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News this week of Apple's reorganization and its compelling new
   line of Mac-based World-Wide Web servers, plus information on
   a new virus and a new release of John Norstad's popular
   anti-virus utility Disinfectant, a review of Iomega's
   fast-selling Zip drive, and coverage from Matt Neuburg of
   the latest update to Now Utilities. Finally, we wrap up the
   issue with a less-than-fictional essay on the absolute
   essentials of word processing.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/10-Apr-95
    New nVIR Clone Targets Disinfectant
    Apple to Offer Web Servers
    Zip-ity-doo-dah - the Iomega Zip Drive
    Now Utilities Update and Demo
    Word 6.0 - NOT!
    Reviews/10-Apr-95

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MailBITS/10-Apr-95
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  A number of people wrote in to tell us about ClockAdjust and
  AutoClock, two other free utilities for keeping a Macintosh clock
  on track (see TidBITS-271_). Although these utilities don't use
  the Internet (can you imagine!), many will find them useful. Both
  help you deal with Daylight Savings Time and also automatically
  fix deviations in the Macintosh clock. In addition, AutoClock can
  use a modem to dial an atomic clock and update the time. Although
  calling an atomic clock requires a long distance call, the call
  cost one reader a whopping 12 cents, so it would take a number of
  calls to add up to even a standard shareware fee. [ACE]

ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cfg/auto-clock-144.hqx
ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cfg/clock-adjust-12.hqx


**Thanks** to the many people who either sent me Eudora plug-in
  files that provide a simple interface within Eudora's Settings
  dialog for changing the settings I talked about in TidBITS-271_ or
  who told me about Wagner's Eudora Prefs, a single plug-in that
  provides an interface for a number of less commonly changed
  settings in Eudora's Settings dialog. My major complaint with
  Wagner's Eudora Prefs is that it also changes the quote character
  to a non-standard one, and it does so in a way that changing it
  back requires using ResEdit. I've also edited Gilbert Rankin's
  <[e-mail]> message splitting submission slightly and
  uploaded it for FTP if you'd like to see how he provided an
  interface to Eudora's message splitting settings. [ACE]

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/tcp/mail/wagners-eudora-prefs-101.hqx
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/misc/message-splitting.hqx


**Apple Announces Reorganization** -- Apple announced a sweeping
  reorganization last week, combining several groups into two
  primary divisions: "Worldwide Marketing and Customer Solutions"
  and "Apple Research and Development." The reorganizations should
  allow Apple to focus more closely on consumer, education, and
  entertainment markets while maintaining and expanding its core
  businesses. This is Apple's first major restructuring since 1993;
  by some accounts that puts them behind schedule.

  Worldwide Marketing and Customer Solutions will be headed by
  Daniel Eilers (who you may recognize as the current president and
  CEO of Apple's subsidiary Claris) and will focus on consumer,
  home, business, and education markets, as well as adding a new
  group to concentrate on the entertainment industry. Interestingly,
  both Claris and eWorld will report to Eilers under this new
  organization. Apple Research and Development will be led by David
  Nagel, currently head of AppleSoft. His new group will focus on
  tightly integrating Apple software and hardware, overseeing Newton
  development and the Advanced Technology group, as well as the
  company-wide operating systems and licensing efforts. The
  reorganization did not change Apple's sales, customer support, and
  manufacturing and distribution functions, and Apple does not plan
  to cut jobs as a result of the reorganization. [GD]


**Canon Takeover Rumors Buoy Apple Stock** -- Apple's stock dipped
  briefly with the announcement of its reorganization, but rose
  again last week amid rumors that the Japanese electronics giant
  Canon planned to launch a bid to buy Apple Computer. Canon denied
  any intention to buy Apple, but Apple refused to comment on the
  speculation. Word has it that a Macintosh licensing agreement with
  Canon would be a much more likely prospect, and Canon has
  previously expressed interest in manufacturing Macintosh clones.
  However where there's smoke, there may be fire: during the last
  year we have heard repeated rumors about Apple possibly being sold
  (most recently to Motorola) and Apple's stock performance has been
  lackluster despite earnings growth and a smooth transition to the
  Power Macintosh platform. [GD]


New nVIR Clone Targets Disinfectant
-----------------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  John Norstad of Northwestern University recently released
  Disinfectant 3.6, an update of his free anti-viral Macintosh
  utility, to handle a recently discovered nVIR B clone. The clone
  appears to have been designed explicitly to bypass checks in both
  the Disinfectant 3.5 application and its accompanying protection
  extension.

