Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #24 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 06 Feb 01 Volume 18 : Issue 24 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#566/05-Feb-01 (A) Bootable CD (A) do not combine utilities....the result may be fatal 9.1 and Function Keys [*] CopyPaste 4.4.2J - Japanese Version [*] Tex-Edit Plus 4.1J - Japanese Version Finder memory Freeze with time & date control panel under OS 9.1 G4 DVD & dts, Dolby digital MacOS 8.5 for PowerPc 7100/66 OS9.1 install on 6100/60? software registration codes not retained after rebooting in 9.1 System freeze with OS 9.1 and Filemaker/Quark Xpress and 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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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #24" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:00:00 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, Mac-L@clio.lyris.net, evangelist@macevangelist.com Subject: [*] TidBITS#566/05-Feb-01 TidBITS#566/05-Feb-01 Wondering if the Internet is a positive or negative influence on little kids? Child development specialist Dr. John Laurence Miller weighs in on that topic this week, and Jeff Carlson passes on his good experience having new business cards printed by an online company. In the news, Apple offers discounts on Mac OS X and starts shipping the PowerBook G4 Titanium on schedule, plus Chuck Shotton resurrects his venerable MacHTTP Macintosh Web server. Topics: MailBITS/05-Feb-01 Printing Business Cards Online Do Little Kids Belong on the Net? [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-566.etx; 31K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:49:40 -0500 From: "Peter J. Paul" To: , Info-Mac Subject: (A) Bootable CD I'm actually using Adaptec Toast deluxe 4.0 with Mac os 8.6. I would to know if any body could tell me how i can make bootle cd with this software. The CD you wish to burn must have a valid system folder on it. Then, before the burn click the īData  button and check īBootable.  Peter J. Paul http://come.to/pjp pjp@cheerful.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:40:35 -0500 From: Ken Laskey To: "abrody@smart.net" , digest@info-mac.org Subject: (A) do not combine utilities....the result may be fatal <<<<[snip] I have to disagree here, and disagree in public. Multiple utilities view disk fragmentation and other hard drive issues from different points of view. What may be a bad btree to one utility may be a perfectly solid directory structure. Your mileage may vary, but if you are going to use utilities such as Norton, Techtools, and Disk Warrior, use only one utility. Otherwise you may end up having a hard drive "fixed" by one utility only to make another utility view the drive as unreadable. [snip]>>>> While I think the comment about different tools having different views is valid, I have more often found this helpful rather than a problem. On numerous occasions going back to Mactools and early version of Norton, I found that one utility got stuck (either gave up or repeatedly found and tried to fix the same error) and alternating utilities actually solved the problems to everyone's satisfaction. If fact, times that the utilities weren't all happy were times when things would shortly go south again. My two cents :-) -- Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:21:30 -0500 From: "David R. Steiner" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: 9.1 and Function Keys Greetings, I am using Eudora Pro 4.3.3 and I have always used the function keys mapped to the toolbar buttons feature [Special->Settings->Toolbar->"Map Function Keys to Buttons"] Recently I upgraded my PowerBook to MacOS 9.1. Since that time, the F1-F6 buttons work fine but the F7-F12 buttons no longer seem to map to their respective functions. When I press one of them, I get a dialog from the OS telling me that I "can set up the F7 through F15 keys in the Keyboard control panel", yada, yada. This does not seem to be a problem under MacOS 9.0.4. Has anyone else seen this behavior and/or care to offer any suggestions. (So far, Qualcomm tech support has not been much help) TIA, -- David R. Steiner Unix System Administrator Computing Services Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA Ph: (610) 526-7439 Fax: (610) 526-7432 ********* Knowledge Based on External Evidence is Unreliable. ********* ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] CopyPaste 4.4.2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the CopyPaste package. CopyPaste is the shareware utility that was awarded a 5 mouse rating by MacUser and was their shareware utility of the year 1996. Shareware Junkies declared it Mac Product of the year for 1997. CopyPaste also appeared in the June 97 Wired and has been featured in MacWeek, TidBits, MacAddict and many other magazines. CopyPaste magnifies the clipboard in many different ways and has been declared indespensible by web developers, editors, writers, dtp