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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 04 Aug 97       Volume 15 : Issue 161

Today's Topics:

      
           Second, Happier Rhapsody Thoughts!
      (Q) Powerbook Internal Modem Problem Dialing Under MacPPP
      (Q) Replacement for CDU under 7.6.1
      >Subject- Alternative to AR
      [A]MAC OS 8 and PC compatible Card
      [Q1]  OS 8, 7100, internal CD
      [Q2]  OS 8, 7100, Stuffit Deluxe
      [Q3]  OS 8, 7100, Ofoto scanning software
      [Q] Defeating junk email
      Desk chair recommendations
      floppy drive not working on Powerbook 170
      FPU (Mac LC111)
      Info-Mac Digest V15 #155
      Info-Mac Digest V15 #158
      MacOS8: The Web Campaign
      Netpresenz is serving up .html as text.  Solutions?
      PB5300 Battery (C)
      Problems with Disk Copy 6.1.3?
      submissons

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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 01:41:23 -0600
From: Neil Fiertel <nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: 

	regarding OS*

	I thought I would boot up fropm the OS8 CD and take a look at the
interface of the system before installing it and discovered that it would
not boot on my 7100 av 80  Mac at all but instead crashed resoundingly with
a bomb and a message to boot with extensions off due to bus error ( type
11.)...I contacted Apple and got two differing opinions on what to do to
get through this . One suggested  that I    make certain that appletalk is
on so I tried that to no avail and the second which was to boot only from
the disk tools 2 disk that came with the cdrom and then install the OS
after using the disk tools emergency startup folder...very odd, very odd
and rather a disappointment.  Essentially, one cannot use the CDROM as a
startup disk at all for this machine and perhaps many others. They also
remarked after I questioned  them that this is common with the OS8.  Has
anyone had similar experiences?  I have not yet installed the software but
wonder if I have any other surprises in this regard ahead of me.  Is this a
similar problem with PCI bus computers? Am I just an unlucky camper having
been eaten by a rabid bear... er..OS or is this just one of those things?
Please Email me with observations if you can...thanks in advance.

"Just three rusty strands of barbed wire from the North Pole"

		Professor Neil Fiertel
		FAB-3-98
		Department of Art and Design
		University of Alberta
		Edmonton, Alberta
		Canada T6G-2C9

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Date:         Sat, 02 Aug 97 22:50:59 EDT
From: Allan Hunter <AHUNTER@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
Subject:      Second, Happier Rhapsody Thoughts!

I think sometimes I am not too swift on the uptake.  I hear the word,
I get the new information, and still miss the implications until later.

When I first heard that Windows PCs would be able to run Rhapsody apps
if they had the Rhapsody-for-Windows APIs installed, I shrugged -- who
amongst Windows users were going to go out and acquire the Rhapsody API
software?  And what serious commercial software vendors were going to
write their software and risk alienating their Windows customers by
putting up a message on screen that said "Sorry, in order to run this
software, you must first install the Rhapsody APIs, a set of Apple ex-
tensions that will take up some storage space, some RAM, and some pro-
cessor cycles in order to allow you to run what is basically a Mac app
on your Windows PC."

But then the other day I was poking around in Extensions Manager and
noted once again (definitely not for the first time!) how much CRUD the
installer for Microsoft Excel had dumped into my system folder.  Must be
a dozen of 'em, Visual Basic for Apps, OLE, Microsoft this Microsoft that.

Suddenly it struck me -- hey, people who write their Windows apps using
Rhapsody / Objective C development kits aren't going to set their soft-
ware so that it balks when it sees a lack of Rhapsody APIs on a Windows
PC, nor will they ASK, they'll just install the damn things, won't they?
Why worry about processor cycles and whatnot?  No one else does!  Hey,
if your Pentium 90 can no longer run modern software, time to upgrade.
The Rhapsody APIs will be on the installation CDROMS and diskettes, in
case the PC in question doesn't already have them.

Suddenly this looks pretty cool.  Hey, your machines can run our apps!
Sure, your machine can also run apps not written for Rhapsody but they
are harder to write, the programmers like this object-based programming
and then they can sell their apps to us, too.  And to think we were
starting to worry that no one would develop for the Mac any more!

- Allan Hunter
<!ahunter@ccvm.sunysbu.edu>  <-- remove the !

