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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 23 Jun 97 Volume 15 : Issue 123
Today's Topics:
[A] Appletalk with PPP??
Adobe Pagemaker 6.0/Performa 6400
AppleShare 5.0 and ARA 2.1
Canon Bubblejets vs. Apple Stylewriters
Duplicate mail in Eudora Pro 3.1
Email frustration!!
Laserwriter II NT Problem
New Netscape problem
Norton 3.5 & Old Macs (C2)
Old CD-Rs
Older Macs - MacUser serial port misinformation?
Performa 6400/Express Modem Woes
Performa 6400/Express Modem Woes
Photoshop 4.01 Bus Exception Error
Powerbook 1400 external video
Q: Bubble Jet ink cartridges on a Stylewriter II?
Recording Keystrokes
Regarding Control Strip Toggle 1.3
Unimplmented trap?
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:03:26 +0100
From: Ken & Janie <ken&janie@jalapeno.demon.co.uk>
Subject: [A] Appletalk with PPP??
>Is there a way for me to connect to my office computor (ethernet
>connection) from home using Appletalk and OT/PPP (or Telnet)??
>
>I work at a university that supplies an ethernet connection in my office as
>well as dialup internet access for home. A colleague and I have
>successfully linked our Macs using Appletalk over our office ethernet
>connection. At home, I use OT/PPP for internet access as well as
>Microphone for telnet access of several servers.
>
>Thanks
>
>Joe Spaeth
>jspaeth@unm.edu
One solution to this is ARNS (A Remote Network Server), which allows you to
tunnel Appletalk packets over TCP/IP. A server runs on the remote mac, and
you have a client init at home. First you'd connect up to your ISP, then to
the remote mac and voila, the disk icon from the remote mac mounts on your
desktop. (Albeit slowly). There are logging and security features.
I downloaded this years ago from The University of Melbourne, and haven't
used it for ages. Don't know what compatibility is like, or whether there
have been any updates. Can't remember the url, but the author is given as
djh@munnari.OZ.AU
Cheers,
Ken.
--
Ken Baker Internet: bakerk@jalapeno.demon.co.uk
Maidenhead BritishTelecomnet: 01628 37823
UK ICBMnet: 51'26'43N 00'58'00W
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:18:28 -0400
From: Roy & Anne <rfung@cftnet.com>
Subject: Adobe Pagemaker 6.0/Performa 6400
Thanks to all who replied to my recent question regarding virtual memory on
the Performa 6400. The eventual solution I found was to start the system
with extensions off and that allowed the virtual memory setting to "take"
without the error message. Strange, I know, but if it works ....
Now we've run into another strange item. Pagemaker 6.0 would not install
on the Performa 6400 (with system 7.5.3). We get errors about being unable
to install many of the filters, extensions, additions, tables - the error
ID is 43. Yet the program has been running on the old IIsi which has
system 7.5 ver. 1.0 . We did try installing with extensions off, but this
did not work.
Is it something to do with the fact that the Performa processor is the
603e, (which is doubtful) and is there a workaround?
Roy/Anne.
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 17:55:10 +0100
From: Bottaro <bottaro@dima.unige.it>
Subject: AppleShare 5.0 and ARA 2.1
On my server I had AppleShare 4.2.1 and ARA 2.1 and I didn't have problems
with giving to users permission for linking to server by ARA. Now I
installed AppleShare 5.0 beta version and the old users of AppleShare 4,
which have the permission to logging by ARA, imported in AppleShare 5 can
log by ARA too, but I cannot give new permissions to other users to log by
ARA, because the Control Panel Users & Groups is not available and I don't
know where I must give the permission in the new application. Also in the
manual I cannot read any information on ARA. I am very grateful for any
suggestion. Regards
Gianfranco Bottaro
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 97 19:58:14 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <bjbear@ibm.net>
Subject: Canon Bubblejets vs. Apple Stylewriters
I've seen more than a few messages on Macintosh lists asking about inkjet
printers, and in particular, whether one should buy a Canon Bubblejet or
an Apple Stylewriter. Both are said to have the same "engines" in them;
for what it's worth, I'd like to share my own personal experiences with
both for the benefit of others.
