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Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 03 Jan 99       Volume 16 : Issue 232

Today's Topics:

      [*] People Lister 1.1b4
      [*] People Lister 1.1b4 (Italian) - An addressbook
      (A) 3D cursors for the Mac
      (A) Home controls
      (RE) Memory Problems
      8.5 and Bitsurfr Pro
      [A?] At Ease 2 and game CDs
      [A]: changing to HFS+
      [A]: Floppy drive for PowerBook 100
      [A]: Keyboard Woes
      Any LaserWriter  Select 310 + Mac OS 8.5 solutions?
      Claris Import Problems
      CloseView missing in German OS 8
      Color StyleWriter 2500
      Difference between AV and non AV, differences between minitower and desktop
      Highlight colour changes? What gives?
      Home controls
      how to use two printers on a G3?
      Mac OS 8.5.1 slow....in a weird way!
      More freezes under 8.5 & 8.51
      OS 8.5 Themes and Patterns
      OT/PPP with V90 modem
      palm pilots and other handheld's
      Speed of MacInTax 1998
      Text Redraw
      Trouble with icons
      Use Mac OS Help! In 8.5, it's great!
      Virex
      Virtual PC/modem connect

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 19:05:32 -0700
From: cwatson@CAM.ORG
Subject: [*] People Lister 1.1b4

People Lister 1.1b4 (Swedish version) - is an easy-to-use addressbook that
helps you remember everything about the people you know: phone numbers,
birthdays, email addresses, or anything else.  It automatically reminds you
when someone has a birthday coming up, so you'll never forget a birthday
again!  People Lister also makes it easy to send email to anyone. If you
have trouble remembering birthdays and phone numbers, then People Lister
can help you out!

People Lister is shareware, and needs System 7.0 or better, and an 68020 or
better (or PPC).

[Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/people-lister-11b4-sv.hqx; 294K]

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 19:05:30 -0700
From: cwatson@CAM.ORG
Subject: [*] People Lister 1.1b4 (Italian) - An addressbook

People Lister 1.1b4 (Italian version) - is an easy-to-use addressbook that
helps you remember everything about the people you know: phone numbers,
birthdays, email addresses, or anything else.  It automatically reminds you
when someone has a birthday coming up, so you'll never forget a birthday
again!  People Lister also makes it easy to send email to anyone. If you
have trouble remembering birthdays and phone numbers, then People Lister
can help you out!

People Lister is shareware, and needs System 7.0 or better, and an 68020 or
better (or PPC).

[Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/people-lister-11b4-it.hqx; 297K]

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Date: 31 Dec 98 16:28:07 -0500
From: "D. Scott Beach" <sbeach@front.net>
Subject: (A) 3D cursors for the Mac

abrody@smart.net writes:
>I love the 3-d 
>cursors that are possible with NT.  Anybody daring enough a 
>programmer to make it available for the Mac? It would mean making 
>adding cursors to a Kaleidoscope-like control panel.

abrody:
Try the postcard ware "Cursor Animator". It's a Control Panel that
allows you to replace the system cursors with a variety of alternates.
You can add your own if they're not 3D enough for you or you just want
more and different ones. I've got version 1.2 that runs fine on my
wife's PB160 under 7.5.5 but won't run on my 7600 under 8.5. The
contact info. provided is:

=A91990 by Wilhelm M. Plotz
SiedlungsstraBe 21
4222 St. Georgen a.d. Gusen
Austria / Europe

No eAddress is provided. I haven't checked the archive to see if
there's a more recent version.
- Scott

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

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Date: 1 Jan 99 13:46:55 -0500
From: "D. Scott Beach" <sbeach@front.net>
Subject: (A) Home controls

Egidio Leitao 
<egidio@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
>I was wondering if anyone knows of a Mac software that can be used
>to monitor and control household appliances, lamps, etc.  If this type of
>software exists, is it reliable?

