Hi, I'm generating a list of directions using the Outline feature in WP where I refer to a later step in the protocol by saying "see Step #X below." I'd like...
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Edward Mendelson
em315
Jun 2, 2009 2:02 am
... Search the WP help file (Cmd-?) for "cross-references" and follow the instructions there. The trick to making this work is that you mark the...
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jeraldbricker
Jun 4, 2009 4:04 am
Thanks! I've been meaning to learn how to do that for years and have been too lazy. Its amazing how many features WP has and how the program can do pretty...
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Edward Mendelson
em315
Jun 4, 2009 12:50 pm
... It took about 15 seconds to find it in the help file - you'll probably find lots of good things there....
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 7, 2009 7:02 am
Dear All Anyone else having this experience. Since upgrading to 10.5.7, if I use Sheepshaver, then while I can shut it down, I cannot subsequently shut down or...
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Edward Mendelson
em315
Jun 7, 2009 3:57 pm
... This doesn't happen on my systems, so it isn't a symptom of all 10.5.7 setups. However, sometimes the updater from one 5.x version to the next 5.x version...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Jun 8, 2009 11:51 pm
... You probably will, and Command-? accesses only one of the Help features available. QuickHelp is another application, written for WP OpenDoc but easily...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Jun 9, 2009 12:01 am
This sounds like more an OS issue than an issue with SheepShaver, which is YA cocoa app. Two thoughts: I usually run Onyx, a nice free maintenance utility...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 9, 2009 6:30 am
Dear All On the Emaculation forum (as Edward had suggested), I asked the same question to see if there was any existing knowledge/ experience - the people...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Jun 12, 2009 5:52 am
Ed, I went to download the latest WP Appliance installer today, and got an apparently Google-based warning about malware on the dl.getdropbox.com site. It...
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Edward Mendelson
em315
Jun 12, 2009 12:42 pm
... Hmm... there are probably tens of thousands of users with software on dl.getdropbox.com, and it's more or less inevitable than one of them would host...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Jun 12, 2009 7:21 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8096822.stm Security experts have discovered two novel forms of Mac OS X malware. OSX/Tored-A - an updated version of the...
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Randy B. Singer
randybrucesi...
Jun 12, 2009 10:43 pm
... These "new" Trojans sound exactly like the RSPlug Trojan. I wonder if they are exactly the same, only newly "discovered"? ...
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Nancy Hyden Woodward
demivoix
Jun 13, 2009 6:45 pm
I have a question about viruses. Don't know when/how to recognize them. I only have Macs. Yesterday, I received an email from a list member of an animal...
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E...
pjonescet
Jun 13, 2009 6:46 pm
"Users logging on to these sites are asked to download a "missing Video Active-X Object" but are sent a virus payload instead." Unless the mac user less than...
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geoffrey mendelson
gsmendelson
Jun 13, 2009 7:04 pm
... The problem with that is that many sites on the web are infected with links that you never see. When a friend died my wife looked her up and found an...
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Chad Smith
gimpshopdotnet
Jun 13, 2009 9:59 pm
His point, though, was, according to the article, you have to go to a porn site, which tells you that you need an "Active-X plugin". That's the virus, the...
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John Rethorst
jrethorst
Jun 13, 2009 10:01 pm
... These things happen . . . :-) John R....
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John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Jun 14, 2009 3:02 am
Geoff, ... Could you expand a little on how that happens? John K....
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Edward Mendelson
em315
Jun 15, 2009 2:24 pm
... Start here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10255226-83.html It doesn't tell how the stuff actually gets on the sites, but that's presumably done through...
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geoffrey mendelson
gsmendelson
Jun 15, 2009 6:12 pm
... Note that this is the third time I have tried to send this, the first time the electricty went out in our entire neighborhood, the second time my Mac...
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John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Jun 16, 2009 5:53 am
... But of course *that* is the question, isn't it? - how that happens? John K....
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John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Jun 16, 2009 6:04 am
... But the links /on one's own site/ to pages elsewhere do not optimize the /referring/ site in a search, do they? Rather, they optimize/enhance the search...
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geoffrey mendelson
gsmendelson
Jun 16, 2009 6:07 am
... It's pretty easy to figure out the user name of the owner of the HTML files of a web site. Once you have done that, there are plenty of lists of passwords...
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geoffrey mendelson
gsmendelson
Jun 16, 2009 6:14 am
... Someone decided that the world would be a better place if they put together a website with a link to every antisemtic website in the world. They called it...
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John Kaufmann
j0kaufmann
Jun 16, 2009 11:47 am
Geoff, Thanks for the education. The bottom line appears to be that web site corruption, like Mac viruses, rely on weak owner/user security rather than ...
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grendelicious
Jun 22, 2009 4:48 pm
I've downloaded John R's impressive MetaMacro utility, toward converting 20 years of WP files to something readable (RTF?) by a yet-unselected, modern word...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 22, 2009 5:06 pm
Just one question - how complex are your 20 years worth of files? NeoOffice is good for straightforward fles but can lose some of the more complex attributes...
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grendelicious
Jun 22, 2009 7:25 pm
... Dead simple, for the most part. No embedded tables or graphics, e.g. No footnotes, headers, indices, math formulas, weird paginations or documents over 50...
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Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 22, 2009 7:52 pm
Subject to having to check formatting, but you should have lost no text/ graphics/ tables etc. Smokey Ardison is the expert on this....