  According to Norstad's announcement last Friday, the new clone,
  which was first sighted in Great Britain, is functionally the same
  as the original nVIR B virus and its various clones. nVIR B and
  its clones infect Macintosh system software and applications and
  may make the Macintosh beep. (The original nVIR A virus uses
  MacInTalk, if it's installed, to say "Don't panic.")

  In addition to detecting all known clones of the nVIR B virus,
  Disinfectant 3.6 adds the ability to use the Finder's Get Info
  window to change Disinfectant's memory allocation and paste in a
  custom Finder icon. The ability to change Disinfectant's memory
  partition can be important for some users: the default memory
  setting may not be large enough to scan the large code resources
  in some modern applications.

  Disinfectant 3.6 is available on the Internet at:

ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/disinfectant/disinfectant36.sea.hqx
ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/vir/disinfectant-36.hqx

  It should also be at other popular Internet FTP sites and on
  commercial online services. We recommend downloading antiviral
  utilities from known, trustworthy locations.

  The authors and publishers of other popular free and commercial
  antiviral utilities have confirmed that the current versions of
  their tools appear already effective against the new nVIR B clone.
  Check with your antiviral provider to make certain that you are
  using the current version of whichever tool you rely on.

  Information from:
    John Norstad


Apple to Offer Web Servers
--------------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  Apple today announced the addition of pre-configured Internet
  servers to its PowerPC-based Apple Workgroup Server bundles under
  the top-heavy name "Apple Internet Server Solution for the World
  Wide Web." These bundles are based on the Apple Workgroup Servers
  6150/66, 8150/110, and 9150/120 (which Apple announced last week),
  run Mac OS 7.5.1, and include an extensive CD-ROM software bundle
  especially for setting up World-Wide Web services. The machines
  don't come with any connection methods or hardware - so don't look
  for modems, ISDN, or routers in the box - but all have built-in
  Ethernet and (in the case of the 9150/120) more expansion slots
  than you can shake a stick at. The idea is to offer inexpensive
  Web servers that are easy to set up, easy to manage, and don't
  require administrators to learn Unix. Apple hasn't provided
  specific pricing, but costs for the servers are estimated to start
  at $2,900 for base models, running up to $8,700 or more for high-
  end systems.


**Lucrative Software Bundle** -- Part of what makes these Internet
  Servers appealing is their software - the bundle alone goes a long
  way toward justifying the cost of the machines. First on the list
  is WebSTAR from StarNine Technologies, which Mac users who are
  already running Mac-based Web servers will recognize as Chuck
  Shotton's much-anticipated MacHTTP 3.0. WebSTAR enables the Mac to
  respond to HTTP requests from the Web, serve data to clients, and
  execute CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts to handle image
  maps, forms, and other custom interactive features. The bundling
  is utterly logical: MacHTTP is the pre-eminent HTTP server
  available for the Macintosh; however, unlike current versions of
  MacHTTP, WebSTAR is threaded, which should result in significant
  performance improvements because individual actions within WebSTAR
  can multitask within the application.

