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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 22 Sep 00       Volume 17 : Issue 151

Today's Topics:

      [*] Holiday Lights 5.0J - Japanese Version
      [*] Mail Convert 2.1
      [*] Nuku 1.1.1
      [*] pc Setup 2.1.7 DOS/Windows Drivers for Apple/Reply Compatibility cards
      [no subject]
      Eudora 4.3 Alerts
      iMac Crashes and Freezes
      MacOS X and  G3->G4 upgrade?
      missing buy button

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Date: 21 Sep 2000
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To: 
Subject: [*] Holiday Lights 5.0J - Japanese Version


This is the Japanese version of the Holiday Lights package.

Screensaver, music box, desktop enhancement!

Holiday Lights decorates your Macintosh for the holidays.

It's an entertaining application that places flashing light bulbs around 
the edge of your screen, as though a (well-insulated) elf crawled into 
your computer through the disk drive slot and stapled them there. The 
lights flash in the background while you continue to work, so it's not 
just a screen saver.

The "bulbs" include standard Christmas tree lights, Valentine's Day 
hearts, Thanksgiving turkeys, chili peppers, shamrocks, dreidels, 
stockings, holly, snowmen, happy faces, and more -- and you can create 
your own bulbs using ResEdit or a similar program.

For even more seasonal joy, Holiday Lights includes cheery background 
music (you can add your own MIDI files) as well as built-in festive 
screen savers to put you in the holiday spirit.

Holiday Lights is an application, not a system extension, so it won't 
cause extension conflicts. It is compatible with System 7.1 or later, 
including Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9.X.

Version 5.0 adds the ability to display bulbs above all other windows and 
improves the appearance of the screen saver, adding background pictures 
and text messages.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/holiday-lights-50-jp.hqx; 1299 K]

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Date: 22 Sep 2000
From: Greg Nye <gnye@maccentric.com>
To: 
Subject: [*] Mail Convert 2.1


Mail Convert is a small application to convert form data received in email
into usable data in a tab-delimited text file. This update features a field
editor, drag and drop support, basic AppleScript support (including the
ability to fully automate the conversion process included sample scripts) as
well as a number of bug fixes.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/mail-convert-21.hqx; 778 K]

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Date: 22 Sep 2000
From: Axel Andersson <morris@uppland.pp.se>
To: 
Subject: [*] Nuku 1.1.1


A small application to help you learn the Japanese writing systems
hiragana and katakana. Features both hiragana and katakana in one
application, the three main romanization systems, options for selecting
which parts to train on, and the ability to switch between quiz mode,
where the user is asked to identify a character, and the learning mode,
where the application shows the character the user asked for.

[Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/nuku-111.hqx; 185 K]

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Date: 22 Sep 2000
From: Randall Venhola <rvenhola@home.com>
To: 
Subject: [*] pc Setup 2.1.7 DOS/Windows Drivers for Apple/Reply Compatibility cards


pc Setup 2.1.7 is drivers for the DOS and PC compatibility cards created by
Apple and Reply to operate in a Macintosh computer. This is a commerical
update to the existing Apple product PC SETUP 1.6.4. These drivers provide
32 bit support, increased performance and better networking. This is a demo
version that will run for 20 minutes.

Home page is at http://www.pcsetup2x.com

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/pc-setup-217.hqx; 2006 K]

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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:40:09 -0400
From: Saint John <StJ@mac.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: [no subject]

At 12:36 -0400 9/20/00, The Info-Mac Network wrote:
>Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 02:29:26 -0700
>From: David van Wert <mcknife@earthlink.net>
>To: digest@info-mac.org
>Subject:
>
>This is a weird little thing happening in Explorer 5. When visiting
>the cdbaby web site (on-line distributors for independent musicians),
>IE5 doesn't show the "buy" button to add an item to your list of
>stuff you want to buy.
>
><span class="price">CD Baby Price:
><!--ref="/add/sugarplastic?CDBabySessionID=fb6def5dec3cd3b8b1041d55f40ef92-->$13.00<!--
>
>src="/gif/newbuy.gif" width="58" height="17" alt="BUY CD" border="0"
>align="middle" hspace="1--></A></span>
>
>Well, gee, of course there's no buy button, duh, look at the comment
>tag! But iCab does show the buy button and a view source of the same
>area shows the following:
>
><span class="price">CD Baby Price: <A
>href="/add/sugarplastic?CDBabySessionID=beb97476b83e990f8c2f9b218b0be995">$13.00<img
>
>src="/gif/newbuy.gif" width="58" height="17" alt="BUY CD" border="0"
>align="middle" hspace="10"></A></span>
>
>Weird. Anybody have any idea of what could cause the actual source to
>download differently?

