Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #106 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 09 May 98 Volume 16 : Issue 106 Today's Topics: [*] "Par Four" Email Sound (16-bit/44kHz) [*] "Par Four" Email Sound (8-bit/22kHz) [*] 2079 Northbound desktop picture [*] 2079 Southbound desktop picture [*] Biohazard desktop picture [*] Chronomenon 2.0 (An Alarm Clock and Timer) [*] comp.sys.mac.comm FAQ (v 2.0.2) May 1 1998 [*] Epitaph DeBaun desktop picture [*] hink Bitter. StarupScreen [*] John's Alarming Applescripts [*] Lock-Me! 1.0 [*] The Arson Network Live desktop picture [*] The Wall of Dilemma desktop picture [*] Ultravolt desktop picture (A) Converting huge document (A) How to transfer files? [A] - Keyboard "repair" [A] Dragging multiple items from the FindFile window [A] HP printer woes [Q] Duo 2300 goes silent with System 8.1? Apple's new process Converting PC files To Mac with System 7.1? Is it possible? Desktop Printer Error Digital Scanning of Old Slides and Photos for CD Family Albums? Error 41 - Finder error Info-Mac Digest V16 #104 Locating items in Archive Mac - Steam Tables OS 8.1 sound keeps muting Powerbook 150 Memory removing Offfice Retrospect Express Rhapsody: A Call to Arms Seeking correct System File for LCII Why can only one item be dragged from the FindFile window WIERD crash... Windows 95 long file names. 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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Drawing back, you edge the putter just six inches behind the white ball, recoiling gently as the head makes contact with just the right amount of force. The green, in perfect condition, escorts your ball through the contours of the terrain, right to the hole. It reaches the edge, pauses briefly, then proceeds to disappear into the earth making that glorious pitter-patter sound you love so much. Hey, wake up! It's just an email coming in, man! Introducing the "Par Four" email sound from Clixsounds, a perfect digital audio snapshot of that ever-gratifying sound of a golf ball dropping into the cup. It's a short stereo sound perfect for any golfer's email program. The sound can easily be used with later versions of Claris Emailer, Eudora Pro, and others that allow the assignment of sound files as mail notifiers. Other programs that don't have the option of assigning sounds can still utilize this sound with the help of "Agent Audio," available for download Clixsounds' seb site. The "Par Four" Email Sound is available in both 16-bit and 8-bit stereo and can be downloaded here or at the Clixsounds WWW site at: Agent Audio is available for download at: This file is freeware and may be redistributed freely providing it is unaltered and includes the accompanying document. Note that a portion of this archive is information concerning Clixsounds products and services. Contact Information: Internet: email@clixsounds.com Support: support@clixsounds.com Sales: sales@clixsounds.com America Online: CLIXSOUNDS World Wide Web: http://www.clixsounds.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/16-parfour.hqx; 585K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:29 -0700 From: email@clixsounds.com Subject: [*] "Par Four" Email Sound (8-bit/22kHz) "Par Four" Email Replacement Sound You squeeze the grip softly, looking first at the ball, then at the cup. The ball, the cup. Drawing back, you edge the putter just six inches behind the white ball, recoiling gently as the head makes contact with just the right amount of force. The green, in perfect condition, escorts your ball through the contours of the terrain, right to the hole. It reaches the edge, pauses briefly, then proceeds to disappear into the earth making that glorious pitter-patter sound you love so much. Hey, wake up! It's just an email coming in, man! Introducing the "Par Four" email sound from Clixsounds, a perfect digital audio snapshot of that ever-gratifying sound of a golf ball dropping into the cup. It's a short stereo sound perfect for any golfer's email program. The sound can easily be used with later versions of Claris Emailer, Eudora Pro, and others that allow the assignment of sound files as mail notifiers. Other programs that don't have the option of assigning sounds can still utilize this sound with the help of "Agent Audio," available for download Clixsounds' seb site. The "Par Four" Email Sound is available in both 16-bit and 8-bit stereo and can be downloaded here or at the Clixsounds WWW site at: Agent Audio is available for download at: This file is freeware and may be redistributed freely providing it is unaltered and includes the accompanying document. Note that a portion of this archive is information concerning Clixsounds products and services. Contact Information: Internet: email@clixsounds.com Support: support@clixsounds.com Sales: sales@clixsounds.com America Online: CLIXSOUNDS World Wide Web: http://www.clixsounds.