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It sounds to me that there is a DNS problem on the computer. A quick way to check that is to go to a working computer, and ping the address of a site you are trying to reach (ping...

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It is sounding like a hardware error, but there is one thing that you might be able to do. Do you have OS 9 loaded somewhere on that laptop? no, not running Classic, but where you can...

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It is possible to work with zip files on the Mac. While it is not the traditional Stuffit format, there are Zip programs out there for the Mac, and most of them Shareware.

My...

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I am curious. What block?

If you turn on the computer, and hold down the C key while it boots, it should boot to the CD-ROM, and load up the installation materials (assuming you have...

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Yes, by re-formatting, the computer is "brand-new" with whatever software you choose to install on it. What you will want to do is get ahold of the system disks, and startup the...

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In all seriousness, it is better to not have one computer (the mac) depend on another computer (xp) for network access. Your best design will be a wireless router that has a firewall...

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My wireless router cost me ~$89.00 (Buffalo Tech, 802.11g -- works great!). 1 billion = 1 x 10 ^ 9, so your router would cost you 8.9 x 10 ^ -10 billions of dollars, or more properly...

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I was hoping he had a Wireless Router so that the XP and X boxes would be peers, and not one dependant on the other.

Christian

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I would love to help you with this, but need to know more about your setup. I assume that the Mac is going to be OS X, and the Windows XP machine is already there and running. What I need...

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I would suggest that you do a Google search on "Lisp OS X" and see if you can port your Lisp 4.2 code into the programs available for OS X. Be prepared for a porting issue though; I do...

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To expand on MacTecTom's idea there, you will need to work NetInfo as a administrator of the computer (note that administrator here does not mean root account).

In order to set the...

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I would recommend to anyone getting a used computer (and personally, I do this for *any* computer that becomes mine... new or used) and rebuild it from scratch. Only by doing this, do you...