Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #128 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 23 Jun 98 Volume 16 : Issue 128 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#435/22-Jun-98 (A) Re: LaserWriter Paper Size defaults (Q) default editor [A] Backup driver for Lacie (?) [A] Curve fitting [A] PowerBook 160 vs System 7.6.1 [A] PowerBook 160 vs System 7.6.1 [A] WORD 98 (asking for CD) [Q] Sample sound in 44khz on Performa 6320 Bizarre Monitor behavior Font Utility FONTASTIC, you say? Further Explanation Of Photoshop 5 Bug Fwd: Find file in OS 8.0 Dialog boxes (Q) Fwd: Rescinding Holdout Status on FinderPop / OS8.X G3 servers Info-Mac Digest V16 #117 Internal modem PowerMac 5500 Laserwriter paper size defaults LaserWriter Paper Size defaults Macplus and Zip drive Micromat - on the "good guy" list? Monitor-Got the red out MS Employee said . . . Netscape 4.05 problem Netscape programming Outlook Express 4.0.1 can't read the Info-Mac Digest! 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Also this week, Jeff Carlson reports on the woes of Macintosh early adopters of Palm's 2 MB PalmPilot upgrade card, and Adam finishes off his comprehensive backup series with answers to some sticky questions. In news, UserLand announces pricey subscriptions for Frontier 5.1 and Connectix releases Surf Express 1.1.5. Topics: MailBITS/22-Jun-98 As the HFS Plus Disk Turns PalmPilot Upgrade Card Problematic for Mac Users Have You Backed Up Today? Part 4 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-435.etx; 28K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:21:29 +0100 From: Dudley Warrington Thomas Subject: 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)? All information appreciated. DUDLEY THOMAS 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: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:06:43 +0000 From: Martin Shovel Subject: Further Photoshop 5 bug which may well be related to my previous posting. One would expect a flattened Photoshop 5 file to be larger than the same file saved in Photoshop 2 format, the opposite is true. Here's an example of a flattened image I've just finished: Photoshop 5 format, size = 358k; Photoshop 2 format, size = 3.2 megabytes!!!! Check out my two Web portfolios: My Homepage: http://www.shovel.dircon.co.uk/ My Contact Creative Club page: http://www.contact-uk.com/MartinShovel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:01:50 -0600 From: Jonathan Kamien Subject: (A) Re: LaserWriter Paper Size defaults At 1:46 PM -0800 5/20/98, macman@nospam.StainedGlass-Software.bc.ca (Carl B. Constantine wrote: >Anyone know how to get the laser writer paper size to STAY at US LETTER >instead of always defaulting to US LETTER SMALL? I tried the Apple Printer >Utility, but it just has settings for LETTER. No size variants. > >Anyway of removing or defaulting the printer to the proper size? This is >extremely annoying and has caused me grief in the past. I had to print my >Tax return twice because of this. The SMALL size cuts off a bunch of text. >Once I figured out what the problem was, I fixed it. But it's extremly >annoying to have to try and remember to change this whenever I print. > >Any help is appreciated. Go to Page Setup. Change the Paper Size to the one you want. HOLD DOWN THE OPTION KEY WHEN YOU CLICK "OK". Click "Save" when asked if you want to save the current settings as the default settings. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 19:54:45 -0400 From: "james f. palmer" Subject: (Q) default editor I have been consolidating my work and home Macs for the summer. The consolidated 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. Is there a default editor seting somewhere (like in Unix) that I need to change? I have uninstalled and reinstalled Microsoft Office, but that did not help. Changing the translation preferences in MacLink didn't help either. I have not rebuilt the system (it is a bigger job). Any suggestions? Jim Palmer, Fayetteville, NY ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:10:25 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] Backup driver for Lacie (?) DiskCopy 6.3.1, ShrinkWrap, & Stuffit Deluxe has the ability to partition files Thanks! -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 10:32:16 +0900 From: Takuya Harada Subject: [A] Curve fitting At 10:01 PM -0400 98.5.28, Zoltan Tyeklar, Ph.D. wrote: > I am looking for a high-end curve-fitting/plotting program for the Mac that > could fit experimental data on several independent variables, i.e., y(1), Igor Pro from WaveMetrics is the best I have ever seen. Visit http://www.wavemetrics.com ------------------------------- Address :tharada@pb3.so-net.ne.jp Real Name:Takuya Harada Yokohama, Japan. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:22:41 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] PowerBook 160 vs System 7.6.1 >On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Maurice Mike McNeil wrote: >If not enough RAM, why would the boot floppy work, but not the system on >the HD? The shutdown routine should be the same. Or not? If the boot floppy works, then there is hope. The boot floppy is a really stripped down system and thus takes up less RAM. I have had mixed success with copying the System Folder from the startup floppy to a HD. Usually it works, sometimes it complains loudly. Have you done a "Clean Install" of System 7.6 vice an upgrade? All sorts of potential problems with upgrades since we all tend to add extensions and toys which make our Macs so unique, personal, and powerful :). Couple of approaches for accomplishing this depending on how you are installing (e.g. CD, over the net). I like to boot from an external drive, rename the System Folder, remove everything from the SF that is part of the previous system including the system & finder. This should leave you with Preferences and any add-ons. If you have sufficient disk space, just install the new system and then slowly add preferences & extensions. Do NOT add preferences for the finder or extensions manager or other system stuff, sometimes these will cause problems with the new versions. System 7.6 had an option for clean install, not sure how you activate it anymore. Hold down the option key when selecting install? I've been on MacOS 8 for so long I am beginning to forget some of the tricks for earlier systems. Thanks! -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:08:35 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] PowerBook 160 vs System 7.6.1 At 3:58 PM -1000 5/26/98, Jerry Levinson wrote: You may not have enough RAM for 7.6 Did you try installing a minimum system "for this computer" on the HD? Thanks! -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 03:07:36 PDT From: "Randall G. Floyd" Subject: [A] WORD 98 (asking for CD) >Why on earth does Office 98 for Mac keep asking for the installation CD >moments after I first open, access the spelling checker or go to add a >border? (These peculiarities do NOT happen every time I perform the >operation) > >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 Funny thing, this just started happening to me a few days ago after months of not doing it. It was only when I selected New from the File menu, though. I had just installed some new templates or something, but it had placed an alias to a file on the CD into my template folder, so every time the template window popped up it wanted me to insert my CD. Although you're problem's not identical, it sounds like it's probably the same thing. In case you don't know, the really easy way to find these is to do a 'Find' from the Finder (Apple-F), drag the Office folder onto the pop-up menu at the top next to the text 'Find items', change the default search to 'kind is alias' and hit Find. You can then check them all from there. The only thing I know to do with them to stop this problem is to trash them. Randall ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:36:53 +0000 From: Quentin North Subject: [Q] Sample sound in 44khz on Performa 6320 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 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:35:41 -0400 From: David Steiner Subject: Bizarre Monitor behavior Greetings, 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. Here is what I have tried so far: - Tested every other resolution setting offered from 640 x480 to 1280 x 1024. With the exception of 1024 x 768, they all fill the screen normally. - Under Geometry in the control panel, tried the Factory Settings button. No change. - Rebooted. No Change. - Zapped the PRAM. No change. - Removed the Monitor & Sounds Preferences from the System Folder and rebooted. No Change. I am beginning to suspect the video circuitry but wanted to see if anyone out there might be able to offer another possiblity. TIA David R. Steiner - Unix System Administator-MIS & Sciences Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:03:12 EDT From: Mercibeate@aol.com Subject: Font Utility Hi All, I'm looking for font utility software that will allow me to print samples of fonts which are not installed (they are on a CD). Any recommendations? TIA Rob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 15:52:27 -0400 From: Allan Hunter Subject: FONTASTIC, you say? In Info-Mac V16 #121, phil.long@ecm.emap.com wrote: >Subject: [*] FONTASTIC! samples.sit > >Please find attached a shareware submission for your archive. >Two display fonts and accompanying info contained in the file. >The display fonts are: > >Joblot >Rangle > >hope they are suitable Hi, Phil! I did a double-take when I saw this subject header. Back in the days of the 512Ke, FONTASTIC was a nifty little program we used to create and edit bitmap fonts! Anyone else recall FONTASTIC? (I think it was the progenitor of what is now Macromedia's FONTographer). Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:38:33 +0000 From: Martin Shovel Subject: Further Explanation Of Photoshop 5 Bug Further discussions today with Adobe technical support revealed the following regarding my report from yesterday, which is reproduced below. My Photoshop ruler unit preference is set in centimetres. When I originally drew and saved my image file the resolution default was in pixels per inch - as a user of Photoshops 3 and 4 I have always understood the default setting for file resolution to be in pixels per inch irrespective of one's choice of ruler unit in preferences. While exploring the situation with Adobe technical support we discovered that when a new file was created with identical dimensions - in centimetres - to the saved original, the default resolution measure automatically changed from pixels per inch to pixels per centimetre! This obviously accounts for the discrepancy in file size between the 2 files. This is clearly a bug. The first file saved its resolution setting in pixels per inch - a default setting we've come to expect from previous versions of Photoshop irrespective of the ruler unit setting changes made in preferences - whereas the second file changed its default resolution setting automatically to pixels per centimetre in response to my ruler unit preferences setting. Quirky or what! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- YESTERDAY'S REPORT Last night while scanning some linework into Photoshop 5, I came across the following bug. I reported it to Adobe UK technical support this morning and they managed to replicate the problem. Here's an example of the problem. I opened a previously saved CMYK Photoshop 5 file. Its pixel dimensions were 891 wide by 844 high, print size was 7.54 cm wide by 7.15 high, resolution was 300 dpi. Next I created a new file with exactly the same specifications but when I dragged the first image into the new file it appeared to be incredibly small - it had previously filled the window of the original file. I opened image size on the new file and was surprised to find pixel dimensions of 2262 by 2145, the size in centimetres was identical to the first file. Not surprisingly the second file was some 3 times bigger in terms of megabytes than the first! As mentioned above, my first experience of the problem was moving linework scanned directly into Photoshop into a new Photoshop file. As a control I created a new file from scratch in Photoshop and drew something in it without saving it. I then created an identical new file and dragged the first drawing across to it. Absolutely no problem, the 2 files were identical in all respects, and the image was sized identically in both file windows. Has anyone else encountered this bug? Adobe technical support have promised to get back to me after further investigation of the problem. Check out my two Web portfolios: My Homepage: http://www.shovel.dircon.co.uk/ My Contact Creative Club page: http://www.contact-uk.com/MartinShovel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:40:58 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Find file in OS 8.0 Dialog boxes (Q) A Brody asked: >I know I have asked this question before, but maybe since that time >somebody has developed a compatible version. Default Folder I know allows >you to keep aliases of folders you access frequently, and Instant Folder >allows you to do the same from the Open/Save Dialog boxes. Last time I >used Directory Assistance it crashed, but maybe I wasn't using the most >current version. >I've heard of Superboomerang doing the same, but is there a MacOS 8 >compatible version that has a Find File within the Open/Save Dialog boxes? I think Action Files does this. Can anyone confirm? Daly Daly Jessup mailto:%20jessup@san.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:21:15 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Rescinding Holdout Status on FinderPop / OS8.X Allan Hunter wrote about how he has learned to be satisfied with FinderPop and so no longer cares (very much) that Alsoft didn't answer up about whether they would make a System 8-compatible verson of PopUpFolder. I am another person who felt that PopUpFolder was almost good enough to skip System 8 in order to keep it. Nonetheless, I've gone along with FinderPop. It's good, but at least on my machine, not nearly as instantaneous as PopUpFolder, undoubtedly because of all the other functions in the menu that are included with FinderPop. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I just today had an email from Alsoft, addressed to "Dear loyal PopupFolder enthusiast," explaining most courteously and regretfully why they have not been able to get the update. They said it sounds simple but isn't, and the original programmer of PopUpFolder has serious health problems that keep him from working on it. And so on and so forth. They are still trying. As a kind of apology, they offered one of their programs for free, called "Personal Backup". It is a demo version, but if you like it after two weeks of use you can call them and ask for a free serial number. They also direct you to FinderPop and to PowerMenu, and say that they can't set a date for PopUpFolder or even guarantee completion. Anyway, I thought it was decent of them. Its tone certainly showed that they were aware of what a disappointment this was to the PopUpFolder users. Daly Allan had said, in part: >Alsoft: You have squandered what you had, including a rather chauvinistic >following for PopupFolder, people who wanted what they had had in System 7 >to work under OS 8. People who wqnted PopupFolder so badly they'd forego >upgrading to MacOS 8 and stick with 7.X just to be able to use PopupFolder. > >I nevertheless wish you luck with the rest of your Mac-oriented product >line. However, at this point I'm satisfied with FinderPop, so I don't need >you. Daly Jessup mailto:%20jessup@san.