Date: Sun, 16 Feb 97 14:15:12 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #38 To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sun, 16 Feb 97 Volume 15 : Issue 38 Today's Topics: [*] Aardvark Smooth 1.0 - Kaleidoscope Colour Schemes [*] Bumbler 1.0.1 demo [*] Charcoal 2.2 for kaleidoscope [*] ClipAppend 1.0 [*] ColorMind 1.0 [*] Control-Strip-Module for OT/PPP [*] Cookie monster desktop pattern [*] csmp digest Vol 4 No 035 [*] DA Piggyback 1.2; converts DAs into apps [*] Electric Broadsheet 1.5.sit [*] HAND! - Have A Nice Day #17 [*] IM/Mac 1.0b28g [*] Kaleidoscope Greenish [*] Kaleidoscope Silver Schemes Collection 1.0.2d [*] Korean font Munhwa Regular [*] Korean Font MunhwGothic Reg [*] MacPipes 2.2.1 (an update) [*] SiteEdit Pro Demo - Web server based CGI [*] Talking Clock =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pro=81?= 2.0.1 source [*] WarBirds v1.10r0PPC601 [*] Year 2000 brochure updated 2.5GB IDE Drive in a Performa 630? 2.5GB IDE Drive in a Performa 630? YES! [A] Hypercard to text-tab output Icon Placement Line weigth printing problem with Word Looking for Mac Telecoms Solutions MacClassic does not print on DW660C? [Q] multiple monitors and decor OT/PPP on localised systems PAP printing problem with acrobat Printing to Video from Premiere realtime chat software? RTF file translation into word processor script for mail SigmaPlot 5.0.1 (Mac): Still buggy System 7.6 and Quickdraw GX Printing The NeXT Apple Mistake Two monitors, one computer The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Matt Bauer, Brian Wessels, 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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StarNine develops Internet server software for the Macintosh, including World Wide Web and e-mail publishing systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #38" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:14 -0800 From: N.Green@derby.ac.uk (Neil Green) Subject: [*] Aardvark Smooth 1.0 - Kaleidoscope Colour Schemes Aardvark Smooth & Aardvark Very Smooth are both colour schemes for Kaleidoscope 1.0.1. Based loosely on bits of Aaron, they come to you courtesy of BouncyWare=81, the company that doesn't exist. Oh, and they're completely free. Wahey! =46eel free to include these files on the info-mac CD-ROM. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/kalscp-aardvark-smooth-10.hqx; 35K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:26 -0800 From: jhague@dadgum.com (James Hague) Subject: [*] Bumbler 1.0.1 demo This is a fully-playable demo of Bumbler, a commercial action game for the Power Mac. Screaming with impossibly frantic action, Bumbler overwhelms your senses as you protect your hive from swarms of crazed crawling and flying insects. Wave after wave of relentless attackers leave you little time to wipe the sweat from your brow and the splattered bug guts from your monitor. The first game written entirely in PowerPC assembly language, Bumbler pushes your Power Mac to its limits. (Permission is granted to include this demo on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.) James Hague Dadgum Games (http://www.dadgum.com) jhague@dadgum.com [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/bumbler-101-demo.hqx; 492K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:16 -0800 From: prestoy@polaristel.net (Brian V.) Subject: [*] Charcoal 2.2 for kaleidoscope Here is Charcoal 2.2, a color scheme for the Kaleidoscope control Panel. Please post this on your servers. If there are any older versions of Charcoal on your servers, please remove them and replace them with Charcoal 2.2 Thanks a million. Sincerely, Brian V. creator of Charcoal [Archived as /info-mac/gui/kalscp-charcoal-22.hqx; 31K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:08 -0800 From: gherrick@kagi.com Subject: [*] ClipAppend 1.0 ClipAppend is a simple control panel that extends the normal functionality of cutting and copying text to the Macintosh clipboard. Usually, when you cut or copy something to the clipboard, you replace whatever is stored there. But with ClipAppend installed, you can add text to the clipboard instead of replacing text. ClipAppend will also optionally append rudimentary style information. It lets you append to either the start or end of the clipboard, has an optional start-up icon, balloon help, and, best of all, it's freeware! ClipAppend requires System 7 or higher. Parts of ClipAppend will run native on PowerMacs if you have one. ClipAppend 1.0 is the first public release of ClipAppend. The author can be contacted at gherrick@kagi.com. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/clip-append-10.hqx; 84K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:47 -0800 From: augustja@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jennifer Mallette) Subject: [*] ColorMind 1.0 ColorMind is a classic board game with a modern twist. You must find the correct combination of colors before your chances run out. This game is a FAT binary file and requires a minimum of 3000k of free memomy in order to run. This game also has built-in French menus, multiple backgrounds, and stereo sound effects. Feel free to distribute this shareware and include it on your commercial CD-ROM. Thank you, Patrice Mallette [Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/color-mind-10.hqx; 1802K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:42 -0800 From: schmitt@dfki.uni-kl.de (Thomas Schmitt) Subject: [*] Control-Strip-Module for OT/PPP here is a little utility for the Control Strip, with this you can connect to a PPP-Server simply by choosing connect in the menu. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/conn/ot-ppp-csm-10.hqx; 125K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:57 -0800 From: rmckenna@usinter.net (Rachael McKenna) Subject: [*] Cookie monster desktop pattern Hello, this desktop will be a lot of fun for those who like Cookie Monster! It requires Adobe photoshop 3.0 or higher. Just copy the picture and paste it into your desktop pattern control panel. visit my home page and get lots more free stuff: http://www.usinter.net/rmckenna The file is 17K, and may be distributed on CD-Rom Thanks. Rachael McKenna [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/cookie-monster.hqx; 17K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:41 -0800 From: owner-csmp@ee.mcgill.ca Subject: [*] csmp digest Vol 4 No 035 C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 05 Feb 97 Volume 4 : Issue 35 Today's Topics: Copybits Question Deferred Task Manager - Conflicting info... FSSpec, Filenames & Parent Directories Finder Icon Changes Fixed vs. Float Fun with TextEdit's scrap Getting RGB Colors from Sys 7.5 Color Picker HardCoding LDEF or other resources with CW Is Mac sound support inherently slow? Line Drawing, QuickDraw and QuickDraw3D Need help finding each mounted volume... NewPtr() versus Malloc? Offscreen Drawing Patching Traps PopUpMenuSelect and hierarchical menus? Ports in Quickdraw 3D Questions about EPS Graphic Format Quickdraw 3D Lighting Reading a TIFF into a GWorld Replacing BlockMove ToolBox Call ? Sending text to a printer Stepping through QT movie frames Struct Alignment and SPBGetDeviceInfo? The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Mark Aiken (marka@ee.mcgill.ca). [Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-digest-v4-035.hqx; 71K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:46 -0800 From: mhaveri@walli.walli.uwasa.fi (Matti Haveri) Subject: [*] DA Piggyback 1.2; converts DAs into apps DA Piggyback lets you turn desk accessories into stand-alone applications. Since a converted DA will have its own application heap, you can adjust their individual heap setting using Get Info... as you do for applications. You can launch your DA/Application in two different ways. Simply double clicking will run the DA in the very same manner as it ran under the Apple Menu. If the desk accesory has an item called "Open" in its menus, a second form of launch will allow you to open files from the finder whether the DA is presently open or not. This method varies between System 6 and System 7: System 6 users should select the document icon along with the DA/Application (using the shift key with the mouse to select multiple icons). Double-clicking on either icon will then open the desk accessory along with the selected document. Under System 7, the document icon should be dragged on top of DA/Application icon. When the mouse is released, the desk accessory will open the selected document. To use DA Piggyback, you must first copy a desk accessory into the DA Piggyback application with Font/DA mover (press Option while opening the DA and DA Piggyback). Rename DA Piggyback as you like. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/da-piggyback-12.hqx; 25K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:53 -0800 From: poetink@inlink.com (Matthew W. Schmeer) Subject: [*] Electric Broadsheet 1.5.sit Attached please find the fifth issue of Electric Broadsheet, a new publication from Poetry Ink Productions, publishers of Poetry Ink (ISSN 1091-0999) electronic literary magazine. Electric Broadsheet is free but copyright 1997 by Electric Broadsheet and Poetry Ink Productions. Please see the enclosed Read Me file for more information. We give our permission for this file to be included on the info-mac CD-ROM. Thank you. Matthew W. Schmeer [Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/electric-broadsheet-15.hqx; 93K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:54 -0800 From: romaniuk@intergate.bc.ca (BlueEagle) Subject: [*] HAND! - Have A Nice Day #17 The HAND! (Have A Nice Day!) newsletter is a monthly publication of clean, funny jokes & quotes. This is a PDF Version and requires Adobe Acrobat to be viewed. Back issues & Text versions of HAND! may be found at: http://www.bapp.com/hahahaha/hand/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/hand-017-pdf.hqx; 123K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:39 -0800 From: adam@iag.tno.nl (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA) Subject: [*] IM/Mac 1.0b28g IM/Mac is copyrighted freeware software. Copies of IM/Mac may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided copies of this Release Not= es file and IM/Mac are included together in unmodified form. Commercial distribution, including distribution on compilation CD-ROMs, must be done un= der license. - In previous versions, typing command-D and command-U rapidly in sequence w= ith an Inbound Message window in front could leave the Inbound Mail window unrefreshed for considerable time. - An 'alias' file which didn't end in a carriage return could result in a cr= ash when mail was sent using the last entry. - Some code changes to accomodate the 'Aaron' extension. - The lower of the two small horizontal lines that separate icons and button= s from the text did not always update properly. - A crash resulted when sending mail to an address ending in '@'. - New icons for locked and deleted mail. - When bouncing mail, the second line of the '.wrk' file contains now a full path. - Forgot to remove the AppleEvent 'special handler' before quitting. - Zooming or growing the Outbound Mail window reduced the horizontal scrollb= ar's reach with 36 characters. - Added an ellipsis character when strings overflow field width in the Outbo= und Mail window. - Scrollbars lost their help balloons with version 1.0=DF28f. - The cursor was left spinning when a memory low alert shows. - Increased the preferred memory size to 540k. - Added a touch of color. - Made it compile with 'MW C/C++ 68K 1.4' and corrected flagged errors. IM/M= ac's source code is not yet fully compatible with MetroWerks CodeWarrior 8 sinc= e the BinHex function was implemented in 68k in-line assembler. - Added in 1.0=DF28f but it did not work under System 6.0.4: "Added an= option to delete a file when sent". - Incorrect window hilighting when switching IM/Mac from foreground to background and vice versa while the clipboard window is open. - When the clipboard window was sent to the background a slight flicker occu= red. - The progress bar showing while decoding a BinHex coded message did not= fill as smooth as indented. It now uses a color pattern when available. - Added a progress bar while encoding BinHex. It will show for each outbound '.txt' file made. - While reading the mail file it was not locked, which is needed to prevent NET/Mac from updating it, resulting in that message being returned to the sender. - Found another bug in the 'alias' scanning code. Do not type a space in the middle of an address. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/im-mac-10b28g.hqx; 338K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:18 -0800 From: kennis@uia.ua.ac.be (Paul.Kennis) Subject: [*] Kaleidoscope Greenish What ? Kaleidoscope plug-in with mostly green windows and buttons Replaces a whole number of system icons as well. Used best with a blueish-green window color. Some original artwork, some copied from other plug-ins. Enjoy. E-mail ware : send me an e-mail to let me know what you think. Paul Kennis kennis@uia.ua.ac.be [Archived as /info-mac/gui/kalscp-greenish-10.hqx; 61K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:03:21 -0800 From: daix@clipper.ens.fr (David-Artur Daix) Subject: [*] Kaleidoscope Silver Schemes Collection 1.0.2d Kaleidoscope Silver Schemes Collection 1.0.2d (January 31, 1997) by David-Artur Daix David's Kaleidoscope Silver Schemes Collection (Info-Mac directory and reference "gui/kalscp-silver-schemes-102d.hqx") contains sixteen (16) carefully crafted new color schemes for use with Kaleidoscope 1.0.x, the now famous control panel written by Greg Landweber, Edward Voas and Frederick Bass. David's Kaleidoscope Schemes Collection is shareware and costs $10. Registrations are handled by Kagi Shareware. The present package contains only the "Demo Schemes" for you to try before you decide whether you want to register the whole package. You can download the complete collection from my Web site located at . Some schemes come in an encrypted self-extracting archive. You'll receive the password to decrypt the archive as soon as you register. I have also designed a collection of "Hi-Tech" color schemes based on the Aaron look. David's Kaleidoscope Hi-Tech Schemes Collection is also available as a demo package on Info-Mac (look in the "gui" directory for a file named "kaleidoscope-hitech-schemes.hqx" or "kalscphitech-chemes.hqx"). The complete collection contains sixteen more schemes. Give it a try ! You can register both collections at once and save $5. See the Distribution and Registration section below for more info. NB: if version 1.5 of Kaleidoscope has been released when you read this, it means new and updated versions of my collections have been too. You'll find them on my home page. Also, future versions of my collections will use the Installer VISE Lite technology from Mindvision Software for installation which will remove the need for a "demo" package. New in 1.0.2d: v. 1.0.2d, 1/31/97: removed the encrypted schemes from the package to allow posting on Info-Mac. (David's Kaleidoscope Silver Schemes Collection may be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. It has been checked with SAM 4.5) Regards, David-Artur Daix [Archived as /info-mac/gui/kalscp-silver-schemes-102d.hqx; 258K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:39 -0800 From: dehanks@loop.com (Dennis Hanks) Subject: [*] Korean font Munhwa Regular Do you have a Mac but no Korean operating system? Would you like to read Korean on the net? No problem! Just make sure you have Apple's Worldscript II extension installed (comes with most 7.5x system CDs as an optional item to install) and Netscape Nagivator. In Netscape choose Korean for the encoding and whalla! You can read Korean web pages, Korean email and even Korean postings to non-English usenet newsgroups. The fonts are excellen for printing too. But you need a Korean system to anything more than just read with them. They work equally as well on Japanese and Chinese Mac Systems without Korean OS. These fonts are the latest and greatest sample CID fonts compiled by Adobe and the font outlines were created by Korea's Ministry of Culture and Sports. This archive contains a freely-available, fully-functional Korean outline font (it is an sfnt-wrapped CIDFont, which is a new- style PostScript font format) for MacOS. The characters' design was developed by the Korean Ministry of Culture and Sports, then produced as a workable font using Adobe Systems' proprietary font-building tools. This font contains a minimal set of characters for Korean, namely the basic set of 2,350 hangul plus a complete set of ASCII characters (in the one-byte range). -- Ken Lunde Project Manager, CJK Type Development Adobe Systems Incorporated [Archived as /info-mac/font/munhwa-regular.hqx; 2041K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:33 -0800 From: dehanks@loop.com (Dennis Hanks) Subject: [*] Korean Font MunhwGothic Reg Do you have a Mac but no Korean operating system? Would you like to read Korean on the net? No problem! Just make sure you have Apple's Worldscript II extension installed (comes with most 7.5x system CDs as an optional item to install) and Netscape Nagivator. In Netscape choose Korean for the encoding and whalla! You can read Korean web pages, Korean email and even Korean postings to non-English usenet newsgroups. The fonts are excellen for printing too. But you need a Korean system to anything more than just read with them. They work equally as well on Japanese and Chinese Mac Systems without Korean OS. These fonts are the latest and greatest sample CID fonts compiled by Adobe and the font outlines were created by Korea's Ministry of Culture and Sports. This archive contains a freely-available, fully-functional Korean outline font (it is an sfnt-wrapped CIDFont, which is a new- style PostScript font format) for MacOS. The characters' design was developed by the Korean Ministry of Culture and Sports, then produced as a workable font using Adobe Systems' proprietary font-building tools. This font contains a minimal set of characters for Korean, namely the basic set of 2,350 hangul plus a complete set of ASCII characters (in the one-byte range). -- Ken Lunde Project Manager, CJK Type Development Adobe Systems Incorporated [Archived as /info-mac/font/munhwa-gothic-regular.hqx; 872K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:49 -0800 From: fedefil@fub.it (Federico Filipponi) Subject: [*] MacPipes 2.2.1 (an update) MacPipes is a game similar to Pipe Dream for windoze (it's in fact the Macintosh rendition of an ancient Amiga game called Pipeline). System Requirements 68020/030/040 or PowerPC; 1.2 MBytes free memory; Mac OS 7.0.1 or later; any monitor supporting 256 colors; Sound Manager 3.0 or later. What's new in MacPipes 2.2.1 - Recompiled with CodeWarrior 10. - MacPipes is now FAT, i.e., it contains both 68k and PowerPC code. - Clicking on the URLs and e-mail addresses in the about dialog automatically launches your Web browser or e-mail application (requires Internet Config 1.1 or later) . - New Factor logo. - A Factor Software FAQ file has been added to the package. Please read it. - Updated and re-formatted all the documentation files. Distribution MacPipes is US$5 shareware (bonuses are welcome ;-). You can distribute MacPipes freely, provided that you leave the software and the accompanying documentation unchanged. I give permission for this program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Thanks and best regards. Federico [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/mac-pipes-221.hqx; 706K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:40 -0800 From: jayv2@pacific-coast.com (Jay Van Vark) Subject: [*] SiteEdit Pro Demo - Web server based CGI SiteEdit Pro is a Web server based CGI that allows remote listing, editing and creation of HTML pages. Using any standard Web browser you can remotely view and edit all HTML documents on your Web server. All editing is performed directly in your Web browser enabling you to quickly see the effect of your changes. SiteEdit Pro does not require FTP or File Sharing which can adversely affect the performance of your server. Includes the ability to provide multiple users access to specific folders on your Web server. Passwords are assigned to each individual as well as the administrator. Two additional capabilities that the Pro version provides are file upload, the ability to upload from your browser supporting graphic files and HTML documents, and page creation using skeleton HTML templates. Every service provider and webmaster should offer this convenience to their users! The demo will allow you 100 uses. thanks for putting up our demo software and yes please include it in any cds that you make. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/site-edit-pro-demo.hqx; 312K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:50 -0800 From: zap@mindcontrol.org Subject: [*] Talking Clock =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pro=81?= 2.0.1 source Enough people have pestered me about updating Talking Clock (and fixing the bug where it didn't talk) that I finally broke down and did it. Talking Clock speaks the time every hour on the hour, or more often if you prefer. The executables are mailed to macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu. This is probably the last-ever public release of System 7 software I make, since I'm firmly rooted in the BeBox camp these days :-) [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/talking-clock-pro-201-c.hqx; 458K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:44 -0800 From: caligula@cris.com (Caligula) Subject: [*] WarBirds v1.10r0PPC601 WBv1.10r0PPC601.sea.hqx is the basic installation set for WarBirds for the PowerMac. Additional plane art files as well as versions optimized for other PowerPC CPU's and the (probably last) 68K version can be found at WarBirds is an internet based WWII combat flight simulator with a full force model. It is difficult to learn but once you are over the basics it can NOT be beat for fun. Up to 200 players fight for 4 "countries" in the main dogfighting arena, and there are other special arena's for historical events, dueling, and a special training arena to allow new players to get tips from veterans so as to help them scale the "learning cliff". WarBirds uses the Graphics Simulations graphics engine and is a project forever in development. More information on the Mac version of the game can be found at and general information about the Company producing as well as more information about the game can be found at The game runs on any PowerMacintosh with 16MB of RAM and an internet connection or serial access to a unix shell account (to telnet from, the recommended technique since it offloads TCP overhead to the unix host) or a 25MHz or faster 68K Mac with a math coprocessor. DO NOT TRY TO USE SOFT FPU!!! Because of the force flight model the game does a LOT of floating point math and will not function on 68K Macs without hardware FPU's. 68K support will be dropped in the near future. This game is undergoing constant upgrades and enhancements, if you download it and it says your version is out of date, go to the ftp and web sites above to obtain the current version. This game is Copyright 1996 Interactive Creations Inc, and is free subject to the licensing restrictions included in the documentation. It may be distributed on PD/Shareware CD's as long as the game is part of a collection and is distributed with the original archives intact. It may NOT be sold seperately, or featured on a CD sold for a per profit basis without the express permission of Interactive Creations. [Archived as /info-mac/game/war-birds-110r0-ppc.hqx; 7988K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:19:42 -0800 From: g.wagner@sylvania.sev.org (George Wagner) Subject: [*] Year 2000 brochure updated I uploaded a PDF file of a brochure with information regarding the Year 2000 problem. I didn't realize that the PDF file was unable to use margins smaller than .25 inch, and it cut off the edge. Please replace the earlier file with the one that I am posting to The brochure describes the various potential problems that the year 2000 brings. It details what the problems are, how to test for them, and why it is important to deal with this issue as soon as possible. George L. Wagner Jr. Computers, Support, & Consulting [Archived as /info-mac/info/year-2000-pdf.hqx; 1373K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 01:06:29 +1100 From: Bill Stanford Subject: 2.5GB IDE Drive in a