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/8-parfour.hqx; 266K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:31 -0700 From: dssmith@viaduct.custom.net Subject: [*] 2079 Northbound desktop picture "2079 Northbound" desktop picture from the "Systemic" desktop picture set by THE HOOSIER DESKTOP PICTURE COMPANY of Shelburn, Indiana. Mac Plaza, GUI Central, GUI Junky, Macintosh 4ever and Mac'n'Tech have been more than kind by posting most of the images. Each are fine macintosh customization sites, but even finer people. Take a moment to visit them when you can. Thank you. D.S. Smith [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/2079-northbound.hqx; 253K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:33 -0700 From: dssmith@viaduct.custom.net Subject: [*] 2079 Southbound desktop picture "2079 Southbound" desktop picture from the "This Is Not a Test 01" desktop picture set by THE HOOSIER DESKTOP PICTURE COMPANY of Shelburn, Indiana. Mac Plaza, GUI Central, GUI Junky, Macintosh 4ever and Mac'n'Tech have been more than kind by posting most of the images. Each are fine macintosh customization sites, but even finer people. Take a moment to visit them when you can. Thank you. D.S. Smith [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/2079-southbound.hqx; 211K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:36 -0700 From: dssmith@viaduct.custom.net Subject: [*] Biohazard desktop picture "Biohazard" desktop picture from the "This Is Not a Test 01" desktop picture set by THE HOOSIER DESKTOP PICTURE COMPANY of Shelburn, Indiana. Mac Plaza, GUI Central, GUI Junky, Macintosh 4ever and Mac'n'Tech have been more than kind by posting most of the images. Each are fine macintosh customization sites, but even finer people. Take a moment to visit them when you can. Thank you. D.S. Smith [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/biohazard.hqx; 187K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:52 -0700 From: gparashis@earthlink.net Subject: [*] Chronomenon 2.0 (An Alarm Clock and Timer) Chronomenon's Features: --Chronomenon is a software alarm clock and timer which, when its alarm goes off, can crow like a rooster, display and speak your text messages, play QuickTime movies, and, new with version 2.0, play audio CD's. --The alarm can be configured to automatically set itself to go off at the same time each day (this feature is new with version 2.0). --Whenever the alarm is set, Chronomenon shows how many hours, minutes, and seconds there are left before the alarm goes off. --Chronomenon's clock face takes up just a few square inches (centimeters) of screen space, and it can be moved around and hidden. --Chronomenon can run and sound its alarm in both the foreground and background. System Requirements: To use Chronomenon, you will need a Macintosh computer running System 7 or greater, Sound Manager 3.0 or greater, and about 1,600 kilobytes of memory free for running applications. If you have PlainTalk speech-synthesis software from Apple installed, Chronomenon can speak messages when its alarm goes off. If QuickTime is installed, Chronomenon can play QuickTime movies. If you have version 5.1 or greater of the Apple CD-ROM CD driver software installed, and your computer has at least one CD drive, Chronomenon can play audio CD's. For more information, please read the Read Me file enclosed. Thank you, George Parashis E-Mail: gparashis@earthlink.net Web Site: http://home.earthlink.net/~gparashis [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/chronomenon-2.hqx; 195K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:09 -0700 From: bgrubb@zianet.com Subject: [*] comp.sys.mac.comm FAQ (v 2.0.2) May 1 1998 David Oppenheimer has given me his kind permission to continue the comp.sys.mac.comm FAQ. This version should replace the prevous version as well as info-mac/comm/info/csm-communications-faq.hqx Updated information: [1.4] How fast can the Macintosh serial ports really go? [3.2] What commmunications programs are available? [5.1] What kind of hardware and software do I need to have a direct connection (ie use TCP/IP protocol) to the Internet? [5.3] FreePPP and OT/PPP Frequently Asked Questions [Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/csm-comm-faq.hqx; 38K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:39 -0700 From: dssmith@viaduct.custom.net Subject: [*] Epitaph DeBaun desktop picture "Epitaph DeBaun" desktop picture from the "Systemic" desktop picture set by THE HOOSIER DESKTOP PICTURE COMPANY of Shelburn, Indiana. Mac Plaza, GUI Central, GUI Junky, Macintosh 4ever and Mac'n'Tech have been more than kind by posting most of the images. Each are fine macintosh customization sites, but even finer people. Take a moment to visit them when you can. Thank you. D.S. Smith [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/epitaph-de-baun.hqx; 592K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:46 -0700 From: essgraph@idt.net Subject: [*] hink Bitter. StarupScreen A StarupScreen (640X480) of a parody of Apple's "Think Different" ad. An extreme huge hit with all the Mac Heads at our animation department, and a headache inducer to our PC-Brainwashed MIS department. To use, drop directly on the system folder, and restart. This file was scanned with Virex(tm) 5.8.1 with the latest virus description (May 1th, 1998). Robert [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/think-startupscreen.