Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #361 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 08 Nov 99 Volume 16 : Issue 361 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#504/01-Nov-99 (A) Apple repair (Q) IP File Sharing with MacOS9 (Q) modem stuck problem ? about file dates [Q] Problem with contextual menus A tough question Adobe After Effects & NuBus Macs Changing Netscape's Home Page EXPLORER 4.5 AND OUTLOOK 5 128 BITS security patch Floppy weirdness Info-Mac Digest V16 #360 Mac OS 9 and ZIP drive MIDI Tracks to Audio CD Norton's Utilities OT1.1.1. Outlook Express 5 - Notification sounds PPPop / PPPfloater for System 8.6 StyleWriter 2500 Photo-cartridge Driver problem Windows/Mac CDROM compatibility problems 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 #361" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:00:00 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#504/01-Nov-99 TidBITS#504/01-Nov-99 Mac OS 9's new networking features may be tantalizing, but the gory details= that Geoff Duncan's in-depth look reveals could give you pause. We also= start a two-part article by Jerry Kindall about encoding MP3 files; next= week's issue will bring a comparison of five Macintosh MP3 encoders. In the= news, we track Aladdin Systems going public, improvements to the AppleCare= program, and the releases of DiskWarrior 1.1 and MasterJuggler Pro 2.0.3= and 2.1.=20 Topics: MailBITS/01-Nov-99 Making MP3s, Part 1 Mac OS 9 with a Net [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-504.etx; 31K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 08:14:28 -0500 From: a brody Subject: (A) Apple repair Dear Digest readers, Dealing with Apple Authorized Service Centers around my region has been less than nice. Then I found out if I called 1-800-767-2775 extension 4 (customer relations), and asked to have my repair done overnight at Irving Texas (their centralized parts and repairs facility), they would send me the box, I send it over to them, and 36 hours later the computer returned. Whereas Authorized Service Centers spent days and couldn't repair the problem, Apple saw the problem, fixed the part and repaired it. Mind you the machine still has to be under warranty or in AppleCare, but it is done free. If you can't find a service technician near you who is willing to do the job quickly, send it to Irving Texas. Nice thing about Irving parts never have to be ordered, so they can do it quicker than anyone else. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net Check out over 700 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:17:52 -0800 From: kee nethery Subject: (Q) IP File Sharing with MacOS9 Does MacOS9 have personal file sharing that includes file sharing via IP, and if so, can a MacOS8.x machine connect via IP through the Chooser to a MacOS9 machine with personal IP file sharing? Thanks, Kee Nethery, kee@kagi.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 16:06:44 +0200 From: pieter@roosenscom.com (Pieter Roosens) Subject: (Q) modem stuck problem Most of the times that I try to connect to my internet provider, the modem stucks at a certain tone. No connection is made. My provider told me to change the modem script and to ad an initialisation string at&f or at&f1. But how can I modify the script ? I tried the modem control panel, no help. I tried to open the file but couldn't. This is on a Quadra 840 and system 7.6. Can someone help me out here ? Many thanks! Pieter Roosens ROOSENS COMMUNICATION Tel: +32 (0)3 366 54 35 Fax: +32 (0)3 366 58 31 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 15:00:27 -0500 From: "Bob Rolston" Subject: ? about file dates I would like to be able to change all of the "date modified" for files on my computer. Does anyone know of a simple program that will do this without actually having to modify the file? Bob brolston@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 11:13:49 -0500 From: "Howard M. Fried" Subject: [Q] Problem with contextual menus I have several contextual menu plugins in the Contextual Menu Items of my Sys 8.1 System Folder (on a G3 Wallstreet Powerbook) but none of the functionalities of any of the plugins show up when I control-click a file, even in the Finder; all I see are what I assume to be the minimum functions of the OS (Help, Open, Move to Trash, etc.). The plugins work fine on another machine (G3 beige desktop), also with Sys 8.1. Also, the Contextual Menu Enabler (ver 1.0.3) and the Contextual Menu Extension (ver 1.0.2) are in the Extensions folder. Is there something else that needs to be enabled? TIA, Howard Fried ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:14:12 -0500 From: a brody Subject: A tough question Dear Digest readers, Hidden on the recesses of my hard drive is an invisible folder called Temporary Items. I can only see it if I search for a file that exists in that folder using Sherlock, or I use FinderPop to do a hierarchical menu of what's in the hard drive. Now since I am running MacOS and am aware of Stuffit Deluxe's incompatibility with it, I was surprised to find a 6k file called Stuffit Deluxe in that folder. What is that file, and should I attempt to make it visible? Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:59:46 -0500 From: a brody Subject: Adobe After Effects & NuBus Macs Dear Digest readers, I noticed Adobe After Effects 4.1 was released, and I wondered if anyone has it running on MacOS 8.6 and a NuBus PowerMac (6100, 7100, or 8100)? I have a friend with a Radius 8100 PowerMac 8100 clone who probably will want to run it on her machine. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:19:33 +1100 From: George Barker Subject: Changing Netscape's Home Page I've just installed Netscape Navigator 4.0.5 and wish to specify a file for it to open on launch. All the Home Page settings in the Preferences panel are grayed out, and I can't find anyway to make them active. Any suggestions on changing this? The last thing I need is to wait and wait while it loads Apple's portal site every time I launch it. thanks George Barker George Barker "There is no solution because there is College of Fine Arts no problem." - Marcel Duchamp The University of New South Wales SYDNEY 2021 Australia Tel: (+61 2) 9385-0614 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:15:09 -0500 From: Louis Bergeron Subject: EXPLORER 4.5 AND OUTLOOK 5 128 BITS security patch Hi to all, After many tries, I was finally able to patch my Explorer 4.5 and Outlook 5 versions to 128 bits. I had to do a lot of tries, because the patcher which is offered on the general Explorer site is not good if you have Outlook 5 installed. So, the best site is http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/en/default.asp there you can get Explorer 4.5 and either Outlook 4.5 or 5. On page http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/EN/128bit/products.asp you have the three patchers to get 128 bits, but you must sign the non export agreement before getting there. Louis Bergeron Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 Telephone personnel - Personal phone (819) 764-3862 Centre de service aux entreprises du Cegep de Granby - Haute-Yamaska 385 Principale Granby (Quebec) J2G 2W5 Telephone travail Office phone (450) 372-6614 #172 Telecopieur public Public fax (450) 777-5842 E-mail tiwi@lino.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 00:29:24 -0700 From: Chris Schram Subject: Floppy weirdness On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jeffrey Frankel wrote: >I discovered that HD floppy disks formatted in an SE (might have been an >SE/30) were unreadable on my PowerBook 190, and floppies formatted on the >190, and some commercial floppies, were unreadable on the SE. All >formatting was to the Mac OS on the SE and to HFS (not HFS+) on the 190. > >The 190 reads all other floppies with no problem. The SE was running OS >6.0.5 and the 190 was running OS 8.1. Could my problem be due to some file >system difference between the two OS? Or does it sound like something is >wrong with the floppy drive in the SE? My first guess is that you're trying to use high-density floppy disks in an SE that doesn't support that format. Later production runs of the SE (and ALL SE/30s) had FDHD drives, but most SEs had the older 800K drives. Since they don't know anything about that extra hole in the disk shell, they just merrily go ahead and format you HD disks as 800K. When you take one of those disks to your PowerBook that DOES know about that extra hole, it thinks the disk is bad (And vice-versa). Try using 800K disks to exchange data with the SE. If the SE (or SE/30) DOES have a FDHD drive, I guess it must just be out of alignment versus the drive in your PowerBook. SIDEBAR: I have an old Mac Plus that lives in an unheated attic. It refuses to exchange 800K disks with my other Macs until it has sufficiently warmed up inside. BTW, all Mac OS versions from 6.0.3 and up know about high density drives, so that isn't an issue in this case. Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:30:11 -0800 From: isw@witzend.com (Isaac Wingfield) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #360 > > From: Ian Goldby > Subject: Souped-up Mac --snips of impressively upgraded LC475 -- > Who can beat this? My everyday machine is a IIci, sporting a DayStar Turbo '040, overclocked to 50 MHz. Based on a test program provided by DayStar, it's just over ten times as fast as a stock IIci, and it "feels" about as fast as a PowerMac 7500 I used to use at work, on most things. OS 7.6.1 with Apple's "appearance" upgrade, so it looks like OS 8. 68 MB RAM. Radius 24-bit video card driving a Sun/Sony 21" monitor. Two internal drives (the second one sits over the RAM SIMMS), one 2G, the other 550 MB. External SCSI carries a Zip, a CD-ROM, and a scanner. A 4mm DAT used to be on here too, but I moved it to the firewall/backup machine. The SCSI chain has a "dangling tail", so I can easily add an external 4G drive when I need to. MIDI via the serial port to a Yamaha sound generator which acts as a MIDI adapter to other MIDI units. I used to have an Apple inkjet printer on this machine, shared over the network, but a while back I moved it to the firewall Q-700. Ethernet card for connectivity to other household Macs and a laser printer, and the internet via a Quadra 700 firewall running IPNetRouter, EIMS, Peter Lewis's Daemon, Retrospect, and other goodies. This machine has dual NICs; one for the internal LAN, the other for a cable modem. (BTW, this Quadra has been up 7x24 for 111 days straight as of 1 Nov.) It amuses me when my Windows using friends say they need to go and buy a new machine every year or so, just to keep up... Isaac ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 06:48:41 -0500 From: Patty and Art Subject: Mac OS 9 and ZIP drive Hi. I have a 266MHz G3 Mac, which I have just upgraded to MacOS 9. For some reason, I cannot seem to copy files to Zip disks. I can read the Zip disk; I just can't write to it. Suggestions? -- Patty and Art Werschulz http://members.home.net/agw/ 1 Marsh Street Cranford NJ 07016 (908) 272-1146 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 05:33:23 -0800 From: Denny Davis Subject: MIDI Tracks to Audio CD At 12:31 -0400 10/26/99, Allan Hunter wittily wrote: >>My son has created several compositions on his PowerMac 7200/120 using a >>MIDI software sequencer. Using the Quicktime Musical Instruments, he is >>able to play these via the sequencer software through the Mac's >>speakers. He would like to burn some Audio CDs as Christmas gifts, but >>says he is unable to save his MIDI creations as anything but standard >>MIDI files. What he believes he really needs is the ability to convert >>his MIDI tracks to Audio CD files, and then burn them to Audio CD format >>compact disks. We have Toast and a writable CD drive. We're looking >>for advice on what additional software is required to create the Audio >>CDs. >> >>Many, many thanks in advance for any help. Feel free to email as well >>as to include answers here. >> >>C. Kurt Holter >> >>kurt@holterphoto.com >>http://www.holterphoto.com > >Quite simple actually. Open the MIDI file using MoviePlayer. It will >convert to a QuickTime movie format. Then export the track as an AIFF >sound file. > >Allan Hunter > > > SoundApp should do it in one step, as it has a convert menu and it looks to me like it will convert MIDI files to AIFF. Check it out. SoundApp is free. :-} Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 09:26:12 +0000 From: Alex Brown Subject: Norton's Utilities Has anyone got any information on the reliablity of Norton's Utilities version 5 (i.e. the latest version). There were some reported problems with version 4, have these been fixed in 5 ? Many thanks, Alex. ==================================================================== | Alex Brown ||e-mail: abrown@nimr.mrc.ac.uk | | MRC Collaborative Centre, || : abrown@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk | | 1-3 Burtonhole Lane, ||tel.: +44 (0)181 906 3811 x 6301 | | Mill Hill, London NW7 1AD. UK.