Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #333 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 02 Sep 99 Volume 16 : Issue 333 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#494/23-Aug-99 [*] TidBITS#495/30-Aug-99 [Q] Sherlock search of Info-Mac files? "PGPsdkKeyServer" is missing (A) eudora-to-browser problem (A) World Book CD 630CD sees only 12MB [A] How to convert records to CDs [A] How to correctly upload MP3 files to web [A] How to correctly upload MP3 files to web [A] One ISP account - Two users [Q] "Welcome to.." Startup screen [Q] Error -39 Boot problem (R) Cable modem paranoia? cgi's for Netpresenz consolidating e mail (a note) Easy-View for Windows, too. Eudora addresses eudora-to-browser problem Fwd: G3 and music CDs from vinyl or tapes G3 PowerBook Coma How to correctly upload MP3 files to web (C) HyperCard stacks/Standalones as droplets? Info-Mac Digest V16 #331 Microtek SlimScan C6, KeySpan USB Card and Platimun G3 Monitor won't sleep Motherboards which fit the Performa 6320 MP3 now supported by Koan Mac music Plugin! Networked PIMs: what's best for Mac/PCs? PowerComputing & G3 upgrades Q: How to transfer files via Web? Source for Hard Drive ssh or secure telnet for Macs? Summary: Help with Epson Stylus Colour 900 needed Symbol font ignored in Mac Internet Explorer 4.5 TV tuning on PB G3 series USB drivers causing freezes Want old MIDI software for Mac SE What Happened to Info-Mac Digest?! What Happened to Info-Mac Digest?! WordPerfect to HTML World Book CD The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Michael Bean, Liam Breck, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, and Shawn Bunn. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #333" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#494/23-Aug-99 TidBITS#494/23-Aug-99 Want to download commercial software for free, legally? In this issue, Matt= Neuburg explores the curious case of obsolete and unsupported software,= some of which (like the popular outliners MORE and Acta) you can have once= again! Also this week, Adam relates his learning experience of trying to= buy replacement cell phone and camcorder batteries from clueless Web sites.= In the news, we cover the releases of Anarchie 3.6, GoClick 3.0.1, and= eMerge 1.6.1.=20 Topics: MailBITS/23-Aug-99 Long Day's Journey into Night of the Living Dead Software Finding the Power Online: Buying Batteries [Archived as /info-mac/per/TidBITS/tidbits-494.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#495/30-Aug-99 TidBITS#495/30-Aug-99 The world ends not with a bang, but with a kerchunking sound from a hard= disk. Jeff Carlson relates how DriveSavers brought his data back from the= dead. We also review Apple Confidential, a book packed with insider stories= and little-known details of Apple's tumultuous history, and note recent= changes in the PowerPC universe. News this week includes the release of= SkyLINE wireless networking and updates to Anarchie, Documents to Go, and= BBEdit Lite.=20 Topics: MailBITS/30-Aug-99 Shifts in the PowerPC World? Summer Reading: Apple Confidential DriveSavers to the Rescue [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-495.etx; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 05:41:52 -0400 (EDT) From: 5040@unforgettable.com Subject: Mehudi is sleeping! Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:20:42 +0300 To: digest@info-mac.org From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov" <5040@unforgettable.com> Subject: why no more share/freeware submissions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I'm subscriber for quite a long time to info-mac and one of the part i enjoyed most was the submissions and short annotations of share/freeware software. for some time now we have only questions and answers. have i missed something - change of policy? may i be updated tia peter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:09:06 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: [Q] Sherlock search of Info-Mac files? David Ellis asked: >I would like to know if there is a Sherlock plugin for the >HyperArchive or other collection of Info-Mac files? Yes, there is. In fact it comes as part of the complete Sherlock plugin collection. One place to get that complete archive is: http://www.apple-donuts.com/sherlocksearch/index.html and click on the link that says, "Download the Entire Archive (300 plugins)". One of the 300 is the Info-Mac plugin. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:47:20 +0200 From: Giorgio Bulgarelli Subject: "PGPsdkKeyServer" is missing I have not yet received any reply to the message I sent from Eritrea and I am forwarding hereinbelow. Maybe either it did not reach you or your answer went astray (my Eritrean e-mail provider is not very reliable!). Could anybody there help me? Best regards, Giorgio Bulgarelli --- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 10:08:09 +0300 To: digest@info-mac.org From: Giorgio Bulgarelli Subject: "PGPsdkKeyServer" is missing Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Dear Sirs, I would like to use PGP from here (Eritrea, Horn of Africa) from where I am not allowed to connect on-line to the Internet. Since 1997 I was trying to get a copy and, eventually, I downloaded version 5.5.3 QU1 from the site of Tor Vergata University in Rome in April 1998 when I was in Italy. According to the manual, the first step (page 20) is to create a new key pair by choosing "PGPkeys" from the 'PGPmenu'. However, instead of opening the "PGPkeys" application I only get a message that "PGPsdkKeyServer" is missing. Unfortunately, such a file is neither in the folder I downloaded via the Internet nor in the Eudora Pro 4.0 package a friend of mine sent me from the United States. I don't know what is does mean and nobody was yet able to tell me how to solve the inconvenience. I re-installed the software two or three times -from either the downloaded copy or the one bundled with Eudora Pro 4.0- but nothing changed. PGP Technical Support was -definitely!