Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #297 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 07 May 99 Volume 16 : Issue 297 Today's Topics: (Q) At Ease replacements? (Q) DVD drive for G3 Powerbook? (Q) HP inkjet printer and scanner for Mac use? 7200 a second class citizen [a] MacPPP 2.0.1 connect script followed by PAP [A] PowerBook 160 Problem [Q]Audiovision 14" monitor strangeness [Q]Cross platform screensaver maker ancient supermac monitor DVD woes DVD woes Group Mailings & OE 4? HELP? modamn trouble NT 4.0 and Mac os 8.1 folder limitation when saving! Powerbook G3 Ethernet (C) Unix talk client for OpenTalk? Who produces the following message? 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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I want to upgrade my OS to 8.5.1, but I've read that Apple does not recommend using At Ease with 8.5.x. Does anyone have any recommendations for freeware/shareware/commercial alternatives to At Ease? I would assume with all the new Macs out in public places (schools, etc.) that something functionally equivalent to At Ease exists. In particular, I'm looking for an application that would allow me to protect the System Folder and folders in which the applications are installed. Also, I would like to make sure that each son could only open documents in and save documents to a specific folder assigned to him. Thanks! Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:29:37 -0700 From: Paul Brians Subject: (Q) DVD drive for G3 Powerbook? I just got the basic G3 Powerbook. Does anybody make an add-on DVD drive for this model? Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 22:54:15 -0700 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) HP inkjet printer and scanner for Mac use? The computer folks around here only want to allow me to buy HP peripherals. For an inkjet printer, they offer the HP Deskjet 895cxi that now has ver. 1.0 for the Mac driver. For a scanner, they offer the HP Scanjet 6250cxi "with Scantastic Mac." Does anyone have any experience using one or both devices on a Mac system, in particular, an iMac or b/w G3? Does anyone have any specific information on the performance of these HP peripherals vis-a-vis designed-for-Mac peripherals, the Epson inkjet printers and Astra (?) scanner? If our computer folks are making a bad decision--the alternative products are more compatible with Macs or in general provide better performance, I would be very interested in getting specific details that I can pass back to them. Thanks! Mark Allen ***************************************************************************** * Mark Allen Mark.Allen@jpl.nasa.gov * * Earth and Planetary Atmospheres Research Element * * Earth and Space Sciences Division (818) 354-3665 * * Jet Propulsion Laboratory (818) 393-4445 (fax) * * California Institute of Technology * * Mail Stop 183-401 * * 4800 Oak Grove Drive * * Pasadena, CA 91109 * * * * Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences MERCU1::MAA * * California Institute of Technology maa@mercu1.gps.caltech.edu* * Mail Stop 150-21 (626) 395-6970 * * Pasadena, CA 91125 (626) 585-1917 (fax) * ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:49:44 -0400 From: a brody Subject: 7200 a second class citizen Dear Info-mac readers, It has been many years now since the PowerMac 7200 was released (1995), and every PowerMac except the 7200 is now upgradable to the G3. Some via Cache slots very similar to the 7200s own cache slot, some via PDS, some that have no PCI slots, whereas the 7200 has 3 PCI slots. I would like y'all to show your upset at the upgrade industry for making the 7200 a second class citizen by telling your friends not to buy upgrades, and you yourself not buying upgrades. Maybe then some 50,000 7200 owners will finally be able to say they weren't singled out for not being able to afford machines over $2000 back in 1995. Maybe then PowerMac 7200 owners wouldn't be tempted to move over to the dark side. Surely you don't want this to happen to Apple. A 7600 processor card is an option, but costs $500 alone. For another $400 for the G3 upgrade one might as well buy an iMac. There is no reason why xlr8, Newer, vimage, Daystar, and all the upgrade industry companies shouldn't make a direct upgrade to the 7200. None. I have written to each of them, and none will make one. I have been chastized on the chat rooms for suggesting people shouldn't upgrade their Mac processors, but I think that I am not the only one of the 50,000 PowerMac 7200 owners who feels put upon, and want to make a point that the industry should not make money until it can provide upgrades to all the people who have PowerPC and PCI technology. I did end up buying a Powerbook G3, but would really like to have a G3 processor on my 7200. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 00:15:51 +0200 From: Matti Haveri Subject: [a] MacPPP 2.0.1 connect script followed by PAP Yesterday I wrote: >[snip] ...the following problem with MacPPP 2.0.1... [snip] ...MacPPP >displays how the connect script runs just OK but after this there is a PAP >authentication dialog... [snip] ...but the PPP session never starts. I tried MacPPP 2.1.2SD and it seems to be OK. This is somewhat weird because I've been using for years plain vanilla 2.0.1 and 2.0.1cm4 without these kind of problems with my previous ISP. ...so it seems that MacPPP 2.1.2SD should be recommended as a first choice for 68000 macs. (MacPPP 2.0.1cm4 supports background dialing which 2.1.2SD lacks, however). p.s. 68000-mac-faq at -- Matti Haveri ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:43:55 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: [A] PowerBook 160 Problem My PB160 wouldn't boot, just beeped a few times. I followed a couple of suggestions (tested AC adapter, zapped the PRAM), no luck. So I opened it up and started removing parts. Disconnected the HD, removed a RAM card and the modem card. It then booted from a floppy. Put each piece back and rebooted after. Booted fine. Now all the parts are back in and it's fine again. My guess: the RAM card had worked loose and the start-up sequence was being interrupted during the RAM test. Anyway, it now works. Thanks for the ideas. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 02:02:37 +0100 From: prosoul@dimensionarc.com Subject: [Q]Audiovision 14" monitor strangeness I have an Audiovision Mac monitor that use to emit a high pitched whining sound. Now, it doesn't do that, but when I turn it on cold, it displays a black screen unless I let it warm up for a minute and then switch it off and on again. Even then, sometimes it will black out , or the screen will stretch or expand in size until it has completely warmed up. Anyone know what this is? Is it worth fixing? It's not that old... thanks, Jarome Matthew Dimension Arc Media http://www.dimensionarc.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 02:05:30 +0100 From: prosoul@dimensionarc.com Subject: [Q]Cross platform screensaver maker Does anyone know Is there such a thing as a Mac program that will allow you to make cross platform screensavers? Maybe I should just use director? Jarome Matthew Dimension Arc Media http://www.dimensionarc.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:13:08 -0400 From: dead nancy Subject: ancient supermac monitor hi, everybody. i recently acquired a 1992 supermac monitor (model STD 9782.) plugging it straight into a current mac results in distortion that looks like frequency problems. do i need some new hardware to support this monitor, or can i try and find updated drivers? a company called griffin technology makes a product called macsync that sounds like it does the job, but i can't find much information on it. anyone? thanks. xox, dead nancy http://www.merkins.com/deadnancy/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:29:08 -0700 From: Dave Del Torto Subject: DVD woes At 9:33 AM -0500 1999-05-04, Mark Geerdes wrote: > [...] to you question about how to get >the DVD on a TV/VCR or whatever. I do this all the time and know it >works, what you need to do is have the S-video cable plugged in when you >startup the PowerBook, this is very important! If the cable is plugged in >when the PowerBook starts up, the computer will sense that the cable is >plugged in and will give you more options in the monitors control panel >and control strip as far as resolutions are concerned. Mark, Thanks very much for your kind reply and the helpful observations. I did have the S-Video cable plugged in properly on startup (I've used projectors/etc with my PowerBooks for years). The problem turned out to be VERY simple: a defective (albeit new and very expensive) S-Video cable! once I returned that for a new one (which I tested before leaving the store this time ;), everything worked perfectly, as we'd both expect. >>Q4: Has anyone else upgraded the Apple DVD Player from 1.0 to 1.1 and >> found that it did not play ANY DVDs, then had to backgrade to 1.0? This one still bothers me: if you or anyone you know has experienced problems upgrading to DVD Player v1.1, I'd be interested to know about it. dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:33:09 -0500 