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More details about Apple's new technologies this week, followed by
   problems with the Newton OS 1.05 upgrade, a new stylus for the
   Newton, a new internal CD drive style, and some pointers to
   repetitive stress injury resources on the Internet. Finally we
   review Anarchie, a fabulous piece of shareware from Peter Lewis
   that simplifies searching for and retrieving files on the
   Internet.

This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by:
* APS Technologies -- 800/443-4199 -- [e-mail]
   Makers of hard drives, tape drives, memory, and accessories.
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Topics:
    MailBITS/31-Jan-94
    RSI News
    New Technology Comments
    Caveat Emptor, or What's Weak This Week
    Newton 1.05 Upgrade "Sucks"
    Apple Improves CD Drive
    Stylish Stylus
    Anarchie Rules
    Reviews/31-Jan-94

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MailBITS/31-Jan-94
------------------
  We'd like to congratulate John Norstad, author of Disinfectant and
  NewsWatcher among others, for his John J. Anderson Distinguished
  Achievement Award from MacUser. Check out pages 84 and 85 of the
  Mar-94 MacUser for the picture and blurb. We hope others will make
  equally high-quality software available to the Macintosh
  community. And of course, we're waiting with bated breath for the
  next version of NewsWatcher. Thanks, John! If you want to check
  out a nicely-formatted collection of John's software on the World-
  Wide Web via NCSA Mosaic, here's the URL.

http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/mac/jlnstuff


**La Cie Recalls Drives** -- While perusing my Navigator session
  on CompuServe, I noticed this warning in the Macintosh Hardware
  forum. I'm currently unable to confirm this due to the timing, but
  it appears that La Cie has recalled 1,900 of their new 340 MB
  Tsunami hard drives. The recall applies to drives that La Cie
  shipped before 21-Jan-94, which apparently had a problem in their
  ROMs that can result in corrupted files and memory problems. If
  your drive shipped after 21-Jan-94 and has a sticker "E" under the
  number "340," it's OK. La Cie -- 800/288-9919 -- 503/520-1266


**PowerTalk to Internet Gateway** -- Jim Gaynor <[e-mail]>
  tells us that StarNine has released an evaluation version of their
  PowerTalk to Internet gateway. I've played briefly with the
  shipping version, which works, although it currently isn't ideal
  for use with SLIP or PPP since it tries to dial out a bit too
  frequently. In addition, auto connects with InterSLIP often fail,
  so it can take a bit of work to get the gateway working via SLIP.
  Version 2.0, due out in the second quarter of 1994, will
  officially support SLIP connections.

  You can try the unlimited-user, time-limited evaluation version
  all you want until 10-Mar-94, when it expires. Note that the
  gateway is over 1 MB in size. Also, with the order form available
  in the same directory as the evaluation version of the gateway,
  you can purchase the real version for $29 until 31-Mar-94. To use
  either gateway, you must have System 7 Pro. StarNine -- 510/649-
  4949 -- 510/649-4949 (fax) -- [e-mail]

ftp://starnine.com/pub/evals/pt-inet/Mail*Link_PT_INET.sea.hqx


RSI News
--------
  Andy Williams <[e-mail]> passed on the news
  that the American Physical Therapy Association is sponsoring two
  free days of phone help to help those affected by the "Information
  Revolution." Sounds like a good time to call to chat about your
  carpal tunnel or tendonitis. The dates are 02-Feb-94 and 03-Feb-94
  and the phone number is 800/995-7848.


RSI Newsletter
  Another resource for those suffering from RSI problems is the RSI
  Newsletter, published by Caroline Rose and distributed
  electronically in setext form (suitable for framing, or viewing
  with Easy View) by Craig O'Donnell <[e-mail]>. The
  RSI Newsletter has been around for 14 months, which qualifies it
  as a geezer resource on the fast moving nets. Maybe its longevity
  can help convince businesses and organizations that repetitive
  stress injuries are real.