  But wait - that's just the beginning. The Internet servers ship
  with AppleSearch 1.5 - itself a $1,400 product - enabling rapid
  searches through a wide variety of information sources, including
  Internet-based WAIS databases. The Internet servers also come with
  Adobe's Acrobat Pro and runtime versions FileMaker Pro, HyperCard,
  and EveryWare Development's Butler SQL - any or all of which could
  prove valuable in producing or serving information via the Web. In
  addition, the servers ship with AppleScript (handy for writing
  custom CGIs), the Netscape Navigator Web browser, and a version of
  Bare-Bones Software's BBEdit with HTML extensions for authoring
  Web pages (see TidBITS-202_ for a somewhat dated review of
  BBEdit). And wait, even if we sound like a Ginsu knife
  advertisement, there's more - the servers also include custom CGIs
  for handling email, image maps, and HTML forms, as well as a CGI
  similar to AppleWebSearch to let WebSTAR use AppleSearch for
  searches and database queries.

  The only piece missing from this attractive collection is MacDNS,
  a Macintosh-based domain-name server. MacDNS is in beta right now
  and is reportedly available for the asking for those who purchase
  the Internet Servers; Apple expects to make it available on future
  Internet servers and as a software update to current customers.


**Why Not Go With Unix?** Sources at Apple indicate that they
  expect the lower-end of the Internet server line to be especially
  interesting to smaller sites that don't have high-bandwidth
  connections to the Internet. After all, putting a 9150/120 on a
  28.8 Kbps external link is nothing but an efficient means of
  overkill. This strategy is supported by the 9150/120's inclusion
  of an internal DAT backup system, whereas the 6150/66 and 8150/110
  don't ship with built-in backup devices. Why? Apple and others
  expect the lower-end servers will have an appeal as "swarms" of
  low-cost, mirrored machines once MacDNS is available. MacDNS will
  enable "round-robin" DNS load balancing, permitting server
  requests to a single Internet address to be distributed to an
  array of identically-configured Macs. In this manner, a bank of
  6150/66's could significantly outperform a much more powerful (and
  much more expensive) Unix server. Since each machine is
  identically configured in this scheme, there's no need for each
  machine to have a built-in backup system.

  On a price/performance basis, these servers are downright cheap,
  especially considering the street price and utility of the bundled
  software. These are also the easiest Web servers available
  anywhere as far as installation and setup are concerned, and they
  don't require Mac-based sites to learn and configure a whole new
  platform. Additionally, Apple is expected to offer the same
  extensive technical support options for Internet servers as it
  does for its Workgroup Servers, including on-site support. And,
  frankly, another point in favor of these machines is that they
  **don't** run Unix, making them immune to the vast majority of
  security threats faced by administrators of Unix-based Internet
  machines.

  All in all, Apple seems to be moving forward in promoting the
  Macintosh as a viable Internet platform, an these servers and
  software bundles go a long way to making that point financially
  appealing. Although this first crop of Internet servers aren't
  quite a plug-and-play solution - users still need to work out the
  details of a dedicated network connection and DNS service, and the
  Apple Internet Servers don't come with server software for email,
  FTP, or Gopher - they're certainly a step in the right direction.

http://abs.apple.com/Products/Internet.solution/index.html

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda


Zip-ity-doo-dah - the Iomega Zip Drive
--------------------------------------
  by Linda Iroff <[e-mail]>

  [TidBITS has received numerous requests for reviews of the new
  Iomega Zip drive; given the considerable interest, we'll probably
  offer additional articles in future issues of TidBITS. -Geoff]

  Iomega has released a new removable-media technology that brings
  expandable storage into almost everyone's price range. The Zip
  drive costs only $199 mail order, and its 100 MB cartridges cost
  about $20 each; half the cost of the least expensive SyQuest and
  Bernoulli drives, and one-quarter to one-half the cost of media
  for those units.

  The OOBE ("out of the box experience") with the Zip drive gives a
  promising first impression. It's small (about the size of an
  external floppy drive), lightweight (about one pound), and an
  attractive navy blue. The disks are slightly larger than a 3.5"
  floppy, twice as thick, and fit in a pocket.

