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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 29 May 01 Volume 18 : Issue 80
Today's Topics:
[*] Colibricks abstract for version 1.3
[*] Default Folder D-3.1.1 - German Open/Save dialog enhancement
[*] Surfer 1.1
[*] URL Manager Pro for Mac OS X 3.0b11J - Japanese Version
[*] virtual wine cellar 3.2
[*] Wealth Game
[*] Web Confidential for Mac 2.2.2J - Japanese Version
[*] Web Confidential for Mac OS X 3.0b2J - Japanese Version
[*] Web Confidential for Palm 1.2.1J - Japanese Version
[A] Auto start
[A] Reading PC disks on a MAC
adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3
Applescript Problem
Auto Start a Mac
Filemaker advice
Font coloring related print error
Info-Mac Digest V18 #79
Iomega Findit for Macintosh
Movie assembly
Reading PC disks on a MAC
Reading PC disks on a MAC
Reading PC disks on a MAC
screen flicker from nearby equipment
Sorenson video compression supported by web plug-ins?
What's happened to PureMac
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Date: 29 May 2001
From: Michel Colman <michelcolman@mac.com>
To:
Subject: [*] Colibricks abstract for version 1.3
Version 1.3 includes a native version for MacOS X, as well as a version for
classic MacOS.
Colibricks is an exciting brick game for the Macintosh. The goal of the game
is to destroy all bricks using one or more balls. Unlike other brick games,
it features accurate ball behaviour, using very precise physical laws. Balls
bounce off corners correctly, and even bounce with each other. And instead
of boring horizontal grids, Colibricks features rotated bricks, even making
circles and spirals with them. Graphics are antialiased with beautiful
backgrounds.
Of course, it's also a lot of fun. With special kinds of bricks that
activate special effects or spawn prize balloons. Balls can grow or shrink
to any size.
The demo lets you play 6 levels of various difficulties. After registering,
you'll get access to all 50 levels.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/colibricks-13.hqx; 8 K]
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Date: 29 May 2001
From: Jon Gotow <gotow@stclairsoft.com>
To:
Subject: [*] Default Folder D-3.1.1 - German Open/Save dialog enhancement
This is the latest version of Default Folder, localized for
German-speaking users by Christoph Sahm. Default Folder D-3.1.1
should replace any previous German-language versions of Default
Folder in the archives.
Default Folder is a Mac OS 9.1 and OS X Classic savvy control panel
that enhances Open and Save dialog boxes to make it easier for you to
manage files on your Macintosh. It provides many of the essential
features of commercial utilities like Action Files, SuperBoomerang,
and Directory Assistance, but without the infrequently used extras
that take their toll in compatibility, memory, and CPU usage.
In addition, Default Folder fully supports the Navigation Services
Open and Save dialogs available in Mac OS 8.5 and higher, allowing
you to access your recently used and favorite folders everywhere.
What's New
----------
Version 3.1.1 includes compatibility improvements for Adobe Acrobat
5, Photoshop 6.0.1, and Omnis databases. In addition, there are
fixes for cmd-up-arrow not working in Navigation Services dialogs
under Mac OS 8.6, "Click on greyed-out filenames" getting disabled in
Navigation Services save dialogs, and truncated Get Info comments in
Default Folder's Get Info window.
Full details are available at:
<http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolder/revhist.html>
More About Default Folder
-------------------------
Default Folder's time-saving Open and Save dialog enhancements allow you to:
- Set up a default folder for any or all applications.
- Switch among recently used folders from a pop-up menu.
- Easily navigate to your favorite folders.
- Share common sets of recent and favorite folders between all Open and
Save dialogs, including Navigation Services dialogs.
- Click on a Finder window to list its contents in an Open or Save dialog.
- See available disk space and switch between disks from a pop-up menu.
- Open the folder shown in an Open or Save dialog in the Finder.
- Create folders, get information (including changing name, type, and
creator), and move items to the Trash from within file dialogs.
