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The word processor wars heat up, and we review WordPerfect's
   latest release, 3.0. We also examine a MessagePad bug that may
   bite in an alarming way, examine how to determine your version
   of Quicken for update purposes, discuss a new video card from
   Apple via Radius, and glance in shock at why Apple isn't
   establishing a new facility in Williamson Country, Texas.
   Hypertext proceedings, great quotes, CPU comments, and HP
   rebates fill out the issue.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/06-Dec-93
    Nothing Like A Little Bigotry To Brighten Your Day
    Apple/Radius Card Looks to the Future
    Quicken Updates
    Alarming MessagePad Bug
    WordPerfect Mac 3.0: The Next Best Thing
    Reviews/06-Dec-93

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MailBITS/06-Dec-93
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**Hypertext '93 Proceedings** -- A number of people have asked for
  information on how to get the proceedings of the Hypertext '93
  conference. I don't know the price, but you can find that and
  other information (such as shipping details, I imagine) by
  emailing <[e-mail]>. The proceedings for Hypertext '93 are
  ACM Order Number 614930 and consist of 32 papers, video
  descriptions, and panel descriptions, about 300 pages.


**Quote of the Week** -- As a followup to Charles Wheeler's
  article in the last issue about converting a Mac site to DOS-based
  software, a friend passed this on. "After spending nearly a quarter
  million dollars on DOS-based equipment to replace the Macs in our
  company, our president was heard to ask, 'How can we make them more
  Mac-like?'"

  A close second is Stewart Alsop's comment in the 29-Nov-93 issue
  of InfoWorld that talks about how PDAs differ from computers.
  "Many people knowingly wink and say that neither Newton nor Zoomer
  is the answer. Microsoft and Compaq will get WinPad out and you'll
  be able to run your Windows software on your PDA, they say. I
  consign these people to the category of unknowing and
  disinterested nincompoops. ... In fact, these are the same people
  who used to make the vacuous statements about running a mainframe
  on a desktop."


**Bill Dickson** <[e-mail]> writes in regard to On The Road
  and CPU (TidBITS #203_): CPU 2.0.1c will automatically switch to a
  "docked" set if it senses that a Duo is connected to a dock, and
  then back to the previously-used set when the machine is restarted
  outside the dock. Unfortunately, if the undocked set is configured
  to slow the Mac down to 16 MHz when the Mac is on battery power,
  and then you re-dock the Duo and restart, you'll find that the
  machine is still running at 16 MHz. You must go into the PowerBook
  Control Panel's options, set the speed back to normal, and
  restart.


**Psion Updates** -- Patrick Edmond <[e-mail]>
  writes: "As a Psion Series 3 owner, I can echo Charlie Stross's
  comments in TidBITS #203_ about the usefulness of the Psion
  machine. One little correction though: the mailing list mentioned
  is no longer in operation."

  Jack Kobzeff <[e-mail]> writes: "You can
  purchase the Psion Series 3 for a list price of $399 from Psion's
  U.S. direct sales arm. For information and other pricing call
  508/371-9875," and Masato Ogawa <[e-mail]> noted that
  CompUSA and Fry's Electronics also carry the Psion, according to
  an ad in a recent PC Magazine.


**Prentice-Hall International-UK** made a mistake in the online
  offer made to TidBITS readers for my book. They have been offering
  20 percent off 18.50 pounds, when in fact the base price they
  should have been charging was 27.50 pounds, which is now in
  effect. Sorry for the mistake, and if you lucked out on the lower
  price, congratulations.


**$100 rebates** are available for Mac owners who purchase any HP
  LaserJet Series M laser printer before 31-Dec-93. You need a
  completed rebate certificate (available from your dealer or HP), a
  copy of your sales receipt, the bar code label from your printer
  box, and the serial number from your Mac (to prove ownership).
  Hewlett-Packard -- 800-354-7622


Nothing Like A Little Bigotry To Brighten Your Day
--------------------------------------------------
  Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is an expensive place to do
  business, and I've heard warnings that unless the area does more
  for business, companies will immigrate to more favorable
  locations. I doubt we'll see refugees fleeing for the Nevada
  border any time soon, but companies like Apple are locating new
  facilities in other states, most notably Texas, and specifically,
  in Austin, Texas.

