Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #306 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 03 Jun 99 Volume 16 : Issue 306 Today's Topics: (Q) UPGRADEING (Q) Xplane How to add DOS extensions to Mac files [A] Accelerating HyperCard? [A] CD Control Strip Question [A] old Mac emulator? (Correction / Warning) [A] OS 8.6 / PowerBook questions [A] PB 190cs and video out [A] What is DriverServicesLib [Q] Two monitors, not quite in sync... [Q] Y2K CD Control Strip Question... Either I have a problem w/ AppleScript 1.3.7, or... Either I have a problem w/Applescript... Fwd: How to automatically add DOS extensions to Mac files ? Fwd: Linux for Mac Fwd: MAXPower Upgrades Fwd: OS 8.6 / PowerBook questions Fwd: OS 8.6 won't shut down Fwd: scanning programme> iMac networking Info-Mac Digest V16 #305 Linux for Mac Linux for Mac MacTools Pro making an installer using Applescript MIE and mail attachments Missing buttons in Office 98, MacOS 8.5->8.6 [A] Monitor resolutions in control strip Mounting PC CDs OS 8.6 / PowerBook questions OS 8.6 won't shut down reading Windows CDs Weird MacOS Problem with IDE Drive 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. 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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, Michael Bean, Liam Breck, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, and Shawn Bunn. 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 #306" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:22:14 -0600 From: Neil Fiertel Subject: repairing hard drives ....Someone came to me with terror of terrors...a dead -in -the -water hard drive with the old question mark at boot up. After messing about with two versions of Norton as the hard drive had on it OS 8.1, I still could not get a read of the files that I knew were on there somewhere...node 0 error cannot be repaired etc. Well, I tried Techtool Pro and that could not find any files other than the Finder...oh thanks, I need a spare one of those! The last chance was Disk Warrior. It found 193 files the first time and in the end we salvaged over 700 files including the unbacked up play that the poor user had thought lost forever. Now that Disk Warrior is worth the 119.00 CDN that it cost!!! It takes one brain cell to run it...hit the button and that is it. Have a place to download the recovered files to and launch the damaged system with an external disk or removable cart or other drive so that you can access the CD for the program. I think I shall make a bootable disk with Disk Warrior on it... hmm, now that I think on it, I realize that Disk Warrior might be bootable on its own..must check that out to see if it so... "Just three rusty strands of barbed wire from the North Pole" Professor Neil Fiertel FAB-3-98 Department of Art and Design nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G-2C9 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 04:18:13 +0000 From: "Mark H. Bowersox" Subject: (Q) UPGRADEING Next month I'm Going to be looking at doing somework to this MAC. It's a PowerMac 7300/200, 32meg ram, 1.9gig HD. A local apple shop wants me to go with a G3 upgrade card. Any comments? Next I was thinking about getting a OrangePc card. The local shop tells me to go virtual pc. Has anyone on the list every done any of these and if so what results? I will be enstalling more ram. Thanks, ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:54:07 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (Q) Xplane Dear Digest readers, Now that I see MacZone has Xplane for $140, I am tempted to get it, but first I'd like to know stuff about it. First of all, how slow is it on a Wall Street Powerbook with 233Mhz processor 512k cache? If it is slow, would getting an iXMicro Road Rocket improve its speed? How accurate is its mountain scenery? Does it show mountains at their actual elevations all over the world in the same manner as Microsoft Flight Simulator 98? Is there a slew mode allowing one to hop from place to place in the world in seconds instead of the actual time it takes to fly? Is the plane given true latitude longitude system for the world? Or is there its own coordinate system? Can you custom add/remove airports and buildings? Is it VOR and NDB based navigation the same way Microsoft is? Does it require a joystick, or can one use the keyboard for complete control? Are there any limits to running it at 1024 x 768 resolution? Are the controls resizable and capable of being hidden so as to allow full screen views of the scenery? Is there a map window to show you where you are in the world? Are there any features that you have seen in Microsoft Flight Simulator that you think should be on this simulator? