Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #221 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 14 Oct 97 Volume 15 : Issue 221 Today's Topics: [A] News readers [A] News readers [Re] Sys8 Et c Apple (La Cie)_external 2.1 hard disk BLACK Performa/Power Mac 5000-series... Bluish tint on Sony 100SX monitor Converting text files to settext custom folder icon maker (Re: Sys8 Et c) digest@info-mac.org Directory Assistance II Replacement Directory Assistance II Replacement Grayscale Portrait monitor HP500C with centronics with Mac? Iomega Zip Tools Warning for Mac Users Looking For Manuscript Tracking Software Lost events - help needed LW Select 360 RAM [Q] mac client for Microsoft Mail 3.5 macbinary to PC? MacTools & OS/8 Megaphone and Power Mac 6500 MountImage News readers Pegasus and system 8 Powerbook 3400 external modems quicken users group or FAQ? Reading PC text CD-ROMs? REQ: MountImage or equivalent? REQ: MountImage or equivalent? 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We'd also like to thank AOL, who has supplied the hardware the main info-mac machine runs on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #221" ------------------------------ Date: 10 Oct 1997 22:02:13 GMT From: carynkr.no.spam@gte.net (Caryn Roberts) Subject: [A] News readers In article <61lvsc$t8f$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, digest@info-mac.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 97 11:01:59 +0200 > From: Remmy Tourment > Subject: News readers > > Hello, > > Is there some news reader program (preferably shareware or freeware) that > allows the connection to multiple news servers, and that is configurable > in order to specify that the user wants to connect to server A to read > newsgroup W, server B for newsgroup Y, etc... ? I am ashamed that a > friend has such a program on his PC, and that I never found one for the > mac.... > > Thanks in advance > > Remy Tourment Newswatcher does this. Take the Newswatcher Preferences folder out of the Preferences folder from the System folder. Put it somewhere conveient. Take the preferences file (Newswatcher Preferences) and rename it to something usefule like: gte.news.prefs Duplicate it and name the new one something like at&t.prefs Rename your Newsgroup file something like: gte.groups Duplicate it and name the new one at&t.groups Make aliases of these files and put the aliases in one convenient folder. To connect to the gte server just double click the gte.news.prefs alias and after it gets to the idle point, double click on the gte.groups alias. To change servers just double click on the at&t.prefs alias. (The first time make sure you change the settings to look at the new server.) Then to read those groups doubleclick on the at&t.groups alias. I use System 8 so I set up the folder with the aliases to be button, like Launcher. Works great. -- visit me at: To email me remove the ".no.spam." in my address. correct email: carynkr@gte.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:02:13 -0700 From: carynkr.no.spam@gte.net (Caryn Roberts) Subject: [A] News readers (A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest) In article <61lvsc$t8f$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, digest@info-mac.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 97 11:01:59 +0200 > From: Remmy Tourment > Subject: News readers > > Hello, > > Is there some news reader program (preferably shareware or freeware) that > allows the connection to multiple news servers, and that is configurable > in order to specify that the user wants to connect to server A to read > newsgroup W, server B for newsgroup Y, etc... ? I am ashamed that a > friend has such a program on his PC, and that I never found one for the > mac.... > > Thanks in advance > > Remy Tourment Newswatcher does this. Take the Newswatcher Preferences folder out of the Preferences folder from the System folder. Put it somewhere conveient. Take the preferences file (Newswatcher Preferences) and rename it to something usefule like: gte.news.prefs Duplicate it and name the new one something like at&t.prefs Rename your Newsgroup file something like: gte.groups Duplicate it and name the new one at&t.groups Make aliases of these files and put the aliases in one convenient folder. To connect to the gte server just double click the gte.news.prefs alias and after it gets to the idle point, double click on the gte.groups alias. To change servers just double click on the at&t.prefs alias. (The first time make sure you change the settings to look at the new server.) Then to read those groups doubleclick on the at&t.groups alias. I use System 8 so I set up the folder with the aliases to be button, like Launcher. Works great. -- visit me at: To email me remove the ".no.spam." in my address. correct email: carynkr@gte.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:14:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mark E. Ingram" Subject: [Re] Sys8 Et c Al Bloom wrote: > I despise [OS 8] Views. I can't imagine the workings of a mind > that thinks any given user likes to see anything other than what > he or she likes to see. All the time. I want to see the Fred > folder this way and the Gladys folder that way? I sort of > hoped the lobotomy had worked. And where in ruddy red > naughtyword is the "staggered grid" option? Forget snap to > grid if you have more than three items in a folder. Line them > up yourself or get a window rather larger than your monitor. I had held off writing my own diatribe on this subject, hoping that *somebody* on this list would make clear that I had overlooked some obvious (or non-obvious) way to get my beloved "staggered grid" Views option under OS 8. Sadly, this seems not to be the case. Does anybody at Apple remember that icons are a big part of what makes the Mac OS a *graphical* user interface? If someone likes to squint at jammed-up List views, that has always been their option - as well it should be. For certain types of folders and documents, that is my preference too. However, for dealing with diverse OS-related files - such as Control Panels, Extensions and Preferences - I much prefer to select View by Name, hold down the Option key and select Clean up by Name, and then click once on the window re-size button to eliminate one or both scroll bars. Using this method, our lean Control Panels folders (on a few hundred machines) are compact enough so that all items are displayed in windows that occupy just over one-quarter of most screens. The main benefit of such a tight, alphabetical "picture" view is that if somebody has quietly installed