Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #228 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 30 Dec 98 Volume 16 : Issue 228 Today's Topics: [Q]-Where is OT/PPP Contol Panel (OS 8.5.1)? Appletalk defaulting to printer port At Ease 2.0 and game CD's Finder Problems? Floppy drive for PowerBook 100 Fwd: Sluggish Netscape 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1 grep xfcn help with backups LaserWriter Bridge Sudden blackout, then back on 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. 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. 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Thanks, Scott ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:03:46 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Appletalk defaulting to printer port At 11:18 AM +0900 12/23/98, Tito and Shari Poza wrote: >Is there any way to stop AppleTalk from switching ports when the other >computer is not available? Yes. Get rid of the crossover cable and buy a hub, then use standard 10baseT cabling to connect the two computers to the hub. At CompUSA, this solution will cost around $75. Via mail-order or some other source, it will be much less, possibly on the order of $40. I recently bought a 9-port hub at a Giant Computer Sale at the state fairgrounds [one of those things where you pay to get in] for $25. Acme Electronics here in Mpls has 6-foot 10base-T cables for $3 each. 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, 29 Dec 1998 20:04:10 -0500 From: "Kevin Greenspan, D.C." Subject: At Ease 2.0 and game CD's Hey there folks, I have been having a problem on my IIci (I know it's ancient, don't rub it in.) When in ATEase and a game is selected requiring the external 24x CD-ROM to change the discs. It crashes or just won't let you eject the current CD and change. Any ideas? Any help greatly appreciated. Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:05:14 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Finder Problems? At 6:31 PM -0600 12/22/98, Charles Edward Farrugia wrote: >Hello! Recently I've been getting [a memory error from the Finder] >The >only two applications that I've loaded recently are Kaleidoscope v2.1 and >GoMac (which both appear to be working OK). If you disable these two, does the problem continue? 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 visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:03:50 -0800 From: Paul Brians Subject: Floppy drive for PowerBook 100 One of our impoverished grad students has an old PowerBook 100 running System 7.1 with an external floppy drive which has gone bad. Any disk inserted in it becomes damaged. Apple no longer makes these external floppy drives, and the only authorized repair shop in the area will not work on it. Does anybody make a good, inexpensive external floppy drive that will work with this model? I know next to nothing about PowerBooks, so I'm nervous about making sure that the cables on anything new will work on this old model. How about Zip drives? Could he use one of those instead? Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 05:18:04 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Sluggish Netscape 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1 Tom, How much physical RAM do you have in the 8500? How much memory have you allocated to Communicator? It sounds to me like it's struggling with too little memory, possibly. Do you have Virtual memory on? Are you running RAM Doubler? Do you have ObjSupportLib in your Extensions folder? Daly >I recently installed both Netscape Communicator 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1 on my >PowerMac 8500/150 and observed the following problem. I would appreciate >hearing about any diagnoses, solutions, or workarounds. > >Whenever Netscape is accessing a web page, everything else freezes for 5-25 >seconds at a time. It won't respond to mouse clicks in Netscape, the >Finder, or anything else. Occasionally I see activity on the modem, at >which time it responds to the most recent mouse click before freezing >again. Web pages are loaded in small bursts separated by long pauses, even >from sites and at times of day that are normally quite fast. > >A friend reports the same behavior, also with 8.5.1 and 4.5. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:28:52 +0900 From: Ron Barber Subject: grep xfcn Some time ago someone posted the "grep-replace.XFCN" stack for Hypercard to this list. The stack was made by Greg Anderson of the Social Sciences Computing dept. at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I want to license the xfcn for commercial use but can't seem to locate Greg or anyone who knows him. Will the original poster, or someone who knows about the xfcn, please contact me? Thanks (or if you have a grep xthing you are willing to license let me know) ron ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:54:41 +0000 From: Tristan Bailey Subject: help with backups hi Could anyone help me with some backup guidence. I have been chucked in a the deepend with my first job and must try to run a network till the company gets bigger. I need to backup our mirror of our website and our server. So does anyone have any guidence on what media we should backup to. Previously we had backed up to DAT, but I am not happy with not knowing what is on dat and the drive is old and giving me drive/media error messages. I am using G3 server (IP 6) 8.1 and 9150 8.5.1 with the old DAT in it. the rest of the office is Macs. I am using Retrospect 4.1 to do the back up and am reasonable happy running that. I am thinking of doing a backup to CD but then i do not think I would be able to do incrimetal backups. Would Jaz or something else be better? Are they reliable, esp. when left running for a long time? Also I do not know how oftern I sould back up the system and how to rotate the backups. So I am looking for help/guidence/url pointers/"saving lights" for: A) retrospect usage B) IP 6/6.1 usage C) back up practices D) Media guidence E) Any help in running a network for a computer base Graphic Designer I hope I will only be running it in the short term but it could be a few months so any help from fellow Mac lovers would be great. This whole this scares me badly as all I want to be is a Designer. I have been having almost constant nose bleeds for the six weeks I have been working and I want to calm my life down and sort this out. For the mean time at least. Thank you very much for your help in advance. tristan --- Tristan Bailey Interactive Designer tb-octopus@tcp.co.uk http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~tb-octopus/ "What's worse than a dislexic like me. A dyslexic in a big mess and under a lot of pressure... Like me" To peaceful times and beautiful New Media with a Mac heart. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:58:52 -0600 From: "Carl E. Mungan" Subject: LaserWriter Bridge In our department we are using the freebie LaserWriter Bridge to put a couple of laser printers connected by LocalTalk to some Mac onto the ethernet so it is available to everyone in the department (and on campus, for that matter). The frustrating problem is that periodically the printers simply drop the connection for no apparent reason that we can tell. It happens for everything from '040 macs running System 7 through G3s running 8.5. We all have different theories for why it happens: some say when certain Microsoft products run, some say certain internet clients, others say when the hard drive goes to sleep. None of these theories has held water under close scrutiny and controlled testing. Also, "obvious" things like unchecking "Load only when needed" in the TCP/IP panel or trying other available versions of the Bridge have not solved the problem. Best I can say is it happens on average about once a day and the only way to bring the printer back is to restart the Mac which is attached to that printer. Somebody must be using the Bridge the way we are trying to. Who can help? It's truly aggravating to have to run around restarting Macs periodically. (Windows has some kind of built-in printer networking mode which doesn't have this problem; it makes our hold-out Macs look really bad to our PC-boasting colleagues.) Carl ps: I would appreciate it if you would cc any suggestions to me directly at , as well as posting it to the list. I'm behind in my list reading. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:27:52 -0500 From: jcsouth@widomaker.com (Jerry South) Subject: Sudden blackout, then back on Today my monitor did a total, sudden, blackout -- then came right back on. It happened several more times in the space of about 30 mins. As far as I could tell there was no sound associated with the blackout. Anyone know what this is? Am I close to some sort of imminent failure on my video output? I was using a graphics program at the times it occurred -- GraphicConverter -- as I've done 10,000 times before without such incidents. I'm using a 6500/250, sys 7.6.1, with a Viewsonic 17GA monitor. About 1-1/2 yrs old, I guess. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************