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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 05 Jun 97 Volume 15 : Issue 107
Today's Topics:
[*] Page! - For wannabe numerical pagers
[*] ProCon 1.0
(Q) base64 format
[Q] Networking with Ethernet
A wrestling simulator
Annoying Menu Bar Delay
Blank PDF pages
Can't Select Printer from Chooser
kaleidoscope request
Mac TV
more on audio glitch
Quickdraw 3D
Reading Ragtime documents
Virtual PC
Word 6.01 macro for downloads??
ZIP is ZAPPED
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:04:26 -0700
From: Ian@3DRealities.com
Subject: [*] Page! - For wannabe numerical pagers
Page! 1.5b1
May22, 1997
-Information:
This wonderful utility will accept numerics and text (text is changed into
numerics using "pager-code") then send the message to any pager. It will
also store your favorite pager numbers.
-Requirements:
* Applescript installed
* Tokenize OSAX
* Z-Term 1.0.1
* A Macintosh
* For the script to work, the user must, in addition to the other requirements,
also have the "Menu Events" scripting suite.
More information is enclosed in the archive.
This application is emailware, let me know what you think!
Ian White
Ian@3DRealities.com
Business: http://www.3DRealities.com
Personal: http://lincoln.sjusd.k12.ca.us/usr/iwhite/
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/page-15b1.hqx; 23K]
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:04:27 -0700
From: cbuxton@mail.geocities.com
Subject: [*] ProCon 1.0
PROcess CONtrol
ProCon is a simple cgi that gives you web-based control of the processes
(applications) running on your server.
Server Requirements:
1) The scriptable Finder, which is included in System 7.5 and later,
and is available for some earlier systems. 2) Parse CGI OSAX,
shareware which is available at
<http://marquis.tiac.net/software/parse-cgi.html>. This must be
installed in the Scripting Additions folder (in the Extensions folder).
3) WebSTAR, Quid Pro Quo, or other webserver that follows the WebSTAR
cgi standard.
The browser used must support tables.
For more information, please read the ReadMe.
Thanks,
Chris Buxton
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/cgi/procon-10.hqx; 19K]
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 17:47:41 +0100
From: "J. Eickhoff" <eickhoff@spacediv.dofn.de>
Subject: (Q) base64 format
Hello Netters,
I got a mail with a document attached, which is encoded in base64,
whatever that is.
Anyone knowing a program to undecode this format? Seems to be a PC
format.
TIA Jens
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 06:16:11 -0700
From: "David L. Ellis" <dellis@halcyon.com>
Subject: [Q] Networking with Ethernet
Hello,
I had two Mac's with Ethernet here yesterday, and I needed to connect them
to transfer some files. Using AppleTalk is quite slow, so I thought I'd
just use the ethernet cable, it would be fast. But, alas, I couldn't get it
to work. So my question is simple: How would one connect two machines for
file sharing using ethernet?
Thanks,
David L. Ellis
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1956 21:37:10 +0000
From: Travis Pohl <travtera@hotmail.com>
Subject: A wrestling simulator
I was just wondering if anyone knew of a shareware or commercial game
that simulated Pro Wrestling matches for the Macintosh. If you know of
one send me the file or the location where I can find it. My E-Mail
address is travtera@hotmail.com, any help is very much appreciated,
thank you.
Travis Pohl
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 97 16:28:39 -0500
From: "Brett L. Nordby" <bnordby@athena.valpo.edu>
Subject: Annoying Menu Bar Delay
Every since one of the System 7.5 updates came out there has been an
annoying menu bar delay. When clicking on the menu bar (any menu) there
is a discernible .5 second delay. This seems minor, but because I access
the menu bar so much (sometimes over a dozen times a minute) that delay
ads up to almost an hour each day!
Does anyone know of any patch or system utility that can get rid of this
annoying delay? Thanks!
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 09:59:03 -0600 (MDT)
From: "M. K. Ohlson" <ohlsonm@mscd.edu>
Subject: Blank PDF pages
I need to use documents from Internal Revenue and the General Accounting
Office, both in PDF. In every case, when I try to open them with Adobe
Acrobat Reader the correct number of pages are there but they are all
blank. I have tried two different versions of ATM and Acrobat reader, all
with the same result.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
M. K. Ohlson
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:33:12 -0600
From: Stan Miekicki <smieki19@idt.net>
Subject: Can't Select Printer from Chooser
I have a small local talk network set up, consisting of a Mac LC III, an
LC 580, a Mac SE and a Personal LaserWriter 320. Apple
Talk and file sharing are turned on and the computers can share data.
However, I cannot print because I cannot select a printer in the
Chooser.
No matter which computer I'm on, when I open the Chooser and select a
printer icon from the left side, nothing appears on the right side of
the window: I do not get a printer name to select. And, of course,
when I try to print from this configuration, I receive an error message
stating that the printer could not be found.
I've tried re-loading printer drivers and even replacing the system
software without success.
Any ideas what's causing this and how I might correct things?
Thanks in advance for any information.
Stan Miekicki
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:12:52 +0100 (BST)
From: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
Subject: kaleidoscope request
On 1 Jun 97 "A BRODY" <abrody1@mail.ameritel.net> writes:
> Anybody tried all the Kaleidoscope themes?
Yes. (Well, most of them, including the recent MacUser contest I
helped judge.)
> With all the themes out there isn't it time the people who posted
> themes gave a fuller description of the theme?
This is what the web is for - just take a look at gifs showing
previews.