professionals and everyone who uses the clipboard. One of the early wonders of the Mac was its revolutionary ability to do copy and paste across various applications. Unlike other areas in the Mac's system software that have changed and progressed over the years, copying and pasting has not evolved. How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items. Now you can do not only this but view all 100 clipboards, save useful text and pictures thru restarts and much much more. **MacOS 9 compatible! **Many advanced features but easy for beginners! **Full Drag Drop compatibility! **Use up to 100 independent clipboards by menu or simple key commands! **View and access all the clipboard using the CopyPaste Palette! **Append text to 1 of 10 files on disk at any time! **Process text, picture and net data on the Clipboards in many ways! **Use a command key to switch and/or view all applications! **Pop-up palette function and more! **Clip Recorder - remembers up to the last 200 items copied via command c. **Clip Archive - copied data is appended to one of 10 text files on disk. **Save Clipboards thru Restarts - allows all 100 Clipboards to be saved thru Shutdown or Restart. CopyPaste eliminates tedious repetitive work and increases your ability to get the job done. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/copy-paste-442-jp.hqx; 789 K] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Tex-Edit Plus 4.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Tex-Edit Plus package. Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. It's also great for cleaning up text which is transmitted over the Internet. Tex-Edit Plus features: PowerPC native (fat), extensive munging abilities, unlimited file size, Drag&Drop support, AppleScript support, Word Services support, Speech Manager support, picture handling, sound handling, movie handling, ability to create SimpleText Read-Only documents, and much more. System 7.0 or better required. Tex-Edit Plus can read and write UTF-16 (unicode) text. The new file format is fully backward compatible with previous versions. Tex-Edit Plus supports unlimited undo and redo. Each paragraph can be formatted individually. These new paragraph settings include text justification (left, center, right, full), space above, space below, left indent, right indent, first line indent (or hanging outdent), and bottom border (in one of several line styles). Each paragraph can also have its own line spacing (in one point increments) and dominant text direction (useful for right-to-left scripts). NEW IN 4.1 -- Tex-Edit Plus 4.1 adds an "Open Recent" submenu to give you quick access to your ten most recently opened documents. The new "Normal Baseline" menu command allows you to conveniently remove all super and subscripting. The External Editor Protocol now allows Tex-Edit to act as a text editor for an ftp client such as NetFinder. Tell NetFinder to "Edit with ((Text Editor))". When Tex-Edit saves the document, the remote file is automatically updated by NetFinder. Slick! (If your favorite ftp client does not support the External Editor Protocol, please encourage its authors to do so.) Desktop clippings can now be "opened" in the same manner as real documents (feature added by popular demand). A bug noted when saving some unusual files to SimpleText and SimpleText Read-Only formats was fixed. Multiple bugs involving AppleScript, printing, and speech were fixed. [Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-plus-41-jp.hqx; 1432 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:03:47 -0800 From: Doug Hardie To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Finder memory How do you increase the memory for finder in OS 9.0.4? -- -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:08:18 +0100 From: 320038042670-0001@t-online.de (Roman Kurowiak) To: Subject: Freeze with time & date control panel under OS 9.1 I found a solution to the freeze with the time&date control panel under OS 9.1 (German Verision). On G3 blue/white machines and the iBook the system might tell you on startup that the time zone is not correctly chosen. It will show a date from decades ago with a time of 00:00 hours. On my iBook I tried to correct time and date, which persistently lead to a freeze on closing the control panel. Apparently this occurrs on upgrading from OS 9.0.4 to OS 9.1, if the formerly chosen time zone was not Berlin or Munich. In 9.1 there are less cities to be chosen. Thus, if the time zone was some other than Berlin or Munich, the system thinks that the selected time zone does not exist. To avoid this problem just open the control panel, choose Berlin (even though you might live in another German city) and you should not see this splash screen on startup again. If it doesn³t work, try zapping the P-RAM before. Later, Roman -- Nunca olvides de vivir de vez en cuando. -- Roman Kurowiak Luxemburger Str. 190 50937 K÷ln Tel : 0221 47 59 77 2 Fax : 0221 47 59 77 3 D2 : 0172 43 