Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #163 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 31 Aug 98 Volume 16 : Issue 163 Today's Topics: (A) Ethernet iMac to Pow Mac 7100 (A) Ethernet iMac to Power Mac 7100 (C) cavaet emptor - Norton Utilities and i-Mac (Q) Netscape and clippings (Q) slowing down ethernet *Local Users Group 1.4M disk images with 800K drives [Q] Full-sized Clock Screensavers [Q] Good disk partitioning sw Addendum to my last email re 1.4M Images basement network can Eudora handle vcards? Clarisworks -> Appleworks? Equivalent Mainframe Tools (Q) Ethernet to LocalTalk router Eudora Attachments Eudora Ligte and OTUtilityLib extra dialog box Fax servers How do I start up a Mac Classic from it's ROM-disk i-Mac first impressions/Norton inControl? Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 Info-Mac Digest V16 #157 Internet Phone 3.1 & Powerbook 190cs Mac 4400 (R) More old hardware questions Navigator 4.0 Problems/Reading Preferences Opening VCards or almost anything with BBEdit Light (free) OpenStep on a Mac (Q) Optimal system for 68030? OT and Appletalk PictPickup! 1.0 ? Power Center Pro 210 Problem Powermac 7200 won't boot from anything Printing Webpages Q: Performa hard disk upgrade? Question Question on PB G3 Fan/Ram Disk Req:Mac RealPlayer Help serialspeed 230 Startup Problems Summary - Help with CD graphics TI-83 linking cable wanted: a cash-register-like calculator The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . 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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, and Liam Breck. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #163" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:55:39 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: (A) Ethernet iMac to Pow Mac 7100 >Could this be just because I am not using a crossover cable like I >should be using? Yep, if the connection is direct (i.e. no hub), you must use a crossover cable. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:05:14 -0800 From: "Ben Harris" Subject: (A) Ethernet iMac to Power Mac 7100 I recently wrote: >I am one of the lucky few to have an iMac (and iLove it). I want to >transfer my files from my 7100. I borrowed an Apple Ethernet twisted >pair reciever and the cable from the 7100 in my deparment on campus. Now >when I go to switch appletalk to ehternet on my 7100 I get the message > >"An error occurred attempting to use ethernet. Make sure your network >connections are correct" > >Could this be just because I am not using a crossover cable like I >should be using? I bought a crossover cable at the campus computer store fr $6 and it works like a dream. I transferred all my files in about 10 or 20 minutes (200 megs worth). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:45:03 -0400 From: "abrody" Subject: (C) cavaet emptor - Norton Utilities and i-Mac Dear Digest readers, Some Mac catalog retailers are offering discounts on Norton Utilities 3.5 if you purchase an i-Mac The only problem is that the i-Mac will not run MacOS 8.0 or earlier. It only runs MacOS 8.1 or later. Norton only works with MacOS 8.0 or earlier. As such the i-Mac is incompatible with that version of Norton. So if you are getting the older version of Norton in order to run on the i-Mac, DON'T! Otherwise your entire hard disk will be erased because Norton can't handle MacOS 8.1's HFS plus. Norton Utilities 4.0 has come out according to MacMall's catalog, though I haven't seen any official word on Mac Network News, or MacWeek about it. That may be i-Mac compatible, but it still remains to be seen. In the meanwhile, yes it is worth it to get Micromat's Techtools Pro 2.0 for $99 if you want to make sure your hard disk stays uncorrupted. Take it from a long time user of both Norton and Techtools (since 1991). Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:11:00 From: Richard Glover Subject: (Q) Netscape and clippings Anyone know how to create a text clipping out of a Netscape page window? Netscape is the only application I know where you can't wipe the text you want, and drag it to the desktop to create a clipping. I don't want the whole page, just the highlighted text. Surely, either Netscape itself supports such a function and I don't know the "secret handshake," or maybe there is a plug-in somewhere to make it happen. Thanks for the help, gang. Suggestions to switch to IE4 cheerfully ignored. ;-) -RAG "My Mac is a Microsoft-free zone. I think...." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:16:06 -0400 From: Thomas Waterbury Davis Subject: (Q) slowing down ethernet I am lucky enough to be given free access to the internet in my new office. I will be connecting to an ISP in the same building. I don't wish to overstay my welcome and to this end, I'm looking for a way to slow down transmitting packets on my ethernet connection so as not to suck up the ISP's entire T1 connection with my one PowerBook (a 1400c with an ActionTec ethernet PC Card). Do you have any suggestions on how I might put a speed limit on my connection? Please reply via email to tom@macmobile.com. Yours truly, -Tom MacMobile voice 207/667-3588 Thomas Waterbury Davis email tom@macmobile.com MacOS Specialist url http://www.macmobile.com/ mail 259 Main Street #2, Ellsworth, Maine 04605-1509 USA Incubate your business! A proud member of Downeast Business Associates http://www.nemaine.com/dba/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 98 15:11:52 -0400 From: Benjamin J Conable Subject: *Local Users Group Hello List- Does anyone know of a list of local Mac Users Groups? My mother, a Newbie, is moving to Portland, Oregon and is interested in a local support network for info and equipment exchange. Your help always appreciated. TIA. Benjamin Conable ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 02:31:34 -0700 (PDT) From: George Marshall Subject: 1.4M disk images with 800K drives I am sending this to a subset of the Classic Macs group, rather than posting to the group itself, because I think this has been addressed before but not enough detail. Besides, I want to pose this question only to those group members who have demonstrated sufficient knowlege or experience on SE related questions in the past: I have a standard SE with two 800K drives and a 250MB internal HD. Across the room, my Plus has an external SCSI 50MB HD. On my SE, I have not only ShrinkWrap 1.3.2 but also DiskCopy 4.2 AND 5.0. Is there any way I can use either DiskCopy or ShrinkWrap with any of my current equipment to turn 1.4 MEG disk images into usable applications and files for my SE? Or, I seem to recall there being a simpler way using ShrinkWrap without taking the 50MB HD away from the Plus? Every time I have seen this question addressed, the writer seems to assume that the reader can also read his mind on a point or two, which ends up making his advice unusable to the beginner. I just know that one of you will know the step-by-step procedure...? My Thanks and Best Regards to You All, Georgem@eskimo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:54:07 -0400 From: Keith E Gatling Subject: [Q] Full-sized Clock Screensavers I've been asked by our school's headmaster to find some sort of screensaver for our machines that will display a *fullsized* clock on all the computer screens. The goal is that by combining this with having each machine regularly check in with a timeserver, we'll have synchronized clocks in the school without having to by a synchronized clock system. I know that Basic Black will give a *small*, *moving* clock on the screen, but is there anything that will give a large stationary one. I don't really care if it's analog or digital, just as long as it does the job. Thanks! keg * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Keith E Gatling mailto://keithgatling@usa.net * * Opinions? I've got plenty of them. Just ask my wife! * * http://www.bigfoot.com/~kgatling * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:23:54 -0700 From: "Esther Michaels" Subject: [Q] Good disk partitioning sw Recently I managed to find a G3 Series powerbook. It has a 4G disk which I want to partition. The only partitioning sw I know of is FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, which I see has the advantage that it is compatible with HFS+. However, before I rush out and get a copy, I'd like to feel somewhat more informed :-) I'd be grateful for advice/comments/feedback, positive and negative, of FWB and any other disk partitioning sw people have used. Compatibility with HFS+ is *not* necessary, since I expect to end up with partitions around 1G or smaller, for which the benefit of HFS+ is not nearly so dramatic. However, compatibility with 8.1 would be good, since I believe that 7.X doesn't run on these machines. TIA, Esther Michaels -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 03:08:46 -0700 (PDT) From: George Marshall Subject: Addendum to my last email re 1.4M Images I forgot to give you all some info concerning 1.4M disk images on my 800K SE: This all came about when I saw the Classic Macs post about the Acrobat Reader for 68000 machines. The writer gave the download address, but what I downloaded were self-extracting archives of 1.4 MEG images! These images unstuffed as folders containing the installer, fonts, etc. I am hoping you will know not only how to use the disk images and the files they contain, but also how to use the image of the installer. Since the installer will ask me to "insert" disk 2, disk 3, etc., how does that work with my 800K machine and ShrinkWrap, etc.? My Thanks Again, Georgem@eskimo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:43:04 +0000 From: dead nancy Subject: basement network hi, everybody. i'm thinking of starting a small ethernet network in the loft, so: 1. is there an effective limit to the length of those phone-looking ethernet cables? one of the machines will be about 100 feet from the hub. 2. i've seen cheap devices to connect more than one machine to a single modem. is there some sort of junior router that i could slip between my tiny network and a dedicated phone line for constant p.o.t.s. internet access? thanks. dead nancy nothing new at http://home.earthlink.net/~deadnancy/ see you in hell! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:01:00 -0600 From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: can Eudora handle vcards? At 9:53 PM -0500 8/18/98, Vincent Cayenne wittily wrote: > Users of Netscape Communicator gat the opportunity to set up a "vcard" > which is like an email business card that gets sent as an attachment with > their mail. Is there any plug-in or technique that will allow Eudora Pro on > a Mac to display (or ignore) these attachments? I've got colleagues that > communicate with me regularly and who use these vacrds - consequently my > attachments folder fills up! > > --------- > "Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts" > (Rutherford/Robertson) > > Vincent Cayenne > I don't know of way for Eudora Pro to display them. Though if you set the vcard as TEXT you can read the info if you wish. If you want to get rid of them automatically, you will have to hack Eudora's EuIM resource with ResEdit. In 4.01 there is a set of items that are auto deleted, look for "garbage" in the EuIM resource. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:54:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Arthur Snoke Subject: Clarisworks -> Appleworks? In the Mac Mall which came yesterday, there was a small ad for Appleworks % (previously Clarisworks). What gives? I have used Clarisworks since I converted my home computer from an Apple IIe to a mac, as it seemed like a logical outgrowth of Appleworks, which had worked very well for me. A few months ago I got a card from Claris telling me aboutr a clariworks magazine and saying I could get a free update to Cw 5.0v2. I did not answer the ad, but went to the Claris web site. In July I finally found the update, downloaded it and installed it. (It did not help me with MSWord 6.0 or Wordperfect translation, as I thought it would.) Now the Mac Mall ad. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:13:31 -0600 From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: Equivalent Mainframe Tools (Q) At 5:10 PM -0400 8/18/98, Al Bloom wittily wrote: > Folks, the Comp Center here at Virginia Tech is disconnecting our IBM/VM > mainframe at the end of the year and providing little in the way of tools > to replace those in VM that help me do my job. The XEDIT editor and the > EXEC procedural language will be particularly missed. Maybe some of you > can point me to possible Mac-based alternatives. > > XEDIT is a column-oriented editor. I can tell it to select a range of > columns in a text file and make changes only in that range. I can tell > it to sort a file by column. The Comp Center, after telling all of us > administrative users to standardize on Macs a couple years ago (I didn't > mind), now says the only similar PC editor is KEDIT on a Wintel box. Oh > goody. Do I have to buy a Wintel emulator just to run a decent editor? > I'm looking for a native app. > > Don't say BBEdit unless you can show me it can do the job. Tech has a > site license for BBEdit Lite (Is it freeware? Wouldn't surprise me) and > I saw a "sort" plugin for BBEdit on the net (that no longer exists in > the I-M archive), but the option was greyed out when I installed it. No > joy. BBEdit Lite saw it and said "No way, turkey." May be why it is no > longer in the I-M archive. BBEdit Lite is Freeware. BBEdit 4.5.x is commercial and there are shareware or freeware plugins for BBEdit that sort very nicely. I am not sure if the plugins that I have will all work with the Lite version. Also the commercial version is scriptable and uses grep. > EXEC (and its cousins EXEC 2 and REXX) allow one to script VM commands, > including XEDIT commands. A Comp Center critter said that AppleScript > would do all that on a Mac. I admit to abject ignorance on the subject. > I read the "manual" that came with OS 8, but it seemed like the one that > came with Leslye's new Sony Mavica digital camera -- not written by a > person speaking English as a first language. Gee, I miss the Apple manuals > that were written by Lavona Rann. That woman could write manuals. In fact, > I miss Apple manuals. > > If any of y'all can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. > > Al I don't know of any TEXT editor that does columns very well, but AppleScript is very versatile and extensible. There is a Educational Discount for BBEdit and you might check out that. Also Tex-Edit Plus and Style are Scriptable and shareware and not expensive. While they don't use grep, there is a osax that will do grep. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 98 22:22:32 -0000 From: Jens Selvig Subject: Ethernet to LocalTalk router My home office network consists of 3 computers and one laser printer with a 10BASE2 Ethernet network. I would like to be able to connect an old HP 560c printer to this network and found a used KINETICS Fastpath 4 router. I have been unable to find a source for software for this unit. In fact I am not certain what I need so I certainly need help. Thanks, Jens Selvig Billings, MT ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:46:06 -0700 From: bc979@lafn.org (Doug Hardie) Subject: Eudora Attachments I have encountered a problem with Eudora Light in sending attachments. I am trying to send various files to be used on PCs and Macs. I seem to have no problems with recipients who use Macs. However, those with PCs have troubles with the attached files. I have discovered that if I send a pdf file using the Apple I encoding, then the recipient on a PC sees the file with an Acrobat symbol and can actually open it properly. However, if I send a tar file then it shows up as a generic document. Opening it results in garbage. I have discovered that the problem is that the MIME type for the PDF file is correct, but the MIME type for the tar file is text/plain rather than application/octect-stream. How does Eudora decide which MIME type to use for a file? Is it using Internet Config? Thanks, -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:12:59 -0700 From: "Jim Wickman" Subject: Eudora Ligte and OTUtilityLib While doing some conflict testing with Conflict Catcher 4.1.1, I locked on Eudora, PPP, and TCP-IP (with the TO Libraries) When I tried to open Eudora, I got the message that Eudora could not be opened "because OTUtilityLib" was not loaded. I have searched all my volumes for <> with no luck. Apart from conflict testing, Eudora works fine -- but how? if OTUtilityLib is essential? Hmmm . . . Jim Wickman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:31:06 -0500 From: Charles Stang Subject: extra dialog box I manage a small localtalk network connected by an Assante print device to an ethernet hub of a Mac server using appleshare IP 5. Since I upgraded our computers from OS 7.1 to OS 8.1, each time a computer is logged on it gets a dialog box saying "Your appletalk network is now available", and the computer stops till OK is clicked. This did not happen before, nor does it happen to other machines connected to the server directly by ethernet. Does anyone know a way to eliminate this dialog box? Thanks Charles Stang Charley ________________________ Charles Stang, S.J. -------------------------------- stang@muhs.edu ________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:44:26 -0500 From: Gib Henry Subject: Fax servers > Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:40:32 +1000 > From: Stephen Peilschmidt > Subject: Fax servers > > Can anyone out there with better knowledge on these matters than me > please > let me know what options there are out there for fax servers - ie a > server > that operates on a single modem and gives people access to faxing via a > network. Networks is mostly Macs - but has the odd PC. > > Shareware preferred - but it may have to be a commercial application. CommuniGate will do what you want...and a lot more. The PC's will have to access it via a POP client. Check out http://www.stalker.com for more info. Cheers, -- Gib Henry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:16:44 +0200 From: vanGaalen@caiw.nl (Nadia & Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA) Subject: How do I start up a Mac Classic from it's ROM-disk Hello all, Long ago I knew the key-combination by heart, but I am afraid my memory does not hold the info anymore... All I want to do is start up a Mac Classic from it's ROM-disk (so... NOT a RAM-disk or it's internal harddisk, but from a kind of RAM-disk, that is configured inside the ROMs of the Mac Classic)... Please HELP! Kind regards, __ /_/ _/ _ ___ / / (_/ (_/ / / / Adam van Gaalen internet: vanGaalen@caiw.nl or: adam@caiw.nl www: http://www.caiw.nl/~adam ICQ: 4011344 hamradio: pa2aga@pa2aga.ampr.org or: pa2aga@ausgw.n9tx.ampr.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:22:47 -0400 From: "abrody" Subject: i-Mac first impressions/Norton Dear Digest readers, Yes I know nobody asked me, but I am going to post this anyway. Today I walked into a CompUSA and saw the i-Mac on display. Contrary to what some articles on the net state, the mouse is very clear as to the forward position for dragging it, like all mice are. The forward (up) direction for the mouse is the same general direction the mouse button is found on the mouse itself. The mouse is designed to work with your hand as if you were dragging and clicking items on the screen with the fingers pointed up. Just remember that, and you won't have trouble using it. Also for those of you who haven't figured it out, the CD-ROM drive's eject button is on tray itself, and not to the side of the tray. A friend of mine said he couldn't even find the CD-ROM drive. Keyboard seemed sticky to me, but that could have been because of all the use it has gotten on the display floor. Not a big deal, since according to one net article, you can put a Microsoft Natural keyboard in the USB port to have a full sized keyboard on the i-Mac. Also contrary to what was posted on the net, it is possible to assign a static IP address to the i-Mac, through the TCP/IP control panel. The only thing preventing me from getting an i-Mac is the lack of PCI slots. Still I think it is a great machine for anyone who needs to get on the net, or get the benefits of having a computer who hasn't had one before. It is also the perfect size for a college dormitory room. -------- On a totally separate issue, has anyone tried Norton Utilities 4.0 yet? It is now in the MacMall catalog. Does it have trouble with HFS+ like the earlier Norton did? Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 98 00:17:35 +0100 From: Ian Burt Subject: inControl? Hello again Macworthies, I've just come across an item in the Control Panels folder which was discovered thanks to Conflict Catcher, being invisible as it was. The culprit is called inControl. I've yanked it out believing it to be a MicroSnot file. Can anybody tell me if it's useful before I trash it? Also there is another wierdie: AOCELib, an extension. From CC 4s Notes: AOCELib (54.3K) Version: 1.0.1d1 Package: Macintosh On RISC SDK Pre-Beta Kind: shared library Folder: Extensions (Disabled) File Type/Creator: shlb/cfmg System Memory: N/A High Memory: N/A Load time: N/A Created: 17/7/1998 10:23 pm Modified: 17/7/1998 10:23 pm Installed: 17/7/1998 11:07 pm No description available. I think this one came along with my new Pios Keenya Clone, OS 8.1. Until I know what it is I'm not risking it. Any clues please? TIA No emails please as I'm in the middle of moving accounts and can't handle any more hassle. Ciao, Ian B But you who walk facing the sun,what images drawn on the earth can hold you? mailto:i.burt@netmatters.co.uk http://www.netmatters.co.uk/users/i.burt ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:14:00 -0600 From: Robert Zimmerman Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 >Hi All, > >Just relocated from Los Angeles to way out in the Virginia countryside. >Been having some weird Mac problems since the move and am trying to >determine the cause. > >I'm having trouble getting the computer to start up. I have to press the >start up button several times before it takes and the computer boots up. >The computer tries to start and then quits on the first several tries. > >Not sure about the power stability here, but I think it might be pretty >flakey. Could that be the problem? Should I get a UPS? > >Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >Rob I suspect you need to replace the battery in your computer - the long dry (unpowered) spell probably did it in. zimmie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:38:40 -0400 From: "Jaddie J. Dodd" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #157 >Could this be just because I am not using a crossover cable like I >should be using? Dear Friends Exactly. Sincerely, Jaddie J. Dodd ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 01:05:52 -0400 From: Dominic Hawkins Subject: Internet Phone 3.1 & Powerbook 190cs After downloading version 3.1 of Vocaltec's Internet Phone for 68040 Mac= s, I cannot get it to work with my Powerbook 190cs. All attempts to strike u= p a conversation in the chat rooms result, at best, in a heavily broken rep= ly which is almost inaudible. I don't know if my voice is getting through. I= am using the built-in mike, admittedly, but it works to record messages i= n Simple Text alright. I'm using CompuServe to make my Internet connection,= but that works OK with other applications such as Eudora and Netscape, so= why not with Internet Phone? I meet all the basic hardware & software requirements, and Vocaltec's support provides only canned replies which don't relate to my queries. Do= es anyone know if the Powerbook 190 is incompatible with this application, and, if so, is there another application that would work, providing computer-to-computer voice communication? Dominic Hawkins ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:14:23 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Mac 4400 (R) Harold Glover wrote: > Subject: Mac 4400 > > I use a Power Mac 4400 with a Tanzania hard disk and would like to > upgrade to 8.1. > I seem to have read somewhere that this is inadvisable with the Tanzania > disk unless the disk driver is updated. Hi Harold, First, you confuse two different things here. Tanzania is the type of the mainboard, it has nothing to do with the hard drive. Second, it is always a good idea to update the disk driver when you update the operating system. If your Mac is "out of the shelf" - the disk drive has Apple ROMs inside and an Apple logo on the outside - then you can use the Apple driver as the system installer application on the Sys 8(.1) CD proposes. If you have a third-party drive, with other driver software, you need to ask them whether they have drivers for System 8.x. Good luck, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:20:06 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: More old hardware questions First, thanks to those who answered my previous cry for help. Things are progressing... Now I have received two SE/30's. One has a 9-pin plug coming out the back (in the cut-out provided in the case) but I can't figure out what it's for. The plug has 5 wires coming out the back which connect to a small board that plugs into the power supply board where the original power cable from the mother board plugged in (and that cable plugs into the back of that adapter board. Then there is one thin wire that goes from this adapter board down to the mother board (I know not where, yet, but it may just be a ground). I can't find any info on the hard drive because it is dead. No identifying marks on the baord at all. It has one small chip on it from Texas Instruments (a generic IC, my guess) Any ideas? Could it be video out? Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:15:36 GMT From: madsabby@my-dejanews.com Subject: Navigator 4.0 Problems/Reading Preferences Has anyone come across the problem I seem to have? I installed Navigator 4.0 AND Communicator 4.0 on my Macintosh and they BOTH hang when "Reading Preferences." I have plenty of RAM, run 7.5.5. I'm at a loss as to what to do...I've trashed ALL Navigator Preference files from previous versions in an attempt to fix. Please email any info you may have.....Thanks -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:17:04 -0400 From: Louis Bergeron Subject: Opening VCards or almost anything with BBEdit Light (free) If you are stuck with something you cannot open, a solution which is not costly (the software is free) is BBEdit Light. I received a business card attached to an e-mail and tried Graphic Converter on it. Then, I taught of BBEdit. I was able to make sense of the card after a few minutes. This software is great. Louis >From the documentation: BBEdit Lite is a freely distributable, copyrighted program, otherwise known as "freeware". There is no registration process, no fee requested or required, no obligation on your part, and no guilt. Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 Telephone-Phone (819) 764-3862 Telecopieur-Fax (819) 764-3758 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:07:53 -0600 From: Graeme Forbes Subject: OpenStep on a Mac (Q) Does anyone have any experience running OpenStep on a Mac? MacWeek once said that it would run under VirtualPC but there's nothing about it on Connectix's website and they're not answering my email. Alternatively, what about SoftPC or an Orange Micro board? Thanks in advance, Graeme Forbes ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:34:11 +0100 From: adrian strack Subject: Optimal system for 68030? Hello, First I thank all who sent me advice about my noisy monitor. I possess a LCIII (68030 processor). This computer serves me well. I now run system 7.5.5, but I only have the Update disks and not the disks of the numerous previous updates. So when my system should break down, I possibly am helpless. As far as I know, 8.0 alrady needs a 68040 processor. Of course I made backups, but I don't like the idea of reinstalling a system, that may not be in order. What is the best way? Buying 7.6? Adrian Strack ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 07:05:46 -0500 From: "J. Rahmandar" Subject: OT and Appletalk I was trying to connect a Mac 6100 to a local network via the ethernet and a laserwriter to the Appletalk port (printer). The Mac was running OS 7.5.5. with MacTCP. well, it would'nt let me do both. So I ran the Network Switch Selector, and switched to OT v1.1. OT let me set the Appletalk to printer port, and TCP/IP to ethernet. I entered all the necessary assigned network IP, router/gateway, and name server. Still no dice. Only the printer is visible in chooser. I can see the network only if I set Appletalk to ethernet then the local printer dissappear. Some one suggested Laserwriter Bridge. Was able to do this 2 way connectivity when I returned to MacTCP. But this is mind boggling. What is going on here? I did this same setup on another machine a while back and the OT/Appletalk method worked. Am I missing something or is it the wrong OT version? Thanks for the info. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 19:37:47 +1000 From: G.Barker@unsw.EDU.AU (George Barker) Subject: PictPickup! 1.0 ? Can anyone on Info-Mac enlighten me on the purpose of an app called PictPickup! 1.0. ? I downloaded it from a Japanese site, thinking it was an icon I was getting. It turned out to be an application, but as all documentation and menus are in Japanese I'm in the dark as to what it might do. Although it seems it may be a picture capture...but what kind of picture and how... TIA George ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:50:16 -0500 From: Gib Henry Subject: Power Center Pro 210 Problem > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:07:15 -0500 > From: Glenn Sowell > Subject: Power Center Pro 210 Problem > > My Power Center Pro 210 has stopped working. My best guess is that it's > a > motherboard problem. > > Symptoms: Initially it started turning off almost immediately after > start-up. Now it does nothing. > > I tried substituting another power supply but nothing changed. > > Suggestion: Someone said it might be a start-up recognition circuit on > the > mother board that's bad. > > In any case, I'm stuck. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I > can > get this repaired? This has happened about 1 month after the 1 year > warranty ran out. (Of course the company doesn't exist anymore, but > that's beside the point!) Well, Apple took over service of Power Computing hardware, for what that's worth. I'm interested in following your problem, since I too have a PowerCenter Pro 210. :-( Cheers, -- Gib Henry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 22:16:53 GMT From: kjmfeen@my-dejanews.com Subject: Powermac 7200 won't boot from anything Hi all- We have a powermac 7200 in our lab that recently took a major dive. One guy was using MS Word on it when he received a message stating that he had to restart the computer. Since that time, every effort to restart has failed. We have tried from floppy, CD, etc. The monitor stays blank on start up, and the chimes play, but I don't hear the hd spinning, and the floppy never spins when we try starting from it. I'm not a Mac expert, but sounds like a battery to me, except that there was never any warning that battery failure was impending (and its only a year or so old.) Any advice would be helpful. Thanks Kevin -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:18:48 +0100 From: glaston Subject: Printing Webpages This is a silly problem that I have been unable to solve for years. Perhaps somebody can help. When I print some web pages, they do not fit on the paper and the overflow portion, often only a letter or two, prints on another page. This is not only frustrating, it wastes a lot of paper. I'm using a Personal Laserwriter 320 and LaserWriter 8. I have tried the US Letter Small as well as US Letter Page Setup settings, but that does not seem to help. If I set the font sizes any smaller in Navigator, I can't read the monitor. I have looked at the famous manuals and I never seem to be able to find anything that addresses the problem? Any serious advice for a silly problem? Glaston -Mind how you go. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:24:52 -0700 From: John Withers Subject: Q: Performa hard disk upgrade? Hello all. I have a Performa 6320 with a 1.2 GB internal disk which is quickly filling up. The questions I have are: 1) Can I add a second internal drive (I haven't opened the system >YET<) 2) What kind/size of drive can I replace the internal drive with and how would I go about moving the data from the first drive to the second? John Withers j2ce@aol.com (or) withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:00:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Will Butler Subject: Question I have a Performa 6200 that I would like to be able to "Sleep" when I'm not using it. Is there any way, other than a third-party program, that I could get that capability. Thanks. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:13:00 -0400 From: Roger Brooks Subject: Question on PB G3 Fan/Ram Disk Good day, Info-Mac readers! I have a question about the Powerbook G3: Given that the 292mh runs "warm," has anyone created a little hack to change the temperature at which the fan cycles on? My Powerbook cools quickly and considerably when the fan finally does come on, but the "thermostat" seems to be set pretty high. Surely this temperature-setting must be stored somewhere in P-RAM. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! If people reply to me directly, I'll summarize the answers for the list. _______________________________ Roger Brooks (860) 439-2165 Professor of Judaic Studies Department of Religious Studies Connecticut College New London, CT 06320 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:34:40 GMT From: utopian238744@my-dejanews.com Subject: Req:Mac RealPlayer Help Just wondering if anyone else has had trouble with RealPlayer5.0, i.e. conflicts with other extensions, etc. I could take up a huge amount of space trying to tell you all the problems I've had so I'll try to synopsise it. Sometime around when I installed QT 3.0 (perhaps before, perhaps after, I don't recall--but removing QT 3.0 didn't seem to help) I started having problems listening to streaming web audio with RP. Worked 100% for a long time, now I keep getting error 23--which basically is supposed to tell me that the URL is invalid, when I know for sure it is working just fine. Then, when I quit RP and try to use my back button I get an alert box telling me that the cached page is not available (this happens every time I get the error 23 alert and only then--never see this alert any other time). I have no problem listening to RealAudio files that I D/L'ed to my HD before the problem occurred, and I can access .ra & .ram files that download rather than stream in real time. I have fully trashed and reinstalled RP about 4 or 5 times, made an extensive search of all of Real.com's FAQ's, documentation, etc. and followed their directions TO THE LETTER!!! I've also trashed and reconfigured every possibly related pref file that I can think of--still, no luck. There is one line of instruction in the troubleshooting/ installation tips that seems to be in error: When configuring the RP plugin in applications for Comm 4.04 I am asked to click on the "Application" radio button in the "Handled By" section of the edit window, but it is grayed out and inaccessible. I've had 2 responses to email from them and their answers were practically