Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #29 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 27 Mar 02 Volume 19 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#622/25-Mar-02 [*] "Verbs & Nouns" Sample Phrases 1.1 - language learning [*] Bookmarksman1.22 (Stand-alone Japanese version) [*] Bookmarksman1.22-Template (Japanese version) [*] FileBuddy 6.1.8J - Japanese Version [*] pdfman -- a shell script to display man pages as pdf [*] Stimulus 2.0 for Classic Mac [*] Stimulus 2.0 for Mac OS X [*] StudioSystem 4.1 [*] TennisAce 1.0 [*] Verbs & Nouns 2.5.5 - foreign language learning [*] Word List Maker 2.2.2 - text utility [A] floor plan software [Q] Mac Won't Shut Down Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer ANSWER Acrobat in Explorer: Culprit PDFViewer Easy View for OS X Easy View for OS X Answer Printing to a LW Select 360 through a SMC Barricade word problems 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 V19 #29" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:00:00 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#622/25-Mar-02 TidBITS#622/25-Mar-02 Missing Mac OS 9 functionality in Mac OS X? Check out Adam's roundup of Mac OS X utilities that replace that Mac OS 9 look-and- feel. Mark Anbinder covers Apple's Macworld Tokyo announcements of a 23" LCD display, a 10 GB iPod, Bluetooth support, and iMac price increases. Then Gideon Greenspan joins us with an overview of how computers are used in biology. Finally, two important Mac OS X releases fill out the issue: Retrospect 5.0 and Mailsmith 1.5. Topics: MailBITS/25-Mar-02 New Cinema Display, iPod, Bluetooth, iMac Price Top Mac OS X Utilities: Restoring Mac OS 9 Functionality Bioinformatics and the Mac [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-622.etx; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] "Verbs & Nouns" Sample Phrases 1.1 - language learning V&N Sample Phrases' is a sample collection of sentences for use with English Inflection dictionaries (created with the Verbs & Nouns language-learning program). This package is an easy way to try out the 'Phrase Engine' feature in Verbs & Nouns. You can extend this module by adding more text-files to it. To try out the module you should: 1. Make sure that the program Verbs & Nouns version 2.5.4 or later is installed on your Hard Disk. 2. Download any of the following Verbs & Nouns Inflection Dictionaries: - English Verbs 2.1 (or later), - English Nouns 2.1 (or later), - English Adjectives 2.1 (or later). You can download any of these direct from the Info-Mac archives (the Education/Language directory), or via links from this web site site: . If you are downloading especially in order to try the Phrase Engine, we recommend "English Verbs". If you already have other English Inflection Dictionaries you can use them instead. Jacek Iwanski. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/v-and-n-sample-phrases-11.hqx; 2625 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Mar 2002 From: jiro To: Subject: [*] Bookmarksman1.22 (Stand-alone Japanese version) File name : Bookmarksman1.22(Stand-alone Japanese version) Freeware Size : 1800k(Stuffed) This is a stand-alone version of "Bookmarksman1.22". Though it is a Filemaker Pro5.xx database, you do not have to have Filemaker Pro5.xx to run it. Bookmarksman helps one keep track of web browser bookmarks that tend to have the nasty habit of haphazardly accumulating into something unmanageably humongous. The new features include the following: (1) "Note" field is introduced. (2) The number of listed bookmarks is constantly displayed. (3) A single click searches several fields for the keyword. (4) Japanese words are more accurately handled in search and indexing. The main features are : (1) Search results get displayed in list view (2) Duplicate URLs are easily extracted and deleted (3) Bookmarks can be sorted (4) You can jot down notes in the "Note" field (5) Drag/Drop-aware (6) Utterly free of charge Author : Jiro Negishi jiro@mars.dti.ne.jp http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~jiro/ [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/bookmarksman-122-sa-jp.hqx; 2615 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Mar 2002 From: jiro To: Subject: [*] Bookmarksman1.22-Template (Japanese version) File name : Bookmarksman1.22-Template (Japanese version) Freeware Size : 16k Version : 1.22 The new features include the following: (1) "Note" field is introduced. (2) The number of listed bookmarks is constantly displayed. (3) A single click searches several fields for the keyword. (4) Japanese words are more accurately handled in search and indexing. Bookmark Database (Filemaker Pro Template) Requirement : Filemaker Pro (5.XX or better) This is a simple and modest Filemaker template that helps one keep track of web browser bookmarks that tend to have the nasty habit of haphazardly