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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 02 Oct 98       Volume 16 : Issue 178

Today's Topics:

      
      (Q) Extension Folder organization
      7.5 to 7.5.3-DON'T
      >>>'s
      [A] Black print quality
      [Q] OT vs. MacTCP (was OT/PPP vs. MacPPP)
      [Q] Problem Downloading PGP 6.0
      [Q] Where can I find XTND (or MacLinkPlus) translators?
      Amount of free space when formatting a La Cie hard drive
      anybody know of an INTERNAL modem for a UMAX 900?
      Bad BBox
      Desktop: Strange Files
      EasyMail no longer supported
      Eudora & PURE VOICE Sound Quality
      FWB HardDiskToolkit 2.5 problem
      Fwd: 7600 Restart problem
      Fwd: Business card scanner
      Fwd: Eudora Word Services & Spell Checker
      Fwd: No Subject
      Fwd: RE: Really Basic OT/PPP Question / Global Village modem
      Fwd: Sysytem File: damaged
      Fwd: Utilities?
      How to set up an Ethernet network?
      Info-Mac Digest V16 #170
      Info-Mac Digest V16 #173
      Install system update 7.5 from (MS Mac Office-)CD
      Internal modem for G3 Powerbooks
      Mac Discovery Day
      Mac+ with Zip
      Mac9500 Memory Installation
      New Norton and Tech Tool
      PowerBook 3400 right shift key dysfunction?
      PWRbook G3 series PCMCIA cardreader
      Q: Japanese WWW sites with US MacOS 8.1?
      SCSI and SCSI2
      Shanghai
      Startup Disk Problems
      Suppress RAM Disk warning?
      Switching TCP/IP configs on PB3400C answers
      Using Radius Monitor
      Utilities?
      Utility for logging documents sent to the printer?
      Viruses: Mac & IBM
      what to mac of a Boston trip...
      Wtd: Mac friendly service provider

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:24:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Elfinn Farevag <farevag@online.no>
Subject: 

One possible solution which I use myself is in the Page Setup.... window:
set the scale to 90%
Yours,
Elfinn Farevag

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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:38:10 -0500
=46rom: Gib Henry <gibhenry@realpeople.com>
Subject: Printing Webpages

> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:18:48 +0100
> From: glaston <glaston@fix.net>
> 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

Overing. Elfinn F=E6rev=E5g
Postboks 1405 Bleikemyr
N-5500 Haugesund
Norway
Ph +47 52735540
=46x +47 52735207

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:29:03
From: Richard Glover <rglover@biap.com>
Subject: (Q) Extension Folder organization

One of the prime features of the MacOS is the way the system software is
elegantly handled through control panels and extensions. However, in this
age of some very cool features being available for the MacOS requiring
additional extensions, my extensions folder has gotten out of hand. As I
recall, there is something like 8-10 different libraries and other
extensions needed for OT/PPP. Then everytime I install a Microsoft
application, I get another wad of extensions installed that have dubious
value given my needs. Given time, I can figure out which extensions do
what, but with so many of them now needed, the sheer number makes keeping
track of what controls what is difficult.

For other mac tasks, this is easly handled by the creative use of nested
folders. But you can't do this with the extensions folder: if you group all
the OT/PPP extensions into a sub-folder in the extensions folder, the OS
won't load them. With all the creative stuff out there, is there an
existing solution? Anyone want to get creative and generate one?

-RAG

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:14:18 +0200
From: Bo Bjulen <bbjn@pobox.com>
Subject: 7.5 to 7.5.3-DON'T

*** chazzz Mac spazzz:

>Update from 7.5 to 7.5.3 is a bad move. Go for the Gold and get 7.5.5 
>OR 7.6.1.
>7.5.3 was the most unstable upgrade Apple ever put out for the 7.x OS.

You obviously never tried 7.5.2 ;-)

In my opinion, 7.5.3 was not bad and upgrading to it from 7.5 should 
definitely be a good move. You don't say on what you base your 
opnionon so it's impossible to argue against it but I'm pretty sure 
that not many who have made that move would agree with you.

Anyway, since 7.5.5 is better than 7.5.3, there's not much point in 
arguing. Then those who can, would probably benefit to go further to 
7.6.1, 8.1, or 8.5.

Bo

--
Bo Bjulen		<mailto:bbjn@pobox.com>

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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:04:21 -0400
From: "Norman R. Friedman" <norm@helix.nih.gov>
Subject: >>>'s

Someone had once replied how to eliminate those dreadful >>>'s at the start
of each line when forwarding an email message. Does anyone know of a way
except by pasting to word processing an erasing each line??
Thanks in advance and you can send to
norm@helix.nih.gov

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:47:05 +1000
From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@zws.com>
Subject: [A] Black print quality


>I have a Colour Stylewriter 2500 connected to my Performa 5400. Suddenly
>the printing quality has dropped. The black printing has become very light
>in colour, like grey. I put in a brand new black ink tank.The new tank has

Peter,

In inkjet printers with separate replaceable ink tanks, the "carrier" for 
the tanks is indeed the print head. You can remove and replace it. The 
CSW2500 is a rebadged Canon printer, so supplies for it are plentiful, 
but I can't remember exactly which Canon consumable part# you use for 
that printer. If you take the entire head (including ink tanks) into any 
computer store, PC or Mac, you'll be able to buy one; it'll cost you 
between AUD$25 and $40.