Performa 630? Info-Mac Digest V15 #34: Dan Hofferth : >Just bought a 2.5GB IDE drive for my Performa 630CD (w/PPC upgrade). >Checked that the jumper was in the "one drive" position, popped the >original drive out and the new one in. Booted from an external SCSI >drive and partitioned the new beast with two 1GB partitions, and one >350?MB partition. Reinstalled all SW, and rebooted. > >The smiley Mac appeared, the MacOS screen appeared, and before any >extension icons began marching across the screen... I got a message >that said something like "A Bus Error has occurred..." [snip] >Following up on my own question (mailed earlier today) re: putting a >2.5GB Western Digital "Caviar" EIDE drive in my Performa 630: >Went to Apple's TIL to read up on what 3rd party drives will work, and >then went out to the Internet to find specs on the drive I bought. Found >what looks like a fatal discrepency, and wanted to see if you guys can >confirm or discount my theory. According to Apple... amongst other things, >the drive must work at least at PIO mode 2 performance level (whatever >that >means... transfer rate?). > >And the 630 family, 580's, and the 5200, 5300, 6200, and 6300 PowerMacs are >capable of supporting up to PIO mode 3. The specs for the drive I >bought say it works at PIO mode 4. Apple's paper says PIO mode 4 is OK for >5400 and 6400 PM's. > >I've got a PPC upgraded 630 (that's a 601/66)... don't know if that >affects the PIO mode I can use or not? If anything, this might put me in the >category of a 6300 (which is still PIO mode 3). > >Have I bought a drive that moves too fast for my Mac? Dan, I think there's hope. I haven't done this, mind, but as I understand it, certain IDE drives allow you to set the PIO mode in the IDE driver itself. I don't know if your Western Digital drive would support this, but you could contact Apple & WD and check. Or you could save phone time and just try and see if changing the mode setting works... PIO as your guessing is the data transfer mode of IDE's, and it refers to 'programmed' input/output, where transfers are handled by the processor. It's a 'blind' transfer mode, there isn't any handshaking, so if devices aren't matched there would be a real real chance of data overflow, causing data flow to be choked off, leading to the kind of bus errors you're experiencing. Because of processor overhead PIO wasn't very fast, especially in its lower modes, thereby ensuring backward compatibility with older PC BIOS code. As an enhancement though IDE also offers modes of DMA, direct memory access, which are faster. But: in Apple's initial use of IDE in the Quadra 630 and Performa 5200/6200's, there's isn't any provision for the faster transfers offered by DMA; and as you've discovered, only PIO modes up to 3 are supported. Apple's Drive Setup (currently at version 1.2.something) doesn't allow configuring its driver. It would have to be hacked. But the SCSI and IDE drivers in FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0.5 do allow this, quite effortlessly, through a sub-dialog in the View Partitions dialog. My advice then would be to format and partition with HDT 2.0.5, and then to configure the IDE driver for PIO mode 3, and (if necessary) to disable both single word and multi-word DMA. But I would try first to establish from Western Digital that your drive supports configuration of its PIO mode through driver software... since there is the real possibility that your drive supports _only_ PIO mode 4. Good luck with this one! bill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:22:48 -0700 From: Dan Hofferth Subject: 2.5GB IDE Drive in a Performa 630? YES! Well, I promised a summary... here 'tis: I wrote in earlier this week about a US$270 Western Digital 2.5GB "Caviar" EIDE internal hard drive I bought for my Performa 630. I got it physically installed, partitioned, and loaded with software without any trouble. However, when I rebooted from the new drive I got a "bus error" just before the extensions would have started to march across the bottom of the screen. While rebooting without the extensions turned on and zapping the PRAM seemed to help at first, I still had intermittent bus errors on boot, and it soon became evident that a number of files I'd moved on to the drive were corrupted. As a final test, I moved a number of MooV's to the drive from a CD-ROM... then sat and watched 'em. Four out of a dozen had visible and/or audible corruption. Comparing specs of the drive, in more detail, with capabilities of the Mac... I noticed that the drive is a "PIO mode 4" drive, (referring to data transfer method/rate?) and this Mac supports PIO mode 3. So I wrote in to info-mac... "Is this a fatal mismatch, or do I have a defective drive?" I also called 1-800-SOS-APPL.... "Should an EIDE drive that uses PIO mode 4 work in your Performa 630?" They had NO idea what I was talking about, but did locate the same TIL note I found about the PIO mode 3 capability of the 630. Called Western Digital. "Should your PIO mode 4 drive work in a PIO mode 3 Mac?" Sure! Should work fine--the mode 4 tricks just won't be used. In short, they voted for "defective drive"... and suggested I take it back to the store to exchange it. Which I did. The serial number of the replacement drive is ONE DIGIT up from the drive I took back. I also downloaded and used version 1.2 of Apple's "Drive Setup"... up from 1.0.5... when I installed it, and I took special care to hit the "Update Driver" command (which I'm not so sure I did with the first drive). Verdict: The new one is working great! ...and I've exercised it heavily in the last 24 hours. Don't know for sure that the first drive was defective, or if Drive Setup 1.2 was the fix... don't much care. --- I should note: The drive's packaging loudly proclaims compatability with Win/Win95/NT/Unix... no Mac. At first, I ignored this as the usual industry Mac-snub, but then worried that it might have been for a good reason. The Western Digital rep I spoke with ("Jason"?) knew the drive should work fine in a Mac and never suggested it might be at fault. However, he also said he was the only Mac owner amongst his cohorts... and that he was trying to