Path: flop.mcom.com!news.Stanford.EDU!camis.Stanford.EDU!macmod From: Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (The Info-Mac Moderators) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest Subject: Info-Mac Digest V13 #50 Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.digest Date: 26 Apr 1995 16:07:02 GMT Organization: The Info-Mac Network Lines: 1958 Approved: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <3nlr36$t2p@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: camis.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" Originator: macmod@camis.Stanford.EDU --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 26 Apr 95 Volume 13 : Issue 50 Today's Topics: [!] HTML directory [!] Yep -- we're moving files again [*] AddressBook Updater [*] ART Music 3.2.1c; converts Finale EPS files [*] Audio Strip GH 1.2; CD Playing Control Strip Modules [*] CD Database (FileMaker Pro Database for Compact Discs) [*] ChangeVer 1.0.1; for CodeWarrior version conversion [*] Comet 3.1.1, Cornell's MacTCP-based Telnet/TN3270 client [*] Core Collection 1.7; a collection of XCMDs [*] Digital Money Developer's Kit [*] DropURL 1.0; dispatches URLs to appropriate clients [*] eXpress v1.1.0; access to the Process menu [*] Fat Free 1.2; removes PPC code [*] First Lessons In Math v1.7 [*] Golf Picture [*] Good Times Virus Hoax FAQ [*] GraficConverter; agraphics utility [*] Hermes II 3.5; BBS software [*] HomeMaker 1.0b8 - WWW Personal Home Page Tool [*] Hot Spot 1.0.1; a tile-placing game [*] Interactive Museum Tour; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences [*] John's WordPerfect Glossary Macros [*] Mac*Chat#72/24-Apr-95 [*] MacTravesty; a text utility [*] Maczine #3--a wonderful e-zine [*] Marathon_FAQ_2.5 [*] MGSW Library; a Pascal library [*] namecleaner; cleans up file names [*] NET/Mac2.3.51; a TCP/IP communications utility [*] nu2.0clockfix; a Norton's Utilities patcher [*] O_Pfhortuna1.2; a Marathon map [*] Oligo Analyzer 1.0 - DNA Oligonucleotide sequence reader and analysis program. [*] OptiMeme version 2.0.2 updater, a virtual memory utility [*] Personal Log v2.0 beta 1 PPC [*] Phatclock; a clock [*] psych interactive stress buster [*] Realmz 2.0 to 2.0.1 updater [*] Resolution XFCN [*] Scorpio 1.0.1P; a word processor [*] SerialSpeed 230 Version 1.2; enhances serial speed [*] Shakespeare Stack --- Comedy_of_Errors-v.1.0.sea.hqx [*] SMILE the splattering; a frustration reduction tool [*] Sparkle 2.3.4 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter [*] STEREO STORM STRTUP SND [*] TappyType 2.01; noises for your keyboard [*] The Talking Multiples Teacher v1.2 [*] TidBITS#274/24-Apr-95 [*] Update of DateView; a Newton app [*] Wagner's Eudora prefs 1.1 submission [*] WordPerfect 3.1 PPC Demo - Award Winning Word Processor [*] WordPerfect3 to PageMaker 5 Import Filter (Q) PPP modem connect speed? (Q) Problem with Eudora (Q) Single Key for Spanish characters in MSWord 5.1 (Q) SLIP and PPP software [A] CD Inject? [R] Shutdown problem with 7.5.1 Apollo 1.1x Query CD-ROM eject buttons (2 msgs) FAT Code Strippers Hard Drive Problem hierarchical apple menu (2 msgs) Info-Mac Digest V13 #48 Mac and Solaris not liking each other? MacLink Plus 8 (A) MacX problems. minicad user group PS Text Viewer Q: How to tranfer user data between 2 stand-alone macs ?? Software Distributors Syquest drives at wonderful prices (Q) sys 7.5 upgrade System 7.5.x Rant System 7.5 patch What's wrong with System 7.5 Update ? The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Bill Lipa, Gordon Watts, Liam Breck, Igor Livshits, Adam C. Engst The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: gopher://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/help/mirror-list.txt Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. Mail administrative queries and info to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Mail articles for publication in the digest to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Mail files for inclusion in the archives to macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu To submit a file greater than 800K, or to avoid submitting by (and segmenting for) email, send email describing the file to backmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu and upload it to: ftp://daemon.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Incoming As with emailed submissions, non-text files must be binhexed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V13 #50" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:10:37 -0700 From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: [!] HTML directory Hi folks, Rolling stones gather no moss, and we had some moss growing in the /text directory. Igor just created a new directory for BBEdit related files in /text, and I've just created a new directory in /text for HTML-related files. Since many people probably relate HTML to the Web, I've made a link to /comm as well. new: text/html/ new: text/HTML now points to text/html/ new: comm/html now points to text/html/ new: comm/HTML now points to text/html/ cheers ... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Info-Mac Moderator -- Apple Internet Users/Providers Assistant List Mom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:03:54 -0500 From: igorl@uiuc.edu (Igor Livshits) Subject: [!] Yep -- we're moving files again Hi, again, We decided that the HyperCard directory really belongs under Development as it mostly contains external functions and procedures that may be accessed >From within a development environment. The migration of card/ to dev/card/ will take a few days as it is a large directory. old: card/ is moving to dev/card/ old: HyperCard will be removed new: dev/card/ new: dev/HyperCard now points to dev/card/ Also, we are changing our policy about non-Macintosh periodicals: We will only keep the latest issue, and these may be found in the info/nms/ directory. We have plans to incorporate more disk into the archive. At that time, we will consider archiving back issues, as we have done until now. Cheers, Igor igorl@uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:42 -0500 From: "Scott E. Lasley" Subject: [*] AddressBook Updater here is an updater for the application Address Book by Jim Leitch that i downloaded from Compuserve. please note that i am not the author of Address Book nor this updater. tech support and registration for Address Book is handled by Victor Kennedy: pegasus@astral.magic.ca or on eworld:VictorK. >From the ReadMe by Mr. Leitch: This patch will bring Address Book 3.7.0 created Mar 8, 1995 up to version 3.7.0p7 A few corrections have been made and a couple of bugs fixed. Other releases of 3.7.0 with p1 to p6 suffixes will not be accepted by the patch. scott lasley@umdsp.umd.edu [Archived as /info-mac/app/address-book-370p7-updt.hqx; 77K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:40 -0500 From: herzo005@gold.tc.umn.edu (Tim Herzog, Two Bits Worth) Subject: [*] ART Music 3.2.1c; converts Finale EPS files ART Music is a translator that converts Finale EPS files to Illustrator format, so you can edit a page of music just like a graphic (add color, other graphics, move notes, etc.). Version 3.2.1c is now compatible with Finale 3.2.1 for PowerMac and Finale Allegro, and adds drag & drop support and native execution on the PowerMac. Timothy Herzog Two Bits Worth, Inc. herzo005@gold.tc.umn.edu +1 (612) 227-2920 [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/art-music-321c.hqx; 182K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:09 -0500 From: grhowes@students.wisc.edu (Glenn R. Howes) Subject: [*] Audio Strip GH 1.2; CD Playing Control Strip Modules Control Strip modules which implement the controls and displays of an audio CD player. Play, pause, stop, sound level, eject are free. Display time, fast forward, fast reverse, next track, previous track are available for a $10 crippleware fee. An Omni module supports such functions as auto-play, auto-eject, replay, and play track programs. New: Plays track programs entered with the AppleCD Audio Player. A variety of cosmetic bug fixes and enhancements. --glenn howes grhowes@students.wisc.edu [Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/audio-strip-gh-12-strip.hqx; 115K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:50 -0500 From: Benjamin Goldstein Subject: [*] CD Database (FileMaker Pro Database for Compact Discs) The CD Catalog is a simple yet powerful database to catalog your Compact Discs. It was made with FileMaker Pro version 2.1, you need the program to use it. Not only may you search and print lists of your CD collection; but you can generate reports and lists for specific categories of CDs, such as only your CDs that are Soundtracks or are longer than 65 minutes. It includes: - An easy method of entry. Including fields for Artist/Album/Record Label/ Catalog #/Year of Release/SPARS Code (AAD etc.)