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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 15 Aug 97 Volume 15 : Issue 170
Today's Topics:
[Q] Disk Copying with Disk Copy 6.1.3
[Q] INIT to power video port at startup w/ no monitor?
Connecting two Macs to Internet using one IP address (Q)
Evading FileGuard 2.5.2
Info-Mac Digest V15 #165
PopupFolder alternative for System 8
Powerbook 180 and System 7.6.1 revisited
Remote Only
What breaks with OS 8.....
Where is "Remote-Only"?
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:09:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Andreas Frick <afr@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: [Q] Disk Copying with Disk Copy 6.1.3
Hello,
it seems to me that the new Disk Copy 6.1.3 from Apple no longer can
simply copy floppies as version 4.2 could. Is this right or can't I
read manuals?
Best regards
Andreas
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Andreas Frick, research assistant, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:49:12 -0800
From: kee nethery <kee@kagi.com>
Subject: [Q] INIT to power video port at startup w/ no monitor?
Has anyone written an INIT that keeps the built-in video port powered up
regardless whether a monitor is attached or not at startup?
I have a bunch of Macs that share a single monitor using a switch box. If
there is no monitor connected to a specific Mac when it gets restarted, it
thinks there is no monitor and it turns off the video port. When you switch
the monitor to that machine, it gets no signal. The only way to get the
video to turn back on is to restart the Mac.
I have tried the Liberty Enhanced Switches and they are not useful with all
monitors and when I have to swap monitors due to a failure, I have to reset
them all to the new monitor or remove them and basically they are not very
satisfying.
Thanks in advance,
Kee Nethery
kee@kagi.com
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:00:57 +0000
From: "Dr. A. D'Emanuele" <Tony@man.ac.uk>
Subject: Connecting two Macs to Internet using one IP address (Q)
Hi,
I have a permanent Internet connection via a cable modem. The cable modem
plugs directly into the ethernt port of my Mac, however, I presently have
it configured so that the cable modem goes to a 5-port ethernet hub and I
have two Macs conencted to the hub. My provider has given me one fixed IP
address, so I can not use two computers on the network at the same time. Is
there a way of getting both computers working off one IP address. I thought
Vicoms SurfDoubler would be a solution but this seems to be configured so
that the Internet connection on one computer has to be either via PPP or
ISDN and does not cater for an ethernet connection via cable modem (it is
not really a modem, it is a Motorola Cybersurfer that connects to the cable
system and connects directly to a computers ethernet port).
Anyone have any ideas how I might get this to work. Please reply directly
if possible. Thanks.
Tony D'Emanuele
Manchester, UK
tony1@ibm.net
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:28:06 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: USS01 <uss01@samford.edu>
Subject: Evading FileGuard 2.5.2
We have some dozen Mac SEs in inventory and after several years are finding new
uses for them. Unfortunately, the Macs were formerly used in student computer
labs, and access to the hard drive is restricted by an extension called
FileGuard 2.5.2, which requires a login ID and password. Of course there is no
record anymore of what the ID and password are. Booting up with the Shift key
pressed does not disable FileGuard.
Are there any alternatives to reformatting the hard drive and starting from
scratch? (Some of the software that is installed on the hard drive cannot be
found anywhere else around here; the floppies have long since gone missing.)
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Rob Collins * Computer Support Assistant * uss01@samford.edu
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:05:28 +1000
From: Ian Davis <davis@licre.ludwig.edu.au>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #165
Sam <sam@cap.dsnet.it> wrote:
>
> I have a Performa 6300 with system 7.5.5 and I use FreePPP 2.5v2.
> I've installed Open Transport 1.1.2 but, if I try to connect with FreePPP,
> this alert appear: "FreePPP can not be used right now because it is not
> selected in the TCP/IP control panel."
> Naturally FreePPP IS selected in the TCP/IP control panel.
> I have the same problem using OT/PPP instead of FreePPP.
I had the same problem. In the Apple Extras folder there is a little
known
program called Network Software Selector. When you run this, select the
button called "Use classic" or something like that. FreePPP will then
work.
This is about as unintuitive as anything I've ever found on the Mac.
Ian Davis davis@wehi.edu.au
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 20:38:43 -0400
From: A BRODY <abrody1@mail.ameritel.net>
Subject: PopupFolder alternative for System 8
Dear Digest reader,
It seems so many people have posted about this problem, I figured I
might mention one of many alternatives. (if anyone hadn't been
following the previous posts, complaints were raised that PopupFolder
doesn't work with System 8)
Binary Software makes a package called Square One 3.0 that works almost
like PopupFolder, if you add folders to the palletes you create with
Square One. It allows hierarchical popup menus from any folder,
auto-open of recent documents openned by any application in the pallete,
and drag and drop moving of files onto portions of the pallete. What's
more is it does not appear to crash at all with System 8, when on few
occasions with earlier system versions it did crash with a Type 1
error. Now granted, Square One doesn't offer popup folders in the
Open/Save dialog boxes like PopupFolder had, but that is minor when you
consider it offers one-click launching, hot-key application switching,
and a window to the Multifinder menu.
