Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #349 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 12 Oct 99 Volume 16 : Issue 349 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#501/11-Oct-99 (C) The three ADB device rule - a lesson learned 2 Questions [Q] Modem dialing (Powerbook v.34) setup in Touchbase Pro Acrobat Distller Anybody seen news yet on MaxOptic's drive, and their pricing? Apple CD Audio Player Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* DLink 560TXD multi-function PC Card & PowerBook 1400 Do we need a new digest viewer? Do we need a new digest viewer? Easy View - Do we need a new digest viewer? Fan Noise fixed ncsa telnet, a success story How can you change default browser? How to open Apple 15" Multiple scan monitor How to print preface pages in Acrobat importing address books internet/ethernet status Lexmark 1000 color jetprinter MFS QuickTime Conversion screensaver conversions Secure Shell 2.0 for the Mac Sherlock network errors VIRUS ALERT 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. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * 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. If that fails, try using the list maintenance form at before contacting us. * Please send administrative queries to . 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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 #349" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#501/11-Oct-99 TidBITS#501/11-Oct-99 Steve Jobs has introduced a new $999 iMac and the iMac DV with FireWire and= video editing capabilities, all with faster processors, revamped audio,= dual USB, and transparent cases. Also in this issue, Matt Neuburg looks at= Style Master, a tool for authoring Cascading Style Sheets for the Web, Adam= continues examining how MP3 is changing his relationship to music, and we= note new releases of Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Palm Desktop, and= the results of our first poll.=20 Topics: MailBITS/11-Oct-99 Jobs Splits iMac Line over Digital Video Precision Web Pages with Style Master That MP3eaceful, Easy Feeling, Part 2 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-501.etx; 32K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 13:29:40 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (C) The three ADB device rule - a lesson learned Dear Digest readers, As nice as having ADB is on the Wallstreet, I learned a very important lesson about it. The trackpad is a second ADB device. I also learned that keyboards with built-in trackpads are treated by the ADB controller as having two devices. I attached an ergonomic keyboard with built-in trackpad (made by Adesso), and I lost control of my Powerbook for a full two weeks. It would intermittently shut itself down without warning. The Power Management Unit got fried. I took it into an Apple repair technician who couldn't reproduce my shutdowns, and so couldn't replace the unit. Finally I talked at length with Apple Customer Relations, and they agreed to replace any parts necessary until the problem was fixed. They returned it 36 hours after I shipped it to them, and it was fixed. So remember, you can only add ONE device to the ADB port of the Wallstreet. Add any more, even if built into the single device you think you are adding, and you are risking disaster. Still waiting for the USB card to work properly in the PCMCIA slot of my Wallstreet. I am not about to buy a Lombard, crippled by its one PCMCIA port, and one non-battery expansion slot, and lack of mute button and brightness and sound buttons. Also, waiting for a motherboard swap for my Wallstreet to bring it up to speed. If anyone hears anything, please e-mail me. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net Check out over 700 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:07:25 -0700 From: Mac Support Subject: 2 Questions Hello All, Q1: I have 2 user that I am unable to create personal address books in Outlook. I have downloaded the current version and cleanly installed several times now but no luck. Any Idea's? Q2: A user with a VST USB floppy drive on a iMac that keeps randomly locking up. When the drive is removed, the lockups and crashes go away. Have tried current drivers and a another drive. Tried minimal extensions, but little luck. It seems to rear its ugly head when using a browser, either IE or Netscape. Regards, Steve Richards ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 21:12:38 -0400 From: tcs@technologist.com (TCS) Subject: [Q] Modem dialing (Powerbook v.34) setup in Touchbase Pro Owing to the death spiral scenario, I changed my Powerbook 56K selection to the v.34 option. I have slower connection speeds, but at least connnections are stable. Now I have a problem that I cannot dial from Touchbase Pro. I must need to set new dialing preferences. I opened the Powerbook v.34 script with