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Info-Mac Digest             Sat, 21 Mar 98       Volume 16 : Issue 65

Today's Topics:

      (Q) Hooking G3 PB to thinnet?
      (Q) Sad Mac Error
      [Q] 7200 upgrade
      [Q] Desperately Seeking 'Address Book Plus' or Equivalent
      [Q] Remove ">" quote marks from quoted text?
      AppleScript Question
      Best Sytem for PB160
      cd rom drive/performa 475
      COMPASS testing question
      Easyview and Mac-Digest
      Ethernet connection
      Fwd: Info-Mac Digest V16 #62
      Large files of more 2Gb for work with video
      Looking for SoftPC
      Looking for somebody who registered
      Moving Calendars to Newton Messagepads
      Need a Quitter
      Problems with Sound-In source for PM8100

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:56:47 -0800
From: "David L. Hirschberg" <daneel@stanford.edu>
Subject: (Q) Hooking G3 PB to thinnet?

Is there some type of adapter that will allow a G3 powerbook's internal
ethernet card to be connected to thinnet or do I have to get a PCMCIA card
for it?

If anyone has a source for an adaptor please let me know.

Thanks, David
daneel@stanford.edu

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 98 16:50:46 -0700
From: Dave Trautman <dave.trautman@ualberta.ca>
Subject: (Q) Sad Mac Error

I've heard of it and I've even read about it in earlier volumes of =
Info-Mac but until it happened to me I didn't think I needed to =
remember or think about it.

How many of you have heard this one before?

St. Patrick's Day found me scratching my head while staring at a Sad =
Mac error on a black screen which followed a musical four tone =
"alarm" which I usually associate with bad RAM.  The message was =
terse and specific.   0000000F on one line and 00000063 on the next.

My machine boots from a floppy and mounts the internal drive volumes. =
 It just won't start from the hard drive.

I know I've seen questions like this before and I frankly feel =
embarrased not to know what it means.  I'm going to wade into the =
Info-Mac archive and read a few hardware FAQ's but in the mean time =
I'm hoping this message will cut through that effort and fill my =
mailbox with suggestions.

Please mail me back as I can only do this from another machine.

I am < dave.trautman@ualberta.ca > .

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

"Never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty, and the pig likes it."
=8B anonymous

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:53:15 -0500
From: abrody@smart.net
Subject: [Q] 7200 upgrade

Dear Digest reader,
You may be asking, didn't I just see this?  Well nobody replied which is
most surprising.  Here it is again.  Where can I get a 7200 motherboard
swapped for a 7500 motherboard?   What is the cost involved in doing it?
I already have 112MB in DIMMs.  Will those work on a 7500 motherboard as
well?

I'm sure I am not the only one who wanted to do this but didn't know where.
Please e-mail your reply, as I don't get to read the digest that often.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:50:05 +0000
From: Mephistophilis <stch8002@BUREAU.UCC.IE>
Subject: [Q] Desperately Seeking 'Address Book Plus' or Equivalent

About a year ago a friend gave me a copy of Address Book Plus 2.0 by the
Power Up! Software Corporation. This is exactly what the title suggests - a
Name/Address/Personal Data organiser. It offers several formats but the
only one that I use is a virtual file card with the expected Name/Address
fields together with a wide-range of additional user-definable fields. ADP
also offers the option to identify entries according to a wide range of
user-defined categories or tags which may be entered into a separate
category field simply by typing a number which is defined when the category
is set. The list is fully searchable by field entry or category  and
entries can also be hierarchically sorted by up to four field entries.
Finally entries - or a selection thereof - can be printed as address labels
or in a variety of other formats.

I have found this application absolutely invaluable for mantaining a
database of information on participants in an annual meeting that I
organise and for printing address labels for mail-shots - particularly as I
need to send different information to different sub-groups of participants.
Since I am using a pirate copy I have made strenuous - but futile -
attempts to locate the manufacturers in order to purchase an original. I
did manage to contact one of the original developers and he was of the
opinion that Power Up! Software had gone out of business. Beats me why -
It doesn't make your coffee and put out the cat but otherwise I can't
imagine an application that does what it is designed to do better than ADP.
And it hasn't EVER caused my Quadra 700 or PPC 8200 to crash - and I'm
damned if I can think of another application that I could say that about!