accumulating into something unmanageably humongous. The main features are : (1) Search results get displayed in list view (2) Duplicate URLs are easily extracted and deleted (3) Bookmarks can be sorted (4) You can jot down notes in the "Note" field (4) Totally customizable (5) Drag/Drop-aware (6) Utterly free of charge Author : Jiro Negishi jiro@mars.dti.ne.jp http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~jiro/ [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/bookmarksman-122-jp.hqx; 18 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] FileBuddy 6.1.8J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the FileBuddy package. File Buddy is quite simply the most powerful and popular high-level file utility available for your Macintosh. File Buddy 6 requires a PowerPC-based Macintosh with System 7.6 or later. File Buddy 5 is available for 68K Macintoshes. The latest Japanese release of the carbon version of File Buddy (File Buddy 7) can be downloaded from . *View and edit a wide range of file and folder information in the info window. *Create droplet applications that automatically apply changes to items dropped on them, including the contents of folders. *Find files and folders using an extensive set of search criteria. Enhance file searches with plug-ins that extend file search capabilities. Conveniently perform a wide variety of actions on found items. Make File Buddy your default file finding application using the File Buddy CP control panel. *Modify the names of multiple files at once. For example, remove ".txt" from the names of a group of files. *Much, much more... Changes and fixes in this version: 1. Attempting to set the creator of files in the orphaned file window with the Change Creator... command (the last item in the button menu) would cause a crash. Fixed. 2. At some point prior to v6.1.7, some of the libraries in the File Buddy project had to be replaced, and the new ones were added in such a way that the operating system thought File Buddy required the presence of certain libraries which in fact are not required, but only used if available. This prevented File Buddy from launching, producing a message a message which said that "MenusLib" could not be found. This should no longer happen, extending the supported systems back to 7.6 (again). 3. A search for orphaned files would not ignore the '????' creator, even if it had been flagged to be ignored. Fixed. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/file-buddy-618-jp.hqx; 1317 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:32:33 +0000 From: "Alun J. Carr" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [*] pdfman -- a shell script to display man pages as pdf --Apple-Mail-2--42752078 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed This is a shell script, to be run in the Terminal in Mac OS X, which provides an alternative to man. It will format the man page as a PDF and open it in Aqua, allowing easy viewing, searching, and printing. Requires that Ghostscript has been installed. Defaults to A4 paper (edit it for US Letter) -- altering this might get added as an option in a future release. To use, treat it just like invoking man, e.g.: pdfman grep Alun --Apple-Mail-2--42752078 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=pdfman Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: application/octet-stream; x-unix-mode=0777; name="pdfman" #!/bin/sh # #(@) pdfman -- view a man page as PDF # #(@) # #(@) Usage # #(@) # #(@) pdfman [options] [section] command # #(@) (as for man) # #(@) # #(@) Limitations # #(@) # #(@) Requires that Ghostscript is installed for ps to pdf conversion. # #(@) # #(@) Author # #(@) # #(@) Dr Alun J. Carr, alun.j.carr@ucd.ie # If no arguments given, get man to print out its error message # and quit. # if [ "$#" -eq 0 ] then man exit fi # Use the system temporary directory for the intermediate files. # mkdir -p /tmp/pdfman tmpdir=/tmp/pdfman # Set title to the last parameter variable # (There must be a better way to do this, but I haven't figured out # how to get at the last parameter using $#.) # for title do : done title="${tmpdir}/${title}.$$" # Invoke man on parameter list and put output in text file named after # the title of the command being looked up. # man -c "$@" > "$title".txt # If lookup failed, remove the textfile, if it exists, then quit. # if [ "$?" -ne 0 ] then rm -f "$title".txt exit 1 fi # Convert the textfile to PostScript on A4 paper. # Then convert the PostScript file to PDF, and # remove intermediate files. # enscript -hklq -i 0.75i -M A4 -p "$title".ps "$title".txt rm -f "$title".txt ps2pdf "$title".ps "$title".pdf # If ps2pdf failed, clean up, then quit. # if [ "$?" -ne 0 ] then rm -f "$title".ps echo "pdfman: ps2pdf failed" exit 1 fi # Remove the PS file, and open the PDF in the default viewer. # rm -f "$title".ps open "$title".pdf --Apple-Mail-2--42752078-- ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: Dave Wooldridge To: Subject: [*] Stimulus 2.0 for Classic Mac -------------- Stimulus 2.0 -------------- Now Available for Classic Mac. Enjoy Your Personal Collection of Photos, Digital Music, Video Clips, and More with One Integrated Software Viewer/Player! Version 2.0 includes the following new features: * iPod Audio Playback * Audio CD Playback * Enhanced Support for 18 File Formats * Redesigned Interface * Improved Navigation * Enhanced Slideshow * Moveable Window Pane * Faster Performance * Built-In Help Plus: Zoom In/Out, Scale-to-Fit, File Properties, and more! Product Info: http://www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/ Classic Mac Download: http://www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/downloads/stimulus20.hqx FREE Upgrade for all Stimulus 1.0 customers! Stimulus is $12 Shareware. The unregistered version of Stimulus will operate in an unlimited mode for 30 days from the time the application is first launched. If you wish to continue using this software after 30 days, you will need to purchase a Serial Number at http://www.ebutterfly.com/ SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * PPC Mac OS 8.6 or higher. * QuickTime 4 or higher. * 6 MB RAM, 3 MB free hard drive space. * Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading the included User's Guide. Created by Electric Butterfly Copyright (C) 2002 Electric Butterfly, Inc. All rights reserved. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/stimulus-20.hqx; 1101 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: Dave Wooldridge To: Subject: [*] Stimulus 2.0 for Mac OS X -------------- Stimulus 2.0 -------------- Now Available for Mac OS X. Enjoy Your Personal Collection of Photos, Digital Music, Video Clips, and More with One Integrated Software Viewer/Player! Version 2.0 includes the following new features: * iPod Audio Playback * Audio CD Playback * Enhanced Support for 18 File Formats * Redesigned Interface * Improved Navigation * Enhanced Slideshow * Moveable Window Pane * Faster Performance * Built-In Help Plus: Zoom In/Out, Scale-to-Fit, File Properties, and more! Product Info: http://www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/ Mac OS X Download: http://www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/downloads/stimulus20x.hqx FREE Upgrade for all Stimulus 1.0 customers! Stimulus is $12 Shareware. The unregistered version of Stimulus will operate in an unlimited mode for 30 days from the time the application is first launched. If you wish to continue using this software after 30 days, you will need to purchase a Serial Number at http://www.ebutterfly.com/ SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * PPC Mac OS X 10.1 or higher. * QuickTime 4 or higher. * 6 MB RAM, 3 MB free hard drive space. * Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading the included User's Guide. Created by Electric Butterfly Copyright (C) 2002 Electric Butterfly, Inc. All rights reserved. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/stimulus-20-osx.hqx; 1310 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: Stefan Schramm To: Subject: [*] StudioSystem 4.1 http://www.rootsolutions.de/studiosystem/ info@rootsolutions.de PPC, OS 8.1 or later (68K version available), full page color monitor recommended. The StudioSystem is a complete administration package for recording studios and musicians. *point-and-click interface: with more than 1600 field definitions, you can enter as much detail as you wish or just use the modules that you find most useful. *cost-effective: solutions of this type are typically custom-programmed and cost hundreds of dollars. The StudioSystem costs no more than a roll of multitrack tape. *integration: access all information from within one application. The StudioSystem is communication and accounting software, archive, address, and inventory database, studio calculator, appointment keeper, label and track sheet printer, and more for all studio activity. *support for international users: customize all printable forms with local language templates (English, German, French, and Italian already included). [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/studio-system-41.hqx; 4194 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: Stefan Schramm To: Subject: [*] TennisAce 1.0 http://www.rootsolutions.de/tennisace/ info@rootsolutions.de PPC, OS 8.1 or later, 16Mb RAM, color monitor. TennisAce lets you track your performance against any number of players. Head-to-Head statistics can be viewed and fun awards can be presented to your partners. Shortcuts and customizable defaults make data entry as easy as clicking a mouse. [Archived as /info-mac/game/tennis-ace-10.hqx; 2635 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] Verbs & Nouns 2.5.5 - foreign language learning 'Verbs & Nouns' is an