Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #132 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 01 Jul 98 Volume 16 : Issue 132 Today's Topics: (A) default editor (A)using a ext cdrom drive on a IIci (Q) Key Finder (Q) keyboard selection of menu items (Q) Pagemill 2.0.1 [A] [No Subject] [A] audio cd [A] default editor [A] powermac as server [A] Sample sound in 44khz on Performa 6320 [A]: G3 servers [A]: scsi hell [A]Internet "connection keeper" [Q] Scanning resolution Aliases going AWOL Bizarre Monitor behavior (Summary) Booting from Zip finding on FTP sites (was Info-Mac Digest V16 #126) Findit and Disk Fit Problem Fwd: Re: Threading in Eudora Fwd: Re: Threading in Eudora G3 Configuration suggestions wanted Getting the #%&*@ Get QuickTime Pro icon off my desktop? Info-Mac Digest V16 #128 Info-Mac Digest V16 #129 ISO L.A.-area desktop video equipment rentals Key Finder on Mac OS 8.0 Mac access to NT 4 server MAC Users! Finally a free easy CD to Hard Drive recorder program NOT selling a Newton On Location replacement (indexed disk search) pdf files don't print Problems with Total Recall, Inc. Q: Incomplete Digest Issues Scanner SCSI problem Searching Info-Mac discussion archives Serving files (Q) TechTool Pro reports hard drive failure and OS error code -1806 UK ISPs - Experience with Zetnet? using a ext cdrom drive on a IIci? Virus protection software Weird WordPerfect menus WordPerfect mailing list (was: WP menus problem) Yamaha CDR400 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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(My browser behaviour hasn't changed much -- opening multiple windows at one time and clicking between them. I've increased the cache. decreased the cache, cleared the cache.... and prayed to the Goddess of the Internet for stable sessions!) I have EPSON's 800 3.14E driver -- which everyone says is buggy, have turned off almost every non-8.0 driver and Explorer *still* crashes) WHAT DOES ONE HAVE TO DO FOR A STABLE SESSION? CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS Suite 207 at 37 Store Street Bloomsbury, London WC1B-4AA UNITED KINGDOM Telephone 0044.(0)7050.028.797 Facsimile 0044.(0)171.242.6087 ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 98 05:18:05 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) default editor james f. palmer writes: >The machine had MS Word 5.1 and 6.0 running together for a time. >I trashed Word 5.1. However, now when I try to open a Word 6 file I get a >message that it's creator cannot be found and then a MacLink 9.0 window >telling me that a the file is being translated from Word 6 to Word 5.1 >format, which then opens in Word 6. Any suggestions? Jim: Try rebuilding your Desktop Database by holding down Cmd+ Opt on startup or better yet, use something like Micromat's TechTool to delete the existing Desktop DB so that you get a really thorough rebuild. That should straighten out the system's notion of which apps are installed and which aren't. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 98 07:19:00 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A)using a ext cdrom drive on a IIci David L. Hirschberg Wrote: >I am trying to reformat a IIci using an external cdrom drive. It has been >a while since I worked with a ci so maybe some one can explain what I am >over looking. > >If I bootup from the hardrive then the cd in the rom drive mounts up with >no problems. If I start from the cd then all I get is the CD on the >desktop and no hard drive. I though it was the IIci I was using so I >grabed another ci and the same thing happened. The ci's have 20 mb of ram >and I have tried with a system 7.6 and 7.6.1 CD. I think in the past I >have installed system 8.0 on a 68030 machine and it worked. David (Mr. Olivaw): I don't think that OS 8 will install on anything pre-040. After booting from the CD try running a SCSI mounting utility from a floppy. Try SCSI Probe or the like. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:56:41 -0400 From: "Tolbert, Philip (CORP)" Subject: (Q) Key Finder I have recently upgraded to MAC OS 8.0 and one of my applications doesn't appear to be working - Key Finder. I don't want to reinstall the old OS and was hoping somebody could help me remember where I might have gotten it from. It is an application similar to the built in OS application Key Caps. I have searched the info-mac archives with no luck. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, Phil ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:39:32 -0400 (EST) From: Robert Sekuler Subject: (Q) keyboard selection of menu items Just got a new PowerBook and wonder if there is a utility that allows keyboard selection of menu items. My model (ideal) is the feature that was available in the old Connectix Powerbook Utilities: CPU would underline letters in menu items, indicating what key stroke would select each of the items (in combination with some enabing keys such as SHIFT CTRL). ------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Sekuler e-mail: sekuler@ccs.brandeis.edu Volen Center for Complex Systems voice: (781)-736-3277 Mailstop 013 fax: (781)-736-2398 Brandeis University Waltham Massachusetts 02254 USA ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:36:42 -0400 From: abrody Subject: (Q) Pagemill 2.0.1 Dear Digest readers, I read about Pagemill 2.0.1 in my MacMall catalog, but no such product exists on Adobe's web site. Anybody have it? How is it different from Pagemill 2.0? Also has Frontpage 98 come out for the Macintosh? Again it appears in my MacMall catalog, but so does Frontpage 1.0 for the same price. Something weird is going on here. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:23:18 -0500 From: Clinton MacDonald Subject: [A] [No Subject] Mr. Thomas: On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Dudley Warrington Thomas wrote: >I would like to move to OS8 but I have no desire to backup my entire hard >drive to ZIP since I don't have a JAZ or similar mass backup solution. > >HAS ANYONE SEEN A SHAREWARE "FIX-YOUR-DISK-FOR-OS8.1" UTILITY (LIKE ONE OF >THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS NOW AVAILABLE)? This is probably not the answer you want to hear, but, desire or no, you absolutely must backup your hard drive before doing anything as drastic as upgrading to a new operating system (even on a Mac!) ZIP disks are fine for your data (though it might take a few). You shouldn't bother backing up programs, you know, since they are almost always happier being re-installed from their original disks. That being said, the CD for Apple's Mac OS 8 has the disk utility (Drive Setup 1.5, I believe) that will update your drivers appropriately. This will update you appropriately for OS 8 using the "old-fashioned" HFS formatting. If you want to use the new formatting (HFS plus), there is a utility on the CD to reformat your drive. The included utility requires you backup, since it will erase your entire drive. I'm sure the commercial utility (whose name I have forgotten) also cautions you to backup, even though it won't necessarily erase your hard drive. I would not trust my (unbacked-up!) data to a shareware or freeware utility, no matter how trustworthy the author (sorry, shareware authors!) Even the most sympathetic and responsive shareware author doesn't have the liability to recompense you for lost data, time or money. Besides, updating to Mac OS 8.1 is a perfect opportunity to do a Spring cleaning of your old data and programs, repartition your drive(s), de-fragment your drive (which a backup and restore accomplishes), re-install cranky Microsoft programs, and generally feel good about yourself. For detailed advice on updating to a new System (albeit written for OS 7.5.3), check out our Web page: Best fishes, Clint -- Clint MacDonald | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:45:07 -0500 From: Trevor Zylstra Subject: [A] audio cd Gerrit Velthuis wrote: > I have the following question: Is there a way to stuff 74 > minutes of audio (aiff) files (the extracted content of a > cd) on a 70 minute CD-R. I know this is a common way to > protect commercial audio-cd's, but maybe someone found a > way to compress the files a little bit, so they would fit. Commercial audio CDs are not protected. They are not in AIFF format, either. They follow the Red Book specification laid down by Sony and Philips in 1980. AIFF stands for Apple Interchange File Format, and it is a computer audio file type. If you would like to write audio CDs on a CD-R drive there are several programs that will allow you to do that. I liked Toast CD-DA from Astarte, but the program was sold to Adaptec. You could also try Toast 3.5 from Adaptec or MasterList CD from Digidesign. You should have no problem writing 74 minutes onto a CD-R in most cases (unless you buy the ones marked 65 minutes, so don't). Finally, if you really do want to write 74 minutes of AIFF files onto a CD-R you can do that too. It will not be readable by an audio CD drive, however. It will be a CD-ROM with AIFF files. Toast is capable of that as well. Trevor Zylstra Mars Studio 715-381-3100 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 98 11:01:23 GMT From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk Subject: [A] default editor James Palmer had Word 5.1 and Word 6 on the same Mac. He deleted Word 5.1, but now double-clicking on a Word document tries to load 5.1, and not 6. This is due to the way that the Mac keeps track of what application to launch for what document in a desktop database. If there are two applications with the same signature (e.g. two versions of the same app as above), you could get either application, depending on which one appears first in the database. The solution is to rebuild the database after trashing the application you don't want and emptying the trash. (Copying an application to a disk automatically creates a database entry for that application, but deleting the application does not delete its database entry.) To rebuild the desktop database, restart your Mac with the Option and command keys both held down together. This will generally tidy things up, and may slightly improve Finder performance. It's worth doing this every few months, especially if you try out a lot of applications and then ditch them. Ian. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:39:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Darryl Lee" Subject: [A] powermac as server Claes T. Malmberg writes: > It seems to me that the only way to persuade some people that a mac is > useable as a server, is to provide solutions that are cheep. I have some > powermacs to play around with (4400/200) and an opportunity to show what > can be done with a mac. So I would be happy if anyone can give me info > about freeware/shareware programs that can turn a powermac running system > 7.x/8.x into a mail- and webserver (and perhaps file- and ircserver as > well). Even URLs to info on using a powermac as a server are > appreciated. There's a lot of good information on "Providing Internet Services via the Mac OS" at the cleverly named http://www.pism.com/ -- Darryl Lee | "That Systems Guy" | ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 98 06:06:13 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: [A] Sample sound in 44khz on Performa 6320 Quentin North wrote: >How can I sample in 16bit 44Khz stereo on a performa 6320? It only lets >me >do any sampling at 22Khz which is no good for digital sound editing. Even a >PC can do better than that. Quentin: Is this what you get when recording a new sound through the "Sound " or "Monitor's & Sound" control panels or the "Simple Sound" D.A.? Have you tried recording via a different sound utility? Try Tom Erbe's $30 shareware, "SoundHack", He's at: 25908 Tournament Road #276 Valencia, CA 91355 On my Mac it offers 44KHz recording. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:03:34 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A]: G3 servers 266 MhZ G3 with Appleshare IP 5.x installed. Blazing fast, extremely reliable, serves all sorts of functions and computers including NT. without ASIP, using normal Sys 8.1 it was still reliable, just not as fast. ASIP allows for FTP site and lots of other capabilities. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:16:58 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A]: scsi hell Hardie, A few things to try/check: 1) Updated drivers on the Internal HD, Sys 7.6 had required updated drivers. Use Drive Setup to update them. 2) SCSI addresses, it is clear that the CD & HD are incompatible somehow, make sure that they are on separate SCSI addresses. You can check this with Mt Everything, a wonderful utility for mounting HDs. I would focus on the problem of getting the CD to mount, that seems to be the common thread. 3) Termination: The internal drive should be terminated, but if it is an IDE drive you may not have a properly terminated chain. You may actually need to terminate both the external devices. 4) Do you have another cable to try? The only test I know for cables is to have another one to change out. I'm sure someone with proper test equipment can do it better, but... an intermittent cable can cause all sorts of problems. 5) You need to get the system CD for 7.6 or newer and use the utilities. It is worth a couple of bucks to get System 7.6.1 on CD. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:36:54 +1000 From: "Stewart Smith" Subject: [A]Internet "connection keeper" >I remember seeing a utility that would keep internet connections from >timing out by sending frequent signals to the server. Does anyone remember >the name of this application? You can use a product that "Pings" a server. There are some around the occational hacking site (when you send constant pings to a server it slows it's internet connection to a halt). Look for something with ping in the name. I have a small program that will do this if needed. --------------------------- Stewart Smith Advanced God at Purple Grapefruit web - http://vll.com/purplegrapefruit/ mail - purplegrapefruit@kagi.com ICQ - 6734154 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 98 16:47:43 -0700 From: "Brian Wessels" Subject: [Q] Scanning resolution Just bought a $99 UMAX scanner, and it is definitely a good deal. Only problem is, I can't find any common sense guidelines on what scan resolution to use. My first instinct was 600dpi for a 600dpi printer, but you guessed it: the files are huge. And they display many times original size, although I think that's because the Mac is trying to express all the DPI using the screen resolution (72dpi). Photoshop explains that this is what happens there, apparently it happens everywhere? Even if you save as JPEG and it's only 1.6MB, a program such as GraphicConverter wants 26MB of memory to open it. And anyway, I don't know if conversion is a way to go, it seems to me I'm opening up to quality loss there. My goal: same-size photographic-quality scans of photographs that my writing software (FrameMaker) and other tools won't choke on. I really don't want to lose quality from my photos to my printed pages. My unhappy assumption: The only way you're going to use and keep that great resolution you're getting is to pile on the memory and fill up the hard disk. Deal with it. My need: Maybe a primer on the best approach to scanning and using scanned material. The hardware and software vendors tell you how to do things, but assume you know what you're going to want. Not an unreasonable assumption until prices fell so every shmoe like me could start scanning their photos into documents. Thanks in advance. ----------------------- Brian Wessels Senior Technical Writer Microtest Enterprise Group | 22 Cotton Road | Nashua NH 03063 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:31:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Darryl Lee" Subject: Aliases going AWOL Having some alias problems. Under both System 8.1 _and_ System 7.5.5, my aliases to remote volumes are "losing their place." To explain: i mount a volume. Make an alias to it. Get info on alias. Looks fine. Unmount volume (via trash can). Look at info for alias. Still fine. Double-click on alias. Suddenly info for alias changes to some _other_ volume, and it opens _that_. Totally weird. Of course, did i mention that this is on an NT 4.0 Server, Service Pack 5 with the SFM hotfix applied? Microsoft Knowledge Base has nothing on this phenomenon. A post on www.macwindows.com (great site if you have to do Mac/Windows integration) garnered no responses. Have you guys ever heard of any such problem with a server? NT or _not_? (Who knows...maybe it's a client-side problem.) Thanks! -- Darryl Lee | "That Systems Guy" | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:04:39 -0400 From: David Steiner Subject: Bizarre Monitor behavior (Summary) Dear InfoMac'ers: Many thanks to those who took the time to send help. Almost everyone agreed that it sounded like a hardware problem. Original (paraphrased) problem: > Something strange has occurred with my monitor and I can't figure out why > or how to fix it so I am presenting this to the collective wisdom. > > I have a G3/266 with 96M RAM running System 8.1. The monitor is an > AppleVision 1710. > > Since I got this machine, I have been running the monitor with the > resolution set at 1024 x 768, 75 MZ in the Monitors & Sound panel. This > has been working with no problems-up until this morning.... > > I went to a meeting and when I returned about an hour and a half later I > found the display had a square aspect ratio. The desktop still filled the > screen from top to bottom, but the desktop was compressed horizontally > leaving about a 1.5" black band on either side. All other resolutions except for this one worked. Resolution: Our hardware tech came and had a look at it and called Apple. They (after a fair bit of waffling) decided it was a hardware problem and prescribed a new motherboard for my G3 (said it must be the video chip). The new motherboard was not the answer. Turned out it was the monitor. Probably should have checked this in the first place but both the tech and I had it in our head that, if it was the monitor, it would have had to have affected all the resolutions. Wrong. The following from Dave Warker gives a reasonable explanation for what is going on: >Hi, Dave. I've had more than a bit of experience with the 1710 (I'm om my >8th 1710AV). It sound slike you might be borderline for a common problem >with the 1710. The horizontal output transister blows and you eventually >lose all horizontal raster and have a bright vertical line down the >center. That happened to me a few times. I've never seen your experience >but maybe the transister is getting ready