Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #350 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 13 Oct 99 Volume 16 : Issue 350 Today's Topics: 4 int HDs into 1 ext scsi unit, part 2 [Q] Modem dialing (Powerbook v.34) setup in Touchbase Pro Action Utilities GoMac 2.0.3 buggy Apple CD Audio Player Do we need a new digest viewer? Easy View - Do we need a new digest viewer? How can you change default browser? Solved! Java with IE Record of in and out to internet scientific calculator The three ADB device rule transparent backgrounds for desktop icons turning int. HD into ext. HD and Linux Weird problem with letter 'd' 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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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 #350" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:32:36 -0400 From: carolynb@mindspring.com Subject: 4 int HDs into 1 ext scsi unit, part 2 Hello, Oops! I forgot one last question- Assuming that I can join all 4 drives into 1 unit, is there a hardware (or software) solution to make them all look like 1 2GB drive? Or must it always appear to be 4 500MB drives? TIA, Carolyn carolynb@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:57:06 -0400 From: RobD Subject: [Q] Modem dialing (Powerbook v.34) setup in Touchbase Pro quoting Info-Mac and possibly previous message abstract: > >Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 21:12:38 -0400 >From: tcs@technologist.com (TCS) >Subject: [Q] Modem dialing (Powerbook v.34) setup in Touchbase Pro > >Can anyone help me with what to fill in for the following categories? >Modem setup string >Modem dial string prefix >Modem hangup string > >TIA, >lc > You could try They have most init strings for most modems. I know that apple has an unsupported Modem Script Maker somewhere in its support area under Mac OS Communications Unsupported I believe. I made one for my GV teleport a long time ago when I wasn't happy with the throughput on my 33.6 modem. It was several years ago but is definitely in one of the unsupported areas. Perhaps a search in the Apple support area for ModemScript or Script Generator etc may locate it for you. HTH >>>-----------Reach me by ICQ# 7162477------------------<<< =80=80=80Read my contributions =80=80=80 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:30:40 -0400 From: a brody Subject: Action Utilities GoMac 2.0.3 buggy Dear Digest readers, Action Utilities GoMac 2.0.3 has a very serious problem. While being a nice alternative to the windows 95/98/NT toolbar on the Mac, if the toolbar is active you can't quit from many open applications. This is regardless of if auto-hide is enabled or not. If I try to quit from many applications, the cursor starts to twirl a clock, and then "The Finder has unexpectedly quit" error appears on my screen. I even tried renaming the GoMac extension to ZGoMac to no avail. So load order of INITs doesn't matter in this case. I've tried e-mailing action utilities but all I get is an automated reply. Turn off the toolbar, or disable the extension, the error doesn't happen in the same programs. Please somebody help. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net Check out over 700 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:58:18 -0400 From: Allan Hunter Subject: Apple CD Audio Player >When I put an audio CD into the drive on my G3 with 8.1, the CD's icon >appears, and I usually get a few seconds of music. Most often, however, I >have to double click the CD, click the icon for the first movement, and then >Apple CD Audio Player starts, and I get its screen. If I wait a few seconds >more, the music starts, without my intervention, unless I choose, by clicking >a track, to listen to something other than the track that I had double >clicked initially. If I click the box to get rid of the screen, the music >continues. But the audio program is not on the pulldown menu at the right >side of the screen. > >Can someone explain all of this? Is Apple CD Audio Player running or not, >and why no mention in the list of running programs? Apple CD Audio Player is a control application, but there are other means of playing audio tracks. One of them is the auto-play option listed in QuickTime Settings, which causes an audio CD to start playing whenever you insert it. If you want to use only the CD Audio Player (a good idea; viruses spread by things that autostart themselves without user intervention), turn all AutoPlay options off in QuickTime Settings Control Panel; launch the Audio Player first and click the "play" button to start playing audio tracks. Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:36:59 -0400 From: Eric Frampton Subject: Do we need a new digest viewer? >I, too, read Info-Mac and TidBITS in Easy View, and I'm also looking >for a replacement for that ancient program. I'm using a program called Digest Viewer (v3.0b2)... http://www.macrules.com/users/mjh/ ...for viewing Info-Mac digests, and it works very well so far. It doesn't know about SEText, yet. -Eric -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Eric Frampton, keyboards Atlanta, GA / 404-932-4017 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:44:19 -0400 From: "Adam C. Engst" Subject: Easy View - Do we need a new digest viewer? >M. Akif Eyler halted development of Easy View at version 2.61 of March >1995. I seem to remember that Adam Engst has mentioned the possibility of a >rewrite on the TidBITS list and that Mr. Eyler would be willing to supply >the source code. Apparently no programmer has risen to the challenge. > >Perhaps Adam Engst - a moderator of this list - will correct or elucidate? Certainly. In October of 1998, Akif sent me the source code for Easy View, and I posted it to Info-Mac. Anyone who wants to update it - go right ahead (I don't remember the license terms offhand, but they were along the lines of public domain). cheers... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, Info-Mac Senior Moderator -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:06:01 -0600 From: Lawrence Rugolo Subject: How can you change default browser? Solved! Thanks to those who responded to my post: >How can you change the default browser from Netscape to MSIE >after both are installed, you know, the one which launches >when you double-click an URL? I know that when you first >install either browser, you can choose to make it the default, >but is it possible to change it later? > >I have MacOS 8.1, so I can't switch it from the Control Panels. > >Thanks......Larry The solution is to change the HTTP HELPER in Internet Config and then to choose "Read from Internet Config" in Eudora's Miscellaneous Settings. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:24:08 -0400 From: Alan Stein Subject: Java with IE I need to access a site using Microsoft's JVM (rather than Apple's) with Internet Explorer, but even though I set the preferences to Microsofts Java Virtual Machine, whenever I access the site it switches to the Apple MRJ and then I get errors. I'm using IE 4.5. Alan H. Stein alan@alanstein.com http://www.alanstein.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:02:17 -0400 From: "timchi@taconic.net" Subject: Record of in and out to internet I understand that the Windoze world has programs such as DIRT, which place hidden execs that record keystrokes, etc. and send them back out as an encrypted file under cover of other internet traffic. Given the hackers about us, and the abyssmal lack of privacy today, is there a program that could record the filenames, size, etc. and location placed, of all files transmitted into my Mac from an outside source and all files transmitted out to the net exclusive of those dilberately sent by the computer operator? Is there one that would act similar to a virus scanner and allow you to view or at least yes or no an outgoing request? Or one that would trap the info leading back to the originator? It would be especially useful to have a folder into which is placed copies of everything sent so that an anlysis could be made. You can email answers to timchi@taconic.net TIA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:07:35 +0100 From: Ezra Nathan Subject: scientific calculator Hello> I'd like to download a scientific calculator - something that has very similar functions to any regular one I might buy as hardware. Does anyone know of one I can download, preferably freeware or shareware? It would be nice if its 'facia' was similar to a hardware one. Thanks, > Ezra Nathan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:49:55 -0400 From: Allan Hunter Subject: The three ADB device rule >So remember, you can only add ONE device to the ADB port of the >Wallstreet. Add any more, even if built into the single device you >think you are adding, and you are risking disaster. Hmm?? I use an extended keyboard and mouse with my Wallstreet all the time except on the train. At the moment, prompted by curiosity caused by the above post, I am typing on keyboard #1 of 3 external daisychained ADB keyboards, the third of which has an external mouse hanging off the end of it. Keyboard #2 working fine...Keyboard#3 doing okay as well...Built-in PowerBook keyboard works...mouse is OK...trackpad works... Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:25:28 -0400 From: carolynb@mindspring.com Subject: transparent backgrounds for desktop icons Hello, Does anyone know of a program or a way to make the background of the text of desktop icons transparent? I like to use photographs as my desktop, and I just hate the look of the greyed-out text "boxes". On my PC at work I have a neat freeware app that does just this, but I have not been able to find a similar program (or setting) that will accomplish this. I am using a beige G3, and OS 8.6. Kaleidoscope really doesn't seem to be the answer either. I quite comfortable with ResEdit, so if that is my only solution, then that's OK as well. TIA, Carolyn carolynb@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:26:45 -0400 From: carolynb@mindspring.com Subject: turning int. HD into ext. HD and Linux Hello, I have 4 500 MB internal HD's that I would like to combine into 1 external HD scsi device. They are all Mac HFS drives. I don't know anything about building such a thing, so I would appreciate any advice at all. and I have a number of questions. At the very least, I would use it as a back-up for my main HD. At the very most, please see below for my Linux plan. But first of all the basics- 1. Can I do this? Is it OK to run 4 hd's off of 1 power supply? 2. Can I daisy chain 4 hds together like this? ( There must be hd to hd cables?) 3. What do I need, and need to know to do this? (I've swapped HDs and installed RAM, so I know how to be careful, and how to plug things in.) I also would appreciate knowing if there are brands to either look for or stay away from. I know that I need the power suppy (but what wattage or other details?), cables, mounting brackets and a box. I feel that I am quite capable of doing this if it is really a reasonable thing to do. 4. Is this a really dumb idea? ie-dumb, it simply won't work; or dumb, that I should have a professional do this? 5. I assume that I can reformat them as HFS+ drives (if they are to be used for back-up purposes)? I mean, is there a difference in the actual HD media for HFS vs HFS+? However, my ideal plan is to combine all 4 units into 1 box, and then install Linux on it. Right now, I only wish to use this "Linux box" as a self-training machine (I know some unix, and have signed up for the unix/linux course at ZDU). But there would be no networking, except to my Mac which is a beige, 300- G3. It wouldn't be used as a server or anything. I'm hoping that I can do this so that I do not have to reformat my main HD, but if I must, or if this seems to be a really bad idea, then I can use the external drives as a back-up, re-format the main HD, and then continue. I've joined the linuxppc-users-digest list, so I'm lurking and learning about the linux side of things there as well. I hope I've explained everything well enough, and I appreciate any and all feed back- especially if these sound like dumb ideas! I really trust your collective wisdom...I will summarize my findings for all of you. TIA! Carolyn carolynb@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:24:29 +0100 From: me@none.co.uk (Lobo) Subject: Weird problem with letter 'd' In Eudora (4.2) every time I type the letter 'd' it opens the control panel folder!!!!!!!!! To type 'd' I have to open and use PopChar pro. I tried closing Euxora and restarting it but no difference. So far I don't know whether it affects any other applications but it also happens when I'm in the Finxer and type the letter 'd'. It does not happen if I type a uppercase 'D'! PowerMac5500; OS8.6. Any suggestions that could point me in a direction? Awrabest Lobo. ta reply, rub oot -Lobo- from... peter@plalp.-Lobo-freeserve.co.uk -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************