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:09:40 -0500
From: "Alan H. Stein" <stein@math.uconn.edu>
Subject: (Q) Powerbook Internal Modem Problem Dialing Under MacPPP

My daughter has an internal modem (I believe it's a Practical Peripherals)
in her Powerbook 145B with System 7.5.  It works fine except for one
problem:  MacPPP won't dial or run scripts with it.  (We get a message that
MacPPP can't find the modem.)  If we open a terminal window under MacPPP,
we can type in the phone number to dial and make a connection, including
logging in, after which we close the terminal window and everything works
fine.  When we use an external modem (and change the control panel to an
external modem) everything works perfectly.

We've gotten the same behavior using FreePPP.

Has anyone else had the same problem and found a solution other than using
the terminal window?

Alan H. Stein  stein@math.uconn.edu   http://www.math.uconn.edu/~stein

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 15:26:04 -0400
From: Mark Stephansky <mstephan@ici.net>
Subject: (Q) Replacement for CDU under 7.6.1

Hi All:

I just upgraded to 7.6.1 and discovered that I can no longer use
Connectix's Desktop Utilities (a program I came to depend on for my PB
functionality). Can anyone recommend a replacement (shareware?)
program/utility?

Does OS8 have the same functionality the CDU provided?
i.e., switch between programs via the keyboard, access all menu commands
from the keyboard?

tia

Mark Stephansky

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Date: 1 Aug 1997 12:28:17 -0500
From: "WJ Shack" <wj_shack@qmgate.anl.gov>
Subject: >Subject- Alternative to AR

>Subject: Alternative to ARA?

Check out the review of LinkUPP! in MacWorld
(http://www.macworld.com/pages/september.97/Reviews.3894.html) or go to the
FCR Home Page www.fcr.com

I personally haven't used LinkUPPP! with ISDN but it works flawlessly on
modems and according to the review is excellent with ISDN also.  It is
significantly faster than ARA.

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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 17:44:34 -0300
From: Leonardo Ramirez <lramirez@mcl.cl>
Subject: [A]MAC OS 8 and PC compatible Card

>After having been put on hold for 3 1/2 hours, hung up on, and lied to by
>various people at Apple's Tech Support (they also told me they have the
>best tech support in the business) I now turn to this forum with the hope
>that someone can help me.
>
>Until about 24 hours ago I was the happy owner of Power Macintosh 7200/120
>with a 12" 100 mhz pentium pc compatible card.
>
>After having scurried all the literature I could find about a possible
>incompatability, I took the plunge and installed Mac OS 8. Result: I can no
>longer run the pc side of my computer. When I switch, I never get past the
>first screen where the pc counts up the memory.
>
>I tried to reinstall the compatability software (v.1.5) without success. I
>read somewhere that there is a v.1.6 out, but one guy at apple said that it
>was for the newer model only, and another guy there told me that it was
>just what I needed and that I could download it from www.info.apple.com
>where it doesn't exist.
>
>In short, I am, at least for now, stuck with totally useless $1000 piece of
>hardware that Apple apparently does not support. Has anyone out there had
>similar problems, and is there a solution for it?
>
>Hannes Hofer

if you are using Ram Doubler,try disconnecting it. I had the same trouble
with exactly the same configuration (7200/120 with the pentium card), and
my PC card refused to start up until i turned off Ram Doubler. I've send
some email to Connectix people and they told me that they were already
aware of the problem and working on it.

Good luck,

--
leo
lramirez@mcl.cl

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:36:52 -0700
From: Dan Lallouz <danl@six.net>
Subject: [Q1]  OS 8, 7100, internal CD

I have a Mac 7100/80 with an Apple 1710AV monitor (it has built-in
speakers, hence AV). I made a CLEAN install of OS 8 (actually, I went for
the overkill and fully reformatted that partition first) and have found a
couple of problems:

1. The one that bugs me the most is in order to listen to an audio CD, one
usually must choose Internal CD as the input source for sound In (in the
monitors and sound control panel). After doing so and getting the CD to
play music, every time the mac restarts (or starts up), I must manually go
and choose Internal CD again - it keeps defaulting to Built-in microphone.

I've trashed the Monitors and sound prefs file, zapped the PRAM, and have
even tried booting with just Quicktime and the CD extensions. None of these
have helped! Anybody figure this out? If it is in fact a bug in OS 8, is
there a way to automate (through AppleScript) the manual selection of these
settings every time  I start up?

