Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #197 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 27 Oct 98 Volume 16 : Issue 197 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#452/26-Oct-98 (A) Sleeping Mac (C) QuickKeys 3.5.3 crashes MacOS 8.5 (C) Removable storage (Q) Easy View and Digester no longer work : Turn Word98 hyperlinks off? [A] Turn Word98 hyperlinks off [A] Turn Word98 hyperlinks off? [Q] Turn Word98 hyperlinks off? Advice for the Port-deprived? ANNOUNCE: Security Suites for AppleShare IP and WebSTAR 3.0 Appearance Control (Q) Can AOL and PPP account co-exist? Can't Dock My PowerBook Can't tap-and-drag on PB trackpad Catalog problems with Eudora 4.0 Desktop Pictures Drivers for 44 & 20 meg bernoulli iomega Ethernet & G3 FreePPP on MacOS 8.5 Graphics may disappear from Word 98 documents help Help! Convert Database to Quark 3.3 How to View TidBITS Files? How to View TidBits Files? Info-Mac Digest V16 #192 Info-Mac Digest V16 #193 Need Advice for Monitor Purchase Netscape 4.5 and Stuffit newton connectiton utilities #192 newton connectiton utilities #192 NN - IE4 PR: Dr. Watson is now here to help Sherlock Q "HD errors" Q Word 5.1a on G3 PowerBook? Soft Windows on Mac! Thanks for hyperlink help Trash warning persists! Virtual PC 2 - 16/32 bit color 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. Email Addresses and Instructions: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with subscribe in the Subject line. * To unsubscribe, send email to with unsubscribe in the Subject line. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. 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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 #197" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:00:00 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#452/26-Oct-98 TidBITS#452/26-Oct-98 Mac OS 8.5 remains the focus this week, as Geoff Duncan turns his attention to important changes and additions to Open Transport networking, AppleScript, online help systems, and Navigation Services. Anyone running a server on a Mac will also be interested in our tips on how to restart crashed servers automatically using MacsBug. News this week includes the release of Netscape Communicator 4.5 and the death of Internet luminary Jon Postel. Topics: MailBITS/26-Oct-98 MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part Three Delving Further into Mac OS 8.5 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-452.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:34:37 -0500 From: "Dow Palmer" Subject: (A) Sleeping Mac I have had a similar problem on one of our school lab Macs, a 5260 or 5400, I think. I also expected to find energy saver the problem but it was not on there. In despriation, we kept on looking around and found a control panel called "Screen". It seems to be similar to the old "Brightness" one that used to be on Classics, but this one was the problem. We have no idea where it came from, but it was right there and changing settings took care of it. I have a client whose 6500/275 keeps going to sleep when he leaves it alone :: awhile. He says it takes up to two minutes to wake back up. I put Energy :: Saver back into active status and expected to find that it had been set to :: sleep before it was disabled. But all options were off, and still the :: machine is sleeping after a period of inactivity. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:51:49 -0500 From: abrody Subject: (C) QuickKeys 3.5.3 crashes MacOS 8.5 Dear Digest readers, Despite CE Software's claims on its web page to the contrary, the QuicKeys 3.5.3 upgrade available from them does not promote MacOS 8.5 compatibility. In fact it disables the Control Strip, and the Launcher (which are redundant anyway if it worked), but worse yet, run BBEdit, GraphicConverter, AppDisk Internet Explorer crash with Type 1 errors and applications quit even when not activating a macro. It may work with MacOS 8.1 or earlier, but I wouldn't attempt running it just yet on MacOS 8.5. Disable QuicKeys and Type 1 errors will disappear. Oh you might have the occasional Type 1 error, but not because of QuickKeys but another non-Apple extension getting in the way. Hope this helps. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:52:01 -0400 From: abrody Subject: (C) Removable storage Dear Digest readers, With removable storage raiding the market of computer peripherals at light it might seem like the time to get a removable drive of some sort. Unfortunately most of these drives rely on outdated magnetic media. All magnetic media have the same problems: 1. The are succeptible to magnetic fields (telephones, modems, monitors, printers, lamps, keyboards all generate magnetic fields) 2. Dust in the drives 3. Heat/cold 4. being dropped from a table 5. being scratched by the drive head and irreparably damaged if the drive is shaked any amount or is out of working order. 6. Not being compatible with the majority of Mac owners around let alone being compatible with PC owners. 