   It's the USERAGENT environmental variable. Servers can deliver different
versions of a page depending on a lot of different things-- for example,
you can use the REFERRER variable to put up a special welcome to people
coming to your site when they click on a link on my page.
   Using parsed HTML of some sort, you can access these variables. It's
quite common these days for a website to put a page together on the fly--
eBay, for example, uses a very complex CGI (Common Ground Interface) script
to generate a list of all the auctions you're bidding on. This would be a
program written in C or Perl that sends out the headers and content, which
the client (your computer) can't tell from a plain old static HTML file.
   Now for the problems. This method was used to get around the "feature
wars" of Netscape and Microsoft. Each of their browsers worked a different
way. By using this method and looking at the USERAGENT before sending a
page, a company could tweak the output ever so slightly so that users, no
matter what the browser type. CD Baby looks like they're simply replacing
the "img"[ src] and "a h"[ref] with "!--". This is bad in itself, since it
adds an end-anchor (</A>) that isn't matched by an appropriate anchor. But
the program generating the web page-- which we can't see-- may not even
know what a Macintosh is, and may treat anything that doesn't have
"(Windows 9?; Internet Explorer)" as "unrecognized."
   Why does iCab display the graphic? Maybe it's reporting itself as
something that the page-generating program knows can support graphics. In
any case, I'd be hesitant to shop at a place that knew so little about
computers that they dis millions of potential customers.
   (At least, this is my guess.)

   PS: Try not to use HTML encoding when sending to in mailing lists, OK?

+- Saint John  <StJ@brain-sucker.com> <http://www.brain-sucker.com> -+
|  ...Sorry! My .sig file is packed away for the move. It will       |
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:56:39 -0700
From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To: dsmall@mitre.org (Duane W Small), digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Eudora 4.3 Alerts

At 13:25 -0400 9/20/00, Duane W Small wrote:
>Well, I'm using 4.2 Pro, but I'm guessing they're similar, and I use 
>filters that do exactly what you're trying to do.  The filters each 
>have two actions.
>
>The first filter action is the transfer.  You've presumably already 
>set that up.
>
>The second filter action seems counter-intuitive.  When I don't want 
>to be notified, I choose "Notify User" as the second action. That 
>gives me two checkboxes that specify *how* to notify the user. 
>Unchecking both boxes suppresses the normal notification.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Duane Small

Thanks to all who responded.  I was completely missing the "Notify 
User" action in the list.  Upon closer investigation is is active in 
the free mode.  I appreciate your patientce and assistance.
-- 
-- Doug

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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:05:00 -0700
From: "Fanning, Alan W. (PS, NE)" <alan.fanning@gene.GE.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: iMac Crashes and Freezes

I recently purchased a floor model of last year's iMac DV for my daughter, a
college freshman.  We only had it for a week before we hauled her off to
college, and did not have time to load all the software.  Once at school,
she has had intermittent problems with bombs and freezes in loading and
using various software.  This is quite exasperating for me, as she is 350
miles away and I am hard pressed to even understand the problem let alone
fix it remotely.  

Can someone suggest any web resources which might help us diagnose and fix
these problems?  It seems particularly important to determine whether we're
dealing with a software or a hardware problem.

Thanks,
		Alan Fanning
		San Jose, CA 

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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:06:23 -0400
From: "John Hachey" <hacheyj@EM.AGR.CA>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: MacOS X and  G3->G4 upgrade?

Hello,

I know that OS X is only supposed to work with G3s or G4s and not
with older Power PCs upgraded to a G3 or G4

How about a G3 upgraded to a G4?

Thanks, John

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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:11:24 -0500
From: Chaz Larson <chaz@visi.com>
To: David van Wert <mcknife@earthlink.net>
Subject: missing buy button

This is a weird little thing happening in Explorer 5. When visiting 
the cdbaby web site (on-line distributors for independent musicians), 
IE5 doesn't show the "buy" button to add an item to your list of 
stuff you want to buy.

Assuming this is the florescent green oval that appears right next to 
the "CD Baby Price", it shows up fine on my machine.

iMacDV, 9.0.4, MSIE 5.0

chazl

-- 
What's important in this world?  A little boy. A little girl.
                                                   - Chrissie Hynde, Thumbelina
Chaz Larson     -     chaz at visi dot com     -     http://www.visi.com/~chaz

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