Thank you in advance.

Dan Lallouz <danl@six.net>

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:37:01 -0700
From: Dan Lallouz <danl@six.net>
Subject: [Q2]  OS 8, 7100, Stuffit Deluxe

I have a Mac 7100/80 with an Apple 1710AV monitor (it has built-in
speakers, hence AV). I made a CLEAN install of OS 8 (actually, I went for
the overkill and fully reformatted that partition first) and have found a
couple of problems:

2. I have found that Stuffit Deluxe 4 seems to be extremely buggy with OS
8. Has anyone else replicated this?

Thank you in advance.

Dan Lallouz <danl@six.net>

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:37:04 -0700
From: Dan Lallouz <danl@six.net>
Subject: [Q3]  OS 8, 7100, Ofoto scanning software

Ok, I've got a tuffie:

I have a Mac 7100/80 with an Apple 1710AV monitor (it has built-in
speakers, hence AV). I made a CLEAN install of OS 8 (actually, I went for
the overkill and fully reformatted that partition first) and have found a
couple of problems:

3. My Apple Color One Scanner (about 3 or 4 years old) came with scanning
software, Ofoto. The program still works, but if I try to change any of the
settings manually (ie. the b/w, greyscale, or colour modes, or the
resolution switch), which are all available through POP-UP MENUS, I am
never able to. I must choose one of the predefined settings from the radio
buttons, or reboot from another partition with OS 7.6.1. I'm pretty sure
the problem lies in the settings being changeable only through pop-up menus.

Thank you in advance.

Dan Lallouz <danl@six.net>

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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 21:48:57 -0400
From: "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.buf.servtech.com>
Subject: [Q] Defeating junk email

>Be sure to add all "positive" filters (Bcc'd messages you want to read)
>*BEFORE* any Trash filters. Example:
>
>Header <<Any Header>> contains <Info-Mac>
>Transfer to <In>

You missed a small detail that would allow the messages to still go into
the trash. When files are filtered, they CAN go through more than one
filter. In your "positive" filters, after the "transfer to in" or whatever,
put the next action as "skip rest". This means that this filter is
authoritative & all below it will be ignored.

>Keep your Trash window open for a week or so until you're sure things
>are working right, or create a SPAM mailbox, filter to it instead and
>review/trash it periodically.

excellent idea :) You'll undoubtedly forget a list or two that you're on &
you won't want to lose them.

>[Hope that the FTC and/or Congress apply the same rules to junk email
>that currently apply to junk FAX.]

I disagree with this, and I doubt that it will ever be so. Fax messages
cost a business $$ because of the way business lines are billed. They also
cost because they tie up valuable phone lines. They also cost in paper
costs. Email only costs in time to read/delete. The best way to cut down on
spammers is to hit them where it hurts, the wallet. Don't ever reward them
by using what they advertize (even if it's good). People only use things
that get them what they want. Once smam mail is proven ineffective, it'll
subside.

HTH
Mike

PS, to the original poster, yes, if you have UN*X shell access, you can
have the messages deleted before they reach your Mac (if you can set up
rules for deleting them, i.e. from known domains). If procmail is your
local delivery agent (grep "^Mlocal" /etc/sendmail.cf to find out), create
a file in your home directory called .procmailrc, with the
following contents:
* ^From.*@whatever.site.com
/dev/null

replacing the whatever.site.com with the domain of the offenders.

If procmail isn't the delivery agent, but is installed (usually as
/usr/local/bin/procmail), then add the above to .procmailrc and make your
.forward:

"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME"

=========
Try http://www.tkg.com/people/curt/man/5/procmailex.html for more info on
procmail (or man procmail of course).

Bikers don't *DO* taglines.

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 17:37:07 -0500
From: Lanny Chambers <lanny@derived.com>
Subject: Desk chair recommendations

On 8/1/97 14:31, Chris Brannon <cbrannon@ils.unc.edu> wrote:

>I want an adjustable back angle. I want an extra high back (shoulders at
>least, head rest preferred).  I'd like to be able to tilt it back, or lock
>it in place; maybe tilt in any conceivable direction.  I want a contoured
>seat.  Good lumbar support.  Arms that are adjustable in height.
>Antigravity mode.  So many levers and knobs on the underside of the seat
>that I need a manual to figure it all out.  No leather.

