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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 22 May 97 Volume 15 : Issue 93
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#380/19-May-97
(A) Word 6.0.1 Doc. compatibility to Windoze
appletalk on a duo
Chooser printer driver for Hurdler CPI
Info-Mac Digest V15 #92
MAC NDS
Moving bookmark file between Netscape and Explorer
No one outside my ISP can read my Usenet posts -- why?
Philips CDD522 problem
Pointer Freezes
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:52:42 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#380/19-May-97
TidBITS#380/19-May-97
In March we promised you a Search Engine Shootout, and this week, with gun
smoke still hanging in the air, we'll show you which entries are still
standing. We also discuss Apple's new customer support options, the newest
version of Microsoft Internet Explorer, the release of Newton Connection
Utilities 1.0, and TidBITS distribution on CompuServe.
Topics:
MailBITS/19-May-97
Apple Revamps Support Options
And Then There Was One...
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-380.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#380_19-May-97.etx>
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-380.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:44:39 +0100
From: Jens Eickhoff <eickhoff@spacediv.dofn.de>
Subject: (A) Word 6.0.1 Doc. compatibility to Windoze
Hello,
here the condensed form of the solution curing the print problem of word 7
docs on my Mac with word 6.0.1.
To recapitulate the problems:
> They designed the document headers/footers, master pages etc.
>When I load documents from them, the stuff appears correctly on screen -
>even in page layout view, but when >printing, the stuff appears to be
>greater than the paper - the upper margin is above paper top, the lower is
>below >bottom and the right is right of right paper margin. Printing the
>stupp with page setup 95% or so completely >ruins the printout, since the
>tables in header and footer seem to be scaled differently than the text on
>the page.
The solution turned out to be:
- not to print on our LW IIG, but on our HP LW5, since it has a larger
printable area
- to set document size to 100%
- to activate OPTIONS in page setup and to choose from the select buttons
enlarged print area
better bitmap printing with 4% size reduction
With this set of settings it prints the word docs nearly perfect. The only
difference is that the line width in the logo graphics is a bit larger than
on the dos printouts, but acceptable.
Thanks for all who responded.
Jens
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 21:21:45 -0500
From: bsegal@mcs.com
Subject: appletalk on a duo
hi all
ive been needing to ask this for awhile but first info mac was down :( and
then well...
i just got a used duo 280 (24 meg) with a 14.4 apple express modem. it
complements my work on my centris 650 very nicely thank you.
first question - i use appletalk alot to transfer files - but as i
understand appletalk drains the battery i tend to turn appletalk on and
off. fine. however if i restart when appletalk is off, i need to restart
again to turn it back on. this seems strange to me - not to mention that
its a pain. especially since i rarely restart without bombing (i dont
restart much in general as i use sleep - but i have one buggy program that
i need to run) so by the time i get home most days i need to restart.
annoying. say it aint so. is there a way to set it up so that appletalk is
always available - even if that means that the modem is not available?
next - as i bought this used i did not get the complete docs or even a
system 7.11. i am running system 7.1 (im not interested in 7.5+ - if it
aint broke...) on both my centris and duo. is there anything someone with
lots of experience with a duo thinks i should know? is there a way to get
7.11 (not through apple as far as i can tell) with the control strip et al.
is there documentation available? is it worth getting - or is the stuff in
the "getting started" manual (that i do have) along with the mac bible
enough?
as always tia
bsegal@mcs.com
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 19:17:10 -0400
From: Joni Hope Julian <blondy@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Chooser printer driver for Hurdler CPI
Does anyone know of a Chooser-level printer driver for the Hurdler-CPI
NuBus card by Creative Solutions? It provides a Centronics Parallel
Interface for a Mac to use a PC printer, but it does not come with
software. I can verify that the connection is good, but I can't send
print jobs to an Epson-LQ-compatible printer this way. The software
and hardware package PowerPrint works, but I would also like to use
this card. Chuck's Printer Driver and HPDJ and PanasonicPrint do not
work because this is a NuBus card and not a standard Mac serial port.
TIA, Joni
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Date: 20 May 1997 13:54:57 +0000
From: Mephistophilis <STCH8002@bureau.ucc.ie>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #92
>
>Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 06:09:01 -0600
>From: Roland Silver <rollo@artvark.com>
>Subject: (Q) good address book; calendar
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>1. Can you recommend a good address book?
