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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 01 Jun 97 Volume 15 : Issue 102
Today's Topics:
(Q) Geoport
(Q) Video editing and frame capturing software
150 MHz 604 Processor Cards
[Q]: Getting an LC630 to recognize a multisync monitor
Anti Static Spray?
Audio CD glitch on Centris 610
Dead PowerBook 100
Disk Express II (C)
Driver for Intel Pro100B PCI 10/100 fast ethernet card?
get a zip
html to rtf convertor?
Info-Mac Digest V15 #99
Mac repair
MS WORD 6 Paths
New Virus?
Norton's Fastback
Pointer Freezes
Pointer Freezes
Seeking advice on Postscript emulators for Epson Stylus 800
SIMM Question
syquest vs zip
System 7.6 and 32bit
What setting?
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:28:16 -0400
From: "Lars Christian Jensen" <larscj@dk-online.dk>
Subject: (Q) Geoport
Since Apple didn=B4t make a softwareupdate for the 68040-Geoports
(though
they did actually did promise it) I have one too many. Could I by any
chance get rid of it by selling it to a PowerMac-owner - and will
he/she be
able to make it run at 28.800 bps or is it specificly made for
68040=B4s?
Any advice would be nice
TIA
Lars
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:28:29 -0400
From: "Sherrill Fink" <sfink@crosslink.net>
Subject: (Q) Video editing and frame capturing software
We just bought a video camera and we would like to do two things:
1. Do some basic video editing (nothing fancy)
2. Be able to capture stills to digitize to JPEG or some other
format to send to grandparents
I have a copy of VideoDirector 2.0 ($129) backordered with MacWarehouse,
but to the best of our knowledge it only does #1. Is there a product
that does both #1 and #2 without costing an absolute
fortune?
I have heard of Snappy for the PC that seems to do both for a reasonable
price, but I'm told there's no equivalent on the Mac.
How can this be, since multimedia is one of the Mac's strengths?
What is out there? Surely other new parents that have video
cameras and Macs have the same question, right?
Sherrill Fink
sfink@crosslink.net
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Date: Thu, 29 May 97 17:22:24 -0500
From: "Jason P. Torrey" <jtorrey@qni.com>
Subject: 150 MHz 604 Processor Cards
Sometime in the future, I would like to upgrade my 8500/120 to an
8500/150. I read somewhere that Motorola is phasing out the production
on the 150 MHz PPC 604 chips, so does this mean that supplies of these
150 MHz processor boards will dry up? Has anyone else heard this?
Thanks,
Jason <jtorrey@qni.com>
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 20:10:33 +0100
From: Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.demon.co.uk>
Subject: [Q]: Getting an LC630 to recognize a multisync monitor
Question says it all. I've just plonked a multisync monitor on top of
my old LC630, using a VGA-to-mac monitor adapter (the old audiovision
tube was getting a bit flaky). It comes up in 640x480 resolution. I've
_seen_ LC630's driving multisync monitors at 800x600, but the Monitors
control panel doesn't see any modes other than bog-standard VGA.
Anyone got any ideas how to get the LC630 to see the extra screen real
estate?
(NB: as the LC630 is a Centris 630 by any other name, or a Quadra 630 with
a 68LC040 instead of a 68040, if you know anything about any 630-type
machines, feel free to tell me.)
-- Charlie
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:26:49 -0700
From: Pretoris@cris.com
Subject: Anti Static Spray?
Is there some kind of spray I can use to reduce the static in the carpet?
Just walking accross the room can build up a large charge where I work, and
I'm a liittle worried. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Rob
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 07:29:45 -0500
From: Eric Jennings <eric@rapid13.org>
Subject: Audio CD glitch on Centris 610
I just installed an external CD-Rom drive on a friends Centris 610. I did a
fresh System 7.5 install as well as an install of the HDT Tools that came
with the drive. For games and interactive CD's the drive works great. When
I attempt to play Audio CD's using Apple's or HDT's Audio CD Player
programs no sound will come out of the speakers. Both programs recognize
audio disks and behave as if they are playing them but no sound can be
heard. I am chiefly baffled because the audio works great on all other
types of CD's.
The obvious things have been checked: Volume control; Quicktime 2.5 is
loaded; Sound Manager is present; Audio CD extension is active.
Eric Jennings
eric@rapid13.org
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:26:35 -0500
From: thomas09@SNYCORVA.CORTLAND.EDU
Subject: Dead PowerBook 100
I have a PowerBook 100 and it just recently stopped booting.