some strange program, which then causes all sorts of mysterious problems to appear, then the "ringers" fairly jump out from all the old familiar faces. Preferences can be just as instructive when viewed this way. With OS 8, all of those "pretty" new icons not only take up considerably more space on the desktop than their predecessors did (even in windows whose staggered views persist from System 7.6.x), but also their 3-D loveliness is gained totally at the expense of clarity: Where before I could recognize the (closed) Control Panels folder by its distinctive Icon, now the identifying graphic element is so small that I am forced into reading the title text anyway. One might just as well go back to List view - which for me makes about as much sense as going back to DOS and typing "dir" from the command line interface. What a huge step backward this is! If someone could please provide an Apple e-mail address to which Mac OS suggestions and gripes can be addressed - one that somebody might actually read - I will forward this along. Regards, Mark E. Ingram MarkT@Mo-Net.Com (also mingram@mail.orion.org) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 23:46:13 -0400 From: Louis Bergeron Subject: Apple (La Cie)_external 2.1 hard disk Hi! Last summer I bought an Apple (made by La Cie) external 2.1 hard disk for 600$ Canadian dollars. I taught it was a genuine Apple product. Otherwise, I would not have bought another La Cie product. This same year, I had a problem with a Tsunami 170 Mb with a defective fan. It was only three years old. The moron who answered my FAXes told my that my drive was out of service and he could not SELL me a fan. I was not asking for a free fan, just to be able to buy the exact same fan and have it replaced by my friendly Apple dealer for a mere 55$ Canadian. Finally, I simply asked this great guy to disconnect the fan. It is like I buy a car and after the warranty have expired the manufactured do not want to sell parts! Quite a genius who answered my call. So, this summer, not knowing it, I bought another La Cie product, sold under Apple's name from MacWarehouse. The fan was making more noise then a diesel, rattling very loudly, like the drive is 10 years old and was used in the Sahara desert. I returned the drive to MacWarehouse. The second one was quiet in the beginning and became rapidly very noisy exactly like the first one. MacWarehouse is refusing to replace it again, but I will insist. In fact, I am asking for another brand of drive and no more La Cie products. The guy at MacWarehouse told me the first time that it was a PITA to deal with La Cie and this is why he asked me to return the drive to him and not to La Cie. But this time, I will have to deal with La Cie, paying shipping and so on. So, La Cie is scraping what is otherwise a great product by cutting costs on fans. In a quiet environment, a defective fan is clearly a nuisance, since you are always hearing it in the background. This problem should be solved by the manufacturer. I simply cannot recommend La Cie products from my experiences. Louis Bergeron Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 (819) 764-3862 Yves Plouffe & associ=E9s 209 9i=E8me rue Rouyn-Noranda J9X 2C1 (819) 764-64= 32 =46ax (819) 764-6888 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 08:50:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Fiske Subject: BLACK Performa/Power Mac 5000-series... Now, I'm NOT talking about the Performa 550-looking '030 Mac TV of 1993 (I've GOT one of THOSE already) Somewhere, while exploring the farthest reaches of the web, I stumbled across a pic of the actual machine (which was based on the new 5000-series all-in-ones) as well as a set of resources (icons, desktop patterns, etc.) all for a computer that I never knew existed. And, yes, it was BLACK... Does ANYONE know anything about this machine? I am VERY interested... Mark. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:03:53 -0400 From: Jeff Frankel Subject: Bluish tint on Sony 100SX monitor On October 5, Patricio Mason wrote: >I'm trying to connect a brand-new Sony Multiscan 100sx monitor to a >brand-new PowerMac 6400. As a third-party display, the Sony Multiscan >100sx >requires a video adaptor. This adaptor was set by the dealer and came >with >no instructions. > >After two weeks of use I'm getting a bluish tint which severely restricts >normal use of the monitor. My guess is that adaptor dip switches may not >be >in the right position, but without instructions I'm working blind. > >I wonder if someone could suggest the proper dip switch positions for >this >monitor and computer. As this is only a guess, suggestions as to other >causes of the bluish tint problem also welcome. I had the same problem on a Sony 17SE monitor. It turned out to be a bad capacitor inside the monitor’s circuitry. Since the monitor was out of warranty, I had to foot the repair bill myself. -- Jeff Frankel Windsor, Maine USA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 15:46:25 -0500 From: Gib Henry Subject: Converting text files to settext >Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:13:07 -0400 >From: noise@oil.ca >Subject: Converting text files to settext > >I have a number of digest files from a mailing list I run that I would like >to post for others to download. I'd like to format them as SetText (like >tidBits) but am having a real tough time trying to find info on how to to >such a thing. > >I have NISUS and I remember hearing about a Macro that would allow you to >convert text to set text. > >Any help out there? First off, it's "setext". Secondly, after you save them as text, most digests work fine in Easy View using its Digest template. But astonishingly, that's NOT the same as the plain setext template which TidBITS uses (go figure!). Anyway, I suggest you try saving your digests as text and putting them into Easy View's Digest folder, then open the Digest template. That should do it! Hope this helps. Cheers, -- Gib ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:03:14 +0200 From: Sven Luetkemeier Subject: custom folder icon maker (Re: Sys8 Et c) At 2:37 +0200 30.09.1997, Al Bloom wrote: > OK, I took the plunge and installed Sys8 on two of my machines (to date). > Do we have a "custom folder icon maker" left? I like putting custom icons > on my folders. My last best hope was Picon. It dies horribly under Sys8. > Don't bother looking. It's author no longer exists at Dartmouth. Nor does > the web site he pointed us to. Despite our best efforts, the sumbitches > do graduate. And move on to more rewarding pursuits. Folder Icon Maker works