For a measly $300 or so, Office Depot will sell you the Global 
Posturetech II. I've been sitting in mine almost all day, almost every 
day, for over five years, and it's never given me a backache and shows 
little wear. When you try one, you may think it's not terribly solid, but 
the small amount of flexing does not get any worse and is not 
distracting. I've had zero problems. I don't use it for lounging, 
though--that's why &deity; gave of the Laz-Z-Boy.

It has most of the features you want (but no headrest or antigravity :-) 
). I especially like the lumbar support and the armrests, which are 
urethane foam of just the right density, and adjustable for both height 
and angle: the right one props up my elbow as I use the mouse and has 
probably prevented RSI injury.

>From what I've seen, you will pay several times this much to get a better 
chair.

Lanny Chambers (lanny@derived.com) St. Louis, USA
Visit the Hummingbird Page: <http://www.derived.com/hummers>

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 20:33:49 -0500
From: Michael Gerber <mgerber@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: floppy drive not working on Powerbook 170

Does anyone know what is wrong? My friend just got this 030 Powerbook 
and the floppy doesnt work correctly. The floppies go in but don't 
mount. If you put a diskette in at startup it checks to see if a floppy 
is in, it doesnt have a OS on it so it spits it out like you would 
expect. Now if that wasnt weird enough, my friend says that if he opens 
up certain control panels (none of which are related to floppies) then 
the diskette that was in the drive suddenly appears and can be used as 
normal. But if you eject it, and stick it back in the drive, it doesnt 
mount. Now, my friend tells me he is going to give me this broken 
Powerbook, so I am now desperate for a solution.

Any help would be appreciated,
-Michael Gerber

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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 10:19:14 -0800
From: Isle <isle@ihug.co.nz>
Subject: FPU (Mac LC111)

Forgive the ignorance.
I have an LC111 with 20 meg of ram but no FPU. And no idea even whether a
FPU is hardware or software. Also, I have no apparent hope of now getting
one here in New Zealand, irregardless of what it is. I want to use
RealAudio (which I'm told needs a FPU); can anyone suggest an alternative?
Thanks,
Mike Isle.

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Date: 01 Aug 1997 23:12:03 GMT
From: Reseda_Mickey@lamg.com (Reseda Mickey)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #155

d> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:35:41 -0500
d> From: Nick <nr6@columbia.edu>
d> Subject: [Q]  Refresh rate
d> 
d> 
d> I work in a lab located near the AC feed lines for the building. 
d> All of our Apple and DEC monitors had such horrible on-screen
d> wobbling that we had to send them out for special mu-metal
d> shielding, needless to say, it is very expensive.  However, our
d> only PC user in the lab has had no such trouble with his monitor. 
d> Its refresh rate is 60hz, which implies that the problem is due to
d> the beat frequency of Apple's 67 or 75hz rate and Con Ed's 60hz. 
d> My question is if their is any way to set a standard Apple monitor
d> to a 60hz rate?   -Nick

My ATI Xclaim 3D card control panel allows a variety of standard setting
Hertz rates and some nonstandard rates that I must manually adjust the
horizontal and vertical positions of the picture on my monitor, but all look
fine:

512 x 384 70hz
640 x 480 60hz, 67, 72, 75, 85
800 x 600 56hz, 60, 72, 75, 85 
823 x 624 75hz
1024 x 768 60hz, 70 75
The manual says it has an even larger number setting, but maybe my 17"
monitor isn't large enough

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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 06:30:04 -0400
From: daiyanh@mindspring.com (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCR2s4NkJnQkBPOhsoQg==?=)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #158

>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:09:49 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: Paolo Bartoli <pbartoli@iname.com>
>Subject: Netscape, Eudora, PPP and japanese language kit
<snip>

Assuming that you've properly installed JLK...

>a) Netscape 3.0 (english release) can recognize Kanji (japanese)
>characters?

Set Options->Document Encoding->Japanese (Auto-Detect).  If you do this,
however, you won't be able to properly see your regular Italian characters.
 There is EUC standard for both W. European and Japanese character
translations.  But unfortunately (or maybe not so unfortunate for some
other reasons), Macintosh (both JLK and KanjiTalk) uses Shift-JIS coding
which is not compatible with W. European characters.

>b) same question as above but with Eudora. The english release can
>read/write in japanese?