However, the head may still be OK. Is the quality of the black print 
*consistently* gray or does it fluctuate? If it's consistent without 
streaks or blotches, then the driver may somehow be confused into 
operating on a three-color model. Take the entire head cartridge out (ie 
the thing which holds the ink tanks) and clean the electrical contacts on 
it, and the contacts in the printer, with a cotton bud soaked in 
isopropyl alcohol [cassette/VCR head cleaner fluid]. DON'T touch the 
print head, and also work as quickly as possible because the ink in the 
delivery channels will dry out if you leave the head uncapped too long.

Put everything back together and get the printer to do a self-test page. 
On some CSW models you accomplish this by turning off the power, then 
pressing and holding the power button for about 5 seconds. When you 
release the power button, the printer should turn on and start printing a 
test page. Check the black text on this page. If it's OK, do another test 
print from your Macintosh. If the page printed from the Mac has poor 
black, then it's a software problem; perhaps reinstalling the driver 
software or playing with ColorSync options will help.

>Best but no improvement. Is it possible to clean the cartridge holder [is
>that the Print Head?]

The printer's inbuilt cleaning procedure cleans the ink lines and jets. 
It uses an expanding rubber reservoir to suck ink through the delivery 
system. Canon printers have two cleaning modes; a "short" mode and a 
"long" mode. Both of them waste a lot of ink, and if you aren't seeing 
"holes" in your printout, then running the cleaning process is not going 
to achieve anything. The printer automatically runs a short clean every 
time you load a new print head cartridge, to make sure that the ink flow 
is started properly.

The boilerplate answer, by the way, is this: To ensure optimum print 
quality and prevent printer damage (gee, I sound like a user manual ;-), 
don't attempt to wash, modify or refill inkjet cartridges. If the print 
shows streaks or splotches, or missing colors, replace the ink tank[s]. 
If this doesn't solve it, run the long cleaning process. If two long 
cleaning attempts don't rectify the problem, replace the entire print 
head assembly.

Do not use the long cleaning process more than you have to. The printer 
has an internal waste ink reservoir which fills up quickly as you run the 
long clean. Once the reservoir fills up, you will need to get the printer 
serviced.

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Programmer/HW Eng)
<http://www.zws.com/>

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:53:51 -0500
From: Trevor Zylstra <trevor@usinternet.com>
Subject: [Q] OT vs. MacTCP (was OT/PPP vs. MacPPP)

Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:

> Regardless of which PPP implementation you choose, use Open Transport. 
> It's stable, it's the standard, go with it. 

This has not been my experience.  When I upgraded from System 7.5.5 to
Mac OS 8.1 on my Quadra 950 (68040/33 MHz) I was required to switch to
Open Transport.  I gave up a good stable Internet connection with
average connect speeds around 48K bps(with MacTCP and FreePPP) for a
nightmare of instability and average connect speeds of 19,600 (with OT
and either FreePPP or OT/PPP).  It is very common for OT connections to
break for no reason and for stalls and timeouts to occur.  The majority
of my connection attempts don't succeed at all.  Some connect speeds
have been reported as low as 1200 bps (although no obvious data actually
moves at all).

For my situation, anyway, OT (using either FreePPP or OT/PPP) is nothing
more than a huge frustrating timewaster.  Standard or not, I want MacTCP
back.

System details: Quadra 950, 48M RAM, OS 8.1, US Robotics Sportster V.90
modem, Open Transport 1.3, OT/PPP 1.0.1, FreePPP 2.6.2, dialup Internet
connection over ordinary twisted pair phone lines.

Trevor Zylstra
trevor@usinternet.com

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 98 12:19:53 CDT
From: Mike Sisson <sisson_md@vought.com>
Subject: [Q] Problem Downloading PGP 6.0

I am currently running Explorer 4.01 under MacOS 8.1 and when I try and
download PGP Freeware 6.0 I get the following errors from Explorer:

A network error has occured (-3171).

The attempt to load http://www.pgp.com:8001/freeware/PGPfreeware6.0.hqx failed.

The page that comes up in the browser says:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a query that this server could not understand.

Has anyone encountered this problem or know what might be causing it?

Thanks,
Mike Sisson
sisson_md@vought.com

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:49:43 -0400
From: Robert Whallon <whallon@umich.edu>
Subject: [Q] Where can I find XTND (or MacLinkPlus) translators?

Does anyone know of an ftp site (or a web page) where I can download recent
Claris XTND translators? I've tried various Apple sites and the Claris ftp
site, and don't see any XTND files anywhere. (MacLinkPlus would be another
way to go, but I don't see anything on any of their sites either.) Thanks
in advance for any help or information. (And apologies if you have seen
this same question already on comp.sys.mac.apps.)
  Bob Whallon

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 07:25:44 -0400
From: Louis Bergeron <tiwi@lino.com>
Subject: Amount of free space when formatting a La Cie hard drive

Hi,
I got this information from La Cie

Question I asked was:

I have a 2.1 Gb external with 4 partitions and I asked how much free space
should be left for the whole disk.

The answer from La Cie was:  We suggest around 500K per partition.

Further comment from me:

So, for a 2.1 GB or 2 100 MB, this would lead to approx. 2 MB or 1/1000 only.

