Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #227 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 30 Dec 98 Volume 16 : Issue 227 Today's Topics: (A) I overlooked something in my MacOS 8.5 install (a): Free Email Services (C) RealPlayer G2 beta for the Mac is fake! (Q) Norton Filesaver Crashes (Q) WriteNow enhancer & MacOS 8.5.1 [A] looking for 8.1 WYSIWYG fonts menu [A]: changing to HFS+ Applescript to hide running apps Appletalk defaulting to printer port ASIP Web Admin Beta Seed 1 broken clicker on PowerBook 2400 cd kopieren cd kopieren Finder Problems? FONT Tool - You know what would be cool? G3 capabilities G3 speed Iomega Jaz / IomegaWare 1.0 Keyboard Woes Modemless G3 Powerbook [R] Netcaster No Netcaster os 8.5.1 increases system heap OT/PPP freezes Mac using v90 but not v32bis PB 540C/Paperport 3.0/OS 8.0 Sluggish Netscape 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1 Virex WordPerfect and OS 8.5 The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. Email Addresses and Instructions: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with subscribe in the Subject line. * To unsubscribe, send email to with unsubscribe in the Subject line. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. 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This has been corrected with Conflict Catcher 8.0.4. When running the Clean-Install System Merge with Mac OS 8.5.1 an unnecessary warning came up. This has been corrected with Conflict Catcher 8.0.4. Conflict Catcher 8.0.4 has an expanded Reference Library of 4,100 + descriptions up from 3,900 in the previous version. All owners of Conflict Catcher 8 may download this free updater from our downloads page at http://www.casadyg.com/downloads/default.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 20:45:04 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: (A) I overlooked something in my MacOS 8.5 install Dear Digest readers, On a previous digest I reported that WriteNow Enhancer wasn't working in MacOS 8.5. Well it seems I have made a fool of myself. Found the original installer program, ran it, and now it works again. Looks like I must have chucked an INIT that looked useless during my clean install of MacOS 8.5, and that's why it didn't work. Seem to have solved my own problem this time. Thank you one and all for your replies. It works well now. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:46:02 -0800 (PST) From: mjm - deSIGN EVOLution Subject: (a): Free Email Services Regarding free email accts. There are many free services offering AOL style accts, that can be accessed from any browser. I had mailexcite (mail.excite.com) for awhile, but their service is absolutely the worse I've ever been unfortunate enough to suffer through. Constant service down and various other messages when I needed to get email, and worse yet it seems I couldn't or didn't receive emails, especially consistant, those sent from hotmail accounts. Hotmail is also a free email service, but sponsored and managed by the house of Bill, and we all know how good they are at preserving privacy and maintaining safe mailing lists and user info. I've been using Yahoo (mail.yahoo.com) with great success and satisfaction. It offers great flexibility and is very customizable. Their My.Yahoo service is actually pretty awesome too, and really let's you customize a useful news and services page with little ad interference. .mjm == d--e---S-I--G-N----E--V-O-L-u-t--i---o-n ..3-22...H..a.w.k..e.r......S.t......... .M.t.....V.i...c.t...o..r.i.a....W..e.l. .l..i..n.g..t.o....n.........N.Z........ .....(0064)...(4)......8.0.2..4.0.3.7... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:31:06 -0500 From: abrody@smart.net Subject: (C) RealPlayer G2 beta for the Mac is fake! Dear Digest readers, I am running with extensions off on MacOS 8.5.1. The installer that extracts runs merrily along until the last second doing its own bit of decompressing, and a dialog box comes up: "There is no installer component present inside this file. Installation cannot be performed." Now granted this is a beta version, but if it is a beta version Real should supply a working installer to install the beta version. Otherwise, how do they expect people to experiment with it? I downloaded it from: http://205.158.58.131/233fd34f6d380fefde01/mac/playerppc6p1.hqx Please somebody who can get in contact with Real, let them know they should use a different installer than the one they used for their beta version. I can't seem to find a real contact person (pun is not intended). I don't suspect the problem is with my download, as it wasn't the .hqx file that had trouble being extracted. In fact extracting the .hqx file yielded a .sit file. Expanding that yields the RealPlayer Installer. It was when finishing running the RealPlayer installer, that I come across this error. Everything before that went smoothly. I even tried installing with extensions enabled, under the presumption it might have been looking for the RealPlayer PNI extensions that installed when I installed RealPlayer 5.0. End result was a Type 2 error upon finishing that installation. Anybody have a working copy of the G2 Player beta for the Mac? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net Anybody know what it could mean ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:26:47 +1100 From: Graham Haultain Subject: (Q) Norton Filesaver Crashes Is anyone having any problems with this (latest) Norton utility? It is in three parts, Norton Filesaver Extension, Norton File saver (the control panel) and Norton Filesaver Assistant. The booting up procedure goes to about the last file then the hard disk appears to hunt with the cursor remaining as an arrow. This occurred _after_ I has converted my HD to HFS+ using Plusmaker. Everything else worked perfectly after this change though. I have done all the usual things. Conflict Catcher seemed to think it was Apple Menu Option file, but this did not solve the problem. I have done a clean install, removal of prefs both visible and invisible.I have started a new Conflict Catcher set with only MacOs 8.5.1 and FS and this has worked until I trash a file or some other action. Most peculiar. Norton NAV is not giving out any virus alert. If you have any ideas I would welcome your comment and suggestions. Graham Haultain haultain@one.net.au ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:15:16 -0500 From: "abrody" Subject: (Q) WriteNow enhancer & MacOS 8.5.1 Dear comp.sys.mac.* readers (this is a crosspost), It appears as though my MacEase WriteNow Enhancer no longer works after a clean system install to System 8.5.1. The MacEase control panel still runs fine, but when it comes to activating the pallete it creates for WriteNow, it is nowhere to be found. Anybody know where specific files need to be for WriteNow enhancer to work? Am I missing an extension? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: 21 Dec 98 22:19:39 -0500 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: [A] looking for 8.1 WYSIWYG fonts menu Yakov KOTLYAROV writes: >Does anybody know the tool that can do Now WYSIWYG Menu job in OS 8.1? >Thanks. Yakov. Yakov: Symantek's Suitcase offers WYSIWYG font menus. It's configurable to be there all the time, never, or when a hot key is used. It seems to disagree with OS 8.5 but I it's been fine under 8.1. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:39:56 -0800 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A]: changing to HFS+ Esra, Since you have both an internal & external HD, this should be a relatively safe exercise. HFS+ is really only useful with Drive larger than about 500M. It works fine on my 750M drive and I gained about 10-15% in storage space. Clearly you should do this in a series of incremental steps (sounds like you know this already): 1) Back up Internal 2) Reformat to HFS+ 3) Restore 4) Test (Run for a couple of weeks) 5) Repeat with External drive. I used Apple's HD Setup and had no problems, however it does not give the flexibility of selecting the minimum file size. I have heard of problems with some of the clones and the latest System releases... -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:59:22 -0500 From: jcr2@xcornell.edu (John Rethorst) Subject: Applescript to hide running apps >Does anyone know of a way to get applescript to hide all running >applications except the finder? The Application Menu osax does this. Should be at scriptweb. --- John Rethorst Please delete the x for email. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:18:17 +0900 From: Tito and Shari Poza Subject: Appletalk defaulting to printer port I have a G3 DT/266 connected to a PPC 6200/72 via an ethernet crossover cable. It works great but when I turn on the G3 first or simply do not turn on the 6200 at all, the AppleTalk connection switches from ethernet to the printer port. I can't print unless I turn on the 6200 even when I don't really need or want to turn it on because I cannot access the printer port. Is there any way to stop AppleTalk from switching ports when the other computer is not available? Even if I go into the AppleTalk control panel and turn AppleTalk off, I still cannot use the printer port once this has happened and have to turn on the 