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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 30 Dec 98       Volume 16 : Issue 228

Today's Topics:

      [Q]-Where is OT/PPP Contol Panel (OS 8.5.1)?
      Appletalk defaulting to printer port
      At Ease 2.0 and game CD's
      Finder Problems?
      Floppy drive for PowerBook 100
      Fwd: Sluggish Netscape 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1
      grep xfcn
      help with backups
      LaserWriter Bridge
      Sudden blackout, then back on

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:17:07 -0500
From: shorton <shorton@lr.net>
Subject: [Q]-Where is OT/PPP Contol Panel (OS 8.5.1)?

I did a clean install of MacOS 8.5 and then ran 8.5.1 updater. All is 
well except that OT/PPP control panel is nowhere to be found! I'm using 
FreePPP succesfully, but wanted to see if my connection speeds could 
improve with OT/PPP. I tried finding it in the installer CD via custom 
installs, but cannot.
Any ideas? Could it be sent to me?
Thanks,
Scott

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:03:46 -0600
From: Chaz Larson <chaz@visi.com>
Subject: Appletalk defaulting to printer port

At 11:18 AM +0900 12/23/98, Tito and Shari Poza wrote:
>Is there any way to stop AppleTalk from switching ports when the other
>computer is not available?

Yes.  Get rid of the crossover cable and buy a hub, then use standard
10baseT cabling to connect the two computers to the hub.

At CompUSA, this solution will cost around $75.  Via mail-order or some
other source, it will be much less, possibly on the order of $40.  I
recently bought a 9-port hub at a Giant Computer Sale at the state
fairgrounds [one of those things where you pay to get in] for $25.  Acme
Electronics here in Mpls has 6-foot 10base-T cables for $3 each.

chazl
The foot bone connects to the ankle bone, the ankle bone connects to the shin
bone, the shin bone connects to the knee bone, now hear the word of the Lord.
                                                - The Suburbs, Rattle My Bones
Chaz Larson     -     chaz at visi dot com     -     http://www.visi.com/~chaz

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:04:10 -0500
From: "Kevin Greenspan, D.C." <kgreenspan@earthlink.net>
Subject: At Ease 2.0 and game CD's

Hey there folks,

I have been having a problem on my IIci (I know it's ancient, don't rub
it in.) When in ATEase and a game is selected requiring the external 24x
CD-ROM to change the discs. It crashes or just won't let you eject the
current CD and change.

Any ideas?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Kevin

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:05:14 -0600
From: Chaz Larson <chaz@visi.com>
Subject: Finder Problems?

At 6:31 PM -0600 12/22/98, Charles Edward Farrugia wrote:
>Hello! Recently I've been getting [a memory error from the Finder]
>The
>only two applications that I've loaded recently are Kaleidoscope v2.1 and
>GoMac (which both appear to be working OK).

If you disable these two, does the problem continue?

chazl
I met this guy - and he looked like he might have been a hat check clerk at an
ice rink. Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said: Oh boy. Right again.
                                                    - Laurie Anderson, Let X=X
Chaz Larson     -     chaz at visi dot com     -     http://www.visi.com/~chaz

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:03:50 -0800
From: Paul Brians <brians@mail.wsu.edu>
Subject: Floppy drive for PowerBook 100

One of our impoverished grad students has an old PowerBook 100 running
System 7.1 with an external floppy drive which has gone bad. Any disk
inserted in it becomes damaged. Apple no longer makes these external floppy
drives, and the only authorized repair shop in the area will not work on
it.

Does anybody make a good, inexpensive external floppy drive that will work
with this model? I know next to nothing about PowerBooks, so I'm nervous
about making sure that the cables on anything new will work on this old
model.

How about Zip drives? Could he use one of those instead?

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, 30 Dec 1998 05:18:04 -0800
From: Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com>
Subject: Fwd: Sluggish Netscape 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1

Tom,
	How much physical RAM do you have in the 8500? How much memory have
you allocated to Communicator? It sounds to me like it's struggling with
too little memory, possibly. Do you have Virtual memory on? Are you running
RAM Doubler? Do you have ObjSupportLib in your Extensions folder?

Daly

>I recently installed both Netscape Communicator 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1 on my
>PowerMac 8500/150 and observed the following problem.  I would appreciate
>hearing about any diagnoses, solutions, or workarounds.
>
>Whenever Netscape is accessing a web page, everything else freezes for 5-25
>seconds at a time.  It won't respond to mouse clicks in Netscape, the
>Finder, or anything else.  Occasionally I see activity on the modem, at
>which time it responds to the most recent mouse click before freezing
>again.  Web pages are loaded in small bursts separated by long pauses, even
>from sites and at times of day that are normally quite fast.
>
>A friend reports the same behavior, also with 8.5.1 and 4.5.

