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This week we examine Novell's purchase of WordPerfect more
   closely, announce the latest version of Easy View along with
   Unix and Windows versions, and take a look at new Quantum
   drives and reports that they may be in short supply. Mark
   Anbinder reviews the sad state of fax software for the Power
   Macs, and Brian Kendig gazes into the future of Apple's
   system software.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/28-Mar-94
    Quantum Drives & Prices
    Novell Buys WordPerfect
    Fax Modems & Power Macs
    Easy View Spreads Out
    Future System Software
    Reviews/28-Mar-94

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MailBITS/28-Mar-94
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**Paul Durrant** <[e-mail]> and
  **Steve Dobbs** <[e-mail]> note that
  the slightly smaller screen in the MessagePad 110 is not
  a problem, as mentioned in TidBITS #218_, but in fact an
  excellent reminder to developers to check for screen size
  at runtime rather than assuming a certain size. As Paul says,
  "Taking advantage of the capability to write flexible
  software is good for the user, whose software doesn't break,
  and for the developer, who doesn't have to rush out tweaked
  versions."


**Cliff Miller** <[e-mail]> of Pacific HiTech comments on
  Info-Mac that they have remastered the Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM to work
  around a conflict between the premastering software and NEC driver
  software. If you have the Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM and an incompatible
  driver, contact Pacific HiTech for a free replacement of the CD.
  Pacific HiTech -- 801/278-2042 -- 801/278-2666 (fax) --
  [e-mail]


Quantum Drives & Prices
-----------------------
  Hard drive maker Quantum Corp. has introduced several new lines of
  drives, including the intriguing Grand Prix 4280 and 2140, which
  are 4.2 GB and 2.1 GB drives designed for multimedia applications.
  Despite their speed (7,200 rpm, 8.6 millisecond access time, and
  7.3 MB per second sustained transfer rates), the drives are
  expected to have reasonable prices in the $2,500 and $1,650 range.
  Less expensive is the smaller Lightning line, which includes
  drives ranging in size from 365 MB to 730 MB and spinning at 4,500
  rpm. That speed results in access times around 11 milliseconds,
  and prices should range from $315 to $599. Bringing up the bottom
  of the Quantum pack will be the inexpensive Maverick drives in 270
  MB and 540 MB sizes, costing $265 and $489. The Mavericks are
  somewhat slower than the Lightning line, with spindle speeds of
  3,600 rpm and access times around 14 milliseconds.

  Unfortunately, you may have trouble getting your hands on some of
  these new drives, along with Quantum's existing drives. Rumor has
  it that Apple has exercised an option to purchase almost all of
  Quantum's drives for the next three months, and has another option
  it can exercise for three months after that. Thus, hard drive
  vendors may not be able to get their hands on Quantum drives
  quickly or in any quantity for the next three to six months, and
  we all recognize the roof that prices go through when demand
  outstrips supply. So, my advice is that if you're considering
  buying a Quantum hard drive, make sure first that it's in stock
  and can be shipped immediately, since orders may take forever to
  fill, and second, that the price is competitive with drives from
  other manufacturers, including Seagate, Micropolis, and Maxtor,
  among others.

  In my experience, most drives are approximately equal in
  reliability (I'm talking here about the actual drive, not the case
  and power supply, etc.), so two of the other variables to check on
  are the throughput as it matches to your Mac and the noise of the
  drive. Different Macs have different SCSI speeds, and if you've
  got an SE/30, it doesn't really matter how fast your drive is,
  since most will outrun the SE/30's SCSI port. However, if you're
  using a Quadra 840AV with multimedia applications, you may want
  the fastest drive around. I mention noise only because every drive
  sounds different, and I've used drives that sound like they're
  drilling through my brain. No one should put up with that sort of
  environmental stress. The vendor you purchase a drive from should
  be able to help you with the speed question, although determining
  how much drive noise you can tolerate is up to you.