- of no help: they only sent me from pillar to post! The US Support firstly answered by giving me just a Web address: I had to send them ten messages before they read one of them and realised that I could not connect to the Internet. Then, they informed me that, in compliance to US security legislation, they were unable to support me. After another couple of messages they, eventually, gave me an e-mail address in Europe. Unfortunately, nobody did ever answer my messages! After about ten months of useless messages, I got the e-mail address . Firstly, somebody there answered by giving me another Web address. Another couple of messages and the definite answer was as follows: >Hash: SHA1 > >Dear Sir, >As you have seen, PGP is that much regulated that there are several >problems to answer such simple questions as your one seems in the >first moment. > >First of all: The freeware version you have mentioned in your fist >emails is of cause not supported by our support team (even not for a >special fee). > >If you have bought a version of PGP in the USA and have exported it >from there, you have violated US laws regarding to the export of >weapons of war. This is something I would not mentioned anywhere as >these laws are very restrictive. > >Please understand, that Network Associates in the US is not allowed to >support these product if you have exported it. The International >support on the other hand could also not help you as this would be >strictly illegal. > >Sorry, the only advice I can give you, is to buy the International >version, than we can support you. > >Best regards > >Mike Auerbach >Product Manager PGP International, NTS (CEUR & SEUR) >"Who's watching your network while you are reading this mail?" >Network Associates GmbH The point is that, since I am not a corporate user, I am not entitled to buy any version of PGP. I can only download freeware versions and I am not entitled to any support for the copy I purchased bundled with Eudora Pro 4.0! The story began in 1997 and I see no end (unless somebody will -eventually- tell me how to find that missing file named "PGPsdkKeyServer"!). Could anybody there help me? Thank you! --- end forwarded text >-- Dr Giorgio Bulgarelli Via Monte Gemma 2/3 I-00141 ROMA Italy Tel./Fax: + 39-06868 95705 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:12:10 -0400 From: Murph Sewall Subject: (A) eudora-to-browser problem On 8/19/99 11:43 AM -0400, Ricardo J. Seijo wrote: >When I receive an e-mail with a URL, the URL appears highlighted in >blue and underlined as it should be, but when I click on it, I get >the following message: "Sorry; couldn't start that application. Hold down the option key when you click the URL and Eudora will ask you to identify the browser that you want to display the web page. -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:40:08 -0700 From: Chuck Subject: (A) World Book CD Have you tried making disk image files (with Disk Copy) and mounting them on the desktop? I'm not sure how to get them to automount after a reboot, but it may be as simple as putting an alias to the image file into your startup folder. Good luck. - Chuck At 9:23 AM -0700 8/19/99, Buzz & Mary Bennetts wrote: >I am a (expert) volunteer at a local library that just bought its first >iMac. They wanted to install everything from both World Book >Encyclopedia CDs that came with the iMac onto the hard drive. They did >not want the CDs to disappear in use by the 6- thru 12-aged users. > >I first installed the basic application; then the data from each of the >two CDs onto the HD, and labeled them exactly the same as each CD is >labeled. I put them into the World Book folder. I have done similar >things with CDs many times, and they always have worked fine, but this >application keeps calling for the appropriate CD. > >I emailed the World Book folks, who answered there is no way to make it >work that way. I find it hard to believe. Does anyone have a suggestion? > >Thanks! > >Buzz Bennetts ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:40:02 -0700 From: David L Hirschberg Subject: 630CD sees only 12MB Hi, I tried installing a 16 mb chip into a Mac640CD. The mac only shows 12mb after it is rebooted even though there should be 20mb (4 is on the motherboard). I almost remember there was a jumper that had to be pulled so it would see more memory. Can someone in the know send me the info? Thanks, David hirschberg@stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:09:43 -0400 From: Mike Kreachbaum Subject: [A] How to convert records to CDs Jochen Haeberle asked: >I would like to digitize all my old records and burn them to CDs. >record player is connected to my G3 and working, but now for the >software.... What can I use to process the recordings? I need to >break up the tracks and something like denoize and declickle would be >nice. >I have been looking around, but all the music-programs seem to be >very expensive and aimed at professionals... is there anything in the >Shareware area? Or what comercial products can you suggest?? On 17 Aug 99 22:15:06 -0400, "D. Scott Beach" replied: >>Jochen: >>I've been doing this sort of thing for a couple months but I've been >>converting them to MP3 files. I can get around 16 LPs to a CD. To digitize >>the sounds into .aiff files I used a shareware called "Sound Sampler" for a >>while. Then I switched to Macromedia's "SoundEdit 16". They both allow you >>to record directly to disk