This free space is needed when changing size of partitions.

A good advice from previous experience. Always work from a floppy.
Previously, I was able to change partitions by using another hard disk, but
this does not seems to work now. Program will crash in the middle of doing
the changes.

Louis

Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8
Telephone-Phone (819) 764-3862  Telecopieur-Fax (819) 764-3758

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 11:11:57 -0500
From: lehotsky@tiac.net (Alan Lehotsky)
Subject: anybody know of an INTERNAL modem for a UMAX 900?

I've got a UMAX 900 and I need to upgrade my increasingly
flaky fax modem (it's an old Prometheus 28.8 external).

I would really like to remove some desk clutter (and free up a
serial port) by getting an internal modem.  I've seen PCI modems
for PCs, anybody know of such a beast for the Mac?

Does the UMAX (which at heart is a 9500) have a communications
"slot" like some of the Apple machines?

-- Al Lehotsky

-- 
                Quality Software Management
             http://www.tiac.net/users/lehotsky

Process Improvement | Management Consulting | Compiler Implementation

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:43:40 -0500
From: Lawrence Rugolo <artxe@showme.missouri.edu>
Subject: Bad BBox

Could someone tell me where I can get a copy of the font "Arial Bold"?
While working in some application (can't remember which now), I got a
dialog window with a message something like "The font Arial (bold) has a
Bad BBox".

Thanks.......Larry

.........................................................
Lawrence Rugolo, Prof Emeritus, Univ of Missouri-Columbia
       VOICE MAIL: 573/882-9438  FAX: 573/884=6807
           WWW: http://www.missouri.edu/~artxe
........... EMAIL: artxe@showme.missouri.edu ............

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:38:40 +0100
From: dudley warrington thomas <thinktank@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Desktop: Strange Files

I've "lost" over 250 MB from my hard drive. I've been downloading alot of
files but I didn't think that it was TAHT much stuff.

NORTON and TECH TOOLS PRO give my system a clean bill of health.

Questions: how do I reclaim what seems like lost space? and, what are two
invisible file "FF Aux"  doing on my desktop?

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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 98 20:26:36 -0500
From: Cam Giesbrecht <cam@escape.ca>
Subject: EasyMail no longer supported

Regretfully, EasyMail is no longer supported.  This software is NOT being 
placed in the
public domain.  Apple Orchard Software is no longer in business.

If you are the administrator of a site with EasyMail in its archives, 
please remove any
and all copies of EasyMail from your site.

If you are a registered user of EasyMail, you may continue to use the 
software,
but upgrade packs and user packs are no longer available.  You will no 
longer receive any
technical support.

The latest version of EasyMail is 1.5a.

E-mail sent to cam@escape.ca will be bounced back after Oct 31/98.

I appologize for any inconvenience this may cause to you.

Cam Giesbrecht
  - HyperCard Programmer
  - MacOS(TM) System Specialist
  - Network Specialist
  - Windows 95/98, NT 4.0 Workstation and Server Specialist
  - MacOS X Server (Intel & PowerPC) Specialist
  - Linux/UNIX Specialist
  - MCSE in training
  - Registered Apple Developer
Consultations and Software Solutions

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:47:38 -0700
From: Kyle McKay <mac-purevoice-support@eudora.com>
Subject: Eudora & PURE VOICE Sound Quality

At 21:22:18 +0100 9/18/1998, dudley warrington thomas wrote:
>I have PURE VOICE 1.1 (PV)  and EUDORA PRO 4
>
>My first recordings with PV were OK but recently the application has been
>returning variable to down-right awful sound quality: recorded words are
>run together, pauses between words are "deleted" and the clarity is
>questionable at best.
>
>I've tried different positioning for the PlainTalk Microphone and have not
>changed or upgraded my workstation's configuration significantly.
>
>Anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to what one can do?

Versions of the Macintosh PureVoice application prior to version 2.0 have a
number of difficulties.  Most notably drop-outs in recorded speech, lack of
support for 68K and PPC upgrade card machines as well as iMac machines and
sometimes inability to open .qcp files created on PCs.

The good news.  All these problems have been addressed in version 2.0 for
the Macintosh which is now freely available here:

<http://eudora.qualcomm.com/purevoice/pluginDL.html>

(It also has other cool features like being able to paste in the audio of a
movie on the clipboard and save into PureVoice-compressed AIFC format and
balloon help for everything.)

IMPORTANT CAVEAT:  After installing PureVoice 2.0 on your system, you may
need to REMOVE and TRASH all prior versions of the PureVoice application.
Otherwise, the Eudora PureVoice Plug-in MAY select the wrong version of
PureVoice to use.

To determine whether or not you not you're affected, AFTER installing
PureVoice version 2.0:

1) Quit and restart Eudora

2) From the Eudora Menu select:
	Special->Plug-in Settings->PureVoice Plug-in...

3) If the version number displayed next to "PureVoice Application:" in the
dialog is not 2.0, you're having the problem.  Use the Finder to find and
trash all old versions of the PureVoice application.

Kyle McKay
Macintosh PureVoice Support

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:21:30 +0000
From: Michel Treisman <michel.treisman@psy.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: FWB HardDiskToolkit 2.5 problem

I don't have any help to offer on your FWB Hard disk toolkit problem, but I have
one of my own.