BBEdit to try to figure out the correct adjustments, but my attempts have not succeeded. I just don't know enough about this sort of thing to make the correct selections. The categories to be filled are as follows: Modem setup string Modem dial string prefix Modem dial string suffix Modem hangup string Seconds till hangup I think the following are standard: Modem dial string suffix ; Seconds till hangup 5 Can anyone help me with what to fill in for the following categories? Modem setup string Modem dial string prefix Modem hangup string TIA, lc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 12:56:43 -0400 From: "Cindy Krueger" Subject: Acrobat Distller Doug, Check out this page on the Adobe site. < http://www.adobe.com/support/tec= hdocs/3d76.htm> There are 6 solutions listed as well as some addtional = links at the bottom of the page. I have run into the same problem. = Sometimes I have been able to resolve it by making the files smaller. = (Breaking up one large book into chapters.) Sometimes the problem is with = the user who does not have enough memory and/or has too many applications = open. Right now we are waiting for new Apache server software to try to remedy = the byteserving problem.=20 Cindy Library of Michigan http://www.libofmich.lib.mi.us ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:10:11 -0400 From: a brody Subject: Anybody seen news yet on MaxOptic's drive, and their pricing? Dear Digest, About 4 months ago, MacCentral published an article saying that blue laser light drives are to be appearing from MaxOptic this month. The cool thing about them are the following characteristics: 40 GB a platter! 15 M Byte Per Second data read and write access Read and Write data access that is unlimited. 40 GB, now let's do the computation: A 2 minute video is 6 MB using Sorenson Quicktime compression, and that looks beautiful at 1024 x 768 from Apple's Quicktime Trailer theatre: 12 minutes = 36 MB 12,000 minutes = 36 GB. 200 hours of video on a single platter! It sure sounds too good to be true, but if it exists, I'd love to see the technology that does it. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net Check out over 700 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:44:16 EDT From: Luskin@aol.com Subject: Apple CD Audio Player When I put an audio CD into the drive on my G3 with 8.1, the CD's icon appears, and I usually get a few seconds of music. Most often, however, I have to double click the CD, click the icon for the first movement, and then Apple CD Audio Player starts, and I get its screen. If I wait a few seconds more, the music starts, without my intervention, unless I choose, by clicking a track, to listen to something other than the track that I had double clicked initially. If I click the box to get rid of the screen, the music continues. But the audio program is not on the pulldown menu at the right side of the screen. Can someone explain all of this? Is Apple CD Audio Player running or not, and why no mention in the list of running programs? Thank you. Michael B. Luskin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:03:35 -0400 From: "Gerald A. Edgar" Subject: Decoding files ending in *mim* or *mime* Mpack is another program for this. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:17:15 -0400 From: Vincent Cayenne Subject: DLink 560TXD multi-function PC Card & PowerBook 1400 Has anyone out there had any success with getting the DLink 560TX or 560TXD cards to work with a PowerBook 1400? From little blurbs in their documentation I gather that it has been done. However, DLink no longer supports or recommends this combination. Unfortunately, I found this out after already taking delivery of the card. And it works so well otherwise. So even if I have to jump through some hoops and mumble a special chant, I'm willing to experiment. Any ideas, suggestions, drivers or firmware out there? Or some generic PC Card drivers that can be user-tweaked to recognise a card of my choice? I suspect that if I can just get the "thing" that does the recognition of the card as a valid PC Card then I can hack the rest... BACKGROUND: The DLink 560TXD is a multi-function PC Card that provides a 10/100 NIC, 56K modem and FaxModem on a single-slot card that uses no dongles and leaves the lower card slot free. It is multi-platform, multi-OS, multi-NOS, etc. While recommended for the usual plethora of WIntel stuff and for PowerPC Mac laptops, this seems to actually mean only 3400, 2400 and G3 PowerBooks... Vincent Cayenne "Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts" (Rutherford/Robertson) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:23:11 -0700 From: Chris Schram Subject: Do we need a new digest viewer? Recently, "D. Scott Beach" wrote: >I still read both this digest and Tidbits in EasyView. I like that Setext >format the best. I get the impression that the author