I called Apple and they talked me through a power manaer reset process,
I hnk it involved pushing the 2 side buttons (interrupt and reset) with
no source of power in it. Then trying to boot it like normal.
After that all it does it flicker the screen and _TRY_ to boot.
No luck, no power to the drive etc.
Does anyone have any ideas, I would hate to have bring this into the
shop
and spend more then this is worth.
Also is there a possibility that the small round batteries need to be
replaced?
Any help will be appreciated.
Scott Thomas
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 18:46:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Al Bloom <abloom@vt.edu>
Subject: Disk Express II (C)
Some of y�u may have noticed my lack of enthusiasm for Symantec
products of recent vintage.
After the debacle of SAM 4.5, I switched to Virex.
After having disks destroyed by Speed Disk, I took your advice
and bought Disk Express II.
I dunno that was a swell idea.
I got and installed DE2 last evening. Its DiskCheck program told
me in no uncertain terms that my HD directory was munged and that
I should fix the problem before attempting optimization.
The DE2 manual is not real clear on how to fix a problem like that.
Disk First Aid might help, but it is unlikely. Try something else.
The ONLY something else is Norton Disk Doctor.
The new (3.5) NDD reports no problem, mon.
I asked Alsoft tech support about the conundrum. The respondent (Jorg)
assured me I had directory damage and should respond as in the DE2 manual.
Say what?
Nothing in the DE2 manual is at all helpful when NOTHING ELSE says there
is a problem.
If nothing else sees a problem, nothing else can fix it.
The lights may be on at Alsoft, but it doesn't seem anyone is at home.
Al Bloom
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Date: Thu, 29 May 97 08:16:21 -0500
From: Tim Biddle <tkbiddle@indy.navy.mil>
Subject: Driver for Intel Pro100B PCI 10/100 fast ethernet card?
Okay...so I tried Intel's web page, and no luck. I am looking for a
driver that will support the Intel Pro100B PCI ethernet card in a
Macintosh. Does anyone know of anything that exists, or another driver
that could be made to work?
I tried Asante, Dayna Blue Streak and Apple drivers...none work.
Thanks in advance.
Tim Biddle
tkbiddle@indy.navy.mil
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 02:13:34 +0000
From: Sumi <sumi@infinitewave.com>
Subject: get a zip
> I am considering purchasing a removable backup system. Two systems
> which I am currently looking at are the Syquest EZ135 and the Iomega
> 100MB Zip drive. Both drive seem to have gotton good reviews. Could
> you recommend
> which system is the better one to go with.
> Thanks in advance.
I have used the Syquest drive but own the Zip. Here in India, it can get
really hot (110F) My Power computing machine crashed last year with RAM
etc.
I ended up with Photoshop and Code Warrior, Netscape etc on Zip Disks
connected to a Performa 460 (030/12M RAM/80HD). Never any disk error, or
scratch disk problems. I even boot from Zip drives...this is my most
reliable solution. I have even suggested that Apple go with a Zippin
instead of a Pippin.
Hope this helps. The only minor drawback is the cable config and
restricted SCSI IDs.
Sumi
http://www.infinitewave.com/spinvisuals
http://www.infinitewave.com/Mac
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Date: Thu, 29 May 97 15:51:38 BST
From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk
Subject: html to rtf convertor?
Is there an html to rtf (or Word 5.1) convertor available that anyone could
recommend to me? Thanks.
Ian Goldby
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Date: Thu, 29 May 97 16:02:10 -0500
From: Quadratic Software <support@quadratic.com>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #99
>On Mon, 26 May 1997, "cesar" <cesar@lava.net> wrote:
>>Hi.
>>
>>I'm having difficulty with frequent pointer freezes in the upper left hand
>>corner of my screen on startups. Sometimes it happens when I try to go
>>to another program like Microsoft Word.
>>
>>When I restart it usually clears up for awhile.
>
>You didn't provide any information about what your hardware or System
>software environment is. This renders any diagnosis no better than a
>wild guess, which is what I am about to provide...
Here's another wild speculation since I had the same problem once
myself a few weeks ago. (Intermittant freezes at system startup, Conflict
Catcher no help.)
If you're using FreePPP, try turning off "Allow applications to
connect" in FreePPP Setup.
With MacsBug, I found that my problem seems to have been caused by the
program counter jumping to an invalid address (usually into the system
heap header). I'm not sure why it was doing that. Perhaps the jGNEFilter
chain was broken when FreePPP tried to install a new filter? I don't know.