If anyone on the list can point me towards a supplier of Address Book Plus
I will be forever in their debt. Alternatively - can anyone suggest an
equivalent? Particularly - for obvious reasons - one which could import
data from Address Book Plus.
TIA -
Fergus Lalor

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:38:19 -0500
From: shorton@lr.net (Scott L. Horton)
Subject: [Q] Remove ">" quote marks from quoted text?

Hi,
Does anyone know of a utility (applescript?) that would remove all the 
">" symbols from email text that has been quoted? Thanks.

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Date: 	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:22:19 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson <levinson@hawaii.edu>
Subject: AppleScript Question

I have four Macs, 3 Performa 363s and one Performa 578. All have Navigator
3, System 7.5, same stuff on all of them.

We are using them to access a test via the Internet, so I wrote a shrot
AppleScript to make the connection. the student clicks on the AS icon,
Navigator opens and connects to the test site. Simple script.

But, one the 578 only, before Navigator starts, a dialogue box comes up
asking the user if they want to quit or run the script. Not a big proble,
everybody click the Run button, but why does it come up on the 578 and not
the 636s? All the scripts are the same and all were saved as applications.

Ideas? Thanks,
Jerry

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Date: 	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:09:02 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson <levinson@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Best Sytem for PB160

What's the best system to use on a Powerbook 160 w/8MB RAM? I tried 7.5
early on but it seemed to make things run slower. Haven't tried any of the
updates. I think 7.6 is the last one for the '030 Macs.

Anybody with experience? what do you use?

Thanks,
Jerry

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:46:16 +0100
From: Michael Rank <rank@mailbox.co.uk>
Subject: cd rom drive/performa 475

I have a Performa 475 with 8MB of RAM. I am planning to buy a CD Rom drive
but am getting conflicting advice as to how fast a drive I should buy. Some
"experts" tell me that 24 speed would be perfectly fine, others that my Mac
would have difficulty even with 12 speed. I would use a CD Rom drive for
downloading software from magazine cover disks, may get the Encyclopedia
Britannica (but am a bit confused as to whether it is available in Mac
format), play a few games, but not for anything very memory-intensive like
Photoshop or Quark for which I would have to upgrade from 8 MB anyhow. Also
it's rather hard to find drives under 24 x these days...

Would welcome views of some TRUE experts.

Thanks

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Date: 	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:25:47 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson <levinson@hawaii.edu>
Subject: COMPASS testing question

The community College where I work is about to use the COMPASS program to
test incoming freshman for placement in various classes. this program runs
on Windows 3.1 and requires a minimum '386 PC. 

All I have are Macs (OK, I have one Epson Equity I for nostalgia's sake)
and am being "given" 5 PCs. Which I would like to avoid...

Anyone have any experience with this program on a Mac using Virtual PC or
similar?

Thanks,
Jerry

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:11:43 -0800
From: Bob DeLaurentis <bobdela@earthlink.net>
Subject: Easyview and Mac-Digest

Hi Listers,

Some years ago, I used Easyview to read info-mac digests. I'd like to 
again, however, the viewer that comes with version 2.62 does not seem to 
work with the present digest format. Worse, I don't know how to configure 
 chapters any longer, nor can I find any docs on how to do so.

Help. Is this a known issue? Is anyone still using Easyview, or has 
something else come along? I'd like to learn how to configure the options 
myself (for other digests) however, if a generous soul would email me a 
viewer that works for them, that'd be ok, too. Many thanks!

Cheers,
Bob

<mailto:bobdela@earthlink.net>

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:14:21 -0500
From: wconable@pop.service.ohio-state.edu (William Conable)
Subject: Ethernet connection

I just bought a new HP LJ 4000, which is great. When I tried to hook it up
to my Quadra 610 through the ethernet port, it didn't work. I got a
transceiver and plugged everything in fine; but when I went to the
AppleTalk control panel and tried to change AppleTalk over to Ethernet, it
wouldn't. I got the alert which says "Ethernet Error. Check your network
connections." Everything is tightly plugged in and fits, so I assume I got
the right transceiver (M0437Z/B twisted pair). Would I have to also have
some sort of a hub and not go directly to the printer? The folks at the OSU
computer support don't know what's wrong. I am runing Sys 8.0 and I
reinstalled all the network stuff to no avail. I _can_ successfully print
through the printer port. Can anyone help me? Please reply to me directly
and if I get a lot of helpful responses I'll summarize them for the digest.

