Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #190 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 01 Dec 00 Volume 17 : Issue 190 Today's Topics: [*] MI Convert 2.6.2 68k English [*] MI Convert 2.6.2 Carbon English [*] MI Convert 2.6.2 PPC English [*] MicroAccounts fp4 - Accounting Template for FileMaker Pro Ver 4.0 [*] TaskMenuBar 2.3.0 [Q] how to do 'java -jar file.jar' on the Mac? dead 6500/225 Digital line kills analog modem? G4 freezes: maybe it's Adaptec 2906 SCSI card? G4 freezes: maybe it's Adaptec 2906 SCSI card? HP DeskJet 970cxi iMac suddenly soundless Keystroke in Startup Items? MacOS/Hardware and disabilities Treating Folders As Volumes Web page builders (C) 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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The Changes: - Now with the addition of "Help text" to help newcomers to a computer find - their way around the program, option can be disabled from the Preferences - window. - Addition of a Weights and Measures table. - MI Convert is now available as separate Carbon, PPC and 68k applications. - This is a shareware program with a free full 30 day tryout. Requirements: - 68000 processor and OS 7.6.1 or above. Compressed BinHex size: - 904k This program can be used on CD distribution. Web: econsoftware.com/econ.html Enquires and questions should be directed to: mailto:mail@econsoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/mi-convert-262-68k.hqx; 1045 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 2000 From: econsoftware To: Subject: [*] MI Convert 2.6.2 Carbon English - MI Convert 2.6.2 is a Metric / Imperial calculator & converter for converting metric and imperial measurements in distance, length, weight, capacity, temperature, velocity, square measurement and now circumference calculations and conversions. The Changes: - Now with the addition of "Help text" to help newcomers to a computer find - their way around the program, option can be disabled from the Preferences - window. - Addition of a Weights and Measures table. - MI Convert is now available as separate Carbon, PPC and 68k applications. - This is a shareware program with a free full 30 day tryout. Requirements: - Power Mac running OSX or a Power Mac running OS8.5 or above with the "CarbonLib" Extension installed Compressed BinHex size: - 1MB This program can be used on CD distribution. Web: econsoftware.com/econ.html Enquires and questions should be directed to: mailto:mail@econsoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/mi-convert-262-carbon.hqx; 1343 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 2000 From: econsoftware To: Subject: [*] MI Convert 2.6.2 PPC English - MI Convert 2.6.2 is a Metric / Imperial calculator & converter for converting metric and imperial measurements in distance, length, weight, capacity, temperature, velocity, square measurement and now circumference calculations and conversions. The Changes: - Now with the addition of "Help text" to help newcomers to a computer find - their way around the program, option can be disabled from the Preferences - window. - Addition of a Weights and Measures table. - MI Convert is now available as separate Carbon, PPC and 68k applications. - This is a shareware program with a free full 30 day tryout. Requirements: - Minimum, Power Mac running OS 7.6.1 through to any version of OS 9. Compressed BinHex size: - 972k This program can be used on CD distribution. Web: econsoftware.com/econ.html Enquires and questions should be directed to: mailto:mail@econsoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/mi-convert-262-ppc.hqx; 1204 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 2000 From: "Roy A. Barnes" To: Subject: [*] MicroAccounts fp4 - Accounting Template for FileMaker Pro Ver 4.0 This is an Accounting Template for home office use using the program "FileMaker Pro ver 4 It requires the user to own FileMaker Pro either on Mac or Windows. This is a DEMO version Enter your payables/payments, write checks, reports include balance sheet; Income statement; Trial balance and General Ledger. Others can be created or requested. Includes Chart of accounts, fields for entering job cost tracking. Manual enter credit and debit to balance transaction entry. Shareware Cost $120.00 [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/micro-accounts-fp4.hqx; 271 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 2000 From: Hugh Kawahara To: Subject: [*] TaskMenuBar 2.3.0 TaskMenuBar is a control panel that uses the empty space on the menu bar for many operations such as launching and switching applications, and opening files. Because it only uses the menu