  A closer look reveals several gotchas. The drive has a non-
  standard, 25-pin SCSI connection rather than the usual 50-pin; you
  can only set the drive's SCSI ID to 5 or 6; the power adapter -
  which weighs considerably more than the drive - blocks access to
  adjacent outlets on a power strip; and the drive has no power
  switch - if the drive is plugged in, it's on. This can be
  dangerous in SCSI devices; if you use a Zip drive, be sure to make
  all SCSI connections **before** plugging it in. The Zip drive does
  have switchable termination, so you can put it anywhere in the
  SCSI chain with the right cables, but due to the 25-pin connector
  and limited SCSI ID choices, if you have several SCSI devices, you
  may have to spend some time switching cables and IDs around before
  the Zip drive will work as a member of your overall system.

  You must install a driver before Zip cartridges will mount, but
  Iomega includes a "Guest" application that temporarily loads the
  Zip driver into RAM, enabling you to mount cartridges without
  running the installer and rebooting. Iomega's Tools program helps
  with formatting, checking, write protecting, and read/write
  protecting the cartridges. The write protection can only be
  changed via the software (there's no write-protect tab on the
  disks), so if you lock a disk you can't unlock it without the
  Tools application. Also, if you read/write protect a disk and
  forget the password, you're out of luck.

  Using the drive is a pleasant experience - it runs fairly quietly
  with negligible spin up and spin down times. Although it's not as
  fast as a hard drive, the Zip drive definitely runs faster than a
  floppy disk or CD-ROM. In my unscientific testing, I estimate its
  read and write speeds are 75 percent those of my hard drive.
  Iomega claims a 29 millisecond average seek time, and 60 MB/minute
  sustained throughput.

  I find the speed fast enough that I comfortably use the Zip
  cartridges as unlimited hard disk storage expansion for less
  frequently used applications and documents. For example, a Zip
  cartridge works well for storing all those files that come on
  CD-ROMs that you are supposed to copy to your hard disk for faster
  performance. Most of these files are only a couple megabytes in
  size, but as your CD collection grows, your hard disk shrinks. Now
  you can copy those files to a 100 MB Zip cartridge, and insert the
  cartridge as needed.

  Backup becomes a breeze. Instead of swapping in and out a hundred
  floppy disks, you can back up a normal-sized hard disk to two or
  three Zips, and Iomega even bundles a simple backup program with
  the Zip drive. As an added bonus for me, the Zip drive is portable
  enough to use for moving large files between home and office.

  The Zip drive has a one year warranty, and the media carry a
  lifetime warranty. If you can get past the SCSI limitations, it
  may be the bargain answer to your backup, archive, and hard disk
  expansion needs. But remember: this is a new implementation of
  technology, and only time will tell of its long term reliability.

    Iomega Corporation -- 800/697-8833 -- 801/778-3000
      801/778-3748 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


Now Utilities Update and Demo
-----------------------------
  by Matt Neuburg <[e-mail]>

  Back in October (TidBITS-248_) I reviewed Now Utilities 5.0
  favorably, both as software in itself (I wouldn't live without it)
  and as an update. Now a maintenance update release (5.0.1) has
  appeared on the nets which fixes a number of bugs and conflicts,
  plus adds new features. This release is also a demo version, so
  that those of you who still aren't using Now Utilities (Bullwinkle
  voice: "Can there really be such people, Rock?") can give it a
  try; the demo disables itself after a week or so if you don't have
  serial number to provide it. The file is large (1.7 MB binhexed,
  representing a high-density disk image), so those not wishing to
  download obtain a disk for $6.50 direct from Now Software

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/gui/now-utilities-501-demo.hqx

  This update is most commendable. As users have written me with
  questions and complaints about Now Utilities, I have consistently
  recommended contacting Now directly. Although Now does not always
  respond intelligently (or, indeed, at all) to bug reports and
  suggestions via email, there does seem to have been considerable
  trickle-up from vociferous users to designers. The most egregious
  bug with Now Menus is fixed, where drag-and-drop of a file onto an
  application name in a menu failed if the application was one that
  could open any file (such as ResEdit or StuffIt Expander). Plus,
  Now Software added two new features: you can tune the rate at
  which hierarchical menus appear or disappear as you move the mouse
  along the main menu; and, a Now Menus menu can include a list of
  current applications with their open windows attached
  hierarchically.