  Information from:
    Pythaeus
    MacWEEK -- 21-Mar-94, Vol. 8, #12, pg. 3


Novell Buys WordPerfect
-----------------------
  The short lead time for electronic publications can be fun at
  times. I added the comment about Novell buying WordPerfect to
  TidBITS #218_ after a friend mentioned it during a phone call
  around 10:00 PM Monday night. I'd already queued the issue for
  distribution to the Internet, but after hearing the news, I
  deleted the queued files and modified the issue before re-queuing
  for Internet distribution and uploading to the commercial
  services.

  The main piece of news that I missed in our last-minute rush was
  that Novell also purchased the Quattro Pro spreadsheet for Windows
  from Borland for $145 million. I guess when you spend $1.4 billion
  for WordPerfect, what's a couple of hundred million dollars to
  pick up a decent spreadsheet in the process? It seems that Borland
  hasn't been the same since swallowing rival Ashton-Tate several
  years back, and the company plans to post a loss for the year and
  to restructure after divesting itself of Quattro Pro. Makes you
  wonder if Borland itself isn't a target for acquisition from
  Novell or Lotus.

  Obviously, neither Novell nor WordPerfect is primarily a Macintosh
  company, but with WordPerfect's strong showing with the most
  recent release of WordPerfect for the Macintosh, Mac folks do have
  some stake in what happens. In addition, it's foolhardy to ignore
  what happens in the PC industry, given the large number of cross-
  platform users and companies.

  The acquisition makes Novell the second largest software company
  in the world, although its merged annual revenues of $1.9 billion
  are well below Microsoft's $3.75 billion. Lotus, which has more or
  less completely disappeared from the Macintosh market once again,
  brings up third with revenues of $1 billion. Ironically, in April
  of 1990, in TidBITS #001_, we reported how Lotus and Novell
  planned to merge. That merger fell through several weeks later,
  and you have to wonder what Lotus is thinking now. Just for
  reference, the merger of Adobe and Aldus places that company,
  whatever it will be called, in fifth place.

  As to why Novell decided to buy WordPerfect, I'm sure executives
  on both sides will issue the usual platitudes (I'd rather they
  issued platypuses, personally), but I suspect the real reason is
  simple - Microsoft. After acquiring WordPerfect and Quattro Pro,
  Novell suddenly has second-ranked word processor and the third-
  ranked spreadsheet in the Windows market to add to the DOS that it
  acquired from buying Digital Research some time back and its own
  Netware network operating system. Suddenly Novell's product line
  looks a significant amount more like Microsoft's.

  I asked (rhetorically, of course) last issue if all these mergers
  were indeed good for the industry or, more importantly in my
  opinion, good for us users, and that question continues to nag me
  with news of additional alliances and mergers coming in all the
  time. However, the Software Publishers Association reports that
  the software industry is growing rapidly, not shrinking, and the
  association's president noted in Investor's Business Daily that
  "For every merger, there are five new companies coming into the
  industry." I would be curious to hear how the death rate of
  software companies has changed in recent times, since that affects
  the overall number of companies as well, particularly if these new
  companies cannot compete with the megaliths. I'd also be
  interested to see comparisons of how the overall market share is
  distributed these days, since I'll bet that all the money is
  starting to pool at the top among the Microsofts and Novells of
  the world. Perhaps a little trickle-down economics might be in
  order?

  Just to give you an idea of what else is happening, here are a few
  bits I've pulled from various news stories. Microsoft and McCaw
  Cellular are planning a $9 billion wireless network using low
  earth orbit satellites to provide various voice, data, and video
  services. The project comes under a joint venture called the
  Teledesic Corporation, and is more than ten times the size of
  Motorola's competing Iridium project, which itself has been called
  overly complex and expensive. In case one wireless network isn't
  enough, Microsoft is working with the largest paging company in
  the U.S., Mobile Telecommunications Technologies, to create a $150
  wireless paging network for bidirectional use with laptops,
  pagers, and personal communicators. Microsoft has also been
  talking in more general terms with AT&T (which is itself in the
  process of buying McCaw Cellular in a $12.6 billion stock swap),
  and although nothing has yet to emerge from those discussions,
  Microsoft reportedly wants AT&T's help in distributing various
  information services. AT&T has been especially busy, as it and
  Lotus just announced AT&T Network Notes, which is a public Notes
  server using Lotus's Notes workgroup software and a new low-cost
  client version of Notes for users to connect to the service.

