Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #263 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 03 Dec 97 Volume 15 : Issue 263 Today's Topics: [A] Problem Receiving Attached Text from PCs with Eudora Pro 3.x [Q] lookin for a heartbeat sound [Q] Problem Receiving Attached Text from PCs with Eudora Pro Copying large files to Jaz Movie Player woes News Server Software for the Mac [Q] old laserwriter on appletalk OS8 Video & sound preferences Sound and OS8 unix -> eudora mail converter [Q] 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. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . 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PC email usually uses uuencode-uudecode for attachments. The effect on the Mac end is to have "garbage" (and often lots of it) attached to the end of the mail message. This is really your attachment and still quite useable. If you do a SaveAs (without headers) and then process the saved file with something like the shareware UnUU, you get your attachment. This is the method I always used using Eudora before I got Eudora Pro. The thing that pushed me into Eudora Pro was that it handles this problem transparently. You can automatically set its attachment handling to uuencode and your messages show up as files wherever you tell Eudora Pro to put these. (Remember when sending binaries from Mac to Mac to set the attachment coding back to binhex, but that's easy enough.) Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@cpmx.saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 23:13:33 +0100 From: Thomas Rohde Subject: [Q] lookin for a heartbeat sound Hi all, I'm looking for a good quality heartbeat sound fer to make me a kewl hour count chime. Anybody know a URL? please mail me personally coz I cannot read the IM digest thoroughly coz overworked (and don't ask me how then I want to fumble with hour chime sound ;-) Thanx, and be well. Tom p.s.: longing for a G3 and Rhapsody... -- mailto:tom@bonobo.com [definition of "signature": what comes after the "--" ?] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:21:49 +0100 From: Sebastiano Pilla Subject: [Q] Problem Receiving Attached Text from PCs with Eudora Pro >In general, they should go for MIME or BinHex when sending from a PC to a >Mac, if those options are available. Uuencode will work if the recipient >uses Eudora Pro, but not Eudora Light (if you receive a uuencoded >attachment in a message in Eudora Light, you'll have to save it to a file >and then uudecode it using a utility like StuffIt Expander or STuu or one >of the other many uudecoding utilities. It is true that Eudora Pro automatically decodes uuencoded attachments, but sometimes Eudora Light wins because it misses that feature. If you ask an FTP-mail service for a large file, it usually ends trasmitted uuencoded _and_ split into multiple parts. Eudora Pro (at least v3.1.1) isn't smart enough to recognize that and fails to decode the first segment of the file, therefore making the feature useless. At least Eudora Pro offers the option of receiving the file again without decoding it. Eudora Light instead smoothly receives all the segments, so after I'm able to rejoin them and pass the resulting file to uuUndo; this is much easier in my opinion. Regards Sebastiano Pilla ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 05:27:04 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Copying large files to Jaz > I have been having difficulty copying large files to my jaz drive. >I get random system freezes when attempting this procedure. I have to >force quit to restart.. >The only success I had with backing up the >hard disk was to copy smaller groups of files one or two at a time. I was >able to copy largish files in this way including the system folder but when >it comes to the entire drive at one time there was this bug or fault. > Please, if you have a solution would you email me at >nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca I have heard that this is a problem with Jaz, so I've never tried copying large files to Jaz. If you use Retrospect, you can back them up to Jaz to your heart's content, but of course that writes them to Jaz one at a time so does not activate this large-file problem. I would recommend backing up using a utility rather than by dragging and copying. Daly Daly Jessup mailto:jessup@san.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:59:07 -0800 (PST) From: Daly Jessup Subject: Movie Player woes I recently noticed that Movie Player no longer works for me. I had installed the beta QuickTime 3.0, but soon removed it and all its parts, and reinstalled QuickTime 2.5 including its MoviePlayer. I don't know if the old Movie Player was working before the brief venture into QT 3.0. Another recent change on my computer (8500/180) was the replacement of the daughercard with one of those 233 MHz cards from MacWorks. I don't know if I was having problems before that, either. Anyway, if I try to play a movie or even if I just double-click MoviePlayer, it freezes. The cursor will move but everything is dead and I have to restart. Every time. I have reinstalled Movie Player. I have started up from my other disk that has almost only System 8 extensions on it. Still happens. I have done a clean system install. And I have created a set that contained only QuickTime (2.5) and I think Appearance extension and shared libraries manager. And with only those active, it still happens. I CAN play movies using a shareware player called "Fast Player" so it isn't that movies themselves are a problem. Apparently just Movie Player. Has anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas of what to do about it? Daly Daly Jessup mailto:jessup@san.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:48:01 +0100 From: "Tony D'Emanuele" Subject: News Server Software for the Mac [Q] Can anyone recommend any news server software for the Mac. If people send me their replies directly I will post a summary to the group. Tony D'Emanuele Tony1@ibm.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 22:00:06 -0600 From: bsegal@mcs.com Subject: old laserwriter on appletalk hi there, i have the following problem. i have an office set up with 8 macs (various powerpc all on 7.5 - 1 dedicated file server) and 2 hp printers (6mp) and an appletalk imagewriter all connected on a vanilla appletalk network (ok its phone wire, but does anyone use appletalk wire anymore?) using basic system file sharing. one computer is physcally in a seperate room, and so we wanted to connect an old laserwriter (as far as i can tell its one of the first apple postscript laserwriters) so that she can print without having to keep going to the other room. ok so first we tried just sticking it within the daisychain. that would not work, it seems that for some reason it divided the network in half, whatever was on one side of it could not see thru it to the other side. ok so we rewired the network so that it was on one end of the network (was actually not so hard) and that seemed to work - except that whenever you chose that printer from the chooser, the other two then seemed to disappear from the network ( a jealous printer - you can have me, only if you and everyone else only have me.) so for now we are without this extra printer. any ideas? respond to me directly and i'll summarize and post. tia ben bsegal@mcs.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 07:14:33 -0600 From: Julius Rahmandar Subject: OS8 Video & sound preferences I recently installed OS8 in my PMAC 6118. Everything seemed to work find except Video and Sound Preferences. For some reason the Sund source ALWAYS reverst to Microphone after I set it to play Internal CD. I have tried deleting Finder preferences, Video and Sound Preferences and Sound preferences from the Preference folder with no change in results. Before deleting the preferences I noticed that the modified dat is current to the time I change the sound setting, so I thinkthe file is updated, but not being accessed at powerup/retstart, hence the deafult microphone setting. Can anyone help? Pls respond direct to: rahmsmit@flash.net as I do not often get to read the digest. Thanks. Julius ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 10:44:53 +0000 From: Trevor Harris Subject: Sound and OS8 I have a copy of Warcraft II which ran with assynchronous (overlapping) sound under system verions 7.5.3 and 7.5.5. Since updating to OS8, however, I only have synchronous sound, i.e. sounds are truncated whenever another sound is activated. Is there an update for the Sound Manager or Sound Sprocket that will fix this problem? Trevor Harris, Lampeter, UK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 11:07:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Alan D. Danziger" Subject: unix -> eudora mail converter [Q] In comp.sys.mac.digest you write: >I need a unix mailfile to eudora converter, >anybody knows such program/plugin ? Eudora directly reads Unix (mbox) format mail files, e.g. most /usr/spool/mail/ files, or those saved by elm. If you need to convert from another format, there are a number of options, just search the archives for "mail". -=Alan -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************