Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #47 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 27 Feb 98 Volume 16 : Issue 47 Today's Topics: 8.1 puts disks to sleep? color stylewriter 1500 Deskjet & modem question Error -41 on boot (sys 8.1 on PM6100) help for Mac 636 help for Mac 636 making Appearance control panel recognize fonts... Naming ZIP cartridges Naming ZIP cartridges Norton Disk Editor Problems Places to find used Macs Quicktime 3.0 beta error on mounting Setting AppleScript for certain times Sound Pass Through Problems Video IN for 6500? Word Graphics Filter Can't Be Found Zip/Jaz & M/O Startup Disks 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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How can this feature be removed or adjusted? I wish I had never switched from the old drivers..... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:33:14 +0100 From: Michael Rank Subject: color stylewriter 1500 My Color Stylewriter 1500 printer produces thin white streaks through letters and the occasional smudge almost each time it prints out. It's not a disastrous problem but it is annoying. Does anyone know how to prevent this? I have only had the printer a few months and use it only occasionally. Incidentally I previously had a Color Stylewriter Pro which was a disaster and never worked properly. Does anyone have any (positive) suggestions as to what to do with it? I live in London. Many thanks, Michael Rank ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:32:08 -0700 From: Julius Friede Subject: Deskjet & modem question I have a powerbook that naturally has a printer/modem port, as well as an internal modem. To print to my DeskJet 870, AppleTalk needs to be off. To connect to my ISP, AppleTalk needs to be on. Is there a utility available that will allow me to do both tasks without having to constantly do the On/Off tango? TIA, Julius ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:34:54 -0800 From: Chris Schram Subject: Error -41 on boot (sys 8.1 on PM6100) On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Matthew Mitchell wrote: >I updated to system 8.1 a few weeks ago, then last week, it started to >crash (error -41) on booting. Same crash even if I start with extensions >off. > >Anyone seen this before, or know of any fixes? This exact thing happened to me only a few days ago! I had corrupted my Finder by touching something that said "Do Not Touch." In short, pop in a fresh Finder and that'll probably fix things. Trashing your Finder Preferences file probably wouldn't hurt either. BTW, Apple Error Codes tells me that error -41 means "Memory full (open) or file won't fit (load)." Chris Schram -- schram@mail.coos.or.us -- http://www.coos.or.us/~schram ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:43:31 +0000 From: "David Rowbory" Subject: help for Mac 636 --On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 23:47 -0400 "Stan Diamond" wrote: > All of a sudden, my daughter's Performa 636 started exibiting strange > behavior. Every once in a while it will begin emmitting regular "beeps" > reminiscent of a heart monitor on "ER". While the beeping occurs, the > screen and mouse are locked. If she ignores the beast, the beeping stops > and everything goes back to normal. Needless to say this is annoying and we > worry that it is an evil portent of impending failure. Any Suggestions? what sort of monitor do you have? I have an apple 15" multiscan one and it comes with energy saver software tht will shutdown the monitor after a specified period then turn it on when you move the mouse or click it, emitting beeps while it turns on. It could be that software is malfunctioning. try disabling any energy saver extensions (try disabling all extensions temporarily, just for fun and to see whether it's something to do with that) and try changing monitor if possible. d -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- David J Rowbory. 1st year CompSci @ Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ U.K. mailto:djr36@cam.ac.uk http://rowbory.home.ml.org http://robocop.ml.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:19:50 +0000 From: actny-2@idt.net Subject: help for Mac 636 I think that you may be seeing something called 'energy saver' kicking in. The Performa 600 series (as well as the Quadra and centris 600 series) were the first Macs to follow the EPA's guidelines to reduce power consumption by disabling the monitor after a user defined period of non-use. Look in your control panels folder and see if you have 'energy saver' listed. If you do, you can disable it or set the timer to a more desirable setting. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:44:21 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Fiske Subject: making Appearance control panel recognize fonts... Howdy: Does any one know if there is a "generic" resource, or SET of resources that can be copied from say Mac OS 8's "Charcoal" font to any other font, or are the resources more font-specific, more "complicated" than all that? anxious to know, Mark. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:09:30 -0800 (PST) From: Daly Jessup Subject: Naming ZIP cartridges Robyn asked: >Can anyone help me with a problem I'm having re-naming ZIP cartridges? >We just bought and installed a ZIP 100. For some reason, I can't rename >the cartridges. I think if you turn off File Sharing, you should be able to rename the cartridges. If not, then turn off File Sharing *and* start up with extensions off, and you should have no problem. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:23:35 +0000 From: actny-2@idt.net Subject: Naming ZIP cartridges I think your Mac is doing just as it has been told. Check in your file sharing setting and see if mounted disks are shared. If they are your Mac is not renaming the disk out of curtesy to other users on your network who may also have that disk mounted. I you are not on a network you can fix this fast by turning file sharing off. Oh yeah, and by the way make sure the Zip disk is physically unlocked too :-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:48:44 -0500 From: "Kenneth T. Bruseth" Subject: Norton Disk Editor Problems As I read Roger Stafford's comments concerning his problems with Norton's Disk Editor I thought it was funny (or not) that I had just concluded yet another test using "Conflict Catcher 4", and had for the 3rd. time been informed that Norton's CrashGuard was the sole "culprit" responsible for my difficulties with the program I was trying to run. So for three programs I must use a different startup set that doesn't include CrashGuard. Then when I want to reap the "benefits" of CrashGuard I have to restart the computer so I can use my usual startup set. Not a convenient solution considering the fact that CrashGuard is supposed to aid a person in recovering from a crash! How ironic that this utility is contributing to the same problem that it is supposed to help out with. My problems started when I updated to Mac OS 8.1. Prior to 8.1 I was able to not only run the above mentioned programs, but I also feel I had fewer "mystery" crashes as well. I wonder how many of these impossible to track down "intermittent" crashes are somehow caused by CrashGuard conflicting with something or the other. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that CrashGuard isn't up to date when it comes to OS 8.1 (I *do* have the latest version of CrashGuard-3.5.2). In OS 8. I never found CrashGuard to be responsible for crashes. Never was it found to be the culprit in a "conflict test." Certainly Norton had the "Developers' release of OS 8.1 as soon as other Developers. Apparently they didn't use the release to update their program. What else could be the reason? The common thread through it all is CrashGuard. When I disable CrashGuard the programs run just fine. No mere coincidence. Until Norton is kind enough to find the time and update CrashGuard, I may disable it in all my sets and use the method of escaping from crashes that I used prior to purchasing Norton Utilities. I have no statistical proof, but I believe that using the method that follows is about as successful as CrashGuard has been in recovering after a crash. In the event of a crash press the interrupt switch (if you have one), or press the "Command" and the "Power" buttons. Next type ---> "SM 0 A9F4" exactly as shown, minus the quotation marks. Then press the Return key. By the way, all the "full moons" you see above and below are zeros, not "O's." After you type these letters and press Return, a whole lot of garbage characters will appear. Don't worry about them. Just type, "G 0" <--- remember that's a zero - and press Return. With any luck you will be "unfrozen" and will have the ability to save any work you might have. Then you should restart the machine as it will be in an unstable condition. I did not discover this method of recovering from a crash myself. I'm not sure, but I think that the credit goes to a young Scottish boy who published some "cheats" for computer games. I wish I could give more specific credit than that but I just don't remember the details. I should say that I don't mean to give Norton/Symantec a "bad rap." I'm only reporting the results of the tests that I ran. The chips pretty much fell where they did. I have nothing against Norton, but in *my* personal opinion they are kind of falling down on the job. One last note before I close. Along with the problems I mentioned above, Apple also dropped the ball, at least on my machine. The first thing I noticed after updating to OS 8.1 is that all actions I performed on the computer were extremely slow. If I selected a folder in the Finder and pressed Command and Delete to send it to the trash, I wouldn't gain control of the cursor again for 4-6 seconds! I could move the cursor around the screen but I couldn't select anything or do anything else until the 4-6 sec. passed. If I double-clicked a folder to open it, I couldn't select anything or double-click a program to start it up. It would, once again, take 4-6 sec. before I could continue. Truly a major pain in the drain! After running Conflict Catcher I discovered that the control panel, "Apple Menu Options" was responsible for this slowdown. No matter how I reordered the control panel it made no difference. Eventually I had to completely disable it in order for the computer to function properly. I replaced it with a great shareware control panel named "MenuChoice." The only disadvantage is that I don't have complete use of the "Recent Applications" and "Recent Documents" as I did with AMO. Has anybody else had this