Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 06:54:24 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #44 To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 21 Feb 97 Volume 15 : Issue 44 Today's Topics: [!] Word changing line-widths [*] coax - Matlab's functions for RF calculations [*] Easy View 2.62 [*] Eudora Wacked Sounds 1.0 [*] gold-pusher-14.hqx [*] LogTimer J - Japanese Version (Q) Finder heap fix and OS 7.6 (Q) Superpaint problem; recommendation for new drawing software [Q] Automatic WindowShade utility? [Q]L2 cache [Q] PowerBook 100 features? (2 msgs) Connecting two old Classics Connect speeds, etc. dos emulator Epson Stylus Printer Problems ethernet on PowerMac 6200/75 FileMaker Pro for Windows 95 and NT Form Z site/mailing list Info-Mac Digest V15 #33 Info-Mac Digest V15 #37 Info-Mac Digest V15 #38 Info-Mac Digest V15 #40 Info-Mac Digest V15 #41 Max Modem Speed on DUO 280 Mouse Troubles Need opinions on modems... Netscape Preferences in Lab Setting Online Bible for Macintosh PowerMonger print PS file to Quckdraw printer QuickDraw GX manual feed alert Saving MicroSoft Word Documents SCSI Video Input Peripheral? Skew problem with HP DeskJet 879Cse. SoundMaster Replacement (?) Speeding up PPCs TIFF class? views prefs not sticking WWWW The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Matt Bauer, Brian Wessels, Liam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. 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StarNine develops Internet server software for the Macintosh, including World Wide Web and e-mail publishing systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #44" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:54:47 +0100 From: M.W.Kooistra@stm.tudelft.nl (Marten Kooistra) Subject: [!] Word changing line-widths Hi folks, I noticed the recent discussion about changing line-widths in Word between (among others) Ramiro Varela and Ian Goldby, and remembered the effort it took to prevent this from happening, "long long ago when we wrote our lab-reports in Word 5". Apparently, according to a friend of mine who reads Quickdraw (sic!), Word clobbers fractional line-widths whenever it can get its hands on them. This is a bug in Word which can only be prevented by 1) not using Word (preferred ;-) or 2) avoiding opening the picture in the Word picture editor. As far as I can remember my friend told me opening a picture in Word's picture editor completely messes up (carefully made) alignments of text and graphics and line-widths <1pt. I cc:'d him on this message, but his message return-rate is quite slow these days, so to ensure an ongoing discussion I had to post this message without re-checking the (inevitably gory) details. If I'm wrong I'll let y'all know. sorry about the bad news, -Marten Kooistra- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:28:39 -0700 From: fridberg@pfc.mit.edu Subject: [*] coax - Matlab's functions for RF calculations coax - some routines usefull for RF engineer, for MatLab >From contents.m: Functions to calculate coaxial cable parameters. coaxAlpha - attenuation constant of coaxial cable coaxC - capacitance of coaxial cable per unit lenght (Farad/meter) coaxG - shunt conductance of coaxial cable per unit lenght (1/Ohm*meter) coaxGamma - propagation constant of coaxial cable coaxL - inductance of coaxial cable per unit lenght (Henry/meter) coaxR - resistance of coaxial cable per unit lenght (Ohm/meter) deltaS - skin depth of conductor at frequency freq (meters) impedanceZ0 - characteristic impedance of coaxial cable (Ohm) impedance - impedance at the end of coax of given lenght (meter) connected to a given load (compex Ohm) rho - reflection coefficient of a load with impedance ZL connected to a a cable with characteristic impedance of Z0 (complex ohms) SWR - standing wave ratio at any point in a waveguide if reflection coefficient given velocity - wave velocity of coaxial cable It's free but copyrighted by me. Mike. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/coax.hqx; 13K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:28:37 -0700 From: eyler@trbilun.bitnet Subject: [*] Easy View 2.62 Easy View 2.62 - Easy View is a program for browsing collections of structured (but otherwise plain) text files, large or small. It allows very fast access by recognizing the internal structure. All of the following text formats can be viewed using Easy View - setext, including TidBITS and similar publications, Info-Mac, c.s.m.p, or similar digests, Mail collections - Internet, Navigator, Notebook, etc., Dictionaries and Plain text. New - An extension menu is added for using external code (Compatible with BBEdit). Font and Size menus are made hierarchical. Fixed - Cancel key does not crash after "Do you want to save?" dialog. [Archived as /info-mac/text/easy-view-262.hqx; 230K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:36:43 -0600 From: (Dave Ulrich) dave@dns.terminal.cz Subject: [*] Eudora Wacked Sounds 1.0 What is this? Well, this is a package of 19 sounds in the form of a Eudora plug-in from the Wacked Sounds creator. It can be used to play sounds for specific events in Eudora as programmed in the filters option. It also includes a little tutorial for those who have no idea how to do so. And includes a normal sys7 sound for editor savvy folk to play with. This is free but not public domain. It is copyrighted to me. If someone plays with the sound and would like to ship it, they may if I receive notification and credit. Any EMail great in any case. And blah, blah, blah. Just read the ReadMe. This may be uploaded anywhere and included on any CD-Rom as long as the package is intact w/the ReadMe. Dave Ulrich Wacked Wares dave@ns.terminal.cz daveulrich@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8264/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/eudora-wacked-sounds.hqx; 471K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:28:41 -0700 From: wimv@fwi.uva.nl Subject: [*] gold-pusher-14.hqx GoldPusher 1.4 - GoldPusher is a game with a mixture of puzzles, strategy and action. The game is freeware. However, to enable the "Show Solution" feature you have to obtain a registration code (see below). Features - *207* rooms with action, strategy and difficult puzzles. Make your own rooms with the graphical editor. "Show solution" feature . "Record solution" feature (above room 20 only when registered). Choose your own order to complete the puzzle- and arcade rooms. Save feature remembers which rooms you have completed. Snapshot feature takes you back into the middle of a difficult puzzle topscore. Fast color animation and very fast BW-animation for old-mac users, and much more! [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/gold-pusher-14.hqx; 798K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:36:51 -0600 From: (Christopher Li) ChrisLi@bridge1.com Subject: [*] LogTimer J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese Version of the LogTimer utility. LogTimer is a System Extension which simply writes the time for System startup, Restart and Shut down into a logfile on the Desktop. To use LogTimer INIT you have to drop it on top of your system folder and it goes to the extensions folder automatically. After restart you will find a file called 'LogTime' on your desktop. This file can be opened with Simple Text to see the log times. The file is created automatically if it does not already exist. Everytime you start your system, or you shut your system down or you reboot your system an entry is added. I wrote this little Extension for one of the registered users of CopyPaste who had this idea. It is a quick hack, but it does not patch any trap and costs no CPU time except at startup and shut down. Therefore it is very unlikely to cause any problems. LogTimer is Freeware, which means it is free of charge, free for any non commercial use, free from support and free >From any guarantee. LogTimer is released to the public as an advertising agent for CopyPaste, the productivity tool for your Mac. CopyPaste gives you ten clipboards instead of just one! How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items. Now you can! Type the usual keyboard command for copy or cut and then any number between 1 and 9 before releasing the command key. Paste works in the same way. In addition to the normal clipboard you now have nine more. Christopher Li Bridge 1 Software English to Japanese Online Software Localization and Management ChrisLi@bridge1.