Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

Anyone know if there's a native version of emacs for OS X?
By native I mean one that doesn't need me to encumber my machine with
X11.
I'm looking for something that I can use to build some web pages from

Using the latest drivers from Canon's website.  But it still says "no
camera found".  And I don't have a card reader right now.  Has anyone
else had this problem?

I have an OLD database which was created in Filemaker Plus, from which I
now need to retrieve data.  Problem is, the floppy I stored the app on
has become corrupted, and I have not been able to restore the program in
order to export the data.  Unfortunately, Filemaker Pro won't ...

The other day my mac froze. Aside from being impressed that I actually
managed for finally freeze my mac after years of having it, I powered
it down to reboot. It started....slowly....slowly, then reached the
blue screen where i was expecting my desktop to start showing up, but

I'm totally new to Apple, so I don't know nuttin'.  I bought a used Mac
(I'm not even sure what it is) that was preloaded (I don't have the
disk) with OS X Tiger. I want to delete everything on the hard drive
except the OS. How do I do that without hurting the OS?

I recently switched to Tiger (OS 10.4) from Panther, and lost a couple
of fonts. I was able to copy New Century Schoolbook over from an
archive file, but Font Book warned me not to install Krone and Krone
Bold. Krone is an especially hard loss because I have a continuing

I recently downloaded VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/
because the Quicktime Player wasn't doing a good job at playing .avi
files - there was always a 'choppiness' as if frames were missing - I
assumed this was aimed at making you upgrade to Quicktime Pro...

I've got 3 questions I would like help with :
- How would I go about creating a startup disk on an external hard drive
that I just received ?
- What is the best way to copy my entire hard disk to the same external

I've got 3 questions I would like help with :
- How would I go about creating a startup disk on an external hard drive
that I just received ?
- What is the best way to copy my entire hard disk to the same external

I'm new to the world of Apple, having used (and continue to use) multiple
windows machines in my household.
I just purchased a MacBook, and I like what I see thus far....with one major
exception and a few minor ones.

1stly, I am a switcher. I love my MAC, it is so refreshing coming home
and using my MAC after a day in my Windows centric job as a Sys
Engineer.
But I have a problem with my MAC now not sleeping by its self. I can

I am going to switch to an Intel Mac shortly and have a question about
the GUID format needed to boot from an external drive. I have an
emergency repair partition on a firewire drive. To make that a bootable
partition, can I just erase the partition or do I need to reformat the

Could use recommendations on C80 printing problem.
My wife just replaced all print cartridges on her 4 year old C80.
She hadn't used it for color printing in some time because of some
"banding" problem. So when black was gone the others showed empty as

Hello, all!
In Classic Mac OS, it was possible to print to a .ps (postscript) file
instead of sending a document to a printer.
In Mac OS X, it is now possible to print to a .pdf (Adobe portable

Beware, this is a rant from a bitter old man.
Do not read this under any circumstances, it is depressing.
Why should we Mac users care a rat's behind about GUID?
Because it is part of the new Intel Macs, which we will be stuck with