  To subscribe, send Craig email at the above address and put "RSI
  Newsletter" (without the quotes) in the Subject: line. Craig's
  mailer will add you to the list automatically, but he can't answer
  personally (he has RSI problems too). To check out the information
  that has appeared in the RSI Newsletter in the past via both FTP
  and Gopher, explore the URLs below, which also should point you to
  other RSI resources.

gopher://sjuvm.stjohns.edu
ftp://world.std.com/pub/rsi
ftp://soda.berkeley.edu/pub/typing-injury/rsi-network


SOREHAND List
  Although the RSI Newsletter publishes letters from readers, for
  true discussion, check out the SOREHAND list. To subscribe, send
  email to:

    [e-mail]

  with this line in the body of the message (no Subject
  necessary):

    SUBSCRIBE SOREHAND Your Full Name


New Technology Comments
-----------------------
  by Robert Hess -- [e-mail]

  Some comments on things you've said recently about upcoming Apple
  technologies. In regard to QuickDraw GX, you left out the coolest
  thing about QuickDraw GX. Its replacement for the PrintMonitor is
  the coolest, most mind-blowingly wonderful thing I've seen in a
  long time (oh, yeah, even cooler than ultraSHIELD or RAM Doubler).

  Forget the desktop printers... that's old hat, available in
  PrintJuggler and Leonard Rosenthol's DTPrinter. Here's a scenario
  any businessperson would love:

  You print a 100-page document from Word, which goes to the new
  QuickDraw GX spooler instead of PrintMonitor. You quit out of
  Word. There, in the Finder, are icons representing your favorite
  printers. One icon shows that it is busy printing your 100-pager.
  You double-click on the icon and it shows (within the Finder) an
  informative window telling you what's going on, where in the job
  it is, and so on. Content, warm, and fuzzy, you go to lunch.

  When you return, pages 1 through 50 are sitting in the printer
  bin. You look under the printer and see someone has kicked the
  LocalTalk box out of the wall. The box is damaged and will take a
  few hours to repair. If you had been using PrintMonitor, you
  staple all 50 pages to the body of the person  who did this since
  you would have to reprint the entire job AND wait for the printer
  to be fixed.

  Instead, you keep those 50 pages. You go to your Mac, open the
  printer info window (which tells you there was a weird problem
  with your job), and double-click on the document you halfway
  printed. SimpleText (the cool replacement for TeachText) opens and
  shows an image of your document. You scroll to page 50 and compare
  it to the last page that actually printed. They're not the same;
  it seems you have some extra pages numbered "i, ii, iii, etc." at
  the start of your document, so what says "50" at the bottom isn't
  really the 50th page. The last page that physically printed was
  page 57 of the spooled document.

  You quit SimpleText, click on your spooled document, drag it to
  another printer in the building and tell it to start printing not
  from page 1, but from page 58.

  Life is good.

  As far as Apple Interactive Help goes, Apple should have shown you
  the demo they showed developers at WWDC (Word-Wide Developers
  Conference).

  Essentially, Apple Help can use an application's intelligence
  along with Apple events to lead the user step-by-step through a
  complex task. Apple Help can even confirm that the user has
  completed a step correctly and can automatically go on to the next
  step.

  A developer can build functionality into Apple Help. One example
  Apple uses: in response to the question, "How do I change the
  level of my Mac's volume?" Apple Help can either tell you how to
  do it, show you how to do it or provide you with a "louder" and a
  "softer" button to do it without even leaving Apple Help.

  If a developer is willing to invest the time, Apple Help can do
  almost anything you can imagine. [I have a very good imagination -
  but I'm willing to give Apple Help the benefit of the doubt for
  the moment. -Adam]

  Finally, OpenDoc. Apple's most touted hope for OpenDoc isn't that
  it lets you work on many components within a single document; OLE
  gives you that. Apple's hope is that developers can quit being
  forced by the competition of other developers to spend time and
  energy working on features which aren't in the immediate realm of
  the programmer's skills, and instead can work on the specific tool
  they wish to develop.

  The best example of the need for this can be seen in any
  mainstream word processor or integrated package. Some people might
  say Word is the best text processor on the planet, but I'll bet
  you would have a hard time finding anyone outside Microsoft who
  thought Word was also best at tables, page layout, indexing, and
  formulas.

  OpenDoc will let a user pick the best text processor, the best
  table editor, the best page layout application, the best indexer,
  and the best formula editor from a wide variety of vendors, and
  make them all work together despite the fact their programmers
  have never met, never spoken, and probably don't get along. And
  the developer of each of those components can focus on developing
  the one component they can write better than anyone else, and
  that's all.

