Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #181 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 25 Aug 97 Volume 15 : Issue 181 Today's Topics: [!] Short Header Format Is busted [Q]: Male A/C connector for Apple 6115CD Alternative to Superboomeran An Open Letter to Steve Jobs BUG?: Mac OS 8.0's Finder deselects opened files Comments in Get Info disappear Communicator conundra Desktop Printing and Stylewriter 4500 Eudora has the quits! Good e-mail services for Macs? Good e-mail services for Macs? Is Epson 9000 Mac-able? Making invisible files visible Making invisible files visible NDD 3.5.1/OS8/Rebuild Power Protection (C) small Icons on Desktop - thanks 4 Info writenow mailing list The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, Liam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. 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If you want to use it you can go to our web site, unsubscribe from the digest, and resubscribe with the short header format. http://www.pht.com/info-mac/ Cheers, Gordon. -- Gordon Watts, Info-Mac Moderator (gordon@info-mac.org) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 97 14:32:33 -0500 From: ms210115 Subject: [Q]: Male A/C connector for Apple 6115CD I need to replace a cracked A/C (power cord) connector on the back of my Mac 6115CD, which should be the same on any shipping Mac system. This is a plastic piece which resides in the power supply, and has three metal blades which insert into the power cord. I've been unlucky finding an old broken Mac to cannabalize or a vendor who sells this piece. Unfortunately, the PC world uses a much more common, very similar, part that the Macs case won't fit over. Anyone know who'd sell this part? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 97 05:13:12 -0700 From: bullard@amug.org Subject: Alternative to Superboomeran >Now Software has said that SB is not compatible with OS8 and that >users should do so only at their own risk. Are they just doing > a CYA or are there other successful alternative to SB? I Haven't tried Superboomerang on OS8, so cannot say if it works. However, I am now trying Default Folder 2.7.3 which is compatible with OS8. It is a great program, and has many of the features of Superboomerang. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:31:59 GMT From: asd@dss.com (SMONG) Subject: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs Folks, I have made a web site with an open letter to Steve Jobs. I think like many fans of Apple and the Macintosh we hope Steve Jobs' return signals a new "Insanely Great" advance in computing. Apple should abandon attempts to make a better GUI and try to move onto the next interface, speech. Apple should make the computer that understands the spoken word. All of the different pieces to make such a system exist and just need to be brought together. I hope the Steve Jobs of old does not concede the cutting edge to Microsoft. Rather, learn from your mistakes in exploiting the GUI and correct them as you create the new paradyme, Speech enabled and smart computers. If anyone knows Steve Jobs, tell him to visit this web site: http://www.ivr.net/SteveJobs/default.htm Cheers, Smong ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 21:56:00 -0400 From: cornell@cs.umass.edu (Matthew Cornell) Subject: BUG?: Mac OS 8.0's Finder deselects opened files I've discovered that on my machine (a PowerMac 8500/180 w/64MB RAM and 2GB HD) System 8.0's Finder deselects files that are opened. I would *much* rather it leave them selected after opening, as it did in 7.5.5. I can't understand why they changed it. I'd be surprised if they made this change intentionally. Anyone know a way around this? matt cornell@cs.umass.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 10:47:39 -0700 From: Ken Workman Subject: Comments in Get Info disappear Whenever I try to write comments in the Comments box within Get Info on a diskette, whether the Get Info for the diskette or an folder on the diskette the comments disappear as soon as I eject and then reinsert the diskette. (Yes, the diskette is unlocked.) Any idea of why I can't keep the comments? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 22:52:43 -0400 From: jfrankel Subject: Communicator conundra There are two things I can’t figure out in Netscape Communicator (i.e., v4): (1) How to delete news messages, and (2) How to delete mail folders, short of finding the files in Communicator’s preferences folder and dragging them into the trash. Can anybody enlighten me? Many thanks. -- Jeff Frankel Windsor, Maine USA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 10:14:29 -0800 From: Dave & Lael Cole Subject: Desktop Printing and Stylewriter 4500 My trusty Stylewriter 2400 passed on and I have replaced it with a new SW 4500. My problem is that I have not been able to get Desktop printing to work. The Apple Tech line suggested trying the SW 6000 drivers but they don't recognize the printer. Has anyone been successful at getting Desktop printing to work? I am