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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 12 May 97 Volume 15 : Issue 87
Today's Topics:
(Q) EZ135 or ZIP Drive?
(Q) System 7.6 and 32bit addressing
[Q] Any shareware mouse-key program for PowerBook?
Apple Multiscan 15 troubles
Beatles Icons
Beatles Icons
Digital Cameras
Found it! (Program to let PB w/ internal modem act as external modem)
IE Mail Utility
mac vs. nt for web serving
Printing Problems
StandardGetFile w/thumbnails
Visioneer Paperport & file formats [Q]
Word 5.1a/ PB 1400/System 7.6 solution
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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 18:20:02 -0500
From: sforde@trinidad.net
Subject: (Q) EZ135 or ZIP Drive?
I am considering purchasing a removable backup system. Two systems which
I am currently looking at are the Syquest EZ135 and the Iomega 100MB Zip
drive. Both drive seem to have gotton good reviews. Could you recommend
which system is the better one to go with.
Thanks in advance.
Sheldon.
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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 07:09:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Mark E. Ingram" <markt@mickey.mo-net.com>
Subject: (Q) System 7.6 and 32bit addressing
Andrew Cohen <ajcohen@li.net> wrote:
> ...If this resource is hacked to disable this, the box comes
> up with a wierd dialog that says "Bluets and Granola Bars",
> which is found in DSAT resource #0, along with the rest of
> the string "Make a chewy snack". Note that a boot won't
> complete this way (the finder falls over).
Andrew, I wondered where that message came from! Apparently, System 7.6
simply won't run on a Work Group Server 9150/120 - at least we couldn't
make it run after trying three sets of new motherboards, cache cards, ROM
cards, SIMMs, etc. We *did*, however, get several of the startup crashes
you describe, along with the "Granola Bars" line (which an Apple engineer
helpfully said was "a bug in 7.6"). Sorry I don't have an answer for you
(I have read that 24-bit addressing simply is "not supported" in 7.6),
but please post if you do find one.
Regards,
Mark E. Ingram
MarkT@Mo-Net.Com (also mingram@mail.orion.org)
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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:05:15 +0100
From: Phil <zhang@inrets.fr>
Subject: [Q] Any shareware mouse-key program for PowerBook?
Hello All,
Is there any shareware mouse-key program for PowerBook whithout the
extended numeric keypad?
Thanks
Phil
e-mail: zhang@inrets.fr
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Date: Sat, 10 May 97 10:50:38 -0600
From: Matt Smith <matts@unm.edu>
Subject: Apple Multiscan 15 troubles
Hi folks,
I have an Apple Multiscan 15 monitor that has begun to have trouble. It
seems as if it is gamma switching and then it will display in a yellow
hue, that while not unusable, is a problem. A check of the Mac fix-it
site shows me that this is a common issue with these monitors. I am one
month out of warranty. Has anybody had any experience with this problem?
Any dealings with Apple to fix it?
It really does seem like a hardware issue, but I am going to reinstall
the multiscan software (I am running 7.5.5 if that matters) and see if it
could be software, but an extensions off boot shows the same problem.
I've also reseated the monitor cable, clicked it on and off, and
sometimes this helps for awhile, a moment, sometimes not at all. It may
also improve when it heats up.
Thanks for your help,
Matt Smith
<matts@unm.edu>
http://www.unm.edu/~matts/smithshome.html
University of New Mexico School of Medicine Computer Services
UNM Post-Bachelor Secondary Language Arts Teaching Certification Program
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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 18:56:50 -0500
From: cbbccm2@tthsc6.lubb.ttuhsc.edu (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Beatles Icons
Friends:
I couple of years ago I saw some Beatles (you know -- the Fab Four from
Liverpool) folder icons. The icons I remember had thumbnail-sized pictures
of John, Paul, George and Ringo, and perhaps a Beatles logo or two. It
might even have been in black-and-white, though I do not recall clearly.
