Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #108 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sun, 08 Jun 97 Volume 15 : Issue 108 Today's Topics: Re: (Q) base64 format (A) Annoying Menu Bar Delay (A) base64 format (Q) Really annoying monitors & sound problem ? game cheats/tips website [A] Networking with Ethernet [Q] PB 140 Question Annoying Menu Bar Delay Annoying Menu Bar Delay Annoying Menu Bar Delay apocryphal etc. Audio from CD's on external CDROM Decode MIME-messages manually Maze game Networking with Ethernet Performa 6400 and MacOS 7.6.1 problems... Public domain electronic texts syquest 270 problems Truly anonymous IRC? Type 1 errors The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, iam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. 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When clicking on the menu bar (any menu) there > is a discernible .5 second delay. This seems minor, but because I access > the menu bar so much (sometimes over a dozen times a minute) that delay > ads up to almost an hour each day! If you have FaxSTF give them a call. They have an upgrade and there is a workaround. << Peter J. Paul >> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 15:16:37 +0200 From: weimann@zib.de (Lutz Weimann) Subject: (A) base64 format In article <5n748m$23n$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu>, digest@info-mac.org wrote: You may use the base64 newswatcher helper program to decode base64-format files. It is available from info-mac, file /info-mac/cmp/ya-base64-129.hqx. -- Lutz Weimann e-mail: weimann@zib.de ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 03:18:11 -0700 From: Jon Froines Subject: (Q) Really annoying monitors & sound problem I've been having this problem for a while. I'm running system 7.6.1 on a PowerMac 7500/150/48MB RAM/512k level 2 cache. When I attempt to open my Monitors and Sound Control Panel, it says that it needs the SystemAV extension, which , according to it, is missing or disabled. Of, course, it IS present, and as far as I can tell from the lovely dancing startup icons, it's loaded as well. I've tried throwing away all the related preferences, reinstalling the 7.6 versions (1.1.2) of both the M&S CP and SystemAV, and re-re-installing the 7.6.1 versions again (1.2). I've even tried mixing them in all 4 possible combinations! I've also rebuilt my desktop, although I didn't expect that to do much. Anyone have any ideas on this? This is keeping me from going in and changing the sound manager output, rendering some of my audio applications unable to access my Digidesign Audiomedia III card. Maybe a good place to start would be to find out somehow whether the SystemAV extension is indeed loading or not. Anyone know of a more precise way of knowing this for sure aside from the seeing an icon at startup without an X on it? I have conflict Catcher 4.0.8, but it really only tells you if the thing is the extensions folder or the disabled extensions folder. This problem has been plaguing me for at least 2 months now. Anyone with any ideas, please email me, so as not to bore all the other mailing-list-reading Macfolks with a problem that no one else seems to be having. TIA... - JonYo (jonyo@wenet.net, http://www.hooked.net/~jonyo) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 04:55:21 -0400 (EDT) From: NCICCHECK@aol.com Subject: ? game cheats/tips website Anyone out ther know of a comprehensive website for game cheats, tips, upgrade/bug fix info? My son is having problems getting past the bomb step in "Star Trek; Klingon Studies" and I have yet to find any info on AOL, or other websites on what the code is to defuse the bomb. Any info would be appreciated Thanks John McGibney NCICCHECK@aol.com NCICCHECK@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:06:30 PDT From: "Randall G. Floyd" Subject: [A] Networking with Ethernet >Hello, > >I had two Mac's with Ethernet here yesterday, and I needed to connect them >to transfer some files. Using AppleTalk is quite slow, so I thought I'd >just use the ethernet cable, it would be fast. But, alas, I couldn't get it >to work. So my question is simple: How would one connect two machines for >file sharing using ethernet? > >Thanks, >David L. Ellis David, A standard Ethernet cable won't work from one computer to another, you need to connect through a hub. You can, however, make a crossover cable which will work, you just have to swap lead 1 with 3 and lead 2 with 6 *I think*. I can't remember for absolute certain which leads you swap, anyone care to verify? The leads are like this (at least how I number them): _____ ______|___|______ | | |1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8| |_______________| That's looking directly at the plug, with the tab on the top and the cable coming out the back. Randall ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 23:59:44 -0400 From: Keith E Gatling Subject: [Q] PB 140 Question After months of salivating over and lusting