Tricky.  There is free Eudora-J 1.3.8.5J13 from Qualcomm (ftp.qualcomm.com)
with all the menus and dialogs in Japanese.  For Eudora 3.0 US (both free
and not free), I think there is a special plugin for Japanese character
translations by Mr. Hide available from Info-Mac.  Whichever the case, just
don't use Netscape Mail as it lacks proper error detection algorithm
required for Japanese mail reading.  (I'm no expert in this, but it's a
long story.  For that matter, CyberDog's mail reader sucks just as well.)

>c) ...Does anybody knows if Netscape 1.0 jap _requires_ PPP?

All I know is that NS1.1N (US version) does work with MacPPP 2.5.  Don't
know about FreePPP.

>d) any suggestion about working with Internet applications, PowerBooks and
>the japanese (people and characters)?

For Jap characters, there is sci.lang.japanese (or was it sci.lang.kanji?).
 For Jap people, there are fj.* newsgroups.  The former is mostly in
English, but the latter are almost exclusively in Japanese, except
fj.life.in-japan.  You now need Newswatcher+Mizutori patch (prefered) or
YA-Newswatcher+Japanese plugin (all available from Info-Mac).  (Again,
Netscape News is not recommended.)  As you can see, it's not all that
trivial after all.  Once again, my gripes with not standardizing the whole
thing with MIME.

Daitaro Hagihara

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 11:41:45 -0600
From: "Brett L. Nordby" <bnordby@webinnovators.com>
Subject: MacOS8: The Web Campaign

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Apple Computer has recently released MacOS 8, the next version of the 
operating system that we've all come to know and love.  I've read some 
articles in the press about the release... most were absolutely positive, 
but some authors still are upset at Apple for not delivering Copland on 
time.  Well, I'm here to tell you a litle about MY experiences with MacOS 
8 in the actual world.

If you don't have time to read all this, then take a moment to read my 
executive summary: Get your butt in that car of yours and drive to the 
nearest software store and buy MacOS 8.   No kidding, it's that awesome.

THE INTERFACE
-------------
Apple has made some fairly significant changes to the interface.  It's 
not as drastic as the upcoming Rhapsody (sp?), but it's refreshing to say 
the least.

POP-UP WINDOWS.  These little guys are neat-- and so useful that I can't 
imagine life without them.  You can turn any window into a pop-up window 
just by dragging it to the bottom of the screen, where it's title bar 
turns into a little folder tab (neat!).  To access the window, just click 
on the tab.  When you click on anything inside, the window automatically 
closes.  It's great for launching applications and opening documents-- 
and it saves me from having 133 open windows on my desktop!

POP-UP FOLDERS: This functionality is truly awesome.  Let's say I want to 
move a file to a folder that's about 6 folders deep.  Normally I have to 
open all those folders, then grab the file and copy it into the 
appropriate window.  The problem is that you have to do all this 
clicking, and by the time you hit the right folder you've buried the file 
you wanted to drag over in the first place.  So then you have to go 
looking for that again.... ugh.  Apple's new Pop-up folders let you 
navigate through all those folders quickly and easily... and you only 
have to click once.  Just hold the file over a folder and it opens!

CONTEXTUAL MENUS: These are cool, too (what Apple technology isn't?).  
Contextual menus pop up right under your mouse when you hold down the 
control key and click.  You can do things like arrange windows, make 
aliases, change desktop patterns, empty the trash, create new folders, 
etc.  It duplicates many of the functions you have in the main menu bar, 
but it's main plus is that it decreases the mileage you put on your 
mouse.  My wrist hurts if I have to go up to the menu bar 30 times just 
to re-arrange the icons in all my windows.  Now I can do it without 
moving at all!

DESKTOP PICTURES & PATTERNS: Freeware/shareware utilities have let you 
put pictures on your desktop before, but none have worked as well as this 
new addition by Apple.  Put any pattern or picture on your desktop 
quickly and easily... and Apple even includes some nice starter pictures. 
 I personally like the Beach on Ko Samui.  It makes me think I'm not 
trapped in a drab office all day.

THE FINDER
----------
Apple's biggest innovation is the Finder.  It's finally multi-threaded 
and PowerPC native, which means it's a heck of a lot faster and can do 
many things at once.  It doesn't speed up your other applications much, 
but it sure speeds the way you work with files and applications on your 
Mac.

Opening multiple windows while copying three separate sets of files to 
three separate hard drives and emptying the trash is a breeze.  And on my 
particular Powermac, at least, there's almost no delay when you click to 
open a window when all this is going on.