  The advent of Microsoft Word 6 - whose relationship to the Mac
  interface and file system is peculiar to say the least - generated
  numerous incompatibilities with Now Utilities. Version 5.0.1
  attempts to deal with these - rather courageously, in my view,
  since the problems are hardly Now's fault - but the effort, alas,
  is not entirely successfully. The many who, like me, cannot abide
  a Standard File dialog without Super Boomerang, will be relieved
  to hear at least that, according to Now, the crashes when Super
  Boomerang is active have been fixed; I desperately want to believe
  this, and I haven't yet been able to instigate a crash in the
  Standard File dialog, but I do occasionally crash my whole machine
  when quitting Word (though I can't tell if this is Super
  Boomerang's fault), so I'm not yet ready to consider the problem
  fixed. The story isn't over yet, either; the Word 6.0.1 propaganda
  makes claims on Microsoft's side that the conflict is fixed, but I
  haven't received my copy, so I can't confirm or deny this.

  The conflict between WYSIWYG Menus and Word's toolbar version of
  the Font menu is also fixed, though at first I thought it was not.
  On my computer, the wrong font was checked, and I could crash if I
  changed fonts, so I thought I must continue to work around by
  excluding Word via the control panel. But someone at Now told me
  that the problem was due to "corrupted fonts" and, sure enough,
  when I removed a font included with Word, MSLineDraw and one other
  font (called "Code9"), the problem vanished. Microsoft has now
  admitted in their Word 6.0.1 propaganda that MSLineDraw was
  corrupted.

  Not all of my own desires for Now Utilities have been met. I think
  that some things should be customizable for distinct applications
  rather than across the board - for example, the rebound features
  of Super Boomerang, or the names of fonts used to create
  hierarchical groupings in WYSIWYG Menus). It beats the heck out me
  why an excellent feature of Now Menus - where holding Control as
  you select a file brings up the folder containing it - has not
  been implemented in Super Boomerang's menus as well. Nonetheless,
  I find 5.0.1 a most welcome effort. Meddling so deep in the
  workings of the system means all sorts of unforeseen problems are
  bound to arise as new system versions, machines, extensions, and
  applications appear, and hence utilities of this nature require a
  constant heroic commitment to staying up-to-date, not to mention
  some fancy programming. This update, shows Now Software's
  commitment to keeping their utilities current. Such support is
  comforting, exemplary, and all too rare.

    Now Software -- 503/274-2899 -- 503/274-0670 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Word 6.0 - NOT!
---------------
  by Tom Standage <[e-mail]>

  Feel like throwing out your word processor? I do. I yearn to
  liberate the untold megabytes of disk space occupied by my
  groaning, feature-heavy word processing software. The appearance
  of Word 6.0 has called into question not only my support for
  Microsoft's flagship product, but for huge word processors in
  general. There has to be a better alternative - a small product
  with minimal features that boots quickly and doesn't mess around
  with palettes, toolbars, or tips of the day. So, turning my back
  on Word 6.0, I opened my drawer of floppies to look for something
  leaner and meaner - something outside the current crop of word
  processors altogether.

  The first contender I unearthed was a set of Word 4.0 disks. Even
  if you have a relatively old Mac, an even more antediluvian
  version of Word can make it feel surprisingly peppy. Old versions
  of Word are refreshingly fat-free, too. Many readers will remember
  the fuss that ensued when Word 4.0 failed to run correctly or at
  all on the first Quadras. Word 5.0 appeared soon afterwards, but
  in the interim Microsoft did produce a version of Word - version
  4.0e - which ran on the Quadra. [Too bad that in Microsoft's
  excitement over shipping Word 6 they discontinued it. -Tonya]

  A little archeology in a friendly consultant's filing cabinet
  (thanks, Kannan) unearthed some real gems, including Word 3.01
  and, eventually, Word 1.05 (carbon dated to 1985). Throwing
  caution to the wind, we copied them to a Power Mac 8100, double-
  clicked and discovered that neither would launch. However, Word
  1.05 did run on an SE/30, and it opened documents faster than any
  word processor I've ever seen on any Mac. It may be primitive, but
  Word 1.05 does have the advantage of a hard disk footprint of -
  wait for it - 124K. It was tailor-made for 400K MFS disks.

