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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 21 Sep 99       Volume 16 : Issue 337

Today's Topics:

      [*] TidBITS#497/13-Sep-99
      [*] TidBITS#498/20-Sep-99
       shareware Ethernet netwrok analysis tools
      (A) old video connectors
      [A]: Multiplatform messenger
      Cleanly Handling Multiple POP3 Mailboxes
      Getting BestData's PC card modem to work on a Mac
      MFS Format
      Q: How to transfer Exel curve fitting variable into cell?
      Sherlock network errors
      Wanted: a Powerbook repair facility in the Washington DC area

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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#497/13-Sep-99

TidBITS#497/13-Sep-99

The Macintosh received an unexpected supporter last week in the form of the=
 U.S. Army, which has switched its home page Web server from Windows NT to=
 the Mac OS running WebSTAR. Also, Jerry Kindall sees only smoke surrounding=
 a recent controversy about Unisys charging Web site owners for use of the=
 GIF format. We also note updates to QuickTime and Adobe GoLive, and look at=
 a practical way to talk back to Apple: the annual Bash Apple session at=
 MacHack.=20

Topics:
    MailBITS/13-Sep-99
    U.S. Army Moves to Mac OS-based WebSTAR
    GIF Licensing Controversy
    Talking Back to Apple at MacHack

<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-497.html>
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#498/20-Sep-99

TidBITS#498/20-Sep-99

Looking for a cheap way to prevent crashes, increase productivity, and=
 extend the lifespan of your Mac? Adam examines the many advantages of using=
 an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to protect your expensive equipment.=
 Also this week, we announce our voluntary contribution program; look at=
 updates to Web Confidential, Keep It Up, and MacHeadlines; re-welcome the=
 EvangeList; and note the announcement of Handspring's Visor, a new=
 Palm-based handheld device.=20

Topics:
    MailBITS/20-Sep-99
    You Can Help Support TidBITS
    Don't Interrupt! A UPS Saves the Day

<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-498.html>
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:47:41 +0200
From: Paolo Bartoli <pbartoli@iname.com>
Subject:  shareware Ethernet netwrok analysis tools

I'm looking for a shareware utility to analyze the efficiency of Macintosh
ethernet networks (ie speed, bad links, etc.).
Is there something out there?

**   Arch. Paolo Bartoli
**   pbartoli@iname.com
**
**   http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba

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Date: 18 Sep 99 18:08:52 -0400
From: "D. Scott Beach" <sbeach@spamless.tht.net>
Subject: (A) old video connectors

Greg Lyzenga <lyzenga@HMC.Edu> asks:
>I have an old Performa monitor lying around, which I would like to give to
>my sister to use with an old Mac she is getting as a freebie.  The trouble
>is, the monitor has a 15-pin connector, and the computer has a 25-pin
video
>connector.
>
>Can anybody direct me to a tutorial on Mac video cables, or tell me
>directly how to accomplish this hookup or where to buy the appropriate
>adapter?  Thanks a bunch.

Greg:
The video conector on the Mac is a 15 pin one too. It should be a row of 8
pin sockets above a row of 7 pin sockets. The 25 pin connector is a SCSI
port. The 15 pin connector on the performa monitor is 3 offset rows of 5
pin sockets. An Apple dealer should be able to sell you a cable to connect
the two different 15 pin sockets.
If the Mac she's getting is a really old one (like a IIci, IIsi or an LC),
then she may need an additional adapter. Griffen Technologies 
	http://www.griffintechnology.com/
has a good on-line database of what works with what and what sort of their
adapter you'll need.
Good luck.
- Scott

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Scott Beach <http://www.front.net/sbeach/> Toronto, Canada

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Date: 18 Sep 99 15:59:16 -0400
From: "D. Scott Beach" <sbeach@spamless.tht.net>
Subject: [A]: Multiplatform messenger

Ernst Niggli <niggli@pyl.unibe.ch> asks:
>Hello all,
>I am trying to find a messenger (similar to ICQ, AIM) running
>on MacOS and Win95/98 but not requiring access to the Internet.
>Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.

Ernst:
ICQ and AIM require a central server on which you check in and (I think)
direct your messages through. If you didn't want to access the internet
then you'd need to resort to some sort of bulletin board system to dial
into directly. That would work across platform. Have I've missed your
point?
- Scott

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Scott Beach <http://www.front.net/sbeach/> Toronto, Canada

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:10:01 +1000
From: "Dr. I. Balbin" <isaac@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Cleanly Handling Multiple POP3 Mailboxes

My University uses Novell Groupwise internally for its mail.
I don't like it, for various reasons. I use netscape mail and
a different internal (Departmental) email address.
I will, however, get mail to my groupwise email account
as well.
I had tried to forward my groupwise mail to my other
account. This works, however, all mail is forwarded
as opposed to distributed to me, and so the sender of
all my re-routed messages from my groupwise mail
account to my netscape mail  is ME rather than the person
who sent it (and the Cc's on the original email).
This is a pain.
Luckily, the grouwise email server also accepts pop3 and
imap. I can't use imap (which cleanly manages two accounts)
because the mail is kept on a central server (as opposed to
my clien mac) and my mail runs into 500 Megabytes a year!
I therefore use pop and store my mail on the client machine.
Unfortunately, netscape mail only seems to support
multiple pop sessions when you use separate profiles.
That is, you pretend to be two people. This means that
I have to close one session to read the mail from the
other session (pop account) and is a convoluted and
less than adequate way of dealing with the problem.

The thought then occured to me that if someone had
written a pop3 sniffer type application/server which
retrieved messages from multiple pop accounts, and then
stored these on my desktop, that my client mail program
(netscape mail) could then connect to this (local) server
and simply grab all my email via pop in a transparent fashion.