convince his supervisor that EIDE Mac owners were going to start buying these drives and they ought to get trained for supporting Macs soon. I agree. For 2.5GB (and a 3 year warranty) at US$270... wouldn't you? Dan Hofferth ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:03:49 -0800 From: kee nethery Subject: [A] Hypercard to text-tab output >>I have a user who is switching from a Mac to a PC. she has been using a >>Hypercard address list for the past seven years and now we need to move >>it to a FMPro database. Are there any utilities or other means by which I >>could convert her files? Re-entering the data is not a option since >>there are over a thousand entries. > >Jon, the usual sympathies go out to your colleague... > >Getting tab-separated text out of HyperCard wasn't meant to be easy, and it >isn't. There's no separate TEXT resource, and so tools like ResEdit or >CanOpener strike immediate problems. ? I find it very easy. Copy the following code into your stack script and then type "easyAsPie" into the msg window and press return. One text file will get created in the folder where Hypercard lives for each background in the stack. Kee Nethery Kagi -- copy from here down on easyAsPie -- lets do tab separated text set the itemdelimiter to tab push card -- create one output for each background repeat with x = 1 to the number of backgrounds put empty into theoutput -- For importing, lets label the columns on the export go to card 1 of background x repeat with z = 1 to the number of background fields put the short name of fld z into item z of theoutput end repeat -- use generic label for and card field labels in the output put tab & "card fields" & return after theoutput -- grab the data on each card repeat with y = 1 to the number of cards in background x go to card y of background x repeat with z = 1 to the number of background fields put noTabsOrReturns(fld z) & tab after theoutput end repeat -- if you do not want to capture data from card fields -- then delete the next three lines repeat with z = 1 to the number of card fields put noTabsOrReturns(card fld z) & tab after theoutput end repeat -- put return after theoutput end repeat put "easyAsPie" && x into thefile open file thefile write theoutput to file thefile close file thefile end repeat pop card set the itemdelimiter to comma answer "all done" with "OK" end easyAsPie function noTabsOrReturns thetext -- get rid of unseen characters at the bottom of a field put space & return & tab into badChars repeat if last char of thetext is in badChars then put empty into last char of thetext else exit repeat end if end repeat -- get rid of tabs, replace with spaces -- (I doubt there are any but believe it is possible) repeat until offset(tab,thetext) = 0 put space into char offset(tab,thetext) of thetext end repeat -- get rid of returns, replace with ReturnAlternate -- I use a comma to replace returns but use whatever you wish put "," into ReturnAlternate repeat until offset(return,thetext) = 0 put ReturnAlternate into char offset(return,thetext) of thetext end repeat return thetext end noTabsOrReturns -- copy from here up ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:42:33 -0500 From: "Steven Colucci, Ph.D." Subject: Icon Placement Two days after having my screen case replaced I managed to drop my PowerBook 150 and now have a blank area at the upper right hand corner of the screen (actually, it's yellow). It is quite inconvenient as it hides the hard disk icon and also the floppy icon. Is there a way to alter the placement of these icons on start-up and when a disk is placed in the drive so I don't have to keep searching blindly for them? TIA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 08:59:37 BST From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk Subject: Line weigth printing problem with Word Ramiro Varela asked about a problem with lines mysteriously becoming much wider when printing DeltaGraph 4.0 graphs from within Word 5.1a or 6.0 on certain printers. I have also had this problem and I didn't find a solution, except by trial and error choosing a line width that printed right. I was using Kaleidagraph, not Delta Graph, but the problem was the same. I think it is due to the way that the Mac OS handles PICT files with embedded PostScript. I always found the line widths were fine on a PostScript printer, but became much wider when printing to a non-PostScript printer. It might be worthwhile to try copying the PICT without embedded PostScript, or with or without High Resolution PICT information. There will probably be a check-box somewhere in DeltaGraph for this, as there is in Kaleidagraph. The problem with this approach is that the embedded PostScript is there to make printing on a PostScript printer more accurate. Without it, graph symbols are often slightly misplaced, i.e. they are only printed to the nearest 1/72nd of an inch, which is too coarse for scientific plotting. I think High Resolution PICT information was supposed to be some kind of alternative to embedded PostScript that works on non-PostScript printers, but I've never found out how this works. All I've found is that if you ungroup a High Resolution PICT in ClarisDraw, some of the elements move around and you lose information. Can anyone enlighten us about High Resolution PICTs? Ian. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:50:47 +0000 From: Roland Whitehead Subject: Looking for Mac Telecoms Solutions I have been charged with finding a CTI based Mac telephony solution. We have been shown a Windoze based system with the PC acting as the router for calls and sending contact names and addresses to the recipients desktop but we do not want to ship in PCs. This is to run in the UK so protocols may be a bit different but I'm sure we can sort that out. Any help would be most helpful! Roland Whitehead CONTINUUM ID ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:53:23 +0100 From: Edward Hoenkamp Subject: MacClassic does not print on DW660C? [Q] I changed my original HP Deskwriter for a DW660C, to print (via AT) from my Duo and my wife's Classic. The driver for the DW660C doesn't seem to work on a Classic. What to do? (using the old DW3.0 driver does strange things with the page layout). Anyone in the know? Thank you, Edward. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:38:18 -0800 From: Aaron Lynch Subject: multiple monitors and decor Anybody know of a way to make Decor or another utility display pix on a secondary monitor? v3.0.3 doesn't seem to have an option to select which monitor it uses, it just pisks the "primary" monitor (wherever the task bar is) and naturally, but I want the photo on the other... TIA -Aaron "I am Homer of Borg, prepare to be... Oooooh Donuts!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 18:33:51 +0100 From: Klaus Schnathmeier Subject: OT/PPP on localised systems I have a PCI PowerMac, running a German system 7.5.5. Right now, FreePPP 2.5v2 is (still) my packet of choice for the internet but I would like to switch to OT/PPP which seems to set a new standard. I've tried OT/PPP 1.0 from the Apple Archive with both, the German OT version 1.1.1 and the US version 1.1.2 (not yet available in German). The PPP also is a US version (nothing else to get). While both incarnations of OT work perfectly on my machine, I just could not get OT/PPP to like my modem. No, it's not the CCL script but the CCL interpreter itself. After lots of tries I finally figured out that two (unfortunately very common) CCL commands do not work: serreset and hsreset. If either of these commands are executed in the CCL script (and they are always present), the serial port is totally confused. Commands to the modem still go through and are properly executed while the modem's response is dropped to nowhere. After a while, PPP finally times out. The connection cable is exactly to Apple specification (have soldered it myself) and the modem has standard AT-commands. All other communication software works with the same configuration, only OT/PPP does not. When I delete the respective commands from the CCL script it works as well, but of course this is no solution. I have really no idea what in my system is so different that the serial port can be used but not configured by US software. Anyone out there with a good hint ? Klaus Schnathmeier <100.147803@germanynet.de> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 97 20:28:35 -0600 From: "Jason P. Torrey" Subject: PAP Does any one know what in the world PAP is? My ISP tells me that I need to make changes to my software to support this. They give instructions only for FreePPP, and not for OT/PPP. Argh, the support is lacking! Argh. >We are conveerting to PAP and changing phone numbers. You need to change >the phone number to 795-1441, disable any dialing scripts and use PAP. Thanks, Jason jtorrey@qni.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 97 23:15:10 -0700 From: jacob reichbart Subject: printing problem with acrobat there are a couple of workarounds. the version of atm you're running is crucial. i've found that plain jane atm 4.0 doesn't really help but atm 4.0 deluxe (nee superatm) does a better job. sometimes printing to a postscipt file works, as well. in some cases, opening the pdf in illustrator works too. no rule of thumb. depends on who created the pdf file. >From: Thomas Mokwa >Subject: printing problem with acrobat >snip< >When I try to print any documents from Adobe Acrobat I get a PostScript >error and the file will not print. I am using a LaserWriter 4/600PS, a >PowerMac 7100/80 and Laserwriter 8.4 driver. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:08:46 -0700 From: Bruce Carter Subject: Printing to Video from Premiere Greetings all, I need some help with "printing" to video from Premiere. I've never tried to output to tape before, basically delivering multimedia on CD-ROM/CD-R so I'm a little stuck. I have a PowerMac 8100AV hooked up to a Panasonic camcorder through the little battery charger/line input gadget that comes with it. I have the Line In and Line Outs hooked to the video out and in on the Mac. I can capture from the camera just fine. However, when I try to "print to video" it comes out on the main monitor instead of the tape. I realize I can go to the Monitors control panel and redirect everything to the NTSC out on the AV card, but I naively thought the software would do that for itself. Am I doing something wrong, or is it this cumbersome to do this with an Apple AV card? Thanks for any help. (Short .sig for Info-Mac requirements) -- Bruce Carter, Boise State Univ., Boise, ID 83725 bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 07:54:57 +1100 From: Anthony Howe Subject: realtime chat software? Hiya Folks, Have checked out software like Hotline, various IRC clients and some web based / java chat systems and none seem to be appropriate for our purposes. We need a realtime chat client/server setup that is TCP/IP based. The client software must run on macs and win95 machines..... I would prefer IRC to be our last option.....as IRC servers are frequently changing or down. We need something that we can control ourselves. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Cheers, Anthoy Howe. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:07:36 +0100 From: Christian F Buser Subject: RTF file translation into word processor Hi, I have prepared a document (in Microsoft's Word 6.01 for the Mac), saved it as RTF file and distributed this to several people on floppies (all use Macs, but the word processors may be anything). When I open the RTF file on my Mac (or the other Macs in our office), all is great. But others complain that some characters (German umlauts, accented French characters) don't display/print properly. I don't (yet) know what application they use to view the file, but anyway, this seems very odd. Any ideas what the reason could be and how to correct it? Thank you for all help. -- Christian. cbuser@access.ch -- http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:14:17 -0500 From: casgrp@videotron.ca (Philippe Casgrain) Subject: script for mail waechter@ibw.com.ni (Steve Waechter) wrote: >Is there an apple script posted anywhere that would enable me to (a) log >onto my provider with PPP, (b) open Eudora, (c) do check mail in Eudora, >and (d) close the PPP connection--all in one keystroke? Or