and then to fade the beginning and end in and >>out. The added advantage of the SoundEdit 16 is that it'll pull tracks >>directly from CD and convert those to AIFF too. There are other utilities >>that do this so if you don't plan on doing it frequently then save your >>money and go with the Sound Sampler. It's interface isn't quite as nice and >>it hasn't been updated in a couple years but it does the job. >>To get the .aiff files onto CD you need Adaptec's "Toast" or better yet, >>"Jam". While converting files from LP's to MP3's saves alot of disk space, it also forces you to play them back on your Mac. A normal CD player (Walkman, etc.) does not recognize the MP3 format. In order to make them playable on all CD players you have to convert them to Sound Designer II files and the use Adaptec's Jam software to burn them. With Jam you can layout you playlist, edit pause times between track and more. A good program for converting any sound file is Norman Franke's freeware application SoundApp. It is widely available, just do a search. Mike Kreachbaum "just an ordinary boy, playing with an extraordinary toy!" The box said Windows 98 or better, so I bought a Mac. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Aug 99 18:49:40 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: [A] How to correctly upload MP3 files to web "Ton, Philong T" writes: >I encoded some AIFF files with SoundJam 1.0, then uploaded them to our >website using Fetch. Fetch was set at "Automatic" file type detection. >When I went to the website to try to click on a MP3 file, instead of hearing >sound, I got a bunch of garbled text. >The MP3 files sounded ok when I opened them up with QuickTime and other >MP3 players locally, on my hard drive.. > >Questions: >Please teach me how to do this correctly. >1. Is Fetch the problem? I also tried with Anarchie Pro without success. > >2. Are there special settings when encoding MP3 files which are to be >uploaded on the web? > >3. Are there special settings for MP3 files during uploading? > >4. What are the correct step to upload MP3 files? Phil: 1. I expect that instead of choosing "automatic" in Fetch you should choose "binary". 2. No, I don't think so. The only settings are the bitrate. A lower bitrate will mean a smaller files and faster download but poorer quality. 3. No. 4. See 1. - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:46:08 +0200 From: Matti Haveri Subject: [A] How to correctly upload MP3 files to web >From: "Ton, Philong T" > >Problem: Uploaded MP3 files don't work (no sound, just text) > >I encoded some AIFF files with SoundJam 1.0, then uploaded them to our >website using Fetch. Fetch was set at "Automatic" file type detection. Try to use binary "raw" upload in Fetch. You may also define this as the default in the preferences. Raw mode uploads just the data fork in binary mode. This is the preferred way to upload platform-independent files such as .tif, .jpg, .mov etc. -- Matti Haveri ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 07:43:33 -0400 From: Keith E Gatling Subject: [A] One ISP account - Two users Back in June , Rafi Saar wrote about a problem he was having with Eudora: | I could set up a filter to catch her e-mail | address, but that might also catch my own e-mail if | my wife's also a recipient of that same e-mail. I was having this same problem, but didn't want to resort to two copies of Eudora, or two settings files, having to have each person in the house load their own copy, etc. And I got to thinking if only there were some way to filter the mail into separate boxes by whose account it came from. Then last night it hit me! Check the headers...the LONG headers...to see what the differences were between mail coming to me and mail coming to my wife. After all, even when we were both recipients of the same message, our copies would come from different server locations before being downloaded to our Mac. Bingo! The "Received:" header is where the difference is. The filters should look something like this: User 1: If header Received contains for transfer to User1 Box User 2: If header Received contains for transfer to User2 Box Works like a charm for us! Of course, if one of you is the dominant user and the other is secondary, you could just make a filter for user2, and assume that everything else would go straight to the In box. Hope this was helpful. keg * mailto://keithgatling@bigfoot.com http://www.bigfoot.com/~keithgatling * ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:35:43 -0700 From: Julius Friede Subject: [Q] "Welcome to.." Startup screen Hello all, I used to know, but have since forgotten, where the "Welcome to Mac OS" startup text string is located. Can anyone remind me in which resource this is located? TIA for your reply. Julius ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:37:01 +0200 From: "J=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=rgen" Subject: [Q] Error -39 Is there a way to recover files that can't start because of Error -39? (This happened to a large number of very important files after I had burnt them on CD. The seem to be lost now, which is terrible!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:53:09 +0200 From: Christian F Buser Subject: Boot problem (R) At 15:34 -0400 20.08.1999, Patty and Art Werschulz wrote: >After the usual startup sound, there is a pause of a few seconds (during >which the Mac makes what seems to be the usual disk noises). But then I >hear (for lack of a better description) the sound of breaking glass >(from the speaker). Nothing else happens. There is a problem somewhere - probably a physical one. Check wehether all RAM modules and all expansion cards sit tightly in their slots, and that your SCSI chain is properly terminated and with reasonable (=short) cable lengths. Also, you may want to change one SCSI cable after the other to find out whether one of them is bad. >I'm now having to do the boot cycle three or more times (as a rule) to >get the Mac to successfully boot. This supports my assumption that something is loose, but not totally disconnected. Of course, bad RAM modules have the same result, so you may also want to take them out one after the other and try to start. Good luck, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at "Ich weiss nicht, was ich will - aber ich will es JETZT!