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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 01 Feb 99       Volume 16 : Issue 254

Today's Topics:

      (C) A Cautionary Tale - Eudora is time expiring
      (Q) Stuffit Deluxe contextual plugin not registered?
      (Q) video mirroring and the Powerbook
      [A]: DAT to Mac connections
      [Q] vivisecting the PowerBook 5300
      Apple Data Detectors
      Apple Data Detectors
      Apple Enet Extension
      Bookmarks
      Bootable ZIP Disk
      Copy Problems
      Drives for Performa 6400/180
      Drives for Performa 6400/180
      Drives for Performa 6400/180
      Electronic organizer via serial port to Mac
      G3 MT won't sleep
      Hard Disk Toolkit vs Zip disks  A BIG JOKE
      Help with IRTalk on iMac
      How to create a small network?
      iMac 266 & Epson 440 Printer
      Info-Mac Digest V16 #251
      Mapping software
      Modifying CD-ROM driver with ResEdit
      Netscape 3.0
      PaperPortVX (Barlow)
      Printing Over an NT Network
      setting view defaults in Word 98
      Word 6.0.1 and Mac OS 8.5.1

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 01:39:29 -0500
From: abrody@smart.net
Subject: (C) A Cautionary Tale - Eudora is time expiring

Dear Digest readers,
In a surprise that shouldn't have been, I got a message from Eudora 
Pro 4.1b60 today that it was about to expire in a week.    How did it 
come as a surprise?

1. I downloaded the beta after it was recommended by Mac Network 
News, and used Anarchie Pro to do so.

2. Unfortunately the readme the did not state that it would expire 
after a certain period of time.

3. Unfortunately the about window did not state that it would expire 
after a certain period of time.

4. The only place it did so was on the Eudora web page.    But since 
I had downloaded it with Anarchie, bypassing the notes on the web 
page I had no notion until the week before the expiration was set, 
that it would do so.

So what have we learned here?   Always go to the web page first of 
the publisher of the software before downloading a beta.  It may be 
only there that it states that the beta is time expiring.

Now I am in potential trouble with a customer for not warning him of 
this expiration.

Never share beta software with customers unless you are 100% sure it 
won't expire.

The sad thing is, the only stable e-mailer for the Mac that supports:
web pages
automated spell checking
ability to read the listserv version of the digest
and multiple e-mail accounts is Eudora Pro 4.1beta.
And that costs money eventually, or time downloading and installing 
the new beta.

Not to mention the new beta installs an old version of QuickTime on 
top of your old version, so you have to move your newer extensions 
out before installing Eudora.

All other e-mailers crash once you exceed a certain folder and or 
file limit for mailboxes.
All other e-mailers lack some or all the specific features mentioned above.

I have tried Outlook Express 4.5.  I have tried Eudora Lite 3.1.3l. 
I have tried Netscape Communicator 4.0 through 4.5, and Netscape 
Navigator 3.0.x.    I have tried Cyberdog.  I have tried Claris 
E-mailer.
What left is there to try?

And why can't those free e-mailers get it into their heads that 
features cost money, and features when not released right can cause 
crashes?   Rhetorical, but if this message could only go to the 
publishers of those free e-mailers, maybe we would see a better 
e-mailer for the Mac.

Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:48:18 -0500
From: abrody@smart.net
Subject: (Q) Stuffit Deluxe contextual plugin not registered?

Dear Digest readers,
I have Stuffit Deluxe 4.5 on CD-ROM, and installed it on a new 
machine of mine.  The Deluxe application and the dropstuff documents 
went in OK, and I was able to plug in the serial number.  But when it 
came to rebooting I got the message that the "Stuffit contextual menu 
item is not registered and could not load."   But if I put in my 
serial number for Deluxe, shouldn't it register the contextual menu 
plugin as well?

MacOS 8.5.1
FinderPop 1.7.6

and nothing else out of the ordinary.

Readers note: I am aware 5.0.2 of Stuffit Deluxe has been released, 
but I am not yet willing to put another $80 towards it, not knowing 
whether or not the rebate will be paid for the upgrade.  I've had bad 
luck with rebate based offers.