At home I have an Apple Color Stylewriter 2500. I've had it over a year
now, and am extremely pleased with it. I also have a portable
Stylewriter 2200 for my PowerBook usage, and am just as pleased with that
(have had that one 6 months). I've never had a printing problem with
either machine.
At work, the purchase of an inkjet was necessary. At first, I wanted one
exactly like I had at home, but the person in the office who was doing
the actual purchasing was attracted to the Canon BJC-4550 inkjet printer
that does 11"x17" paper as well as the smaller sizes. I noticed that
this Canon printer used the same ink cartridges and tanks as the Apple
2500, so I thought, what the heck, it's probably the same thing
internally, so why shouldn't it work.
Here I am THREE Canon BJC-4550 printers later. And I *do not* feel the
same way about them anymore. The original one bought at the store was
replaced by an "instant exchange" via Canon Support services over two
months ago now. That exchanged printer was defective on arrival
(cartridge holder made loud buzzing and grinding sounds and subsequently
would also not print); two days later, another "instant exchange" printer
arrived, which is the one in the office today, so we have had three of
these printers in total.
This third one started doing what the first one did a few days ago:
miniaturizing (to a postage stamp size) any text from any kind of email
or text based application. Graphics would continue to print ok (for a
while), but then eventually NOTHING printed. The Macintosh would send
the signal to the printer, but the printer refused to respond back (even
for basic operation, like turning off and on, printing a test page, etc.
etc.)
I am by no means a techie, but it is obvious to me that the Macintosh
serial interface end of these Canon 4550s is defective in some way.
There is just NO other explanation for it. I would spend over an hour on
the phone (pay, not free, long distance) with the Canon tech who had me
do everything from rebuilding the desktop to reinstalling the Canon
driver software--all to no avail. I know the Macintoshes I work on quite
well, and I know that my printer serial port is not broken (I can print
to other printers) and the Mac is doing what it is supposed to do.
We finally had to wind up replacing the Canon 4500 with a brand new Apple
Stylewriter 2500--that worked perfectly, right out of the box--to this
same Macintosh, with the same cable that was formerly connected to the
Canon 4550. Because I had exhausted all the resources and info the
regular techies could muster with no change in the printer's behavior, a
senior techie from Canon support services is supposed to call me
back--but I am not holding my breath. As far as I'm concerned, the Macs
I use will stay connected to Apple Stylewriters.
--bj
Apple //-///-Macintosh user, supporter, and collector.
"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything." (Author unknown)
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:21:41 -0400
From: "Zafar A. Punjani" <zafar@itw.net>
Subject: Duplicate mail in Eudora Pro 3.1
It seems like my creating some waves about the earlier issue I had posted
to this digest, regarding deletion of duplicate mail, has caused the beta
developers at Qualcomm to fix the problem in their most current version of
the beta (FC 6).
Thanks to all who gave me input on this, including, but not limited to,
Andrew Starr, Jann Linder and others at comp.mail.eudora.mac and here.
Hopefully, Qualcomm will introduce a better way to perform this task, short
of scanning each mail article. Any more suggestions are welcome.
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:33:00 -0400
From: David Roche <droche@eurekanet.com>
Subject: Email frustration!!
hi folks,
I have a question.
A friend of mine who owns a business recently got email accounts for
himself and his employees. Naturally, he would like to check his email at
home and at work. However, any mail that he checks at home is unavailable
in his "In" box at work, and vice versa.
Is there any way that he can access the SAME email in both places, so that
at any one time, all his email will be on both computers?
Thanks in advance for any information...
David Roche
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 20:17:53 -0700
From: bc979@lafn.org (Doug Hardie)
Subject: Laserwriter II NT Problem
My laserwriter has developed a problem that I have not been able to figure
out. The red lights for paper jam and paper out flash. The problem is not
toner cartridge related or a jam. The manual indicates that this condition
means that the printer needs service. However, it provides no details.
Any ideas what causes this problem?
