Date: Thu, 2 Jan 97 07:01:10 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #1 To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 2 Jan 97 Volume 15 : Issue 1 Today's Topics: [!] How we doing? Derrat Sorcerum problems continued Mac Problem Q: Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90 Random auto-connect in Free Text to Speech in Word 5.1a The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. 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StarNine develops Internet server software for the Macintosh, including World Wide Web and e-mail publishing systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #1" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 08:57:02 -0600 From: "Gordon Watts (Brown University)" Subject: [!] How we doing? Hi, I hope every one has a happy (and safe!) new year! I'm very sorry about the lack of submissions to info-mac. Acutally, the authors have been going crazy: we have over 500 megs sitting waiting for us to archive. Our archivist, however, has been falling a bit behind (see the below message from him to the info-mac moderator group). We are also in the process of moving the archive off the sumex-aim machine. We are getting close. The biggest problem is that we don't have room for the master archive on the new machine becuase we are so backed up with new submissions (opps!). After that gets cleared away, I hope that we will be able to move in a week or so. This means we will have more disk space to play with (so the archive can grow!) and it also means that we will purge files less often -- which some of you have complained about. Cheers, Gordon. Letter from Demitri, our archivist :-) Hello all, I am sorry things have not been updated for a while. I am home for the holidays and I had hoped to continue working on archiving (and get caught up) while I was here, but the computer I was counting on didn't have the capacity I needed, and the Internet access didn't materialize. All the files are with me on my Jaz drive, but I can't do anything with them. This is the first time I have been able to sit down at a computer and check my email. I will not be able to get back to my computer until the 3rd, and I plan to chain myself to it for the weekend. That (I hope) will take care of a sizable chunk of the backlog and get the ball rolling again. Unfortunately this is almost a week away. That's the bad news.... For the future. Agreed- this cannot continue. We need more archivists - I (nor any one person I think) simply cannot do all the work. The scripts I have are good and handle most of the files. As I've said before, it handles 90% of the files in 10% percent of the time. The problem is dealing with the rest. I don't have much time here, so I need to wrap this up. Can someone please send a message to the digest informing them of the situation and that things will resume on the 4th. I will also post a plea for a new archivist then. I am sorry for all the problems this is causing. We'll get this working again (if it's the last thing I do!). Demitri ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:55:58 +1030 (CDT) From: Philip Clarke Subject: Derrat Sorcerum problems continued Hi again to all fellow macusers, Since the original post to infomac (Who did post it?) on Derrat Sorcerum, I have compiled all the current correspondance on the subject. Its at http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~pclarke/DS/Welcome.html I must say one thing though, Ben Spees (President of the Software company Mixed Metaphor that created the game) has been most frank and helpful in redressing my problems. Finally my inintial mail difficulties (espoused in the original post Info Mac digest (V14 #297) ) probably caused me to go into rant mode, so any software companies out there..... (I offer this as an explanation of my ranting, not an excuse I suspect I should be demoted to "newbie" for a while, eh?) I have no other complaint or difficulty whatsoever with Mixed Metaphor or Hopkins Technology and to my best knowledge everything described in the web page above is all I have ever had to do with either company. Regards to all and thanks for listening to my gripes Philip (Derrat Sorcerum Gammatester) -- Dr. Philip Clarke, pclarke@waite.adelaide.edu.au http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~pclarke University of Adelaide, Department of Soil Science, Waite Solid-state NMR Facility, PMB 1., Glen Osmond, South Austrlaia, 5064, Australia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 01:02:11 +0900 From: Raymond Subject: Mac Problem My Macintosh is 8100/80. Recently, my computer's date & time can not work. The problem is following: The Current date must revert the date to "6/2/40" when restart and turn on the computer. The Current time was stop on "6:28:15 AM" and it cannot run. The Menubar Clock option is on, but it cannot display on right hand side of screen. Please help me ans. this problem. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:33:12 +0200 From: Pedro Johansson Subject: Q: Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90 Hello everyone. After much reading, testing, I finally will try asking all of you. I have a PowerMac 7200/90 with a 'Samtron' (3rd party) 14" screen. Since the screen is 3rd party, Im using a little adapter to connect my mac and the screen. In this adapter, theres 8 dip-switches to be able to 'tell' my mac what resolutions are supported at the screen-side. The screen is capable to show 640x480,800x600 among many others. In the technical specifications that came with my mac, there's a listing of all the resolutions my mac is able to work at. In this specification , 800x600 60 Hz is listed, wich is the same that my screen can show. Now - the problem is the following: The little adapter I use to connect the screen and my mac has no setting for this. Q: ------- Has anyone out there the spec's for what pins to connect to each other to make my mac understand that there's a screen capable of showin 800/600 pixels ? I can solder a little adapter myself, but i just dont have the specs for it. 2nd Q: -------- Is there some software device out there that lets you change the screen resolution to whatever, not just the ones that are supported at the moment (ie shown by the dip-switches in the adapter ? ) This would be much easier than a hardware solutions. The problem is, after all, that i cant set the resolution to anything else than what the dipswitches are telling my mac. Now, please, if you know anything, please mail me directly. All responses will then be compiled and mailed the info-mac digest. Regards, Pedro Johansson, Sweden. ------------------------------ Date: 30 Dec 1996 16:13:34 -0600 From: "WJ Shack" Subject: Random auto-connect in Free Random auto-connect in FreePPP My 7200 with 7.5.5 and OT 1.1 still makes random auto connections even though I have "Allow applications to open connection" unchecked in FreePPP Setup. I have the problem in both V2.5 and V2.6a4. Any suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:45:23 -0500 From: Bleifle@aol.com Subject: Text to Speech in Word 5.1a After a couple of years of experimentation I have returned to my old fav - Word 5.1a. The one feature I wish it had is Text-To-Speech. Is there an Applescript around that will do that? What about One-Click? Thanks, James M. Bleifus -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************