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:12:02 -0700 From: Frank Ripp Subject: Cable modem paranoia? I just got my PowerCenter 166 hooked up to a cable modem. This Mac is not part of a network, and I don't have File Sharing turned on. I now have a fixed IP address, as opposed to a dynamic address that changed every time I used to make a dial-up connection. Should I be worried about firewalls and intruders trying to access my Mac? I read somewhere about people being able to access their neighbor's Macs and Printers via the Chooser. I need a reality check here - is any of this paranoia justified? Any info will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Frank (frankr@mdli.com) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:46:48 -0600 From: sgandy Subject: cgi's for Netpresenz Does anyone know of a source for some simple cgi's that would work with a Mac server using Netpresenz? I just need a search and a counter. ----------- Steve Gandy Technology Coordinator - Mountain View Elementary School Adams 12 Five Star Schools 12401 N. Perry St. Broomfield, CO 80020 ph: 303.466.1791 fax: 303.465.6851 sgandy@ad12.k12.co.us http://www.ad12.k12.co.us/mtnview/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:48:46 -0500 From: "Paul M. Sheldon" Subject: consolidating e mail (a note) I've gotten netscape mail thru ethernet to eudora folders. Here's why and how I did it. I just sleep my portable and like to get e mail on it. Both netscape mail and eudora mail have the format of unix mail folders. That suggested a trick. Eudora must "learn" about the alias folder by being launched when the alias is "appletalk connected". I put an alias netscape's mail folder from mac portable in a mac tower's eudora folder for transfer thru ethernet when I boot up my tower mac, connect to my portable and launch eudora. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:03:23 +0100 From: bromo@flashnet.it (Vittorio Barabino) Subject: Easy-View for Windows, too. Dear List, I've collected a bunch of mailing digests, and I use Easy-View to browse them. Now I'd like to pass them to a PC-owner of mine, that shares this field of interests... I've heard in some old backissues of TidBITS that somebody developed a Windows 3.1 version of Easy-View... but the link to A.C.E's ftp site is empty, "because the program are wildly outdated"... :-( I've asked personally to A.C.E, but apparently he doesn't own a copy anymore :-(( as a matter of fact, the Windows 3.1 version would be very convenient for my friend -- Does anybody still have a copy of it? Thanks !!! -- Ciao, \+----------+ email: bromo@flashnet.it Vittorio --| : ) o | /+----------+ - = http://fly.to/risorse/ = - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:40:31 +0200 From: Matti Haveri Subject: Eudora addresses >From: "Norman R. Friedman" > >When updating my system, I found that my address book in Eudora was wiped >out. When I then re-entered all the addresses, lo and behold all the old >list was listed, along with the new addresses, not in the address book, but >under the Message list. Whenever I try to send a New Message or Forward, I >have to try to pick which is the active address. I cannot seem to find a >way to erase the names from the Message listing. Any help. Thanks in Try this: 1. Make a copy of the relevant "Eudora Settings" file (this is the default name but it may be named otherwise because Eudora can be launched from given a settings file). 2. Open this settings file with ResEdit and delete the MENU resource. 3. Put this edited settings file into the same folder as the mailboxes. 4. Launch Eudora from the edited settings file. If everything is now OK you may change the edited settings file's name to what it used to be, if you like. BTW, you can name "Eudora Folder" whatever you like and move it where ever you like - just launch Eudora from its settings file (which can be named whatever you like). You can have multiple settings files for different POP accounts in the same folder. -- Matti Haveri ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:56:27 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: eudora-to-browser problem Ricardo J. Seijo wrote: >I am having a problem clicking on URL's that appear in e-mail messages. I >recently set up a new iMac and I had never had the problem before. When I >receive an e-mail with a URL, the URL appears highlighted in blue and >underlined as it should be, but when I click on it, I get the following >message: > "Sorry; couldn't start that application. > -39, {url:283}" >Theoretically, it should just open the default browser and go to the >particular site automatically. Does anyone have any input? Have you Option-Command-clicked on the link to the URL? That ought to bring up a dialog where you can choose what application to use for that type of URL. Maybe your preference got messed up and needs to be reset? Daly ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:11:17 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Philong Ton wrote: >Problem: Uploaded MP3 files don't work (no sound, just text) > >I encoded some AIFF files with SoundJam 1.0, then uploaded