I am running MacOS 8.1 on a 7500 powermac and have FWB 2.5.2. installed. I have an
Iomega JAZ drive and I have installed the FWB drivers on the disks.

One disk is damaged. It failed a surface scan (TechTool Pro). I tried to reformat
it using FWB.  I ran Format for a low-level format.  FWB tells me: the disk is
damaged, use Test to repair it.  I run Test, choosing the option 'Scan and
Reallocate'.  FWB now tells me idt needs a low-level format.  How do I get out of
this vicious circle so that it will actually reallocate the damaged blocks?   Does
anyone know?   (I don't get a relevant answer from FWB).   Has anyone encountered
this problem before?        Mike

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:54:30 -0700
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: 7600 Restart problem

David Steiner asked:

>I just inherited a 7600/132 with 32MB RAM. When I got it I initialized the
>hard drive, updated the drivers and installed 8.1. When restart it, either
>from the menu or the pop-up that appears when you push the power key, it
>will not come back up. More specifically, the screen goes black, the
>startup chimes sound, and the grey screen with the cursor in the upper-left
>come up but that is the end of it. There is no hard drive activity and the
>cursor remains stuck in the corner when the mouse is moved; no happy mac,
>no sad mac. The same thing seems to happen when the startup disk is set to
>the CDROM except that I have a second or two before the mouse freezes.
>
>I have tried zapping the PRAM but since this is an entirely new install, I
>can't think of anything else to try.
>
>Has anyone see or heard of this kind of thing before? Have I got a serious
>hardware problems? Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

When I first got this 8500 a couple of years ago, it did that when I first 
tried to install a new system on it. After 9 days of torture, someone wrote 
and suggestd that I disable "Ethernet NB," an extension the system had 
installed. That completely handled it, weirdly enough.

Have you tried starting this computer with the Shift key held down, to 
disable extensions?

Also, some time after that, when I tried to install System 8, I got the 
same behavior, and ended up replacing all 288 MB of RAM, the hard drive, 
the logic board (twice), the L2 cache, the third-party video card, and the 
CD ROM drive. Obviously, this was all done under warranty. It was nuts. In 
the end, though, after finally replacing the last of the RAM, it stopped 
misbehaving and has never done that again. I have no idea which of those 
components had been the culprit, or if it was just their interactions. 
Note, I had added a third-party second hard drive, a third-party video 
card, L2 cache card, and a lot of RAM. So that left me open to a lot of 
questions. If nothing else works, you could try taking out any extra 
hardware that might have been added to the system.

First thing, though, would be to see if it will start with extensions off.

Daly

<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:56:51 -0700
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: Business card scanner

Zoltan asked:

>Does any of you know about business card scanner for the Mac? As far as I
>recall, there were a couple of models available a few years ago.

I don't know about a dedicated business-card scanner, but I do know that 
the Visioneer PaperPort does a very nice job of it, and has software that 
lets you make archives of your business cards, sortable and searchable. It 
is even less expensive now than it used to be, and is a better product. I 
would certainly consider that as a solution, given that you would get so 
much more functionality at so low a price.

Daly

<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:58:12 -0700
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: Eudora Word Services & Spell Checker

Dudley asked:

>The Spell Checker icon used to come up on my Eudora Pro 4 toolbar. Now it
>doesn't. In order to check spelling each time I have to manually open the
>application.
>
>Question:
>How do I get the Spell Checker icon BACK on the Toolbar and Spell Checker
>loaded automatically as a Eudora service

Can we assume that you have gone to the edit menu and chosen "Add Word 
Service" and pointed it at your spell checker?

Daly

<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:08:10 -0700
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: No Subject

Michael Luskin asked:

>I am looking for a utility much like resedit called resourcer.  I can't seem
>to find it on the standard archives, or through FILEZ, but I have seen
>references to it in several places.  Does anyone know of it?

Yes. Here's a URL. It is not cheap. It is not shareware. But it's there.

Daly

<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:52:47 -0700
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: RE: Really Basic OT/PPP Question / Global Village modem

Paul M. wrote:

>This is rather specific, but I have Speed Doubler 8, and use a keyboard
>shortcut of <SHIFT-F1> to automatically launch FreePPP (I like having the
>info window continuously displayed). You could configure this to launch the
>PPP control panel if you like. It's quite a handy feature; I have Eudora Pro
>as F2, Netscape as F3, etc, making all my commonly-used apps a keystroke
>away. Though I don't own it, I imagine QuickKeys (sp?) would have this
>feature, or OneClick if you prefer clicking on floating palettes.

This is pretty specific, too, but I just wanted to comment that OneClick
lets you assign a keystroke to any button (script) whatsoever, so any
script you write can have a keyboard shortcut of your own choice. You never
have to click on a button at all, if you don't want to.

Daly

<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:36:43 -0700
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: Sysytem File: damaged


--- begin forwarded text

Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 21:27:04 +0100
From: dudley warrington thomas <thinktank@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Sysytem File: damaged

When I goto open the SYSTEM file -- to add / delete / copy sound files -- I
get a System damaged error.

I've run NORTON utilities and TECH TOOLS PRO -- both give the system a
clean bill of health (and yet I still get the errors)

What's up!

All replies appreciated

--- end forwarded text

<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:16:03 -0700
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: Utilities?

