Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #240 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 15 Jan 99 Volume 16 : Issue 240 Today's Topics: (?) CorrectPrint 300 (A) How to do automated shut down with RAM Disk activated? (A) Turning off Apple RamDisk (Q) FTP with a Finder interface FTP with a finder interface Ink Jet Printers Question ISP Recommendation - NY Palmpilot Mac Pac replacing SCSI Differences Startup with File sharing on? Thanks so much USB Modems 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 #240" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:36:11 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: (?) CorrectPrint 300 At 2:13 PM -1000 1/12/99, Jerry Levinson wrote: >I just inherited a RasterOps CorrectPrint 300 printer. It came with, among >other goodies, two small (1/4" x 11") flourescent tubes. Those sound like scanner bulbs. chazl Why do I have to move with a crowd of kids that hardly notice I'm around? I have to work myself to death just to fit in. - The Who, Cut My Hair Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:10:49 -0500 From: jcr2@xcornell.edu (John Rethorst) Subject: (A) How to do automated shut down with RAM Disk activated? > . . . The problem is that when the Mac prepares to shut down, it >puts up a warning box telling me that the files in my RAM disk will be >erased and asking me if I want to proceed. Naturally I'm not there at >midnight to click "OK," so the computer never shuts down. Download the free "John's RAM Disk Backup" from Info-Mac. It saves the contents of your RAM disk to your HD, then deletes all files on the RAM disk itself. You'll never see that warning. --- John Rethorst Please delete the x for email. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:49:52 -0800 From: Paul Brians Subject: (A) Turning off Apple RamDisk I finally managed to turn off my RAM Disk; but I can't remember how I did it. Discussion of this point welcome, but I no longer need help. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 01:33:34 +0200 From: David Bell Subject: (Q) FTP with a Finder interface >> Dear Digest readers, >> OK, I've tried Transit, Fetch, Anarchie Pro 3.5, NetPrezence, Vicom, >> Mirror, and NetFinder. >> >> So far though I have not seen what I am looking for though, and have >> asked here before about it. >> 1. Open multiple ftp sessions and transfer files between them using >> drag and drop, assuming of course you have the permissions to access >> both servers. > >I understand the logic of this request but there might be some >practical reasons why you're not finding it. A few year ago, I worked in a Intel-based company and still refused to use Windows. I used OS/2 and still will if I have to use Intels again. And I found *exactly* the kind of ftp client that. It was called LWP FTP. LWP is the author's intials. So, I don't know how that program did it, but it was really truly an elegant program. Essentially you would have aliases on your desktop which pointed to remote ftp sites. You double click it and a folder would open with items inside. When you ferreted deep in the ftp structure and finally found a file you wanted, you could just drag&drop it to the desktop or another ftp site. I used it to surf the net from my OS/2 computer and dump IBM UNIX (AIX) programs directly onto our RS/6000 box, since it was not on the 'net itself. So, I know it's possible - maybe we should contact the LWP guy and ask him if he has a Mac client or would be willing to explain his methods or license his source code? P.S. I've been secretly hoping the Stairways folks would implement this interface. -David email: dbell@us.net or dbell@webber.kiev.ua web: http://home.us.net/~dbell ÖÒÎË ’ÓÒÏÓÊÌÓ, ÔË¯Ë ÔÓÊýÎÛÒÚý ÔÓ-•ÛÒÒÍËÈ! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:39:40 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: FTP with a finder interface > You're talking about Cyberdog 2.0. > Download it at www.mactimes/puremac Speaking of CyberDog, is there a site where I can get a detailed comparison of CyberDog, Netscape and Internet Explorer? I am really attached to my Netscape 3.04 package and really want to upgrade or substitute news, ftp or mail components. My Mac has been Microsoft free since I bought it early in 1996. I would consider a switch, if I won't loose ground. Sites are requiring more and more plugins and Java support. Marlon Deason http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:07:31 -0800 From: Chris Schram Subject: Ink Jet Printers Question On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, "Douglas W. St.Clair" wrote: >I am looking for a color Ink Jet printer (as inexpensive as possible) with >four ink cartridges. Most of them have two black and three colors in the >other cartridge. I keep running out of one color before the rest and then >can't get the refills to match the older colors. Apple's Color StyleWriter Pro (discontinued in 1995) used individual ink tanks for each color. You might be able to find one at Sun Remarketing or some other place that offloads discontinued Apple hardware. (Yes, the ink tanks are still readily available, but the driver software has not been updated in a few years.) Make sure you get one that is either "new surplus" or thoroughly reconditioned. They can get finicky in their old age. I'd offer to sell you the one gathering dust in my attic, but it needs "some work." :-) Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:31:25 -0600 From: Ted Logan Subject: ISP Recommendation - NY My client in the 914 area code of New York needs an ISP (they finally gave up on CompuServe!). Especially they need an ISP who will hold their hand through installation and generally provide first-rate customer service -- and who knows Macintosh TCP/IP and OT/PPP setups! All recommendations gratefully received. Ted Logan Logan Writing, Inc. Cleveland, Oklahoma tedlogan@busprod.