Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #157 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 20 Aug 98 Volume 16 : Issue 157 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#443/17-Aug-98 (A) Fax servers (A) Old equipment questions (Q) Ethernet iMac to Pow Mac 7100 100 FE ethernet PCMCIA cards (Q) [A] After Dark conflicts [Q] Open Transport PPP does not recognize busy signal? Annoying Monitor can Eudora handle vcards? CD-writer for backup Connecting switches to a Mac Crossover cable Equivalent Mainframe Tools (Q) found: a cash-register-like calculator Help! GlobalFax has taken over! Info-Mac Digest V16 #152 Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 Looking for the Original B&W Version of Risk Mac 4400 Power Center Pro 210 Problem Power Supply Summary - Help with CD graphics 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. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . 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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Topics: MailBITS/17-Aug-98 iMac Hoopla Just StuffIt, Windows Yes, Virginia, There Is a REALbasic [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-443.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: 17 Aug 98 22:59:44 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) Fax servers Wrote Stephen Peilschmidt whilst thinking graet things: >Can anyone out there with better knowledge on these matters than me >please >let me know what options there are out there for fax servers - ie a server >that operates on a single modem and gives people access to faxing via a >network. Networks is mostly Macs - but has the odd PC. > >Shareware preferred - but it may have to be a commercial application. Stephen: I'd be curious about shareware ones too. Here's what I know about commercial ones: Some fax server software requires a dedicated Mac as a server and then a couple modems and if you want more then a multi-port serial card and more modems. Some are worse and require an additional dedicated Mac as a spooler as well as the server Mac. Global Village made a great product called a One World fax server which was an ethernet box with one built-in modem and a slot for a second. This didn't require any dedicated Macs, was upgradeable by adding another modem, more RAM, getting a flash upgrade to make it a shared network modem and an ARA server and it came with a 30 user licence. If you wanted further expansion you could just stack them. They had a nice small footprint, around 5"x8". However it didn't come with a PC client and Global Village may not even sell it anymore since they're now owned by Boca. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: 17 Aug 98 22:26:04 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) Old equipment questions Jerry Levinson gleefully wrote: >I am the lucky recipient of some old hardware (hand-me-downs from our >main >campus). Among the goodies is a LaserWriter Plus and a Mac II. >No manuals, of course. > >Re the LW Plus: it came with no cables so...on the side are two ports, one >9-pin and the other 25-pin. I assume the 9 is AppleTalk and the 25 is >serial. But, since I have no cable I need to know if a ImageWriter I to >ImageWriter II (9-pin to 8-pin mini-din) will work to connect the printer >to a Mac. Or what else would work. Jerry: The 9-pin to 8-pin DIN adapter should work fine to make it compatible with Appletalk cables or Phonenet connectors. You may even still be able to buy Phonenet connectors with 9 pin plugs. As far as the floppies go; I would try swabbing out as much grease as you can but avoid sloshing solvents around in case the read/write heads get in the line of fire. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:22:49 -0800 From: R and B Harris Subject: (Q) Ethernet iMac to Pow Mac 7100 I am one of the lucky few to have an iMac (and iLove it). I want to transfer my files from my 7100. I borrowed an Apple Ethernet twisted pair reciever and the cable from the 7100 in my deparment on campus. Now when I go to switch appletalk to ehternet on my 7100 I get the message "An error occurred attempting to use ethernet. Make sure your network connections are correct" Could this be just because I am not using a crossover cable like I should be using? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:27:05 -0700 From: "David L. Hirschberg" Subject: 100 FE ethernet PCMCIA cards (Q) Hello, I see PCMCIA FE cards for peecees advertised but none for the mac. Does any one know if one is made? Since PCMCIA cards are interchangeable is there a software driver that works for a peecee card out there? Thanks, David daneel@stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:12:51 -0400 From: "Roger D. Parish" Subject: [A] After Dark conflicts At 5:19 PM -0400 8/15/1998, Ian Goldby wrote: >>Anyone heard of a screensaver called DarkSide and where I can get it? >>It supposedly lets you use AfterDark modules but has fewer compatability >>problems (or so I am told). > I did a search on http://www.excite.com for "darkside" and got a hit the first time. You can download Darkside of the Mac at: http://www.poubelle.com/DarkSide.html -- Roger 