Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #239 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 13 Jan 99 Volume 16 : Issue 239 Today's Topics: (?) CorrectPrint 300 (Q) FTP with a Finder interface [A] Macintosh 'ping' application [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] Any low cost Mac-way to convert speech to text? BB Edit Help Needed BB Edit Help Needed BBEdit Help Cannot make Temporary Items [Q] ClarisWorks 5.0 Case Conversion FreePPP Disconnection? FTP with a Finder interface FTP with a Finder interface Fwd: (Q) How to do automated shut down with RAM Disk activated? IE 4.5 and OS 8.5.1 memory problems imac upgrade Info-Mac Digest V16 #237 Info-Mac manuals Ink Jet Printers Question ixmicro HELP!!!! MAC HEPL!!! MACHOME JOURNAL DECEMBER ISSUE IS LATE AND WITHOUT CD making a startup CD for G3 Need Help W/ Acrobat & Sound Files Need Help W/ Acrobat & Sound Files Netscape 2.x and alternatives Netscape Hanging New Sherlock Plug-ins web site [Corrected URL] Newton Battery Packs Re Claris case conversion Sherlock Plug-ins for this newsgroup Stylewriter ink cartridges Supra_56_V90.hqx. Virtual PC/modem connect Voice modem as sound input device? 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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Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:27:01 -0500 From: Vincent Cayenne 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. To wit, any FTP program is essentially an interface to a verrry old protocol with a limited (though powerful) set of commands. FTP assumes only two 'sides' to a transaction - a local directory and a remote directory. Even when you open multiple FTP 'sessions', each is an individual conversation between a local and a remote. So you have an interface that is executing some specific text commands (GET, PUT, MGET, etc) between A & B, and another doing the same between A & C. But there are no standard FTP commands that link sessions, B to C. So any implementation like that would have to create "new" FTP commands, a very iffy proposition for a somewhat obscure usage. Or you'd define a temporary local 'holding bay' and GET from B, then PUT to C, while hiding the multiple commands from the user. (Not a bad method - hmmmm..) The above rambling is pure opinion, not being offered as an industry position or anything weighty, just one opinion of why a developer mightn't do something which seems so straightforward. --- ...in pursuit of solutions for those of us who are prepared to really work at being lazy. (J. Stevenson) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 06:52:43 -0500 From: Vincent Cayenne Subject: [A] Macintosh 'ping' application > AGTools is extremely powerful, ping is just one of several net functions, > and it is free. > http://www.aggroup.com No, AGNetTools is not free. It's $34.95. It's free with the purchase of EtherPeek ($850) or TokenPeek ($495). Ouch! --- All things are filled full of signs and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another. -- Plotinus ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 05:25:36 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] I have a small window of opportunity here, and hope for some wisdom in time. I have been running a web site for my project at work for a year or two now. The military now insists that all such web sites be protected with passwords. I have been running the site on a Windows machine running NT. I asked the Sys Admin, in full confidence, to set up password protection for the home page of the site, thinking that the NT server surely would have that ability. There is a problem with it. As far as I can understand it, NT somehow borrows security code from its intranet serving security. Anyway, apparently, to make the site present a request for user name and password, I have to create accounts for every potential user on the system, and then once they would access the site using that name, they would then have access to our whole network. Well, that may be true or not, I'm not sure. I just know that all the network people on our military base think it's insecure to use NT to set up passwords for the web site. So now I'm looking for options. I just want to limit access to the web site by having someone type user name and password before they can see the home page over the internet. I tried setting up IP address access, but it only worked for users on the local network. Anyone behind a firewall at remote locations was unable to access the site. It has been suggested that I put Linux on the machine and run Apache. That's pretty extreme, as we also run some FileMaker Pro data bases on the server, and that would kill those data bases. I'm pretty sure that I could set it up with a Javascript, but I've done that before and it didn't work for anyone accessing the site from a Unix box. To get to the point, I wondered if I convinced them to get me an Apple server, would it let me set up password protection of the web site? Has anyone done that? If it's possible at all, is it difficult? As the rest of the network is Windows and NT machines and HP laser printers, would an Apple server interfere with their ability to access the printers and each other? If the Apple solution would work, and work well, I am going to go to the wall to get it. I've wanted an Apple server from day one, and this may be the deciding factor that would let it happen. Feedback urgently welcomed. My home email is jessup@san.rr.com. At work, where this problem exists, it is daly@visicom.com Thank you. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:05:28 -1000 (HST) From: cesar@lava.net (Ed Cesar) Subject: Any low cost Mac-way to convert speech to text? I seek info. from anyone who regularily converts speech to text using a Mac. I am looking for a low cost way to produce text from continuous speech, either by using a microphone connected to my computer (a Performa 6300CD), or from the audio output of a small tape recorder I use for taking notes when I am driving and at other times. I don't require elegant voice recognition since I will be the only speaker. A reasonable amount of errors would be acceptable, and it wouldn't matter if some of the words were crude phonic representations because I intend to edit the text anyway. 21 Century Eloquence advertises a Windows only system called Dragon Naturally Speaking Mobile for approx. $300., including a hand-held recorder with microphone. If the Dragon system is the only one available, perhaps I could use it with Virtual PC, although that would add cost and I''ve heard Virtual PC is slow, but I would like to hear from anyone who has tried this approach. Please contact me off-line at cesar@lava.net. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:48:19 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: BB Edit Help Needed At 2:54 PM -0400 1/6/99, mb@bigfoot.com wrote: >The file looks like this: > >word1 >word2 >word3 >etc. > >and I need to make it look like this: > >word1,word2,word3,etc. The relative ease of this depends on the format of the input file. In any case, it shouldn't take longer than a couple minutes. If there are no spaces or other unwanted white space, you can do it in a single search-replace operation by simply replacing all return characters ("\r" (no quotes) in the Find dialog) with commas. If the file is messier than that, you'll need to do it in a few steps. Here's what I'd do: 1. Replace all double returns ("\r\r") with single returns. Repeat this until no changes are made. This will eliminate blank lines. 2. Replace all returns ("\r") with commas. 3. Replace all space characters with nothing. 4. Replace all tab characters with nothing. That should do it, assuming you don't want any spaces in the output file. chazl Come on over to our valley, where boys run free! Run through the lush green meadows in your shorts! Brother John will be your guide in a summer of indescripable earthly delight! - The Suburbs, Music For Boys Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:33:24 -0600 From: Wade Williams Subject: BB Edit Help Needed > >Hi, > >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. > >I want to put this guy in his place and show that I am really a "fast" >worker. He won't have a clue as to how I did it so fast. Michelle, At the top of the find dialog box in BBEdit is a checkbox labeled "Use Grep" - that's your magic ticket. :) Enabling that checkbox allows you to use a wonderfully powerful feature called Regular Expressions. They're tough to learn, but with a command over Regular Expressions, you can do search and replaces that you never dreamed possible. Anyhow, turn on the "Use Grep" checkbox. Now search for "$" (without the quotes - just a dollar sign - trust me - the dollar sign means end-of-line) and replace with ",". Click on Replace all, and you're done. Wade wwilliam@cisco.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:16:57 -0800 From: "Jim Wickman" Subject: BBEdit Help Try this: Invoke the Find/Replace fuction Have it Find Have it replace it with Have it Replace All You'll end up with a single text block, comma-and-space separated. (Try it on a small selection first to verify it does what you want.) Jim Wickman Pasco WA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:27:40 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Cannot make Temporary Items [Q] At 2:30 PM +0100 1/10/99, Eduard Hoenkamp wrote: >I erased my folder "Temporary Items" but the system won't let me make a >new one. Anyone in the know? Eduard. I believe the system will create a new one the next time it is needed. There's no need to create one yourself. If you're trying to create a folder of your own with that name, the only thing to do is choose a different name like "Temporary_Items" or "Temporary Things" or somesuch. chazl I met this guy - and he looked like he might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink. Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said: Oh boy. Right again. - Laurie Anderson, Let X=X Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 01:06:28 +1100 From: T&B Subject: ClarisWorks 5.0 Case Conversion They dropped it from the GUI in 5.0, but it is still there. You have to customise a button bar to add the uppercase and/or lowercase button. Alternatively, it can be scripted in AppleScript. Tom -- Finally, a web page is starting to discuss AppleScripting AppleWorks. http://www.tandb.com.au/training/applescript/appleworks/ ---- In reply to: Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:11 PM -0600 Subject: Claris Works 5.0 Case Conversion From: Ted Logan .. uppercase-lowercase conversion... Does anyone know of a way to handle this in 5.0? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:56:20 +0000 From: Tina Subject: FreePPP Disconnection? I am using a 33.6 Global Village modem on a 8100/110 machine and freeppp 2.6.2 - for ages now while downloading, checking email or simply doing nothing my connection has closed itself with the message from freppp coming up - closing connection - as if I had asked it to! The box for automatic disconnection is unchecked and t happens after different lengths of time with no obvious pattern..this is getting silly now - can anyone help me?!..please!!!! Tina ------------------------------------------------------------ "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" - Dr. Albert Schweitzer ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jan 99 22:33:00 +0000 From: "Gavin" Subject: FTP with a Finder interface On 1999, Jan 12, Tue 8:32 pm, abrody@smart.net wrote: >OK, I've tried Transit, Fetch.... > >I would like to see an FTP program able to do the following: > >1. Open multiple ftp sessions and transfer files between them using >drag and drop.... > >2. A simple intuitive interface like AppleTalk in the Finder. > >.... Attach to network FTP accessible drives from the >Finder, and view them as though they were local folders using the >Finder's View as Icon, View as small icon, view as list options, and >the ability to arrange icons. It should be seamlessly integrated >with the Finder......Sending as a binary program. I should be able to pick > it up with another Mac elsewhere........ > >10. Multiple interfaces like Finder Views would be great. > >Anybody know of an FTP program that will do all this? > You're talking about Cyberdog 2.0. Download it at www.mactimes/puremac The "G" man. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:39:21 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: FTP with a Finder interface > Call me picky, but I would like to see an FTP program able to do the following: > 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. > > 2. A simple intuitive interface like AppleTalk in the Finder. The > beauty is with AppleTalk I can treat all hard disks remote and local > the same way. Attach to network FTP accessible drives from the > Finder, and view them as though they were local folders using the > Finder's View as Icon, View as small icon, view as list options, and > the ability to arrange icons. It should be seamlessly integrated > with the Finder. Just the same way mounting network drives with the > File Manager on Windows for Workgroups and NT is possible. > > 3. Like Anarchie, be able to change the URL of the ftp site on the > fly, and be able to ftp to http:// sites. > > 4. Be as fast Anarchie at downloading and uploading files to the net > using cable internet. > > 5. A button on the window to toggle between using http for the web > and using http for downloads. > > 6. Drag to the trash like Transit > > 7. FinderPop contextual menu compatiblity like Transit, to be able to > launch files from the ftp site straight into applications on the Mac, > or straight into a folder that I choose to put it in. No open/save > dialog box necessary. > > 8. Switching from Binary to MacBinary to ASCII should be a direct > menuitem, and not a submenu as it is in Anarchie, or a preference > like it is in Fetch. If anything, Binary should be the default mode > of transfer. On Anarchie MacBinary appears to be and that is a pain > as it always adds a .bin extension if I forget to switch to binary. > At least with a binary transfer you get the exact file as it appeared > on your hard disk. > > 9. Allow moving Mac applications as is to Unix servers without > truncating the application size. Often compressing or adding a .bin > or .hqx extension will corrupt the file. Sending as a binary program > I should be able to pick it up with another Mac elsewhere. > > 10. Multiple interfaces like Finder Views would be great. 11. Support for aliases. Imagine an alias to your website directory on your desktop! Browse and update your sites files with the finder. 12. Oh yeah and throw in a new window view indicator to go along with the lock that represents a locked volume and the pencil with the line through it that represents a read only directory - a globe which repesents an online directory! > Anybody else want to add to this wish list? Anybody know of an FTP > program that will do all this? I usually refrain from reposting text, but I completely agree with the above and feel it deserves even more exposure. I too have had this same concept in mind for a while. I am not the calibre of programmer who could do it, but I have corresponded with the authors of both Transit and Internet Config about providing it. The saddest part is that this exact concept has been available on the Windows platform for sometime. maybe airing this fact will galvanize a few programmers and illustrate a genuine pre-existing need which could be filled with a product. I have yet to pay for an FTP client or browser, but I would gladly pay up to $25 for a quality shareware app like this, maybe higher if it were written by Apple or of simular quality. Failing that does anyone know of an FTP client for the Mac which has source code in the public domain? Does AppleShare IP offer simular features to those above? Marlon Deason http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 04:51:28 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: (Q) How to do automated shut down with RAM Disk activated? There's a shareware item called "Okey-Dokey Pro" that will