bar, unlike other utilities, it will never obscure or be obscured by other windows. The version 2.3.0 lets you add, move and remove resident menu bar items without using the control panel. Requires System 7.1 or later including OS-8 and 9 with a 68K or PPC processor. Shareware fee: $15. Hugh Kawahara kawahara@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~kawahara/taskmenubar.html [Archived as /info-mac/gui/task-menu-bar-23.hqx; 188 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:46:10 +0100 From: Eduard Hoenkamp To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] how to do 'java -jar file.jar' on the Mac? To run a .jar file on the Mac, what would be the equivalent of this unix command? I have MRJ 2.2.3 and SDK installed, but know little about java. Anyone in the know? Thank you, Eduard. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:34:23 -0700 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: "info-mac letters" Subject: dead 6500/225 Jerry Levinson wrote: > Our 6500/225 is apparently dead, the display shows a staticy checkerboard > type pattern. Tested various parts. A local tech says that the > motherboards on this model often fail, more often than other models. He > also said replacement boards are hard to find and will cost around $500. > Is there another motherboard (with more reliability) that we can put in > the case? Well, if you don't find one, why not buy a far better and newer computer for the cost of repairing that one? For example, offers Umax S900, 604e, 240Mhz, 16/2G/CD/EtherNet tower for $500. I have noticed a lot of other good buys listed in the back of MacWorld and Mac Addict. Cyrus W. Roton LCDR USN Ret. MITA tech. Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:31:52 -0500 From: "Michael G. Schabert" To: Joe Holly , digest@info-mac.org Subject: Digital line kills analog modem? At 5:27 AM -0800 11/29/00, Joe Holly wrote: >Greetings list, >My G4 Mac came with an external Global Village analog modem and the >manual states that it should not be used on a digital line, the >possible result being damage to the modem and even the Mac. > >Well, I have a digital line and the modem I used with my old PowerMac >8600 worked just fine. I am using the new setup with an analog line, >but getting very slow connections. Anyone out there with any >experience on this situation who can offer some sound advice. Hi Joe, Actually, if you had plugged your 8600's modem directly into the digital line, you wouldn't have been able to connect anywhere. What you most likely did was plug it into something called a "POTS" jack in the back of the digital interface. What that POTS jack does, is actually give you an analog phone line stemming from your digital line. A standard BRI ISDN line gives you two bearer channels, & most ISDN TAs have 2 POTS jacks in them. If you don't want to use the ISDN connection, or can't, then using the POTS jack will give you fast connections because the phone line from the TA to the phone company is digitally clean. Rule of thumb....if you can plug in a $9.95 Radio Shack telephone, then the port isn't digital, & the modem will be fine :-). Hope this helps, Mike -- Mac Guy Miranda Graphic Systems, publishers of Graphic Power www.graphicpower.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:31:08 -0800 From: Tracey Adams To: Subject: G4 freezes: maybe it's Adaptec 2906 SCSI card? Paolo, I had exactly the same problem with my PowerMac B/W G-3 when I upgraded my Adaptec 2906 SCSI card last year. I ran Conflict Catcher and it told me it was SCSIProbe v5.xx. I downgraded to SCSIProbe v5.0 and all of my problems went away. I have since installed and tried all of the upgrades and had similar problems. I'm just sticking with straight version 5.0 for now. I hope this helps you. Tracey > > From: Paolo Bartoli > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:27:45 +0100 > To: digest@info-mac.org > Subject: G4 freezes: maybe it's Adaptec 2906 SCSI card? > > I'm having trouble with the Mac G4. > > The computer suddenly freezes with no (apparent) reason, no error > window, no relation to a particular application. It happens time by > time, without a specific time interval. It may work fine for the > whole day of just freeze twice, ten, twenty times a day. > > I tried to exclude the extensions one by one and I think I've found > the problem. > I have an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card installed (with the latest driver, > rel.1.2) to link some SCSI hardware. I noticed that whenever the > Adaptec 2906 SCSI card extension is loaded, the Mac gets instable and > is susceptible to freezes. > > I looked for the problem in MacFix and