- "Rebound" back to the last file you used.
- Make "Replace" the default option instead of "Cancel" when saving a
file with the same name as an existing file.
********** ABSTRACT CROPPED **********
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/default-folder-311-de.hqx; 1144 K]
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Date: 26 May 2001
From: John Rethorst <jrethorst@post.com>
To:
Subject: [*] Surfer 1.1
Load any number of URLs automatically, some daily and others just on
certain days of the week. Supports any number of sets of bookmarks. Works
with all major browsers. Applescript easy to update for OS X. Free.
New in version 1.1: drop a URL list to load it. Press Command key to change
web browsers.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/surfer-11.hqx; 133 K]
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Date: 25 May 2001
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro for Mac OS X 3.0b11J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the URL Manager Pro on OS X package.
"In the shareware arena, my pick is URL Manager" - Adam C. Engst
"You have got me addicted" - Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle
"A must have for serious Web users" - Tucows rating: 5 out of 5
"It's a polished, professional-standard application packed with useful
features, neat shortcuts and quality design. Brilliant." - MacFormat UK.
URL Manager Pro is a repository for your favorite Internet addresses or
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). URL Manager Pro allows you to organize
and collect URLs in a hierarchical structure. Organizing bookmarks
between and within folders is easy with Drag & Drop. Drag HyperText
links from your Web Browser to the URL Manager Pro window to add a URL
to the repository. To go to a URL, Drag & Drop a bookmark to the window
of a Web Browser or double click.
URL Manager Pro adds tight integration with Navigator, Explorer, iCab,
Anarchie, Fetch, NetFinder, Claris Emailer, Outlook Express and Eudora.
With URL Manager Pro you can add bookmark menus to the menu bar of these
applications. Also, URL Manager Pro adds the URL Manager shared icon
menu to the menu bar. With this menu you can create bookmarks for Web
Pages from --within-- Navigator, Explorer, iCab, Add Notes, Grab All
URLs on a Web Page or in an E-Mail message, and explore the Internet
with a predefined set of Search Engines.
This is a preview version of URL Manager Pro on X. This is not the final release.
Some features are missing or not working correctly:
a) Printing
b) Sherlock support
Requirements: Mac OS X or Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x with CarbonLib 1.1.
However, please use URL Manager Pro 2.x on Mac OS 8 or 9.
Note: this version expires on July 24, 2001
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/urlmpro-osx-30b11-jp.hqx; 1702 K]
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Date: 28 May 2001
From: Info <info@rootsolutions.de>
To:
Subject: [*] virtual wine cellar 3.2
virtual wine cellar 3.2
http://www.rootsolutions.de/vwc/
PPC, OS 8.1 or later (68K version available)
virtual wine cellar helps you track your inventory. It keeps you informed
about stock and history, shows the current value of your wine collection,
keeps track of your suppliers, and gives you the option of ordering directly
from within wine cellar. Order forms can be customized for any language.
Key features:
*intuitive, point and click interface.
*fields for wine name, country, appellation, grape, year, maturity, etc. in
logical grouping.
*summaries for number of bottles, total cost, market value, and
appreciation.
*automatic reminders for wines that reached/passed maturity.
*easy order - order directly from within virtual wine cellar.
*extensive finding and sorting functions.
*displays your own rating both numerically and graphically.
*import function for scanned wine labels.
*optimized print form.
*report function for further editing in your favourite word processor.
*extensive, context-sensitive on-line help.
[Archived as /info-mac/data/virtual-wine-cellar-32.hqx; 2690 K]
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Date: 24 May 2001
From: Harley N Bradley <nomsdos@en.com>
To:
Subject: [*] Wealth Game
This is a game that is fun and entertaining. The idea is to try to
retire a millionaire.
