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keesan
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response 25 of 269:
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Apr 11 20:17 UTC 2002 |
A driver for a non-windows program, for instance for WP or Newdeal or printgf
or gifprint or ghostscript or the other programs I have been using to print
text or graphics with. They all have Epson 9-pin and 24-pin and IBM 24-in
generic drivers that work with most dot-matrix printers. Is there some
generic print driver that might work with a bubble-jet which will not even
Print Screen? Newdeal has drivers for BJC-4000 and BJC-4200, and the 4200
and MPC3000 are supposed to work with the same Win95 driver but when I try
using ND it tells me 'port already in use'.
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aruba
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response 26 of 269:
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Apr 11 20:20 UTC 2002 |
Well, you should ask the manufacturers of those programs.
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keesan
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response 27 of 269:
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Apr 11 20:22 UTC 2002 |
I just wrote 'tech support' at Newdeal, which seems to be defunct but the
support person is still supporting it. I don't think WP is supported any
longer but I will check user groups.
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keesan
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response 28 of 269:
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Apr 11 20:34 UTC 2002 |
EUREKA! This was probably written by the guy who recruited me for beta
testing. He is amazingly good at his job.
NewDeal Technical Support Document 272
Specific Printer Notes, Canon
_________________________________________________________________
All Canon BubbleJets [long section on other models omitted here]
QUESTION: Why does my Canon printer spit out a blank page between each
printed page?
ANSWER: Canon forces the printing to start either 1/4 or 1/2 inch from
the top of the page, depending on the printer type. This causes the
printable area on the page to be that much less (10 3/4 or 10 1/2 on
an 11 inch page). The software thinks the paper is 11 inches long and
keeps track, down to the micro inch, where it is on the paper. When it
reaches the 10 1/2 inches, your printer calls the page done and ejects
it. However, the software thinks there is still another 1/2 inch to
print (usually the footer area). Now when you insert a new sheet of
paper, the software finishes printing the rest of the page (normally a
blank footer) and form feeds to the next sheet.
To correct what the software thinks the paper size is, you need to run
the Preferences application and change the default settings. Select
the Printer button. In the next window, select the 'Change
Defaults....' button. Change both the Document size and the Paper size
to a height of 10.875 and click OK. Try a new document to see if the
paper size is correct. You may need to go back and change the height a
few times until it is correct (the height changes in .125 increments).
Usually either 10.875 (for 1/4 inch forced top margin printers) or
10.75 ( for 1/2 inch forced top margin printers) will work.
Canon MultiPASS and MultiPASS C5000
To use the MultiPASS with NewDeal, you will need to select an
emulation printer driver from those listed within NewDeal. Close the
MultiPASS Background. On the MultiPASS control panel:
1. Press FUNCTION
2. Press 0 on the numeric keypad
3. Press the right search arrow '>' until #4 DOS Printing appears
4. Press START/COPY, ON appears
5. Press START/COPY again
The display will read 'Printer Mode.' You are now ready to print from
a DOS application.
The MultiPASS can be used with the following print drivers in Windows
and in DOS programs:
* BJC 4300, 4200, 4100, 4000, 70, 600, 600e, 800 (color)
* BJ 200, 200e, 200ex, 230, 20, 10ex
* Epson LQ 2550 & 2500 (color)
* Epson LQ 510,850, 500
Note: The MultiPASS was designed to print using Windows applications.
Canon does not guarantee print results from DOS.
Last Modified 26 Jun 1999
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keesan
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response 29 of 269:
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Apr 12 00:52 UTC 2002 |
I just found a new way to remove spaces from files. If they are sent to my
ISP webmail as an attachment and I download them, the name
20411-4 NYS Ed NC82.doc (three spaces) downloads and saves to my
home directory as 20411 (Unix apparently ends things just before a -).
Comments?
I suggested to someone who was going to fax me a document for translation that
he scan it and send it as a BW gif or even a BW pdf. It came as WORD.
Now I get to test ANTIWORD, the latest weapon against MS, which claims to read
the most recent WORD even in Cyrillic and other character sets.
