Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 03 Feb 98 Volume 16 : Issue 23 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#415/02-Feb-98 Crash [A] OT 1.3 BUG-NOT A BUG! Apple needs to promote testimonials like this... BonzaiReader, adobe doobie doo Desktop Trash Diagnosing LC630 DOS Diskcopy on smi files for various machines font suitcases Getting info off Classic with dead monitor Hitachi CDR-7930, OS8 and StarMax Info on PM 6100/60 and 4GB HD problems Info-Mac Digest V16 #22 Info-Mac Digest V16 #22 Move&Rename Now Utilities and OS 8.0 OpenTransport 1.3/OS 8.1 bug (Q) please... help...? searching for US postal barcode font Utilities for MacOS 8.1 Whatever happened to Kaos? 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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #23" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:59:57 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#415/02-Feb-98 TidBITS#415/02-Feb-98 Looking for Macintosh news? This week we have plenty: Claris is restructuring as FileMaker, Inc.; Frontier 5 and KeyQuencer 2.5 are shipping; Eudora Pro 4.0 will appear overseas; Conflict Catcher 4.1.1 is out; and APS has filed for Chapter 11 (but expects to stay afloat). We also have more about Open Transport 1.3 and a look at inconveniences caused by Quark's anti-piracy measures. Finally, Adam discusses how to host a successful trade show party. Topics: MailBITS/02-Feb-98 Quark Security Zaps Legit Users Macworld Geek Party Guide [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-415.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 98 12:10:41 +0000 From: Michel Treisman Subject: Hi there! I have a curious problem. I am running MacOs 8 on a 7300 powermac, with FWB disk driver. I used FWB Hared Disk Toolkit to partition my 2G drive into six partitions (volumes), HD A...HD F. Sometimes I view my partitions under "View as Icons" and sometimes under "View as Lists". Only HD F does not allow me to view the contents as a List. I can view it as Icons, or as Buttons, but the contents are not shown when I try to view it as a list. The header says "25 items" as it should but no items are shown. I have tried rebuilding the desktop and reinstalling the driver. Anyone know what is wrong and what I should do next? Mike Michel Treisman Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3UD UK Tel +44 (0)1865 271319 Fax +44 (0)1865 310447 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:11:20 -0400 From: "Diane Roy-Friolet" Subject: Crash Can someone help me with this problem? Everytime we try to copy a file from our network server to a Power PC, the computer crashes. We tried re-installing the system but it didn't work. We also tried running Conflict Catcher but didn't find anything. We are using Novell. Diane diane@admin.cus.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:04:57 -0500 From: Mel Martinez Subject: [A] OT 1.3 BUG-NOT A BUG! At 8:40 AM -0800 2/2/98, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > >NO NO NO NO! Doesn't anyone READ the release notes!!!!! The release notes >for OpenTransport specifically say: Some Utilities may report damaged open >transport files because the size has increased by 11K. > >The files are not dammaged! if you mess with them, you may have more >problems than you started with! > Sigh... please refer to Casady & Green's website (http://www.casadyg.com) where you will see the following notice: New Version Release- Conflict Catcher 4 version 4.1.1 is Now Available Within 10 days of discovering a problem with some Mac OS 8.1 files installed by Apple's OpenTransport installer, Casady & Greene announces the release of Conflict Catcher 4.1.1 which can repair the problem files. The previous version of Conflict Catcher, version 4.1, reported that some files installed by Mac OS 8.1 have "damaged resources." Conflict Catcher 4 v4.1.1 can now scan and repair such files. The following files, which are installed by the Mac OS 8.1 OpenTransport installer have bad file lengths according to ResEdit (Apple's Resource Editor) and can be fixed by either ResEdit or Conflict Catcher 4.1.1: AppleTalk, TCP/IP, Open Tpt AppleTalk Library, Open Tpt Internet Library, Open Transport Library, OpenTptAppleTalkLib, OpenTptInternetLib, and OpenTransportLib. The above information was gathered today, monday, 2/2/1998. My interpretation of events is that the release notes for OT were in error, which lead to the initial belief that CC4.1 was causing the damage, when in fact it was simply detecting the problem. Now CC4.1.1 both detects and can fix the problem, or you could just use ResEdit to fix it, as I said originally. Cheers, Dr. Mel Martinez FUSE Science Software Developer The Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Physics mem@jhu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:16:20 -0500 From: Mel Martinez Subject: Apple needs to promote testimonials like this... Just an interesting tidbit (sorry, Adam) from the Macintouch (www.macintouch.com): ] The MacInTouch Web Site set a new traffic record for January, ] serving 7.2 million requests from more than 700,000 unique hosts. ] Despite some brief system and network problems, uptime was well ] over 99 percent for the month. The server is an old Power Mac 7500, ] upgraded with a 180-MHz Newer processor card running WebStar 2.1 at ] Reprahduce. Is it just me? Or does anybody else here think that Apple could do a hell of a lot better advertising testimonials like that, rather than begging folks to 'think different'? Just my $.02... (My other 98 cents goes to a public kudoos to Ric Ford & whoever else is responsible for