Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #164 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 02 Sep 98 Volume 16 : Issue 164 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#445/31-Aug-98 [A] Good disk partitioning sw (A) slowing down ethernet (C) Norton Utils and MacOS 8.1 (half an A) Netscape and clippings (Q) Netscape and clippings (Q) Netscape and clippings 1.44MB disk images on 800K 1.4M disk images with 800K drives 1.4M disk images with 800K drives (R) [A] Clarisworks -> Appleworks? [A] Ethernet to LocalTalk router [A] Good disk partitioning sw [A] Good disk partitioning sw [Q] Good disk partitioning sw [Q] Good disk partitioning sw [Q] Modem regularly disconnecting basement network basement network basement network Clarisworks -> Appleworks? Clarisworks -> Appleworks? Clarisworks -> Appleworks? Eudora Attachments (R) Eudora Ligte and OTUtilityLib Fwd: (Q) Netscape and clippings Good disk partitioning sw Good disk partitioning sw (R) inControl? Info-Mac Digest V16 #163 One serial port: modem & printer ??? Open Transport PPP does not recognize busy signal? [summary] Opening VCards or almost anything with BBEdit Light (free) OT and Appletalk PPP Redial Printing Webpages Printing Webpages Seeking older GraphicConverter Sun monitor on a Mac? Symbiosis program? what does the getinfo information mean 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 . 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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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 #164" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#445/31-Aug-98 TidBITS#445/31-Aug-98 Do your eyes glaze over when you hear about MacBinary, AppleDouble, and Base64? Read on for a comprehensive look at common Macintosh file formats. Also in this issue, Mark Anbinder relays details of Adobe's announcement of PageMill 3.0 for the Mac, and, in the news, Quark bids for Adobe, Farallon introduces a solution for iMacs and StyleWriters, the Norton Utilities 4.0 beta eats RAIDs, and new software releases include AppleShare IP 6.0, MacLinkPlus Deluxe 10, and Virtual PC 2.1. Topics: MailBITS/31-Aug-98 PageMill 3.0 Surfaces Macintosh Internet File Format Primer [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-445.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:10:19 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] Good disk partitioning sw Why not just use Apple's Drive Setup v1.4? It supports full partitioning. You have to select Initialization first, then it gives you the options for partitioning. It has standard partition setups along with customizable. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:15:30 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: (A) slowing down ethernet Tom, Not sure you really want to slow up your powerbook...it is all time vs bandwidth anyway. If you download a large file quickly, is it anymore of a burden than a large file slowly over a long period of time. You probably can't overload it with a Mac until at least after MacOS 8.5. Mac connectivity is fairly slow as it is. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:11:21 -0800 From: wtruppel@uci.edu (Wagner Truppel) Subject: (C) Norton Utils and MacOS 8.1 On a previous digest, abrody@smart.net wrote: >Dear Digest readers, >Some Mac catalog retailers are offering discounts on Norton Utilities >3.5 if >you purchase an i-Mac >The only problem is that the i-Mac will not run MacOS 8.0 or earlier. It >only runs MacOS 8.1 or later. Norton only works with MacOS 8.0 or >earlier. > As such the i-Mac is incompatible with that version of Norton. So if >you >are getting the older version of Norton in order to run on the i-Mac, >DON'T! > Otherwise your entire hard disk will be erased because Norton can't >handle >MacOS 8.1's HFS plus. Norton Utilities 4.0 has come out according to >MacMall's catalog, though I haven't seen any official word on Mac Network >News, or MacWeek about it. That may be i-Mac compatible, but it still >remains to be seen. > >In the meanwhile, yes it is worth it to get Micromat's Techtools Pro 2.0 >for >$99 if you want to make sure your hard disk stays uncorrupted. Take it >from >a long time user of both Norton and Techtools (since 1991). > >Sincerely, >abrody@smart.net This information is incorrect. I just checked Symantec's web site and found the information below, which states that Norton Utilities *IS* compatible with MacOS 8.1, *except* if you use the new HFS+ file format. I have been using NU 3.5.3 on a Mac running MacOS 8.1 (with the standard file format, not HFS+) and have not had any problems. I have no affiliation with the makers of NU; I'm just a satisfied user. Wagner Truppel wtruppel@uci.edu *-*-*-*-*-* Norton Utilities for Macintosh v3.5 and HFS+ Norton Utilities for Macintosh, v3.5, while compatible with the standard installation of MacOS 8.1, is not compatible with the optional HFS+ extended format. Should