Problem solved (apart from the fact that pop3 doesn't seem
to run over SSL in the same way that imap can?)

Now, I know that I could move to Microsoft Outlook,
but I like to have the one application open for mail/news/web
and prefer netscape, and so I don't wish to have a separate
mail program (if I did, I could also use eudora in a convoluted
way)

So, my questions are:

    Does my idea sound like the only way to deal with this problem
    (without forking out money for commercial software)

    Does anyone know of any software that does this

    Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Please also email me your response, if you can, to
isaac@cs.rmit.edu.au

--
Dr I. Balbin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science,
RMIT University, Building 10, Level 11, Room 12,
124 La Trobe St. Melbourne, 3000. Australia.
Phone: +61 3 99252803                                  Fax: +613
96621617
email: isaac@rmit.edu.au
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~isaac/

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:03:46 -0700
From: David L Hirschberg <daneel@stanford.edu>
Subject: Getting BestData's PC card modem to work on a Mac

Has any one gotten the BestData model 56SPC  PC card modem to work on 
a mac?  The box claims it works on a Mac 7.1 and higher and also that 
it is 'simple plug & play installation'

I plugged it in a PB5300 running system 8.5 and the mac did not 
recognize the card.  I assume it needs a driver.  Nothing that looks 
like a driver for a mac came with it.  The CD that came with it has a 
bunch of old 3rd party software like AOL and netscape and fax stuff 
but no driver.

I went to their website and there was very little mac stuff 
there-mostly ccls and a modem script.  They have a flash update for 
the card but the only way it can be updated is from a PeeCee.  They 
did not advertise that feature to mac users.  Tech support promises a 
response to my plea for help in a blazing 72 hours.  I sent one 
request on Sunday and a Follow up on Monday and no response as of 
Thursday night.  No phone number or fax number to call.  I am not 
impressed.

Has anyone out there gotten this card to work with a mac?  Can you 
point me to a driver that will make this modem work?

Thanks David

hirschberg@stanford.edu

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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:00:51 +0200
From: "Jean-Philippe Pellet" <jppellet@gmx.ch>
Subject: MFS Format

Hello,

I wanted to run a lot of old apps I have on my new PowerBook G3, but as you
may guess many of them won't even open because they're too old. So I
downloaded vMac from www.emulation.net, which is wonderful, and now most of
my apps work very well!

But I still have one problem: How can I mount and/or use old MFS (Macintosh
Filing System -- the precursor of HFS) floppies on my G3? Disk Copy says it
can't use this format, yet I still have such old floppies. How could I use
them, or at least save what's on them? Could I download sort of a driver for
MFS? Or a special program to convert my floppies?

TIA,

Jean-Philippe

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:45:09 +1200
From: "Markus Winter" <m.winter@auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Q: How to transfer Exel curve fitting variable into cell?

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Hi all,

I've figured out how to apply a curve fit to my data in a graphic and how to
show the fitted equation on the graph - but I would like to use the
variables (slope and intercept for linear fits, logarithmic constants in
growth curves etc) in subsequent calculations. Is there a way to put the
calculated variables into cells?

Thanks.

Markus

P.S. Please reply to me via e-mail since I'm not a regular reader here ...

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Thanks.<BR>
<BR>
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Date: 18 Sep 99 17:21:19 -0400
From: "D. Scott Beach" <sbeach@spamless.tht.net>
Subject: Sherlock network errors

Patty and Art Werschulz <agw@home.com> ask:
>Platform: 266MHz G3 Beige Desktop, running MacOS 8.6.1.
>Often, when I do a Sherlock search, I will get a message saying that
>there was a network error.  The search produces results, however.
>Has anybody seen this?  What's the fix?  Thanks.

Patty and Art:
Sherlock does this to me too. I think it's supposed to be improved in the
next version of Sherlock. It'd be great if it at least reported which .src
script was causing the problem so we'd know which one to disable or trash.
I've got a couple other pet peeves with Sherlock. One is that the .src
files seem to be kind of fragile. Sherlock hangs on me pretty often and
then I've got to go through the process of trying a few at a time to figure
out which one is toast. Also, not a Sherlock problem but a web-site
problem, is that some sites that can auto-update their search scripts often
send their .src scripts in .hqx form that you've got to manually
decode/decompress and install. I think they could just do a binary transfer
and overwrite the old one.
Anyone else experienced these things?
- Scott

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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:18:17 -0400
From: a brody <abrody@smart.net>
Subject: Wanted: a Powerbook repair facility in the Washington DC area

Dear Digest readers,
I have tried MacUpgrades, and that didn't work (won't install 
keyboard that is in stock unless it can reproduce the problem), I 
have tried Computer Age (no parts available), and I have tried 
MacMedics (too costly).   I don't have time to send the Powerbook 
back to Apple, at most I can leave it overnight at a place and pick 
up the Powerbook the next day.

Here's the problem, the power on the Powerbook fails after a certain 
period of typing.   Even if the battery is fully charged, or if the 
power supply is plugged in.  It will still crash.  Keyboard has been 
snapped into place, and the problem still occurs after about half an 
hour to two hours of continuous typing.    Sometimes it repeats 
itself right in the middle of startup.  It will repeat itself 
sometimes when typing in the notepad and Extensions are disabled. 
But whether I am typing in Microsoft Excel, Notepad, BBEdit, or 
Appleworks, it still happens.   The screen flashes, the sleep light 
turns on, and then screen goes black, and the sleeping flashing light 
disappears.

It is under warranty until January 26, 2000.   If there is someplace 
that can repair it in the time given above, in the Washington DC, 
area, please somebody e-mail me.

Thank you.
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net
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