  Of course, it's possible to edit text without any fancy features
  at all. Scriptable Text Editor, the basic text editor that ships
  with AppleScript, was written as an example of something
  scriptable, but it's a perfectly good text editor, and if you've
  bought a Mac recently the program is probably already on your hard
  disk. The features are basic - styled text. And, well, that's it.
  But since it's totally recordable and scriptable, with a little
  scripting you could build your own find/replace and word count
  features. If you're feeling adventurous, you could script some
  other big application that has a spelling checker - and, let's
  face it, that's most of them nowadays - to add spell checking too.
  If you're script-obsessed, this could be the right choice for you.
  Of course, the truly script-obsessed may already have a copy of
  Working Software's scriptable Spellswell 7.

  However, I'm not convinced support for styled text is all that
  important. Let's get back to basics here - being able to mix fonts
  and styles won't make that sonnet easier to write or make the
  troublesome first line of your novel read better. And I regard the
  use of italics for emphasis as a cop-out. The widespread use of
  programs like QuarkXPress to lay out text prepared in another
  application also casts doubt on the need for a word processor that
  does anything more than produce raw text. "As soon as I need style
  sheets and pagination, I switch straight to QuarkXPress anyway -
  it's so fast" said one of my friends, whose Power Mac 6100 crawls
  along when running Word 6.0, but speeds past the sound barrier
  with the native version of QuarkXPress. So, in theory, almost
  anything with a basic editable text box can be used to compose
  text once you dispense with Font and Style menus.

  Okay then - how about QuickDEX? I started using it as a word
  processor in the days of my PowerBook 100. QuickDEX, for those of
  you who manage to live without it, is a Rolodex-style, free-form
  database with a full text search that's incredibly fast because
  all the data is held in RAM. And that's the key - no hard disk
  spin-ups on PowerBooks, so you can scroll up and down in that
  dinky little text editing box for hours on end. The size gets to
  you eventually, though, although you can set the whole window to a
  small, readable font like Geneva 9. If you're battery-conscious
  and a little insane, QuickDEX could be your ideal word processor.

  If you don't have a handy copy of QuickDEX, Notepad and Stickies
  also support primitive text editing. Yes, they're tiny, but for
  fine-tuning a single sentence or a small piece of text such as a
  photo caption, they're fine - they even offer proper clipboard
  support. I've used both of them to jot down notes from telephone
  conversations. When someone calls you up and you have to note
  something in the conversation, you don't want to wait half a
  minute - or six minutes - for your word processor to boot. Of
  course, the ultimate in word processing simplicity, enforcing the
  elegance of haiku on your prose, is the Finder. Create a new
  folder and compose away to your 31-character heart's content.

  But this leaves just one real contender. It's small, it's fast,
  and it's free with every Mac. It has the questionable capability
  of supporting the Speech Manager, and I used it to write this
  essay. I have a feeling Mac users everywhere are turning to it in
  droves. On my Mac, it's permanently open in the background. It's
  the choice of a new generation. My word processor for the time
  being is SimpleText.

    Working Software -- 800/229-9675 -- 408/423-5696
      <[e-mail]>


Reviews/10-Apr-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 04-Apr-95, Vol. 9, #14
    Power Mac 5200/75 LC -- pg. 1
    TCP/Connect II 2.1 -- pg. 27
    Paint Alchemy 2.0 -- pg. 29
    Read-It Pro 5.0 -- pg. 30


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