automatically click "Okay" in a dialog like that after a user-specified interval. Or you could do as I do, and use Rambunctious, a shareware RAM disk that will let you shut down without giving that warning (you can set the options to save the RAM disk contents or not). I keep one RAM disk saved, running Netscape and some other applications I want to run very fast, and another RAM disk that does not save its contents, for browser caches. Daly >I am running System 8.1 on a Power Mac 7600/132. I have a RAM disk which I >use to store the cache of my copy of Netscape. It speeds up reloading of >pages between restarts considerably, and keeps my hard disk from being >cluttered with cache files. However, I would like to be able to have my >computer automatically shut down at midnight and turn on at 8 AM so that my >students can have access to a public folder I've set up on it during the >day and evening. 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. > >I've tried using Netscape's menus to purge the cache and manually emptying >the RAM disk to the trash ahead of time, but the warning still pops up. > >I know there are commercial products which can automatically click such >buttons, but I wonder whether there's a work-around that doesn't involve >spending money. > >True believers in leaving your computer running all the time: I'm familiar >with the arguments and still prefer to shut down for my own reasons. Please >don't write. > >Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University >Pullman, WA 99164-5020 >brians@wsu.edu >http://www.wsu.edu/~brians > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:05:36 -0600 From: Ed Holloman Subject: IE 4.5 and OS 8.5.1 memory problems --------------5B11C365BF8B8EB415867883 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm experiencing some strange memory behavior and sluggish performance when downloading images with IE 4.5. As I download images the memory that is shown being used by IE grows with each image, according to the About This Computer dialog (I can leave this dialog open and actually see the memory increase while images are downloading). It has grown to as high as about 70MB, at which time the performance became _very_ sluggish (at which time I first looked at memory usage). This behavior is repeatable every time. I have a 6500/250 (603ev), OS 8.5.1, and have 96MB of RAM with virtual memory turned on, using defaults (for me this 3072K for the cache and 1MB virtual memory). The memory for IE is set at 6000K. Even though the memory for IE is shown as some value much larger than the preferred setting, the Largest Unused Block does not reflect this, indicating plenty of RAM still available. When the memory used by IE was displayed as about 70MB, the Largest Unused Block was indicating about 60MB free. I've looked at the memory usage with MemMapper and Peek-a-Boo and the memory used by IE appears within normal ranges and nothing else looks unusual (at least not to me). I have also tried turning virtual memory off with the same results. Could this be some kind of a memory leak? Thanks in advance... Ed Holloman holloman@airmail.net --------------5B11C365BF8B8EB415867883 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi,

I'm experiencing some strange memory behavior and sluggish performance when downloading images with IE 4.5.  As I download images the memory that is shown being used by IE grows with each image, according to the About This Computer dialog (I can leave this dialog open and actually see the memory increase while images are downloading).  It has grown to as high as about 70MB, at which time the performance became _very_ sluggish (at which time I first looked at memory usage).  This behavior is repeatable every time.

I have a 6500/250 (603ev), OS 8.5.1, and have 96MB of RAM with virtual memory turned on, using defaults (for me this 3072K for the cache and 1MB virtual memory).  The memory for IE is set at 6000K.  Even though the memory for IE is shown as some value much larger than the preferred setting, the Largest Unused Block does not reflect this, indicating plenty of RAM still available.  When the memory used by IE was displayed as about 70MB, the Largest Unused Block was indicating about 60MB free.

I've looked at the memory usage with MemMapper and Peek-a-Boo and the memory used by IE appears within normal ranges and nothing else looks unusual (at least not to me).  I have also tried turning virtual memory off with the same results.  Could this be some kind of a memory leak?
Thanks in advance...

Ed Holloman
holloman@airmail.net --------------5B11C365BF8B8EB415867883-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:41:52 -0900 From: "Bleu Roesbery" Subject: imac upgrade I have a rev.A iMac and would welcome any suggestions anyone has on how to upgrade. ie: How much memory should I put in, will more VRam make any difference etc? I use it mostly for internet/e-mail, home accounting/word processing, and games. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:25:31 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #237 > can anybody direct me to a (preferably) freeware font that has the > new Euro symbol? A quick search of the Apple homepage for euro produced TechNote #1140. It says that unicode support of the euro has begun with MacOS 8.5 in most of the system fonts. This link has more than you could possible want to know about the euro: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1140.html#Downloads If you feel like skipping the hard stuff, Adobe is offering these euro fonts for download: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/503a.htm Trouble in Mactopia? The Microsoft site offers updates of their Office fonts for Windows but not for Macintosh. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm#mac ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:01:17 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Info-Mac manuals At 2:55 PM -0500 1/6/99, WeyJournal@aol.com wrote: >Can anyone please help? I need the Apple Manual URL so I can download a manual >for my 5300ce. I went to Apple's site, but could not find it. I checked >"manuals" but that was no help at all. Please help. RonB Go to Apple Support: Click on "Support Index". Under "Support Resources", choose "Apple Manuals". Now search for "Powerbook 5300". You'll get three to choose from. chazl Come on over to our valley, where boys run free! Run through the lush green meadows in your shorts! Brother John will be your guide in a summer of indescripable earthly delight! - The Suburbs, Music For Boys Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:11:27 -0500 From: "Douglas W. St.Clair" Subject: Ink Jet Printers Question 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. END ************************************************** Douglas W. St.Clair (in New Hampshire) (in Massachusetts) Tir Na Nog 30 George St. 400 Burton Highway Newton, MA 02158 Wilton. NH 03086-5022 PH: 603-654-9321 PH: 617-233-3387 or FAX: 603-654-5440 PH: 617-BEEF-FUR EMAIL: dwstclair@tellink.net WebSite: http://www.tellink.net/~dwstclair ************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:07:41 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: ixmicro HELP!!!! At 7:18 PM -0800 1/7/99, S. Schall wrote: >I have a Magnavox Magnascan 20... It is capable of 1280X1024 at 64KHz...I >need it to drive 1024 X 768 at 85KHz... Does the monitor support that resolution/refresh combo? The Mac Monitor Database lists a max of 1024x768@75KHz for that model. >When I set it to the 1024 X768 setting the screen is blurred with >lines...then reverts back to 800x 600. Am I setting it wrong??? Is my >montior not capable? That's what it sounds like to me. >Is there a problem with my video card??? Probably not. >If it is the monitor can it be upgraded????? Not without buying a new one. chazl Where's my angel? Where's my juice? - The Suburbs, Drinking With An Angel Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:20:59 -0800 From: Sam Subject: MAC HEPL!!! I've been given an old MAC. Has 17,520k unused. The system software said something like 7.5.1. Is this a usuable MAC? Does it have much memory? I trying to figure if I should dump it or can I upgrade this one? Thanks to anyone who can help, Sam ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:22:31 -0500 From: Louis Bergeron Subject: MACHOME JOURNAL DECEMBER ISSUE IS LATE AND WITHOUT CD Hi, I just received my DECEMBER 1998 issue of MacHome (not the JANUARY 1999 issue) of MacHome and there was no CD. In fact, I received the December and January issues at the exact same time without a CD inside. It is mentioned in the JANUARY issue, there was a problem with the CD for JANUARY, so this is TWO months without a CD. They promise to take care of that in February. Have other REGULAR subscribers experiencing this problem with the DECEMBER issue of lateness and no CD? Was there a problem with the mailing list? Free subscriber who get the issues when buying a Mac do not get the CD. Other then that, MacHome is becoming superior to MacWorld, which is now like a Sears catalog. It is fine to see that the advertising is booming in Macworld, but they should increase the content to what it was before. It is overpriced for the actual content. MacHome with the CD included is a better buy for someone subscribing to only one Macintosh periodical. Louis Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 Telephone-Phone (819) 764-3862 Telecopieur-Fax (819) 764-3758 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:34:32 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: making a startup CD for G3 At 10:24 AM +0900 1/10/99, Tito and Shari Poza wrote: >I want to burn a startup CD (a bootable CD) for my G3 DT 266 using Adaptec >Toast but no matter what I do, I cannot make a disk which is bootable. Here's a method passed along from an acquaintance, who claims 100% success. ---- Use the SCSI Copy feature of Toast. Use this feature to select a Current Mac OS CD. Before hitting OK, click Options=8AUse Blind Transfers and turn off Clear Driver Descriptor Mac. Now hit okay on both windows. Set the Copy field to the same number as Number of Blocks and hit okay. Now select Save as Disk Image from the File menu. You can now mount the new disk image, remove everything except the System folder (If you used the OS 8.5 CD, be sure to update the CD's System folder to 8.5.1!) and then add your own stuff. You then use the "Disk Image" source type to select your new disk image and burn it to CD. ---- If you have an IDE CD-ROM, then this method won't work. Perhaps you can borrow a SCSI CD-ROM drive for a few minutes to make the disk image. I met this guy - and he looked like he might have been a hat check clerk at = an ice rink. Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said: Oh boy. Right aga= in. - Laurie Anderson, Let X= =3DX Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~ch= az ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 03:11:11 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: Need Help W/ Acrobat & Sound Files > We're trying to create a CD-ROM catalog using adobe acrobat 3.0 where a > person can view catalog while music plays in background.Any suggestions or > recommendations to our problems would be greatly appreciated. What a coincidence, so are we. We have a huge .PDF that is the star of the show. We have decided that the best way to integrate the .PDF and other media on the disk is with HTML. Sure we could jump through a dozen hoops and buy some 'out there' media tool at $199 or more a pop (and get so frustrated with it we vow to never use it again). But most magazine/disk combos on the newstand use html. First, make a pretty splash image with Iconizer (it makes a single image into dozens of individual icons aligned in a grid. Next, make a start.html and place it at the root level of the disk. Make an eye-catching custom icon for it. Also place on the disk; a working browser (make sure this browser is the creator of your start.html), Adobe Acrobat reader, and the adobe acrobat web plugin and Apple Quicktime plugin in the browsers plugin folder. All of which can be distributed freely. Now you can create a multimedia HTML document with animation and music. Your .PDF file is only a click away with the web plugin. Best of all the browser will continue to play your music from one open page as you browse the .PDF in another page. The best reason of all to use HTML is that is (almost) public domain. Unlike 'serious' multimedia tools, you can view the source of any HTML files you encounter. I'm not saying you should steal, but... Adobe is currently giving out a free Hybrid Mac/PC disk called ironicly 'Guerrilla Marketing'. It doesn't feature music but it does feature all of the above tricks. As for the autostart features, it will be dependent on what version of Windows/Mac OS the user has, whether autostart is enabled and on what format you decide to use on the disk (i.e. hybrid, ISO9960, UDF, CD-i, etc.). I have yet to experiment. Good Luck Marlon Deason http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:29:45 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Need Help W/ Acrobat & Sound Files At 6:39 PM +0000 1/8/99, sassales@aol.com wrote: >2. We would like for the CD ROM to open the catalog automatically when placed >into any computer that already has adobe acobat 3.0 on it's harddrive.Is this >possible? If so,how do you do it and what do you need to be able to do this. Later versions of QuickTime [> 2.5?] have an "Autoplay" feature, that allows you to specify a program on the CD to be launched when the disk is inserted. In your case, the Autoplay thingy would be a script or program that would look for installed copies of Acrobat and launch your catalog if one was found. It could also launch the Acrobat installer, if you want it to. Of course, that Autoplay thing only works if the user has the appropriate version of QuickTime installed, and they have AutoPlay enabled. Many people have this feature disabled as a defense against the Hong Kong Worm, which uses this feature to spread. Windows has a similar "AutoStart" mechanism, though it is not tied to QuickTime. chazl Once you take away my right to speak, everybody in the world's up shit creek. - Ice-T; Freedom Of Speech [just watch what you say] Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jan 99 19:18:06 +0000 From: "Gavin" Subject: Netscape 2.x and alternatives On 1999, Jan 5, Tue 6:48 pm, Paul Cherubini wrote: >Subject: Re: Optimizing Vintage Macs for Speed on the Net > >Strahm, Steve wrote: > >> On my IIx/7.1, NN 2.02 is the same, or up to 3 times faster than NN >3.04, > >I agree. Yesturday I tried NN 1.1N, 2.02 & 3.04 on my LC III, 7.1, Mac >TCP, Free PPP, 56K G.V. modem and 3.04 was noticably more sluggish. So >I'm not too motivated to see how NN 4 would do. > Michelle Klein-Hass wrote >Nav 4.05 runs beautifully (usually) on my P460. I'm using System 7.5.3 with >Open Transport 1.1.2, FreePPP 2.5v2, and a 33.6 Best Data Smart One modem. >From what I understand, however, the next 68K version, 4.07(?) will only >run under 7.6.1. But 4.05, although slow, is STABLE. 2.02 is a crashy thing >that crashes a lot, and 3.04 once ripped a big hole in my B-Tree during a >crash. Norton fixed it, thank Goddess, but it's volatile as hell and should >be avoided like the plague. > Please note the following extract from the OT/PPP Release Notes: "Netscape 2.x will not work reliably with versions of the Mac OS before System 7.5.3 or versions of Open Transport software before 1.1. If you would like to use Netscape 2.0.1 or later, you should make sure that System 7.5.3 or later and Open Transport version 1.1.1 or later are also used. Failure to follow this recommendation may result in system crashes. =A9 1996 Apple Computer. Inc." >Same with ANY version of Internet Exploder. Evil, evil proggie...it will eat the prefs for >FreePPP...at least Version 3 did. > I have installed Navigator 4.08 on my IIci running S7.5.5, and it works like a charm. ftp://ftp2.