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:20 -0700 From: jcr2@cornell.edu Subject: [*] John's Alarming Applescripts A set of 13 Applescript shenanigans. Any one is well-suited for a colleague's Startup Items folder. The scripts are commented, useful for learning Applescript. "Beep" beeps the Mac, every minute. "Custom Dialog" asks you for text for a custom dialog, the first time you run it. Thereafter it shows that text, with a beep. "Decisions, Decisions" posts an interesting dialog. Clicking any button just ends the script. "Eject 'Em" ejects all ejectable disks. Repeats every minute. "Finder Finder" makes a copy of the Finder, putting it on the desktop. "Finder Windows" sets all open Finder windows to identical small coordinates at the upper left corner of the screen. Repeats every minute. "Get Lotsa Info" opens the Get Info window of every running application. Repeats every minute. "Go Home Early" shuts down the Mac. It expires after three runs "Move It" moves a random item from the Finder's front window into the System Folder. Repeats every minute. "New Folder" makes a folder in a random folder at the top level of the startup disk, naming it "Mystery Folder." "Open Up" opens the window of every folder at the top level of the startup disk. Repeats every minute. "Open Trash" closes every Finder window, then opens the Trash window, and makes it very large. Repeats every minute. "Random" posts one of several possible alarming dialogs, with a random number. Repeats every minute. Free. The attached should replace the current "John's Alarming Applescripts" on the archive. Thanks, John Rethorst [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/johns-alarming-applescri.hqx; 100K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:23 -0700 From: mnolet@faille.unice.fr Subject: [*] Lock-Me! 1.0 LOCK-ME! 1.0: Author: Michael Nolet Size: a WHOPPING 4,000 bytes! If you're like me then you often go and get a cup of coffee while leaving your computer on with programs running. If you're even more like me you then often find somebody on your computer when you're back with the response "just checking my e-mail" or "just checkin something, only be a sec." Well now there's a solution! Lock-me is a very simple code resource that will "Lock" your computer with a single key-combination. Hitting command-shift- (where is your choice!) will call up a dialog "Please enter the password to unlock this computer." This dialog won't go away until someone enters the correct password. At the moment you'll need ResEdit to install it. (I'm having problems writing an installer that can write to the "System" resource file... if anybody can give me suggestions?) All this involves is copying resources which even those unsure about resedit can do. You can use "Lock-me!" without ANY obligation for 5 days after which if you continue using "Lock-Me!" I REQUIRE you to send me an email with your opinion of "Lock-Me!". Please refer any questions to: or In September of 1998 my email address will be changing to: and Mike Nolet Open included "How to install" and "FAQ" files for info on how to install and frequently asked questions. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/lockme.hqx; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:41 -0700 From: dssmith@viaduct.custom.net Subject: [*] The Arson Network Live desktop picture "The Arson Network Live" desktop picture from the "This Is Not a Test 01" desktop picture set by THE HOOSIER DESKTOP PICTURE COMPANY of Shelburn, Indiana. Mac Plaza, GUI Central, GUI Junky, Macintosh 4ever and Mac'n'Tech have been more than kind by posting most of the images. Each are fine macintosh customization sites, but even finer people. Take a moment to visit them when you can. Thank you. D.S. Smith [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/the-arson-network-live.hqx; 489K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:44 -0700 From: dssmith@viaduct.custom.net Subject: [*] The Wall of Dilemma desktop picture "The Wall of Dilemma" desktop picture from the "Systemic" desktop picture set by THE HOOSIER DESKTOP PICTURE COMPANY of Shelburn, Indiana. Mac Plaza, GUI Central, GUI Junky, Macintosh 4ever and Mac'n'Tech have been more than kind by posting most of the images. Each are fine macintosh customization sites, but even finer people. Take a moment to visit them when you can. Thank you. D.S. Smith [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/the-wall-of-dilemma.hqx; 313K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:15:49 -0700 From: dssmith@viaduct.custom.net Subject: [*] Ultravolt desktop picture "Ultravolt" desktop picture from the "Systemic" desktop picture set by THE HOOSIER DESKTOP PICTURE COMPANY of Shelburn, Indiana. Mac Plaza, GUI Central, GUI Junky, Macintosh 4ever and Mac'n'Tech have been more than kind by posting most of the images. Each are fine macintosh customization