Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #303 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 20 May 99 Volume 16 : Issue 303 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#481/17-May-99 (A) Finding a laserwriter driver? (C) Norton and MacOS 8.1, 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.6 do not mix (Q) Golive gos nowhere (Q) HP inkjet printer and scanner for Mac use? (Q) Schulschrift TT font? *Retraction? [A] missing buttons in Office 98 (8.5.1) [C] LocalTalk Bridge [Q]PB540c upgrade Accelerating HyperCard Appearance 1.1 prefs Computer Use Software Creating audio CDs ERROR "-36 I/O error": how to recover a broken file? Fwd: Brain damaged Sherlock can't find files Fwd: Query HELP! I killed two Powerbooks! HELP! I killed two Powerbooks! - part 2 Info-Mac Digest V16 #302 Is OS 8.6 Worth The Trouble? Laserjet 5M & iMac /R) MSIE won't show graphics NameRegistryLib Out of Memory (R) Photoshop 3/4/5 and JFIF comments Problems choosing a menu item QT4 and infomac digests Query repeated PPP dial-up: the solution Subject: [A] Accelerating HyperCard? VRML for Macintosh WinZip (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. 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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Also this week, Adam adds a few more= suggestions for mailing list manners, and we report news of Netscape= Communicator 4.6, OpenGL and Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Mac OS, plus the= upcoming arrival of iMacs next to the vacuum cleaners and socket sets at= Sears.=20 Topics: MailBITS/17-May-99 Putting URL Access Scripting to Work Mailing List Manners 102 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-481.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:47:07 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (A) Finding a laserwriter driver? Dear Digest readers, Incredibly, Apple has included quite a few laserwriter drivers in MacOS 8.6. Here is a list of them. LaserWriter LaserWriter 12/640 PS LaserWriter 16/600 PS LaserWriter 16/600 PS Fax LaserWriter 16/600 PS-J LaserWriter 4/600 PS LaserWriter 8500 LaserWriter Color 12/600 PS LaserWriter Color 12/600 PS-J LaserWriter Color 12/660 PS LaserWriter II NT LaserWriter II NTX LaserWriter II NTX v50.5 LaserWriter II NTX v51.8 LaserWriter II NTX-J v50.5 LaserWriter IIf v2010.113 LaserWriter IIf v2010.130 LaserWriter IIg v2010.113 LaserWriter IIg v2010.130 LaserWriter Personal 320 LaserWriter Personal NT LaserWriter Personal NTR LaserWriter Plus v38.0 LaserWriter Plus v42.2 LaserWriter Pro 400 v2011.110 LaserWriter Pro 405 v2011.110 LaserWriter Pro 600 v2010.130 LaserWriter Pro 630 v2010.130 LaserWriter Pro 810 LaserWriter Pro 810f LaserWriter Select 360 LaserWriter Select 360f LaserWriter Select 610 Found these in the Printer Descriptions folder inside the System Folder's Extensions folder while trying to clean up space. If yours is on this list, you should be able to pick Laserwriter8 from the Chooser, and select the model on the list. If you are missing one of these printer descriptions, please let me know, and I could e-mail you it. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 08:14:07 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (C) Norton and MacOS 8.1, 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.6 do not mix Dear Digest readers, I know I have posted this before, but it seems more people aren't getting the message, if I look at issue #301. If you carefully read the readmes of 8.1 you will learn that there are major problems with running Norton Utilities on MacOS 8.1. How major? Disk btrees get corrupted, sometimes to the point that you get a Type 41 error and when you reboot all you get is a flashing ? disk. Often when you boot from CD-ROM after getting the ? disk, you will find that the hard disk isn't even visible on the desktop. People have posted on earlier digests that they had similar problems even with Norton Utilities 4.0.3 (the latest version). If the latest version has this much trouble, you can imagine how much trouble people who haven't upgraded are having. I for one put the 8.1 upgrade from Apple's website when it was released on my PowerMac 7200. I exhibited all these symptoms after checking my disk with Norton Disk Doctor 3.2.1 (which was the only version I was aware of available at the time). Net result, a Mac technician 60 miles away from my home could not recover the data on the drive, and had to reformat it. Luckily I had made a backup one month before, but still one month of data was lost. The 8.1 upgrade available from Apple's website doesn't even ask you whether or not you want HFS+. I can only assume that it put it on because the documentation on Symmantec's website later on said it had trouble with HFS+ systems. But if that were the case, then why didn't I have to reformat my hard disk upon upgrading to MacOS 8.1? Usually in order to get HFS+ one has to reformat one's hard disk. So either Norton simply can't handle MacOS 8.1 or higher, of Apple found a way with the upgrade to give you HFS+ without reformatting. Which do you think is more likely? Point being if you plan on getting a machine with MacOS 8.1 or higher, or are about to upgrade to 8.1 or higher, trash Norton Utilities and its associated files first, and then install. Otherwise you will be in for headaches ad infinitim. By the way, probably the only reason why Norton still makes software for the Mac is because they are the only company to make a reliable virus detection utility now with free updates. Virex stopped offering free updates after Virex 5.8.1. I'll say this much, if it weren't for Norton Anti-Virus I would be the first person at the Better Busieness Bureau complaining that Symantec hasn't been shut down for making bad software. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 07:49:49 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (Q) Golive gos nowhere Dear Digest Readers, Two rather serious bugs in Adobe GoLive 4.0 I have found. First of all, if you toggle from source mode (showing HTML) back to WYSIWYG mode on a page, the entire page contents disappear! Next time you save the document it has only a heading in it. I can't figure out what in my HTML is causing this, but if you download the source to http://www.smart.net/~abrody/astronomy.html and switch to the source button, edit the source by enterring a few spaces, and switch back to layout mode, you get a blank page. On Pagemill and HomePage this was never the case. Secondly more of a bug in not implementing a feature correctly, it is impossible to batch check remote links while viewing the remote links on a website. You might be able to check a few links, and then it stops. Often times the verify remote links menuitem is greyed out. So how do I fix these problems? Here is a $300 WYSIWYG editor that can't even properly allow the editing of HTML source, and doesn't follow its predicessor Adobe Sitemill in being able to verify remote links. So what is going on here? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:47:33 -0700 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) HP inkjet printer and scanner for Mac use? The computer folks around here only want to allow me to buy HP peripherals. For an inkjet printer, they offer the HP Deskjet 895cxi that now has ver. 1.0 for the Mac driver. For a scanner, they offer the HP Scanjet 6250cxi "with Scantastic Mac." Does anyone have any experience using one or both devices on a Mac system, in particular, an iMac or b/w G3? Does anyone have any specific information on the performance of these HP peripherals vis-a-vis designed-for-Mac peripherals, the Epson inkjet printers and Astra (?) scanner? If our computer folks are making a bad decision--the alternative products are more compatible with Macs or in general provide better performance, I would be very interested in getting specific details that I can pass back to them. Thanks! Mark Allen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:16:54 -0700 From: Denny Davis Subject: (Q) Schulschrift TT font? At 4:28 PM -0400 5/10/99, Don Webb wittily wrote: > Can anyone help? I'm inquiring on behalf of a colleague. If you can > reply directly to me as well as to the digest, I'd be much obliged. > > As the query notes, it's possible that the Schulschrift font exists > under another name. > > Don Webb > > > -- (query) -- > > << I am looking for a TrueType font. I want something that CLOSELY > resembles the Austrian model handwriting (Schulschrift 1995). There > is a sample at gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/~muhr/oedt/schulsh2.jpg > > << I have already searched a lot of free font sites and have either not > found it or not recognized it when I saw it. The biggest problem > seems to be the letter "t". The letter "f" is also unusual. >> Not familiar with the typeface if it exists. Have you checked out The Scriptorium site? Commercial fonts, but there are demos/shareware versions available. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:02:49 -0500 From: David Brand Subject: *Retraction? Ever submit a question to info-mac digest and then immediately find the answer youself and wish you hadn't submitted that newbie-esque post? I just did. The answer was right in front of me. I'm not sure of the proper channels through which to ask the moderators for a retraction, but I'm sure I'll find out. Sorry. David Brand dbrand@utmem.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:01:37 -0400 From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" Subject: [A] missing buttons in Office 98 (8.5.1) >I upgraded to 8.5.1 (clean install), then used MS Office updater from their >site. >The Yes/No dialogs are now sans buttons. Luckily, a "Y" or "N" usually >gets what you want, but I remember some dialogs had 3 buttons...? >Anyone else see this behavior? Yes, and it is not a simple Office<->8.5.1 conflict. If you are using Speed Doubler or Apollo then I suggest you disable them both. I hit some really odd conflict situations on my blue G3 here at work. Apart from various other goodies, I had Office 98 (no update), 8.5.1, Apollo and Speed Doubler (8.5.1 compatible version). I didn't get any options in pop-up menus in Office! Then I applied the update, and menus started to work but the Style drop-down list was empty. I ditched Apollo and the Style list started to work. In the meantime I noticed that the ATI accel extension wasn't loading, and the culprit was Speed Doubler. After removing that, I replaced Apollo and basically the whole system is much faster and has none of these quirks now that Speed Doubler is gone. -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards Embedded Engineer, Pragmatic Designs Inc Port Chester, NY ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:35:11 -0400 From: Murph Sewall Subject: [C] LocalTalk Bridge On 4/29/99 7:25 AM -0700, Brian Wessels wrote: >Would anyone like to >offer any testimonials, caveats, etc., regarding LocalTalk Bridge? I downloaded it and compared it to LaserWriter Bridge. Same creation date, same modification date, same number of bytes... hmmmmm :-) -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:12:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Xianofeng . Duan MLBP CON" Subject: [Q]PB540c upgrade Hi, all! I have been using a PB540c and it never failed me (of cause occasional system crashs happened). Now I am thinking: 1) Is it worth to upgrade it to a faster PowerPC with bigger HD? 2) If the answer to 1) is yes, then does anyone here know any resources for doing it? Thanks! **************************************** Xiaofeng Duan, Ph.D. AFRL/MLBP, Bldg. 654 2941 P St. Ste. 1 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 duanx@Picard.ml.wpafb.af.mil **************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 05:06:57 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: Accelerating HyperCard Just a quick thanks to all the numberous people who responded to my request for help with HyperCard. I got many useful tips. I have never been so excited about HyperCard. I had no idea there were so many happy HyperCard users. It turned out that getting the latest HyperCard player and giving it generous RAM requirements did the trick. I was also able to rebuild my HyperCard database files to make searching them faster. Thanks all Marlon Deason marlond@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:13:07 -0500 From: David Brand Subject: Appearance 1.1 prefs OS 8.6s URL support, The iDo script scheduler, and the auto single webcam script. Truly a remarkable combination bringing the world to my desktop every hour. TidBITS turned me on to this remarkable combination, but alas, I cannot find a way to force the Appearance manager to always center the automatically downloaded webcam pictures on my desktop. When they load as blown up images, they look terrible. Sure I can open the control panel and change it to the centered on screen option each time, but how much fun is that? Clearly this is not an earth-shattering problem for me, but just maybe someone knows how to fix this problem (perhaps by modifying the script itself!) David Brand dbrand@utmem.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:01:05 -0700 From: Denny Davis Subject: Computer Use Software At 8:55 AM -0700 5/9/99, Greg Zuck wittily wrote: > Is anyone familiar with software that will monitor what programs run, > when and for how long. I would like to know who uses the computer and > what they do. > > This would be my kids I'm talking about here. Their devotion > (obsession?) to things digital has resulted in some pretty complicated > rules to manage the available computer time...more time for educational > projects than Myth, etc..and its getting difficult to police. The Sec > General of the UN is getting tired of us asking him to intervene in > disputes and I thought there was probably some SW out there that would > do the trick. > > What I have in mind is each kiddo logging in so the user is defined. The > programs they use would be logged and an activity log would be generated > for each user. > > Alternatively, software that increased the hours in a day would work. > > TIA Greg Yooz 1.62 US would do it I think Available on the Info-Mac Mirrors. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 01:10:06 -0700 From: Doug Hardie Subject: Creating audio CDs I am trying to use Toast to create an audio CD in the first session and a set of files in the second session. When I create the first session on the CD it works fine on the mac and a CD player. After I add a ISO second session, the CD player can handle the disk, but the mac only sees the second session. If I start up audio player, the CD spins for a long time and it takes about 4 minutes to get ready to play. Once play starts its immediately complains about the CD format. Everything associated with the CD runs very slow. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Thanks, -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 19:00:45 +0200 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: ERROR "-36 I/O error": how to recover a broken file? Recently I've loaded a very important QuarkXpress file from a backup CD. I can't read anymore the file and I get the error -36 "I/O error". I know this error means that the file is corrupted (like having somehow trashed the file on HD). What puzzles me is that I have multiple copie of the same file on different backup CD and get the same error everytime! I'd like to try to recover at least a part of the file somehow. Which utility applications can help me out?? ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 05:23:13 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Brain damaged Sherlock can't find files Someone asked: >I am running 8.5 on a G3. My system is quite stable with the exception >of Sherlock. I created an index for Find By Content and Sherlock makes >many errors. For example: >1) It misses files containing a particular key word and >2) It gives files that don't contain particular words. >Apple claimed that it was a problem with my machine so I reinitialized >my drive and did a clean install. When that did not cure the problem >they said that some of my 12,000 text files are corrupted and cannot be >searched. >I need to be able to search for words in my files and if Sherlock can't >hack it I need to find out what can. There are several shareware programs that search for text in files. One is called Word Hunter, another is called Find Text, another is UltraFind and another is RetrieveIt. If you have a large hard drive, it can take awhile, but it can be done. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 05:26:06 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: Query Bob Brown asked: >A friend recently sent me a file compressed with WinZip on his PC. The >file was too large for a single floppy and split itself over two floppies. >Is there a way I can reconstitute the original file from these two >floppies? Ddi you try copying the contents of the floppies to your hard drive, then double-clicking the first one? If you have StuffIt Expander on your hard drive, it might UnZip and "reconstitute" them for you. Or get the shareware ZipIt - with UnZip. Perhaps it would do it for you. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:17:22 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" Subject: HELP! I killed two Powerbooks! Hi all, it seems I have the "black magic touch" - I touched two Powerbooks and both "went away": Case 1: PowerBook 150 - worked fine. I put it to sleep, later unplugged the mains adapter. Next day plugged in the mains adapter again - no start-up, no sound, no nothing! Case 2: PowerBook 520c - worked fine. I put it to sleep. Next day I try to start up - the hard disk starts spinning, the MacOS start up screen appears, then everything stops (it starts up and runs fine from an external Zip drive but can't find its hard disk - tried Norton Utilities, Mount Everything, etc). Anyone got any idea what is happening? Am I cursed? Should I forget about ever getting a G3 PowerBook? Any help and ideas very much appreciated. Markus P.S. Answers please via e-mail to: m.winter@auckland.ac.nz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:27:15 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" Subject: HELP! I killed two Powerbooks! - part 2 P.S. I should have left my fingers off it - now the PowerBook 520 only shows a floppy with a question mark in it ... Markus P.S. Answers please via e-mail to: m.winter@auckland.ac.nz ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:03:30 +0800 From: Chris Bautista Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #302 >Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:47:21 +0100 >From: Ezra Nathan >Subject: difference between Netscape 4.08 & 4.5? > > >Hello> > >Can anyone tell me what is the difference between Navigator 4 and >Communicator 4.5? I know that by using the latter one can send and >receive messages. This is not a facility I particularly want, as I >prefer my browser to open Eudora for me to handle my mail. Is >Communicator quicker at downloading pages from the www.? Does it >offer features that Navigator 4.08 does not (apart from mail and >conferencing features)? Or can anyone direct me to some review or >website where the differences between the two are itemised. > >Thanks, Speaking only according to my experiences! Navigator 4.08 has a stronger 128 bit compression, according to US laws is illegal to export or download on non US soil. Ironicaly I didn't even had trouble downloading it here from manila =)) I suggest that you stay away from Navigator 4.08 and just use the latest ver. 4.51 browser. Even if your are just gonna use for plain web browsing have no plan of using the built in Email client and Web page maker. That is if you wanna enjoy the latest and greatest in multimedia on the web like Shockwave, Real Audio and Quicktime. The Quicktime 3 and 4 beta internet plugins dont even work on Nav 4.08. Its a MIME settings thing that needs to be updated, Communicator 4.51 already licked that thing up. the Horror Stories: On Nav 4.08 I had lots corrupted file dowmloads with .bin file extensions but no problems with .hax files. Think about all the wasted online time I had dowloading those files on my slow 14.4k modem. Don't even touch Communicator 4.5 get ver. 4.51 instead. Its buggy and I had a lot of crashes and Type 1 and 2 errors. HTH Chris Windows 95 = Macintosh? Yes and the earth is flat! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Get Your Own Free Pop or Web Based Email and a 10MB Web Site for FREE at: http://www.nettaxi.com! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:50:43 -0400 From: "John W. Steele" Subject: Is OS 8.6 Worth The Trouble? Friends, Just wondering if anyone's installed the upgrade on a 6500 series machine and if it's worth the 2 + hours of download time. I can't tell if it's aimed at the G3 series or the PPC 602 (?) crowd like me. Curiously, -- John Steele jsteele@towson.