I want to use these to highlight my four hard drive partitions (Lennon,
McCartney...well, you get the idea :-) ). I think it was in the Info-Mac
archives, but I could be wrong. Nevertheless, I was unable to find them.
Could someone help me by sending me an FTP location?
Thanks for all your help,
Clint
--
Clint MacDonald | <cbbccm2@tthsc6.lubb.ttuhsc.edu>
<http://www.grad.ttuhsc.edu/Grad/macdonald/>
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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:35:53 -0500
From: cbbccm2@tthsc6.lubb.ttuhsc.edu (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Beatles Icons
Friends:
I couple of years ago I saw some Beatles (you know -- the Fab Four from
Liverpool) folder icons. The icons I remember had thumbnail-sized pictures
of John, Paul, George and Ringo, and perhaps a Beatles logo or two. It
might even have been in black-and-white, though I do not recall clearly.
I want to use these to highlight my four hard drive partitions (Lennon,
McCartney...well, you get the idea :-) ). I think it was in the Info-Mac
archives, but I could be wrong. Nevertheless, I was unable to find them.
Could someone help me by sending me an FTP location?
Thanks for all your help,
Clint
--
Clint MacDonald | <cbbccm2@tthsc6.lubb.ttuhsc.edu>
<http://www.grad.ttuhsc.edu/Grad/macdonald/>
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Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 06:50:00 +0000
From: dw thomas <thinktank@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Digital Cameras
Anyone got a decent run down on digital cameras? I've seen the latest breed
of 'consumer' models (from AGFA, Kodak, Casio, SONY and Olympus) but even a
recent comprehensive evaluation in MacWorld left me confused as to which
model has the best price/performance ratio. [I am more interested in the
QUALITY of the final image (fidelity of colours, clarity, tonal balance,
etc) but I am also concerned about PERFORMANCE in terms of transferring
images from the camera to the computer for manipulation.]
I'd be grateful for all replies.
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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:17:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Darryl Lee" <lee@darryl.com>
Subject: Found it! (Program to let PB w/ internal modem act as external modem)
i wrote:
> Some time ago i downloaded a demo (i think it was time-delayed) of a
> program that, when run on a PowerBook with an internal modem (be it a
> PCMCIA card or otherwise), would route any modem activity to/from the
> serial port of the PowerBook.
>
> That is to say, it let you use your PowerBook w/ an internal modem (via a
> 8-pin DIN cable) act as a regular modem for say, your Desktop
> Macintosh.
>
> Mind you, this wasn't via the network (a la Stalker's PortShare), but
> via a serial cable. The thing is, if it's serial, that means i could
> use my PCMCIA modem in my PowerBook to connect up (*gasp*) a Wintel
> box as well.
Well, Marc Sira was kind enough to direct me to a program called
PortLinker, which is no longer in info-mac, but _is_ at www.filez.com.
One problem i found w/ PortLinker though is that it does _not_ recognize
the Communications Tool Box. Which means it works fine for your
pre-System 7 PowerBooks, but otherwise, you're screwed.
_Unless_ you use Stalker Software's PortConnector, a time-limited
(whoops, not delayed) program that _is_ on info-mac that lets you
"remap" CTB-devices (like PCMCIA modem and my Printer/Modem port on my
520) to old-style Printer and Modem ports, which PortLinker can then
link together.
So...if you want to pay the $44 for PortConnector, and then fiddle
with it, PortLinker, and a proper cable (the Newton/Mac one worked
well for me), it will save you from having to buy another modem for
your desktop PC or Mac. (Then again, my friend just bought a 33.6
BestData external for her Mac for $69, so...)
At any rate, it worked for me for the 2-minute demo i got w/
PortConnector. i'm still debating whether it's worth it. >:}
--
Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | "That Systems Guy" | <http://www.darryl.com>
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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 16:35:36 -0600
From: Charles Stang <stang@muhs.edu>
Subject: IE Mail Utility
The Internet Explorer e-mail Utility is very nice except for no provision
(that I can find) to print a portion of a message; or more importantly, the
message without the heading. Anyone know a method for doing this?
