Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #269 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 09 Dec 97 Volume 15 : Issue 269 Today's Topics: (Q)Finder Preferences File Damage [Q] Problems installing Netcaster using Communicator?? [Wanted]: Good archival compression util Attaching files to email for Win95? Checkbook Software Eudora addresses FileMaker Pro Question FileMaker Pro Question H. P. DeskWriter540 printing problems... MacOS 8.0 "Clean up" PCMCIA modems and price differences Problem with FTP uploads 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 . 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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 V15 #269" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:22:21 -0400 From: Laurence Hawkins Subject: (Q)Finder Preferences File Damage As result of running Tech Tools (and subsequenty Norton Utilities) on my PowerMac 6500/225 with OS 7.6.1, I discovered that I have a damaged Finder Preferences File, which "should be replaced with a back-up copy". This would explain why new settings in the "Views" control panel only worked until the system was restarted, when everything reverted to default. Question: how do I do this? If I throw it away, will a new one be automatically set up? After a recent HD crash and the painful rebuild of all data, I am a little scared to play around! Laurence Hawkins ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 13:52:58 +0100 From: "Dr. A. D'Emanuele" Subject: [Q] Problems installing Netcaster using Communicator?? Hi, Has anyone been successful in getting Netcaster installed into Communicator 4.04. I have downloaded the relevant file, nc11b1.jar, but apparently I need to use Smartupdate to get Netcaster installed onto the Mac (anyone know what to do with a .jar file???). I have tried several times to register on SmartUpdate but Communicator crashes when it gets to the Customer Survey form. Anyone had similar problems or know a simpler way to get Netcaster working??? I am using a PB3400c with 80MB RAm and 20MB allocated to Netscape. Regards. Tony D'Emanuele Tony@man.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 05:36:49 -0800 (PST) From: Daly Jessup Subject: [Wanted]: Good archival compression util Mike Cook wrote, >I'd like to be able to archive some large files on my Mac (System 7.3). >At this time, I don't have a Zip or other backup system except to backup to >floppies via a backup program. I'd like to save on floppies by first >compressing the files more than the backup program probably does. >Of course, I'd like to be able to uncompress them later. >Quicktime movies are among those files I'd like to compress. >What free/cheap utils will do this, and where would they be found? I'm not sure how cheap it is, but I consider StuffIt Deluxe (along with Retrospect and Norton Utilities) to be indispensable and worth paying for. With StuffIt Deluxe you get "Drop Segment" which lets you stuff and segment files into "bit-size" portions that will fit on to floppies, but then put themselves back together into one large file when you decompress them. Perhaps there is shareware that does that, but someone else would have to tell you what it is. Anyway, possibly searching on "segmenting" will help you find the function you are looking for. Daly Daly Jessup mailto:jessup@san.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 97 14:30:22 -0600 From: James Atkinson Subject: Attaching files to email for Win95? On 12/04/1997 04:48 PM Christian F Buser said: >"Daren R. Gray" asked > >> I'm having difficulty with my recipients' ability (who use Windows 95) >> to decompress and view .gif files sent as email attachments with Claris >> Emailer 2.0. I've tried sending the attachments as Binhex encoded, >> non-encoded, "Service default", and still no luck. Daren: Try encoding attachments using Base64, which is somewhat of a standard in the Windows world. UUEncode should also work, provided that the recipient has a way to uudecode. If you want to learn more, join the Claris Emailer discussion list---they're a lively bunch and very much over-informed about most email topics...very helpful. Get details from the Claris web site or from the Fog City web site . James Atkinson engja@showme.missouri.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 08:10:18 -0600 From: Butch Kemper Subject: Checkbook Software I am looking for software that I can use to keep my checkbook. I want to do on the computer what I do using the ledger in my checkbook. I appreciate any pointers to appropriate software. Thanks. Butch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 13:37:41 +0800 From: Tony Stanton Subject: Eudora addresses I've just started using Eudora instead of Netscape for e-mail and I have a couple of questions I hope someone can help me with. 1) Is it possible to import an address book from Netscape 3 to Eudora 3? 2) How do you set up Eudora t deal with multiple mail accounts, without manually changing the settings file each time. TIA and hope someone can help ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 07:26:43 -0500 From: Allan Hunter Subject: FileMaker Pro Question > > Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:39:46 -0500 From: "Edward W. Ver Hoef" > Subject: FileMaker Pro Question > > I have been helping a non-profit group with their Mac-related > problems. (They characterize themselves as technologically challenged > - they're simply users.) Their current problem which has me stumped > for a good answer is that they have a very large data base past donors > that they use for their mailing list. They would like to create a new > copy of the data base each year containing the data necessary for > mailings but without the history of past donations. This means > clearing out the values in several fields within each record but doing > nothing to destroy the record structure, i.e., the fields will all > continue to exist, they will simply be empty. I can't think of a neat, > non-brute-force way to do this. I suspect that a script might be the > answer but I confess I am not very familiar with the use of scripts. > Any help from the wizard Info-Mac community would be much appreciated. > > Ed Ver Hoef Create a file that will contain the fields for itemizing donations for any given year. Let's call it "Donations Current Year". It should contain one field which is matched to one in the main file, which will only contain permanent information about each donor, some sort of unique record ID field (e.g., Social Security Number, or your own internally created serial number). Any fields in Donations Current Year that carry over data from the main database file should be set up as lookups. Now save a clone of this file to use next year. Every year, the old (full) copies of Donations Current Year are renamed Donations98 or