sites, but even finer people. Take a moment to visit them when you can. Thank you. D.S. Smith [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/ultravolt.hqx; 333K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 09:16:35 -0400 From: Michael Blair Subject: (A) Converting huge document "D. Scott Beach" , on 5/7/98 4:30 AM you wrote in reply: >>I have an 80mb PC text document on a CDROM that I need to open and convert >>for use in a database. It's a text document and once I get it converted I >>can easily insert it into my db. I've used both Word 5.1 and the DataViz >>translator to open it. It grinds away for about an hour then freezes the >>machine. I have a Performa 6200 with 16mb ram and Ram Doubler. Do I need >>more ram? Any ideas on how I could segment the document and convert it >>in >>pieces? >>Replies either directly or to the list would be appreciated. > >Try opening it with a text editor like "BBEdit Lite" or Tom Bender's >"TexEdit Plus". They should work just fine. You may want to allocate a bit >more RAM to them before launching though. Scott: Both BBEdit and TexEdit files are RAM-resident. You can't open an 80MB file when you've got only 16MB of RAM. To the original poster, increase RAM to Word as much as you can (you probably can't go higher than 10 MB) and try converting the file. Probably won't work, though. Yeah, you need more RAM. As for segmenting to file, when I used to work on DOS and old Radio Shack machines I wrote a simple BASIC program to segment large files. I wouldn't know where to begin in today's programming environment, but it probably isn't difficult. You didn't include the name of the original poster. Maybe you could forward this. Michael Blair ======================================================================= Blair Technical Communications Tel: (514) 989-8713 106 - 3500 Atwater Avenue Fax: (514) 989-7521 Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3H 1Y5 Email: mjblair@total.net ------------------------------ Date: 6 May 98 06:35:51 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) How to transfer files? >files from his 5300 to the new machine. What is the best way to connect >the >two machines together to transfer the files? I forget. Thanks for your >advice. Bob: Use a pair of PhoneNet connectors and a telephone wire or a serial cable connected to each of the printer ports with file sharing turned on each Mac. Set up the Sharing Setup control panel on at least one of them. Log onto that one from the other by finding it in the Chooser under AppleShare and entering the owner name and password (if you set one). This should give you owner access to the entire drive. Drag and drop and you're done. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:59:17 +0700 From: Rich Garella Subject: [A] - Keyboard "repair" >Any advice for "repairing" a key on my old performa style keyboard that=20 >now requires extraordinary pressure to use? >Thanks, >Scott Horton I've been able to fix this problem some of the time, but it's been a while= so I hope I remember it right: Pop the plastic cap of the key straight up. There should be a plastic= pushrod that is the actual key, and a metal doohickey that provides= resistance to keystrokes and also pushes the key back up. Be careful not to= bend this doohickey, but see if anything is blocking it. Then see if the= pushrod moves down freely or not. Use a cotton bud to apply a tiny amount= of mild cleaner or WD40 to it, depending what you think the goo might be. I= should note (as horrified screams are heard in the distance) that you do= this at your own risk, but it has worked for me. _____________________________________________________________ Rich Garella: garella@libertynet.org http://www.libertynet.org/~garella Phnom Penh, Cambodia _____________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 13:08:50 -0400 From: Pieter Stouten Subject: [A] Dragging multiple items from the FindFile window Recently, I asked why I could move a set of files from the FindFile "Items Found" window to another folder or to the trash. Thanks are due Dan Frakes, Chuck Garrett, Mac McIlvain, Randall Meadows, George Orville and Peter Stoyanov. It seems this is a known bug in Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1. There is a workaround, though: one can drag multiple items from the Find File window to an *alias* of the Trash (or any folder for that matter). The icons zoom back to the Find File window (as they do when dragged to an original), but then zoom back again to the alias and are deposited in the original destination the alias points to. Go figure! Thanks again, Pieter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 10:22:36 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] HP printer woes 1) Has anyone checked that all of the Phonenet connectors are properly terminated? Either connected to another Mac or a terminator block inserted. Any empty slot can cause problems. Any hanging wire, not plugged into a Phonenet can cause similar problems. Plugging in a phone wire in lieu of a terminator is not effective. 