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Matt Neuburg weighs in with a hefty look at the latest version of
   one of the most popular utility packages of all time, the Now
   Utilities. Chuck Bartosch passes on news of Apple's financial
   results (they're good), and we announce several new Internet
   sites aimed at Mac Internet users and readers of Internet
   Starter Kit for Macintosh. Finally, we have MailBITS about
   Microsoft's purchase of Intuit, important new programs, and a
   super fast CD-ROM drive.

This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by:
* APS Technologies -- 800/443-4199 -- <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/17-Oct-94
    Apple Expects Heavy Gains
    Adam's Internet Projects
    Living in the Now - Now Utilities 5.0, Newer and Better
    Reviews/17-Oct-94

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-248.etx; 30K]


MailBITS/17-Oct-94
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**Financial Software Shake-Up** -- In the continuing merger merry-
  go-round, Microsoft and Intuit announced amicable merger plans at
  a joint press conference on 12-Oct-94. Microsoft plans to purchase
  Intuit in a $1.5 billion stock trade, in which Intuit stock
  transmogrifies into Microsoft stock. Although current plans have
  Intuit employees and products remaining in their current locations
  and retaining their current names, both companies anticipate a
  general exchange of knowledge and (as Bill Gates put it
  repeatedly) "best practices."

  In addition, Microsoft is selling Microsoft Money to Novell,
  contingent on the FCC's approval of the merger. It appears that
  Microsoft must sell Money to make sure there is still some
  competition in the financial software market. When asked how much
  Novell will pay for Microsoft Money, Bill Gates explained that,
  "the overall amount of money is not financially material so we are
  not disclosing a figure." Right. In any event, the folks at Intuit
  and Microsoft look forward to making all sorts of financial
  products which will help us file taxes and make financial
  decisions. I hope they also look forward to plowing lots of
  resources into creating reliable, speedy, and supportable
  products. [TJE]


**Internet arachnids** will want to check out the public beta
  release of a new World-Wide Web browser from Mosaic Communications
  <[e-mail]>, the company formed from a number of the original
  developers of Mosaic. I've used their program, Mosaic NetScape,
  for about a week now, and I'm impressed with its speed, features,
  and reliability. It comes in versions for Macintosh, Windows, and
  several flavors of Unix. [ACE]

http://mosaic.mcom.com/
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/net/infosys/Mosaic-Comm/Netscape/mac/


**Acrobat flips to 2.0** -- In a welcome change from Acrobat 1.0,
  Adobe has released a free viewer for Acrobat 2.0, enabling users
  to view, navigate, and print any PDF (Portable Document Format)
  file. This should improve Acrobat's popularity significantly,
  although documents in Acrobat format are still necessary, and that
  requires buying commercial software. The most interesting feature
  promised for Acrobat 2.0 is resolution of URLs so an Acrobat link
  can go out over the Internet to make the connection. Versions of
  2.0 are available for Mac and Windows, and 1.0 is available for
  DOS and Unix. [ACE]

http://www.adobe.com/
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Programs/Acrobat/Macintosh/AcroRead.sea.hqx


**Faster CD-ROM access** is promised by PLI's upcoming 15X CD-ROM
  drive, based on a PLI-designed mechanism rather than the typical
  OEM product. The SCSI device, which works in Macintosh, DOS, and
  Sun environments, provides data transfer of up to 2.25 MB per
  second and an effective access time of 40 milliseconds (ms), much
  faster than the 300K per second transfer rate and 300 ms access
  time offered by drives such as Apple's double-speed CD300. The
  drive should be available within a month or so, and the list price
  will be around $1,300. [Pythaeus]


**Now Utilities and System 7.5 deal** -- Klaus Fechner
  <[e-mail]> researched a deal regarding the
  pricing of System 7.5 (see TidBITS-243_):

  I confirmed with MacWarehouse (two weeks ago) that one can get a
  7.1 upgrade kit without any restrictions and then qualify for the
  7.5 upgrade. The only problems, which may be fixed by now, were
  that the floppy version of 7.5 was not in stock and that they
  didn't have or know about a CD version. A quick comparison showed
  that this is not a bad deal ($80.90) even compared to the user
  group special ($64.90), and it may involve a shorter wait.