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keesan
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response 30 of 269:
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Apr 12 01:29 UTC 2002 |
View hidden response.
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mary
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response 31 of 269:
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Apr 12 01:35 UTC 2002 |
There is something odd about that last post. From a distance it
looks like baby Jesus. But the voice-over sounds more like
Willy Nelson.
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remmers
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response 32 of 269:
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Apr 12 01:57 UTC 2002 |
Looks like the Shroud of Turin to me.
(Suggestion for future reference: Don't post binary files in
responses. They can mess up a person's terminal settings.
Better to save the file in your home directory and tell
people what its name is.)
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keesan
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response 33 of 269:
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Apr 12 02:12 UTC 2002 |
Okay,take a look at 20411-4.doc When I was downloading it seemed to imply
that this is WORD97 and I told one of my programs to view it as that.
I see (here, not when using pico) <84> <97> etc. Perhaps these are codes for
Cyrillic characters? I took a look at this with Jim's text editor and we
found the name of the company and the strings .tif and .png so I tried
renaming it to those and the view program could not recognize the format.
This is an image viewer that does 40 formats of images.
Every time I master a new format someone invents another one. I can handle
gif and even print it, pdf (convert to pbm or ps and view and print those),
rtf (without Cyrillic, anyway), even various WORDs, but now they send TRADOS
and whatever this one might be. I expect a fax tomorrow, I hope.
Would anyone with WORD97 like to take a look at the complete text of this one
and tell me why no programs can tell the number of lines in it? PICO told
me 'long line length'. I chopped off the beginning for anonymity but I can
forward you the whole thing.
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keesan
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response 34 of 269:
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Apr 12 02:44 UTC 2002 |
A few of the programs that we looked at this with identify it as WORD 97
or WORD 8 (same thing) and it came labelled .doc. I sent a copy to a friend
with WORD97. There are 299 lines each about three times normal length, which
is probably why my programs cannot identify the number of lines as they do
not recognize lines over a certain length. Jim says some of the lines may
be extremely long and some very short. They were full of nulls.
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mdw
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response 35 of 269:
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Apr 12 03:45 UTC 2002 |
I'm not sure what "20411-4.doc" is. It looks vaguely like a word
document with all the NULs stripped out and perhaps otherwise mangled.
Word documents are stored in what MicroSoft calls "structured storage"
and the Linux world calls "OLE" files; it's a binary file structure
similar in some ways to a floppy disk image. Removing the NULs and
otherwise randomly mangling it will destroy the data structures and
leave largely useless remains.
(Needless to say, pasting it in as a response will only further
mangle whatever binary data was left...)
"20411-4" (no .doc) on the other hand, *does* appear to be a valid
MicroSoft word document, at least after a fashion. The "structured
storage" data structures are completely intact, so at that level at
least, it's completely intact. I've forgotten at which offset nFIB is
stored, and I never completely understood which nFib corresponded to
what version of Word. As best I can determine, the actual data stream
of the word document consists of just this: ^A^M which likely means
there's one special object and the obligatory paragraph ending.
I think all MicroSoft products that use "structured storage" always
arrange to write a special document summary stream, that contains
a few interesting strings, including:
Copper Translation Service
_PID_GUID
_PID_HLINKS
{5816E8C0-39C3-11D5-96A5-00107A185D3C}
and in unicode:
E:\Current Copper Work\Untitled.tif
I'm guessing that the bracketed number is some sort of UUID, and may
perhaps be the registration number of the copy of Word that made this
file. Maybe. As a companion to to the WordDocument stream, there's the
"Data" stream, which contains the objects of the document. I don't see
anything that looks like TIFF, but there is something that looks like a
valid PNG header at offset +0x133. In fact, it appears to be a 1482 x
1287 1 bit non-interlaced image; you can get it here:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mdw/20411-4.png
The first line appears to read:
l. Srpskohrvatski jezik i knjizevnost 2 - -
There is a hat over the last "z" on the line, and there are about 22
more mostly similar text lines. Looks like a report card, maybe.
