Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 18 Jun 97 Volume 15 : Issue 118 Today's Topics: [Q] How to turn off blinking in Netscape 3.01 [Q] Which System for IIfx? Application to log keystrokes? Conversion software for Excel from PC to Mac? dirrectly connecting ethernet Duplicate message in Eudora HD Drivers Question (R) HP 4M Plus and Windows 3.11 ? ImageWriter II and AppleTalk MS IE blues Win95 Long file names and the Mac The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, iam Breck 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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Thanks, Pieter Stouten ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:59:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Wendy Fuller-Mora Subject: [Q] Which System for IIfx? I want to upgrade the system on my old IIfx, too many programs are beginning to require more recent systems. I have been running 7.0.1. I have 20 M RAM. I am trying to decide between system 7.5.5 and 7.6.1. I use a PPP connection and am not sure if I want to be forced into using Open Transport. Also how much disk space does each require, for an average installation? Thank you, --Wendy w2fmindc@clark.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:55:11 -0400 From: refried@email.unc.edu (Howard M. Fried) Subject: Application to log keystrokes? Anyone know of an application, preferably an init, that can keep track of every keystroke and write the information, periodically, to a file? TIA Howard Fried refried@email.unc.edu TIA, Howard M. Fried University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill http://www.unc.edu/~refried/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:04:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "W.C. Sehlmeyer" Subject: Conversion software for Excel from PC to Mac? Hello all, I was wondering if anyone on this list is aware of a method to convert files created in Excel for Windows to Excel for Mac. I was given a disk with data that I cannot access. Thank you for any and all help! WC Sehlmeyer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:44:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "Joel E. Carranza" Subject: dirrectly connecting ethernet My neighbor has a PC with an ethernet card. I have a Mac with an ethernent card. Is it possible for us to directly connect to each other over ethernet cable so as to play games? I believe that a modification has to be made to the cable since no hub is present. Does anyone have any details on how to do that? We have acess to any tools we may need. We also are unsure on how to setup the network. An IPX seems the only one that most games offer that would utilize an ethernet card. How does a person set up a personal one. on the PC side and the Mac??? Any hel would be appreciated. Joel Carranza ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 19:47:26 -0400 From: "Zafar A. Punjani" Subject: Duplicate message in Eudora Dear Eudora Pro 3.1 users, Is there a way to remove duplicate messages from a mailbox? I have two mailboxes which I wish to consolidate into a single mailbox, however, there are some messages in one which are identical to the other (same message id etc.). I would like to transfer everything in one into the other, and then somehow have Eudora remove all duplicates from the final consolidated mailbox. Please advise. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:57:54 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: HD Drivers Question (R) Jon Froines asked: > ... Should I just leave the current FWB stuff > at OEM version 1.7.8? I know that the Drive Setup 1.2 on the MacOS 7.6 > CDROM won't do it, I tried. I do NOT want to reformat my drivers or > anything heavy duty like that. And while I'm asking, what the heck is the > difference detween Drive Setup and Apple HD SC Setup? Try to obtain a newer version of HDT. My version number is 2.0.6, and I think it's a good idea to have the latest version if you have a recent system version as well. You may not have problems with 1.7.8, but who knows? There are two variants of HDT sold here, a "Personal Edition" with limited functionality, and a full-blown one. I think in most cases, the Personal Edition will do. Best wishes, Christian -- Christian F. Buser Tel. (+41-1) 251 9336 office Obere Kirchzelg 12 Tel. (+41-56)426 6486 home CH-5430 Wettingen Fax (+41-1) 261 6394 Look at http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:02:57 +0200 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: HP 4M Plus and Windows 3.11 ? [ A copy of this message has been posted to the newsgroups ] [ comp.periphs.printers ] [ comp.sys.mac.printing ] [ ch.comp ] I have a HP 4M Plus laser printer which is connected via LocalTalk to=20 a Mac (running System 7.6.1) and via parallel cable to a PC (486 DX2,=20 66 MHz, Win 3.11) at the same time. Usually the printer gives no=20 problems, but I have difficulties to print larger documents from the=20 Windows machine. If the print job (usually a Word 6.0 document, but=20 also others, like Excel etc.) is more than about 10 pages, the printing stops in between and the print manager windows reports an error.=20 I do not try to print form the Mac at the same time, so that it can=B4t=20 be a conflict between the two connections.=20 The printer has 6 MB RAM, and the settings in the printer setup are=20 correct, as far as I can determine.=20 I downloaded the latest printer driver software from HP's web site,=20 but the problem does not go away.=20 There is no problem - even with very large documents - when I print=20 from the Mac.=20 Any ideas? =20 --=20 Christian F. Buser Tel. (+41-1) 251 9336 office=20 Obere Kirchzelg 12 Tel. (+41-56)426 6486 home=20 CH-5430 Wettingen Fax (+41-1) 261 6394 Look at http://www.access.ch/mus/members/cbuser ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 08:22:40 +0200 From: Marcellino.GEMELLI@st.com Subject: ImageWriter II and AppleTalk Hello. We are a non-profit EMS organisation. We have been donated a Mac SE from Apple and an LC 475 from a person. We bought an Imagewriter II and found a second-hand LocalTalk option for it. We also found some second-hand AppleTalk connections. Our objective is to connect both computers to the shared printer. We have: 1) Installed the AppleTalk ImageWriter drivers in the Macs (the SE is running 6.0.7 and the LC475 is running 7.1) 2) Connected the AppleTalk network. 3) Installed the board in the printer. 4) Restarted the computers, etc... We have only the printer's manuals and not the board's ones. The printer still works fine in the "normal" configuration (i.e. only with the serial cable) but we cannot get the printer driver to "see" the printer from the Chooser when the AppleTalk ImageWriter driver is selected. Is there any ImageWriter dip-switch to be moved when configuring? We would appreciate very much any help. Please mail us any replies to: croce.verde@nexus.org Thank you in advance and please visit our web pages at http://www.nexus.org/CV Ciao Marcellino Gemelli - P.A.Croce Verde Trezzano - Italy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:46:13 -0300 From: Alain Chabot Subject: MS IE blues Okay, I admit it, I was once tempted to surf with the enemy. I downloaded IE 3.0 and installed it. I even tried it. For more than a week. And I hated it. So I erased it. The whole thing. Or so I hoped. But now I find that any file with an ".htm(l)" extension I download is assigned the IE icon. Took me a while to figure that out, but then I realized that the IE installation also changed the Internet Config preferences. Anyway, imagine my surprise when I reverted to Netscape and found that it tried to connect to MS's home page upon launching. Alain ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:52:30 +0100 From: Joe Gard Subject: Win95 Long file names and the Mac Hi all, I am looking for an extension that will allow me to access the long file names of Windows 95 on my Mac. I am an engineer involved with taking data using a PC, copying the files onto a Zip drive, and taking them to my Mac for analysis. The problem is, that when we use longer file names on the PC, they get converted to a DOS style file name (8.3) by the Mac because the computer thinks that the files must comply to that file name convention. I've looked on the net for something, but haven't had any success yet. Thanks for the help Joe Gard gard@dynetics.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************