Thank you.
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:03:52 -0500
From: abrody@smart.net
Subject: (Q) video mirroring and the Powerbook

Dear Digest readers,
I see how to get an external monitor to mirror a Powerbook G3's 
screen, but I wondered, can I get an external monitor to act as a 
second screen the way desktop machines have been able to do for years 
with a second video card?  Can I extend my desktop of my Powerbook? 
I do know  of the Virtual Desktop program, but that has a tendency to 
crash my machine.

Thank you.
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:45:13 +0100
From: Yvon Thoraval <Yvon.Thoraval@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: [A]: DAT to Mac connections

> Allan Sutherland wrote:
>
>> Can anyone advise the most efficient way to connect a DAT recorder
>> digitally to a mac G3 to enable smooth data transfer to burn audio
>> CD-Rs?
>
> Buy an audio card such as the Digidesign Audiomedia III
> (http://www.digidesign.com/main.html).  This card (or other brands with
> similar options) have a digital audio in and out on them.  Using the
> proper cable (either an S/PDIF cable or a _video_ cable with RCA ends)
> connect the ins and outs on the Audiomedia III to the S/PDIF outs and
> ins on the DAT recorder.  Done.
>
> Trevor Zylstra

that's a solution but not really cost effective =B0;-))
it's about of the price of a Sony DAT ...
for a simple serial interface having less throughput than AppleTalk

I've heard from a Sony's tech support that S/PDIF format could be=20
compatible with the (a)synchronous serial port (printer)modem.

But it was only speaking about ...

Someone does have deeper info ?
Yvon Thoraval
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yvon.thoraval/
ICQ#27574215
#PsyChat sur UnderZ

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 03:39:15 +0000
From: Marlon Deason <marlond@earthlink.net>
Subject: [Q] vivisecting the PowerBook 5300

I have a few nagging questions for the hardware hackers on the list. If
you or someone you know is a hardware hacker or you know the URL to a
site with related info, please read on:

1. I have a PowerBook 5300c 32/100/500 and would very much like to
replace the oscillator clock chip. It seems there was much more info
available while these were 'top-of-the-line' PowerBooks but virtually
none now. That seems really odd because no rational computer user is
going to hack up his brand new machine, but you would think as the model
falls further and further behind the latest and greatest there would be
more interst not less. Has this been proven not to work? (i.e. the
oscilliator also times other things than bus speed)

2. I bought the PowerBook 5300c 8/100/500 as opposed to the PowerBook
5300c 16/100/750 because I knew I would be adding RAM anyway and I
thought I could save a few bucks (approx. $750). Little did I know at
the time, but the PowerBook 5300c 16/100/750 has 1 MB VRAM. My model
only has 512k VRAM. It seems really unlikely that Apple produced two
drastically different logicboards to perpatrate this act of unkindness.
Is there a way to add an additional 512k to my machine or remove the
lesser chip and replace with a 1 MB?

3. The PowerBook 5300c 32/100/500 was originally design to be the first
PowerBook to take advantage of Lith-Ion batteries. Saddly, after a
particularly bad day in the lab a 5300 spontaniously combusted (no doubt
while simulating the PowerBook running multiple gradient blurs in
PhotoShop while wrapped in a wool blanket under a Sahara sun at noon,
but this COULD be someones actual user conditions). So my PowerBook runs
NiMH batteries instead. I have run from a friends 3400 battery
(Lith-Ion) and my temp gauge did climb a little, but my battery life
indicator was burried in the green all afternoon (roughly 3 hours).
Nothing's to stop me getting a 3400 battery, but what is the real risk
to my machine? Will the Lith-Ion battery charge in my machine?

4. What is the deal-i-oh with my particular IR port? The 190 didn't have
it and I had high hopes for a lot of wireless fun with my PowerBook.
Alas, I have used it exactly once to play a game of MazeWars (the demo
app that came with my machine) with a friend and his 3400. I have heard
that the IR portocol Apple is using has changed (and changed, and
changed...) Is there a site that lays it all on the line about Apple and
IR? AFAIK the PowerBooks 5300, 3400, 1400 and phat G3 had it as well as
some Preformas, the Newton and the Rev A and B iMacs (but not the new
fruity ones). what a mess.