And, before you ask, no, I specifically disclaim any interest in dealing
with any further files like this. If *you* want to be able to do this,
you should strongly consider installing Linux, there's something called
"libole" out in the Linux world that understands MicroSoft "structured"
storage, and MicroSoft has published documents describe the content and
fields of MicroSoft word documents, which are well distributed on the
web today. I learned about this stuff mainly so that I could read the
formatting information in word documents; I have no actual idea how the
"Data" stream is actually formatted, and was actually quite surprised to
see PNG magic in the file.
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aruba
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response 36 of 269:
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Apr 12 03:57 UTC 2002 |
Sindi, could you please expurgate #30? It made my terminal unusable when I
read it; I had to log off and log back on again.
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mcnally
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response 37 of 269:
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Apr 12 10:40 UTC 2002 |
It did nasty things to my xterm as well.
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keesan
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response 38 of 269:
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Apr 12 15:06 UTC 2002 |
How do I expurgate 30? (The full command and which prompt to type it at
please). I did not post the whole file or the part with the company name
to save embarrassing them in public but I suppose they will never know.
We saw something in there like untitled1.tif and at the end of the same line
also PNG but renaming it to PNG did not make something viewable.
The line you typed out for me means 'Serbocroatian language and literature'
so I suspect it is someone's diploma. Marcus, I am astonished and grateful
that you were able to do this transformation and I hope never to come up with
this format again as the company should know better. I told them to send a
gif or a pdf file. A png would have worked. A WORD png is something else.
They may have converted tif to png to WORD?
I have notified NEWDEAL that their WORD filter does not work on these
things, but then again my friend with WORD97 also could not read anything in
it. He tried various programs one of which said 'mangled email attachment'.
The author of VIEW 1.70 says it is a graphic and his program only converts
text. So does ANTIWORD.
I am off to download and maybe even translate Marcus' png.
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keesan
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response 39 of 269:
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Apr 12 15:14 UTC 2002 |
I tried, from the bbs prompt, expurgate 69 30 and scribble 69 30. No luck.
png file downloaded, thanks Marcus. It is 2/3 the size of the WORD (?) file.
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aruba
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response 40 of 269:
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Apr 12 15:21 UTC 2002 |
At the "Respond or Pass" prompt, type "expurgate 30".
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keesan
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response 41 of 269:
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Apr 12 15:42 UTC 2002 |
I just did that, thanks Mark.
The file downloaded quickly and took 2 minutes to translate. A dental school
transcript. Crowns and bridges.
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keesan
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response 42 of 269:
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Apr 13 17:28 UTC 2002 |
Jim hit FUNCTION > > > > START/STOP START/STOP and was able to print screen.
He says you have to repeat this every time you turn on the printer.
I checked under DOS in the manual - nothing. Under FUNCTION _ a way to set
user settings, the only example being time and date. CANON really seems to
be hiding this information from users.
Today I tried to sign up a friend with Geocities free website. Netscape 3
encountered a very long javascript error on line 351 - no OK, could not make
that error message go away, could not proceed, could not even exit Netscape
without the power switch. Arachne displays a blank page when I try to sign
up. Skipper and Lynx get me to the signup page which is javascript but works
until they put in something new - Title and Specialization. How many people
looking for free websites have these things and why does Yahoo want to know
this information when they don't even care about your address?
The choices display as blanks, reveal code gives OPTION ...  OPTION
or something of the sort, and choosing one of these blanks inserts a blank
which Yahoo refuses to accept so I wrote them an email asking them to fix
javascript and make Geocities accessible to people using Lynx. They already
have a way for the blind to sign up (by phone) - perhaps I should tell them
that I am blind so have to use Lynx.
Yahoo also no longer allows FTP upload, or linking to images at other sites.
Can anyone recommend a free website account that works with Lynx?
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keesan
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response 43 of 269:
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Apr 13 22:22 UTC 2002 |
I looked more closely and apparently Yahoo wants to know your exact occupation
after they put you into subcategories. I could be a railroad engineer or a
ship's captain but they don't include translator. There are now many other
free website hosts - does anyone have experience signing up or using them with
lynx?