7. Pricey when compared to regular hard drives in repair and recovery. And also pricey when compared to other removable media that is not magnetic That brings me to recommending that when anyone really need removable storage to start looking in the way of CD Recorders and CD-RW, and DVD-Recorders and DVD-RAM. The price of a single CD that stores 650MB is now down to under $1 in the U.S. Now granted they can only be recorded once, but at least for archival and distributional storage purposes they face none of the problems that magnetic media face. Just about everyone who has a computer built in the past 3 if not 4 years has a computer that has a CD-ROM drive that can read both Mac and PC CD-ROMs. Of course if you need access to a drive that you can frequently write to, get a regular Quantum, Seagate or IBM external hard disk. The regular hard disks are vacuum sealed so that scratching is a rare event when compared to removable storage. At least anyone with a SCSI port on their Mac can use your hard disk. You may ask why I write this. Years ago I had a top of the line Syquest 270MB drive. It went through three repairs at APS and still wasn't repaired. The $60 cartridges were permanently damaged, and not even a service burough that had the 270MB drive could read the cartridges. Dust had accumulated in the cartridge in spite of the fact that I always kept the cartridges in the nice box that came with them. Whenever I put the cartridge in the drive it repeatedly told me it couldn't read the cartridge, and sounded as though it was skipping on a single track. Now with CD-R I haven't faced those problems, and it works perfectly. I also have noticed a plethora of trouble reports with removable storage on the Digest, and thought I'd put some light on the subject. Hope this helps. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:51:44 -0400 From: abrody Subject: (Q) Easy View and Digester no longer work Dear comp.sys.mac.digest readers, It appears that the e-mail version of the digest comes in, incomplete, and the version that gets posted at the Tudelft mirror is also incomplete for some Digests. I download the info-mac archive version of the comp.sys.mac.digest and see the whole file is there, but when I run Digester or Easy View on it, both fail to parse it properly. So my question is, who makes a software that currently properly parses all of the digest regardless of whether it comes in via e-mail, ftp, or newsgroup? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:41:28 -0700 From: Kathy Brunetti Subject: : Turn Word98 hyperlinks off? Ah, yes. It took me a while to find that one. Go to Tools:Auto Correct. Choose the "Autoformat As You Type" tab. In the middle is the "Replace As You Type" section. Uncheck "Internet Paths With Hyperlinks." *************** Kathy Brunetti ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:38:42 -0700 From: Barb Lange Subject: [A] Turn Word98 hyperlinks off Yes, hyperlinks can be turned off in Word 98. You're right though, it is not very well documented. Open the "AutoCorrect" widow (under the Tools menu) and choose the "AutoFormat" tab. Then in the "Replace" section deselect "Internet paths with hyperlinks". =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84= =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 =BE=84 Barb Lange Dist. Educ. at S.F.U. 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 www: http://www.sfu.ca/cde/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:47:09 -0400 From: Diane & David Turner Subject: [A] Turn Word98 hyperlinks off? To elaborate on my earlier post, I discovered how to permanently turn off automatic hyperlinking of email addresses and URLs: 1. Select "Autocorrect..." from the "Tools" menu. 2. Cilck on the "AutoFormat as You Type" tab. 3. Uncheck the "Internet paths with hyperlinks" box. Regards, David Turner Centerville, OH ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:34:19 -0700 From: Matt Neuburg Subject: [Q] Turn Word98 hyperlinks off? >Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:27:03 -0500 (CDT) >From: ljr > >My wife (the same one using the powerbook 3400C from my previous TCP/IP >settings question) does a lot of documents that require her to put email >addresses in them. Word98, doing the best it can to be modern, makes all >the email addresses she types into hyperlinks. >I looked everywhere and was unable to >find ... a way to turn OFF >hyperlinks being active in Word98 Choose Insert -> AutoText -> AutoText and examine the preferences in the Autoformat As You Type panel. Isn't it amazing that such an important bunch of preferences (these affect what happens while you're typing, for heaven's sake) could be off in such an obscure location? m. matt neuburg, phd = matt@tidbits.com, http://www.tidbits.com/matt pantes gar anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:23:09 -0800 (PST) From: Allan Hunter Subject: Advice for the Port-deprived? I have two printers, a modem, a QuickCam, and a MIDI keyboard. I also have,= as a result of a garage sale of sorts, one of those Hustler (NuBus) cards= that give you two extra serial ports. Since the MIDI controller has a= pass-through and a switch, and since I don't use the MIDI keyboard very= often, that ought to be sufficient. Except... The Hustler card is said to provide the extra ports to "any applications= which call upon the communications toolbox". Annoyingly, though, that does= not seem to include the Chooser: the dialog for picking out a printer= continues to supply only the choice of modem or printer port :-( Oh, and it also doesn't seem to include the Connectix QuickCam software. Or= the MIDI software I'm