Teri wrote:
I tried a disk swap today.
[...]
Here's the problem: I can't get Free PPP to work.
I managed to fix Mac TCP (which had a problem with an invisible file).
I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once
replaced by a visible MacTCP, it came back invisible
At 12:35 PM 05/26/2002 +0200, you wrote:
I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once
replaced by a visible MacTCP, it came back invisible after restart. Having
done that 10 times, I changed it's attributes (unchecked 'invisible') with
the program FileBudy 2.2, gave it
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From: Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs)
Subject: more learning experiences
Date: Sat, May 25, 2002, 6:03 PM
I tried a disk swap today. Took the 250MB drive from the Power Mac and
swapped it with a 1GB drive from an LC520. I did a disk image of
Well, Power Macs are HFS + formatted, and the Vintage Macs are just HFS.
Trying to read an HFS+ drive in a 68k Mac produces weird stuff, and crashes.
Only OS 8.1 or later can do HFS+. the two machines are running 7.x
IIRC so it's not related. What is more, under 8.1 HFS+ works just
fine on a
At 12:35 +0200 on 26/05/02, mart wrote:
Teri wrote:
I tried a disk swap today.
[...]
Here's the problem: I can't get Free PPP to work.
I managed to fix Mac TCP (which had a problem with an invisible file).
I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once
replaced by a
At 07:46 -0700 on 26/05/02, J.S. Garrison wrote:
Well, Power Macs are HFS + formatted, and the Vintage Macs are just HFS.
Trying to read an HFS+ drive in a 68k Mac produces weird stuff, and crashes.
No, it usually produces a readable drive with one file on it:
Where_have_all_my_files_gone?
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, Power Macs are HFS + formatted, and the
Vintage Macs are just HFS.
Trying to read an HFS+ drive in a 68k Mac produces
weird stuff, and crashes.
PowerMacs don't have to use HFS+ and trying to read
a HFS+ volume on a 68k Mac (except for an 040
At 15:17 +010005/25/2002, Mark Benson wrote;
Possibly the best item I've seen for the AAUI port is an Apple AAUI
Workgroup hub. It's an AAUI transceiver with 5 RJ-45 Ports designed
to hang behind a server machine to allow 5 clients to access the
machines via a 10-baseT network. Pretty neat :).
Teri reflected:
I'm starting to feel like someone with a yard full of old cars, just to
have enough spare parts to keep one going *grin*!
Yeah, I know the situation : 10 pieces of Technojunk sitting around, each
working at 80%, and ya still want to believe that you have the
functionality of 8
At 12:35 +0200 on 26/05/02, mart wrote:
Teri wrote:
I tried a disk swap today.
[...]
Here's the problem: I can't get Free PPP to work.
I managed to fix Mac TCP (which had a problem with an invisible file).
I had this invisible file too. It turned out to be MacTCP itself. Once
replaced by a
In Teri's case, maybe.
Teri's case is finally resolved. Problem was a bad fork in the Open
Transport Apple Talk Library. Don't ask me how I found it. (Well, okay, I
upgraded to 7.6.1, which didn't fix it, installed OT/PPP, which didn't fix
it and finally scanned the disk with Norton. One of
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