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:21:53 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Laserjet 5M & iMac /R) Graeme Babbs wrote: > I have a Laserjet 5 M which I want to direct connect to an iMac using 10 > base-t cable to the Jet Direct port on the back of the LaserJet. The LJ > used to be on a network connected to IBM compatibles. Can anyone tell me > if this is possible and if it is, can I have an idiot's step by step guid= e > to doing it please? I downloaded driver 8.6 from the HP site and installe= d > it, but the printer does not appear in Chooser. I feel I am missing > something simple, but I can't figure out what. Maybe you are missing 2 things 1) Make sure that in the AppleTalk control panel you have selected "Ethernet" as the port to use. 2) Did you either connect the printer directly using a "crossover cable", or are you using a hub between? You won=BFt be able to connect with "standard" cable without a hub. Best wishes, Christian. --=20 Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at =20 "Ohne Dosen=F6ffner sind Konservendosen nur halb so praktisch"=20 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:17:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Lisa Thompson Subject: MSIE won't show graphics My MS Internet Explorer 4.5 has lost the ability to display graphics from the web. This started after, though not immediately after, I added a RAM module and went from OS 8.1 to OS 8.5.1 (PowerBook G3 Series 233, 160 MB RAM). The preferences are set correctly, ie. I have "display graphics" checked -- there are no boxes with the little graphics icons like I'd get if graphics were disabled. There's just nothing but blank space. If I open a local file from my hard drive, the graphics show up fine. When loading a web page, the messages at lower left indicate that graphics are loading ("Receiving inline GIF image..."). If I click on a place where I know a graphic-link is supposed to be, I will be taken to the appropriate location. If I control-click on a place where I know a graphic is supposed to be, I get a contextual menu that indicates the graphic is loaded, ie. "Load missing image" is grayed out, and I can choose to "Download image to disk" and the downloaded file opens in a graphics app with the expected image (but this is no way to browse the web!). I have tried deleting the cache, deleting cookies, deleting Internet Preferences, and reinstalling the Explorer package. While this once brought back the graphics, it hasn't worked again. I have tried fiddling with the preferences in many different combinations, changed the RAM allocation from minimum up to 25 MB, changed the display resolution up to millions of colors. I have tried starting up with minimal or base extensions. None of this helped at all. Anybody have any suggestions? TIA, LT lthompson_usc87@yahoo.com _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 99 16:46:38 +0200 From: Jean-Philippe Pellet Subject: NameRegistryLib When I try to launch an application (Hotline Server), the Finder tells me I can't because it needs "NameRegistryLib." Do you know from where I can get that (and what it is??)? Thanks. -- Jean-Philippe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:21:58 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Out of Memory (R) "Paul Kleeberg, M.D." wrote:=20 > I have a PowerBook 2400c that has 80 MB of physical memory boosted to > 160 with virtual. Sometimes when I try to load another application,=20 > I get out of memory messages with the finder when there is lots of=20 > memory left... You may have enough memory showing up in the "About this Mac..." dialog, but the anount in "largest free block" may not be sufficient for your application. Every application needs all of the memory in 1 single bit, not distributed everywhere in the RAM. If you close all open apps and re-open those which you need, you should be fine.=20 Christian.=20 --=20 Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at =20 "Ohne Dosen=F6ffner sind Konservendosen nur halb so praktisch"=20 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 99 01:10:52 -0500 From: "Stephen J. Wright" Subject: Photoshop 3/4/5 and JFIF comments Folks, I would like to know, saying as I've seen "File created by Photoshop 4.0" etc. in GraphicConverter and JPEGView comment windows from time to time, if it is possible to enable the Mac versions of Photoshop (since the 3.0 SDK was introduced) to create same. I know from seeing a few PC-graphic software-created comments "save through" Photoshop (ie, show up in GKON and JPEGview comment windows the same as they were both before and after re-saving the file with Photoshop), and I glean from that -- maybe incorrectly -- that Photoshop Mac versions 3.0 and later know where comments go and tend by default not to wipe them out (as was the case with my previous version, 2.5.1). I just want to know if it's possible to add the comment "File created by Photoshop 3.04" or whichever version I happen to be using. I also had the thought occur to me that perhaps this is a default comment when one actually "creates" the JPEG, using a scanned pic as a source. But then, why not also add it when an image created *in* Photoshop, like a crude drawing or desktop pic, is saved in JPEG format? My thinking then reverts to "there's got to be a tweak or a patch somewhere that adds comments by version." If there's not there should be. Anyone have any ideas? Steve Wright (the author of the "Brand-Me-GKON-Please" Applescript available on InfoMac.