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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 25 Jun 97 Volume 15 : Issue 125
Today's Topics:
[A] Older Macs - MacUser serial port misinformation?
[Q] Advice on buying new mac
[Q] HP DeskWriter Upgrade to DeskWriter C?
Application to log keystrokes?
assigning an IP address to a printer
Blank PDF Pages
canon printer
Info-Mac Digest V15 #123
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It's my mom's fault
PB5300 sleeping problem - need your help, please!
Photoshop 4.01 Bus Exception Error
Type 11 errors
Using ARNS (q)
Zip drive hangs system on copy
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:11:13 -0800
From: kee nethery <kee@kagi.com>
Subject: [A] 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?
Gee, I guess that means that you cannot run 230.4 KBps LocalTalk on the Mac
serial ports because they only go up to 9600 baud? :-)
Even the MacXL (aka the Lisa) has serial ports that handle speeds up to
230.4 Kbps. Certainly the Mac512K and up will do LocalTalk speeds on the
serial port (230.4 Kbps). With hardware that has built in clocking
(FlashTalk, DaynaTalk, and various other serial devices) most Mac serial
ports will go to 1 Mbps. MacUser is absolutely wrong on this. Probably
written by a PC techie who is used to swapping serial port chips on PC to
get them to operate reliably at 9.6 Kbps.
Kee Nethery
Kagi
>
>John Seboldt
>rohrwerk@pconline.com
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:14:29 -0800
From: Wagner Truppel <wtruppel@uci.edu>
Subject: [Q] Advice on buying new mac
Howdy,
I'm considering buying a new mac between now and early September and
I was hoping the wise among you could give me some advice. I have my
eyes on the PowerMacs 6500, 7300, 8600, and on the PowerComputing
PowerCenter Pro 180 and 210. Any experiences, good or bad, that
anyone can tell me? Any obvious choice among these systems? Are
prices expected to go down between now and September? Is the 604e
much better than the 603e?
I checked the MacUser ratings and the PowerCenter systems seem to be
considerably better than the 7300. As for the others, MacUser didn't
have any entries for the 6500 or the 8600, so I don't have much info
to base my choice on.
Also, I really like the 15 inch monitor that Apple stopped making and
I despise the new one, with the speakers on the side, because it
takes way too much space with something that IMHO doesn't belong in a
monitor. On the other hand, the 17 inch that looks like the old 15
inch is too large and expensive for me. Can anybody suggest a good 15
inch monitor?
Any advice is well appreciated.
Please respond directly to me.
Thanks a bunch.
Wagner Truppel
wtruppel@uci.edu
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:05:34 -0400
From: Keith E Gatling <kgatling@ican.net>
Subject: [Q] HP DeskWriter Upgrade to DeskWriter C?
After mentioning that we were thinking about buying a color printer sometime
in the near future, and that I seemed to remember seeing something about the
HP DeskWriter being upgradable to a DeskWriter C, a friend of ours gave us
her old one that she never uses.
So now, the big question is, is/was it really upgradable to a DeskWriter C,
and if so, how do I go about doing it?
Thanks!
keg
* mailto://kgatling@ican.net http://www.rochester.ican.net/~kgatling *
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:23:14 -0700
From: Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman)
Subject: Application to log keystrokes?
> From: refried@email.unc.edu (Howard M. Fried)
>
> Anyone know of an application, preferably an init, that can keep track of
> every keystroke and write the information, periodically, to a file?
SpellCatcher, from Cassady & Greene (sp?) does this. It creates different
files for each app you run, so you don't get your keystrokes confused. It
has saved my butt on more than one crash!
Note that this is in addition to its full-time job of interactive spelling
correction. Great product at a good price!
: Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com>
: Bytesmiths <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
: Java, the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of Smalltalk.
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:55:27 -0700
From: "David L. Hirschberg" <daneel@stanford.edu>
Subject: assigning an IP address to a printer
Hello,
We have a Apple laserwriter 640/12 that is connected to ethernet. I
noticed in the set up menu of the utilities program that there is an option
for giving the laser printer it's own IP address. What are the advantages
of doing this?
We have another lab in Israel and it would be nice if they could print
directly to out printer here. How would they do that. If a postscript
file was sent to Ourlaserprinter@our.ip.address would it work? Are there
chooser print drivers that can send a file to a IP address?
-David
daneel@stanford.edu
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:47:51 -0600 (MDT)
From: "M. K. Ohlson" <ohlsonm@mscd.edu>
Subject: Blank PDF Pages
A belated thanks to those who responded to my request for help. I tried
all suggestions but, unhappily, none worked. I wrote to Adobe over one
month ago. No response. I assume Adobe demands I pay them $25 before
they will tell me what's wrong with their program.
