Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 06 Feb 98 Volume 16 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: [A]Diskcopy on smi files for various mac Communicator 4.0.4 problem Free ISPs HDT the best Mac virus! Info-Mac Digest V16 #19 Info-Mac Digest V16 #20 Modern IIgs computer usage..... New Advertisement from Apple (Q) searching for US postal barcode font 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. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . 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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, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, and Liam Breck. 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 #26" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:09:37 -0500 (EST) From: donner Subject: Ever since I started using OS8 and now OS8.1, I can't startup from the CD. I need to do this so I can use Disk First Aid and repair the Hard Disk. Any suggestions? Keith & Elizabeth Donner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 23:04:00 +0900 From: Mizutani Subject: [A]Diskcopy on smi files for various mac In Article "Diskcopy on smi files for various machines" Phillip Broussard wrote: >When I try >to mount the new .smi files from apple (8.1 update or MRJ 2.0), and disk >copy 6.1.3 runs throught the checksum procedure, it always fails. But if I >copy the same file to a PowerMac 8100 and run the same procedure, the >checksum is OK. Is there any reason why it should fail on the >powercomputing machine? Disk Copy 6.X sometimes does not work with HD formatted by third- party formatters. I always encounterred "checksum error" when the image file was on a HD formatted by "Drive 7"(ver 3.6J). Some other Japanese user using "Drive 7" (ver 4.2) also reports that Disk Copy 6.X always insists that there occurs a checksum error. I recommend you to re-format your HD with another formatter, if available. MIZUTANI Tomohiko / CXH01255@niftyserve.or.jp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 01:17:29 +0100 From: "Johannes la Poutre'" Subject: Communicator 4.0.4 problem Hi, >created that contain text in italic, Communicator appears to add an >extra space wherever the italic changes back to plain. This happens both I have the same problem, no matter if I create HTML documents by hand (you know, SimpleText is the best HTML editor ever!). However, I think tis is a (minor) bug as how Communicator handles font width tables: maybe the program just takes the same values for roman and italic encodings. That may be a valid approach for fonts with no _real_ italic type, or platforms which don't even _know_ about any difference (can you say MS D*S?). Maybe all mac users should submit a bug report, as I did for the lack of Java with the 68k version of communicator... Regards, Joe. -- J.Q. la Poutre Web design, Perl - cgi scripting, WWW databases PGP fingerprint = 23FA 2BF5 E51E CEEF 3A21 0AF3 69D6 5FEA 1850 0ADC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:52:01 -0500 From: "Edward W. Ver Hoef" Subject: Free ISPs My daughter (who lives near Knoxville, TN) told me that on a recent broadcast of ABC's Good Morning America they talked about ISPs that offer free e-mail accounts, the hook being that you receive some number of commercial messages in addition to your e-mail. She was interested in trying it out but, unfortunately, at the time that they gave the names of some of the ISPs, she was unable to write them down and counldn't remember them when she had a pad and pencil available. If anyone could shed some light on this topic, I'd be much appreciative. TIA Ed Ver Hoef ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:53:35 +0100 (MET) From: Massimo Cattaneo Subject: HDT the best Mac virus! I've a StarMax 4000. I formatted and partitioned its IDE HD with HDT (2.06); since then my StarMax is dead, it's impossible to start up from any external device (disk, HD, CD rom). In its web site FWB admits the problem but doesn't give any solution!! They just say ... The problem manifests itself in the following manner: after installing the FWB driver and partitioning the drive into two or more volumes, the system will not boot from any attached system volume, including a bootable CD-ROM. Since there is no simple way to recover from this situation, FWB strongly recommends that the affected drives be initialized as single volumes only. Hard Disk ToolKit version 2.5 includes a fix for this problem and supports multiple volume partitioning of these drives on 'Tanzania-based' systems. Upgrades for current HDT owners are $29.00. To place an upgrade order, call the FWB Upgrade Center... Maybe version 2.5 fixes the bug, but what can I do with my dead