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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 06 May 97 Volume 15 : Issue 80
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#378/05-May-97
(Q) Opinions about greeting card making applications?
(Q) Problem with NetPresenz
[A] Explorer for Mac?
Browser for Plus
How much $$ to expect for PB 500-series 8MB SIMM?
Info-Mac Digest V15 #72
Info-Mac Digest V15 #74
Printing to large format HP printers...
Q700 freezes 2nd disconnect from ISP
The Info-Mac Digest V15 Issue 68
Time server for Macintosh
Video editing
Who makes logo fonts?
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Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 01:04:11 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#378/05-May-97
TidBITS#378/05-May-97
Perhaps it was our use of the word "wax" in a headline. Last week's "Sex
Wax Your Browser" article prompted several reader suggestions, so this week
we're baring all to share more techniques for making Web browsing easier.
We've also got a detailed summary of why no one walked away with 100,000
Swedish kronors in the Crack A Mac challenge, information on the rapidly
multiplying Mac OS clone market, and news of two applications that don't
mind pushing you around.
Topics:
MailBITS/05-May-97
Crowds of Clones
Even Sexier Wax for Your Browser
The Crack A Mac Story
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-378.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#378_05-May-97.etx>
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-378.etx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 08:51:50 -0700
From: Mark Allen <Mark.Allen@jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: (Q) Opinions about greeting card making applications?
I would appreciate hearing from people with experience using greeting card
preparation applications on a Mac. Comments/opinions/recommendations/etc.
welcome! In particular, I'm looking for input on Broderbund PrintShop for
the Mac and Mindscape PrintMaster Gold for the Mac.
Thanks in advance!
Mark Allen
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Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 08:52:15 -0700
From: Mark Allen <Mark.Allen@jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: (Q) Problem with NetPresenz
I am running NetPresenz 4.1 on a Power Mac 7500 (MacOS 7.6, Open Transport
1.1.1) for the purpose of my Mac acting as an ftp server. I have File
Sharing on and the ftp service activated. I use Fetch as my ftp client to
test my configuration.
I've followed the directions in "NetPresenz Quick Start" to turn off
sharing of my main hard disk. I enabled sharing of the "Public" folder (and
its contents) on my hard disk, with owner having full access and everyone
else having read-only access. In NetPresenz Setup, I gave owner full
privileges and enabled remote mounting. Users and guests were only given
read access and remote mounting was disabled.
What works:
Those coming in via anonymous ftp or as guests through AppleShare can get
to my Public folder and copy files. Coming in as the registered owner using
AppleShare, I can transfer files to and from any folder on my Mac. Using
ftp, I can transfer files from any folder.
What doesn't work:
What I can't do is transfer a file to my Mac when logged in as the owner. I
get the Fetch alert message: "Server response: That command has been
disabled at this site." BTW I did not have this problem with the previous
version of NetPresenz (although I may have not gotten everything set up
right when I installed this latest version).
Does anyone have experience with NetPresenz 4.1 and have some idea what I
am doing wrong?
Thanks!
Mark Allen
P.S. I tried emailing my question to support@stairways.com, but never got
any response. Is that the correct address for getting support on
NetPresenz? Has anyone had luck in getting a response from those folks?
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Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 11:40:14 +0200
From: Peter Peldan <peldan@vanosf.physto.se>
Subject: [A] Explorer for Mac?
> I was wondering if there is a program like the Win95 Explorer (utility
> fthat displays the hard disk tree) for the mac.
> I would appreciate any hint.
> Thank's,Marco.
Marco: How about the Finder? Just set the option "show in alphabetically
order" and flip the small triangles in front of your folders.
Peter
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 20:51:07 +0000
From: Christopher Adams <cadams@edprint.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Browser for Plus
Paul Brians <brians@mail.wsu.edu> asked:
>I need to run a Web browser on an old Plus with 4.5 megs of RAM, running
>System 7.0, just to check html that I'm writing on it...
>... I remember hearing about some
>low-level browser that would run eating less RAM than Netscape, etc. Where
>can I get a suitable tool.
Try MacWeb, either version 1.x or 2.0. The former is faster, but knows less
HTML than 2.0. Version 2.0, however, can be slow, and has a couple of
problems on b&w Macs. See this URL for more info and download links:
<http://www.edprint.demon.co.uk/se/macweb.html>
>Recommendations for other early versions of
>things like Newswatcher, etc. would be welcome too: just remember the
>highest priority is saving disk space and RAM.
This file describes what works on 68000 macs like the Plus, and provides
links:
<http://www.walli.uwasa.fi/~mhaveri/68000.txt>
Check also mac-internet-faq at:
<http://www.walli.uwasa.fi/~mhaveri/mac-internet-faq.txt>
---
Chris Adams, Birmingham, UK
The Mac SE Support Pages http://www.edprint.demon.co.uk/se/
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 22:41:31 -0800
From: Mike Blackwell <wcs@pnn.com>
Subject: How much $$ to expect for PB 500-series 8MB SIMM?
I just upgraded my PB 540 from 12 megs to 40 megs, and from a 68040
processor to a NUpowr 167MHz PPC with 8MB on-board. Newer Technologies will
give me an $80 rebate for the 68040 board, and the tech who installed the
upgrade said that if they offer me $20-25 for the original 8MB SIMM as well
(I haven't asked yet), I should take it. Is that reasonable? Failing that,
I'll entertain reasonable offers from you folks. :)
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Date: 4 May 97 23:33:09 -0600
From: "Gordon Watts (Info-Mac Moderator)" <gordon@info-mac.org>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #72
On Wed, Apr 30, 1997 12:00 AM, Jonathan Rynd <mailto:jrr7@cornell.edu>
wrote:
> What in the world? We don't need get rich quick schemes here!