I sometimes get an error message which tells me Acrobat had difficulty
opening the document. The number 114 appears which I assume to be the
error number. Anyone know what that means? TIA
M. K. Ohlson
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:59:00 -0600
From: Charles Stang <stang@muhs.edu>
Subject: canon printer
I have a canon bubble-jet printer (BJ-100) that I would like to connect to
a Mac. Anyone know if there is software available that would enable me to
do this? Also a cable to connect it?
Charles Stang
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 18:28:08 -0600
From: Robert Poland <rpoland@usa.net>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #123
I have a Mac Plus (System 7.5.5) and a PPC 6100 (System 7.6.1) networked
together with PhoneNet connectors. Around the time I upgraded to System
7.6.1 on the PPC, file sharing quit working. I can still access the PPC
from the Mac Plus but not vice versa. I have run out of ideas, any
suggestions?
Bob Poland
rpoland@usa.net
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:56:02 -0400
From: samp@tiac.net (John Samp)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #123
The Canon BC-02 is the correct cartridge for the StyleWriter I, II, and
1200 printers. I think it may also fit the Stylewriter 1500 and many of
the newer Color StyleWriters.
John Samp
samp@tiac.net
> 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: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:26:08 -0400
From: Adrian Gudas <bluefire@iname.com>
Subject: It's my mom's fault
Greetings.
I tried to upgrade the system software on my mom's LC II. I got to the
Tidbits disk, and it said, "Disk Error -- installation cannot proceed."
Great. Well, I restarted the computer and was shocked to see that sad
mac icon. Better still, the old Install 1 disk doesn't work at all, and
neither does any of my other startup disks. Is there any way I can
download System 7.1 from the net (or System 7.0)? (I know I can from
Apple's server, but I really do need 7.1 anyway -- that's what I was
trying to upgrade to.) Can I get a bunch of old startup disks from a
retailer? Is there any way to do it SOON, before my mom breaks another
one of my few remaining limbs?
Thanks for any help
Adrian
bluefire@iname.com
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:02:04 -0700
From: av639@lafn.org (David Sun)
Subject: PB5300 sleeping problem - need your help, please!
Hi,
Does anyone have a good explanation for the following behavior on a
PowerBook 5300:
Whenever my PB goes to automatic sleep mode due to low battery (after the
3rd warning, not due to user-induced type of sleep), it cannot be awaken
again unless I hit either the restart button in the back or the power
button on the keyboard, even if I plug in the power adaptor right after the
PB goes to automatic sleep (the green light on the lid of the screen would
not flash as it usually would in a normal (user-induced) sleep and there is
also a clicking sound coming from the speaker right when I plug in the
adaptor). All the system settings, however, were unaffected by it after
the PB is in effect "restarted".
My experience with older PowerBooks is that even if the PB goes into an
automatic low-battery sleep, it can be awaken by pressing any key after the
power adaptor is plugged in and the content of the RAM prior to sleep is
preserved. The PB5300 instruction manual even boasts that the content of
the RAM could be preserved for up to 1 day after it goes to sleep. Chapter
6, pg 72.
This particular problem had been checked out by an authorized Apple service
center (who in turn sent the PB to Apple) and it had the following parts
replaced with no avail:
Power adaptor, logic board, REA top/bottom case kit, & internal battery.
(luckily it is still under Apple Warranty!)
I'm hesitant to bring this unit back to the service center again since I've
already made at least 5 separate trips to have them service the PB (each
time a different part was replaced) and I really doubt the problem could be
fixed by them or Apple without further guidance from someone with more
intelligence.
I'm hoping a PB user with similar experience could shed some light on this
problem so that the next time I bring the PB to the service center I could
"instruct" them to make the "correct" repairs.
Please reply directly to: av639@lafn.org Thanks in advance.
David "the frustrated"
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:33:54 -0700
From: Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman)
Subject: Photoshop 4.01 Bus Exception Error
> From: tina wright <tina@call-us.demon.co.uk>
>
> 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...
>
> 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...
Has it *ever* worked right in this configuration, or is this a new
configuration?
I found out the hard way that scanner drivers don't understand multiple
SCSI busses. Your 8100 actually has two SCSI busses -- an internal one and
an external one. I had the damnest time with my new Epson Expression 636 on
both an 8100 and a 9500, because the scanner comes set to SCSI address 2,
and both machines had an internal device at address 2. THIS IS A BUG IN THE
SCANNER DRIVER, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS!!!
I wouldn't have figured it out, except I had to remove the extra internal
disk from the 8100 for an unrelated reason, AND THE SCANNER SUDDENLY BEGAN
WORKING!
So check to see if your scanner has the same address as an internal device.
If that doesn't work, play the normal SCSI games -- use different cables,
terminators, etc.
Good luck!
: Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com>
: Bytesmiths <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
: Java, the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of Smalltalk.