  Developers don't have to start from the ground and work their way
  up in developing OpenDoc components. They can retrofit existing
  code (especially if it's written in C++) fairly easily. If
  anything, the dramatically reduced size of "applications" should
  reduce development and testing times.


Caveat Emptor, or What's Weak This Week
---------------------------------------
  You want to complain, complain here. In some discussions on
  Usenet, I was falsely accused of being continually upbeat because
  I live in California. That's not true - I live in Seattle, where
  it rains all the time (or so we're supposed to tell people from
  California). I explained that TidBITS is generally positive
  because I write about what interests me, and garbage doesn't
  interest me. I have limited space, and never have trouble filling
  it, so why rely on bad news and negativity? The Macintosh world
  and the Internet world are, in my opinion, inherently good, so
  that's what I like to emphasize in this day and age of news
  stories that consider grisly murders halfway across the world to
  be news. Tragedy, yes; news, no.

  It appears that some our readers feel somewhat differently, and I
  try to respond to suggestions. The specific suggestion that caught
  my attention was that I establish a consumer protection column
  that wouldn't necessarily rake muck, but which would attempt to
  point out injustice so that (a) others could learn from the
  experience, and (b) the company in question might improve its
  practices.

  Since it's difficult to accurately relate another's experiences, I
  invite submissions for this column from disgruntled readers.
  However, I ask that you do a few things before sending an article.
  First, make sure that your article will fit the requirements above
  - that it will inform others in the same spot and that it stands a
  chance of eliciting a positive response from the company in
  question. Thus, an article that flames on about how the writer
  bought a lemon Mac and was stiffed by his dealer is not
  appropriate since it won't help others or change any long-standing
  policy by a company that many people deal with. However, articles
  like our Quicken "stealth upgrade" article in TidBITS #205_ that
  point out a bad situation (users not being able to get an upgrade
  without knowing the secret bug, and not being able to easily
  identify the version number) and have a chance at prompting the
  company to address it (Eric Tilenius of Intuit sent me an updater
  application to post to the nets) are more in line with what I'm
  looking for.

  Second, I ask that you contact the company in question to get an
  official response to your complaint and to ensure that you have an
  email address to include with the article. It's always good to get
  both sides of the story, or at least to attempt to, and email is
  the best way for others in the same situation to express opinions
  to the company. Finally, I hope that going through the process
  will enable you to see both sides and perhaps cool down if you're
  being unreasonable. (Me? Unreasonable? It couldn't happen. Sure.)
  The process may also provide great material for the story - "When
  I asked if they had plans to offer a bug fix, the tech support
  person just about died laughing."

  So that's about the sum of it. I haven't been jerked around by any
  companies recently, but send me your ideas and I'll tell you if I
  think it's worth writing them up.


Newton 1.05 Upgrade "Sucks"
---------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  Patient MessagePad owners were rewarded in late January with the
  release of the long-awaited 1.05 system software upgrade. The
  upgrade reportedly fixes a number of power management problems,
  improves handwriting recognition, and takes care of a couple of
  pesky bugs. Unfortunately, it also sucks away up to 32K of memory
  that's meant to be reserved for user data.

  Apparently, Newton engineers were unable to shoehorn the bug fixes
  and improvements into the chunk of MessagePad RAM intended to hold
  system software patches, separate from the 192K of RAM intended
  for user information and installed software. In an attempt to
  apologize, Apple is offering a special $99 price for its 1 MB RAM
  storage card, which typically sells for around $200, to users
  socked by the memory loss.

  The upgrade's need to repartition the MessagePad's memory space
  also means that upgrading can erase all data stored in the unit,
  so back up to a storage card or via the Connection Kit software
  before installing the upgrade. (After you've downloaded the
  package, the MessagePad's upgrade procedure kicks in and WARNS you
  of this, but you mustn't ignore it! It's not just another "You
  know, you really should back up..." warning.)

  Another warning for those who have never needed to restore data
  they've backed up: Restore the "Newton" file instead of the
  "Newton Backup" file from your Connection Kit. (The file's full
  name includes the name of the MessagePad's owner, such as "Mark H.
  Anbinder's Newton.") If you restore the Backup file (as any Woz-
  fearing user would expect to do) you will restore an OLD backup. I
  realized this when I noticed the presence of a number of items I'd
  previously deleted.