Egidio:
I think what you're looking for is a Mac front end for X-10.
Check this out:

http://guide.apple.com/Lasso.acgi?-database=macosguide&-layout=CGI%20detail&-response=%2fussearch%2fdetail.html&-recid=35831&-search

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

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Date: 1 Jan 99 15:36:01 -0500
From: "D. Scott Beach" <sbeach@front.net>
Subject: (RE) Memory Problems

>I use system 8.5.1 Int. English on a 4400 (HSF), 140 Mb, 256 kb level2, 
>no virtual memory, 4 mb Disk Cache.
>Conflict Catcher keeps telling me that some system files use more memory 
>in the system heap at startup than they request, e.g. Apple CD Rom, Apple 
>Guide & Apple DataDetectors Extension 1.0.2. I've run Techtool and Norton 
>of course, and reinstalled the system. Nothing helps.

Tom:
I have all kinds of evil memory behaviour if I turn off virtual memory. It
seems that the modern memory manager (or some such handler) doesn't cope
well without v-mem turned on. I've checked with MemMapper to see what's
going on and it appears that even when I launch only one application
(MemMapper for instance) it doesn't use the first chunk of available RAM
but leaves some empty and uses the next bit. This is a real nuisance for
all those applications that don't want virtual memory turned on. I don't
know of a fix. If you discover the secret perhaps you could keep me in
mind.

- Scott Beach, <http://www.front.net/sbeach/home.html>

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:08:52 +0100
From: glaston <glaston@fix.net>
Subject: 8.5 and Bitsurfr Pro

Is anybody running 8.5 with a Motorola Bitsurfr Pro ISDN TA? I have heard
that it can't be done. Motorola discontinued the Bitsurfr ISDN and I can't
find any support.
I would very much like to hear from anybody who has tried 8.5 with the
Bitsurfr ISDN or if anybody knows of another source to which I could direct
my inquiry.

As always,
TIA

Glaston
-Mind how you go.

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 09:17:12 -0500
From: shorton <shorton@lr.net>
Subject: [A?] At Ease 2 and game CDs

>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:33:16 -0600
>From: Kevin Jones <kevjones@cei.net>
>Subject: [non-Answer] At Ease 2.0 and game CD's

>Kevin Greenspan, D.C." <kgreenspan@earthlink.net> wrote:

>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.

>Kevin Jones replies:

>The only thing worse than AtEase on a computer is my 3 and 4 year-old boys.
>I had assorted ritual voodoo spells I chanted whenever I changed CDs or
>users, and sometimes they even worked (AtEase seemed to have the most
>trouble switching between the finder users and the finder destroyers, and
>if I ejected all CDs and opened and closed the empty CD drive and sang an
>Italian aria and was nice to my wife, then it usually wouldn't crash) .  I
>had decided, based on refusing to try any more to really fix it, that there
>was exentsion problem between AtEase and my CD management utils (FWB). Then
>I networked the boys' Performa 476 with my UMAX S900, and the old crashes
>stopped--but now, I cannot reboot with both AtEase Startup and networking
>active.  No problem: I just told the 4-year-old the password to my AtEase
>user account, and whenver he wants to shut down he must turn off Apple
>Talk.  Of course, now the 3 year-old wants to know the password, but he's
>only interested in hacking the Web kid-proofing utils.  He knows that if he
>invokes enough restarts, Conflict Catcher will eventually kill of AtEase
>for him...

>(Applying the AtEase 2 updater did seem to help.  I got it from some CD or
>other, so it's probably on Apple's FTP site... somewhere.)

>Bon chance.
>KJ

>Kevin Jones       **  It was an absurd endeavor--and was crowned with
>kevjones@cei.net  **  the success common to many absurd endeavors...
>Little Rock, AR   **                                --Fernando Arrabal

I use At Ease 3.03 and the updater comes with an extension called At Ease 
CDROM prefs patch which, perhaps, is what clears up the problems you are 
experiencing. Interestingly, I also have a performa 476 networked 
(ehternet) to a UMAX S900 and it works well. I use FWB's CDROM toolkit 
3.01 as the CD driver on both machines. File sharing starts at boot up 
automatically and the printer sharing works well too.
Good luck,
Scott Horton

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:43:30 -0800
From: "Daniel O'Donnell" <dano@west.net>
Subject: [A]: changing to HFS+

I recommend Alsoft's PlusMaker and PlusMaximizer; the bundle is available
from <http://www.alsoft.com/> for $39.95 and will probably be bundled with
some of their other products at MacWorld (they always go). The company has
been making Mac-only software for quite a long time, and their products are
always useful and good.

