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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 13 Nov 01 Volume 18 : Issue 144

Today's Topics:

[*] TidBITS#605/12-Nov-01
Catalogue Hard drive: Strange occurance
Fax/Phone software for Mac
Need StyleWriter II driver for iMac w/OS 8.6
pretty printer for c (Q)
pretty printer for c (Q)

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:00:00 -0800
From: TidBITS Editors
To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net,
Subject: [*] TidBITS#605/12-Nov-01

TidBITS#605/12-Nov-01

What would you like Apple to learn from last week's iTunes
installer debacle? Adam looks at some take-home lessons for Apple
and passes along some advice for the rest of us. Dan Kohn's series
of essays on the future of content in a digital world continues
with a look at ways of financing pure public goods. And in the
news, we cover updates to Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0.3, Adobe
Illustrator 10, ConceptDraw 1.71, DAVE 3.1, and IPNetRouter 1.6.2.

Topics:
MailBITS/12-Nov-01
iTunes 2 Installer Debacle
Steal This Essay 3: How to Finance Content Creation




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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 08:54:55 -0800
From: Chris McVay
To:
Subject: Catalogue Hard drive: Strange occurance

I was visiting some web sites last night and suddenly a window popped up
that said my hard drive was being catalogued and said it would take some 20
hours. I've never encountered this before. I stopped it immediately. Then,
this morning while checking email everything froze up. I performed a hard
restart and ran NU. NU noted a "Major Problem" was that I have two system
folders on the hard drive (but isn't this a feature of having two Operating
Systems?). Besides the usual "minor problems" of bad modification dates and
bundle bits being turned off or on, that was the only problem found. I've
had my new Mac G4 733/40gb/256mb which has both 9.2 & OSX installed for
about two weeks. I was in 9.2 at the time. What was that and should I be
worried that it just started doing that? Should I have two system folders on
the hard drive?
Thanks for any help.

Chris McVay
fractured555@earthlink.net

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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:18:01 +0200
From: "E. Blasberg"
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Fax/Phone software for Mac

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone has a fax/phone/answering machine
software for the mac? I was thinking that, here I am with my nice
new TiBook with built in speakers and microphone, and wouldn't it be
nice if I could not only receive faxes, but have the mac know whether
I was getting a voice phone call, in which case I could just use my
speakers & microphone like a speaker phone? Naturally, if my mac is
a phone, then it should also be able to record messages when I don't
answer.

Anyone ever heard of software like this?
Thanks,
E. Blasberg
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:25:06 +0200
From: "E. Blasberg"
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Need StyleWriter II driver for iMac w/OS 8.6

Hi All,

I have an iMac w/System 8.6 and a uConnect (USB to serial) but I
don't have a printer driver for the StyleWriter II. Anyone know where
I can this driver or if I can use another driver (I tried StyleWriter
1500 and 2500 but neither worked)?

Thanks in advance,
E. Blasberg
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:30:10 -0800
From: Denny Davis
To: "Paul M. Sheldon"
Subject: pretty printer for c (Q)

At 7:49 PM -0600 11/08/01, Paul M. Sheldon wittily wrote:

> I think I might like something that at least nested curly brackets
>with progressive indents in source code. Any applescript scriptable editor
>guys know of this or is this a tougher parser sort of thing?

I don't really know exactly if BBEdit would be what you would want, but it
is one of the most popular editors for programmers and it is very
scriptable also. There is the Lite Version of BBEdit, BBEdit Lite is free,
but it is not AppleScriptable like the commercial version. One can try the
Lite version and then later upgrade to the commercial version for a reduced
price though. I think that Bare Bones Software still has that policy, that
is how I got BBEdit several years ago. :-}
>
Curiosity killed the cat,
but satisfaction brought it back.

Blessings, Denny


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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:35:46 -0500
From: "Coradeschi, Tom [AMSTA-AR-FSP-G]"
To: "'Paul M. Sheldon'"
Subject: pretty printer for c (Q)

Paul, I think that if you look at Alpha, you will find a powerful text
editor with exactly what you seek.

Tom Coradeschi
tcora@pica.army.mil

> ----------
> From: Paul M. Sheldon
> Sent: 08 November 2001 8:49 PM
> To: digest@info-mac.org
> Subject: pretty printer for c (Q)
>
> I think I might like something that at least nested curly brackets
> with progressive indents in source code. Any applescript scriptable editor
> guys know of this or is this a tougher parser sort of thing?
>
>

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