Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 08 Jul 97 Volume 15 : Issue 136 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#387/07-Jul-97 (Q) Mac OS 8.0 (Q) software to kill animated gifs [A] Mounting UNIX Drive [A] No-command-key window folder hierarchy access? [A] software to kill animated gifs A handy thesaurus? A Translator for MacWrite Files? Beta Testers Wanted Can't open Word files by double click?? dialing into UNIX IE and Easy Open file confusion Info-Mac Digest V15 #134 LaserWriter LS problem Missing back issues netscape and 7.6 crashes Powerbook 190 monitor powerwave problems PPC upgrade for Powerbook 190 software to kill animated gifs The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, Liam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. 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Topics: MailBITS/07-Jul-97 The 20th Anniversary Mac Comes for Tea I Dream of Genealogy: Family Tree Maker Spinning the Web Part 4: CyberStudio [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-387.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:49:31 -0300 From: Antoine Margot Subject: (Q) Mac OS 8.0 Hello ! Could anyone tell me if the new Mac OS 8.0 will run on non-Power PC machines ? I have a Centris 650 that I would like to upgrade from System 7.1; therefore, I would appreciate knowing if it is worth to wait OS 8.0 or if OS 7.6 is my last chance of upgrade. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Antoine Antoine O. Margot Aracatuba-SP, Brazil Antoine@infocenter.com.br ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:16:30 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: (Q) software to kill animated gifs >is there software compatible w/ Netscape Navigator 2 and higher that >will effectively kill those irritating animated gifs...? You want WebFree, assuming that you're using OpenTransport. I don't have a URL handy, but an AltaVista search on "webfree" should turn it up. chazl July 7, 1997 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 17:32:47 -0400 From: Pieter Stouten Subject: [A] Mounting UNIX Drive On 97/07/06 at 17:41 -0500, Jason P. Torrey wrote: >Does any one know if there is an ARA-like program out there that allows >one to mount a UNIX drive on your desktop? > We use UShare on Suns for that purpose. It works reasonably well but sometimes the DeskTop databases get corrupted. There is also the Columbia Appletalk Package (CAP), but that seems a real pain to install and configure properly (I have no personal experience with it, though). Rather than running AppleTalk on a Unix machine, you might opt for running MacNFS on the Mac (again, I have no experience with it and if I remember correctly was fairly pricy). The most elegant and stable solution seems the Xinet software that comes by default on the SGI O2's. Even in demo mode one can mount Unix disks on the Mac for an hour. It also allows one to mount Mac disks on the SGI (15 minutes in demo mode) and to print to AppleTalk printers from the SGI. I have not tried printing, but the disk mounting between Mac and SGI works like a charm. Hope this helps, Pieter Stouten stoutepf@carbon.dmpc.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 19:15:16 -0400 From: Pieter Stouten Subject: [A] No-command-key window folder hierarchy access? Already my third mail to the digest today! I am turning into a real Al Bloom here, albeit not of the funny persuasion . On 97/06/25 at 16:21 -0400, I wrote: >The Finder pops up a hierarchy for a specific folder when one >command-clicks the name of that folder in its window bar. There used to be >a utility that allowed one to do that *without* pressing the command key, >but I have not been able to find it. Can someone please give me a pointer? > I thank Bill Moore, Chuck Garrett, Daly Jessup, Mark Nagata, Chip McGregor and A Brody for their useful responses. Suggestions were: PopupFolder, Greg's Browser, TitlePop and Hierarchy. PopupFolder and Greg's Browser are overkill for what I want. Indeed, Hierarchy was what I had been looking for, but .... when I tried out the freeware TitlePop 2.4.2, I found it a great little utility for getting instant access to all open windows in all applications from any window's title bar! The only problem is that TitlePop and Hierarchy seem mutually exclusive and I do not really want to give up TitlePop. So, I hope that Jouko Pakkanen, author of TitlePop will modify this handy tool a bit in that one can choose a modifier key combination to invoke the popup menu so that I can use both TitlePop and Hierarchy. Just this moment I found out that a much improved TitlePop 3.0 has been released (check out: ), but I have not tried it yet. Cheers, Pieter Stouten stoutepf@carbon.dmpc.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 17:22:13 -0400 From: Pieter Stouten Subject: [A] software to kill animated gifs On 97/07/06 at 1:53 -0800, Doan Thiel Stafford wrote: >is there software compatible w/ Netscape Navigator 2 and higher that >will effectively kill those irritating animated gifs...? >something that will stop all those spinning, flashing, NOTICEME! >gifs...? > Some people do have an awfully short attention span . Less than three weeks I wrote: >Does anybody know how to disable blinking in Netscape 3.01? > Thanks are due Chris Crow and Daly Jessup . They pointed me to WebFree, which in addition to blinking can suppress advertising banners and animated gifs. WebFree can be found at . Thanks, Pieter Stouten ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 23:58:19 +0930 From: monib@adam.com.au (Monib Mahdavi) Subject: A handy thesaurus? Dear MacDudes, For a while now I have been looking for a good thesaurus programme, a stand alone utiltiy that I can just pop open when the need arises and type a word into. Does anyone know of a programme like this. I can't recall ever coming across one, however it appears strange to me that one would not exist. I would be forever greatful if anyone could inform me about such a utility, shareware prefered however if need be I will invest in a commercial programme. Thanks for your time, Regards, Monib monib@adam.