perfectly under OS 8. At least on my PowerMac 7500. It should be available at info-mac. Regards, Sven -- Sven Luetkemeier mailto:luetkem@uni-duesseldorf.de http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~luetkem ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Oct 97 20:21:33 -0000 From: Nicholas Miller Subject: digest@info-mac.org This is a problem with System 8 and I am stumpped. The other day I was doing some surfing and sending mail to some people from the sites I was visiting. Each time I hit a mailto, the system asked me "Where is Eudora", and each time I told it. Unfortunately I have two copies of Eudora on the hard disk and on subsequent posts I used the wrong one. Running 2 copies at once immediately caused flaky things to happen. No problem, just reboot and start over. Wrong the system will not shut down. Oh well stuff happens, so I hit the handy reboot button and the system comes back up....almost. It hangs right after loading extensions but before the stuff in the startup folder executes. The the stopwatch icon is displayed and you can move the mouse, but it does not "click". Command-Option-Esc allows you to quit the Finder and it makes the complete circuit back to the stopwatch. To make a longggggg story short, I can no longer get system 8 to come up. It will not completely start even from the CD or from another hard drive. I reverted to system 7.5 on one of my hard drives and I am operational again, but this has got me stumped. It will, however boot from the System 8 floppy or from system 7.X disks. I know that one solution would be to back up and reformat the drive and restore but I can't believe there is't an easier way that doesn't involve buying a dozen zip disks!! I have already, 1. Zapped the PRam (3 times) over the last 2 days 2. Removed all control panels and extentions (except appearance manager which is mandatory) 3. Done a clean install of system 8 4. Run "Disk First Aid", Norton Utilities (while booted in 7.5 mode) and MacTools (ditto) These all reported corruption (which was to be expected after rebooting repeatedly) but all claim to have fixed all problems leaving everything fine and dandy. I use Silver Lining and I even tried updateing the drivers but I am using the most current version already and didn't see a way of updating without reformating. My system: PMac 7100/66 AV 56 Mg Memory 1 GB Hard Drive internal, (Currently experiencing the Problem) and a LaCie 380 MB external which is now acting as my boot drive. USR Sportser Voice Modem Any Idea's or solutions would be most appreciated. Nick Miller nickm@niia.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:55:07 +0200 From: Sven Luetkemeier Subject: Directory Assistance II Replacement At 2:23 +0200 28.09.1997, Al Bloom wrote: > I would not call DF perfect. I thought DA II was about as perfect as one > could expect in this imperfect world. My values. But with DA II dead, and > Now's SuperBoomerang apparently not breathing on its own either, I see > nothing better than "Default Folder." And it is pretty good. I'd recommend a look at OtherMenu. Many of its options work in file dialogs. For example, choosing a file or folder from the OtherMenu navigates the open dialog to the appropriate folder. It also keeps tracks of recent documents etc. However, it doesn't do this on a per-folder basis like Default folder or DA II. I also used to use DA II, but gave up long ago in favor of OtherMenu. Regards, Sven -- Sven Luetkemeier mailto:luetkem@uni-duesseldorf.de http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~luetkem ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:52:24 +1000 From: Bill Stanford Subject: Directory Assistance II Replacement In Info-Mac Digest V15 #217; Al Bloom (bless him) succinctly reviews Default Folder, and concludes >I would not call DF perfect. I thought DA II was about as perfect as one >could expect in this imperfect world. My values. But with DA II dead, and >Now's SuperBoomerang apparently not breathing on its own either, I see >nothing better than "Default Folder." And it is pretty good. DF's not too bad is it! (I wish Hiro Yamamoto, genius and author of Boomerang, would reissue the shareware version. But then, Now have sort of promised they'll fix Now Utilities... so we'll see... ) But Al, talking of Hiro, a _very_ good thing about DF is its author, Jon Gotow. Have you tried Sleeper? For me the absolutely indispensable program for desktop Macs... all the best (usual disclaimers apply:-) bill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 97 12:08:21 +0100 From: Richard Platt Subject: Grayscale Portrait monitor Hugi: you asked >Does anyone know if I can use the Apple Greyscale Portrait Monitor with the >LC630 computer? I think you'll find that the video on all Apple models is capable of driving all monitors made prior to the system's manufacture. I have an Apple portrait monitor, and when I bought a 7300 I was told by Apple UK that it did NOT support my AGPM. When I read the technical spec, though, I found that it DID indeed run the monitor. Richard Platt Telephone: (44) 1892 890741 Fax: (44) 1892 890951 The Old Squash Court, Bayham Abbey, Lamberhurst, Kent, United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:02:53 -0400 From: Ken Laskey Subject: HP500C with centronics with Mac? I've come upon an old HP500C deskjet printer that was used with PCs. The printer has a Centronics connector and I have been unable to find a cable to convert to the Mac. DataComm Warehouse said there is no such creature and the printer can only be used with PCs. This seems a bit extreme. Are they correct or is there something specific out there I should be looking for? Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@cpmx.saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:49:06 -0700 From: roger7@idt.net Subject: Iomega Zip Tools Warning for Mac Users This concerns a serious problem I have encountered in one of the Iomega Zip Tools utilities for the macintosh called "Copy Machine". This utility is intended to copy the entire contents of one 100 MB Zip disk onto another, using a hard disk as temporary storage. Unfortunately, it falls short of that goal. Copy Machine will skip over any unallocated (free) area of the source disk so as to shorten copy time, which is all well and good. Sadly, at the beginning of each unallocated area it starts this skipping two sectors too soon so that it skips part of an area allocated to a file. On a Zip disk, allocation blocks are three sectors long, which means that about two-thirds of the time some portion of the actual file is not copied, and that nearly always spells disaster for that file. On a source Zip disk in which there are many unallocated sections interspersed among the allocated files, as from numerous prior deletions, a single copying by Copy Machine can result in truly spectacular damage to the destination disk's contents. This is comparatively easy to check directly with a utility like Norton Disk Editor. Norton Disk Doctor can easily detect files whose resource forks have been truncated by Copy Machine. With some effort it can be determined that the loss in file content occurs in the first stage of copying to temporary files on a hard disk. The data are long gone by the time the destination disk is inserted. For me this error has occurred with Copy Machine's versions 1.1 and 1.2; on an ancient Mac IIci and on a brand-new PowerTower Pro 250; running under Mac OS 7.5.5 and under 7.6.1; with and without unnecessary extensions and control panels enabled; and for Iomega Zip drivers 4.3, 4.3.2, 5.0.1, and 5.0.3. It appears to me that it is probably a universal problem for all Mac users of Copy Machine up to and including version 1.2, which is the latest I am aware of. I did inform Iomega of these findings as early as eight months ago, but they seemed to have erected strong barriers against feedback from their customers concerning their software. It is to be hoped that this bug will soon be fixed in an update. In the meantime there must be many, many macintosh users who have entrusted important data to copies made by Copy Machine versions 1.1 and 1.2, and who are in for a rude awakening one day. Roger Stafford - 10/10/97 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 97 20:40:50 -0500 From: "Matthew W. Schmeer" Subject: Looking For Manuscript Tracking Software Fellow Info-Mac'ers: I'm a writer and poet who is quickly losing track of all my queries, submissions, and credits using the standard index card method. I'm looking for a better way to track queries and submissions using my Mac, and I'll be damned if I can find a solution to meet my needs. There are several query tracking programs on the Windows platform, but I've found nothing on the Mac side that comes close to even matching the functionality of those programs. I've searched the archives and several of the other software search engines and come up empty, so maybe a fellow Evangelist could help me out or at least point me in the right direction. I've tried both MacAgent Demo (ugly interface) and QueryTracker (not enough flexibility). Ideally, I'm looking for a a FileMaker Pro solution (or maybe even HyperCard, although FileMaker Pro seems a better way to go) under $50 that will allow me to track: title of piece type of piece (article/essay/poem/etc.) word count line count market info (journal name, contact info, etc.) query date query response date submission date submission response date status (in transit/acceptance/rejection) rights purchased (First North American, etc.) amount paid>amount per word copies received publication date bibliographic data (journal name, editor, etc.) for accepted pieces Furthermore, the software needs to offer summaries of the above, alert me to outstanding queries and submissions, allow tracking of simultaneous submissions (the same piece going out to two or more markets) and (and this is the kicker) generate a list of publication credits in ALA and/or MLA formats. And the main interface has to fit on a 9" Classic screen (okay, that's the other kicker). I guess what it comes down to is three separate modules: one for tracking individual article history, one for tracking publishing credits, and one for tracking market contact and acceptance/rejection history. And they all need to be combined via a common interface. How do other writers on the Info-Mac digest keep tabs on such information? Does anybody know of an existing software solution that meets these needs? If such software doesn't exist, is anybody willing to undertake designing the program in FileMaker Pro? Will I ever stop writing sentences that end in question marks? I'm probably not the only one looking for such a solution, so I am willing to share my findings with the list. Thanks in advance, Matthew W. Schmeer ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:28:45 +1000 From: Bill Stanford Subject: Lost events - help needed Re: Info-Mac Digest V15 #217, John.Bull@ansa.co.uk (John Bull) : >I have been plagued with a continuing problem where the event system >appears to get into a confused state. This is most noticable with Microsoft >Word 5.1a where the "I" bar cursur does not change to an arrow when moving >off the Window. Other symptoms generally appear as being an event behind, >so that extra mouse clicks are needed to perform other simple actions, such >as to bring up a dialogue box or print a document. Eudora also gets into >trouble, with the Window not "filling up" with information. When I try to >shut the machine down I get a system message "Cannot close down because >application unknown refuses to quit". John, in all likelihood your hard disk is in a slightly confused state; with damaged desktop files; and possibly a damaged catalogue. Your Finder preferences may also be at fault. And your Appleshare data file - like your desktop data files, this is invisible - may also be munged. It's best to fix these things manually. (Apple's method of rebuilding the desktop with Command-Option at Finder boot time doesn't delete, it merely rebuilds, the desktop files. And while Tech Tool does do this, that doesn't delete the AppleSharePDF file or the Finder Preferences file.) You're best off rolling up your sleeves, and getting a Finder bits editor like FileTyper or FileBuddy (both shareware) up on InfoMac in Disk...File. Run the editor, and in turn open your HD partition/s, and one by one open DesktopDB, DesktopDF & AppleSharePDF, dechecking the 'is invisible' box of each and going Change. Quit the editor. Now open each HD partition window (your HD if you're not partitioned), and manually put these newly 'visibilized' files into the trash. Open the Preference folder in the System Folder and put Finder Preferences into the trash also. Reboot, the desktop will rebuild, and now you can empty the trash. You'll have to reset the Views CP. If the problems persist, as they may, your HD directory is clobbered, five will get ten. Boot off Disk Tools and check things with Disk First Aid. If it fixes anything run it again. And repeat this until it stops fixing. Now run your Norton 3.1 emergency floppy, and let the Doctor check the disk. If you're unlucky and you've still damage which Disk First Aid couldn't see, fix