  The deal improves for people wanting to upgrade Now Utilities as
  well. A new copy of Now Utilities can be had for $29.95 from
  MacWarehouse with 7.5 (no additional shipping) versus $39.95 plus
  shipping from Now Software directly.


Apple Expects Heavy Gains
-------------------------
  by Chuck Bartosch <[e-mail]>

  Apple's financial results for the final quarter of the company's
  last fiscal year should be released tonight. Reliable sources
  indicate that the results are "wildly better" than most
  predictions.

  Apple sold more in its fourth quarter (ended 30-Sep-94) than
  predicted, and dropped costs further than they said they would.
  Moreover, their inventory is down dramatically (or so it's
  rumored), which sets them up to make rapid product transitions.

  And, believe it or not, early reports are that Apple's market
  share is up significantly too. What does that mean? Well, if Apple
  were Coke, 0.5% would be significant. Apple is not Coke, of
  course, and there's a great deal of variability with market share
  numbers in the computer world. I'd take that aspect with a grain
  of salt (even if you hear me crowing about the share gains later).

  So, Apple's stock price will shoot through the roof, right? Not
  exactly. First, Apple made a preliminary announcement to help the
  stock adjust for the results. Also, for the past month or so,
  there have been a number of rumors about IBM, AT&T, Motorola, or a
  conglomerate of little green men from Alpha Centuri either buying
  Apple outright, or taking an equity stake.

  Inside rumors, however, say IBM is _not_ talking to Apple about
  investing, but merely intensifying ongoing talks about a universal
  PowerPC platform. Sources do say, however, that Motorola is
  exploring buying Apple. The IBM talks are significant because they
  could mark a sea change in IBM's vision of what they can and
  cannot impose on this market. Originally, IBM sought to impose its
  PREP (PowerPC Reference Platform) standard on all comers. PREP was
  to define a compatible PowerPC system. In this original
  "standard," IBM excluded Apple systems. That is, the original
  design prevented Apple from easily making its systems
  "compatible."

  Now, did this make sense? From IBM's standpoint, sure. They work
  with Apple, true, but within the PowerPC world, Apple is its
  biggest competitor. On the other hand, it's crazy... Apple is by
  far the single biggest manufacturer of PowerPC-based systems. In
  the face of that, how can IBM impose a standard? In fact, there
  are roughly four times as many Apple-labeled PowerPC systems in
  existence as there are Pentium-based systems. (It's hard to
  believe, with all the hype!). Oh, and you know how many mainstream
  native Pentium applications there are? Count 'em. (hint: let me
  know if you find one.)

  In the end, because IBM does not have a mainstream operating
  system ready for the PowerPC chip, they must work with Apple so
  they can claim (on the eventual release of IBM-labeled PowerPC-
  based desktop systems next year) they had bunches of applications
  ready (if you buy the Mac OS, of course) from the start.

  The upshot of all this is that Apple's stock price has already
  risen because of the takeover rumors, and the good financial
  results probably won't affect the price as much as they would have
  otherwise.

  Information from:
    Apple Computer
    Pythaeus


Adam's Internet Projects
------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  I've been quiet in TidBITS for the last few months, but I haven't
  been sitting around twiddling my thumbs (which would be bad for my
  carpal tunnels, anyway). In the spring and early summer, I
  finished the second edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh,
  and after that, I worked on a number of Internet projects. Some of
  the projects have finally taken full form, so I thought I'd take
  this opportunity to announce them.

