Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #173 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 01 Nov 00 Volume 17 : Issue 173 Today's Topics: (A) Chooser/ printer problem (A) Switching Platforms (Q) 3rd and higher level filtering with Eudora? (Q) Entrust Toolkit for Macintosh [*] Mac-FTP-list, Version 4.6.2 [*] Printools XT 2.0 [*] Prometheus 1.2 [*] RTF to HTML/XML conversion [*] Ultimate Pool 1.3 [*] webfeedback version 2.0 for macintosh converting PowerPoint files? converting PowerPoint files? (R) Dead PowerMac 6100 Dead PowerMac 6100 G3 Audio Output Jack Info-Mac Digest V17 #164 Info-Mac Digest V17 #169 Switching Platforms 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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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #173" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:02:08 +0000 From: me@none.co.uk.invalid (Lobo) To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: (A) Chooser/ printer problem In article <8tldqd$tg1$1@traf.lcs.mit.edu>, moderator@info-mac.org (The Info-Mac Moderators) wrote: >I am unable to have the Chooser _retain_ printer driver as selected. >Consequently, >the 'Page Setup' or 'Print...' in the 'File' menu will not function, thus >unable >to print any documents. > >Error message(s) state... > >"Printing operations are not possible until you have selected a >Printer using the Chooser"; > >"No printer is selected, please open the Chooser in the Apple menu >to select a printer" > >"The Page Setup could not be opened because it is in use". > >The printer will print a test page. > >Reinstalled printer software; checked all cables; disconnected peripherals; > >Printer port (and Modem port) alternated; desktop printer highlighted; >Background Printing off; AppleTalk inactive; tried 2500 driver, >but all without success. > >OS 8.6/ StyleWriter 2400. The problem CURED but not solved. I had to use a backup of my System Folder (kept on an external hard drive) and transfer bits by bit. It cured the problem, but I am non the wiser as to the specific _cause_ of the problem. Peter (aka Lobo) -- ta reply, rub oot -Lobo- from... peter@plalp.-Lobo-freeserve.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: 31 Oct 2000 07:23:52 -0500 From: "D. Scott Beach" To: "Info-Mac Digest" Subject: (A) Switching Platforms edgayle@socal.rr.com asks: I would like to switch from my old Windows based computer to a new Macintosh G4. Where can I find information on how to accomplish the software and hardware conversion/switch? Basically I need to understand how to load my Windows data (Word, Excel, e-mail, photo, bookmarks/favorites, etc., etc.) onto a Macintosh. There seem to be formidable software and hardware difficulties. Is there a place where I can find out how to do this? I am ready to convert, but how? Ed: What sort of connection interface is available on the PC? If it has an ethernet card then the easiest way is to FTP the files via any of a variety of server packages for the Mac. Some free, some shareware. If your only common connection is modem, then perhaps you could get the data between them that way using a terminal program. I know that this wouldn't be too great if you had much data. I guess it would also mean that you'd have to have them on different phone lines so one could call the other. Do you have access to a CD recorder or maybe a Zip Plus drive that has a parallel port? - Scott Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:14:17 -0600 From: Pete Resnick To: "abrody@smart.net" Subject: (Q) 3rd and higher level filtering with Eudora? On 10/25/00 at 6:09 PM -0400, abrody@smart.net wrote: >Is there any way to get Eudora 4.3.2 to filter conditional statements >of the 3rd or higher degree? I.e. if there are really only 5 people >I expect e-mail from, can I make a filter that checks if the incoming >mail is from those five people using Eudora, and then reports the >rest to abuse@xx.com? Make an Address Book entry with all of the people that you do want to get e-mail from. Then make a single filter which says "If From: doesn't intersect nickname foo, forward to abuse@xx.com". pr -- Pete Resnick Eudora Engineering - QUALCOMM Incorporated ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:05:45 -0500 From: "Sager, David G." To: "'digest@info-mac.org'" Subject: (Q) Entrust Toolkit for Macintosh I am evaluating the Public Key Infrastructure offering from Entrust Technologies called Entrust/PKI. Their developer site offers a variety of developer toolkits to interface custom applications to the PKI. They