Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #107 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest 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 The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, iam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. 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We'd also like to thank AOL, who has supplied the hardware the main info-mac machine runs on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #107" ------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------ 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 . 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] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 17:47:41 +0100 From: "J. Eickhoff" 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 06:16:11 -0700 From: "David L. Ellis" 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 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1956 21:37:10 +0000 From: Travis Pohl 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jun 97 16:28:39 -0500 From: "Brett L. Nordby" 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! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 09:59:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. K. Ohlson" 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:33:12 -0600 From: Stan Miekicki 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:12:52 +0100 (BST) From: Lloyd Wood Subject: kaleidoscope request On 1 Jun 97 "A BRODY" 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: or look at preview screenshots before downloading at either MacOver: or at the couple-of-weeks-old new 'official' Kaleidoscope scheme archive: > 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. +44-1483-300800x3435 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 14:58:47 -0500 From: Chaz Larson 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:29:35 -0400 From: "Paul J. Schinder" Subject: Quickdraw 3D }Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 17:09:27 +0000 }From: Paul Bayol }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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 11:33:21 +0200 From: Eric Toonen 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 -- --- 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) ------------------------------ Date: 4 Jun 1997 12:56:00 U From: "Daniel Milligan" 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" >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? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 22:25:13 -0500 From: Ron Bolinger 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 ------------------------------ 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 -- Flatus Antiquatus-Mac ManiAddict -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************