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:40:49 -0400 From: Sandy Kennedy Subject: G3 servers I'm not sure whether this is the right address for postings but the network administrator at my school is considering purchasing some G3 servers. Has anyone out there had any experiences with these machines that could share them with us? TIA. Sandy Sandy Kennedy Tech Facilitator University Liggett Middle School Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 98 06:37:37 +0100 From: Richard Platt Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #117 Dudley Warrington Thomas wrote >Why on earth does Office 98 for Mac keep asking for the installation CD >moments after I first open, access the spelling checker or go to add a >border? (These peculiarities do NOT happen every time I perform the >operation) Dudley. Have you tried reinstalling Office 98 from the CD? Sounds like a bit is deleted or corrupted. Richard Platt Telephone: (44) 1892 890741 Fax: (44) 1892 890951 The Old Squash Court, Bayham Abbey, Lamberhurst, Kent, United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 16:13:00 +0000 (EZT) From: Nico.Rozendaal%NP%UniMaas.NL@MSN.RULIMBURG.NL Subject: Internal modem PowerMac 5500 Hallo, At home I own a PowerMac 5500. This Mac has an internal 33K6 modem. Now, when I dialup to the university network to get a TCP/IP connection, the maximum speed is about 3 to 3.5 k/second. Other users that connect with another modem reach much higher speeds. Also, when I use ARA to connect to our department server (running AppleShare IP 5.0.2), the speed is low. The PowerMac 5500 runs OS8, and I use FreePPP (latest version). What to do to get the maximum out of this PowerMac 5500 modem ? Any suggestions are welcome, TIA, Nico Rozendaal, University of Maastricht, Dept. of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, Maastricht, The Netherlands ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 98 10:51:08 +0100 From: Richard Platt Subject: Laserwriter paper size defaults Carl B. Constantine asked >Anyone know how to get the laser writer paper size to STAY at US LETTER >instead of always defaulting to US LETTER SMALL? ... This is >extremely annoying and has caused me grief in the past. I had to print my >Tax return twice because of this. ... it's extremly >annoying to have to try and remember to change this whenever I print. Irritating isn't it? Here in England, the standard size is DIN A4, and I had the same problem. The solution depends on which vs. of the Laserwriter driver you are using. With the newest versions, choose PAGE SETUP, set the size and orientation you want, then hold down the option/alt key when you click OK. You'll get an extra dialog asking if you want to use these settings as defaults. Older versions of the LW driver can be patched with a utility called "printer defaults" by John Rawnsley. It should be available in the usual places, or you can reach the author at these addresses: Internet: jhr@maths.warwick.ac.uk CompuServe: 100015,632 Mail: John Rawnsley Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7Al United Kingdom My version is 1.1.1, but there may be a later one. It's a tiny download. Bye now, RP Richard Platt Telephone: (44) 1892 890741 Fax: (44) 1892 890951 The Old Squash Court, Bayham Abbey, Lamberhurst, Kent, United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 07:48:15 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: LaserWriter Paper Size defaults macman@StainedGlass-Software.bc.ca (Carl B. Constantine) wrote: > Anyone know how to get the laser writer paper size to STAY at US LETTER > instead of always defaulting to US LETTER SMALL? I tried the Apple Printer > Utility, but it just has settings for LETTER. No size variants. Normally, hoding down the OPTION (aka "alt") key while selecting the OK button in the Page setup dialog helps. This should store your preferences. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 22:37:37 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Macplus and Zip drive "Larry Williams" wrote > Has anyone out there tried connecting a Zip drive to a Macplus? The > hard drive on my nephews machine has given up the ghost. So I'm > wondering what could be used to replace it. I'm assuming the Plus > wouldn't be able to handle todays drives due to there size. Shouldn't be a problem. The only thing is that the Plus's SCSI port does not supply terminating power, so one of your drives in the chain must be able to do so. Otherwise, most modern drives should work on a Plus. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 10:22:48 -0400 From: Brian White Subject: Micromat - on the "good guy" list? The honorable Al Bloom wrote... "There are three firms towards which I maintain a warm fuzzy feeling: Dantz Virex, and Micromat. Most everyone else has given me cause to wonder if quality is job one.... I got a mail note from Micromat this weekend (It's automagic if you register. Even the freebie TechTool. And it's worth it) saying there was a 203r1 update to the 202 version of TechTool Pro they sent not long ago. I got it and am happy I did." I wish I could say my experience with Micromat has caused me "warm fuzzy feelings". Not only did I not get the "automagic" email update, even though I'm a registered user, I just went through a 2.5 month long very frustrating experience with this company. I ordered TechTool Pro 2 in mid March. At the time, the expected shipping date was a few weeks away. Well, that got pushed back by a few weeks, not uncommon as you all know, and is somewhat acceptable. They even made it available (early April?) through an ftp site, but said I'd have to wait for the CD and manual (which I needed). However, what I found unacceptable was that Micromat couldn't even post this info on their Web site, I had to call their sales office for updates regarding an expected shipping date and if my order had actually gone through yet. April came and went and I made 2 or 3 more calls to Micromat, and each time I was told that my order would be sent that week. I never received it. Not only that, but my email inquiries were only answered (if at all!) after at least a few days wait. On my second call in May, I explained the situation to someone who finally put me through to "someone else who could help me with my order"! After explaining the situation again, this person told me that the reason my order hadn't gone out yet was because my credit card info had been rejected in MARCH! Trying not to sound upset, I asked why wasn't I notified of this all along. Don't you want my business? I was told that it "wasn't their policy" to notify people if their cc number doesn't go through! While I was on the phone with this person, she put the card number through again and it worked, and she said my order was now on its way. To try to make this short, that was 3 weeks ago. More emails sent to Micromat (to an individual, to sales, and to general info) and all were ignored except for one which came 5 days after my original plea for help. In all of these communications I was polite and cordial, despite my growing frustration. How a company can treat its customers this way and stay in business is beyond me. BTW, I finally received the product yesterday, June 2. Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. Brian White ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 20:29:12 +0000 From: "John McDonald" Subject: Monitor-Got the red out time now the red (gun?) has been slow to come on. Initially it came on a few minutes after starting up. The time has increased to the point where it comes on now only after extended use of the computer, i.e. > 1 hour. Sometimes the monitor now comes on with only green showing, though this only lasts a minute or so. I would appreciate any suggestions on this problem. Can the monitor be fixed or do I need to replace it? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 22:48:13 -0700 From: David Kay Subject: MS Employee said . . . I work in the Seattle area and had a patient today from Microsoft. I told him I was thinking of getting a Windows card and he told me that he could hardly get his hands on a G3 "that's much faster than a Pentium." So I guess Apple's ads are getting the message accross. Dave Kay ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 20:06:00 +0000 From: grundy@enterprise.net (Peter Grundy) Subject: Netscape 4.05 problem Whilst connected to the internet -and using Eudora Pro 3.1.3, NewsHopper or Anarchie- I have no problems _UNTIL_ I try to launch Netscape Nav.4.05 when from my Mac (PowerPC 5500/225; OS 8.1; RD 2.02; FreePPP 2.6.2) I here a *click* from the internal modem and I am disconnected. Has someone got an idea(s) or the solution to avoid this disconnection? Thanks. Lobo. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:08:46 -0500 (CDT) From: jvanden@dec1.eths.k12.il.us Subject: Netscape programming hello, I have an idea for a menu that I would like to somehow program into Netscape's standard layout. Is this a possibility, or is it illegal? Is there a way to write plugins that could do that sort of thing? Does anyone know how I could go about doing it? If Netscape isn't possible, are there any lower-level browsers that I could legally modify (perhaps with permission from the creator)? Thanks for any help you can offer, Justin Vandenbroucke jvanden@dec1.eths.k12.il.us ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 20:13:18 -0500 From: "Ed Stoessel" Subject: Outlook Express 4.0.1 can't read the Info-Mac Digest! There must be a setting somewhere to fix this problem: I'm using Outlook Express 4.0.1, system 8.1. When the Info-Mac Digest downloads, either as a mail message or as a news group article, only part of the text downloads. Then, there is an enclosure which, I presume, is supposed to contain the rest of the article. The trouble is that the enclosure is an empty file! I checked the Info-Mac Home page and digest information. I have subscribed to an email of the digest with short headers. This *may* cure the problem with the email version. I'll find out when the next issue arrives. But what about the news articles? Does anyone know how to configure OE 401 to read them correctly? Thanks, Ed Stoessel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:50:57 +0200 From: Matthew Daillie Subject: Performa 5260 and MacOS 8 I have been trying to install the French version of MacOS 8 and the update 8.1 on a friend's Performa 5260. The CDRom keeps quiting or getting stuck in the middle of the installation process. I managed to copy the CD Rom to another HD and tried to install the system from there, but the problem was the same. I also tried reinitialising the internal HD (making sure to use the driver for Mac OS 8 first) but this made no difference. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Matthew Daillie daillie@club-internet.fr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:16:13 +0000 From: Martin Shovel Subject: Possible Serious Photoshop 5 Bug? - Further Confirmation, Please. Last night while scanning some linework into Photoshop 5, I came across the following bug. I reported it to Adobe UK technical support this morning and they managed to replicate the problem. Here's an example of the problem. I opened a previously saved CMYK Photoshop 5 file. Its pixel dimensions were 891 wide by 844 high, print size was 7.54 cm wide by 7.15 high, resolution was 300 dpi. Next I created a new file with exactly the same specifications but when I dragged the first image into the new file it appeared to be incredibly small - it had previously filled the window of the original file. I opened image size on the new file and was surprised to find pixel dimensions of 2262 by 2145, the size in centimetres was identical to the first file. Not surprisingly the second file was some 3 times bigger in terms of megabytes than the first! As mentioned above, my first experience of the problem was moving linework scanned directly into Photoshop into a new Photoshop file. As a control I created a new file from scratch in Photoshop and drew something in it without saving it. I then created an identical new file and dragged the first drawing across to it. Absolutely no problem, the 2 files were identical in all respects, and the image was sized identically in both file windows. Has anyone else encountered this bug? Adobe technical support have promised to get back to me after further investigation of the problem. Check out my two Web portfolios: My Homepage: http://www.shovel.dircon.co.uk/ My Contact Creative Club page: http://www.contact-uk.com/MartinShovel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 18:52:27 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: PowerBook 160 and OS 7.6.1 > I tried loading System 7.6 and the 7.6.1 update onto my PowerBook 160 (8MB > RAM). Everything seems to work OK except that the computer freezes > whenever I try to either restart or shut down. When I boot from a 7.6 > floppy, both restart and shutdown work. I have tried 7.6.1 with base > extensions, no extensions, some extensions, no luck. I will keep trying > whatever I can think of, but thought you might have... > > Ideas? Suggestions? According to the Informinit a 160 series PowerBook needs to have a file called '131 Enabler' in the system folder to boot properly. If you did a clean install this file may still exist in your previous system folder. Other conditions may apply, check out Informinit at: ftp://members.aol.com/MacPruning/InformINIT.sit ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 13:05:14 -0400 From: Sheldon Forde <"sforde@trinidad.net,sforde"@usa.net> Subject: Q: Finding Sound Tracks on Enhanced CD's It seem to be a fad now that various artiste's are making enhanced CD's. While this has the attraction of including multimedia work for viewing on Mac's and PC's, the downside is that the audio tracks no longer seem to be accesible from the Finder. With a standard audio CD placed in the CD-ROM drive one sees the disk image on the desktop. Opening the disk reveals the audio tracks on the CD as Track 1, Track 2, ..etc. With an enhanced CD however, TWO CD images are mounted. From what I understand, one is the mac HFS part and the other the ISO part which contains shared data for the Mac/PC. Gone though, is the audio part which list the tracks on the CD. While this shouldn't present a problem for most people, it does pose a problem when you need to edit sound tracks (change format, extract information etc) or select them in various sound applications (with the exception of Apple audio CD Player). I would like to know if there is any way / utility / extension / anything! available which can make the audio partition of an enhanced CD visible in the finder, like normal audio CD's, so that I can work with the files, i.e select them in audio editing aplications. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. (replies can be sent to me directly or posted to the digest) TNX. Sheldon Forde. mailto:sforde@trinidad.net mailto:sforde@usa.