Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #246 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 13 Nov 97 Volume 15 : Issue 246 Today's Topics: Re: info-mac digest upgrade? (A) System 7.6.1 Error type 10? 6200 monitor 68LC040 in an SE/30? [A]: Appleworks and ProDos translation Daystar 100MHz PPC card and OS 7.6 Java compiler wanted MacTools FileEdit Replacement(?) Memory & Monitor Memory & Monitor OS8 Data Loss SnapScan System Error 1708? virtualPC 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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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #246" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Nov 97 9:41:31 EST From: Tom Coradeschi Subject: Re: info-mac digest upgrade? >Hi nice people at info-mac digest. > You always present a table of contents at the beginning of the digest. >May I suggest that each item in the table of contents is hypertext > linked with the corresponding article further on in the digest. That > makes for faster perusal. I, for one, would prefer NOT to see such an arrangement. Not all of us read our mail with web browsers (or even MIME-aware mail readers, for that matter). I have no need, nor desire, to try to read text interspersed with HTML code. tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil http://k-whiner.pica.army.mil/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 97 23:12:57 -0000 From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" Subject: (A) System 7.6.1 Error type 10? >Quick question... Under system 7.6.1, what exactly is an Error type 10? I >looked it up with "Easy Errors" 1.2 which indicates the description as >"line 1111 trap error", but that really does not help me out a whole lot. Better described as line-f trap exception. The 680x0 series does not have any instruction opcodes which fall in the range $A000-$AFFF or $F000-$FFFF. When the CPU encounters any $Axxx instruction, it executes the line-a trap exception routine, when it encounters any $Fxxx instruction, it executes the line-f trap exception routine. This can be used to implement custom instructions or as a succinct way of calling high-usage supervisor-mode subroutines from any point in memory using a single word instruction. Many 680x0 operating systems (such as MacOS, GEM for the Atari ST, et al) use these exceptions as operating system service routine entry points. For example, you might put a pointer to a filename in A0 and execute pseudo-instruction $A123 to delete a file. The instruction causes a line-a exception, and the operating system's handler for this exception checks the stack, looks up the last instruction executed, and takes the appropriate action based on the low 12 bits and the contents of other registers. This error message can indicate the CPU is jumping into the middle of nowhere, such as a space in the memory map that doesn't exist. Empty space in the CPU's address map is read as $FFFF, which qualifies as a line-f trap. It probably indicates a bug in one or more applications or extensions in use, or the OS itself. However I never had nor heard of such a problem with 7.6.x, so it's probably a third-party problem. The other possibility is that this error message indicates that one or more programs is not checking the OS version properly (Grrr!!!!) and is wickedly calling some OS-version-specific function which doesn't exist in 7.6.1 running on that particular ROM version. The offending program should be located, drowned, stabbed, shot, strangled, buried and publicized so nobody ever need buy/download/install it again. -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Certified Apple Engineer) Home: Resume: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:18:30 -0700 From: Don Chesnut and Cathy Jo Cassidy Subject: 6200 monitor > a lime green haze feels the screen. Sometimes during >a very frustrated moment I'll smack the sides of it and it shakes into place >but this is few and far in between. Leaving the monitor on doesn't help. I had the same problem with my 6200 monitor and after trying everything in the troubleshooting guides Apple replaced it at defective. Give their 800# a call... it was a very easy process and I suspect not the first time they had done it... Don ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:59:43 -0500 From: Michael Cramer Subject: 68LC040 in an SE/30? Hi there! I have an old SE/30 lying around as well as a 68LC040 chip that I took out of a PowerBook 540. Can I make the SE/30 an SE/40 using this old processor? Mike Cramer cramer@ct1.nai.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 08:29:01 -0800 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A]: Appleworks and ProDos translation I believe MacLinkPlus may help although I don't know if it will handle CW 5.0. MacLinkPlus comes with OS7.6 & OS8.0 a good reason to consider upgrading. There are translators for AW, AW DB, & AW SS for a couple different versions. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:52:33 -0500 (EST) From: CBWMDCT@aol.com Subject: Daystar 100MHz PPC card and OS 7.6 Like an idiot, I put the OS 7.6 upgrade on my son's 2si, that I had updated with a daystar card on 7.55 a year or so before. Now I can't boot the card, I can't deinstall the OS and reinstall 7.55 and I'm thoroughly disgusted. I'll certainly think twice before I try OS 8 on my NuPowr upgraded PB 500! (which does run with 7.61) Daystar no longer supports the product. Help? Charlie Watson a very amateur MAC enthusiast ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:37:59 +0000 From: Mal McKay Subject: Java compiler wanted I'm looking for a Java compiler, hopefully shareware. Does any one have any suggestions? Thanks, Mal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 21:26:20 -0500 (EST) From: Al Bloom Subject: MacTools FileEdit Replacement(?) There are a lot of the old MacTools (Symantec bought 'em and killed 'em) that I like. I can sort of fake replacements for most of them (Norton's FileSaver is nowhere near as slick as Trashback, but it may serve), but I haven't seen anything like FileEdit, one of my favorite utilities. There are a bunch of utility programs around that let you see invisible