Charley
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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 15:48:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Baker" <dpb@wjh.harvard.edu>
Subject: mac vs. nt for web serving
hi. i'm trying to convince people at my company to go with an aiss server for
our heavily database-driven site, but he's had mostly experience with people
running nt (he's not a techie himself). he wants to see comparisons between
the two. i've looked at evangelist and other similar websites, and they mostly
compare macs to win95 or to unix for servers. any places you'd recommend
looking, both for objective comparisons and for opinions comparing the two
(for cost assessments and performance issues)? i don't know that much about nt
myself, although i've heard the reports of security problems.
any help would be appreciated. thanks.
--
-+- David P. Baker * dpb@wjh.harvard.edu * http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dpb/ -+-
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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 11:28:20 -0600
From: Chaz Larson <chaz@visi.com>
Subject: Printing Problems
>...a postscript error that says "Limitcheck"
This indicates that some element of the page is too complex. Are there
auto-traced elements? If so, simplify them and try again.
>and
>"Awidthshow."
This PostScript operator is used when scaling text in particular ways. It
can't throw a limitcheck error directly, so something else is going wrong.
I would look for complex text manipulations, and attempt to simply them,
perhaps by converting the text to paths.
>Sometimes when printing through Illustrator I get a
>postscript error "VM error."
Your printer has run out of memory while processing that job. You can
attempt to fix it by:
1. simplifying the job.
2. using fewer fonts
3. expanding the printer's memory
chazl
05.10.97
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Date: Sat, 10 May 97 18:24:14 CDT
From: dlord@dragonlord.com (DragonLord Enterprises)
Subject: StandardGetFile w/thumbnails
Dear People,
I am trying to find the source invocation for calling the latest version
of StandardGetFile that shows a thumbnail of a picture file to the left of
the filenames, a la Photoshop, when your cursor selects that filename.
I can't find it in Inside Mac VI. Or did they roll a custom dialog?
Does anyone have some (public domain) example source? I write C++ using
the Symantec compiler. If I do have to go custom, how to I get a pointer
to the current selection?--it seems like the filter looks at filenames
all at once, at the beginning before they're displayed, not dynamically.
Please kindly reply directly to dlord@dragonlord.com. Please accept my
apologies and forward to the appropriate bboard if this is not the best
place for this question. Thank you. Peter Miller
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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 13:36:08 -0500
From: "Jonathan Bauer" <jhbauer@akula.com>
Subject: Visioneer Paperport & file formats [Q]
Hi:
I am very happy with paperport. Now that I am happily scanning in
documents instead of encumbering myself (and the world) with more paper, I
am concerned about the file format used by paperport. It seems proprietary
and nothing I can find (photoshop, jpeg view) so far can read it. Nor can
I import into other apps, like filemaker.
I do not like the idea of depending on an apparently non-standard file
format. Someday I may want to print something out and that day the
paperport software may not exist for whatever the operating system or
machine I am using.
Here's the questions:
1. anyone know anything about visioneer's format -- can anything else
read it?
2. If I convert from paperport, any recommendations what to save as.
Tried PICT but it prints lousy. Tried TIFF but the file size is huge (even
for one-bit images). Tried TIFF compressed, fair compromise but doesn't
import into filemaker.
3. I also have a problem with exported file names, posted separately
under a FilterTop subject, hoping to attract FilterTop fans for an answer.
Take a look!
Any suggestions on this welcome! I will summarize back.
TIA,
/jonathan
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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 21:44:22 +0300
From: ELB <elb1@netmedia.net.il>
Subject: Word 5.1a/ PB 1400/System 7.6 solution
Well, it was easier than I thought. Besides not stating that I was
actually running Word 1.5a on a PB 1400cs with System 7.6, the problem
turned out to be a corrupt preference file.
Thanks in advance to all those who took the time to reply to me...
E. Blasberg
elb1@netmedia.net.il
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