could anyone >give directions on how I could write something like this with AppleScript? I have written such a script in about 10 minutes; it uses PPPop (found on info-mac) and Eudora. I saved it as "Check Mail" and put it in my "Speakable Items" folder. Now when I'm busy watching my kids taking their bath, I lean in the next room and say "Computer, check mail" and my Power Mac does just that! It's the coolest thing ever! Now I'm working on having the computer read the messages out loud to me, although my wife finds Victoria (the computer's voice) annoying ;-) Philippe P.S. The script is so simple that I won't bother posting it to info-mac, e-mail me for a copy if you want it ------------------------------ Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:54:35 -0700 From: friedman@nrel.nrel.gov (Daniel Friedman) Subject: SigmaPlot 5.0.1 (Mac): Still buggy In digest <5dt2ps$n1d@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >In January 1996, Jandel released a VERY buggy version of Sigmaplot 5 >for the Mac, a scientific plotting program (see my report in >infomacv14-034). Yesterday, I received version 5.0.1. You would assume >that a year is enough to fix all the bugs, or at least the most glaring >ones. Well, the very first of the old bugs for which I checked -- a >pretty deadly one -- is still there: You might find it worth having a look at Igor Pro, published by WaveMetrics. Very, very powerful and fast, and amazingly bug-free. Dan (just another Igor fanatic) Friedman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:53:06 -0600 From: Richard L Cooley Subject: System 7.6 and Quickdraw GX Printing I am using a Mac 7600/150 with 64 megs of RAM, Ramdoubler 2.01 and Speeddoubler 2.01. There are numerous other extensions. After installing 7.6, I installed Quickdraw GX and the latest HP GX driver for my HP printer. I found that this gave an incremental improvement in the quality of the print even in the econo mode. ( a corresponding increase in print time) For most of my printing I have had no problems. However, in Netscape 3.01 I have had an interesting printing problem. Each day I print the Info-Mac Digests for the day. I have printed them for many months. Now when printing the first page to the first five pages print as thumbnail size ( 1/16 page) in the left upper corner of the page. Then at random the pages become full size and the remainder of the pages will print normally. It does not matter if you print in forward or reverse order. If you print a single page it will print normally. If you reprint two or more pages some will print as thumbnail size. I thought it might be the N-up printing extension from Apple. However if this is removed the situation remains. I have not had the problem with, as yet, any other printing application. I can not find in any of the literature a conflict reported with Netscape and GX printing. Has anyone had a similar experience. Any suggestions for removing the problem would be appreciated. TIA Richard L Cooley rlcooley@netnet.net 1635 Zita St DePere,WI 54115 "Life is fatal...but not serious." -- Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:05:38 -0800 From: Ross Nelson Subject: The NeXT Apple Mistake >Apple no longer cares about what is best for its loyal users and instead >feels it must try and attract a new market, at our expense. Apples >purchase of NeXT is less a method of creating a great new OS in a faster >amount of time and more based on trying to enter the intranet market. No, I think they're trying to do both. Recall that Gil promised a minimum of three new releases of System 7. That's hardly abandoning the current users. >But Apple needs to separate that from the >OS. The NextStep OS does not run Motorola processors, but rather Intel, >meaning we will have to wait for it to be ported to our PowerPC chips. The first versions did run on Moto CPUs, namely the 680x0 series. NeXT had prototypes of 601-based machines (PowerPC) running in the lab when the left the hardware business. They just have to revive that code. BTW it also runs on Sun SPARC chips, not just Intel ones, so they know how to do cross-platform. >NextStep does not support QuickDraw, or Quicktime. Meaning an extensive >amount of time being spent on just recreating that. All this is before >even beginning to incorporate the MacOS into it. We will be lucky to >have anything before 1999. Based on what I've seen, you will see something interesting before the summer is out this year. Recall also that QuickTime runs on Intel CPUs, that team knows how to port code as well. > >Apple had a prospect of buying Be. Which they should have done if they >had the intentions of grouping with a company to build the new OS. It takes a long time to build a stable OS. Windows NT took a good three years to get acceptable bug-free to be interesting to buyers. As someone pointed out, you can't even print from Be OS yet. They just were'nt ready for prime time. -- ross Ross Nelson When evolution is outlawed, http://www.dnai.com/~ross/ only outlaws will evolve. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:21:45 -0600 From: "Gordon Watts (Brown University)" Subject: Two monitors, one computer Hi, I am now blessed with two computers, a 90 MHz pentium (work got it) and a StarMax 4200. I have one nice MicroScan 17 inch monitor. The cable is a standard 15 pin (db15) and the video cards on both computers are also DB15. I would like to buy a switch, like those printer switches you see around, for my monitors so that I don't have to kneel down under the table every time I need to switch computers. I've looked in places like MacW, CompUSA, and Radio Shack, but I've not seen anything. Closest I saw was a DB9 switch... Any ideas? BTW, if you faith in the Mac is lagging a bit, get yourself in front of a fast mac -- like a 200 MHz 604e. I'm surrounded, at work, by these high-speed, brand-new P133 and PPro200 machines and a bunch of older macs... people say things like "oh, the mac is so slow"... well, of course! They are all low end PPC or 680x0 machines! :-) I bet this 604e-200 is even up to running things like Word! Cheers, Gordon. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************