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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 19 May 97       Volume 15 : Issue 92

Today's Topics:

      (Q) good address book; calendar
      (Q) MIDI-hardware
      [Q] Playing those new .avi's
      Can anyone explain why ***MacsBug caused the exception*** ????
      Driver for Intel Pro100B PCI 10/100 fast ethernet card?
      Good C++ books?
      Locator ?
      Looking for old macs
      MS IE 3.01 on 7.6.1 on a IIci DayStar Turbo 040 - Quits Immediately
      New Virus?
      Opentransport/Novell Netware Server problem
      PowerCenter Pro 210 recommendations?
      QT to AVI conversion
      Updated Driver for Old Quantum drive
      Win95 on 6100 DOS compatible?

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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 06:09:01 -0600
From: Roland Silver <rollo@artvark.com>
Subject: (Q) good address book; calendar

1. Can you recommend a good address book?

I'm using the shareware "AddressBook", but it has problems, mainly, (1) you
can't select an entry easily by typing part of the name, but have to go to
section "A" ... "Z"; (2) the display of an address record is modal, so you
can't cut & paste freely.

1. Can you recommend a good calendar?

I'm using WP calendar, but I hate it, because if you delete something
inadvertently there's no way to undo the delete.

Rollo Silver / Amygdala | e-mail: rollo@artvark.com
216M N. Pueblo Rd, #107 | Website: http://www.artvark.com/artvark/
Taos, NM 87571 USA      | Voice: 505-776-9601; FAX: 505-776-5776

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Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 01:25:18 -0600
From: larscj@dk-online.dk (Lars Christian Jensen)
Subject: (Q) MIDI-hardware

My brother wants to use my computer (840AV) for making music the MIDI-way.
What will he need except for a sequencing-program and a "little" talent? A
friend of his has a MIDI-keyboard  which is not a synth but only a keyboard
able to send MIDI-signals - will this work with my MacĀ“s built-in
soundcard?

TIA

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Date: Sun, 18 May 97 23:33:53 -0400
From: Romulo Romero <rrome@connix.com>
Subject: [Q] Playing those new .avi's

Greetings all.

Lately, I have downloaded some .avi's that I can not play.  When I use
the AVI->QT utility, I get an error message that the file
was create with unknown compression methods.
I can hear (sometimes) the sound but get no picture.  I am using
Indeo v3.22.24.09   I think there are some new drivers that
I can not find (or are not out for the mac?).
Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed? I am working on a 68k mac.

Thanks.  Romulo Romero <rrome@connix.com>

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Date: 15 May 1997 18:44:49 +0000
From: Mephistophilis <STCH8002@bureau.ucc.ie>
Subject: Can anyone explain why ***MacsBug caused the exception*** ????

I have MacsBug 6.5.3 installed on my PowerMac
8200/120 because I have been given to understand
that it effects a gentler restart after a crash
than other methods - otherwise I have little
understanding of what it does or how it does it.
I have, however, noted various crashes in which
the attempt to produce a log of the event by
typing <stdlog> on the command line does not
create the usual log display but - as in the most
recent example - gives a message of the following
type (absolute accuracy of the transcript not
guaranteed):

PPC access exception at 0028DD4
GetOTInstallInfo+082AC
PPC Illegal instruction at FFCI0000
-VSyncWait+00D84
***MacsBug caused the exception ***

Neither the RS or RB commands works so that I
have to resort to a hot boot to get my machine
running again. What (in idiot terms, if possible)
does all this mean? More specifically is it
saying that there is a bug in MacsBug 6.5.3
itself or that it has become damaged in some way?

TIA -
Fergus Lalor

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Date: Fri, 16 May 97 10:56:01 -0500
From: Tim Biddle <tkbiddle@indy.navy.mil>
Subject: Driver for Intel Pro100B PCI 10/100 fast ethernet card?

Okay...so I tried Intel's web page, and no luck.  I am looking for a 
driver that will support the Intel Pro100B PCI ethernet card in a 
Macintosh.  Does anyone know of anything that exists, or another driver 
that could be made to work?