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 99 18:53:59 -0500 From: "Stephen J. Wright" Subject: How to add DOS extensions to Mac files Alan, I'm not sure how it handles multiple files but there is an utility called NameCleaner that will not only add the DOS extension but will suggest how to rename a file for the different versions of DOS and Windows (including Win95 _sans RES32). It's shareware, as most good things are, but I've used it often and found it to be somewhat useful. I don't work with cross-platform stuff bigger than floppies or the occasional email/newsgroup attachment, but if NameCleaner is good enough for the small stuff, it's good enough, imho. Hope this helps Steve Wright >Date: 25 May 1999 08:16:40 GMT >From: hewat@ill.fr (Alan Hewat) >Subject: How to automatically add DOS extensions to Mac files ? > >Does anyone know how to automatically add standard DOS extensions >to multiple Mac files eg to systematically add ".doc" to all MS-Word >files (under either Windows or better Mac-OS) ? > >I believe that NT-server can do this, but can Mac-OS, NT4 or Win95/98 ? >I would prefer a Mac application, since then I could write a CD on a >Mac and the file-types would be recognised under Windows as well. >(It would be nice if Mac-OS could hide the DOS extension as can Win). > >I believe that MacDisk (under Windows) can do this with ordinary >Mac CD's or floppies, but MacDisk cannot (?) recognise ISO-9660 >CD's, which are the preferred (?) format for writing CD's on Mac >because ISO-9660 CD's can be read by both Mac-OS and Windows. > >Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE (hewat@ill.fr) fax (33) 76.48.39.06 >ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/dif http://www.ill.fr/dif/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:13:18 +0100 From: John Baro Subject: [A] Accelerating HyperCard? >I am presuming that HyperCard is still 100% 68k native code (just my >guess based on how Apple has been neglecting HyperCard for the last few >years). Yes and no. On the box of a recent version of HyperCard (2.3) it has the "Accelerated for Power Mac" red star. However, if you look in the HC 2.3 application with ResEdit, you'll see that it has no "cfrg" resource and its data fork is empty. As I understand it, a PPC native appliction requires a "cfrg" resource and places its code in the data fork (as opposed to a 68k application which keeps its code in a "CODE" resource. My conclusions are (1) HC 2.3 contains no native PPC code, and (2) the red star on the box means something else entirely. (I have not looked at more current versions of HC.) John Baro __________________________________________________________ John A. Baro Programmer/Instructional Designer NASA Classroom of the Future Wheeling Jesuit University 304-243-2495 Legal Stuff: The opinions | "I know what I want, expressed herein do not | but I just don't know." necessarily represent those | of my employer, nor of any | J. Hendrix other human being or | organization. | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:26:45 -0400 From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" Subject: [A] CD Control Strip Question >When using the Apple CD Control Strip I've found some weird things >happen. Namely on only one CD do the names of tracks actually appear >when using the control strip to listen to CD's. On the rest of my >collection the tracks are listed as just numbers. Anybody have any The track names are not stored on the CD itself. If you want to see track names on Control Strip you must insert the CD, open AppleCD Audio Player, and type in the names of all the tracks. -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards Embedded Engineer, Pragmatic Designs Inc Port Chester, NY ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:21:38 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: [A] old Mac emulator? (Correction / Warning) At 9:24 AM -0700 5/26/99, Gilbert Rankin wrote: >I went back to the "emulators.net" site and for whatever reason, possibly >being hacked or a really mangled virtual hosting configuration it's now >redirecting to a porn site. It wasn't when I wrote the original message. You may have been thinking of originally, which is the main Macintosh emulation page. Emulators.com is owned by a company in the West Indies, and both its admin and billing contacts are at bigfoot.com email addresses; I suspect it has always been a porn redirect. chazl "I think I have a broken rib." "From giving me oral pleasure?" - Bruce Willis & Maria de Medeiros, Pulp Fiction Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 03:33:37 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: [A] OS 8.6 / PowerBook questions Starting with OS 8, Apple has provided a neat, organized and convenient place for system add-ons, the contextual menu. With the addition of a Contextual Menu Module, like say: A Better Finder Creators and Types http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderCreatorsAndTypes/ You can have all the features Apple didn't give you as close as a ctrl + click. For even more finesse, try Look Ma No Hands! from: http://www.toolsandtoys.com Marlon Deason marlond@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:31:03 -0400 From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" Subject: [A] PB 190cs and video out >I am trying to find a PB 190cs video out card. Apple has