you choose to re-format your hard disk to HFS+, versions 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 will not run on your Macintosh. Running versions 3.5.1 and below may cause data damage. Symantec is currently working to create HFS+ compatible versions of the Norton Utilities for Macintosh. Please continue to check our web site for more information on these utilities, including public betas coming soon. Symantec has developed a method for recovering HFS+ volumes that have been damaged by running versions of Norton Disk Doctor earlier than 3.5.2. Users who have experienced problems of this type should avoid making further changes to their drives and contact Symantec Technical Support immediately. Technical Support can be reached at (541) 465-8440 from 7AM-4PM Pacific Standard Time. The repair procedure can be done over the phone and is free of charge to registered owners of the Norton Utilities for Macintosh. Background: In some cases, hard drives formatted with Apple's Extended Data Format (HFS+) may lose directory information when examined and repaired by older versions of Norton Disk Doctor. Versions of Disk Doctor older than 3.5.2 will not recognize the presence of an HFS+ volume and will make incorrect changes to the directory structure which can sometimes render the drive unusable. Newer versions of the Norton Disk Doctor will recognize an HFS+ volume and safely ignore it. Users of HFS+ volumes, as well as all users of MacOS 8.1, should upgrade to version 3.5.2 or later. Patches for version 3.5.2 are available for free download at Symantec's web site [http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/files/num/norton_utilities_version_3x_fo r_macintosh.html]. ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 98 22:13:13 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (half an A) Netscape and clippings >Anyone know how to create a text clipping out of a Netscape page window? >Netscape is the only application I know where you can't wipe the text you >want, and drag it to the desktop to create a clipping. I don't want the >whole page, just the highlighted text. Surely, either Netscape itself >supports such a function and I don't know the "secret handshake," or maybe >there is a plug-in somewhere to make it happen. Richard: I hadn't ever noticed that, but now that you point it out it's going to bother me thenceforward. My only suggestion is a work-around. Try Danny Kraakman's "Sanctus 1.3" This following bit is from his Readme: "Sanctus is a =8Ccommand-shift-number=B9-function that makes a copy of your clipboard into a file or clipping. It comes with a control panel to install the function into your system. --- --- Sanctus Installer (and therefore Sanctus itself) is POSTCARDware, but only if you like it. You are free to send lots of money, but a nice postcard will do as well. My Address is: D.L. Kraakman Het Zevenhuizen 6 NL-1852 JC HEILOO The Netherlands E-mail: dlk@xs4all.nl You can write me with questions and remarks." The clipping creation function doesn't work very well on my particular system but the text file creation works just fine. Maybe Danny has a Contextual Menu Module or some sort of update since the version 1.3 that I've got. (Danny: Sorry I've not coughed-up with a postcard yet.) - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:09:00 -0400 From: rob Subject: (Q) Netscape and clippings quoting Info-Mac > >Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:11:00 >From: Richard Glover >Subject: (Q) Netscape and clippings > > >Anyone know how to create a text clipping out of a Netscape page window? >Netscape is the only application I know where you can't wipe the text you >want, and drag it to the desktop to create a clipping. I don't want the >whole page, just the highlighted text. Surely, either Netscape itself >supports such a function and I don't know the "secret handshake," or maybe >there is a plug-in somewhere to make it happen. > >Thanks for the help, gang. Suggestions to switch to IE4 cheerfully ignored. >;-) >-RAG >"My Mac is a Microsoft-free zone. I think...." > > Try MacUser's Scrapboard. Found at the Ziff Davis site in the archieved exclusve archieve. Then just select the text select Copy in the Edit menu. Select save as clipping file in the CSM module.Magically the clipboard becomes a clipping file. >>'''''''''' I E C E I ''''''''<< ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:56:12 -0600 From: Philip Sharman Subject: (Q) Netscape and clippings Try Net-Print. Regards, Philip Sharman. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:40:44 +1000 From: "Stewart Smith" Subject: 1.44MB disk images on 800K Here is probably the best things you will ever read. 1) buy phonenet connectors (localtalk networking via phone wires - CHEAP!) 2) i have a program that even lets you load your extensions off a networked drive!!! (great when you need a 500K printer driver on a plus with a 800K drive and 500K system). 