  If you have less than 32K of available RAM before you begin the
  upgrade process, you won't be able to restore the entire backup.
  So, if you have less than 32K of available RAM, don't install the
  upgrade. You can check how much memory you have left by tapping
  Extras, then Prefs, then Memory.

  According to the 800/SOS-APPL Newton "hold music" recording, the
  1.05 upgrade is available now from CompuServe, America Online,
  AppleLink, and on the Internet from <apple.com> [sic] (most likely
  <ftp.apple.com>). [I couldn't find it on ftp.apple.com, but it is
  at the URL below. -Adam]

ftp://newton.uiowa.edu/pub/newton/software/system/update-105.hqx

  Users in the U.S. who cannot obtain the software electronically
  may call 800/242-3374 for a Mac or DOS floppy disk with the
  upgrade. Users in the U.S. without the Connection Kit may call
  800/242-3374 to receive the upgrade on a PCMCIA card. No
  provisions were mentioned for users outside the U.S. (I would not
  expect to find them on a recording that only callers in the U.S.
  could reach), but I expect the upgrade (which for all I know may
  need to be localized for foreign language MessagePads) should be
  available from dealers and distributors outside the U.S.

  I wouldn't be QUITE so annoyed at the memory sucking if the Newton
  product manager from PIE hadn't answered the upgrade memory
  question (asked by yours truly) on last fall's UG-TV broadcast by
  saying, "There's plenty of space set aside for system upgrades,
  and we won't be taking away any of your user memory." I've asked
  for an explanation via email, and will report any answers as I
  receive them.


Apple Improves CD Drive
-----------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]

  Beginning this month, Apple is shipping Macs with an improved
  internal CD ROM drive, the AppleCD 300i Plus. The new unit offers
  a tray-loading feature similar to that found in home CD audio
  decks, eliminating the need for CD caddies. Over the next several
  weeks, all Quadra models with internal CD ROM drives will be
  modified to include the new drives. Future models will include the
  new drives as well.

  Meanwhile, existing dealer and warehouse stock of the older units,
  containing the original caddy-loading AppleCD 300i, are likely to
  see price reductions aimed at clearing the way for the new models,
  so buyers who don't mind using the CD caddies are likely to find
  good deals. Model numbers for existing computers ending in "/A"
  include the old drive; the same part number with a "/B" instead
  indicates the new drive is installed. (This won't be true of new
  models.)

  Tray-loading CD ROM drives have only recently become common in the
  personal computer industry, though such mechanisms have been the
  norm in the audio field since CD players became popular in the mid
  1980s. The earlier tray mechanisms took up too much vertical space
  in drives designed for the tight spaces available in computer
  cases. Car CD players generally have a simple slide-in mechanism
  with neither a tray nor a caddy, and I hope to see these units in
  future CD ROM drives.


Stylish Stylus
--------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]

  Apple provides a brushed aluminum replacement stylus to MessagePad
  purchasers who register, but it's no more attractive a writing
  instrument than the original; it's just a different color. For
  those accustomed to the look or heft of a classier writing
  instrument, a new company called WriteWare offers an alternative.

  WriteWare's $8.95 "S.N.A.P." stylus (the acronym stands for
  "stylus, not a pen") is a low-resistance plastic stylus insert for
  most cartridge ink pens. The inserts are currently available for
  Cross, Montblanc, Parker, and Sheaffer pens, and more models are
  expected later. The stylus-equipped pen can now be used on an
  Apple MessagePad, a Sharp Expert Pad, a Casio or Tandy Zoomer, or
  any other pen-based unit that uses touch-sensitive screen
  technology. (The EO uses an active stylus, not a passive touch-
  screen, so S.N.A.P. won't work on EO.)

  S.N.A.P.-equipped pens don't fit into the holder provided on
  Newton and Zoomer PDAs, but WriteWare points out that their stylus
  can be kept in a pocket without fear of ink leaks! According to
  David B. Alford, one of WriteWare's partners, he decided to create
  this product after both of the styluses included with his Sharp
  Expert Pad broke off near the tip. Apparently Japanese writing is
  generally done at a 90-degree angle to the writing surface, and
  the styluses were designed with that in mind. American writers,
  who tend to hold a pen at a 60 to 70 degree angle, put unplanned-
  for stress on the tip.