using. Essentially, the only software I have that can recognize the Hustler ports= are applications and control panels that seek a modem. The PPP Control= Panel, for example, sees it and uses it just fine. So the modem goes on= one of the Hustler ports, my two printers go on the printer and modem= ports, respectively (and the QuickCam and the MIDI thingie are accessible= only via an A/B switch that robs me of one of the printers). The other= Hustler port sits empty, since, having only one phone line, I have no use= for a second modem, and nothing that is not a modem seems to find the= Hustler port to be of any use. Oh, except that my FileMaker Pro address book & contact management thingie= is set up to auto-dial phone numbers, and although the Preferences dialog= indicates that FMPro *sees* the Hustler card ports, when I try to use the= dialing scripts, it hangs and requires a force-quit (not the nicest thing= to do in an FMPro database). Well, HECK!!! I always assumed a hardware solution was the way to go, and sort of sneered= at those software-based port-juggling devices you always see advertised in= MacWarehouse and Mac Zone and other such catalogs. But how much worse can= they be? I am soliciting feedback from anyone who has a "Q" or PortSplitter or= PortJuggler or some other device that consists of a switch and some= software to do the switching; I want to know how reliable and compatible= these things are. (I assume since they each depend on only one real Mac= port you can't have the simultaneous use of more than one device connected= to them, but correct me if I'm wrong). =46or the sake of even-handedness, I'd also like to know if the more recent= hardware solutions (PCI extra-serial-port cards) are as rife with= compatibility problems as this old Hustler card is. If there seems to be enough interest in the subject, I'll post a summary of= responses to the list. Allan Hunter=20 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:21:55 -0800 From: alan@opendoor.com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Security Suites for AppleShare IP and WebSTAR 3.0 Open Door Networks and I are very pleased to announce our new "Security Suite for AppleShare IP" and "Security Suite for WebSTAR 3.0". The Security Suites provide an integrated set of applications, templates and documentation which address critical security issues with these two popular Macintosh servers. The Security Suites include our recently-introduced DoorStop firewall software and the latest version of the LogDoor Real-time Server Monitor. The Security Suite for AppleShare IP also includes AFP Logger; the Security Suite for WebSTAR includes ShareWay IP Personal Edition. You can find out all the details on the Suites at: http://www.opendoor.com/asipsuite/ http://www.opendoor.com/webstarsuite/ The Security Suites are also a key component in Macintosh networks' ongoing migration for AppleTalk to Internet protocols. As such, they work especially well when combined with Open Door's AppleTalk to IP Migration Suite: http://www.opendoor.com/migration/ +-----+ | | Alan Oppenheimer | | Open Door Networks, Inc. |o | Internet solutions as easy to use as the Macintosh itself | | alan@opendoor.com | | http://www.opendoor.com +-----+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:35:41 -0500 From: abrody Subject: Appearance Control (Q) Dear Digest readers, At long last Apple has included in the Desktop Pictures part of the Appearance Control Panel the ability to read GIF files in MacOS 8.5. But strange as it may seem there is no contextual menu addon that allows you to "Set as Wallpaper" with Netscape and Internet Explorer, even though that has been an ability of Windows 95 and NT for the longest time. Please somebody write a contextual menu plugin that allows one to automatically set the wallpaper from a GIF that is displayed in the web browser. If such a beast exists already, please let me know where to find it? Also it would be great if the Appearance control panel could be made to read Kaleidoscope schemes. Anybody interested in making such a program? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:10:19 -0400 From: Alan Stein Subject: Can AOL and PPP account co-exist? "J. Rahmandar" said: >Here's my problem (I submitted this question before): My PowerPC with >OS8 has both AOL and PPP accounts. >If TCP/IP is set to use PPP and I then launch AOL, the AOL application >then said AOL Link is not loaded, please set TCP/IP to AOL Link and >restart. The reeverse also happen if I launch PPP dialer and my TCP/IP >happen to be set for AOL Link. This of course is a pain since I have to >always check TCP/IP control panel first before launching any of the >corresponding application. Anybody know what I am doing wrong here, or >is this a MacOS weakness? I have learned to ignore the messages from AOL, never follow its instructions, and never let AOL set the TCP/IP configuration itself. Before dialing out using AOL, I manually set the TCP/IP configuration to AOL's. After using AOL, I manually reset the TCP/IP configuration myself. Since I started doing that, I haven't had any problems. Before I started doing that, I often had to reboot at least once either before or after using AOL. Alan Stein stein@math.uconn.edu http://www.math.uconn.edu/~stein ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 06:49:36 +0000 