StarMax? I feel stupid, because I think I've paid for a program that works as the best virus. Any suggestion? TIA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:38:08 +0200 From: jonathan.naude@univie.zzac.at (Jon Naude) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #19 The Info-Mac Moderators wrote: > From: mnolet@faille.unice.fr (Mike) > Subject: Powerbook + Sleep > > Hello info-mac people, > > I have an old PowerBook 180, and regularly put it to 'sleep' instead of > using 'shutdown'. What are the disadvantages of this?? It saves me > incredible amounts of time because I don't have to wait for the computer to > startup every time I want to use it, but I just want to make sure that I'm > not doing something bad to my computer. > > Mike Mike, the powerbook is much more sensitive to any bumps and bangs in sleep mode, I think because the heads of the HD are not locked until shutdown. So just don't carry it around too much in sleep mode. I lost a 540MB HD on my PB 160 in this manner... -- Jon To E-mail me, remove the zz from my address ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:38:10 +0200 From: jonathan.naude@univie.zzac.at (Jon Naude) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #20 The Info-Mac Moderators wrote: > From: Isle > Subject: Desktop Trash > > I have lost the "Trash Full" icon from my Desktop. Has anybody any idea how > to easily reinstall it, preferably not using ResEdit. I am running System > 7.1 on an LCIII > Thanks, > Mike. Mike, try rebuilding the desktop (hold down option+command after the restart). -- Jon To E-mail me, remove the zz from my address ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 98 13:29:32 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Modern IIgs computer usage..... In regard to the question of if an Apple IIgs computer use Mac software or be upgraded to "be" a Mac..... Sorry, but it is not at all possible to make a IIgs computer use Mac software or "be" a Mac. The only thing you can do if you want to keep it is to network it to your Performa via Appletalk. This is very simple to accomplish, as long as you have System software 6.0.1 for the IIgs (avail. at Apple's FTP sites under the Apple II directory) and have Appletalk installed and enabled on both the IIgs and the Mac and all the other File Sharing protocols in use and working (Password selected, etc.). But please note that the only thing this is really good for is for file sharing purposes, or for storing a shared IIgs volume on the Mac. For example, I have my IIgs Appletalked via serial cable to my old Mac SE which has an external hard drive. Since I have no external or internal hard drive for my IIgs, I can store programs for the IIgs on this Mac external drive and also run programs on the IIgs from this other drive. That's about all you are going to be able to do as far as actual usage between the IIgs and the Mac. --bj bjbear@ibm.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:58:46 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: New Advertisement from Apple (Q) Dear Digest readers, Probably too soon to be asking for it, but anybody know where I can download the commercial that appeared on Primetime on ABC, on February 4th, 1998? In case any of you missed it, Apple made a great comeback showing a Pentium II on top of a snail, and then asking "Who has the fastest processor on the planet?" Please no e-mail attachments, my server gives me quite limited space as it is, not to mention my modem downloads aren't always reliable thanks to these lousy rural phone lines. A URL is all I really need. P.S. Yes I tried Apple's web page, but all they have is a press release about it on their hotnews page. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:35:18 -0500 From: Stan Hadley Subject: searching for US postal barcode font I have a copy of Address Book by Jim Leitch (who passed away recently and was eulogized here on Info-Mac.) The latest version I found was 3.7.2. It includes an option for printing bar codes on envelopes along with addresses. I haven't used that option myself, but you may want to check into the program. Stan >Hi: > >This is driving me crazy. Search as I may, I cannot find a font to generate >postal barcodes (U.S. Postal Service). I have wordperfect wasting 10 megs >on a drive because I can't prepare an envelope with a bar code in >FrameMaker. I have heard there's a windows font. Can it be that no one has >made a mac postscript (or truetype) font for the post office barcode? Say >it ain't so! > >/jonathan > >mailto:jhbauer@akula.com Stanton W. Hadley mailto:swh@ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bldg 4500-N, MS 6205 P.O. 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