|| | ==================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:17:52 -0800 From: Melanie Jo Watts Subject: OT1.1.1. Hi, I installed open transport 1.1.1 on my performa 580. now whenever I boot up my mac i get a messagewhich says An appleshare system error occured( please run the chooser to activate apple talk) I'm not on a network so i don't want apple talk to be active? thanks Melanie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:51:06 +1300 From: Nigel Stanger Subject: Outlook Express 5 - Notification sounds On 28/10/1999 1:13 PM, Allan Sutherland spake thus: > Having recently downloaded Outlook Express 5, while there are many things > that are useful about it, there is one thing that gets on my nerves; the > lack of interface to select the notification sounds. Can anyone suggest how > these might be modified: is it necessary to use resedit, if so, what is the > procedure. There's a utility that allows you to create OE soundsets. Go to http://www.macemail.com/ and look in the OE section. There should be a link to the utility from there somewhere (look for references to soundsets). Sorry I don't have a direct link. -- Nigel Stanger, mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz Dept. of Information Science, http://strange.otago.ac.nz/ University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:54:27 +0900 From: Keith Wilkinson Subject: PPPop / PPPfloater for System 8.6 PPPop / PPPfloater both don't seem to work with System 8.6 (English system plus Japanese Language Kit); can anyone suggest a fix / alternative? mailto:pf2k-wlkn@asahi-net.or.jp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 05:47:42 +0100 (CET) From: Fabien Mounier Subject: StyleWriter 2500 Photo-cartridge Driver problem I recently got hold of some Photo-Kits for the StyleWriter 2500 consisting of a special printhead, a Driver CD and 60 pages of paper. Obviously considered antique, they were thrown out for nearly nothing, installation went perfectly fine and the quality is really great. So, whats the trouble ? Well, my Yosemite (8.5.1) is connected to the LC475 (7.5.3) with the StyleWriter by a crossover Ethernet cable using printer-sharing which has always worked smoothly up to now. I have not been able to figure out how to install both printer-drivers simultaniously so that I can just swap the head and go to the choser to pick the appropriate driver. The photo-cartridge kind of so-so works with the standard driver, but doesn't print even remotely as crisp and colorful as with its own driver and identical paper-quality-settings. When both machines run a single clean install of either version of the printer driver, everything is just fine. But as soon as I try to install the second one I'm stuck with error-messages about versions not matching or even silent hangs. The glossy Apple-Documentation is as nice & content-free as usual, stating roughly that one should install the stuff on the CD, click OK and be happy. However, I am quite sure this problem has been adressed as absolutely anybody who ever bought one of these kits has had this very problem. I am afraid the printersharing-software is unable to figure out that there are two drivers for one printer which is both the same and different... One solution I have been thinking about would be to ResEdit the different Drivers and Printersharing components in order to make them look like two completely different printers, but I don't know how to do that. I will give anything a try, even if ResEditing is required and provide a summary once I'm through this plug and suffer nightmare. Replies in french or german are welcome. -- Fabien Mounier ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:23:46 -0700 From: Neil Fiertel Subject: Windows/Mac CDROM compatibility problems I have been stymied by the inability to make a compatible CD-rom of jpeg files to be accessible from either a Mac or a Windows machine. I burned the disks using Toast with the ISO 9660 file format and found that they were fine for the Mac but with a Windows machine there did not appear to be the jpg suffix required for the software to identify and open the files. It was necessary to copy them over to the Hard Drive and then add the suffix for some reason. Can anyone shed some light on this? I am in a bit of a bind to get the solution to this pronto as I must produce a number of disks this month. Is there another way to accomplish this compatibility using Toast? Please contact me directly with advice on this issue as I need a rapid reply if possible. Thanks in advance to anyone with a solution!!!! nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca "Just three rusty strands of barbed wire from the North Pole" -Neil Fiertel (1941 - ?) "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) (Content is my own and does not reflect the University or the Dept of Art and Design) Professor Neil Fiertel (nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) or (nfiertel@ualberta.ca) FAB-3-98 Department of Art and Design University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G-2C9 -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************