Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #12 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 17 Jan 98 Volume 16 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: [*] CONTACTS 2.7v1Note: [*] Digital_Diary_v1.8 [*] Go ! 1.1 [*] MacMania icons [*] morphology.sit [*] Squeaky Clean icons [*] Sundial 2.02 Demo [*] Yechi Startup 1.1 15" monitor problem 6116 & Word [Q] Mount a UNIX Drive onto a Mac Desktop????? [q] OS8/OT woes on 68040 machine a pretty serious question... Batteries for original Powerbook 100 available? How to add memory to a PB520c? Info-Mac Digest V16 #10 MacOS 8 & Performa 6360? Page Maker printing night-mare Quadra 840 deceased? Reformatting a partition? shut down screen? Sick SCSI Port Part 2 Word Macro Viruses Hit Office 98? 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. 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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 #12" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:28 -0700 From: jeffmar@toscana.org Subject: [*] CONTACTS 2.7v1Note: CONTACTS 2.7v1 is the the award winning CONTACTS FileMaker Pro template by Jeff Gagn=E9, author of Database Design and Publishing with FileMaker Pro 4.0 from M&T Books. CONTACTS takes care of both your business and personal contacts as well as your appointments, phone calls, meetings, faxes, emails, to-do lists and more! The Files are password protected to 25 records until payment of $25.00 or $10.00 for previous users, directly to the author. Registered users get a totally unprotected SINGLE USER version of CONTACTS for you to modify as you see fit with the exception of the MAIN MENU file. Added 2.7v1 =95 Added file navigation buttons =95 Added "As is.." sort option =95 Added support for FileMaker Pro 4.0 =95 Activites use sorted relationship based upon activity date =95 Added Send E-Mail options using new Send Mail script step =95 Added go to URL options using new Open URL script step =95 Added Support for instant Web publishing in CONTACTS file. Contact Author at: packerdev@aol.com [Archived as /info-mac/data/contacts-271d.hqx; 402K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:18 -0700 From: GTA@cyberstore.ca Subject: [*] Digital_Diary_v1.8 DIGITAL DIARY=81 Project Management Center for the Macintosh purchase price: US$30.00 (check or money order) Please add $10 for shipping and handling if a disk is preferred) If you wish to pay by credit card, on-line payment can be made through S.W.Regnet, the on-line software store, at www.swregnet.com INTRODUCTION System Requirements: System 6 or 7, any Mac, 1.6 megs free RAM, =B11 Meg disk space Digital Diary=81 allows you can keep track of many on-going and complex projects, with fingertip access to the current status of each one. Projects can be arranged in up to 50 main categories. Or if you prefer, you can use the category level for your projects, and use the next level down for detailed project subcategories. You can even arrange your projects over several separate copies of Digital Diary to add yet another level to your project hierarchy. Digital Diary=81 employs a double entry method, which records all notes i= n both a Day File as well as a Project File. A third location, the 'To Do List', is reserved for certain types of notes that require future follow up, such as appointments and project deadlines. Digital Diary=81 ships with note types arranged in two groups. The first group is set to be recorded in the To Do List as well as the Project File and Day File. Note types can be changed, added, or removed at any time. An on-screen reminder appears when the program is opened on or after the date specified for a future event listed in the 'To Do List'. Each project can also be assigned a status from a user-definable menu. A wide variety of reports can be generated, with information arranged by project name, status, or note type. Varying levels of password protection are available to control access to the program. Here are a few of the many uses of Digital Diary=81: Business, Sales, and Consulting: * Project activities and decisions * Upcoming deadlines, meetings, and appointments * Telephone and meeting records * Discussions with suppliers, consultants, clients and co-workers * Decisions made and communicated to clients, co-workers, and subordinates * Directions received from clients, authorities, and management * Decision / activity 'streams' relating to issues within a project [Archived as /info-mac/app/digital-diary-18.hqx; 580K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:14 -0700 From: suky85@hotmail.com Subject: [*] Go ! 1.1 GO! 1.1 I have made a cool system sound. It sounds like GO! but really weird To instal place it into your system suitcase Go! 1.1 1997 design by Benyomin Susskind suky85@hotmail.com Melbourne, Australia http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Glade/3019/index.html Send me a mail if you like it or hate it! System requirements: System 7.1 or later (including System 8.0) A bit about myself: I am a boy of 12 years of age, and still getting older. Cheak out my page for my other freeware stuff. Some legal stuff: Go! 1.0 is freeware. Use it at Your on risk and don't blame me if it doesn't work with Your favorite launcher blow up Your hardware/software or kill Your cat! It works fine with PB Duo 2300, PPC 7200 ,Mac Si, Mac LC, Performa 580CD (and PB 165c I've been told) "Known" problems: There are no problems with sounds Commercial use: Feel free to put in on CD-Roms as long as You let me know before doing it. Developers/Programers: If You find a way to improve the performance or feel like developing some great functions,please do, and e@mail me a copy :-) [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/go-11.