Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #81 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 07 Apr 98 Volume 16 : Issue 81 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#424/06-Apr-98 (A) Best System for PB160 (A) Epson Stylus 600 installation problems (A) How to contact Eudora e-mail support? (A) secret about box (Q) Contacting Proteron (Q) Expierence with upgrading a PM x100 with NewerTech's G3 card? (Q) PowerBook won't wake up 7.5 [a] Force-quit -- a better solution [A] Getting Eudora support [A] Selecting startup disk [A] Zip partition [OFF] Korean Font and Accuset 1000 [Q] Compressing QuickTime movies in the background [Q] PowerCenter Problems accounting software for the mac availability of greyscale displays Can you have two(2) Control Strips (A) Creating PDF from HTML desktop video problem DFA 8.1 Ethernetworking PLW NTR Eudora to Netscape gbrooker@vega.nl how to read e-mail attachment from PC Info-Mac Digest V16 #73 Info-Mac Digest V16 #78 Info-Mac Digest V16 #79 Info-Mac Digest vol 11 Interesting Eudora feature Microsoft Office/Word 98 NoDesktopCleanup OS 8.1/HFS+ oddities problem with kaleidoscope Problem with Zip Disks going "bad" Quicktime 3.0 problems Upgrading from Word 6 to Word 98 Virtual PC speed wanted EAsyCOlor 24/1152 NB software ZIP Problem 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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Also in this issue, Adam reports on a recent trip to Australia, a problem with daylight savings time and Macintosh Extended Format volumes surfaces, Netscape releases source code to Netscape Communicator, Global Village sells its modem business to Boca Research, and we note new releases of Palimpsest 2.1 and GPSy 3.0. Topics: MailBITS/06-Apr-98 Deja Microsoft Out of Australia The Postman Rings Again [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-424.etx; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 09:53:39 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: (A) Best System for PB160 Of the four responses to the question about which system is best for a PowerBook 160, 2 said 7.1, one voted for 7.5.1, and one for 7.6.1. I guess I will stick to 7.1 for now. Thanks to Beat H., Sylvia Elliott, Scotty, and abrody Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:41:46 -0500 From: Diane & David Turner Subject: (A) Epson Stylus 600 installation problems Bob Rolston wrote: >Has anyone else had trouble installing an Epson 600 printer to their Mac? >Because of AppleTalk I have been not been able to install the printer and >it is very frustrating. I have some good news and some bad news for you, Bob. The good news is the SC600 works fine with most Macs from IIsi through G3. The bad news is it won't work at all with AppleTalk. I've had one for over four months now, and the output looks *great*, although it can be a bit slow on slower macs. Also, the spooler uses a folder in your Extensions folder to store print jobs, so if you're tight on free disk space, you'll be limited in the size of your print jobs. And if you're short on RAM as well, you may not be able to background print, as the spooler makes the Finder memory allocation grow by approximately 4 Meg. Cheers, David Turner Centerville, OH ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:49:41 -0500 From: Diane & David Turner Subject: (A) How to contact Eudora e-mail support? Mephistophilis wrote: >I have been having some serious problems with Eudora Pro 3.1.3 recently but >all my messages to the support address given on the Qualcomm website (i.e. >Eudora-support@qualcom.com) bounce with the following error message: [snip] Unless the above quoted message has a typo, you left an "m" off of Qualcomm. Their correct e-mail address (as given in the "More Help!" Help menu item) is mailto:eudora-support@qualcomm.com. Hope this helps David Turner Centerville, OH Diane Centerville, Ohio USA turnerdd@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 19:32:39 -0500 From: Jonathan Shaw Subject: (A) secret about box >In Apple's quest for Mac OS 8.x stability, they pretty much eliminated >all of the cool Easter Eggs that previous system software versions had. I >thought they had taken out the Breakout game a while back... You may wish to check out for some good easter eggs. While there are less in OS 8 then previously, some good ones still exist, and many are in other programs you may have. -Jonathan {;-) Visit for a good laugh. There are 3 kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 08:29:23 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: (Q) Contacting Proteron Dear Digest readers, Two weeks after I tried contacting Proteron Software (the authors of GoMac) through their Webmaster e-mail address, I still have not received any support. Anybody know somebody I can contact there directly via e-mail, rather than the nebulous Webmaster e-mail address? I had a hard drive failure three weeks ago, and have been unable to recover the preferences file that stated that I had registered my GoMac software. Please e-mail your reply directly to me, as I don't have the chance to read the digest that often. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:47:37 -0600 (CST) From: Stephen Froehlich Subject: (Q) Expierence with upgrading a PM x100 with NewerTech's G3 card? We're considering purchasing several of the NewerTech G3 upgrades for several older PowerMacs (Primarily 7100's). Has anyone had any expierence with NewerTech's product for this, or have ABSLOUTELY NONE shipped as of yet? ----------------------------------+--------------------------- Stephen Froehlich | (512)835-3268 Applied Research Labs: UT Austin | Froehlich@arlut.utexas.edu PO Box 8029 | (S222) Austin, TX 78713-8029 | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 00:02:55 +0900 From: Tito and Shari Poza Subject: (Q) PowerBook won't wake up I installed a 32 MB memory module in my PowerBook 540c and now it will not wake up after being put to sleep (or falling asleep on its own). When I press a key, the hard drive appears to spin (I can hear it) but the screen never comes on. I have to do a restart using the power key, command and control keys. There is no problem starting or restarting only waking it up. I removed an 8 MB module that was in it and put the new one in exactly as the old one was positioned. I followed the instructions that came with the new module precisely. There were no special reset instructions though. It all seemed pretty easy and straightforward but... The 540c is running System 8.1 but I reinstalled System 7.1.1 (the original System that came with it) and the same thing happened so I don't think it's the System software. I'm open to the possibility that something aside from the chip may be influencing it and causing a problem but haven't a clue what it might be. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Shari ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 15:46:25 +0000 From: "Elisabeth Gleckler, MPH" Subject: 7.5 How can I post a question? I a looking for system 7.5 for my Power PC. I can't go to 7.6 because of loss of compatibility with software. Yet connectivity is compromised with 7.1.0.2, which is what I am using. I was told that 7.6 is for sale, and 7.5 is now shareware. May I post this question here? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 12:00:36 -0500 From: jrr7@cornell.edu (Jonathan Rynd) Subject: [a] Force-quit -- a better solution You don't have to force quit the finder to do this; you just need Mac OS Purge (freeware). Run it, and poof, your Mac has its memory back! I believe this is available from the Info-Mac archives. -- Tired of getting junk email? You can take back your mailbox! See http://www.mcs.net/~jcr/junkemaildeal.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 23:31:33 -0500 From: jrr7@cornell.edu (Jonathan Rynd) Subject: [A] Getting Eudora support wrote: > I have been having some serious problems with Eudora Pro 3.1.3 recently but > all my messages to the support address given on the Qualcomm website (i.e. > Eudora-support@qualcom.com) bounce with the following error message: I think that is not the proper address for getting Eudora support. First of all, it is spelled Qualcomm, with two M's, not one M. Secondly, the other part is incorrect also. You should have gotten the correct e-mail address to use on a sticker that came with your manual. You'll have to tell Qualcomm your serial number in order for them to give you any support. Try looking at http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/ specifically http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/protech.html also look at http://www.ka.com/eudora/ for more information. -- Tired of getting junk email? You can take back your mailbox! See http://www.mcs.net/~jcr/junkemaildeal.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 23:02:48 -0500 From: jrr7@cornell.edu (Jonathan Rynd) Subject: [A] Selecting startup disk Rumor has it that holding down command-option-shift-delete-#, where # is 0-6, lets you choose SCSI ID # as your startup disk for that particular startup. I don't know of any way to force a bootup off a RAM disk, but maybe someone else does. -- Tired of getting junk email? You can take back your mailbox! See http://www.mcs.net/~jcr/junkemaildeal.