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/log-timer-j.hqx; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:52:38 -0800 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) Finder heap fix and OS 7.6 Does Mac OS 7.6 have the finder heap problems that 7.5.5 had? Are applications like Finder Heap Fix of any value under 7.6? Thanks for the help! Mark Allen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:48:13 -0800 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) Superpaint problem; recommendation for new drawing software I've discovered that the combination of PopChar Pro and the Timbuktu extension appears to cause Aldus Superpaint problems. My symptom is that Superpaint does not allow any color other than black to be used. (My system: OS 7.6 on a 7500) Has anyone else noticed this problem? Has anyone discovered any simple workarounds without other than deactivating PopChar Pro and/or Timbuktu? Now that Superpaint is no longer really being supported, I was in the market for something equivalent. I'm looking for a program that allows both paint (pixel manipulation) and draw (object manipulation) layers. Any recommendations? Thanks for any input provided! Mark Allen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:30:09 -0500 From: kim@ee.gatech.edu (Yongsub Kim) Subject: [Q] Automatic WindowShade utility? Hi, I would like to know if I can have all open Finder windows display titlesbars only by the WindowShade (or Aaron) automatically after every startup. Is there any such utility? Yongsub Kim ---- Kim, YongSub Georgia Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering E-MAIL: kim@ee.gatech.edu Phone: (404)633-8505 FAX: (404)728-1552 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:21:51 -0500 (EST) From: Xiaofeng Duan Subject: [Q]L2 cache Dear netters: Recently I added 32MB DIMMs and 256k L2 cache to my 7200 machine. For the memories added it is easy for one to tell that they are there and in function. Now my question is that for L2 cache, how can I know it is there and works properly? Thanks for your help! Frank ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:30:54 +0100 From: Dirk von Seggern Subject: [Q] PowerBook 100 features? Peter Peldan wrote at 17.02.1997 20:39 Uhr -0800 in "Info-Mac Digest V15 #41 1/2" >I have a few questions regarding PowerBook 100. > >1. Is it Color QuickDraw compatible as I heard Pb 140 and 145 are? The PB 100 has no ColorQuickDraw like the SE or Classic. >2. Is there any software available for increasing the RAM. RamDoubler >1.6 and 2.0 refuse to install. RamDoubler requires as mimimum a 68030 or better. The PB 100 only has a 68000. There is another RAM tool "RamCharger", which works on all Macs. dIrk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:57:26 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: [Q] PowerBook 100 features? At 10:01 AM +0100 2/17/97, Peter Peldan wrote: >2. Is there any software available for increasing the RAM. RamDoubler >1.6 and 2.0 refuse to install. All memory expansion software [VM, RAMDoubler] requires a PMMU [paged memory management unit] to do its magic. The PowerBook 100 has a 16MHz 68000 CPU, which has no PMMU. Because of this, no memory expansion software will work. chazl 02.18.97 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:06:43 +0100 From: michael@intertec.se (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Brostr=F6m?= ) Subject: Connecting two old Classics Hi all I was wondering if I could connect two old Mac Classic with the localtalk-cable I'm currently using for my printer? How do I do it? Do I just plug in the cable in both computers, activate localtalk and go? I'm not sure what system these computers are running, but I'm fairly sure it's not 7.6... 8) Thanks in advance Michael Brostr=F6m, Sr Editor _____ TEKNO +46-35-15 74 85 "A bad day at the golf course is +46-35-10 52 85 (fax) better than a good day at work!" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:07:28 -0500 From: prr@soundcity.net (Stan Davis Potopa) Subject: Connect speeds, etc. Hello, MacLovers! I may have posed these questions before, but I'm still having some difficulties in understanding and execution, so please excuse the redundancy. Here's the setup: 660AV, 16 MB RAM, System 7.5.5, OT 1.1.1, Free PPP 2.52, Netscape 3.01, Anarchie 2.01, Eudora 2.1.1, MDS (Generic) 14.4 modem... 1) Almost every time I connect to my ISP and use any of the aforementioned programs, transfer speed slows to a crawl, sometimes to 20-30 bytes/second. This doesn't seem right to me. The interesting part is that a transfer will start at about 1.5 kbps, then slow down. Could it be my init string (AT&F1&C1&K3&Q5), the 14.4 modem, my ISP, what? 2) I'm using Free PPP with no problems, however, I've wanted to try OT/PPP because of its alleged compatibility with OT. I generated a modem script using the same init string as the one I use in Free PPP, installed OT/PPP, and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get it to connect, but it just won't. Any ideas? 