/Classification (Rock etc.) /Song/Song Time and a Comments field. - Several (6) predesigned printable layouts. - A layout by song - A report layout that gives you lots of detailed info about your CD's: such as the average/minimum/ and maximum time/year/and number of songs as well as lots of other useless information (There are about 65 summary fields) Changes since 1.2 - Track numbers for each song! A number comes up whenever you enter a track. Track numbers are also added to many of the print layouts. - Smart sorting. Now you can enter "The Who" in the artist field and when you click on sort by artist it will put "The Who" in the "W" section, not the "T" section. This also work with album titles. [Archived as /info-mac/app/cd-database-13-fmpro.hqx; 133K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:20 -0500 From: figuiere@deneb.inrets.fr (Hubert FIGUIERE) Subject: [*] ChangeVer 1.0.1; for CodeWarrior version conversion Here is the latest version of ChangeVer, a simple utility for CodeWarrior user. It allows compiling C/C++ project created with CW4 under the DR3 compiler. This is a maintenance version and should replace any other version elsewhere in the archive. Hubert FIGUIERE - Stagiaire at INRETS, Arcueil, France - figuiere@inrets.fr figuiere@leserveur.com [Archived as /info-mac/dev/change-ver-101.hqx; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:31 -0500 From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: [*] Comet 3.1.1, Cornell's MacTCP-based Telnet/TN3270 client Here's the latest external release of Cornell's terminal emulator. It's a StuffIt archive containing all the software and resources needed for sites other than Cornell to use Comet. Included is Comet documentation in Viewer form. This documentation was developed for use at Cornell, but should be useful as a quasi-tutorial for other sites. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/comet-311.hqx; 1044K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:36 -0500 From: JOHN.SUDDERTH%4207PO@x400gw.msfc.nasa.gov Subject: [*] Core Collection 1.7; a collection of XCMDs 40 externals: BootVolume, BumpDate, ChangeCreator, ChangeType, CompareDate, CopyFile, CreatePath, DeleteFile, DeleteFolder, DoesExist, EjectDisk, FolderContents, FolderIsShared, FolderPath, GetAppPath, GetComment, GetDefaultFile, GetEOF, GetFileName, GetFolder, GetInfoBox, GetManager, GetSetup, GetString, GetTypeCount, GetVersion, IsAppleShare, IsVirtualOn, LockFile, LockName, Mount, ProgressBar, PutDefaultFile, ReadWritePrefs, RenameFile, SetComment, SetVisible, StripList, Unmount, Volumes. Tested with System 7.5 and HyperCard 2.2. Update free to registered users. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/core-collection-17-xcmd.hqx; 63K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:23 -0500 From: "Klein Matthew" Subject: [*] Digital Money Developer's Kit Permission is granted to include in your CD-ROM. This file is for your Development folder. Thank you. AutoPay (tm) is a small module that software developers can integrate into their programs. It allows computer users to pay for software electronically by modem. If the user does not have a modem, AutoPay allows the user to pay by phone, using a toll-free number, or by mail. There are no up-front charges for using AutoPay in your software. Instead Digital Money, Inc. charges a small fee for each transaction. You do not need your own credit card merchant account. Digital Money, Inc. runs the 24-hour dial-in network, the 24-hour voice operator lines, and a mail-processing center for handling all customer payments. This is a fully functional Developer's Kit, not a demo! It contains complete documentation. If you are interested in the Windows version, please contact Digital Money, Inc. at (415) 833-0200. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/digital-money-sdk.hqx; 704K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:33 -0500 From: peterm@jolt.mpx.com.au (Peter Marks) Subject: [*] DropURL 1.0; dispatches URLs to appropriate clients DropURL lets you store your favorite URLs as little text files. They work rather like aliases. DropURL is a simple droplet application accepts a text file dropped on to it and uses Internet Config to determine the helper application you have set for each URL type. It attempts to locate or launch the helper application and then sends it the standard GURL AppleEvent containing the URL in the text file. You can drop multiple files, but only the first line (up to the return) of each one is processed. Therefore you can safely put notes in the lines following the URL line. If you change the creator of the text file (a utility is included) to 'GURL' then opening the URL file will get the URL. Thus URLs can be added to your Apple Menu for example. Requires Internet Config and System 7. Have fun. Peter peterm@jolt.mpx.com.au [Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/drop-url-10.hqx; 42K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:45 -0500 From: do485@cwru.edu (Stephen Maas) Subject: [*] eXpress v1.1.0; access to the Process menu Description: eXpress enables you to pop-up the Process menu (the "System 7" menu) anywhere on the screen by holding down the control key and clicking. It takes 300 bytes of RAM and requires System 7.x. Guaranteed to save you miles of mouse movement. History: Version 1.1.0 fixes a bug in version 1.0.0 that rendered windowshade, popchar, and many other programs useless. It also adds a few new features. Contact: Stephen E. Maas / (612) 457-5478 / do485@cwru.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/express-110.hqx; 23K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:43 -0500 From: figuiere@deneb.inrets.fr (Hubert FIGUIERE) Subject: [*] Fat Free 1.2; removes PPC code This is the latest version of Fat Free. It removes PowerPC code from fat application to spare disk-storage... Fat Free 1.2 allows now "unfated" applications to be run on a PowerMac in emulation (thus it is not recommended for performance considerations). Also adds help and interface... Hubert FIGUIERE - Stagiaire at INRETS, Arcueil, France - figuiere@inrets.fr figuiere@leserveur.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/fat-free-12.hqx; 21K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:45 -0500 From: dbagno@magnet.com (David Bagno) Subject: [*] First Lessons In Math v1.7 =46irst Lessons In Math introduces children 3 years old and up to numbers and concepts in math. This program is published by Pointware Corporation =81 of California. Children will Learn: 1- The look and sound of numbers 2- Counting sequentially up and down 3- The quantitative value of the numbers 1 through 10 5- Calculate the number of objects in a set 5- Adding with two sets of objects 6- Subtracting with two sets of objects 7- Real numeric addition and subtraction equations [Archived as /info-mac/app/edu/first-lessons-in-math-17.hqx; 343K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:51 -0500 From: pedrojr@mail.utexas.edu (Pedro Terroba Jr.) Subject: [*] Golf Picture This is a picture I made using Photoshop and Bryce. Please post this anywhere you can. Thanks PJT Pedro Terroba Jr Pedrojr@mail.utexas.edu [Archived as /info-mac/grf/golf.hqx; 125K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:25:53 -0500 From: lesjones@usit.net (Leslie Jones) Subject: [*] Good Times Virus Hoax FAQ The Good Times email virus is a hoax! There is no such virus! This file answers frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the hoax, and has pointers to sources of anti-viral software and information on the Internet, and describes some other common Internet hoaxes. [Archived as /info-mac/vir/good-times-virus-hoax-faq.txt; 25K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:54 -0500 From: Stefan Brix Subject: [*] GraficConverter; agraphics utility Hi folks! ... and another new set of versions of "GraficConverter"! Version 2.1.2 %Jbug in save file formats fixed (appeared only with plug-ins) %Jcolor problem with XIMGs fixed %Jexport of RLE compressed BMPs added %JFIRST FAT VERSION Again, I will explicitly express that I am NOT the author (though I will try to help anybody, who asks me). You can contact him via email: thorsten_lemke@pe.maus.de (no mail >16K). Tschuess / bye, Stefan s.brix@tu-bs.de [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/graphic-converter-212.hqx; 1144K] [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/graphic-converter-212-fr.hqx; 1134K] [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/graphic-converter-212-de.hqx; 1166K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:37 -0500 From: lance@hermes.wucc.edu (Lance Perkins) Subject: [*] Hermes II 3.5; BBS software Newest version of Hermes II BBS. Lance [Archived as /info-mac/comm/bbs/hermes-ii-35-updt.hqx; 361K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:35 -0500 From: bdodge@ucsvax.sdsu.edu (Bernie Dodge) Subject: [*] HomeMaker 1.0b8 - WWW Personal Home Page Tool HomeMaker is a HyperCard stack that prompts the user to fill in information appropriate for a personal home page. It then adds html tags to the info and produces a text file ready to be posted on a webserver. What's new in this version? Netscape enhancements that don't affect non-Netscape browsers: 1) Better layout. When viewed in Netscape, the user's picture is placed off to the right which allows more text to appear on the first screen. 2) Variable text size. The first letter in each

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heading is made larger. 3) Colors. Users can choose a background color and text color. HomeMaker calculates the necessary hexadecimal RGB triplet and plugs it into the tag. Freeware. Bernie Dodge http://edweb.sdsu.edu/edweb_folder/people/bdodge/bdodge.html [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/home-maker-10b8-hc.hqx; 47K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:03 -0500 From: f8dy@netaxs.com Subject: [*] Hot Spot 1.0.1; a tile-placing game Hot Spot is an infuriating tile-placing game, loosely based on all the other tile-placing games. Requires a 640 x 480 or larger monitor, but works in all color depths (including black and white). System 7.0 or later. Copyright (c) 1995, Mark Pilgrim. Shareware, $15. Version 1.0.1 fixes a small bug with the tile pouch and a minor incompatibility with Quadras. [Archived as /info-mac/game/hot-spot-101.hqx; 376K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:42 -0500 From: jfish@mdminc.pdial.interpath.net (Joseph Fish) Subject: [*] Interactive Museum Tour; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Interactive tour of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. Requires 640x480 256 color Macintosh Joseph Fish Multi Digital Media, Inc. [Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/nc-museum-of-nat-sci-tour.hqx; 1062K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:25 -0500 From: jcr2@cornell.edu (John Rethorst) Subject: [*] John's WordPerfect Glossary Macros Hi, These macros provide an easy and elegant glossary feature for WordPerfect 3.x for the Macintosh. Up to 26 glossary entries are available. A menu the width of your screen shows you as much of each entry as will fit. Click on the entry or type its identifying letter to place the text in your document. Free. Thanks, John Rethorst [Archived as /info-mac/text/johns-glossary-macros-wp.hqx; 18K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:12 -0500 From: xxltony@crash.cts.com (Tony Lindsey) Subject: [*] Mac*Chat#72/24-Apr-95 Welcome to Mac*Chat, the free, weekly electronic newsletter biased toward Mac users who are production-oriented professionals. Other Mac users may find many, many items of interest as well. I'd enjoy hearing your feedback and suggestions. Unfortunately, due to the massive numbers of messages I get every day, I can't guarantee a personal reply. Tony Lindsey, . http://www.cts.com/‾xxltony Topics: Highlights Of This Issue Editor's Notes Let's Go Back To The Old Newsletter Format! Deadline Change So, What's With All This HTML Stuff? HTML Lesson Testimonial More Creative News Screen-Capturing Software Another Hyphenation Tip Terryfic Tips: Spring Forward A Plea For Help Against Anti-Mac Bigots Technical Section Starts... Here Fetch Correction Cool Sites For Web-Page Creators PPP Floater Is Keen! [Archived as /info-mac/per/chat/mac-chat-072-etx.txt; 24K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:25:56 -0500 From: anbhg@maja.mas.malmo.se (Bertil Holmberg) Subject: [*] MacTravesty; a text utility Hi! MacTravesty is a small program that analyses a text file and lists all the character groups contained in the text. A new pseudorandom text based on the language specific character frequencies can then be generated. Sincerely, Bertil [Archived as /info-mac/text/mac-travesty.hqx; 34K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:39 -0500 From: ghirard@micronet.it (Aaron Ghirardelli) Subject: [*] Maczine #3--a wonderful e-zine Hello, here is the third issue of Maczine, the first italian e-zine dedicated to the shareware world of Macintosh. It is made with DocMaker so you will need anything to view it. It has reviews of the most important shareware programs! Please, take it, enjoy it and then let me know if you like it. Thank you... Aaron Ghirardelli E-mail:ghirard@micronet.it [Archived as /info-mac/per/maczine-003.hqx; 536K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:13 -0500 From: Aapo.Puskala@Helsinki.FI (Aapo Puskala) Subject: [*] Marathon_FAQ_2.5 ...Aapo Aapo Puskala, Aapo.Puskala@Helsinki.FI ** http://www.helsinki.fi/‾puskala/ [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/marathon-faq-25.hqx; 303K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:26 -0500 From: Miguel Frias Subject: [*] MGSW Library; a Pascal library Hi, just to send the new version of MGSW Library for Pascal programmers. Hope it gets there OK. Thanks, Miguel. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/migo-software-library-p.hqx; 45K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:21 -0500 From: dmitry reznikov Subject: [*] namecleaner; cleans up file names NameCleaner is a utility to clean up messy file names. It can: % Give files with definable DOS extensions corresponding Macintosh Type/Creator codes and name suffixes. % Remove non-viewable characters, RsmartSen quotes, and pad out punctuation marks (with exclusions). % Perform automatic capitalisation for words of different lengths, and apply a dictionary for special cases. % Find and replace any definable phrase with a corresponding phrase. % Append information (size, date and type) about individual files and apply a dictionary for type phrases. % Truncate Macintosh names for DOS and give files with definable Type Codes corresponding DOS Extensions. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/name-cleaner-101.hqx; 72K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:30 -0500 From: adam@iag.tno.nl (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA) Subject: [*] NET/Mac2.3.51; a TCP/IP communications utility The Netherlands, April 24, 1995. Hello dear reader, Today I distributed NET_Mac2.3.51.sea.hqx... For those who don't know NET/Mac... NET/Mac is the application that supports TCP/IP over packet-radio, which means, that hamradio operators can use NET/Mac for their wireless TCP/IP network... In this version of NET/Mac I implemented the following: - Allow variable length ping-packets - Defaultbuttons are FAT buttons now - Fix some typo's in the sourcecode - Make sure expired smtp-timers restart at 0 - Minor mod for the 'rdate' command - Minor mod to the 'ping' console output - Mods to fix a mail-delivery problem - Some mods for the new 'timer task' - Try to execute 'perform' commands at hh:mm:00 exactly - When sessions are open at Quit-time, ask Quit-permission Adam PA2AGA (e-mail: adam@iag.tno.nl ) ( or: pa2aga@iag.tno.nl for letters only, NO BIG files here) [Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/radio-net-mac-2351.hqx; 371K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:26 -0500 From: David Johnson Subject: [*] nu2.0clockfix; a Norton's Utilities patcher This is the ResCompare patcher that will patch any Norton Utils 2.0 so that it won't give the annoying "clock not set correctly" and this requires no ResEdit. --DAVE (johnson@wrs.com) [Archived as /info-mac/disk/nortons-20-clock-patch.hqx; 26K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:16 -0500 From: dcrowder@is.net (Daniel Crowder) Subject: [*] O_Pfhortuna1.2; a Marathon map I uploaded a Marathon map to your ftp site. Thanks. DCrowder@is.net [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/o-pfhortuna-12.