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 23:10:39 -0500 From: jrr7@cornell.edu (Jonathan Rynd) Subject: [A] Zip partition I think that is the way things are "supposed to work". Disks are usually supposed to have only one format on them, and the system software is not happy when there's a disk with differently-formatted partitions. Iomega ships the Zip Tools disk partitioned with a Mac and PC partition. Apparently, your PC exchange is firing first and detecting the PC partition, and preventing the Finder from mounting the Mac partition. Some systems seem to be able to mount both partitions fine, but most can't. When you run the Iomega installer off the floppy disk, it deletes the PC partition leaving you with one 95-MB Mac partition. -- Tired of getting junk email? You can take back your mailbox! See http://www.mcs.net/~jcr/junkemaildeal.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:42:08 -0600 From: AAofL Subject: [OFF] Korean Font and Accuset 1000 Hello, How do you hook a Korean Font box to an AGFA Accuset 1000? The Font box in presently hooked up to a Newgen Turbo PS/ 1200B. When the font system was bought they told us if we tried to copy the font drive that the drive would erase itself; Is this true? If not how can we copy the files? I tried to hook the font box up to a Mac computer but was unable to see the contents of the drive. Please help or point me in the right direction. Thankz Keith Hamilton * Keith l. Hamilton * ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:14:36 +0200 From: Sven Luetkemeier Subject: [Q] Compressing QuickTime movies in the background Hi, I'm looking for a tool that would allow me to compress QuickTime movies in the background. Especially the new cool QDesign Music codecs needs a long time to finish - and MoviePlayer 3.0 "Pro" doesn't seem to allow this... If you answer to me privately, I'll send a summary to info-mac. Regards, Sven. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:27:44 -0600 From: AAofL Subject: [Q] PowerCenter Problems I have a Power Computing PowerCenter 132. This computer has always been a problem child. I have two major problems at this time. I hope to find a way to fix them, but this is my last resort before I start replacing parts. 1. My CD Rom does not recognize all of the time. It picks and chooses when it wants to work. 2. My internal hard drive seem to be dead. I falls off. Sometime I get the message "Disk error some data may have been lost." I can't seems to keep it mounted. FWB, Norton and Diskaid are not able to help. I have also tried a lowlevel format but it didn't work either. History On this computer I have replaced the battery and have had problems with the L2 Cache. Help Keith Hamilton TIA AA of L Printing, Inc. 713.946.2208 - voice * 713.946.7356 - fax "Printing with a Personal Touch" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:02:05 -0400 From: monte ferguson Subject: accounting software for the mac Recently there was a request for accounting software information for the Mac. Besides the other suggestions I have seen offered, there is a program called Big Business. It is supposed to be quite robust. They also have a windows version if that might help. One the EvangeList digest there had been a posting of a mac site for accountants, but since I'm not an accountant I've totally forgotten. Try perusing the Evangelist website, hosted on MacAddict's domain. One note, Quick Books is no longer being updated by Intuit. monte ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:33:06 +0000 From: Jack Campin Subject: availability of greyscale displays Steven Siegan wrote: > Is it possible to use the black-and-white Apple Portrait Display > (manufactured in 1990) with a G3 Mac? I would *hope* so, as that's by far the best display I've ever used... I'm going to be upgrading from this ancient machine sometime next year, and I'm not looking forward to being stuck with a colour monitor. Almost everything I do with a Mac is in monochrome, and I have never seen a colour monitor, at any price, that could match one of Apple's late-80s greyscale monitors for sharpness and general restfulness over prolonged use with text and musical scores. (For the amount of time I need to look at websites written by fools who encode information in colour, I can go use a neighbour's system). Does anybody in the UK still supply them secondhand? Does anybody make comparable new ones? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE, Scotland 0131 556 5272 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html food intolerance data & recipes, freeware logic fonts for the Macintosh & Scots folk music from "Off the Edge" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:34:30 -0600 From: "Paul M. Sheldon" Subject: Can you have two(2) Control Strips (A) "HandyMan", in infomac archives, can save you real estate by placing folders (as well as just applications) on the control strip that contain aliases that popup in the direction perpendicular to the control strip. Author, Bert Wynants, readme tells of more options like you want (show multiple rows and columns seems to require another desktop/extensions strip). Don't know anything about CSModuals. Sorry I was so late, but I am behind in my digest reading. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 18:42:15 +0200 From: "Guy Brooker" Subject: Creating PDF from HTML Hi, I have Adobe Framemaker 5.5 and Acrobat (Distiller, Exchange, ...) which are superb applications, but there's one thing I'm sure they could do, but I havn't managed to figure it out. Is there any way I can create a single PDF file from a set of interlinked HTML files ? Framemaker can read HTML, but it's clunky. I can print to PDF from Netscape or MS IE, but I can only print one page at a time, and I lose my hyperlinks. What I would like is a single PDF document, with all my Hyperlinks intact, either as internal PDF links, or external http links. I'm sure this must be possible, PDF supports all this. I thought I might be able to import everything into FrameMaker, the print create a PDF file from there, but it didn't work out. Are there any other tools I might be able to use to do this in one fell swoop ? Cheers Guy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:41:56 -0700 (PDT) From: KJ Aanestad Subject: desktop video problem I have not been able to troubleshoot why I can't transfer video from my 7100/66AV to VCR. I can capture video and transfer audio, but not the video. Any suggestions? Thanks. KJ Aanestad ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:22:45 -0400 From: Murph Sewall Subject: DFA 8.1 Disk First Aid 8.1 (on Disk Tools PPC.img, part of the OS 8.1 update package) finds errors that neither earlier version of DFA nor Norton Disk Doctor 3.5.x detect. I've also found that just because DFA 8.1 says "The volume was repaired successfully" doesn't mean more errors won't be found if DFA repair is run again immediately following a successful repair. I put DFA 8.1 on System 7.6 Tools disk so I could run it on the IIci that's serving web pages for us and it took (count 'em) FIVE (that's 5) successive repair runs before it concluded that "The volume appears to be OK" I used the System 7.6/DFA 8.1 disk on a friend's LC III this morning and it concluded that it couldn't successfully repair the errors. Disk Dr. 3.5.1 *did* repair the errors, but it took two more successive runs of DFA 8.1 before the volume "appears to be OK" came up. I don't know if Apple has or will make DFA 8.1 available as a separate download, but it DEFINATELY appears worth getting a copy of and running repair repeatedly until it's happy. -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 14:43:32 -0500 From: Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov (Bryan Walls) Subject: Ethernetworking PLW NTR In article <6g4ul0$jpb$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, digest@info-mac.org wrote: >Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:57:11 -0500 (EST) >From: "Byron C. Mayes" <> >Subject: > >Greetings, fellow Mac-ophiles! > >I am considering (and just considering at this point) networking my two Macs >(IIsi running MacOS 7.6 and UMAX C600 running 8.0 [maybe 8.1 soon]) and >printer (Personal LaserWriter NTR) via ethernet. I am a musician and I use >Finale from which I must both print (currently requiring LocalTalk) and use >MIDI (which hates LocalTalk) at the same time. Obviously, I can't do both in >my current LocalTalk only situation. I'd also like to free up a slot on my >Power PortJuggler. > >The computers are no problem. Hubs are cheap and cards are cheaper so I have >no great concerns about connecting them. The printer, however, is another >story. The PLW NTR has a DIN-8 serial port and a standard parallel port. >This gives me (I think) two options: a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge on the >serial port, or an external print server on the parallel port. > >My questions: 1) Am I correct that these are both options? If not, which >won't work? > >2) Are they the only options? If not, what else is possible? > >3) As both the bridge and the print servers cost about the same (I can get >either for $200-250 mail order) which option would be better for me as a Mac >user with the above configuration? By "better" I'm thinking in terms of >printing speed, management, maintenance, and