the MacIntouch site for having the best and most sensibly designed [read: bandwidth responsible] web pages around. Maximum content with minimal glitz.) Cheers, Mel Martinez FUSE Science Software Developer The Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Physics mem@jhu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 23:20:02 -0600 From: "Paul M. Sheldon" Subject: BonzaiReader, adobe doobie doo I had attempted to encourage someone who knew how to do resedit programming to do experiments to give herself support putting adobe pdf files on the newton (she had wondered if I could do what adobe didn't plan to support, so that she could read them on a train, I believe). I suggested she do the experiments and publish to this digest on the wonderful possibility. I don't think that she believed that I would actually delegate an experiment and pull my punches and give her a gift. All I had to do was not do the experiment and let her and the observation would be hers. I could specify precisely what she should do with the pict and she would go do it, because I have both paper and electronic inside macs that tell about pict data structure facts. I would like to help apple and newton corporations, because they are "my team" and one gains honor helping and being thanked for one's inspiration. Well, I think my reseditor got discouraged that no one gives gifts in this world. So on Saturday morning, I did the experiment with one punch pulled to let her observe. I just doubled the size of the size rect (top left bottom right). Then, when you take that image and it rasterizes into Newton Press, you have twice the dpi resolution. It's as dumb as that, but you can't imagine the amount of doubt you have before you produce the simple experimental confirmation in the fields of resedit with a print2pict postcard's pict resources. I can imagine doubt. I had it. But, I did it anyway. When I learn code warrior better, I will be able to modify the size rect field of a pict file to get double the dots and then use their drag and drop class library to open the pict file I wish to modify this way. Maybe one of you fellow macintosh lovers will figure out first. My reading is slower than usual now. Why am I going to give this gift of freeware along with my free BanzaiReader? I'll tell you why. If I created something in an industry, I would have signed a nondisclosure agreement and my right to patent away and no one except the power structure would know I was smart. I want it to be my market, not theirs. I want to choose whom I work with and that isn't necessarily meaning choosing my salary. I have to like who I am working with, not just because they are in charge and all I have to me is that I am a company man. That is the reason all of us should write shareware here, my reason. Yeah, I sell shareware well beyond BonzaiReader freeware. I have various projects to show "the business community" in shining example. I wish to show that my physics department and the student research community is not without honor or brains, even though they may be hurting and in a panic because of certain decisions made in my state this week. I do not think the only brains should be on capital hills. I like what I do in graduate school research in my state and that is by no means reason to think I am stupid for doing what I am doing and should move on. So, Adobe do be do Oh, I forgot Nike changed their commercial from "Just do it" to "I can". ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 07:23:41 -0700 From: Gordon Moynes Subject: Desktop Trash With respect to saving comments on a desktop rebuild, the freeware TechTool, from Micromat Software, will do the trick. The current version is 1.1.5, although an earlier version might be advisable for System 7.1. hth, Gord >Date: Sat, 31 Jan 98 13:58:46 -0000 >From: gizmoz >Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #20 > >try rebuilding desktop, at startup hold down control and command key's >until You see the dialog come up. Warning though in 7.1 the coments in >the Info of ur files will not be saved. I know there is a 3rd party >program that saves them so hunt around. I know it was on a macformat >about 2-3 years ago. > >Hope this helps, cheers > >John I was going to buy a copy of "The Power Of Positive Thinking", but then I thought, "What the heck good would that do?". ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:43:06 -0800 From: Edwin Togami Subject: Diagnosing LC630 DOS Try installing a new battery. The 630 series uses a 4.5 volt alkaline (about $15-20) that doesn't last as long as the smaller lithium batteries used in some of the other Mac models. After replacing it be sure to press the small red CUDA button on the logic board. You'll have to reset the Date & Time, Map, Memory, Chooser, and AppleTalk settings. I've noticed that weak or dead batteries are the cause of most of the non-startup and dead video symptoms. >Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:35:48 +0900 >From: Keith Wilkinson >Subject: Diagnosing LC630 DOS > >I have just purchased an LC630 DOS, but it doesn't >start up: each time I press the power key I get a speaker >click, but that's it -- no video, no fan noise etc. Any >suggestions re. things to try before sending it back? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 09:38:17 -0500 From: Phillip Broussard Subject: Diskcopy on smi files for various machines I hope this isn't a rehashed issue, but I couldn't find a reference to it in earlier digests. I have a power computing powercenter 150. When I try to mount the new .smi files from apple (8.1 update or MRJ 2.0), and disk copy 6.1.3 runs throught the checksum procedure, it always fails. But if I copy the same file to a PowerMac 8100 and run the same procedure, the checksum is OK. Is there any reason why it should fail on the powercomputing machine? I would appreciate any insight. Thanks Phillip Broussard phillip.broussard@nrl.navy.mil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:31:04 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: font suitcases If you open the Fonts folder, within your System Folder, you will find a bunch of font suitcases. You can double-click them to open them, then drag fonts between them to your heart's content. If you want to disable a particular Suitcase full of fonts, you can drag it out of the fonts folder after quitting all open applications, then back in to reenable it. There are three utilities available for managing fonts: Suitcase [Symantec], MasterJuggler [Alsoft], and Adobe Type Manager Deluxe [Adobe]. All of these will allow grouping fonts, enabling them on the fly, etc. etc. chazl - 2.2.1998 - chaz@visi.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:34:49 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Getting info off Classic with dead monitor At 10:20 PM +1100 1/29/98, Stewart Smith wrote: >i would give you a 9 and 10 but i can't think of anything else. Here's a #9: 9. Take the drive out of the Classic, put it in an external SCSI drive case, then connect it to any Mac. External SCSI cases run less than $100; Computer City has them locally for $65 and I've seen them available mailorder for $30. chazl - 2.2.1998 - chaz@visi.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 17:56:17 -0800 From: Richard Glover Subject: Hitachi CDR-7930, OS8 and StarMax Anyone with a StarMax 3000, and an 8x Hitcahi CDR-7930 upgrade to OS8 recently? Motorola says the Apple CD extension supplied with OS8 is incompatible with the Hitachi drive, and I have tried various versions of FWB CD-ROM ToolKit drivers, including a v2.3 thatwas supplied by Motorola, and that there is no referecnce to on the FWB web site. I have tried the v3.0, and 3.0.1 veresions of the FWB s/w, all to no avail. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has a Hitachi drive on a StarMax 3000 running on OS8, or anyone who can suggest a different CD-ROM driver to try. Any shareware for OS8 that anyone can recommend? -RAG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:03:09 +0100 From: Mitja Jankovic Subject: Info on PM 6100/60 and 4GB HD problems A frend of mine has an 6100/60, with an Quantum Fireball II (non Apple) internal HD. Now he has bought an 4GB Q. FBII, witch work prety well like second HD? but like bootable HD no. I have see on Apple TIL if it's a hardware related limitation for volumes biggest than 2GB, but haven't find anithing. On an PM4400 the HD works fine, than we have made two partition (1,9 and 2,1). On the smaller partition, the same problem. The HD Works only like non boot., but on the bigger partition it's work, but randomely. We have made all the possible steps to ensure the functionality of the HD (put it inside and outside, change the SCSI cable, change the termination (cable and HD) put away the original HD, change all the SCSI adresses, change the Systems (7,5 - 7,6 - 8) reformat with SilverLininng and HDT), but with no fortune. Somebody has an answer? TIA Mitja Jankovic ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:33:45 -0500 From: Steve Mack Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #22 On 2/2/98 4:32 AM, Info-Mac wrote >When I used MS Word 4.0 on a Mac Classic, I loved Word's screen saver, >called >Screen Test under the Utilities Menu. It looked great, even on >the small black and >white screen. > >Now I have MS Word 6.0.1 on a Power Mac 8500 but Word no longer offers >that wonderful Screen Test. Is there an adress on the web that offers >it for downloading? >Or is it possible to find it on my old Word 4.0 >floppy disks or maybe on the Classic >harddrive and somehow move it over >to the Power Mac? If it's possible to do this, I would need very simple, >very basic instructions. Unfortunately, the Screen Saver in Word 4.0 was removed in later versions and there is no way to move it to a newer version. You may wish to explore one of the shareware or freeware screen savers that are available. Steve Mack MacAssistant Tips and Tutorial Newsletter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 11:26:43 -0800 From: peptide Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #22 <<< Subject: searching for US postal barcode font Hi: This is driving me crazy. Search as I may, I cannot find a font to generate postal barcodes (U.S. Postal Service). I have wordperfect wasting 10 megs on a drive because I can't prepare an envelope with a bar code in FrameMaker. I have heard there's a windows font. Can it be that no one has made a mac postscript (or truetype) font for the post office barcode? Say it ain't so! /jonathan >>> Check out: http://members.aol.com/lakegroup/PnetIt.sit.hqx. You'll be looking for . This is the Lake Group's home site; they make software for designers (shareware) that can't be found on Info-mac that is wonderful. Give 'em a thanks if you grab anything... --pol i. peptide-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:05:41 +0000 From: mnolet@faille.unice.fr (Mike) Subject: Move&Rename Hello! Question: I've got an invisible folder named Move&Rename with nothing in it sitting on my hard drive. What is it, and how did it get there?? Anybody know? Thanx Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 06:02:09 -0800 From: Phil Winne Subject: Now Utilities and OS 8.0 