  WriteWare is working on establishing relationships with dealers,
  but in the meantime you can purchase S.N.A.P. stylus inserts
  directly, for $8.95 plus $2.50 shipping and handling, and
  California state sales tax for customers within California. Send
  your order, along with a certified check, money order, or personal
  check to:

    WriteWare
    1428 Sunshade Lane
    San Jose, CA 95122 USA
    408/295-4217
    [e-mail]

  Personal check orders will be held until the check clears.
  WriteWare also accepts U.S. currency, but we don't recommend
  mailing cash.


Anarchie Rules
--------------
  The more I use Universal Resource Locators (URLs) to identify
  Internet resources, the more I like them. For one thing, URLs help
  with composing TidBITS because they offer a standard way to refer
  to FTP sites and directory paths. More importantly, URLs are great
  because of Anarchie, a new $10 MacTCP-based tool from Peter Lewis
  <[e-mail]>, a prolific Macintosh shareware
  programmer.

  Anarchie does something that I've wanted for quite some time. It
  searches Archie servers for files stored on anonymous FTP sites
  and once it's found those files, it retrieves them via FTP. It's a
  thoroughly simple and powerful idea, but Anarchie is the first
  Macintosh program to fully implement it (and yes, I know
  TurboGopher can do the same thing, but it's not as slick as
  Anarchie for file retrieval). You could also copy the file
  listings from the Archie results if you wished, and option-copying
  them copies them in URL format. Needless to say, I use this
  feature heavily when checking resources I mention in TidBITS.

  That search and retrieve function would be cool enough in its own
  right, and that's what Anarchie 1.0.0 did, along with the nice
  capability to retrieve a file if you entered its URL (copied from
  TidBITS, for instance). But many URLs are directories, and don't
  point at a specific file. Anarchie 1.0.0 couldn't handle that
  situation, but the just-released Anarchie 1.1.0 can. It displays
  the contents of the directory and you can browse down the
  hierarchy from that point. Archie doesn't yet know where Anarchie
  1.1.0 is located, but you can find it on my FTP site.

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/ftp/anarchie-110.hqx

  In addition to the basic features of the previous version (Archie
  searching and retrieval), 1.1.0 adds bookmarks that point directly
  at an FTP site or specific FTP site directory. Fetch from Jim
  Matthews uses a similar idea, and, like Fetch, Anarchie includes a
  few pre-installed bookmarks. However, Peter did a good thing for
  the Internet community by compiling a comprehensive list of the
  main FTP sites of interest to Macintosh users, including a large
  set of Info-Mac and Umich mirror sites. If you've found FTP
  frustrating recently, since the main Info-Mac and Umich sites at
  <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> and <mac.archive.umich.edu> have been
  overloaded, use a mirror site instead. Since not everyone has a
  System 7 Mac with a MacTCP connection to the Internet, I'm
  appending the full list of bookmarks to this article. Similarly,
  Anarchie includes a full set of Archie servers so you can use one
  closest to you and easily switch among them without remembering
  cryptic Internet addresses.

  Anarchie 1.1.0 is scriptable and recordable, so this should open
  up Internet file retrieval to some extremely necessary automation.
  I'm looking forward to the day when you can select a URL in
  TidBITS, hit a hot key or select an item from a menu, and have
  Anarchie snag the file for you instantly. Or perhaps the script
  could add the URL to a list of files to retrieve at a later time.
  Anarchie supports Frontier's Menu Sharing and includes some
  Frontier stuff from Leonard Rosenthol to get you started.

  Clever touches abound. You can sort any list in Anarchie by name,
  date, size, host, and so on. Anarchie automatically decodes
  MacBinary files, enables you to create Finder icons for bookmarks,
  uses a new window for each directory to make browsing back easy,
  and can view a file (although you must set up a suffix map in
  Fetch for this to work, at which point Anarchie downloads the file
  and asks the application you chose to display the file). Finally,
  Anarchie's About box displays the number of searches you've made,
  the number of files you've transferred, and the number of
  kilobytes you've transferred. Anarchie translates this into a
  rating, but I don't know when you move up from Beginner, or how
  many levels there are. Do read the documentation because there are
  a number of tips and small notes that you won't otherwise
  discover.

