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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 07 Oct 98       Volume 16 : Issue 184

Today's Topics:

      "Insufficient System Memory to Run Word"
      [Q] CD-Rom vibrations
      ergonomics software package
      Freehand mailinglist
      Macintosh SE Fish Tank
      Print Lag from Hell - HP LaserJet
      Problem printing to DJ870 via AT
      Red titled error mess.: Not enough memory (Duh!) [Q]
      Repair of disk questions
      Viruses: Mac & IBM

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:02:43 -0700
From: Paul Brians <brians@mail.wsu.edu>
Subject: "Insufficient System Memory to Run Word"

WJ Shack <wjshack@anl.gov> wrote:
>
>There is a problem with Word 5.1 on PowerMacs.  You will get this message
>no matter how much memory you have on your Mac.  You need
>FixWordSystemMemory 2.1  which should be available (for free) on any
>Info-Mac mirror.
>
>FixWordSystemMemory is a system extension that tries to fix a problem
>where Microsoft Word 5.1 (and perhaps 5.0 as well) refuses to startup,
>complaining that there is a lack of system memory. . .  In my experience
>it is a >complete fix for the problem

In _my_ experience FixWordSystemMemory rarely works. If it does for you,
that's great; but I've had more success replacing the Word prefs file with
a new copy, since a corrupted old one seems to lead to the problem. I've
also had it occur when launching Word from Launcher, but not if the
original icon was clicked on. Creating a new alias and installing that in
the Launcher (or other launchpad utility) sometimes works.

Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians@wsu.edu
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:04:08 +0100
From: simion@esrf.fr ("Alexandre S. Simionovici")
Subject: [Q] CD-Rom vibrations

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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)

-| Dr. Alexandre S. Simionovici                      Tel. 33
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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)

-| Dr. Alexandre S. Simionovici                      Tel. 33 (0)4.76.88.23.46 |-

-| Micro-Fluorescence/Imaging/Diffraction, ID 22     Fax. 33 (0)4.76.88.25.42 |-

-| ESRF, BP 220                                      email: simion@esrf.fr    |-

-| 38043, Grenoble, FRANCE                                                    |-

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:13:32 +0100
From: Paolo Bartoli <pbartoli@iname.com>
Subject: ergonomics software package

I'm looking for a software on human ergonomics, like the topics found in
Henry Dryfuss's  "The Measure of Men" book.
As I'm an industrial designer, it'd be useful to have handy software tool
that lets you play with a "Dryfuss Man" (maybe integrated in CAD??) and see
what happens in the different postures of men.

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

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:23:27 -0700
From: Jim Carr <Jim.Carr@latimes.com>
Subject: Freehand mailinglist

At 9:19 AM +0100 10/6/98, Paolo Bartoli wrote:
>Where do Freehand enthusiasts meet, beside the Macromedia web site? Is
>there any mailinglist / news group?
>
Paolo:

mailing list address: LISTSERV@GALILEO.ADMIN.UAF.EDU

In body of message:

SUB FREEHAND-L your name

No subject line, no sig, nothering else in message.

*****

For Usenet, try: comp.graphics.apps.freehand

--Jim
--
Jim Carr - Jim.Carr@latimes.com             (I only speak for myself)

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:05:26 +1300
From: Ian Orchard <I.Orchard@mac.co.nz>
Subject: Macintosh SE Fish Tank

Quoting Ian Goldby <Ian.Goldby@btinternet.com> in Info-Mac Digest V16 #183
>
>>From: whitmanpc1@aol.com (WhitmanPC1)
>>
>>Has anyone seen or heard of instructions or a kit for turning a Macintosh SE
>>into a genuine fish tank?
>
>Isn't it amazing how some of those random bits of information you file away
>years ago turn out occasionally to be useful?
>
>http://www.ionet.net/~jlower/aquarium.html

I hate to pee on your parade, but I was reading just this morning that the
minimum volume for a fish tank is 5 litres per centimetre of fish. To
convert that to Ye Olde American measurements it means that a Classic Mac
is barely enough for about 1.5 guppies. And that assumes that the aerator
pump, lights etc are outside the case. Oh sure, fish (& birds) are
frequently kept in miserably undersized containers, but it isn't a nice
thing to do to another living creature.

Hang about until you can score a 5500 case, they'd be OK (if not optimum)
for about 3 guppies.

You could then try the classic environmental study, put a single pregnant
female guppy into the tank and see what number the population stabilises at.

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Keep in touch....Ian O <mailto:I.Orchard@mac.co.nz>

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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:05:46 +0930
From: monib@adam.com.au (Monib Mahdavi)
Subject: Print Lag from Hell - HP LaserJet

Dear MacTribe,

I'm running a 7300/200, with 64mb running OS 8.1. Attached to it is a
Hewlett Packard LaserJet 6MP with 20mb of memory in it. Something that has
always concerned me is the lag that hits my computer when pages are
spooling through to the laser printer. The more complex the page, the
longer the lag. Although simple pages still bring about lag for a few
seconds at least. What happens is that the cursor becomes all jerky and
skips across the screen. Surely my 7300 should be able to handle printing
to the 6MP without any problems at all. I have tried switching between
foreground printing and background printing and nothing changes. Trying to
keep working and printing at the same time becomes somewhat of a lost
cause. Is there some setting that I have missed, some extension perhaps?
Is this some bug with the 6MP and the 7300 (...just my luck huh) I have
tried switching between OS 8.1, 8, 7.6 and 7.5 and it's all the same.

At the office we have an old 8100 that is hooked up to a LaserWriter and
it spools pages effortlessly, allowing you to print and work
simultaneously. This worries me.