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:28:52 +0900
From: Ron Barber <rbarber@smtp.surfline.ne.jp>
Subject: grep xfcn

Some time ago someone posted the "grep-replace.XFCN" stack for Hypercard to
this list. The stack was made by Greg Anderson of the Social Sciences
Computing dept. at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I want to
license the xfcn for commercial use but can't seem to locate Greg or anyone
who knows him. Will the original poster, or someone who knows about the
xfcn, please contact me? Thanks

(or if you have a grep xthing you are willing to license let me know)

ron

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:54:41 +0000
From: Tristan Bailey <tb-octopus@tcp.co.uk>
Subject: help with backups

hi

Could anyone help me with some backup guidence.
I have been chucked in a the deepend with my first job and must try to
run a network till the company gets bigger.

I need to backup our mirror of our website and our server. So does
anyone have any guidence on what media we should backup to. Previously
we had backed up to DAT, but I am not happy with not knowing what is on
dat and the drive is old and giving me drive/media error messages.

I am using G3 server (IP 6) 8.1 and 9150 8.5.1 with the old DAT in it.
the rest of the office is Macs. I am using Retrospect 4.1 to do the back
up and am reasonable happy running that.

I am thinking of doing a backup to CD but then i do not think I would be
able to do incrimetal backups. Would Jaz or something else be better?
Are they reliable, esp. when left running for a long time?

Also I do not know how oftern I sould back up the system and how to
rotate the backups.

So I am looking for help/guidence/url pointers/"saving lights" for:
A) retrospect usage
B) IP 6/6.1 usage
C) back up practices
D) Media guidence
E) Any help in running a network for a computer base Graphic Designer

I hope I will only be running it in the short term but it could be a few
months so any help from fellow Mac lovers would be great.

This whole this scares me badly as all I want to be is a Designer. I
have been having almost constant nose bleeds for the six weeks I have
been working and I want to calm my life down and sort this out. For the
mean time at least.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

tristan

---
Tristan Bailey
Interactive Designer
tb-octopus@tcp.co.uk
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~tb-octopus/

"What's worse than a dislexic like me. A dyslexic in a big mess and
under a lot of pressure... Like me"
To peaceful times and beautiful New Media with a Mac heart.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:58:52 -0600
From: "Carl E. Mungan" <cmungan@uwf.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter Bridge

In our department we are using the freebie LaserWriter Bridge to put a
couple of laser printers connected by LocalTalk to some Mac onto the
ethernet so it is available to everyone in the department (and on campus,
for that matter).

The frustrating problem is that periodically the printers simply drop the
connection for no apparent reason that we can tell. It happens for
everything from '040 macs running System 7 through G3s running 8.5. We all
have different theories for why it happens: some say when certain Microsoft
products run, some say certain internet clients, others say when the hard
drive goes to sleep. None of these theories has held water under close
scrutiny and controlled testing. Also, "obvious" things like unchecking
"Load only when needed" in the TCP/IP panel or trying other available
versions of the Bridge have not solved the problem. Best I can say is it
happens on average about once a day and the only way to bring the printer
back is to restart the Mac which is attached to that printer.

Somebody must be using the Bridge the way we are trying to. Who can help?
It's truly aggravating to have to run around restarting Macs periodically.
(Windows has some kind of built-in printer networking mode which doesn't
have this problem; it makes our hold-out Macs look really bad to our
PC-boasting colleagues.) Carl

ps: I would appreciate it if you would cc any suggestions to me directly at
<cmungan@uwf.edu>, as well as posting it to the list. I'm behind in my list
reading. Thanks!

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:27:52 -0500
From: jcsouth@widomaker.com (Jerry South)
Subject: Sudden blackout, then back on

Today my monitor did a total, sudden, blackout --  then came right back
on. It happened several more times in the space of about 30 mins. As far
as I could tell there was no sound associated with the blackout. Anyone
know what this is? Am I close to some sort of imminent failure on my video
output?

I was using a graphics program at the times it occurred --
GraphicConverter -- as I've done 10,000 times before without such
incidents.

I'm using a 6500/250, sys 7.6.1,  with a Viewsonic 17GA monitor. About
1-1/2 yrs old, I guess.

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