The details for these little utilities are available on their website, but
the short story is this: PlusMaker allows "resetting" the format of a HFS
disk to HFS+ without actually reformatting (!). This means the user doesn't
have to reload all the software and files (a long process in most cases).
PlusMaximizer additionally allows the further change of minimum block size
from the Apple default to various increments including as small as .5KB.
This happens during the "reset".
Of course, have a backup (or two).

Hope that helps,

Dan O'Donnell

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 10:32:27 -0800
From: Maurice Mike McNeil <mmcneil@bbn.com>
Subject: [A]: Floppy drive for PowerBook 100

> How about Zip drives? Could he use one of those instead?
Either a Zip drive or a SuperDrive (reads 1.4M floppies) should work just 
fine with the correct adaptor ($24).

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 10:19:59 -0800
From: Maurice Mike McNeil <mmcneil@bbn.com>
Subject: [A]: Keyboard Woes

Make sure that Quicken did not install a copy of ObjectSupportLib in your 
System folder. This causes all sorts of problems including freezes.

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:34:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Jim Clark <jclark@utm.edu>
Subject: Any LaserWriter  Select 310 + Mac OS 8.5 solutions?

Have you tried using just a LaserWriter Plus driver? Or maybe a generic
driver? It seems that if one can print to a LaserWriter Plus, one should
be able to print to a select? I seem to have been successful printing to a
LaserWriter select on our campus network from System 8.5 but don't know
just what I did (I am at home now so I can't check)

---------------------------------------------------------------
"Apple is the only lifestyle brand in the industry," Ellison
said. "People don't have that passion for Microsoft or Oracle."
                           Thursday, October 30, 1997; Page E03
                                            The Washington Post 
---------------------------------------------------------------

jim clark (jclark@utm.edu)
math/cs
ut martin

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 22:51:23 EST
From: Mercibeate@aol.com
Subject: Claris Import Problems

Hi All,

I'm having problems importing text files into ClarisWorks 4.0. When 
attempting to import, I get an alert stating "The file "Text" couldn't be 
found." Any ideas on how to solve this?

TIA,

Rob

See why we abandoned Los Angeles for Virginia!
Check out http://members.aol.com/mercibeate/

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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 19:40:02 +0100
From: EdgarHaegele@t-online.de (Edgar Haegele)
Subject: CloseView missing in German OS 8

Hello,

I=91m running German Mac OS 8.1 on a UMAX Apus 3000.

Since my vision is impaired, I need the CloseView control panel to
magnify and invert the screen. Actually, CloseView was one of the main
reasons for me to stick with the Mac platform. Unfortinately, recent
German localizations of the Mac OS come without CloseView (I searched
the CD ROM.).

So I=91ve installed CloseView from my old US Mac OS 7.5., but this
combination makes the system rather unstable - frequent screen freeezes.
=93The application Finder has quitted unexpectedly.=94, as Norton Utiliti=
es
tells me. The old CloseView is definitely the culprit. At least,
Conflict Catcher does think so. The CloseView version offered by Apple
Co. for download on their Disability Connection web site is of no help,
since it=91s even older and causes a system crash right at startup.

Can anyone tell me, where to download a OS 8 compatible (US) version of
CloseView? I guess, such an up-to-date US Closeviev would happily
cohabitate with the German system software.

Thanks & a happy new year!
Edgar

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:59:22 -0500
From: Roger Wise <rogerlou@dnsonline.net>
Subject: Color StyleWriter 2500

All of a sudden, when I try to print with my StylerWriter 2500 I get a
message that says the ink cartridge is missing or not installed correctly.
I have done the usual things, eg: trashed printer prefs; rebuild desktop;
zapped pram; cleaned cartridge; and even put in new. Has anyone had this
happen to them? What did you do? TIA
Roger

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who
we are, but WE are responsible for who we become.
Roger Wise(rogerlou@dnsonline.net)
Mac 6500

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 16:41:02 EST
From: Luskin@aol.com
Subject: Difference between AV and non AV, differences between minitower and desktop

At some point in the not too distant future, I am buying another G3.  I have
always been perfectly happy with the monitor on top of the machine, and I
either prefer it or am used to it.  So what are the advantages of a minitower.
It seems to me they are less convenient, where do you put it, and so forth.

