Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #354 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 21 Oct 99 Volume 16 : Issue 354 Today's Topics: (A) Application Launch Ambiguity [A] TCP/IP Question (multiple dial-ins) alias/image of a CD as a mounted volume? Application Launch Ambiguity CD ROM drive problems How to convert WriteNow4 files to Word97 Linux on a Mac Macs Dialing in to NT Networks MP3 encoder TCP/IP Question 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. 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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 #354" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:54:58 +0900 From: nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Mark Nagata) Subject: (A) Application Launch Ambiguity In Info-Mac Digest #353, Herb Kroemer asked: > WDBN/MSWD: Different versions of MS Word (like 5.1 and 98) > TEXT/CARO: Acrobat and Acrobat Reader > > Question: What controls which application is launched when I > double-click a document with such multiple parents, if neither of the > parents is already open? > Here is the answer: --begin quote-- The following is from Apple's online publication Information Alley, Volume II, Issue 3 (May 29, 1995): The System 7.5 Finder Search Path --------------------------------- By Scott George Here is how the Finder determines which version of the application to open when you open a document and have multiple versions of the application that created it on your hard drive. * The Finder Search Path The Finder searches for the correct application based on the "creator type" of the document. The search path the Finder uses is as follows: Step 1 The Finder first checks to see if an application with the same creator is already running. Step 2 The Finder searches the volume containing the document being opened. Step 3 The Finder searches the startup volume. Step 4 The Finder searches the rest of the mounted volumes. In the event of multiple versions of the same application on one volume, the Finder launches the application whose record in the desktop database was updated last. This is usually the last version installed. --end quote-- [Note: For example, simply duplicating the application is enough to "install" it as the last version.] Mark -- Mark Nagata mailto:nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:53:48 -0400 From: Ken Laskey Subject: [A] TCP/IP Question (multiple dial-ins) >> I need to be able to switch between two ISPs for email and Internet service >> (different domain names and DNS addresses) Setting up multiple dial-ins requires defining additional configurations for the TCP/IP and PPP (under OS 8.5 and 8.6, Remote Access). In either Control Panel, under File, choose Configurations and choose an existing configuration (you start out with only Default), then click duplicate. Type in the name you want to give it and then fill in the information given by your ISP. I have configurations for my family ISP, my office local dial-in, alternate long distance dial-ins when I'm on travel, and even a couple from when I was out of the US. Now I've never been able to get it working under OS 8.1, but under the later OSes, I use Location Manager to define sets of Control Panels defining my settings for a "location", and then I can switch the whole set from the Location Manager Control Strip icon. That is amazingly powerful. If you switch settings often, it alone is worth the 8.5-8.6-? upgrade. Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:13:34 -0400 From: "W. McCarthy" Subject: alias/image of a CD as a mounted volume? Would someone be kind enough to tell me how I might go about making an alias (or some sort of image) of a CD that will pretend to be a mounted volume so that those (generally older, in my experience) programs that look for a mounted CD volume to work with will operate properly? Ordinary aliases don't seem to be recognized as true volumes. Of course, I have plenty of room on my hard drive (25GB) to accommodate the whole of the CDs (one is the American Heritage Talking Dictionary) in question. Gratefully, Bill McCarthy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:56:17 -0400 From: Allan Hunter Subject: Application Launch Ambiguity >Certain Type/Creator combinations are shared by related but different >APPLication. For example: > > WDBN/MSWD: Different versions of MS Word (like 5.1 and 98) > TEXT/CARO: Acrobat and Acrobat Reader > >Question: What controls which application is launched when I >double-click a document with such multiple parents, if neither of the >parents is already open? > >In both of the above examples, I need one of the two parents 95% of the >time, but when I simply double-click on a document, the "5%" parent >launches. This is a big nuisance, which forces me to employ a different >launching procedure 95% of the time. > >I know of course that there are various other ways to get the desired >application to launch; but none of them is as simple as just >double-clicking the document, and I would like to control the >double-click procedure itself. Open the 5% parent in an application that lets you change FILE CREATOR code. Change the FILE CREATOR to something else (e.g.