Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #234 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 05 Jan 99 Volume 16 : Issue 234 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#461/04-Jan-99 (A) Color Stylewriter 2500 (C) Surprise! OrangePC now works with Cable internet (Q) Key command for "move to trash"? [A] Macintosh 'ping' application Epson Stylus Color 740 technical printing question help Finder problem Fwd: Epson Stylus Color 740 technical printing question help Fwd: Incredible Info-Mac Digest V16 #233 Macintosh 'ping' application Macs Print to HP1120c Netscape hanging Note pad not working Pent II 300 system 10575 Stylewriter 1200 refills 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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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 #234" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:00:00 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#461/04-Jan-99 TidBITS#461/04-Jan-99 In this first issue of 1999, we welcome the new year with information about several software updates including new versions of BBEdit, Conflict Catcher, PaperPort software, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. We also bring news of PhotoScripter, scripting software for Photoshop; a look at what's up with running Linux on your Macintosh; and the beginning of an in-depth examination of the world of digital cameras. Topics: MailBITS/04-Jan-99 Running Linux on Your Mac: An Update The Second Generation of Digital Cameras, Part 1 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-461.etx; 28K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:12:20 -0500 From: "Brooks A. Rowlett" Subject: (A) Color Stylewriter 2500 > Roger Wise writes: > >All of a sudden, when I try to print with my StylerWriter 2500 I get a > >message that says the ink cartridge is missing or not installed correctly. > > Roger: > You don't mention if you've addressed the dialog boxs' complaint. Have you > tried removing the darn ink cartridge and re-installing it? > Scott Beach < This also happened to me on installing 8.5.1, and I never got it fixed. But I bought a used Laserwriter IINT at around the same time, and sinde I hardly ever printed color anyway I have the Stylewriter sittign there waiting for someone to tell me how to fix it. So I'd say this was not an isolated problem -- -Brooks A Rowlett ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:43:27 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: (C) Surprise! OrangePC now works with Cable internet Dear Digest readers, In an amazing feet of magic OrangePC's Windows 95 software finally caught on to the fact my Mac has a built in ethernet card. What's more it now works with @home Cable internet. Took me six months to figure out how to do it, but now that it works I am amazed. @home even claims that it won't work. But here it does, and I think Mac users have something to rejoice about. Now there is absolutely nothing that won't run on a Mac. I am still working out how it worked, but I can say that it is possible under the following: OrangePC 620 card AMD 6x86/200 Mhz with version 3.2 update of the OrangePC drivers. 64MB of RAM on the OrangePC board. Insignia Solutions SoftWindows 95 datadisk. Yes that's mixing two of them together! Even more amazing this feet was performed on a PowerMac 7200/75 and on an external hard disk. Anybody actually trying to do the same, please contact me, because I'd like to know if there are ways to speed up the ethernet connection to match that of the Mac's speed. Still it is remarkable that it does work. Now running Netscape 4.0.5 for Windows 95 on a Mac at 200 Mhz Pentium speeds. :-) Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:48:11 -0800 From: Paul Brians Subject: (Q) Key command for "move to trash"? What is the keyboard command for "move to trash" in System 8.1? The menu shows command and a symbol I'm unfamiliar with (rectangle with a triangular-shaped projection on the left, surrounding an "x"). Keycaps says it's control-w, but pressing command-control-w while a folder is highlighted does not in fact move it to the trash. What is it? This version of Apple Help knows nothing of keyboard shortcuts. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 06:41:44 -0800 (PST) From: PwrSurge Subject: [A] Macintosh 'ping' application I have gotten several "try these" issues. OTTool, MacTCP watcher, MacPing, PingFingMac, DNSMac, IPNetMonitor, and I'm sure there's more to come. My findings are as follows... OTTool - Freeware; Simple, Easy-to-use interface, but it was a slow download :( MacTCP watcher - $10 shareware; Simple, easy-to-use interface also, but there's a $10 shareware fee. :) MacPing - Only the demo version available, they wanted $99.00 for it; I thought that was kind of rediculous. Fast download, and unable to open because it requires the printer port open. I can't use my 56K modem (external) and activate Appletalk through the chooser, so I deleted this. PingFingMac, DNSMac, IPNetMonitor - I've heard good stories, but I decided to stay with Freeware. :) Hope this helps. --Tim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:59:46 -0500 From: Vincent Cayenne Subject: Epson Stylus Color 740 technical printing question help > I need help in printing a