whatever, and tossed in an archives folder, and the clone is duplicated and the duplicate renamed "Donations Current Year". Create a script in the main database file and set it to execute whenever the file is opened, which automatically opens Donations Current Year. Use scripts and buttons to move your end users seamlessly between the two files, depending on which data they need to see. Allan Hunter Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 05:36:47 -0800 (PST) From: Daly Jessup Subject: FileMaker Pro Question Edward W. Ver Hoef wrote: >I have been helping a non-profit group with their Mac-related problems. >(They characterize themselves as technologically challenged - they're >simply users.) Their current problem which has me stumped for a good answer >is that they have a very large data base past donors that they use for >their mailing list. They would like to create a new copy of the data base >each year containing the data necessary for mailings but without the >history of past donations. This means clearing out the values in several >fields within each record but doing nothing to destroy the record >structure, i.e., the fields will all continue to exist, they will simply be >empty. I can't think of a neat, non-brute-force way to do this. I suspect >that a script might be the answer but I confess I am not very familiar with >the use of scripts. Any help from the wizard Info-Mac community would be >much appreciated. It is too easy. Open the data base you want to copy, and choose "Save a Copy As" from the File menu. At the bottom of the save window, you can choose the format. One of the formats is "Clone - no records" - which makes a complete duplicate of the data base but leaves all fields empty. Sounds like just what you want to do. Daly Daly Jessup mailto:jessup@san.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:36:25 -0500 From: Vincent Cordisco Subject: H. P. DeskWriter540 printing problems... We have a HP DeskWriter 540 (with color kit installed) printer problem. The facts: Power Macintosh 6100/66 with DOS Compatible card installed. (16 MB RAM; System 7.5.5). HP DeskWriter 540 (with color kit installed). HP DW Series 6.0.3 driver installed in the Chooser. Serial Port used for the printer. Appletalk turned OFF. Virtual Memory turned ON (16 MB of physical RAM, 17 MB of Virtual Memory. Total=33 MB) Modern Memory Manager turned ON. Disk Cache set to 512k. No network or file sharing in use. The Problem: The DeskWriter 540 prints/functions great while OFFline. It crashes the Mac with an Error -11 while trying to print while ONline. No matter what app we're using ONline (Eudora 3.0, Netscape 4.0.3, etc.) it crashes if we try to print while ONline. Data saved while online will print fine AFTER we go OFFline. Thanks in advance for any help readers may offer! ------------------------------ Date: 09 Dec 97 09:48:08 -0500 From: Bill Waits Subject: MacOS 8.0 "Clean up" Is there any preference setting (that I may be overlooking), Extension, ResEdit Hack, Indian dance, magic potion, or Voo-Doo Witchcraft that is/may be available to allow System 8.0 Clean Up option to behave more like the System 7.x's Clean Up Window option? I don't know what algorithm Apple used with System 8.0, but I would hope that they would revert back to the System 7.x's method. I can't stand System 8.0 alway re-arranging everything if I am trying to position just one file. Another thing that I would like to adjust is the "intolerance" of System 8.0 of having a file adjacent to it (when using the Clean Up option) in the next "spot" with more than say 5 characters in its name. At least System 7.x would "tolerate" a name long enough until the names of two adjacent files were just barely reached each other if both were highlighted. If anyone knows of a ResEdit hack, could you please share it? If anyone can come up with an Extension, I will *GLADLY* pay most any reasonable shareware fee (the only other cavet is that it must be stable and not crash my system....). I would be eternally grateful. Thanks...Bill Waits ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:22:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov" <5040@unforgettable.com> Subject: PCMCIA modems and price differences >Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 03:02:58 EST >From: Solo 0 >Subject: PCMCIA modems and price differences > >Hi, > > I've been shopping for a PCMCIA card modem for my pb1400, >and I've been frustrated by the price differential between mac and pc >modems. For instance, why is a Mac Global Village 56k card ~$280 US, >while the PC version of the same card is only $180 US. Is there any >reason why I shouldn't just purchase the PC version to use on my mac? No ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:59:43 -0700 From: Richard Austin Subject: Problem with FTP uploads I have developed a problem in uploading files from my Mac to a remote host via FTP. Here's my configuration: PowerMac 7300/200 MacOS 8.0 OT 1.2 OT/PPP 1.0.1 GV Teleport x2 modem News, email, and telnet sessions seem to work fine. Downloading files to my Mac works fine--no worries. Uploading a file from my Mac will occasionally succeed, but more often gets hung up just before the transfer is complete. This is true for a variety of FTP tools: Fetch 3.0.3: After transferring 99% of the file, usually with 1 second remaining, the transfer gets stuck, and I have to quit Fetch. This also makes the PPP session unusable--I can't make any new connections, and DNS is no longer available. NCSA Telnet 2.7 and BetterTelnet: If I initiate the transfer from the remote end, i.e. telnet to a host and type "ftp " and attempt to get the file, the transfer again almost succeeds, but then I get an error: 150 Opening connection netin: Connection reset by peer 226 Transfer complete and the transfer really isn't complete, because the last part of the file was never received. Netscape Navigator 4.03: Sometimes can transfer the file using "Upload file..." (albeit in binary mode), but when it hangs, I have to force quit Netscape. NetFinder: Transfers OK until the very end, then stops. Quitting drops the connection and gave a type 12 error--reboot. I've tried reinstalling OT/PPP from my MacOS 8 CD, but I fear I may have missed some of the preferences files. I'm pretty sure the problem is at my end, because I have the same problem with 2 different ISP's. Apple Telephone Support recommended a disk scan with a utility like Norton Disk Doctor, but that did not find anything. Three others have told me they have seen the same problem. I'm pretty sure that I did not have this problem initially, so I fear something has become corrupted. Any ideas on what the problem is or how to track down the faulty component?? Thanks for any help! -- Richard -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************