Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #170 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 15 Aug 97 Volume 15 : Issue 170 Today's Topics: [Q] Disk Copying with Disk Copy 6.1.3 [Q] INIT to power video port at startup w/ no monitor? Connecting two Macs to Internet using one IP address (Q) Evading FileGuard 2.5.2 Info-Mac Digest V15 #165 PopupFolder alternative for System 8 Powerbook 180 and System 7.6.1 revisited Remote Only What breaks with OS 8..... Where is "Remote-Only"? The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, Liam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. 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Has anyone written an INIT that keeps the built-in video port powered up regardless whether a monitor is attached or not at startup? I have a bunch of Macs that share a single monitor using a switch box. If there is no monitor connected to a specific Mac when it gets restarted, it thinks there is no monitor and it turns off the video port. When you switch the monitor to that machine, it gets no signal. The only way to get the video to turn back on is to restart the Mac. I have tried the Liberty Enhanced Switches and they are not useful with all monitors and when I have to swap monitors due to a failure, I have to reset them all to the new monitor or remove them and basically they are not very satisfying. Thanks in advance, Kee Nethery kee@kagi.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:00:57 +0000 From: "Dr. A. D'Emanuele" Subject: Connecting two Macs to Internet using one IP address (Q) Hi, I have a permanent Internet connection via a cable modem. The cable modem plugs directly into the ethernt port of my Mac, however, I presently have it configured so that the cable modem goes to a 5-port ethernet hub and I have two Macs conencted to the hub. My provider has given me one fixed IP address, so I can not use two computers on the network at the same time. Is there a way of getting both computers working off one IP address. I thought Vicoms SurfDoubler would be a solution but this seems to be configured so that the Internet connection on one computer has to be either via PPP or ISDN and does not cater for an ethernet connection via cable modem (it is not really a modem, it is a Motorola Cybersurfer that connects to the cable system and connects directly to a computers ethernet port). Anyone have any ideas how I might get this to work. Please reply directly if possible. Thanks. Tony D'Emanuele Manchester, UK tony1@ibm.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:28:06 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) From: USS01 Subject: Evading FileGuard 2.5.2 We have some dozen Mac SEs in inventory and after several years are finding new uses for them. Unfortunately, the Macs were formerly used in student computer labs, and access to the hard drive is restricted by an extension called FileGuard 2.5.2, which requires a login ID and password. Of course there is no record anymore of what the ID and password are. Booting up with the Shift key pressed does not disable FileGuard. Are there any alternatives to reformatting the hard drive and starting from scratch? (Some of the software that is installed on the hard drive cannot be found anywhere else around here; the floppies have long since gone missing.) ---------------------- Rob Collins * Computer Support Assistant * uss01@samford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:05:28 +1000 From: Ian Davis Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #165 Sam wrote: > > I have a Performa 6300 with system 7.5.5 and I use FreePPP 2.5v2. > I've installed Open Transport 1.1.2 but, if I try to connect with FreePPP, > this alert appear: "FreePPP can not be used right now because it is not > selected in the TCP/IP control panel." > Naturally FreePPP IS selected in the TCP/IP control panel. > I have the same problem using OT/PPP instead of FreePPP. I had the same problem. In the Apple Extras folder there is a little known program called Network Software Selector. When you run this, select the button called "Use classic" or something like that. FreePPP will then work. This is about as unintuitive as anything I've ever found on the Mac. Ian Davis davis@wehi.edu.au ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 20:38:43 -0400 From: A BRODY Subject: PopupFolder alternative for System 8 Dear Digest reader, It seems so many people have posted about this problem, I figured I might mention one of many alternatives. (if anyone hadn't been following the previous posts, complaints were raised that PopupFolder doesn't work with System 8) Binary Software makes a package called Square One 3.0 that works almost like PopupFolder, if you add folders to the palletes you create with Square One. It allows hierarchical popup menus from any folder, auto-open of recent documents openned by any application in the pallete, and drag and drop moving of files onto portions of the pallete. What's more is it does not appear to crash at all with System 8, when on few occasions with earlier system versions it did crash with a Type 1 error. Now granted, Square One doesn't offer popup folders in the Open/Save dialog boxes like PopupFolder had, but that is minor when you consider it offers one-click launching, hot-key application switching, and a window to the Multifinder menu. So System 8 doesn't totally disable the beauty of all Finder helpers out there. In some cases it may enhance them. Point being, if you an application that you know will need System 8, don't hesitate to get it. Otherwise if it ain't broken don't fix it by changing the system. Standard disclaimers apply. I am just an end-user of Square One and PopupFolder. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:48:16 +0200 From: Jan Peelaerts Subject: Powerbook 180 and System 7.6.1 revisited I am convinced that the "crashing from sleep" problem is happening to many of us, powerbook users. I have a Powerbook 520 C with PPC upgrade card and 24 Mb RAM installed and encountered the very same problems after upgrading to system 7.6 or 7.6.1. The powerbook crashes almost always when awaking from sleep since I installed the upgrade card together with extra RAM (16 MB SIMM instead of 8 MB SIMM). I reinstalled system 7.5.3 with the CD (US-version) that came with the upgrade but no difference. Then I replaced the 16 MB-SIMM in the Powerbook (not from Apple) with the original Apple 8 MB SIMM and the problems were gone. I had the Powerbook examined in an Apple Repair Centre and their conclusion was the same as mine. So the conclusion is : the kind of SIMM (manufacturer) has his importance. I went through all the other steps mentioned in your e-mail : low level formatting with HDT 2.0.6, reinstalling a clean system, etc. By the way, you can't go back from HDT to the Apple formatting utility just like that. There is a trick involved, as mentioned in the latest manual from HDT page 87 : what to do when you would like to remove the FWB-driver and re-install the Apple driver : reformat the device using HDT FORMAT-command. When prompted to Create a New Volume, do not continue. Quit out of HDT. Apple drive formatting software should now be able to format the drive. Further, do not use Drive Setup, it is only for PowerPC or for IDE-drives. You have to use HDSC 7.3.5. When you use HDT, go to version 2.0.6. It is the latest version and it should work fine. Jan Peelaerts Wochterberg 33 2200 Herentals BELGIUM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:13:34 -0700 From: Jon Froines Subject: Remote Only To get this extension, you have to download the package called "Open Transport Extras" (I hope I have the name right) from the same place on Apple sites that you can download Open Transport. It's in there. Unfortunately, it's a hefty download of stuff just to get the little Remote Only extension, well over a meg if I remember correctly. - JonYo (mailto:jonyo@wenet.net) (http://www.hooked.net/~jonyo/index.html) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:24:29 -0400 From: Pat.Ellis@champlaincollege.qc.ca (ellis@champlaincollege.qc.ca) Subject: What breaks with OS 8..... >>Then I pressed my luck. Made a Sys8 boot floppy for the old MacTools Pro. >>Yes, it's a little long of tooth and well out of production, but I've >>found it useful. Wrong! It booted the 7300 fine, but MT said that it can't >>run on a Mac with less than System 7. Huh? I suspect its test was "hang >>it up if System not equal 7" instead of "at least 7." >> >>Hope my experience is useful to some of y'all. >> >>Al Bloom > >Al: yes, as you have painfully found out, both MacTools Pro and any >version of Norton prior to 3.5.1 breaks with OS 8. So does Copy Doubler. Strange as it may seem, while MacTools Pro will not run under MacOS 8, the earlier MacTools 3.0 version does work! Pat Ellis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:51:11 -0400 From: "Michael G. Schabert" Subject: Where is "Remote-Only"? >Michael G. Schabert (Tue, 5 Aug 1997): > > > you can get an extension from Apple called "Remote Only". > > This allows you to turn on AppleTalk in a mode that doesn't > > affect your serial ports. You put this in your extensions > > folder, then in the Network (under classic) or the > > AppleTalk (under OT) control panel, select Remote only > > instead of your printer port. > > Could you please help me to find such extension?? I've tried in >ftp.support.apple.com and other servers from Apple with no success at all. >Anyone knows the exact URL? Hi Josep, Sorry about the delay. Remote only comes with OpenTransport, and is in the OT Extras folder. You can download the whole extras folder from apple, if you don't have it. It's big, though, around 2MB for the 1.1.1 Extras (1.1.1 & 1.1.2 both have the same version of Remote Only), so if you have a System 7.5 or higher CD around, you might want to check that first. The URL in case you still need it is: Hope this helps, Mike Bikers don't *DO* taglines. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************