Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #189 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 03 Sep 97 Volume 15 : Issue 189 Today's Topics: (Q) Mac OS 8 [A] Changing list-view in Mac OS 8? [A] Changing list-view in Mac OS 8? [A]: Changing list-view in Mac OS 8? [Q] "Turing" Language for Macintosh? (CodeWarrior??) MacPPP (Best of PPP) 2.2.0 problem Powerbook demands disk [A] Q Tiled Icons on CD-ROMS Q: Powerbook demands disk Video Card for the PB3400? The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, Liam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. 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We'd also like to thank AOL, who has supplied the hardware the main info-mac machine runs on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #189" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 17:21:50 -0700 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) Mac OS 8 I've just installed Mac OS 8, having used previously 7.6. Just a couple of questions for an Info-Mac savant. 1) What is the Text Encoding Converter for? What are all the text encoding files in Preferences for? Are either necessary? 2) I found, relative to 7.6, that there was a noticeable delay in the drawing of the contents of a folder when the folder is opened. Anyone else notice this? Any way to speed up the window drawing process? Thanks in advance! Mark Allen Mark.Allen@jpl.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 06:44:38 PDT From: "Randall G. Floyd" Subject: [A] Changing list-view in Mac OS 8? Dave, Make the window the active window and select 'View Options' from the 'View' menu. On the right-hand side of the dialog box you'll see check boxes to turn on/off the different columns. Uncheck the 'Date Modified' and 'Date Created' columns and the 'Size' column will be second. I don't think you can reorder the columns with straight OS8. >Is there a way to change list-view in Mac OS 8? I'd like to get rid of, or >replace/ rearange the "Date Modified" column and have list view display the >"Size" of my files in it's second column. > >Dave van Dijk >Leidsekade 71-2 >106DA Amsterdam >+ 20 6238694 >exotica@xs4all.nl Randall G. Floyd ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 17:46:00 +0200 From: Dave van Dijk Subject: [A] Changing list-view in Mac OS 8? Randall G. Floyd wrote: >Dave, > >Make the window the active window and select 'View Options' from the 'View' >menu. On the right-hand side of the dialog box you'll see check boxes to >turn on/off the different columns. Uncheck the 'Date Modified' and 'Date >Created' columns and the 'Size' column will be second. I don't think you >can reorder the columns with straight OS8. > >>Is there a way to change list-view in Mac OS 8? I'd like to get rid of, or >>replace/ rearange the "Date Modified" column and have list view display the >>"Size" of my files in it's second column. >Randall G. Floyd > Maurice Mike McNeil wrote; > Click on the folder window and select View Options, looks just like >the old View control Panel except this is specific to each folder. You must >be in the "view as list" mode to get the list of options. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ Thanx! I'll have a talk with my optician. Really stupid to overlook this feature. Now does one of you happen to know how to get rid of the zooming rectangles? For obvious reasons Secret Finder Features and Hidden Finder Features don't do the trick with the completly rewritten Finder 8.0. I remembered an old ResEdit hack - one of the first I did after I started to work with Macs, two and a half year ago - found in "ResEdit Complete" by Peter Alley and Carolyn Strange (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-62686-1) It goes like this: - Open (a copy of) the Finder - Open CODE resource ID=4 - Find Hex $4E56FFE048E71F38 replace it with - Hex $700A205FDEC04ED0 (This are all zeroes, not the letter O) At the time this worked perfect. Yesterday I opened (a copy of) Finder 8.0 in Nortons Disk Editor (the resource fork doesn't contain the CODE resource ID=4 no more) and I found at sector $484 of the data fork at offset $0B0 the same string starting with $4E56...., replaced it with the string starting with $700A....., saved the changes, replaced the original Finder with the hacked one, restarted and found the hack working somewhat, a little bit. It could be my imagination, but I estimate the zooming decreases about 50%(??). It's certainly not gone though. Mysteries and questionsmarks. Food for thought, sure, but I cann't digest it at this moment. I'll start digging into usenet eventually, not one of my favorite means of passing the time, so if one of you got any ideas, please let me know Dave Dave van Dijk Leidsekade 71-2 106DA Amsterdam + 20 6238694 exotica@xs4all.nl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 12:03:37 -0700 From: Maurice Mike McNeil Subject: [A]: Changing list-view in Mac OS 8? Click on the folder window and select View Options, looks just like the old View control