Ge' wrote:
John,
LineFeeds/word processing: I think Caleb's suggestion is good. If you have Word 5, ...
All I have for the 190 is Claris, but I'll try the RTF idea.
If you're more on the engineering side, I think you'll love Tex-Edit Plus. It determines paragraphs intelligently when removing LineFeeds, but it has tons of other 'text massaging' tools. And you may like its support for Apple scripting (kind of like DOS batch files, but brought to Mac OS level, and working also inside programs).
I'll give it a try.
Disk size: In the Finder, double-click the disk icon to open its content window. In the header of that window, you see the disk info, e.g.:
10 items 187.8 MB in disk 69 MB available
If you don't see that header, you can activate it in Control Panels/Views.
(This is the situation in 7.5.3. Maybe 7.5.5 is slightly different.)
Well, I used 7.5.3 only to get to 7.5.5, so I can't say what 7.5.3 did, but with 7.5.5, I'm completely unable to get anything at all into the window header (this is what Windows and linux people call the title bar, right?). The Finder View menu has a "size" option, but it only lets me use that as a sort key. I could find nothing else in Finder except "Get Info", which gives the bogus (or at least unintelligible) results I've already posted.
You've likely seen the post I just sent regarding my Norton success. I couldn't find anything else that looked appropriate.
"looking for engineering aids and such": You're already quite self-sufficient, but why not post your needs here, in some detail? That's what the list is for!
One of the big things I had in mind when i wrote that was resource files -- NIST fundamental constants, conversions, material characteristics, etc. Actually, though, the PDA handles that very nicely.
One thing I gave up on with my Palm was a good interpreter. I'm pretty sure I can get a working tcl/tk for 7.5.5, and maybe something like Matlab or Octave. Or even Mathcad, if they ever wrote one for the Macs.
Web browser: We had some discussion about that a few weeks ago; maybe check the archive for those posts. I think the main tips were iCab and Opera 5. But if you need good 'html 4.0 rendering and current javascript', I think the 190 won't do...
I've downloaded iCab, but not opened it yet. And the point of the html 4.0 and javascript comment was not that I have an identified immediate need; it was that there are legitimate reasons for being up to date, or at least not so far behind.
Acrobat Reader: If I remember correctly, I'm using version 4 on my PB, which is much more compatible than v.3 because they didn't add many features after that.
Well, 3.0 is working for me now: the Apple documents about the 190 come out very well. When I went to Adobe and clicked on Mac OS7.5.5, their valid selection was 3.0.
Ethernet: Right, you can't switch to Ethernet as long as you don't have it. That's the Mac way of doing things.
Which seems to mean I can't do anything with Open Transport until I get a card, including updating it. But then I don't really need to until then, do I?
You know, this list is just as well-behaved as the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup. It's a pleasure to beg you guys for help :-).
jp
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