-- Doug
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:14:51 +0200
From: JLM.Benlliure@uv.es (Josep Lluis Mtnz. Benlliure)
Subject: New Netscape problem
In Info-Mac Digest #122 (20/6/97) Jon Froines <jonyo@wenet.net> wrote:
> I just upgraded to Netscape 3.01 from 3.0 [...]
> The only problem is with file types that should
> go to Stuffit Expander, like your normal hqx, sit
> & bin files and such. [...] If I actually
> download a file, it does get pointed to stuffit
> expander, but then netscape says that stuffit had
> a problem, do you want to save it or delete it.
> I let Netscape save the unexpanded file, go to
> the finder and double click it. It opens
> automatically with stuffit expander just fine.
> So, I can't see it being a problem with stuffit,
> especially since I haven't changed it.
Restart your Mac by holding down the command and option keys, until
you'll be asked about rebuilding your desktop database. Click OK and wait
until the process is finished. This should solve the problem. The story is:
the Finder launches files in a different way than Netscape does, so the
Finder can find StuffIt Expander while Netscape cannot.
Hope this helps...
======
Josep Lluis Mtnz. Benlliure
Universitat de Valencia
(Spain, Europe)
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 22:34:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Al Bloom <abloom@vt.edu>
Subject: Norton 3.5 & Old Macs (C2)
As usual I was gratified by the responses to my comments of the other
day about the Norton 3.5 CD-ROM and my beastly old home system consisting
of a IIci and a NEC CDR-72 (which only works with the beastly old CD-ROM
Toolkit of the 1.0.9 persuasion -- nothing from NEC and nothing more recent
from FWB and certainly not the magic Apple CD-ROM 5.3.1 driver).
One respondent asked if I had tried "show missing disks" from the Disk
Doctor main menu instead of resorting to SCSI Probe to mount my internal
HD so that Norton could see it. No, I hadn't. I didn't know about that
option. Hey, did I ever claim to know everything? I tried it this evening,
and Norton saw my HD, and Norton assured me it was munged beyond repair.
Not really. I quit NU, launched SCSI Probe and told it to "mount," after
which Norton gave the HD a clean bill of health.
That was via a DOCS (Del-Opt-Cmd-Shift) boot from my M/O drive. I didn't
know what DOCS meant until I saw an incoming note that I almost flushed
because I figured its DOCS subject probably had something to do with porn
at best. Like you I get a lot of junk mail. It seems evenly distributed
between Christians and pornography dealers. I couldn't figure out how DOCS
could apply to either group, so I read the message. But I digress.
Several respondents suggested that I held the DOCS keys down too long on
a boot from CD-ROM or M/O drive. Let loose as soon as you see the happy Mac!
Then the HD will mount, and Norton will see it.
Uh, not exactly. I dunno what I did or omitted, but the Norton CD wouldn't
boot at all this evening. Flashing question mark in a diskette icon until
I released the DOCS keys, at which time the HD booted. OK, try the M/O
drive. That booted, and I released the DOCS keys as soon as I saw the happy
Mac, and guess what?
Now let's not always see the same hands.
Yup. The internal HD did not appear on the desktop. Until a SCSI Probe mount.
I maybe oughta get a new computer at home.
But this setup is much more interesting than the disgustingly predictable
and fast 7300/180 I have at the office.
Al Bloom
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Date: 20 Jun 97 15:21:48 -0500
From: "Chris Gervais" <cg601@user1.channel1.com>
Subject: Old CD-Rs
This is really a non-Mac question but I figured someone out on the digest
must have an answer.
My company burns about 50-75 one-write CD-Rs a week. Most are used
primarily for testing purposes and then not needed. So the
non-environmentalists in my office just throw them away while the the
others hold on to them and have massive amounts of old CD-Rs polluting
their office instead of landfills.
My question is: does anybody know of some way to safely dispose or recycle
CD-Rs?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Chris
p.s.: I've already done the obvious things like make jewerly, taped many
together to use as over-sized office hockey puck, put cool labels on them
and sold them to teenagers as Pearl Jam bootlegs, given them as Christmas
tree decorations, etc.