3) just mount the drive using appleshare and use the disk image over the network. or load the contents onto a hard disk and share the folder. --------------------------- Stewart Smith Advanced God at Purple Grapefruit web - http://vll.com/purplegrapefruit/ mail - purplegrapefruit@kagi.com ICQ - 6734154 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 98 00:39:49 -0400 From: edward@paleo.org (Edward Reid) Subject: 1.4M disk images with 800K drives George Marshall asks about using 1.4MB disk images. Doesn't matter what kind of Mac you have, as long as you have downloaded the images to your hard disk. Some disk image utilities even allow you to create and mount images larger than any floppy disk. Unpack and expand as needed to get the actual images, which probably show in the Finder as Disk Copy documents. Drag all the images on top of Shrinkwrap, either all at once or one at a time. They will all mount as disks on the desktop -- yes, all at once. (Other programs also mount disk images; I happen to be familiar with Shrinkwrap.) Double-click the disk with the installer, if it didn't open when you mounted it. Double-click the installer and run it. Because the disks are all already mounted, the installer will just use them without asking for them. Edward Reid Fight unsolicited email. http://www.cauce.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:03:22 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: 1.4M disk images with 800K drives (R) George Marshall wrote: > I have a standard SE with two 800K drives and a 250MB internal HD. Across > the room, my Plus has an external SCSI 50MB HD. On my SE, I have not only > ShrinkWrap 1.3.2 but also DiskCopy 4.2 AND 5.0. > > Is there any way I can use either DiskCopy or ShrinkWrap with any of my > current equipment to turn 1.4 MEG disk images into usable applications and > files for my SE? Or, I seem to recall there being a simpler way using > ShrinkWrap without taking the 50MB HD away from the Plus? With Compact Pro (and with StuffIt, I think), you can segment files. Use this to transport your big files on 800k floppies to your Plus or SE. If you make these files self-expanding, you don't even need the application itself to re-join the segments and make the image file out of them. You may have problems to use the newer format of Apple's disk copy files which were created with version 6.x because you don't have DiskCopy 6.2/6.3 on any of your computers. Mounting an image file (which is just a file on a harddrive) is not a question of what drive the computer physically has. You can mount multiple image files (for example, all floppies of a software installation set) and then double-click the installer file on "floppy" number 1 to start. You can connect two computers via LocalTalk and FileSharing to install from one computer to the other harddrive, but not all installer files will allow this. If you can't install from local images to a remote harddisk, just try the other way: make the mounted images shareable and double-click the remote images to install to a local harddisk. Good luck, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:17:40 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] Clarisworks -> Appleworks? Claris was disbanded, Apple has promised to continue to support ClarisWorks and is bundling it with every iMac. Marketing clearly thought AppleWorks worked better, I doubt that it helps there cross-platform marketing though. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:22:33 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A] Ethernet to LocalTalk router Couple of other options: Get Ethernet to Appletalk software (check the major catalogs e.g. MacZone, MacConnection) and hook the HP560 to one machine via the printer/modem port. It will then be available to all on the network. We are currently using this configuration, don't remember the name of the software. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:19:00 -0500 From: momma@brainerd.net (morethanone) Subject: [A] Good disk partitioning sw > From: "Esther Michaels" > However, before I rush out > and get a copy, I'd like to feel somewhat more informed :-) I'd be > grateful for advice/comments/feedback, positive and negative, of FWB and > any other disk partitioning sw people have used. Rare, unsolicited rave: I can recommend LaCie's [Quantum subsidiary] Silverlining without hesitation after years of use. (I think you still get the latest version free when you buy a drive from them.) Periodic upgrades are posted on the LaCie website. It's most peculiar feature is that the "Startup Disk" CP is ignored --- on a multi-system folder drive it boots from the system on the disk *name* that comes first alphabetically. (No problem if backup system partition is set not to mount.) (Thus we've had Arthurs and Alphas and Bowies and...) Only once have I had a problem with Optimize, which I recall was my fault. Otherwise Re-sizing volumes et al has