I tried Asante, Dayna Blue Streak and Apple drivers...none work.

Thanks in advance.

Tim Biddle
tkbiddle@indy.navy.mil

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Date: Mon, 19 May 97 14:19:44 BST
From: Ian.Goldby@powertech.co.uk
Subject: Good C++ books?

I've read "Learn C++ with CodeWarrior", "Learn C++ on the Mac" and even the 
Microsoft Visual C++ language tutorial.

But I still can't program in C++. I'm looking for some way of getting lots 
of practise. None of these books have any good exercises in them. The C++ 
with CodeWarrior book has exercises, but they all concentrate on making 
modifications to existing programs, and many of the programs are very long 
requiring more time to understand what's already there than to make the 
modifications suggested.

I'm looking for a series of exercises to guide me through to becoming 
proficient in the language. It will need to start with something like "Write 
a program to do such and such. You will need classes for X, Y, and Z. These 
classes should have member functions to do this, that and the other", and 
then progress to giving less and less specific guidance about how to 
accomplish the tasks set. The exercises should also be reasonably short, and 
not build on stuff written in previous exercises too much. (i.e. a series 
where you finally end up with one monolithic application is definitely not 
what I am looking for.)

So, can you recommend anything, either internet resources or a book to help 
with this? If it is a book, it would be helpful if it contained a concise 
reference to C++ as well as the exercises (but not a learn programming from 
scratch book as I am already familiar with non-object oriented programming).

(If such a thing doesn't exist, perhaps one of you might decide to fill the 
gap in the market?)

Many thanks.

Ian Goldby

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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 19:10:03 -0500
From: LeeCDVM <leecdvm@usa.net>
Subject: Locator ?

I need a very small program to give me the coordinates of a gif ........
ie. rt, lt, top, bottom ...... etc.

Anyone know such an animal.  

TIA

Lee Corbridge, DVM

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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:33:15 -0500
From: schmitth@pilot.msu.edu (Nick 'SOL' Schmitt)
Subject: Looking for old macs

I have a few old Macs (SEs, SE/30s, Classics, etc) and I'm looking to add
to the collection.  Does anyone know where I could find them lurking about?
The back of the various Mac related Mags used to be a good place to look,
but for the past few years it's been getting lean and now I can't find any!
Any tips?
Nick Schmitt
 schmitt@neology.com
schmitth@pilot.msu.edu

.sig this!

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Date: Sat, 17 May 97 14:51:40 PDT
From: "Peter H. Lipman" <lipman@loc3.tandem.com>
Subject: MS IE 3.01 on 7.6.1 on a IIci DayStar Turbo 040 - Quits Immediately

Hello Everyone,

This note with minor changes has been sent to Microsoft, but I am not
really expecting a reply :-(.

I have a IIci with a DayStar Turbo 040.  This machine would not run 7.6
according to Apple's documentation because of the 040 accelerator and its
use of cache, and I figured I was at the end of the line for this machine.
But Apple fixed the conflict in 7.6.1.  I followed Apple's directions and
removed the accelerator card, upgraded to 7.6, upgraded to 7.6.1, and
reinstalled the acclerator.  Everything works fine.  I have a nice stable
system.

In the following paragraphs I talk about the testing I did with IE
3.01 beta.  Please note that I subsequently did most of these tests on
the official IE 3.01 release.  See the comments specific to the
official release at the end.

A couple of weeks ago I installed the Internet Explorer 3.01 beta.  I was
just so tired of crashing Netscape 3.01.  Why I have even seen Netscape
3.01 abort on my Unix WorkStation (SGI Irix 5.3), and once - I swear this
is true - I saw the Unix workstation auto-restart.  I have NEVER seen that
before ... but I digress.

I found that IE 3.01 beta would come up using no home page or a local file
as a home page, but any attempt at referencing a page on the Network would
result in the application quitting.