  Perhaps my only complaint is that Anarchie doesn't appear to show
  .message files that are supposed to display when you access
  certain FTP servers, such as <ftp.tidbits.com>. Actually, I also
  wish that Archie servers were updated more frequently, but that's
  not Peter's fault.

  Overall, Anarchie is a must have for your Internet tool kit.
  Despite the slowness of Archie servers and the continual problems
  with finding new files via Archie, Anarchie has proved itself time
  and time again for me in the short time I've used it. I'm writing
  my shareware check to Peter right now, and I strongly urge you to
  check out Anarchie, and if you think it's as good as I do and use
  it, to send Peter a check as well. Highly recommended.


Bookmark list
Aladdin:netcom.com:/pub/leonardr/Aladdin
Apple Seeding:seeding.apple.com:
Apple:ftp.apple.com:/dts/mac
Classes for TCL:ftp.brown.edu:/pub/tcl
Dartvax:dartvax.dartmouth.edu:/pub
Disinfectant:ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/disinfectant
Eudora:ftp.qualcomm.com:/mac/eudora
FAQs:rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet-by-group
Info-Mac:sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac
Info-Mac (Australia):archie.au:micros/mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (Austria):ftp.univie.ac.at:mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (Canada, Partial?):ftp.ucs.ubc.ca:pub/mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (Finland):ftp.funet.fi:pub/mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (Finland, MacBinary):ftp.jyu.fi:sumex-mirror
Info-Mac (Germany):ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:pub/mac/mirrors/info-mac
Info-Mac (Germany, H, Partial?):ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de:pub/mac
Info-Mac (Germany, K, Partial?):ftp.uni-kl.de:/pub/mac
Info-Mac (Germany, S, Partial?):ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:pub/systems/mac
Info-Mac (Hawaii):ftp.hawaii.edu:mirrors/info-mac
Info-Mac (Iowa):grind.isca.uiowa.edu:mac/infomac
Info-Mac (Israel):ftp.technion.ac.il:pub/unsupported/mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (Japan, IIJ):ftp.iij.ad.jp:pub/info-mac
Info-Mac (Japan, Osaka):ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp:info-mac
Info-Mac (Japan, Tokyo):ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp:pub/info-mac
Info-Mac (Netherlands):ftp.fenk.wau.nl:pub/mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (Sweden):ftp.lth.se:mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (Switzerland):nic.switch.ch:mirror/info-mac
Info-Mac (UK):src.doc.ic.ac.uk:packages/mac/info-mac
Info-Mac (WU Archive):wuarchive.wustl.edu:systems/mac/info-mac
Intertext (Fiction Magazine):network.ucsd.edu:/intertext
Mac Security:nda.com:/pub/security
Microlib (UTexas):microlib.cc.utexas.edu:/microlib/mac
NCSA:ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/Mac
NewsWatcher:ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/newswatcher
Newton:newton.uiowa.edu:/pub/newton/
Quanta (SF&F Magazine):export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/quanta
Rascal:rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/mac
Redback (Australia):redback.cs.uwa.edu.au:/others/PeterLewis
Switch (Switzerland):nic.switch.ch:/software/mac
THINK Stuff:ics.uci.edu:/mac
TidBITS:ftp.tidbits.com:/pub/tidbits
UUNet:ftp.uu.net
Umich:mac.archive.umich.edu:mac
Umich (Australia):archie.au:micros/mac/umich
Umich (France, delayed?):anl.anl.fr/pub/mac/umich
Umich (Germany):info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/afs/umich.edu/group/itd/archive/mac
Umich (Germany, delayed?):athene.uni-paderborn.de:pcsoft3/mac
Umich (Israel):ftp.technion.ac.il:pub/unsupported/mac/umich
Umich (Japan):ftp.inter.spin.ad.jp:pub/Mac/Merit.mirror
Umich (Sweden):ftp.sunet.se:/pub/mac/mirror-umich
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Reviews/31-Jan-94
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* MacWEEK -- 24-Jan-94, Vol. 8, #4
    GraceLAN Network Manager 3.0 -- pg. 1
    Specular Collage 1.0 -- pg. 37
    MultiClip Pro 3.0 -- pg. 38
    Avid Media Suite Pro 2.0 -- pg. 40

* InfoWorld -- 24-Jan-94, Vol. 16, #4
    Sonic Systems microSCSI Ethernet adapter -- pg. 89


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