Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #150 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 20 Sep 00 Volume 17 : Issue 150 Today's Topics: [*] Nuku 1.1 [*] QIF Categories 1.2 - Adding Categories to QIF Files Based onDescription [A] Eudora 4.3 Alerts [A] Using AppleTalk on two ports Eudora 4.3 Alerts follow-up on "Apple Works Goes Crazy" mass storage CD recommendations ZIP drive problem solved (?) 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 . Downloading and Submitting Files from the Info-Mac Archive: * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at: * Search the archive via the MIT HyperArchive at: . * To submit files for the archive, email the binhexed file with a description to . Submissions must be made by the author or with permission of the author. It may take up to a week to process; check mirror sites for the status of new uploads. * To submit files larger than 2 MB, email a description to and then use an FTP client to upload the binhexed file to info-mac.org, using the userid "macgifts" and the password "macgifts". Or, click . Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #150" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 02:29:26 -0700 From: David van Wert To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: --============_-1242680321==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" This is a weird little thing happening in Explorer 5. When visiting the cdbaby web site (on-line distributors for independent musicians), IE5 doesn't show the "buy" button to add an item to your list of stuff you want to buy. A view source shows the following code where the buy button should be: CD Baby Price: $13.00 Well, gee, of course there's no buy button, duh, look at the comment tag! But iCab does show the buy button and a view source of the same area shows the following: CD Baby Price: $13.00BUY CD Weird. Anybody have any idea of what could cause the actual source to download differently? I mean, interpretation is one thing, but... I first tried the page Sunday evening. Now Monday afternoon it's still the same. So it's not like I caught them in mid-update or something. I've checked the page with IE5 on Windows and the button is there. Any theories? Is it just me? I'm using an iMac if anyone thinks that might matter. I could try re-installing IE5, but I wanted to hear some opinions first. The url in question is http://www.cdbaby.com/view/sugarplastic but all product pages on the site have the same issue with IE5 on my Mac. Thanks much! David van Wert http://www.davidvanwert.com/ "Is it hot in here or is it just me?" Richard Nixon, 1999 --============_-1242680321==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
This is a weird little thing happening in Explorer 5. When visiting the cdbaby web site (on-line distributors for independent musicians), IE5 doesn't show the "buy" button to add an item to your list of stuff you want to buy. A view source shows the following code where the buy button should be:

<span class="price">CD Baby Price: <!--ref="/add/sugarplastic?CDBabySessionID=fb6def5dec3cd3b8b1041d55f40ef92-->$13.00<!-- src="/gif/newbuy.gif" width="58" height="17" alt="BUY CD" border="0" align="middle" hspace="1--></A></span>

Well, gee, of course there's no buy button, duh, look at the comment tag! But iCab does show the buy button and a view source of the same area shows the following:

<span class="price">CD Baby Price: <A href="/add/sugarplastic?CDBabySessionID=beb97476b83e990f8c2f9b218b0be995">$13.00<img src="/gif/newbuy.gif" width="58" height="17" alt="BUY CD" border="0" align="middle" hspace="10"></A></span>

Weird. Anybody have any idea of what could cause the actual source to download differently? I mean, interpretation is one thing, but... I first tried the page Sunday evening. Now Monday afternoon it's still the same. So it's not like I caught them in mid-update or something. I've checked the page with IE5 on Windows and the button is there.

Any theories? Is it just me? I'm using an iMac if anyone thinks that might matter. I could try re-installing IE5, but I wanted to hear some opinions first.

The url in question is http://www.cdbaby.com/view/sugarplastic but all product pages on the site have the same issue with IE5 on my Mac.

Thanks much!