  Apple hoped to establish a 130 acre, $80 million business park
  just outside of Austin, in Williamson County, and had asked the
  Williamson County Commissioners for a $750,000 tax rebate in
  exchange for spending gobs of money on the facility and creating
  an estimated 700 jobs in the area. Last week the county
  commissioners rejected Apple's proposal, not because of the
  financial aspects of the deal, but because Apple offers benefits
  to domestic partners of homosexual employees. Few companies are so
  progressive in this respect, although Microsoft has a similar
  policy.

  Apple spokeswoman Lisa Byrne, sounding somewhat stunned, said in a
  radio interview that the company would not push the proposal
  further unless the commissioners reconsidered their three to two
  decision. I was bothered most by the sheer bigotry of the action -
  these commissioners seem to equate this policy with the
  encouragement of homosexuality, ignoring the fact that
  homosexuality, if a decision at all, certainly isn't one based on
  whether or not companies offer health benefits to partners. In
  that radio interview, one of commissioners went so far as to claim
  that allowing so many homosexuals into the area (in their eyes,
  most of the 700 jobs would obviously be filled by gays) would
  result in broken homes. Hmm? Welcome to the myth of the 1950's.
  Whatever one's views on the subject, the real world today contains
  homosexuals, and it's interesting to see the denial of that fact
  spill over into the money-driven world of big business.

  I'm most surprised, and somewhat impressed, by the fact that the
  commissioners came out and announced the reasoning behind
  rejecting Apple's proposal. It would have been far easier for them
  to reject it for some trumped-up reason, and then to congratulate
  each other for having turned back the gay menace at the gates of
  decency (as defined by the Williamson Country border). Enough said
  - maybe Apple will locate the facility near Seattle instead.


Apple/Radius Card Looks to the Future
-------------------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  Apple seems to waver between wanting to provide complete Macintosh
  system solutions all by itself, and leveraging third-party
  developers' product lines to best effect. They've found the best
  of both worlds with last month's announcement that the company has
  begun shipping a new "Macintosh Display Card 24AC," an accelerated
  24-bit NuBus card manufactured for Apple by Radius.

  Currently the card, which supports all of Apple's Macintosh-
  compatible monitors and many third-party monitors, is available
  only in a bundle with the $3,599 Macintosh 21" Color Display
  (bundle part number B1737LL/A). According to Apple, the card will
  be available as a stand-alone product in early 1994. Intended
  users are those who need to view and manipulate large, full-color
  images.

  The Macintosh Display Card 24AC is compatible with all Quadra,
  Centris, and Macintosh II family computers with an available NuBus
  slot (the IIsi and Centris/Quadra 610 and 660AV require a NuBus
  adapter for their PDS slots), and will support forthcoming PowerPC
  computers. This card differs from the similar Radius card, the
  PrecisionColor 24X Pro, in that it includes custom ROM firmware
  and will be compatible with future Apple displays.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda
    Pythaeus


Quicken Updates
---------------
  People on the nets have been discussing updates to Quicken, the
  popular personal finance package recently, and Harry Hahn
  <[e-mail]> passed on a useful tip for finding out what
  version of Quicken you have. Quicken does not advertise new
  versions, so the only way to find out what version you have is to
  open the About Quicken dialog box and press the R key, after which
  the release number appears next to the version number. The last
  reported release is release 4, but some reports indicate that the
  only way to get it is to know the secret bug. What's the bug? Good
  question.

  Most of the problems reported by Larry Wink
  <[e-mail]> were in the Investment portion of
  Quicken, and you can find out more about them by searching the
  macintosh-news.src source in WAIS with the phrase "Tell me about
  bugs in the Quicken Investment Manager as reported by Larry Wink."
  The first hit should be the Info-Mac Digest V11 #119. Of course,
  this is easiest done using WAIS for Mac or MacWAIS, both of which
  are available from <ftp.tidbits.com> in:

    /pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/wais/

  Of course, the other way to do this is to email Intuit and ask for
  the update, a tack with which Bob Warner <[e-mail]>
  had excellent luck, receiving a update in email from Eric Tilenus
  <[e-mail]> of Intuit Marketing within a few hours.
  So maybe the online support, is, as is often the case, a more
  productive line of inquiry.

