File locking with IIS
Matt Cooney(matt[at]pacific.co.nz)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:12:35 -0500
WinMac Digest #387 - Wednesday, August 11, 1999
OSX Server as DNS
by "Neil Jedrzejewski" <jed@grafx.co.uk>
HP ScanJet IIci (Mac to Win)
by "Parker, Douglas" <douglas.parker@lmco.com>
Postscript vs TrueType fonts
by "Parker, Douglas" <douglas.parker@lmco.com>
Re: [WinMac] informinit for mac/ ??? for win
by "Darron Spohn" <dspohn@clicknet.com>
Re: informinit for mac/ ??? for win
by "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Re: [WinMac] Postscript vs TrueType fonts
by "Leonard Rosenthol" <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Re: [WinMac] informinit for mac/ ??? for win
by "Leonard Rosenthol" <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Re: [WinMac] Postscript vs TrueType fonts
by "Paul Kaiser" <buddy@effingham.net>
File locking with IIS
by "Matt Cooney" <matt@pacific.co.nz>
Subject: OSX Server as DNS
From: Neil Jedrzejewski <jed@grafx.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:17:02 -0500
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Hi All,
I know OSX is not recommended by many as a DNS server but I've got to
anyway...
I've set-up DNS's before on Linux systems but OSX is throwing me a
real spanner.
I've found 'named' installed, but being a terminal user, cannot find
anything where I would expect it.
Anyone got any docs/links/info on setting up OSX to act as a DNS
server?
I want to use it as a caching DNS for our intranet with out internal
network as the single zone and have it cache all external domain
requests from the TLD servers.
- Jed
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Neil "Jed" Jedrzejewski - Grafx NewMedia, Cheltenham (01242 704359)
Internet Technology Specialist, Web Developer, Application Programmer
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Subject: HP ScanJet IIci (Mac to Win)
From: "Parker, Douglas" <douglas.parker@lmco.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:22:04 -0500
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Now that I'm moving my artist's HP ScanJet IIci from her Mac to her NT 4.0
system, I need to locate the NT driver for the machine. Surprisingly, HPs
website doesn't appear to provide an NT driver, although it does sell an NT
scanning application for use.
Can anyone suggest where I might start looking for the correct driver?
DP
Subject: Postscript vs TrueType fonts
From: "Parker, Douglas" <douglas.parker@lmco.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:31:23 -0500
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I've heard that Postscript fonts are the way to go to minimize or eliminate
many cross-platform printing problems. My boss has asked me to standardize
on TT fonts as well as TT for some of the WIN9x preferred settings (eg.
download TT or PS fonts to printers), and now I'm faced with defending the
bennies of PS vs. TT when *I don't know what I'm talking about.*
I don't know where to start with facts, figures, FAQs, problem stories,
success stories, etc, and need any help (URLs especially) you can give me.
Thanks.
Doug
Subject: Re: [WinMac] informinit for mac/ ??? for win
From: "Darron Spohn" <dspohn@clicknet.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:44:01 -0500
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> What resources are available to tell me what all the dll files do, which
> apps use which dlls, etc?
>
Doug,
As you can tell from the deafening silence, there is no such tool. We
have an entire department dedicated to researching DLL files. No one
knows for sure what applications use which DLL files. The only way to
find out is to install and application and run a utility to see what has
changed on the computer.
Software publishers do not provide this information, and I suspect many
of them do not keep track of their own DLLs or which Microsoft DLLs they
use, except maybe within the engineering department.
If you find a resource please let me know. We could put a dozen people
out of work if we could find one place to get this information.
--
Darron Spohn
Publications Manager
ClickNet Software Corp.
San Jose, CA 95131
408.576.5952
http://www.clicknet.com
"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
Subject: Re: informinit for mac/ ??? for win
From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:11:54 -0500
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Actually, you can get part of this info in Task Manager ->
Processes. Just
start your NT machine (you ARE using NT, aren't you?!), launch Task Manager
and click on the "Processes" tab, then stop & start Services; then start
launching apps to see what gets added to the list.
