Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #313 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 17 Jun 99 Volume 16 : Issue 313 Today's Topics: [!] Uploads not appearing in the digest [A]Upgrading my PowerBook 550c [Q]Upgrading my PowerBook 550c Conversation with Tadashi macosX versus AppleTalkIP(q) Port: printers and Palm Pilot QuickTime MIDI Tool QuickTime MIDI Tool? True Type Fonts True Type Fonts (R) True Type Fonts (R) The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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The reason is simple - our esteemed archivist, Michael Bean, decided to step down, and we've been bringing some new archivists, Chris Li and Patrik Montgomery, up to speed. Submissions are being uploaded again, as you can see at the HyperArchive's Recent Uploads page: However, we're also in the process of reworking some of our posting automation, and until we get that done, abstracts won't appear in the Info-Mac Digest you receive via email. We'll try to post back abstracts once we have our scripts operational again, but we figured it was much more important to get the files into the archive than to send out the abstracts in email. So, feel free to check out the page above regularly for new uploads until we beat our automation back into shape. Sorry for any inconvenience, but as always, volunteer organizations tend to move in fits and spurts and Info-Mac is no exception. cheers... -Adam Engst, Info-Mac Senior Moderator -- Adam C. Engst, Info-Mac Senior Moderator -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:58:19 +0200 From: Christian F Buser Subject: [A]Upgrading my PowerBook 550c tamura-t@tokyo.shinko-elec.co.jp wrote: > Here's a question; I mainly use my Book for Internet(e-mail, www, simple > web-authoring), simple photo-retouching, word processing and spreadsheets. > Not much complicated photo-retouching and 3D stuffs. > Is it good idea for me to upgrade my Book to PPC, or stick with current CP= U? > I am not sure whether upgrading is effective for me or not. I wouldn't spend the money on an upgrade. If the equipment works for your tasks, you should probably continue to use it. I had a 540c and the only reason I gave it to my niece instead to continue using it was that the harddisk was too small (500 MB) and new drives were expensive and hard to obtain. My niece uses it now for her correspondence and for E-Mail, and she likes it. If however you need other things which would not run on the original equipment, you have to calculate very carefuly. Compare the price of the upgrade with that of new equipment, and keep in mind that your PB remains an old machine - it does not become newer with an upgrade. It really depends on what you have to spend for the upgrade parts and labour. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at "Ohne Dosen=F6ffner ist eine Konservendose nur halb so praktisch" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:46:20 -0700 From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: [Q]Upgrading my PowerBook 550c All the things that you do will get improvement in speed from PPC upgrade, and you WILL like the improvement. If it doesn't cost too much I would strongly recommend it. You may then consider reinstalling some of your applications to get the PPC native code instead of 68k, which is a bit of a nuisance, but worth it. At 7:23 PM +0900 on 6/15/99, tamura-t@tokyo.shinko-elec.co.jp wrote... >Hi Listers, > >I use PowerBook 550c with 68040 CPU. And I am thinking of upgrading my Book >to PowerPC by upgrading kit, since I found some in local market. > >Here's a question; I mainly use my Book for Internet(e-mail, www, simple >web-authoring), simple photo-retouching, word processing and spreadsheets. >Not much complicated photo-retouching and 3D stuffs. >Is it good idea for me to upgrade my Book to PPC, or stick with current CPU? >I am not sure whether upgrading is effective for me or not. > >Thanks in advance for your comments. > >Regards, >Tomy > >************************************************** >Tomoyuki "Tomy" Tamura >Shinko Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan >E-Mail: mailto:tamura-t@tokyo.shinko-elec.co.jp >Private Website URL: http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~tomyt >************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:27:11 -0700 From: Sheri Wenman Subject: Conversation with Tadashi >From: joeg@interchange.ubc.ca >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Sender: gjt05690@pop.kic.ritsumei.ac.jp >Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 12:34:41 +0900 >To: Bill McMichael , macleod@ritslab.ubc.ca, > bell@ritslab.ubc.ca, hann@ritslab.ubc.ca, mcgivern@ritslab.ubc.ca, > wenman@ritslab.ubc.ca, murakami@ritslab.ubc.ca, jean@ritslab.ubc.ca, > yso06131@askic.kic.ritsumei.ac.jp, > Nobukiyo Eguchi , wynn@geog.ubc.ca, > paul.thiele@ubc.ca, frampton@housing.ubc.ca, da2t-sgmt@asahi-net.or.jp >Subject: Re: Conversation with Tadashi > >The tape is a nice head start, but Tadashi asked several times >whether the text materials would be available in braille. If you >haven't started on the braille conversion yet, please start as soon >as possible (or whenever you need to start to be ready for >September). I think that tapes would be a nice companion - good for >listening comprehension in particular - but braille seems to be the >main concern. >Option #3 - transcription to text format will come into play for >materials not prepared far enough in advance for conversion to >braille - e.g. class handouts. >I thought that 226 would be using the same text as last year (that's >what the course outlines indicate). If not, please go ahead with the >braille conversion as soon as feasible. >Let me know if there's anything else. >Joe > >At 12:56 PM -0700 6/5/99, Bill McMichael wrote: >> >I passed along Bill's tape and enlarged copy. Tadashi feels the tape >> >will be useful, but reading even enlarged text is not the most >> >efficient way to go for him. >> >>Let me know if the tape is sufficient or if we need to do both tape and >>Braille. >> >> >> >Question - are the LANE texts for term 1 being translated into braille? >> >>No. The LANE 226 instructors have not chosen a text yet. I could select >>the remaining readings for LANE 206 and either >>1. send them over to Paul for transcription into Braille or >>2. send them over to Paul for transcription into Braille and voice >>recording or >>3. arrange to have them transcribed into text format by someone in a format >>that Tadashi can convert on his portable and record the stories myself >>Which course of action is the best? >> >> >> >Question - would a classroom assistant be available to attend classes >> >with Tadashi and assist him in this way? Full time? Part time? Not at >> >all? >>I'd say part-time at most, possibly for the Arts courses. It seems to me >>that a fellow studendt could read the blackboard notes to him, or even the >>teacher >> >> >Question - what can we do with one of the lab computers to maximize >> >ease of use? >> >>Over to you, Jean >> >> >> >Question - if there are guides available, and if they are booked up >> >in advance as the e-mail exchange suggested - can Bill or Paul make >> >the necessary arrangements for an orientation tour of campus for >> >Tadashi after he arrives (Aug 31 since he has opted out of ELI). >> > >>Over to you, Paul. >> >>Bill > Sheri Wenman Vancouver, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:56:27 -0400 From: Tom Coradeschi Subject: macosX versus AppleTalkIP(q) David L Hirschberg >I am in the process of setting up a G3 server that is going to >support about 50 Macs (10 of them imacs). We basically will use it as >a file server but I also want to set up a web site and provide ftp, >IMAP email and smtp and DNS services. I would also like to log in >and do updates remotely by IP. > >AppletalkIP or MacOSX with a program like communigate running? What >are the pros and cons of each? MacOSX server, if you feel like fiddling with unix (and you will be fiddling). Otherwise, MacOS 8.6, WebSTAR, EIMS and QuickDNS gets you most of what you want (except the appleshare part). AppleshareIP, I guess. Heck, you could probably use the web server built into 8.6 (I haven't tried it, myself). tom coradeschi tcora@pica.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:17:20 +0100 From: Jean Brunet Subject: Port: printers and Palm Pilot Hi! I am a PowerBook user. My problem comes from the fact that after an HotSink (Palm Pilot) I can not use my modem/print port for printing (Color Style Writer 2200c) unless I reboot my machine; I keep receiving a message buzy port. Is there a more elegant solution to this problem. I understand that the samething happens if I use more than one printer on the same port. Thank again for your kind assitance. Jean. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 99 15:00:56 +0200 From: Jean-Philippe Pellet Subject: QuickTime MIDI Tool >I'm trying to find a program that will allow me to put together a QuickTime >MIDI file using QuickTime Musical Instruments. I have sufficient MIDI >sequencing tools, but I would like to find something that will specifically >allow me to access the instruments in QuickTime (preferrably QT3) and punch >out a tune. Any thoughts? Hello Jon, You can try the shareware Melody (lets you do much more than that when registered) or MIDIGraphy. Melody can also run w/o QuickTime. Melody: http://www.myriad-online.com mailto:melody@myriad-online.com MIDIGraphy: http://ux01.so-net.ne.jp/~mmaeda/ mailto:mmaeda@ca2.so-net.ne.jp -- Jean-Philippe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:45:58 -0700 From: Chris Schram Subject: QuickTime MIDI Tool? On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Jon Fullmer wrote: >I'm trying to find a program that will allow me to put together a QuickTime >MIDI file using QuickTime Musical Instruments. I have sufficient MIDI >sequencing tools, but I would like to find something that will specifically >allow me to access the instruments in QuickTime (preferrably QT3) and punch >out a tune. Any thoughts? I've recently been playing around with Melody Assistant which uses Quicktime Musical Instruments. It might come close to what you're looking for. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/melody.hqx; 3274K] Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:55:57 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson Subject: True Type Fonts > Subject: True Type Fonts > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:23:58 -0700 > From: Doug Hardie > > There are a number of True Type fonts available on the web and appear to be > configured for windows xx. The files are usually zipped. When opend up > they have names of the form xxxx.ttf. Is there a way to conver t these to > Mac font suitcases? > > -- Doug There is an old shareware program called TTConverter. It is available at: ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/mac/font/ttconverter1.5.cpt.bin I've used it with great success. There is another one, called TrueConvert but it's in early beta (v 0.3b) available at ftp://ftp.ncku.edu.tw/Mac/font/TrueConvert_0.3b1.sea.hqx -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:22:17 -0700 From: Doug Hardie Subject: True Type Fonts (R) Thanks, I knew they were available but just couldn't put a finger on them. Got it now. -- Doug At 13:56 -0700 6/16/99, Christian F Buser wrote: >Doug Hardie wrote: > >> There are a number of True Type fonts available on the web and appear to = be >> configured for windows xx. The files are usually zipped. When opend up >> they have names of the form xxxx.ttf. Is there a way to conver t these t= o >> Mac font suitcases? > >I think there was / is a utility called "TT converter" or "TrueType >converter" in the info-mac archives which does what you want. > >Best wishes, Christian. >-- >Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) >Look at >"Ohne Dosen=F6ffner ist eine Konservendose nur halb so praktisch" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:56:48 +0200 From: Christian F Buser Subject: True Type Fonts (R) Doug Hardie wrote: > There are a number of True Type fonts available on the web and appear to b= e > configured for windows xx. The files are usually zipped. When opend up > they have names of the form xxxx.ttf. Is there a way to conver t these to > Mac font suitcases? I think there was / is a utility called "TT converter" or "TrueType converter" in the info-mac archives which does what you want. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at "Ohne Dosen=F6ffner ist eine Konservendose nur halb so praktisch" -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************