it, but don't trust your HD until at the least its been re-initialized. Yes, I know this is a drag... and this is also conservative advice I'm passing on, it's just that a 'fixed' drive isn't the same again... >Any help appreciated, before I resort to a yucky box with Windoze! It sounds like you've a secret longing . Indulge it, you'll be back... bill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 97 12:08:23 +0100 From: Richard Platt Subject: LW Select 360 RAM [Q] Hi Jonathan >It has 7Mbytes RAM but will take a 16 MByte SIMM upgrade. > >How to install the new SIMM (where on the motherboard & how to open) This isn't in the manual: it just says ask your dealer to do it > >will it help (speed up) printing postscript pages with lots of formatting Manual says that extra simms will "improve performance on documents that contain many fonts, and allows you to print more complex documents." I have one of these beasts, and I've never been bothered by delays. My suspicion is that extra RAM won't speed printing of COMPLEX documents. They'll either print or you'll get a "Not enough memory" PS error. However, documents with many fonts WILL print more quickly, because the printer won't keep flushing the fonts from its cache, then reloading them. Before paying for memory, you may want to try downloading all the fonts used in your "complex" documents (using eg Laserwriter Utility) then timing the printing process. This will reduce the memory available for PS processing, but it will prevent the printer from constantly flushing and reloading the fonts. On a document with simple PS coade and many fonts, it will simulate what you'll get with extra memory. Richard Platt Telephone: (44) 1892 890741 Fax: (44) 1892 890951 The Old Squash Court, Bayham Abbey, Lamberhurst, Kent, United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:07:41 -0400 From: Phil McIntosh Subject: mac client for Microsoft Mail 3.5 Help! I need a Mac client to enable users with 68040 Macs to dial into an e-mail server running Microsoft Mail 3.5 in DOS. I have tried to search the Microsoft web site for an answer, but was unable to locate one (or a way to send this question to an actual human). Please reply to mcintoshp@postoffice.worldnet.att.net Thanks Phil McIntosh ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:00:22 GMT From: eeschker@bates.edu (eschker) Subject: macbinary to PC? I posted files (word and excel) on a unix server using Fetch as "Macbinary" (not Raw Data). Now I want to download the files on a PC and use them. Is there any freeware or shareware programs to convert macbinary so a PC can read them? thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:31:36 -0700 From: Jim Carr Subject: MacTools & OS/8 At 10:07 PM -0700 10/02/97, Al Bloom wrote: >I made DiskFix and Optimizer boot floppies that way this evening. It seems >DiskFix reports spurious "resource fork" errors -- invariably for Finder >Preferences and for *some* other files. Norton 351 reports no such errors. >Optimizer seems to work OK. Or I wouldn't be writing this note. I'd instead >be spending these wee hours of Friday recreating my HD from backup tape. > Al: I like MacTools Pro too because it often found different things than Norton. With both, I felt I had a better chance at finding everything flaky. I'm sorry its gone. I wish you luck in your experiments. Personally, if the vendor says its not supported under OS8, I would rather not try when its doing something serious like disk optimizing or file repair. (My Macs crash enough as it is. SIGH) Of course, with a good backup first you don't have much to lose. Apple seems to have thrown a few curves into OS8 and 8.1 promises a new file system (optional) which will really confuse it. *If I want to run MacTools, I can boot from an old 7.5.x or 7.6 boot CD and it will be happy. Not sure I would let it fix my OS8 system folder, though. *If you find MacTools fixes real problems that Norton missed, let Steve Stockman know about it. He is the man who can add stuff to Norton 3.6 or whatever next version will be. *We can root for Total Recall-- which is publicly beta testing a challenger to Norton Utils. Only with some competition will Norton (or any other company) stay on its toes. *MacTools and Norton have always disagreed on a few resources and would fix each other's work if you alternated. It was a minor matter on which both were partly right and I forwarded the explanation that was tracked down to Norton. *Most of the cases where they differed involved fonts and stuff from Apple or M$--usually bundle bits or modified dates. I now have Adobe ATM Deluxe which examines fonts pretty good and I hope its enough. Conflict Catcher examines resources in start up files it manages and I hope its enough. *If under OS8 Norton 3.5.1 reports date problem with desktop file and you let it fix, you will notice desktop rebuild on next start up. This happens if you ever started up with Mac Easy Open and then disabled it--as I have done. Use ResEdit or anything else which will find the invisible file called just "desktop" (not desktop db or df or printers) on each partition and make it visible and get rid of it. If you don't use Easy Open, its not used and won't come back. --Jim --- Jim Carr - Jim.Carr@latimes.com (I only speak for myself) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 07:32:14 -0400 From: Laurence Hawkins Subject: Megaphone and Power Mac 6500 Megaphone for Performa is installed in my new Power Mac 6500/225, and I am configuring it to work alongside the fax software also pre-installed. I wish to set the Megaphone preferences to answer after 4 rings, and the fax after 5 rings, but I cannot find the "Telephone Setup" preferences panel. When I select "Setup" in the Telephone Hardware section of the General preferences, I get the Express Modem control panel, which is used to set the fax auto answer rings. Where do I find the panel to set the phone rings? Documentation refers to a Telephone Setup control panel, but I have no such cp installed. Help! Laurence Hawkins ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:29:30 -0600 From: "Zimmerman, Robert (MSMAIL)" Subject: MountImage Hello fellow Mac-ers, >For quite some time now I have been looking for a program which will allow >me to mount a disk image instead of having to find a blank disc and copying >the contents of the image file to the floppy. I had a program years ago >that was called MountImage, by Steve Christensen [sp?] and it has >dissapeared from my files, however now I have a need for that capability >again. At the time, MountImage was beta, I believe 1.xB2? Is