Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 21 Mar 98 Volume 16 : Issue 65 Today's Topics: (Q) Hooking G3 PB to thinnet? (Q) Sad Mac Error [Q] 7200 upgrade [Q] Desperately Seeking 'Address Book Plus' or Equivalent [Q] Remove ">" quote marks from quoted text? AppleScript Question Best Sytem for PB160 cd rom drive/performa 475 COMPASS testing question Easyview and Mac-Digest Ethernet connection Fwd: Info-Mac Digest V16 #62 Large files of more 2Gb for work with video Looking for SoftPC Looking for somebody who registered Moving Calendars to Newton Messagepads Need a Quitter Problems with Sound-In source for PM8100 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. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . 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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, and Liam Breck. 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 #65" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:56:47 -0800 From: "David L. Hirschberg" Subject: (Q) Hooking G3 PB to thinnet? Is there some type of adapter that will allow a G3 powerbook's internal ethernet card to be connected to thinnet or do I have to get a PCMCIA card for it? If anyone has a source for an adaptor please let me know. Thanks, David daneel@stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 98 16:50:46 -0700 From: Dave Trautman Subject: (Q) Sad Mac Error I've heard of it and I've even read about it in earlier volumes of = Info-Mac but until it happened to me I didn't think I needed to = remember or think about it. How many of you have heard this one before? St. Patrick's Day found me scratching my head while staring at a Sad = Mac error on a black screen which followed a musical four tone = "alarm" which I usually associate with bad RAM. The message was = terse and specific. 0000000F on one line and 00000063 on the next. My machine boots from a floppy and mounts the internal drive volumes. = It just won't start from the hard drive. I know I've seen questions like this before and I frankly feel = embarrased not to know what it means. I'm going to wade into the = Info-Mac archive and read a few hardware FAQ's but in the mean time = I'm hoping this message will cut through that effort and fill my = mailbox with suggestions. Please mail me back as I can only do this from another machine. I am < dave.trautman@ualberta.ca > . ---------------------------------------------------------- "Never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty, and the pig likes it." =8B anonymous ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:53:15 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: [Q] 7200 upgrade Dear Digest reader, You may be asking, didn't I just see this? Well nobody replied which is most surprising. Here it is again. Where can I get a 7200 motherboard swapped for a 7500 motherboard? What is the cost involved in doing it? I already have 112MB in DIMMs. Will those work on a 7500 motherboard as well? I'm sure I am not the only one who wanted to do this but didn't know where. Please e-mail your reply, as I don't get to read the digest that often. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:50:05 +0000 From: Mephistophilis Subject: [Q] Desperately Seeking 'Address Book Plus' or Equivalent About a year ago a friend gave me a copy of Address Book Plus 2.0 by the Power Up! Software Corporation. This is exactly what the title suggests - a Name/Address/Personal Data organiser. It offers several formats but the only one that I use is a virtual file card with the expected Name/Address fields together with a wide-range of additional user-definable fields. ADP also offers the option to identify entries according to a wide range of user-defined categories or tags which may be entered into a separate category field simply by typing a number which is defined when the category is set. The list is fully searchable by field entry or category and entries can also be hierarchically sorted by up to four field entries. Finally entries - or a selection thereof - can be printed as address labels or in a variety of other formats. I have found this application absolutely invaluable for mantaining a database of information on participants in an annual meeting that I organise and for printing address labels for mail-shots - particularly as I need to send different information to different sub-groups of participants. Since I am using a pirate copy I have made strenuous - but futile - attempts to locate the manufacturers in order to purchase an original. I did manage to contact one of the original developers and he was of the opinion that Power Up! Software had gone out of business. Beats me why - It doesn't make your coffee and put out the cat but otherwise I can't imagine an application that does what it is designed to do better than ADP. And it hasn't EVER caused my Quadra 700 or PPC 8200 to crash - and I'm damned if I can think of another application that I could say that about! If anyone on the list can point me towards a supplier of Address Book Plus I will be forever in their debt. Alternatively - can anyone suggest an equivalent? Particularly - for obvious reasons - one which could import data from Address Book Plus. TIA - Fergus Lalor ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:38:19 -0500 From: shorton@lr.net (Scott L. Horton) Subject: [Q] Remove ">" quote marks from quoted text? Hi, Does anyone know of a utility (applescript?) that would remove all the ">" symbols from email text that has been quoted? Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:22:19 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: AppleScript Question I have four Macs, 3 Performa 363s and one Performa 578. All have Navigator 3, System 7.5, same stuff on all of them. We are using them to access a test via the Internet, so I wrote a shrot AppleScript to make the connection. the student clicks on the AS icon, Navigator opens and connects to the test site. Simple script. But, one the 578 only, before Navigator starts, a dialogue box comes up asking the user if they want to quit or run the script. Not a big proble, everybody click the Run button, but why does it come up on the 578 and not the 636s? All the scripts are the same and all were saved as applications. Ideas? Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:09:02 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: Best Sytem for PB160 What's the best system to use on a Powerbook 160 w/8MB RAM? I tried 7.5 early on but it seemed to make things run slower. Haven't tried any of the updates. I think 7.6 is the last one for the '030 Macs. Anybody with experience? what do you use? Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:46:16 +0100 From: Michael Rank Subject: cd rom drive/performa 475 I have a Performa 475 with 8MB of RAM. I am planning to buy a CD Rom drive but am getting conflicting advice as to how fast a drive I should buy. Some "experts" tell me that 24 speed would be perfectly fine, others that my Mac would have difficulty even with 12 speed. I would use a CD Rom drive for downloading software from magazine cover disks, may get the Encyclopedia Britannica (but am a bit confused as to whether it is available in Mac format), play a few games, but not for anything very memory-intensive like Photoshop or Quark for which I would have to upgrade from 8 MB anyhow. Also it's rather hard to find drives under 24 x these days... Would welcome views of some TRUE experts. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:25:47 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: COMPASS testing question The community College where I work is about to use the COMPASS program to test incoming freshman for placement in various classes. this program runs on Windows 3.1 and requires a minimum '386 PC. All I have are Macs (OK, I have one Epson Equity I for nostalgia's sake) and am being "given" 5 PCs. Which I would like to avoid... Anyone have any experience with this program on a Mac using Virtual PC or similar? Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:11:43 -0800 From: Bob DeLaurentis Subject: Easyview and Mac-Digest Hi Listers, Some years ago, I used Easyview to read info-mac digests. I'd like to again, however, the viewer that comes with version 2.62 does not seem to work with the present digest format. Worse, I don't know how to configure chapters any longer, nor can I find any docs on how to do so. Help. Is this a known issue? Is anyone still using Easyview, or has something else come along? I'd like to learn how to configure the options myself (for other digests) however, if a generous soul would email me a viewer that works for them, that'd be ok, too. Many thanks! Cheers, Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:14:21 -0500 From: wconable@pop.service.ohio-state.edu (William Conable) Subject: Ethernet connection I just bought a new HP LJ 4000, which is great. When I tried to hook it up to my Quadra 610 through the ethernet port, it didn't work. I got a transceiver and plugged everything in fine; but when I went to the AppleTalk control panel and tried to change AppleTalk over to Ethernet, it wouldn't. I got the alert which says "Ethernet Error. Check your network connections." Everything is tightly plugged in and fits, so I assume I got the right transceiver (M0437Z/B twisted pair). Would I have to also have some sort of a hub and not go directly to the printer? The folks at the OSU computer support don't know what's wrong. I am runing Sys 8.0 and I reinstalled all the network stuff to no avail. I _can_ successfully print through the printer port. Can anyone help me? Please reply to me directly and if I get a lot of helpful responses I'll summarize them for the digest. TIA Bill Conable OSU School of Music ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:08:42 +0000 From: Carol Walker Subject: Fwd: Info-Mac Digest V16 #62 Hi Gary thanks for the info on the xtras. They work in a similar way to photoshop plug-ins adding functionality to Director. In fact if you put PS plugins into the xtras folder you can use them directly in the paint program in director. So xtras are very popular and useful. Thanks Carol ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 98 13:12:32 +0100 From: info Subject: Large files of more 2Gb for work with video I have a 8600 with a Miro Motion Dc 30 and one external 9Gb hard Disk. When I capture video, only 2Gb is recognized by Premiere for File Size. This is a limitation of MacOS, HFS+ not implement the API for correct this. What is the procedure for editing video (more of 8 Minutes, obviously), with that limitation ?. I think other people is working in large projects, without these limit Jose Luis del Olmo info@ingraf.es ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:29:24 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: Looking for SoftPC I sent this separately from my other recent questions so it didn't get lost inside one of them. I have 4 '040 Macs and now have a DOS-based program I'd like to run on them, but SoftPC is no longer being made. I have a copy of the 20-minute demo and could use that over and over, but... All of the newer emulators require a PowerPC which I don't have (yet?). Anybody know where I can get either recycled copies of SoftPC or maybe a shareware emulator? Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:22:29 +0100 (MET) From: Berkovitch Subject: Looking for somebody who registered Hello, This week Yoshinari Fukuba sent me his(/her?) license fee using a postal= money order for my Glidel programme. Unfortunately, the receipt doesn't= hold any other information about this person so I can't thank him(/her) nor= can't I send him(/her) back the registration key either. Therefore, if you= know how this person can be got in touch, via either e-mail or ordinary= mail, please let me know. Thank you for your attention, and best regards. Gilles Berkovitch gberkovi@imaginet.fr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:25:26 -0500 From: "Steven W. Holland" Subject: Moving Calendars to Newton Messagepads Does anyone have any nice MS Word Macros or whatever to convert personal computer calendars (specifically, Lotus Organizer) to Newton Message Pad import format? It seems like the commercially available solutions are very limited to specific calendar programs and specific versions, at that. I assume that there must be fairly nice macro programs to convert from the universal "delimited text" dumps into the right input format. Thanks. --- Steven W. Holland, Director, NAO Controls, Robotics & Welding General Motors Corp., M/C 480-109-163, 30300 Mound Road, Warren, MI 48090-9040 (810)947-1145, FAX (810)947-1039, Internet: holland@gmr.com (Personal email: Steve_Holland@Compuserve.com) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:07:07 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson Subject: Need a Quitter I need a program that runs in the background and will force any running programs to quit after a few minutes of non use. The students using my lab often just close the open window and leave the program running. Which confuses incoming students because they just see a blank screen and think the Mac is down. I will not comment on the training they receive from the instructors here. I have tried a couple of programs that should work, but they don't. I have 4 '040 Performas that need this. Ideas and/or suggestions? Thanks, jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:18:28 -0600 (CST) From: "David D. Brand (901) 577-7282" Subject: Problems with Sound-In source for PM8100 I have a colleague with an 8100 who is running system 8.1. Ever since System 7.6 he has had difficulty with the CD player's functionality. Although all other functions of his machine seem to work well, whenever he wants to listen to some music on CD, he must go to his Monitors & Sounds (v 1.3.2) control panel and re-instruct the OS to recognize the CD player as a source for sound. Nothing else resets in this manner when the computer is shut down (zapping PRAM doesn't help). If he were to leave his machine on everything would be OK, but he does not use it enough to warrant leaving it on. I was hoping that an upgrade to OS 8.0 (or 8.1 for that matter) would cure the problem, but it persists. Quicktime CD autoplay is enabled. It appears to have nothing to do with the CD player app since the CD is "playing" after startup... but no sounds emanate from either the internal OR external speakers. Any ideas? A desktop alias to the Monitors & Sounds control panel is all I have been able to provide. Please respond to: dbrand@utmem1.utmem.edu Will post a summary of responses. Thanks! David Brand -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************