6200. The G3 has an ISDN modem on the modem port and an Epson Stylus Color printer on the printer port. Any advice/comments would be appreciated. Thanks. Shari ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:15:56 EST From: Heathen@aol.com Subject: ASIP Web Admin Beta Seed 1 Hi... I am finally about to take the leap with AppleShare v6.x. Before its release, Apple put out ASIP Web Admin Beta Seed 1. In the readme file it indicated that there was a ASIP Web Admin Beta Seed 2 at its appleshareip web site. When I go there, I can not find it. Can anyone forward me ASIP Web Admin Beta Seed 2 or any later edition? I would greatly appreciate it... Thanks... Bill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:33:03 -0700 From: "Roger B. Marks" Subject: broken clicker on PowerBook 2400 The clicker button (below the trackpad) on my PowerBook 2400 is virtually dead. Anyone know how to remove/clean/renovate it? Thanks Roger Dr. Roger B. Marks Chair, IEEE 802 Study Group on Broadband Wireless Access National Wireless Electronic Systems Testbed (N-WEST) National Institute of Standards and Technology/Boulder, CO phone: 1-303-497-3037 fax: 1-303-497-7828 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:56:45 +0100 From: "J.Molegraaf" Subject: cd kopieren Hallo, Ik kopieer nogal eens cd's. Maar nu heb ik een probleem. De cd die ik wou kopieren, wilde hij niet kopieren, hij is misschien wel beveiligd. Kunnen jullie mij hierbij helpen? M.B.V. software of iets anders, alles kan. Bedankt! ~Groeten Martijn Molegraaf. Mail me terug: j.molegraaf@worldonline.nl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:55:34 +0100 From: "J.Molegraaf" Subject: cd kopieren Hallo, Ik kopieer nogal eens cd's. Maar nu heb ik een probleem. De cd die ik wou kopieren, wilde hij niet kopieren, hij is misschien wel beveiligd. Kunnen jullie mij hierbij helpen? M.B.V. software of iets anders, alles kan. Bedankt! ~Groeten Martijn Molegraaf. Mail me terug: j.molegraaf@worldonline.nl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:31:23 From: Charles Edward Farrugia Subject: Finder Problems? Hello! Recently I've been getting the following message after doing a number of consecutive operations (e.g. pasting textures into Texture Installer; aligning windows; etc.). The message reads: "The command could not be completed, because there isn't enough memory available. Closing windows or quitting application programs can make more memory available" The problem is, there's heaps of memory (around 15Meg) so I don't know what's happening - especially as this message has not come up before!! The only two applications that I've loaded recently are Kaleidoscope v2.1 and GoMac (which both appear to be working OK). Quitting the Finder seems to fix the problem, but after a while the same message comes up again. Ultimately, a Restart is the only way to go (and even when I do a Restart, I get the same message, but the Restart proceeds OK). I gather that the Finder thinks that it has run out of memory but how can this be and what is causing it? More _importantly_ how do I fix it???? Thanking anyone with some answers in advance!!! Regards Charles Farrugia Griffith University Brisbane (Sunny one day, Perfect the next!), Australia __o o__ o__ o__ o__ There's one _ \<,_ _.>/ _ _.>/ _ _.>/ _ _.>/ _ in every (_)/ (_) (_) \(_) (_) \(_) (_) \(_) (_) \(_) crowd... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:00:54 -0500 From: Philip Emery Subject: FONT Tool - You know what would be cool? Here's an idea for a shareware Font utility that I think would make the author a very rich man. There are lots of tools for printing out sample pages of one's type library. What would be really cool is a program that would provide an 'on-line' database of your fonts (By 'on-line' I mean on your computer not a web based thing). This tool would be able to take a disk (or CD-ROM, zip etc) of fonts and go through it and catalog what fonts you have (it would have to be able to go through a directory structure like: FONT CD/ A/ Albertus/ Astro/ B/ Beanie/ Big stuff/ as this is often how ad agencies organize their fonts). It would allow you to print out your whole library (even if it took all weekend) by just a couple of clicks. But more importantly, it would provide an 'on-screen' bitmap preview of 4 or 5 letters in a data base form. Along with the preview, one could add 'keywords' to each entry so you could find all fonts that are 'traditional or 'Script' or whatever. I realize that this might be tricky from a programming point of view but in conversations with design folks and ad agencies this is a tool that we REALLY NEED and would gladly pay for! I would be happy to help the programmer with graphics and beta testing and that sort of thing. I can hardly wait! Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: 21 Dec 98 22:07:53 -0500 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: G3 capabilities writes: >I want to buy a Powermac G3/266, but I have some older SCIS devices >(between 7 and 3 years old) that I would like to hook up. Is that possible? >If so, do I need SCSI controller card that plugs into a PCI slot or are >there other solutions? Most important is that I can use my Panasonic >LF-1000 MO drive which has a funny narrow SCSI plug. Will that be a >problem? > >Can I hook up a modem and printer simultaneously to the G3/266, as well? Sabaki: The G3s have two serial ports so, yes, you can connect a modem and printer or a serial device and LocalTalk network devices. Some SCSI device drivers don't know how to cope with the newer SCSI Manager (I think that's what it is) and/or Macs with dual SCSI buses. I've got that problem with an old Abaton scanner. I got one to work on an 8100 under 7.6.1 but I can't get it to work at all under any OS version on a 7600. If the manufacterer still exists, check with them. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:03:41 -0500 From: gene nail Subject: G3 speed I've read and used so many tips from info mac that i thought i'd offer one that i tried recently and was amazed (although I shouldn't have been) how well it worked. For my 266 Mac G3 i purchased a new and relatively cheap (less than $150) 2.1 gig SCSI hard disk and installed it myself (it was my first and it was easy enough) in the open bay just above the factory installed ZIP drive. then i moved my system software and most of my applications to the SCSI drive, leaving mostly data on the factory 4.1 gig IDE drive. I knew the SCSI interface was supposed to be faster, but this is better than a processor upgrade. I'd highly recommend this for any G3 owner who wants a improved performance but it not ready to spend $1,000 for a new ZIF processor upgrade. gene nail gnail@tds.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:02:31 -0500 From: "Quattlebaum.Bill" Subject: Iomega Jaz / IomegaWare 1.0 I manage a staff of 18 that provides day-to-day Mac and PC support. I have purchased 50+ Iomega Jaz Drives for the Mac and have begun seeing new problem. We have used Bernoulli's and the Jaz drives in my staff for years. > Beginning with the Iomega Tools version 6.0.2 (aka Iomegaware 1.0) Iomega > did away with "boot support" for most older non-PowerMac systems. A small > handfull of 68040's are still supported for booting from the Jaz cartridge > according to their ReadMe file. > > I however find I cannot boot even one model they claim is compatible > (PowerBook 540c) and I have problems even getting the Jaz cartridge to > show up on the desktops of ANY non-PowerMac. (That is booting from an > internal HD but having the Jaz show as a drive is very difficult even with > the shift key down.) I think their document show have read that all > Non-PowerMac support is gone and I will be trying to reach tech support > about this question. Of course there is no e-mail tech support and their > WWW Site has NOTHING to be found about older Mac compatibility. > > Beginning now I will be using FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit for all Jaz > formatting. I have tested and confirmed that I can create bootable Jaz > drives for any model Mac with the correct Mac OS version. > Have others seen similar quirks? Thanks, Bill Quattlebaum DIR Scientific Computing Lab ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:14:53 -0500 From: Ed Ver Hoef Subject: Keyboard Woes I am experiencing a very mysterious situation with respect to my Mac. I have a Performa 6116CD and am running OS8.1. Starting just a few days ago, if I leave my computer unattended for a little while (10 - 15 minutes) when I try to resume using it there is no response to any keyboard input. It still responds to mouse movements and clicks and my mouse goes through the keyboard so I doubt that it is a loosening connection between the keyboard and the computer. Rebooting doesn't solve the problem but rebuilding the desktop does. The only thing that I can think of as a recent activity sort of immediately preceding this situation is that I installed Quicken Delux 7 from CD and keep the CD on my desktop. Can Info-Mac guru shed some light on this matter? All suggestions will be much appreciated. TIA Ed Ver Hoef ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:04:26 +0800 From: stngiam@pobox.com (Ngiam Shih Tung) Subject: Modemless G3 Powerbook [R] I didn't see the original post so I don't know whether you are referring to the original PB G3 or to the newer PB G3 series computers. The original PB G3 was supplied with a ethernet+modem card in the United States, but an ethernet-only card outside the US. The dealer therefore might have been correct in saying that is not (legally) possible to install an internal modem in the PB. Don't know about France, but US telephone equipment certainly works in Singapore, except that it is illegal to hook it up to the local telephone network. Bon Annee ! Shih Tung ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:18:05 -0800 From: Mark Hurty Subject: Netcaster Netcaster is, for all intents and purposes, defunct. It was part of Netscape's "push" technology and allowed (among other things) a user to access what netscape called "channels." It also allowed developers to create immersive, desktop browser environments (kind of like the integration of Windows98 and Internet Explorer). You could create what Netscape at one time referred to as a "webtop." Your desktop was replaced by a webpage (or channel) displayed in what was essentially a full-screen, chromeless window. Some of the same technology is still available through signed javascripts. The help file you're reading is an artifact. Netcaster was never fully functional on the Mac. Mark Hurty > Hi InfoMac readers> > > Can anyone tell me how I can get hold of Netcaster? Is it part of Netscape > Communicato? which I do not have running. I use Navigator, and its help > file has a section on Netcaster and how to use it, but it assumes that one > has it already, saying to start it click on its window. Well I can't find > any Netcaster window, or logo, or anything relating to it, except in the > help file. > > Thanks, > > Ezra ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:26:35 +0100 From: "dmease" Subject: No Netcaster I have, for sometime, been using the pointcast viewer and chanels, but, after hearing that pointcast will no longer have a mac version, would like to find an alternative. I thought I had found it with netscape netcaster, but for some reason can not get it to install on my mac. I have download the full version of communicator 4.0 and 4.5 but still cannot find it. It is listed as a feature on the netscape site and is also listed as a feature when communicator is starting up, along with collabra, composer, etc. Does anybody know what is happening. dmease@neo.rrcom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:54:51 +0800 From: "yickming wong" Subject: os 8.5.1 increases system heap I have just installed os 8.5 and updated to 8.5.1 The "about this computer" box shows that the ram occupied by the os creeps up gradually from about 12Mb to 30+Mb ! The control panel Sleeper cannot get the hard disk to sleep although it worked under os 7.5 previously. Disk Firstaid (8.5.1) was unable to complete its verification scan and reports that another program is using the hard disk. Disk Firstaid works and does not find any problems if I reboot with all extensions off. I have checked with Process Watcher under my normal configuration but there were no suspect background processes. My mac is a 6100/66 powerPC with 40 Mb (physical) ram installed. Anybody encountered the same problem and any suggestions? ming ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:22:13 +0100 From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller" Subject: OT/PPP freezes Mac using v90 but not v32bis I am having serious problems getting a fast PPP conection under v90 with an ELSA Microlink 56k modem (Powermac 9500 with NewerTech 275 MHz G3 card, 256 MB RAM, System 8.1). I am using the supplied modem script and a PC modem cable cable connected to the hardware handshaking cable which came with my previous V32bis modem. With this configuration I am having no problems to connect to a terminal server which supports 14,400 bps connections under v32bis and heavily use this connection with simultaenous FTP transfers, WWW browsing, and e-mail checking. This makes me confident that it is not a cabling problem. I am unable, however, to achieve any usable conection on a v90 Ascend system using the same cable and modem script. These are the symptoms: The modem connects properly, OT/PPP negotiates the network protocol (see log), and PPP reports "Connection established". 12/3/98 10:42 CCL write: "AT\13" 12/3/98 10:42 CCL match: "OK\13\10" 12/3/98 10:42 CCL write: "AT&F&D2\13" 12/3/98 10:42 CCL match: "OK\13\10" 12/3/98 10:42 Dialing without tone 12/3/98 10:42 CCL write: "ATX3\13" 12/3/98 10:42 CCL match: "OK\13\10" 12/3/98 10:42 Dialing 0,24010 12/3/98 10:42 CCL write: "ATDT0,24010\13" 12/3/98 10:43 CCL match: "CONNECT" 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: Sending Configuration Request. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Async Map = 0x00000000. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Magic Number = 0x2CAEBED9. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Protocol Compression On 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Address/Control Compression On 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: Received Configuration Request. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Unknown type: 0x00000000. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Async Map = 0x000A0000. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Auth Protocol = 0x0000C023. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Protocol Compression On 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Address/Control Compression On 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Unknown type: 0x00000011. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Unknown type: 0x00000013. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Unknown Option Rejected. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: Sending Configuration Reject. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: Received Configuration Ack. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: Received Configuration Request. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Async Map = 0x000A0000. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Auth Protocol = 0x0000C023. 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Protocol Compression On 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: >> Address/Control Compression On 12/3/98 10:43 LCP: Sending Configuration Ack. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Sending Configuration Request. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Compression-Protocol = Van Jacobson, max. slot: 15, comp. slot: off. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Address = 0.0.0.0 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Received Configuration Nak. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Sending Configuration Request. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Compression-Protocol = Van Jacobson, max. slot: 15, comp. slot: off. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Address = 132.252.241.21 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Received Configuration Ack. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Sending Configuration Request. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Compression-Protocol = Van Jacobson, max. slot: 15, comp. slot: off. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Address = 132.252.241.21 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Received Configuration Ack. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Received Configuration Request. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Compression-Protocol = Van Jacobson, max. slot: 15, comp. slot: off. 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: >> IP-Address = 132.252.183.240 12/3/98 10:43 IPCP: Sending Configuration Ack. 12/3/98 10:43 PPP ready for TCP/IP with IP address 132.252.241.21 12/3/98 10:43 Connection established. When I launch MacTCP Watcher 2.0 now, the system freezes before MacTCP Watcher's menu bar is drawn. When I drop into MacsBug, it tells me that MacTCP Watcher is hanging and I can escape with ES. This is the StdLog (full listing available): MacsBug 6.5.4a6, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1981-98 NMI (user entered MacsBug on purpose) 3-Dec-1998 11:23:07 AM (since boot = 24 minutes) Current application is "MacTCP Watcher 2.0" Machine = 67 (PowerMac9500), System $0810, sysu = $01008000 ROM version $077D, $28F1, $0001 (ROMBase $FFC00000) VM is off NIL^ = $FFC10000 Stack space used = +254894544 Address 003BD548 is in the System heap at 00002800 at OTRealKernelSWITask+001C0 It is in the CFM fragment "OTKernelLib" at 003BA150 It is 000033F8 bytes from the start of the fragment and 00003378 bytes into a non-writeable code section at 003BA1D0 It is 000033F8 bytes into this heap block: Start Length Tag Mstr Ptr Lock Prg Type ID File Name * 003BA150 00037828+0C N PowerPC 740/750 Registers .... Something seems to be going on with the "OTKernelLib" but I know next to nothing about low-level debugging. By this time, PPP still reports "Connection established". When I try to disconnect , I get foever the message "Waiting for PPP termination...". Rebooting the