2) Have you tried different combinations of Phonet connectors AND phone wires? I have actually had a phone wire go bad, hard is that to believe. 3) Is this the original driver? HP Drivers are not always upward/downward compatible. 4) Many HP Drivers are real memory hogs, is it possible that you are running out of memory on the 5500 that the Printer interprets as an Appletalk error? HP Drivers tend to use huge amounts of disk space to spool to whether you are using background printing or not. Running out of disk space is a possiblity. 5) One more thought, what system are you using & what version of Open Transport? Have you tried "Classic Appletalk" vs Open Transport? -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:59:23 -0700 From: "Gregory T. Samson" Subject: [Q] Duo 2300 goes silent with System 8.1? Just wondering if anyone else has had these symptoms/problems: I am using a Duo 2300 (mostly because I have a BUNCH of docking hardware and don't want to give it up just yet) and have installed Systems through 8.1 on it. 8.0 ran flawlessly, but shortly after I installed 8.1 I noticed that sometimes sound wasn't coming from the speaker. It seemed to come back when I flexed the display hinge slightly, so I guessed it was a hardware issue... until I heard from two more people on comp.sys.mac.portables who were having the same problem after upgrading to system 8.1. Their problem was more severe - no sound output at all unless docked. (Parenthetically, my machine definitely has a 'hardware issue' going on with the display - it has that 'spreading' open on its edges problem that I've heard people describe. It's also got what my local friendly VAR said was a bad inverter, which prevents me from controlling the brightness of the backlight.) Could moving to 8.1 have caused the sound problem? Or does this sound like a hardware problem? Is anyone else having the same problem, and if so, have you been able to fix it? Thanks for reading this far - I await anyone's answers (speculation, experiences, anything) eagerly! -- Gregory T. Samson, MD - Dr. Evil Microwizard (gtsamson[at]bigfoot[dot]com) "This is DUMB." "That's never held us back before, Jane." -- G. Morrison, Doom Patrol #63 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:51:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "William E. Colburn" Subject: Apple's new process Does anyone have information on the new manufacuring process that Apple has apparently developed? As I understand it, in the past computers were assembled from a number of parts. Now it appears they have perfected a method of cloning, something like going to File and Duplicate and coming up with a new computer. I became aware of this while waiting thirty (30 count 'em 30 ) days for a replacement logic board on my two-month-old G3. As this part was "unavailable" for a present owner, it must not have been available for new G3s, which I believe were still in production. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 11:18:14 +0800 From: Wayne Crook Subject: Converting PC files To Mac with System 7.1? Is it possible? Please Help. I have an LC575 Mac with System 7.1 Operating System. It does not allow me to convert PC files to Mac files. What software do I need? I tried PC Exchange, but it didn't work because I needed to update my operating system to 8.0+. I don't really want to do this. If you can help me or have a program that does this on an older system, please let me know. Thanks so much! Wayne. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 09:16:38 -0400 From: Michael Blair Subject: Desktop Printer Error "William A. Ahroon, Ph.D." , on 5/7/98 4:30 AM you wrote: >My PowerMac 8100/100 (OS 8.0) crashed while printing. [I tried to do too >many >things with two little memory and too buggy a program (i.e., DeltaGraph).] >I have three desktop printers on my system (LaserWriter, LaserWriter 8, and >PDFWriter). Since the crash, I get an error on startup saying: > >Desktop printer unknown error "-192" at '18'. > >Whatever that means. > >I've thrown away the desktop printers and chosen them again and even >reinstalled >Adobe Acrobat (for the PDF Writer driver). > >Any suggestions. I'd hate to reinstall my OS. > Bill: Toss out the printer prefs files (LaserWriter 8 prefs, etc) in the Printing Prefs folder and anything you find in the Print Monitor documents folder. Then redefine your desktop printer(s). I have a question, though: If you have only one physical printer why do you have three "desktop" printers? Do you switch between drivers? Just curious. I've printed from Acrobat Reader using the LaserWriter 8 driver without any problems. And the only reason I can see for having the original LaserWriter driver is for old software that won't work with the newer printer drivers. Michael Blair ======================================================================= Blair Technical Communications Tel: (514) 989-8713 106 - 3500 Atwater Avenue Fax: (514) 989-7521 Montreal, Quebec CANADA H3H 1Y5 Email: mjblair@total.