SYSTEM STABILITY
----------------
This right here is the single biggest reason to run out and get MacOS 8 
today.  A few people have said that the system isn't that much more 
stable than System 7.6, but according to my experiences I can only say 
that they must have installed it wrong.

My company specializes in web consulting, design/programming, hosting and 
marketing.  Thus our macs use a wide variety of software, and there are 
usually 5 applications running on each machine.  I usually have about 10 
applications on mine, but yesterday I experienced something that prompted 
me to write this review.  I was facing a deadline, so I had 21 
applications open on my PowerMac 9500.  Seriously.  Among them were 
PhotoShop 4.01, PageMaker 6.5, BBEdit 4.04, RealAudio Player, Microsoft 
Word & Excel, ClarisWorks, FaxSTF, Netscape Communicator 4.01 and others. 
 Big programs.  All running together on MacOS 8 on a machine with 48mb 
RAM (RamDoubled to 96).

Guess how long my machine ran for?  13 hours.  
Were there any crashes? Not a one.  

Let me say that again: My machine ran 21 applications for 13 hours under 
HEAVY load without restarting and didn't crash once.

Come to think of it, MacOS 8 hasn't crashed the entire system once since 
I installed it.  Hmmm.  My old machine used to crash about 2 times a day. 
 MacOS 8 hasn't crashed the whole system once in 8 days.  Sounds pretty 
good to me.  

Windows kid: "Windows crashed and I lost my paper."
MacOS 8 kid: "I wonder what a system crash looks like...."
Need I say more?

To be honest, Netscape did crash once, but I just relaunched it and it 
worked fine until the end of the day.  No restarts.  It was probably the 
fault of Netscape's programming, not Apple's.  So the machine never 
crashed.  Wow.  Double-wow.  That in itself is worth the purchase price 
of the OS.

COMPATIBILITY
-------------
Are you worried about compatibility?  Don't be.  Except for a few of 
Alladin's Stuffit utilities (SpaceSaver and Browser) and other similar 
items, MacOS 8 works great with all your existing software.  As a matter 
of fact, I haven't had a single incompatibility other than the Stuffit 
Utilities.  And I use literally hundreds of applications, utilities, 
control panels, extensions, etc.

NEW SOFTWARE
------------
In addition to Apple's new features on MacOS 8, there are a ton of new 
pieces of software coming out that use these new system functions.  I 
just downloaded once that lets me open a file in any application I want 
just by using the contextual menu feature.  That saves me at least 20 
seconds every time I open a file!  Yet another reason to buy MacOS 8 
today!

That's about it.  I've skipped a lot of stuff to keep this article short 
(ha!  Short?).  My review of this new operating system from Apple is a 
solid A-.  No, it's not what they promised years ago with Copland, but 
it's a big step in the right direction.  Apple is really keeping their 
promises, and they're doing one heck of a fine job with customer 
satisfaction.

Always remember: An Apple a day keeps Micro$oft Windoze away!

        - - - - - BUY MACOS 8 TODAY! - - - - -
 
To buy MacOS 8, go to your local software store.  Or you can mail-order 
it through these great Mac companies:

MacWarehouse: 1-800-981-9196  Overnight shipping $3
MacMall: 1-800-222-2808 Overnight Shipping ?? Probably 3

WEBMASTERS TAKE NOTE: Join the MacOS 8 Campaign.  Show your support for 
MacOS 8 by adding a cool button to your homepage.  Go here for details:
   http://www.larisoftware.com/lovemacos8/

Brett L. Nordby
President, WebInnovators
http://www.webinnovators.com/
(219)531-4336

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:55:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Prof. F.M. Hoppe" <hoppe@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: Netpresenz is serving up .html as text.  Solutions?

I recently downloaded and installed Netpresenz after learning
from a telephone repairman who came to fix a bad splice that my phone line
was in fact able to handle 64 kb transmission.  I thought I'd give a whirl
the possibility of being on line live so to speak from my home.  Being
used to an impersonal unix box at work where all the administration is
done by someone else, and with layers of routers between my office and the
world, I was excited by the prospect of broadcasting from home, as well as
being able to do exciting things which my ISP might not allow.