booklet. How does one print odd pages only, > then even pages only. I want to print odd pages only on the fronts and > then even pages only on the back. A recent Info-Mac submission, skip-print-102e.hqx, purports to be able to do this. Check the archives. --------- "Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts" (Rutherford/Robertson) Vincent Cayenne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:11:34 -1000 (HST) From: cesar@lava.net (Ed Cesar) Subject: Finder problem I am experiencing an frustrating problem with Finder. Whenever I open an application all the icons on my desktop dissapear. I can make them reappear by clicking on Finder in the window in the upper right hand corner of my screen. While it is not a serious problem, it is an irritating one. I'm using a Performa 6300CD with 65 MB of RAM. I have done all the usual things including: trashing Finder so the system software builds a new one, rebuilding the desktop and zapping the pram. I even reinstalled the system's software. Has anyone a suggestion about what did you do? TIA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:27:56 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Epson Stylus Color 740 technical printing question help Michelle asked: >Can someone please email me at: mb@bigfoot.com > >I need help in printing a booklet. How does one print odd pages only, >then even pages only. I want to print odd pages only on the fronts and >then even pages only on the back. > >I am using an imac, Filemaker Pro 2.0, and an Epson Stylus Color 740. I downloaded a piece of shareware yesterday called "SkipPrint" from the InfoMac archives. It claims to let you do exactly what you want, though I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. You might try that. I believe it was in the "Cfg" subdirectory at InfoMac. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:17:14 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Incredible Hi, all, This is a multiple post, hoping for some quick advice for a client of mine. He's an graduate of the Naval Academy, a real gent, and quite an old man, but new to computers. I want to help him. He has a 75 MHz PowerMac 7200 running, I believe, OS 8.5 and using a cable modem. His cable modem provider is the kind where they get a fixed IP address and full-time connection (as opposed to the kind where you have to log on). He's getting a G3 300, but wants to get the 7200 working for one of his children. Its keyboard stopping printing the "V" character. He got a new keyboard but it had some kind of (unspecified) problems of its own so he went back to the one without the "V". I suggested that he pull off the key cap and blow some air inside. Does anyone have a better suggestion? It's other problem is that he cannot shut down. It was okay before he went away for a couple of weeks. Since he came home, it won't shut down. He chooses "Shut Down" from the Special menu, but nothing happens. He has to physically turn off the computer. I've asked him about all kinds of things that might be running in the background, including screen savers, fax software and the like, but he denies everything. I had wondered if it might be the cable modem trying to be on line, but he certainly had no problem with that before. Does anyone have experience with that problem, and experience with solving it? I know there's a fair amount of talk about it on MacFixIt, but I sent him every suggestion I could find at that site, and there was no joy. Any suggestions from the group? Thanks in advance. You guys are great. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 20:42:02 -0500 From: chazzz Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #233 Re: Mac Ping Application: There is such a program. It's on the Info-Mac Archive (MIT HyperArchive) Just go there and do a search. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:48:29 -0500 From: Len Kaufman Subject: Macintosh 'ping' application >I'm currently looking for a Mac App that will behave like the Win95/98 or >unix command 'ping' > >It sends small ICMP ECHO_REQUESTS to a server, and gets the results. > >If there is one that's been created.. can I please have the URL? > >If there hasn't been, would somebody throw together an app that will do that? > >Thanks. > >--Tim Tim, The program you are looking for is MacPing (3.0.4): MacPing(tm) is an IP and AppleTalk network testing tool. Just as sonar or radar systems send a signal and wait for an echo, MacPing sends "probe packets" (ICMP or AppleTalk echo packets) into the network and waits for responses from the various devices on the network. The arrival of these response packets (or the lack of responses), along with the time the responses take to arrive, can tell a great deal about the network. MacPing differs from other network testing programs in that it tests all the devices on a particular network in parallel. This allows you to compare the performance of different devices on the same wire to determine the cause of network problems. MacPing can test devices on anywhere on your AppleTalk network - simply choose the desired zone from the Zone: popup menu. If that zone contains multiple networks, choose the desired network number from the Network: popup. MacPing can also test IP networks. You can enter a host name or IP address and MacPing will test that device. In addition, MacPing can automatically determine a host's subnet, and test all the devices on that subnet. MacPing 3.0 comes in two versions: the MacPing PRO tests an unlimited number of AppleTalk zones and IP devices. The standard MacPing is limited to testing networks with up to five AppleTalk zones, and unlimited IP devices. You can download it at: Len ((())) / ~ ~ \ (| (.)