  Email might especially help those of you outside of the U.S.
  Darren Challis <[e-mail]> wrote to tell us that
  he tried to get an update from the Australian Intuit distributors,
  a firm called Reckon Software, and they eventually sent him the
  wrong version. When he called back and explained that he wanted
  the newest version, they said they couldn't help, since checking
  the version number requires a Mac and they didn't have one. Ouch.


Alarming MessagePad Bug
-----------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]

  A problem that's been informally acknowledged by Apple tech
  support could cause a loss of data for Newton MessagePad users.
  Apple is working to fix the problem, which they believe is a bug
  in the MessagePad's handling of alarmed recurring events in the
  built-in Datebook application.

  The bug manifests itself as a state where the Newton splash screen
  comes up and stays up.  Eventually it realizes it's been on too
  long and goes to "sleep" but then immediately turns back on and
  again sits with the splash screen up for a while.

  Neither hitting Reset nor leaving the main battery out for a few
  minutes typically helps, but both are certainly worth a try.
  Starting but cancelling the hard reset process (by holding down
  the power switch and pressing reset, then selecting "cancel" when
  warned about data loss) has also apparently worked in some
  circumstances. In most cases the user must perform the hard reset,
  which wipes all data in the MessagePad. If the user has a recent
  backup, this is only an annoyance, if not, it's quite a pain.

  According to the gentleman at Apple, this seems to occur in some
  cases that relate to using alarmed recurring events. An Apple
  internal document suggests that users who must have an alarm on a
  recurring event should first make it a single event, add the
  alarm, then add the recurrence setting again.

  The support engineer did not know whether the upcoming 1.05 system
  update will include a fix for this bug; the update is expected to
  be released before the end of the year.

  I recommend that MessagePad owners without a ready means of backup
  obtain one immediately! Apple's Connection Kit software is
  effective at backing up the information, and even provides the
  capability to access and modify data in the event your MessagePad
  is elsewhere (for repairs, vacations, or what have you). The next
  version of the software will provide more thorough import and
  export capabilities, but even the current (1.0) version is useful.
  The Connection Kit software is available for Macintosh and
  Windows, and allows you to connect your MessagePad to Mac or
  Windows machine via serial cable (included) or to a Mac via
  LocalTalk.

  Each copy of the Connection Kit can be installed on only one
  computer, but can back up the contents of more than one
  MessagePad, so sharing wouldn't be a bad idea. (I can see it
  now... Newton dealers will soon be offering MessagePad backup
  services! "Come on in twice a week and back up your data!")

  Information from:
    Apple Technical Assistance Center


WordPerfect Mac 3.0: The Next Best Thing
----------------------------------------
  by David Reiser -- [e-mail]

  I've been using WordPerfect Mac since the infamous pre-1.0 beta
  sale. To paraphrase Victor Kiam, I liked WordPerfect Mac 2.0 so
  much I wrote a book about it. (Well, actually only about 55-60
  percent of a book. My wife, Holly Morris, wrote the rest.) And I
  think that WordPerfect 3.0 continues WordPerfect's continual
  improvement in features, interface implementation, and
  performance. Overall, I feel that WordPerfect Mac 3.0 is the best
  available Mac word processor.


Interface
  Major software packages these days have feature lists far in
  excess of what any single user needs - general purpose software
  will always fit that description. Consequently, the design and
  implementation of the software's interface determines the
  usability of all that power. WordPerfect has added Button Bars and
  Ruler Bars to the standard Mac interface used in the 2.x series.
  Other noticeable changes include simplified dialog boxes and a new
  location for the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen instead of
  at the bottom of each document window. (You can choose to hide the
  Status Bar completely.)