  In other words, everyone's in bed with everyone else, and I doubt
  that anyone has a decent idea of what's going to happen. I'm
  depressed that the trend is toward mergers of massive companies
  that come ever closer to violating anti-monopoly laws. I'd be more
  interested in seeing what could happen, as Robert X. Cringely
  suggests in his excellent book, "Accidental Empires," if the
  software industry worked more on the movie studio model, where
  independent firms develop software and a software studio markets
  and distributes it. Tech support could be handed off to a company
  that specialized in supporting users, and everyone could continue
  to do what they do best.

  Think of a program as a movie, where the director picks the best
  talent and puts together a team to create just that movie. After
  it's done, everyone goes their own ways, having been paid a fixed
  amount, or in the case of the major players, anticipating
  additional payment in the form of royalties. Each product stands
  on its own, and if it's a flop, there's no sequel, just as in the
  movies, though I hope the sequels would be better than the typical
  movie sequel. Hints of this model have appeared in the software
  industry, mostly from game and multimedia companies, which come
  the closest to movie making anyway. But could it work with the big
  programs, the Words, the WordPerfects, the PageMakers?

  In his InfoWorld column this week, Cringely compares the current
  situation not to the movie business, but to the car industry,
  noting that in 1920 there were 300 U.S. auto manufacturers,
  whereas now there are essentially three. That makes Microsoft
  General Motors, Novell Ford, and Lotus Chrysler. But such a
  comparison raises the question of who gets to be Honda, Toyota,
  Nissan, Mercedes, Volvo, or even Hyundai. It doesn't seem to me as
  though the American car industry is the healthiest model to
  emulate, given the powerful overseas competitors that appeared in
  the U.S. market after the consolidation of manufacturers. But even
  the software industry wanted to, could it switch models now that
  so much of the market is concentrated among so few companies? That
  is the $64 billion question.


Fax Modems & Power Macs
-----------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  Global Village Communication, developers of the TelePort and
  PowerPort modem series, have told us that the GlobalFax software
  that accompanies their modems is incompatible with the new Power
  Macs. Even version 2.08a of the GlobalFax software, which was
  released to provide compatibility with Apple's 660AV and 840AV
  computers, is incompatible. Some users have been able to send but
  not receive faxes, while others can do neither.

  According to a source at the company, a software-based fix is now
  in testing and should be released within the next few weeks. The
  updated GlobalFax software will be available on Global Village's
  FirstClass support BBS at 415/390-8334, and on the commercial
  online services that Global Village supports, including America
  Online, AppleLink, CompuServe, and eWorld, or on the Internet via
  FTP and the Web at:

ftp://globalvillag.com/pub/software/
http://info.globalvillag.com/welcome.html

  When the AV Macs were introduced, little third-party fax software
  was compatible with the new machines and their new GeoPort serial
  port, even when a third-party modem was being used, rather than
  Apple's GeoPort Adapter. A similar problem has arisen now, but
  even some software that has been fixed to support AV Macs still
  won't work on the Power Macs.

  For example, according to an internal memo distributed at Supra
  Corporation, the FAXstf software they distribute with their modems
  is currently incompatible with the Power Macs. FAXstf version
  2.2.3, which Supra bundled with its modems until a few weeks ago,
  is incompatible with both the AV Macs and Power Macs. Version 2.6,
  now shipping with the Supra modems, is AV compatible but not Power
  Mac compatible. According to STF Technologies, version 3.0 is
  indeed Power Mac compatible, and is available to those who have
  received bundled versions of FAXstf for a $39 upgrade fee. (The
  upgrade is available directly from STF, or from MacWarehouse or
  MacConnection.) Supra will be testing version 3.0 with their
  modems, and may begin shipping that or offering upgrades to users.