Be careful !!! You might just learn what the rich teach their young
about how easy it
is to develop wealth. The principles are all here in the game. GOOD
LUCK
Harley Bradley
nomsdos@en.com
[Archived as /info-mac/game/wealth.hqx; 1635 K]
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Date: 27 May 2001
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] Web Confidential for Mac 2.2.2J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential for Mac OS package.
Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for
managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like.
While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data,
from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web
Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing
numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points
out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may
registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords
you entered for all of them?"
Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and
passwords in one secure location. Web Confidential can automate the
process of logging into a password-secured Web page by automatically
passing URL, user ID, and password to your Web browser.
For opening pages containing personal account information at commercial
sites, Web Confidential allows you to automatically fill in WWW Forms
with user ID and password fields.
To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains
confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using
state-of-the-art encryption technology.
Changes in version 2.2.2
Included is a new version of the Conduit which fixes the occurrence of
duplicate records, which would appear when synching your handheld with
two different Macs.
These items are new in the application:
*Shortcut Command-Backspace for the Delete Card command.
*Added an 'Encrypt' command to the File menu.
*Minor bug fixes.
*Web Confidential files are now binary-cross platform with the Windows
application.
*Import command. You can import tab delimited text files.
*A new preference to show the passwords as text instead of bullets.
*The Conduit for use with the Palm application has been rewritten to
accomodate the new file format.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/webcon-222-jp.hqx; 1233 K]
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Date: 27 May 2001
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] Web Confidential for Mac OS X 3.0b2J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential for Mac OS X package.
This is the preview (beta) version of the Mac OS X package.
Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for
managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like.
While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data,
from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web
Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing
numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points
out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may
registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords
you entered for all of them?"
Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and
passwords in one secure location. Web Confidential can automate the
process of logging into a password-secured Web page by automatically
passing URL, user ID, and password to your Web browser.
For opening pages containing personal account information at commercial
sites, Web Confidential allows you to automatically fill in WWW Forms
with user ID and password fields.
To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains
confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using
state-of-the-art encryption technology.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/webcon-osx-30b2-jp.hqx; 1690 K]
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Date: 27 May 2001
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] Web Confidential for Palm 1.2.1J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential for Palm OS package (Mac OS version).
"Web Confidential is easy to use, secure, and well-integrated" - Adam C.
Engst, TidBITS (Web Confidential for Mac review)
Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for
managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like.
While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data,
from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web
Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing
numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points
out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may
registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords
you entered for all of them?"
Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and
passwords in one secure location.
To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains
confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using
state-of-the-art encryption technology.
Web Confidential for Palm is a solution to keep your data secure while
you travel with your Palm and need access to your confidential data.
Web Confidential for Palm is supplied with a Macintosh Conduit, so that
you can synchronize your data with your Mac.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/webcon-palm-mac-121-jp.hqx; 419 K]
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:33:39 +0100
From: DssW Support <support@dssw.co.uk>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: [A] Auto start
> Other than the unreliable Energy Saver control panel, is there a way
> to get a G4 to start up and shut down at given times? I currently use
> Sleeper because the Mac Energy Saver won't wake up when the computer
> goes to sleep. However, Sleeper does not have the capability of auto
> start a Mac. Any ideas?
Our product, DssW Power Manager, includes the ability to automatically
start up, shut down, wake up and sleep your Macintosh.
<http://www.dssw.co.uk/powermanager/>
Yours sincerely,
DssW Support
--
support@dssw.co.uk
Powerful Macintosh Software
Dragon Systems Software Limited (DssW)
http://www.dssw.co.uk/support/
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:04:17 +0200
From: Hans Rudolf Schelling <schell@sozpsy.unizh.ch>
To: digest@info-mac.org, Arthur Snoke <snoke@equake.geol.vt.edu>
Subject: [A] Reading PC disks on a MAC
Arthur Snoke wrote:
>I have CDs written on a PC with files that, on the PC, were not
>restricted to the 8.3 DOS naming convention. Example: index.html.