  You can display a single Button Bar along any edge of the screen,
  and you can change any button on the bar to activate any of
  WordPerfect's features. WordPerfect can only show one Button Bar
  at a time, but you can define any number of bars, saving them in a
  preferences file (WordPerfect calls it the Library) or in
  individual documents. WordPerfect has different default Button
  Bars for normal editing, graphic editing, and equation editing;
  you can swap among the bars via a pop-up menu at the top of each.

  Ruler Bars are a cross between Button Bars and a normal ruler. You
  can show or hide any of the eight ruler bars (you only see the
  eighth, the Mailer, if you have PowerTalk installed), but you
  can't change the functions of the buttons on the Ruler Bars. Of
  the Ruler Bars, Ruler and Layout make up what was the ruler in
  2.x. The other Ruler Bars (Font, Styles, Table, List, Merge, and
  Mailer) tend to have functions that had been in hierarchical
  menus. I find the Ruler Bars easy to use, and I generally only
  display the Ruler and Layout Bars. If you prefer a spartan
  interface, the only thing that must remain onscreen is the Control
  Bar, a thin strip under the window title bar that contains the
  buttons to show or hide the different Ruler Bars.

  WordPerfect expanded the Status Bar to display up to eleven
  parameters and abbreviated help. This help feature is great, since
  it works much like balloon help but is so fast I don't anticipate
  the need to turn it off. The Status Bar help only describes Button
  Bars, Ruler Bars, and the Status Bar itself. For menus and
  dialogs, you must still use balloon help. Although I find
  WordPerfect's balloon help to be about twice as fast as Word's, it
  is still too slow for standard use.

  I don't think there is room in the Status Bar for all eleven
  parameters at once, but most people won't want them all. The
  parameters are: logical page/line (logical page is the number that
  actually prints out on the paper), physical page (the one that the
  printer driver needs if you're printing only part of a document),
  time, date, position on the page from top left, write protect
  status, caps lock status, num lock status, active document number,
  active cell in a table, and PowerBook battery status.

  There are the usual (and sometimes unusual) raft of choices
  available in the Preferences arena. You can choose whether you
  want formatting to act like Word (one paragraph at a time) or like
  WordPerfect (until another formatting command overrules it). There
  is a choice to prevent WordPerfect from trying to translate fonts
  linguistically (if you use Symbol font sporadically for
  science/engineering you do want to prevent the linguistic approach
  at least sometimes). You can assign a keystroke to any of the 306
  commands. You can choose whether and how often to have WordPerfect
  back up your open files, and you can make WordPerfect drop a guide
  line from the ruler whenever you reposition a tab or margin
  setting, which I found to be much more helpful than I expected.
  There are far more settings, but those are the most memorable
  options.


Features
  New features are always the most obvious to an old hand at a
  program. Tables, an equation editor, drag & drop editing, and the
  integration of Grammatik 5 into the main program are the main
  additions.

  Tables are fairly predictable, and I find them easier to modify
  than Word's (at this point I have about the same experience with
  tables in both programs). WordPerfect used to meet about 80
  percent of my table needs with its column features. The biggest
  advance for me is the ability to select a column (it's about
  time). In a large table, text entry display bogs down toward the
  bottom. In a 10 column by 30 row table, I could easily out-type
  WordPerfect by the end. For single value tables (like data tables)
  the solution is to type the data as tabbed text without formatting
  it at all, select the text, and quickly convert it to a table with
  a menu command. By contrast, reformatting tables in WordPerfect is
  much faster than in Word for the same table. If you discover that
  you need more room in one column, just grab the column border and
  move it. Redraw of the reformatted table isn't fast, but it beats
  Word.

  WordPerfect lets you perform simple arithmetic on table elements,
  including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and
  averaging (the most common spreadsheet functions). Recalculation
  after editing a cell is strictly manual, though, via a recalculate
  button on the Table Ruler Bar. WordPerfect is smart about
  arithmetic in that it lets you mix  numbers and text in a cell and
  can still add the number to a total (it considers only the first
  item recognized as a number in each cell for arithmetic
  operations).

  The equation editor is simple, straightforward, and capable. My
  secretary raves about how wonderful it is. I have used it for a
  few dozen real equations, and I figure I won't bother with my
  third party equation editor any more. WordPerfect supports Edit
  Graphic Object, so if you don't wish to switch from another
  equation editor, you should get better integration with
  WordPerfect 3.0.