301-903-5238 Office of Information Management U.S. Department of Energy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:15:48 -0400 From: "Roger D. Parish" Subject: [Q] Open Transport PPP does not recognize busy signal? At 5:39 PM -0400 8/16/1998, Robert Brockman wrote: >I'm using OpenTransport 1.3 and OT/PPP 1.0.1 on a clone running OS8.1. > >When I dial my ISP, I often get a busy signal. It's a little different >than other busy signals I've heard: the "busy" tones come a little >faster. Anyway, OT/PPP doesn't recognize this as a busy signal, >apparently because it doesn't match what it thinks a busy signal is >supposed to sound like. > > * Has anyone else had this problem? > * Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to help? > It's not OT/PPP that doesn't recognize that tone; it's your modem. The modem will respond with the character string BUSY, which would then trigger appropriate behavior by OT/PPP. The "fast-busy" is also know as "trunk busy" and means that you can't get a connection out from your local central office. If it persists, call the telco; there's a problem in their circuits. -- Roger 301-903-5238 Office of Information Management U.S. Department of Energy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 03:53:17 +0100 From: cadams@edprint.demon.co.uk (Christopher Adams) Subject: Annoying Monitor Steven Colucci, Ph.D. wrote: >Help- My Apple monitor that came with my Performa 6205 (12 in 16 bit, >640x480 @ 67hz) has developed an annoying bluish tint, that sometimes >jumps back and forth to the original "white" screen. That's a known fault with that series of Performas, and Apple has a Repair Extension Program to fix it for free. Contact Apple or your dealer. Chris Adams, Birmingham, UK. cadams@edprint.demon.co.uk The Mac SE Support Pages http://www.edprint.demon.co.uk/se/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:53:58 -0500 From: Vincent Cayenne Subject: can Eudora handle vcards? Users of Netscape Communicator gat the opportunity to set up a "vcard" which is like an email business card that gets sent as an attachment with their mail. Is there any plug-in or technique that will allow Eudora Pro on a Mac to display (or ignore) these attachments? I've got colleagues that communicate with me regularly and who use these vacrds - consequently my attachments folder fills up! --------- "Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts" (Rutherford/Robertson) Vincent Cayenne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:00:57 +0200 From: Andrew Maier Subject: CD-writer for backup I am thinking of getting a CD-writer, mainly for backup of my Mac an a Linux machine. Since it has to work well with the Mac I am asking the Mac related side here. Has anybody a recommendation for such a device and corresponding backup software. The feature list has not got to be impressive, and since its for backup mainly it has not got to be fast. In fact I am trying to get an as inexpensive one as possible. Thanks, Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:24:37 From: Richard Glover Subject: Connecting switches to a Mac At 03:32 PM 8/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:01:12 -0400 >From: Niall Connolly <101355.1367@compuserve.com> >Subject: Connecting switches to a Mac > >I am trying to obtain a Mac based programme which can operate as a lap >counter/timer on a Mac base. The lap counter/timer will be used on a mod= >el >car racing track where there are two lanes. I need to count laps and tim= >e >laps and keep track of time. There are many PC applications to do this b= >ut >none in the Mac world. = > >I have found a Mac stop watch which the writer belives can be modified bu= >t >they need additional information. > >The timing signal will be generated via a microswitch on the track which >will be activated by the passage of the car. How can a micro switch or >switches be connected to the Mac and how can the Mac recognise different >switches. > >Obviously the Mac can recognise the different signals from each of the ke= >ys >on the keyboard so how can this effect be recreated with individual >microswitches. > >Also, how do external switches hook up to the Mac? Via Serial = > >port, ADB or SCSI? And what is the protocol of these ports or how do I fi= >nd >it? > >Any suggestions or guidance to technical resources would be very much >appreciated. > >Regards > >Niall Connolly >London UK >101355,1367@compuserve.com Take a peek at BeeHive Technology's "ADB I/O" device. More info at: http://www.bzzzzzz.com/ -RAG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:33:25 -0500 (CDT) From: ljr Subject: Crossover cable On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Info-Mac wrote: There was a recent response with the respondent noting that Crossover Ethernet cables were not something you could easily buy. I beg to differ! I have found and purchased a 6 foot long premade crossover cable at Fry's, and seen them at CompUSA also. They are not always called 'crossover' cables unfortunately, they often are labeled as a cable to connect two hubs, but that IS a crossover cable. I paid 6 bucks for the one I got at Fry's, found in the network