3) I tried installing OT 1.1.2 over 1.1.1, and it causes Netscape and Anarchie to freeze up. Has anyone else had similar experiences? Thank you for your consideration. As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the secretary will immediately disavow any knowledge of your actions. Stan Davis Potopa PRR Communications 2410 18th Street Altoona, PA 16601-2534 (814) 942-4504 prr@soundcity.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:07:18 +0200 From: shaq@lbi.ro Subject: dos emulator I want to ask if exists any dos emulator from your knoledge. If you can help me please e-mail me at shaq@lbi.ro ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 12:56:00 EST From: "Mark E. Searle" Subject: Epson Stylus Printer Problems Hello All, I have a Epson Stylus II printer which doesn't seem to be working as well as it could. To be fair the printer is probably working perfectly, it's the driver software that is the problem. It has to be the biggest peice of junk code I've ever used on a Mac. The only thing I've ever been able to print on this is simple "Thank You cards" or "Certificates" that my kids have made with ClarisWorks. Trying to print anything larger or more complex than that results in my system freezing and me rebooting it. For example, last night I wanted to print a gif, approx 7x7 inches, no way, machine froze, personally I think it should be able to print that without much trouble. So I appeal to you, does anyone have any tips, tricks, suggestions, advice, words of wisdom, anything... That would help me get some output from this printer. System Particulars: Centris 610, 20meg memory, System 7.5.1, Driver Software 2.5.2A Please send replies to my email address below. If anything I receive gets me printing, I'll post it up to the list. Thanks In Advance Mark Searle MarkSearle@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:11:50 +0000 From: Pedro Ferraz de Abreu Subject: ethernet on PowerMac 6200/75 I'd be grateful if anyone can tell me whether the PowerMac 6200/75 has expansions slots and of which kind, and in particular whether they can use one of those slots with an ethernet board. Thanks. Pedro ========================= Pedro Ferraz de Abreu reply email to: pfa@mit.edu http://gis.mit.edu/people/pfa/ http://www.citidep.pt/ citidep mirror: http://home.earthlink.net/~citidep/ ========================= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:13:40 +0000 From: Pedro Ferraz de Abreu Subject: FileMaker Pro for Windows 95 and NT Does anyone has any info or experience of the performance of FileMaker Pro for windows 95 and windows NT? I mean reliability, compatibility with networked FilemakerPro Mac-based, etc. Thanks. Pedro ========================= Pedro Ferraz de Abreu reply email to: pfa@mit.edu http://gis.mit.edu/people/pfa/ http://www.citidep.pt/ citidep mirror: http://home.earthlink.net/~citidep/ ========================= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:30:04 +0100 From: pbacgh@mbox.vol.it (Paolo Bartoli) Subject: Form Z site/mailing list Does anybody knows about a Form Z mailing list or newsgroup? ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli pbacgh@mbox.vol.it ** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:53:33 -0800 From: Bill Rausch Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #33 >Info-Mac Digest Mon, 10 Feb 97 Volume 15 : Issue 33 >------------------------------ >Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 01:20:50 -0800 (PST) >From: Diamond >Subject: The NeXT Apple Mistake > >Let me start off by saying I'm a loyal Macintosh user for about 10 years >and debate its infinitely greater OS and computers against Windoze >users. But after Apple opted to buy NeXT I feel betrayed.... > >Apple no longer cares about what is best for its loyal users and instead >feels it must try and attract a new market, at our expense. Apples >purchase of NeXT is less a method of creating a great new OS in a faster >amount of time and more based on trying to enter the intranet market. >NeXT with its WebObjects offers a great atempt for Apple to enter the >intranet market with a bang. But Apple needs to separate that from the >OS. The NextStep OS does not run Motorola processors, but rather Intel, >meaning we will have to