Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #51 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 22 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 51 Today's Topics: [*] SwitchBack 3.3 [*] SwitchBack 3.3J - Japanese Version [*] Thumbnailer 1.0 PPC Byte for Byte file comparison I love info-mac! OS9.1 + Word 4 = strangeness Postscript Files 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. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #51" ------------------------------ Date: 22 Mar 2001 From: David Davies-Payne To: Subject: [*] SwitchBack 3.3 SwitchBack makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders to compare, and SwitchBack does the rest, quickly and painlessly. SwitchBack has been widely used since 1992. Beta testing of SwitchBack for MacOS X is available to registered users. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/switch-back-33.hqx; 280 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Mar 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] SwitchBack 3.3J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the SwitchBack package. SwitchBack is a file synchronization and backup utility. SwitchBack makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders to compare, and SwitchBack does the rest, quickly and painlessly. The two folders can reside on the same or different disks, or on two computers connected by a network, or even over the Internet. You can ask SwitchBack to tell you in detail what it is doing, or let it go to work, only advising you when there's a problem. SwitchBack requires at least MacOS 8.5. Change in version 3.3: *Compatible with the Classic environment of MacOS X *Up to twice as fast as previous versions *Creates an internal buffer of files to copy to accelerate the synchronization *Requires OS 8.5 or greater, using the Appearance manager *If a scheduled document can not be found an option is offered to remove from list *Displays MB/min rate during synchronization *Maximum log size now 1 MB *Can now define actions following a scheduled start *Shows a popup menu path when clicking on the source or destination folder display *Registration info is saved in preferences file for OS X compatibilty *Deletes obsolete folders even if there are no files to delete *Creates new folders even if there are no files to update *Reported and known bugs fixed. Compiled with CodeWarrior Pro 5.3. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/switch-back-33-jp.hqx; 225 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Mar 2001 From: "Rodolfo W. Zitellini" To: Subject: [*] Thumbnailer 1.0 PPC Thumbnailer is an application that helps you make thumbnails, and web pages containing them. Think of having a lot of images that you want to put on the internet. You have to scale them down and then create an HTML document containing a table with the thumbnails. Thumbnailer does all this for you - by simply dragging a folder. Sys reqs: A PPC based computer system 7.5.5 Quicktime 5 Megs of RAM web: http://www.twzsoft.com e-mail: rwe@kagi.com [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/thumbnailer-10-ppc.hqx; 943 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:29:59 -0800 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Byte for Byte file comparison Gerry wrote: >>I am wondering if there is a utility that will compare any two files or >>any two folders of files to verify whether they are identical in content >>and directory structure inside of the folders. I would want to utility to >>read and compare the files as raw bytes regardless of the actual file >>format, both data and resource forks, and indicate which pairs of files >>are different. > > Verifile. > It only tells you whether the files are identical--Yes or no. Yes! Also, one might do a search on the InfoMac archives. For example, a search on "compare" might yield ResCompare 2.6. One might download it and try it. Could be just what is needed. It does some detailed comparing. It compares two files, but, I don't think it does batch comparing. Cyrus W. Roton MITA tech Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:40:05 -0600 From: "Gib Henry" To: "'Timothy S. Watson'" , Subject: I love info-mac! >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:57:56 -0500 >From: "Timothy S. Watson" >To: digest@info-mac.org >Subject: I love info-mac! > >Golly, my life would be made much easier if each submission >to the archive were accompanied with a link to the item in >the archive, so I didn't have to write things down. I would >use the archive much more, I am sure. > >Keep up the good work. First off, there are LOTS of Info-Mac mirrors and the digesters can't know which one works best for you, so the links are in a partial format which you can use with your preferred mirror. The links used to work auto-magically with Easy View and Anarchie pre-3.8 which would fill in your preferred mirror and its path to the Info-Mac directory, but the feature was removed in Interarchy. I understand from Interarchy Software that they plan to add back the feature in the next release. Cheers, ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:30:32 -0800 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: "info-mac letters" Subject: OS9.1 + Word 4 = strangeness Geoffrey Heard wrote: > Don Mackie wrote: >> >> Having installed OS9.1 my trusty old Word 4 has taken to behaving oddly. >> Mainly, the keyboard commands no longer work, I have to do everything by >> mouse. Anybody come across this or got any ideas - apart from upgrading >> to a newer version of Word that is.... > In all seriousness, Don, I would be looking at a new WP. I run G3, > OS9.1, and have Weird 5.1a on board for translation purposes with > MS's 97-2000 freebie translator, but I have received reports from > some others that daily use of this version throws up faults too. In > addition, the installer won't work any longer. > > Another choice would be AppleWorks -- not nearly as sophisticated as > a WP, but the GREATEST mail merge machine in existence and a super > integrated program. Lets face it, Word 4 is a bit obsolete. Word 5.1, on the other hand works great for me, even under OS 9.1. There are a lot of problems with OS 9.1, but I have found no problem at all using Word 5.1 with it. Also, the installer (on original 800K floppies) still works fine too (I tested it today, just to be sure). As for AppleWorks (ClarisWorks), it's OK, if your needs are not too demanding, but I need such features as tables and drop-caps and flexible find-and-replace. I would hate to have to give up Word 5.1. I have Word 6 and Office 98, but I prefer Word 5.1 for most of my WP uses. Of course, you could go back to OS 9.04, unless you specifically need the improvements, for example in USB and FireWire, offered by 9.1. I have not found any advantage to 9.1 with my equipment (Umax C600, G3 card, USB card, Ethernet card, and a bunch of SCSI externals). But, a real problem might be in getting a copy of Word 5.1, since it no longer is commercially available. Of course, you might find someone who will give you a copy :-) Cyrus W. Roton MITA tech Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 01 10:49:52 +0000 From: Alex Brown To: "Info-Mac" Subject: Postscript Files This might be a bit of silly question but.... Could anyone tell me of a program that would allow me to convert postscript (.ps) files into PICT (or even JPEG) graphics. Thanks in advance. Alex Brown. ===================================================================== | Alex Brown ||e-mail: abrown@nimr.mrc.ac.uk | | MRC-T, || : abrown@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk | | 1-3 Burtonhole Lane, ||tel.: +44 (0)20 8 906 3811 x 6137 | | Mill Hill, London NW7 1AD. UK.||fax.: +44 (0)20 8 906 1395 | ===================================================================== -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************