What is sgram.  

I am thinking about converting my huge record collection to cds, since many
records are historic and not replaceable..  Is this a realistic goal, using a
cd writer on a Macintosh, with my Marantz amp and preamp, or is it really not
possible.  

Thanks for the attention.

Michael B. Luskin

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 20:29:53 -0800
From: Dieder Bylsma <bylsma@home.com>
Subject: Highlight colour changes? What gives?

Here's a puzzle:

sometimes my higlight colour changes from turquoise to grey...and
eventually resets itself (or not) back to turquoise. Any ideas why?
Changing screen resolutions, changing colour depth doesn't seem to be able
to revert to my 'user-defined' colour. This is under system 8.5.1 (also
seen under 8.5)

thx,

Dieder
--
Dieder Bylsma       	      |
______________________________|

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:08:07 -0600
From: Gib Henry <gibhenry@realpeople.com>
Subject: Home controls

Consider MouseHouse, which operates BSR X-10 modules by RF control over
the power lines.  You use your Mac to establish a combination of fixed
and variable schedules for various operations, then download the
schedule to a device which stores and executes the schedule without
need for the computer.

There are gazillions of X-10 modules for lights, appliances,
thermostats, telephones, burglar alarms, smoke detectors, garage doors,
security locks, &c &c &c.  They are marketed by Radio Shack, X-10,
Stanley, and a bunch of lighting companies.

There are also some AppleScripts on Info-Mac, but I regret I don't
recall the names or locations of them.   MouseHouse used to be
published by Swing Software, but I recall they had a name change, and
their old web site seems to have disappeared.  You could try several
resellers:

http://smarthome.com/1400.html
http://www.asihome.com/mac.html

Hope this helps.  Cheers,
--
Gib Henry

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 16:34:30 EST
From: Luskin@aol.com
Subject: how to use two printers on a G3?

I have a G3 Mac, with an external modem.  I use an Apple Personal Laserwriter,
and also own an Apple Laser Writer II.

At the moment, I have the Personal Laser Writer hooked to the G3.  However, I
have to change the forms trays very frequently, since I use several types of
stationery, often in the same packet.  The volume of printing is not high,
usually less than fifteen pages a day, but it entails at least ten tray
changes.  I would like very much to have both printers attached to the G3, so
that I could use them both.  I would not want to print literally
simultaneously, but would like to be able to change the printer to which I
direct a print job through the chooser, or something like that.  Much less
trouble than changing the paper trays.  

I notice that both printers have, in addition to the eight pin cable jack, a
29 or 30 pin connection jack.  Would it be possible to daisy chain them, give
each a different name, and use the chooser to select which printer I use for a
particular print job.  Someone on the Mac-l list told me I could do it with
three telephone wires (?), but gave me no more detail.  The catalogs also have
a switch for printers.  Would these be of any assistance.  Or is it just not
possible to have two printers on a Macintosh.  

What does it mean to have the equipment networked.  Could the computer and the
printers be networked, with the G3 the sole computer on the network?  So that
I could easily direct a print job to either?

The catalogs also have a USB switch for iMacs.  Would I be able to use one of
these, to hook the two printers up?

Thank you for the attention and help.

And I hope all have a wonderful New Year.

Best regards,

Michael B. Luskin

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:30:28 -0600
From: "Peter J. Garlinski" <garlinsk@lakes.com>
Subject: Mac OS 8.5.1 slow....in a weird way!

Ack!

Mac OS 8.5.1 is running sssslllloooowwww......but here's the kicker. It 
only runs slow when I have the extensions OFF! It does this on an old 601 
machine, a G3 tower, and an iMac!!! All have more then 64 megs of ram as 
well! They work just fine when I run 8.5.1 normally, with everything 
on....but when I hit to shift key (to install something), it crawls. 
Icons take forever to redraw, and menus are very slow. I can understand 
why it would be on a 601, but a G3!?!?!?

