Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #39 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sun, 11 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 39 Today's Topics: [*] SnapMail 3.0 [Q] Apple CD/DVD driver; [R] x-platform prob's Adobe Illustrator v.8 & Fonts Can a G4 533 use a shared serial printer? CD Labeling software CD labels - a warning IP Forwarding iTunes with OS8, Re: System 9.1 on Wall Street G3 LaCie Silverlining Updater and Mac OS 9.1 NFS Printer output to Mac screen Sherlock quit working on IE 5 The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #39" ------------------------------ Date: 9 Mar 2001 From: Adam King To: Subject: [*] SnapMail 3.0 SnapMail is the complete chat, messaging and communication application for your Mac office. Using peer-to-peer technology on your local network, SnapMail keeps all of your messages and documents safely in-house. It doesn't require a mail server, Internet connection, or any administration. Send messages, files, and voice mail instantly. Combining an intuitive user interface with trouble-free installation and maintenance, SnapMail offers a dynamic and friendly mail system for Macintosh networks. ** Easy to Install and Use ** SnapMail is plug and play software. It installs in a minute and is immediately usable. SnapMail configures itself and finds other users on the network. No system administration is ever needed. ** Powerful and Flexible ** SnapMail features include The Essentials... * Send attachments with your mail (including files, folders, and the clipboard). * Search for old mail items with find. * Use multiple addressing options including To, cc, and bcc. * Request return receipts to find out when your mail is read. * Reply to mail sent to you or forward it to others. * Customize SnapMail with many preferences. * Add optional Internet connectivity using InterSnapTM. * Restrict access to your mail with various levels of password security. * Create folders to organize your mail. * Track mail that you have sent with a delivery log and a delivery log window. * Keep track of people and give them nicknames using your address book. * Create groups, which allow you to send mail to a number of people with one easy selection ... And Much More [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/snap-mail-30.hqx; 1934 K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:01:08 -0500 From: Donald Webb To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Apple CD/DVD driver; [R] x-platform prob's 1. Crashed driver OS 8.6, PowerBook G3: Yesterday my Apple CD/DVD driver turned up foul and corrupt. I've poked around on the net, mainly the Apple and VersionTracker sites, but have been able to find nothing of the same name. Instead, I did find the "Apple CD-ROM 5.4" extension, which seems to work. However, it is two years older than the other. Can I get by with the older extension in the long run? If not, is the later one available elsewhere on line? 2. About the cross-platform difficulties I mentioned in an earlier digest: Apparently, the technicians are using Quicktime and are doing all they can to make a hybrid educational CD. The problem is not really with Mac programming or anything of that nature, as far as I can make out. They're just plain running out of space. There's not only a 15-minute film but also a lot of other sound files and video clips. Ideally, a DVD disk would be best, but they have to consider that not all potential users would have that. Don Webb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:48:00 -0500 From: Kazik Stys To: Subject: Adobe Illustrator v.8 & Fonts Illustrator does not recognize all the fonts that are in my Fonts folder which is located, of course, in System folder. All the fonts in in my Font folder are True Type. Is there a remedy to rectify it? Kazik Stys ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:46:18 -0800 From: tryan@home.com (Thom Ryan) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Can a G4 533 use a shared serial printer? Greetings I'm having difficulty sharing a Color SW 2500 between three Macs (G4 533, PB 3400 and PM 8500) running OS9.1 The Macs are connected via ethernet (MacSense XH-120 Router) and easily share large files and an internet connection. The printer is connected to the PM 8500 serial printer port and works without problem. The PB 3400 shares this printer normally. "Share this printer" is chosen in the Chooser and also appears in the G4s Chooser which reports that the fonts on both machines are identical. An application on the G4 (Appleworks, SimpleText) will attempt to print to this shared printer and an icon appears next to its desktop printer. The Finder then interrupts and gives a "File not found." error message. No print job ever appears in the queue of the 8500's desktop printer. If the G4s print monitor queue is "stopped" then the print jobs will accumulate without error but, when started, the Finder error message returns and there is no printing. I have verified the ColorSync files and am now baffled. The G4 has had the Mac OSX beta installed and run but is not the startup disk. What am I missing? Can a G4 533 use a shared serial printer? Is there a conflict with the USB printer sharing? TIA for any helpful reply. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:35:19 -0600 From: "Matthew W. Schmeer" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: CD Labeling software Try The Disk Label Printer Pro 1.2 --> $25 shareware. http://www.payplaysoftware.com/ It has templates for: Avery CD-R labels [#5824] Avery CD/DVD labels [#5931 and #8931] Avery Address labels 1" x 2.625" [#5160, #5960, #8160, #8460, and #8660] Avery Address labels 1" x 4" [#5161, #5261, and #8161] Avery Address labels 1.33" x 4" [#5162, #8162, #8656, #8462, and #8662] Avery Return Address labels 0.75" x 2.25" [#8257 and #8760] Avery Small Return Address labels 0.5" x 1.75" [#5267, #8167, #8567, and #8667] Avery Labels for Zip Disks [#5925 and #8925] CD Stomper Pro CD labels Neato CD/DVD labels (2 labels per page) Neato Floppy Disk labels Neato Zip Disk labels Memorex CD/DVD labels Additional Plug-Ins available free for download from their web site include: Avery Shipping Labels (6) [#5164, #5264, #5664, and #6464] Avery Shipping Labels (10) [#5163, #5263, #5663, and #5963] Avery Audio Tape labels [#5198 and #5998] Avery Video Tape Face labels [#5199 and #5997] Avery Video Tape Spine labels [#5199 and #5997] and Neato VHS Spine labels These guys also make the Ultimate Label Printer Pro 5.5.1 Regards, Matthew W. Schmeer ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:54:05 -0500 From: "abrody@smart.net" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: CD labels - a warning Dear Digest readers, This tale comes from the dark side...all my CDs with labels became unreadable, because they cause too much imbalance on my CD drive. If you must label the CD, give it a number using a felt tip marker, nowhere near any edges inside or out. And use of course the jacket that usually comes in the jewel box to associate that number with the disk. After that happened I decided to chunk out all the CD labels I got as I saw they were a waste of money and sticking to all my papers. And this was Avery CD labels. I am very skeptical that the current stompers will really stomp solid enough you won't have problems in the future. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Come visit an internet index of 14 topics and over 800 links at: http://www.index-site.com/ All links verified monthly. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:21:30 -0800 From: Bill Rausch To: skawalko@pop.dnvr.uswest.net, Kee Nethery Subject: IP Forwarding Thanks for the help. The OT Advanced Tuner program shows that YES the Macs are set up for IP Forwarding by default (although it only applies if multiple network adapters are active in the box). This apparently means that when/if a user dials out via SLIP or PPP that the potential exists for a potential exploit through that Mac to the other boxes on the local area network. Bill --- Bill Rausch, Software Development, Unix, Mac, Windows Numerical Applications, Inc. 509-943-0861 bill@numerical.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:27:11 -0500 From: Anne Judge To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: iTunes with OS8, Re: System 9.1 on Wall Street G3 There's a patch that is supposed to make iTunes work with 8.6. It's currently at http://www.geocities.com/bluntedboy/iTunes.html but it seems to be moving around ("server problems") - it was somewhere else when I downloaded it. Reports on VersionTracker are that it works well. I haven't tried it yet. Anne > Paul Brians wrote: > > > I'm thinking about upgrading my Wall Street G3 to System 9.1 so I can > > run iTunes on it. It's now running 8.6.ù ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:08:52 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: LaCie Silverlining Updater and Mac OS 9.1 > LaCie Silverlining Updater and Mac OS 9.1 (C) > From: > > Christian F Buser > Date: > > Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:14:08 +0100 > To: > > Info-Mac Digest > > > Ted Logan wrote > > >> LaCie has two Silverlining Updaters online for Mac OS 9.1, but I have >> been told to use *only* Silverlining Updater 6.4 with Mac OS 9.1. Do >> not use Updater 6.3.2, which has Airport (and maybe other) problems. >> >> Don't know why LaCie doesn't remove the bad updater from their >> site > > > Well maybe the earlier version is okay for earlier OS versions, and > the newer would not work there? > > >> And I was told that Silverlining Updater 6.4 has not been designed to >> work with Mac OS X. > > > Just the Updater won't work under OS X, or the updated application > won't be usable? I thought that OS X offers a "classic" MacOS > environment for applications which don't run natively on OS X? At > least that's what we were told here. Most applications, like Photoshop, ClarisWorks, etc, yes. Utilities like disk formatters will not work in classic mode under OSX. Why would you want to, OSX hadnles the disk stuff, and it's considerably different 'under the hood' than the Classic environment. Anything that messes directly with the Mac hardware (Nortons Utilities, TechTool Pro, SpeedDisk, Disk Warrior, etc) MUST be rewritten to function under OSX. The Mac Classic environment in OSX is, in many ways, like running SoftPC to use a Windows app on a current Mac. It's enormously faster, of course, because you're not emulating an entire machine, just parts of the OS, and it lets you have multiple windows (the original version did not) but you're _emulating_ the Mac OS nontheless. There's no Classic Mac disks in an OSX installation for these utilities to work on. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:39:52 -0800 From: Doug Hardie To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: NFS Is there a NFS client available for Mac? I didn't find any in the info-mac archive. -- -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:07:14 -0800 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: "info-mac letters" Subject: Printer output to Mac screen Saint John wrote: > At 16:33 -0500 3/7/01, Trebor Nesnarf wrote: >>I have been using a so-called Receiver Multi-Reader (a radio readout >>device) what has a Centronics 25 pin printer output. Not willing to connect >>a printer to it since it would waste great amounts of paper does any one >>know how to connect this Centronics printer output to a Mac so that it >>shows up on the screen?? I think it can be done but how. > It's probably going to require some tweaking, but my guess is that it can > be done. > First thing to do is to connect the thing. There are parallel to serial > adapters available; you may need a parallel to USB connector, depending on > your Mac. Griffin Technologies can help with either of these: > . > Next thing is to run a terminal emulator such as ZTerm. I know it's possible > to get it to use the serial port to connect to a device, but never having done > it myself, I can only wish you good luck. I have not seen a "parallel-to-serial" adapter, and don't see why such would have been made (but, then, I don't know everything). Also, I have never found a "paralell-to-USB" adapter. On the other hand, there are serial-to-parallel adapters, so that a Mac serial port can drive a parallel printer. But the ones I have seen are one-way data flow (from serial to parallel), and probably will not let data flow the other direction. Same for USB-to_parallel (from a USB port to a parallel printer). I checked Griffin web site, and did not find such an adapter. I don't think "sending" parallel data "to" a serial or USB connector is going to be a simple thing to do. Even if one constructed the proper adapter, there might still be a matter of driver software to write for it. Still, if there is a solution to that problem, I would be interested in knowing about it. Cyrus W. Roton MITA tech Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:04:41 -0800 From: Jim Robertson To: "Andy Dannelley" , Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5 On 3/8/01 10:06 AM, Andy Dannelley at dannell@primenet.com stated >A couple of days ago I noticed that the Sherlock Icon/option on IE 5 was >greyed out. Happened to me, too. I don't know the reason. 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