From: Jeffrey Frankel Subject: Can't Dock My PowerBook I recently received a 100 mh PowerBook 5300 at work and SCSI-docked it to my desktop Mac to transfer files. Then I pruned unnecessary items from the 5300's system folder. Since then I have been unable to dock the 5300 to the desktop Mac. The disk won't mount on the desktop. The Silverlining Lite control panel on the desktop Mac will detect the 5300 in the SCSI chain, but won't let me mount it. (Disabling Silverlining Lite makes no difference.) I zapped the PRAM on the 5300, reset the power manager, clean-installed the System software (7.5.2 updated to 7.5.5), all to no avail. I *can* dock a different PowerBook to my desktop Mac. Conversely, I tried to dock the 5300 to a different desktop Mac to no avail. So it seems that my cables are all OK and that the desktop Mac is not the culprit. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks. Maybe one day I'll learn to leave well enough alone. -- Jeff Frankel Windsor, Maine USA "Where the woodpecker pecks and the porcupine plays" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 07:19:27 +0000 From: Jeffrey Frankel Subject: Can't tap-and-drag on PB trackpad I own a PowerBook 190, which is equipped with a trackpad. One of the neatest things about the trackpad is the ability to drag icons around the desktop or make menu selections by tapping twice on the pad with your finger, which is the equivalent of clicking-and-holding the trackpad button, but far less cumbersome. I recently received a 100 mh PowerBook 5300 at work. This machine also has a trackpad. But double-tapping on the pad does nothing. The trackpad control panel (System 7.5.2) does not contain the third pane which on my 190 allows me to activate double-tapping. However, a clean-install of System 7.5.5 made no difference--the control panel is still two-paned. My 190 trackpad double-tapped A-OK under 7.5.2, 7.5.5, 8.0 and currently, 8.1, and the trackpad control panel always showed all three panes regardless of the system software I was using. Any ideas? Could it be that this series of 5300 just doesn't support double-tapping? Or could it be a malfunction of the trackpad? Thanks. -- Jeff Frankel Windsor, Maine USA "Where the woodpecker pecks and the porcupine plays" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 05:31:07 -0600 From: "Dennis L. Davis" Subject: Catalog problems with Eudora 4.0 At 10:19 PM -0400 10/21/98, Louis Bergeron wittily wrote: > Hi, > I have a catalog problem with Eudora 4.0. Everything that gets in the > incoming folder I have designed creates a problem when moved or trash. The > link with the catalog becomes faulty. I can see that with Norton when the > names of the faulty files are indicated and those files were in the > incoming folder. I am using the last version of Internet Config. I'm on > System 8.1. I did not have that problem with Eudora 3 if I remember well. > I was suspecting Norton AntiVirus 5 or Norton Utilities 4, but it seems to > be more Eudora, because I disabled those two and the problem is similar. > > Louis > Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 > Telephone-Phone (819) 764-3862 Telecopieur-Fax (819) 764-3758 I am not sure what your exact problem is, but if you haven't already upgraded to Eudora 4.02 then you should do that. Eudora 4.0 has some bugs and that might be the problem. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:17:47 -0400 From: rob Subject: Desktop Pictures quoting Info-Mac and possibly previous message abstract: >Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:43:55 +0100 >From: Tina >Subject: Desktop Pictures > > >Ok I've had this problem for ages now with Mac OS 8 and 8.1 >I have a PM 8100/110 and the desktop pictures will appear >for a split second when I choose them and then vanish and >revert to a pattern instead, its driving me crazy, I've rebuilt >the desktop, deleted finder prefs ....can anyone help me?!!!! > Tina I don't know what you have tried. First the Desktop control panel needs to be in the active control panels. It could be turned off by Extension Manager or Conflict Catcher if you are using or have varied sets from the original. The Desktop control panel is an application and must be launched. Then you have to select one of the buttons on the left to select and or set 'either the desktop pattern or the desktop picture". (I chose not use pictures to speed up my system.) Once having selected the desktop picture option you can look at your list of pictures available in the folder installed by OS8x. Additionally yu can add your own pictures (usually Jpeg) to this folder to be selectable. After selecting how you would like it to appear via the drop down menu, pick the picture and click the set desktop button. From then on this should become your main desktop view with the pattern previously selected for the pattern you see when a winddow is wiped. Learning is what is left after you have forgotten the rest! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:10:54 GMT From: Larry Williams Subject: Drivers for 44 & 20 meg bernoulli iomega I picked up to 44 meg bernoulli and 1 double 20 meg bernoulli drives from my company ($5.00 each) and require copies of the software that came with these so I can format etc. These machines will be used by my nephew who has my old MacPlus. I'm assuming there is software. I tried the Iomega FTP site but they only have the zip and jazz drivers. If you have the drivers or know if any special software is required then please email me. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:36:42 +0100 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: Ethernet & G3 We're working on an Ethernet network with 3 Macs: a 7600/132, a 8500/120 and a G3/266, all equipped with System 8.0. The network relies on a Genius GH4080 8-port 10Base-T Ethernet hub that links directly the G3 and the 8500 via RJ45 cables, while the 7600 (and a Ethernet PS printer) is linked with a coaxial cable to the 'BNC' port. The problem is with the G3. While the 7600, 8500 and the PS printer works, the link to the G3 is extremely slow. Transferring a 3/4 Mb file to/from the G3 may take even 8/10 minutes!! Has anyone experienced something like this? TIA, ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:58:14 -0400 From: David Emery Subject: FreePPP on MacOS 8.5 FreePPP and/or PPP Menu are causing a tremendous storage leak under MacOS 8.5, that was not there under MacOS 8.1. This is very annoying. The problem may be with PPP Menu; I will find out when I get back home. If so, then I can continue to use Free PPP and start it from the Control Panel. I wouldn't mind using OT/PPP/Remote Access -if- there were an easy way to generate the connection script I need to talk to my "ISP". (A friend with an ISDN line serves as my ISP. He is running Unix, so I am on my own to work out the connection script. Apple's standard response about the problems with connection scripts is "get it from your ISP".) dave David Emery, The MITRE Corp, emery@mitre.org MITRE Reston: +1 703 883 7606, fax: 883-6143; Pentagon ADO: +1 703 693 3621, fax 703 693 4101 Pentagon DISC4: +1 703 697 1695, fax 703 695 5213 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:52:54 -0500 From: Ken Laskey Subject: Graphics may disappear from Word 98 documents Today I printed a Word 98 document and all the graphics were replaced with blank frames with a big red X. I called Microsoft help and was told that this was related to running out of memory. They asked how much memory I had allocated to Word and when I said 12000K, the tech support person recommended 20000K or more if the document was large. This came as a shock to me because my document was a whopping 170K. The important thing is that once Word replaces the graphics with the Big Red X, the graphics are gone!!!. There is no warning that this is happening and if you use autosave without realizing you've been hit by the Big Red X, your graphics can disappear for good without any intervention from you. The tech support person had two suggestions: (1) uncheck the "allow fast saves" box under Preferences - this is not guaranteed to help but fast saves will increase file size and has been connected to other content trashing (2) apply the update for Mac OS 8.5 even if you haven't upgraded the OS - besides 8.5 compatibility issues, there are a number of other bug fixes. If you get the Big Red X, try opening older versions of the file if you have any. But be warned that if this memory problem occurs and the old file is somehow saved, you can lose the graphics in that file too. The safest approach is to give Word gobs of memory when trying to resurrect trashed items and disable autosave to make sure you don't accidentally cause more damage. I have seen other strange and unpredictable behavior with Word and Powerpoint when these had memory problems, and usually quitting and getting back in (sometimes with rebooting to reclaim memory that disappeared) corrects the problem. But this is the first instance of unpredictable data loss. Be careful out there! Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@cpmx.saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:26:08 -0500 From: "MAc News" Subject: help Hello, I work for a local ISP. We just took over a small, one town business and are currently reaching out to other communities. We are starting to deal with Mac users who wish to sign up with us, but unfortunaly, only a couple of employees have (very limited) knowledge of Mac opperating systems. It is my understanding that Mac's have different opperating system set-ups depending on how new it is. This makes it very difficult to set up tutorials for new users or even just tell them how to set up a connection to us. I am hoping there are a few dedicated Mac useres out there who can tell me where I might locate some support materrial and/or tutorials (mainly for setting up internet connection, but anything would be helpful until we are able to get a Mac support staff). Screen shots of setting up a connection would be exelent help. Thank you, Roger Brown Total Access ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 98 20:35:18 -0500 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: Help! Convert Database to Quark 3.3 >Since we keep the information in a database(DBaseIII now) >it would be far more efficient to somehow convert the >database into Quark's format. > >Is this possible? How do you do it? >The prepress guys didn't know, the manual doesn't mention >it, and I know very little about Macs. Phil: We have a FileMaker Pro db served up to our intranet through Tango and a couple times a year we export it and pour it into XPress. Quark XPress can use tags