Cheers!
Dan
At 01:44 PM 8/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>As you can tell from the deafening silence, there is no such tool. We
>have an entire department dedicated to researching DLL files. No one
>knows for sure what applications use which DLL files. The only way to
>find out is to install and application and run a utility to see what has
>changed on the computer.
[snip]
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Postscript vs TrueType fonts
From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:12:08 -0500
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At 12:31 PM -0500 8/11/99, Parker, Douglas wrote:
>I've heard that Postscript fonts are the way to go to minimize or eliminate
>many cross-platform printing problems.
They can be.
>My boss has asked me to standardize
>on TT fonts as well as TT for some of the WIN9x preferred settings (eg.
>download TT or PS fonts to printers), and now I'm faced with defending the
>bennies of PS vs. TT when *I don't know what I'm talking about.*
If you make sure that you have the EXACT SAME fonts on all=20
machines, it really doesn't matter whether those fonts are TT or PS.=20
But that means that if you are going to use the TT version of=20
Garamond on the PC, you need the TT version on the Mac - NOT the PS=20
version. You can't mix and match the same font, though you can mix=20
and match different fonts (ie. TT Garamond vs. PS Cooper Black).
Leonard
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Subject: Re: [WinMac] informinit for mac/ ??? for win
From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:12:18 -0500
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At 1:44 PM -0500 8/11/99, Darron Spohn wrote:
>No one
>knows for sure what applications use which DLL files. The only way to
>find out is to install and application and run a utility to see what has
>changed on the computer.
That's not entirely true. There is software for detecting
dependancies, since you have to specify DLL references in your code
when you build an application, scanning software binaries for those
references is pretty well defined.
Leonard
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Subject: Re: [WinMac] Postscript vs TrueType fonts
From: Paul Kaiser <buddy@effingham.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:12:32 -0500
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Doug,
If you will be printing anything you create (i.e. brochures, flyers, books,
magazines, catalogs - you get the picture) then PostScript fonts are the
way to go.
This is because PostScript fonts (Type 1 fonts, in other words) are more
readily handled by printing devices using PostScript RIPs. At this point,
most any filmsetter or high-end laserprinter uses a PostScript RIP.
These rips do handle truetype fonts often, but sometimes they don't. What's
worse, one minute your file might print, and an hour later the same file
might not print correctly (font-wise). These issues can be addressed by
pros using the output devices, but with Type 1 fonts these issues are much
less likely to happen.
At the very least, you should standardize on Truetype OR Type 1 fonts.
Mixing the two types of fonts in the same documents is a greater source for
errors. Again, people do it, and sometimes successfully, but it's just
asking for trouble.
Hope this helps,
Paul Kaiser
>I've heard that Postscript fonts are the way to go to minimize or eliminate
>many cross-platform printing problems. My boss has asked me to standardize
>on TT fonts as well as TT for some of the WIN9x preferred settings (eg.
>download TT or PS fonts to printers), and now I'm faced with defending the
>bennies of PS vs. TT when *I don't know what I'm talking about.*
>
>I don't know where to start with facts, figures, FAQs, problem stories,
>success stories, etc, and need any help (URLs especially) you can give me.
>Thanks.
>
>Doug
Subject: File locking with IIS
From: Matt Cooney <matt@pacific.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:12:35 -0500
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The MacWindows web site recently linked to a Microsoft technote that
describes a
registry hack to stop IIS locking files for a minute or so after they have been
served. This is good news for those of us writing dynamic pages (ASP, Cold
Fusion, PHP, whatever) on NT from a Mac, since SFM is affected; it's very
frustrating having to wait 60 seconds each time you need to fix a typo.
http://www.macwindows.com/servtips.html#072699
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q191/7/42.asp
The technote warns, however, that disabling caching will "seriously" affect
server performance. Uh.
Is there anybody savvy with NT who would like to share:
* the likely performance impact on a server with an unremarkable load, less
than 10,000 hits/day.
* whether this registry edit is a Bad Idea for any other reason.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Matt
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