Hello, all. Now Utilities is advertised as being incompatible with Mac OS 8.0. On another list, Macintosh PCI Discussion List , 5-6 people submitted accounts of successfully running Now Menus, Now SuperBoomerang, and Now WYSIWYG. I, too, have been using Now Menus, Now SuperBoomerang, and Now QuickFiler's substitute for Apple's Find File for weeks. Only one glitch that I can notice. Now Menus' PopUp menus don't work. What's your experience? Phil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:25:34 -0800 From: "Adam C. Engst" Subject: OpenTransport 1.3/OS 8.1 bug (Q) >Contrary to early reports that seemed to indicate this was a problem with >CC4.1, it turns out the files really are damaged and that nothing is wrong >with CC 4.1. > >The files have damaged resource forks. If you have a copy of ResEdit >(downloadable from Apple sites and included free with various developer >tools), use that to 'verify' the files that CC 4.1 indicated were damaged. >ResEdit will repair the problem. Since OpenTransport is indeed vital to >Netscape's operation, it is possible this caused your crash, but no way to >tell until you fix them. In fact, the files have 11 bytes of extra space in their resource forks, but that doesn't mean they're damaged. Apple has posted a tech note about this and we covered it in a TidBITS Update: http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=04654 For more solid information about Mac OS 8.1, see TidBITS 414. http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbiss=414 cheers... -Adam PS: Also note that C&G has just released Conflict Catcher 4.1.1, which will 'repair' the files by shortening the resource fork size to match the resource map. http://www.casadyg.com/ -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher/Info-Mac Moderator -- ace@tidbits.com http://www.tidbits.com/ -- http://www.tidbits.com/adam/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:47:15 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: please... help...? At 5:48 PM -0800 1/29/98, Joseph P. Wetstein wrote: >Can you please tell me what Mac program to use to view .ps files? here are two free options: MacGhostView 1.3 MacGS chazl - 2.2.1998 - chaz@visi.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:03:43 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: searching for US postal barcode font At 10:56 AM -0500 1/29/98, Jonathan Bauer wrote: >Search as I may, I cannot find a font to generate >postal barcodes (U.S. Postal Service). I went to Yahoo, searched for "barcode font", and found these guys, who seem to have exactly what you want as a commercial product for $59: Searching for "postnet" at got me the following, which appears to be exactly what you want in $30 shareware form: Also, it seems to me that I see barcode software and font ads in the back of every MacWorld, but I don't have one handy to check. Hope these help. chazl - 2.2.1998 - chaz@visi.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:57:52 -0600 (Central Standard Time) From: "Robert P. Collins" Subject: Utilities for MacOS 8.1 WHEREAS, Norton Utilities 3.2.1 no longer works under MacOS 8.0, and " , the version that works under MacOS 8.0 will not work under 8.1, and " , Symantec support staff are so vague about the next upgrade that one wonders whether there will be one at all, and " , while i am sympathetic to the challenge of supporting the new harddisk format, I am also concerned about the expense of Norton upgrades ($50 for the version that won't work under 8.1), THEREFORE, I wonder whether anyone on Info-Mac is using some other utility in a support environment. The tasks I need are disk repair and file recovery (for students who didn't back up the floppy with their term paper on it). Speed Disk is nice, but I find I don't use it enough to miss it. ----------------------------------------- Robert P. Collins * rpcollin@samford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:05:50 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: Whatever happened to Kaos? At 3:42 PM -0500 1/28/98, Starman wrote: >Kaos? ... won't run on a PPC because it doesn't >detect an FPU on it. I can't help with finding the author, but you can get around this problem by installing either SoftwareFPU or PowerFPU on your PPC Mac. chazl - 2.2.1998 - chaz@visi.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:39:05 -0800 From: Matt Neuburg Subject: Word: Documents automatically saved as Templates >From: "Michael S. Silverstein" >I have noticed strange behavior with WORD 6.01 that has not only happened >to me, but also to several colleagues. >After opening a certain document received in the mail, or after trying to >make a template, every single document saved is saved in the template >format. They receive the template icon and not the normal icon. There is no >way to save a document normally under these circumstances. >This is not a virus Oh yes, I think it is. This is *exactly* the sort of thing Word macro viruses do. Everyone should stop using Word NOW until this is mended. For information on getting Microsoft's tool to fight Word viruses, see: http://www.microsoft.com/msoffice/antivirus/word/wordprot.htm This installs into the Normal template a routine to check for macros in documents. But even this only works if you start up Word, then use the Open dialog to open a document - if you double-click a Word file in the Finder you bypass the mechanism and can catch a virus nonetheless, so be careful. m. matt neuburg, phd = matt@tidbits.com, http://www.tidbits.com/matt apertam in mentem inrepit sapientia -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************