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:24 -0700 From: Ikthusian@aol.com Subject: [*] MacMania icons If you're wondering if you really want this icon set, ask yourself these questions: Am I enamoured with the Mac OS to the point of being annoying? Must my desktop pay eternal homage the Apple, center of the computing universe? Can I ever realy get enough icons? ... If you answered "yes" to any or all, download. Other icons and such are at my web site for your perusal. ikthusian arts ikthusian@aol.com http://members.aol.com/ikthusian [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/macmania.hqx; 52K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:20 -0700 From: chknguy@usit.net Subject: [*] morphology.sit REAL-TIME MORPHING SCREENSAVER! You need this! Morph your friends, your dog, your boss, whatever with this freeware MAC screensaver for AfterDark or Darkside of the Mac. Fully customizable with your own pictures. DON'T MISS IT! from Human Condition Software http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2801/index.html [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/morphology.hqx; 281K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:26 -0700 From: Ikthusian@aol.com Subject: [*] Squeaky Clean icons Clean up your act, or at least your desktop, with a few of these icons. They're as fresh as daisies, and they've remebered to wash behind their pixels. Other icons and such are at my web site for your perusal. ikthusian arts ikthusian@aol.com http://members.aol.com/ikthusian [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/squeaky-clean.hqx; 48K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:23 -0700 From: john@jna.com Subject: [*] Sundial 2.02 Demo Bring the outside indoors with Sundial, a software program that displays stunning time-lapse scenic photography on your computer desktop. Sundial scenes change over the course of the day and are synchronized to the current time, so you can enjoy the day as it slowly progresses. Having Sundial on your computer is the next best thing to being outdoors! This online demo version of Sundial comes with one scene of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge at one monitor resolution that changes approximately every hour from dawn to dusk. The demo version also has a 15-day time limit. The CD-ROM version for only $19.95 comes with ten scenes at three monitor resolutions that change every 5 minutes for 24 hours! To order the CD-ROM version, please visit the John Neil & Associates web site at http://www.jna.com/, send e-mail to sales@jna.com, or call (800) 663-2943. Requires System 7.0 or greater, QuickTime 2.1 or greater, Color Macintosh. May be included on commercially available CD-ROM of the archives. John Neil Information: info@jna.com John Neil & Associates Sales: sales@jna.com P.O. Box 2156 Support: support@jna.com Cupertino, CA 95015 Orders: (800) 663-2943 Main: (415) 905-3000 Web site: http://www.jna.com/ Fax: (415) 905-3001 ftp site: ftp://ftp.jna.com/ -------- [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/sundial-202-demo.hqx; 3467K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:38:16 -0700 From: suky85@hotmail.com Subject: [*] Yechi Startup 1.1 Yechi Startup 1.1 A great startup for all Macs, I repeat "Macs" and not those stink'en IBM's. If you like like this startup, then give me an e-mail at suky85@hotmail.com If you want to actually use this startup you will need the following: Mac OS 7.5 (or later) but not 8.0 ResEdit Finder Step 1: Open up the document called Yechi Startup 1.1. RSRC Step 2: Click on the PICT resource Step 3: Copy it! Step 4: Open up a copy of System 7.5 Update Step 5: Paste it! Step 6: Click on yes when it asks you Step 8: Swap your System 7.5 Updates and restart Step 9: Hopefully you will see your cool Yechi Startup Note: This is freeware, so if this startup in any way or form messes up your computer don't put the blame on ME! It works fine on my PowerBook Duo 2300c, Macintosh LC and Macintosh Performa 580CD, but I don't know about any other machines. Even if you hate this startup, then still send me an e-mail telling what I should do in my next version. I have a home page which you can cheak out my other freeware, the URL is: http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Glade/3019/index.html. I f you want to put this software on a CD or somehting, you MUST notify me before you do anything by e-mail. [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/yechi-startup-11.hqx; 44K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 05:32:00 -0600 From: Sue Beckel Subject: 15" monitor problem This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------7E69960DEA23A63F49C1FE52 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all who replied on this issue. I'm attaching an e-mail that explains how to get a replacement. --------------7E69960DEA23A63F49C1FE52 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"; name="The Problem with 15\" Multiscans" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Netscape Communicatorª Document Content-Disposition: inline; filename="The Problem with 15\" Multiscans" Subject: The Problem