sort of like SGML or HTML to specify formatting. You can put universal fields in FM Pro db to contain some of these formatting tags. I'm afraid DB III isn't on my planet. I do the FM end of things but not the XPress stuff so I can't give you specifics of how those style tags work. I suggest breaking down and R'ing TFM regarding style tags. Maybe someone else on the list knows about those tags. - Scott ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:31:56 -0700 From: "Adam C. Engst" Subject: How to View TidBITS Files? >> Probably asked and answered a hundred times, but how do I view TidBits >> files on my hard disk? They are .etx files and seem to default to >> something called Easy View, which I downloaded a year ago for some setext >> files, but Easy View won't open the TidBits .etx files. I have to run >> Claris Works to convert them, so I figure I'm missing a step somewhere. > >In the distribution of EasyView there is a little file called "Easy View >collection" (more or less). Put it and the .etx files in the same >folder. Open the tiny file. You'll see them all organized. That's how you do it if you want to read the TidBITS issues using Easy View, but since TidBITS files are just straight text files, you can open them in anything that can open text files (without conversion). The reason the files seem to belong to Easy View is that Internet Config has an incorrect mapping for .etx files. Easy View is a file viewer, and the ONLY files that belong to it are the index files it creates. All other .etx files should be associated with a text editor like BBEdit or SimpleText. If you go into Internet Config, you can change the .etx mapping to ttxt instead of ezVu (or whatever Easy View is). cheers... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:50:23 -0500 From: Gib Henry Subject: How to View TidBits Files? > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:32:22 -0600 > From: Ted Logan > Subject: How to View TidBits Files? > > Probably asked and answered a hundred times, but how do I view TidBits > files on my hard disk? They are .etx files and seem to default to > something called Easy View, which I downloaded a year ago for some > setext > files, but Easy View won't open the TidBits .etx files. I have to run > Claris Works to convert them, so I figure I'm missing a step somewhere. Easy View WILL open them, but not directly. You must put the .etx file in the same folder with the "Digests" Easy View template (document), then open the Digests EV template, not the text file itself. Any setext files in that folder will then display by article within issue. Incidentally, Easy View is a terrific way to view Info-Mac Digests, too. Put the digests into the folder with the Info-Mac template and open the template. The setext documents don't require any special naming convention; they just must be plain text documents formatted according to setext standards (TidBITS and Info-Mac digests are, together with most other listserv digests). Hope this helps. Cheers, -- Gib Henry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:17:42 -0400 From: rob Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #192 quoting pwwwayne: >I hope I've come to the right place; I'm new at this. I am using MacG3 with >OS8.1 and AOL 4.0. I have downloaded from the net "AVI" files (mostly >movies). What are these and how do I access/open these for viewing? Or can >someone send me to the right source for help? Thank you. Wayne >pwwwayne@aol.com As lonag as the files are not still compressed in additional form such as sit or sea or bin.hes you should be able to darop them on movieplayer from QT 3 folder. This should play avi movies for you. Learning is what is left after you have forgotten the rest! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:41:49 -0400 From: Patoche Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #193 Hi Ezra, you must have an incompatibility with your screen saver After Dark. You m= ust download a fix from Berkeley. and it will be fine after (Now after Dark is n version 4.04). I've experimented the same problem sometimes ago For your HD and youyr zip, no matter the way you connect them, but just verifythe automatic terminaison on the zip should be off if it is not the= last peripheral to be connected. For now, move to 8.1 it's very cool and secure. Write down your password = and connection scropt ecause they 'l be lost. You can also move to HFS+. On a 1,2 Go HD, I've save 100 Mo off free spac= e. Use PlusMaker to get the smaller sector. Have fun, >From Montr=E9al, Qu=E9bec Patoche >=20 > Objet: frequent crashes > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:49:33 +0000 > De: Ezra Nathan >=20 > Hello info-Mac readers, >=20 > I have a PowerComputing PowerCentre 150 running system 7.5.5 which has > recently began to crash, often with error 11 messages, like: "Sorry, a > system error occurred 'Visual client' error type 11". I think these cra= shes > started to happen after I accidently made an alias of my HD, which I > immediately trashed. > These crashes occur very often, the last one happened after I left off > writing this message: my screen saver came on but when I tried to activ= ate > the screen again the crash occurred with the message above. > I have run Norton and TechToolPro 2.1.1 and got clean bills of health. = I > have rebuilt my desktop and