of EasyView hasn't >been heard of in ages. [snip] >Are there enough of us still using EasyView to warrant some clever >shareware author revamping, updating or totally rewriting it to make better >use of the newer OS features? I, too, read Info-Mac and TidBITS in Easy View, and I'm also looking for a replacement for that ancient program. I hate seeing Easy View die. Aside from being a cranky beast at times, it's just so darned versatile. I keep a folder of random text files that Easy View can browse and search very quickly. I use Easy View to browse through my Eudora mailboxes. About the only kind of text Easy View CAN'T parse is HTML. If Info-Mac was all I wanted to read, I might switch to Digest Viewer. I emailed the author of Digest Viewer to see if he would be interested in adding Setext recognition to his program, but he wasn't... Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:30:37 +1300 From: "Nigel Stanger" Subject: Do we need a new digest viewer? On Saturday, 9 October 1999 12:26:25 AM, D. Scott Beach wrote: > Are there enough of us still using EasyView to warrant some clever > shareware author revamping, updating or totally rewriting it to make better > use of the newer OS features? I guess without the original creator's > permission and co-operation (not to mention source code) it would have to > be a re-write. You can download most of the source code from tidbits.com -- I have a copy at home. I was tossing about the idea doing a rewrite about a year ago, but I got sidetracked by finishing my PhD, plus I couldn't find anything about the file format it uses for the index files, which is probably the most important bit from the point of view of backwards compatibility. In other words, it wouldn't be that hard to rewrite (the only other tricky bit would be figuring out the setext parser), but it probably wouldn't be able to open old index files unless you can track down the original author. ===================================================================== Nigel Stanger, mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz Dept. of Information Science, http://strange.otago.ac.nz/ University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 13:18:30 +0200 From: Stig Albjerg Nielsen Subject: Easy View - Do we need a new digest viewer? On 8 Oct 99 07:26:25 -0400 Scott Beach wrote: >I still read both this digest and Tidbits in EasyView. I like that Setext >format the best. I get the impression that the author of EasyView hasn't >been heard of in ages. (Written by M. Akif Eyler, Bilkent University, 06533 >Ankara, Turkey. e-mail: eyler@bilkent.edu.tr) >Are there enough of us still using EasyView to warrant some clever >shareware author revamping, updating or totally rewriting it to make better >use of the newer OS features? I guess without the original creator's >permission and co-operation (not to mention source code) it would have to >be a re-write. Apart from digests Easy View is a godsend for managing clippings files created by ClipFiler or other utilities. And, yes the program is getting quite long in the tooth. For example it cannot handle text clippings from the Finder. Likewise searching or extracting (a very useful feature) seems slow and somewhat primitive by today's standard. M. Akif Eyler halted development of Easy View at version 2.61 of March 1995. I seem to remember that Adam Engst has mentioned the possibility of a rewrite on the TidBITS list and that Mr. Eyler would be willing to supply the source code. Apparently no programmer has risen to the challenge. Perhaps Adam Engst - a moderator of this list - will correct or elucidate? -san- ----------------------------------------------------- -- Stig Albjerg Nielsen (+45) 8686 7471 -- Boellingsoegaardvej 17, DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark -- ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:48:59 -0600 From: Roger Wise Subject: Fan Noise I am having problems with fan noise on my mac 6500. Has anyone else had this same problem? What is the fix, other than replacing fan. I know I have seen question before but can't find in archive. TIA Roger God Put Me On This Earth To Accomplish A Certain Number Of Things, Right Now I'm So Far Behind I'LL NEVER DIE!