with 15" Multiscans Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:12:02 -1000 From: fletcher@lava.net To: manlysig@netins.net you wrote: >We have an Apple 15" multisync monitor that appears to be losing the red >color, though after it warms up it runs okay. However, it takes several >hours for it to return to normal. >We took it to our local dealer, who informed us that this particular >monitor was covered under an Apple "replacement" program. They said it >would cost nearly as much to replace the monitor as to buy a new one, >which, of course, doesn't make much sense. >Is there any way around this? We have tried contacting Apple directly, >but get shuttled from one customer rep to the next with no help. Any >information anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Here's something I put together after many months of frustration: I had this problem (green/yellow-flashing, blue-hued 15" multiscan) solved--after much aggravation--and thought I ought to help out others who are going through the same thing. So I wrote this (rather long) FAQ. First, the problem is related to bad soldering causing the red gun to go out. It's better explained on several Mac sites, including Macintouch . It is a very common defect and if your monitor has it it can't be repaired, only replaced. But the good news is, if you have a 15" multiscan monitor that flashes green/yellow/pink/whatever, Apple will replace it for free. For some reason this policy is not being publicly announced, leaving a lot of people frustrated. But you WILL get a replacement, in or out of warranty, with all shipping paid by Apple. Just don't look for Apple Online Tech Support to clue you in about it . Call Apple. The way to get through is to call Customer Relations, or Apple Repair Center in Memphis, 800-233-6555, at which a human answers right away (no voice mail!!!). In any case, you'll have to get transferred to someone in Tech Support. Tell TS plainly you have a 15" multiscan with the color drop-out problem and you need a case number for a replacement. They are very familiar with the situation. You will be asked a few questions to establish it indeed has the problem. Be pleasant; from this point it's going to be easy and you are nearly there. To expedite matters and avoid having to call back again, do the following tests first so that you can say they didn't work: Check that the monitor cable connection is secure. Try the monitor with another computer. Zap the PRAM. Re-synch the monitor. You will get a case number (write it down and keep it!) and be transferred to another line, where the replacement will be arranged. Have a credit card number ready as you will have to guarantee $300 against returning the defective monitor. You will NOT be charged anything, including shipping, as long as you return the old monitor within 5 business days. Apple will send you a refurbished 15" Multiscan within 2 days, usually overnight. Return the old one using this box (prepaid shipping forms will be enclosed.) The replacement monitor comes with a 90-day guarantee. This should be the end of the story. In my case, the replacement was also defective, with blue and red stripes at the bottom of the screen. So were the second, third and fourth (skewed image, loud popping noises and screen going black without warning, cracked case, you name it. I began to wonder if they'd been refurbished in the first place.) Asking Apple Repair Center to check the monitor before sending it didn't seem to help, and one monitor's problem of arbitrarily turning itself off only showed up after a week of use. But the point is, once you've received a replacement, each one is guaranteed for 90 days. And unlike the Blue Hue Issue, if defective these monitors will be replaced without mystery or fuss until you're absolutely satisfied. Eventually my case had a good outcome & I've just about forgiven Apple for being so darned evasive about the Blue Hue Issue in the first place . Hope this helps, and good luck -fletcher --------------7E69960DEA23A63F49C1FE52-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:44:31 -0600 From: Milton Ertelt Subject: 6116 & Word >>>> Subject: [Q] 6116 & Word One of my facutly has been having a problem with MSWord 5.1a and a PowerMac 6116CD (System 7.5 vanilla as far as I know). This is at her home so I can't go see what's what. When typing a document, the menus will jump off the side of the screen (the apple, File, and Edit menus disappear). Restarting fixes the problem. She, of course, can't tell me what she did to make this happen. Word is all she uses so I can't find out if this is limited to Word or not. Ideas? Thanks, Jerry <<<<<<<< Dear Jerry: This was a problem with 7.5 and early PPCs. Apple released an alert about the Menu shift and supplied a fix in the 7.5.1 upgrade which was not a total fix and then System 7.5.3 provided a fix. Upgrade to something later than 7.5 or get Apple Menu Option 1.0.2 See Apple note below Blessings. Milton --------------- System 7.5 Update Problems Apple Menu Options Apple Menu Options is updated with System 7.5.1, but glitches and incompatibilities with third-party menu enhancers may remain, and users still report menus shifting off the menu bar with the 7.5.1 version. Use Extensions Manager (or the trash) if you want to disable AMO. Apple subsequently released the post-7.5.1 Apple Menu Options 1.0.2 to fix the menu problems ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:37:04 +0000 From: "Tony D'Emanuele" Subject: [Q] Mount a UNIX Drive onto a Mac Desktop????? Is it possible to get a drive on a UNIX box (running solaris) mounted on my Mac desktop. I want to manipulate some text files using my 'familiar' Mac tools. Tony D'Emanule tony1@ibm.