to go. If you start getting >brief instances where the raster collapses to a vertical line then that >would pretty much confirm it. > >The problem definitely appears to get worse with higher resolutions and >refresh rates, presumably because that puts more stress on the horizontal >output transister. > >One other thing to check first is that you reset the PRAM in the monitor >itself. It has its own memory for settings. It will reset when you press >COMMAND-OPTION-P-R but you have to start with everything powers OFF and >press the keys immediately after turning on the computer. Let it reset 5 >or 6 times before letting boot continue. That supposedly resets the >monitor ram. > >Apple does have an extended warranty of an extra year for the 1710 >specifically because of the common problems. That gives 2 years from time >of purchase (one year original waranty plus the extra year.) A friendly >service tech might be ablt to stretch that a bit. For me, a new (bigger) monitor is in my future. :-) Thanks again to all. -David- David R. Steiner - Unix System Administator-MIS & Sciences Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:01:20 +0000 From: James Mills Subject: Booting from Zip Does anyone know the keyboard combination to boot from a Zip drive with a disk containing system folder? 6360 OS8.-Jimmy Mills ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:00:23 -0500 From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: finding on FTP sites (was Info-Mac Digest V16 #126) At 3:20 PM +0000 6/20/98, JAMES BRUNSWICK wittily wrote: > I don't know how to find these items > you list as Archived as /info-mac/ etc... > I went to the Info Mac site and found it very > difficult to understand. There was a field to enter > the item you want to search for, but no search BUTTON, > or FIND button to click on. > Please instruct me how to search for the archives. > I want to find Innoculator 1.0 > thanks for any advice, JIM BRUNSWICK > jimages@interlog.com If you have the posting that listed Innoculator 1.0, where it says Archived as /info-mac/ etc... this is the path listing the directories it is contained in. For example: [Archived as /info-mac/gst/audiocd-webinfo-102.hqx; 28K] you would log on a info-mac FTP site, and the example file is in the pub directory then info-mac then a directory named gst and is named audiocd-webinfo-102.hqx. As easy way to download a file is to paste the path into Anarchie after you set up the info-mac site you use for the default in InternetConfig {I think this works with Fetch also}, using my example I would paste /info-mac/gst/audiocd-webinfo-102.hqx into Anarchie's FTP dialog window. Go to the Transfer menu, then select FTP, and then you should get a window paste into the section where it says "Server" and Anarchie fills everything in for you. You then would click the Get button or hit return and Anarchie will download the file assuming that is there with that name. If you don't have the posting with the path, then you can use Anarchie to do a search {in the File Menu} or use web search like http://www.shareware.com. I hope this helps. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:47:49 +0000 From: Quentin North Subject: Findit and Disk Fit Problem I have findit and diskfit on my Performa 6320 which uses an IDE drive and it works just fine. Findit shows version 1.0 and so does DiskFit. Findit will only catalog SCSI devices automatically, but you can manually catalog any device. Check that the disk you wish catalogged is selected in the Findit prefs. Diskfit doesnt depend on Findit for its database, and can quite happily backup IDE drives. Make sure the Smartset includes the folders you wish to backup. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:40:18 -0400 From: "Z. A. Punjani" Subject: Fwd: Re: Threading in Eudora At 5:38 AM -0700 6/10/98, Daly Jessup wrote: >I was reading the instructions for setting up threading behavior in Eudora, >and wanted to check my own. I went to Special/Settings and I don't see any >"Threading" option. Strange, because I am quite sure I have the function. >I'm running Eudora Pro 4.0.1 and it uploads and downloads at the same time >in the same little window. But is there a hidden place for the option? Is >it part of Eudora or part of SuperSleek? > >Daly >Daly Jessup Special/Settings -> Checking mail -> Voila! There it is at the bottom of your window in the form of a little check box. Zafar A. Punjani Please send mail to: zafar@itw.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:37:43 -0500 From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: Fwd: Re: Threading in Eudora At 5:38 AM -0700 6/10/98, Daly Jessup wittily wrote: > I was reading the instructions for setting up threading behavior in Eudora, > and wanted to check my own. I went to Special/Settings and I don't see any > "Threading" option. Strange, because I am quite sure I have the function. > I'm running Eudora Pro 4.0.1 and it uploads and downloads at the same time > in the same little window. But is there a hidden place for the option? Is > it part of Eudora or part of SuperSleek? > > Daly > Daly Jessup > mailto:%20jessup@san.rr.com The setting that I found is in the "Checking Mail" panel, there is a check box for "use background threading", there is nothing in SuperSleek, it is setup for 3.1. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 1998 12:30:01 -0700 From: dannell@primenet.com (Andy Dannelley) Subject: G3 Configuration suggestions wanted I find that I *may* be able to upgrade my Mac sooner than I thought. I currently use a Peforma 631... long over due for replacement. I want to get a G3 tower. The configuration I am considering is; 266 or 300 Mhz G3 processor 6 Gb IDE drive (lower cost than SCSI) Zip and floppy 2 Mb SG mem 2D/3D video accelerator. The way I read the spec, it looks like you don't need the additional SG memeory if you get this option as it has 8 Mb video RAM, plus it allows you to use 2 monitors. The system will be primarily used for; Photoshop, Illustrator, Web development, and accessing the Internet with Netscape Navigator. Also development of presentations using Astound. I have read that the 300 Mhz G3 is not *that much* faster feeling than the 266 Mhz. My question here is; Does the 1Mb backside chache make it worth getting the 300 Mhz G3? I also assume that since the Ultra Wide SCSI is used with a PCI card that this could be bought later when needed. Since I want immediately get at least 128 Mb more RAM, I do not want to spend all my $$ on the base system, just get what is needed now, and upgrade later when more $$ are available. Just getting the 266 Mhz instead of the 300 Mhz would save $500. What about waiting until after MacWorld Conference? Anybody heard of any new systems coming out soon, or maybe price reductions? I want to replace, but I have waited this long, and I may as well get the best price/performance available as I won't be able to repalce again anytime soon. Any and all opinions are welcome and appreciated. Thanks for any help Andy Dannelley dannell@primenet.