cabling section. Lyman Green -- Lyman C. Green, Jr. Type Eleven Support, Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:10:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Al Bloom Subject: Equivalent Mainframe Tools (Q) Folks, the Comp Center here at Virginia Tech is disconnecting our IBM/VM mainframe at the end of the year and providing little in the way of tools to replace those in VM that help me do my job. The XEDIT editor and the EXEC procedural language will be particularly missed. Maybe some of you can point me to possible Mac-based alternatives. XEDIT is a column-oriented editor. I can tell it to select a range of columns in a text file and make changes only in that range. I can tell it to sort a file by column. The Comp Center, after telling all of us administrative users to standardize on Macs a couple years ago (I didn't mind), now says the only similar PC editor is KEDIT on a Wintel box. Oh goody. Do I have to buy a Wintel emulator just to run a decent editor? I'm looking for a native app. Don't say BBEdit unless you can show me it can do the job. Tech has a site license for BBEdit Lite (Is it freeware? Wouldn't surprise me) and I saw a "sort" plugin for BBEdit on the net (that no longer exists in the I-M archive), but the option was greyed out when I installed it. No joy. BBEdit Lite saw it and said "No way, turkey." May be why it is no longer in the I-M archive. EXEC (and its cousins EXEC 2 and REXX) allow one to script VM commands, including XEDIT commands. A Comp Center critter said that AppleScript would do all that on a Mac. I admit to abject ignorance on the subject. I read the "manual" that came with OS 8, but it seemed like the one that came with Leslye's new Sony Mavica digital camera -- not written by a person speaking English as a first language. Gee, I miss the Apple manuals that were written by Lavona Rann. That woman could write manuals. In fact, I miss Apple manuals. If any of y'all can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Al ------------------------------ Date: 17 Aug 98 23:08:40 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: found: a cash-register-like calculator >From: Vincent Cayenne >Subject: wanted: a cash-register-like calculator > >I'm trying to find a calculator DA that works like a cash register. For >instance, when you put in the following: >12+ > 6- >ENTER >The result is 6, NOT 18! > >Also the ability to fix the number of decimal places, a printable tape, and >the facility to copy/paste from/into the tape are all desirables. Vincent: Try "MegaCalculator" by Jonathan Whitman. - Scott ************************** D. Scott Beach, sbeach@front.net A rabid Mac dude in Toronto. ************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:24:10 -0400 From: John Buss Subject: Help! GlobalFax has taken over! > Hi folks, > I have been using AddressBook for years and Global Villiage for almost > as long. Out of the blue Global fax has taken over the address book > and > I can no longer print envelopes. I can fax them, but that's not much > use. It used to be that the pull down would change from 'Print' to > 'Fax' with the use of the option key, but no more. Any suggestions? > John Buss > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:17:42 -0700 From: Allen Watson Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #152 > Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 16:39:22 +0100 > From: bromo@flashnet.it (Vittorio Barabino) > Subject: Text reader with a bookmark > > Hello, > > I'm reading some long e-texts on screen, so I need a text reader that > allows to save the exact location of the last lines I was reading before > quitting; so I could open the file and to be right there with no need to > remember the line numbers. > > Do you know such a program? I have two recommendations. MS Word, in v5.1 (I still stick with that older version), will go to the last place the insertion point was located when the file was saved, if you press the Keypad Zero key, which executes the command "Go Back". Note: You must use this command after opening the document, or Word forgets the saved location. Also, when reading and about to close the file, be sure you click at the last line you read, and then save the file. Otherwise, the insertion point will remain wherever it was, which may be completely off screen somewhere. Nisus Writer (I use v5.0.4) remembers the last insertion point also, and scrolls to that location when the file is reopened. No need to use a keyboard shortcut or command. But you still need to mark the insertion point and save it before closing the file. If you don't have Nisus Writer, you don't know what you are missing! Peace, Allen Watson, Sedona, AZ -- watsona@innocent.