wait for it to be ported to our PowerPC chips. >NextStep does not support QuickDraw, or Quicktime. Meaning an extensive >amount of time being spent on just recreating that. All this is before >even beginning to incorporate the MacOS into it. We will be lucky to >have anything before 1999. > >Apple had a prospect of buying Be. Which they should have done if they >had the intentions of grouping with a company to build the new OS. Be >already runs on PowerPC processors and supports QuickDraw and even the >current Mac ROMs. All this would mean the immediate incorporation of >the two OSs. > >Your responces?? > >Kevin Diamond kdiamond@lausd.k12.ca.us I'm delighted with the proposed merger of NeXT OS with Mac OS. I think Be OS was a good product too, but I don't think Apple would have gotten a new product out any faster than they will with the current situation. The BeOS couldn't even print yet! and didn't have support for QuickTime or QuickDraw either. All of the missing parts can be added but no faster than they could be added to the NeXT package. I think the larger concern is why Apple got into trouble in the first place with their own next generation Mac OS development. Bill Bill Rausch, Mac and Unix User and Programmer, brausch@owt.com 613 Lynnwood Ct, Richland, WA 99352 509-375-5147 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:00:07 +0900 From: davidyon Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #37 HI, I live in japan and a friend has just bought a japanese Performa with Kanji Talk installed. He reads no Japanese and wants to put an english system in. I run 7.5.5 on my 7200 and intend to stick that on for him. My question is will it work. His performa is a 54xx model PPC. Any ideas? thnx. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:01:11 -0700 From: Jamin Brazil Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #38 I am having trouble printing from Excell 5.0 System 6.0 Printing to an Apple LaserJet via Apple Talk My system will process the first 10 pages but once it hits 11 it freezes the system. Any ideas why??? I can print fine in all other apps (Photoshop, Word 6, PowerPoint, Illustratpr, FilerMaker Pro, Softwindows95) Thanks for the help! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:39:14 -0400 From: dietmar@soon.com (Dietmar Lichota) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #40 >When we go to the Chooser on either Mac and select Appleshare the hub LEDSs >for each machine flash for a while but nothing ever shows up in the right >hand side ("Select a File Server") of the Chooser. > >We have successfully networked these computers using AppleTalk over the >Printer Port before, so we know AppleTalk works. > >Any advice? > >Caryn Roberts Try removing the jumper from the ethernet card in the IIvx. It worked for me! Dietmar Lichota MacEvangelist of the Caribbean dietmar@soon.com dietmar@geocities.com dietman@caribsurf.com (yes, dietman - at work) Box 4065 St. Thomas USVI 00803 Tel: (809) 494-0705 (h) Fax: (809) 494-0706 (h) Tel: (809) 494-3566 (w) Fax: (809) 494-5127 (w) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 16:32:27 +0000 From: Ked Shayer Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #41 OK, I don't have 7.6 cos I live in Britain and they've just got 7.5.5, can you beleive it!!! I have 7.1.1 with AppleScript, AppleGuide, which doesn't work for me, and many other Xtentions. My system memory goes up to 6Mb, at least it did! I have a control panel called RAM Charger, EVERYONE GET IT!!!, no more "Config PPP cannot be used now because of Memory Problems" when you have 10Mb. RAM Free, My system only takes up 4Mb. RAM. My applications take up 25% less memory, and...RAM Charger gives them more memory, or less memory when they need it! I THINK it is at www.Synchros.com, but i'm probably wrong, do a hyperarchive search for it. Get yourself a 16Mb SIMM, or is it two 8Mb SIMMS, giving you 20Mb RAM! Its 80 or 90 $. PS, I would like CodeWarrior if you ever give it up(pls?) >So I'm ideally looking to reduce the System >memory requirement as much as possible. A few of the extensions I currently >use (e.g. Be Heirarchic, drag and drop enabler, etc) will no longer be >necessary with System 7.6. On the other hand, I would like to use Apple >Guide, and possible Apple Script (although I've a feeling the latter does >use a fair bit of memory). I don't use a network. I have seen System 7.5 >take up as much as 4 MB, even on a 68K Mac, but have been assured that with >similar extensions loaded, 7.5 takes up less space than 7.1. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 23:35:54 -0600 From: leejor@ni.net (Lee A. Joramo) Subject: Max Modem Speed on DUO 280 What is the maximum modem speed which I can expect from the serial port of a DUO 280? I am currently using the internal Apple Express Modem 14.4 and am considering upgrading to an external 33.6 modem. Will the DUO's serial port be able to take full advantage of the extra speed? I know that many PC laptops have UART's that can't keep up with the current crop of modems. Onward and Upward! Lee A. Joramo }}--> leejor@ni.net <--{{ Cowboy on the Electronic Frontier ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 07:45:40 +0000 From: Ked Shayer Subject: Mouse Troubles >Recently my mouse started giving me problems- periodically the pointer will >freeze in place for a few seconds (5-30), then things will begin to work >normally again. I borrowed a mouse from someone else, have tried different >keyboards, different ports, etc. As far as I can tell, the problem is with my >actual computer, not the mouse, keyboard, or cable. It could be a port, or >software problem. I have tried quite a few things, but with no luck. What >ideas do people have as to what might be causing this, and ideas to fix it. >Thanks. Have you checked your extentions, there was an Xtention which did something like that I had earlier. --------- Ked Shayer For your enjoyment this sig. is much shorter! Please visit my Web Page, http://www.thenerve2.com/ca/KWEB/ --------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:08:37 PST From: "Randall G. Floyd" Subject: Need opinions on modems... Hi, I've been using the Apple Geoport for a while now as my modem. I've been getting steadily more and more dissatisfied with it, and now with their announcement about having to upgrade the pod to get the faster speeds (I thought the entire reason I bought the Geoport in the first place was so I'd never need to upgrade my hardware again?) for another $120 I've finally had enough. I'm looking to buy either a Global Village Teleport or a U.S. Robotics Sportster Voice. Both have the full-duplex speaker phone, blah, blah, blah. I'd like opinions on which of these is better (or if they're essentially equal) before I make my decision. The U.S. Robotics is much cheaper, and from what little I have heard I think I'd be real safe going with this it, but I want to make sure. TIA, Randall ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 15:59:12 -0600 From: Dave Martin Subject: Netscape Preferences in Lab Setting Has anyone discovered a way to enable using a default Netscape Preferences file in a lab environment such that the default Temporary directory (where downloads go) is in the Documents folder of the startup drive? Let me explain a bit: I've written an AppleScript that clears out the Netscape folder of its contents, and copies a clean set of bookmarks and preference settings from a server to the local startup drive. I've cleared out the ALIS resources in the Netscape Preferences file, so Netscape relocates the standard programs (telnet, tn3270, SimpleText) and there aren't any "not found" errors. The fact that Netscape stores aliases to these things in the prefs file is a pain, but not that bad. The problem is that the default directory is also stored as an alias--and if you clear its ALIS resource entry, Netscape sets the default directory to the Desktop Folder. I don't want the desktop on these lab systems getting cluttered with Netscape's temporary files, but there doesn't seem a way to set the ALIS resource such that it looks for a specified folder on the startup disk, rather than needing a specific path (volume name:folder:). I have looked through Netscape using ResEdit, thinking I could modify the program so it makes the Documents folder the temporary directory, but cannot locate anything that defines that the default should be the desktop folder--I have to assume it's buried in the code itself, rather than as a modifiable string resource. So has anyone found a way (or looked for a way) to get around this? Or should I just give up and live with it? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 10:03:34 -0500 From: Ken Kirksey Subject: Online Bible for Macintosh The Online Bible for Macintosh software is available at the Online Bible for Macintosh web page at and at the OLB for Macintosh FTP site at The ftp site is mirrored at the following locations Be sure to read the file 00_OLB_Readme before you download any of the files. If you have any problems, questions, or comments, feel free to drop me a note in e-mail at . Please note that I am not the author of Online Bible for Macintosh. You can contact the author, Ken Hamel, at . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 16:35:11 +0000 From: Ked Shayer Subject: PowerMonger Hi all, I haven't got the manual for PowerMonger, does anyone have it in pdf format. Also I have conquered everything in the first level but I can't move on, how does this work? Ked Shayer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:19:32 +0100 From: pbacgh@mbox.vol.it (Paolo Bartoli) Subject: print PS file to Quckdraw printer How can I print a Postscript file (.PS file without preview image) to a QuickDraw printer? The PS file is as I understand, a plain text file. I tryed to open it with Freehand, but having no preview image, I get just text. Do I need a 'send-PS-to-printer' utility? Since I have a QD printer, how can it work? ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli pbacgh@mbox.vol.it ** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:22:37 -0500 From: "Randall C. Scutt" Subject: QuickDraw GX manual feed alert (I use a PPC 8500/120, MacOS 7.6, Lexmark Rn+ printer). I recently started using QuickDraw GX and I'm stymied about permanently turning the manual feed alert off. LaserWriter8 had this option to turn it off. TIA. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:26:56 -0500 From: edverhoef@nmaa.org (Edward Ver Hoef) Subject: Saving MicroSoft Word Documents I am mystified by by a problem I'm having with Microsoft Word 6.0.1. I recently wrote an article for a local newsletter in Word and saved it to my hard disk (as a Word document.) I decided it was too long and saved a second copy under a different name. Then I went back into the original document and deleted approximately the last half of the document and resaved it. Next I went into the second document and deleted approximately the first half of it and resaved it. Finally, because the editor of the newsletter use Microsoft Works, I went to the original document and saved it to a floppy as a Works 2.0 document. When I attempted to do the same for the second document, the Save As portion of the Save dialog block was shaded out. When I looked at the folder in which the documents were stored on my hard disk, document 1 was indeed shown as a Word document. However, document 2 was shown as what appears to be a template. I was able to work around the problem by simply copying the contents of document 2 to a new document and then saving this new document as a Works 2.0 document on the floppy. However, nothing I have tried has enabled me to convert document 2 into a proper Word document and the only way I can do a Save As with this document is to copy its contents to a new document. Even when I do this and try to save the new document on my hard disk as a Word document with a new name, the Finder shows this new document as a template. What's happening? Ed Ver Hoef Ed Ver Hoef ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:19:30 -0600 From: "Wayne C. Morris" Subject: SCSI Video Input Peripheral? "Rob C." wrote: > There must be some sort of a SCSI peripheral made for any Macintosh which >translates input from video, (via AV jacks?) to be used by Quicktime or >Photoshop as image files, through a SCSI or modem port (like MIDI >translator II). > >True or False? ComputerEyes RT SCSI, from Digital Vision. Connects to the SCSI port. You can find info on their web site at . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:54:21 -0800 From: Bob Wall Subject: Skew problem with HP DeskJet 879Cse. I want to know if anyone is having skew problems with their 870Cse. Mine prints skewed, with the text on the right side of the page 1 to 1.5 mm. higher than text on the left. I sent it in for repair. It was sent back untouched, stating that it was performing within specs (even though a physical measurement would have shown them the problem). I sent it back. They 'repaired' it. Again, the test sheet said it was printing properly but it wasn't, as revealed by my trusty ruler. Sent it back. They sent me a new machine. Same result. Wrote the president's office. Got another new machine. Still the same result. I like the speed and color of this printer but need a