5. Is it just me, or is there some sort of bandwidth limit imposed on my
PC card slots? I am aware of my low power serial ports (gnash, gnash),
but now that modems have reached 56k speeds, their drivers are asking
the PC slot for 112000 (or some such) and then not being able to get it.
Is there a governing body that decides PC slot protocols? 

6. When the PC card bus was originally added to the PowerBook there was
an explosion of products announced for it. I am currently researching a
buying a Sony HandyCam, are there video input cards available that are
compatible with the 5300's slower (non-Zoom port) PC cards and bus
speed?

7. Does anyone have a source of supply for the cheap plastic door on the
back of my PowerBook? Apple recently got smacked for discontinuing the
free tech support it so loudly touted in the early '90s. So I figured I
would try again to get my replacement door. Apple said that since my
warrenty is up, I would have to get it locally. I cannot find anywhere
here in NYC that will just sell me a door. Either they claim not to have
it or they want me to drop of the 'Book and they will "install" it (i.e.
bilk me out of some cash for the miniscule amount of labor. I have heard
people who requested replacement parts from Apple while still under
warranty were shipped poly bags of twenty doors each. Anybody got a
spare?

Feel free to email me direct

Marlon Deason
marlond@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/

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Date: 31 Jan 99 09:57:28 +0000
From: "Gavin" <Gavin.Haines@btinternet.com>
Subject: Apple Data Detectors

On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 8:29 pm, you wrote:

>Install the 
>contextual menu extensions alone from the MacOS 8.5 CD-ROM using a 
>System Custom Installation, and then run the 8.5.1 updater, and then 
>everything should be fine again.

The British version of the iMac is not supplied with MacOS 8.5 CD-ROM - it
comes with two CD,s - one is called "iMac Software Install" and the other
is called "iMac Software Restore"

If you try to run the 8.5.1 updater a second time, the installer says "your
iMac is already updated..."

Anyway, if you go to the "keyboard" control panel, you can select both the
US and British keyboard layouts.  When you select the US keyboard layout, 
the contextual menu for the Apple Data Detectors appears when you hold down
the control key.

The upshot is, you can turn the contextual menu feature on and off by just
changing keyboard layouts.  I think this would work the other way around,
if you have an American Mac, you could turn of the contextual menu by
selecting the British keyboard layout. This is easier than turning off
contextual menus in each application.  All the "contextual menu enabler"
extension does, is to add the "turn off contextual menus in application x"
to the help menu.

I hope this tip comes in handy....

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

Date: 30 Jan 99 10:59:38 +0000
From: "Gavin and Pauline" <Gavin.Haines@btinternet.com>
Subject: Apple Data Detectors

On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 9:31 am, I wrote:

>Does anybody know why the Apple Data Detectors does not work to produce
>a contextual menu on a UK iMac running S8.5.1?

Graham <twinspark@btinternet.com> replied:

>Hello Gavin,
>
>I also have a UK iMac running OS 8.5.1 and having just read your
>posting, I have discovered that ADD work if I select the US keyboard
>layout in the keyboard control panel.
>
Yes, you can select *both* UK and US keyboard layouts and use the keyboard
pull down menu (which appears when you have more than one layout active) to
switch between the two.

More info at:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/data_detectors/detectors.00.html

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:57:42 +0000
From: Michel Treisman <michel.treisman@psy.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Apple Enet Extension

My experience doesn't agree with this.  Running 8.5.1  on a 7300 I had difficulties getting on the net until I pulled
Apple Enet, and imported Ethernet (Built-in) - not there previously - to replace it.  Then all was fine,   Mike

 -----------------------------------------------------------
Subject:
               Apple Enet Extension
      Date:
               Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:01:59 -0800
     From:
               Dan Frakes <Dan@InformINIT.com>

Al Bloom <abloom@vt.edu> wrote:
>"Apple Enet"
>I went to the font of all such knowledge, the excellent shareware Informinit.
>This is what informinit says about Apple Enet.
>
>>Apple Enet 10/100D extension: provides support under Mac OS 8.1 for the
>>10/100 Ethernet PC card supplied with the PowerMacintosh G3 Server.
>
>Right. My 7300/180 is really a G3 Server with a 10/100 Ethernet PC card.