>When I look at the CD on a MAC (or on Unix), it portrays the 8.3
>naming convention. Example, index.html becomes INDEX-1.HTM.
>I want to have the longer file names appear when I bring up the CD
>on any platform.
>[...]
>My question is if there might be a solution either in how the CD is
>burned or adding utilities to the Mac.
The solution might be the "Joliet Volume Access" extension, freeware
by Thomas Tempelmann, <http://www.tempel.org/joliet/>.
Hope that helps!
-- Hans
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:44:05 -0400
From: William Beckett <wbeckett2@home.com>
To: Neil Fiertel <nfiertel@ualberta.ca>
Subject: adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3
I have a Beige G3 300 desktop and have replaced my drive.
First I went to the Accelerate Your Mac web site
<www.xlr8yourmac.com>, read a couple of articles and decided that
"you can do this". I never had opened up my Mac up to this time.
I went to uBid <www.ubid.com> auction site and bought a "Maxtor
Diamondmax Plus60 60GB ATA-100 IDE HDD" for $189 plus shipping. This
is the 7200 RPM version which has a faster access and should be
better for running the system.
I backed up everything on the 6GB drive.
Then I opened up my Mac for the first time, found everything where I
expected it to be and replaced the hard drive with the Maxtor. I set
the drive to be a master. Total time spent in doing all the work was
about a half hour. This included opening and closing up the Mac.
I started up my Mac from a CD and there was the 60 GB icon mounted on
the desktop. I partitioned it into eight segments and restored my
backup with no problem.
There was none of this nonsense regarding what Western told you. I
used the Apple Hard Drive Setup program for partitioning and
everything worked fine. I had a number of false starts and repeats
regarding setting up the hard drive because I was educating myself
regarding what I really wanted. Everything is running fine.
I call it a positive experience.
Best of luck
Bill
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kick boxing.
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:03:33 -0600
>From: Neil Fiertel <nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
>To: digest@info-mac.org
>Subject: adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3
>
>I want to install a larger hard drive in a first generation G3
>minitower beige which means replacing the 6 gig boot-up drive as it
>cannot be run as a master/slave in this model. I found a very large
>and fast Western Digital EIDE ATA100 drive which the company says is
>Mac compatible. They also said that I would have to install it first
>on a PC in order to run the Windows only utility to reset the drive
>to run as an ATA66 unit. Does anyone know if this could be done in
>some other way using Virtual PC on an external scsi drive, setting
>the utilities on the drive and carrying on or am I stuck having to
>find a PC and go through what seems to be an onerous install-reset
>and uninstall and then a Mac install of the drive. If that is the
>case, Western Digital is missing the boat on selling to Mac users.
>Any ideas would be welcome. Please email me at nfiertel@ualberta.ca
>if you have some brilliant suggestions or personal experience with
>this.
>--
> Neil Fiertel
>
> Email:
> nfiertel@ualberta.ca or nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
>
> The opinions expressed are mine alone.
>
> "THE EYE EXISTS IN A WILD STATE. THE ARTIST KNOWS NO OTHER."
> Andre Breton
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:27:30 -0500
From: "Clare N. Shumway" <clarens@voicenet.com> (by way of Hugh Lewis)
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Applescript Problem
I'm running OS 8.6 on a Blue&White G3 and am unable to write
scripts using Applescript. The error report states "Could not compile the
script because the dialect is not available."
The following items are present and loaded: AppleScript extension v
1.3.7; AppleScriptLib 1.2.2; English Dialect v 1.3.6; in System folder
there is a Scripting Additions Folder that contains among other things
AppleScript Dictionaryè and a sub-folder containing English dialect v
1.1.2, French Dialect v 1.1 and Japanese Dialect v 1.1.
Script Editor is version 1.1.2 and Scriptable Text Editor 1.1.
I've tried changing and these items from my backup disks but this
did not correct the problem. I tried to find Applescript items on the OS
8.5 and 8.6 CD's but could not locate them. The Apple web site lists only
an update for OS 9.0.