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:19:59 -0600 From: Hannes Hofer Subject: [q] OS8/OT woes on 68040 machine I have been trying to install OS8 on a 68040 machine, and while the system itself seems to install fine, Open Transport does not seem to work. When I start up the system I get a message that a "setup assistant can not load" because a certain utility file related to OT and 68040 (sorry I am not at the computer right now)can not be found. I am at my wits end. I can't print or acces the internet. Can someone help? Thanks! Hannes Hofer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:21:46 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Fiske Subject: a pretty serious question... ...what's the best method of going about creating a custom WDEF resource? really, seriously, e-me privately, Mark Fiske. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 1998 18:33:40 GMT From: loiselle@saber.towson.edu (Clara Loiselle) Subject: Batteries for original Powerbook 100 available? I'm a little embarrassed to inquire about availability of batteries for the original Powerbook--the 100 model--but, hey, I'm asking. Anybody know if finding one is possible? Where would I begin to search? Any ideas about cost? Any possible substitutes? BTW I'm also wondering if the computer will even work with its power cord if the original battery goes. Thanks~ D.Loiselle loiselle@towson.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:15:53 -0800 From: pgaulin@nanospace.com (Charlotte & Pascal) Subject: How to add memory to a PB520c? Hi, I'm thinking about adding memory to my PowerBook 520c. Is there any web site or FAQ or book or whatever which explain how to do it. I don't even know how to open this machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Pascal. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 23:52:52 -0500 From: butlerl@netcom.ca (L. Butler) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #10 >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:05:14 -0100 >From: harrist@lamp.ac.uk >Subject: Applescript > >Can someone advise me on Applescript please. I need to be able to write somes scripts for our student lab. What I need to know - > >1. A good system 8 compatible book on Applescript. Good luck finding one, I don't think has been a new AppleScript book printed in a year or two. You can find most changes to AS in Sys8 at Bill Cheeseman's site: http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/cheeseb/ He also has a great bunch of starting links to get you to more AS stuff. >2. Can I set the desktop printer default at startup using a script. > I want to reset the defualt from a colour to a black and white printer. For this you will have to install one of the printer Osaxen's, you should be able to find links to the Geae archive on Bill's site, and once there look under the AppleScript/Osaxen directory. I think one is called UsePrinter. >3. Can I set caps lock to off at startup using a script or other means. > Caps lock intereferes with passwords and catches students out. Can't defeat that unless you can have a little robot that you can script to press the key. What you could do is have the script display a dialog box telling the user to make sure the Key cap key is not down. display dialog "Please make sure the Caps Lock Key is not down" default "Ok" should do it I think >Thanks for any help forthcoming. No problem -- Product and System Development Supervisor TWN Commercial Services Mississauga, Ontario office: lbutler@on.pelmorex.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:55:35 -0500 From: cgschmitt@aol.com (CGSchmitt) Subject: MacOS 8 & Performa 6360? Does anyone have any info on a possible conflict between the Performa 6360 and MacOS 8? I installed MacOS 8 over 7.5.3 and things seemed to work fine. The next day, however, when I started up, the Mac couldn't find its hard drive. I booted from the Norton Utilities CD and ran Disk Doctor and it discover major problems with the extents b-tree. I fixed the problems, but all the contents of the hard drive were wiped out including the system software. I just re-installed all the software (7.5.3 and pre-installed applications) from the Performa CD, but before I install new applications or upgrade the OS I wanted to check to see if anybody out there has heard of this problem before. Please email me if you can help. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:07:11 CET From: "Dpt. Physiology, University Bern" Subject: Page Maker printing night-mare Hello PageMaker users, we are experiencing a strange postscript printing problem with PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5.2. The bug affects PICT files linked to PM. These panels sometimes only print partly, some panels are not printing at all. It does not seem to an INIT or Control panel conflict, is present on 68X and PPC Macs. The bug strikes quite randomly, EPSF and TIFF links print OK but have other disadvantages. Upgrading to MacOS 7.6.1. and LaserWriter 8.5.1. did not help. The PageMaker WWW-site does not seem to contain relevant information. Any ideas or similar problems?? Any hint would be greatly appreciated Ernst Niggli Department of Physiology University of Bern Buehlplatz 5 3012 Bern Switzerland Phone: +41 31 631 8717 (Lab) 8730 (Office) Fax: +41 31 631 4611 E-mail: niggli@pyl.unibe.ch, niggli@swissonline.ch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 06:28:09 +0000 From: "W.N. Meulensteen" Subject: Quadra 840 deceased? Hello, Disaster has struck upon my Quadra 840 av yesterday. In short: a freeze, a restart, startup chime but no video-the harddrive spins idly-exit quadra. I was not doing anything special other than having Disk First Aid check out the harddrive. The last thing I installed was Microsoft Office, but hey, that was three days ago, and we can't blame Muckrosoft for everything can we. I have tried: checking the HD on another Mac (it was fine) removing the two nubus cards, booting from: 3 other HD's, two different CD's (7.5 & 7.6.1), floppies (7.1 & 7.5): no go.Disassembling the Mac completely, cleaning the motherboard, simms etc. with special spray, taking the battery out again for 8 hours, replacing it even though the battery is perfectly OK, testing each individual Simm-boink, but no bootup. Kicking he Mac-that relieved some of my frustration Set up a SCSI conflict with the CD and two harddrives at SCSI 3 to make this machine realize that there is something wrong here- nothing happened. No "sad mac", no special chimes, no sign of life but the hardrive spinning idly. If anybody out there has any idea what the problem might be, or how to spot if this really is a hardware problem, I 'd be very grateful for any input. As you may well imagine, I am rather desperate-the II cx I borrowed for now works, but my real work can only be done on the 840AV. Also, if anybody has a Quadra 800, 840 av, or PPC 8100 or 8500 logicboard for sale, consider me game (private email please) Again, thanks a kabillizisigavillion in advance for any comments, advice or tips on how to bring this good old workhorse back online! Thanks, Wout. -- Wouter N. Meulensteen Audio Engineer Mastertracks Amsterdam ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:56:48 -0500 From: Marlon Deason Subject: Reformatting a partition? In one of my more bone-headed manuvers I tried using "Erase disk" from the special menu in the Finder to reformat my 500MB partition. It worked! My 500MB partition was indeed reformatted - as a 1.44MB disk! I know I could back up my entire 2GB drive reformat and re-install. But I was kinda hoping there is a quick fix to my quick blunder. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:30:20 -0500 From: "Steven Colucci, Ph.D." Subject: shut down screen? When linking into the internet I usually tap into a second phone line as my business line is too costly. However, due to my forgetful nature, I often forget to switch back when I'm done and shut down the system. Is there a way to create a file that will put a mesage on the screen when I shut down to remind me to switch back, as well as maybe some other reminders? I've tried writing one in several apps, but it has to open the app, which takes time and then only displays for a split second. Since there are startup screens, are there any modifiable shut down screens? I'm using a Performa 6205 with system v7.5. Thanks for any assistance. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:15:12 EST From: LouCasa Subject: Sick SCSI Port Part 2 In a message in Digest #1 (which I didn't receive via e-mail, so I'm not sure was distributed anyway), I wrote: >My Q660AV has, I fear, a sick SCSI port. The symptoms are that although I can sense >my external CD drive, disks do not appear on the desktop when inserted. Likewise, >audio CDs do not play. An external hard drive hooked onto the SCSI simply freezes >the startup operation. If I wait until startup is finished before turning on the >hard drive, then try to examine it using Norton Disk Doctor, NDD can sense the >drive, but then crashes when accessing it. If I open the computer and plug these >devices (removed from their external boxes, of course) directly onto the internal >SCSI, they work fine, including the audio CD part. I tried a new cable, same symptoms. >So, then, my question would be: is there something I can do, or have done inexpensively >to resurrect the SCSI port or is my motherboard toast even though everything else >seems to be in operating condition? Thanks. I haven't received any replies, but there is some more information: I looked at the underside of my motherboard and there is a build-up of what appears to be oxidation on some of the solder joints. If this is causing the problem, is there anything I can do to clean off this crud without damaging the rest of the board? I'd really like to avoid purchasing a new computer or having to work with one which may crap out more completely at any moment. Thanks, Lou Casagrande LouCasa@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:09:50 -0600 From: Miles Abernathy Subject: Word Macro Viruses Hit Office 98? This morning I got up close and personal with the Word 6 Concept macro virus for the first time. What a waste of time! It seems as if I recall that Microsoft says you can't turn off macros in Word 6 (although their anti-virus patch does just that, one file at a time). Like many, I never use macros and would prefer that they be disabled. Does anyone know if you can turn off macros in the version of Word that comes in Office 98? Miles Abernathy, miles@mail.utexas.edu -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************