files, but FileEdit is the only one I know about that identifies them as such. FileEdit also lets me look into the innards of a file's data and resource forks. That was very useful today as I tried to figure out why an Excel spreadsheet yielded a "file not found" message when loaded. FileEdit told me that the worksheet was calling for a "type libraries" Extensions folder that I didn't have. MicroSoft wouldn't be that useful to save its corporate life. Immediately after telling me that, FileEdit killed my Mac. Apparently not OS-8 friendly. I smelled it coming. FileEdit's windows got a bit transparent at the peripheries. Looked weird. Acted weird. I put FileEdit on a 7.5.3 boot floppy to keep its functionality at a cost. Restart from floppy to get an app? Boring. And why did I have to go back that far? The 7.6 System Tools floppy would not boot my 7300. I'm looking for the functionality of FileEdit. I'm not picky. It can be in two programs. I want something that will see and identify and operate on invisible files. I want something that will look into the innards of a file's data and resource forks (hex and text). If I hear ResEdit or FileBuddy, I will throw a fit, jump into it, and pull it in after me. Been there. Done that. No good. And need I say whatever suggestions must be OS-8 compliant? I'm hoping y'all can help. Al Bloom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:09:58 -0500 From: kennethh@mounet.com Subject: Memory & Monitor At 09:16 -0500 11/10/97, Cotell@aol.com Might Have Wrote This Mess: >I have a Performa 6200 with 24megs of RAM. This computer has two RAM slots >and thats it. Is there a way to group to RAM Simms into one slot? Is it >recommended? Well, if it is SIMM (72Pin) Slots, you can get a SIMM Stacker to group 2, and 4 SIMMs into one slot. The drawback to that is that they have to be single sided SIMMs. (Single sided SIMMS are those that have the chips on just one side, such as the 4 and 16 Mb SIMMS. however, do be aware this is not always true of SIMMS, as there are some propritary types that are strange, but on the whole, Std. 72 SIMMS are this way.) Another consideration is if there is room for the stackers. My PMac 6100 has two slots, and I can fit in a stacker, but have to have "right" and "left" facing stackers, because the slots are so close. You can take a two SIMM stacker, put in two 8 Mb SIMMS, and put the stacker on the board giving you 16 on that slot. Be aware, that you cannot exceed the max of the machine. I can only expand to 72 Mb, but putting 2 32 Mb SIMMS on one stacker and 2 32 Mb SIMMS on another, will not give it more than 72. >Also, I am having problems with my monitor. It take a lonnnnng time to warm >up and in the mean time, a lime green haze feels the screen. Sometimes during >a very frustrated moment I'll smack the sides of it and it shakes into place >but this is few and far in between. Leaving the monitor on doesn't help. > What's wrong and how can I fix it?? >Please respond to Cotell@aol.com as well as to the info-digest Is it by chance a Multiscan 15? My first one did the same thing. (went through 3 monitors in a year). Send it back to Apple, its the green color gun . I fix monitors, and it was beyond my help, and still under warranty. if its under warranty, Call and get a RMA. If its not under warranty, call any way. There are several Apple branded monitors that are junk, and they are silently exending the warranty. If they seem like they wont help you, keep calling back till you get someone who will. Semper Mac, Squirrelly ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 06:15:01 -0800 (PST) From: Avrum Lapin Subject: Memory & Monitor At 4:30 AM -0500 11/11/97, Info-Mac wrote: >From: Cotell@aol.com >Subject: Memory & Monitor > > >Also, I am having problems with my monitor. It take a lonnnnng time to warm >up and in the mean time, a lime green haze feels the screen. Sometimes during >a very frustrated moment I'll smack the sides of it and it shakes into place >but this is few and far in between. Leaving the monitor on doesn't help. > What's wrong and how can I fix it?? >Please respond to Cotell@aol.com as well as to the info-digest Sounds like a loose Connection or a cracked solder joint. First try reseating any cables (both ends) wich go to the Monitor Next try wiggling cables which go to Monitor (if this helps replace cables) Anything else requires removing the "back" of the Monitor. CAUTION: Potentially fatal High Voltages present Then you need to inspect the circuit boards for cracked solder joints This is not a job for an amateur. It can be time consuming and removing and replacing the circuit board may be cost effective if labor costs are high Avrum Lapin Upland., CA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:02:50 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Zatuchni Subject: OS8 Data Loss I am experiencing regular data loss with 6500/300 running OS8. I have no problems with the same machine running 7.6.x. Any ideas? Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:08:13 +0100 (MET) From: Boris Sch|nfeldt Subject: SnapScan I've got an Agfa snapscan and is trying to find out what good OCR-software to buy. I've tryed both textbrige and omnipage in the shop, but both are interfering with the system 7.5.3 and OS 8 (system crash). Does anybody know of any additional software that will solve this problem?? Please mail me, if you know of any!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:53:07 -0700 From: tedlogan@busprod.com (Ted Logan) Subject: System Error 1708? Can someone please explain "System Error -1708"? It doesn't seem to do anything and flashes an alert sometimes when I open something like Claris Works after having opened something like Thorsten Lemke's Graphics Converter, but not always. Of course not. NUM's Disk Doctor doesn't find anything, either. Ted Logan tedlogan@tulsa.com ------------------------------ Date: 15 Sep 1997 16:41:29 GMT From: fetch@netrover.com (Seblast) Subject: virtualPC I can't install win95 with VirtualPc because my computer can't read the cdrom. I have Virtual PC 1.07b so how can i do to install win95 cdrom??? fetch@netrover.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************