Al:

The information in InformINIT 8.1 is correct for Mac OS 8.1 :-) Under
8.5, Apple supposedly rolled all of the Ethernet drivers into one file,
Apple Enet. At least that what Apple says! Try removing the _other_
Ethernet drivers and see if everything works right.

P.S. InformINIT 8.5.1 will try to clarify this... too bad Apple didn't
change the name of the file so as to avoid confusion.

    Dan@InformINIT.com
<http://www.InformINIT.com>

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:28:33 +0000
From: Harold Lietz <hlietz@gate.net>
Subject: Bookmarks

I am running Netscape 4.5 on a Mac 6500/250 with OS 8.1.

In order to select a bookmark I have to go to the "Edit Bookmarks"
window and then make the selections.  It will not respond to the
Bookmarks window.  Is this normal or do I have something wrong?  I have
tried to find a setting in the preferences with no luck.

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

Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:12:11 -0500
From: Ephraim Fithian <fithian@enter.net>
Subject: Bootable ZIP Disk

I have unsuccessfully tried to make a system 8.1 bootable zip disk to
startup a Quadra 700 as well as an LC 475. The system installs correctly,
and the zip disk mounts, but when I select it as the startup disk and
restart, the computer defaults to the internal drive.

The internal drive, which is not an Apple drive, has been formatted with
Drive Setup 1.6.2. The zip disk was formatted with the latest Iomega
software on an external zip drive.

I have previously created startup disks using 8.0 without any problems. Is
this a problem with 8.1? Anyhone have this problem?

Ephraim Fithian <fithian@enter.net> http://www.enter.net/~fithian
Quadra 700, 68 MB, 1 GB Micropolis 2210, CDROM,
LC 475, 36 MB, 400 MB.

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:30:15 -0600
From: "Richard A. Wilson" <raw@flash.net>
Subject: Copy Problems

Re: copy problems: Power Mac 7500, OS 7.5.5, 48 MB

When I try to copy a file to either the desktop or to a removable
Cartridge, I sometimes get one or both of the following messages:

1) The file "Whatever" couldn't be read because it cannot be found. Do you
want to continue copying?

Or:

2) The file "Whatever" couldn't be read, because an error of type -37
occurred. Do you want to continue copying?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:22:00 -0500
From: "Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>
Subject: Drives for Performa 6400/180

:
>
>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:28:42 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jim Antonich <jantonich@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Drives for Performa 6400/180
>
>I'd like to buy an external hard drive for my son's Performa 6400/180, but
>I'm stymied by two questions:
>
>1. Can I buy him an external SCSI drive? (The machine has an internal IDE
>drive.) If so, how large?

Sure can. You can even buy him an internal one, since the 6400 has a top
bay with an SCSI connector. That's where the 4 Gb SCSI drive in my 6400
lives. Externals will just plug into the SCSI connector on the back

>
>2. Will an external SCSI accommodate 220 volt current? He lives in
Germany.

It will if the specs say it will. Better make sure before buying.

>Jim
>jantonich@earthlink.net

-------
Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 99 17:50:00 -0800
From: "B. J.  Major" <bjbear@ibm.net>
Subject: Drives for Performa 6400/180

In reply to:

>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:28:42 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jim Antonich <jantonich@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Drives for Performa 6400/180
>
>I'd like to buy an external hard drive for my son's Performa 6400/180, but
>I'm stymied by two questions:
>
>1. Can I buy him an external SCSI drive? (The machine has an internal IDE
>drive.) If so, how large?
>
>2. Will an external SCSI accommodate 220 volt current? He lives in Germany.
>
>Jim
>jantonich@earthlink.net
>
>P.S. Any recommendations as to make and model?

Jim:  I have a Performa 6400/180 myself.  I have TWO external drives 
attached to it; both made by LaCie.  They perform very well.  You attach 
them via the Mac's external SCSI port; they have nothing to do with the 
internal IDE hard drive.  As for size, this machine can accommodate 
*many* gigabytes; both my external hard drives are a little over 1 gig a 
piece.  I cannot answer your question on the power/voltage thing because 
I live in the U.S. and haven't had to deal with overseas voltages!

