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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 15 Jun 00 Volume 17 : Issue 98
Today's Topics:
(A) Using Files on a mac by a PC?
Crash-happy blue-and-white G3
Ejectable drives + File Sharing = random freezes
Finder / login errors in OS 9.0.4
iMac hesitation?
Mac driver for Dlink DFE-530X ethernet card
non-digest
OS 9: IP File Sharing disabled
PC utility to read Mac disks
Warwick S and Warwick T fonts?
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Date: 15 Jun 2000 07:27:48 -0400
From: "D. Scott Beach" <spamless.sbeach@tht.net>
To: "Info-Mac Digest" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: (A) Using Files on a mac by a PC?
"Walter Stroever" <stroever@vde-verlag.de> asks:
>I have a PowerMac acting as a file server for a mixed Mac/Wintel network.
>Is
>it possible for a PC (using NT4) to use files located on a Mac? What
>software has to be run on the Mac (Shareware/Freeware) to achieve this?
>(I'm now running an ftp server, but it's not very friendly for the PC
guys)
Walter:
You could install PC MacLAN (commercial software) on each PC. That's an
AppleShare Client for Win 95/98.
- Scott
Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me.
Scott Beach <http://www.front.net/sbeach/> Toronto, Canada
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:19:33 +0100
From: rlim@roughguides.co.uk (Richard Lim)
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Crash-happy blue-and-white G3
Thanks to everyone who replied about my crash-happy blue-and-white G3.
I'm pretty sure now that it must be a hardware problem causing the
intermittent freezing and crashing: the machine froze after I
successfully installed System 8.6 on it - this was while it was still
booted from the installer CD. My question now is: is there anything one
can do, short of going out and buying Tech Tool Pro or something, to
diagnose bad memory and other hardware problems? The memory passes the
startup memory tests, so obviously some subtler diagnostic is needed.
Thanks in advance.
R.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:21:05 -0400
From: "Quattlebaum.Bill" <quattleb@niehs.nih.gov>
To: "'InfoMac'" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Ejectable drives + File Sharing = random freezes
I recall but cannot locate mentions in the past of a known issue with
ejectable drives (Zip, Jaz, CD, etc.), Apple File Sharing and systems
freezing up.
The problem is definitely rare at my institute these days with most of our
Macs running OS 9.0.4 but it still happens.
Can someone point me to a summary or ideas about the issue?
thanks (again)
Bill qb Quattlebaum
Head DIR / Scientific Computing Lab
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:49:21 -0400
From: Rodney Schmidt <schmidtr@mail.ecu.edu>
To: "INFO-MAC" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Finder / login errors in OS 9.0.4
PowerMac G4 / 400 MHz running OS 9.0.4 with firmware upgrade, ethernet
1.1, and DVD upgrade. Login app generates the type of Finder error that
we used to see in earlier systems with constant flashing between the menu
bar and a blank screen. any ideas or suggestions? Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:16:02 -0400
From: "Quattlebaum.Bill" <quattleb@niehs.nih.gov>
To: "'InfoMac'" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: iMac hesitation?
I work at a research facility that has well over 100 1st and 2nd generations
iMacs. The majority of them are running OS 9.0.4 but some still have 8.6.
Regardless of the OS or the RAM (all have enough real RAM to not run Virtual
memory) most of them share an irritating problem:
Frequently the iMac will stop responding - the seconds on the clock display
will freeze. But in about 10-30 seconds it start running just fine again. If
you wee typing in MS Word the keystrokes are ignored until it unfreezes. If
you were in the Finder clicking a folder it does not open until the thaw.
For another 30 minutes (or other arbitrary time) all will be fine then it
might repeat. It happens regardless of being on or off our LAN - even users
at home experience this.
Does anyone have suggestions or know of an Apple Tech solution about this.
thanks,
Bill qb Quattlebaum
Head DIR / Scientific Computing Lab
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:17:40 -0700
From: David L Hirschberg <daneel@stanford.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Mac driver for Dlink DFE-530X ethernet card
Hi,
I have a D-link DFE-530TX PCI card that is still in the shrink wrap.
D-link does not have a Mac driver for it. Is there a reason why this
card could not work in a mac? Has anyone every tried this card with
another driver?
Thanks, David
daneel@stanford.edu
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:45:38 -0400
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@info-mac.org>
To: raymond <raymond@actcom.co.il>
Subject: non-digest
raymond wrote:
>Hello,
>I am looking for the way how to get the info-mac in the regular way, and
>not in the digest way.
Hi, Raymond. The Info-Mac Digest is just that - it's an email digest.
Historically, that's been the way it has been distributed. We've
never had an individual msg version of the Digest and haven't really
considered adding that option.
tom coradeschi
tcora@info-mac.org
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:16:15 +1200
From: Nigel Stanger <nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
To: Chris Pepper <pepper@zumadigital.com>, Info-Mac <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: OS 9: IP File Sharing disabled
On 14/6/2000 2:59 PM, Chris Pepper <pepper@zumadigital.com> spake thus:
> Has anyone else seen this problem before? I've seen the
> checkbox unavailable when IP networking wasn't active, but it is
> (File Sharing correctly displays my IP address).
You also need to have installed the extension "ShareWay IP Personal Bgnd",
as this is what actually provides the IP file sharing services. I don't
think it gets installed by default, but you should be able to do a custom
install.
--
Nigel Stanger, mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz
Dept. of Information Science, http://strange.otago.ac.nz/
University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.
%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:04:01 -0500
From: Brad Hodgeman <hodgeman@mac.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: PC utility to read Mac disks
>I'm looking for a shareware utility that will allow me to read Mac disks on
>an NT or Win95/98 box.
Try HFVExplorer from http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/HFVExplorer/. I
haven't used it extensively, but it seemed to do a good job when I
tried it on my work NT machine. And it is freeware.
I first found the utility at http://www.macwindows.com in their
solutions department. The place is a good resource for mac/win
integration.
brad
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:55:37 +0100
From: "F.J. Lalor" <stch8002@bureau.ucc.ie>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Warwick S and Warwick T fonts?
As far as I recall, my first Mac (an SE) came with Warwick S and
Warwick T fonts as part of the pre-installed font suite but I have
managed to lose them over the intervening years. Does anyone know
where I might get them?
TIA -
Fergus Lalor
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