> Moderators, what's going on?
>
> --
> "Ethical Relativity: The exact same universal laws are always true,
> and apply to you no matter what your frame of reference is."
>
>
>
I, uh, screwed up. Sorry. -Gordon
--
Gordon Watts, Info-Mac Moderator (gordon@info-mac.org)
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 11:19:06 -0600
From: "Dennis L. Davis" <dldavis@midusa.net>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #74
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:54:55 -0500
> From: "Derek Phillips" <derek@sannet.or.jp>
> Subject: Endangered Species?
>
> I'm the owner of MacTools (pre MacTools Pro) and was wondering if Norton
> Utilities was now the only game in town for diagnostics and repair. I know
> that Symantec 'absorbed' MacTools but I don't know of any competition that
> has arisen to give users a choice for their money. Can anyone out there
> guide me? I feel that I'm falling behind the times but I'm just not sure
> that Norton Utilities is the future. Perhaps it is and I'm uncecessarily
> concerned.
>
> One other point. With my MacTools, I am unable to make an Emergency Disk
> because I get the message that there is not enough space on a 1.4mb floppy.
> I run 7.5.3 on an LC520 with 20 mb Ram.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Derek
I have MacTools 1.1 and it says use Installer or DiskFix to create the
Emergency Disk have you tried either of those? BTW, I took the side grade
to Norton.
Blessings Denny
dldavis@midusa.net
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Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 01:04:03 -0600
From: "Gordon Watts (Brown University)" <gwatts@FNAL.GOV>
Subject: Printing to large format HP printers...
Hi all,
I've got a rather large poster I would like to print out. At work we have
a number of large format HP printers (they use HPGL, not postscript).
Unfortunately, the HP site doesn't have drivers for the Mac for these guys:
just unix and windows. :( Any ideas how to do it?
Cheers,
Gordon.
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 08:16:58 -0400
From: timchi@taconic.net
Subject: Q700 freezes 2nd disconnect from ISP
Hello and TIA,
My Q700 freezes on the second disconnect from the ISP. This has happened
w/ Sys 7.5.3 through 7.6.
I mistakenly went to 7.6 and can't seem to go back to Classical Networking.
Under CN and Sys 7.5.3 the problem was much less. Now w/ 7.6 and OT1.1.2
it's as bad as ever. 1've upgraded FreePPP, reinstalled, used Apple System
extensions only, etc. Now have 2.5v3. No relief!
It occurs whether I use the Control Strip, Menu or FreePPP Setup directly
via an alias.
TIA
Tim Chi
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Date: 4 May 97 23:53:13 -0600
From: "Gordon Watts (Info-Mac Moderator)" <gordon@info-mac.org>
Subject: The Info-Mac Digest V15 Issue 68
On Fri, May 2, 1997 1:01 AM, Daitaro Hagihara
<mailto:daiyanh@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Please forward your digests to the designated mirror sites. I'm not
> getting a thing. And many thanks.
>
> Daitaro Hagihara
>
>
>
>
Sorry -- I've not had time to put those parts of the scripts in place They
are comming soon. And none will be lost (I'm saving them!).
Cheers,
Gordon.
--
Gordon Watts, Info-Mac Moderator (gordon@info-mac.org)
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 23:01:49 +0200
From: "Johannes la Poutre'" <J.Q.la.Poutre@Inter.NL.net>
Subject: Time server for Macintosh
>
>I am looking for Macintosh time server program which can be used as local
>source of time (with NTP use).
Maybe you should check out Daemon100 in the archives. I used it for testing
finger, and it worked OK. Quoting from the documentation of Daemon:
Daemon v1.0.1 =A9 1993 Peter N Lewis.
=2E..
This program is free for any use.
Daemon is a general TCP server, implementing several simple unix daemons,
namely Finger, Whois, Ident, Daytime and NTP (time). It runs as a
background only application, and answers queries to those services.
=2E..
Regards, Joe.
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Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:37:46 +0900
From: ts@path.or.jp (Tim Selander)
Subject: Video editing
I'm afraid I'm one of those professionals who knows mostly the high-end
stuff, but...
Exactly how big a budget do you have? Apple and Avid have a slick video
editing set up that's sold as the Performa 6400 with the Avid Cinema
card installed. Everything you need for about $2000. The picture quality
is (this is subjective) about as good as a one generation VHS dub.
Advantages included transition effects, titling and audio editing.
Disadvantage is that you've got room for about 20 minutes of video (if I
remember right). Getting more than that means buying more hard disk
space.
If you've got less budget than that, there is at least one product I've
seen advertised that turns your Mac into a editing controller. However,
if your wife wasn't happy with the frame accuracy of the Canon
controller, I can't see how this would do much better. I can't recall
the name of this software off the top of my head, but it's widely
advertized in MacWareHouse, MacMall, etc. If you can't find it, email me
and I'll look in one of my old catalogs. If my memory serves me
rightly, it was about $150.
Good luck.
Tim Selander
Pacific Broadcasting
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Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 11:10:56 -0500
From: gibhenry@realpeople.com (Gib Henry, Real People)
Subject: Who makes logo fonts?
I'm looking for someone to turn my EPS logo into a font. If you know of =
someone who does a good job, please e-mail me directly, and I'll summarize =
to the list. Thanks! Cheers,
--
Gib=
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