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

Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:58:41 +0100
From: Christian F Buser <cbuser@access.ch>
Subject: Drives for Performa 6400/180

Jim Antonich <jantonich@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I'd like to buy an external hard drive for my son's Performa 6400/180, but
> I'm stymied by two questions:
>
> 1. Can I buy him an external SCSI drive? (The machine has an internal IDE
> drive.) If so, how large?

Yes, the Perfornma 6400 has an external SCSI connector. You can use
any drive size (you mean capacity, not physical size of the box, I
think). Some versions of the MacOS were unable to deal with drives
larger than a certain capacity, but it is/was possible to circumvent
this problem by partitioning the drive into several logical volumes.

> 2. Will an external SCSI accommodate 220 volt current? He lives in Germany.

This is not a question of the drive, it's a question of the power
supply used in the drive enclosure. There are devices which need to
be set to the correct voltage with a switch on the back, others have
"universal, auto-switching" power supplies (they do not need any
changes), and some can't be used with other voltage than where you
bought them. You need to ask your vendor.

Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at <http://www.mus.ch/members/cbuser>
"Wo Hunger herrscht, kann Friede nicht Bestand haben"  - Willy Brandt

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 03:12:13 -0700 (MST)
From: Dierk Seeburg <dierk.seeburg@asu.edu>
Subject: Electronic organizer via serial port to Mac

Hi,
I am trying to hook up a Texas Instruments PS-6800 electronic organizer to my 
Mac.  This organizer can hook up to a PC with the serial port connectivity kit 
PS-6155.  I bought VirtualPC and a serial adapter and hooked it up to my Mac 
only to find out that VirtualPC does not work with organizers other than 
PalmPilot.  I contacted Connectix and they said, if enough people request a 
driver for the PS6155 they will make one:  Anyone out there want one, too?
Any other ideas?  Please?  Thanks!

Please reply to DUMMY.ds@asu.edu without the "DUMMY" portion, thanks a lot!

Cheerio,    
Dierk

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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:19:53 -0800
From: dannell@primenet.com (Andy Dannelley)
Subject: G3 MT won't sleep

Dear Digest Readers,

I have a sudden problem with my G3 266 MT running system 8.1.

All of a sudden (last couple of days or so) it just will not
automaticaly sleep.  It will still sleep when I select sleep from the
special menu, but not by timeout.

I have tried resetting the parameters in the Energy Saver control panel,
I have thrown away the preferences and redone it, I have reset the
parametes in the Energy Saver from the menu choice (Return to Defaults),
and I have checked for other things than may cause insomnia, screen
savers and such.

I have used the Extensions Manager to eliminate all extensions except
the G3 required extensions by selecting the Power Mac G3 Base option and
resetting.  I really don't know what else to try.

Still no sleep.

I would greatly appreciate any help solving this maddening problem.

Thanks

Andy Dannelley 

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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:07:21 -0500
From: Louis Bergeron <tiwi@lino.com>
Subject: Hard Disk Toolkit vs Zip disks  A BIG JOKE

Hi,

I have used Hard Disk Toolkit PE 2.5.3 to format and password zip disks to
have only one driver. If I use only HDT, then I am asked for a password to
access my zips disks that I want protected. However, and this is the BIG
JOKE, if I use the IOMEGA driver, I can access the zip disks without any
password.

On the other side, the IOMEGA protection is such that HDT cannot mount it,
because the protection is deeper, more at the driver level. On the other
side, HDT seems to be a patch over the original zip driver, the same way it
does when formatting a hard disk.

So, be aware that your precious documents are not protected when using HDT
on your zip disks.

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: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:53:01 -0600
From: "Eric L. Peters" <E-Peters@csu.edu>
Subject: Help with IRTalk on iMac

Hi, all:

I just purchased an iMac, and wanted to know if it is possible to network it
via the infrared port with my Powerbook 1400. I know that the iMac uses
IRDA, while the PB uses IRTalk (which is not IRDA compatible). According to
both the AppleGuide and the Apple web Site, it IS possible to do this, but I
have not been able to install IR Talk on the iMac using either the OS 8 or
the OS 8.5 CD (the extension is there, but there is no way to select the IR
Talk option). The AppleGuide file for the Apple IR File exchange program
wants you to push the "Option" button in the Infrared Control Panel, but
there is no such button. Any insights into this sloppy documentation by
Apple? Am I SOL?