Mac causes a system crash bringing up MacsBug which identifies the current application as the Finder. I can restart with RS now. The following is the beginning of the StdLog (again, full listing available): MacsBug 6.5.4a6, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1981-98 PowerPC access exception at 003EAA90 3-Dec-1998 10:58:09 AM (since boot = 12 minutes) Current application is "Finder" Machine = 67 (PowerMac9500), System $0810, sysu = $01008000 ROM version $077D, $28F1, $0001 (ROMBase $FFC00000) VM is off NIL^ = $FFC10000 Stack space used = +260146460 Address 003EAA90 is in the System heap at 00002800 It is in the CFM fragment "OTKernelLib" at 003BA150 It is 00030940 bytes from the start of the fragment and 000308C0 bytes into a non-writeable code section at 003BA1D0 It is 00030940 bytes into this heap block: Start Length Tag Mstr Ptr Lock Prg Type ID File Name * 003BA150 00037828+0C N PowerPC 740/750 Registers .... Again "OTKernelLib" seems to be implicated. I can use other internet applications with the same results, Anarchie 3 freezes suring the startup screen with "Initializing...", Eudora Light 3.1 brings up the dialog box "Establishing PPP Connection" with the message "connecting..." and it lets me quit gracefully with the "STOP" Button. I have tried the usual steps, rebuilding the desktop, restting the PRAM, trashing the Finder Pref's, replacing the Finder and System files, and finally doing a clean install - no change. Again, there are no problems with slower v32bis PPP connections. Do you have an idea what is going on here? Thanks a lot in advance! Stefan ____________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Stefan P. Mueller, Nuklearmedizin, Universitaetsklinikum, D-45122 Essen, FR Germany, e-mail: stefan.Xmueller@uni-essen.de, FAX: <49> (201) 723-4146 for replies remove X from e-mail address ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:04:24 +0800 From: stngiam@pobox.com (Ngiam Shih Tung) Subject: PB 540C/Paperport 3.0/OS 8.0 The Paperport Vx I have is the serial-based version, not the SCSI one. Even more confusingly, I call it a Paperport Vx, but it is actually the one that was OEM'd for HP and sold as a Scanjet 4s. The software supplied was from Visioneer, however. The control panel dates from System 7.5 days, though, and I presume its a 68K binary. Strange that it works on a PowerPC PB G3, but dies on a 68K PB 540. Unfortunately, I loaded MacOS 8.0 before trying out the Paperport software, so I don't know if the problem is PB 540-specific or whether it is an interaction with MacOS 8. Shih Tung ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:57:51 -0500 From: info-mac@fortmann.org Subject: Sluggish Netscape 4.5 and Mac OS 8.5.1 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. I sent inquiries to Netscape and Apple, but Netscape does not accept email and Apple did not respond. Tom Fortmann Please reply to: tom(at)fortmann.org ------------------------------ Date: 21 Dec 98 22:04:40 -0500 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: Virex "abrody" 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? > >Then how come does Network Associate's web page show version 3.0 of its >Viruscan, where it is linked up to McAfee's listing of Virex? > >I am totally confused. Also the beta version 5.9 available from that page >was released last July. I thought I remember reading in the Digest someone >has gotten a release version newer than August. But it isn't available at >PC/MacConnection, MacZone, or MacWareHouse so I wonder where they got >it. abrody: 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. In our tests (we're not a lab - just a couple guys with a couple captured worms) we've found that Virex is catching strains of the Autostart 9805 worm that Viruscan and NAV both miss. It does cause finder copy errors in some configurations but we've yet to determine what conflicts with it to bring this about. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:58:58 -0500 From: jcr2@xcornell.edu (John Rethorst) Subject: WordPerfect and OS 8.5 >Has anyone had this problem? I upgraded to OS 8.5, now a number of >applications (e.g. Filemaker, Word Perfect) won't print, though other >like ClarisWorks will. I am using a Color StyleWriter 4100, and I've >installed the latest upgrade printer driver (v1.1) from Apple. Help! Have you updated WordPerfect to 3.5.4 (free at the Corel ftp site)? Better yet, get 3.5e (e for enhanced) from Corel for $25, and patch it (3.5e patch is free, at Corel and Info-Mac). --- John Rethorst Please delete the x for email. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************