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:47:47 +0800 (SGT) From: sndscrpt@singnet.com.sg (Hardie & Mala) Subject: scsi hell There've been a lot of postings about scsi chain woes recently, I tought I'd add mine to the list. The scsi chain for my Quadra 650 should be simple: internal hard drive, zip drive, Apple CD ROM. However when zip and Cd are connected, the hard drive does not appear. Zip and hard drive work together but hard drive plus CD does not, indeed this combination causes the hard drive to be unreadable when booted off a zip again - the message says the disk is unreadable and should be initialised. Is my problem hardware or software related ? My system software has undergone a mutation from 7.1 to 7.5 and now 7.6, however scsi manager 4.3 (system 7.5 extension) has been lost. Also, I do not have a full system software to do a proper reinstall. At the moment I'm running on sytem folder 7.6 from the Norton Utilities boot disk plus various bits of system 7.5 I managed to salvage from my hardrive before I reformatted. Is my problem related to an incompatibility of drivers between hard disk and Cd or hard disk and system? Or is it a hardware problem ? Where ? In the scsi bus or my hard drive ? BTW, my cables seem ok and I've tried every combination of termination. Any thoughts on this matter would be gratefully received Hardie J Tucker ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 16:39:07 -0400 From: "Bruce R. Troen, M.D." Subject: shortcut to finder (Apollo) On 7:28 PM +0200, Tony Hassel wrote: > MacOs 8.1 > > shortcut to get to the finder from MS Word please I use the wonderful utility Apollo (version 2.0). It allows you to configure hot keys to switch between applications/finder. It also offers a pop-up menu that allows switching/launching. It is tremendously flexible and configurable and has been my launching & switching utility of choice for several years. It's great shareware! Bruce R. Troen, M.D. Allegheny University of the Health Sciences ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:15:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Al Bloom Subject: Slowwwww Network Backup Folks, I am at a loss, and I'm hoping y'all can help. I went to do my normal monthly Retrospect (4.0) backup of the home ethernetlet and ran into a brick wall backing up Leslye's two HDs. Leslye's machine (PowerTowerPro 220) yielded bodaciously slow progress and enough "net retry" messages that I cancelled the backup. I rebult her system (8.1) from scratch. I used Extensions Manager to turn off everything but 8.1 Basic and the Retro Client. I swapped out the cable between our machines (10base2, thin-net) and the dongle (AAUI-10base2) on her machine. I eventually got her HDs backed up, but at a hellacious cost in time that was not at all consistent with prior backups. Here are the Retro-reported mb-per-minute rates: 04/02 05/02 06/05 Leslye HD 14.6 19.4 1.4 Leslye External 17.8 17.6 1.8 PowerBook 5300 2.6 2.5 3.2 Al HD 19.7 18.3 22.7 I'm used to the PB backup being slow. Dunno whether it is the Dayna ethernet PCMCIA-card or the slowish 601 processor on the PB. I'm not at all used to Leslye's 604e-based machine behaving the same way. I've tried almost everything I know how to try. I suspect I could hook up to Leslye's PowerTower via Localtalk cable and see if that improved things. If so, it'd tell me that her AAUI port was dead meat. And I'm screwed cause the PowerTower is way obsolete. Or I could maybe fork out the bucks to change from 10base2 to 10baseT and see if that is salutary. I hope y'all don't mind that I check with the experts before I go those extra miles. Al ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:59:48 +0000 From: Martin Shovel Subject: Sorting Out Photoshop 5 Glitch Changing the resolution back to pixels per inch when the problem first occurs appears to fix it - Photoshop seems to retain the setting even after further changes to the ruler units in preferences. Check out my two Web portfolios: My Homepage: http://www.shovel.dircon.co.uk/ My Contact Creative Club page: http://www.contact-uk.com/MartinShovel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:11:56 +0100 From: Richard Smith Subject: System 8 and Quadra 950? Gentlemen; My problem is this - I have a Quadra 950, 95Mb RAM, 2Gb HD, and I'm running System 8.0. This system is slow, unstable and doesn't really seem to suit the 950. Is there any way I can speed things up, make it more stable, or do I have to return to System 7.5? TIA Richard Smith (Macintosh engineer 1985 - 1995!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 20:44:03 -0700 From: Matt Neuburg Subject: That @#$! paperclip >Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 13:17:20 +1000 >From: Ian Davis >One area that has been improved greatly is help. When you need to use >it, the popup help is quick and accurate. >BUT: *surely* there must be a way to turn it off when you don't want >it....But to close >the window, you have to move the mouse and cancel it: it's not possible >to hit return or escape to close the window Here's what I did about that. I created a macro that goes like this: Sub closeAssistant() Assistant.Visible = False End Sub Then I assigned a keystroke to the macro; I think I used shift-help, but use whatever pleases you. Presto, problem solved. The really nice part is that the assistant vanishes without all that animated delay. m. matt