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 21:37:54 -0500
From: Lanny Chambers <lanny@derived.com>
Subject: Type 11 errors
On 6/24/97 03:31, Info-Mac (info-mac@starnine.com) wrote:
>I have a user with a PowerMac 8100/80 with 40mb RAM and two external third
>party drives formatted with Anubis 2.54 (SCSI 4.3 compliant), running
>system 7.5.5 who frequently gets type 11 errors. By frequently I mean once
>every hour or even more often. They can occur when switching between
>applications using the application menu (typically only running word 5.1,
>Eudora 1.5.1, Netscape 3.0.1). This morning it happened in this way and
>flagged up a Microsoft Word error. He also runs some image processing
>software but not multi tasking due to these type 11 errors. He has
>abandoned virtual memory as it only made matters worse.
>
>I have tried reinstalling a clean system, reformatting drives etc but still
>the errors keep coming. He has similar set up at home but seldom if ever
>gets any errors at all. The finder heap is set to 256K using finder heap
>fix
>
>Is this a hardware or system software problem? Or could it be application
>software? Could something be loose?
In my experience (limited to first-gen Power Macs) most Type 11s are
caused by marginal SCSI chains. My own 6100/60, one of the very first
ones, bombed every day until I bought an APS SCSI Sentry II, subsequently
replaced by an APS external HD with the same active termination built in.
That reduced Type 11 bombs to one or two per week.
Then, I ruthlessly trashed nonessential extensions, including anything
with "Now" or "Doubler" in its filename. That cut them back to one every
two weeks. (The latest CopyDoubler and RAM Doubler 2 seem fine, though.)
The only menu-enhancing gizmos I trust are OtherMenu, Type Reunion, and
the clock built into System 7.6.
System 7.5.5 has to be upgraded very methodically from 7.5.0 to get a
reliable OS; the proper procedure is well documented on MacInTouch and
MacFixit; sacrifice of goats is optional, but for many it works better
than chickens <grin>. I installed 7.6 when it shipped, and only had two
bombs total before 7.6.1 arrived, which I installed immediately. Of
course, 7.6.1 generally doesn't have Type 11 errors--instead, an
offending application (Netscape 3.0 is the only one I've seen so far)
merely disappears suddenly without freezing the computer or forcing a
restart.
My 6100 is now essentially 100% crash free, to the point that I'm loathe
to consider replacing it with a faster Mac. After all, raw CPU speed is
worthless when it's not capable of useful work--remember the turtle and
the hare? I'm in and out of Photoshop, Netscape, Illustrator, and the
usual slew of Internet clients continuously all day long, usually with at
least half a dozen apps open at once, often pushing the limits of my 40
MB of physical RAM plus the 1.5X boost from RAM Doubler. According to
Symbionts, I'm only (!) runnimg 50 extensions. IOW, I'm hardly babying my
computer--indeed, I'm usually pushing it to the limit.
FWIW, I've always used the latest APS PowerTools disk drivers, now at
v4.1. I heartily recommend 7.6.1 to any Power Mac user; with 7.6.1 and my
256k L2 cache, MacBench now reports CPU performance as 140% of an
original 6100 running 7.1.2.
All that said, it's certainly possible that there's actually a hardware
problem. Try carefully reseating the SIMMs and all connectors. Try
removing any external SCSI devices. Use a surge protector. But I doubt
hardware is the cause.
Lanny Chambers (lanny@derived.com) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page: <http://www.derived.com/hummers>
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:04:56 -0700
From: "David L. Hirschberg" <daneel@stanford.edu>
Subject: Using ARNS (q)
Is anyone out there using ARNS? It is a program that allows tunneling of
appletalk. I do not think that it has been updated in a while. Does it
work with open transport/system 7.6 etc...
--David
daneel@stanford.edu
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:41:59 +0100
From: Ephraim Fithian <fithian@epix.net>
Subject: Zip drive hangs system on copy
>Copying files to a Zip cartridge is causing my system to hang up. The
>finder window shows the copy to be started, it reads the source then as
>it is writing to the Zip, it just stops. The yellow light stays on, the
>finder reports "writing to [name of Zip cartridge]" and nothing happens.
>This usually happens on larger files or folders. Though it can happen
>from time to time with tiny files. There's no way out other than
>"control+commmand+shutdown." (I've tried "command+option+escape" with
>no luck.) I'm running 7.6.1, Iomega Driver 5.0.3 (comes with the 7.6.1.
>CD) on a 7300/200. Any Clues??
I installed 7.6.1 and IOM 5.0.3 on my Quadra 700. My Zip drive is one of
the early ones and came with older software drivers and formatting
software. This new driver evidently only works with Zips that come with the
newer Macs. I could not format a zip disc with the new driver, since the
old formatting software wanted the old driver, and it told me so.
Try formatting a new or old zip disk with 5.0.3 and you may find the same
result. If so, switch back to the old driver. It still works fine.
Ephraim Fithian <fithian@epix.net> http://www.epix.net/~fithian
700/25MHz/69MB/1GB/2VRam/17se2/GV33.6/ZIP/CD12/CSWP-PS/Epson C800
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