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 15:58:00 -1000 From: cesar@lava.net (Betty Cesar) Subject: Digital Scanning of Old Slides and Photos for CD Family Albums? Digital Scanning of Old Slides and Photos for Making CD Family Albums? I have about 1,000 old (circa 1945) 35 mm mounted color slides, plus about a hundred rolls of later vintage 35 mm B&W and color negatives I would like to digitally scan, convert to viewable images, and record on CDs to produce family albums. Since it would be too costly for me to make prints using the standard photochemical processing method, I am hoping there is a way I can digitally scan the slides and negatives using some kind of light box or projector, software like Photoshop or Color It!, and a CD burner with appropriate software like Twain. I would appreciate any suggestions from those of you who have done this successfully. Recommendations about equipment, software, and practical 'How-To' books covering procedures will be most welcome. Please contact me at cesar@lava.net. Aloha, Ed Cesar ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 23:24:12 -0400 From: Steve Slack Subject: Error 41 - Finder error Funny thing - same situation described below happened to me after playing Carmageddon. Of course, I had just partitioned a 4 gig HD into three pieces the day before. Researched Deja News, and I'm figuring the problem could be not enough space in the Partition, or a scrambled Finder Preferences file. Although I've found one article that attributed the error to an unterminated SCSI chain. I dread reinstalling. I have a G3, 233 mHz, and dangit, can't remember if I have System 8.0 or 8.1. Anyone out there having Error 41's? > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:22:28 +0200 > From: Paolo Bartoli > Subject: Error 41 - Finder error > > Error 41 - Finder error / can't load the Finder error > > dear info_mac readers, > > has anybody incurred in System Error 41? I'm currently working with PMac > 8500/120, Mac OS 8.0. > Strange enough, the error occurred without doing anything particular. > As I tried to shut down the Mac after a normal work session, the Mac began > to idle around, refusing to shut down. Then I restarted the computer with > the keyboard combination apple-control-switch key. > As soon as it restarted, I got the System Error 41. > > I resolved the problem installing anew the System, but why it all happened?? > > ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli > ** pbartoli@iname.com > ** > ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba > > ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 11:44:32 -0400 From: Deborah Foss Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #104 I just ordered a 512 L2 cache for my 20th anniversary Mac (Alchemy) and will have a 256 that I have to take out if anyone has an use for it. I also ordered the 150mz daughter board for the 7600 at work, couldn't resist at $39 dollars, so I assume I will have a 120 mz daughter board that I have no use for. The other computers that I take care of are 7100/66, a performa 6214cd, a quadra 650 and a 3400c. If any of these parts can be used in any way please e mail me. Otherwise, if you help support a school or other nonprofit type place and could use them, please e-mail. Please be sure that they will be useable in your system. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 22:23:29 -0400 From: "Z. A. Punjani" Subject: Locating items in Archive At 9:01 AM +0100 5/3/98, Ezra Nathan wrote: >I have just started a subscription to Info-mac and spent a half hour trying >to find my way through various sites. In particular I tried to locate >certain items in the archive but did not work out how. So please, how do I >go about doing this? For example, I tried to locate to download: >info-mac/comm/inet/web/cyberviewer-12-ppc.hqx >What do I do? step by step. > >Thanks >> Ezra >ezra@watchit.demom.co.uk Being in Britain, I'm not sure you'll be able to access this, however, if you can, try and go to http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/HyperArchive.html This is Info-mac's search engine which should make life a bit easier for you. Moreover, know that files are not archived as soon as they're published in the Digest. The archivists do need to post them on their various servers before they're available to us. My experience has been that they take anywhere from 24 hours to even 3 days to be posted depending on the availability of the file and the expedience with which the owner of the file makes it available to our hard working friends at Info-mac. Please send me mail if you need further assistants. Zafar A. Punjani Please send mail to: zafar@itw.