The funny thing is, it seems to have been related in strange some way
to CC (Conflict Catcher) itself since if the hard disk "churned" a lot
when CC was loading (before other INITs), then the problem would go away.
If it didn't, the crash would happen once the Finder loaded.
Anyway, making that change in FreePPP Setup fixed it for me.
Regards,
Graham
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 07:41:54 -0400
From: "Lyon, James" <Lyon@CSD.com>
Subject: Mac repair
Need to remove and replace power supply in old Mac IIcx. Can you tell me
where I can get information on pulling and replacing it???
Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:02:32 -0500
From: "Peter J. Paul" <pjp@cheerful.com>
Subject: MS WORD 6 Paths
I'm running WORD 6.01 on a Power Mac 7100. It is on an external hard drive
(LaCie) that I recently returned for repair. While it was being repaired I
ran WORD on a removable cartridge (SyQuest). The drive was repaired and the
data on it was unaltered. However, when I now run WORD from the external
hard drive I often get requests to insert the removable cartridge. These
requests appear whenever an operation calls for the SFDB (or WORD's Find
File command). It would appear that WORD wrote some paths to this removable
cartridge while the external hard drive was absent. Now that it has
returned I would like things to return to the way they were. I have
replaced the Preferences and Extensions (I believe to be associated with MS
WORD) with copies the in use prior to the repair. I have also rebuilt the
desktop, zapped the PRAM, etc. Can anyone point me towards where these
paths might be written or otherwise suggest a fix. I'd rather not reinstall
MS WORD if I can avoid it.
TIA
pjpaul@dorsai.org << Peter J. Paul >>
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:27:51 -0400
From: "Mike" <mike1455@wco.com>
Subject: New Virus?
Any ideas why the alert sound on my mac sound continuasly for no reason.
Also, as it does this, the menu bar flashes. I checked to make sure it
wasn't the clock chimes. It's starting to get real annoying. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. You can contact me at mike1455@wco.com
Thanks.
--
Mike Y.
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 07:13:05 -0800
From: Isle <isle@ihug.co.nz>
Subject: Norton's Fastback
I have a simple requirement of Norton's (3.2) Fastback, but can't seem to
find the configuration to do it. It is: I wish to backup from hard disk to
floppy "Files Is Choose" (two folders) on a weekday schedule. I can do it
once, but for all subsequent scheduled events it backs up both folders in
their entirety, not just the ones that have changed in the intervening
period. I have tried changing the configuration to "all changed files" but
that reverts to a full hard disk default- an overkill, because I am still
wanting only to change a couple of folders. Can anyone help?
Mike Isle.
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:48:40 -0400
From: "cesar" <cesar@lava.net>
Subject: Pointer Freezes
I want to thank all of you who responded to my request for help.
I received a number of suggestions and am attempting to apply them.
I narrowed things down a bit. The main difficulty I was having
was my pointer freezes occasionally on startups. That hasn't
happened for awhile and I'm not sure what I may have done to stop
that; however, It still happens whenever I try to open some
attachments I received recently. They are all in Microsoft Word
and were sent by someone who I know uses a PC, so they have to be
automatically converted. Sometimes I can read a message flashed at
the bottom of my screen just before the system crashes which mentions
Fast Save. I used my Find File to look for an extension or control
panel with that name, thinking I might need to increase its memory,
but no luck.
One thing I've learned so far is that a LOT of things can cause
your pointer to freeze.
Aloha,
Ed Cesar
cesar@lava.net
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:32:41 -0400
From: "cesar" <cesar@lava.net>
Subject: Pointer Freezes
Hi.
I'm having difficulty with frequent pointer freezes sticking in the upper
left hand corner of my screen on startups. Also, sometimes it happens
when I try to scroll down an attached Microsoft Word file.
When I restart it usually clears up for awhile. I've done all the usual
things like checking the mouse cable connection to my keyboard and the
keyboard connection to the CPU, rebuilding my desktop, allocating more
memory to programs I use heavily, and even did a complete clean reinstall
recently. Using Conflict Catcher and disabling half of my extensions
then moving them back, then disabling the other half didn't help me find
the culptit either.
Restarting with extensions off doesn't help because I never know when a
pointer freeze is going to happen.
Funny, I can't seem to find anything about this problem in either "The
Macintosh Bible" or "Macs for Dummies".
I'm sure someone must have experienced this problem, so I would appreciate
any hints about where and what to look for. Are pointer freezes basically
a memory problem or one involving extensions or control panels conflicts?