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas?

Thanx!

Peter
garlinsk@lakes.com
1-888-312-5678

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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 15:27:34 +0000
From: "Simon Hardeman" <sjh@themail.co.uk>
Subject: More freezes under 8.5 & 8.51

Is this just me? I'm running 8.51 on a PB 1400cs which behaved well with
every system prior to 8.5. Now I get freezes if, in the file selector
dialogue box in any program, I click too quickly to select a volume or
folder. The cursor still moves, but the only way to make progress is to
force quit the program. This then seems to leave a bug which necessitates a
full restart. Very irritating. This happened in 8.5 too. Any suggestions?

Simon

________________________________________________________________________
Get your free UK Internet account at http://www.themail.co.uk

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:25:30 EST
From: KingJohne@aol.com
Subject: OS 8.5 Themes and Patterns

I'm a few issues behind on my reading, so I hope this hasn't come up yet.  If
it has, I apologize.  

I've been adjusting the new Appearance Control Panel in 8.5.1 to fit my
likes/dislikes.  There are numerous patterns that I will NEVER use.  However,
unlike the earlier desktop patterns, I can't seem to remove these... they
appear to be one with the system.  Has anyone found a way to eliminate some of
the patterns that come with 8.5?

Second question involves the new "Themes" folder.  There is one theme,
Platinum.  I have a "theme" from Kaleidoscope, and I would like to apply it to
the Mac.  I suspect this is impossible without Kaleidoscope.  But for the
bigger picture, is there a way to add themes?

Thanks for any input on both questions.

Regards,

John King
Des Moines, WA.
kingjohne@gocougs.wsu.edu

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Date: 2 Jan 99 11:05:21 +0000
From: "Gavin" <Gavin.Haines@btinternet.com>
Subject: OT/PPP with V90 modem

On 1998, Dec 30, Wed 9:32 am, "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller"
<stefan.mueller@uni-essen.de> wrote:

> OT/PPP freezes Mac using v90 but not v32bis

OT/PPP is known not to support V90. Try using "Free PPP" instead.

http://www.rockstar.com

Modems originally supplied for use with the Mac may have been specially
made for it. There is NO standarization., and the pin configuation could be
different to that used for modems supplied for use with Windows computers. 
If you get a new modem, it is advisable to get it from an outlet which will
also supply an Apple Mac to Hayes compatible modem connecting lead.

I *nearly* bought a V90 modem yesterday, having forgotten about OT/PPP! 
Let me know how you get on.

The "G" man.

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:11:26 +0000
From: susan mann <smann@moneymailer.com>
Subject: palm pilots and other handheld's

i recently purchased an Everex palm size pc-it had many more features
than the palm pilot and had more screen space...
i realize that the palm pilot is the only one that is mac compatible
and am debating whether i will be able to function using a hand held pc
that is not compatible with my powerbook
one concern is that i cannot transfer info or back up - does anyone know
of a way for them to be compatible (the everex has a windows operating
system
thanks
-- 

 sue m
"click butt"
http://www.emagination.com
http://www.hotcoupons.com

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:40:13 -0500
From: Alan Stein <stein@math.uconn.edu>
Subject: Speed of MacInTax 1998

MacInTax 1998 seems to be much, much slower than any previous version,
almost to the point of being unusable. On the advice of Intuit's technical
support, I reinstalled MacInTax with extensions off and that improved the
speed slightly, but far from enough.

I've noticed many similar complaints expressed on Intuit's discussion
boards on Excite, but I haven't seen any solutions there. I'm wondering
whether anyone's managed to speed things up sufficiently, or heard anything
hopeful from Intuit regarding a fix.

I'm running it all on a PowerMac 7100/66 with 48 megs of ram and plenty of
hard disk space.

Alan H. Stein      stein@math.uconn.edu      http://www.math.uconn.edu/~stein

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:50:42 -0800
From: Douglas Anderson <un162@victoria.tc.ca>
Subject: Text Redraw

Happy New Year to you All!,

This question is really for you programers out there, I'm assuming.

