Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #237 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 12 Jan 99 Volume 16 : Issue 237 Today's Topics: (A) Key command for "move to trash"? (A) Key command for moving files to trash in System 8 (A) Macs Print to HP1120c (C) Netscape pausing (Q) Can Power Computing CPU Cards be Used in Apple Desktops (Q) How to do automated shut down with RAM Disk activated? (Q) Key command for "move to trash"? [A] Epson Stylus Color 740 technical printing question help [A] Finder problem [A] Macintosh 'ping' application [Q] Appletalk vs Patchbay: releasing printer port? [Q] Modem init string needed! Apple Script BB Edit Help Needed Claris Works 5.0 Case Conversion Finder problem Finder problem Finder problem corrected - here's how FreePPP & Netscape dropout HELP Sys 7.1.1 Emergency Disk needed IE 4.5 & Quicktime Plug-in Info-Mac Digest V16 #234 Info-Mac Digest V16 #234 Info-Mac Digest V16 #236 Info-Mac manuals ISDN and ARA ixmicro HELP!!!! Key command for "move to trash"? Macintosh 'ping' application Macintosh 'ping' application Macintosh Programming Reference MacPack and Newton? More Modem Questions (Help!) MSIE 4.5 and Symbol Font MSIE v4.01 Problem My Finder Froblem - Now Fixed Need Help W/ Acrobat & Sound Files Netscape hanging New Euros Note pad not working palm pilots and other handheld's Stylewriter 1200 cartridges Stylewriter 1200 refills The 'New' & 'Old' Apple 15" TFT (LCD) Studio Displays Using AOL and OS 8.5 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. Email Addresses and Instructions: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with subscribe in the Subject line. * To unsubscribe, send email to with unsubscribe in the Subject line. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. 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The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. 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 #237" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:51:21 -0800 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: (A) Key command for "move to trash"? Command-Delete ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:15:13 -0800 From: Paul Brians Subject: (A) Key command for moving files to trash in System 8 Thanks to the many people who told me the magic combination to move a selected file or folder to the trash is command-delete. The delete key involved is the large backspace key, which does not have marked on it the symbol which shows up when you type option-w. The trick does not work if you use the forward-delete key marked "del" (to the right of the backslash), which _does_ have a delete symbol on it, but pointed to the right rather than the left. I'm glad to see that the Apple Help in System 8.5 does provide a complete list of keyboard shortcuts; System 7.1's help does not. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:18:51 -0800 From: "Jeffrey D. Niederauer" Subject: (A) Macs Print to HP1120c I went to MacWorld last week and the company who makes PowerPrint and StyleScript had a booth -- with a Mac and a DeskJet 1120c hooked up and working at full color 11x17. PowerPrint is *compatible* with the 1120c, as in you can do color and it will print, however it doesn't have a dedicated driver for it, and I couldn't make it do 11x17. StyleScript works like a charm. It is a postscript engine / spooler that rasterizes postscript to a inkjet printer, usually resulting in better printouts with EPSs and such. It directly supports the 1120c, as the package includes a quickstart card for the 1120c, and it's in the manual. The manual lists two ways to connect to the 1120c -- either through a serial/parallel cable (which they bundle with some of their stylescript boxes), or with a JetDirect EX (plus?) in which case you can install the driver software on all the computers that print to that one printer with a single license. And, of course, the print quality is phenomenal! I recommend this company's products. Jeffrey Niederauer The Harker School ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:31:16 -0700 From: Jim Sanders Subject: (C) Netscape pausing > >>John McGibney said: >I don't think its peculiar to system 8.5. I have system 8.1 and Netscape >>Navigator 4.05 on my Mac 6100, and it does the same thing also. It >>downloads a >>page and then hangs for 5-10 seconds before displaying it. I also tried >>Communicator 4.5 and it does the same thing. I wrote in to InfoMac about 1 >>month ago and got no replies. It has to be a conflict with something in the >>system folder but I never bothered to really diagnose it. Maybe OT/PPP or a >>library file accessed by OT/PPP. Did you upgrade to OT/PPP 2.0? I think it >>comes with the 8.5.1 