them to >our website using Fetch. Fetch was set at "Automatic" file type >detection. When I went to the website to try to click on a MP3 >file, instead of hearing sound, I got a bunch of garbled text. >The MP3 files sounded ok when I opened them up with QuickTime and >other MP3 players locally, on my hard drive.. > >Questions: >Please teach me how to do this correctly. >1. Is Fetch the problem? I also tried with Anarchie Pro without success. >2. Are there special settings when encoding MP3 files which are to >be uploaded on the web? >3. Are there special settings for MP3 files during uploading? >4. What are the correct step to upload MP3 files? I believe that all you need to do is set Fetch to upload the files as "Raw Data" and they should go okay. I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Typically, I set Fetch to upload text (including html) files as "Text" and others as Raw Data. If that dfoesn't work for you, let us know, and we'll look further into it. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:54:33 +1200 From: "Nigel Stanger" Subject: G3 and music CDs from vinyl or tapes On Friday, 20 August 1999 11:09:38 AM, Charles Myers wrote: > I am currently considering buying a Mac G3 and I had a couple questions. > One of the tasks I definitely want to do is convert my old records onto > CD. How do you do this? Aha! I knew I had something about this somewhere -- Sherlock comes to the rescue again. I don't know if this link still works, but check out >From memory it has quite a bit of useful info about exactly this topic from someone who's done it already. ===================================================================== Nigel Stanger, mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz Dept Information Science, http://strange.otago.ac.nz:800/ University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:59:49 -0700 From: Paul Brians Subject: G3 PowerBook Coma I have one of the original G3 PowerBooks which lately has refused to start up when its power button is pressed. Our departmental techie solved the mystery when he noted that although the "sleep" light was not lit, the PowerBook was still emitting a faint hum. Forcing a "reboot" using "option-command-powerkey" brought the PB back to life when nothing else would. My guess is that when I shut down and the screen goes blank, the PB is not completely off yet. When I close the lid too abruptly, it goes into some weird variant of sleep mode--call it coma mode--from which it cannot be reawakened by a forced reboot. Anybody else encountered this problem, or is it peculiar to my machine? Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:02:47 +0200 From: cbuser@mus.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: How to correctly upload MP3 files to web (C) "Ton, Philong T" wrote: > Problem: Uploaded MP3 files don't work (no sound, just text) > > I encoded some AIFF files with SoundJam 1.0, then uploaded them to our > website using Fetch. Fetch was set at "Automatic" file type detection. > When I went to the website to try to click on a MP3 file, instead of > hearing sound, I got a bunch of garbled text. The MP3 files sounded ok > when I opened them up with QuickTime and other MP3 players locally, on my > hard drive.. I don't think it's a problem with the ftp software, although using "text" or "binary" transfer could be worth a try. I rather think that either the server or the browser don't know what to do with the MP3 file. Does the file have the correct extension? The server and the browser decide based on the extension what to do with the data arriving. Hope this helps. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Casa Luscheina, 7151 Schluein (Switzerland) Look at "Ich weiss nicht, was ich will - aber ich will es JETZT!" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:34:59 +0200 From: "J=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=rgen" Subject: HyperCard stacks/Standalones as droplets? Is there a way to turn a stack or a standalone made with HyperCard into a drop-launching thing? I want to be able to drop a folder on it and let HyperCard launch to do whatever with it (like get the contents of the folder or read in the textfile). If there is no way: I already downloaded "dropshell", which adds this ability to spplications that you program, but I only got it in C and really need it in Pascal to make something out of it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:12:32 -0500 From: Brian Teutsch Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #331 Robert Dalton wrote to Brian Teutsch about: >Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:55:00 -0400 >From: Robert Dalton >Subject: open a PM 6500? > > >Anybody know how to open a PowerMac 6500? No, we don't need to get at >the logic board, we need to remove a Zip Drive (click of death) for >repair (to ship to Iomega). > >-Bob >rsdalton@lycosmail.com The best page I know of is from the 6400 Zone. Although everything about the software is irrelevant, the hardware pages will show you just what to do. has instructions and pictures. For anyone not wanting to go there, the short answer is to push the two tabs by the front cover feet, then use a screwdriver to pop the cover off. Yes, the first cover-popping can be a little tough. Brian Teutsch -- "Picking your nose when no one is looking is still picking your nose." - Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me, by Cynthia Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:59:00 -0400 From: Murph Sewall Subject: Microtek SlimScan C6, KeySpan USB Card and Platimun G3 This is a review of the Microtek SlimScan C6 and KeySpan USB Card. I don't work in the industry and have no connection with either company or any competitor. Two