Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #184 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 07 Oct 98 Volume 16 : Issue 184 Today's Topics: "Insufficient System Memory to Run Word" [Q] CD-Rom vibrations ergonomics software package Freehand mailinglist Macintosh SE Fish Tank Print Lag from Hell - HP LaserJet Problem printing to DJ870 via AT Red titled error mess.: Not enough memory (Duh!) [Q] Repair of disk questions Viruses: Mac & IBM 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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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Michael Bean, Liam Breck, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, and Shawn Bunn. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. 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 #184" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:02:43 -0700 From: Paul Brians Subject: "Insufficient System Memory to Run Word" WJ Shack wrote: > >There is a problem with Word 5.1 on PowerMacs. You will get this message >no matter how much memory you have on your Mac. You need >FixWordSystemMemory 2.1 which should be available (for free) on any >Info-Mac mirror. > >FixWordSystemMemory is a system extension that tries to fix a problem >where Microsoft Word 5.1 (and perhaps 5.0 as well) refuses to startup, >complaining that there is a lack of system memory. . . In my experience >it is a >complete fix for the problem In _my_ experience FixWordSystemMemory rarely works. If it does for you, that's great; but I've had more success replacing the Word prefs file with a new copy, since a corrupted old one seems to lead to the problem. I've also had it occur when launching Word from Launcher, but not if the original icon was clicked on. Creating a new alias and installing that in the Launcher (or other launchpad utility) sometimes works. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:04:08 +0100 From: simion@esrf.fr ("Alexandre S. Simionovici") Subject: [Q] CD-Rom vibrations --============_-1304342636==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Q: I have a 7300 PowerMac with a internal CD-Rom , I believe is 12X. This drive suffers from vibrations and makes quite a lot of noise which can be damped by holding the tray edge between fingers. This symptom seems to affect the CD-Rom in the Imac and an Apple update was released to correct it. Is there a way to do so for my 7300 ? Thanx for your suggestions. --alex (simion@esrf.fr) -| Dr. Alexandre S. Simionovici Tel. 33 -(0)4.76.88.23.46 |- -| Micro-Fluorescence/Imaging/Diffraction, ID 22 Fax. 33 -(0)4.76.88.25.42 |- -| ESRF, BP 220 email: simion@esrf.fr -|- -| 38043, Grenoble, FRANCE -|- --============_-1304342636==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Q: I have a 7300 PowerMac with a internal CD-Rom , I believe is 12X. This drive suffers from vibrations and makes quite a lot of noise which can be damped by holding the tray edge between fingers. This symptom seems to affect the CD-Rom in the Imac and an Apple update was released to correct it. Is there a way to do so for my 7300 ? Thanx for your suggestions. --alex (simion@esrf.fr) -| Dr. Alexandre S. Simionovici Tel. 33 (0)4.76.88.23.46 |- -| Micro-Fluorescence/Imaging/Diffraction, ID 22 Fax. 33 (0)4.76.88.25.42 |- -| ESRF, BP 220 email: simion@esrf.fr |- -| 38043, Grenoble, FRANCE |- --============_-1304342636==_ma============-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:13:32 +0100 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: ergonomics software package I'm looking for a software on human ergonomics, like the topics found in Henry Dryfuss's "The Measure of Men" book. As I'm an industrial designer, it'd be useful to have handy software tool that lets you play with a "Dryfuss Man" (maybe integrated in CAD??) and see what happens in the different postures of men. ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:23:27 -0700 From: Jim Carr Subject: Freehand mailinglist At 9:19 AM +0100 10/6/98, Paolo Bartoli wrote: >Where do Freehand enthusiasts meet, beside the Macromedia web site? Is >there any mailinglist / news group? > Paolo: mailing list address: LISTSERV@GALILEO.ADMIN.UAF.EDU In body of message: SUB FREEHAND-L your name No subject line, no sig, nothering else in message. ***** For Usenet, try: comp.graphics.apps.freehand --Jim -- Jim Carr - Jim.Carr@latimes.com (I only speak for myself) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:05:26 +1300 From: Ian Orchard Subject: Macintosh SE Fish Tank Quoting Ian Goldby in Info-Mac Digest V16 #183 > >>From: whitmanpc1@aol.com (WhitmanPC1) >> >>Has anyone seen or heard of instructions or a kit for turning a Macintosh SE >>into a genuine fish tank? > >Isn't it amazing how some of those random bits of information you file away >years ago turn out occasionally to be useful? > >http://www.ionet.net/~jlower/aquarium.html I hate to pee on your parade, but I was reading just this morning that the minimum volume for a fish tank is 5 litres per centimetre of fish. To convert that to Ye Olde American measurements it means that a Classic Mac is barely enough for about 1.5 guppies. And that assumes that the aerator pump, lights etc are outside the case. Oh sure, fish (& birds) are frequently kept in miserably undersized containers, but it isn't a nice thing to do to another living creature. Hang about until you can score a 5500 case, they'd be OK (if not optimum) for about 3 guppies. You could then try the classic environmental study, put a single pregnant female guppy into the tank and see what number the population stabilises at. ----- Keep in touch....Ian O ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:05:46 +0930 From: monib@adam.com.au (Monib Mahdavi) Subject: Print Lag from Hell - HP LaserJet Dear MacTribe, I'm running a 7300/200, with 64mb running OS 8.1. Attached to it is a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 6MP with 20mb of memory in it. Something that has always concerned me is the lag that hits my computer when pages are spooling through to the laser printer. The more complex the page, the longer the lag. Although simple pages still bring about lag for a few seconds at least. What happens is that the cursor becomes all jerky and skips across the screen. Surely my 7300 should be able to handle printing to the 6MP without any problems at all. I have tried switching between foreground printing and background printing and nothing changes. Trying to keep working and printing at the same time becomes somewhat of a lost cause. Is there some setting that I have missed, some extension perhaps? Is this some bug with the 6MP and the 7300 (...just my luck huh) I have tried switching between OS 8.1, 8, 7.6 and 7.5 and it's all the same. At the office we have an old 8100 that is hooked up to a LaserWriter and it spools pages effortlessly, allowing you to print and work simultaneously. This worries me. I have tried every variation of turning things on/off increasing/decreasing memory. You name it baby, I've tried it. I'm hoping that someone out there is craftier than I am, and can offer some suggestions or even an answer for my problems. Please forward any responses to Info-Mac and to myself at monib@adam.com.au Thanks in advance, Monib ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:13:38 -0500 From: Debbie & John Antolak Subject: Problem printing to DJ870 via AT Hi all, I am having a problem that Apple and HP can't seem to help with, and I am wondering if someone on the list can help. I am running OS8.1 on a Powerbook 190cs, 24MB RAM. I have installed the latest version (9.4) of the driver from HP's web site for my Deskjet 870Cxi color inkjet. I can print fine using a serial printer cable and the serial driver, but a Localtalk connection and the Appletalk driver crashes the application or gives a printer error. The same combination on a PowerMac 7100 has no proiblems. Examples of the types of errors I get are "type 2", "type 1", "printer error (-4097)", "printer error (-2882)". When I get the printer error, the program keeps running. The other error messages are after the program crashes. I checked www.mac-conflicts.com and couldn't find anything there. Here is what I have tried so far. I have done clean installs of System 7.5.5, 8.0, and 8.1, but the symptoms are exactly the same. Booting with the shift-key does not help. I bought Conflict Catcher 8 hoping it might shed some light on the problem, and it says the driver is the most likely culprit. I have downloaded the HP installer multiple times. HP talked me through doing a "clean install" of the driver, still no luck. HP says it must be something unique about my Powerbook, and Apple says it is a 3rd party hardware, so it is not Apple's problem. I even tried using a PC-card ethernet connection to my Powermac (through a hub), and then localtalk bridge to the Deskjet. The chooser can see the printer, but the printing does not work. BTW, this is trying to print from Simpletext or the Notepad desk accessory, so it isn't a Microsoft-type problem. I am trying to set up