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:37:48 -0500 From: "Paul M. Sheldon" Subject: fixed ncsa telnet, a success story Recently, my ncsa telnet program stopped launching properly. Launching this telnet just left a watch cursor indefinitely. I wish to brief the list how I fixed it. I flipped the popup in extensions manager and it caught that I had two versions of various inits lying around which is a bad omen. I trashed the older version inits. Preference files for an application can get corrupted and an application will freeze and not run then. One has to remove the preferences file from the preferences folder and rebuild a new one there by launching the application. I checked this hypothesis with Sherlock. I used the finder find command. I commanded it find a file containing the word "telnet" and found a file called "ncsa telnet preferences". I pulled this file out of the preferences folder and got on internet with remote access (I have os 8.6.1 and so not ppp) and then launched telnet. It rebuilt the ncsa telnet preferences file uncorrupted and all worked normal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 22:04:22 -0600 From: Lawrence Rugolo Subject: How can you change default browser? Some time ago someone asked this question when I didn't need to know the answer, and of course I don't recall the solution. How can you change the default browser from Netscape to MSIE after both are installed, you know, the one which launches when you double-click an URL? I know that when you first install either browser, you can choose to make it the default, but is it possible to change it later? I have MacOS 8.1, so I can't switch it from the Control Panels. Thanks......Larry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:38:45 -0500 From: "Allan, David (DS)" Subject: How to open Apple 15" Multiple scan monitor Michael, I found from searching deja.com that you need to release some hidden tabs by putting a screwdriver in some slot. I haven't started working on mine, so I can't be more specific. I, too, was disappointed to have missed Apple's extended repair by a couple of weeks. Grrr. Good luck. Share your experiences with the list. David -----Original Message----- From: MICHAEL J. LONGO [mailto:longo@umalp1.physics.lsa.umich.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 3:22 PM Subject: How to open Apple 15" Multiple scan monitor I'm one of the unfortunates with an Apple Multiple Scan monitor that has the weird color syndrome. There seems to be thousands of us, and Apple declines to extend the warranty. The symptom is you get weird colors when the monitor is first turned on. Most commonly the screen is a pale yellow-green with no readable text or detail. In my case so far it usually goes away after it has been on for 15 min or so. I suspect it is getting worse and will soon be totally unusable. Rumor has it that the problem is a bad solder joint. I thought to look for it myself but I can't figure out how to open the bloody case. There are 2 Phillips screws on the back rear. I've removed them and the case seems to be separating a bit at the bottom. There seems to be a hinge on top that takes some special tool or knowledge to separate. Does anyone know how to do this or where I can find the info? Any info on fixing the problem would of course be much appreciated. (mlongo@umich.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:50:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Ethan Benatan Subject: How to print preface pages in Acrobat I don't know a solution, but I might be able to help by pointing out that other documents--my Ph.D. dissertation, for example ;-) -- with similar schemes do not suffer from this problem; so it probably has something to do with how it was created. Is it possible for you to open the doc in the full version of Acrobat? Depending on how it was protected, you might be able to work with it there. Sorry I can't be more help. >>> "Murph" == Murph Sewall writes: Murph> MacOS 8.6, Acrobat Reader 4.0, LaserWriter 8. PDF documents Murph> with roman number numbered preface pages (i, ii, and so on) Murph> preceeding page 1 don't want to print (the Acrobat display has Murph> the document page number with the physical page number in Murph> parentheses--for example page 'i' is shown as 1 of 52 and page Murph> '50' is page 52 of 52). Attempt to print either the whole Murph> document of the first few pages insist on starting with Murph> document page 1... how does one print pages i and ii? Ethan _____________ Ethan Benatan ethan+@pitt.edu http://www.pitt.edu/~ethan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 15:18:32 -0400 From: Gino Landini Subject: importing address books I think this got answered before but I lost the answer. I need to import an address book from Outlook Express to Netscape and can't get it done. I have tried everything. The process in the help file is for the PC and I have a Mac. Can someone please help me to do this. Thank you in advance. Gino Landini ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:46:36 -0700 From: Denny Davis Subject: internet/ethernet status At 8:28 AM -0400 10/6/99, dead nancy wittily wrote: >hi, everybody. > >(this is a repost. i never saw it show up the first time.) > >five of us are connected to the net through our ethernet lan via a >gateway machine running ipnetrouter. when the modem was external, it was >easy enough (if a little low-tech) to glance across the room and check >connection and transfer by looking at the little green lights. now the >modem is internal, and the only way to check connection status is to >open remote access and watch the graph. > >so: is there anything out there that will show me, on my computer, how >fast (or if at all) my internet connection is going when i'm connected >through another machine? something like freeppp's control strip or the >global village menu bar thermometer would be nice. > >thanks. > >dead nancy >http://www.merkins.com/ >working for you! There are a couple of Control Strip Modules that will report on various aspects of PPP, though I have no idea how much info you can get when on ethernet. My favourite is Control PPP. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 22:53:02 -0500 From: "Theresa Kraft" Subject: Lexmark 1000 color jetprinter Does anyone know who makes the engine for the Lexmark 1000 color jetprinter? Lexmark's site does not support Macs, but I have a friend who would like to know if there is a Mac (preferrably USB) driver for this printer available anywhere. tk -- Theresa Kraft Luther Seminary 2481 Como Ave #302 St Paul MN 55108 651-641-3304 How can people call for help if they don't know whom to trust? And how can they know whom to trust if they haven't heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? Romans 10:14-15. The Message ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:23:55 -0400 From: Louis Bergeron Subject: MFS Well this is rather old. I wonder if an older copy of DiskCopy could open that. Louis Louis Bergeron C.P. 936 Rouyn Rouyn-Noranda Qc Canada J9X 5C8 Telephone personnel - Personal phone (819) 764-3862 Centre de service aux entreprises du Cegep de Granby - Haute-Yamaska 385 Principale Granby (Quebec) J2G 2W5 Telephone travail Office phone (450) 372-6614 #172 Telecopieur public Public fax (450) 777-5842 E-mail tiwi@lino.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:21:15 -0700 From: Bob Peterson Subject: QuickTime Conversion To disable the QT conversion feature, open the QuickTime Settings control panel. Choose QuickTime Exchange from the pop-up menu and uncheck the enable QuickTime Exchange box. Cheers! Bob Peterson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:53:12 -0400 From: Saint John Subject: screensaver conversions At 20:53 -0400 10/7/99, Rachel S. Ropeik wrote: >OK, so if I have a screen saver sent to me through email but it's in PC >format, is there a way for me to convert it to Mac format so I can use it? >Also, does anyone know of any good sites out there for downloading cool, >free screensavers? Thanks:) From the "helpful" alerts that random visitors to my website insist on sending me, I get the impression that every PC screensaver sent as an email attachment is a Trojan Horse. (Me, I turn my monitors off when I'm away. 100% compatable, saves more energy, zero chance of burn-in, and I have Speak Time to let me know that the computer's on.) As for neat Mac screensavers, you're ON a site with them-- Info-Mac! Hit the official site, , or one of the mirrors and search on that key. +- Saint John | | | "Passers-by were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood." +-- (The Onion) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:05:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Ethan Benatan Subject: Secure Shell 2.0 for the Mac I'm not sure if either of these are v2; but here's what I got. Commercial: Free, but illegal in the US last I knew: So what's CVS? >>> "Brad" == Nation, Bradley M writes: Brad> Does anyone know where I can get a secure shell version 2.0 Brad> client for the Mac. I am running CVS on a LINUX and need SSH Brad> for authentication. Ethan _____________ Ethan Benatan ethan+@pitt.edu http://www.pitt.edu/~ethan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:12:19 -0600 From: "Nation, Bradley M." Subject: Sherlock network errors You may be having this problem if you are going through a proxy server. Check the Internet control panel settings, not Microsoft Configuration Manager. I had the same problem. I removed the "http://" in each of the proxy server settings at "Firewalls" under the "Advanced" tab. You will have to go to Edit and select "User Mode ..." and choose "Administration" to get the "Advanced" tab. Sincerely, Bradley M. Nation Sandia National Laboratories MS 0455 Voice; (505) 844-5631 Distributed Systems Assurance, Org. 6232, Email: bmnatio@sandia.gov PO Box 5800 Fax: (505) 845-8422 Albuquerque, NM 87185-0455 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:48:47 -0400 From: Vincent Cayenne Subject: VIRUS ALERT At 4:58p +0200 10/7/99, aeden@worldnet.fr wrote: >what I need (to do) Suggestion: Trash the Apple Menu Options preferences, turn off the recent files/folders options and trash then rebuild your desktop (try TrashDesktop). Vincent Cayenne "Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts" (Rutherford/Robertson) -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************