Should all applications be kept only in my Applications folder? The same
for control panels, extensions and Preferences?
Do duplicates of applications, control panels, extensions or preference
files cause this kind of problem? If so, what is the best way to find
them, use the "Find File" program? What other/better methods are there?
Thanks in advance,
Aloha,
Ed Cesar
cesar@lava.net
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 19:26:49 -0800
From: Mike Blackwell <wcs@pnn.com>
Subject: Seeking advice on Postscript emulators for Epson Stylus 800
The print shop I work for is strongly considering the purchase of an Epson
Color Stylus 800, but it is a QuickDraw-based printer, and most of our work
involves PostScript. Epson wants quite a bit of $$ for its PostScript
interpreter, which isn't even available yet, AFAIK. I also know there are
at least two inexpensive 3rd-party programs (StyleScript and Freedom of
Press) that act as PS interpreters for QD printers. Which of these would
you recommend, and why? Would I be safer with Epson's solution, or does it
matter? Are there other options I haven't considered? (Also, I may find it
is irrelevant, since I have successfully printed moderately complicated
FreeHand documents on my StyleWriter I at home, but I don't think I had any
PS fills or lines in them.)
We have a Power Computing Power100, 40 MB RAM, 1 gig HD, 7.5.3. Our primary
applications are FreeHand 7.0, Photoshop 3.05, and Word 5.1a.
Less-frequently used apps include PageMaker 5 and 6, QuarkXpress 3.32
(?-whatever the current version is), ReadySetGo 6.0, and Extreme3D.
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Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 14:41:09 -0400
From: 37a6pni@cmich.edu (John Dinan)
Subject: SIMM Question
I just got a 32 meg SIMM to increase the memory in my Performa 5300CD.
Unfortunately, there was no info for how to do it. I don't mind pulling
the logic board and messing around--I put in a new internal modem awhile
ago--as long as I have some words and pictures to guide me. Is there a
simple (and net-accessible?) resource available that can guide me through
this process, which I can see will require that I move the current SIMM to
the vacant slot and put the new SIMM in that vacated slot. Thanks in
advance.
John Dinan
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:40:08 -0700
From: Bill Rausch <brausch@owt.com>
Subject: syquest vs zip
We've got several zips and the business next door has several syquest 135s.
They are happy with their purchases and we are happy with ours.
Bill
PS: We used some older Syquests (5.25" format) that we were not so happy with.
Bill Rausch, Mac and Unix User and Programmer, brausch@owt.com
613 Lynnwood Ct, Richland, WA 99352 509-375-5147
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 07:47:14 -0400
From: "Andrew Cohen" <cohan02@cai.com>
Subject: System 7.6 and 32bit
>*I* knew about the change! I think it was discussed in the Mac media
>and by Apple. Any time you upgrade your OS you should check to see if
>it supports your hardware - that's just computer common sense in my
>opinion. It certainly was not a "sneaky" change. I can't comment on
>Apple's phone support since I have never needed to use it.
>
>Eloise Kleban
As far as common sense goes, and what you've implied, perhaps you
didn't use yours when you read my post. The computer I mentioned IS
supported, as I checked first. That was never the issue. The Apple-
produced card within the computer is no longer supported, and that
change was not advertised; I call that _sneaky_.
*You* are entitled to your opinion as am I. The difference is that I
do not "think" anything was openly discussed anywhere at anytime where
a general end-user would have been made aware of this, and from the
emails I've received, I am not alone. If the authors give me
permission to quote them, I will.
The mention of this change was written into a tech note, and if this was
so clearly communicated and documented by Mac media and by Apple, then
there wouldn't be a need for the technote to begin with.
Personally, I don't think you took the time to think about what I
wrote about. Perhaps you're confusing the reference to the claim that
the Modern Memory Manager is always enabled on the PPC. Whatever the
case, I invite you to backup your claim by quoting what you read, the
source, and the date of publication/release so you can have a real
shot at taking the wind out of my sails. While you're at it, perhaps
you'll explain why those expensive Workgroup servers fail to boot,
showing "Bluets and Granola" instead of system 7.6 since that's
apparently memory-manager related. Didn't you hear about that too?
(Sorry about the bandwidth moderators, but this was required)
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:25:24 -0700
From: Pretoris@cris.com
Subject: What setting?
On the back of my PowerMac 7500/100 is a switch with 115 and 230 on it. I
think it has something to do with the power coming in but I dont know what
to set it to. I live in Colorado, if that will help. I've heard that the
power coming out of a wall socket is differnt depending on where you live.
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