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:38:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: John Seboldt <rohrwerk@pconline.com>
Subject: Older Macs - MacUser serial port misinformation?
The latest MacUser (July 97) had a nice piece on older Macs. But I really
question the statement on page 100, regarding the Plus, SE, and Classic as
a group: "Don't waste your money on [a modem] faster than 9600 bps --
these compact Macs' serial ports can't handle anything faster." This is
pretty laughable, since my SE's ports can be set to 57600 in ZTerm and
MacPPP to talk to my USR Sportster 33.6K fax modem, and I get transfer
rates of 2300 bytes/second or better (18400 bps or better).
Any basis for this printed rumour?
John Seboldt
rohrwerk@pconline.com
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:36:38 -0400
From: "Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us>
Subject: Performa 6400/Express Modem Woes
}Date: Thu, 19 Jun 97 11:39:04 -0500
}From: joe <jwarmbrodt@netexplorer.com>
}Subject: Performa 6400/Express Modem Woes
}
}Hello all,
}
}A friend of mine recently purchased a Performa 6400/180 with an internal
}Express Modem (geoport). When using the internet, she has been plagued
}with nonstop crashes and hangs. Usually, the system grinds to a
}screeching halt a few minutes after opening Netscape.
One thing you can try is not using Netscape with its enormous memory
requirement. Try Internet Explorer and see if that helps. It works just
fine on my 6400/180.
The second: if this machine has Ram Doubler, *turn it off*. Use Apple's
VM. Ram Doubler has some kind of conflict with the EM software.
}
}I'm usuually quite good at solving problems like this, but this one has
}me banging my head against the wall. I've literally spent hours trying to
}fix this. Interestingly enough, everything works well when I de-install
}the Express Modem software and use an external modem instead. This leads
}me to the preliminary hypothesis that the Express Modem may be a
}silicon-encrusted piece of crap.
It's not great, but it's been reliable for me.
}
}System software is 7.6.1, using the latest versions of OT and OT-PPP.
}
}Has anyone been able to get their 6400 with Express Modem to maintain an
}internet connection reliably and acceptably? Am I doing something wrong?
Daily, 6+ hours a day, and the only disconnects are the ones I do myself at
the end of each session. Turn off Ram Doubler. If it doesn't have an L2
cache, I'd suggest getting one. I have one on mine.
}
}Thanks in advance for any help or advice you might be able to offer,
}
}-Joe
}
}____________________
}Joe Warmbrodt
}Net Explorer, Inc. - Online Development and Consulting
}voice: 713-521-3102 Fax: 713-520-6133
---
Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771
schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us
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Date: 20 Jun 1997 21:00:04 GMT
From: Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov (Bryan Walls)
Subject: Performa 6400/Express Modem Woes
>Subject: Performa 6400/Express Modem Woes
>
>Hello all,
>
>A friend of mine recently purchased a Performa 6400/180 with an internal
>Express Modem (geoport). When using the internet, she has been plagued
>with nonstop crashes and hangs. Usually, the system grinds to a
>screeching halt a few minutes after opening Netscape.
>
>I'm usuually quite good at solving problems like this, but this one has
>me banging my head against the wall. I've literally spent hours trying to
>fix this. Interestingly enough, everything works well when I de-install
>the Express Modem software and use an external modem instead. This leads
>me to the preliminary hypothesis that the Express Modem may be a
>silicon-encrusted piece of crap.
>
>System software is 7.6.1, using the latest versions of OT and OT-PPP.
>
>Has anyone been able to get their 6400 with Express Modem to maintain an
>internet connection reliably and acceptably? Am I doing something wrong?
>
I just got a Telecom Adaptor Kit, which is the external version of the
same deal. My guess is your friend has either virtual memory or RamDoubler
running. Because the Express Modem uses your processor to do the modem
function, it really chokes if it already has a heavy load from something
else, like virtual memory. I find I can run fine with Netscape and Eudora,
doing uploads, download, and whatever -- as long as I leave RAMDoubler
off. It seems to work okay with RamDoubler, too, as long as I don't use
more than the physical amount of memory.