TIA,

Eric (E-Peters@csu.edu)

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:11:01 -0500
From: Mac User <somesolutions@hotmail.net>
Subject: How to create a small network?


I'd like to configure a small network. (I'm a Mac user).
Please advise me how!!! (As if I'm a dumb computer user).
The network contains two PPC and two Wintel machines.
Also one laser printer (let say HP LaserJet for the matter) and inkjet
(lets say Apple StyleWriter).
Do I need a "HUB"?
Do I need the software "DAVE", "MACLAN" or something else you recommend?

If so, write to me a step by step answer.
The answer should contain how to configurate each computer (what
programs/application to use and how).
Do I need a server? My default option is without a server.
Can you draw/write how the network looks.
Can I connect the InkJet to the network if so how?

I need one connection to the Internet but I want access from all
computers.
The connection will be from the Mac machine but I'll appreciate if you
can tell me how to do it from the Wintel machine too.

I will be more then appreciate if you can reply your answer directly to
me at
somesolutions@hotmail.com
so I don't need to connect to the news groups all the time.

Thank you

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

Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:11:58 -0600
From: Glenn Heilemann <gheilema@cswnet.com>
Subject: iMac 266 & Epson 440 Printer

Just came from friends house, having problems setting up Epson 440 printer
with his new 266 iMac. Still having problems even with help from Apple.

Used driver that was in the iMac installation disk. Am able to get the
driver to show up in the chooser, however when you select PRINT, the print
dialog comes up just fine but when you press print , another dialog comes
up telling  to select  printer from chooser.

In chooser, when printer is selected, nothing shows up in the "connect to "
area. I have been told that something about "USB" should be there.

Have tried trashing the Epson pref. files and reinstalling the software but
have same results.

I would appreciate  any help from all you  iMac people out there.

P.S. Apple told me that the 1.0 firmware update is already installed on
this machine.

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:07:56 +0100
From: Bernard Bel <bel@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #251

> Allan Sutherland wrote:
>  
> > Can anyone advise the most efficient way to connect a DAT recorder
> > digitally to a mac G3 to enable smooth data transfer to burn audio
> > CD-Rs?
> 
> Buy an audio card such as the Digidesign Audiomedia III 
> (http://www.digidesign.com/main.html).  This card (or other brands with
> similar options) have a digital audio in and out on them.  Using the
> proper cable (either an S/PDIF cable or a _video_ cable with RCA ends)
> connect the ins and outs on the Audiomedia III to the S/PDIF outs and
> ins on the DAT recorder.  Done.
> 
> Trevor Zylstra

There are much cheaper sound cards available now, e.g. Korg
PCI 1212 or the famous recent Layla card offering 20 tracks
at once for less than $1000, see <http://www.sweetwater.com/products/event/layla.html>...

Trevor, could you further explain how we can retrieve
Program Numbers from the DAT tape so that they end up as
track numbers on the CD?  I understand that you need an
AES/EBU interface instead of S/PDIF to capture program
numbers.  Is there any specific software that would store
sections of the tape to separate tracks automatically?
-- 
Bernard Bel <bel@wanadoo.fr>
Home page: <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bel/>
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Compose Music on the Mac! <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bel/music/index.html>
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:02:20 -0800
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Mapping software

Roland asked:

>We need to plot trees and plants on a map of an arboretum (its run as a
>charity to grow rare and distinguised non-fruiting trees in the UK) and to
>be able to identify them pretty easily. Ideally this would be a cross
>between some mapping software and a database. We can provide the hardware
>but need suggestions for software. Any ideas?

How about ClarisWorks? It has word processing, data base, drawing tools,
and painting tools.
Does that answer your needs?

Daly

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:36:51 -0600
From: Lawrence Rugolo <artxe@showme.missouri.edu>
Subject: Modifying CD-ROM driver with ResEdit

My thanks to Helman Philippe and Tony <momma@brainerd.net> for providing
the solution to my plea for help. Both suggested replacing Apple CD-ROM
driver extension v. 5.4.2 with the older v. 5.3.1 which came with MacOS
7.6. Tony even provided me with the extension. That did the trick; I did
not have to modify the resource forks with ResEdit. CDs now automatically
open when inserted, just as they should, without using FWB CD-ROM Toolkit.