Is there any way for me to go short of reinstalling the whole system?
Clare Shumway
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:04:13 -0500
From: "Erica W. Hunter" <ewhmo@hotmail.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Auto Start a Mac
Egidio,
Check out a product called PowerKey at:
<http://www.sophisticated.com/>
It sounds like it might do what you want. The Classic version is selling at a discounted $35 right now.
Sam M. Hunter
smhdvm@ldd.net
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [Q] Auto start
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:12:01 -0500
> From: Egidio Leitao <egidio@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
> To: Info Mac <digest@info-mac.org>
>
> Other than the unreliable Energy Saver control panel, is there a way to get
> a G4 to start up and shut down at given times? I currently use Sleeper
> because the Mac Energy Saver won't wake up when the computer goes to sleep.
> However, Sleeper does not have the capability of auto start a Mac. Any
> ideas?
>
> --
> Eg*dio
>
> "Que essa fonte que ninguëm nunca bebeu ë toda sua" (Aparecida Silvino)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:59:25 -0400
From: Nick Pappas <nickpappas@lizzysicecream.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Filemaker advice
Is there an e-mail forum where one can ask questions about using Claris
Filemaker?
And just in case anyone in this forum can help, I want to print labels for
my ice cream packages and am trying to figure out how to print a page of
identical labels (i.e all one flavor of ice cream) when my database of
flavors has one record for each flavor. In other words, I am trying to force
data from the same record to print 6 labels for that flavor on one page. The
manual (version 4) doesn't cover this point.
Nick Pappas
Lizzy's Ice Cream
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:57:34 +0900
From: fons@etl.go.jp
To: BusMac@lists.themacintoshguy.com
Subject: Font coloring related print error
First off let me say this is a really strange problem. The system is as
below
System 9.1 (Japanese)
G3 Blue & White 500 MHz, 1 GB RAM, standard internal ATA, external 1 GB
Jaz
New standard system install
Here is the background. I ungraded a G3 to system 9.1 from 8.5. First
I updated the firmware with some difficulty (the internal disk system
had died - hence the sudden upgrade) via a system installed on an
external Jaz drive. In the end, I did get the confirmation tone of the
firmware upgrade and system 9.1 was happy to install. After the
upgrade, I copied the relevant initial settings files from the old
system (broken) system folder along with a few (non-apple) necessary
extensions. In particular I copied Adobe's printer driver library and
AdobePS. The new system worked fine - printing also worked fine, but a
strange error message popped up everytime a print was initialed with
Adobe's drivers saying there was not enough memory to proceed. If the
message was acknowledged everything still printed fine. The user of the
machine was happy. This continued for a month. Of course, I thought
there is a problem, I'll just install the new Adobe PS driver and fix
the error message. I downloaded the latest adobe PS driver from
www.adobe.co.jp (all software is the japanese version in this
discussion) and installed it. While the error message about
insufficient memory went away, the user found that japanese characters
(kanji 16 bit code) characters showed up as blank space on printouts,
but english characters printed just fine. A little fiddling and I
discovered that if the print option was set to black and white, all
characters printed (kanji and english) while if color or gray scale was
set, only english characters showed up. The tempting conclusion is that
the 16 bit characters (worldscript II) were being set to white. The
user in question is quite unhappy as we have a color printer and he
needs to use color for presentations etc.. This problem happens for all
applications.
What I tried: I tried swiching to laserwriter 8 drivers, no change; I
installed a new system (new system install from the 9.1 CD) and used
laserwriter 8, no change, I installed a new system on to a Jaz cartridge
on another machine and attempted to print using laserwriter 8, no
change; I reset the open firmware, no change; I reset the pram (I was
getting desperate), no change; I printed to another printer (original
was a Tektronix 740, tried a Xerox DP400), no change. I am out of
ideas. Any help. What I can't understand is how a new system install
can't fisx the problem. Is it possible this is a firmware issue?