The upshot? It's not as nice as a 33.6 modem -- but for the price of
buying a modem, you could get 32MB of RAM, which would make it as nice,
and would be useful even when you're not online.
Does the 6400 have cache? If not, I'd say get 16MB of RAM and a 256k
cache. Or, if you have the money, 32MB and a 512k cache. You'd see a big
performance improvement in everything.
--
Bryan Walls My Words are not NASA Policy
EB12 MSFC, AL 35812
Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:34:34 +0000
From: tina wright <tina@call-us.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Photoshop 4.01 Bus Exception Error
I'm using Adobe Photoshop 4.01 with an Epson GT 8000
scanner. I can scan in one or maybe two times fine but when I try
to scan in another image I get - bus exception error - and the
machine crashes. I also had this problem with version 4 and to an
extent 3.04.
I have a powermac 8100/110 and I am using Epson scanner software
(of which there is no update to). No other source (ie Twain etc) will
recognise the scanner at all. (I have 7.6 installed - but I also had the
problem with 7.5.5.)
I have run various programs such as Techtool Pro and can't find any
hardware problems and I have re-downloaded the Epson software so it
can't be the scanner driver - help!!!! I have a big job on right now which
involves constant scanning and this is slowing me down soooo much!
Hope you can help me
Tina
PS - whats the general opinion of 7.6.1 - is it stable? should I upgrade to it?
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:41:19 -0500
From: shazari@VMS1.GMU.EDU (Dr. Sunil Hazari)
Subject: Powerbook 1400 external video
Does anyone have information on video adapter that can be installed in a
Powerbook 1400cs for it to output video signals to external sources (such
as LCD panels).
Please e-mail responses to shazari@vms1.gmu.edu
TIA,
S. Hazari
Associate Professor
George Mason University
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:20:22 +0100
From: Robert.Podvezanec@post.rwth-aachen.de (Robert Mihelli)
Subject: Q: Bubble Jet ink cartridges on a Stylewriter II?
Bubble Jet ink cartridges on a Stylewriter II?
I just got some Canon BC-02 Bubble Jet ink cartridges, and I remember
reading somewhere that some Canon ink cartridges can be used with Apple=B4s
Stylewriter I & II. Is there someone who knows which Bubble jet cartridges
can be used?
Robert.
__
mihelli@usa.net
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 06:26:33 +0930
From: burlo@olis.net.au
Subject: Recording Keystrokes
On June 17, Howard Fried wrote:
<Anyone know of an application, preferably an init, that can keep track of
every keystroke and write the information, periodically, to a file?>
The control panel Super Save will save all keystrokes in files in the
system folder.
Burr Dodd
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:48:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Shaw <dshaw@cs.jhu.edu>
Subject: Regarding Control Strip Toggle 1.3
Hello,
You have no idea how much mail my recent posting of Control Strip Toggle
has generated. On the one hand, it's a good feeling that people still care
about and are using the Mac platform, despite what the industry naysayers
say.
On the other hand... Yes, I know that the current version of the Control
Strip program has a built in toggle. I wrote my toggle program and sent
it out a few years ago. People are still downloading it all the time, and
writing me about it, and putting it on CD-ROMS.
I don't know why this is still happening - perhaps they are still using
older Control Strips?
The program will also toggle Desktop Strip (from Men & Mice), so maybe
that's what people are using it for.
I just figured since my email address and a few other details had changed,
I would put out a final last release before I dropped it.
I wonder if there is a way to change the program abstract in Info-Mac.
This seems to have confused a lot of people.
David
dshaw@jabberwocky.com
http://www.jabberwocky.com/
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 97 9:24:38 CEST
From: Monica Palermo <MD0891@mclink.it>
Subject: Unimplmented trap?
Does anybody know what kind of system error is unimplemented trap? I'm a
mac user, i got a Performa 630, when I try to run some software like the
last one I dowloaded IPhone a window with this kind of error appears.
Please help me. Thanks Monica
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