33 50 3 mail: kurowiak@bigfoot.com icq : 69767927 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:09:57 -0500 From: Jonathan Bauer To: INFO_MAC Subject: G4 DVD & dts, Dolby digital I read in the DVD FAQ, , that not all DVD players are capable of reading dts surround and Dolby digital (AC3) 5.1 formats. I have a Cube (G4/500) with the audio output to my stereo (via a Roland USB interface using the optical digital output of the interface). I'd like to buy a dts/AC3 decoder but there's not much point if the DVD-ROM cannot read the digital surround tracks. Does anyone know if it can. Thank you. Jonathan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:12:57 +0100 From: Peter Wochner To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: MacOS 8.5 for PowerPc 7100/66 I still own a Powermac 7100/66, which is presently used by my 6 year old son for playing games. I would like to upgrade its operating system from 8.1 to the last available for this old type of processor (8.5 or 8.6?). Since this system version is not in the distribution channels anymore, I would appreciate very much any help, how I could still get my hands on it. Thanks, Peter Wochner -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Peter Wochner -- Max-Planck-Institut f’r Metallforschung - -- Heisenbergstr. 1 - tel: +49-711-689-1926 -- 70569 Stuttgart - fax: +49-711-689-1902 -- Germany - email: wochner@mf.mpg.de - Homepage der Abteilung Dosch: http://wwwmf.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/abteilungen/dosch/dosch.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:15:55 -0800 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: "info-mac letters" Subject: OS9.1 install on 6100/60? Coradeschi, Tom asked; > Has anyone figured out how to install the OS9.1 update on a 6100/60? Apple > claims that it can only be done from the 9.1 CD. Surely someone has figured > out how to get around that, no? I think Apple's claim goes something like this: If you have a Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100, or 9150 with a third-party accelerator card that increases the speed of your computer, the Installer may not install Mac OS 9.1. And, also, that you cannot perform the update unless you update from Mac OS 8.5 or later. Note that the downloadable OS 9.1 is an updater only, not a full install. If that is the case, I would suggest removing the accelerator, install the update, replace the accelerator, and see if that works. Of course, I would keep a backup of the previous system in case that does not work. As far as being able to update only from the CD, I did not find any such warning. I do not see why there should be a problem using the updater from a hard disk, unless the update can not be done on the boot disk (I did not try that). A final note; Apple offers a downloadable AppleScript applet, called, Remove Temporary Items, which will eliminate the major reason for wanting to upgrade above 9.04. ---------------- Bach Chorale - The place behind the barn where one keeps the horse ---------------- Cyrus W. Roton MITA tech Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:43:01 -0500 From: Wendy Farkas To: Subject: software registration codes not retained after rebooting in 9.1 Folks, Since upgrading to OS9.1, when I install new software on my PowerBook G3/400 and enter the registration code, such info is not retained. When I quit the program, reboot and restart the program, it acts as if it's unregistered (prompts for a code again). Software exhibiting the problem so far: Account Buddy v. 1.00 UnCoverIt v. 1.3.3 Would appreciate any leads, hints, etc. you might have. Thanks! -- Wendy Farkas farkasw@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:08:33 +0100 From: 320038042670-0001@t-online.de (Roman Kurowiak) To: Subject: System freeze with OS 9.1 and Filemaker/Quark Xpress and Hi! I just wanted to inform the community of the fact that in the German version of OS 9.1 the control panel žmultiple users™ (Mehrere Benutzer) is likely to cause many problems. Apparently it causes a freeze when you try to print from a network document opened with Filemaker5. And Quark Xpress 4.11 will quit unexpectedly while loading images and saving large files (™Fehler 2™). I do not know if the problem is based on the altered file structure or on the mentioned aplications themselves. But the only žwork-around™ I could figure out is to unselect the žmultiple users™ control panel and system extension. An update of either the control panel or Filemaker respectively Quark Xpress might help us get rid of this. The problem occurred on an iMac (with Filemaker) and on a blue&white G3 with Quark. I³d be thankful for any investigation on this subject. Later, Roman -- Meine gr÷˛te Angst ist, genauso zu werden wie du. -- Roman Kurowiak Luxemburger Str. 190 50937 K÷ln Tel : 0221 47 59 77 2 Fax : 0221 47 59 77 3 D2 : 0172 43 33 50 3 mail: kurowiak@bigfoot.com icq : 69767927 -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************