  Cypress Research Corporation, publisher of FaxPro network fax
  server software, says that, although its server software is not
  yet Power Mac compatible (a compatible version is planned within a
  few months), the client software works fine on a Power Mac. (Why
  not make your old Mac a fax server? That sounds better than
  "doorstop" on your tax return.) CommFORCE L.C., the Iowa company
  that sells 4-Sight Fax (see TidBITS #215_), reports that their fax
  server software is also incompatible with the Power Macs.

  Ideally, Power Macintosh computers shouldn't be used as network
  resource servers anyway. Since the AppleTalk protocol stack hasn't
  yet been rewritten in native PowerPC code, most network activity
  tends to be slowed, rather than accelerated, on a Power Mac.

  Although I've never been a FAXstf fan (their user interface never
  impressed me) they deserve congratulations for having software
  that's already compatible with the Power Macintosh. If the Power
  Mac compatibility is a coincidence that stems from their work on
  AV compatibility, that's fine; it shows they did it right. If your
  fax modem came with FAXstf, by all means upgrade to the latest
  version. If it didn't, and you don't want to wait for your modem
  maker to catch up, call STF to see if their software supports your
  hardware.

  Global Village has been fairly quick to provide software upgrades
  to take care of newly unearthed hardware incompatibilities, so I
  don't expect their new update will take long. All of these
  developers have reported frustration in their attempts to obtain
  pre-release Power Macs for testing and development, so we
  shouldn't be too surprised at the scarcity of software that's
  ready. Global Village also says that users who need the upgrade
  may send in their name, address, and modem serial number, and will
  be put on a list to receive the GlobalFax upgrade once it's
  available.

    CommFORCE, L.C. -- 515/224-0211 -- 800/448-3299 (fax)
      [e-mail]
    Cypress Research Corp. -- 408/752-2700 -- 408/752-2735 (fax)
      [e-mail]
    Global Village Communication Technical Support -- 800/736-4821
      415/390-8300 -- 415/390-8282 (fax) -- 415/390-8334 (BBS)
      [e-mail]
    STF Technologies -- 800/880-1922 -- 816/463-7972
      816/463-7958 (fax) -- 816/463-1131 (BBS)
    Supra Corporation -- 800/727-8772 -- 503/967-2410
      [e-mail]


Easy View Spreads Out
---------------------
  The browser of choice for TidBITS has long been Easy View, Akif
  Eyler's simple setext browser for the Macintosh. That's not about
  to change any time soon, what with Akif's most recent update, Easy
  View 2.44, and those who enjoy TidBITS but read it on Windows or
  Unix systems might appreciate new programs that can browse setext
  files on those platforms.

  Before I get into the new features and fixes in Easy View,
  consider some of the features it has long had, including the
  capability to search for a word or phrase and extract all the
  matching articles to a text file and the capability to decode the
  styles used in our setext format (including bold, underline, and
  separate body and headlines styles, all of which are user-
  definable). I also use Easy View to browse through the 30 MB of
  saved email that I keep around for occasional (but usually
  extremely important) reference purposes, since Easy View
  understands not only setext format, but also Unix mail format, the
  digest format used by the Info-Mac Digest, and various other less
  common formats.

  Easy View 2.44 is a relatively minor upgrade that Akif recently
  issued to clear up the nagging bug with using styles in your
  views, and while he was at it, he added a few additional features
  that many users will welcome - I certainly have. Foremost among
  the new features is the added capability to break large sections
  into 32K chunks. This means that if you save a bunch of text files
  from the nets into a folder, you can create a view using the Plain
  format, and Easy View will display all the text of those files,
  even when a file is larger than 32K. In the past, Easy View simply
  ignored anything after the first 32K, limiting its utility in
  working with arbitrarily sized files.