From: Mark Geerdes Subject: DVD woes Don't know if anyone has answered your question yet, but here goes. The simulsync as I understand it is meant more for when you plug in an external monitor, or a presentation video projector. If you do that and choose say 640x 480 in the monitors control panel, the powerbook will go blank, but if you choose one of the simulsync, then you can see it on the projector/external monitor and the computer at the same time. Now you aren't looking for that, so on to you question about how to get the DVD on a TV/VCR or whatever. I do this all the time and know it works, what you need to do is have the S-video cable plugged in when you startup the PowerBook, this is very important! If the cable is plugged in when the PowerBook starts up, the computer will sense that the cable is plugged in and will give you more options in the monitors control panel and control strip as far as resolutions are concerned. If you look in either one after restarting with the cable plugged in, you will see options for different resolutions followed by the word NTSC or PAL. If you are in North America, you would want to choose one of the NTSC settings, usually 640x480 is standard for video, but you can use some of the other one to experiment, and see what works best for you. At this point, your Powerbook will go blank, and you will see the picture on the TV/Monitor that you have plugged into the other end of the S-Video cable. A dialogue will pop up on the TV asking if you can see everything okay with an OK and a cancel, hit okay within a certain time, and everything will be fine, if you can't see it and don't hit okay within a certain time, the computer will switch back to the PowerBook monitor and let you try again. Any Questions, Let me know >I've got a PowerBook G3 Series 300Mhz machine with a DVD player and >S-Video output, and I cannot seem to cause the TV Mirroring control >strip to load properly, nor can I get any image (DVD or otherwise) to >display on my 27" Sony Trinitron. On the (very) bright side, I can >play DVDs (at least the ones in the right encoding formats) on the >14.1" Mac LCD screen and they look great. > >I've looked at the numerous documents, done extensive web-searches on >"TV Mirroring", "DVD" and "S-Video" using the Sherlock plugins for >Apple's various software update and TILs, and I'm not coming up with >much except for a few readmes that seem to imply that this is a a >"simple" plug'n'play process. >Well, it's not always a plug'n'play thing: I believe I have all >the necessary equipment (4MB VRAM, $40 S-Video cable) and have set >things as well as I can according to the conflicting docs (e.g.: I'm >at 1024x768 simulsync resolution: don't see how to set it at 720x480) >without TV Mirroring, which seems to make the TV resolution and other >settings accessible only via the control strip(?). > >Here are some questions, if anyone can answer one (or all): > >Q1: Has anyone had similar problems displaying DVD or S-Video on a TV > and if so, how did you get it to work? >Q2: Does anyone know of an app or CDEV that affects the same settings > as the "TV Mirroring" c-strip module? >Q3: Could "Video Mirroring" or "SystemAV" be conflicting with > "TV Mirroring"? >Q4: Has anyone else upgraded the Apple DVD Player from 1.0 to 1.1 and > found that it did not play ANY DVDs, then had to backgrade to 1.0? >Q5: Is there a possibility that (even though TechTool Pro 211 doesn't > think so) my S-Video output port is somehow defective? >Q6: Does this just fail on larger than 20" TV's, even with 4MB VRAM? > > dave Mark Geerdes Duplication/Audio Engineer BGEA Multimedia Director BPEFC Personal e-mail should go to: ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 02:33:49 -0600 From: Kevin Daly/Ian Blackford Subject: Group Mailings & OE 4? HELP? Is there any way to prevent OE from stopping in the middle of a bulk mailing when it comes upon an address it doesn't like? You can imagine waiting for OE to process 800 or 900 names only to stop when it comes across a bad address at 901, and then you have to start all over again... I realize OE (and Emailer) are not really designed to process large mailing lists, but the same problems must crop up for smaller lists, too? I haven't gone to a listserve because I haven't found a reliable server that didn't mess up my mailings, and LetterRip seems to work best with dedicated lines. If anyone has a suggestion I am overlooking -- some way to maintain the size of mailing list I have on my own system (which I use for many other projects), and/or can recommend a server that provides inexpensive