I backed off to 7.5.5 and IE 3.01 beta worked fine.

Then I took the DayStar accelerator out and ran 7.6.1 and IE 3.01 beta
worked fine.

It was still possible that this was a problem in the new CFM-68K Runtime
Enabler, so I next downloaded Open Doc 1.1.2 and CyberDog 2.0 (because I
knew CyberDog needed the  CFM-68K Runtime Enabler as well).  CyberDog runs
fine.  I actually think it is a pretty nice product.  It has more than a
few rough edges though ... but I digress.

Now I know full well that even though CyberDog runs OK, CFM 68K could still
be the source of the problem  with IE 3.01 beta, but at this point it seems
a little more likely that the problem is with IE itself.  I could have
tried AOL 3.0 (it uses CFM 68K too) to see if it would run OK, but I
didn't.

I just got the official release of IE 3.01 and it works on 7.5.5, but not
on 7.6.1.  I have not bothered to take out the acclerator card to verify
that it works without it.  I'm virtually certain that it will.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Is there anyone else out there
experiencing a similar problem?

Peter
lipman@loc3.tandem.com or lipman_peter@tandem.com

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Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 04:50:46 -0800
From: mike1455@wco.com (Mike)
Subject: New Virus?

Is there a new virus or what.  All of a sudden, My alert sound starts
sounding for no reason and wont stop.  also, the menu bar flashes while
it's doing this.  Any ideas?  It's starting to get real annoying.  let me
know if you've heard about anything like this.  You can contact me at
mike1455@wco.com.

P.S.  It's not the clock chimes, I checked.

-- 
Mike Y.

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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:08:25 -0400
From: Greg Papatrefon <gpapat@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Opentransport/Novell Netware Server problem

I have a network problem. We are using a fileserver (PC) with Novell
Netware (think its 4.0 not 4.11). I have just upgraded to Mac OS 7.6.1
with Opentransport 1.1.2.  Since i have upgraded, I can no longer write
to the file server. I can read from it but when i write to it i get an
error message "The Item XXX can not be copyied because the file could
not be found".
	When i reloaded 7.5 (without OT) i can read and write to the server
with no problem. I have called Apple's 800-SOS-APPL, but they could not
help me.
	Has anyone had this problem? DOes anyone know if there is a patch or an
upgrade that will fix this?

Greg Papatrefon
gpapat@pica.army.mil

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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:31:51 -0500
From: gibhenry@realpeople.com (Gib Henry, Real People)
Subject: PowerCenter Pro 210 recommendations?


I'm considering a PowerCenter Pro 210 (60MHz system bus!) and would =
appreciate any comments, suggestions, or recommendations.  Thanks!  Cheers,
--
Gib

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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 12:14:45 -0500
From: Mark Novak <markn@decisonsys.com>
Subject: QT to AVI conversion

Does anyone know of a way to convert Quicktime movies to the
Windows/Intel ".avi" movie format?

I have seen freeware that goes the opposite way, but I need to convert a
movie so it can run from the Windows version of PowerPoint.

Thanks

Mark Novak
markn@decisionsys.com

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Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 13:59:23 +1000
From: Bob Lyon <boblyon@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Updated Driver for Old Quantum drive

I've been looking without success for a way to update the 1991 driver that
came with my Quantum LPS 105 HD Drive.   I've tried to find this via the
Quantum web site and the local (Australian) distributor's site (Tech
Pacific)...... but no luck.

I'd welcome any advice as to how to get the updated driver.  TIA!

Bob Lyon

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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:54:55 -0400
From: pscole@bu.edu (P. Scott Cole)
Subject: Win95 on 6100 DOS compatible?

I have not been able to determine if it is possible to install Win95 on a
PowerMac 6100/DOS Compatible. Any definitive answers out there?

Thanks,

P. Scott Cole
Analyst/Consultant, Information Technology, Boston University
111 Cummington Street, Boston MA 02215
pscole@bu.edu, 617-353-5930

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