been flawless. -- Tony SST.MIDI.Mac.Rock.SciTek ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 98 22:44:48 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: [A] Good disk partitioning sw >Recently I managed to find a G3 Series powerbook. It has a 4G disk which I >want to partition. The only partitioning sw I know of is FWB's Hard Disk >Toolkit, which I see has the advantage that it is compatible with HFS+. > >However, before I rush out and get a copy, I'd like to feel somewhat more >informed :-) I'd be grateful for advice/comments/feedback, positive and >negative, of FWB and any other disk partitioning sw people have used. > >Compatibility with HFS+ is *not* necessary, since I expect to end up with >partitions around 1G or smaller, for which the benefit of HFS+ is not nearly >so dramatic. However, compatibility with 8.1 would be good, since I >believe that 7.X doesn't run on these machines. Esther: I dunno about how good it is but Apple's Drive Setup 1.4 can do partitions and also happens to be HFS+ compatible. It's free too. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:38:21 -0400 From: Louis Bergeron Subject: [Q] Good disk partitioning sw Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:23:54 -0700 From: "Esther Michaels" Subject: [Q] Good disk partitioning sw Recently I managed to find a G3 Series powerbook. It has a 4G disk which I want to partition. The only partitioning sw I know of is FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, which I see has the advantage that it is compatible with HFS+. However, before I rush out and get a copy, I'd like to feel somewhat more informed :-) I'd be grateful for advice/comments/feedback, positive and negative, of FWB and any other disk partitioning sw people have used. Compatibility with HFS+ is *not* necessary, since I expect to end up with partitions around 1G or smaller, for which the benefit of HFS+ is not nearly so dramatic. However, compatibility with 8.1 would be good, since I believe that 7.X doesn't run on these machines. TIA, Esther Michaels ANSWER: La Cie's Silverlining is not bad and it is included when you buy a Hard Drive from them. But, from the reviews I have read and my friendly Apple dealer (really he is a good guy-no jokes) FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit is superior. Louis Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 Telephone-Phone (819) 764-3862 Telecopieur-Fax (819) 764-3758 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:14:15 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: [Q] Good disk partitioning sw Congrats on the New G3! I believe, however, that Apple has given you everything you need. Using Drive Setup you can; format a large drive, partition a large drive, format in Mac HFS, Mac HFS+, DOS and/or any mixture of the three. Having a PowerBook has the extra advantage that you can 'dock' the 'Book using a special SCSI cable. In this way your 'Book will appear as a drive of the Mac to which it is connected. This will only work, however, for Macs which are running 8.0 or higher if you format your drive using HFS+. If you use standard HFS you can dock your 'Book with any Mac with a SCSI connection. Believe me you just cannot image how many times this has saved my ASCII. Try THAT with a PC notebook!* *This is sarcasm, I don't except any responsiblity for crispy Thinkpads out there. Ask me about a funny story related to this. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:49:11 +0100 From: Ian Goldby Subject: [Q] Modem regularly disconnecting When I am using IE 4.1, I keep getting the message 'You have been disconnected' from PPP, about every 5 minutes or so. I'm wondering if the problem is more likely to be the software, the modem, the phone line, or the ISP. I'm using an old LC475, and it struggles to run IE 4.1 - displaying a page is _s_l_o_w_, even from disk! I usually have two windows open, and switch to the other immediately after loading a new page in the first, and it is often when I do this that I get disconnected. The software also takes a long time to respond to mouse clicks. So, can anyone tell me what are the main causes of connections being dropped? For example, if the CPU is too bogged down in work to be able to respond to the modem for several seconds, is the modem likely to hang up? Or should is just wait? [It might save some bandwidth if I say now that I don't like using IE 4.1 on such a low spec machine, and I am fully aware of the alternative browsers, including the not-yet-available Opera. All I want to know is what causes dropped connections. (So there's no need to reply simply to tell me I should be using Netscape 2.0.2. 8-) I know that already.)] Thanks a lot. Ian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:03:28 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: basement network dead nancy wrote: > 1. is there an effective limit to the length of those phone-looking > ethernet cables? one of the machines will be about 100 feet from the hub. According to Apple, 300 m total length should not be exceeded without a "repeater" (whatever this is). Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:39:48 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: basement network > hi, everybody. hi > 1. is there an effective limit to the length of those phone-looking > ethernet cables? one of the machines will > be about 100 feet from the hub. Yes, 90 feet, I'm not kidding 90 feet! Isn't that always the way? > 2. i've seen cheap devices to connect more than one machine to a single > modem. is there some sort of junior router that i could slip between my > tiny network and a dedicated phone line for constant p.o.t.s. internet access? I have friends who rave about Vicom SurfDoubler for their ISDN: "With VICOM SurfDoubler two people using two computers can surf the Internet at the same time. Cost Saving: By having two users sharing you save the costs of a second modem, a second internet account and a second telephone line. You can use SurfDoubler with a modem, cable modem or ISDN." http://www.vicom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 98 01:10:30 -0400 From: edward@paleo.org (Edward Reid) Subject: basement network dead nancy writes: > i'm thinking of starting a small ethernet network in the loft, so: > > 1. is there an effective limit to the length of those phone-looking > ethernet cables? one of the machines will be about 100 feet from the hub. Yes, with all kinds of Ethernet there's a limit, based on the speed of the signal in the particular medium. For 10BaseT, it's 200 meters on the longest path from one system to another. You are safe if you keep individual cables from a computer to a hub under 90m, which gives some room for odd wires in the connection etc. If you *only* use a crossover cable, you can push 200m. This is with ordinary (repeater) hubs. To go farther, you must use a switching hub, bridge, or router. If you exceed the limit, the Ethernet will still work. However, under heavy traffic the performance will degrade dramatically. Since it appears to work but then fails at the worst time, it's a bad idea to exceed the limits. For more info, I recommend http://www.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ethernet.html > 2. i've seen cheap devices to connect more than one machine to a single > modem. is there some sort of junior router that i could slip between my > tiny network and a dedicated phone line for constant p.o.t.s. internet access? Separate routers are rather expensive for a small network. You can use one of your Macs as the router while still using it for normal stuff with software: IPNetRouter from Sustainable Softworks or a package from Vicom whose name I forget. The first is at www.sustworks.com. I'm not sure where Vicom is -- I thought www.vicom.com but that page is "under construction" at this moment. IPNetRouter is under $100; the Vicom product is more expensive. They work differently, so you might want to try both. I'm preparing to bring up a different solution. I have a IIci I'm no longer using. I'm going to install NetBSD on it, use it as the router and PPP system, and get the flexibilty of Unix while still using my Mac for most work. NetBSD is free for the download (www.netbsd.org), though I elected to buy the CDROM for $35. Edward Reid Fight unsolicited email. http://www.cauce.org ------------------------------ Date: 1 Sep 98 07:16:02 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: Clarisworks -> Appleworks? >In the Mac Mall which came yesterday, there was a small ad for Appleworks >- (previously Clarisworks). What gives? Arthur: Claris Corp. no longer exists. It's now called Filemaker Inc. and almost all their product line is back under Apple's jusidiction. That's probably the reason for the name change. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 98 01:13:06 -0400 From: edward@paleo.org (Edward Reid) Subject: Clarisworks -> Appleworks? > In the Mac Mall which came yesterday, there was a small ad for Appleworks > % (previously Clarisworks). What gives? Claris no longer exists. They renamed themselves Filemaker Inc, and returned all products other than Filemaker and Home Page to Apple. Clarisworks became Appleworks. Its fate, especially the Windows version, is still up in the air. Edward Reid Fight unsolicited email. http://www.cauce.