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:49:45 -0600 From: Paul Kleeberg Subject: Getting the #%&*@ Get QuickTime Pro icon off my desktop? I am sure this has been discussed here before but I could not find a way to search the discussion archive. How can I get the "Get QuickTime Pro" Icon off of my desktop. This is incredibly annoying. Paul -- Paul Kleeberg Paul@Allina.Com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:07:44 -0700 From: Chuck Garrett Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #128 >If I bootup from the hardrive then the cd in the rom drive mounts up with >no problems. If I start from the cd then all I get is the CD on the >desktop and no hard drive. I though it was the IIci I was using so I >grabed another ci and the same thing happened. The ci's have 20 mb of ram >and I have tried with a system 7.6 and 7.6.1 CD. I think in the past I >have installed system 8.0 on a 68030 machine and it worked. you could d/l either SCSI Probe or Mt. Everything on a floppy and use that to mount the internal drive after booting from the CD. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:36:35 -0700 From: Richard Schiek Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #129 On Info-Mac I wrote: > I have a powerbook 5300ce (32Mb ram, OS 8.1, HFS+ filesystem) that has > for the most part work flawlessly for the past two years. > > In the last two weeks it has developed a strange quirk where the boot up > process will freeze just before completion. By that I mean the system > will freeze after loading all extensions and clearing the "MacOS" > startup picture but before any icons are drawn on the desktop or a > menubar is written across the top of the screen. > It finally dawned on me to try and rebuild the desktop > this morning and after rebooting three times to test it out, this seems > to have worked. Well, after over a week of reboots, the freezes are gone. It looks like it was a corrupted desktop file after all. I noticed that some of the icons were messed up before I rebuilt the desktop (all regular simple text files showed up as codewarrior files). Thanks to all who sent advice to me. When I first installed HFS+ on my internal and external hard drives I though I might be tempting fate, but HFS+ seems faster and more stable than HFS did. Thanks, Rich ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 98 01:12:56 -0700 From: Paul Mullen Subject: ISO L.A.-area desktop video equipment rentals I'm looking to rent a workstation (preferably Mac, of course!) fully-equipped for desktop video production, plus cameras and other sundry equipment for a company training video. Might anyone know of a reputable establishment in the Los Angeles area that deals in this type of business? I can look in the phone book and find a few, but thought I'd ask for bonafide referrals from the Digest first. Thanks! -Paul ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:04:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "Philip M. Tolbert" Subject: Key Finder on Mac OS 8.0 I recently upgraded to Mac OS 8.0 and I discovered that an application I had called Key Finder no longer seems to work. The application was similiar to Key Caps, but better. Since I can not go backwards on my operating systems (I also purchased a new machine and don't even have the OS disks) I can not even determine who made the original application. Does anybody have any information about it? I did search the archives and can not find anything. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Thanks, Philip M. Tolbert ptolbert@mail.win.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:07:07 +0100 From: "Stephen Hopkins" Subject: Mac access to NT 4 server Hi all Can you help. We've got a solitary Mac here used by our graphics department. It's connected to our WinNT network via Token Ring and has a Mac accessible volume on a WinNT 4 server. It's set up using Services For Macintosh on the NT server. The Mac is running system 7.5.3. Something odd is going on: the Mac volume is visible at one of our client sites! We have a Cisco router dedicated to this client site and their Mac people can see our Mac area. It would appear that Appletalk is getting out via our router, even though it's a TCP/IP router only! I've read a bit about this but not a great deal and would be grateful for any clarification. However, we also feel that there is an issue with the way our Mac accesses the volume on the NT4 server. Our Mac logs onto the NT4 server via 'Guest Access.' and then uses Microsoft Authentication and this, we feel, is where the problem lies. How do we enable registered user access? If we disable the guest access to the NT server, the Mac can't log onto the NT machine at all, saying that there's no recognised server. When the guest account is enabled, there is no 'Registered User' option. If we can enable registered users, there will be no security problem with the Mac people at our client site viewing the contents of the Mac volume. Any clues? Finally, is it worth upgrading to MacOS 8? Does it have better support for connectivity to NT servers. I'm running it on a standalone machine at home so don't have much knowledge about its NT support because I don't have to! Thanks in advance. Replies via email much appreciated. :-) Steve stephen.hopkins@ait.co.uk -- ------------------------------------------ And on the 7th day, God created Macintosh! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:33:09 -0500 From: user Subject: MAC Users! Finally a free easy CD to Hard Drive recorder program For all you Mac users who, like me, have had a futile time finding a freeware program to record sound clips from CD to your hard drive, for your web site or whatever, I have FINALLY found one! Go to http://www.mp3.com/software/mac/cdrippers.html and download SoundSmith. It is only about 302k and is very easy to use. You basically open the track on the cd you want, set starting and ending times, click play, then it saves it as an AIFF file on your hard drive. Then you can use other programs to fade the ends of the clip, process, or convert it to another format like WAV or mp3. Just wanted to share this joy with the world! Kurt Kirton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:47:48 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: NOT selling a Newton Hello from your Fickle Friend, Daly. I feel moved to apologize. A few days ago I offered my Newton for sale. We were anticipating some changes in our lives and I was going to gather cash and simplify. And besides, I have recently awakened to Y2K in a big way, and concluded that I should turn non-essentials into cash. So I half-heartedly offered my Newton for sale. Immediate seller's remorse. Since then the Newton has done me even more favors and is actually becoming essential. Besides, I love it. We have agreed that any plans we make will not involve eliminating anything from Apple Computer from our lives. Sorry to make it look like I was dumping the Newton just after expressing such enthusiasm for it. Actually, when my Newton made me look so good today by letting me take notes at a complicated meeting then in seconds, upload them to my PC at work and open them instantly in Word, the Newton is a friend forever. My bosses couldn't believe their eyes at the way it performed. (Actually, I couldn't either.) Anyway, I think the price I set for it told my true feelings about selling it anyway. I'll bet I didn't fool anyone, huh. Daly Daly Jessup ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:48:29 -0500 From: postmaster@realpeople.com (Gib Henry, Real People) Subject: On Location replacement (indexed disk search) Some years back, a product called On Location by On Technologies was a = wicked fast disk content indexer and locater. You would simply type a few = characters from the target document, and as you typed, the list of = documents would diminish as your string got more specific, then you could = select your document from the list of those containing that string (if the = string was long, there would usually be just one document left). It could = maintain indices in real time and could also search online indices of = off-line volumes. However, On Technologies stopped supporting the Mac, and I'm not aware of = any comparable replacement software. On Location will search existing = indices under Mac OS 8 (terrific for CD's with LOTS of backup files), but = can no longer create/maintain indices. Does anyone know of comparable replacement software? Cheers, -- Gib In human terms, Einstein was wrong: The universe as we once knew it has = imploded, and is rapidly becoming a small community. We are next-door = neighbors, you and I. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:08:34 -0400 From: Helen Hauer Subject: pdf files don't print I have a PowerPC 7100/66 running OS8.1 with a Laserwriter IINT using the Laserwriter 8.5.1 extension. I am unable to print pdf files. The message that appears when I try to print is: Postscript error has occurred The error is: typecheck and the offending command is: status Could someone tell me what to do to get these files to print. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:10:00 -0400 From: Scott Coats Subject: Problems with Total Recall, Inc. BOYCOTT TOTAL RECALL AND DISK ESSENTIALS! I am relating this to the Macintosh community in the hope that I save other Macaholics from making the same mistake I did=8Bdoing business with Total Recall, Inc. On May 7th, 1998 Total Recall shipped me their Disk Essentials package for $129.99 which I had ordered direct via their web site. To my dismay, they refused to provide their promised 90 days of free telephone technical support until they had PHYSICALLY received my registration card, EVEN THOUGH I HAD REGISTERED over the telephone and had purchased direct from their own web site. THEY shipped me the software, they had a record of the serial number, and they knew that it was me calling=8Bwhat possible reason could they have for such a policy? If I didn=B9t have an =B3emergency=B2 for which I needed their software, I wouldn=B9t have asked for immediate support. It amazes me that a company in= the business of emergency data recovery could be so blind. They did offer me email tech support, but that doesn=B9t exactly get my customer up-and-running as soon as possible, does it? When I spoke with Joe Vesely, Disk Essentials product/customer service manager about the problem, he acknowledged that the policy didn=B9t make much sense, but said there was nothing he could do. Then they had the gall to inform me there would be a 20% restocking fee for returning the software under their 30 day money back guarantee policy. Not only will I return the software, but I will dispute the credit card charge as well. For a company to institute a policy such as this=8Bdenying promised support= to a REGISTERED USER=8Bwarrants a boycott of their software and services by= the Macintosh community. In contrast, I have always received EXCELLENT and timely technical support from their competitors (MicroMat, Symantec, and FWB Software). Don=B9t do business with this company! Be forwarned that if you do, you will NOT get any telephone support from them until they have received your registration card in their hands=8Bfor what reason, Mr. Vesely couldn=B9t state. Scott Coats Innovative Data Solutions Key Largo, FL ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:37:26 +0200 From: "Holger Schleicher" Subject: Q: Incomplete Digest Issues After upgrading to Outlook Express 4.0.1, i always receive a info-mac digest issue with an attachment not containing anyhing (no Resource fork, no data fork). Sometimes, i donot receive the complete digest issue. For example: Volume 16 : Issue 127. The last item i receive was: [*] IP Poster Script 1.0 When i use my company account, whith CommuniGate, i can see the whole issue. So it must be a Outlook Express thing.... o ram i wrong? It didn't happen to me when using Outlook Express 4.0c.... What's going on here? Any suggestions anyone? TIA Holger (hs@catalox.de) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 10:53:03 -0400 From: lawrence saphier Subject: Scanner SCSI problem I have a Quadra 605 with an Apple 4X CD-ROM drive, and an Apple 256MB external hard drive.. I recently purchased a used Apple OneScanner with "ofoto" scanning software. When I put the scanner in the SCSI string the Q605 will not start up. When I remove the Apple external hard drive form the SCSI string I do get it to start up. The external drive uses Silverling software ( IT came with it) and the internal Hard Drive also uses Silverlining Software. Any ideas why the inclusion of the Apple External Hard Drive in the SCSI string inhibits the start up. I h ave tried putting the SCSI string components in different order, and the string is terminated externally. Lawrence Saphier larrys@gate.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:57:17 -0600 From: Paul Kleeberg Subject: Searching Info-Mac discussion archives How can I search the Info-Mac discussion Archives? I followed the link in the header to the Info-Mac homepage could not find a link to search the discussion archive that was not broken or that had newer digests than May 1997. Is there a way to search the discussion archive? It sure would save me from asking dumb questions. I used to save all my back issues of the archive for searching - from 1990 on - but I threw them out when the searchable web archive was created. I do hope this still exists somewhere. Paul -- Paul Kleeberg Paul@Allina.Com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:28:16 -0400 From: "Clark R. Wilkins" Subject: Serving files (Q) I have a need to serve some Quickbooks Pro files from a private page. The files themselves are cross-platform and the client is running AOL over Windows. I am using QPQ 2.1.2 as a server. Any hints on how to place the files on a private page and whether I will still need to encode them would be appreciated. Clark R. Wilkins * J.D.I. Solutions, Inc. * http://www.jdis.com (800) 974-9729 / +1 (704) 684-2773 [goes to cell/voice mail after 3 rings] +1 (404) 685-0900 (fax) | (888) 767-3509 or 7673509@skytel.com (pager) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:07:24 -0400 From: Brian White Subject: TechTool Pro reports hard drive failure and OS error code -1806 Using a G3, 233mghz, with system 8.0 Lately started experiencing unexplained crashes and slowdowns. Applications opening and some other processes that used to be so fast have now slowed down noticebly. Disk first aid says nothing is wrong. Ran TechTool Pro 2.03 in standard setting. The very first test it tries to run, a hard drive test, it stops and reports the following... "The Self Diagnostic test takes advantage of a SCSI standard that most drives employ which engages a manufacturer - created diagnostic program resident on the drive firmware. This test will validate the lower - end functions of the controller card and perform a quick test of the drive media. Some drives do not employ this standard routine. Before acting upon this failure report, check with the manufacturer to determine whether this feature is employed by your drive." I did perform some other recommended procedures and the same problem re-occurs when I run TechTool again. I did the test with all extensions off, with my Zip drive unconnected, and tested the system file which appeared to be ok. I've looked all over Apple's Web site and couldn't find anything about whether the G3's "employ this feature" or not, and since I'm past my 90 days, I can't call them for free either. Also, when this test fails, I get an error report identifying OS error -1806, which I also can't find any reference to even on 5 different sites that list Mac OS errors. MicroMat's Web site (the makers of TechTool Pro) offers no help either. Another thing. I set the program to run past any errors it finds and let it go for awhile. About 30 minutes later I checked it and my monitor was completely black and I couldn't hear the computer processing anything for a few minutes. (was it maybe running some kind of monitor test???). Not knowing what had happened, I let it go a while longer and eventually just rebooted using the keyboard. It restarted ok and the monitor was fine. Can anyone provide some info or advice about this? Am I about to lose my hard drive, or maybe it's nothing at all? Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance. Brian White ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:45:53 +0000 From: j-c@purr.demon.co.uk (real: "jc") Subject: UK ISPs - Experience with Zetnet? Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk wrote: > I'm looking for a UK internet service provider. Does anyone have any > experience, good or bad, with the Lerwick-based company Zetnet? Do you > get a reliable connection? Is it easy to get through first time? Are > downloads reasonably fast? Because it was so easy to contact them, compared with the competition, I suggested them to a client. I wouldn't do so for the same sort of client again. Zetnet's Mac software is standard stuff, no problem. My client has PCs, so I needed the PC suite, an in-house Zetnet integrated program that looks like it would be great if it actually worked. But it still doesn't make a connection more than one try in four and I can't get any useful answers out of Zetnet. (The hardware works fine with AOL; Zetnet's techies suggest ever more exotic modem init strings and seem to have no idea how to figure out what it is that AOL's getting right and they aren't). So, treat them as a Mac-only provider and you'll be fine. The one thing they did right by their PC users was provide a copy of Opera, by far the leanest, meanest, bestest web browser there is (what MacWeb ought to have been). Unfortunately there isn't yet a release date for the Mac version, but when it comes out, it should wipe the floor with all that grotesque bloatware that covers your screen with useless buttons like a gambling machine. It's going to cost more than Netscape or MSIE, but this is one occasion when spending more to get less really does make sense. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:10:41 -0500 From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: using a ext cdrom drive on a IIci? At 1:15 PM -0700 6/2/98, David L. Hirschberg wittily wrote: > I am trying to reformat a IIci using an external cdrom drive. It has been > a while since I worked with a ci so maybe some one can explain what I am > over looking. > > If I bootup from the hardrive then the cd in the rom drive mounts up with > no problems. If I start from the cd then all I get is the CD on the > desktop and no hard drive. I though it was the IIci I was using so I > grabed another ci and the same thing happened. The ci's have 20 mb of ram > and I have tried with a system 7.6 and 7.6.1 CD. I think in the past I > have installed system 8.0 on a 68030 machine and it worked. > > If anyone has an explanation or better, a solution, I would appreciate it > if you would drop me a line. > > -David > daneel@stanford.edu Try holding down these keys: command-option-shift-delete until you get the splash screen {or StartupScreen} loading. This will force the Mac to skip the internal HD and search the SCSI chain for any device with a System on it and it will then boot with first one it finds. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:33:44 -0600 From: Ted Logan Subject: Virus protection software At 9:06 AM +0100 on 6/18/98, Trevor Harris wrote: > Fellow INFO-MACers > > I need to install some commercial virus protection software on the various > Macs under my control, ranging from Powerbook 145s to 604 desktops (no G3s > yet I'm afraid). What product would be suitable. I like the look of SAM > (now NAM?), and have a bad experience with McAfee VirusScan. Any help > gratefully received. > > Trevor I strongly recommend Dr. Solomon's Virex, especially for commercial systems. It's pricey in the UK, I'm told, but it's the best -- with monthly updates USA prices are $75 for purchase plus $75/year for updates, which can be by disk or email: World Wide Web: United Kingdom: Dr Solomon's Software, Ltd. Alton House Gatehouse Way Aylesbury, Bucks. HP19 3XU United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0) 1296 318700 Fax: +44 (0) 1296 318777 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:06:01 -0400 From: Jeff Frankel Subject: Weird WordPerfect menus On June 7, Robert Devens wrote: >I wonder if anyone can give me some advice with this: I'm running Word >Perfect 3.5 on a Power Mac with OS 8.1 and have been for a while with no >problems. Today, in WP, when I click on any of the pull down menus >(except >the Help menu) the items in that menu get drawn simultaneously on the >upper >left hand side of the screen, each item lettered alphabetically (they >begin >around the apple menu and go down the left hand border of the monitor). >They'll draw over anything, including the desktop or any open document, >and >stay there until the system draws something over them. Pulling down >another >menu just draws the items from that menu over the ones already there. >Other >than that, the program itself seems to function as usual, though this >problem renders it pretty useless in practice. I tried reinstalling the >program to no >avail. The Macs in my office have undergone various kinds of WordPerfect menu weirdness from time to time, though not exactly what you describe. What usually cures the malady is removal of the preferences file, which seems prone to corruption. Find the folder System:Preferences:WordPerfect. A handful of files reside in this folder, including the Preferences file. Try quitting WordPerfect, dragging this file out onto your desktop, and restarting WordPerfect. WP will build a new Preferences file, and I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that your problem will go away. (You will, of course, have to reconfigure the various preferences.) This recommended course of action is consistent with your statement that the problem has persisted after reinstallation of the software, in that reinstallation of WordPerfect does not disturb one's existing preferences. Good luck! -- Jeff Frankel Windsor, Maine USA "Where the woodpecker pecks and the porcupine plays" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:56:01 -0400 From: xjcr2@cornell.edu (John Rethorst) Subject: WordPerfect mailing list (was: WP menus problem) > I wonder if anyone can give me some advice with this: I'm running Word > Perfect 3.5 on a Power Mac with OS 8.1 and have been for a while with no > problems. Today, in WP, when I click on any of the pull down menus (except > the Help menu) the items in that menu get drawn simultaneously on the upper > left hand side of the screen . . . I'd ask the WP mailing list, the best resource I know for advanced users (WP's developers participate, for one thing). Subscribe on the web at I like the digest option. Among the advice you'll get will probably be an exhortation to upgrade for $25 to WP 3.5e, and then download the patch from Info-Mac. Rock-solid, contextual spelling and thesaurus menus, character styles, much better outlining. -- John Rethorst Please delete initial 'x' from email address to reply. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:42:43 -0700 From: bc979@lafn.org (Doug Hardie) Subject: Yamaha CDR400 I have been trying for some time to get a Yamaha CDR400 to work with my powerbook 3400. I have not been very successful. The best I can get is it starts to write the CD and then puts out an error that the SCSI is unstable and quits. The drive works since I can create CDs on a Performa with no problem. I have tried a number of cable/terminator combinations, but obviously haven't picked the right one. I have heard from a couple of people that they succeeded with this but no longer remember how they did it. Yamaha advertises that the drive works with the pb 3400 but they only provide support for dealers. I bought the unit from APS and they have worked with me through quite a number of different configurations. I am hoping that someone remembers how to make it work. Thanks, -- Doug -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************