application for practising inflection, translation and pronunciation at the level of single words. Features include the opportunity to do various inflection exercises, and translation exercises in both directions; to record and play sound for single words; to do exercises based on sound or pictures; and to play various word-games. The program keeps a record of exercises, and identifies the words that the student has difficulty with. Along with the program, you need a module for the target language concerned. The program can also be used as an authoring tool to write your own modules of inflected words for any language. A built-in 'inflection-generator' simplifies the addition of these words. A 'Find' feature allows the modules to be used as bilingual dictionaries. Ready-made modules are already available for certain languages. You can visit: to get more information. Jacek Iwanski. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/verbs-and-nouns-255.hqx; 1922 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Mar 2002 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] Word List Maker 2.2.2 - text utility Word List Maker is a powerful and easy-to-use program, for generating sorted word-lists of several kinds from one or more text files. It can generate word-frequency lists, present the words in the reverse order of letters, indicate the number of letters contained in each word, or sort letters. You can use it to analyze texts, to make anagrams, word-frequency lists, various indexes, spelling lists, to analyze words by their endings etc. The spelling filter is included. The spelling dictionaries are available separately. The built-in grammar filter allows you to extract verbs, nouns, adjectives etc. from any text file. For more information about my software please visit: http://users.netmatters.co.uk/dandaforbes Jacek Iwanski. [Archived as /info-mac/text/word-list-maker-222.hqx; 1600 K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:20:39 -0800 From: Mike McNeil To: Wendy Farkas , Info-Mac Subject: [A] floor plan software On 3/16/02 5:28 PM, "Wendy Farkas" wrote: > Can anyone recommend Mac software to plan furniture arrangement in a new > apartment? Try www.abracadata.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 02:53:02 -0500 From: "Michael G. Schabert" To: Egidio Leitao , digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Mac Won't Shut Down At 11:44 AM -0600 3/14/02, Egidio Leitao wrote: >Does anyone have a solution to this problem? When I select "Shut >Down" from the pull-down menu, my Mac G4 restarts. I've tried a >forced shut-down as per Apple's recommendation, but it didn't work. My guess would be a misbehaved USB device. Try hooking *ONLY* the keyboard and mouse from a different (working) Mac. If it shuts down normally, then play around with your devices to see which is the culprit. HTH Mike -- Bikers don't *DO* taglines. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:27:33 -0600 From: Jesse the K To: Info-mac Subject: Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer You don't mention which system you're using, but the following advice should work for any system using the Internet control panel. (I'm clueless re: X). Summon the Internet Control panel from the Apple Menu:Control Panels folder. Choose the Advanced tab, then select File Mapping from the scrolling icon list on the left. You'll see a three-column list. Click on the left column to sort by extension, then drag the scroll elevator around half-way down. You're looking for the extension ".pdf". When you find it, click once to select it, then click the Change button. There's a search for applications that can open PDF files, then a dialog box titled "Change Mapping" appears. Click on the "Show Advanced Options" button. In the lower right hand corner, there's a popup list thats labelled "Handled By." It currently reads "Processing with application". This is what you change. Select "Saving to file" in that popup list. The "Change" button highlights. Click it and you're done! --- at 10:00 AM 3/18/02, Michael S. Silverstein wrote --- > [...] I would like to return to having Explorer automatically download PDF >files in the background. > [...] >I have looked over the settings in Exporer and in Acrobat, but I >cannot find the one to make the documents automatically download in >the background. -- Jesse the K -- Madison, WI USA -- mailto:jesse_the_k@yahoo.com -[ Kindly forgive asynchrony; I read via digest ]- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:25:47 +0100 From: Eric Collet To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer Hello Michael, Acrobat 5 installed a plug-in for you in Explorer and changed the settings to use it. You may change that back: In Internet Explorer Preferences for Receiving files/ File Helpers: Scroll down to pdf and press "change...". Under Handling: Choose "Post-process with Application" and