months ago, I spend about $50 on a Keyspan USB card for my Platinum G3 (OS 8.6) and $109 (there's supposed to be a $20 rebate but I'm still waiting for the check, so don't count on it) for a Microtek SlimScan C6. I nearly returned the scanner when the ScannerDetectorPPC v1.02 software hung my computer the first time it tried to run. The bad news is there's a bug in the software. The good news is there's a workaround (well, sort of). Although the ScannerDetectorPPC v1.02 software hangs, actually does detect the scanner. If, as it's busy "detecting," the user does a mouse down on the spot where "File" will appear on the menu bar, it is possible to catch the menu in the very brief interval between detection and hanging. The trick is to Quit ScannerDetectorPPC v1.02 at that point. ScanSuite USB 1.02 and the other software will run; so run the apps and configure scanner preferences. My experience is that ScanSuite, Adobe PhotoDeluxe and OmniPage Light will run okay on subsequent Mac startups (remove the ScannerDetectorPPC v1.02 alias from the Startup folder) although the SlimScan's "push button" feature won't. Users who haven't heard of this "fix" or who have trouble holding the mouse button down at the correct moment while pointed to the correct spot are likely to experience frustration. I've received several unsatisfactory responses from mailto:macsupport@microtek.com. They do respond reasonably promptly to email, but it's evident that those who respond are not equipped to address problems they aren't already aware of (if it isn't part of the in place reply repertoire, they can't deal). Because ScannerDetectorPPC v1.02 almost works, I suspect the glitch is a small one, but in two months, Microtek hasn't even promised to look into the problem much less offer an update to fix it. The scanner itself does a nice job for the price. I'm actually pleased at how well OmniPage Light works even though OCR wasn't one of my reasons for buying the scanner. On the other hand, if I were back in the store knowing what I now know, I think I might spend a few dollars more on a competing brand. KeySpan's website reports that there are some issues with their USB card and Mac OS 8.6. Fortunately, I've experienced none of the mentioned symptoms. It is possible that the problems affect PowerPC models older than the G3. In any case, Apple released an upgrade to the USB software (http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/) a month ago that probably addresses the problem. KeySpan's website has yet to be updated. There was an item at MacFixIt that indicated that the current USB v1.2 software works well with the USB card. I've installed it and it works fine, but it hasn't had any impact on the behavior of the Microtek scanner software. Mailto:support@keyspan.com also replies to email within a business day or two, and once again, the employees hired to reply to email aren't equipped to deal with problems that aren't already part of their stock answer inventory. I recommend the KeySpan USB card, but I'd buy it from a place that accepts returns as KeySpan's support isn't up to speed. -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:47:35 EDT From: Mercibeate@aol.com Subject: Monitor won't sleep Hi All, My NEC xv17 refuses to go into sleep mode. I'm using Apple's energy saver control panel which will kick-in the screen saver (blank screen), but will not put the monitor to sleep. This was working up until recently, but I can't seem to troubleshoot the problem. Any ideas or advice gratefully accepted. Thanks, Rob My system is: Power Mac 7350/180 System 8.5.1 80 Meg RAM See why we abandoned Los Angeles for rural Virginia! Visit http://members.aol.com/mercibeate ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:47:43 +0200 From: Giorgio Bulgarelli Subject: Motherboards which fit the Performa 6320 With reference to my message of Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:24:13 +0300 I eventually realised that my Performa 6320 cannot be upgraded. Since I need more speed and RAM, I would like to change its motherboard. Does a Performa 6420, PowerMac 4400/200 or PPC 604 motherboard fit the Performa 6320? Thanks for your help! Best regards, >-- Dr Giorgio Bulgarelli Via Monte Gemma 2/3 I-00141 ROMA Italy Tel./Fax: + 39-06868 95705 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:40:49 +0100 From: "Pete Cole" Subject: MP3 now supported by Koan Mac music Plugin! Folks, FYI, the free Koan Mac Plugin now supports interactive use of MP3 samples for your website music! You can get it from http://www.sseyo.com Hoping this is of interest, Pete ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:00:49 +0100 From: "Donal Leader" Subject: Networked PIMs: what's best for Mac/PCs? We are a small academic operation involving about 100 people, the majority of whom are using Macs, but there are about 30 people in Administration/Finance using PCs. Can anyone out there recommend a calendar/organiser programme that will operate on a server and can share information with Mac and PC users alike. I am aware that on the PC Microsoft Outlook is the champion. Is there any application that will operate on a network comparable to MS Outlook? Any thoughts on this problem very much welcomed? Donal Leader Director, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:07:48 +0100 From: Ezra Nathan Subject: PowerComputing & G3 upgrades Hi> I've got PowerComputing 'Power=C7enter' 150 (not a PowerCentre Pro)=20 which I would like to put a G3 upgrade card in. I'm looking at the=20 XLR 266 because here in the UK there are very good deals for it. But=20 no seller has been able to tell me whether my machine will take this=20 card, not even the distributor of the card. My handbook says