So, with a PowerMac, system 7.5.5, FreePPP, I turned on appletalk,
thereby disconnecting my Color Stylewriter Pro printer (according to the
Netpresenz instructions this is what I had to do.  Can one get aropund
this?) dialed up my ISP, read the assigned ip address in the TCP/IP
window, fired up Netpresenz, configured it for WWW and ftp.  I then opened
a browser window and made an http: connection to my ip address.  Lo and
behold, I was served up the index file in the correct folder, but as a
text file, rather than marked up as it should have displayed.  When I
tried ftp all was fine.

The only thing I did not do, which was part of the instruction set, was to
configure Internet Config, the reason being I have several dial-up
accounts.  I can't believe that was a necessary step.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Could someone tell me perhaps what I
did wrong and why the html documents were being served up in their source,
and what I need to do?

This is really fantastic if it works. (Excuse the euphoria.)
Thanks.

Fred.  
hoppe@mcmaster.ca

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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:44:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Al Bloom <abloom@vt.edu>
Subject: PB5300 Battery (C)


As many of y'all know, I'm much more comfy cursing the darkness than
taking the trouble to light a candle. But I must say a nice word about
the newly available battery for my ancient and decrepit year-old 5300cs.

I noticed the beast in MacWarehouse a month or so back. 3200mAh versus
the 1800mAh from Apple? And cheaper than Apple? Hmmm.

I got interested a couple weeks back. I'd downloaded my Sunday New York
Times crossword puzzle and started on it when Leslye said "It's a lovely
morning. Do it outside." I did. Two hours later (I'm not real good with
such things) the PB gave me a shut-down-or-die warning. Heck, I wasn't
hardly using any resources except the keyboard and trackpad. The next
week's order to Macwarehouse included an ITC Ni-NH battery.

I am happier than a pig in naughtyword. This past Sunday I did the same
thing, but with the new battery. After the same two hours (and with the
same level of success with the NYT puzzle) the battery showed 3/4 charge.
Lordy that's nice!

If the difference were simply 3200 versus 1800 mAh, the ITC battery should
have been below half charge at the two-hour point. It was well above that
if one can believe Apple's gauge. Yee-haw as we southerners are wont to say.

I don't pretend to be MacUser Labs. On the other hand, MacUser Labs hasn't
addressed the issue of PB batteries. To my knowledge.  They seem more concerned
with features than how long one can actually use those features. Your mileage
may vary, and so may mine after a while, but I am more than impressed with
ITC's 3200 mAh Ni-MH battery for the 5300 (and 190) series powerbooks.

I suggest you get one before vendors forget those PBs ever existed.

Al Bloom

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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:41:04 +0100
From: Francis Knight <francis@pinza.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Problems with Disk Copy 6.1.3?

Finding that some of the recent files on Apple's sites obsolete good ol'
Disk Copy 4.2, I got myself a copy of Disk Copy 6.1.3. With every disk
image that I have presented to it, using my trusty IIci/Sys7.5.5, I have
generated an error. And yes, before asking here, I did try to RTFM, with
the results below, because it was in Disk Copy 6.1 format! The calculated
checksum is $FFFFFFFF every time.

With Verify Checksum on:

> 4:56:35 pm Mounting disk image "Disk Copy Manual 6.1.2.img".
> 4:56:35 pm Verifying checksum for "Disk Copy Manual 6.1.2.img".
> Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.2 - Speed: 8.4 Mbytes/s
> 4:56:36 pm NDIF (expecting: $05288CC1, calculated: $FFFFFFFF)
> 4:56:36 pm The Mount Image operation did not complete. (130)
> 4:56:36 pm The checksum of "Disk Copy Manual 6.1.2.img" is INVALID.

With Verify Checksum off:

> 4:55:24 pm Mounting disk image "Disk Copy Manual 6.1.2.img".
> 4:55:26 pm The Mount Image operation did not complete. (-36)
> 4:55:26 pm The disk "Disk Copy Manual 6.1.2.img" has a problem.
                            Please try again or use another disk.

Any clues anybody? Even if you can translate the numeric error codes
from the manual, it would be progress!

Cheers,
Francis

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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 12:20:27 -0500
From: "George S Stripling Jr." <gstripling@mindspring.com>
Subject: submissons

Am I the only one who is finding the overwhelming number of desktop
pictures / kaliedoscope schemes TIRESOME??!!!  Maybe if there was a
seperate list for such submissions... It seems there are hardly any
shareware submissons anymore...

Just a thought...

(g. stripling) gstripling@mindspring.com

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