Panel except this is specific to each folder. You must be in the "view as list" mode to get the list of options. -----|----- 0-0 (_)+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 97 20:18:57 -0400 From: Andrew Murray Subject: [Q] "Turing" Language for Macintosh? (CodeWarrior??) Hi, I am taking a computer programming course this year in High School, and we will be using the Turing language (developed for education) to work with. I would like to know if there is any Turing development packages available for Macintosh, that would preferably be able to save projects as PC/DOS executables as well as being able to run them on the Mac. (All the computers there are PCs.) Or even better, since I have CodeWarrior Gold (9), it would be great if there was an extension to CW that allowed it to use the Turing language to create Macintosh and PC programs. Thanks for your help, Andrew Murray, amurray@kos.net P.S. Please send replies directly to my e-mail address (as well as posting to the list if you wish). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 17:26:33 +0100 (BST) From: philippa carr Subject: MacPPP (Best of PPP) 2.2.0 problem Hi, I have a Mac Performa 6400/200 running System 7.5.5 with OT 1.1.2 and MacPPP (Best of PPP) 2.2.0 using a GeoPort Express modem. I can establish a ppp connection and work successfully and then either hard or soft close the connection. When I attempt to open a consecutive session the open button does not respond and it is necessary for me to restart the mac in order to open a ppp connection. The original problem I had was that I couldn't close my ppp connection and had to reboot my mac to do it - I upgraded to OT 1.1.2 and this brought me to the current problem. I've tried out other versions of PPP including Steve Dagley's FreePPP but this fails to negotiate the connect procedure despite me trying out numerous variations of the login script. Has anyone got any help, tips or comments? Thanks, Philippa Carr University College Dublin Ireland ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 08:57:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Davefales1@aol.com Subject: Powerbook demands disk [A] In a message dated 8/31/97 3:48:17 PM, gibhenry@realpeople.com (Gib Henry) wrote: <<>From: Davefales1@aol.com >Subject: Q: Powerbook demands disk > >Hi- > I have a Powerbook 540C running System 7.5. Whenever I restart, before I can >reach the desktop, a dialog box prompts me to insert a specific floppy disk ( >an old one that I no longer even use.) >If I hit "cancel", the dialog box goes away, and I'm at the desktop. How can >I prevent this dialog box from showing up every time I reboot? Check the Startup Items folder in the System Folder. Does it contain any aliases? Hope this helps. Cheers, -- Gib Henry>> That worked! I had put an alias of Darkside in the startup folder without transferring the original to my hard disk. THANKS- -df ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 08:06:22 +0100 From: Roland Whitehead Subject: Q Tiled Icons on CD-ROMS A client wants me to include their logo in the main Finder window of a CD I'm preparing for them - you know, the type of thing that Adobe started using and now everyone is catching on with. I can't find what tool is used to split up an image into all those 32x32 pixel icons. Surely its not done by hand? Roland Whitehead CONTINUUM ID ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 06:48:57 PDT From: "Randall G. Floyd" Subject: Q: Powerbook demands disk David, It sounds like you probably have an alias to something that used to reside on that disk in your startup folder. Randall >Hi- > I have a Powerbook 540C running System 7.5. Whenever I restart, before I can >reach the desktop, a dialog box prompts me to insert a specific floppy disk ( >an old one that I no longer even use.) >If I hit "cancel", the dialog box goes away, and I'm at the desktop. How can >I prevent this dialog box from showing up every time I reboot? > >Thanks! > >David Fales ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:48:12 -0300 From: "Joao C. Portinari" Subject: Video Card for the PB3400? My department is planning to buy a PB3400/240, and I would appreciate it very much if any of you Mac gurus could help me with the following two queries: 1. Is it possible to install a Video Card allowing the PB3400 to drive a 21" Monitor in 24-bit mode? If positive, any clues on where to buy it? 2. Has anyone experienced installing the 128Mb RAM memory module? If positive, does one need to be a certified Apple technician, or an electronic wizard? Thanks very much in advance for any help! Joao Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Prof. Joao C. Portinari Projeto Portinari - PUC Pontificia Universidade Catolica Rua Marques Sao Vicente 225 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453-900 Brazil Tel: (55-21) 529-9364//Fax: (55-21) 259-9697 E-Mail: portinar@inf.puc-rio.br or: portinar@portinari.org.br -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************