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 23:42:48 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: A Translator for MacWrite Files? Miles Abernathy wrote: > I have many 1985 original MacWrite files, and no way to read them. Word 6 > can handle MacWrite II files, but not the "classic" variety. I understand > that MacWrite will not run on present-day Macs. MacWrite Pro runs on the latest Macs. It uses Claris' XTND translators to access other file formats. Claris has an XTND for MacWrite 5.0; don't know if this works with still older versions. The Claris XTND can be used in any XTND-capable application, as for example ClarisWorks. Hope this helps. Best wishes, Christian. http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser -- cbuser@access.ch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 97 23:04:44 +0100 From: Marc Mennigmann Subject: Beta Testers Wanted I'm looking for some Macintosh beta testers. If you know the traps of your MAC and maybe have some beta testing experience then I would like to hear from you. To be considered for my team, please e-mail your name, address, phone number, and your computer system configuration to . Please include a brief summary of your testing experience or why especially YOU are the beta tester I need... =) If you would like to see the current versions of the software that is going to be tested in the future, please visit my website at . Actually there is no release to be tested, but I would really like to see my beta-testers team growing... Thank you in advance, Marc Mennigmann Author of 'Navigator Enhancer', 'Recall...' and 'THE BLOCK' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 17:01:44 -0500 From: Joe Gard Subject: Can't open Word files by double click?? Greetings all, This is a new one for me. My boss can't seem to open Word 6.0 files by double clicking on the icon any more. When we double click on the file, Word is brought to the front, but won't open the files. Once inside Word, however, we can open the files using the file:open command. We've tried on floppies, his hard drive, and the network server and none of them work. Any ideas or suggestions?? joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:30:04 -0700 From: "Tamas, Peter BGI SF" Subject: dialing into UNIX I need to dial into a UNIX box and display UNIX apps on my Quadra. I have heard that MacX 1.5 with a remote XDCMP option will do this. For shopping around purposes, are there any other suggestions? Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 97 16:51:43 -0500 From: Lanny Chambers Subject: IE and Easy Open file confusion On 7/7/97 14:34, Info-Mac (info-mac@starnine.com) wrote: >There's weirdness on my desktop: >Via Internet Explorer, I began downloading a file called Filename.sit (the >name has been changed to protect the innocent), then I cancelled the >download. Subsequently other files downloaded by IE are identified with >KIND Filename.sit, which is not an application. The problem does not go >away until I deactiviate the Easy Open control panel (using Extensions >Manager). > >This is not a good thing. Can someone help with a solution? Thanks. This may or may not be related to other damage IE wreaks on your Mac: Look at your Internet Config file mapping prefs: the IE Virus(tm) added a zillion entries that all point back to IE. To return everything to its proper creator and icon, you'll have to laboriously delete these entries one at a time in Internet Config, then rebuild your desktop. IE seems to reinstate the unwanted changes every time it launches, too, so the best prevention is dragging the IE folder to the trash, and good riddance. Lanny Chambers (lanny@derived.com) St. Louis, USA Visit the Hummingbird Page: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:08:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Mel Halbert Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #134 I recently subscribed to the list for the Info-Mac Digest. I did this reluctantly because I didn't wish to add to your burden of supplying Digests by e-mail, but it was the only way I could find to obtain them reliably since the Digest is no longer being mirrored at any of the archives I have checked (not even the MIT HyperArchive). I have found a problem with #134 and another recent Digest. During the display of the abstract of one of Chris Li's translations of software to Japanese, the text changes over to an undecipherable group of graphics characters. Only numbers are readable. These graphics persist for all succeeding abstracts in that Digest and, in fact, any further use of my computer (Mac Centris 610) acting as a terminal for our company's Unix workstation, on which I am using elm to read my mail. The terminal-emulation program I use is VersaTerm