  First, I changed <ftp.tidbits.com>. Along with the existing
  directories of back issues of TidBITS and so on, the /tisk
  directory (the original acronym resulting from the slightly
  incorrect title "The Internet Starter Kit") now mirrors the /comm
  directory of the Info-Mac Archive, and I've become an Info-Mac
  moderator, helping out with files related to communications. Liam
  Breck and I reorganized the /comm directory to more closely match
  what I'd originally done at <ftp.tidbits.com>, which in turn
  matches the way I organized the book. The reorganization has been
  in place for some time, but after much fussing with Unix
  permissions (the answer seems to be, "No, you may not have any"),
  we have the basic mirror script working. The task remaining is to
  get a separate part of the mirror script working so the /tisk/util
  directory contains utilities of interest to Internet users from
  all over the Info-Mac Archive (I'm continually rebuilding links to
  keep that directory up to date as files appear and disappear
  elsewhere in the archive - oh for Macintosh aliases). So, the
  practical upshot is that most any file related to using the
  Internet from the Mac should be in:

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/

  Second, there's another directory that you might want to check
  out. The /select directory, at the same level as /tisk, contains
  what I consider the most important MacTCP-based Internet
  applications. They are all the latest versions, and are stored as
  self-extracting archives. However, people stumbling on this
  directory have been confused, and for good reason. The file names
  are generic, such as anarchie.sea or mosaic.sea, so you can't tell
  their version numbers. Also, if you don't explicitly turn on
  Binary mode when retrieving the files via FTP, they're corrupted
  in transit. What could have been in my drinking water that day?

  There's a simple answer. One of the features of Internet Starter
  Kit for Macintosh, Second Edition, is that the disk comes with
  Anarchie and a folder of Anarchie bookmarks pointing at these
  files. The file names cannot include the version numbers or else
  the bookmarks would break, and since I anticipate people using
  these files frequently, I decided that self-extracting archives
  would be the fastest to download and the easiest for new users who
  might not yet have StuffIt Expander. For those who don't want to
  buy the book, you can download a folder containing the updated
  bookmarks at:

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/select/bookmarks.sea

  Needless to say, the rest of the files are available in:

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/select/

  One note. Some people (most notably Netcom users) seem to have
  trouble with Anarchie 1.2.x and the FTP server running on
  <ftp.tidbits.com> not agreeing on the password. Peter Lewis
  changed the way Anarchie sends passwords in Anarchie 1.3.1, so I
  strongly recommend you get that version from another site if you
  have trouble.

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/anarchie-131.hqx

  Now, I still haven't said how you can figure out what versions of
  the programs are stored in that /select directory. With help from
  Charles Cooper of OneWorld Information Services and Ed Morin of
  Northwest Nexus, we set up <www.tidbits.com> to point to the
  /tidbits directory on <oneworld.wa.com> (a NeXT cube, actually).
  People who buy the second edition of the book get a copy of MacWeb
  that connects to this site by default - it was the best way I
  could think of to keep readers up to date.

  On <www.tidbits.com>, I've created an Internet Starter Kit for
  Macintosh home page that lists, chronologically, the latest
  versions of these programs along with a little information about
  what changed. There are also a few links to what I consider
  interesting Web launch sites for Macintosh Internet users. (I'm
  biased, of course, which is why TidBITS is the first one.) You'll
  note that I haven't included FTP links within the text of the file
  descriptions - that's because Web browsers don't seem to handle
  FTP file transfers well, and even if that function did work well,
  it wouldn't be as easy to use as Anarchie's bookmarks. In any
  event, the URL for the Web site is:

http://www.tidbits.com/tidbits/index.html

  Feel free to use and create links to these services whether or not
  you have the book. I should note that none of these services are
  running on my Macs - I don't know if the Mac server software can
  handle the load (at least not on my SE/30), and my 56K Frame Relay
  line would undoubtedly bog down if I served a popular Web page or
  FTP site to the world. I plan to set up some services on the SE/30
  <king.tidbits.com> once I figure out what it makes sense for me to
  provide given my hardware and bandwidth limitations. Suggestions
  are of course welcome, and you can check out the APS price list
  there via Gopher for the time being.


Living in the Now - Now Utilities 5.0, Newer and Better
-------------------------------------------------------
  by Matt Neuburg <[e-mail]>

  The previous upgrade, from Now Utilities 3.0 to 4.0, was torture.
  Many users experienced crashes; most felt anger over the upgrade
  charge coming so soon. Many were also disappointed by 4.0's
  reduced functionality, the confusing changes to Super Boomerang,
  and the restriction to System 7. It took three further revisions
  (4.0.1, 4.0.1p, and 4.0.2) for things to settle down. I still have
  nightmares about it. [I reported on 4.0.1 in TidBITS-152_.]