I am not subscribed to the list (yet), so please if you have any ideas
or similar experiences, send me an email to fons (at) etl.go.jp. Thanks.
Paul Fons in Japan, Advanced Institute for Industrial Science and
Technology, Tsukuba
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:23:58 -0700
From: William Rausch <billrausch@yahoo.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #79
>
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:03:33 -0600
>From: Neil Fiertel <nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
>Subject: adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3
>
>I want to install a larger hard drive in a first generation G3
>minitower beige which means replacing the 6 gig boot-up drive as it
>cannot be run as a master/slave in this model. I found a very large
>and fast Western Digital EIDE ATA100 drive which the company says is
>Mac compatible. They also said that I would have to install it first
>on a PC in order to run the Windows only utility to reset the drive
>to run as an ATA66 unit. Does anyone know if this could be done in
>some other way using Virtual PC on an external scsi drive, setting
>the utilities on the drive and carrying on or am I stuck having to
>find a PC and go through what seems to be an onerous install-reset
>and uninstall and then a Mac install of the drive. If that is the
>case, Western Digital is missing the boat on selling to Mac users.
>Any ideas would be welcome. Please email me at nfiertel@ualberta.ca
>if you have some brilliant suggestions or personal experience with
>this.
A while ago, I bought a 20 gig Maxtor and just plugged it in to my desktop beige G3/233 in place of the 4 gig original. There wasn't anything necessary to set or reset; just used Apple's disk formatting software and away we went. I ended up selling the 4 gig drive to a PC user who replaced an older 1 gig drive with it.
--
---
Bill Rausch, Mac, Unix, Windows Programmer
_________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:46:42 -0400
From: "Brian Whitney" <BWhitney@mail.eastland.k12.oh.us>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Iomega Findit for Macintosh
Dear Sirs,
I am in dier need of Iomega Findit software utility for the macintosh. I know that in the mid to late 90's it shipped with the tools disk. However, I don't see anything even close to relating to this little utility even on Iomega's website. Can you help.
Do you know where I can get a copy of this on disk?
It is great software.
Thanks for your help.
Brian C. Whitney
BWhitney@mail.eastland.k12.oh.us
Brian C. Whitney
Eastland Career Center
(614) 836-4521 ext. 339
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:56:42 -0500
From: Pepper & Joe <pepperlin@home.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Movie assembly
I recently downloaded a movie that is in several parts and of an unknown
type. Can anyone tell me how to assemble the movie and once assembled, is it
a "realplayer" movie if the extensions are all r00, r01, r02 . . . rxx.
Thanks for any help sent my way
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:56:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Arthur Snoke <snoke@equake.geol.vt.edu>
To: Matti Haveri <matti.haveri@sjoki.uta.fi>
Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC
Thanks for the suggestion. I include my experience -- mostly positive --
in case anyone else might be interested in this.
I downloaded and installed the extension for Joliet 1.4.1. It was mostly
successful.
1. For CDs written using Windows 2000 EZ CD CCREATOR it did indeed expand
the file names as desired. The only problem was that it did not
recongnize index.html as any kind of file. INDEX.HTM was
interpreted as a text file. Dragging either into IE worked fine. Also,
linking from one html file to another worked fine. I had a Unix
zzz.tar.gz file which it displayed correctly and Stuffit Expander knew how
to unzip and de-tar.
2. I have another CD written from an Intel-Linux machine using xcdroast
with the unix-rick-ridge format. Without the Joliet extension, it
actually worked fine on the mac, except that it did not understand the
filetype for index.html and it suppressed the gz in zzz.tar.gz so that my
links to it from within a web page could not find the file. However,
stuffit expander still knew what to do with it. With the Joliet extension
I got exactly the same effects on one disk, but another refused to open
even though it had before and does still on another G4 OS8.9 mac which
does not have the Joliet extension.