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:44:45 -0700 From: Bart Rodner Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 Rumour has it that Robert might have written: >I'm using OpenTransport 1.3 and OT/PPP 1.0.1 on a clone running OS8.1. > >When I dial my ISP, I often get a busy signal. It's a little different >than other busy signals I've heard: the "busy" tones come a little >faster. Anyway, OT/PPP doesn't recognize this as a busy signal, >apparently because it doesn't match what it thinks a busy signal is >supposed to sound like. > > * Has anyone else had this problem? > * Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to help? I had this problem last year. Tech support at my ISP called it a "fast busy," and told me it was a symptom of a bad connection that could be caused by corrupted software as well as problems in the phone lines. Apparently, it was NOT caused by busy lines. It was sporadic and almost always accompanied other connection problems. When tech support was unable to find the cause, they insisted the problem must be at my end. However, a few weeks later they upgraded their equipment, and changed backbone providers. At that point in time, ALL connection problems ceased, even though I had made no changes to my software or hardware. Sorry I can't point to a specific solution, but this might give you a few leads. bart Bart Rodner (polaris@inetworld.net) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 17:00:16 -0400 From: Deborah Foss Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 >If you do not have a crimp tool to make ethernet cables, you probably do not know what a crossover cable is and it is not something you normally can buy. Compusa has them in the networking section, they are the only yellow cable. i got a 10' for 12.98. debi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:32:12 EDT From: Mercibeate@aol.com Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #156 Hi All, Just relocated from Los Angeles to way out in the Virginia countryside. Been having some weird Mac problems since the move and am trying to determine the cause. I'm having trouble getting the computer to start up. I have to press the start up button several times before it takes and the computer boots up. The computer tries to start and then quits on the first several tries. Not sure about the power stability here, but I think it might be pretty flakey. Could that be the problem? Should I get a UPS? Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:20:23 -0400 From: John Dooley Cradock Subject: Looking for the Original B&W Version of Risk I see that there's a colorized version of the old black-and-white Risk game archived with Info-Mac. Where can I find a copy of the original non-colorized version of Risk? John Dooley Cradock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:48:42 +0000 From: Harold Glover Subject: Mac 4400 I use a Power Mac 4400 with a Tanzania hard disk and would like to upgrade to 8.1. I seem to have read somewhere that this is inadvisable with the Tanzania disk unless the disk driver is updated. Can you please tell me where I can get info on this and if driver updates are available. H. Glover. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:07:15 -0500 From: Glenn Sowell Subject: Power Center Pro 210 Problem My Power Center Pro 210 has stopped working. My best guess is that it's a motherboard problem. Symptoms: Initially it started turning off almost immediately after start-up. Now it does nothing. I tried substituting another power supply but nothing changed. Suggestion: Someone said it might be a start-up recognition circuit on the mother board that's bad. In any case, I'm stuck. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can get this repaired? This has happened about 1 month after the 1 year warranty ran out. (Of course the company doesn't exist anymore, but that's beside the point!) Thanks Glenn sowell@unomaha.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:46:28 +0900 From: Magnus Hoek Subject: Power Supply Hi there Mac-Gurus Recently my power supply to my Power Center Pro decided to give up. I bought a new power supply from a typical PC shop. You know, that kind of shop with 50 different PCs running simultaneously and displaying breathtaking graphics and one (1) Macintosh which is broken... Anyway, I installed the new power supply and started up. All the fans and the harddisks and the CD worked well (in contrast to the case with the old power supply). However, that was it. The computer did not want to boot. I did not even get the message that a system could not be found. The screen was just blank and I could not hear any harddisk activity. I also tried to boot from an emergency floppy disk but nothing happened. My conclusion from this is that there is simply no SCSI activity. The question: Is there a difference between different power supplies even if all the cables (including the cables to the board) are identical ? My old power supply is called TCX-20D while the new one is called ATX. Is there a difference between these two models. For instance, are the voltages to the board different. That could in that case explain why there are no SCSI activity... TIA Magnus Hoek ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:43:10 +1000 From: Stephen Peilschmidt Subject: Summary - Help with CD graphics Firstly thanks to all who kindly shared their knowledge with me. I will not list them all individually. I have decided to post a summary to the list as many people emailed me privately to indicate that they too were interested in archiving photos by burning