for it, a friend of mine finally bought a new PB 1400 and has given me her old PB 140. I had planned to use this machine with system 7.01 so that I could still run Deluxe Music Construction Set (which dies under subsequent versions of System 7) and hook it up to my sound box. The only problem with this is that if I'm not constantly moving the trackball while I'm playing a piece, it starts to trip all over itself and the notes being sent to the sound box get all jumbled. At first I figured it was a "sleep" problem, so I reset that to wait for 15 minutes of inactivity, but that didn't help. Then I tried setting it to never sleep when the machine was plugged in. That helped just as much, so I'm back to continually moving the trackball around...which severely limits how much piano I can play at the same time. Does anyone know what's causing this? Does anyone know of a solution to this? Or do I just have to wait to buy back the old LC that I donated to the school at their "Barn Sale" sometime next year (I *know* it worked okay on that machine)? Thanks a lot! keg * mailto://kgatling@ican.net http://www.rochester.ican.net/~kgatling * ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 97 17:22:09 -0500 From: Lanny Chambers Subject: Annoying Menu Bar Delay On 6/5/97 14:32, Info-Mac (info-mac@starnine.com) wrote: >Every since one of the System 7.5 updates came out there has been an >annoying menu bar delay. When clicking on the menu bar (any menu) there >is a discernible .5 second delay. This seems minor, but because I access >the menu bar so much (sometimes over a dozen times a minute) that delay >ads up to almost an hour each day! > >Does anyone know of any patch or system utility that can get rid of this >annoying delay? Such delays are usually caused by one or more extensions that add functions to the menubar, such as hierarchical menus or little icon doodads. Some of these are nice to have, but each one exacts its price in the form of a performance hit. You might also try reducing the bit depth of your monitor to 256 colors, for faster all-around screen painting. Lanny Chambers (lanny@derived.com) St. Louis, USA Visit the Hummingbird Page: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 23:11:32 -0700 From: Chris Schram Subject: Annoying Menu Bar Delay On Wed, 4 Jun 97, "Brett L. Nordby" wrote: >Every since one of the System 7.5 updates came out there has been an >annoying menu bar delay. When clicking on the menu bar (any menu) there >is a discernible .5 second delay. This seems minor, but because I access >the menu bar so much (sometimes over a dozen times a minute) that delay >ads up to almost an hour each day! > >Does anyone know of any patch or system utility that can get rid of this >annoying delay? Thanks! A subtle extension conflict maybe? Do you still get the delay when running with either all extensions disabled or just Apple extensions enabled? If not, try adding back a few at a time and see how things change. Chris Schram -- schram@mail.coos.or.us -- http://www.coos.or.us/~schram ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 23:53:04 -0800 From: Mike Blackwell Subject: Annoying Menu Bar Delay It sounds more like the delay is due to some other component, perhaps a third-party utility, rather than the system itself. God knows my own Mac has similar delays, but I believe it's due to Now Menus, Now WYSIWYG Menus, Menuette, or any of a dozen processor hogs. Try rebooting with the Shift key down and see if the delay disappears. Then gradually add in the third party stuff and see what causes it. I'm betting you'll find it's a combination of several: one adds a tenth of a second, another adds a fifth of a second, and so on. It creeps up on you, much like shareware in general. :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:23:24 +1000 From: Bill Stanford Subject: apocryphal etc. >From Info-Mac Digest V15 #104, ax058@freenet.toronto.on.ca... Florin >If you consider that the time spent in converting it to setext is worth some >recognition, make a donation to your favourite charity. These texts are marvellous to have! And Easy View setext is a great way to read them. Your group deserves everyone's thanks for these! bill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:57:09 +0100 From: Ephraim Fithian Subject: Audio from CD's on external CDROM Eric Jennings writes >>>programs no sound will come out of the speakers. Both programs recognize >>>audio disks and behave as if they are playing them but no sound can be >>>heard. I am chiefly baffled because the audio works great on all other >>>types of CD's. >I'm not using external speakers. Audio from interactive CD Roms works fine >through the internal Mac speaker - it is only the Audio CD's which are >silent. I'm thinking there must be a software fix... I have tried using >Apple's Audio CD extension as well as HDT's CD extension. Same results. The line-level outputs on the back of the external CDROM need to be plugged into a pair of amplified