I have tried every variation of turning things on/off
increasing/decreasing memory. You name it baby, I've tried it. I'm hoping
that someone out there is craftier than I am, and can offer some
suggestions or even an answer for my problems.

Please forward any responses to Info-Mac and to myself at monib@adam.com.au

Thanks in advance,

Monib

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 22:13:38 -0500
From: Debbie & John Antolak <JAntolak@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Problem printing to DJ870 via AT

Hi all,

I am having a problem that Apple and HP can't seem to help with, and I am
wondering if someone on the list can help. I am running OS8.1 on a
Powerbook 190cs, 24MB RAM. I have installed the latest version (9.4) of the
driver from HP's web site for my Deskjet 870Cxi color inkjet. I can print
fine using a serial printer cable and the serial driver, but a Localtalk
connection and the Appletalk driver crashes the application or gives a
printer error. The same combination on a PowerMac 7100 has no proiblems.
Examples of the types of errors I get are "type 2", "type 1", "printer
error (-4097)", "printer error (-2882)". When I get the printer error, the
program keeps running. The other error messages are after the program
crashes. I checked www.mac-conflicts.com and couldn't find anything there.

Here is what I have tried so far. I have done clean installs of System
7.5.5, 8.0, and 8.1, but the symptoms are exactly the same. Booting with
the shift-key does not help. I bought Conflict Catcher 8 hoping it might
shed some light on the problem, and it says the driver is the most likely
culprit. I have downloaded the HP installer multiple times. HP talked me
through doing a "clean install" of the driver, still no luck. HP says it
must be something unique about my Powerbook, and Apple says it is a 3rd
party hardware, so it is not Apple's problem. I even tried using a PC-card
ethernet connection to my Powermac (through a hub), and then localtalk
bridge to the Deskjet. The chooser can see the printer, but the printing
does not work. BTW, this is trying to print from Simpletext or the Notepad
desk accessory, so it isn't a Microsoft-type problem.

I am trying to set up a little home network, so printing via Appletalk
would be best, but I am almost resigned to picking up a switchbox and using
the serial driver. Any help would be appreciated. I read the list, so reply
privately or to the list.
--
John Antolak

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 23:40:17 +0200
From: Eduard Hoenkamp <hoenkamp@acm.org>
Subject: Red titled error mess.: Not enough memory (Duh!) [Q]

Intermittently a window pops up with a red title bar and the text:
"There is not enough memory available to continue. Use the Application
menu to quit some applications...". At such a time there is always at
least 40 Mb of free memory on Mac. I have a Performa 5400/180 with 88 Mb
built in memory. Anyone who (1) recognizes this, and (2) knows what to
do about it?? Eduard.

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 01:23:28 EDT
From: Luskin@aol.com
Subject: Repair of disk questions

I am using a G3, with OS 8.0.  I am using Disk Repair 8.1.

I became suspicious that I had some sort of problem when my disk usage
suddenly jumped by half a billion bytes, although everything seems to run
well.  

After doing a restart from a floppy with a system and disk first aid on it, I
ran disk first aid, first in verify and then in repair mode.  

When I did a verify, I was told that there was a problem, invalid BTree 0,0,
and that the disk needed to be repaired.  

I ran the program in repair mode, and was told that Mountcheck found serious
errors.  At the end of the first aid cycle, I was told that the program was
fixing the disk, and that the disk was repaired successfully.  Upon running
the program in verify mode, I found that nothing had changed, the invalid
BTree problem persisted.  But it said nothing about Mountcheck.  

By the way, I noticed that, while doing repairs, the phrase above the disk and
floppy icons was still entitled disks to >>>verify<<<<.  Should it not have
said disks to repair?  I wonder if I was actually doing repairs at all.  

What could be wrong, and what can I do to correct the problem.  

Thank you.

Michael B. Luskin

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:01:15 +1000
From: "Frank O'Connor" <frankoconnor@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Viruses: Mac & IBM

>At 2:42 PM +0100 9/23/98, dudley warrington thomas wrote:
>>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.

Chas Larson subsequently said:
>If you're sending non-executable data files [that do not contain anything
>like Word macros] from a Mac to a PC, you can rest assured there is no way
>for you to be transmitting a virus to them.  Even if your Mac had a virus,
>which it apparently doesn't, it would be Mac-specific and could not infect
>a PC.  And vice versa. [again, except for those Word/Excel Macro viruses].
>
>That said, does this happen with only jpgs or with any attached file?  I
>suspect that the virus checkers are alerting you associates to the
>possiblity that there may be a virus in that attached file, without
>actually examining the attached file.

Probably correct, but to my mind the problem could be the attachment
encoding protocol being used to send the files. What the Wintel virus
checkers could be kvetching about is the Mac resource fork of the file they
have received ... Wintel files don't have resource forks. This little
addendum to the file could be being perceived by the virus checkers as
indicative of a virus. (And you gotta remember there is good reason in the
Wintel world for being a tad paranoid about viruses)

Bottom line if this is the case: Don't use Apple Single or Binhex options
in your mailer to send attachments. Use either the Uuencode option or more
desirably the AppleDouble option which equates with MIME ... and doesn't
send the resource forks of the files. I have AppleDouble set by default in
my mailer ... as any Mac recipients can easily reconstruct the resource
fork by using helper applications (eg. Internet Config) that add resource
forks to files as they are received depending on the file names ... or can
be added by opening the file from within the target application. Makes life
less aggravating for my Wintel colleagues as well - and I figure they've
got a whole lot of natural OS related aggravation to work out without my
adding to it. ;-)
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