MountImage >still around, or is there an equivalent OS8-happy program or utility? >Thanks in advance. >--Scott Try ShrinkWrap. There is still a version 2.1 out, which is free/shareware (free to individuals), and the latest is available as purely shareware (version 3.0) from Aladdin, the same people who do StuffIt. The advantage of 3.0 is the ability to mount the new DiskCopy 6.x images from Apple, as well as use StuffIt to make smaller image files (and it can encrypt the images). Robert ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:44:38 -0700 From: Jim Carr Subject: News readers At 2:01 AM -0700 10/06/97, Remmy Tourment wrote: >Hello, > >Is there some news reader program (preferably shareware or freeware) that >allows the connection to multiple news servers, and that is configurable >in order to specify that the user wants to connect to server A to read >newsgroup W, server B for newsgroup Y, etc... ? I am ashamed that a >friend has such a program on his PC, and that I never found one for the >mac.... Remy: I am using MacSoup. The way it works is to read your Internet Config file to get name of news server. But it will first check folder where your settings are for a set of IC preferences before it looks in system folder. Thus, for groups on a different server, I create a new folder with a copy of IC prefs in which I have the proper server specified and a settings file for MacSoup that just has the list of groups on that server. Any extra folders Mac Soup needs it will create and it will keep the available groups list for that server in that folder. Note: MacSoup is an offline reader, designed to get new headers and then let you pick which messages to download. It does support kill files. Any online reader that lets you specify the news server to use in the settings file should let you have multiple settings files (best to have them in a different folder) and it should be easy to just open the right settings file. You can usually call the settings file or the folder anything you like which will make it easy to keep things straight. --Jim --- Jim Carr - Jim.Carr@latimes.com (I only speak for myself) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 11:46:30 -0500 From: Diane Roy-Friolet Subject: Pegasus and system 8 Hi, Since I have system 8 on my computer, Pegasus just won't work. When I open it, I get the message that I'm not connected to a server but I can see my network server on my desktop. Our technician verified the configurations of Pegasus on my computer and everything is OK. Can anybody help me with this? = Diane Roy-Friolet Universit=E9 de Moncton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:07:11 -0700 From: bc979@lafn.org (Doug Hardie) Subject: Powerbook 3400 external modems I have a powerbook 3400 and am trying to use it with an external modem. I frequently have to configure and test such devices. However, kermit generally is unable to connect to the serial port as it is in use. How do I find out what has the port locked? I can free the port by turning off local-talk, rebooting the powerbook, turning local-talk on and then off. Then kermit will talk to the external modem properly. If I don't turn local-talk on and off again, kermit will send to the modem, but cannot receive data. The approach I am using does work, but is less than elegant. Surely there must be a better way. I also use MIDI devices and basically have to use the same approach form them also. Please respond to my email address as I am temporarily unable to access the digests. The machine that provided such service just went away and I have not yet got a new source working properly. Thanks, -- Doug bc979@lafn.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:19:14 -0700 From: "David L. Hirschberg" Subject: quicken users group or FAQ? Hi, I use quicken and am frustrated with their pay to wait customer service and thinfo website. Currently there is no way to reach a tech support person by email, and afterwaiting for 30 minutes on my phone bill I talked to a tech support person that knew less about the product than I did. Is there an independant users group out there that discusses things related to the mac version of Quicken? Is there something out there better than quicken for tracking and displaying portfolio's? Sincerely, David daneel@stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 97 20:00:24 -0800 From: Andy Carroll Subject: Reading PC text CD-ROMs? Is there any way on a Mac to read CD-ROMs designed for PCs? The one I have in mind doesn't have anything fancy on it, just lots of text files. It seems to me this shouldn't be much more complicated than reading PC disks, but perhaps it is. And it may be complicated by the fact that I'm using an old 2x NEC CD-ROM drive. Any suggestions would be welcome. Andy ________________________________ Andy Carroll, freelance editor acarroll@web.net Vancouver, Canada ________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 23:01:53 +1000 From: Bill Stanford Subject: REQ: MountImage or equivalent? Re: Info-Mac Digest V15 #217; "S. Brewster" : >For quite some time now I have been looking for a program which will allow >me to mount a disk image instead of having to find a blank disc and copying >the contents of the image file to the floppy. I had a program years ago >that was called MountImage, by Steve Christensen [sp?] and it has >dissapeared from my files, however now I have a need for that capability >again. At the time, MountImage was beta, I believe 1.xB2? Is MountImage >still around, or is there an equivalent OS8-happy program or utility? ShrinkWrap does this fairly reliably, but from Apple there's DiskCopy 6.1.3, an update of Steve Christensen's great DiskCopy 4.2. DiskCopy 6.1.3 is disk image oriented, in the sense that if you double click a disk image, it gets mounted on the desktop, rather than loaded for disk copying. You can still use DiskCopy 6.1.3 for its titled use, but this aspect of it is rather counter intuitive. DiskCopy 6.1.3 does mount images very reliably though, and very easily... it's available for ftp on the info.apple ftp sites. bill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:35:37 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: REQ: MountImage or equivalent? (R) "S. Brewster" wrote: > For quite some time now I have been looking for a program which will allow > me to mount a disk image instead of having to find a blank disc and copying > the contents of the image file to the floppy. DiskCopy 6.1.3 from Apple will do this, as well as the registered version of DiskDup+ from Roger D. Bates (can be found in the info-mac archives). Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 426 64 86 Obere Kirchzelg 12, CH-5430 Wettingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: 10 Oct 1997 10:05:43 -0400 From: Art Werschulz Subject: sfil conversion Hi. Somebody recently gave me a Mac sound file (the file type was "sfil"). I would like to convert it to an au or aiff file, which would then be put on a web page (as I understand it, these are the two most commonly-used formats). Sound Machine (which I usually use for this purpose) told me that the file had "no, or very little, sound data", and refused to open the file. However, the file *does* contain sound; when I double-click it, it plays. Suggestions? -- Art Werschulz (8-{)} "Metaphors be with you." -- bumper sticker Internet: agw@cs.columbia.eduWWW ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:45:24 -0400 From: noise@oil.ca Subject: Submitting Files? Read this! PLEASE, oh wonderful shareware authors, don't forget that much of this here planet will not be familiar with your previous programs or versions thereof! Please provide a full description of your program posting (an example of it's use is always helpful too!). A listing with only the following: "BlurTMasteR 1.2 fixes that nasty bug which made your computer ooze green slime" means nothing to me, since I've never come across "BlurTMasteR" and have no idea that it is the very program I've been praying for someone to write these many years! Keep in mind that your file is only one of many files that pops by my e-mail box and I spend too much time wondering "Why would I want that? Will that do 'alta-vista' multi-word search thing? What the heck is that for?" I'm on a 14.4 connection (as are most folks) and downloading a 1500k file then finding out that it is only of use to PhD students studying green spider monkeys named "Kevin", is pretty annoying. So don't just post you programs (most of which blow the commercial contenders out of the water, BTW) give us a taste of why your product is any better than the 40 others in the info-mac digest! You just might wind up being the next "whiz-kid"! And yes, I do pay my shareware fees! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:43:55 +0900 From: Tito Poza and Shari Custer-Poza Subject: Sys8 Et c The sagely Al Bloom wrote: >OK, I took the plunge and installed Sys8 on two of my machines (to date). I've installed it on 6 machines myself (between home and work) in Japanese and English versions. I found Al's comments to be an interesting statement on how we each use our Macs differently. >I despise Views. I can't imagine the workings of a mind that thinks any >given user likes to see anything other than what he or she likes to see. >All the time. I want to see the Fred folder this way and the Gladys folder >that way? Actually, I do use different views depending on the folder or partition, whether the folder contains many or fewer items, contains applications or files and depending on whether I primarily use it or my husband does. With many items, I sometimes prefer to view by icon rather than scroll through a huge list. Inside of a folder (particularly a folder with documents as opposed to applications), I'd prefer a list. It would be nice for those who like a universal look to have the option of applying it to everything though. I haven't read my manual though so there could be a way (but I doubt it). >And where in ruddy red >naughtyword is the "staggered grid" option? Forget snap to grid if you have >more than three items in a folder. Line them up yourself or get a window >rather larger than your monitor. If you hate "Views", I can see why you couldn't find it since it's now under "Views" as "View Options" instead of in the "General Controls" panel. I can see why this was a problem. I had to go looking for this myself. >And the installer is a tad goofy. I specifically unchecked MacLink in >each of the two installs. I own MacLink 9.7, so please don't bother me >with your freebie. After the system install, my 7300 reported that I had >an expired demo copy of MacLink. I had to reinstall. The "demo" did not >at all like my real ID number and install code. No problem on the PB. No argument here! I told it not to install personal web sharing on a coworkers computer and it installed it anyway. It does appear to ignore some things. >Do we have a "custom folder icon maker" left? I like putting custom icons >on my folders. My last best hope was Picon. It dies horribly under Sys8. >Don't bother looking. It's author no longer exists at Dartmouth. Nor does >the web site he pointed us to. Despite our best efforts, the sumbitches >do graduate. And move on to more rewarding pursuits. Hmm. I use the commercial program "Icon Mania" (by Dubl-Click) to do these things. It works without a hitch under System 8. I know a lot of people have had problems with System 8 but I've been one happy camper with it on all the machines I use so far. The only "problem" is it is RAM hungry and oddly hungrier on our PowerBook 5300c. However, I've found it more cooperative with Adobe software than System 7.x, faster overall, and more flexible in terms of configuration. I was a big Now Utilities fan and was chagrined that it wasn't updated for System 8.0 originally but don't miss it a bit now. Shari ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:51:45 +1000 From: Bill Stanford Subject: Sys8 Et c Re: Info-Mac Digest V15 #217; Al wrote: >And it is official. MacTools Pro is dead meat under Sys8. Too ruddy bad. >I liked Trashback. The only MacTools that still work are three apps that >never made it to Pro: FileEdit, DiskEdit, and FastCopy. Al, I've got Mac Tools Clinic 4.0.0 running nicely under 8. As Ted Landau has found and reported on MacFixIt, versions of Clinic < 4.0.4 work w/o problems. I was just glad that I'd cached the orginal floppies... Clinic's still working is a relief, as I'll be hogtied if I can make the Norton 3.5.0->3.5.1 updaters work properly. And my conscience objects to buying yet another Norton CD from Symantec just yet.... it's too much like giving $$ to gangsters.... bill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 19:32:46 -0400 From: David Harsch Subject: USR Sportster Modem and Open Transport I have a USR Sportser 28.8 external modem. I have used this modem for the last 2 years with MacTCP and FreePPP. Now I want to use the modem on a PowerMac running Open Transport. When the modem dials in the ISP modem answers but just as they start to talk to each other my modem hangs up. I also have a Motorola Lifestyle 28.8 modem which works just fine. I have check the modem settings and find both with what appear to me to be identical settings. The baud rate is the same, no parity, 1 stop bit and all the settings for flow control, DCD, DTR etc. When my problem started I issued ATz4 command to the modem to reset the modem to factory profile 1 (&F1) My friend took my modem and it worked just fine on a Win95 box. Can someone please take the time to check their USR Sportster modem and email me the dip switch settings for the modem? Also if you can go into a communications program and issue the ATi4 command to the modem and email me the results. I would like to compare the settings of your modem with mine and maybe I will find the problem. Or maybe I am barking up the wrong tree. Is there something in Open Transport that I have to setup different than the Motorola modem? I selected the Modem script called "US Robitics Universal" . Your help would be appreciated!!!! David Harsch, P.Eng. K. Smart Associates Limited dharsch@ksmart.on.