Either wander round the authors' own scheme web pages and see their
own previews and descriptions from the metaindex at the Kaleidoscope
World:
<URL:http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/kaleidoscope/>
or look at preview screenshots before downloading at either MacOver:
<URL:http://www.macover.net/kaleidoscope_schemes.shtml>
or at the couple-of-weeks-old new 'official' Kaleidoscope scheme
archive:
<URL:http://www.kaleidoscope.net/schemes/>
> It would be interesting in learning what makes each theme unique
Very few themes are unique. (If you want to create a unique theme,
you'd better go learn WDEF programming...)
> Just saying "please post such and such a theme" doesn't tell the
> potential theme user anything about it.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
L.
<URL:http://www.sat-net.com/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ieee.org>+44-1483-300800x3435
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:44:05 -0500
From: schmitth@pilot.msu.edu (Nick 'SOL' Schmitt)
Subject: Mac TV
Does anyone still have a MacTV?? I'm looking at buying one (for the
nostalge of it) but I'm wondering what kind of input it has. Does it have
it's own tuner? Coax port? Etc.?
Any help (or offers of Mac TVs) would be great. schmitth@pilot.msu.edu
Thanks
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 14:58:47 -0500
From: Chaz Larson <chaz@visi.com>
Subject: more on audio glitch
At 9:29 PM -0400 6/3/97, Eric Jennings wrote:
>>>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.
>I'm not using external speakers. Audio from interactive CD Roms works fine
>through the internal Mac speaker - it is only the Audio CD's which are
>silent. I'm thinking there must be a software fix... I have tried using
>Apple's Audio CD extension as well as HDT's CD extension. Same results.
Ah. This is a hardware cabling issue.
Audio from interactive CDs travels from the CD to the speaker via the
drive's SCSI cable.
Audio from audio CDs comes out of the drive through an entirely different
cable. On the Sony CD-ROM mechanism I have here, the connector is labelled
"Audio Out". There should be a cable [four-wire ribbon cable] running from
that connection on the CD-ROM mechanism to somewhere on your motherboard.
If this cable is missing, disconnected, or bad, then the symptom you
describe will be the result.
I just verified this on my 8100. With an audio CD playing through
headphones connected to the sound-out port, and Audio CD Player happily
counting the track time, I disconnected the audio-out cable on the CD-ROM
drive. The headphones went silent, and Audio CD player kept right on
counting the track time.
Replacing the cable brought back the CD audio sound.
chazl - 6.4.1997 - chaz@visi.com
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:29:35 -0400
From: "Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us>
Subject: Quickdraw 3D
}Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 17:09:27 +0000
}From: Paul Bayol <pwb5@best.com>
}Subject: Quickdraw 3D
}
}Am considering installing Quickdraw 3D (1,6) on my Performa 6360. Are
}there any problems that probably will ensue? Is APPLE still supporting
}it? Is it cool? Would appreciate any feedback at all.
I installed it on my in-laws 6360 and my 6400 with no problems. So far as
I know, Apple is still supporting it. I don't know if it's going to make
it into the Yellow Box. It's moderately cool, and could probably be used
for some really interesting things, but don't expect a great deal from the
stuff installed with it.
--------
Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693
Greenbelt, MD 20770
schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 11:33:21 +0200
From: Eric Toonen <itdept@altrex.nl>
Subject: Reading Ragtime documents
I'm looking for a program that can convert several old Ragtime documents
to any recent format. Someone I know has used Ragtime with her former
employer to edit several texts, and she's having a problem reading them
in other Word Processors.
I tried MacLinkPlus 8.1, but it doesn't recognize them. Does anyone know
of a program that can extract the texts from the documents?
Thanx 10^6
--
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Eric Toonen (itdept@altrex.nl)
Altrex BV
Automatisering
Postbus 23
NL-8070 AA Nunspeet
http://www.altrex.nl
Tel: +31-341-274444 (Mobiel: 06-54912422)
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Date: 4 Jun 1997 12:56:00 U
From: "Daniel Milligan" <daniel_milligan@mac.arris.com>
Subject: Virtual PC
Reply to: RE>Virtual PC
Michael,
The ComputerWare catalog I got in the mail yesterday says it will be available
June 15.
They're on the net at www.macsource.com
Daniel
>Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:46:00 -0400
>From: "Michael S. Silverstein" <michael@phys-server.phys.polymtl.ca>
>Subject: Virtual PC
>Does anyone know when Connectix's Virtual PC will be available in the stores?
>Has anyone formed an opinion on its performance vs. a PC card and vs.
>SoftWindows '95?
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 22:25:13 -0500
From: Ron Bolinger <bolinger@netins.net>
Subject: Word 6.01 macro for downloads??
I like using Word 6.01. But in downloading files from the Internet, I
find it seems to lack a macro or other device for formatting the 'net
file as a Word usable file. Both WordPerfect and Nisus have such macros.
Am I missing something? Can you direct me to a source for such a device?
thanks for your help.
Ron Bolinger
Rockwell, IA
bolinger@netins.net
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 21:06:30 +0000
From: macman@eagleweb.net (Cusumano, Charles)
Subject: ZIP is ZAPPED
Without boring you all, My Zip suddenly stopped loading and showing up
on the desktop. I've done ALL the things that should have brought it
back to life but no go. As far as I know, nothing new has happened since
I success fully used it a week ago to back up my HD (lucky me). Any
hints/tips/ideas no matter how remedial will be welcomed. It never hurts
to hear it again.
TIA
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