do not offer a toolkit for the Macintosh and, as far as I can tell, do not plan one. Has anyone written their own Entrust Toolkit for the Macintosh or know of someone who has? Thank you, David Sager Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 2000 From: Bruce Grubb To: Subject: [*] Mac-FTP-list, Version 4.6.2 This is the latest edition (Nov 1, 2000) of the Mac-FTP-list and should replace version 4.6.1. The Mac-FTP-list lists over 120 mac anonymous ftp sites (some with notes), over 100 Mac web pages, and contains some instructions on how to use anonymous ftp and find files as well a format chart showing which programs decompress and decode which files. Also there is a section on how to use certain files. This Stuffit Deluxe 6.0 archive contains both the text and html versions of the Mac-FTP-list. To ensure that the columns in the Format Chart section line up correctly the document's text must be in a monospaced font such as Courier 10pt, Monaco 9pt, or a PC equivalent. Permission is given for this program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Changes: Format chart updated; Added sites/URLs: http://www.emailman.com/software/wordproc/mac.html; Defunct sites/URLs: http://cult-of-mac.utu.fi/ (info too old); [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mac-ftp-list-462.hqx; 81 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 2000 From: Badia Software To: Subject: [*] Printools XT 2.0 Printools is an XTension for QuarkXPress 4.1 that adds new features to the Print dialog and enhances existing ones. Printools is designed to make the printing process easier, more productive and enjoyable -- whether if it's to a large imagesetter or an inkjet printer. Top features: * Interactive Live Preview: Printools adds a real preview pane to the Print dialog, which stays always open and gives you immediate visual feedback of the way your page/spread will look when printed. It displays actual page contents, page marks, flipping, negative printing, scaling, portrait or landscape orientation and more. * Optional full-screen print preview. * Interactive manual tiling: allows tiling by dragging the mouse right in the preview pane. * Preflight: detects common problems (RGB images, text overflow, missing fonts, low-res pictures, etc.). * Batch print any number of documents with the same output settings (including PostScript files). * Print Styles: create and redefine print styles right from the Print dialog. * Rename output file without changing the name of the actual document. * Print selected items of the page or spread. * Print usage reports -- color, picture, font and style sheets. * Additional page slug tags, including owner and machine name, line screen, emulsion, editing time, revision, and any custom text. * Can add a page border during the output stage. * The number of pages and page range values are *retained* after you print or capture settings. * Selected Printer is displayed in the Print window [Archived as /info-mac/text/qark/printools-xt-201.hqx; 716 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 2000 From: jhs@CS.Princeton.EDU To: Subject: [*] Prometheus 1.2 Prometheus is a challenging arcade game for the Mac. It requires swiftness, strategy, and a little luck to capture territory on the playfield, as a sweeping firestix holds you at bay. With over 30 levels of increasingly challenging gameplay, Prometheus will keep you enthralled for hours. Prometheus includes both a single-player and a two-player game. Prometheus requires: System 7.0, a 68030 or better Mac, a 640 x 480/256 color monitor, Sound Manager 3.0, 4.5 MB RAM, 2.5 MB HD space. Prometheus is shareware and costs $15. [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/prometheus-12.hqx; 2186 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 2000 From: "David Metcalfe" To: Subject: [*] RTF to HTML/XML conversion This package contains a utility to convert RTF to HTML or XML. Extensive customisation options allow for a great deal of flexibility in the output format. HTML and XHTML formats are supported by default, with DocBook coming soon. Other XML DTD's may be created by altering the translation files. A user interface is provided to simplify the translation process. [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/rtf-to-html.hqx; 1204 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 2000 From: jhs@CS.Princeton.EDU To: Subject: [*] Ultimate Pool 1.3 Ultimate Pool is a physically realistic pool simulation game for the Mac. The balls, pool table, and cues are all scaled versions of their real-world