system upgrade. > Bill Rausch replied: -----x snip x------- >For what it's worth, the exact same web pages will render in IE several >times faster. -----x snip x------- For what it's worth, I think we all ought to remember that some/many web pages are designed, by intent/carelessness, to display better/faster on IE. Although we should encourage the Mozilla Team to foil these tricks, we can't expect every exploitation of incompatibility to be Netscape's nor MacOS' flaw. Does anyone know of work done to document and compile warnings about the major problems in this area? For instance, I just went to the new "MacTopia" page at Microsoft (intended to show us they really care), and found that there was no way the product area text would flow to the window size. I had to stretch my window to almost full (20" at 1280x1024) screen to get all the non-flowing text. And that is with my default Netscape fonts at 12 pt Geneva (barely readable at that resolution, but I don't believe my fonts were invoked). The page's fonts were nonetheless very small. I know that I have experienced (and ignored) many, many long pauses in display pages that (when I look) are almost always "Generator=FrontPage2.0" or similar Wintel platform products. And all this is with either an ethernet or ISDN connection and a very large and fast Mac. No PPP ever! Feedback? Cheers, --Jim-- +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Jim Sanders, CTO | | Steppingstones Designs | | 6850 E. Loma del Bribon, Tucson, AZ 85750-6371 USA | | Voice: 520-615-8229 FAX: 520-615-8859 | +--------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:57:49 -0500 From: "Einstein, Sandor I." Subject: (Q) Can Power Computing CPU Cards be Used in Apple Desktops I am upgrading my Power Computing Corp., Power Center Pro 240 to a Newer MAXpower G3 CPU Card. When this is done I will have a 240 MHz 604e card with no home. Since the PCC design is based on an Apple configuration, can this card now be used in a slower Apple desktop like an 8500? Are there any Apple desktops that are compatible with the Power Center Pro card? Since the bus speeds are different, if I insert the PCC card into an Apple desktop, can I do any permanent damage or will it just not run? Sandy Einstein U.S. Army ARDEC einstein@pica.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:26:59 -0800 From: Paul Brians Subject: (Q) How to do automated shut down with RAM Disk activated? I am running System 8.1 on a Power Mac 7600/132. I have a RAM disk which I use to store the cache of my copy of Netscape. It speeds up reloading of pages between restarts considerably, and keeps my hard disk from being cluttered with cache files. However, I would like to be able to have my computer automatically shut down at midnight and turn on at 8 AM so that my students can have access to a public folder I've set up on it during the day and evening. The problem is that when the Mac prepares to shut down, it puts up a warning box telling me that the files in my RAM disk will be erased and asking me if I want to proceed. Naturally I'm not there at midnight to click "OK," so the computer never shuts down. I've tried using Netscape's menus to purge the cache and manually emptying the RAM disk to the trash ahead of time, but the warning still pops up. I know there are commercial products which can automatically click such buttons, but I wonder whether there's a work-around that doesn't involve spending money. True believers in leaving your computer running all the time: I'm familiar with the arguments and still prefer to shut down for my own reasons. Please don't write. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:12:27 -0700 From: Gordon Moynes Subject: (Q) Key command for "move to trash"? Paul Brians wrote: >What is the keyboard command for "move to trash" in System 8.1? The menu >shows command and a symbol I'm unfamiliar with (rectangle with a >triangular-shaped projection on the left, surrounding an "x"). Keycaps >says it's control-w, but pressing command-control-w while a folder is >highlighted does not in fact move it to the trash. What is it? This version >of Apple Help knows nothing of keyboard shortcuts. Try Command-Delete. Too bad it is not identified the same as the menu command. regards, Gord "The measure of a person's real character is what they would do if they knew they would never be found out." - adapted from: Thomas.B.Macauley ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:58:05 -0800 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] Epson Stylus Color 740 technical printing question help It is a choice in Word or ClarisWorks under MacOS 8.X (maybe also part of Desktop Printing under 7.6): Word: Select Print Select Word from the popup menu list in the upper left part of the interface Select Odd or Even pages from the popup menu in the middle of the interface (default says pages in range) CW: Select Print Select CW from the popup menu list in the upper left part of the interface Select Right or Left pages -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:04:51 -0800 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] Finder problem Check your Apple->Control Panels->General Controls setting and make sure "Show desktop when in background" is checked. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:52:58 -0800 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] Macintosh 'ping' application AGTools is extremely powerful, ping is just one of several net functions, and it is free. http://www.aggroup.com -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 15:15:34 -0600 From: Kevin Jones Subject: [Q] Appletalk vs Patchbay: releasing printer port? I've got a Performa 476 with an ethernet connection to my S900. To save space on the 476's small hard drive, I try to keep a lot of the kids' games and apps on the bigger machine. But I've had no luck in setting up MIDI apps because Patchbay won't let me connect the keyboards to the Printer port ('Already in use'). Everything's fine if I turn off Appletalk, but then I can't get to the apps. Appletalk is set to Ethernet, and I can't find anything else that might be reserving the printer port. Is there a switch I've missed, or does Appletalk absolutely require the printer port? I've had no luck searching the TIL notes. Any suggestions on solving/tracking down this problem? (Oh, both 'puters are running 7.6.1) There are some utils out there for releasing a port, but I thought I should ask before resorting to a here-goes-nothing... Merci. KJ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:32:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Xianofeng . Duan MLBP CON" Subject: [Q] Modem init string needed! Hi, folks! I am using Smart One 56k modem for FreePPP(v.2.6.2) om my PB540c. The init string which the manufacture suggests (AT&F) didn't work out, therefore I use the string "ATL2&Q5%C1&C1&D0&K0" which I used before for my old Boca 28.8 modem. With this string, everything is going well except the Call-Waiting function is automatically disabled. In other words, even if I don't disable call-waiting when I connect to internet, the out-coming call cannot break the modem connection. The caller can here the dialing tone but I cannot notice anything. Hopefully, some one here can help me to solve the problem! Thanks! Frank ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:41:06 -0600 From: Dan Becque Subject: Apple Script I'm trying to script remote access with the following to help me establish a PPP connection. My script does fine until the PPP connect command which is part of the Remote Access scripting addition. Please help me. display dialog =AC "Connection for Fran or Dan?" buttons {"Fran", "Dan"} default button 1 set Connect to button returned of result -- if Connect is "Fran" then set ConnectScript to "Dan Fran:System Folder:Extensions:PPP Connect Scripts:Fran Connect" else set ConnectScript to "Dan Fran:System Folder:Extensions:PPP Connect Scripts:Dan Connect" end if -- display dialog =AC "Do you want a Long or Short Connection?" buttons {"Long", "Short"} default button 2 set Duration to button returned of result -- if Duration is "Long" then tell file "Remote Access Commands" of =ABclass cfol=BB "Scripting Additions" of =ABclass cfol=BB "System Folder" PPP connect address =AC "4535500" guest access true =AC connect script ConnectScript end tell else tell file "Remote Access Commands" of =ABclass cfol=BB "Scripting Additions" of =ABclass cfol=BB "System Folder" PPP connect address =AC "4533500" guest access true =AC connect script ConnectScript end tell end if exit repeat Dan M. Daniel Becque, Ph.D., FACSM Associate Professor Department of Physical Education Southern Illinois University Davies Gymnasium-Mailcode 4310 Carbondale, IL 62901-4310 mailto:mdbecque@siu.edu 618-536-2244 (Voice) 618-453-3329 (Fax) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 14:54:28 -0400 From: mb@bigfoot.com (mb@bigfoot.com) Subject: BB Edit Help Needed Hi, I need some help with BBEdit. At work, my mean boss is making me manually add a comma to the end of each line. The text file has 10,000 lines, with one word per line. All I need to do is add a comma at the end of each line. The file looks like this: word1 word2 word3 etc. and I need to make it look like this: word1, word2, word3, etc. and then take out all the white space, if possible to make it look like this: word1,word2,word3,etc. Can anyone help me. I have BBedit 4.0 and have heard this