and reliable (heavy on the reliable) listserves, I'm all ears... -- Kevin J. Daly Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery 1535 Pearl Street Boulder, CO 80302 303-546-0886 mtnsunpub@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 08:11:07 -0500 From: "Robert P. Lenk" Subject: modamn trouble I wonder if anyone can help me. I recently bought a G3 (putty) with an internal GV 56k modem and am running 8.5.1. Frequently ARA reports that the modem is not behaving itself properly while those mysterious oblations take place after I push "Connect." Sometimes it connects properly upon a second try, but quite often it can't seem to find the modem. The word "connecting" comes up, but it fails to dial. TechTool Pro tells me it can't find the Modem. The only way I know to reset the modem is to reboot. Sometimes two or three times is a row. I have been unable to find any help in the usual places, but that may say more about my eptitude than I care to admit. TIA, Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 10:57:15 -0400 From: Doug Zeman Subject: NT 4.0 and Mac os 8.1 folder limitation when saving! To Whom it may concern, HELP!! I have set up home directories on the NT server which house 900 users or more. After logging in I open this home directory from desktop and see all folders. But when going to save from various applications it gives me warning that it can't open all folders and I can't get to several of the users folders mostly folders at the begining of alphabet!! Can some please get back to me A.S.A.P. Thanks A Bunch Doug E_Mail = zeman@csdnet.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 17:58:49 -0500 From: Al Bloom Subject: Powerbook G3 Ethernet (C) Last weekend being the end of the month, or at least the last weekend of the month, I essayed to back up our home ethernetlet. Not totally successful. Leslye's internal and external HD's went fine, so did my desktop's HD. The backup (Retrospect 4.1) died on the new Powerbook G3. Network failure reported by my desktop host machine. Total freeze exhibited on the Powerbook. Had I not initially loaded the new Powerbook from a backup of the old PB5300, I'd have been better able to cope. Hey! It worked once. Why isn't it working now? I tried everything I knew how to do, and a few things that no sane person would try. Leslye worried about what the neighbors would say about burying the chicken entrails under the northeast eave at midnight. Two weekends running I couldn't put the PB/G3's HD contents onto backup tape. Finally this past Sunday morning I allowed as how the initial reload was a fluke, and God did not intend a PB/G3 to actually link into our home ethernetlet with a Dayna PCMCIA Communicard and March 98 driver which will never be updated because Dayna is out of business. Last month I asked if anyone knew of a relatively cheap transceiver that'd convert the PB/G3's 10baseT builtin port to the thin-net we use in our home ethernetlet. No go on that score, but one respondent suggested a 10baseT hub that also had a thin-net (10base2) jack. I'd kiss that critter if I could remember his or her name. Just for the hallibut I took the PB/G3 into the office, which is purely 10baseT. I backed it up from my office host. Fast as grass through a goose. OK. I'm encouraged. So I hit my DatacomWarehouse catalog, found a box like the respondent recommended, and ordered it yesterday. It fedex'd in this morning. I tried it when I got home this evening. Yee haw! Works admirably. Forty-five bucks plus shipping? Cheap. Maybe one or more of y'all can benefit from my experience. Al ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 11:06:39 -0700 From: Michael Khaw Subject: Unix talk client for OpenTalk? Where can I find a Unix "talk" compatible client program that works under OpenTalk (MacOS 8.x)? The info-mac archives has Talk 1.1.1, but it's a MacTCP program. Download.com and TUCOWS don't show any relevant matches for "talk". Thanks. -- Michael Khaw ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 02:10:32 +0100 From: prosoul@dimensionarc.com Subject: Who produces the following message? >The Fax Manager could not find your fax/modem on the >Modem Port. Fax receiving has been turned off. > >I get this most often at restart time. Is this done by some fax extension, >or the Mac 8.1? > >Michael B. Luskin In case no one else who uses MaComCenter answers this, it's the faxing software for your USR modem. Simply delete the Fax Manager extension. Jarome Matthew Dimension Arc Media http://www.dimensionarc.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************