running a 6400/32 meg and OS 8. I have the latest drivers 1.0.3 and I have tried both the Appletalk and regular print drivers. Thank you Dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 11:58:01 -0700 From: jennyrt@halcyon.com (Jenny Tenlen) Subject: Eudora has the quits! > I have had a problem with receiving mail on Eudora Light. Whenever I > have mail to be transferred the application quits. When I then try to > restart Eudora I get a screen freeze that is only overcome by turning > off the mac and then turning it back on. I have an LC with a SupraFax > 28.8 Modem. Any suggestions? I don't think my problem has to do with > too much mail as some have suggested to me. > Thanks for any help! I had a similar problem a while ago, and it turned out to be a corrupted MacTCP DNR file (in the System Folder). Trash the file, restart your computer, and a new file will be automatically created. Also, what version of Eudora Light are you using? When I had that problem, I was using Eudora 1.3. I now use Eudora Light 3.1, which thus far has been very stable. I hope that helps! Good luck! Jenny Tenlen jennyrt@halcyon.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:12:02 -0700 From: "David L. Ellis" Subject: Good e-mail services for Macs? On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, mlc@iberia.cca.rockwell.com (Michael Cook) wrote: >I would like to find a convenient e-mail only application for my Mac. > >I don't want WWW access. I don't want ads like Juno has to make >itself free to users. > >I just want an easy, low-cost, e-mail tool to use at home for >personal e-mail use with friends and family. Just e-mail. >No bells & whistles needed. > >Suggestions? > >Thanks, > >Michael Cook I don't know of any "E-mail Only" services, but you could get yourself a "shell" account with a Internet Service Provider. These accounts usually cost quite a bit less than full PPP/SLIP accounts, and then you would use a program like Zterm or Microphone to dial up and log into the Unix system, and then use the unix e-mail program PINE to do your e-mail. Pine is actually a very advanced e-mail program, and this would be a easy and inexpensive way to have e-mail access. There are some Internet Service Providers, mostly local ones, that do offer "E-mail Only" accounts, so you should check that out too. With most of these, you would use a regular POP client such as Eudora or Claris E-Mailer. David L. Ellis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 23:17:18 +0200 From: Thomas Rohde Subject: Good e-mail services for Macs? Hello Michael, you asked: > I would like to find a convenient e-mail only application for my Mac. > > I don't want WWW access. I don't want ads like Juno has to make > itself free to users. > > I just want an easy, low-cost, e-mail tool to use at home for > personal e-mail use with friends and family. Try the free Eudora Light, download it at Eudora.com or Qualcomm.com HTH Good day, Tom -- TOM ROHDE MEDIA DESIGN BONOBO.COMmunication Thomas Rohde, Dorfstrasse 3, 29646 Bispingen / Huetzel, GERMANY Phone (++49)-5194-6741 office / -6746 private / -6742 FAX ;-) signature updated: August 23, 1997, 23:17:07 q-: ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:04:01 +0100 From: i.burt@netmatters.co.uk (Ian Burt) Subject: Is Epson 9000 Mac-able? Hi Mac masters, I've been offered the loan of an Epson 9000 scanner to do a one off job. It is owned by a PC nut who insists it will work on my Mac (Quadra 630) straight from the box. I disagree and would think that drivers etc would be needed. Any advice from the list would be welcome. TIA Ian Burt But you who walk facing the sun,what images drawn on the earth can hold you? mailto:i.burt@netmatters.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: 24 Aug 1997 06:07:02 GMT From: JimmieJenkins@knet.gol.com (JimmieJenkins) Subject: Making invisible files visible donner asked: > How do i make invisible files visible? You can use ResEdit to make them visible (be sure to read the instructions re using backup copies). Easier, however, if all you want to do is throw them away is to use "Find File." Open Find File and click on the "name" pop-up menu while holding the option key down. The pop-up menu will be altered to include an item called "Visibility." Select that and then hit the "Find" button. All the invisible files will be displayed in the Items Found window. You can drag them directly to the trash from there. (Note: this only works in versions of "Find File" which display everything at once in the "Items Found" window.) HTH Jimmie Ashiya Japan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 23:13:10 +0200 From: Thomas Rohde Subject: Making invisible files visible Chaz Larson wrote: > At 11:07 PM +0200 8/19/97, Thomas Rohde wrote: > >Chaz Larson wrote: > >> You use something like ResEdit, FIleBuddy, or Snitch; something that > >well, I, too use Snitch, but it won't work on invisible files... even > >when used on invisibles found with Find File. > > Sure it will. > > With Snitch installed, get info on any