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:20:26 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: Clarisworks -> Appleworks? There is only a cosmetic change from ClarisWorks 5.X (whatever the last Clais version was) and AppleWorks 5.X. But considering that the icons and graphics were designed by artists at: http://www.iconfactory.com It should be a pleasant new environment and very Mac-like. I can't wait to get my hands on my new copy, I'm upgrading from CW4.0 Marlon Deason marlond@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:03:31 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Eudora Attachments (R) bc979@lafn.org (Doug Hardie) wrote: > I have discovered that if I send a pdf file using the Apple I encoding, > then the recipient on a PC sees the file with an Acrobat symbol and can > actually open it properly. However, if I send a tar file then it shows > up as a generic document. The PC decides based on the filename-extension what symbol to give to a file. > How does Eudora decide which MIME type to > use for a file? Is it using Internet Config? In Eudora Light 3.1.3 you can decide whether it should make use of Internet Config or not. However, they make a note that this is "not recommended" (don't know why...). Best wishes. Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:01:19 -0800 From: Dan Frakes Subject: Eudora Ligte and OTUtilityLib "Jim Wickman" wrote: >I have searched all my volumes for <> with no luck. Apart >from conflict testing, Eudora works fine -- but how? if OTUtilityLib is >essential? OTUtilityLib is a library which is built into the main OpenTransportLib file. However, in order for the Open Transport libraries to load properly, you must also have Shared Library Manager and Shared Library Manager PPC enabled. Dan@InformINIT.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:33:31 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: (Q) Netscape and clippings R. Glover asked: >Anyone know how to create a text clipping out of a Netscape page window? >Netscape is the only application I know where you can't wipe the text you >want, and drag it to the desktop to create a clipping. I don't want the >whole page, just the highlighted text. Surely, either Netscape itself >supports such a function and I don't know the "secret handshake," or maybe >there is a plug-in somewhere to make it happen. I've recently discovered a really terrific piece of shareware called Net-Print. I'm going to pay for this one. It lets you select parts of web pages or any other kinds of pages of text as well, and print the selection. Because you asked, I checked in its menu, and discovered the item, "Clip Selection," which I did, and then had the option to save the clipping or append it to an existing clipping. Check it out. I think you may find it's exactly what you wanted. [Archived as /info-mac/text/net-print-808.hqx Daly Daly Jessup ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:52:06 -0700 From: "Esther Michaels" Subject: Good disk partitioning sw Many thanks to all who responded, here and privately, to my question. I have to admit I'm pretty embarrassed to find out that Drive Setup, under my nose all this time, does exactly what I want! Some responses mentioned that Drive Setup 1.4 will only allow equal-sized partitions. I thought I would just mention that this is not in fact the case, although the Drive Setup Guide does imply equal-sized only. Apparently once the number of partitions has been chosen, one can then proceed to choose the desired sizes for the partitions -- see 'page' 6 of the partitioning topic, in the guide. Thanks once again for all the help, Esther -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:03:25 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Good disk partitioning sw (R) "Esther Michaels" asked > Recently I managed to find a G3 Series powerbook. It has a 4G disk which >I want to partition. The only partitioning sw I know of is FWB's Hard >Disk Toolkit, which I see has the advantage that it is compatible with >HFS+. > > However, before I rush out and get a copy, I'd like to feel somewhat more >informed :-) I'd be grateful for advice/comments/feedback, positive >and negative, of FWB and any other disk partitioning sw people have >used. I use Silverlining from LaCie for a long time now. The current version supports HFS+. It has a much less colorful interface than FWB HDT, but who cares - it offers all the functionality I need. Silverlining is available only direct from LaCie. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 491 0877 Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:52:31 -0700 From: jwwalker@kagi.takethisout.com (James W. Walker) Subject: inControl? In article <6setta$6f1$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, Ian Burt wrote: >I've just come across an item in the Control Panels folder which was >discovered thanks to Conflict Catcher, being invisible as it was. The >culprit is called inControl. I've yanked it out believing it to be a >MicroSnot file. Can anybody tell me if it's useful before I trash it? I think inControl is installed as part of some copy protection scheme by MacroMedia software such as DreamWeaver. -- Jim Walker To reply, take out the spam-blocker from my address. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 13:00:21 -0400 From: hope@eat.spam (Joni Hope Julian) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #163 > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:16:44 +0200 > From: vanGaalen@caiw.nl (Nadia & Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA) > Subject: How do I start up a Mac Classic from it's ROM-disk > > Hello all, > > Long ago I knew the key-combination by heart, but I am afraid my memory > does not hold the info anymore... > > All I want to do is start up a Mac Classic from it's ROM-disk (so... NOT > a RAM-disk or it's internal harddisk, but from a kind of RAM-disk, that > is configured inside the ROMs of the Mac Classic)... > > Please HELP! You want command-option-x-o . See TidBITs #31 at http://www.tidbits.com/ for an (old!) article on this that ends with a similar trick for a IIci and a IIfx. - Joni ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:41:41 +1000 From: Rob Trevor Subject: One serial port: modem & printer ??? Hi A friend has a PB540c with an internal modem which has just died. What are his choices (other than buying a new PB)? Seems to me that its not worth spending $'s to buy the PC Card cage for this old computer. If he buys a small external modem, he can always use that for another computer later. HOWEVER, how does he get around the problem of just one serial port? Does he need to keep switching his modem/printer cables around as well as his modem/printer software settings? That would be a real nuisance. Is there an alternative? Thanks Rob Trevor robt@cmbf.mq.edu.au ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 09:01:43 +0000 From: Robert Brockman Subject: Open Transport PPP does not recognize busy signal? [summary] I would like to thank the folks who personally responded to my question about what I thought was a problem with OT/PPP when it encountered a funny busy signal: Robert Devens Bart Rodner Bob Dahl D. Scott Beach Roger D. Parish abrody It turns out that the odd, slightly faster, busy signal is actually a signal telling me the circuit itself is busy, not (necessarily) my ISP's line. It's known as a "fast busy." The oddest thing is, that since I posted my message several weeks ago, I've had the problem only once or twice, whereas I used to have it nearly every time I tried to log on in the evening. Maybe my next message should say something like, "I'm having this problem with being short on cash..." and see if THAT problem goes away! Thanks again to those who helped! Robert -- Robert Brockman, aka robertb@nb.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:19:02 -0500 From: momma@brainerd.net (morethanone) Subject: Opening VCards or almost anything with BBEdit Light (free) > From: Louis Bergeron > If you are stuck with something you cannot open, a solution which is not > costly (the software is free) is BBEdit Light. I received a business card > attached to an e-mail and tried Graphic Converter on it. Then, I taught of > BBEdit. I was able to make sense of the card after a few minutes. This > software is great. That it is. And if BBEdit isn't enough, there is a shareware called "HexEdit" that will open and edit anything. Both forks. Useful for reaming out your Magic Dookie file before locking. Or scoping your Users and Groups Data File to see what mysteries have been stuffed in IT lately. -- Tony SST.MIDI.Mac.Rock.SciTek ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 98 00:22:39 -0400 From: edward@paleo.org (Edward Reid) Subject: OT and Appletalk J. Rahmandar writes that LaserWriter Bridge works correctly for him only with MacTCP, not with Open Transport. It sounds like you have the wrong version of LWB, probably 2.0. You *must* have version 2.1 to use it with OT. It is available on Apple's web site, though it's a little hard to find. Edward Reid Fight unsolicited email. http://www.cauce.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:36:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Al Bloom Subject: PPP Redial Once again I fear I have done something terribly stupid and deserve to die. I'm hoping one or more of you can correct my errant ways. I've set up a phoney TCP/IP network among our three home Macs. Retrospect backup goes like grass through a goose over TCP/IP as opposed to Appletalk. That is OK as long as I remember to switch back the real TCP/IP settings of my 7300 and 5300 (Leslye is, alas, dependent upon the kindness of her husband to get into the net) after the backup. Or so I thought. Works fine for my 7300, but the PowerBook has gotten goofy. In "real" TCP/IP mode, disconnecting PPP yields an automatic redial and reconnect attempt to my ISP. Boring. I'm sure I once knew what that meant and how to fix it, but memory is an increasingly iffy thing at my age. Yes, I've looked at the manual for OT/PPP. It says to check TCP/IP's "load only when needed" box. Aren't we supposed to avoid that? In any event, that doesn't fix the problem. Help!!!!! Al ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:38:10 -0500 From: Gib Henry Subject: Printing Webpages > Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:18:48 +0100 > From: glaston > Subject: Printing Webpages > > This is