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scott
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response 44 of 269:
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Apr 13 23:01 UTC 2002 |
So, did you select "railroad engineer" or "ship's captain"? I think I would
have gone for "railroad engineer". "ship's captain" might get more
interesting spam, but I'm not sure if they validate to address or not.
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keesan
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response 45 of 269:
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Apr 13 23:05 UTC 2002 |
I could not select anything because it was not working with any of my
browsers. I only found the list by looking at the html code.
So I found a list of free website hosts, one of which is free.prohosting.com.
COuld not find the signup page for free sites so I wrote the site designer
who sent me to freeorder.prohosting.com. All went well, without needing to
give them any occupation (they wanted income and educational level instead)
until they told me to fill in on a line marked 'key' the information in the
box above. I read [img.php?number=keesan]. HTML gave <img
src='img.php?number=keesan>. They seem to be looking for some five-digit
number. How would I figure out what it is? The site designer told me to get
a 'normal'browser for Windows or Mac or Linux. Is DOS now considered
'abnormal'?
I will keep looking for some free webhosting site that will work with
lynx and is therefore usable by grexers without an ISP account, for posting
images to, with ftp.
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keesan
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response 46 of 269:
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Apr 13 23:22 UTC 2002 |
I tried codename.com and had no trouble signing up for free email (web or pop,
I think) but when I tried to go to my free website it said 'coming soon, free
webspace'. They have chat rooms and other services in English, French,
German, Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean. You are asked
to type in a question that you will answer if you forget your password, in
English if possible. Nice site but no webspace despite being in a listing
of free websites. Most of the links from that site are broken or they no
longer offer free, only paid, sites.
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keesan
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response 47 of 269:
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Apr 13 23:51 UTC 2002 |
Finally I found one that allowed me to register. Only two problems.
First it is an Austria site - home.pages.at the different non-commercial
project, which means most of the instructions are in German.
They wanted me to fill in Strasse Plz Ort, so I put Felch Ann Arbor MI and
got 'Fehler - Ungueltige Eingabe bei Plz! '. Jim suggested Plz might be the
street number so I tried '1' and that worked, but then it said my email
address was not acceptable. keesan@grex.org or keesan@cyberspace.org
It accepted my usol address.
I was looking for something to recommend to grexers who want to use lynx to
sign up for free webspace at which they can post photos. So all you need
to use this site, besides Lynx, is a good knowledge of German and another
email address - I would suggest first signing up at codename.com since they
also work with Lynx and don't hide words or numbers in javascript.
home.at will send me the password to my usol account. They also provide email
accounts (2 accounts) along with 25M webpages. I did not read the rest.
I wrote them asking if .org email addresses were not permitted.
I am (I think) now keesan@home.pages.at and home.pages.at/~keesan but there
is no website posted yet.
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keesan
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response 48 of 269:
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Apr 14 00:12 UTC 2002 |
My usol mailbox contained a message from home.pages.at with a code number
consisting of 8 batches of 4 characters each, to be entered at another
website, which I just did. They will send me more login info at usol.
I was pleasantly surprised that they told me to go to this webpage with my
browser (Netscape, Opera, Lynx, Internet Explorer,...). So far no javascript
has been needed. They wanted a vague idea of my occupation - Sonstige
(other). I did not notice any ads at this site (with Lynx, anyway).
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keesan
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response 49 of 269:
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Apr 14 00:34 UTC 2002 |
home.pages.at sent me my Kennwort (password) and a list of my email addresses
(2) and URL, and said to go to member.home.pages.at if I wanted to change the
password. I could login as myself or, without login and password, as a Gast.
They listed recent hardware upgrades since Jaener (Austrian for Januar?).
There are discussion forums but I could not find them as the thing is set up
with six frames that don't have helpful names, and the site is downloading
at 145 bytes/sec, at best. It sounds like the old grex. Perhaps we should
donate a computer to them. Instead of home.pages I could have had my webpage
at scifi.pages or free.pages. Still no ads. I am off again to look for the
discussion forums. The site designer for the other site suggested I sign up
at the library or an internet cafe. I wonder if I can telnet to home.pages.
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