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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 22 Mar 01       Volume 18 : Issue 51

Today's Topics:

      [*] SwitchBack 3.3
      [*] SwitchBack 3.3J - Japanese Version
      [*] Thumbnailer 1.0 PPC
      Byte for Byte file comparison
      I love info-mac!
      OS9.1 + Word 4 = strangeness
      Postscript Files

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Date: 22 Mar 2001
From: David Davies-Payne <david@glendower.co.nz>
To: 
Subject: [*] SwitchBack 3.3


SwitchBack makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both
contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders to
compare, and SwitchBack does the rest, quickly and painlessly.

SwitchBack has been widely used since 1992.  Beta testing of SwitchBack for
MacOS X is available to registered users.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/switch-back-33.hqx; 280 K]

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Date: 22 Mar 2001
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To: 
Subject: [*] SwitchBack 3.3J - Japanese Version


This is the Japanese version of the SwitchBack package.

SwitchBack is a file synchronization and backup utility.

SwitchBack makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both
contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders
to compare, and SwitchBack does the rest, quickly and painlessly.

The two folders can reside on the same or different disks, or on two
computers connected by a network, or even over the Internet. You can ask
SwitchBack to tell you in detail what it is doing, or let it go to work,
only advising you when there's a problem.

SwitchBack requires at least MacOS 8.5.

Change in version 3.3:

*Compatible with the Classic environment of MacOS X
*Up to twice as fast as previous versions
*Creates an internal buffer of files to copy to accelerate the synchronization
*Requires OS 8.5 or greater, using the Appearance manager
*If a scheduled document can not be found an option is offered to remove from list
*Displays MB/min rate during synchronization
*Maximum log size now 1 MB
*Can now define actions following a scheduled start
*Shows a popup menu path when clicking on the source or destination folder display
*Registration info is saved in preferences file for OS X compatibilty
*Deletes obsolete folders even if there are no files to delete
*Creates new folders even if there are no files to update

*Reported and known bugs fixed.  Compiled with CodeWarrior Pro 5.3.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/switch-back-33-jp.hqx; 225 K]

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Date: 22 Mar 2001
From: "Rodolfo W. Zitellini" <xhero@libero.it>
To: 
Subject: [*] Thumbnailer 1.0 PPC


Thumbnailer is an application that helps you make thumbnails, and web pages
containing them.
Think of having a lot of images that you want to put on the internet. You
have to scale them down and then create an HTML document containing a table
with the thumbnails. Thumbnailer does all this for you - by simply dragging
a folder. 

Sys reqs:
A PPC based computer
system 7.5.5
Quicktime
5 Megs of RAM

web: http://www.twzsoft.com
e-mail: rwe@kagi.com

[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/thumbnailer-10-ppc.hqx; 943 K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:29:59 -0800
From: "Cyrus Roton" <croton@iwvisp.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Byte for Byte file comparison


Gerry <speakis@home.com> wrote:

>>I am wondering if there is a utility that will compare any two files or
>>any two folders of files to verify whether they are identical in content
>>and directory structure inside of the folders.  I would want to utility to
>>read and compare the files as raw bytes regardless of the actual file
>>format, both data and resource forks, and indicate which pairs of files
>>are different.

>
> Verifile.
> It only tells you whether the files are identical--Yes or no.

Yes! Also, one might do a search on the InfoMac archives. For example, a
search on "compare" might yield ResCompare 2.6. One might download it and
try it. Could be just what is needed. It does some detailed comparing. It
compares two files, but, I don't think it does batch comparing.

Cyrus W. Roton <croton@iwvisp.com>
MITA tech
Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group

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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:40:05 -0600
From: "Gib Henry" <gibhenry@realpeople.com>
To: "'Timothy S. Watson'" <tswatson@gtii.com>,
Subject: I love info-mac!

>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:57:56 -0500
>From: "Timothy S. Watson" <tswatson@gtii.com>
>To: digest@info-mac.org
>Subject: I love info-mac!
>
>Golly, my life would be made much easier if each submission
>to the archive were accompanied with a link to the item in
>the archive, so I didn't have to write things down.  I would
>use the archive much more, I am sure.
>
>Keep up the good work.

First off, there are LOTS of Info-Mac mirrors and the digesters can't
know which one works best for you, so the links are in a partial format
which you can use with your preferred mirror.  The links used to work
auto-magically with Easy View and Anarchie pre-3.8 which would fill in
your preferred mirror and its path to the Info-Mac directory, but the
feature was removed in Interarchy.  I understand from Interarchy
Software that they plan to add back the feature in the next release.
Cheers,

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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:30:32 -0800
From: "Cyrus Roton" <croton@iwvisp.com>
To: "info-mac letters" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: OS9.1 + Word 4 = strangeness

Geoffrey Heard wrote:

> Don Mackie wrote:
>>
>> Having installed OS9.1 my trusty old Word 4 has taken to behaving oddly.
>> Mainly, the keyboard commands no longer work, I have to do everything by
>> mouse. Anybody come across this or got any ideas - apart from upgrading
>> to a newer version of Word that is....

> In all seriousness, Don, I would be looking at a new WP. I run G3,
> OS9.1, and have Weird 5.1a on board for translation purposes with
> MS's 97-2000 freebie translator, but I have received reports from
> some others that daily use of this version throws up faults too. In
> addition, the installer won't work any longer.
>
> Another choice would be AppleWorks -- not nearly as sophisticated as
> a WP, but the GREATEST mail merge machine in existence and a super
> integrated program.

Lets face it, Word 4 is a bit obsolete. Word 5.1, on the other hand works
great for me, even under OS 9.1. There are a lot of problems with OS 9.1,
but I have found no problem at all using Word 5.1 with it. Also, the
installer (on original 800K floppies) still works fine too (I tested it
today, just to be sure).

As for AppleWorks (ClarisWorks), it's OK, if your needs are not too
demanding, but I need such features as tables and drop-caps and flexible
find-and-replace. I would hate to have to give up Word 5.1. I have Word 6
and Office 98, but I prefer Word 5.1 for most of my WP uses.

Of course, you could go back to OS 9.04, unless you specifically need the
improvements, for example in USB and FireWire, offered by 9.1. I have not
found any advantage to 9.1 with my equipment (Umax C600, G3 card, USB card,
Ethernet card, and a bunch of SCSI externals).

But, a real problem might be in getting a copy of Word 5.1, since it no
longer is commercially available. Of course, you might find someone who will
give you a copy :-)

Cyrus W. Roton <croton@iwvisp.com>
MITA tech
Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group

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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 01 10:49:52 +0000
From: Alex Brown <abrown@nimr.mrc.ac.uk>
To: "Info-Mac" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Postscript Files

This might be a bit of silly question but....

Could anyone tell me of a program that would allow me to convert
postscript (.ps) files into PICT (or even JPEG) graphics.

Thanks in advance.

Alex Brown.

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