compatibility. > >Especially looking for people who may have done this already, but any >knowledgeable replies will be greatly appreciated. > I haven't done exactly what you're describing, however here are some ideas... There is a piece of software that is free from apple called LaserWriter Bridge (available on Apple's web site). This will allow you to use bridge AppleTalk on Ethernet to the printer on LocalTalk. That does mean you need to have at least one port on one machine set up as LocalTalk, though it would be fine to just use a serial printer cable (Din 8 on both ends). I think that would be the same situation as with an external converter, and speed would be the same, too. You could also just attach the two computers (if you have the cards for them) by just using a pin-reversed cable between the boxes, rather than shelling out for a hub. I believe that requires both macs be powered up at the same time, or when the first one boots up it won't see an ethernet attachment and will switch you over to LocalTalk, or something annoying like that. A hub is easier. You should be able to find a small hub for less than $100. I could sell you an ethernet card for a iisi for ~$25, if you're interested -- if so contact me at bwalls@pobox.com. -- Bryan Walls bwalls@pobox.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 02:27:38 -0400 From: "Norman R. Friedman" Subject: Eudora to Netscape Question: I am using Netscape 4.0 as my browser and Eudora 3.01 as my mail. When I find a www site given in a Eudora message,and click to the link, I find that I am opening my older Netscape 3, which I had trashed when upgrading to 4.0. Can anyone tell me why Net 3.0 opens and NOT 4.0?? TIA to all for answers norm@helix.nih.gov IF I FORGET THEE OH JERUSALEM... NISAN B'REB SHAMAI (Norman R. Friedman & Mishpocha) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:57:08 -0500 From: Diane & David Turner Subject: gbrooker@vega.nl "Guy Brooker" wrote: [snip] >Only cut+paste is better in SW, though this is apparently improved in VPC 2.0. [snip] Cut & paste? How about drag & drop? I just installed VPC 2.0 a few days ago, and one of the most impressive things I've noticed so far is the ability to drag & drop directly from VPC to the Mac environment! Too cool! David Turner Centerville, OH Diane Centerville, Ohio USA turnerdd@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:57:21 +0200 From: Charles Pieters Subject: how to read e-mail attachment from PC I got the following e-mail attachment, which I could'nt read: name: xxxx.doc type: application/msword encoding: base 64 I could save this document but could'nt open it. Even Maclink couldn't translate it.What do I need for this ? Thanks for helping me -- Charles Pieters charles.pieters@advalvas.be ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:03:28 -0500 From: hope@bme.unc.edu (Joni Julian) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #73 > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:39:26 +0100 > From: Mitja Jankovic > Subject: Problem with LocalTalk network > > I have a little network composed by: > LC 475 > | > PB 5300 > | > (wall about 15m) > | > PM 8100 > | > Personal LW NT > > When the office was empty, I have tested the net (with the LC on one side > and the PB on the other), and all seems to work properly. > But now, when I'm in the office fuul of all the thing, the network doesn't > work. > > I have used a simple telephon bipolar wire (22 awg). It's the wire who make > the problem? > > TIA > Mitja Jankovic Double-check connections. (Unplug all cables, and plug them back in. Make sure you hear that good click.) Check termination. (Make sure all unused plug-ins have a terminator: just a 120 ohm resistor in an RJ-11 plug for PhoneNet.) If that doesn't fix it, and you have continuity, then you have a nasty problem. Try the simple solutions first! Good luck! - Joni ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 14:36:04 -0800 From: wizard@technologist.com (Ron Bischof) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #78 ~Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 09:43 +0000 (GMT) ~From: "Tucker, Bryan" ~Subject: [Q] Selecting startup disk at restart? ~ ~I have a PowerMac 6100/66 with System 7.6.1, but that may be irrelevant. ~ ~Is there a way to select the startup disk at restart using a key combination ~or similar? I know that Command-Option-Shift-Delete will bypass the internal ~hard drive, but I'm looking to switch to the RAM disk (with a copy of a ~minimal system) after a crash, but this is not picked up. ~ ~I also have a non-Apple hard disk on the SCSI bus, but this is not detected ~until after the system is loaded. ~ ~Any suggestions? ~ ~Bryan Tucker ~Bryan.Tucker@baesema.co.uk This won't work for a RAM disk, but you can select a specific SCSI ID at start up with the following command: Boot from a specific SCSI ID #.