I have a program called (Personal Press=81 2.0.1), The program was made by
Aldus which I understand is know longer in business. So their is no longer
any support for the program, or updates.

I'm finding that with Mac OS 8.5.1 that the (Text Redraw) is really bad. If
I pick a new tool from the tool kit the text will redraw so that it can be
seen, and if I scroll down some more I have to pick another tool to get the
text to redraw so it can be seen once again. Needless to say its a drag.
Other than that the program works fine.

My question is, is their anyway I can fix this problem using ResEdit? if
so, How?

Thanks for any help,
Doug.

Sincerely,
Doug Anderson
email:un162@victoria.tc.ca

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:58:38 +0000
From: Bob Wall <bobwall@nwlink.com>
Subject: Trouble with icons

I would like to change the icon for my trashcan.  I call up info on the
trash can and click the icon picture and nothing happens.  Any ideas?
The same goes for the icon for my Supra PC card.  I was, however, able
to change the icon for my Hard Disk.

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:47:53 -0600
From: John Burwell <jburwell@thefacts.com>
Subject: Use Mac OS Help! In 8.5, it's great!

>[Q]-Where is OT/PPP Contol Panel (OS 8.5.1)?

Don't forget, guys -- Mac OS Help is better than ever. From the Finder, 
select "Mac OS Help" from the "Help" menu or press command-? to get to 
the most complete help system Apple has released yet. The coolest part: 
It responds to plain-english questions.

1. Open it up.
2. Type in "Where is OT/PPP?"
3. Click on the link to "Connecting to remote servers."

The resulting page explains that you use the Remote Access control panel 
to connect to the internet via a modem.

Not to come down on anyone or call anyone dumb... I'm just saying that 
it's easy to overlook the new, much more powerful help system after 
finding previous versions of Mac OS Help almost totally useless.

Don't forget Mac OS Help! Whether you're a novice or a power user!

j

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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:30:38 -0800
From: "Daniel O'Donnell" <dano@west.net>
Subject: Virex

At 10:04 PM -0500 12/21/98, D. Scott Beach wrote:
>"abrody" <abrody@smart.net> writes:
>>Have the top three Mac virus detection utility programs merged?   I went
>to
>>Virex's home page at Dr. Solomon and they say to download the beta version
>>of Virex from McAfee's web site
>>
>>http://beta.mcafee.com/virex/download.html#virex
>>
>>So is now Datawatch part of Dr. Solomon, Part of McAfee, Part of Network
>>Associates?
>
>Scott Beach:
>Network Associates has purchased Dr. Solomon's Virex, relabeled it as their
>own and released it as 5.9 . Viruscan 3.0.1 is pretty much defunct. They're
>abandoning it in favour of Virex. Small loss as Viruscan stunk. They
>realized this and in aquiring Virex have the superior scanning engine from
>Dr. Solomon that they're using in all their products - Mac and PC.

There are just a few people now managing the few remaining Mac products at
Network Associates (Virex and netOctopus). They released an official
statement about 1-2 weeks ago that NAI is actively shopping their Mac
products to a reliable company and expect to be out of the Macintosh
business completely once they've sold these.

My interpretation: Virex will be sold to some Mac-based company because it
is, as Scott Beach points out, simply the best Mac antivirus program on the
market. NetOctopus however, will probably die. It is the best Mac sysadmin
program out there, but there is becoming precious little market for that
sort of product. I suspect NAI will not be able to sell it, and will simply
let it go away quietly. PGPDisk, another Mac product from NAI, is also best
of breed but with very little market. It's been ported to windows and will
probably be allowed to die.

Hope that helps,

Dan O'Donnell

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Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 07:05:29 -0500
From: chazzz <macman@kyol.net>
Subject: Virtual PC/modem connect

Using VPC/Win95. The modem setup useses 28880 as the max bps for GV
modems. I'm using a K56flex/v.90 to log on to my ISP. Has anyone run
into this inability to connect problem and if so, how to do a work
around?

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

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