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.08/english/mac/68k/navigator= _standalone/Nav4.08_EX_68K.bin I found that Internet Explorer 3.01 was okay. In its favour is that it runs on an 8meg Mac. The only thing you must remember is to trash all remnants of previous versions of IE before you install it. Otherwise the program uses the possibly corrupt files pertaining to the previous version. An alternative is to get Cyberdog 2.0. (hint: www.mactimes.com/puremac) It'll work on an 8 meg Mac, if you have "RAM doubler" Extract from "About Cyberdog" readme: "Cyberdog requires a Power Macintosh or a 68030 or better Macintosh and at least 16 megabytes of memory. (If less than 16mb of RAM is installed in your computer, use the Memory control panel to turn on Virtual Memory and set the amount of memory to 16M.) Cyberdog also requires System 7.5.3 or later, OpenDoc version 1.2 or later, and MacTCP 2.0.4 or later or Open Transport 1.1 or later with TCP/IP installed and configured. =A9 1997 Apple Computer, Inc." Extract from: "About Mac OS Runtime for Java=81" Version 1.5 readme: "MRJ 1.5 works with Cyberdog 1.2.1 or later. =A0 Introduction Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) is Apple=B9s implementation of the Java runtime environment based on software from Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mac OS applications adapted to use MRJ can run Java applets and applications. MRJ 1.5 implements version 1.0.2 of Sun=B9s Java. MRJ 1.5 includes Apple Applet Runner, a standalone application that runs Java applets, and Apple Applet Viewer, an OpenDoc viewer you use to put Java applets into OpenDoc documents. ftp://ftp.info.euro.apple.com/%2fApple.Support.Area/Apple_Software_Upda= tes/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Java/MRJ_1.5.1.img.hqx System requirements MRJ 1.5 works on computers with 68030, 68040 or PowerPC microprocessors. You also need System 7.5 or later, a minimum of 8 MB of RAM (16 MB is strongly recommended) and at least 7 MB of free disk space. Computers with 68030 or 68040 microprocessors must have 32-bit addressing turned on. =A9 1995-1997 Apple Computer. Inc" The "G" man. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:53:59 EST From: NCICCHECK@aol.com Subject: Netscape Hanging I'd like to thank all that wrote regarding this problem. But I want to restate that the hanging occurs with ALL pages just before they display and after they've finished downloading. The screen goes blank and anything that was displayed (markers, text, etc.) vanishes and the completed page with all its elements gets displayed after the LONG pause. This is something that didn't occur when I first upgraded from Netscape 3.x to 4.x. The OS in both cases was 8.1. So I feel that something else probably sabotaged Netscape (some Microslug extension?). John McGibney P. S. the problem seems cured by a reinstall, keeping only my bookmark page. I scrapped all the files before I installed anew. Also the G3 upgrade for the 6100 didn't hurt either. Again thanks to all. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:41:13 -0500 From: "David J. Wang" Subject: New Sherlock Plug-ins web site [Corrected URL] I sent out a message a couple of days ago regarding a new Sherlock plug-ins site in which I scrambled the URL, the correct URL is: http://members.home.com/djwang/sherlock/ (not home.members.com). Sorry for the mistake. I've included the original message below. Thanks, David Hello, I've put up a new website for Sherlock Plug-in website called "(yet-more) Sherlock Plug-ins" which can be found at http://members.home.com/djwang/sherlock/". Right now, plugins are available for several miscellaneous sites, but the two most interesting archives are somewhat seasonal: those who received DVD players under the Christmas tree might be interested in downloading the DVD package which includes plug-ins for The BIG Picture, DVDFile, the forums at DVDResource page, Home Theater Forum, Home Theater Magazine, Image Entertainment, the DVD section at the Internet Movie Database, and Netflix. those who will need to be doing taxes shortly (boo, hiss) might be interested in downloading the tax package which includes plug-ins for IRS, Ernst+Young, and Deloitte & Touche. I expect to be adding additional plug-ins for both those categories over the next couple of days. Thanks, David ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:53:53 -0600 From: "A. Scottedward Hodel" Subject: Newton Battery Packs The rechargeable battery on my Newton is beginning to age; unfortunately, I didn't think to order spares when Apple jettisonned the Newton. The Newton manual indicates that standard NiCad rechargable batteries should not be used, so I apparently need to find an alternative. I was unable to find Newton batteries listed at the Apple Store, MacMall and MacWarehouse. Are there any suggestions out there (less expensive than a Palm Pilot :-) ) for replacement battery packs for a Newton? A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect Eng, Auburn Univ,AL On leave at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:53:56 EST From: NCICCHECK@aol.com Subject: Re Claris case conversion You have to access this feature thru the button bar. To do this you have to add the buttons to the buttonbar. To do this you'll have to click on the triangle on the very left. Select edit button bar. Then select the button bar you are currently using. Under "Word Processing you'll see two buttons "aA" and "Aa". These are the buttons to change to and from uppercase and lowercase. Add these and you're done. John McGibney ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 02:44:25 GMT From: djwang@home.com (David J. Wang) Subject: Sherlock Plug-ins for this newsgroup Hello, I have some Sherlock plug-ins available for mac-related newsgroups. You can download the plugins from: http://members.home.com/djwang/sherlock/ (there are also plug-ins available for DVD/home-theater related sites, and, sites with tax info and advice.) David (ps. For those that don't know, Sherlock is a feature included in System 8.5 for Macintosh that allows searching web sites using the "Find" feature of the operating system. There are also versions available for UNIX and Newton. See http://members.home.com/djwang/sherlock/ or http://www.apple.com/sherlock/ for more info...