>
> I'm using the shareware "AddressBook", but it
>has problems, mainly, (1) you
>can't select an entry easily by typing part of
>the name, but have to go to
>section "A" ... "Z"; (2) the display of an
>address record is modal, so you
>can't cut & paste freely.
>
> 1. Can you recommend a good calendar?
>
> I'm using WP calendar, but I hate it, because
>if you delete something
> inadvertently there's no way to undo the delete.
>
Try Nicklas Frykholm's
(http://www.ts.umu.se/~r2d2 ) 'Organicer'. It's
dirt-cheap shareware and contains a
month-at-a-glance calendar (multiple calendars,
if required) with note/appointment space for each
day as well as the facility to create any number
of notebooks - one of which can be used as an
address book. The notebooks have a contents list
above the data space and hitting a letter with
the cursor in that space brings you to that part
of the contents list with entries beginning with
that letter. Alternatively there are full text
search facilities. I have been using it for some
years without a whisper of a problem (more than I
could say about much commercial s/w) and I can't
imagine doing without it now.
=46ergus Lalor
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Date: Tue, 20 May 97 11:56:20 EST
From: rinnand@GVSU.EDU (DIANE RINNAN)
Subject: MAC NDS
I am new to macs. However, I have been assigned to upgrading macs to
use MAC NDS. I have successfully upgraded a few. However, I am
having problems with others. The successful upgrades come up to the
NetWare NDS login panel, then proceed to the select a log on method
panel (Apple Standard UAMs or NetWare Encryption). The unsuccessful
upgrades come up to the Select a log on method panel first, followed
by the NetWare NDS login panel. However, when this sequence is
encountered, the user cannot successfully login without canceling out
of the NDS login panel and then selecting the tree.
Is there a preferences file that needs to be deleted or updated?
Any information/suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Diane C. Rinnan
Information Technology
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 11:03:01 +0200
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
Subject: Moving bookmark file between Netscape and Explorer
The bookmark file in Netscape is called "Bookmarks.html" and is placed in a
folder with the name NetScape =9F in a subfolder within the System folder.
The bookmark file in Explorer is called "Favorites.html" and is pplaced in
a folder with the name Explorer in a subfolder within the System folder.
The format of both bookmark files is identical.
If you sometimes use Explorer (since it is faster and requires less RAM)
and sometimes use Netscape (since it is more capable in some respects), you
may wish to have a common bookmark file.
I have tried to handle this with aliases, but it does not work. An alias
with the name favorities.html in the explorer folder, referring to the file
Bookmarks.html in the Netscape folder is ignored by Internet Explorer
(version 3). An alias with the name Bookmarks.html in the Netscape folder
is correctly used by Netscape to retrieve the Bookmarks file from the
Explorer folder, but if you modify the bookmark file, the modified file is
saved in the Netscape folder.
The only solution I have found is to have two applescripts, one to copy the
bookmark file in one direction, one to copy in the other direction.
Here is the text of the two applescripts I am using, the names of folders
may have to changed depending on country and language, since Apple names
its folders differently in different languages.
Applescript to copy the bookmarks from Explorer to Netscape:
tell application "Finder"
activate
copy file "Favorites.html" of folder "Explorer" of folder
"Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of startup disk to folder
"NetScape =9F" of folder "Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of
startup disk
select file "bookmarks.html" of folder "NetScape =9F" of folder
"Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of startup disk
delete selection
select item "Favorites.html" of folder "NetScape =9F" of folder
"Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of startup disk
set name of selection to "bookmarks.html"
end tell
Applescript to copy the bookmarks from Netscape to Explorer:
tell application "Finder"
activate
copy file "Bookmarks.html" of folder "NetScape =9F" of folder
"Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of startup disk to folder
"Explorer" of folder "Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of
startup disk
select file "Favorites.html" of folder "Explorer" of folder
"Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of startup disk
delete selection
select item "Bookmarks.html" of folder "Explorer" of folder
"Programinst=E4llningar" of folder "Systemmapp" of startup disk
set name of selection to "Favorites.html"
end tell
If someone has a better solution to this, please tell me!