(.) |) -----------------.OOOo--()--oOOO.--------------------------------------- Len Kaufman, President nfmug@mediaone.net North Florida Macintosh Users Group http://www.nfmug.org ------------------.oooO------------------------------------------------ ( ) Oooo. \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:28:08 -0800 From: "Jeffrey D. Niederauer" Subject: Macs Print to HP1120c I have a HP 1120c printer I purchased mainly for use with a mac, with that printer offering a good price point for color 11x17 printing. I also purchased a HP JetDirect 150X print server I was planning to connect to an NT4 server I have running... that didn't work out too well, so I'm looking for a mac solution: How would you propose to hook up a PC printer to a Mac? If your answer is PowerPrint, it doesn't support the 1120C (I've tried it and sent it back). Is there some other software driver, or even a PPD or whatnot I could use to somehow get this printer working? (eg: PPD, NT server, JetDirect). I appreciate any help you can offer. =) Thanks. -JDN -------------- A sequential list of disasters Titanic '12 Hindenburg '36 Hiroshima '45 Chernobyl '86 Windows '95 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:20:54 -0800 From: Bill Rausch Subject: Netscape hanging >John McGibney said: I don't think its peculiar to system 8.5. I have system 8.1 and Netscape >Navigator 4.05 on my Mac 6100, and it does the same thing also. It downloads a >page and then hangs for 5-10 seconds before displaying it. I also tried >Communicator 4.5 and it does the same thing. I wrote in to InfoMac about 1 >month ago and got no replies. It has to be a conflict with something in the >system folder but I never bothered to really diagnose it. Maybe OT/PPP or a >library file accessed by OT/PPP. Did you upgrade to OT/PPP 2.0? I think it >comes with the 8.5.1 system upgrade. I've had the same experience with Systems from 7.6.1 to 8.1 with Netscape 4.0x. However, I believe it is particularly related to the processing of certain HTML tables. I notice the slowdown specifically on pages that display stock and mutual fund values; my wife has seen it on a web based bulletin board she uses. For most web pages I don't see this particular slowdown. For what it's worth, the exact same web pages will render in IE several times faster. Bill Rausch, Mac and Unix User and Programmer, brausch@owt.com 613 Lynnwood Ct, Richland, WA 99352 509-375-5147 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:36:09 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Note pad not working Ezra asked: >I have lost the use of my note pad file. When I try to open it via the >Apple menus (or directly) I get the message: > >>The document 'Note Pad File' could not be opened because the applicaton >>that created it could not be found. >Could not find translation extension with appropriate translation.< > >I recently made my HDs HFS+ (internal and external) using Alsoft's >PlusMaker, but I am sure that the Note Pad File worked after I did so. >Surprisingly I have a backup of the system folder on my external HD, but >when I switch to that HD as the startup one I still get the same message >that the Note Pad could not be accessed. > >Does anyone have an idea how I can get it to work again? And how could this >glitch have occurred? I would use some universal file opener such as CanOpener to try to open the Preferences file for NotePad, to recover the text. You could go to your MacOS Easy Open Control Panel and click the "Delete Preferences" button, then create an Extensions Manager set containing only MacOS Easy Open, AppleScript, and whatever you might absolutely require in order to run your computer, and rebuild the desktop. Then rebuild again with your regular set active. That MIGHT recover the file. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Monday, 04 Jan 1999 21:11:49 -0600 From: RajLamba@aol.com Subject: Pent II 300 system 10575 Hello I have some 36bit 600x1200 scanners that i want to sell. Along with vidoe cards netwoking few other things you can see the list of things i have at http://members.xoom.com/RajLamba/comp.htm copy and paste the address. You are welcome to make an offer to me on any of those prices I will try my best to do whatever i can for you Thank you. Raj PnB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:36:18 -0800 From: Frank Ripp Subject: Stylewriter 1200 refills I've run through my supply of Stylewriter 1200 cartridges. Can anyone recommend a cheap source for these cartridges (or their Canon equivalent)? PS: I'm not interested in refilling cartridges - only in new ones. Thanks, Frank --------------------------------------------------- Frank Ripp, Senior Technical Writer MDL Information Systems, Inc 14600 Catalina St, San Leandro, CA 94577 Phone: (510) 895-1313 Email: frankr@mdli.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************