can be done in seconds, rather than hours. I want to put this guy in his place and show that I am really a "fast" worker. He won't have a clue as to how I did it so fast. Thanks for any help you can give me. I don't get a chance to read this newsgroup too often, so please email me at: mb@bigfoot.com Thanks a bunch. -- Michelle mb@bigfoot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:11:26 -0600 From: Ted Logan Subject: Claris Works 5.0 Case Conversion I can't figure out for the life of me why Apple decided to drop uppercase-lowercase conversion, which had been one of the most useful features in previous versions, from Claris Works 5.0. Drives me batty having to save and work a file in 4.0 just to change blocks of text from one case to the other. Does anyone know of a way to handle this in 5.0? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 15:32:33 -0600 From: gibhenry@realpeople.com (Gib Henry, Real People) Subject: Finder problem >Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:11:34 -1000 (HST) >From: cesar@lava.net (Ed Cesar) >Subject: Finder problem > >I am experiencing an frustrating problem with Finder. Whenever I open an >application all the icons on my desktop dissapear. I can make them >reappear by clicking on Finder in the window in the upper right hand >corner of my screen. While it is not a serious problem, it is an irritating >one. I'm using a Performa 6300CD with 65 MB of RAM. > >I have done all the usual things including: >trashing Finder so the system software builds a new one, rebuilding the >desktop and zapping the pram. I even reinstalled the system's software. >Has anyone a suggestion about what did you do? >TIA Open General Controls control panel and check "Show Desktop when in background". Hope this helps. Cheers, -- Gib Henry * Dew knot trussed a spell checker two fined awl you're miss steaks. * ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:11:54 -0500 From: "Dominic F. Manno" Subject: Finder problem In Info-Mac Digest V1#234, cesar@lava.net (Ed Cesar) stated: >I am experiencing an frustrating problem with Finder. Whenever I open an >application all the icons on my desktop dissapear. I can make them >reappear by clicking on Finder in the window in the upper right hand >corner of my screen. While it is not a serious problem, it is an irritating >one. I'm using a Performa 6300CD with 65 MB of RAM. Go to the "General Controls" control panel and click the box next to "Show Desktop when in background." Dominic F. Manno dommanno@bellatlantic.com "If you understand, things are as just they should be. If you do not understand, then things are just as they should be." (Zen proverb) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 23:53:27 -1000 (HST) From: cesar@lava.net (Ed Cesar) Subject: Finder problem corrected - here's how This is a follow-up to my earlier posting about fixing what I thought was my finder problem. Thanks to all of you for your rapid responses and helpful suggestions. It is very reassuring to know there isn't anything you guys and gals can't fix when it comes to a Mac. The fix is described in one of several messages I received with the same instruction: Open the General Controls control panel and check the box beside "Show desktop when in background". Aloha, Ed Cesar cesar@lava.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:48:25 +0000 From: Harold Lietz Subject: FreePPP & Netscape dropout I am running Netscape 4.5 on a Mac 6500/250 with OS 8.1.. The problem is that when I am reading e-mail for more than a few minutes, it drops out. The modem is still connected, at least it sounds like it by listening to the telephone. The only way to cure the problem is to close the FreePPP connection and reopen the connection. Can anyone help? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 18:55:11 +0000 From: "K Ironside" Subject: HELP Sys 7.1.1 Emergency Disk needed A friend brought me an old PB150 which was acting up -- they got it at a garage sale (no manuals or system floppies) Running Techtool on it revealed that the System file was corrupted. It was running fairly dependably until I went to take it back to her and suddenly the flashing question mark. Can someone email a copy of 7.1.1 emergency boot disk? I have system 7.5.3 on my starmax, but an emergency boot disk created by it isn't recognized by the PB150 -- though I thought the PB was able to run up to 7.6.1 Help greatly appreciated email me at ironside(nospam)@nbnet.nb.ca (remove the "(nospam)" in the email address ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:41:45 +1100 From: Wade Singleton Subject: IE 4.5 & Quicktime Plug-in Hi Info-Mac'ers, Just wanted to let Mac users know that Internet Explorer 4.5 installs version 1.1.1 