Pro, the latest version. The only way I can restore normal behavior is to give the command Reset Terminal in VTPro. Melvyn Halbert halbert@orph01.phy.ornl.gov ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 15:55:54 -0500 From: Lawrence Rugolo Subject: LaserWriter LS problem I'd appreciate any advice on this problem: I have a Personal LaserWriter LS which does not start up properly. When it is switched on, the green ready light comes on immediately and is steady, i.e., it doesn't blink. Before, when the printer was turned on, the middle orange light would come on first, blink for a few seconds, and then the green light would come on, blink for a few seconds and then become steady, indicating it was ready to print. The funny thing is that the printer still works, even though the startup procedure is altered, except that it won't print envelopes now, only flat sheets of paper and 8 1/2 x ll inch labels (a heavier stock). Another thing: while printing, an ominous clicking sound comes from the front corner of the printer where the indicator lights are located. Does anyone know what this all means? TIA -- Larry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 12:57:44 -0500 From: "Lisa Bjarke" Subject: Missing back issues In Info-Mac Digest #124, Ian Goldby wrote: > I've been trying to solve this one for several weeks now. I can't find any > of the recent info-mac digest back issues in the info-mac archive (under > periodicals). Am I just being plain blind, or are they really not there? > I've sent a couple of messages to the moderators (one a week ago and the > other a fortnight ago), but no luck so far. I even sent a message to the > digest about it, but it didn't appear. Let's see if this one does... In case > it is not obvious, it is issues 87 onwards that I can't find. I too have not been able to find any back issues later than v15-086. I have note seen any reply to Ian's query nor have I received a response to the query I sent to hyper-prob@lcs.mit.edu on 6/17. Has anyone seen any back issues later than 86? If so, where? [You are so right. The digests are not lost. The problem is I've not written the script to move the digests from the production area into the archives. I know it seems like a trivial exercise, but it isn't as simple as it sounds. It really needs about 2 hours of my time. I'll get to it as soon as I can; I'm sorry it has taken so long! -Cheers, Gordon] Lisa Lisa Bjarke NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (805)258-3706 FAX (805)258-2842 Lisa.Bjarke@dfrc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 97 16:41:34 -0500 From: Lanny Chambers Subject: netscape and 7.6 crashes >I have just installed System 7.6.1 on my Power Mac 6100 and I can no longer >use Netscape 3.0. >I can't log on to my ISP. I keep getting the error message that Netscape was >unable to connect immediately upon trying to access my mail. It dosen't even >try dialing out through Free PPP 2.5.2 first. Doesn't this sound more like a problem with FreePPP? I also have a 6100, 7.6.1, OT 1.1.2, and Netscape 3.0, but I use Apple's OT PPP 1.0 instead of FreePPP; I have no problems at all, aside from Netscape quitting occasionally without crashing the machine. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:29:00 -0700 From: "Tamas, Peter BGI SF" Subject: Powerbook 190 monitor My Powerbook 190 intermitantly has a problem where the lower half of the screen is grainy and distorted. Once in a while it works fine. Suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:31:59 -0500 From: bsegal@mcs.com Subject: powerwave problems hi all, i just inherited a few problems. a powercomputing powerwave 120 (604 chip i believe) that is at an all intel shop collecting dust, and suddenly they need it up and running. there seem to be a few serious software and or disk problems, so as a first start i'd like to reinitialize the disk and reinstall 7.53 or 7.55. Do i need any special drivers from powercomputing? or is it really a mac? next, they are working on a novell ethernet network. the mac is physically connected, but doesnt seem to know that. what do i need to get it to recognize the network. anything else you think i need to know about this machine? tia bsegal@mcs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:31:49 -0700 From: "Tamas, Peter BGI SF" Subject: PPC upgrade for Powerbook 190 Does anyone know about a PPC upgrade for the Powerbook 190? It used to have a "PPC ready" sticker on it when it was new. Thanks, Pete ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 97 16:31:17 -0500 From: Lanny Chambers Subject: software to kill animated gifs >is there software compatible w/ Netscape Navigator 2 and higher that >will effectively kill those irritating animated gifs...? > >something that will stop all those spinning, flashing, NOTICEME! >gifs...? not from loading, just from moving (reading their files >from my hard drive or cache)...? thanks! ds. =) The WebFree control panel will prevent GIF89a animations from repeating (they'll still play one time) under Netscape 3.0. I haven't tried it with Netscape 2.0. With 4.01, sometimes it works, sometimes not. It works by filtering the incoming modem stream, and can also suppress blinking text, cookies, and tags containing text from an editable list (e.g., ad banners). Lanny Chambers (lanny@derived.com) St. Louis, USA Visit the Hummingbird Page: -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************