Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #337 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 21 Sep 99 Volume 16 : Issue 337 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#497/13-Sep-99 [*] TidBITS#498/20-Sep-99 shareware Ethernet netwrok analysis tools (A) old video connectors [A]: Multiplatform messenger Cleanly Handling Multiple POP3 Mailboxes Getting BestData's PC card modem to work on a Mac MFS Format Q: How to transfer Exel curve fitting variable into cell? Sherlock network errors Wanted: a Powerbook repair facility in the Washington DC area 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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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 #337" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#497/13-Sep-99 TidBITS#497/13-Sep-99 The Macintosh received an unexpected supporter last week in the form of the= U.S. Army, which has switched its home page Web server from Windows NT to= the Mac OS running WebSTAR. Also, Jerry Kindall sees only smoke surrounding= a recent controversy about Unisys charging Web site owners for use of the= GIF format. We also note updates to QuickTime and Adobe GoLive, and look at= a practical way to talk back to Apple: the annual Bash Apple session at= MacHack.=20 Topics: MailBITS/13-Sep-99 U.S. Army Moves to Mac OS-based WebSTAR GIF Licensing Controversy Talking Back to Apple at MacHack [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-497.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#498/20-Sep-99 TidBITS#498/20-Sep-99 Looking for a cheap way to prevent crashes, increase productivity, and= extend the lifespan of your Mac? Adam examines the many advantages of using= an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to protect your expensive equipment.= Also this week, we announce our voluntary contribution program; look at= updates to Web Confidential, Keep It Up, and MacHeadlines; re-welcome the= EvangeList; and note the announcement of Handspring's Visor, a new= Palm-based handheld device.=20 Topics: MailBITS/20-Sep-99 You Can Help Support TidBITS Don't Interrupt! A UPS Saves the Day [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-498.etx; 31K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:47:41 +0200 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: shareware Ethernet netwrok analysis tools I'm looking for a shareware utility to analyze the efficiency of Macintosh ethernet networks (ie speed, bad links, etc.). Is there something out there? ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba ------------------------------ Date: 18 Sep 99 18:08:52 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) old video connectors Greg Lyzenga asks: >I have an old Performa monitor lying around, which I would like to give to >my sister to use with an old Mac she is getting as a freebie. The trouble >is, the monitor has a 15-pin connector, and the computer has a 25-pin video >connector. > >Can anybody direct me to a tutorial on Mac video cables, or tell me >directly how to accomplish this hookup or where to buy the appropriate >adapter? Thanks a bunch. Greg: The video conector on the Mac is a 15 pin one too. It should be a row of 8 pin sockets above a row of 7 pin sockets. The 25 pin connector is a SCSI port. The 15 pin connector on the performa monitor is 3 offset rows of 5 pin sockets. An Apple dealer should be able to sell you a cable to connect the two different 15 pin sockets. If the Mac she's getting is a really old one (like a IIci, IIsi or an LC), then she may need an additional adapter. Griffen Technologies http://www.griffintechnology.com/ has a good on-line database of what works with what and what sort of their adapter you'll need. Good luck. - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: 18 Sep 99 15:59:16 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: [A]: Multiplatform messenger Ernst Niggli asks: >Hello all, >I am trying to find a messenger (similar to ICQ, AIM) running >on MacOS and Win95/98 but not requiring access to the Internet. >Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. Ernst: ICQ and AIM require a central server on which you check in and (I think) direct your messages through. If you didn't want to access the internet then you'd need to resort to some sort of bulletin board system to dial into directly. That would work across platform. Have I've missed your point? - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:10:01 +1000 From: "Dr. I. Balbin" Subject: Cleanly Handling Multiple POP3 Mailboxes My University uses Novell Groupwise internally for its mail. I don't like it, for various reasons. I use netscape mail and a different internal (Departmental) email address. I will, however, get mail to my groupwise email account as well. I had tried to forward my groupwise mail to my other account. This works, however, all mail is forwarded as opposed to distributed to me, and so the sender of all my re-routed messages from my groupwise mail account to my netscape mail is ME rather than the person who sent it (and the Cc's on the original email). This is a pain. Luckily, the grouwise email server also accepts pop3 and imap. I can't use imap (which cleanly manages two accounts) because the mail is kept on a central server (as opposed to my clien mac) and my mail runs into 500 Megabytes a year! I therefore use pop and store my mail on the client machine. Unfortunately, netscape mail only seems to support multiple pop sessions when you use separate profiles. That is, you pretend to be two people. This means that I have to close one session to read the mail from the other session (pop account) and is a convoluted and less than adequate way of dealing with the problem. The thought then occured to me that if someone had written a pop3 sniffer type application/server which retrieved messages from multiple pop accounts, and then stored these on my desktop, that my client mail program (netscape mail) could then connect to this (local) server and simply grab all my email via pop in a transparent fashion. Problem solved (apart from the fact that pop3 doesn't seem to run over SSL in the same way that imap can?) Now, I know that I could move to Microsoft Outlook, but I like to have the one application open for mail/news/web and prefer netscape, and so I don't wish to have a separate mail program (if I did, I could also use eudora in a convoluted way) So, my questions are: Does my idea sound like the only way to deal with this problem (without forking out money for commercial software) Does anyone know of any software that does this Any other ideas? Thanks in advance. Please also email me your response, if you can, to isaac@cs.rmit.edu.au -- Dr I. Balbin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, RMIT University, Building 10, Level 11, Room 12, 124 La Trobe St. Melbourne, 3000. Australia. Phone: +61 3 99252803 Fax: +613 96621617 email: isaac@rmit.edu.au http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~isaac/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:03:46 -0700 From: David L Hirschberg Subject: Getting BestData's PC card modem to work on a Mac Has any one gotten the BestData model 56SPC PC card modem to work on a mac? The box claims it works on a Mac 7.1 and higher and also that it is 'simple plug & play installation' I plugged it in a PB5300 running system 8.5 and the mac did not recognize the card. I assume it needs a driver. Nothing that looks like a driver for a mac came with it. The CD that came with it has a bunch of old 3rd party software like AOL and netscape and fax stuff but no driver. I went to their website and there was very little mac stuff there-mostly ccls and a modem script. They have a flash update for the card but the only way it can be updated is from a PeeCee. They did not advertise that feature to mac users. Tech support promises a response to my plea for help in a blazing 72 hours. I sent one request on Sunday and a Follow up on Monday and no response as of Thursday night. No phone number or fax number to call. I am not impressed. Has anyone out there gotten this card to work with a mac? Can you point me to a driver that will make this modem work? Thanks David hirschberg@stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:00:51 +0200 From: "Jean-Philippe Pellet" Subject: MFS Format Hello, I wanted to run a lot of old apps I have on my new PowerBook G3, but as you may guess many of them won't even open because they're too old. So I downloaded vMac from www.emulation.net, which is wonderful, and now most of my apps work very well! But I still have one problem: How can I mount and/or use old MFS (Macintosh Filing System -- the precursor of HFS) floppies on my G3? Disk Copy says it can't use this format, yet I still have such old floppies. How could I use them, or at least save what's on them? Could I download sort of a driver for MFS? Or a special program to convert my floppies? TIA, Jean-Philippe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:45:09 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" Subject: Q: How to transfer Exel curve fitting variable into cell? > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3020442309_400130_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all, I've figured out how to apply a curve fit to my data in a graphic and how to show the fitted equation on the graph - but I would like to use the variables (slope and intercept for linear fits, logarithmic constants in growth curves etc) in subsequent calculations. Is there a way to put the calculated variables into cells? Thanks. Markus P.S. Please reply to me via e-mail since I'm not a regular reader here ... m.winter@auckland.ac.nz --MS_Mac_OE_3020442309_400130_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Q: How to transfer Exel curve fitting variable into cell? Hi all,