of the Quicktime plugin, so if you've using a later version (I'm using 2.0.1), be sure to replace the file in your new plug-ins folder. Apart from that, IE4 is running great on my G3! Regards, Wade Singleton Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:42:16 +0000 From: RonaldAcheson@stones.com (Ronald Acheson) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #234 In article <76tspb$r1d$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, moderator@info-mac.org (The Info-Mac Moderators) wrote: >Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:48:11 -0800 >From: Paul Brians >Subject: (Q) Key command for "move to trash"? > >What is the keyboard command for "move to trash" in System 8.1? The menu >shows command and a symbol I'm unfamiliar with (rectangle with a >triangular-shaped projection on the left, surrounding an "x"). Keycaps >says it's control-w, but pressing command-control-w while a folder is >highlighted does not in fact move it to the trash. What is it? This version >of Apple Help knows nothing of keyboard shortcuts. > >Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University >Pullman, WA 99164-5020 >brians@wsu.edu >http://www.wsu.edu/~brians Paul, It is the delete key, just above the return key. The symbol is the reverse of the delete right key which is just below the help key on my keyboard. Command + Delete = Move to trash. Ronald. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 22:50:39 -0500 From: chazzz Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #234 Info-Mac wrote: Re: Finder Problem go to the general control panel and check the "show finder in background" button. That will allow the finder to stay visible while working in other apps. -- Why do I use a Mac? It's elementary my dear Watson! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:36:28 -0500 From: Sam Snoid Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #236 Would somebody please explain What is Quit CSM? For the 50th time? thanks - snoid ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:55:34 EST From: WeyJournal@aol.com Subject: Info-Mac manuals Can anyone please help? I need the Apple Manual URL so I can download a manual for my 5300ce. I went to Apple's site, but could not find it. I checked "manuals" but that was no help at all. Please help. RonB ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 99 17:38:54 +0000 From: John Lewis Subject: ISDN and ARA Does any one have any experience of running Apple Remote Access version 3 with OS 8.5 over ISDN specifically with ZyXel Terminal Adaptors. The TAs work fine for Internet access but with ARA the client makes contact with the server and then hangs usually with the message 'Determining Protocol'. We are using ARAP and have tried both the PPP and X.75 modem scripts which come on the ZyXel CD. TIA Best wishes John Lewis 55 Linkside Avenue Voice:- 01865 316251 Oxford OX2 8JE Fax:- 01865 310723 Mobile:- 0411 717471 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:18:46 -0800 From: "S. Schall" Subject: ixmicro HELP!!!! I have a Magnavox Magnascan 20... It is capable of 1280X1024 at 64KHz...I need it to drive 1024 X 768 at 85KHz...I am running it in a Powermac 4400/200 with a second video card, Which is a ix3D Ultimate reZ video card by ixmicro. It has 8 mgs vram and says it can drive up to 1920 x 1200....Then Why can't I even get 1024 x 768???? When I set it to the 1024 X768 setting the screen is blurred with lines...then reverts back to 800x 600. Am I setting it wrong??? Is my montior not capable? Is there a problem with my video card??? If it is the monitor can it be upgraded????? Please help....Lost in Video HELL!!!! Seth ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:00:17 -0500 From: "David B. Niethamer" Subject: Key command for "move to trash"? >What is the keyboard command for "move to trash" in System 8.1? The menu >shows command and a symbol I'm unfamiliar with (rectangle with a >triangular-shaped projection on the left, surrounding an "x"). Keycaps >says it's control-w, but pressing command-control-w while a folder is >highlighted does not in fact move it to the trash. What is it? This version >of Apple Help knows nothing of keyboard shortcuts. It's Cmd-delete (works for me) David David Niethamer Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony dnietham@richmond.edu http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 14:58:21 -0500 From: Dave Kristol Subject: Macintosh 'ping' application PwrSurge wrote at Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:33:02 -0800 (PST): > I'm currently looking for a Mac App that will behave like the Win95/98 or > unix command 'ping' > > It sends small ICMP ECHO_REQUESTS to a server, and gets the results. > > If there