a silly problem that I have been unable to solve for years. > Perhaps > somebody can help. When I print some web pages, they do not fit on the > paper and the overflow portion, often only a letter or two, prints on > another page. This is not only frustrating, it wastes a lot of paper. > I'm using a Personal Laserwriter 320 and LaserWriter 8. I have tried the > US > Letter Small as well as US Letter Page Setup settings, but that does not > seem to help. > If I set the font sizes any smaller in Navigator, I can't read the > monitor. > I have looked at the famous manuals and I never seem to be able to find > anything that addresses the problem? > Any serious advice for a silly problem? Earlier versions of Navigator had a check box in the Print dialog box, something to the effect of "repaginate before printing?" If this still exists (I miss it too), it might require using the pop-up in the most recent laser driver, and choosing the item with the name of the application (i.e., Navigator). Cheers, -- Gib Henry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 98 00:29:51 -0400 From: edward@paleo.org (Edward Reid) Subject: Printing Webpages Glaston writes about getting extra, almost-blank sheets when printing web pages. First, make the window narrower on screen. If the page is mostly text and the HTML allows the text to wrap to the window, this usually solves the problem. If that doesn't work, you will have to make the font smaller. You probably want to do this anyway, as most fonts are legible at smaller sizes on the printer than on screen. Also, the fonts that look good differ. I display web pages on screen in Verdana 12 but print in Palatino 10. (Verdana is an excellent proportional display font available for free download from Microsoft's web site.) If it still doesn't work, then the web "designer" has probably used fixed width tables or something else which forces the page to be wider than your paper. Edward Reid Fight unsolicited email. http://www.cauce.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:17:46 +0100 From: Allan Hunter Subject: Seeking older GraphicConverter If anyone has an older copy of Thorstein Lemke's GraphicConverter (older than 3.3), I need some assistance here... I have a FileMaker database with an AppleScript that relies on GraphicConverter's "Generate List..." function (under the Special menu of GraphicConverter) to create a list of graphic files from a folder along with their sizes (height x width) in pixels, that list then being used by the script to import the files into container fields in FileMaker. Since GraphicConverter's File List has no option to save as a text file, my script simply copies it all to the clipboard using the Copy command of the Edit menu. Or it did. With version 3.3 (possibly earlier; it's been a little while since I used the script), GraphicConverter ceased to support Copy in File List mode! If you happen to have a copy of GraphicConverter later than 2.5 (the latest I could find on my old software sampler CD's) but older than 3.3, I would appreciate you sending me a copy. (If your copy is registered, you may duplicate it in the Finder and unregister it first). If you are feeling especially cooperative, go to the Special menu, generate a list of graphic files from a folder, then see if the Copy command is available to you under the Edit menu, and if so, THEN send it to me! In the mean time, I have alerted Thorstein Lemke about this undesired modification in his excellent product. Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:49:30 -0500 From: Jeff Sass Subject: Sun monitor on a Mac? Hello Everyone! I have come across a Sun Microsystems monitor and was wondering if an adapter exists to plug this into a Mac or a PC? If you look at the end of the cable from the monitor it has a very strange pin layout that I have not seen. Does anyone have a good place on the web that handles wierd adapters? Thanks, Jeff _________________________________________________________ Jeff Sass Adobe Systems Quality Engineer Minnesota Office mailto:jsass@adobe.com x34734 or (651) 766-4734 _________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:00:04 -0700 From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: Symbiosis program? I'm trying to find an old educational program called "Symbiosis". It was written by Ron Beloin at Cornell. Has anyone a copy of it? Thanks Leslie Burkholder ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:56:58 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: what does the getinfo information mean When I do a getinfo on a particular folder, I get: 2.3 MB on disk (1,288.188 bytes), for 26 items. When I do a getinfo on the hard drive, I get: 386.4 MB on disk (405,196,800 bytes) for 1,978 items. What is the significance of the two numbers in each report? And why are the relative sizes reversed in these two reports? Thank you. MBL -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************