counterparts, and the balls roll and collide just as they would on a real pool table. Ultimate Pool comes with 6 computer opponents of widely varying abilities, and these games: Stripes & Solids, 8-ball, 9-ball, 14.1 Continuous, Cutthroat and Rotation. Ultimate Pool requires: A Power PC Macintosh, System 7.0 or greater; 256 colors or greys; a 640 x 480 display; Sound Manager 3.0; 5.5 Meg of RAM; and 4 Meg of hard disk. Ultimate Pool is $20 shareware. [Archived as /info-mac/game/ultimate-pool-13.hqx; 3413 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Nov 2000 From: "Daniel Veuillet - cyberware-neotek.com" To: Subject: [*] webfeedback version 2.0 for macintosh webfeedback is a 3D log analyzer and Web decision support system which allows you to easily survey an entire Web site in a map-like structure. The program lets you import the server log files associated with all the Web pages of a given Web site, and generate a unique 3D image which can be exported to and printed in HTML format. With a single mouse click, you can view a 3D image map depicting the traffic associated with each link, the time spent on each page, and where visitors entered and left the site. Almost any type of log file can be processed, including CLF, ECLF and W3C. Broken, bad, or dead links are also displayed, with the ability to quickly correct them. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/web-feedback-20.hqx; 4725 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:10:43 -0500 From: "Dominic F. Manno" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: converting PowerPoint files? There's a PowerPoint reader for the Mac, available on Microsoft's Web site. On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:55:41 -0400, Patty and Art Werschulz wrote: >Occasionally I receive PowerPoint files via e-mail (the extension is >.pps). Is there some utility that will convert these into something I >can handle with my Mac (e.g., a folder of PICT files)? -- Dominic F. Manno dommanno@bellatlantic.com "If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane." - Jimmy Buffett ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:51:07 +0100 From: Christian F Buser To: Patty and Art Werschulz Subject: converting PowerPoint files? (R) Patty and Art Werschulz wrote: >Occasionally I receive PowerPoint files via e-mail (the extension is >.pps). Is there some utility that will convert these into something I >can handle with my Mac (e.g., a folder of PICT files)? PowerPoint Player, can be downloaded free from Microsoft. It won't let you change the presentation, but you can at least admire it. Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at If you think education is expensive, try ignorance ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:50:49 +0100 From: muki pakesch To: Alan Stein , digest@info-mac.org Subject: Dead PowerMac 6100 At 23:22 -0400 27.10.2000, Alan Stein wrote: >My wife's PowerMac 6100 refuses to boot. I don't even get a sad Mac >icon--just the mouse pointer on the screen. > sounds like a dead pram battery replacing it with a new one should help hth cheers, muki __________________________________________________________________ | muki pakesch | | | | mailto:mpakesch@t0.or.at http://www.t0.or.at/~mpakesch | |__________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:21:48 GMT From: Philippe Casgrain To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: Dead PowerMac 6100 Alan Stein wrote: >My wife's PowerMac 6100 refuses to boot. I don't even get a sad Mac >icon--just the mouse pointer on the screen. [snip] >At first, I thought it might be a dead battery for the PRAM, but >since I can't get it to do anything from either the CD or hard drive >even after the power is turned off from the power strip, I'm >wondering whether it's something more serious and it's time to get a >new computer--something I suggested to my wife a long time ago.:) Did you actually change the motherboard battery? (3.6V, 1/2 AA). I have rescued many Macs from that era by doing this (Centris, LCs, 6100s, etc). Philippe Casgrain ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:52:19 -0700 From: Ted Logan To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: G3 Audio Output Jack Plugging headphones into a G3 disables the built-in speaker so that all audio output is sent only to the headphones. But is there software to switch back and forth so I don't have to keep plugging in and unplugging the headphone jack when I want sound through the speaker? Ted Logan Logan Writing, Inc. Lake Havasu City, Arizona loganwriting@ispchannel.