  Not so the upgrade to Now Utilities 5.0. Now Software added plenty
  of functionality, fixed many small annoyances, and made the
  package run faster. You still need System 7, but it runs on _any_
  System 7, including 7.5, on _any_ machine, including Power Macs,
  where it is partly native. The speed increase is obvious even on a
  slow machine like my office Classic II.

  The new functionality consists partly of increased
  customisability. To accommodate new options and commands, each
  control panel consists of multiple displays, which are switched
  with an icon bar across the top. These icon bars are not
  confusing, like some we could mention; each icon explains itself
  with a quick definition as you pass the mouse over the icon. The
  time and attention given to design in this feature is symptomatic
  of the whole package, which uniformly feels cleaner, easier, more
  adjustable, and more powerful than before.

  I can't say how much System 7.5 users will need Now Utilities; I'm
  still at 7.1. Some similar functionality is built into 7.5:
  hierarchical Apple menu, quick access to recently used
  applications, better finding, Apple Menu Options, Extensions
  Manager, and so on. Personally, despite its warts, I couldn't live
  without Now Utilities. Let's look at the individual components


**Startup Manager** governs what extensions load at startup; you
  can control loading order, create different extension sets for
  different startup situations, and build in links between
  extensions that must (or cannot) operate together or must load in
  a specific order. It now works on _everything_ that loads at
  startup, including fonts (like Conflict Catcher and Extensions
  Manager), and intelligently handles extensions that load before
  itself (by restarting during startup if necessary). Also, it can
  automatically perform multiple restarts to help you isolate an
  extension conflict (like Conflict Catcher).


**FolderMenus** is a new component, imitating Inline Software's
  PopupFolder. Click on a folder, and a little menu of its contents
  appears; this menu is hierarchical (to five levels), and with it
  you can open a folder or file, or drag & drop something onto an
  application or into a subfolder.

  FolderMenus looks like a rush job, and is primitive compared with
  Inline's version: you can't clump folders at the top of the menu,
  nor can you determine the font used. However, you can adjust the
  delay before the menu pops up, a necessity for tailoring the
  functionality to your working habits.


**WYSIWYG Menus** enables your Font menu to appear with each font
  name shown in that font. It adds flexibility so you can except
  particular fonts, limit which fonts are available in particular
  applications, and - most interestingly - provide substitute
  "family" and "style" names, so you can clump fonts or styles into
  hierarchical submenus within the Font menu. When the control panel
  opens, it can show the names of _all_ the fonts anywhere on your
  hard disk; but, in a major oversight, it won't tell _where_ they
  are, so you can't use it to catalog fonts.


**NowMenus** combines many functions related to menus and
  application launching, including automatic drop-down or stay-down
  of menus (no longer unreliable); menu pop-up at the cursor
  location; reordering of the Apple menu; modified font and size for
  menus; changed keyboard shortcuts to menu items; the creation of
  new menus containing recently used applications, documents, or
  folders, or particular disk items; adjustment of sound level and
  screen depth when applications are launched; temporary adjustment
  of application memory requirements at launch if RAM is short;
  setting which application will open files whose creator you don't
  have; and the creation of "worksets" of applications and documents
  to be launched together.

  Hierarchical Apple menu items provide direct access to sound level
  (repaired now), color depth, startup disk settings, and network
  volumes. A folder or volume in the Apple menu or any menu created
  by NowMenus can be hierarchical (works faster than 4.0). An
  application can be hierarchical too, showing recently opened
  documents. A key press while mousing on a menu item shows its
  path.

  NowMenus has many small but valuable additions. When selecting a
  file or folder menu item, you can open its folder rather than the
  item itself. You can rename an application, document, or folder
  for menu purposes (handy if the real name is long). You can make
  all folders immediately within a folder appear _instead_ of that
  folder (rather than hierarchical to it). More menus besides the
  old far-left and far-right can now be added in the menu bar,
  floating just to the right of the main menus (this is much better
  than previously), and you can determine the icon that represents
  each. I suggest combining this feature with Menuette, which turns
  standard menu names into icons, to make room in the menu bar.