a little home network, so printing via Appletalk would be best, but I am almost resigned to picking up a switchbox and using the serial driver. Any help would be appreciated. I read the list, so reply privately or to the list. -- John Antolak ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 23:40:17 +0200 From: Eduard Hoenkamp Subject: Red titled error mess.: Not enough memory (Duh!) [Q] Intermittently a window pops up with a red title bar and the text: "There is not enough memory available to continue. Use the Application menu to quit some applications...". At such a time there is always at least 40 Mb of free memory on Mac. I have a Performa 5400/180 with 88 Mb built in memory. Anyone who (1) recognizes this, and (2) knows what to do about it?? Eduard. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 01:23:28 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: Repair of disk questions I am using a G3, with OS 8.0. I am using Disk Repair 8.1. I became suspicious that I had some sort of problem when my disk usage suddenly jumped by half a billion bytes, although everything seems to run well. After doing a restart from a floppy with a system and disk first aid on it, I ran disk first aid, first in verify and then in repair mode. When I did a verify, I was told that there was a problem, invalid BTree 0,0, and that the disk needed to be repaired. I ran the program in repair mode, and was told that Mountcheck found serious errors. At the end of the first aid cycle, I was told that the program was fixing the disk, and that the disk was repaired successfully. Upon running the program in verify mode, I found that nothing had changed, the invalid BTree problem persisted. But it said nothing about Mountcheck. By the way, I noticed that, while doing repairs, the phrase above the disk and floppy icons was still entitled disks to >>>verify<<<<. Should it not have said disks to repair? I wonder if I was actually doing repairs at all. What could be wrong, and what can I do to correct the problem. Thank you. Michael B. Luskin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:01:15 +1000 From: "Frank O'Connor" Subject: Viruses: Mac & IBM >At 2:42 PM +0100 9/23/98, dudley warrington thomas wrote: >>Every time I send people .jpg files on AOL or via the internet, they tell >>me their virus programs send up an alert. I have VIREX, the latest updater >>file and get a clean bill of health. Chas Larson subsequently said: >If you're sending non-executable data files [that do not contain anything >like Word macros] from a Mac to a PC, you can rest assured there is no way >for you to be transmitting a virus to them. Even if your Mac had a virus, >which it apparently doesn't, it would be Mac-specific and could not infect >a PC. And vice versa. [again, except for those Word/Excel Macro viruses]. > >That said, does this happen with only jpgs or with any attached file? I >suspect that the virus checkers are alerting you associates to the >possiblity that there may be a virus in that attached file, without >actually examining the attached file. Probably correct, but to my mind the problem could be the attachment encoding protocol being used to send the files. What the Wintel virus checkers could be kvetching about is the Mac resource fork of the file they have received ... Wintel files don't have resource forks. This little addendum to the file could be being perceived by the virus checkers as indicative of a virus. (And you gotta remember there is good reason in the Wintel world for being a tad paranoid about viruses) Bottom line if this is the case: Don't use Apple Single or Binhex options in your mailer to send attachments. Use either the Uuencode option or more desirably the AppleDouble option which equates with MIME ... and doesn't send the resource forks of the files. I have AppleDouble set by default in my mailer ... as any Mac recipients can easily reconstruct the resource fork by using helper applications (eg. Internet Config) that add resource forks to files as they are received depending on the file names ... or can be added by opening the file from within the target application. Makes life less aggravating for my Wintel colleagues as well - and I figure they've got a whole lot of natural OS related aggravation to work out without my adding to it. ;-) *********************************************** Famous last words: What happens if you touch these two wires tog-- *********************************************** -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************