printer that does the basics (such as printing straight on the page). I have a Performa 6400/200 and Claris Works software. Am I doing something wrong here or is HP having some problems and overlooking it because of a faulty test sheet procedure that tells them it is okay when it isn't? Thanks, Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:49:51 -0500 (EST) From: abloom@vt.edu (Al Bloom) Subject: SoundMaster Replacement (?) Maybe three of y'all will see this interaction, but I thought it might be useful to pass the information on. I installed the new Eudora Light 3 yesterday. It killed my TN3270 terminal emulator. Launch TN3270 and forget about keyboard or mouse input. Nothing for it but the power switch. This was a pretty clean extension conflict problem. Very reproducible. I isolated the problem to SoundMaster (184) fairly quickly. But Mother Bloom raised no idiots (a few wifts, to be sure), so I checked for a two-way interaction. Sure nuff. SoundMaster by itself (with Sys 7.5.5) caused no problem. SAM 4.5 then caused machine death. Being of the paranoid persuasion, I deactivated SoundMaster and kept SAM active. Yes, I sent a report to "eudora-bugs." No, I haven't received more than an automated thankyou from that critter. Yes, I saw Ric Ford's MacWeek column this week about objectsupportlib's goofiness's. And that Eudora 3 installs it. I got the 1.2 version. It did not help. I miss SoundMaster. While it was not especially PC to have my computer greet me with an apprently sweet young thing asking what she could do for me today, I had grown used to it. And I liked the system beep replaced by Michelle Pfeiffer's Cat Woman (Batman II) meowing. That woman gives great meow. OK, SoundMaster's out. Is there another utility that'll give user-defined sounds to various events? Al Bloom, Virginia Tech ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:04:47 -0500 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Speeding up PPCs At 12:32 PM -0500 2/17/97, Robert Warner wrote: >I'm having exactly the same problem with a new PB1400c/133 as compared to >my Q650! > >I too would appreciate some insights!! > >Shouldn't the PB1400 be much faster than the Q650? Even with Speed >Doubler 2.0.1 installed it is not much faster (although Speed Doubler >certainly helps!). Are you running native software on the PB1400? If you're running the same 68K apps that are on the Q650 [for example, if you just copied the apps over from the Q650], you may not see much of a difference. Speed Doubler would improve the performance of 68K apps on a PPC machine, as you've seen, but installing PPC-native software would provide a much larger performance improvement. chazl 02.18.97 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 12:53:01 -0500 From: george (ty) tempel Subject: TIFF class? I've checked the usual search engines, and the Apprentice CD's, but have yet to find a C++ TIFF class, or even a TIFF library that can read/write the various TIFF permutations. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance...anything that's already been ported to the Mac OS (and CodeWarrior) would be a great help. George Tempel Xpedite Systems, Inc. 6-C Industrial Way West Eatontown, NJ 07724 1-908-389-3900 x338 1-888-4-xpedite http://www.xpedite.com g.tempel@xpedite.com Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:11:40 -0500 (EST) From: "David P. Baker" Subject: views prefs not sticking hi. i have a powercenter 132 running 7.5.5, and all of a sudden, a couple of days ago, my views preferences started not being preserved across restarts. i set it to snap-to-grid, display-disk-info, no-labels, show-version, medium icons, and it's fine. until i restart. then it's back to no disk info, small icons, etc., etc. i've done this many times. where are the views preferences kept? what prefs file should i throw away because it's corrupted? any ideas? thanks. -- -+- David P. Baker * dpb@wjh.harvard.edu * http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dpb/ -+- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 07:45:47 +0000 From: Ked Shayer Subject: WWWW Hi, I just thought I'd tell you lot about a WWWP I found on the Net. Its called World Wide Web Weaver. It is perfect for people with knowledge of HTML, who want to type it quickly. It has a brilliant Forms editor and is very quick. If you know a thing about HTML get it now! Ked Shayer -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************