that the=20 Processor is 'upgradable via daughtercard' but there are no=20 instructions on how to change the daughtercard. Is the daughtercard=20 what I will change for a G3 card? Also the handbook has a drawn picture of the inside of the machine=20 and the back of the machine but displays only one fan. My machine (a=20 minitower) has two fans. Does anyone know where I can find a diagram=20 of the inside of a PowerCenter indicating what the parts are,=20 especially where the daughtercard is and whether it can be easily=20 removed? Has anyone put in a G3 upgrade card in a similar machine? If so, what=20 has been the performance difference? Did you do the job of=20 installation yourself? The peripherals that I have attached to my=20 machine (not USB) makes this option of upgrade a must to consider. Thanks. > Ezra ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:18:22 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" Subject: Q: How to transfer files via Web? Hi all, how do I set up my web page so that I can transfer files? I have some pdf files, documents (e.g. CV) and sounds, and I put links to them onto my web site - however when I access it from another computer I only get the option to download it as either txt or html. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help you can give. Markus Thanks to all who can offer advice, and please reply directly to me and I will summarize for the list: m.winter@auckland.ac.nz ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:47:37 EDT From: Mercibeate@aol.com Subject: Source for Hard Drive Hi All, I'd like to add a 2nd internal drive to my 7350 for A/V recording. I understand the internal SCSI bus is a SCSI-2 bus. However, I'm having trouble locating a source for SCSI-2 drives. Can someone steer me in the right direction? TIA, Rob See why we abandoned Los Angeles for rural Virginia! Visit http://members.aol.com/mercibeate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:21:58 -0400 From: "David R. Steiner" Subject: ssh or secure telnet for Macs? > >Are there any ssh, or secure telnet clients available for the Macintosh? > >-Reuben Reuben, there are currently now public domain/shareware ssh clients available for the Mac that can be legally used in the US due to patent rights on the RSA algorithms. This shortage will likely correct itself in the near future when the RSA patent runs out (next year, I think). Nifty Telnet is already available (again, not for use in the US) and I have heard that there are already hooks in BetterTelnet for ssh. In the meantime, the only game in town is the commercial product from F-Secure. I have some issues with the way the program was implemented but it does work. Hope this helps, -David- David R. Steiner - Unix System Administator-MIS & Sciences Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:18:15 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" Subject: Summary: Help with Epson Stylus Colour 900 needed Hi all, so far I've received a lot of mail from other people who have printing problems with the Epson Stylus Color 900 as well. As a reminder: I can't print to the Epson Stylus Color 900 from most programs - the print job either goes off into Nirvana, or I get a "Not enough memory to print ..." error message - and that despite for example giving Acrobat Reader 30 Mb of RAM and Epson Printer another 30 Mb ... I'm now going to try Epsons printer drivers for other printers - maybe that will help. I keep you posted. Markus Thanks to all who offered advice, and please reply directly to me and I will summarize for the list: m.winter@auckland.ac.nz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:06:00 +0100 From: John McKinley Subject: Symbol font ignored in Mac Internet Explorer 4.5 A colleague is constructing web pages on a PC containing the Symbol font, to set some equations. The pages work fine in IE and Netscape on his PC, and in Netscape 4 on my PM7300, but the switch to Symbol is ignored in my copy of Explorer 4.5. I have turned on the preference which allows the page to specify fonts. I also downloaded the page to my Mac and tried different fonts instead of Symbol by editing the HTML - some font changes are accepted and some aren't, and I can't find a pattern to which is which. What is going on? How can I get the correct font to display? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:51:01 +0200 From: adriano ceccarelli Subject: TV tuning on PB G3 series I own a PowerBook G3 series and would like to connect it to an external TV tuner (there is no room for internal PCIs). I couldn't find anything to suit my needs. I wonder if anyone else has already gone through this problem. Apparently the ATI Xclaim Tv connected to a ZV card should do but: 1) I am europe-based and the tuner only works with NTSC system 2) I couldn't find a ZV card to take S-video or composite signal output into my PB. Any ideas? thanks a lot. Adriano Ceccarelli Adriano Ceccarelli Universit=E0 degli Studi di Torino Dip. Scienze Cliniche e Biologiche phone: +39-11-6708109 fax : +39-11-9038639 email: adriano.ceccarelli@unito.it email: ceccarelli@csivms.csi.it Ospedale S. Luigi Gonzaga Reg. Gonzole 10 10043 - Orbassano TORINO ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:01:58 -0400 From: Ron Frankel Subject: USB drivers causing freezes I installed a 4 port Entrega card on my G3 desktop (233/ OS 8.5.1) but am having a problem. The G3 recognizes the port, but the USB drivers (both the ones Emtrega supplied and v1.2 that Apple says should run on 8.5.1) cause the G3 to freeze on startup with system error 11. Cant even startup with shift key down to turn extensions off. Removing the drivers solves the problem--and makes the ports unusable, of course. Did the obvious: clean re-install, started up with base system only plus USB drivers, reloaded drivers, etc. Entrega people could only send me new drivers which didn't solve the problem. I tried using OS 8.6 with the v 1.2 drivers but that system froze too. I saw a post somewhere that referred to the SerialShimLib as a possible culprit but have no idea how to get/install it or if it would screw everything up if I did. I've posted this issue with various help groups and with Apple. No solution yet. Any suggestions? E-mail response would help since I sometiimes miss issues of Info-Mac Ron ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:17:19 -0500 From: "Allan, David (DS)" Subject: Want old MIDI software for Mac SE I would like to give an old SE to my kids to attach to a small MIDI-capable Casio keyboard. Is there any old MIDI software that can run on a 4MB SE (running system 6 or 7)? Can someone point me to a source (either resale or download)? Thanks in advance. David Allan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:12:49 +0200 From: Matti Haveri Subject: What Happened to Info-Mac Digest?! >From: "Adam C. Engst" > >Frankly, as a general Macintosh mailing list, the Info-Mac Digest >isn't serving any unique needs any more. What's more important in our >minds is the Info-Mac Archive, which remains one of the most >important methods of distributing Macintosh software on the Internet. >That's where we've been focusing most of our attention (and where >most of the problems have been occurring). ...Info-Mac Digest... Info-Mac Digest really brings good memories to me. At first I downloaded and read it from a local user group's archives using First Class client. Then, in May '93 it got my first proper internet connection... I still remember my exitement to actually see comp.sys.mac.digest newsgroup and the digests in there! Adam may be right that with all the dedicated mailing lists, Info-Mac Digest has lost some of its appeal but IMHO it is still a very useful resource and a good place to ask and give help to fellow mac users! Keep up the good work, -- Matti Haveri ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:32:15 -0400 From: Murph Sewall Subject: What Happened to Info-Mac Digest?! On 8/13/99 2:59 PM -0700, Adam C. Engst wrote: >Frankly, as a general Macintosh mailing list, the Info-Mac Digest >isn't serving any unique needs any more. 'Tis true that with a zillion websites screaming for our attention that probably no one is serving "unique" needs any more. However, some of us have been growing old and grey reading the info-mac digest and relying on it as a place likely to turn up knowledgeable replies to questions that vendor technical support staffs don't have in their standard repertoire. The last time I asked a tech support person on the phone how long he'd been on the job, the answer was since graduating in June '99 :-) Alas, "tech support" often is little more than a talking version of an FAQ file--useful only if the question has been asked before and satisfactorily answered. A significant value of the digest is that it arrives periodically and is relatively compact as compared to active lists that can bombard subscribers with 60 or so messages a day, many redundant, opinionated with scant information, or wrong. I haven't been paying great attention lately, but historically, info-mac was read by employees at both Apple and major software vendors; hence, threads were likely to attract replies from people who really did know what they were talking about. I suspect that info-mac remains something of a "guru" list in that long time subscribers are people likely to be sought out by large numbers of non-readers for their opinions and assistance. Hence, info-mac has had, and probably continues to have, a substantial bottom line impact that wise vendors will pay attention to. (Alas, vendors don't always get it. I once attended a luncheon where an Apple VP asked how many attendees had purchased a computer with their own money. Most had . What the VP never asked and didn't notice was that the AVERAGE number of computers attendees had purchased with their own money was roughly FIVE . The group was far more influential than he realized, but his talk wasn't pitched correctly to the audience he was addressing). -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:59:30 -0400 From: Patty and Art Werschulz Subject: WordPerfect to HTML Hi. Does anybody have a freeware WordPerfect to HTML converter? It must work well with tables. Thanks. -- Patty and Art Werschulz http://members.home.net/agw/ 1 Marsh Street Cranford NJ 07016 (908) 272-1146 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:49:43 +0200 From: Matti Haveri Subject: World Book CD >From: Buzz & Mary Bennetts > >I am a (expert) volunteer at a local library that just bought its first >iMac. They wanted to install everything from both World Book >Encyclopedia CDs that came with the iMac onto the hard drive. They did >not want the CDs to disappear in use by the 6- thru 12-aged users. > >I first installed the basic application; then the data from each of the >two CDs onto the HD, and labeled them exactly the same as each CD is >labeled. I put them into the World Book folder. I have done similar >things with CDs many times, and they always have worked fine, but this >application keeps calling for the appropriate CD. > >I emailed the World Book folks, who answered there is no way to make it >work that way. I find it hard to believe. Does anyone have a suggestion? Just a thought: try to make image files from the CDs, then mount them all to the desktop as locked or unlocked volumes (use Apple's Disk Copy 6.x or ShrinkWrap). -- Matti Haveri -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************