zapped my pram. The problem persists. > Has anyone any ideas and advice about how to solve this problem? >=20 > I am going to get an external HD. I have a zip drive attached to my scs= i > port at the moment. Should I attach the HD to the computer and then the= zip > to the HD, or the other way round? Does it matter? >=20 > I want to move to system 8.1 and then 8.5 when it arrives here (UK). I > daren't lose my internet connections. I plan to try out the new systems= on > the external HD first to make sure everything works fine before making = the > final move. Can anyone give advice on this, or foresee problems I might > experience? >=20 > Thanks, > > Ezra >=20 > PS Another crash occurred whilst I was running the Eudora spell checker= on > this message with message: 'Sorry, a system error occurred "Eudora Spel= l > Checker" error type 11. It's driving me mad! > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:01:02 -0500 From: carolynb@mindspring.com Subject: Need Advice for Monitor Purchase Hello, My beloved performa 400 can no longer keep up, so I'm making the jump to a 333 Mhz G3. I am looking at 3 different monitors, and would like to have any advice from the Info-Mac'ers about what would be the best purchase. I'll be using it for web design (not business really, personal or some work at home), I don't need super high resolution for games, but want a really nice clear crisp, "high" resolution picture. I am looking in the $300-$400 range for 17" (16" viewable) monitors and have come up with: Viewsonic GS771 (the s is for "short depth", footprint the size of a 14" monitor) .27 dot pitch 1280 X 1024 max resolution about $380 at MacZone Optiquest (a division of ViewSonic) V73 .26 dot pitch 1,280 x 1,024 max resolution about $320 at MacZone Optiquest V75 .26 dot pitch 1,600 x 1,200 max resolution about $380 at MacZone I have a ViewSonic at work on a PC, and like it. Other than that, they are all comparable wrt emissions, screen coating/anti-glare, controls, etc. I'm sort of tending to go with the Optiquest V75, but don't know that I need that resolution (maybe the Otiquest V73 will be just as nice, and I'll save $60). But I don't know much about the reputation of Optiquest vs ViewSonic. In some old MacWorld reviews, the Optiquest monitors got some very good reviews, especially for quality for the price. I would appreciate any advice (even recommendations for a different manufacturer) and any comments. If I get a lot of responses at home that don't get posted to the list too, I'll send in a summary. TIA, Carolyn Barry carolynb@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:14:13 -0400 From: Bob Worts Subject: Netscape 4.5 and Stuffit 1. My downloads from Info-Mac often just disappear before they've been un-stuffed. 2. Now the Expander won't un-stuff the .hqx files and all I get is the "suggestion" that I could have un-stuffed them if I would purchase "enhancer". Have I jiggled something I shouldn't have? Where could the downloads go instead of staying in the folder they were directed to? Stuff-up and tired of it. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:20:29 -0400 From: rob Subject: newton connectiton utilities #192 quoting Info-Mac and possibly previous message abstract: >From: dead nancy >Subject: newton connectiton utilities > Further to your request http://www.macworks.com/html/newtaccess.html Learning is what is left after you have forgotten the rest! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:17:50 -0400 From: rob Subject: newton connectiton utilities #192 quoting Info-Mac and possibly previous message abstract: >From: dead nancy >Subject: newton connectiton utilities > > >hi, everybody. > >i just acquired an old newton messagepad 100, but without the newton >connectiton utilities, and i really need to install tetris. > >is this software commercial? i can't find it anywhere on the web, >hotline sites or at ftp.apple.com. if it's still available, where can i >find it? > >thanks. > >dead nancy >http://www.merkins.com/ TRY: http://www.antopia.com/newton/index2.cgi http://www.newtonstore.com/ http://www.newton-underground.com Learning is what is left after you have forgotten the rest! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:37:25 +0000 From: LoboMacpeter@plalp.freeserve.co.uk (Peter Grundy) Subject: NN - IE4 I want to transfer my bookmarks in Netscape Navigator 4.05 over to Internet Explorer 4.01. If this is possible, would someone explain how? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 98 18:09:34 +0000 From: Franck Horlaville Subject: PR: Dr. Watson is now here to help Sherlock Hi ! This message to inform you of the creation of the Sherlock plug-in database at . Make sure your plug-in is included in Dr Watson's list (which is of course Sherlock-searchable) Thank you for your attention, Franck Horlaville Dr. Watson's CrewMember ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:23:56 -0800 From: Adam Horvath Subject: Q "HD errors" I am encountering ongoing problems with my hard disk (Quantum Barracuda 4.1G, my boot disk) Disk First Aid reports the following: MountCheck Minor errors, Invalid Volume Count 2, 1370 Invalid File Count 2, 1370. I try to repair the disk, Disk First Aid reports the disk was repaired. I run Disk First Aid again, same report, try to repair it and encounter the same problem; ad