problem? If so what work around did you do? Any help would sure be appreciated. By the way, before anybody suggests this, I did a complete clean reinstall of OS 8, updated back to OS 8.1, zapped pram, rebuilt the desktop, ran Norton Disk Doctor and Disk First Aid, etc. and still had the same problems and arrived at the same conclusions. Sincerely, Kenneth T. Bruseth -- YO-PAPA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:50:25 -0600 From: Jacob Kaplan Subject: Places to find used Macs Hi, I would like to know of good places on the web to get used macs. I know about Mac-Resource and eBay, and would like to know about others. I'm especially interested in classic macs like the II's, SEs, etc. Thanks, Jacob Kaplan -- Jacob Kaplan -- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:25:46 +0000 From: actny-2@idt.net Subject: Quicktime 3.0 beta error on mounting Make sure you have the latest version of Disk Image Mounter or Disk Copy. Some older versions cannot read the latest disk images. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:01:10 -0500 From: Mel Martinez Subject: Setting AppleScript for certain times At 4:32 AM -0500 2/26/98, Rick VanDerveer wrote: > >>Can anyone comment on the reliability of the various "cron" >>packages? Can anyone comment on the relative merits of using a cron >>utility versus trying to build our own timed functionality into an >>AppleScript? > >Personally, I would much rather have a Cron utility launch AppleScripts at >various times than have an AppleScript open all the time. I've been using This depends on the periodicity of the task. If the task needs to performed frequently, then having the script already loaded and running 'on idle' with a clock check will save you the load (and initialization) time for the applescript. If the task is less frequent, then a cron utility is indeed a much better option because it keeps your memory free in between running the task (the cpu cycle hit is pretty minimal and not worth worrying about, assuming you don't do something stupid with the idle handler like check the clock a zillion times a second). One simply needs to assess the cost/benefit issues to decide which is best for a particular task. >Cronotask, which I believe offers the most flexibility and power while >wrapped in a nice user interface. I don't know why your boss would think >of Crons as "unreliable". > I agree. Neither of these strategies is more/less 'reliable' than the other. >Cronotask is shareware from Tension Software: >http://www.kagi.com/tensionSW/ That's a very good recommendation. Also, if you already happen to have Quickeys, it provides very good facility for launching scheduled tasks, including applescripts. It also has numerous conditionals to apply to the launch sequence as well, so you can do fancy things like launching a task at a certain time UNLESS a certain window is frontmost and/or a certain application is running and/or a certain menu item is enabled and so on. I would not buy Quickeys for just it's 'cron'-like abilities, but it does bring a lot of other things to the table as well. http://www.cesoft.com Usual disclaimers apply. Cheers, Dr. Mel Martinez FUSE Science Software Developer The Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Physics mem@jhu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:44:28 -0500 From: Eric Rogers Subject: Sound Pass Through Problems I have a Duo 2300c in a Dock Plus, and I'm running Mac OS 8.1. I've been trying to find a way to leav a pair of headphones plugged into the dock *and* passing the sound through the internal speakers at the same time. The Monitors & Sound Control Panel lists only Built-in for sound output. Does anyone know a way to pass the sound through both the headphone jack and the internal speakers with the Monitors & Sound Control Panel in OS 8.1? Is there a utility that will allow me to better control sound output? Thanks, Eric Rogers rogersee@bu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:43:37 +0100 From: Ale Subject: Video IN for 6500? one year ago i bought a 6500/250, and i wanted to add a video-in card... but nothing was found. does anybody in here know if there's a video-in card available for the 6500? i don't mean stuff like miroMotions and so on... only video-in thanks... Ale http://www.ticino.com/usr/avolz/ Different isn't always better, but better is always different! ------------------------------ Date: 26 Feb 1998 03:50:42 GMT From: bbarlow@frontiernet.net (Ben Barlow) Subject: Word Graphics Filter Can't Be Found I ran into this problem, too, although it seemed to crop up after I had loaded a word conversion filter to handle word 97 downgrades. But it was about the time of 8.1 also, if I remember right. Reloading all the word stuff didn't help; I finally gave up. If you find out anything, please post. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:45:13 -0600 From: tedlogan@busprod.com (Ted Logan) Subject: Zip/Jaz & M/O Startup Disks How do I boot off a Zip or M/O disk, please, assuming they're systemed, of course, and that I can't boot off my usual HD (sad face, whatever)? To boot off a CD, you hold down "C." To boot off a floppy, you just insert the floppy. Do Jaz and M/O drives work like floppies? Thanks. Ted Logan tedlogan@busprod.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************