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:37 -0500 From: jcuozzo@OPAL.TUFTS.EDU (John Cuozzo) Subject: [*] Oligo Analyzer 1.0 - DNA Oligonucleotide sequence reader and analysis program. John W. Cuozzo jcuozzo@opal.tufts.edu Oligo Analyzer is a fully functional oligonucleotide analysis program which will calculate the molecular weight and the predicted melting temp. of your oligo and provide a breakdown of the number of each nucleotide. O.A. can also read your oligo sequences back to you, in either a male (mine) or female (my wife's) voice. O.A. will print out your oligo's in a format suitable for ordering or for storing in your notebook. You can also save your sequences as O.A. files for later perusal. Please put O.A. 1.0 in the Science-Math directory. This file was checked with Disinfectant 3.5 and is virus-free. This binary may be included in the CD-ROM. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/oligo-analyzer.hqx; 115K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:47 -0500 From: Robert Thornton Subject: [*] OptiMeme version 2.0.2 updater, a virtual memory utility Updates to v2.0.2 previous versions of OptiMem RAM Charger v2. Includes several improvements. REQUIRED: An original OptiMem RAM Charger distribution disk and serial ID are needed to use this updater. Hardware Requirement: Any Mac Running System 7 Contact: Jump Development Group jumpdevgrp@aol.com -Robert Thornton Jump Development Group [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/opti-mem-202-updt.hqx; 155K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:53 -0500 From: kamprath@earthlink.net (Michael F. Kamprath) Subject: [*] Personal Log v2.0 beta 1 PPC Personal Log allows you to keep a collection of notes in a single, easy-to-use file. You can password protect this file, search it's entries, and even "speak" the entries (if you have Speech Manager" installed). Unlike other "note taking" programs, Personal Log's interface is very simple and easy to use, yet provides powerful and flexible note taking services. Personal Log v2.0 is a major improvement over all previous versions. As you can already see, one of the major changes is the ability to insert objects, such as pictures, sounds, and file aliases, into a document. This new feature is provided by a new text engine called WASTE, which is made by Marco Piovanelli. Along with the ability to insert objects, this new text engine allows you to edit text files that are larger than 32K, a famous limitation of Apple's SimpleText. With all these new features in the text engine, it may surprise you that text files created by WASTE are still compatible with Apple's Text Edit text engine (and thus SimpleText and previous versions of Personal Log), though Text Edit will not recognize any inserted objects nor will it edit files greater than 32K in size. [Archived as /info-mac/app/personal-log-201b1.hqx; 322K] [Archived as /info-mac/app/personal-log-201b1-ppc.hqx; 358K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:56 -0500 From: danw@best.com (Dan Waylonis) Subject: [*] Phatclock; a clock Phatclock is a simple, free, configurable clock application. Enjoy. Dan danw@minervasys.com [Archived as /info-mac/app/phat-clock.hqx; 17K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:56 -0500 From: jfish@mdminc.pdial.interpath.net (Joseph Fish) Subject: [*] psych interactive stress buster psych=81 an interactive stress buster! Over 500 possible combinations of moving colors and pictures to either sooth or derange your mind. Read the Read Me file included. Requires 640x480 256 color Macintosh Joseph Fish Multi Digital Media, Inc. [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/psych.hqx; 1071K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:06 -0500 From: Jim Foley Subject: [*] Realmz 2.0 to 2.0.1 updater The following file is a patch from 2.0 to 2.0.1. Any questions concerning this submission can be made to foley@cae.wisc.edu [Archived as /info-mac/game/realmz-20-to-201-updt.hqx; 163K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:38 -0500 From: tjk111@psu.edu (Thomas Kishel) Subject: [*] Resolution XFCN This archive contains an XFCN for SuperCard, HyperCard, et cetera. A SuperCard project and a ResEdit resource file are included. This XFCN returns the bit depth of the current main monitor, that is, the one with the menubar. Source code included. Freeware. Thomas Kishel "You have forgotten more than I will ever know." tjk111@psu.edu [Archived as /info-mac/card/resolution-xfcn.hqx; 20K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:28 -0500 From: Sean A Kennedy Subject: [*] Scorpio 1.0.1P; a word processor Here is a new shareware wordprocessor I pick up. I have heard that a lot of people on the internet have been looking for it, as it has recently been mentioned in MacWorld. It is cheap, and the registered version comes with a spell checker. -sean [Archived as /info-mac/text/scorpio-101p.hqx; 331K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:28 -0500 From: dschwarz@netcom.com (Dan Schwarz) Subject: [*] SerialSpeed 230 Version 1.2; enhances serial speed SerialSpeed 230 is a control panel that allows Power Macintosh and Macintosh AV computers to use their serial ports at 115Kbps or 230Kbps with any software that normally uses the serial ports at 57.6Kbps. Version 1.2 Enhancements: * Now supports MacPPP and other previously-incompatible programs. * Option to disable serial driver checking at startup (this should make life easier for folks who use "ASFU Fixer" and other INITs that open the seial ports at startup time. * Updated documentation and FAQ as usual... Hope you like it! [Archived as /info-mac/comm/serial-speed-230-12.hqx; 169K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:17 -0500 From: zimm@alumni.caltech.edu (Mark Zimmermann) Subject: [*] Shakespeare Stack --- Comedy_of_Errors-v.1.0.sea.hqx A new Shakespeare Stack, "Comedy_of_Errors-v.1.0.sea.hqx", is appended below ... free software under the GNU GPL (requires HyperCard 2.x) ... the complete text of the play "The Comedy of Errors", arranged and formatted with glossary and other features for the convenience of students and scholars (and anybody else who just wants to read a very funny story, the classic multiple-mistaken-identity romp)... Best [Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/comedy-of-errors-10.hqx; 81K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:10 -0500 From: jmelan Subject: [*] SMILE the splattering; a frustration reduction tool In this program you get to hurt and mangle an annoying Smilely face in a creative variety of ways. It is extremely satisfying if a little demented. The text included with the Download reads: 3Feeling violent? Do you like blood and guts action? You MUST DOWNLOAD this slick, beautifully rendered, fully animated program! Smile: The Splattering 1.1 is the perfect place for you to work off your aggressions. If the smiley face doesn't make you want to beat him silly I don't know what will. Stick him in a blender, splat him with a hammer, zap him with a laser, chew his face off with a flesh eating virus and MORE. This Demo lets you sample some of the many features of that could be yours if you register. This program features a completely interactive animated cartoon complete with dialogue. The graphics are stunning, professional and satisfying. Smile: The splattering is a program like no other. You WILL love it! ShareWare $12 This Version (1.1) corrects the minor, rare, yet irritating white box error. Not intended for very young children. *Have a nice day!