a CD. So on with the summary. I have recently purchased a CD burner and I am considering how to go about archiving and cataloging photos. The archive will be for general usage - no high end graphic use that requires drum scans and huge files. The questions were: 1. what is the best format to scan the photos (GIF, TIFF, PICT, Photoshop) I guess this is a tradeoff between file size and scan quality. Either JPEG or TIFF, if absolute quality is required, then TIFF, but these tend to be big, so a JPEG with a fairly high quality factor (like, 7 or 8 in Photoshop, say 75% in other tools) should be good enough that you can't tell the difference. - this recommendation from someone who works in a prepress bureau In terms of saving files. Jpegs are lossey meaning they do not save all the detail and data, have noise and so foprth though it is amazing how good they can be in spite. Tiff is uncompressed and is readible on all graphics programs but the files are huge. Photoshop files are readible by many utilities and are found in all computer formats so that is a good non lossey format to consider and it is a good compromise in terms of file size. 2. what would the best scanning resolution be - again I assume that a setting of around 100dpi would produce adequate results but it is a trade off. For on-screen viewing and web use 72dpi is it, if you're printing at newspaper quality then you want about 150dpi, for offset print work then about 300dpi. 100dpi is a bit low res for my taste as when one prints it out as an 8 by 10 pixellation will be visible up close but it is a matter of taste. Just realize that CDR burning is a cheap process so mayhaps you need not consider the cost so much as the loss of the image. One can surely make various choices for the quality of each image. 3. is there any good cataloguing software out there that people can recommend - perhaps on the InfoMac archives - or would doing something in FileMaker be better There seems to be many options here and I have not had a chance to look at them all. Some of the recommendations included: * Cumulus - commercial * iView, a $25.00 sharware application that catalogs images as well as other items, which can be found at an InfoMac site * Adobe Fetch - commercial * PictureAlbum Lite - shareware * FileMaker * CatFinder (probably still in InfoMac archives). Not only does it catalog drives, but also looks into stuffed archives to list what is inside them. It will print or save a report (with options), but I find it more convenient to use the saved raw catalog files, which, when opened, look like normal Mac windows in the "list" mode including the triangles to click on to view inside folders. There is also a search (find) feature. * DiskTracker v1.1.3. It will catalog CD's, Floppies, anything that mounts, even your drives. Its quite reliable, fast and easy to use. * Iomega finit (? Findit ????) Photoshop (commercial) and Graphic Converter (shareware) can produce thumbnails of the image. 4. a further consideration is that the CD remain accessible for a reasonable time - what I mean by this is that I would like to access the images for a reasonable amount of time (ie 5 to 10 years) with standard equipment ie a Mac of some form that will undoubtedly be updated - I guess I want to guard against technology creep making the CD unusable. There was also warnings about possible deterioration of one off CD's Shouldn't be a problem. store the CD-R's out of direct sunlight, in a dark, dry place that isn't subject to extremes of temperature and you should be fine... I have heard that "one-off" CDs deteriorate after 3-5 years because the material sandwiched between the CD's outer layers (that the laser burns) is a type of plastic and it doesn't anywhere near as long as the materials in production CDs. 5. not that I am a great user of PeeCees - but would it be possible to make the CD cross platform. The suggestion here was to burn the CD in ISO 9660 (universal format) in Toast and although it does not handle long names (see below where I was advised Toast can handle long names) is at least readible by all present computers. I do not suggest Mac format for obvious reasons. One would want to hedge one's bets on that one and in any case, PCs cannot read them now and there is no guarantee that they will be able to in the future no matter how well Macintosh does in the next decade. Yeah, using Toast burn files and folders (not a mac volume) and make sure it's ISO9660 format, you can use long file names, and make sure they are turned on in Toast (Joliet or something like that rings a bell) Other stuff I had a recommendation for a negative scanner - although I (and I would guess many others will be scanning photos with a flatbed scanner). I recommend also a negative positive scanner to do the work. I think they are wonderful and the one that I would recommend is the Polaroid SprintScan 35 plus which is just fantastic. Once again thanks to all who replied and hopefully this will be of some use to others. Stephen Peilschmidt ph/fax: +61 2 4272 6222 mobile: 0418 202259 email: stephenp@cyberelectric.net.au -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************