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Matti Haveri wrote:
> Arthur Snoke <snoke@equake.geol.vt.edu>:
>
> > I have CDs written on a PC with files that, on the PC, were not
> > restricted to the 8.3 DOS naming convention. Example: index.html. When I
> > look at the CD on a MAC (or on Unix), it portrays the 8.3 naming
> > convention. Example, index.html becomes INDEX~1.HTM.
> >
> > I want to have the longer file names appear
>
> Try Joliet Volume Access <http://www.tempel.org/joliet/>.
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:00:12 +0200
From: "Andre' van der Ham" <andre@cosmic.myweb.nl>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC
For presenting long file names on the mac, please have a look at:
http://www.macwindows.com/disks.html
The macwindows site is a valuable resource for Mac vs. Win issues.
Best regards,
Andre' van der Ham.
http://digester.et.tudelft.nl/frames/
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:30:19 +0300
From: Matti Haveri <matti.haveri@sjoki.uta.fi>
To: digest@info-mac.org, Arthur Snoke <snoke@equake.geol.vt.edu>
Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC
Arthur Snoke <snoke@equake.geol.vt.edu>:
> I have CDs written on a PC with files that, on the PC, were not
> restricted to the 8.3 DOS naming convention. Example: index.html. When I
> look at the CD on a MAC (or on Unix), it portrays the 8.3 naming
> convention. Example, index.html becomes INDEX-1.HTM.
>
> I want to have the longer file names appear
Try Joliet Volume Access <http://www.tempel.org/joliet/>.
It is functionally a replacement for Apple's ISO 9660 File Access
extension, with the following advantages over Apple's:
* Supports Joliet and ISO 9660 Level 3 formats
* Uses Internet Config's File Mappings
* Browses directories faster
* Supports PBCatSearch, thus making searches using Sherlock (aka Find
File) on ISO or Joliet formatted disks much faster.
* If a file name is longer than 31 characters, you can still see the
full name in the comments field of the Finder's Information window.
* Folder view is "as List" instead of "as Icons", which makes ISO CDs
more pleasant to browse.
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:11:27 -0400
From: ngpappas <ngpappas@nii.net>
To: "digest@info-mac.org" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: screen flicker from nearby equipment
Since installing my DSL Router, I have had quite a bit of flicker on my 18"
monitor that sits about 12" from the router. It is not convenient to move
the router or the monitor. I ASSUME the problem is due to the router.
Is there any easy solution (like some shielding around something)? It is
REALLY inconvenient to move the router.
Nick Pappas
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:24:14 +0100
From: Pedro Ferraz de Abreu <pfa@citidep.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Sorenson video compression supported by web plug-ins?
Sorenson video compression supported by web plug-ins?
I am impressed with the quality of sorenson video compression, when
using my quicktime player pro version 5.
However, I am afraid to use it when compressing videos for CD-ROM
delivery, for playing based on web browser embeded pages (like
explorer or netscape); since I don't know if computers only with the
quicktime web plug-in (meaning without a quicktime system extension)
allow users to play those sorenson-compressed videos.
While most Mac OS based computers will have a quicktime extension,
most (or all?) windows machines will have to rely only on that web
plug in. Will it be enough? what kind of restrictions must I consider
, if using sorenson compression? I tried every where on apple sites
and docs, and they allways refer back to you on these question.
Thank you for any useful information.
Pedro Ferraz de Abreu <pfa@citidep.net>
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:25:43 +0100
From: Ezra Nathan <ezra@cableinet.co.uk>
To: Info-Mac digest <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: What's happened to PureMac
Hello>
I've been updating many things in the past by checking the PureMac site now
and again (<http://www.eskimo.com/~pristine>) but it hasn't been updated
since April 19th. I sent a message of enquiry but received no reply. Does
anyone know what's happened to it? Are they all on holiday? It would be a
pity if that site disappeared.
> Ezra Nathan
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