verbatim reiterations of information I had already found on their website so, that was of no help. After my third email to them trying to narrow down the problem all I got back was a survey asking about how helpful the correspondence with tech support was. Needless to say they did not get a glowing review. They claim (and also say they'll "look into it") that there are no known conflicts with QT 3.0 but I've read some nebulous references to this problem on other websites. This should make no difference, because the basic system is the same, before it futzed out and after, but here goes: PCC PowerCenterPro 210, 32MB; RamDoubler 8, HD space for days, OS 8.1; Communicator 4.04. This is really vexing me because I wanted to use their products to put streaming audio on my website, but now, I don't know for sure.... Thanks in advance for any help!!! -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:36:39 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: serialspeed 230 I recently downloaded a copy of serialspeed 230 from the infomac archive. Its blurb announced that it would increase the speed of Internet service to about 230 bps, which sounded pretty good. When I downloaded it, the readme assured me that it would work with AOL - once I downloaded the AOL plugin for my particular system. It also assured me that it would work with USRobotics modems. When I downloaded the special serialspeed AOL plugins, the readme told me that it would not work with AOL AND USRobotics equipment. This is disappointing, so, to those with AOL and USRobotics modems, don't bother. I got a sense that serialspeed did not work with many combinations of hardware/software, but did not really concentrate on the exclusion list. The documentation seems to imply that my Global Village 33.6 platinum modem will work with serialspeed, so I will try it. What bothers me even more is the fact that the company which produces serialspeed, Brookline software, includes a tech support email address, but does not respond to queries. I am pretty dubious about the company. With Corel, Microsoft, and Apple, you pay for support, but you get it, so all four companies prove you get what you pay for. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:08:47 EDT From: Mercibeate@aol.com Subject: Startup Problems Thanks to all who responded to my original post regarding startup problems (quoted below). Many people were kind enough to reply, and the consensus seems to be a bad battery. I should note that the problem only existed for the first day after the computer was up and has since disappeared. The computer had been unplugged for about 2 weeks during our move. Thanks again to all who replied! >Hi All, > >Just relocated from Los Angeles to way out in the Virginia countryside. >Been having some weird Mac problems since the move and am trying to >determine the cause. > >I'm having trouble getting the computer to start up. I have to press the >start up button several times before it takes and the computer boots up. >The computer tries to start and then quits on the first several tries. > >Not sure about the power stability here, but I think it might be pretty >flakey. Could that be the problem? Should I get a UPS? > >Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 19:22:12 +0200 From: buhrmest@plexus.uke.uni-hamburg.de (Hartmut Buhrmester) Subject: Summary - Help with CD graphics > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:43:10 +1000 > From: Stephen Peilschmidt > Subject: Summary - Help with CD graphics I have two more comments on your summary in Info-Mac Digest V16 #157: Aldus Fetch is now superseded by Extensis Portfolio 3.0. You can find information on their website . There is also a full-functioning demo which will work for 60 days. If you want to provide cross platform catalogs, you may consider saving index pages in html. You can do it with Netscape Navigator: For example, if you have a volume "Test" and a folder "Websites", you can tell Navigator to open the location . It will display a directory listing, which can be saved in source format. Hartmut -- Hartmut Buhrmester ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 21:56:32 -0400 (EDT) From: raviduck@mindspring.com (James Mills) Subject: TI-83 linking cable Where does one buy an 8-pin to 25-pin non-hardware handshake modem adapter cable for linking Texas Instruments' TI-83 graphing calculator to a Mac ? The "TI-Graph Link Cable Only " package has "only" a PC adapter cable ,their much costlier" TI-Graph Link" kit has Mac and PC adapter cables plus software, manuals etc.for both. Has anyone made their own cable?-Jimmy Mills ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:00:23 +0000 From: LoboMACgrundy@enterprise.net (Peter Grundy) Subject: wanted: a cash-register-like calculator In article <6ra0gb$iko$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, moderator@info-mac.org (The Info-Mac Moderators) wrote: >I'm trying to find a calculator DA that works like a cash register. For >instance, when you put in the following: Try... Calculator II Lobo. 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