether they have released the long-awaited 3.5e Patch. HTH Stan >Hi: > >This is driving me crazy. Search as I may, I cannot find a font to generate >postal barcodes (U.S. Postal Service). I have wordperfect wasting 10 megs >on a drive because I can't prepare an envelope with a bar code in >FrameMaker. I have heard there's a windows font. Can it be that no one has >made a mac postscript (or truetype) font for the post office barcode? Say >it ain't so! > >/jonathan > >mailto:jhbauer@akula.com Stanton W. Hadley mailto:swh@ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bldg 4500-N, MS 6205 P.O. Box 2008 Room G-28 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6205 (423)574-8018, fax:(423)574-8884 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 09:39:00 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: searching for US postal barcode font [more] And then this appeared in my mailbox: At 9:24 AM -0400 2/4/98, Lee Clawson wrote: >Chaz, >Maybe you can pass this on to Jonathan Bauer. Call the local postmaster. I >live in PA and the Post office will supply a package of materials for >barcoding mail. Included was a disk with font and templates. This was for >PC computers with Mac formats scheduled for this spring. >Lee > >Lee Clawson chazl - 2.4.1998 - chaz@visi.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 06:08:22 -0500 From: "Dr. Karen L. Tichy" Subject: Slow printing with Adobe Acrobat Reader I experience extremely slow printing when attempting to print a document using Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 for Mac. I would appreciate any insights. Thanks. Karen Tichy tichy@stlnet.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 23:37:06 -0400 From: Sheldon Forde Subject: Soln To Desktop Printer Error To the Info-Mac community. I wrote some days ago requesting help in solving an error message I was getting when the computer started up, namely Desktop Printing Error -192 at '18'. Since that time I have received querries from other readers of the digest if I found a solution. I did in fact receive a working solution from Mr Darwin Magno. I will paste his response to me for the benefit of others who may be plaqued by the problem I faced. ""A common problem, so common that Apple issued a TechNote about it. Sorry, I don't have the TechNote ID available, but the gist is you have a corrupted print spool document. It's in you PrintMonitor Documents folder. The solution? Just throw away the PrintMonitor Documents folder. A new one will be created when necessary. Remember, I said _PrintMonitor_, not _Desktop PrintMonitor_. Reboot and all should be well. Hope that helps... - -- Mr. Darwin O. Magno "" Thanks to Mr Magno and any others who may have sent e-mail to me. Sheldon Forde --MechWurks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 10:41:39 +0100 From: Hans de Wolf Subject: text to speech to file ? In Info-Mac Digest V16 #20, Roger Marks asked about a method to send text to speech output to a file. I do not know if this can be done with all voices, but it certainly is possible with the Macintalk Pro voices Agnes, Bruce and Victoria. You can do that if you have Micromat's SoundMaker (http://www.micromat.com) and Michael Norris' speech-to-document plug-in for SoundMaker. This plug in is at the moment in beta and is available from http://www.kagi.com/mnorris/soundmagic/download Maybe there are also some other tools that can do the same, I remember seeing a function like this in a HyperCard stack. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 98 16:07:31 -0500 From: sjwright Subject: Why not a NuBus modem? Hey folks, I was just curious to know why Apple or any of the third-party hardware and modem manufacturers never thought of making a NuBus-card modem for the Macs that have NuBus slots. Or did one such mfr. try it and fail? I would welcome some explanation as to why not, as well. It just seems strange, as the II's were the first NuBus Macs, that there were Wintel clones of the same market dates with PCI modem cards available, that Apple wouldn't have tried (or encouraged others to try) competing. Steve Wright ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 01:30:37 -0500 From: Marlon Deason Subject: Word: Documents automatically saved as Templates Although you claim this is not a virus, this problem screams all the classic symtoms of the "Word Macro Virus". In case you are unfamiliar with this marvelous "feature" of office bloat-ware, MS Word contains its own 'programing language' in which it formats documents (and you wondered why it takes up 40MB). It can be an incredible time saver, but most often it is ignored. Most users here of the MS Word Macros feature for the first time in the phrase "You seem to have a Word Macro Virus". Some genius sat down and wrote a Macro script that makes your perfectly good documents into unusable templates. This Macro was attached to an otherwise good-hearted document which was the carrier. Once the file was opened by MS Word it changed the way Word worked on all other documents. There is an alternate theory that no genius wrote the virus and that it was created by accident, when someone attempted to read the manual and actually use the macro feature, thereby becomeing the unwitting agent of his own destruction. Anyway, Microsoft has created an application you can download (www.microsoft.com) which will undo all of this mess. Unfortunately, it does not guard against future occurrances. For that you will need the latest virus protection software. I on the other hand, considered MS Office itself a virus and bannished it from my harddrive. It does meet the classic definition of a virus; by doing unpredictable and unwanted things to my computer. ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:50:03 +0100 From: Christian F Buser Subject: Word: Documents automatically saved as Templates Matt Neuburg wrote: > >From: "Michael S. Silverstein" > >After opening a certain document received in the mail, or after trying to > >make a template, every single document saved is saved in the template > >format. - This is not a virus > > Oh yes, I think it is. To REMOVE the virus, you can use Symantec's SAM v.4.5.1. > http://www.microsoft.com/msoffice/antivirus/word/wordprot.htm Has anyone really succeeded to download the patch? Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 426 64 86 Obere Kirchzelg 12, CH-5430 Wettingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:25:09 -0500 From: "Norman R. Friedman" Subject: Zip 100 Is it possible to change the "name" of "Zip 100" disks or do they always remain zip 100? TIA and answers to norm@helix.nih.gov ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 14:32:04 -0000 From: Jan Bjorn Taranrod Subject: ZIP/JAZ problems THE PROBLEMS WITH IOMEGA DRIVES: I read about your IOMEGA JAZ/ZIP = problems in Info-Mac Digest and other places from time to time. Disk = errors, problems with CD ROM Players, and in the worst cases: Data = loss. THE MOST OBVIOUS SOLUTION: GET THICKER CABLES: If your Mac freezes it is most likely the SCSI = cable that is too thin. (The computer itself occupying its own SCSI = ID (whether you hav a IDE drive or not) is not able to do anytihing = when teh SCSI chain goes rotten.) It can in some instanses help to = try/buy/get another cable than the one that came with the ZIP/JAZ = drive. This is a wellknown problem with SCSI cables that Iomega = should have known about! They can=B4t be too thick! CHAIN ORDER: Put the Iomega drive at the end of the chain. Another = indication that it is the supplied cable from Iomega that is the = problem. ALSO CHECK: BENT CONNECTORS: Also check that none of the conectors are bent and = because of that do not go into their sockets. This can cause data = loss and serious disk problems. PC EXCHANGE: You may also experience problems in copying directly = from at PC disk to an IMOEGA drive. The cause is probably some sort = of software incompabilities between the PC Exchange driver and the = IMOGEA JAZ/ZIP driver. Jan Bj=F8rn Tarnr=F8d, Norway. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************