  The internal graphic editor enables you to create fairly
  sophisticated drawings. I especially like its bezier curve tool,
  which I find easier to use than the same tool in Canvas. I wish
  arrowheads were a normal feature. Mike Tippets of WordPerfect
  wrote a macro for creating arrowheads, but they aren't as easily
  modified as native arrowheads usually are. You can assign any
  color available in Apple's color wheel to any object, including
  text in the main document. There are two special types of graphics
  - Draw Overlay and Watermark. Both are full page graphics that
  overlap the text area on the page. A watermark works like a header
  or footer in that once defined it appears on every page until
  discontinued or changed. In contrast, a draw overlay appears only
  on the page where it is originally defined. You can have a
  separate overlay for each page and up to two watermarks and an
  overlay active simultaneously.

  Style support is better than in earlier versions, but I'm still
  waiting for them to get rid of what I call the "style bulldozer."
  If you apply a style to a paragraph containing manual changes
  (remember that sporadic use of Symbol font I mentioned earlier?),
  the "partial paragraph" formatting changes are wiped out if the
  applied style includes information contrary to the manual change.
  Because of this limitation and the lack of character styles,
  styles are poor for body text, but great for everything else, such
  as headers, footers, and tables of contents. You can link styles
  together in a chain, or base one style on another.

  WordPerfect allows you to create lists, including Tables of
  Contents, Tables of Authorities (for lawyers), figures, text boxes
  (sidebars), tables, indexes, and up to six other custom lists. If
  you assign captions to your figures and tables, the list
  automatically uses the caption as the list text. For indexes,
  WordPerfect includes a concordance feature that enables you to use
  a list of terms, one per line in a separate file, to generate the
  index without marking each entry. Your concordance need not be in
  alphabetical order, but since WordPerfect lets you sort text,
  there's no reason not to speed up indexing by sorting the
  concordance.

  I mostly use Sort for distribution lists, but it's really a mini-
  database scheme implemented in a word processor. Sorting seldom
  receives nearly enough attention in any review I've seen,
  including this one.

  WordPerfect treats endnotes and footnotes as separate entities, so
  you can use both at the same time. I can't live without endnotes
  in my technical writing, and on the occasions when I've needed
  footnotes too, it has been nice not to have to fake it manually.

  Outlining in WordPerfect is weak, being little more than
  sophisticated paragraph numbering, and without outlining features
  like collapse/expand or ready rearrangement of levels.

  You can script WordPerfect with Frontier and AppleScript, and it
  supports the Required and Core suites of Apple events, along with
  the Word Services Suite that enables you to, for instance, use an
  external spell checker like Spellswell from Working Software.
  Although WordPerfect is WorldScript-compatible, it cannot handle
  right-to-left languages.

  I can't effuse enough in describing how much I like WordPerfect's
  macros. I almost always have the macro recorder create as much of
  an operation as I can do manually; then I go to the macro edit
  window and add loops, conditional branches, keyboard input
  prompts, and so on. The macro editor has an on-the-fly syntax
  checker when you hit return after typing a command - a valid
  command automatically boldfaces to let you know it is valid. If
  invalid, the first invalid part becomes underlined to identify the
  glitch. Macros have three kinds of variables - local, global, and
  document. Local variables are restricted to a single macro, global
  macros are available to all macros during a session, and document
  variables are stored with documents. I have a memo-creation macro
  that stores the author's name in a document variable. Since the
  variable is saved with the document, when I or my secretary finish
  a memo, a signature line macro recalls the author's name without
  asking.