Others with PowerComputing machines (or other Mac clones) who have this
problem may benefit from this solution.

Cheers,

Larry

    ----original post----
> Michael <coyle@resexcellence.com> had written a piece about using ResEdit
> to modify the CD-ROM driver provided by MacOS 8.1 so that it would work
> with all CD-ROM drives. I am having problems, so I wrote to him but have
> not received a reply. Here's what I asked:
>
>>Could you point me in the right direction? I have a PowerWave machine
>>which will not allow me to use the CD-ROM driver provided by MacOS 8.1, so
>>I attempted to modify the driver's resources by using ResEdit as described
>>in
>>  http://www.resexcellence.com/12-21-98.shtml
>>
>>However, the resource numbers in my copy of Apple CD-ROM 5.4.2 do not
>>correspond to those shown on this web page. Any suggestions or help will
>>be much appreciated.>
>
> If someone knows about a different set of resource numbers to use in
> ResEdit to bring about the desired results, would you please let me know?

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:17:02 +0900
From: Magnus Hoek <mbh@sophie.q.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: Netscape 3.0

Hi there

Anybody knows where I can get Netscape 3.0 for my slow and small 68k
PowerBook 180 ?

TIA
Magnus Hoek

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:09:51 -0500
From: "chazzz" <macman@kyol.net>
Subject: PaperPortVX (Barlow)

Oops! Well this is one of those few things that will put a knife in 
the heart of the Mac. Never plug/unplug  a SCSI device with the Mac
on. You may assume from that what you will. I'd say, look for a new
Scanner/MB. IMHO

--Windoze was just been surpassed as the height of mediocrity by the
announcement of Dan Qualye's Prersidential candidacy.

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:40:18 -0500
From: Jeffrey Frankel <jfrankel@gwi.net>
Subject: Printing Over an NT Network

> I'm the only Mac on a NT network full of PCs. I'd like to print to the
> network printer from my Starmax 300/180. Is this possible? If so, how do
> I set things up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>

I can tell you that it's possible, because my office is a mixed Mac/PC
network running off Windows NT, and we print to a variety of printers on
the network.  How to set it up is beyond my expertise.
--
Jeff Frankel

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:28:08 -0800
From: Kathy Brunetti <kbrunet@ns.net>
Subject: setting view defaults in Word 98

I prefer to use Word in the "Normal" view mode.   However, it insists on
opening up new documents, as well as files I receive from other people (and
we do LOTS of file sharing) in "Page Layout" view.  For ttheh life of me, I
can't find a way to change that default.  Anyone know?

***************
Kathy Brunetti

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:53:26 -0800
From: Cyrus Roton <croton@iwvisp.com>
Subject: Word 6.0.1 and Mac OS 8.5.1


At 7:39am +0900 1.28.1999, A.M. Wan Nik wrote:

> When the Word icon is double clicked, the only screen that appears is the
> 'opening' to Microsoft Word version 6.0.1 with the usual picture of the
pen
> and the legal stuff at the bottom. The watch appears but the hands never
> rotate. The screen just hangs there.

Glenn Anderson replied:

>I had exactly the same trouble, with 8.5 then 8.5.1, on a 7100/80 AV.
>Microsoft customer service here in Tokyo told me Word 6.0.1 is not
supported
>for System 8.5. This was of course after they had me try various little
>tricks for 20 or 30 minutes while I paid for the phone call. They then
>suggested I buy Word 98! I'm sticking with OS 8.1 and Word 6.0.1 for now,
>but that 8.5 installer is still calling my name from the bookshelf where
>it's gathering dust. And I did so like those little clicks and chirps....

Now, that is very interesting. I am having no trouble at all running Word
6.0.1 with OS 8.5.1 on my Umax C600 (603e.240). Actually, I use Word 5.1,
because I prefer it, but I have Word 6 in case I need it. After reading the
above letters, I tested Word 6.0.1 again, just to be sure. No trouble.

Cyrus Roton <croton@iwvisp.com>
MITA tech
Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group

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