Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #216 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 10 Jan 01 Volume 17 : Issue 216 Today's Topics: .mix files [*] TableText 1.0.2 - Table to text and back [Q] Software for Disk defragmentation FaxSTF Modem connect speed! PCI, AGP and Gigabit Ethernet G4s 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 V17 #216" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:26:55 -0800 From: Herb Kroemer To: Info Mac Digest Subject: .mix files Having once posted an inquiry about how to open .mix files on the Mac, I keep getting inquiries about the answer to my own question, so I better post the answer: They belong to Microsoft's "Picture-It," a Windows-Only program for editing photographs. Although it does not exist for the Mac (and I don't have a PC), I was able to run it with tolerable speed on my G3 under "Virtual-PC" with Windows 95. Herbert Kroemer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jan 2001 From: Gideon Greenspan To: Subject: [*] TableText 1.0.2 - Table to text and back TableText is a program for the Mac OS which allows tabular information to be represented, manipulated and scanned as plain text. With it, you can convert spreadsheets and tables to ASCII text with ease. TableText can be used for email messages, source code comments and cross-platform documentation. It also allows text to be converted back into tabular form, for importing into a spreadsheet, word processor or database. Version 1.0.2 adds support for Microsoft Entourage. TableText continues to also work directly with Eudora, Emailer, Outlook Express, Mailsmith or PowerMail. Sig Software - http://www.sigsoftware.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/text/table-text-102.hqx; 269 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:30:33 -0900 From: "Tim Judd" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Software for Disk defragmentation Hi, I'm having trouble finding some software to defragment the MacOS hard drive. I've seen Symantec produce a package called "Norton Utilities" that has this disk "optimizer" or defragmenter. And as far as I can tell, they are the only manufacturer for disk defragmentation utilities? Who, if anyone, also produces disk defragmenters? I know there *were* others, but that was OS 7.x days. :) I'm using OS9.0.4, and want to defragment. Suggestions please. Thanks in advance, --Tim J. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:43:44 EST From: ElectionUSA@aol.com To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: FaxSTF Can anyone help me get the FaxSTF installer. I can't send faxes anymore on my Powerbook 150 presumably because I have lost the "STF toolbox". Help??? Thanks Charlie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:57:11 +0000 From: me@none.co.uk.invalid (Lobo) To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: Modem connect speed! Setup... MacSurfer 56k; OS 8.6; 64mb installed RAM. Initially I was using Open Transport/ PPP (OT/ PPP) with Apple Remote Access (ARA) and getting varying connection speeds of >45k. Since installing FreePPP and using the 'generic modem' setting -as opposed to the recommended script for the MacSurfer- I CONSISTENTLY connect at 57,500. Is it possible, nae even necessary, to get a 'generic' connect script that will work with OT/ PPP? Thanks. Lobo. ta reply, rub oot -Lobo- from... peter@plalp.-Lobo-freeserve.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:33:42 -0600 From: "L. Rugolo" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: PCI, AGP and Gigabit Ethernet G4s G4 owners have mentioned that their machines were either PCI or AGP. There is a third model, the G4 Gigabit Ethernet, which can be identified by the ADC connector in the top PCI slot, Slot-A (AGP). For info see "Power Mac G4: How to Differentiate Between Models" at: . . . and "Apple Displays: DVI to ADC Connector Cable Overview" at: -- LR -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************