one available but >I have heard that there are 3rd party cards that give better resolution >than the Apple products. Is anyone familiar with this? If possible vendors >in Australia would take obvious priority as I am situated there. Glen, IIRC the 190 series and the 5300 series are the same machine, but 68040 vs PPC. So you are looking for the 5300 video-out card. I *BELIEVE* the manufacturer is Focus and it offers 16-bit video out. Perhaps Newer made one also. Because your sig has a mobile number (Telstra :-) good man :-)) I can't tell where you are, but if you're in Melbourne, contact Computers Now in Malvern Rd, Malvern. They will definitely be able to source something for you, if only a refurb/trade-in unit. -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards Embedded Engineer, Pragmatic Designs Inc Port Chester, NY ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:30:31 -0400 From: "Chris Gervais" Subject: [A] What is DriverServicesLib John, > I just bought Falcon 4.0 and it won't run under system 8.1 I get an error > message that it can't find something called "DriverServicesLib". I have no > idea what it is nor where to find it. Does anybody have a clue? DriverServicesLib is a PowerPC library of code for implementing PowerPC-native drivers on the Mac OS. Its something that should be built into the System file and was updated with Mac OS 8.5. You can't get it as a standalone file. You might want to check and make sure that Falcon doesn't require 8.5 (can't imagine that it does) and that there's no problems with your hard disk. If you can, try upgrading to 8.5 (or 8.6) and see if that cures the problem. Otherwise, you might want to e-mail the folks who wrote Falcon (or check out Westlake Interactive's website the folks who did the port) and let them know about your situation. Best, Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:51:18 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson Subject: [Q] Two monitors, not quite in sync... I recently got a PCI video card to hook up two monitors to my Mac (an old Artista, they used to go into the Power Computer series of systems). They worked fine on my 7200/75, but this weekend I got a 'new' 7600/132 and now when the monitors are both on there are slow-scrolling dark bands on them, up on one monitor and down on the other. it takes about 3 seconds for If either monitor is off it disappears, and if I only look at one monitor it doesn't (ie: it's not an optical illusion of some sort) One monitor is an old Nanao 16" and the other is a Gateway Vivitron 17" one (I get to use old cast-offs from work). I've moved them about 4-6 inches apart without effect. Moving them more will start to be more than a little counterproductive, since the idea is to give me a bigger desktop, not make me move my head back and forth like a tennis match. They move just like the lines you see in TV when a video camera shoots another television, ie: they're out of synch. Both are set to the same refresh rate, though they're different resolutions. Anyone else seen this, or more importantly, _fixed_ it? It's not a killer, since it's not really that noticeable, but it's a distraction. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 03:48:45 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: [Q] Y2K At 1:39 PM -0700 5/24/99, Maurice M. McNeil wrote: >The Mac is Y2K compliant, however the Date-Time Control Panel will >not allow any date later than Dec 31, 2019. Does anybody know why >this is? Any work-arounds? This is a known bug in the GUI in the Date/Time control panel. I imagine that Apple will ship an updated version of the Date & Time Control panel sometime in the next twenty years. ;) chazl I met this guy - and he looked like he might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink. Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said: Oh boy. Right again. - Laurie Anderson, Let X=X Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:42:00 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: CD Control Strip Question... At 5:52 AM +1000 5/31/99, Melvin Wilson Jr. wrote: >When using the Apple CD Control Strip I've found some weird things >happen. Namely on only one CD do the names of tracks actually appear >when using the control strip to listen to CD's. On the rest of my >collection the tracks are listed as just numbers. I would suspect that on that one CD, you entered the track names in the AppleCD Audio Player [or something similar]. When you enter track names using such an app, they're saved in the "CD Remote Programs" file. There are tools that will automagically look up the track lists in an internet-accessible database for each CD you insert, thereby saving you the trouble of typing them in yourself [unless, of course, you're the first person to have purchased a given CD]. I haven't stumped the database yet, even with what I figured were pretty obscure titles. NetCD is one such program; it's the one I use. chaz The foot bone connects to the ankle bone, the ankle bone connects to the shin bone, the shin bone