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/menuette-201.hqx

  A major new feature is drag & drop onto a menu, as with
  FolderMenus, to move or copy to a folder or launch a file with a
  particular application. This is like David Winterburn's
  MenuDropper, but it works for _all_ NowMenus menus, which David
  didn't quite get MenuDropper to do; however, it lacks
  MenuDropper's cool extras, such as dragging onto the Applications
  menu, or Command-dragging to create an alias. And there are bugs:
  drag & drop onto applications which accept _any_ file type (such
  as ResEdit) doesn't work.


**Super Boomerang** remembers the most recently opened items, and
  provides menu access to them, hierarchically via the Apple menu or
  an application's Open menu item, or within any standard file
  dialog (plus providing the same information to NowMenus). Also,
  Super Boomerang causes a standard file dialog to come up at the
  most recently used file or folder ("rebound"), and you can set a
  default folder for applications individually. You can also
  duplicate, rename, or delete a file, or create a folder, directly
  from within a standard file dialog.

  When combined with James Walker's DialogView, Super Boomerang
  removes the clumsiness from the standard file dialogs, and has
  long been the key reason to own Now Utilities (as the manual
  rightly boasts).

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/dialog-view-211.hqx

  An important bug seems to be fixed: if you open a file via a
  hierarchical NowMenus menu or from the Finder, it more reliably
  adds to the recently opened files list. A useful, though not new,
  feature is that you can click on a Finder window while a standard
  file dialog is up to switch to that folder in the standard file
  dialog (like Click There It Is, but without its movable dialogs,
  alas). I wish you could turn the "rebound" feature off for
  individual applications.

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/click-there-it-is-101.hqx


**QuickFiler** is a new component combining three functions:
  souped-up Find capabilities, a "flat" Finder substitute, and file
  compression.

  The Find capabilities were previously "owned" by Super Boomerang;
  they are now more powerful, easier to use, and can replace the
  Finder's Find command. You can search using AND/OR on multiple
  criteria. Results are gathered into a single "flat"-Finder window,
  called an "Inspector."

  An Inspector is a file directory window, either the results of a
  Find or else an alternate view of a Finder window. You can select
  items and move, copy, or alias to a new location using a standard
  file dialog, so you are spared having to see both source and
  destination first, as in the Finder. I find Inspector windows
  disappointing. You can rearrange the column placement and sizes,
  but if you do you can lose the left end of the window, and you
  can't revert to the defaults (the fix is to throw out the Prefs
  file). You can see file types and creators, but you can't change
  them. You can't change the Finder's "alias" suffix. You can search
  for locked files, but you can't unlock them en masse. You can
  build an Inspector window of items from diverse folders via the
  Find function, but not manually. Besides, all the same functions
  (move, copy, etc.) are provided by QuickFiler in a menu; so,
  between this and the many other ways of working with folders that
  Now Utilities provides, Inspector windows end up fairly useless. I
  vastly prefer Greg's Browser.

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/gregs-browser-241.hqx

  QuickFiler includes archiving and compression functions from the
  now-defunct Now Compress. So now you have another compression
  utility, but with no BinHex or other translation capabilities, and
  one that's faceless, preventing you from building an archive of
  items from different folders, for example. You might want this for
  transparent compression along the lines of Aladdin's SpaceSaver or
  Symantec's AutoDoubler, now part of Norton DiskDoubler Pro.

  Transparent compression is automatic Finder-level file
  compression. If it's on, it compresses files during idle time (or
  manually, if you wish). The Finder is fooled into believing the
  files are uncompressed, so creators and types appear unchanged,
  and Get Info reports items at their uncompressed sizes. You must
  use an Inspector window to see true sizes, as well as to see and
  change auto-compression status. Opening a compressed item expands
  it into RAM; saving it saves it in expanded form. If you restart
  with transparent compression off compressed items are revealed as
  "Compress Now" documents, and opening them replaces them with
  their uncompressed versions; so there's no danger of losing
  anything.