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:46:03 -0600 From: "Anne H Toal" Subject: Palmpilot Mac Pac I have a PalmPilot and an iMac, is there a way to connect the two so I can sync using the MacPac software? It looks like they supply a cable for a LocalTalk port, and the iMac has USB instead. BTW, the iMac rocks. -aht ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 05:41:39 -0500 From: The Christiana Gunn Family Subject: replacing I don't know BBEdit, but I hear that it's a strong text editor. You could do this in ClarisWorks, TexEdit, or Word this way: First save the file with another name in case there's a screwup. Work on the new file. Look in your menus for a command that says "Find." Nearby should be an associated command that says "Replace." That's the one you want. You need to replace all return characters (paragraph marks) with commas. You may have to break out the manual to find out which code the program wants for the return character (CW uses backslash-p, Word has a dialog box with popup menus and also lets you use carat-p I think), or you can cut and paste. The programs I mentioned all support a "show hidden characters" feature which would allow you to find the return for cutting and pasting. Once you've figured this out, then "replace all." Good Luck I need some help with BBEdit. At work, my mean boss is making me manually add a comma to the end of each line. The text file has 10,000 lines, with one word per line. All I need to do is add a comma at the end of each line. The file looks like this: word1 word2 word3 etc. and I need to make it look like this: word1, word2, word3, etc. and then take out all the white space, if possible to make it look like this: word1,word2,word3,etc. Can anyone help me. I have BBedit 4.0 and have heard this can be done in seconds, rather than hours. Ernest F. Gunn 3d gunns@myhost.com@myhost.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:52:37 -0800 From: "Margaret Llewllyn" Subject: SCSI Differences Can someone tell me where I can find out what the differences are between different kinds of SCSI and what types I can use in my Mac? I have a IIcx, which someone gave to me, so I don't have any manuals to look this up in. I have looked all over Apple's site, and I have been unable to find the pertinent info. Also, what about IDE drives? Where are they connected(I know they are internal only, but what does the connector look like?)? Can I use this kind of drive in my old mac? Since I am using System 7.1, there is a maximum volume limit of 2GB. What I need to know is, if I try and mount a volume with a capacity greater than 2GB, what will happen? Will the system crash? Will the volume not mount? Will the extra memory not be seen by the system? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:31:49 -0800 From: Jim Gaddis Subject: Startup with File sharing on? I administer a computer lab at an elementary school with a mix of older Macs (from Iicx to LC575). How can I make file sharing turn on every time I start the computers? Some do, some don't; doesn't seem to matter if I had shut down with File Sharing on or off. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 21:35:19 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Thanks so much I had written for help about my new hard drive refusing to act as the startup disk when I boot the computer. I want to thank the many people who answered. Tonight we moved the new drive to the top slot in the 8500 and left it at SCSI ID 0 and moved the secondary drive to the slot under it and left it at SCSI ID 1. Incredibly, we forgot to even look at termination. Anyway, it started up fine, and used the correct disk (SCSI ID 0) as the startup disk, even with a zapping of the PRAM (which used to make it start up from the wrong disk). Anyway, I'm a happy camper. I had heard that sometimes the computers like the physical sequence to be the same as the SCSI number sequence, and that seems to be true in this case. Thank you all so much for the help. I should also report that I had wonderful responses to my questions about NT servers and web site security. I'm going in to work tomorrow to make a pitch to buy an Apple server. The Apple server will allow me to put password protection on my site without opening the whole network to visitors to the site. And it will let me do it myself without 2 years of schooling to learn how! Daly ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:10:27 -0500 From: "Darwin O. Magno" Subject: USB Modems On or about 12.01.1999 3:32 PM, wrote something vaguely resembling: > And what on earth possessed Apple to do away with serial > ports without warning potential consumers! What more than including it in product literature should they have done? Buy television, radio, and print advertising announcing features no longer supported? And about that HTML formatting... :-( -- Darwin O. Magno I think, therefore iMac. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************