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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:03:51 -0800
From: Mike Blackwell <wcs@pnn.com>
Subject: No one outside my ISP can read my Usenet posts -- why?
My system: PowerBook 540, 40MB/340HD, 167MHz PPC upgrade; System 7.6.1;
YA-NewsWatcher 2.40; Eudora Pro 3.1; Netscape 2.02, 3.01, and MIE 3.0;
Internet Config 1.4; FreePPP 2.5v2; Open Transport 1.1.2, TCP/IP 1.1.2. The
memory, processor, and system upgrades are about a month old; prior to that
I was running System 7.1.1 with correspondingly earlier versions of the
connectivity software. I had hoped upgrading everything would fix the
problem, but it didn't.
My problem: none of the dozens of messages I've posted to Usenet in the
past several months appear to have traveled beyond my provider: no one
outside my ISP can see them. I get no error messages from my newsreader
when I post to Usenet, and I get a confirmation e-mail with a note that it
has been forwarded to that newsgroup, but I've run numerous DejaNews
searches and had other people across the country look for them, all to no
avail. Even posts specifically requesting replies from anyone who happens
to read them, or messages sent to test groups (alt.test, misc.test, etc.),
which normally have auto-reply bots which answer everything, go completely
unanswered. They show up perfectly on my own ISP's NNTP server, but nowhere
else on earth. See for yourself: try to find any posts on any newsgroup by
a Mike Blackwell at pnn.com: <mike.blackwell@pnn.com> or <wcs@pnn.com> are
my addresses. The only post I found of mine was part of an Info-Mac digest,
ironically enough.
Editing various preferences and re-installing system and connectivity
software seems to make no difference. Local techs are completely baffled.
I'm sure it's not censorship, but rather some strange quirk that has
flummoxed everyone I've mentioned it to. I'd try asking on a Usenet
newsgroup, but of course that would be rather silly, wouldn't it? :)
Please help me on this one. I'm out of ideas.
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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:52:34 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Kauko Saarinen <saarinen@cc.jyu.fi>
Subject: Philips CDD522 problem
Fellow experts,
Toast CD-ROM Pro 2.5.10 program sometimes fails to write a proper disk.
Furthermore, it seems to me that CD disks in the Macintosh format will be
always written ok. Problems may occur with other disk formats. Failure can
be Read Error or the Macintosh freezes while writing a disk. I found that
the Mac doesn't boot from System CD if the CDD522 machine is connected. It
starts from System CD if disconnected or connected to an exterior disk
device. This makes me feel that there is something wrong with SCSI
connections. Terminator is ok and device numbers. If started from the hard
disk all SCSI devices can been seen. Self test of CDD552 returns 'Good
Status'.
Data: Toast CD-ROM Pro 2.5.10, Firmware level 1.05, Power Macintosh
7200/90, MacOS 7.5.5.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 08:26:52 -1000
From: cesar@lava.net (cesar)
Subject: Pointer Freezes
Hi.
I'm having difficulty with frequent pointer freezes sticking in the upper
left hand corner of my screen on startups. Also, sometimes it happens
when I try to scroll down an attached Microsoft Word file.
When I restart it usually clears up for awhile. I've done all the usual
things like checking the mouse cable connection to my keyboard and the
keyboard connection to the CPU, rebuilding my desktop, allocating more
memory to programs I use heavily, and even did a complete clean reinstall
recently. Using Conflict Catcher and disabling half of my extensions
then moving them back, then disabling the other half didn't help me find
the culptit either.
Restarting with extensions off doesn't help because I never know when a
pointer freeze is going to happen.
Funny, I can't seem to find anything about this problem in either "The
Macintosh Bible" or "Macs for Dummies".
I'm sure someone must have experienced this problem, so I would appreciate
any hints about where and what to look for. Are pointer freezes basically
a memory problem or one involving extensions or control panels conflicts?
Should all applications be kept only in my Applications folder? The same
for control panels, extensions and Preferences?
Do duplicates of applications, control panels, extensions or preference
files cause this kind of problem? If so, what is the best way to find
them, use the "Find File" program? What other/better methods are there?
Thanks in advance,
Aloha,
Ed Cesar
cesar@lava.net
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