(#=SCSI ID number)...... CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE-# -- ________________________________________________________________________ Ron Bischof Bischof Consulting Services http://home.pacbell.net/bconsvcs/ email: wizard@technologist.com | pager: 310/636-7866 | fax: 310/649-6598 In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Camus ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 13:05:08 +0200 From: "Johan W. Elzenga" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #79 In article <6g4ul0$jpb$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu> (Info-Mac Digest V16 #79), you write: >Facts, when I do a "Get info" on my 2 GB disk I get the following: >Capacity: 1.8GB >Used: 1.5 GB on disk (1 645 883 392 bytes), for 15866 items > >So, how can one explain that I waste 1.645 GB - 1.5 GB = 145 MB for my >15866 files. If I multiply 15866 files with 4k then I get 63.464 MB, which >is the number of maximum wasted space I should have. You've got your numbers totally screwed up! First: You should have switched both numbers, because the formula should be WASTED SPACE = TOTAL DISK (the number in Gb) - REAL AMOUNT (the number in bytes). Not vice versa. You'd think that would give you a negative amount (1.5 Gb - 1.645 Gb), but that's not true: 1 Gb is 1024 Mb, 1 Mb is 1024 Kb and 1 Kb is 1024 bytes. 1645833392 bytes = 1607259 Kb 1607259 Kbytes = 1569 Mb 1569 Mbytes = 1.53 Gb (rounded off to 1.5 Gb) When rounded off, both numbers are the same. Second: Theoretically, you could indeed waste a maximum amount of 61.9 Mb (not 63.464 Mb; same story). 61.9 Mb is only 0.06 Gb, so when the system rounds off your 1.53 Gb + 0.06 Gb = 1.59 Gb, you would get 1.6 Gb (unless it simply cuts off the second digit, in which case you would still see "1.5 Gb used"). If rounding off is done properly, you are actually wasting a lot LESS than the maximum amount. Your total used disk space must be smaller than 1.55 Gb, or it would read "1.6 Gb used". You apparently waste less than 0.02 Gb. Johan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 10:26:36 -0500 From: "James F. Fera" Subject: Info-Mac Digest vol 11 I am looking for infomacv11-056.txt. It seems most the archives and mirrors only contain vol 14 and on. Does anyone retain all issues of the Digest. What is the point of an archive if the data is purged? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 22:47:09 -0500 From: Pieter Stouten Subject: Interesting Eudora feature I just discovered a great new feature in Eudora 4. By accident I transferred a set of mails (from this digest as it happens) to the mail file they were already in. That started an endless loop that appended the same message to the mail file over and over again. It's great to find little easter eggs like this. They make my day. Seriously, though, now it has grown on me a bit, I actually do begin to like version 4. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:42:27 -0500 From: "Mike Kazlow" Subject: Microsoft Office/Word 98 After having severe problems with the Visual Basic not being able to run. I tried re-installing Word. Removing Word. Re-installing Word. Removing Office, Reinstalling office. To no avail. I decided to do an init conflict using Conflict Catcher. Well Conflict Catcher removes all non-necessary inits/libraries etc and on the first supposed clean no extensions test. Office Re-installs all missing components. 20,000 restarts latter, the problem is diagnosed to be intermittent (which it wasn't). All is almost well. So somehow, some library in the system folder was corrupted and not replaced on re-installation. However, when replaced with a fresh copy because Conflict Catcher removed them all Visual Basic is now running. Note: In a previous message, I ranted about the Microsoft Assistant. When doing a new clean installation of MS Office, I found that with a custom installation, you don't have to install the assistant. At least that is peaceful. Alas, there is still a problem when I go to open any old document, I get an error message about cannot run a sub or function because it is missing. I assume the problem relates to having used Design Science's Mathtype. It has read information relating to it in the old files and doesn't find the needed information in the new version. Does anyone know enough abou Visual Basic or Word and know how to turn off the error message until Design Science comes up with a patch or update to cure