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:35:12 -0500 From: Scott Fabbri To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #164 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 12:34 -0400 10/18/00, Dave Del Torto wrote: >Two networking questions from a friend on NT: > >1. X-Platform Filename Length: >Are long filenames on a WinNT 4.0 server (e.g. ~40 chars) a problem >for MacOS 8.6? I told him about the 27-char limit on the Mac, but I'm >not sure if that also means that files longer than that on such a >server will be completely invisible to the Mac, or if it will see >filename fragments. As a follow-up, he asks: if this is indeed a >problem, will it go away under MacOS 9.x? Microsoft says that files with names on the NT side that are longer than 31 characters show up as unique 8.3 names on the Mac. It uses the same algorithm for naming that it does for DOS. http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/winnt/Winntas/manuals/network/xns16.asp I don't think that'll change under OS 9.x because IIRC it's an AFP issue anyway. >2. Samba Drives: >Can a MacOS 8.6 user see and mount an SMB/Samba drive served by a >WinNT 4.0 (SP6) server running AppleShare services? If the share is marked as Macintosh-accessible by the server administrator. It also has to reside on an NTFS volume, IIRC. http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/winnt/Winntas/manuals/network/xns15.asp is a good place to start reading about NT's Services for Macintosh (SFM). You can substitute other chapters for the "15" above. :-) Another possibility for sharing files is to use DAVE from Thursby Software. It makes your Mac speak SMB so you don't have to run SFM on the NT server. I recommended this to someone I know and she said it was absolutely great -- they'd had problems with SFM because of the number of files on their shared NT partition. http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html Regards, Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.2 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOf+BNeBqQYOROVvqEQIyvACfQ47wPKEjOrfYh0BGtiLWk2oSqmwAn0TQ M9WmoUYXX8htW0IxutYqE/S6 =OtOq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Chef, n.: Any cook who swears in French. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:28:25 -0500 From: RobD To: "Infomac To Digest Reply" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #169 Quoting The Info-Mac Network and possibly previous message on 10/30/00 19:33. >Dear Digest readers, >Is there any way to get Eudora 4.3.2 to filter conditional statements >of the 3rd or higher degree? I.e. if there are really only 5 people >I expect e-mail from, can I make a filter that checks if the incoming >mail is from those five people using Eudora, and then reports the >rest to abuse@xx.com? >Sincerely, >abrody@nospam.smart.net Not a good idea unless you are checking your abuse messages before they are sent. Also lots of the adresses will use your reply as a confirmation of a valid email address and cause more spam to be sent. >>>-----------Reach me by ICQ# 7162477------------------<<< ~~~ Read my contributions ~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:43:27 -0700 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: "info-mac letters" Subject: Switching Platforms At 11:11 PM -0700 10/23/00, edgayle@socal.rr.com wrote: > I would like to switch from my old Windows based computer > to a new Macintosh G4. Where can I find information on how > to accomplish the software and hardware conversion/switch? Several readers offered very good information on how to transfer data files from the PC to the MAc. But, one point seems to have been missed (probably because it seems so obvious to most of us). If you were asking whether you could transfer you PC software (programs) to the Mac and run them on the Mac, a little more explanation is needed. You will not be able to run (execute) the PC programs under the Mac operating environment. The only way I know to run your PC programs on the Mac is to install a PC emulator program on the Mac (i.e., Soft Windows or Virtual PC), and then run the PC programs on the Mac under the Windows emulation. Of course, as others have explained, most of your data files, picture files, bookmarks, addresses, email, etc., can be transferred and used. As you may have noticed from the responses, doing so is not an intuitive process, and some of it may be a bit tricky. You are getting good help from this forum, and I, too, offer my assistance. Cyrus Roton Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************