other resources websites, but > found nothing about it. Looked on Adaptec site and found no newer > driver for the SCSI card, and no mention of such a problem. Has > anyone of you an idea of what's happening? > > One more question: I read that SCSI devices should _always_ be > swithed on. What happens if I keep 'em off? I've been working for > years with Macs and SCSI devices and kept them on and off at will. > Was I wrong?? > Anyway the problem (the Mac freezes) happens in both cases, with the > SCSI devices on and off. > > Macintosh G4/350 AGP, 128mb ram+128 vm, MacOS 8.6, Adaptec SCSI card > 2906 with latest driver rel.1.2 > -- > > ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli / pbartoli@iname.com / bpxmb@tin.it ** > ** webstrip @ http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba/ ** > ** ecodesign @ http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba/eco/index.html ** -- "I always try to believe at least six impossible things before breakfast." ---Lewis Carroll--- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:29:21 -0800 From: Joe Holly To: Paolo Bartoli Subject: G4 freezes: maybe it's Adaptec 2906 SCSI card? Paolo, This sounds suspiciously like SCSI voodoo to me. I have that same card in my G4 450 with four SCSI devices attached, some turned on and some off. (I always restart before turning one of them on, however.) Other than an occasional freeze once or twice a week, it all seems to work ok. Although you could have another system extension conflicting with the Adaptec driver, it sounds as though you have pretty well checked that situation out. But SCSI voodoo -- odd, intermittent, unexplainable, weird, infuriating freezes and crashes caused by the unexplainable and weird SCSI system (one of the big reasons that SCSI is now antique) -- can drive you nuts. It sounds like that is pretty much the case here. I'd suggest that you try unplugging the SCSI cable from the back of your Mac and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then SCSI voodoo it is. Possible culprits would be: bad or no termination; total cable length which is too long; one of your devices is bad; or you need to change the order in which your devices are chained. By the way, my 2906 card has a fan on it which is as noisy as an old ringer washer. How about yours? Good luck, Joe Holly >I'm having trouble with the Mac G4. > >The computer suddenly freezes with no (apparent) reason, no error >window, no relation to a particular application. It happens time by >time, without a specific time interval. It may work fine for the >whole day of just freeze twice, ten, twenty times a day. > >I tried to exclude the extensions one by one and I think I've found >the problem. >I have an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card installed (with the latest driver, >rel.1.2) to link some SCSI hardware. I noticed that whenever the >Adaptec 2906 SCSI card extension is loaded, the Mac gets instable and >is susceptible to freezes. > >I looked for the problem in MacFix and other resources websites, but >found nothing about it. Looked on Adaptec site and found no newer >driver for the SCSI card, and no mention of such a problem. Has >anyone of you an idea of what's happening? > >One more question: I read that SCSI devices should _always_ be >swithed on. What happens if I keep 'em off? I've been working for >years with Macs and SCSI devices and kept them on and off at will. >Was I wrong?? >Anyway the problem (the Mac freezes) happens in both cases, with the >SCSI devices on and off. > >Macintosh G4/350 AGP, 128mb ram+128 vm, MacOS 8.6, Adaptec SCSI card >2906 with latest driver rel.1.2 >-- > >** Arch. Paolo Bartoli / pbartoli@iname.com / bpxmb@tin.it ** >** webstrip @ http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba/ ** >** ecodesign @ http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba/eco/index.html ** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:36:17 -0700 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: "info-mac letters" Subject: HP DeskJet 970cxi Michael S. Silverstein wrote: > Can I simultaneously connect a HP DeskJet 970cxi to a Mac via USB and > to a PC via a parallel connection? Short answer: YES. Longer answer: Well, I think so. I am doing it with an Epson Cyrus W. Roton LCDR USN Ret. MITA tech. Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:58:50 +0100 From: "Piero Severi" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: iMac suddenly soundless Many thanks to all those that sent me advice on this matter. Among the other suggestions I was told to check the loudspeakers cable. It was unplugged: I think I had inadvertedly pulled it while opening the case . Now Gromit (my iMac) sings again... Piero. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:05:00 -0500 (EST) From: SteveCraft To: The Info-Mac Network Subject: Keystroke in Startup Items? I have my MacTV system pretty stripped-down so it gets to the desktop kind of fast. Then I can hit the TV button on the remote to do a keystroke to make it switch over. That's almost what I want. :) My key combination to switch over is [ctrl]-`. Is there a way to get that keyboard combo into my Startup Items so the thing becomes a TV ASAP? Thanks. Steve Craft mailto:scraft@nothinbut.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:37:48 -0500 From: "Michael G. Schabert" To: Scott Horton Subject: MacOS/Hardware and disabilities >Hello, > >Does anyone know of decent Mac hardware and software for a person >with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Lou Gehrig's disease)? My >brother-in-law has this disease and is about to purchase a Windows >laptop as he has experimented running EZKeysą software that slowly >allows him control of windows, etc. with the minimal use of his R >hand that remains. It also interfaces with a device that he uses to >turn on the TV and some other household controls. Speech control is >likely out of the question as it is currently very labored and will >soon be unintelligible. > >If an iBook or Powerbook could be functional for him, I'd like to >explore this a bit. Apple has been quite proactive in this regard for years, starting with the Easy Access and Big View control panels in the early systems. They have web resources at: http://www.apple.com/education/k12/disability/ Hope this helps, Mike -- Mac Guy Miranda Graphic Systems, publishers of Graphic Power www.graphicpower.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:48:23 -0500 From: "Michael G. Schabert" To: jonrelay@napanet.net (Jon Bettencourt) Subject: Treating Folders As Volumes >I'm looking for a program to make a folder appear as a volume on the Mac >desktop, like a PC's SUBST command. I'm curious what the desired use for this would be...as far as making it visibly "look" like a volume...you can always copy'n'paste the volume icon onto a folder that's sitting on your desktop. If you are trying to install software onto the folder volume, then what you may want to do is use Apple's Disk Copy to create a disk image of whatever size you want. You can put an alias to the image in your startup items folder, so that it will always pop up onto your desktop. It will behave exactly like a volume, although you couldn't boot from it. This will also let the "volume" show up when someone tries to connect to your Mac via AppleShare. HTH Mike -- Mac Guy Miranda Graphic Systems, publishers of Graphic Power www.graphicpower.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:14:22 -0700 From: Ted Logan To: Christian F Buser Subject: Web page builders (C) >At 12:33 -0500 27.11.2000, jonrelay@napanet.net (Jon Bettencourt) wrote: > >>Try Claris Home Page 3.0 from www.download.com. You can try it for 30 days >>before you have to pay for it. > >Is this still available? I haven't heard of CHP for a long time, >after Claris was renamed FileMaker Inc and gave ClarisWorks to Apple. >It is still my favourite program for doing web pages, and I will be >instructing 15 teachers on how to make web pages with CHP (although >we have to use a classroom with Windows computers, but CHP will work on them...). Claris Home Page 3.0 is now called File Maker Home Page 3.0 and is available from download.com for 30-day free trail, as Jon says. Or you can buy it direct from File Maker at http://www.filemaker.com/products/hp_home.html. File Maker also offers some support information, though in three-plus years I've never needed any. CHP 3.0 has never been upgraded because it was about as good as it could get in 3.0. I think CHP is superb software--not hard to learn with the excellent tutorials provided with the paid materials, Mac-intuitive for the most part, friendly for ordinary people unfamiliar with HTML, and capable of building anything a Web designer can dream up. I'm no programmer and no kind of designer but I've been using it with great success and zero problems for at least three years (maybe longer--I've forgotten when I started with it). My chief clients, a medical and scientific publisher in the UK, have also used CHP for their Web building exclusively even longer than I have and they still use by choice over anything else. Should be great for your teacher training. Ted Logan Logan Writing, Inc. Lake Havasu City, Arizona loganwriting@ispchannel.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************