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 08:37:59 +1000 From: Stephen Peilschmidt Subject: Mac - Steam Tables Do any of the scientific/engineering users out there know of any software that will run on a PowerMac that gives steam properties. I have had a look at the InfoMac archives but was unable to find anything - similarly on internet searches. Any help would be appreciated. Regards Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 08:48:25 -0700 From: James and Joan Lewis Subject: OS 8.1 sound keeps muting Had the same problem. Open the "Apple Extras Folder" that was installed by 8.1. You will find folders labeled "Monitors Extras Folder" and "Sound Control Panel." Open these folders and you will find the OS 7.X style monitor and sound control panels. I recommend just trashing these and then reset the "Monitors and Sound" control panel under the "Apple" menu. Check your "Control Panels" folder that lives in your system folder and make sure there are no copies of "Sound" and "Monitors" (trash them if they are there) and that there is one "Monitors and Sound." Restart and all should be well. -- James and Joan Lewis siweL naoJ dna semaJ macpacker@earthlink.net ten.knilhtrae@rekcapcam ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 12:54:32 -0400 From: "John W. Steele" Subject: Powerbook 150 Memory Friends, I just acquired a Powerbook 150. It has it's minimum of 4 MB RAM. I would like to add more. To be able to shop intelligently, I need to know the specs of the RAM cards. Nowhere (not even the Apple Memory Guide) is there a physical description of the RAM modules! Now, I ask you... Any help gratefully appreciated. John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 07:34:32 -0700 From: "Adam C. Engst" Subject: removing Offfice >>I have it running on a 6100-66 and it works very well indeed. Word 7(?) >>starts >>and runs faster than Word 6. Just watch out if you have to uninstall - it >>will >>throw your system folder in the trash! Mac Office users have a huge advantage >>over Win95 users when importing graphics into Word - the Win version is >>unusable >>with 133MHz, 32MB Ram and a couple of screen shots. >>David > >I just wanted to say that to the best of my knowledge, that threat of >removing your System folder only existed if you moved a library or file of >some kind from the Office 98 folder itself into the system folder. The file >had to do with Removing MS Office. If you put it in the System, then it >will think the System folder is the Microsoft Office 98 folder, and remove >it. This whole thing was an issue because some people were double-clicking >the little file to see what it would do, and it was giving the standard Mac >system message about "this file adds functionality to your system... put it >in your System folder to use it" (you know the one, something like that). >So they put it in the system. Anyway, I heard Microsoft came out with a fix >for it. Maybe that's why I don't have it on my computer any more, I don't >know. We wrote about the details in TidBITS. Although it sounds bad, it was a case localized in fact to about five people, four of whom were actually on the phone with Microsoft tech support at the time. The utility has indeed been fixed, and most people will never even realize it's on the CD anyway... http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=04778 cheers... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher/Info-Mac Moderator -- ace@tidbits.com http://www.tidbits.com/ -- http://www.tidbits.com/adam/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:56:19 -0400 From: Ed Ver Hoef Subject: Retrospect Express In Info-Mac Digest V16 #104 Ted Logan asked: >On a Power Mac 7100/80 running 7.6.1 and on a G3 running 8.1 I'm using >Retrospect 4.0. Do I need Retrospect Express for anything besides >HFS+-formatted disks? Why isn't it Retrospect 4.1 or 5.0 or whatever >instead of "Retrospect Express?" Do I need them both? It's my understanding that Retrospect Express is a somewhat scaled-down version of the complete Retrospect. Having said that, I had been using a *very* copy of Retrospect and recently bought and started using Retrospect Express and I can't find any features in my old copy of Retrospect that aren't in Retrospect Express. The main advantage offered by Retrospect Express is that it allows me to create a multi-volume archive on EX-135 disks, something that my old copy of Retrospect could only do with floppies. Ed Ver Hoef ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 16:15:13 -0400 From: "Jeremy N. Thornhill" Subject: Rhapsody: A Call to Arms I made a post a while back about whether or not Mac users would be willing to accept change and move on to bigger and better operating systems. Apparently, at least in this case, the answer is no. It boils down to this: if you want something better, you have to be willing to accept change to achieve it. This is something apple has shied away from in the past; they have always been hesitant to drastically alter the MacOS. And, in my opinion, this has cost them dearly. Enter Rhapsody. I personally think all the screen shots of Rhapsody look simply marvelous, combining the best elements of XWindows, NeXT, and MacOS; but you are certainly entitled to disagree with my opinion there. What you CAN'T (logically) disagree with is that Rhapsody is a giant leap forward as a Macintosh operating system. I am reminded of when Windoze 95 came out. I knew quite a few Win 3.11 users who hated the way it looked. They hated how it worked. In fact, many of my wintel