infinitum. This disk has had a bad crash (would not mount) after I tried to repair similar problems with Norton 4.01; I heard that there may be problems with this utility, stoped using it. I rebuilt the disk and it seems to work ok. except for the above diagnosis. Does anyone know what those numbers mean (or how can I find out?) and what may be going on? Thanks in advance. Dr. Adam O. Horvath Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. CANADA, V5A 1S6 e-mail: horvath@sfu.ca Ph:(604)291-3624 Fax:(604)291-3203 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:02:39 -0400 From: Louis Bergeron Subject: Q Word 5.1a on G3 PowerBook? Hi, I have both softwares and they work perfectly and most of all FAST. I even customized Excel to use French and English spelling and it works. Same with Word. Is-not the Macintosh a great machine? Louis >Greetings, > >Can Word 5.1a and Excel 4 run on a G3 PowerBook? > >Please send reply to lccurran@acsu.buffalo.edu... I don'think he monitors >this list. > >TIA, > >Peter Jorgensen - UB >http://jorg2.cit.buffalo.edu/peter/ Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 Telephone-Phone (819) 764-3862 Telecopieur-Fax (819) 764-3758 ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 98 22:04:30 -0500 From: "Scott Beach" Subject: Soft Windows on Mac! grantp@his.com (Grant Peacock) writes: >I would appreciate any feedback on the following idea - I would like our >next computer in the house also to be a Mac (this one is a PowerMac >7100/66) but it probably will have to run several PC applications, eg: >FileMaker Pro. Is this Soft Windows that I've heard about, but not seen, a >real option? Just how powerful a Mac do you need for it to be reasonably >effective (not blazingly fast, just reliable). My research indicates the a >company called Connectix may be able to offer a version of this software >also. Grant:10Geneva I've got Connectix' VirtualPC and I'm quite satisfied with it. I've got a 7600/132. When I first ran it I was only equipped with 32 Mb of RAM and was using virtual memory to pad it out. This really hurt performance. Virtual PC needs real RAM amd lots of it. I've now got 80Mb, virtual is turned off and I give virtualPC about 32Mb of RAM to play with. Now it feels like a low-end 486. Not bad for occaisional use. If you're getting a new G3 with a fair bit of RAM then I'm sure you'll be satisfied with it. I installed it on a 300MHx G3 last week and I was pretty sure I was sitting in front of a real PC. The current version of VPC is 2.1 which seems pretty compatible with everything. I've got it set up to dial into my ISP and use my account and use other modem software too. It even starts up and shuts down faster than an actual PC cam. You can also have multiple soft HD files and install different OS's on them. You can run Win 3.1, '95, '98, NT, OS/2, and OpenStep from different HD files. Try that with a real PC! BTW, if you're going to run FileMaker Pro, run the Mac version; it's better and the files are useable cross-platform. - Scott --------------------------------------------------- This message was created and sent using the Cyberdog Mail System --------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:04:35 -0400 From: ljr Subject: Thanks for hyperlink help Once again, I'm pleasantly reminded WHY I love my Mac so much, and love being a part of the Mac community. Thanks to everyone (over 20 responses) who sent me email telling me: "There IS a simple way to turn off the automatic hyperlinking in Word 98: it's actually part of the AutoFormat feature. To turn it off, select AutoCorrect from the Tools menu, click the AutoFormat As You Type tab, then de-select the Internet and Network Paths With Hyperlinks option." That was quoted from one of the respondents, but they all basically said the same thing. Thanks again! Lyman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:17:54 EDT From: Funyriley@aol.com Subject: Trash warning persists! Perhaps someone out there can help. I have been unable to stop the warning window which appears when you try to empty trash. Despite unchecking the "Warn before emptying" box in Trash information, the window reappears if the machine has been restarted or shut down. I have zapped P-ram, rebuilt desktop - even reloaded OS 8.1 from scratch - still won't remember my wish to skip the warning. I'm running 8.1 (not HFS+) on a 6500/225 PowerPC. Thanks for your help. Dan Riley funyriley@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 13:32:31 +0200 From: "Michael S. Silverstein" Subject: Virtual PC 2 - 16/32 bit color I am running Virtual PC 2 on a 7600/120 system 7.5.5, 17" AppleVision monitor with 2 MB memory dedicated to vram. I followed the instructions for upgrading VPC1, including changing the monitor support. Everything is fine for 256 colors. When I increase the resolution the following happens: * The place where the mouse 'clicks' is about 1/4 screen to the right of where the pointer arrow is. * When I move the pointer arrow the tint of the color background is changed...it looks as if I was dusting the desktop. This does not occur at 256. I would appreciate any hints out there as to how I can achieve high resolution color using VPC2 with my system. Thanks in advance! michael silverstein materials engineering technion -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************