Wade Singleton asked:

>I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction by helping me
>locate a couple of utilities that I'm sure exist, all I need to know is
>their names!
>
>Firstly, I have a small Quicktime movie I would like to convert to an
>animated gif. Any suggestions?

I have a HyperCard stack, shareware, called simply "Movie Conversion" that
does a fine job of producing a folder of .pic documents from a QuickTime
movie. Then you could use GraphicConverter to batch convert those to GIFs,
then use GIFmation to produce your animated GIF. I'm sure there are more
elegant ways to do it, but this sequence would get you there.

>Also, I remember reading of a utility which after performing a clean
>system install would move your third party extensions/control
>panels/preferences etc. from your old system folder to the new one. Any
>ideas?

I know Conflict Catcher 8 does this. Are there shareware programs that do
it, too?

Daly

<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:38:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brent Mitchell <mitchell@rust.net>
Subject: How to set up an Ethernet network?


I'd like to network three Macs, an inkjet printer,  and a PC.  I think that
a ethernet might be the way to go.  Is this hard to do?  What is needed?
Are there good books on this topic?

Brent Mitchell
mitchell@rust.net

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:58:42 +0100
From: simion@esrf.fr ("Alexandre S. Simionovici")
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #170

Q: I have a 7300 PowerMac with a internal CD-Rom , I believe is 12X. This
drive suffers from vibrations and makes quite a lot of noise which can be
damped by holding the tray edge between fingers. This symptom seems to
affect the CD-Rom in the Imac and an Apple update was released to correct
it. Is there a way to do so for my 7300 ?   Thanx for your suggestions.
--alex (simion@esrf.fr)

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 98 22:22:59 +0100
From: Ronald Acheson <RonaldAcheson@stones.com>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #173

In article <6urco2$s3l$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>
(Info-Mac Digest V16 #173), you write:
>
>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:21:32 +1000
>From: Wade Singleton <was@wr.com.au>
>Subject: Utilities?
>
>Hi Info-Mac'ers,
>
>I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction by helping me 
>locate a couple of utilities that I'm sure exist, all I need to know is 
>their names!
>
>Firstly, I have a small Quicktime movie I would like to convert to an 
>animated gif. Any suggestions?
>
>Also, I remember reading of a utility which after performing a clean 
>system install would move your third party extensions/control 
>panels/preferences etc. from your old system folder to the new one. Any 
>ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Best Regards,
>Wade Singleton
>Sydney, Australia

Clean-Install Assistant 1.0 is the utility I have found which answers 
your requirement. I got it from a cover CD issued with MacFormat in 
August 1998.

Ronald Acheson

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:02:09 GMT
From: kai_schwarzer@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Install system update 7.5 from (MS Mac Office-)CD

Hi there,

I think I need to upgrade my (german) system 7.5 at least to 7.5.3, to avoid
some of these "bomb error 11" messages. To do so I took the respective "System
7.5 Update 2.0" which I occasional found on my Microsoft Mac Office 98. There
are all the folders, with the correct names of the original floppies (which in
fact I do not have).

I tried a lot (direct install, create a folder "...net install"), but every
single approach lead to the messeage "please insert disk ... 1", which means
to me that the cd-alization of these floppies went wrong.

Does anybody know whether there is a chance to utilize this copy of the system
update? Modify the installer's script? Patch creation/modify time stamps of
folders/files? Or do I really have to download (gee, what a lot of cups of
coffee) the stuff?

Thanks a lot for every answer,

regards Kai Schwarzer

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:11:50 -0400
From: Charlie Vass <charliev@fgm.com>
Subject: Internal modem for G3 Powerbooks

Info-Mac on 9/29/98 3:34 PM wrote:

>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 23:23:34 -0700
>From: Blake Ward <bward@scruznet.com>
>Subject: Internal modem for G3 Powerbooks?
>
>I recently bought a new G3 Powerbook, but because of what was currently in
>stock, wasn't able to get one with the 56K modem already installed.  I
>could just go out and buy a PC Card modem, but I thought that since there
>is already space inside for a modem and a handy port on the side it would
>be nice to just get one of the internal ones.
>
>Unfortunately, I can't find anyone selling internal modems for the G3
>Powerbooks.  Can anyone tell me who makes the internal modems for Apple?
>Presumably they'll also sell one direct.  Alternately, is the modem a
>replacement part that Apple authorized service centers could order?

I too have the need for said modem, but for two G3 powerbooks.  If anyone 
knows the source please forward the imformation to me as well, TIA.

Charlie Vass

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:56:48 -0800
From: KJ Aanestad <aanestad@wco.com>
Subject: Mac Discovery Day

The North Coast Mac User Group, in the heart of Sonoma County Wine Country,
is hosting Mac Discovery Day Saturday, October 17, 1998 at Santa Rosa
Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA from
10AM-5PM, offering a multitude of activities, business solutions,
demonstrations and displays to the general public and Macintosh users of
all levels. Vendors including Apple, Connectix, Drive Savers and so on,
will be there. NCMUG will be featuring the iMAC. This is your chance to
check out the iMAC in person. For more information, please go to
<http://www.winebirds.com/MDD2.html> and find out what everyone is smiling
about. Admission is FREE.