using friends vowed to stay with 3.11 forever. Well, times changed. And so did their OS. I don't know a single one of them who would rather use 3.11 now. The fact is that Win95 was BETTER than 3.11, just as Rhapsody will be better than MacOS. Micro$oft used their "revolutionary" OS to catapult them ahead of their competitors. Rhapsody has that same kind of potential; providing, of course, that Apple doesn't throw this opportunity away as it has so many others. True, Rhapsody will be a giant leap from the OS we've known and loved for years. But you see, your Rhapsody box will still be a Mac; only better. Jeremy N. Thornhill jnthornh@eos.ncsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 20:40:42 +0000 From: Mephistophilis Subject: Seeking correct System File for LCII My brother owns an LCII 40/4 which was running System 7.1P2 with Enablers 304, 308, 316 and 332. The system appears to be damaged and the original system installer disks have gone missing. I have installed S7.5.5 on the machine and it will run properly - but the cost in HD space and RAM is far too high on this minimally equipped machine. Neither System 7.1P2 nor the Enablers 304, 308, 316 are available in the ftp://ftp.info.euro.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/ archive. I would appreciate advice as to what system and enablers to install on this machine - and on where I might acquire them. As my brother was in the process of finishing a book against a deadline on the LCII this is a matter of some urgency so any help will be greatly appreciated. TIA - Fergus Lalor ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 10:05:58 -0400 From: Randall Meadows Subject: Why can only one item be dragged from the FindFile window At 10:25 AM -0400 5/6/98, Dan Frakes wrote: >Pieter Stouten wrote: >>When I want to drag (move or copy) a set of files from the FindFile "Items >>Found" window to another folder or to the trash, that folder (or the trash >>can) gets highlighted, but after I release the mouse the files flash back >>to the "Items Found" window and don't get moved or copied. If I do this >>with one file, it works fine. > >This is a known bug with Mac OS 8 and 8.1. There is no way to fix it :-( > > Dan frakes@kagi.com >InformINIT: http://cafe.AmbrosiaSW.com/DEF/InformINIT.html You can, however, drag multiple items from the Find File window to an _alias_ of the Trash or any folder. The icons will zoom to the Find File window, as before, but then zoom back to the alias, and be deposited in the destination. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 17:31:43 -0700 From: David Snow Subject: WIERD crash... Hello all, I've had some wierd computer bugaboos, but this takes the cake. Recently upgraded my computer with an Ultra SCSI and a Cheetah HD. (Other relevant info: 8600/300; OS8.1; IMS Twin Turbo powering the main monitor, an ATI Xclaim 3D powering the other one; very little shareware.) Since I moved everything over to the new drive, I've encountered a _strange_ crash: whenever I fire up certain programs from aliases within the Apple menu, I get a pointer freeze _and_ the secondary monitor shuts off, like I just hit the 'sleep' command. It doesn't happen with all programs -- most often Navigator and Explorer, but once it happened to Illustrator. Weirder still, the same crash happened once while Illustrator was booting. This happens with extensions off; I've done the PRAM/Desktop Delete & Rebuild/Norton/Disk Tools routine; I'm THIS CLOSE to doing a full clean reinstall of the OS. (Perhaps unrelated -- since I upgraded to 8.1, in Finder list views, if the 'size' is the only column of info displayed, the actual file size numbers {i.e 1.2mb} don't display in their own column -- they display butted up against the right-hand edge of the window, in the next column over from their own. What's up with that?) Any suggestions that will solve this without a complete clean reinstall are welcome at this point. Thanks in advance! -David ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 15:20:18 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Windows 95 long file names. "Dr. Steven Luh" asked: > A friend of mine burned me a CD with Windows 95/NT? files. I can see > them under the Wintel machine and even see them under emulation software > like Virtual PC running Windows 95. > > My problem is that I can't see it under the Mac OS 7.6.1 with PC > Exchange. What can't you see - the long file names, or the files at all? > It knows that the files are there and says that the CD occupies the space > (it even knows that there are 24 files there) but it won't let me see the > icons. Aren't you usually supposed to see the "8 + 3" file name or > something? Or is this some format that PC Exchange can't handle yet? PC-Exchange before 8.1 cannot display Win95 long filenames. You either need to install System 8.1, or get DosMounter 95, a commercial replacement for PC Exchange. This works. However, if you don't see the files at all, there might be something else broken. Good luck, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************