connects to the knee bone, now hear the word of the Lord. - The Suburbs, Rattle My Bones Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 99 18:33:48 +0100 From: Phil Hudson Subject: Either I have a problem w/ AppleScript 1.3.7, or... Mark Fiske wrote: >...AppleScript has a problem with me ;>) Anyway, I'm trying to write a >script for use with PlainTalk 1.5.4 that, when I say "Turn Internet on," >connects my PPP connection and then activates the desktop "Mail" and >"Browse the Internet" script-applications. However, when I try this the >"usual" way...: > > tell application "Mail" > activate > end tell > tell application "Browse the Internet" > activate > end tell > >...Script Editor hangs indefinitely. Am I doing something wrong, or is >AppleScript. I'm trying to do this without scripting through the Finder, >but rather DIRECTLY to the "Mail" and "Browse the Internet" script-apps... Couple of ideas, don't know if they'll help. 1. The desktop icons "Mail" and "Browse the Internet" just launch the real mailer and browser apps you use. Try scripting them, e.g. tell application "Claris Emailer" to run -- or whatever you use tell application "Netscape Communicator" to run -- ditto ("activate" is fine instead of "run") 2. Do you use the Apple-standard OT/PPP? If so, get your script to run the "Connect" script applet which comes with OT/PPP in order to establish your PPP link. Finally, check out some of the online resources on Usenet and the Web where there are lots more people who can help you with this kind of thing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 12:00:43 -0000 From: rob Subject: Either I have a problem w/Applescript... quoting Info-Mac and possibly previous message abstract: >From: Mark Fiske >Subject: Either I have a problem w/ AppleScript 1.3.7, or... > > >...AppleScript has a problem with me ;>) Anyway, I'm trying to write a >script for use with PlainTalk 1.5.4 that, when I say "Turn Internet on," >connects my PPP connection and then activates the desktop "Mail" and >"Browse the Internet" script-applications. However, when I try this the >"usual" way...: > > tell application "Mail" > activate > end tell > tell application "Browse the Internet" > activate > end tell > >...Script Editor hangs indefinitely. Am I doing something wrong, or is >AppleScript. I'm trying to do this without scripting through the Finder, >but rather DIRECTLY to the "Mail" and "Browse the Internet" script-apps... Try submitting your question to applescript users or MacScript. You will have to subscribe. GO TO applescript users OR macscript *** To subscribe to this list: Send to: LISTSERV@dartmouth.edu Subject: subscribe Message: subscribe macscrpt This message was sent with Apple email client - Claris eM@iler2.0v3 'The best just keeps being better than the rest' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:34:51 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: How to automatically add DOS extensions to Mac files ? Alan Hewat asked: >Does anyone know how to automatically add standard DOS extensions >to multiple Mac files eg to systematically add ".doc" to all MS-Word >files (under either Windows or better Mac-OS) ? > >I believe that NT-server can do this, but can Mac-OS, NT4 or Win95/98 ? >I would prefer a Mac application, since then I could write a CD on a >Mac and the file-types would be recognised under Windows as well. >(It would be nice if Mac-OS could hide the DOS extension as can Win). > >I believe that MacDisk (under Windows) can do this with ordinary >Mac CD's or floppies, but MacDisk cannot (?) recognise ISO-9660 >CD's, which are the preferred (?) format for writing CD's on Mac >because ISO-9660 CD's can be read by both Mac-OS and Windows. There are a number of utilities that will do this. A quick, easy one is called "Drop Rename" and is available at InfoMac. I don't know about hiding the suffix, but you can certainly batch-rename your files to add the suffix you wish. You can define a large number of kinds of renaming conventions, and save them as "droplets" and reuse them. I do not know a way to hide the suffix, nor do I know a way to make Word add the suffix automatically, short, perhaps, of writing some kind of macro, something I don't know how to do. But in Drop Rename, it's certainly easy to create a droplet for each file type you want to prepare for Windows, and drop your batches of files of each type onto the droplets to rename them appropriately. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:38:46 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Linux for Mac Reuben Halper asked: >Are there any variants of Linux available for the Mac? MkLinux and LinuxPPC are two that I have heard of. MkLinux info at http://www.mklinux.apple.com/info.html and from there you can link to MkLinux home at http://www.mklinux.apple.com/ Daly ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:42:03 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: MAXPower Upgrades Ted Logan ask about the MAXPower G3 upgrade for a 7100: my husband put one in his 8100 and has been 100% satisfied since that day. It gave a new lease on life to his computer. It was very tricky to install, and if he had known how long it would take him from the beginning, he would gladly have paid someone else $50 to do it. Daly >>Looking for advice pro and con about upgrading my 7100/80 with a MAXPower >>G3 PDS, specifically APS Catalog #104201 MAXPOWR G3 6100 (266MHZ/512K/133), >>which sells for $399.95. My local Apple dealer says go for it -- they'll >>charge me $50 for labor. But this is the same dealer who told me last >>year, "there is no way to upgrade Power Macs; buy a new one," while the >>upgrade kit itself would be coming from the same enlightened company that >>sold me three lemon 1GB Jaz drives in succession. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:04:39 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: OS 8.6 / PowerBook questions CMTools and More File Info Allan Hunter asked: >b) Back in the System 7 days, I used a little extension called GetMoreInfo= > to let me view / change the File Type and File Creator of files, either= > individually or in batches. When MacOS 8.1 became my day-in day-out OS, I= > addressed this same need by acquiring Snitch, which has the same= > capabilities plus a few other options. But beginning with 8.5, Snitch= > doesn't work! I need a replacement for this feature before I'll rely= > continually on 8.6. I suppose I would use an AppleScript droplet, although= > I hate cluttering up my desktop with icons and resist every new presence= > there, especially when a menu item ought to do the job instead. I do have= > QuicKeys, so I could use a non-droplet AppleScript and assign a keystroke= > to invoke it in the Finder. Desired features and characteristics would be= > that it displays current File Type and File Creator for selected file (if= > one file is selected) and provides boxes for me to type in desired= > replacement FT / FC and click OK to dismiss or change. If anyone knows of= > an existing 8.6-savvy solution or has a notion of how to script one, please= > let me know. I don't know of something that would do precisely what you ask, but there is a nice utility called FileTyper that would do it with drag and drop. Also, I have a couple of Contextual Menu packages that between them do about what you want. One is called "CM Tools" and has choices for changing file types to match those of files you have identified previously, and the same for creator codes, as well as type AND creator code combinations. The other one shows you the type and creator of a file you click on. If you are interested, all three are available at http://www.versiontracker.com Daly ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:06:16 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: OS 8.6 won't shut down Stan Lord asked: >I have installed OS 8.6 upgrade (from 8.5.1) onto my G3 >desktop 266. > >Now the system won't shut down or restart. > >I get an error message saying one application will not quit. > >In fact all aps have quit and only the finder is running. >This didn't happen with previous OSs. > >Anyone had this problem? > >If I start up with extensions off the machine will shut down >OK. I'm hoping someone will come up >with a good idea rather than the usual process of >elimination with the extensions. I handled this for a client recently by running Process Watcher and killing each process in turn until I came to one that wouldn't "kill". That was the one. (It was Extensions Strip.) I pulled it out of the system and restarted, and the computer was then able to shut down. It was a beige G3 running 8.5.1. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:10:11 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: scanning programme> Ezra Nathan asked: >> Can anyone direct me to a programme, preferably freeware, that will >> scan disks for text, mainly in word processing programmes. I have >> tried file buddy, but I can't get the scanning feature to work. Denny answered: >UltraFind 2.5.3 [shareware] does a good job of finding text for me. Look >for it in the usual places or here > UltraFind is excellent. Also, if Ezra is running OS 8.5, he can use the "Find By Content" feature of Sherlock, once he has scanned his disk once. RetrieveIt, WordHunter, and FindText are some others that would work. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:41:34 +0100 From: "Stewart Mackintosh" Subject: iMac networking What's the best way to network two iMacs and a LaserWriter 16/600? Do I need an ethernet hub to convert the different cable formats, or would a cheaper option be to use a USB-to-serial converter to connect to the printer via LocalTalk?? (The LaserWriter has built-in ethernet support, and ultimately ends with a BNC connector) Is there any truth in the rumour (provided by a PC-using colleague) that the iMacs can be networked via USB? -- TIA Stewart Mackintosh (with a 'k' !) currently making my 7100/80 last a little while longer... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:30:32 -0400 From: jcr2@xcornell.edu (John Rethorst) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #305 In article <7j1cgg$j2n$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, digest@info-mac.org wrote: >I've inherited an oldish Hard Dive with a copy of MacTools Pro 4.0.2 on it. >Legality aside, is there any reason why it couldn't be used on a clone >running OS 8.1, HFS +? Would it recognize HFS+? -- John Rethorst Please delete the x for email. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:17:18 -0400 From: "Paul J. Schinder" Subject: Linux for Mac On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 05:25:48PM +0000, Reuben Halper wrote: } Are there any variants of Linux available for the Mac? Certainly. I'm running it now on a Performa 6400. Here are some URL's: For the record, I'm running LinuxPPC on this machine (kind of an R4, but I installed Linux about 2 years ago, long before R4 came out). My wife's beige G3 runs Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server, the new distribution that I'm impressed with. If your Mac isn't a PCI PPC machine, then you still might be able to run a free Unix variant. NetBSD and OpenBSD run on some 68k Macs, and there's a Linux 68k, although my impression is that it isn't as advanced as LinuxPPC. } } Thanks, } Reuben Halper -- Paul Schinder schinder@pobox.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:47:06 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Linux for Mac At 5:25 PM +0000 5/28/99, Reuben Halper wrote: >Are there any variants of Linux available for the Mac? Here are three. There is at least one more [Yellow-something]. LinuxPPC Apple's MkLinux [not updated since July 1998] Debian Linux chazl The foot bone connects to the ankle bone, the ankle bone connects to the shin bone, the shin bone connects to the knee bone, now hear the word of the Lord. - The Suburbs, Rattle My Bones Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:18:11 -0600 From: "jacob reichbart" Subject: MacTools Pro I've still got a copy of mactools 4.0.4. It isn't compatible on my kids G3 running system 8.6. And it certainly isn't HFS+ aware. It was a great piece of software while it lasted. Have you had any luck running it? Although you're not the registered licencee and I'm not your legal counsel, I suspect that Symantec doesn't care about the past present or future of mactools. They bought a strong competitor and took it out of circulation. j. Ian Burt wrote: > I've inherited an oldish Hard Dive with a copy of MacTools Pro 4.0.2 on it. > Legality aside, is there any reason why it couldn't be used on a clone > running OS 8.1, HFS +? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:58:22 -0400 From: a brody Subject: making an installer using Applescript Dear Digest readers, I would like to make an installer using Applescript instead of any of the commercial applications out there, and wondered has anyone succeeded in doing this? It would seem possible. But so far I am having trouble converting "path to" to a string so that it can be incorporated into a launcher for the program I wish to add text to. For instance, I'd like to copy a file off a CD I create and insert it into the preference folder for the user. I'd also like to be able to script several freeware installers into the program. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 06:04:34 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Frankel" Subject: MIE and mail attachments I recently switched to Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 for my email. Since then, none of my AOL correspondents have been able to read the attached files that I've sent them, at least not without some fairly elaborate workarounds. I've tried various compression formats and various encoding options, but almost all the time the icon shows up on the other side as an unknown file. Any ideas? -- Jeff Frankel Windsor, Maine USA "Where the woodpecker pecks and the porcupine plays" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 99 08:29:13 EDT From: TOM FORD - DUPONT CRD/MS&E Subject: Missing buttons in Office 98, MacOS 8.5->8.6 [A] Hi- I originally posted the question, where installing MacOS 8.5 caused the buttons in MS Office 98 dialog boxes to disappear. This was pretty benign, unless you do something that opens a dialog box with no keyboard entry equivalents (like for instance, Excel's custom footer dialog). Then all you can do is crash out and lose unsaved documents! There were several good responses, and most people with a similar problem traced it to extension conflicts with things like Scrollability, ScrollMagic, Speed Doubler, Apollo, etc. Most times an upgrade to one of these solved the problem. It took me awhile to track it down, but my conflict was definitely with the Kensington Startup file that came with my TurboMouse 5. And, yes, it's the most recent version. Turn it back on, problem reappears. Thanks for all the responses. Hopefully somebody out there can benefit from my solution. -Tom Ford DuPont CR&D ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:13:48 -0400 From: "T. E. Roberts" Subject: Monitor resolutions in control strip In reply to: Subject: monitor resolutions in control strip Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:05:33 -0700 From: Don Chesnut and Cathy Jo Cassidy How can I change the monitor resolutions and refresh rates that appear in the monitor control strip module? Several resolutions and rates appear in the control strip that my monitor doesn't support and ones that I want -don't- appear. Can I modify the CSM somehow? Is there a different module I need to use? Thanks Don ================================= You might consider using a shareware app called SwitchRes, available for $9 (can be found, I believe, at http://www.versiontracker.com and other download sites). This program allows you to change resolutions easily, it has a control strip module and a menu in the Finder bar, and it allows you to set a hot key for specific resolutions and sets. I find it very useful to restore video settings in case they get accidentally changed and I can't see anything on the monitor. My system = Power Computing Power Center Pro 180MT (604e Mac clone), OS 8.1, 15" ViewSonic E641 SVGA monitor, 2MB video RAM, ATI Rage II video accelerator. T. E. Roberts (thorsdag@home.com) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:16:32 -0400 From: "Michael Blair" Subject: Mounting PC CDs I may have missed the answer to this question. If so I apologize for the redundancy. Since upgrading to OS 8.5 and thence OS 8.6 I don't seem to be able to mount some PC CD ROMs, yet a colleague still running OS 8.1 can mount them. I've tried the same disc on my PB G3, a desktop G3/233 and my old 7200/120 to no avail. I just get the familiar message that the disc isn't a Mac disc, do I want to initialize. Any suggestions? Please copy me on any replies to the list. Thanks. -- Michael Blair ======================================================================= Blair Technical Communications Tel: (514) 989-8713 106 - 3500 Atwater Avenue Fax: (514) 989-7521 Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3H 1Y5 Email: mjblair@total.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:57:26 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: OS 8.6 / PowerBook questions At 3:54 PM -0400 5/27/99, Allan Hunter wrote: > But beginning with 8.5, Snitch= > doesn't work! > If anyone knows of= > an existing 8.6-savvy solution Snitch 2.6.2 is compatible with 8.6: chazl The foot bone connects to the ankle bone, the ankle bone connects to the shin bone, the shin bone connects to the knee bone, now hear the word of the Lord. - The Suburbs, Rattle My Bones Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:04:12 -0400 From: Simon Kidd Subject: OS 8.6 won't shut down At 11.25 pm +0100 29/5/1999, Stan Lord wrote: >I have installed OS 8.6 upgrade (from 8.5.1) onto my G3 >desktop 266. > >Now the system won't shut down or restart. > >I get an error message saying one application will not quit. > > > >Stan Lord If you have Speed doubler running then that is the culprit, try turning off "Use faster network copy protocol". ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:06:30 +0100 From: Michel Treisman Subject: reading Windows CDs I think I remember reading about a program that would let me open Windows CDs on my PowerMac without the hassle of running VirtualPC or something like that first. Is there such a program? Does anyone remember what it is called? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:25:41 +0800 From: Laurent Chan Subject: Weird MacOS Problem with IDE Drive Dear All Please help. I faced the most daunting task trying to resolve this problem in 10 years of using Mac. I replaced a faulty IDE drive with IBM 6GB IDE drive. Eversince, it fails to install a properly running Mac OS 7.6, 8.1 or 8.5.1 on a PowerMac 5500/225. It was low-level formatted with Drive Setup 1.7.2; partitioned to 2 and 4 GB; HFS+ (also attempted at HFS); tested jumper switched to Master & Slave; Problem behaviour: 1. System prompt to disable Extension during startup. It clears this stage sometimes; it prompts error 10 sometimes; the monitor screen has a streak across the MacOS dual face horizontal. 2. Sometimes the icon display on the right while filename display on the left without the alphabets but a rectangular block. 3. When the windows is switched to listing, it sometimes have all its files and folders overlapped each other (superimposed). 4. It crashes frequently and unreliable to operate on when it appears to have no icons display problem (as explained above). 5. Used Norton Utilities to check and found no major hard disk problem. 6. When startup from bootable CD-ROM or external SCSI drive, all works wonderfully well. Even the IDE drive seems to receive data read/write well (although not thoroughly tested). The above seems to indicate that MacOS just cannot be installed into the IBM IDE 6Gb drive. Please HELP!!!!!! Thanks to all Mac lovers for your attention. Laurent Chan -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************