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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 2 Jan 97 Volume 15 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
[!] How we doing?
Derrat Sorcerum problems continued
Mac Problem
Q: Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90
Random auto-connect in Free
Text to Speech in Word 5.1a
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 08:57:02 -0600
From: "Gordon Watts (Brown University)" <gwatts@FNAL.GOV>
Subject: [!] How we doing?
Hi,
I hope every one has a happy (and safe!) new year! I'm very sorry
about the lack of submissions to info-mac. Acutally, the authors have
been going crazy: we have over 500 megs sitting waiting for us to
archive. Our archivist, however, has been falling a bit behind (see
the below message from him to the info-mac moderator group).
We are also in the process of moving the archive off the sumex-aim
machine. We are getting close. The biggest problem is that we don't
have room for the master archive on the new machine becuase we are so
backed up with new submissions (opps!). After that gets cleared away,
I hope that we will be able to move in a week or so. This means we
will have more disk space to play with (so the archive can grow!) and
it also means that we will purge files less often -- which some of you
have complained about.
Cheers,
Gordon.
Letter from Demitri, our archivist :-)
Hello all,
I am sorry things have not been updated for a while. I am home for the
holidays and I had hoped to continue working on archiving (and get
caught
up) while I was here, but the computer I was counting on didn't have
the
capacity I needed, and the Internet access didn't materialize. All the
files are with me on my Jaz drive, but I can't do anything with them.
This
is the first time I have been able to sit down at a computer and check
my
email.
I will not be able to get back to my computer until the 3rd, and I
plan to
chain myself to it for the weekend. That (I hope) will take care of a
sizable chunk of the backlog and get the ball rolling again.
Unfortunately
this is almost a week away. That's the bad news....
For the future. Agreed- this cannot continue. We need more archivists
- I
(nor any one person I think) simply cannot do all the work. The
scripts I
have are good and handle most of the files. As I've said before, it
handles 90% of the files in 10% percent of the time. The problem is
dealing with the rest.
I don't have much time here, so I need to wrap this up. Can someone
please
send a message to the digest informing them of the situation and that
things will resume on the 4th. I will also post a plea for a new
archivist
then. I am sorry for all the problems this is causing. We'll get this
working again (if it's the last thing I do!).
Demitri
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:55:58 +1030 (CDT)
From: Philip Clarke <pclarke@waite.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Derrat Sorcerum problems continued
Hi again to all fellow macusers,
Since the original post to infomac (Who did post it?)
on Derrat Sorcerum, I have compiled all the current correspondance
on the subject. Its at
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~pclarke/DS/Welcome.html
I must say one thing though, Ben Spees (President
of the Software company Mixed Metaphor that created the game)
has been most frank and helpful in redressing my problems.
Finally my inintial mail difficulties (espoused in the original post
Info Mac digest (V14 #297) ) probably caused me to go
into rant mode, so any software companies out there.....
(I offer this as an explanation of my ranting, not an excuse
I suspect I should be demoted to "newbie" for a while, eh?)
I have no other complaint or difficulty whatsoever
with Mixed Metaphor or Hopkins Technology and to my best knowledge
everything described in the web page above is all I
have ever had to do with either company.
Regards to all
and thanks for listening to my gripes
Philip (Derrat Sorcerum Gammatester)
--
Dr. Philip Clarke, pclarke@waite.adelaide.edu.au
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~pclarke
University of Adelaide, Department of Soil Science, Waite Solid-state NMR
Facility, PMB 1., Glen Osmond, South Austrlaia, 5064, Australia
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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 01:02:11 +0900
From: Raymond <stan@asiaonline.net>
Subject: Mac Problem
My Macintosh is 8100/80. Recently, my computer's date & time
can not work. The problem is following:
The Current date must revert the date to "6/2/40" when restart and
turn on the computer.
The Current time was stop on "6:28:15 AM" and it cannot run.
The Menubar Clock option is on, but it cannot display on right hand
side of screen.
Please help me ans. this problem.
Thanks!
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:33:12 +0200
From: Pedro Johansson <pedro.johansson@mailbox.hogia.net>
Subject: Q: Different screen resolutions on a mac7200/90
Hello everyone.
After much reading, testing, I finally will try asking all of you.
I have a PowerMac 7200/90 with a 'Samtron' (3rd party) 14" screen.
Since the screen is 3rd party, Im using a little adapter to connect my mac and
the screen.
In this adapter, theres 8 dip-switches to be able to 'tell' my mac what
resolutions are supported at the screen-side.
The screen is capable to show 640x480,800x600 among many others.
In the technical specifications that came with my mac, there's a listing of
all the resolutions my mac is able to work at. In this specification ,
800x600 60 Hz
is listed, wich is the same that my screen can show.
Now - the problem is the following:
The little adapter I use to connect the screen and my mac has no setting
for this.
Q:
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Has anyone out there the spec's for what pins to connect to each other to
make my mac understand that there's a screen capable of showin 800/600
pixels ?
I can solder a little adapter myself, but i just dont have the specs for it.
2nd Q:
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Is there some software device out there that lets you change the
screen resolution to whatever, not just the ones that are supported at the
moment (ie shown by the dip-switches in the adapter ? )
This would be much easier than a hardware solutions.
The problem is, after all, that i cant set the resolution to anything else
than what the dipswitches are telling my mac.
Now, please, if you know anything, please mail me directly.
All responses will then be compiled and mailed the info-mac digest.
Regards,
Pedro Johansson, Sweden.
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Date: 30 Dec 1996 16:13:34 -0600
From: "WJ Shack" <wj_shack@qmgate.anl.gov>
Subject: Random auto-connect in Free
Random auto-connect in FreePPP
My 7200 with 7.5.5 and OT 1.1 still makes random auto connections even though
I have "Allow applications to open connection" unchecked in FreePPP Setup. I
have the problem in both V2.5 and V2.6a4. Any suggestions?
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:45:23 -0500
From: Bleifle@aol.com
Subject: Text to Speech in Word 5.1a
After a couple of years of experimentation I have returned to my old fav
- Word 5.1a. The one feature I wish it had is Text-To-Speech. Is there an
Applescript around that will do that? What about One-Click?
Thanks,
James M. Bleifus
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