  Although this feature has made Easy View far more useful for me
  when browsing large text files, other people will enjoy the next
  feature even more. I continually receive questions on how to
  create setext files, and every time I have to tell people to
  create them by hand or to use a set of Nisus macros that I've
  built up. There are other ways, but none that have reached the
  world at large. Easy View 2.44 can save a view out as a setext
  file, though, so anything you can get into a view, you can turn
  into a setext file. You can use any one of a number of formats for
  doing this, so you could make a setext file from a Eudora mailbox
  (using the Mail format to view the files and then exporting as
  setext) or from a folder of text files (using the Plain format
  before exporting). I used this to merge a folder of several
  hundred messages I've saved from reading Usenet into a single file
  - I added all the files to a view, then exported it to a setext
  file before adding it to another view. Although the end result
  looked the same as the source view, I saved a lot of room on my
  hard disk (by turning 184 small files into one big file) and
  generally made the entire mess easier to work with.

  The third big new feature is that you no longer must place text
  files in the same folder as the view document. Akif managed this
  feat by using aliases, so you can either use the Include Text
  command to add any text file anywhere on your hard disk to the
  view, or, with the target view open, you can drag text files onto
  Easy View's icon in the Finder to add them. In either case, Easy
  View creates an alias to the original file in the view's folder,
  enabling you to retain the organization you want while still
  viewing everything in Easy View.

  Finally, Akif added a way to browse through the last 15 places in
  the view that you've visited. So if you're bouncing back and forth
  through several issues of TidBITS, trying to figure something out,
  Easy View remembers where you've been and lets you get back there
  with the touch of a key on the keypad (check the documentation for
  the details).

  Akif also modified how several common functions work, so for
  instance, if you're scrolling through a document and hit the last
  screen of an article, Easy View now scrolls the text so that
  bottom line of the previous screen is on the top line of the next
  one. If you have only two lines in the last screen of text, this
  means that you can always start reading at the top of the screen
  and know that you've started where the previous screen left off.
  Many other programs do this badly and only scroll enough to
  display those last two lines, which means that you must scan
  through the entire screen of text looking for those last two lines
  that you haven't seen yet. I'd like to see more programs operate
  like this. Easy View now displays a finger cursor over items that
  you can click on, and if nothing is selected when you choose Copy
  or Clip, Easy View assumes that you want to work on the entire
  section.

  It's hard for me to say much of anything about the Windows version
  of Easy View, since I've never seen it running, but it was written
  by Akif's colleague, David Davenport of Bilkent University. Easy
  View for Windows is in beta release right now, and David is
  looking for testers. Needless to say, you need a Windows machine,
  but if you're interested, send him email at
  <[e-mail]>. Similarly, the Unix setext viewer, called
  sv in true Unix style, could use comments and testing from those
  who can compile it on their Unix systems (and if you don't know
  how to compile something on your Unix machine, don't try to mess
  with sv for the moment). Contact Akif at <[e-mail]>
  for more information on testing sv.

  You can download Easy View 2.44 from the usual spots, including
  America Online in the Macintosh Hardware New Files library
  (keyword MHW), ZiffNet/Mac in the ZMC:DOWNTECH #0 library as
  EASYVW.SIT, CompuServe in the CIS:MACAPP #2 library as EZVIEW.SIT,
  and on AppleLink in Support -> News & Support Guide -> TidBITS
  Newsletter (that's where all the issues are too). Easy View 2.44
  and the others live on the Internet at:

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/utilities/easy-view-244.hqx
ftp://ftp.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/Local/setext/EV_2.4.sit.hqx

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/utilities/EASYVIEW.uue
ftp://ftp.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/Local/setext/EASYVIEW.uue

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/utilities/sv-03.tar.Z.uue
ftp://ftp.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/Local/setext/sv-03.tar.Z.uue

  Or, if you prefer using NCSA Mosaic, try the following URL
  instead:

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/ftp/Local/setext


Future System Software
----------------------
  by Brian Kendig -- [e-mail]

  While the Power Macs capture the public's attention, Apple is hard
  at work on many other things. Here are a few of them:

  The $549 Macintosh Application Environment was introduced just
  after the Power Macs on March 15th. It enables System 7.1 and
  Macintosh 68000 applications to run unmodified in an X window on
  Sun Solaris Unix and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX systems, with support
  for DEC Unix coming later. It works with any standard X window
  manager, including Motif and Open Look.