KJ Aanestad
aanestad@wco.com

Smile and Grin, Go at it Again. Dream Big, Dare to Fail.

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 05:15:24 -0700
From: Maurice Mike McNeil <mmcneil@bbn.com>
Subject: Mac+ with Zip

>I try to rescue a Mac Plus without hard drive. Is it possible to boot
>the system with a floppy and make readable a Zip disk?
Manfred, Not sure what you mean by rescue, but you should be able to make a
System 6.08 bootable floppy for a Mac+ and put Iomega Guest on it. I'm not
completely certain that a Zip drive will work with System 6, but can't
think of any reason why it wouldn't. If you have any problems making the
bootable floppy, I could probably send you a disk image for a Mac+ that you
could use ShrinkWrap or DiskCopy to mount and write a floppy.

-----|-----
    0-0
    (_)+    

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:37:27 +0200
From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller" <stefan.mueller@uni-essen.de>
Subject: Mac9500 Memory Installation

Hi Vioncent,
	it's not that difficult at all but you can't access the DIMM slots
without removing the motherboard. Just disconnect all the wires from the
motherboard, take out all PCI cards and the processor board, remove the
screw near the center of the motherboard and slide the board out. Don't
forget proper grounding or you may destroy your components! I am a little
surprised that your memory didn't come with instructions.

Stefan

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Al Bloom <abloom@vt.edu>
Subject: New Norton and Tech Tool


Watch out my children, lest you screw the pooch as thoroughly as I
did last night. I got Norton 4.0 and Tech Tool Pro 2.1.1 within a
few days of each other. Both seemed well behaved on my desktop Macs.

Last evening I put the new versions on the ZIP disk that boots my
PB5300cs. And I ran each. Much like the queer in Khartoum who took
a lesbian up to his room, I'm not real sure who did what, and with
which, to whom. But it killed my Powerbook.

TTP allowed as how there were errors (standard mode) that it fixed.
Norton found errors that it would fix for a while. Then it got lost
and quit on me. I tried TTP again. Same game. I tried Norton again.
Same game. I finally tried TTP in expert mode. Lots of extents errors,
but eventually "fixed." Norton agreed there was nothing more wrong
with the PB's HD. Large exhale. Oh goody. Restart. No prayer.

Finder wouldn't start up. Missing AppearanceLib. Say what? OK, start
the PB from the ZIP boot disk. What's in the PB's System Folder? Nothing.
One finder, one system, nothing else. Oh my God.

I'm real glad that, when I got the PB, I made install floppies from
the files on the HD. Thirteen. Large bore. But where else could I
have been able to install any system on the PB? Recent systems come
on CD-ROM. The PB5300 doesn't have a CD.

OK. I installed the original 7.5.2 on the PB. That at least got the
sumbitch fired up. And linked to the home ethernetlet after installing
the Dayna PC-card extension. Then I asked my desktop system to recover
the system folder from the first-of-month (Ain't that always the case?)
backup of the PB. Copied it to the PB. Booted the PB from floppy. Trashed
the 752 folder, opened and closed the 81 folder to bless it, and voila!

Gee whiz, golly gosh. The Powerbook works again.

OK, so what killed it in the first place? I don't know.

Does Tech Tool Pro 211 suck toads? I think I saw something on usenet's
comp/sys/mac/system Friday nite that was apropos. Unfortunately I noted
the message only insofar as saying to myself "Self, there is an update
to TTP." That message had scolled off the newsgroup's list when I looked
for it this morning. Does Norton 40 suck toads? Who knows?

I don't like whatever it was that killed my PB.

TTP asks if your HD is backed up before fixing it. Norton doesn't. But
neither is worth the powder to blow its nose if you can't put a system
on your HD after one or the other kills your HD.

Al Bloom

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:17:14 -0700
From: "Schlyer, Douglas A" <Douglas.Schlyer@PSS.Boeing.com>
Subject: PowerBook 3400 right shift key dysfunction?

I bought a used PB 3400/200 and discovered it has a defective right
shift key. I took into an Apple certified service provider and they said
I needed a new mother board to the tune of $1300.00 plus. I can't
believe I need to replace the mother board to have functional shift key.
Does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone experienced this problem?

doug

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:09:27 -0500
From: Pierre Tison <ptison@cam.org>
Subject: PWRbook G3 series PCMCIA cardreader

<smaller><smaller>Hi,

Since few month i'm taking pictures with a Nikon E3 professionnal
digital camera, I also "read" the PCMCIA card with a SCSI Minolta CD-10
PCMCIA card reader everything is Ok, the card is mounted on the desktop
as a DOS card, all JPG files are opened via Photoshop v. 4.01 and v.
5.0, I am using a 7300/200 powermac, recently I've bought a Powerbook
G3 series 233/ 13" active screen, and there is a built-in double PCMCIA
card reader, every the time I put my Nikon PCMCIA card in that card
reader and try to open the file Photoshop give me that message " Could
not open th file xxxxx.jpg because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker
type is found " but if I plug, via the SCSI chain, my Minolta card
reader on the Powerbook I can open the files

and evrything is correct, so what is the problem with the built in card
reader, is it a "software" problem ?  The only way I can open the files
with the built in card reader is when the card is freshly formated on a
PC computer, and I cand do that only one time !

	I need help.