set Acrobat Reader to be the application. Sincerely, Eric ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:32:55 -0600 From: WJ Shack To: "Michael S. Silverstein" , Subject: Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:00:24 +0200, "Michael S. Silverstein" wrote: > >I would like to return to having Explorer automatically download PDF >files in the background. > >(If I know I am about to hit a PDF link then I can use the right Assuming you are in OS 9, go to the Internet control panel, choose "advanced" tab, in resulting click on "file mapping" icon, then scroll the extension list to find and select "pdf". Click change. In new window, click "Show Advanced Options" button. In new window, where it says "Handle by" it now says "Process with application". Click the popup and select "Save As File" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:33:37 -0800 From: "Jim Wickman" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer Michael Silverstein wrote: > when I use Explorer and choose a link that is connected to a PDF >file, Explorer opens Acrobat and opens the file. > >I would like to return to having Explorer automatically download PDF >files in the background. -- Open Preferences. Go to: Receiving Files: File Helpers. -- Click on 'Extension' in the upper right corner. That will reorder everything.; search for the .pdf item. Hilite Portable Document Format and select 'Change' -- At the bottom of the window are two popup menus. Download location is your choice. -- 'Handling' is your key to sanity. Pick 'Save to file" as your choice. Close Preferences Everything should work to your satisfaction now. L'Chayim! To Life! -- -- Jim Wickman - - - Pasco WA 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 03:35:39 -0500 From: "Michael G. Schabert" To: "Michael S. Silverstein" , Subject: Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer At 10:00 AM +0200 3/18/02, Michael S. Silverstein wrote: >When I had Acrobat 4 installed and I chose a link to a PDF document >in Explorer, the document would automatically download in the >background. > >Then I installed Acrobat 5. > >Now, when I use Explorer and choose a link that is connected to a PDF >file, Explorer opens Acrobat and opens the file. > >This is very annoying and time consuming. > >I would like to return to having Explorer automatically download PDF >files in the background. Hi Mike, You set this in File Mapping. I believe that MSIE honors the Internet Control Panel's settings (I don't currently use it), so open that first. Then, click the Advanced tab. In the icon list on the left, choose File Mapping. Choose the entry for .pdf click change. At the bottom of the new window is a button to Show Advanced Options. Once you click there, it widens the panel. hold down the mouse on "Processing with Application" and switch to "saving file". HTH Mike -- Bikers don't *DO* taglines. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:45:08 -0500 From: Louis Bergeron To: Subject: Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer ANSWER In the Preferences of Explorer, check file HELPERS, then Acrobat and modify the options for Acrobat. louis From: "Michael S. Silverstein" Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:00:24 +0200 To: Info-mac Subject: Acrobat 5 automatically launches in MS Explorer When I had Acrobat 4 installed and I chose a link to a PDF document in Explorer, the document would automatically download in the background. Then I installed Acrobat 5. Now, when I use Explorer and choose a link that is connected to a PDF file, Explorer opens Acrobat and opens the file. This is very annoying and time consuming. I would like to return to having Explorer automatically download PDF files in the background. (If I know I am about to hit a PDF link then I can use the right mouse button to save to disk. However, most of the time I do not know that the link is connected to a PDF document.) I have looked over the settings in Exporer and in Acrobat, but I cannot find the one to make the documents automatically download in the background. Can someone out there help me?? Thanks in advance!! michael silverstein materials engineering technion ------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Bergeron C.P. 68 Granby Qc Canada J2G 8E2 Telephone (450) 776-1074 Telecopieur condidentiel Fax (450) 776-1113 E-mails tiwi@lino.com bergloui@sympatico.ca CSE de Granby 385 Principale Granby Qc J2G 2W5 Telephone (450) 375-3577 #228 Telecopieur multi-usagers (non confidentiel) Multi-users fax (450) 777-5842 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:51:54 +0200 From: "Michael S. Silverstein" To: Info-mac Subject: Acrobat in Explorer: Culprit PDFViewer A big thanks to those who wrote in with suggestions! Most people suggested that I change the Advance Settings in the Internet Control Panel. This did not help, even after I changed all extensions that use Acrobat to "Save to File". The culprit was something called "PDFviewer", described as a Netscape Plugin, which was sitting in the Internet Plug-ins folder in the system folder. Once I got rid of that, Explorer did not recognize PDFs and asked me if I wanted to save the file to disk. The resulting file was recognized as a PDF by the system. Thanks for your help! Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:26:44 -0500 From: Clinton MacDonald To: Don Chesnut and Cathy Jo Cassidy , digest@info-mac.org Subject: Easy View for OS X Mr. Chesnut: At 10:57 AM -0800 03/14/2002, Don Chesnut and Cathy Jo Cassidy wrote: >I've used the digest reader Easy View for years to read Info-Mac and >TidBits. I've checked for a new version for OS X but there's nothing >posted. Anyone know of a similar program for the new OS? Take a look at "SetextView" by Christian Swinehart . Check for downloading information. SetextView has a nice Cocoa look-and-feel, and is a great substitute for EasyView. There are limitations to SetextView: every file to be added to a Library must have ".etx" appended, and the documentation is incomplete. And sadly, I must report that SetextView is pretty buggy -- for instance, the "------> NEW" arrows that TidBITS uses in its sections will crash SetextView every time. I have learned to edit TidBITS digests before adding them to my TidBITS Library. All in all, though, I like SetextView tremendously, and owe thanks to Mr. Swinehart for bringing it to us in all its Cocoa glory. Best wishes, Clint -- Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:16:16 -0500 From: Louis Bergeron To: Subject: Easy View for OS X Answer I like the program too to view Tidbits. However, the development of Easy View have been stopped a while ago. Last version is 2.6.2. Since Easy View uses setext, it is kind of special. Adam Engst could provice much more details about Easy View. From: Don Chesnut and Cathy Jo Cassidy Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:57:33 -0800 To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Easy View for OS X I've used the digest reader Easy View for years to read Info-Mac and TidBits. I've checked for a new version for OS X but there's nothing posted. Anyone know of a similar program for the new OS? Don ------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Bergeron C.P. 68 Granby Qc Canada J2G 8E2 Telephone (450) 776-1074 Telecopieur condidentiel Fax (450) 776-1113 E-mails tiwi@lino.com bergloui@sympatico.ca CSE de Granby 385 Principale Granby Qc J2G 2W5 Telephone (450) 375-3577 #228 Telecopieur multi-usagers (non confidentiel) Multi-users fax (450) 777-5842 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:22:53 -0500 From: Jean Richard To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Printing to a LW Select 360 through a SMC Barricade I'm using a Barricade SMC7004ABR router/print server to allow small networking with an iMac, an old PowerMac 7200, a LW Select 360 and a ASDL internet link. It works fine, except for the print server. Reset is not done the proper way on the Select 360. The first job prints normally, but for any further jobs, you have to wait the 300 seconds default timeout or to hard reset the printer. Result is the same using OS-8.1 (from the PM7200), OS-9.2 and OS-X, as well as using direct shell command with the Unix Terminal. However, using shell command and allowing burst page banner printing makes reset ok (banner printing setting is not available through OS-X and anyway, I don't want to waste paper). Any idea how to achieve a reset through normal printing processus ? No support from SMC : the Barricade is sold as a multi OS switch-router with a Windows print server. They don't want to support print server for Mac or Linux users. No support from Apple too. It's not Apple hardware. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:13:24 +0100 From: Eric Collet To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: word problems Hello Doug, I've encountered similar problems with a Word98 document containing equations (from Equation Editor). On saving, Word was pretending that the disk with lots of free GB was full. Trying to outrageously increase Words memory wouldn't help. I finally found out that one single corrupt equation in the document was causing this misbehavior. Removing it and retyping it from scratch remedied the issue. (Just don't ask me how the equation got "corrupt"...) Do you have non-text objects in your document? Try to remove them, group-wise or one by one, to see if that removes your problem. Sincerely, Eric --- >When I attempt to save a document in Word, I sometimes get an error message >saying the disk is full or too many files are open. However, I have >abundant memory (both set for Word and in RAM) and often have only one to >three short documents open. --- -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************