  System 7.5 is due to ship this spring. There will only be one
  version; gone will be the distinction between System 7.1 and
  System 7 Pro, and both the 68000 and PowerPC versions will ship in
  the same box. All of the elements of System 7 Pro and more will be
  rolled into System 7.5, and a new installer will only install the
  software that you have enough memory to run (it won't try to
  install QuickDraw GX on a system with only 4 MB of memory, for
  example). The Finder in System 7.5 will be fully scriptable.

  The Apple Guide (formerly Apple Help) will come with System 7.5.
  When I saw it at Macworld Expo, it reminded me vaguely of the
  hypertext help that Windows and OS/2 provide, but the Apple Guide
  was organized much more clearly and thoroughly. Ask it how to do a
  task, and it tells you the steps you need to follow. Ask it for
  more help, and it circles in red magic-marker on your screen the
  things you need to click on. Say you need even more help and it
  uses Apple events to automatically guide you through the process.

  I haven't found anything about this in print, but the Drag Manager
  will probably also arrive with System 7.5. It lets you select a
  range of text or a graphic in any window, and drag it into place
  in any other window or to the desktop (where it will appear as a
  "scrap"). I saw it at Macworld and was duly impressed - imagine
  the text dragging feature of Microsoft Word or Nisus integrated
  into the system software. I've heard that it will allow dragging
  anything into anything else where that would make sense; for
  example, some applications like Fetch or Anarchie might support
  having desktop icons dropped into or dragged out of their windows.

  QuickTime 2.0 will be released this summer. Its main feature is
  increased speed, playing back on an LC 475 in a 320 x 240 window
  at 30 frames per second, or in a 640 x 480 window at 15 frames per
  second, which is twice the speed of QuickTime 1.6. If you put an
  MPEG board in your Mac, QuickTime 2.0 enables you to play MPEG
  movies from a CD-ROM like several CD-I systems on the market can.
  (A CD-ROM can hold up to 74 minutes of full-screen full-motion
  video and CD-quality sound.) QuickTime 2.0 also enables you to
  play a movie across a network (allowing for "interactive TV"), and
  it supports MIDI (for music playback) and SMPTE (to sync sound
  with video).

  OpenDoc will probably arrive in System 7.8 later this year.
  OpenDoc does away with the concept of a document "belonging to" an
  application; you'll simply have various mini-applications that can
  work on different parts of your document. Your word processor will
  let you edit the text in your document, while your draw program
  lets you edit the graphics. If you want a better spell checker,
  then just get a better spelling checker application, and it will
  fit right in with the other application modules.

  The Appearance Manager will probably be part of System 7.8 too. I
  haven't seen anything about it in print either, but according to
  what I've heard, it enables you to customize any part of the Mac's
  interface to appear however you want. For example, imagine a
  Macintosh interface that looks just like Microsoft Windows, all
  the way down to the menubars in the windows. So much for Windows
  users being afraid of having to learn a new operating system, or
  for Motif users complaining they hate the Mac's interface!

  Apple's new micro-kernel architecture, code-named Gershwin, is due
  to appear in 1996. This will provide the Macintosh with protected
  memory (meaning that when one application crashes, you can kill it
  and continue using your system without a reboot) and preemptive
  multitasking (meaning that the system is more clever about
  partitioning CPU time out to the active applications).


Reviews/28-Mar-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 21-Mar-94, Vol. 8, #12
    FoxPro 2.5 -- pg. 1
    HyperCard 2.2 -- pg. 47
    Apple Remote Access 2.0 -- pg. 51
    ARACommander 2.0 -- pg. 52
    Gallery Effects Vol. 3 -- pg. 52
    DeBabelizer Lite 1.0 -- pg. 56
    Dynamic Effects Vol. 1 -- pg. 56
    Mathworks Matlab 4.1 -- pg. 58


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