random file or disk. > > Now, from Snitch's own menu in that Get Info dialog, select "Get >Info..." DUH! Oh my. Yes, I erred. (BTW it's "Get Item info...") Thanks Chaz to push my nose unto a feature of the new, updated Snitch, that I didn't know of. Usually I read all accompanying files like the ReadMes etc, but this time I didn't. And I usually get Info by hacking "Apple-I", so I didn't *have to * notice the expanded "Get Info" menu. Duh! And thanks for enlightening me about this. Good day, Tom -- TOM ROHDE MEDIA DESIGN BONOBO.COMmunication Thomas Rohde, Dorfstrasse 3, 29646 Bispingen / Huetzel, GERMANY Phone (++49)-5194-6741 office / -6746 private / -6742 FAX ;-) signature updated: August 23, 1997, 23:13:00 q-: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:18:31 +1000 From: Pat Shaw Subject: NDD 3.5.1/OS8/Rebuild I recently installed OS8 and Norton 3.5.1 (In get info it says 3.5.1) on my 7200/90. Now, every time I run Disk Doctor, either starting up from Norton CDRom, or a floppy, or from the HD I get the msg "Bad modification date" for the desktop. Whether I choose to fix, or not to fix, when I restart, the desktop automatically rebuilds. I then use NDD-"bad modification date"!!-desktop auto rebuilds on startup. How do I stop this? I never had a problem with Norton 3.2 and OS7.5.5. Netscape crashes whenever I visit the Symantec site! Thanks Pat Pat Shaw pshaw@mania.com.au Visit Pat's Cats at http://www.mania.com.au/~pshaw/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:05:32 -0500 From: "Al Bloom" Subject: Power Protection (C) Colleagues, I have said loud and long over the years that the best and most expensive power protection is the cheapest insurance one can buy. I had that message driven home yesterday. Again. I don't need many such lessons. In the early 70's at Penn State our hot-stuff 300 baud terminal into the university's mainframe would get fried every month or so. We got some money, and I ordered (1) a set of replacement cards for the modems and (2) a heavy duty surge protector for each. We never used the spare modem cards after the surge protectors were on line. Are any of you old enough to remember a 300-baud modem thrice the size of a PowerMac 7200? Even remember 300 baud modems? I didn't think so. I kept that lesson to heart in 1982 when I got my first personal computer. Get the most expensive power protection possible. Back then it was $150 or so. Nowadays it's more like $50. Cheap insurance. [Uh, yeah. I remember 300 baud modems, vt100s, adm 3A's. And I'm only 31. How about teco, Al? :-) -Gordon] I sent the following note to the fine folk at TripLite this evening. They seem to be best in show these days. And they proved it. I recommend 'em. Al Bloom -------------------------------------------- Folks, let me add a word of praise to those you've doubtless already received. I've always insisted on the best power protection (yours) for the computer equipment in our office. Our new secretary got her nose out of joint when I allowed as how her purchase of two $7 surge protectors was the dumbest thing she had done lately and she would either return them or pay for them herself. Yesterday several of our Buildings & Grounds types were futzing with the building's power distribution panel when my machine went down. With a pop and a lot of smoke from the Isobar. I have no idea what those klutzes did, and neither do they. We din't do nuthin. I suspect B&G is single handedly responsible for the university's "hire the handicapped" program. After the B&G supervisor verified that my outlet was indeed providing 120 volts again, I put in a spare Isobar and verified that the smoked unit had done its job. It had surrendered its life so that its protected equipment might live. For that, folks, I thank you. You have a great product. I will continue to buy it and to recommend it. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 23:19:27 +0200 From: Thomas Rohde Subject: small Icons on Desktop - thanks 4 Info Hi folks, thanks to all the friendly ppl who posted a follow-up or mailed me privately with info regarding... Small Icons possible on Desktop in MacOS 8? the answer was YES. So, all users of PopupFolder who need this feature, relax ;-) Bye and out Tom -- TOM ROHDE MEDIA DESIGN BONOBO.COMmunication Thomas Rohde, Dorfstrasse 3, 29646 Bispingen / Huetzel, GERMANY Phone (++49)-5194-6741 office / -6746 private / -6742 FAX ;-) signature updated: August 23, 1997, 23:19:16 q-: ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 11:38:54 +0300 From: es@apollo.lv (Elmars) Subject: writenow mailing list Hi! I would like to know if there is a mailing list for the users of WriteNow word processing application. I use WriteNow 4.0 for my translator job and I'm very satisfied with this fast and lean program. If there is no such mailing list, it would be fine to take up contact with other users of WriteNow anyway. Thank you in advance for an answer in the Info-Mac digest. Elmars es@apollo.lv -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************