</smaller></smaller>Pierre Tison, 

tel: (514) 270.7651            http://poc.ca         e-mail:
pierre@poc.ca

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:43:43 +0900
From: World Link IR <worldlink@w.email.ne.jp>
Subject: Q: Japanese WWW sites with US MacOS 8.1?

Buying Japanese OS 8.0 or 8.1 would work on your PB1400, and I'm sure you
can get it at this online retailer
<http://www.cyber-bp.or.jp/sofmap/index.html> - the 8.1 updater is available
on Apple's Japan websit<http://www.apple.co.jp/> - but why not use the
language kit even if you don't need to input Japanese? It costs about the
same, and you can have an extension manager set just for running it. I've
used it with systems 7.5 through 8.0 and found it very stable.

Glenn Anderson

At 7:50am +0900 9.11.1998, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
> I've posted this query in more or less elaborate forms in a couple of
> usenet groups, but thus far I haven't got an answer which actually works
> properly.
>
> I want to be able to browse Japanese WWW sites using my MacOS 8.1US
> PowerBook 1400. No, I don't have the Japanese WorldScript pack installed
> - I do NOT need an input method, I just want to be able to view Japanese
> (Shift-JIS) HTML in my WWW browser.
>
> The most promising item I've tried thus far is an extension called Elixir
> 2.0 which handles Chinese big5 and guobiao encoding, Korean, JIS and
> SJIS. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work :-( In MSIE 4.01 (visiting, for
> example, <http://www.nintendo.co.jp> or <http://www.capcom.co.jp>), I get
> pages of undecoded SJIS with an occasional kanji character (or maybe even
> Chinese-Chinese characters) sprinkled in. In Netscape 4.06, I get the
> same effect - BUT - OCCASIONALLY I will get proper output when I hit
> reload after the page has completely loaded once. It's only about 1/20
> odds though, which isn't good enough. It also seems to make the OS very
> unstable.
>
> Maybe Elixir 2.0 isn't compatible with my browser or OS - but I don't
> want to downgrade either of those components. I even tried using Virtual
> PC, US Win95 OSR2.5 and MSIE 4.0 with Japanese language support
> installed, but even THAT doesn't work properly (surprise!) - I still get
> garbage. I can't just install Japanese Win95 because the only Japanese
> Windows version I happen to have handy is WinNT Server, which is a BIT
> much for my PowerBook to handle :-)
>
> Failing all that, is there someone in Japan who can help me to get a
> version of Japanese MacOS 8.1? (That's assuming [a] it exists, and [b] it
> will run on my 1400cs/133 32/1.2G). Apple Australia can't supply nonlocal
> OS versions.
>
> -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Programmer/HW Eng)
> <http://www.zws.com/>

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:35:01 +0200
From: cchauvin@jpg.fr
Subject: SCSI and SCSI2

I've just received an Yamaha CD-ROM Writer. It has an SCSI-2 plug. I'd like
to connect it with two mac : a G3 233 DeskTop and a 4400.

What do I have to buy ?

An SCSI2 to SCSI cable ?

An Adaptec PowerDomain 2940 UW and a SCSI 2 to SCSI2 cable ?

Please, answer direct to me !!

M T I A !!

Christophe CHAUVIN
JPG
63 grande rue
95 478 SURVILLIERS

e mail : cchauvin@jpg.fr
or         cchauvin@usa.net

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:34:32 -0400
From: willi miller <caribsea@gate.net>
Subject: Shanghai

A long time ago, I found a site for tiles for Shanghai. I've forgotten what it
was and haven't found anything else doing a search.
Anybody have any ideas? I play the game all the time and am really tired of
the same old tiles.

WM

-- 

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Willi Miller    -   Florida Features
Write - Edit - Illustrate - Produce for Print - Business - Radio
Box 651433 - Vero Beach, FL - 32960           561-569-6915
mailto:caribsea@gate.net

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:21:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>
Subject: Startup Disk Problems


James Chielli <churchstreet@earthlink.net> asked:

>I recently had to replace my hard drive ( it's a Quantum) on my 8500
>Power Mac and I initialized it with FWB Toolkit. My problem is that now
>I cannot boot from the hard disk. I must boot from the Mac OS8 CD, use
>the Disk Tools, mount the disk,then I open the Control Panels to
>designate the startup disk and my HD Mac partition is already selected
>as the startup disk,(which it is) then I restart and it boots from the
>right place.
>All this takes to long and it's driving me nuts. Can anyone help?
>james
>
Some hard disks have a place to put a jumper (or remove it, as the case 
may be) to determine whether the disk spins up on boot or waits until it 
is accessed to spin up. It may be that the disk does not boot because it is 
not spinning until Disk Tools tries to access it. Then, once it is mounted it 
can be accessed. On re-start, the disk does not spin down because the 
power stays on., so it can be booted.

croton@ridgecrest.ca.us
Cyrus Roton
Ridgecrest Apple User Group
Electronic Musical Instrument Technician

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Date: 	Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:39:47 -0400
From: "Howard M. Fried" <refried@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Suppress RAM Disk warning?

I'm using the RAM disk from OS 8.1 Memory Control Panel as my cache for
Netscape.  Is there anyway to bypass the warning that all contents will be
lost on shutdown?  I'm forever shutting down and walking away, only to
discover hours later that the machine never shut down completely because
RAM disk had been waiting for me to respond to its warning.