Performance
  Since version 2.0.1, every release of WordPerfect has been faster
  than the previous version, an unusual and welcome feat. I think
  WordPerfect assigned some poor programmer the sole task of making
  WordPerfect 3.0 scroll quickly. Using the arrow buttons on the
  scroll bar, WordPerfect screams. I opened a 2.3 MB text file (it
  took slightly over two minutes to open on a IIci in System 7.0.1)
  and it scrolled smoothly and quickly. The one action that I
  suspect WordPerfect will never make quite as fast as the fastest
  competitor is jump-to-beginning or -end of a file. WordPerfect
  does some format tracking during that jump, so it will never be
  instantaneous. Nevertheless, they've made the jumps faster too.
  The first jump is the worst: a beginning to end jump on the 2.3 MB
  file took 30 seconds the first time (the file had no carriage
  returns in it, so it was all one "paragraph"), and 10 seconds for
  subsequent jumps.

  WordPerfect has published data which claim that WordPerfect
  compares well with Word 5.1a in the speed of most features, and is
  up to three times faster at arrow scrolling, spell checking, and
  grammar checking for some unspecified file on several
  configurations. I haven't checked with a stopwatch, but it feels
  like it might be true, other than for text entry in large tables.

  WordPerfect files can balloon to a large size. The 10 column by 30
  row one page table occupies 60K. Other documents aren't quite so
  outrageous, but WordPerfect files aren't particularly space
  efficient. WordPerfect offers a compressed format as an option for
  file saving (yet another thing you can set as a default, if disk
  space is an issue). WordPerfect compresses its own files a bit
  better than Compact Pro does, so WordPerfect's solution is fine.


Compatibility
  WordPerfect Mac 3.0 files should be compatible with WordPerfect
  6.0 for DOS and Windows. The import/export conversion filter
  hasn't yet shipped for the Mac version, but supposedly the other
  versions can read Mac files directly. WordPerfect will even be the
  first to offer cross-platform equation compatibility (it's about
  time), but only with version 6.0. WordPerfect Mac can still read
  and write WordPerfect 5.1 and 5.0 formats, and the 6.0 filter
  should ship by the end of the year.

  WordPerfect Mac does a decent job of reading Word files, but can't
  read fast-saved files, like some other Mac word processors. I find
  that I have to strip out fixed line height codes in many imported
  Word files. WordPerfect tries so hard to make the file immediately
  printable in an identical page image that the line heights wreak
  havoc with display of graphics. A one-command macro does the trick
  ("Remove All Code (forward;line height)"). Sometimes I need to
  tweak converted styles a bit, too, but all things considered I
  think the Word import is good. The conversion is a one-way street
  with only a sidewalk (RTF) to go back the other way, and this
  doesn't always work well. Unfortunately, saving in DOS WordPerfect
  format and then importing that into Word fails. WordPerfect Mac
  also supports XTND conversions, both for import and export, but
  includes no XTND filters.

  WordPerfect Mac requires a 2 MB memory partition, along with
  System 6.0.7 or later. If you plan to use the graphic editor much,
  I think a 2.5 or 3 MB memory allocation is safer. The application
  itself is about 2.5 MB on disk, although a full installation uses
  about 7.5 MB. WordPerfect includes a bunch of fonts - some are
  required for the equation editor, and some facilitate
  compatibility with the fonts that ship with the 6.0 products.

  Give this word processor a try, it truly is a Word beater.

  [Even I, with my bias toward Nisus, must admit that WordPerfect
  has a winner here - WordPerfect Mac 3.0 does many things right and
  continues to support Apple's technologies such as QuickTime,
  PowerTalk, AppleScript, and WorldScript more fully than anyone
  else. Word 6.0 will have a fight on its hands when it ships
  sometime next year. -Adam]

  Upgrades cost about $50 ($25 if you only want the disk),
  sidegrades from other word processors are about $85, and the full
  version is about $300. You can find a demo version of WordPerfect
  that cannot save files and that prints "DEMO" across all pages at
  <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> as:

    /info-mac/app/word-perfect-30-demo.hqx


Reviews/06-Dec-93
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 29-Nov-93, Vol. 7, #46
    Kai's Power Tools 2.0 -- pg. 1
    DayMaker Organizer 3.0.2 -- pg. 47
    At Ease for Workgroups 2.0.1 -- pg. 52
    Genesis 650 -- pg. 54
    CrossTalk for Macintosh 2.0 -- pg. 55

* InfoWorld -- 29-Nov-93, Vol. 15, #48
    In Touch 2.0 -- pg. 109


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