TIA

Bill Conable
OSU School of Music

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:08:42 +0000
From: Carol Walker <C.A.Walker@gcal.ac.uk>
Subject: Fwd: Info-Mac Digest V16 #62

Hi Gary thanks for the info on the xtras. They work in a similar way to
photoshop plug-ins adding functionality to Director. In fact if you put PS
plugins into the xtras folder you can use them directly in the paint
program in director. So xtras are very popular and useful.

Thanks
Carol

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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 98 13:12:32 +0100
From: info <info@ingraf.es>
Subject: Large files of more 2Gb for work with video

I have a 8600 with a Miro Motion Dc 30 and one external 9Gb hard Disk. 
When I capture video, only 2Gb is recognized by Premiere for File Size. 
This is a limitation of MacOS, HFS+ not implement the API for correct 
this. What is the procedure for editing video (more of 8 Minutes, 
obviously), with that limitation ?. I think other people is working in 
large projects, without these limit

Jose Luis del Olmo
info@ingraf.es

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Date: 	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:29:24 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson <levinson@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Looking for SoftPC

I sent this separately from my other recent questions so it didn't get
lost inside one of them.

I have 4 '040 Macs and now have a DOS-based program I'd like to run on
them, but SoftPC is no longer being made. I have a copy of the 20-minute
demo and could use that over and over, but... All of the newer emulators
require a PowerPC which I don't have (yet?).

Anybody know where I can get either recycled copies of SoftPC or maybe a
shareware emulator?

Thanks,
Jerry

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:22:29 +0100 (MET)
From: Berkovitch <gberkovi@imaginet.fr>
Subject: Looking for somebody who registered

        Hello,

    This week Yoshinari Fukuba sent me his(/her?) license fee using a postal=
 money order for my Glidel programme. Unfortunately, the receipt doesn't=
 hold any other information about this person so I can't thank him(/her) nor=
 can't I send him(/her) back the registration key either. Therefore, if you=
 know how this person can be got in touch, via either e-mail or ordinary=
 mail, please let me know.

    Thank you for your attention, and best regards.

    Gilles Berkovitch

    gberkovi@imaginet.fr

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:25:26 -0500
From: "Steven W. Holland" <holland@gmr.com>
Subject: Moving Calendars to Newton Messagepads

Does anyone have any nice MS Word Macros or whatever to convert personal
computer calendars (specifically, Lotus Organizer) to Newton Message Pad
import format?  It seems like the commercially available solutions are very
limited to specific calendar programs and specific versions, at that.  I
assume that there must be fairly nice macro programs to convert from the
universal "delimited text" dumps into the right input format.  Thanks.
---
Steven W. Holland, Director, NAO Controls, Robotics & Welding
General Motors Corp., M/C 480-109-163, 30300 Mound Road, Warren, MI 48090-9040
(810)947-1145, FAX (810)947-1039, Internet: holland@gmr.com
(Personal email:  Steve_Holland@Compuserve.com)

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Date: 	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:07:07 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson <levinson@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Need a Quitter

I need a program that runs in the background and will force any running
programs to quit after a few minutes of non use. The students using my lab
often just close the open window and leave the program running. Which
confuses incoming students because they just see a blank screen and think
the Mac is down. I will not comment on the training they receive from the
instructors here.

I have tried a couple of programs that should work, but they don't. 
I have 4 '040 Performas that need this.

Ideas and/or suggestions?
Thanks,
jerry

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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:18:28 -0600 (CST)
From: "David D. Brand (901) 577-7282" <dbrand@utmem1.utmem.edu>
Subject: Problems with Sound-In source for PM8100

I have a colleague with an 8100 who is running system 8.1.  Ever since System 
7.6 he has had difficulty with the CD player's functionality.  Although all 
other functions of his machine seem to work well, whenever he wants to listen 
to some music on CD, he must go to his Monitors & Sounds (v 1.3.2) control 
panel and re-instruct the OS to recognize the CD player as a source for sound.  
Nothing else resets in this manner when the computer is shut down (zapping 
PRAM doesn't help).  If he were to leave his machine on everything would be 
OK, but he does not use it enough to warrant leaving it on.  I was hoping that 
an upgrade to OS 8.0 (or 8.1 for that matter) would cure the problem, but it 
persists.  Quicktime CD autoplay is enabled. It appears to have nothing to do 
with the CD player app since the CD is "playing" after startup... but no 
sounds emanate from either the internal OR external speakers.  Any ideas? A 
desktop alias to the Monitors & Sounds control panel is all I have been able 
to provide.
Please respond to:  dbrand@utmem1.utmem.edu
Will post a summary of responses.
Thanks!
David Brand

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