*2 Don9t forget to bop him in the eye! [Archived as /info-mac/game/smile-the-splattering.hqx; 1078K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:00 -0500 From: Maynard James Handley Subject: [*] Sparkle 2.3.4 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter Sparkle plays MPEGs, PICTs and QT movies and converts between them. It is multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple documents at once. Maynard Handley maynard@elwing.otago.ac.nz [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/sparkle-234.hqx; 1131K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:03 -0500 From: clix@icon.net (Jeffrey M. Click) Subject: [*] STEREO STORM STRTUP SND Here's a great sound in stereo for Macs! It's designed for a startup sound and needs no extra software to work. Instructions are included. [Archived as /info-mac/snd/stereo-storm.hqx; 299K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:49 -0500 From: Colin Klipsch Subject: [*] TappyType 2.01; noises for your keyboard TappyType is a Control Panel extension that allows your Mac to make typewriter noises in response to your keypresses. It requires System 7.0 to work. Features include: * Typewriter sounds for the spacebar, carriage return, page up and down, and ordinary keys. * A special keystroke that allows you to turn TapppyType on and off at any point, without opening the Control Panel. * A list of active applications, to which TappyType will limit itself when making noises. You might enjoy the typewriter sound effects while using your favorite word processor or text editor, but probably not elsewhere. TappyType may be used and distributed without charge, though not sold for profit. See the included docmentation for details. Enjoy... Colin Klipsch klipsch@geosim.cs.vt.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/tappy-type-201-cdev.hqx; 104K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:59 -0500 From: dbagno@magnet.com (David Bagno) Subject: [*] The Talking Multiples Teacher v1.2 This program has resulted from the frustration of trying to tutor a gifted second grader in the study of the multiplication tables using traditional methods and software programs. I noticed that kids innately count the multiples on their hands and rely heavily on their audible sensors. I was inspired to believe that if kids received this type of musical association in the learning process of the multiplication tables, that they would learn them faster and have more enthusiasm about it. The "Talking Multiples Teacher" accomplishes exactly this. It imitates the rhyme or song / chant that kids naturally associate with the times tables. [Archived as /info-mac/app/edu/talking-multiples-12.hqx; 422K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 21:41:39 -0700 From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: [*] TidBITS#274/24-Apr-95 TidBITS#274/24-Apr-95 This week's issue begins with news about Apple's strong second quarter, future Macs at Disney's EPCOT Center, new Microsoft-related anti-trust news, and more. We continue with an report from the Third International World-Wide Web Conference, thoughts about the appropriate use of computers in the form of a book review of Cliff Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil," and a look at how to access the Internet via CompuServe's PPP services. Topics: MailBITS/24-Apr-95 Third International World-Wide Web Conference Shedding Skin - Thoughts on "Silicon Snake Oil" CompuServe as a PPP Internet Provider Reviews/24-Apr-95 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-274.etx; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:26:14 -0500 From: wkearney@access.digex.net (Bill Kearney) Subject: [*] Update of DateView; a Newton app It appears that the archive file containing DateView is missing the package file. This, of course, renders the file a bit useless. I've attached the most recent version of DateView to this message. Simply replace the old file with this new one. Thanks and sorry for the mistake, Bill Kearney wkearney@access.digex.net [Archived as /info-mac/nwt/app/date-view-demo.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:43:33 -0500 From: wlt@mercurio.uc.pt (Wagner Luis Truppel) Subject: [*] Wagner's Eudora prefs 1.1 submission Greetings, this is the submission of the latest version of Wagner's Eudora prefs. It now comprises two files which differ only in the fact that one of them allows you to change the quote characters for reply and forward messages, while the other doesn't. Use only one at a time. The one that lets you change the quote characters only accepts single-character strings, due to a limitation of Eudora itself. The other file has these quote chars hard-wired as " * " and " ** ", respectively, but you can use ResEdit or other resource editor to change them, if you'd like other multiple-char strings instead. PLEASE read the Readme file and don't hesitate to send me email with suggestions, questions, praise, or even flames. The two files and the Readme have been checked for viruses with Disinfectant 3.6, put together in a folder, compressed into a self-extracting archive, and then bin-hexed. Enjoy. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/mail/wagners-eudora-prefs-11.hqx; 16K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:42:32 -0500 From: Spencer Low Subject: [*] WordPerfect 3.1 PPC Demo - Award Winning Word Processor This is a demo of WordPerfect 3.1 for Power Macintosh. This demo will not save. It will print 2 pages of a document with a watermark that says "DEMO". For more information contact WordPerfect (The Novell Applications Group) at 800-321-4566 (orders) or 800-451-5151 (general information). More demos can be found at ftp://ftp.wordperfect.com/pub/ Spencer (Not connected with Novell) [Archived as /info-mac/text/wordperfect-31-ppc-demo.hqx; 1926K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:25:59 -0500 From: jcr2@cornell.edu (John Rethorst) Subject: [*] WordPerfect3 to PageMaker 5 Import Filter Hi, Here's an import filter from WordPerfect 3x to PageMaker 5. Included documentation lists the fairly complete formatting it supports. Written by Adobe, but I saw it on ftp.wordperfect.com. Thanks, John Rethorst [Archived as /info-mac/text/wordperfect3-filter-pm5.hqx; 67K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:55:35 -0400 From: anthony@noc.tor.hookup.net (Jeff Anthony) Subject: (Q) PPP modem connect speed? I've a USRobotics 28.8 modem (v.34) on a PPP account. My connect software (MacPPP v2.0.1) doesn't display the connect speed. I suspect it's regularly less than 28.8. Does anyone know of a monitor, utility, or another reliable version of PPP to perform this function? TIA - Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 10:32:26 -0400 From: leo@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Leo G. Leduc) Subject: (Q) Problem with Eudora I have a problem checking my email using Eudora 1.5.1. Upon issuing the request under File -> Check Mail, I obtain the following message within Eudora: There has been an error transferring your mail. I said: Pass and then the POP server said: -ERR Password supplied for "leo" is incorrect. Sorry I find this error message surprising in that my password is correct! Also, sending mail to the POP works very well. I'm using MacTCP on a LC630 running System 7.5 with the recent update. The Mac is hard wired to the network via Ethernet. I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. Leo G. Leduc leo@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 14:48:26 -0700 From: lipman@loc3.tandem.com (lipman_peter) Subject: (Q) Single Key for Spanish characters in MSWord 5.1 Is it possible to coerce MSWord into allowing me to define a single key shortcut, e.g., F5, a, or a to produce the a with the accent above it which is normally produced with the two character sequence "e" followed by "a"? Not surprisingly, I wish to do this for a, e, i, o, u, and I want the corresponding shortcuts for n with tilde above and for the inverted ! and ?. I played around a bit with Glossary entries which seems to be the sum total of the "macro" capability. I tried many approaches, but totally failed to figure out how to make a glossary entry (like the default ones for day and date) that would insert in the current font/style (at the insert point) instead of the font it was created with. The default glossary entries are an existence proof that this can be done; what is the trick? Assuming the above can be solved, I know I can put a glossary entry on the "Work" menu, and I know I can assign shortcuts to "commands" that don't have them. Can I assign a shortcut to one of these glossary items on the Work Menu? I tried a simple KeyQuencer macro (my first attempt at using KeyQuencer) to see if that would provide a solution. I simply hooked up a shortcut key to send the decimal equivalent of the key I wanted. This works EVERYWHERE but MSWord. I have heard repeatedly that MicroSoft always does things differently, so nothing standard ever works the way you would expect. These character codes (and probably all codes above 127) cause MSWord to beep and ignore them UNLESS you have the "insert symbol" dialogue active in which case they work perfectly. I could not convince KeyQuencer to send the two key-board events (in the X-windows sense of key events) that actually form the character; it won't send e to the program; only the "e" shows up. I can easily imagine the reasons why this doesn't work. I bet that I can get KeyQuencer to cause MSWord to use a glossary entry. But for that to be useful, I still have to determine how to get the "use glossary entry" to insert the characters in the font/styles that are current at the insertion point. By the way, with no fiddling around whatsoever, ClarisWorks did this fine with their Macro capability. Thanks for any help you can offer. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:56:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Brians Subject: (Q) SLIP and PPP software Our campus has just established SLIP and PPP services. But the help desk says it has not yet identified Macintosh software that can take advantage of it reliably. They claim that SLIP requires true multitasking which the Mac lacks. They also say that there is no free or shareware for either SLIP or PPP. I know most of this is a crock because I read of people using these sorts of connections all the time, here in the Digest. So what do you actual users recommend? The dial-up port offers speeds up to 28800 baud and V.34. My new Supra modem supports both. I'm using the free version of Microphone Lite that came with the modem at the moment; I don't have any other software that supports 28800 baud. Paul Brians, Department of English, Washington State University brians@wsunix.wsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:37:14 -0700 From: wchen@darwin.bio.uci.edu Subject: [A] CD Inject? >Ugh! I can't >squeeze my fat little finger between the keyboard and the tray to INject >the CD. Dirk, all you have to do is lightly push the tray in a bit and it should close by itself. Wayne Chen wchen@darwin.bio.uci.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:48:51 +0300 From: Timo.Turunen@fmi.fi (Timo Turunen) Subject: [R] Shutdown problem with 7.5.1 > > This may have been discussed before, but I don't recall seeing it. = I > > have a IIcx that I recently upgraded to system 7.5. All was well > > until I added the 1.0 Update. Now when I go to shutdown, I get a > > "Finder" error and a "Restart" button in the dia log box.... it won'= t > > let me shut down! Any suggestions? > > I encountered the same shutdown crash after I'd upgraded a IIsi and a Quad= ra > 700 to 7.5.1. I had the same problem with Quadra 700. I used no-shut-butt-09 (available f= rom /info-mac/cfg/ ) for disabling the new "power off" feature of the Power key = and the problem disappeared. ----- timo.turunen@fmi.fi ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 12:42:09 JST From: nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Mark Nagata) Subject: Apollo 1.1x Query In Info-Mac Digest, Volume 13, Issue 49, Joe Holly/MacHolly Land (macholly@eworld.com, MacHolly@aol.com) wrote: > ... posting regarding Apollo 1.12. I > was just wondering how, after using it for a while, you feel about > this software. Are you still enamored? ... > > I have attempted to set it up on my machine - an old Mac IIx with a > DayStar accelerator, running System 7.1, and as few extensions as > possible - but have had to disable it because of conflicts. > Apollo 1.12 had a conflict with 'Control Strip' and '4th Dimension'. The conflict was fixed in the current version, Apollo 1.13. Try the current version, available at: info-mac/gui/apollo-113.hqx; 562K. The archive is compressed twice, for some reason. But don't worry, it will expand fine. :) (By the way, I am sure that the author has released it in a Compact Pro sea, but, it now seems that (almost) all of the recent uploads to the info-mac archives are automatically re-compressed into StuffIt archives... I wonder why.) Joe Holly continues: > ... weird happenings (CPs being stripped of their > icons, etc., etc.) accompanied the introduction, not so much of > Apollo but Eagle, its associated extension. > I guess he means that Eagle loses its icon after he Rebuilds the Desktop. This is normal. Eagle is an 'appe', a background-only application that is launched _before_ Finder is launched, at startup. That means, that Eagle is already running ('file busy'), when Finder rebuilds the Desktop, and thus Finder fails to get the icon information from the 'Eagle' file. A simple workaround: Boot 'Extensions Off' whenever you Rebuild the Desktop! (Boot the machine with the Shift key pressed, and as soon as you see the 'Extensions Off' message on the startup screen, release the Shift key and press Command-Option.) (Oh, if you _must_ run Easy Open and/or AutoDoubler, then some special procedure would be necessary, by the way.) > This machine has always been very touchy about software attempting to > modify the Open or Save boxes, (Boomerang, Super Boomerang, Norton's > Directory Assistance, and Default Folder were disasters, for instance). > Hmm... maybe your accelerator could be the problem. I'm not sure. > I'd like to hear some comments about what should be a wonderful piece of > software, but which... > I am perfectly happy with Apollo 1.13, and it is coexisting peacefully/wonderfully on my machine, together with OtherMenu/About/KeyQuencer/SuperBoomerang/NowMenus/etc. :-) Cheers, Mark -- Mark Nagata nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 07:50:20 -0700 From: pgor@netcom.com (Paul Goracke) Subject: CD-ROM eject buttons Resubmitted for signature purposes: > Steven L. Scott wrote: > > Dirk Thompson wrote: > . . . > >Ugh! I can't > >squeeze my fat little finger between the keyboard and the tray to INject > >the CD. Talk about ANTI-ergonomic -- it's downright annoying! > > >Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could come up with a ResEdit hack that > >let the software eject button on the AppleCD Audio Player inject a CD >too? > >A function key would be even better (but not one under the tray, please). > >Any ideas? > > You do not have to use the button on the CD player to close the tray - > just push the tray in; it will close by itself once you move it half an > inch or so. By doing this, you will guarantee yourself a trip to the repair shop in the not-too-distant future. Strain is put on parts of the tray that will eventually break, resulting in a tray that doesn't retract all the way, and requiring a replacement of the tray. When I worked in an audio repair shop, there were two types of cd player problems - dirty lenses and broken trays. Oh yeah, use the open/close button on your audio cd player at home, too. At least they're put in a better location than the Apple ones. pg Paul Goracke pgor@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 07:50:23 -0700 From: pgor@netcom.com (Paul Goracke) Subject: CD-ROM eject buttons Resubmitted for signature purposes: Steve Scott replied: > Paul, > > I must take exception to your suggestion that this method of closing the > CD ROM tray (or, for that matter the tray on most audio CD players), ie, > pushing on the try SLIGHTLY, to close it will damage the tray. Most audio > CD players as well as the CD player in current Macs are made to be closed > with the open/close button OR pushing gently on the tray. I am not > talking about forcing here - it only takes a gentle push to start the tray > and it closes BY ITSELF. In fact, the instruction manual with most CD > players (and my Mac - Page 18, #4 of the current Apple CD 300i Plus >manual) > offers both of these methods as proper ways to close the tray. > > To be sure, the CD tray is at its most vulnerable when open and to use > force or to push it other than straight could, indeed, cause problems. >But, > I have two audio CD players and three Macs with CD players and have used > both methods interchangably (is that a word?!) over the years and have > had no problems. At the risk of sounding like a flame (which is not what I intend), you must have a somewhat different 300i Plus than I. Mine requires a _firm_ push before it moves (yes, I just tried it). It also is rather wobbly, making it difficult to push it _straight_ in. I don't think this needs to be argued further. I just thought people should be aware of the possible problems with this method of closing the CD tray. That accomplished, I feel any further discussion should be taken to private email. Anyone else interested can mail me too. Like Dirk Thompson originally requested, I would much prefer a software solution. It shouldn't be hard - if you can software eject, you should be able to software inject. pg Paul Goracke pgor@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:50:22 -0700 From: kroemer@apex.ece.ucsb.edu (Herb Kroemer) (Herb Kroemer) Subject: FAT Code Strippers There are several applications that can strip code from fat binaries to convert them to 68K versions or to PPC versions, or both. I have used three of them (FatFree, Stripper, and the command line in PlainText). They seem to work, but I feel very uneasy about them, and I suspect there are others who feel the same way. Could someone explain to us how those applications know which code to strip (and -- more important -- which to leave alone). How reliable is that process? I will summarize on the net any answers sent to me directly and not sent to the net. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:46:28 -0400 From: IceDoc@aol.com Subject: Hard Drive Problem I have a 500 MB internal Apple HD that I cannot access, mount, test, initialize or even format!! It was formatted (and partioned) with FWB 5 months ago, and last week I tried the newest Apple HD SC program (7.3.2) to TEST the drive - not update it nor initialize or format it. In the middle of the test my system (7.5.1) crashed, and I did a hard reboot. Since then I cannot access the drive - FWB or other SCSI software cannot get any info off the drive except the name (Seagate) and the Model number (3600N). These programs cannot mount the drive, update drivers, replace drivers, initialize the drive or even reformat it!!! A local computer repair center examined the drive and does NOT think it is a logic board problem, but that maybe my "Master Boot Record" is damaged. Although the data on the drive has some value (but is not worth $2000 to recover it), I really want to be able to reformat the drive. Does anyone know of a program that could FORCE write a driver onto the disk (also, where on the disk the driver is usually written) so I could at least mount the drive and recover some of the data or reformat the entire disk. Please help, and send any requests for additional info to IceDoc@aol.com. Please also email any responses if possible to me since my access the the InfoMac Digest is difficult. Thanks, Joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:35:33 -0700 From: lipman@loc3.tandem.com (lipman_peter) Subject: hierarchical apple menu In Info-Mac #49, Pascal Huguet said: > Make yourself a favor : trash apple menu options cdev ASAP. Not > only does it slow down dramatically the whole system, during startup > and session time, with or without aliases to your disks, but it seems > to be a major source of crashes. Use menuchoice instead. And enjoy > full hierarchical menus of your root disks if you wish. As you say, > you may be amazed. > And if you want to run even more fast, trash also easy open. I'm not a > guru, and just report what I experienced with 7.5 and 7.5.1. I believe > these extensions are activated each time you open or change a file. In > this regard, apple menu options is a complete disaster especially when > you use the "recent" submenus. I too profess to be no guru, so this is a request for confirmation >From others on the net: I do not think I am seeing the performance impact that others claim >From the hierarchical Apple menu. The difference in boot time for my Performa 6115CD (6100/60) with and without the Apple Menu options control panel is about 8-10 seconds out of approximately 1 minute 10 seconds (10-15%). I did not put an alias to my hard disk in the Apple Menu, but I did put an alias to my System Folder there. I DO NOT have any of the "Recent ..." options checked, and absolutely agree that this option almost certainly causes all opens to go through addtional overhead. I cannot come up with an equivalent obvious reason why there should be runtime overhead from the hierarchical menu options when you do not allow it to keep track of recent files. Can anyone more familiar with the internals of the MacOS suggest why this might cause degraded performance? I would hate to see people throw out the good parts with the bad just because we failed to identify and isolate the real cause of the slowdown. In the mean time I personally am going to take Pascal's well intentioned advice and check out menuchoice to see if I think it does a better job and incurs less overhead. Peter -- Peter Lipman Email: lipman@loc3.tandem.com (preferred) lipman_peter@tandem.com Phone: (408)285-6065 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:33:23 +0200 From: huguet@dialup.francenet.fr (Pascal Huguet) Subject: hierarchical apple menu >> Make yourself a favor : trash apple menu options cdev ASAP. Not >> only does it slow down dramatically the whole system, during startup >> and session time, with or without aliases to your disks, but it seems >> to be a major source of crashes. Use menuchoice instead. And enjoy >> full hierarchical menus of your root disks if you wish. >I do not think I am seeing the performance impact that others claim >from the hierarchical Apple menu. The difference in boot time for my >Performa 6115CD (6100/60) with and without the Apple Menu options >control panel is about 8-10 seconds out of approximately 1 minute 10 >seconds (10-15%). I did not put an alias to my hard disk in the Apple Menu, >but I did put an alias to my System Folder there. >[.../...] >I would hate to see people throw out the good parts with the bad just >because we failed to identify and isolate the real cause of the >slowdown. This is the question : should the mac users blindly trust a system extension is reliable because it comes with the official Apple label? I think we must stop to do it, especially with sys 7.5 and newer. In other words, I strongly believe AMO belongs to the bad ones. There are others : SCSI manager 4.3, general control panel, stickies (but who cares about this one)... More details in Overall performance is quite difficult to handle, and the speed improvements I noted without AMO may be not objective. But I spent already too much time (monthes) trying to make the system work without crashing, I'm not ready to spend hours with a stopwatch to get an analysis which may not be reproducible elsewhere. On the other hand, if you want to do it, I am interested in your results. The reason why I advised to kill AMO is mainly safety. If you didn't have any crash scrolling down the apple menu, menus shifting off the menu bar, and your disks spinning madly each time you unmount a volume, you're luckier than I was. --- Pascal Huguet ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:37:44 +0200 From: huguet@dialup.francenet.fr (Pascal Huguet) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V13 #48 In article <3n839r$roj@nntp.Stanford.EDU> (Info-Mac Digest V13 #48), hdewolf@fss.fokker.nl (Hans de Wolf) wrote: > Utilities like PC Exchange and AccessPC contain a function which maps the > MS-DOS > file name extension to Macintosh file types/creators, according to rules > specified by the user. > > These packages work fine for floppies, but not for CD-ROMs, or files > transferred > over a network. By the way, does anybody know what's the use for the options of the Exchange PC cedv supplied with sys 7.5? Standard documentation is rather laconic about it. It seems to allow loading of SCSI drivers, but for what purpose? --- Pascal Huguet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 14:56:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Darek Brzeski Subject: Mac and Solaris not liking each other? Throughout all of last week I had hell of a time PPPing with Macs into a Sparc 20 running SunOs 5.4 and Popper 2.1 (pop 3 protocol). On the Mac side I am using MacTCP 2.06, Mac PPP 201 , Eudora 151 and NCSA Telnet 2.7. The problem is that Eudora will establish conection but will hang while picking any new messages, telneting in I am able to establish a connection but the telnet session ceases to respond after the login. Name resolution works perfectly so I am able to use fetch as well as telnet and pop to access all other flavors of Unix out there. I tried changing shells as well as profiles and login files to specify both vt100 and vt220 emulation without getting any differnet results. If you have any idea what the source of this problem might be please let me know. Cheers! Darek Brzeski darek@nol.