the problem? ...Mike Mike Kazlow mkazlow@fsmail.pace.edu When the above link is down: mkazlow@earthlink.net Soon to be defunct MikeKazlow@aol.com, kazlowf@pace.edu ------------------------------ Date: 2 Apr 1998 21:13:36 GMT From: frazier@iastate.edu (William S Frazier) Subject: NoDesktopCleanup I've used Alex Montalcini's control panel for some time to prevent shooting myself in the foot. I have not been able to figure out how to get it to work with the hierarchical "Arrange" menu in Mac OS 8.1. For the plain "Clean Up", it works find but I can't get it to block the "by Name, by Kind, ..." in the "Arrange" menu. Does anyone else have a technique that works? -- __________________________________________________________________ Bill Frazier frazier@iastate.edu Assistant Director/Software Support voice: (515) 294-8620 Iowa State University Computation Center fax: (515) 294-1717 291 Durham, Ames, Iowa 50011 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:55:01 -0800 From: chapple@sd61.bc.ca (Rob Chapple) Subject: OS 8.1/HFS+ oddities I just upgraded to OS 8.1 and HFS+ on my Performa 6400/180, 256K L2 cache, and have found that my Monolpoly CD ROM disk is not recognized when I start the game. The disk appears on the desktop and installs the game. When I start the game I get a message that the CD cannot be found even though the icon is still on the desktop.The game ran just fine under OS 8.0 on the Performa and runs in a somewhat unstable fashion under OS 8.1 on a Powerbook 1400cs/166. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 00:05:02 +0100 (BST) From: Michael Rank Subject: problem with kaleidoscope I recently downloaded Kaleidoscope 1.8 after reading much about it on Infomac and wondering what it was. All went fine at first and my children had a lot of fun with it (I was even known to dabble with it occasionally myself...). But now whenever I choose Apple platinum and check Substitute System Font, the cursor disappears completely and all I can do is hit cntrl-apple-shutdown and start all over again. I have tried reinstalling K'scope and reinstalling Apple platinum, but to no avail. This problem started after I installed a couple of colour schemes from the K'scope home page and also the K'scope Classic Pack 1.8.1 and recommended fonts. I have uninstalled the two new schemes, but this has not had any effect. Even in Apple platinum, Chicago in the font menu in the Kaleidoscope panel is permanently greyed out, as is size 9. Can anyone help please? Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 19:25:21 -0500 From: Jonathan Shaw Subject: Problem with Zip Disks going "bad" I bought a zip drive just a few months after they came out. Since then, I've now accumulated about 2-3 bad disks. These are zip disks that once worked fine, but now they will not even mount. I can't seem to repair them with any utility I've tried, including Hard Disk Toolkit, Norton Utilities, Iomega Tools, and similar utilities on Windows machines. In fact, when I had a friend try it on his PC, his machine CRASHED while attempting to mount the disk. Not very good. Anyone know how to reuse these disks? Why does this happen? With the first disk, I assumed it was my fault because I replaced the driver with HDT's. I've done that with other disks with no problem, but this time I had actually told HDT to initialize the disk, as well. But with the other two disks, they failed from doing simple Finder "erase disk" to the standard Mac OS (HFS) format. I had the Iomega driver installed--it just wouldn't work. It would stop while erasing to say a disk error occurred and ejected the disk. Further attempts to reinsert the disk caused it to be ejected pretty quickly afterward. Restarting allowed the disk to stay in the drive, but the computer would offer to initialize it for me and would still fail. ALSO, several disks play the annoying "click-click" noise over and over again while reading certain sectors. I am not sure if these sectors are always the same, because I've not done real in depth testing or anything; although, it seems to happen with the same files in the same point of the copy process, so I think it is sector or at least track related. Sometimes these attempts to write or read from the disk do succeed (eventually), but sometimes they fail and the Finder reports that it couldn't copy a certain file. Any help or reports of similar problems would be most helpful! TIA, -Jonathan {;-) Visit for a good laugh. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 98 09:35:49 GMT From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk Subject: Quicktime 3.0 problems Dear friends I've just tried out Quicktime 3.0 on my LC 475, 20 MB RAM, System 7.1, MIDI Manager, OMS Lite. The Quicktime Settings control panel crashes my computer every time I try to add my external GM synth (Music panel). The first time I got a bus error, the second time the ubiquitous no FPU error, and the third time, the mouse pointer simply froze. I don't expect this sort of instability from Apple. (I stayed with System 7.1 because it is very stable, and has a small memory footprint.) I was also disappointed by the lack of documentation. I couldn't work out how to set the MIDI input source. My keyboard didn't appear as an option, even though it is there in my OMS setup. It did offer me the possibility of selecting my Roland SC-7 as an input - not very appropriate for a synth box... Of course, when I closed the control panel, I got the crash I referred to above anyway, so it didn't really matter. I didn't try without MIDI Manager installed. I assume OMS is necessary, but I also need MIDI Manager for some of my older MIDI applications. Anyone got any ideas? While I had it installed (2.5 is back in place now) I tried the internal synth. Something was definitely wrong, because the drums sounded terrible. In case anyone else is thinking of trying it, the new instruments file does not work with Quicktime 2.5. Quicktime 3.0 still doesn't play native MIDI files. You have to go through the same conversion process as with 2.5. I'm really wondering what all the hype was about. Ian. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:27:47 -0800 From: David Pelton Subject: Upgrading from Word 6 to Word 98 Greetings and Salutations I saw the post about upgrading scenarios and I thought I would shed some light on this and make everyone's life easier. As Jacob stated, Word 6 stores some customization in the Normal template (Macros, toolbars, keystrokes, menus, AutoText, AutoCorrections, and styles). If you run into the same situation that Jacob had, the easiest way to remedy the situation is to: a) Quit Word 98 b) throw out the Normal template that Word 98 created (in the Templates folder) c) copy the Normal template from Word 6 into the Templates folder in Word 98 d) relaunch Word 98 I hope this helps anyone else who runs into a similar issue David Pelton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:07:44 -0500 From: Murph Sewall Subject: Virtual PC speed On 3/27/98 3:07 PM +0100, Guy Brooker wrote: >VPC 1.0 is slightly slower than SW 4.0 on my PB 1400/113, making it >useable for >only relatively simple programs, though I do still use it. On my G3/233 >desktop >machine it feels like a 60+ Mhz Pentium (this figure is pure speculation - it >feels like a low end PC). I'm using Virtual PC on a PowerMac 6500 where it's about like running Win95 on a 66MHz i486 box. A Connectix rep who visited said Version 2 will be out shortly and will be 40% faster. The upgrade should be reasonably priced because a BIG chunk of the Virtual PC price tag is for Win95 and I already have that :-) -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:31:12 +1200 From: Nick Brooker Subject: wanted EAsyCOlor 24/1152 NB software Hi, Does anyone happen to have one of these or the software to drive them? I was given one and it seems they are quite good if you can get all the acceleration software for them. TIA Nick --- Nick Brooker Software Consultant, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Albany Campus phone +64 9 441 8168 / 025 913 485 Massey University fax +64 9 441 8181 http://fims-alb-mac2.massey.ac.nz bbs +64 9 6255611 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:00:46 -0700 From: Robert Zimmerman Subject: ZIP Problem >The ZIP saga continues. > >I played around. Same game with all but OS 8.1 extensions disabled. To >make a long story shorter, turning off PC Exchange (2.2) was the only >way to see the Mac partition if Iomega's CP and Extension were active. > >I trashed everything Iomega and restarted. Gee, there's the Mac install >partition. OK, installed (This time it was the 5.4 version). Restarted >afterwards, and the Tools disk again showed only the DOS partition. Oh >bother! Had to turn off PC Exchange again to see the Mac side. > >Have any of y'all seen this oddity? Better, have you found a fix? > >Al Bloom Al, I don't have ZIP, but it seems to me that there is something wrong with your PC Exchange. Rather than replace the control panel, how about just replacing the PC Exchange preferences file (grab it from Leslye's machine or better yet go to the MacWorld site and grab their PC Exchange preferences file with all contingencies considered file). Hope this helps. zimmie -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************