  Still, bugs remain. I had some system freezes while trying out
  transparent compression (probably extension conflicts), but no
  damage was done. Also, I compressed a lot of material, then
  expanded it; for some files, though they were expanded, their type
  and creator information did not change, so the Finder and Now
  Utilities both thought they were still compressed Compress Now
  documents; I had some anxious hours researching the types and
  fixing them with FileTyper. Again, no data was lost. But I don't
  trust QuickFiler; if you're short on space, another hard drive is
  a safer option.


**Other utilities** include NowSave, Now Profile, and Now
  Scrapbook. I don't use NowSave because I like to be in charge of
  when I save rather than let it save for me in the background. It
  can save based on elapsed minutes, keystrokes, or mouse clicks,
  and it can inform you that it has saved the file.

  I don't use Now Profile because I prefer other utilities, such as
  TattleTech, FileList+, and Alias Zoo. Now Profile provides three
  levels of complexity of information in the following areas:
  System, CPU, Memory, Drivers, Extensions, Fonts, DAs,
  Applications, Volumes, Aliases, and Duplicate Files. You can
  restrict the report to cover your boot volume or all local
  volumes. Now updated Now Profile to report the latest versions of
  System Updates, Enablers, and the details of PowerTalk and the
  Modern Memory Manager of the Power Macs.

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/disk/alias-zoo-205.hqx
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/disk/file-list-plus-10b21.hqx
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/cfg/tattle-tech-215.hqx
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/cfg/tattle-tech-217-updt.hqx

  I almost never use Now Scrapbook, but that may be a matter of
  taste. It enables you to work with PICT, Paint, TIFF, EPS, GIF,
  JPEG, text, sound and QuickTime files (but not Startup Screens).
  You can edit text in the scrapbook, including font and size
  changes.  You can also sort items in the scrapbook.


**The Now Utilities manual** is fair-to-good - better than before,
  but with inaccuracies and self-contradictions which suggest it may
  have been written before certain software decisions were
  finalised. It contains no technical information whatever (How much
  RAM will each component need? Why does the Installer include
  Macintosh Drag and Drop?), and does a poor job explaining certain
  crucial features, such as transparent compression.


**Conclusions** -- Even with 4.0.2, Now Utilities occasionally to
  crashed my Mac or just itself (so that NowMenus and Super
  Boomerang would cease to work until restart). So far, I have not
  seen this with 5.0. I presume this is because Now Utilities 5.0 is
  better integrated with the Finder. The only downside is that (on
  my Mac) Now Utilities causes Gatekeeper to complain when
  performing some harmless pure Finder actions, such as copying; you
  have to grant "File (Other)" privileges to "System Heap," which is
  a bit like throwing Gatekeeper away altogether.

  It annoys me that where functionality has been copied from other
  extensions, it has been incompletely copied; if I am forced by
  Now's duplication of their functions to stop using MenuDropper and
  Click There It Is, why must I end up with less functionality?

  Still, notwithstanding its few bugs and shortcomings, Now
  Utilities 5.0 appears generally stable and reliable. The upgrade
  is a definite improvement. If you haven't upgraded, or if you
  don't have Now Utilities at all (is this possible?), the upgrade
  is worth your consideration. I wouldn't be without it - a Mac
  without Now Utilities feels awkward to me.

  The discount price for Now Utilities 5.0 is about $70, and users
  of either Now Compress or earlier versions of the Now Utilities
  can upgrade until 15-Nov-94 for $39.95. Also check out the deal
  from MacWarehouse that gives you Now Utilities 5.0 for $29 if you
  buy System 7.5.

    Now Software -- 800/689-9423 -- [e-mail]


Reviews/17-Oct-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 10-Oct-94, Vol. 8, #40
    Adobe Photoshop 3.0 -- pg. 1
    Polaroid SprintScan 35 -- pg. 49
    Webster MultiPort/LT -- pg. 54
    PageTools 1.0 -- pg. 55
    Norton DiskDoubler Pro 1.1 -- pg. 55


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