is one that's been created.. can I please have the URL? > > If there hasn't been, would somebody throw together an app that will do that? The "whatroute" program in the Info-Mac archive does ping/traceroute/DNS lookup. Very handy. Dave Kristol ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:23:03 +0100 From: bromo@flashnet.it (Vittorio Barabino) Subject: Macintosh 'ping' application > > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:33:02 -0800 (PST) > From: PwrSurge > Subject: Macintosh 'ping' application > > I'm currently looking for a Mac App that will behave like the Win95/98 or > unix command 'ping' There are godzillions of ping programs... the one I love is "What Route": it makes ping, trace and query. The only shortcoming is that it works only with OpenTransport, and not with older Macs with MacTCP. (a hint: by default it truncates server names at 32 chars, but you can modify that). -- Ciao, \+----------+ "La risposta e' dentro di te... Vittorio --| : ) o | ...MA E' SBAGLIATA!!!" [da Roma]  /+----------+ Enciclopedia d.Fantascienza: http://www.fantascienza.com/edf ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:46:55 -0700 From: Bruce Carter Subject: Macintosh Programming Reference I'll shortly be getting back into some real Macintosh programming (*yeah!*) and I need to get ahold of some current reference material. When I was doing this before, I had (and still have) the Inside Macintosh CD-ROM and the Macintosh Programmer's Reference CD, as well as the little Think Reference thing. These all seem to be terribly out of date at this point. Are there any current version, updates, or whatever for this stuff? I really don't want to have a bunch of huge .pdf's around of the current Inside Macintosh set if there is another way. I'd be especially happy if the reference material related to CARBON compatibility. Thanks for any thoughts/ideas. -- Bruce Carter, Boise State Univ., Boise, ID 83725 bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:42:08 -0500 From: Marlon Deason Subject: MacPack and Newton? Can anyone report on the new MacPack (formerly Claris Organizer) and if it does or does not support the Newton. Older versions of Organizer were pretty good at syncing with the Newton. Thanks Marlon Deason http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:08:08 -0500 From: "John W. Steele" Subject: More Modem Questions (Help!) Info-mac'ers, I agree with Ted's comments re Apples modem support. I just purchased a used 6500/275 with a 56K Global Village modem internal. As I had to reformat the hard drive, I apparently lost the modem scripting for 56K performance. The unit came with system 8.0, and nowhere on that CD did I find a 56K Global Village modem script. So my questions are: -Where can I find a program to tell me what type of modem I have internal to the box? I was surprised that Techtool did not! -Where can I find a script for this modem if it turns out to be 56K as advertised? -Can I use FreePPP if I upgrade to system 8.1 like I plan to? I used FreePPP on a 68030 mac and really liked it. But is OT used for other functions? -When/if i do switch to FreePPP, can I discard all the myriad OT/PPP inits etc? -What is the ground speed of an African swallow? I never heard the actual answer... Thanks for putting up with me, I just got into the modern computing age. John Steele Subject: OT/PPP with V90 modem Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:46:50 -0600 From: Ted Logan OT/PPP *will* work with v90, but it needs the correct modem script. I have one for the USRobotics56kx2v90 I'll send on request (the "US Robotics Universal" modem script included with 8.1 won't work with v90s). But, like Gavin, I also recommend FreePPP, which has worked fine for me through Mac OS 8.1, if you can't get the right modem script for OT/PPP. And I'll say this again: Apple's modeming support is pathetic. They insist on making simple procedures complex, if not impossible. Ted Logan Logan Writing, Inc. Cleveland, Oklahoma tedlogan@busprod.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 11:49:43 -0600 From: "John A. Cooper" Subject: MSIE 4.5 and Symbol Font Have a curious problem w/ the Symbol Font and MSIE 4.5. Never used IE before this, just Netscape, but the IE 4.5 sounded worth a try. IE will not display the Symbol Font if it is specificed by a page. (Yes, in Preferences I have this allowed.) Other fonts OK. Really weird, though, is that I can choose Symbol as the Default font in Preferences, and then the Symbol font is used for all the default text. Here's the test html text I have been using, although I noticed it initially on pages from my own web site in which the Symbol font was not being displayed. This sentence is in Times Font.