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:17:16 +0200 From: cbuser@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch (Christian F. Buser) Subject: MacLink Plus 8 (A) michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il (Michael Silverstein) wrote: >I ordered MacLinkPlus in February and received MacLinkPlus 7.5. >Someone mentioned that MacLinkPlus 8.0 is out and has been out for some >time. > >Can anyone tell me what the latest version of MacLinkPlus is and when it >was released? Michael, I got MacLink Plus 8 bundled with Apple's System 7.5 on CD. Included was a registration card and an offer to order a printed manual for US$ 10 + s/h, total cost was approx. US$ 15 until it arrived here in Switzerland. Probably, MacLink Plus is also available separately, but I think it might be cheaper just to get it bundled with System 7.5. Best wishes, Christian. PS - did you solve your FileGuard problem ? ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 1995 16:21:22 -0400 From: jkriens@cc.bellcore.com (kriens,john) Subject: MacX problems. I've been trying to get MacX 1.1.7 up and running on my Quadra 650 running system 7.5.1. I'm having a problem though. Whenever I try to select the Hosts button from the Commands window, not only do I not get the MacTCP Connection Tool window that the manual indicates should open to let me select a host, but the Commands window spontaneously closes, too. As you can probably guess, this problem pretty much keeps me from using MacX. I suspect that the problem might be with my version of MacTCP Tool (I have version 1.2, dated Oct. 2, 1992). I'm also running MacTCP version 2.0.6x. Is there a newer version of MacTCP Tool? Could I be experiencing some other conflict? Help! Thanks in advance. -John Kriens jkriens@cc.bellcore.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:09:00 -0500 From: mdinman@umr.edu (Michael D. Inman) (by way of mdinman@umr.edu (Michael D. Inman)) Subject: minicad user group There is a new minicad html users group as wel as a e-mail listserv for those who have and use a software package named minicad+. the URL is= http://www.rollanet.com/‾minicad the listserv is= listserv@rollanet.org [no subject] text [subscribe minicad ] for further information contact Michael Inman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 23:34:19 -0400 From: CarolynMB@aol.com Subject: PS Text Viewer Hello All, I am looking for a postscript text viewer utility. The creator of the files that I need to translate suggests "Ghostscript". A search through AOL's archives has lead to nothing that is useful. I have tried to open the files using Word 5.1A and Photoshop 2.0.1 (it opens PS files) but it seems as if my PS files may be damaged. In the mean time, while I try to download a better copy, or an html version, please help! Does anyone know where I might find "Ghostscript"? Or, What else do any of you suggest? I am looking for a readily downloadable shareware or "lite" commercial utility. Thanks in advance! Carolyn M. Barry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 06:12:26 GMT From: kalpanak@sue.econ.su.oz.au (Kalpana K) Subject: Q: How to tranfer user data between 2 stand-alone macs ?? Can someone please tell me what is the easiest way to transfer data >From a : Macintosh SE 30 to a : Power Macintosh 6100/66 Both are stand-alone machines not hooked up to any network. They do not have any ethernet cards in them. What sort of cable would I require and what software is to be used ? Any advice much appreciated. Cheers Kalpana ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:35:20 LOCAL From: jbeaton@bud.peinet.pe.ca Subject: Software Distributors I have a co-worker who is looking for a dealer for MacIntosh software in her area - Prince Edward Island, Canada. In specific, she is looking for MSWord. Please e-mail her if you can help Thanks, she's kind of swamped with her work & didn't have time to post. Judy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 15:28:52 +0100 From: lana@cisi.unito.it (maurizio lana) Subject: Syquest drives at wonderful prices (Q) MacUser of March, page 180: Super Micro (Torrance, CA) ad: Syquest 105 ext. with cartridge, cable, terminator, software: 242 US$. The price is incredibly low, is the top best. Before buying confidently I would like to know if anyone has any bad news about this small firm. Please, you that answer my query: CC: your message directly to me; and many thanks to everyone. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI Universita'di Torino Via S. Ottavio 20, Torino - Italy fax 39 11 8991648 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:13:57 +0000 From: M.R.Zamani@liverpool.ac.uk Subject: sys 7.5 upgrade Dear Sir, I would appreciate if you provide me with the internet addresses, preferrable in the UK, where I can obtain the system 7.5 upgrade to 7.5.1. I have been trying the ftp.apple.com site, but it is so busy that I never can transfer the file before the connection is cut off. Yours sincerely, Reza Zamani Dept. HACB University of Liverpool PO Box147 Liverpool L69 3 BX UK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:15:14 CDT From: "Bruce A. Bromberek" Subject: System 7.5.x Rant I just read Joe Holly's post and couldn't agree more. After having just caught up on six weeks of Info-Macs and other readings, it sounds like System 7.5.1 is just not much better than that which it purports to replace. I think I may wait until the next one (MF II). I tried 7.5 and hated life. I was thinking of giving 7.5.1 a try until I heard about an easter egg 7.5 involving a breakout game hidden in the OS that displays the developers names. Nice to know they have time to write cute little code that does nothing but no time to port more of the MacOS to powerPC native. It really makes me want to hold my head up high and say "It's been over a year and my OS is still not native - but it will be Real Soon Now." I expect that kind of lag time with Microsoft (Win96 comming Real Soon Now), but I would have thought Apple to be more concerned - especialy since the clones are in the game now. If PowerPC and Macintosh are the way of the future then why isn't Apple running at full tilt to get everyone there. Just one more thing that makes it harder and harder to defend Apple from the criticism of the pro-Windozw crowd. My rant is now finshed and I yield the soapbox. -- Bruce Bromberek - brombere@cems.umn.edu - U of MN - ChE & Mat Sci My words. My views. My opinions. Mine , all mine! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 19:18:42 +0100 (BST) From: RGALL@macollamh.ucd.ie Subject: System 7.5 patch Hello kind people... Does anyone know if there is now a patch for system 7.5 and if there is where might I find it? I find 7.5 quite buggy and most of my extensions seem to be incompatible, but I'm not sure if the *patch* was just a rumour I heard. Thanks Ruth Gallagher rgall@macollamh.ucd.ie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:21:28 +0200 From: cbuser@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch (Christian F. Buser) Subject: What's wrong with System 7.5 Update ? I have tried to install the System 7.5 Update on my Centris 650, but without success. Installation itself is no problem, but when I restart, everything hangs. Here's what I've done in more detail: - Copied the working 7.5 system software (International English version) to my second harddisk - Selected the external disk in the "startup device" control panel - Installed the update to the external disk - hit the "Restart" button ... the system comes up (with the new logo, all extensions are loading), alerts me that my last shutdown wasn't as expected - and hangs. A "pumping, empty dialog box" appears. - Restarted again with the external disk switched off (so that the Mac uses the internal drive for startup) - Mounted the external drive, deleted the system folder on the external drive, installed clean 7.5 from the CD - did a new update - Restarted - same result as above. Thus my question: - What's wrong with the Update, or - What's wrong with my Computer Any hints welcome. Greetings, Christian. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************