TIA,

Howard Fried

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:58:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: ljr <daerid@io.com>
Subject: Switching TCP/IP configs on PB3400C answers

Thanks to everyone who sent me an email - they are quite numerous.  I
haven't tried any of the suggestions yet - but they varied:

1.  Location Manager - this is what I will probably end up trying/going
with provided it does what I need.
2.  Various small shareware Control Strip solutions - not to offend any of
the nice authors of such solutions, but if I don't have to pay, I don't
intend to!
3.  Some actual offers of customized scripts.  This was attractive, but
probably more work for me (having to modify and make the scripts do what I
need).  

Needless to say, I'm always impressed with the Mac community of users who
read Info-Mac.  Helpful AND friendly... :)
--
Lyman C. Green, Jr.                             Type Eleven Support, Inc.

------------------------------

Date: 30 Sep 98 06:42:15 -0400
From: "D. Scott Beach" <sbeach@front.net>
Subject: Using Radius Monitor

>I have a Radius GDM 1950 that I would like to use with a PPC 7200. Can
>anyone point me in the right direction?

David:
I've tried to get one to work on the newer PMacs without luck. It appears
that the only way is to buy a Radius card for $US600 - 800. I had hoped
that Griffen Technologies synch. adapters would do the trick but they can't
handle the proprietary high res. 1152xwhatever that the Radius monitor
expects.
If you find a cheaper way, please pass the information along. I'd
appreciate it.
- Scott

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net
<http://www.front.net/sbeach/home.html>
A rabid Mac dude in Toronto.

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:52:46 -0500
From: Lawrence Rugolo <artxe@showme.missouri.edu>
Subject: Utilities?

This is in reply to the question about a clean-install utility:

>Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 29 Sep 98       Volume 16 : Issue 173
>
>------------------------------
>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:21:32 +1000
>From: Wade Singleton <was@wr.com.au>
>Subject: Utilities?
>
>Hi Info-Mac'ers,
>
---------snip----------
>
>Also, I remember reading of a utility which after performing a clean
>system install would move your third party extensions/control
>panels/preferences etc. from your old system folder to the new one. Any
>ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Best Regards,
>Wade Singleton
>Sydney, Australia
>------------------------------

This, I think, is the utility Wade Singleton is looking for:

Clean-Install Assistant
=A91998 Marc Moini, all rights reserved
version 1.0  May 18th, 1998
www.marcmoini.com

Overview
Upgrading a System Folder to a new version of Mac OS often takes a lot of
time, because you need to figure out which files to move to the new system
and which ones to leave behind (extensions, control panels, printer
drivers, application-specific items, special folders, etc ).

Clean-Install Assistant makes this process easier and faster because it
does this sorting and moving automatically, using its list of factory-issue
Mac OS files. It'll carefully collect your additions and move them to a
separate folder so you can update the System Folder, then it'll move them
back to the right places in the new System Folder with a single click!

System 7.x or Mac OS 8.x required.

=2E........................................................
Lawrence Rugolo, Prof Emeritus, Univ of Missouri-Columbia
       VOICE MAIL: 573/882-9438  FAX: 573/884=3D6807
           WWW: http://www.missouri.edu/~artxe
=2E.......... EMAIL: artxe@showme.missouri.edu ............

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:08:16 +0000
From: Mephistophilis <stch8002@BUREAU.UCC.IE>
Subject: Utility for logging documents sent to the printer?

>From: Mephistophilis <stch8002@BUREAU.UCC.IE>
>Subject: Utility for logging documents sent to the printer?

>Is there any utility that would keep a log of the names of the documents
>that I print and save me the occasional embarrasment of typing an important
>letter or memo - and then forgetting whether I printed and sent it off or
>not. (Must be my age - <sigh>).

There IS such a utility - Working Printlogger/Printstamper from Working
Software Inc., P.O. Box 1844, Santa Cruz, CA 95601-1844. The embarrassing
thing is that I have owned a copy for some years but have never tried it
out. I have now, and it seems to work perfectly. Must be my age indeed!
Fergus

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:42:24 +0100
From: dudley warrington thomas <thinktank@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Viruses: Mac & IBM

Every time I send people .jpg files on AOL or via the internet, they tell
me their virus programs send up an alert. I have VIREX, the latest updater
file and get a clean bill of health.

Question: How do I find out if I have a virus -- or -- just rest assured
that WINDOZE is strange technology that just doesn't ever make sense?

All replies appreciated.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:58:13 -0400
From: "Jim (James G) Hardwick CPA" <hardwick@ordinary.com>
Subject: what to mac of a Boston trip...

980929

Does anyone know of anything interesting in the MAC sense going on in
Boston next week?  My wife & I will be there for a few days as she attends
a conference (see http://www.itca.org for detailed reasons for my wife's
visit ;->, she is chair of ITCA, her professional org).

Pls e mail me directly if you have ideas, many thanks in advance!

jh

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 23:43:58 -0600
From: John Hayes <jwyatth@nucleus.com>
Subject: Wtd: Mac friendly service provider

Hello
    I am moving to Vancouver BC, Canada soon, and I am looking for a
good internet service provider in the area, would anyone have a
suggestion of who I could try?
Thankyou for your time and effort
John Hayes

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