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:03:07 +0000 From: "Richard A. Wilson" Subject: Problems choosing a menu item Excel 5.0a, Problems choosing a menu item. I am having strange results when choosing menu items. For instance: a) Select "Data" menu, the drop down menu does not drop down all the way. There are choices that still do not appear. If I slowly move the cursor down to the last item showing, the additional items then appear above the location of the cursor and I can then move the cursor back up and select the item. b) Select "Filter" from the above menu, the additional choices box appears to the right and way below the arrow and can not be selected. This condition is the same for all of the menus except that sometimes the additional choices box is way above the arrow. Appreciate any help. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 11:04:45 -0400 From: Murph Sewall Subject: QT4 and infomac digests On 4/28/99 8:42 AM -0400, Philo D. wrote: >> read. Now, after installing QT 4 the attachment has turned into a QT >> movie. I can click to run the movie, and it runs thru all the messages >> in >> the digest, one text line at a time. It's a pain. >> > >In the Quicktime control panel, try turning off Quicktime Exchange. I've installed the QT4 Beta OS 8.5.1 and OS 8.6 without this problem (thank goodness :-) I've been trying to figure out why my Eudora 4.0.2 isn't experiencing this difficulty. I AM reading inline graphics; I DO have Quicktime Exchange checked on. A *possibility* that I haven't thought of before and haven't seen mentioned is that under attachments I have "text files belong to" set to BBEdit (NOT SimpleText). I'm wondering pointing text files belong to at something other than SimpleText could make a difference? My digests Mime decode as TEXT with Creator CSOm (i.e., Eudora) and I get a Eudora mailbox icon. -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:37:58 -0700 From: Denny Davis Subject: Query At 7:07 AM -0700 5/11/99, Bob Brown wittily wrote: > I was wondering If anyone could help me with this: > > A friend recently sent me a file compressed with WinZip on his PC. The >file was too large for a single floppy and split itself over two >floppies. Is there a way I can reconstitute the original file from these >two floppies? > > If anyone can help I would be very greatful! > ZipIt 1.3.8 should do it. Not sure of the URL try or Check Info-Mac Mirrors or do a Search on Shareware.com. Note there is a new ZipIt version in beta testing, you might check with Tom Brown. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:15:27 -0400 From: Gary Radice Subject: repeated PPP dial-up: the solution A couple of days ago I asked if anyone knew why my Mac kept trying to dial the modem via PPP every minute or so, even when connected. The answer was that I had Retrospect Client installed as a TCP/IP client, and apparently it calls the nextwork frequently just to let the network know it is still alive (my mother would love this guy). I had previously installed the Client for backup to my lab Ethernet network, and it lived there peacefully and quietly, but I recently took the machine home for the summer, where I have only the modem. So, it kept trying to keep in touch with its buddies back at work. (That's so sweet. Reminds me of ET). Anyway, I dumped the Client: no more problems. Thanks to David, Scott, and another David, who all lead me in the right direction. Gary Radice "The great discoveries in science are not punctuated with "Eureka, I've found it," but rather "Hmmmm, that's funny...." --Isaac Asimov ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:34:23 -0000 From: rob Subject: Subject: [A] Accelerating HyperCard? quoting Info-Mac and possibly previous message abstract: >Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 12:49:54 -0700 >From: "Dan O'Donnell" >Subject: [A] Accelerating HyperCard? > > >I suspect those fast 68040 machines run 68k code faster than the 68020 >emulator on the PPC machines. > >HTH, >DOD > >At 7:40 AM +0000 on 5/7/99, Marlon Deason wrote... >>My office has several databases which run on HyperCard. Recently We >>upgraded our Macintosh to a PowerPC from the '040 Macintosh which used >>to run HyperCard. I am not seeing the blazing fast speed incease I was >>hoping for. HyperCard code would be handled better with Speed Doubler since it is improved emulation of 68K code that was its original claim to fame. Version 8.12 I believe is the latest. I have used it for years and am happy with its stability and free updates to accommodate OS changes. This message was sent with Apple email client - Claris eM@iler2.0v3 'The best just keeps being better than the rest' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:31:23 +0200 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: VRML for Macintosh Which is the best way to see VRML files on the Mac? I downloaded Whurlwind (freeware) that works fine but has some limitations. What else can I use to see these files? ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:22:01 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: WinZip (R) "Bob Brown" wrote: > A friend recently sent me a file compressed with WinZip on his PC. The > file was too large for a single floppy and split itself over two floppies= . > Is there a way I can reconstitute the original file from these two > floppies? Should be possible with ZipIt 1.3.8. Look for it at . Christian. --=20 Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at =20 "Ohne Dosen=F6ffner sind Konservendosen nur halb so praktisch"=20 -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************