Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #355 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 22 Oct 99 Volume 16 : Issue 355 Today's Topics: (A) Application Launch Ambiguity (A) TCP/IP Question (A) TCP/IP Question (Q) Find by content on CD's (Q) PC .exe files on a mac? A Readme file worth reading ->Action Menus conflict with alias/image of a CD as a mounted volume? Apple OneScanner on win98 CD ROM drive problems Converting .ps files to .pdf format Fwd: alias/image of a CD as a mounted volume? Home design software for Mac? IDE externally...does it exist? 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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 #355" ------------------------------ Date: 22 Oct 99 05:54:15 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) Application Launch Ambiguity Herb Kroemer asks: >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. Herb: The simple way is to put an alias for them both on the desktop or Launcher (or a dock of your choice) and just drag 'n' drop to launch files. The slick way is to change the creator code on the lesser used version of the app. to fool the system into using the other (more frequently desired version) because it still has the correct creator code. For example if you want Word 5.1 but Word 8 launches (because it's newer) but you'd prefer 5.1 as the default, change Word 8's creator code from "MSWD" to "mSWD" and then to get it to work you'll have to expicitly go launch it or drag files over it or use its "open" cmd to get it to work. - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: 22 Oct 99 06:05:30 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" Subject: (A) TCP/IP Question Ted Logan asks: >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: While in the TCP/IP control panel, you'll have a choice under the file menu to choose "Configurations...". There you can create multiple set-ups. If you use the Control Strip then there are Remote Access strip modules that let you switch back and forth between settings on the fly. - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:19:53 +0200 From: Hans Rudolf Schelling Subject: (A) TCP/IP Question Ted Logan wrote: >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). >... In the TCP/IP control panel, just open "File"-"Configurations" (or Command-K). There you are. You can define different configurations. (Using Location manager, you could even define different sets of configurations in multiple control panels and switch between them with the Location Manager control strip module. Location manager wont't be installed automatically on a Desktop Mac in OS8.1, but you should be able to custom install it.) Hope that helps -- Hans ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:55:11 -0700 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) Find by content on CD's I have a lot of CD-R archives of documents. I was hoping to create indices via Sherlock so I could do a "find by content" that would search both my main hard drive and the CD-R archives. Apparently, however, Sherlock cannot create indices for locked devices such as the CD-R. Does anyone have a suggestion for a work-around? Also, does anyone have a recommendation for an application that can do a search by content without having to first create an index? Thanks! Mark Allen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:09:21 -0400 From: "John Hachey" Subject: (Q) PC .exe files on a mac? Hello, Is there any way to play *.exe files on a mac. I get many as attachments to my e-mails Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:21:46 -0400 From: "Al. G." Subject: A Readme file worth reading ->Action Menus conflict with >From: a brody >Subject: A Readme file worth reading ->Action Menus conflict with Quickeys >Dear Digest readers, >Poweron Software's Action Menus was just released, and I can say from >having QuicKeys 4.0 on MacOS 8.6 I was rather shocked when I rebooted to >find that Action Menus started me out with nothing more than a cursor, a >help-tip window, and a Type 10 error. The next reboot all I got was a >flashing busy cursor to pointer at the Apple menu in an endless loop. So I >turned it off, and read the readme that came with it. Sure enough it >states QuicKeys has certain keystrokes that duplicate its function and >could cause a conflict. That disclaimer should be on their website, and >their advertisements to the registered people of previous software. Not in >the readme. Now that I've purchased the product not knowing it has the >conflict until after I purchased it I am asking for a refund....we'll see >if that happens. This is really a very inappropriate comment. Poweron Software (to whom I have no connection) makes some of the best utilities around. To complain because you didn't read the "Read Me" (after all, that's what they are for) is very self-centered. You ignored the instructons and paid the price. Even more to the point is the generous setup that all Poweron is offered under. A free 30 day trial of all their products is available via web download. So if you are curious about something *and* you download it *and* you try it for 30 days *and* it doesn't suit your needs, you can just dump it. This certainly protects you from unexpected problems ! Not many software companies are that open-minded. >Another problem I found is that GoMac doesn't like Stuffit Deluxe 4.5's >extensions, or for that matter Microsoft Excel 5.0. In the former a lot of >programs cause the Finder to quit unexpectedly, and the latter Microsoft >Excel will not load if the toolbar is visible. I don't know about the Excel problem, but Stuffit causing the finder to quit is pretty much a standard, whether or not you use GoMac. (And that applies both to version 4.5 or 5.1). Allan G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:26:57 -0400 From: Allan Hunter 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 Make a disk image of the CD, using Disk Copy. The program will generally be unable to tell that the disk it sees (the mounted disk image) is not in fact a physical CD. PS: do you have any recommendations to make regarding the purchase of 25GB hard drives? Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:00:32 +0200 From: Riccardo Petrini <0573402190@iol.it> Subject: Apple OneScanner on win98 Which software (and where to find) may I use to work with an Apple OneScanner on a win98 box supplied with a SCSI card? Thanks. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Riccardo Petrini Via Arboreto, 2 51100 Pistoia - ITALY 0573402190@iol.it +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:50:20 -0400 From: hadleysw@ornl.gov (Stan Hadley) Subject: CD ROM drive problems In article <7uoc28$mn3$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, digest@info-mac.org wrote: >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 I had similar problems with a Power Computing Power Center. After the internal CD got too flaky, I added an old external drive that was not being used. It also wouldn't read sometimes but wasn't as bad as the internal one. I don't know if the problem was the PowerCenter, or just the CD drives. My guess is that the Power Computing has a sensitive SCSI bus, compounded with the high airflow throught the machine getting the internal CD drive dusty. Stan -- Stanton W. Hadley Oak Ridge National Laboratory P.O. Box 2008 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6205 (423)574-8018, fax:(423)574-8884 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:28:51 +0100 From: Jean-Paul Roy Subject: Converting .ps files to .pdf format I am using Acrobat Distiller 4.0 to convert postscript files coming from dvips (TeX) to pdf format, but the result on the screen is sad. I downloaded PS fonts from BlueSky Research [Computer Modern] but I can't get them used. Any help ? Thanks, Jean-Paul Roy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:59:49 -0700 From: Daly Jessup Subject: Fwd: alias/image of a CD as a mounted volume? Bill McCarthy asked: >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. This is easy. Get ShrinkWrap or other DiskImage-making utility. Mount your CD. Drop it on the Disk-Image-making utility. Have it make an image of the CD. Then whenever you double-click the image, it will mount the live image of the CD and that will behave just like the original CD. If you want that CD always mounted, then put an alias of the image in StartUp items folder in the System folder. Daly ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:30:34 -0400 From: Kat Nagel Subject: Home design software for Mac? I'm looking for Mac software that will let me redesign a house, inside and out. Paint colors, interior colors/fabrics/furniture, and landscaping. I've found a couple of simple landscaping programs, but absolutely nothing that deals with the building. There used to be a set of applications called DaVinci (I think) that had a module for floor plans and construction details, another module for interior design, and a third for landscaping. Days of web and software archive searching have come up with zilch. Oh, there are plenty of PC programs, but I'd really prefer to use my Mac. Any suggestions? -- Kat Nagel katnagel@eznet.net "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room." (Blaise Pascal) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:02:23 -0400 From: a brody Subject: IDE externally...does it exist? Dear Digest readers, The only IDE I've seen so far are the specially designed drives for PCMCIA attachment via MCE Product's Datashuttle. But these are way slower than regular IDE drives. Has anyone made a SCSI addon IDE external drive case to put in the cheap IDE drives that exist on the market today? 20 GB for $200 sounds so tempting when compared to $700 for the UltraSCSI drives of the same capacity. Now if only somebody made those $200 drives accessible to people who can't install them internally. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:48:20 -0400 From: carolynb Subject: Linux on a Mac Hi Stephen, I recently submitted a similar question to Info-Mac (the subject was about combining 4 external drives into1 external unit and using it for Linux). Anyway, I have not yet completed the first part, but I recommend that your colleague go to the Linuxppc users list for help. She will get much more accurate information from other Mac users who are doing this successfully. I have subscribed to the digest as a lurker in the mean time. To subscribe to this list, and see many other Mac oriented Linux lists, go to http://lists.linuxppc.org/. She should also check out http://www.linuxppc.org/ for more information. I hope that this helps! Carolyn =============snipped from the digest======================== 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: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:35:41 -0400 From: "Allan, David (DS)" Subject: Linux on a Mac I don't know what kind of Mac you want to run Linux on, but I am running Debian Linux 2.1 for Motorola 680x0 CPU on a Mac II. The Mac is fitted with a Daystar 50 MHz 68030 accelerator and has 20 MB RAM and 2.1 GB hard disk (partitioned into a small Mac OS partition and several partitions for Linux). I use this machine for IP Masquerading (allowing all the machines on my home net to access the internet through one ip address). I am also setting up file and print services. I am satisfied with the performance for this application. I have no knowledge of setting up "clusters." The PC Guru is misinformed. While it's true that Mac OS needs to be present on a partition to run a Linux booter, once Linux is running the Mac OS is not. Check out http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ for 680x0 macs. Also, http://www.debian.org for info on the Debian distribution. Good luck! David -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Walker [mailto:swalker@mail.arc.nasa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:56 PM 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: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:59:56 +1000 From: Craig McFarlane Subject: Linux on a Mac >She was able to >get Linux up and running on a single computer, but we found the >performance was lacking. Which distribution are you using? I installed MkLinux on my old 7100, and yes it was slow. LinuxPPC is supposed to be much quicker (and anyway, work on MkLinux is discontinued). LinuxPPC only works on PCI machines. >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? I think it depends on how developed the drivers are for the distribution you're using. The Mac's QuickDraw is pretty damn efficient, but I doubt either Mac Linux uses it. MkLinux is based upon the Mach micro-kernel, which may have extra overheads. >If anyone knows of any available information on setting up Linux on a >single Mac or a clusters that would also be appreciated. MkLinux: Linux68k: (for the die-hards) LinxPPC: cya Craig. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Craig McFarlane randomj@ozemail.com.au Delaney & Morgan Computing Fax: +61 3 9878-3910 ACN 058 140 702 PO Box 84 Forest Hill Vic 3131 AUSTRALIA "My opinions had better be those of the management, or they're FIRED!" ======================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 21:43:35 -0400 From: "Paul J. Schinder" Subject: Linux on a Mac At 8:34 PM -0400 10/21/99, Info-Mac wrote: >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. I've been running Linux on at least one Mac for a couple of years now. Currently Yellow Dog Linux runs on both my wife's G3 and my Performa 6400. It works quite nicely, and the performance is better in most ways than MacOS. I've also used LinuxPPC in the past, which also works quite well. There's also MkLinux, which I've never used. > >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? That sounds like an extremely garbled way of saying that the best way to boot Linux on most machines is to begin by booting MacOS. An extension named "BootX" comes up early in the process and allows you to choose between Linux or MacOS. If you choose Linux, it completely replaces MacOS at that point, so there's no "Mac OS GUI" involved when Linux is booted. (Or in other words, don't trust "PC Guru's" when it comes to Macs, because they usually know nothing about them.) > >If anyone knows of any available information on setting up Linux on a >single Mac or a clusters that would also be appreciated. Follow the directions that come with the CD. For most Macs, that's all you need to do. Make sure that the version of Linux that you're using runs on the hardware you're trying to install on. It will run on most modern Macs, but there are a few old ones that have problems. It won't yet run on the higher speed G4's or iBooks or the new iMacs, because the hardware is new and it takes time to get Linux ported to new hardware. > >Thanks > >Stephen --- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771 schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:35:00 -0400 From: Allan Hunter Subject: Macs Dialing in to NT Networks > >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 Yes, it works nicely, as long as you have a username and password combo that the NT is expecting to accept. This is not necessarily the same as being expected by the NT as an AppleShare (Mac Services) client: your username and password may be given privileges under Mac Services but not under NetBIOS. What company network services are you attempting to access? DAVE will definitely allow you to mount shared volumes on the Mac desktop using NetBIOS (see caveat above). For other services, such as email, you may not need DAVE at all, or, possibly, may find that you need drivers or client software in addition to a NetBIOS connection. Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:37:34 -0400 From: "Robert A. Virzi" Subject: Netscape Launching Eudora Many thanks to all who responded to me regarding my question of how to get Eudora to launch when a mailto: link is clicked in Netscape. The best answer for me (thanks Kathy!) was to go to: http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/scripts/NS_Eudora.sit which downloads an AppleScript. You launch the script, check the syntax, then run it. Presto-Chango, now your browser launches eudora mail when you select a mailto: link. Works like a champ, and several people around here have used the fix successfully. -Bob -------------------------------------------------------------- The box said, "Windows'95 or better required," so I bought a Mac. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:32:48 -0700 From: Gina Weller Subject: OS9 and MacDOScards Just installed OS9 at work. One of the README files warns sternly that "PC Cards will not work. We're not kidding this time." Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:08:42 -0400 From: "Victor Daniel a.k.a the MacNut" Subject: Resource: AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Email List Just to remind info-mac members that there is a discussion list devoted exclusively to the Mac application AppleWorks (formerly known as ClarisWorks). This is a FREE discussion list devoted to troubleshooting, tips and tricks for AppleWorks/ClarisWorks. To find out more, including how to subscribe, see the AppleWorks/ClarisWorks web page at: http://home.pro-usa.net/macnut/cwlist.html The MacNut AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Listmom ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:27:19 +1000 From: Jkars Subject: Sound I would like to thank all the readers who were kind enough to reply and give me answers and advise, in particular Muki Pakesch and Scotty and Scott Beach. For those readers interested; I was amazed at the amount of people who advised me not to convert my music into MP3 files as quality would be a big loss. Scotty writes: "Oh please don't convert your files to MPG3. All those great sounds will be lost forever. Don't kid yourself, mpg3 extracts a horrible penalty on sound files. I do this for money. The only reason that mpg3 is being accepted is that most people: A) Have terrible sound equipment. B) Can't hear worth a darn. C) Want something for nothing." > John wrote; >Hi to all the readers, >After having collected and read all 342 Mac Digest numbers, I actally have a Query myself. >I am in the process of converting all my reel to reel music, collected over the last 50 years, into MP3 format ready to burn onto CD's for safe keeping. However I seem to have collected an awful amount of noise in the process when I play it back in MP3 format. > With what program can I delete the rumbles and noises and clicks and how do I do it on my "beige"G3. >Also how do I convert my MP3 file back to AIFF for editing? >I hope someone can put me straight.> >Thanks in advance. >John Kars. > -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************