This sentence is in Symbol Font

This sentence is in Helvetica Font

This sentence is in Sand Font

Any ideas? Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Cooper Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO 63110-1093 US Post Office address: Box 8228, 660 S Euclid Ave Shipping (FedEx) address: Dept of Cell Biology, 4566 Scott Ave Phone (314) 362-3964 Fax (314) 362-0098 E-mail: jcooper@cellbio.wustl.edu World Wide Web site: http://www.cooperlab.wustl.edu/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 23:01:54 -0500 From: robert.girouard@tcs.wap.org Subject: MSIE v4.01 Problem Geneva Can someone help me out with an answer to this one? My Mac is a 6100/66 running OS 7.6.1 and my web browser is MSIE 4.01. Normally, I have no problems with pages, applications, application updates, etc., when I download them from the internet. Certain items, however just don't work and I can't figure out why. Case in point, the just-downloaded modem script titled Supra_56_V90.hqx. When I clicked on the hypertext for the modem script, the download manager appeared and the downloaded item then showed up on my hard drive where it was supposed to. But, instead of the usual icon showing a page with a turned down upper right hand corner and the "e" with a circle around it in the center, I got just the "e" with the circle and the file's name. When I double click that icon, I get the following alert: The application "Supra_56_V90.hqx" could not be opened because an error of type -39 occurred. Looking up this error I find the following explanation: 38 fnOpnErr File not open, which is Greek to me. Finally, and equally perplexing, until I trash that Supra_56_V90.hqx file, every time I double click on a downloaded WWW page, instead of MSIE simply opening and displaying that page, I first get the MAC OS Easy Open dialog box showing the Supra_56_V90.hqx file with the alert "The document named 'airline info' was not created with the application program 'Internet Explorer 4.01'. To open the document, select an alternate program, with or without translations:" The only program showing is the Supra_56_V90.hqx file. I don't believe this has anything to do with the fact that this is an .hqx file; I download these all the time and have no problem with them. I am totally baffled. Thanks, Bob G. "If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle." Dave Barry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:31:31 -1000 (HST) From: cesar@lava.net (Ed Cesar) Subject: My Finder Froblem - Now Fixed Thanks to Dana Thompson who responded about my Finder problem, it is now fixed. I had unknowingly unchecked "Show desktop when in background" in the general controls control panel. While I am embarrassed to learn how by posting a message about something I should have been able to figure out myself, I take small comfort in the fact that I couldn't find a solution in either "Macs for Dummies" or the "Macintosh Bible". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 18:39:15 GMT From: sassales@aol.com Subject: Need Help W/ Acrobat & Sound Files We're trying to create a CD-ROM catalog using adobe acrobat 3.0 where a person can view catalog while music plays in background.Any suggestions or recommendations to our problems would be greatly appreciated. Here's the ordeal: 1.We have tried converting the sound file off of audio CD using Toast's audio extractor in wave,aiff and quicktime file formats. When acrobat writer asks us for the sound file we want to use and we select one of these, the program crashes. We have been able to get the wave file to play by adding it as a movie file, but it only plays on the first page and cuts off when going to second page on a macintosh, and will not play at all on a pc (says its "not a movie file!").We have talked with adobe's acrobat help line and they didn't have an explaination either. 2. We would like for the CD ROM to open the catalog automatically when placed into any computer that already has adobe acobat 3.0 on it's harddrive.Is this possible? If so,how do you do it and what do you need to be able to do this. Any email responses would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Greg Martin -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:36:03 -0500 From: Vincent Cayenne Subject: Netscape hanging > I believe it is particularly related to the processing of > certain HTML tables. I notice the slowdown specifically on pages that > display stock and mutual fund values; my wife has seen it on a web based > bulletin board she uses. For most web pages I don't see this particular > slowdown. > > For what it's worth, the exact same web pages will render in IE several > times faster. Check whether the web pages in question have NESTED TABLES. For example, a stock chart may have a table with columns for COMPANY, TICKER and HISTORY. Then for each stock, the HISTORY 'cell' may be itself a table with YEAR, Q!, Q2, etc. Navigator's performance with display of nested tables is terrible. I usually don't use IE but this single problem has forced me to have it present for use with sites I know to have 'complex' layouts. --------- "Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts" (Rutherford/Robertson) Vincent Cayenne ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 99 08:43:10 GMT From: Bob Cooke Subject: New Euros Hi, Sorry if this has already been asked, but can anybody direct me to a (preferably) freeware font that has the new Euro symbol? Thanks, Bob in Mozambique Concern Mozambique Tel 00 258 1 417948 Tel 00 258 1 416060 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:34:02 -0500 From: Marlon Deason Subject: Note pad not working My first guess here is that your Notepad file in the system folder has become corrupted. Take the file out of the system folder and then click Notepad from the Apple menu. Notepad may open a fresh notepad file with 8 pages. Notepad is really cool because it stores its preferences in the Notepad file. As for your old notepad file, you could try putting it back in the system folder, but I don't think that will work. To get your notes out of the Notepad file, use ResEdit to get info on a SimpleText document and the Notepad file. Copy the resource type and creator codes from the SimpleText document to the Notepad file. close and save. Once this is done the file can be opened in SimpleText and the notes can be copied out. An even easier way to do this would be to get Abbott Systems great utility CanOpener, right now it is only $29. I don't know how many times I have recovered text, graphics, sounds and even movies from files even those that originated on PCs (that really irks some PC users for some reason, they can't even read their disk, but my Mac can and I recover their files, reformat their disk and put their files back on it :-) Marlon Deason http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:08:38 +0100 From: bromo@flashnet.it (Vittorio Barabino) Subject: palm pilots and other handheld's on Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:11:26 +0000 susan mann writes: >i recently purchased an Everex palm size pc-it had many more features >than the palm pilot and had more screen space... >i realize that the palm pilot is the only one that is mac compatible >and am debating whether i will be able to function using a hand held pc >that is not compatible with my powerbook >one concern is that i cannot transfer info or back up - does anyone now >of a way for them to be compatible (the everex has a windows operating >system The world-famous japanese ingenuity has found a solution also for this problem: XIN/Xoutil Windows CE ! http://www.reudo.co.jp/english/epage.html It supports many formats, like text, Sylk, CSV, MacBinary, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PICT... it contains also a serial cable PC-Mac. It supports Windows CE 1.0/20. -- Ciao, \+----------+ "La risposta e' dentro di te... Vittorio --| : ) o | ...MA E' SBAGLIATA!!!" [da Roma]  /+----------+ Enciclopedia d.Fantascienza: http://www.fantascienza.com/edf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:45:54 -0500 From: Phil McIntosh Subject: Stylewriter 1200 cartridges Frank, I've been buying them at Sam's for several years for $17.99, which is about $5 cheaper than I've seen either the Apple or the Canon cartridges anywhere else. Phil McIntosh ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 15:37:10 -0600 From: gibhenry@realpeople.com (Gib Henry, Real People) Subject: Stylewriter 1200 refills >Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:36:18 -0800 >From: Frank Ripp >Subject: Stylewriter 1200 refills > >I've run through my supply of Stylewriter 1200 >cartridges. Can anyone recommend a cheap source for >these cartridges (or their Canon equivalent)? [...snip...] I've found Sam's has them for about $18, as opposed to $23 at Office Depot/Office Max. -- Gib Henry * Dew knot trussed a spell checker two fined awl you're miss steaks. * ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:32:36 +0100 From: thinktank@easynet.co.uk Subject: The 'New' & 'Old' Apple 15" TFT (LCD) Studio Displays --============_-1296230089==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Question: What's the difference between the old (dark blue / purple)=20 Apple 15" TFT (LCD) Studio Display and the new (white and Imac greeny=20 blue) Apple 15" TFT (LCD) Studio Display. In England, the old monitor is about =A3895 while I've been quoted =A3450=20 - 500 for the 'new' monitor which seems to have EXACTLY the same=20 spec. (Of course, no-one at Apple UK could be reached to answer the=20 question) --============_-1296230089==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Question: What's the difference between the old (dark blue / purple) Apple 15" TFT (LCD) Studio Display and the new (white and Imac greeny blue) Apple 15" TFT (LCD) Studio Display. In England, the old monitor is about =A3895 while I've been quoted =A3450 - 500 for the 'new' monitor which seems to have EXACTLY the same spec. (Of course, no-one at Apple UK could be reached to answer the question) --============_-1296230089==_ma============-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:04:43 EST From: Mercibeate@aol.com Subject: Using AOL and OS 8.5 Hi All, Just upgraded to 8.5 and have some questions on using AOL. Can I tell the system to Log onto AOL first, whenever it tries to access the internet (internet assistant?)? If so, what is the setup procedure? 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