neuburg, phd = matt@tidbits.com, http://www.tidbits.com/matt pantes gar anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 98 06:37:36 +0100 From: Richard Platt Subject: That @#$! paperclip Ian Davis wrote >I have Office 98 running on my Performa 6300 >...popup help is quick and accurate. > >BUT: *surely* there must be a way to turn it off when you don't want >it. when I start to write a it pops up and tells me I'm writing a letter, >asking if I want help. Ian. Choose options from the Assistant's dialog box. There you can set preferences about when and how the help window appears. What I'd like to know is how I can dismiss the Assistant's window without clicking in the close box, and without enduring a video of it waving goodbye. I've tried recording a macro, but it doesn't capture anything. Richard Platt Telephone: (44) 1892 890741 Fax: (44) 1892 890951 The Old Squash Court, Bayham Abbey, Lamberhurst, Kent, United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 22:03:02 +0000 From: Barry Bandstra Subject: Trackpad Is there a way to deactivate the trackpad on a PowerBook 1400cs/133? Disabling the trackpad control panel doesn't seem to do it. I prefer using a mouse with the PowerBook, and my thumb seems always to glance over the trackpad and move the cursor. ____________________ Barry L. Bandstra February - June 1998 (on vacation in July and unreachable): Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Yarnton Manor Yarnton Oxford OX5 1PY United Kingdom Home tel. (01865) 378439 Centre tel. (01865) 377946 ************************************ Hope College Department of Religion 126 E. 10th Street Holland, Michigan 49423 Office: (616) 395-7752 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 23:36:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Derek Jacobs Subject: Two-button mouse; video issues on IIci I've recently picked up a Gyropoint wireless mouse from IxMicro, made for both Mac and Windows systems. Obviously the second button functions like the first on the mac platform, and I'm looking for a free- or share-ware utility that will allow me to reassign the second button to something like the control-click or even just a double-click. Secondly, I'm having a problem with an old supermac thunder/24 video card on my iici (upgraded w/ a Daystar PPC card). There is an extension that enaables the graphics acceleration for PPC machines, and without it running the system redraws at a doggedly slow rate. (No offense to the canines on the list) However, when I do enable the extension I get massive video corruption up until the finder appears, and then I get a complete screen of scrolling static which locks the entire system. However, when I place the monitor to the built-in video port and set the extension to load, there are no lockups. Occasionally I can get it to load properly; a few times, setting the number of colors on the card to black/white while monitor is on built in video and then shutting down and swapping to the card worked. Sadly, the next boot it always happens again. I've downloaded the software from radius's site repeatedly, and am looking for opinions on what I should test... if anyone has access to a version of the SuperPower extension PRIOR to the version released with SuperVideo 3.1, I'd be much obliged if I could recieve it. Otherwise any ideas? Could the video bios be damaged? Clearing PRAM hasn't made any effect, even by using TechTool Pro to wipe it. (It also found no other hardware problems on the system.) Thanks. --Derek Jacobs, jacobs@fox.minot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:28:27 +0900 From: Peter Hartmann Subject: Umax Apus 2000/200, Mac OS 8.1 and MacsBug Is there anybody out there who has encountered problems when using Macsbug (I tested 6.5.4a3c1 or 6.5.4.a4 ; the latter crashes initially) on a Umax Apus 2000/200 (i.e. Performa 6???, machine type 58) under MacOS 8.1 (in my case a German)? For me MacsBug freezes when accessing the stack calling chain when typing stdlog or CS7. The stdlog file never gets closed in over 90% of the cases. I thoroughly tested my hard- and software, and tried to use it with a clean OS 8.1 install and with all extensions of (as well as zapping the PRAM, checking file integrities with TechTool Pro and what you want). To no avail. To put the question differently, is there anybody who can use a certain version of MacsBug under the environment described (and possibly mail it to me)? Thanks for your effort. Peter Hartmann Visiting Scholar Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan e-mail: hartmann@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp (preferred) phv00542@askic.kic.ritsumei.ac.jp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:15:27 -0700 From: "David L. Hirschberg" Subject: using a ext cdrom drive on a IIci? 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 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 14:25:04 +0000 From: "Robert Devens" Subject: 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, 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. Any help appreciated. Bob -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************