David van Wert  <david@davidvanwert.com>  http://www.davidvanwert.com/

"Is it hot in here or is it just me?"
Richard Nixon, 1999
--============_-1242680321==_ma============-- ------------------------------ Date: 20 Sep 2000 From: Axel Andersson To: Subject: [*] Nuku 1.1 A small application to help you learn the Japanese writing systems hiragana and katakana. Features both hiragana and katakana in one application, the three main romanization systems, options for selecting which parts to train on, and the ability to switch between quiz mode, where the user is asked to identify a character, and the learning mode, where the application shows the character the user asked for. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/nuku-11.hqx; 185 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Sep 2000 From: John Woodward To: Subject: [*] QIF Categories 1.2 - Adding Categories to QIF Files Based onDescription QIF Categories converts Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) banking or credit card transaction files, adding Quicken categories based on the description of each transaction. It is useful for converting QIF downloaded from online banking or credit card web sites before importing them into Quicken. To convert a QIF file, just drop it onto QIF Categories. You can configure QIF Categories as a browser helper application for files of type application/qif to have it invoked automatically on downloaded QIF files. QIF Categories converts each transaction in the QIF file dropped on it by: 1) Deleting any existing category; 2) Adding a category obtained by looking up the transaction's description in a mapping database, or getting the category from the user if not found in the database; 3) removing the plus sign from transaction amounts (because not all versions of Quicken allow plus signs); 4) Adding an indication that the transaction has cleared; 5) optionally extracting a check number from the description (unless the transaction already has a check number); and 5) transferring all other parts of each transactions to the output file. You can convert the input file in place or chose a different output filename. System requirements: * System 7 through 8.6; not tested with MacOS 9 * Macintosh with at least 4 MB of RAM For more information, please read the documentation enclosed, or visit the QIF Categories Web page: http://jplw.homepage.com/QIFCategories.html [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/qif-categories-12.hqx; 87 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:01:44 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil To: Doug Hardie , digest@info-mac.org Subject: [A] Eudora 4.3 Alerts You could turn off all normal alerting under settings and create a filter that alerts you only to messages in a specific mail box. This would probably require you to create another "In" box. Place the new filter last in the list and thus all messages that fail to be filtered into other mailboxes. Actually, you can probably do this without the new box...there are several possible options including "Notify User", "Play sounds", "Speak Subject".... -- Hay for the horses, Whiskey for my men, and a plate of flies for my pet toad! ______^______ ================*----(___\) "Sleek & Fast, a G3 Powered Machine" Maurice "Mike" McNeil (858) 495-2619/2600 FAX: 7313 CELL: 354-6565 BBN Technology Solutions mmcneil@bbn.com 9655 Granite Ridge Drive, Ste 245 San Diego, CA 92123 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:14:41 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil To: Jean-Philippe Pellet , Subject: [A] Using AppleTalk on two ports Yes there is a utility/hardware, there are/were other examples including a software only utility, but I forget the name. http://www.farallon.com/products/ether/adapters/iprintadapter.html http://www.gee3.com/localtalkbridge.html http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11358 -- Hay for the horses, Whiskey for my men, and a plate of flies for my pet toad! ______^______ ================*----(___\) "Sleek & Fast, a G3 Powered Machine" Maurice "Mike" McNeil (858) 495-2619/2600 FAX: 7313 CELL: 354-6565 BBN Technology Solutions mmcneil@bbn.com 9655 Granite Ridge Drive, Ste 245 San Diego, CA 92123 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:22:24 -0500 From: Pete Resnick To: Doug Hardie Subject: Eudora 4.3 Alerts On 9/18/00 at 4:17 PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: >I am using Eudora 4.3 in the free configuration. I have a number of >mailboxes established with filters on received mail to deliver it to >the proper mailbox. All that works great. However, the alert (menu >bar) flashes when any message is received regardless of which mailbox >its put into. Is there a way to only have it flash when mail ends up >in the "In" mailbox and not when mail goes to other mailboxes? In the filter, do a "Notify User" action and turn off the "As normal" action. pr -- Pete Resnick Eudora Engineering - QUALCOMM Incorporated ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:40:30 -0400 From: "Chas." To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: follow-up on "Apple Works Goes Crazy" Since posting my original message, I've changed ISP's. Please mail any thoughts to . An additional note-I'm using an ADB Kennsington Orbit and it has no scroll wheel. Thanks again. -- Chas. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:56:07 -0700 From: "Edward (Ted) Burton" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: mass storage CD recommendations I am curious what fortune folks have had with what brands of Firewire CD burners. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:08:32 -0400 From: "A.W. Neef" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: ZIP drive problem solved (?) I had just about decided that my new ZIP-250-USB drive on my iMac-DV-SE had developed problems requiring repair/replace. But the last (of many, many) things I tried seems to have solved the problem, which appears to have been a software hang-up. A few days ago, the drive would not recognize an inserted disk. Monkeying around, it finally worked. But today, the problem came back and I tried everything I could think of, including everything in Iomega Help, to no avail. Cmd-Y would not eject a disk, so I ejected with the drive button. The only way the drive button works is when an inserted disk is not recognized. Then I went into Iomega-Tools. It reported "no disk" in the drive. But I clicked on "Eject" anyway .... and voila! .... it's working fine now. Bill Neef Grass Lake, MI, USA -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************