--MW98 instead of MSWD or ACRB instead of CARO). You can still launch these applications and then use File:Open to open whatever documents you wish to edit. However, if you double-click a file, the other parent (the "95% parent") will be the one that launches. Files created by your modified application will continue to have the original correct FILE CREATOR code, so if you double-click a Word98 document created in Word98 after changing the FILE CREATOR code of W98 to something else, your older copy of Word will launch and try (and probably fail) to open and display the file; but if you email the file to your friend, your friend's unchanged, unmodified copy of Word98 will be the one to launch when the file is double-clicked. Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:13:36 +0100 From: Ezra Nathan Subject: CD ROM drive problems Hello> I have a CD rom drive (internal) that refuses to read many CDs. My machine is a PowerComputing and CD drive is driven by FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit 3.0.2 (the latest). I have internal and external HDs and both have system folders on them and both read or refuse to read the same CDs. Has anyone come across the same problem? Are CD drives known to break down in this erratic manner? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, > Ezra ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:29:41 -0400 From: Murph Sewall Subject: How to convert WriteNow4 files to Word97 On 10/20/99 2:25 PM -0500, Tapas Kar wrote: >I have more than 500 documents (files) in WriteNow version 4.0 and like to >convert all of them to MS-Word97 version by a single click. How to do this >either in MAC Dataviz MacLink Plus http://www.dataviz.com/ will create a "drag & drop" converter that you can drop the whole mess on (probably at bedtime for 500 documents as it's likely to take until morning to convert them all :-) -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:55:38 -0700 From: Stephen Walker Subject: Linux on a Mac I was wondering if anyone has had any success with Linux on a Macintosh. I am working with someone who has been trying to install Linux on a cluster of Macs, with limited success. She was able to get Linux up and running on a single computer, but we found the performance was lacking. A PC Guru informed us that Linux on the Mac still has to run through the "Mac OS GUI", and that was why the performance lacked. Is this true? If anyone knows of any available information on setting up Linux on a single Mac or a clusters that would also be appreciated. Thanks Stephen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:36:40 -0500 From: The Sissons Subject: Macs Dialing in to NT Networks Greetings: I am attempting to dial into our company network from home using my Mac. Problem is that the NT network uses DHCP over dialup (PPP) and requires registration with a WINS server that Open Transport 1.3 (I'm running MacOS 8.1.) or even OT 2.0 doesn't support. After snooping around a bit, it appears that Thursby Systems DAVE has a NetBIOS driver that might solve the problem. Is this a correct assessment of the situation (Network protocols and NT aren't my strong suites yet.) and does anyone have any other suggestions for solving this problem. Thanks in advance, Mike Sisson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:49:32 +1000 From: Richard Measham Subject: MP3 encoder >Does anyone know of a serviceable freeware/inexpensive shareware MP3 >encoder? > >TIA > >Simon H Check out N2MP3, haven't seen an easier, more intuitive one around. The quality sounds fine to me but I'm not an audiophile. Best feature is it interacts with the CDDB (CD Database www.cddb.com) and fixes Audio CDs inserted into your computer so the disk has the right name and all the tracks are named. Neat Huh? BTW: Drag and drop conversion ... drag a file from a CD to a hard drive and it will automatically encode it (or save as an AIFF if you want!) Cheers! Richard Measham --------------------------------------------------------------- iSite Internet Presence Development Level 1, 80A Mercer Street Geelong 3220 http://isite.net.au --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:46:33 -0400 From: Allan Hunter Subject: TCP/IP Question >Running OS 8.1 on a G3, I need to be able to switch between two ISPs for >email and Internet service (different domain names and DNS addresses). >It's probably obvious, but I can't figure out how to get two TCP/IP >options. I see "Select hosts file" in TCP/IP Setup but don't know how it >works. Advice urgently requested and most gratefully received. > >Ted Logan >Logan Writing, Inc. >tedlogan@busprod.com a) Open TCP Control Panel b) Go Command-K to open configurations dialog box. c) Rename existing configuration (probably called "Default") to ISP#1 name d) Duplicate existing configuration e) Renamed duplicated configuration to ISP#2 name f) Edit parameters of second configuration so that it works with ISP#2. >From now on, to switch ISPs, open TCP Control Panel, go Command-K, switch configurations, click "Make Active", close window. Oh...if both ISPs are accessed via modem (PPP), perform all of the above steps except do so from the PPP control panel instead. Allan Hunter -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************