Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #67 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 14 Aug 02 Volume 19 : Issue 67 Today's Topics: 666 EXTENSION [*] [Disk Watcher 1.1] Automatically check disks for corruption [*] VectorFileConvertor for MacOS-X 0.1 Bet Email spam Optical ADB Mouse? SEEKING INSTA-CALC 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. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V19 #67" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:42:25 -0400 From: Kimball Kramer To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: 666 EXTENSION I'm running Mac OS 9.0.4 on a G4. I have an unknown file in my Extensions folder called "666". It has another character before the name to make it load last. It reappears trashing it when I restart. Does anyone know what application it belongs to and what it does? Thank you, Kimball Kramer -- ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2002 From: Sander Tekelenburg To: Subject: [*] [Disk Watcher 1.1] Automatically check disks for corruption Description: "Disk Watcher" fully automates Disk First Aid to check your disks for corruption. Results are logged. What action to (automatically) take when a disk problem is found is 100% customizable! The idea is "damage prevention" - disk errors can go unnoticed, resulting in even more errors until finally things go really wrong. Checking your disks on a regular basis is just good "disk-keeping". Disk Watcher automates that for you. Use: The Disk Watcher installer will put everything in place. It gives you the option to have Disk Watcher launched on every startup, or just once per day at startup. Alternatively you can have a cron launch it at whatever interval you deem appropriate. - Disk Watcher allows you to exempt disks from being checked based on the kind of disk (locked, ejectable) and/or based on the disk's name. - Disk Watcher allows you to have your own custom actions take place (which can even overrule Disk Watcher's default action) when a disk problem is found. Such an action might be to automatically launch another disk repair utility, but may also be to launch your own home grown scripts... Powerful stuff! System Requirements: - Works under Mac OS 7.5 through 9.x - Disk First Aid 8.2 or higher - AppleScript needs to be enabled New: - If the startup disk was busy and couldn't be checked, Disk First Aid was quit instead of left running. Fixed. - If Disk First Aiad encountered a diskproblem it cannot fix, Disk Watcher would give up. Disk Watcher now correctly logs the error and continues. - When upgrading, the installer could accidentally revert your Disk Watcher settings to the default settings. Fixed. - If you trash the preferencess file ("DW Config" in the "Disk Watcher Preferences Folder") Disk Watcher will now install a fresh copy the next time it runs. - You can now define how often Disk Watcher will retry to check a busy disk. - Placing the text of error messages on the clipboard is now optional and is off by default. You should probably only switch it on if you are having problems with Disk Watcher and want to send the author the error message you are getting. Like all other options, this option can be switched on in Disk Watcher's configuration file ("DW Config", in the Disk Watcher Preferences folder). This option only works under Mac OS 8.5 and above. - Made some improvements to upgrade process. - Added a note about a conflict with "Control PPP" to the "known problems" ********** ABSTRACT CROPPED ********** [Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-watcher-11.hqx; 168 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Aug 2002 From: Andrew Lindesay To: Subject: [*] VectorFileConvertor for MacOS-X 0.1 Bet VectorFileConvertor for MacOS-X from Lindesay Electric (c) Andrew Lindesay 2002 --------------------------------------------------------- Latest versions, contacts etc... -- visit: http://www.lindesay.co.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------- To install, copy this application to your /Applications folder. Double click and review the instructions in "Help". --------------------------------------------------------- Many Windows applications can export or save to WMF files. WMF stands for "Windows Meta File" and is a vector and bitmap graphics format. Unfortunately, this format is only really common on the Windows platform. Hence this utility is able to take a WMF file and export it to PDF such that MacOS-X applications can render and use the drawings and images. There are some limitations in this conversion process, and this is only a first beta. If you have any difficulty converting your WMFs, we would like to hear from you -- ensure that you can build a test case that is less than 256 kilobytes in size and get in touch with us on . Please check http://www.lindesay.co.nz/ for notes or new versions that might pertain to your problem. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/vector-file-convertor-01b.hqx; 133 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:14:36 -0400 From: k44h To: The Info-Mac Network Subject: Email spam After reading Adam's article in a recent MacWorld and in an effort to start eliminating spam I googled my email address (not the one I'm now using) and discovered 6 hits - all info-mac archive items. Is there a way to clear out email addresses from those files? I'm not saying all those messages encouraging me to increase the size of various things are a result of info-mac's archives, but, as a lesson, don't use your primary email address anywhere on-line or in an email likely to be archived. Kate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:14:01 -0500 From: "Chaz Larson [lists]" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Optical ADB Mouse? >From: Allan Hunter >I have this notion that in the era before iMac and USB I used to see >ads for optical ADB mice for the Mac. Anyone verify this? Testify >as to their quality? These beasts did exist. The one I remember was from Mouse Systems; I think it was called the A3. They weren't as nice as today's optical mice. The main problem was that they used special metal mousepads with a grid printed on them. If you scratched the pad up too badly your optical mouse would stop working or skip around. I can't imagine anyone's still producing them; Mouse Systems appears to be gone. chazl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:45:31 -0400 From: Kimball Kramer To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: SEEKING INSTA-CALC I am running MacOS 9.0.4 on a G4. I once saw a shareware or freeware program called "InstaCalc" that allowed automatic calculation to be done in a table within Microsoft MS Word. Does anyone know where I can go to download this utility, or can you e-mail it to me as an attachment? I have searched the standard shareware databases that I know of and can find no reference to it. Thank you in advance, Kimball Kramer -- -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************