I've figured out how to apply a curve fit to my data in a graphic and how t= o show the fitted equation on the graph - but I would like to use the variab= les (slope and intercept for linear fits, logarithmic constants in growth cu= rves etc) in subsequent calculations. Is there a way to put the calculated v= ariables into cells?

Thanks.

Markus

P.S. Please reply to me via e-mail since I'm not a regular reader here ...<= BR>
m.winter@auckland.ac.nz


 --MS_Mac_OE_3020442309_400130_MIME_Part-- ------------------------------ Date: 18 Sep 99 17:21:19 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: Sherlock network errors Patty and Art Werschulz ask: >Platform: 266MHz G3 Beige Desktop, running MacOS 8.6.1. >Often, when I do a Sherlock search, I will get a message saying that >there was a network error. The search produces results, however. >Has anybody seen this? What's the fix? Thanks. Patty and Art: Sherlock does this to me too. I think it's supposed to be improved in the next version of Sherlock. It'd be great if it at least reported which .src script was causing the problem so we'd know which one to disable or trash. I've got a couple other pet peeves with Sherlock. One is that the .src files seem to be kind of fragile. Sherlock hangs on me pretty often and then I've got to go through the process of trying a few at a time to figure out which one is toast. Also, not a Sherlock problem but a web-site problem, is that some sites that can auto-update their search scripts often send their .src scripts in .hqx form that you've got to manually decode/decompress and install. I think they could just do a binary transfer and overwrite the old one. Anyone else experienced these things? - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:18:17 -0400 From: a brody Subject: Wanted: a Powerbook repair facility in the Washington DC area Dear Digest readers, I have tried MacUpgrades, and that didn't work (won't install keyboard that is in stock unless it can reproduce the problem), I have tried Computer Age (no parts available), and I have tried MacMedics (too costly). I don't have time to send the Powerbook back to Apple, at most I can leave it overnight at a place and pick up the Powerbook the next day. Here's the problem, the power on the Powerbook fails after a certain period of typing. Even if the battery is fully charged, or if the power supply is plugged in. It will still crash. Keyboard has been snapped into place, and the problem still occurs after about half an hour to two hours of continuous typing. Sometimes it repeats itself right in the middle of startup. It will repeat itself sometimes when typing in the notepad and Extensions are disabled. But whether I am typing in Microsoft Excel, Notepad, BBEdit, or Appleworks, it still happens. The screen flashes, the sleep light turns on, and then screen goes black, and the sleeping flashing light disappears. It is under warranty until January 26, 2000. If there is someplace that can repair it in the time given above, in the Washington DC, area, please somebody e-mail me. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net Check out over 700 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************