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:19:50 +0000 From: Frank Markey Subject: Stylewriter ink cartridges I saw recent posts re stylewriter 1200 ink cartridges purchased from SAMS for $18--i need some, but where/what is SAMS? thank you Frank ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jan 99 19:13:47 +0000 From: "Gavin" Subject: Supra_56_V90.hqx. On 1999, Jan 12, Tue 9:31 am, "Bob G." wrote: >my web browser is MSIE 4.01. >Certain items, however just don't work and I can't figure out why. Case in point, the just-downloaded modem script titled >Supra_56_V90.hqx. > When I clicked on the hypertext for the modem script, the download manager appeared and the downloaded item then showed up on my hard drive where it was supposed to.. > I am totally baffled. > Answer: there is a problem with the site, not with your computer. I downloaded the above script. What you have to do in cases like this, is *hold down* the mouse button over the link and select a directory to save the downloaded file to. Create two folders in the "Documents" Folder. Call the first one "Download Folder" and the other "Just Downloaded". Run "Stuffit Expander", and go to preferences. Select "Download Folder" as your "watch" folder, and "Just Downloaded" as your destination folder. (If you also have "Stuffit Lite" and "DropStuff", do the same with them) Sometimes downloaded items don't unstuff, in which case the file is usually corrupt. But sometimes you can still unstuff them by running "Stuffit Expander" after you come off line. If you don't think you are gettting the connection speed you paid for with your 56k modem, read on: has written: >K56 Flex CCL Version .099 Beta 2 (Public Release 1) > http://56k.com/inits/K56_Flex_CCL.sit.hqx > >Power PC and 68K versions. For Open Transport and ARA only! > > This is a modem CCL that I created for Zoom K56 Flex External modems. This should >work on any K56 Flex Modem. Works perfectly on my internet connection(s). Technically >speaking, it should work flawlessly in a different environment as well. It is a full CCL, and >should work well with ARA (v2.1 or later??), however I have not tested it as of this date. > > This script will return correct connect speeds to OT/PPP v1.0 and 1.0.1. Speeds below >19.2Kbps will be reported as "Communicating Below 19200 Non K56 Flex!". This script will >also report K56 Flex and non K56 Flex Connections and correctly handle connections with >compression turned off. > > There are two versions in this archive. One for Power PC/AV Macs and one for 68K >Macs. This is due to the fact that the older 68K Macs do not support serial speeds higher >than 57600Kbps. Use the correct one accordingly. > > Installation for OT/PPP: > > Simply move the correct file into the "Modem Scripts" folder inside the extensions >folder of your system. Once the file has been moved, open the "Modem" control panel and >select the "Zoom K56/FLEX" selection in the grow-bar. Assuming you have configured TCP >correctly, guess what- you are surfing/connecting REALLY fast!!!! > > Thanks.... And have fun Surfing!!!!! >last updated 6/27/97 Note there is a collection of modem scripts at http://www.56k.com/inits I think the fastest connection is with "FreePPP", but I haven't made any stop watch comparisons (not wanting to waste the phone bill!). The "G" man Got AOL Instant Messenger? My screen name is "Waggibear" Got ICQ? My number is 8572581 ----------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog --- If you ain't dogging then you ain't talking ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:14:25 +1100 From: Al Byrne Subject: Virtual PC/modem connect At about 02/01/99 20:05 (-0800), chazzz (macman@kyol.net) wrote: >Using VPC/Win95. The modem setup useses 28880 as the max bps for GV >modems. I'm using a K56flex/v.90 to log on to my ISP. Has anyone run >into this inability to connect problem and if so, how to do a work >around? I have the same modem, and had exactly the same problem with VPC - the secret is to use Conflict Catcher or Extension Manager to disable all the GV fax software. EG: GV Toolbox, etc, etc, etc. I rarely use the fax features, so I just restart with them enabled on the odd occassions that I need to send or recieve a fax. >Discourage In-Breeding--Ban Country Music Love the signature! Al b ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jan 99 19:16:07 +0000 From: "Gavin" Subject: Voice modem as sound input device? I bought a PhonicPro 56k flex V.90 modem. It has a microphone socket. Is there any way that I could use this for a sound input to my IIci? -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************