So System 8 doesn't totally disable the beauty of all Finder helpers out
there. In some cases it may enhance them.
Point being, if you an application that you know will need System 8,
don't hesitate to get it. Otherwise if it ain't broken don't fix it
by changing the system.
Standard disclaimers apply. I am just an end-user of Square One and
PopupFolder.
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:48:16 +0200
From: Jan Peelaerts <jpeelaer@innet.be>
Subject: Powerbook 180 and System 7.6.1 revisited
I am convinced that the "crashing from sleep" problem is happening to many
of us, powerbook users.
I have a Powerbook 520 C with PPC upgrade card and 24 Mb RAM installed and
encountered the very same problems after upgrading to system 7.6 or 7.6.1.
The powerbook crashes almost always when awaking from sleep since I
installed the upgrade card together with extra RAM (16 MB SIMM instead of 8
MB SIMM).
I reinstalled system 7.5.3 with the CD (US-version) that came with the
upgrade but no difference.
Then I replaced the 16 MB-SIMM in the Powerbook (not from Apple) with the
original Apple 8 MB SIMM and the problems were gone. I had the Powerbook
examined in an Apple Repair Centre and their conclusion was the same as
mine.
So the conclusion is : the kind of SIMM (manufacturer) has his importance.
I went through all the other steps mentioned in your e-mail : low level
formatting with HDT 2.0.6, reinstalling a clean system, etc.
By the way, you can't go back from HDT to the Apple formatting utility just
like that. There is a trick involved, as mentioned in the latest manual
from HDT page 87 : what to do when you would like to remove the FWB-driver
and re-install the Apple driver : reformat the device using HDT
FORMAT-command. When prompted to Create a New Volume, do not continue.
Quit out of HDT. Apple drive formatting software should now be able to
format the drive.
Further, do not use Drive Setup, it is only for PowerPC or for IDE-drives.
You have to use HDSC 7.3.5.
When you use HDT, go to version 2.0.6. It is the latest version and it
should work fine.
Jan Peelaerts
Wochterberg 33
2200 Herentals
BELGIUM
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:13:34 -0700
From: Jon Froines <jonyo@wenet.net>
Subject: Remote Only
To get this extension, you have to download the package called "Open
Transport Extras" (I hope I have the name right) from the same place on
Apple sites that you can download Open Transport. It's in there.
Unfortunately, it's a hefty download of stuff just to get the little Remote
Only extension, well over a meg if I remember correctly.
- JonYo (mailto:jonyo@wenet.net)
(http://www.hooked.net/~jonyo/index.html)
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:24:29 -0400
From: Pat.Ellis@champlaincollege.qc.ca (ellis@champlaincollege.qc.ca)
Subject: What breaks with OS 8.....
>>Then I pressed my luck. Made a Sys8 boot floppy for the old MacTools Pro.
>>Yes, it's a little long of tooth and well out of production, but I've
>>found it useful. Wrong! It booted the 7300 fine, but MT said that it can't
>>run on a Mac with less than System 7. Huh? I suspect its test was "hang
>>it up if System not equal 7" instead of "at least 7."
>>
>>Hope my experience is useful to some of y'all.
>>
>>Al Bloom
>
>Al: yes, as you have painfully found out, both MacTools Pro and any
>version of Norton prior to 3.5.1 breaks with OS 8. So does Copy Doubler.
Strange as it may seem, while MacTools Pro will not run under
MacOS 8, the earlier MacTools 3.0 version does work!
Pat Ellis
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:51:11 -0400
From: "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.buf.servtech.com>
Subject: Where is "Remote-Only"?
>Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.buf.servtech.com> (Tue, 5 Aug 1997):
>
> > you can get an extension from Apple called "Remote Only".
> > This allows you to turn on AppleTalk in a mode that doesn't
> > affect your serial ports. You put this in your extensions
> > folder, then in the Network (under classic) or the
> > AppleTalk (under OT) control panel, select Remote only
> > instead of your printer port.
>
> Could you please help me to find such extension?? I've tried in
>ftp.support.apple.com and other servers from Apple with no success at all.
>Anyone knows the exact URL?
Hi Josep,
Sorry about the delay. Remote only comes with OpenTransport, and is in the
OT Extras folder. You can download the whole extras folder from apple, if
you don't have it. It's big, though, around 2MB for the 1.1.1 Extras (1.1.1
& 1.1.2 both have the same version of Remote Only), so if you have a System
7.5 or higher CD around, you might want to check that first. The URL in
case you still need it is:
<ftp://ftp2.info.apple.com//Apple_Support_Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US/
Macintosh/Networking-Communications/Open_Transport/
OT_1.1.1-Extras.sea.hqx>
Hope this helps,
Mike
Bikers don't *DO* taglines.
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