speakers such as the AR or Altec ones. You can then hear the audio CD's through those speakers. The volume can be controlled from the Audio Player software. You will not be able to hear the Mac sounds through these speakers. Mac sounds will only go to the Mac speaker or the external audio output. So, you really need 4 speakers; 2 for the audio CDROM; 2 for the Mac. If you have a built-in CDROM you can play the audio CD's through the Mac speaker(s) and the external audio output. AV Macs have separate line-level outputs that can be used with amplified speakers. You also get other options in the Sound or Sound and Monitors control panel with an internal CDROM. You can record the audio CD sound directly to the Mac hard drive, for instance. Ephraim Fithian http://www.epix.net/~fithian 700/25MHz/69MB/1GB/2VRam/17se2/GV33.6/ZIP/CD12/CSWP-PS/Epson C800 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jun 97 13:10:09 +0100 From: Klaus Schnathmeier Subject: Decode MIME-messages manually Hi, from time to time I get mails with MIME-encoded characters (Umlauts), that had been received by a non-MIME capable email-client. Right now, I found no way to decode these messages to the normal Macintosh charset, while they are already on my desktop. It's certainly no solution to ask the original sender for retransmittal, so I can re-receive them with another client. Any hint for a small conversion utility? Klaus --- Klaus Schnathmeier ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 13:15:50 -0300 From: Alain Chabot Subject: Maze game Hi, my 6 year old fell in love with the classic maze game that came with the early macs. I wonder where I can get a copy of that. Will it work on newer machines? The copy he played with was running on a Mac Plus (ex original Mac) driving system 7. [no floppy handy and in a hurry explains why I did not simply copy it off]. Are there other such games available? Alain Alain Chabot : Mais tu n'es pas le bon dieu : Universite Sainte-Anne : Toi, tu es beaucoup mieux : Church Point, N.S. : Tu es un homme. : Canada : Jacques Brel : ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:10:47 -0600 From: Julius Friede Subject: Networking with Ethernet First off it depends on which two Macs and, consequently, the flavor of Ethernet each has. If they are both newer Macs and have 10BaseT installed (large telephone style connector), and if you don't want to buy a hub, you need a crossover cable (the opposite of a pass-through) cable. This means the opposite ends of the cable have the wires flopped in relation to the pins. Standard Ethernet cables are made assuming a hub is used, which takes care of that problem. If one of your Macs is AAUI (15 pin din style connector), you will need a transceiver to convert it to 10BaseT. Farallon (and probably others) make them and they are available everywhere for about $40. You still need a crossover cable. You could also buy a small hub for about $70 and have two or three empty slots for future use and you can use premade, standard cables. You would still need a transceiver or two depending on the type of Ethernet you have. If both Macs are AAUI, I suppose you could get a cable made, but I've never used that configuration. I hope this helps. Julius ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:47:05 PDT From: "Randall G. Floyd" Subject: Performa 6400 and MacOS 7.6.1 problems... Hi, I have a friend who recently bought a Performa 6400 and has recently upgraded to system 7.6.1. He began having quite a few problems (freezes, etc.) right after doing it and is now trying a clean install to see if that improves things. I know about the cache-reset extension but is there any other thing like that which could be causing problems? I don't know specifics about his machine right now, so I'm just looking for any kind of general known conflicts (like the cache-reset extension or specific apps). Thanks, Randall Floyd ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:03:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Florin Neumann Subject: Public domain electronic texts I uploaded recently to Info-Mac a series of public domain electronic texts converted to setext format. For reasons I don't quite understand, some abstracts have appeared in the Info-Mac digest under modified or erroneous subject lines. To clear up the confusion, here's a complete list of these uploads. All of them are in the directory. Aesop ----- Two variants of English translations of Aesop's fables. Ancient Poems and Ballads ------------------------- "Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England", compiled by James Henry Dixon. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle --------------------- Ingram's translation of "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". Old Testament Apocrypha ----------------------- A selection of apocryphal texts of the Old Testament including, among others, the books of Esdras, Tobit, Judith, ben-Sirach, and Enoch. Charlemagne ----------- English translation of Einhard's "Life of Charlemagne". Decline and Fall ---------------- Edward Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", with notes by H.H. Milman. Democracy in America -------------------- English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America". Devil's Dictionary ------------------ Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary" Selections from Charles Dickens ------------------------------- Containing: * A Christmas Carol * Great Expectations * Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices * Our Mutual Friend * Sketches by Boz Erasmus' "Praise of Folly" -------------------------- English translation of Erasmus' "Moriae encomium [The Praise of Folly]". Marlowe's Dr Faustus -------------------- Christopher Marlowe's "Tragical Historie of Doctor Faustus" (text from the 1616 quarto). Works of Flavius Josephus ------------------------- English translations of works by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus: * "The Antiquities of the Jews" * "The Wars of the Jews" * "Contra Apion" * "Life of Flavius Josephus" * "Discourse on Hades" Les fleurs du mal ----------------- **In French/texte en francais** French language text of "Les fleurs du mal" by Charles Baudelaire (1861 edition) Iliad and Odyssey ----------------- Samuel Butler's prose translations of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". Jefferson --------- E. Ellis' life of Thomas Jefferson, plus some notes and anecdotes about him. Jerome's Idle Thoughts ---------------------- Jerome K. Jerome's "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow". KJV --- The full text of the King James Version (aka Authorised Version) of the Bible. Lewis Carroll ------------- Three works by Lewis Carroll: * "Alice in Wonderland" * "Through the Looking Glass" * "Hunting of the Snark" Litterature francaise --------------------- **In French/texte en francais** A small selection of French literary texts (in French/en francais): * . . . . . . . . . . Declaration des Droits &c. * Corneille . . . . . Le Cid * Cyrano. . . . . . . Voyage dans la Lune &c. * Anatole France. . . Barbe Bleue * La Rochefoucault. . Maximes * Laclos. . . . . . Liaisons dangereuses * Mallarme. . . . . . Poesies * Moliere . . . . . . L'Avare * . . . . . . Dom Juan * . . . . . . L'Ecole des femmes * . . . . . . Scapin * . . . . . . Tartuffe * Rabelais. . . . . . Gargantua * Rostand. . . . . . Cyrano de Bergerac * Tallemant. . . . . Historiettes * Voltaire. . . . . . Candide * Zola. . . . . . . . J'accuse A Mixed Bag of Eng. Lit. ------------------------ A mixed selection of English literary texts. It consists of: * John Bunyan -- "Pilgrim's Progress" * John Cleland -- "Fanny Hill" * Mary Shelley -- "Frankenstein" * Jonathan Swift -- "A Modest Proposal" * R. L. Stevenson -- "Familiar Studies of Men & Books" Moby Shakespeare ---------------- The Moby edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Origin of the Species --------------------- Full text of Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species". Plato & Aristotle ----------------- Three texts of classical philosophy: Plato's "Crito" and "The Republic", and Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics". A Selection of Poems in English ------------------------------- Including poems by William Blake, Robert Browning, Robbie Burns, Samuel T. Coleridge, William Henry Drummond, Omar Khayyam, Rudyard Kipling, John McCrae, Carl Sandburg, Robert Service, Alfred lord Tennyson, and William Butler Yeats. Popular Delusions ----------------- The second volume of Charles Mackay's "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions" (including the Crusades and the Witch Mania). Volpone ------- Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (text from the 1607 quarto). Wealth of Nations ----------------- Adam Smith's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" [end of list] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 16:54:06 +0100 From: ponte@usa.net Subject: syquest 270 problems Sometimes when i'm working with my Syquest,the cartidge that is in unexpectedly unmount. But not at all, Syquest seems to round slowly... and then faster and it try to remount the cartridge. Sometimes it remount and sometimes not. But i cannot work with the syquest that operate in this way forever. Somebody can help me? I hope is a software problem because sometime it works fine. Thank you for your help ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 23:16:32 -0800 From: Mike Blackwell Subject: Truly anonymous IRC? I know it's possible to conceal your username from a IRC client, but I've yet to find a way to conceal your ISP location. Can it be done, and if so, how? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 22:21:25 -0600 From: Robert Stevens Subject: Type 1 errors I had the same experience. Try the 7.6.1 upgrade; it has improved my system reliability. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************