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 15:54:06 -0500 From: Michael Gerber Subject: What are the good old days??? I would like to start just by thanking Louis Bergeron's recap of the early days of Info-Mac in Info-Mac Digest V15 #217. I certainly never experienced them. But I do think I understand what he's talking about. I am not sure if he will get what he wants, but if he wants what he had, I believe he will have to help to rebuild it from what is here and now. I will try to help him now by filling you all in with a few thoughts and problems I am having mostly related to OS8 and my Jaz drive. I am also having serious problems with Illustrator 7 but I am not sure I want to got there right now. I sure hope my observations that follow are helpful, and that I am not as Louis described "one of those poor guys who asked a question which was so simple it was a joke." Well here's the skinny, the scoop and the problem. The major deal is that I am getting alot of Read Errors from my Jaz carts. The problem has only just begun since I upgraded to OS8. I have already backed up one cartridge thinking it just corrupted or was bad media. But now that it is happening with 3 other cartridges I am beginning to suspect that it is a virus or OS8s fault (which I am starting to wonder if OS8 is the virus). If I had to make a hypothesis I would guess that the Iomega driver is corrupt, or that the 7500/100 doesn't like OS8. I unfortunately did a dirty install from 7.6 to 8 and I am regretting it horribly. The install went off flawlessly but I have felt it was very unstable from the start. Most everyone thinks I am insane cause I really don't like OS8. The interface is a step in the right direction but is often incomplete or flawed. I have problems (cause I want them implemented with more style andd integrity) with burrowing, the new windows and views, the pop-up folders, the cmm, and worst of all the dramatic slow down. I don't care if it feels more responsive, I only care if it gets the job done faster. And I for one don't think that copying files in the background is advantageous, when it slows down the copying and the other tasks that my machine performs. What was the purpose of writing the OS in native PowerPC code if its going to be slower. I could go on or go into detail, but why bother, I know I am in the minority on this one, and I am getting way off course. I still don't know what to do with my corrupted Jaz carts. I have used my Jaz for about a year with NO problems, and now in one week KABOOM? I am using the newest Iomega driver 5.03 (but I have yet to trash it and reinstall it new). I highly doubt that all the cartridges corrupted in one week. And believe it or not I have done a virus search recently, but I will get the newest virus description files on monday and run the checker again. Also I should note that I am using the newest version of Norton Utilities and it can't fix the problem. I have also gone online to both Iomega and Apple (and most importantly Macintouch) for any clues to see if I am the only one out there with this new mysterious problem. Well it would appear that I am. I won't tell you every extension that I have installed but I can tell you definitively that I don't have bizarre/obscure extensions or control panels, and certainly none of them are old. Infact I run my system very clean to keep that bloated OS down below 13 megs (which might I add expands up to 17 megs regularly - something that never happened with any old systems). Oh yeah, and this memory bloat doesn't even count the way the system wastes 20-30 megs when a program doesnt free up its allocation when I quit it. I can't even believe this problem wasnt addressed yet. Can anyone spell RESTART? I could go on for hours but I will spare you. If anyone has any suggestions, I would very much appreciate it. Cause honestly this is one problem that I am not sure I can handle. I am almost ready to trash the system and lose out 2 years of my work and just end my relationship with computers altogether. Heck, I can always buy an NC, right? I did want to throw in one more bit of criticism about the state of things. For all of you Internet Explorer fans, please spare us with your religous rants and raves. Sure you think its better than Netscape, and heck you might be right, but I refuse to aid Billy to destroy the Internet. SO enjoy your Push Technology as it gets pushed down your thoats in those Active Channels. And don't even try to tell us that it takes up less Ram, because it is the ONLY Macintosh program that I ever saw that EXCEEDS its memory allocation and sucks up extra RAM whenever it wants until it crashes your machine. That is not the way the Mac is meant to work, and in about 10 minutes of surfing IE is using up as much RAM if not more than Netscape. And please don't ask why writing Javascripts are so difficult or why they don't work in both IE and Netscape, cause the reason is YOU, when you support Microsoft's domination of the Internet and ALL platforms by your use of their mediocre software. They don't support any standards (like JAVA) cause they want to dominate EVERY market and EVERY platform. Is it asking too much to ask you to be responsible? I hate religous zealots, which is why I don't insist that you worship Jah, nor do I insist to people that they should buy a Macintosh. So please try to drop the "IE is the best thing since the holy host" crud that I know will inevitably be tossed about with the new version 4 release. Thanks for your patience and once again, I hope I helped out Louis, -Michael Gerber http://www.datalife.com/m_gerber/ -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************