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This is the week of new software! Apple releases QuickTime VR to
   the world for free, plus Mark Anbinder takes a look at both
   WordPerfect 3.5 and a new release of SoftArc's FirstClass
   Client. Adam reports on the highlights of last week's Mactivity
   conference in San Jose, plus info on new version of Apple's
   CD-ROM software, new incomprehensibly numbered Performa models,
   and a historical follow-up to Tonya's two-part review of
   FullWrite 2.0.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/17-Jul-95
    Novell Previews WordPerfect 3.5
    SoftArc Ships Native FirstClass Client
    FullWrite Follow-up
    Mactivity Report
    QuickTime VR is Actually Real
    Reviews/17-Jul-95

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MailBITS/17-Jul-95
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**Open Mouth, Insert MacPPP** -- Our short deadline bit us last
  week. We published Orren Merton's note about Open Transport
  problems in which he noted originally that MacPPP 2.1.1SD included
  some fixes for problems that MacPPP has with Open Transport.
  Unfortunately, as we were finishing the issue, MacPPP 2.2.0 came
  out, claiming to include all the fixes to MacPPP 2.0.1. Because of
  that claim, it inappropriately replaced MacPPP 2.1.1SD in the
  Info-Mac Archive, leaving us with no working URL for MacPPP
  2.1.1SD and an incorrect impression of MacPPP 2.2.0 as well, since
  as Steve Dagley (the SD in MacPPP 2.1.1SD) said, the 2.2.0 version
  did not actually include the Open Transport fixes. Sorry for the
  confusion, and Open Transport users can get MacPPP 2.1.1SD at the
  URL below. We're still trying to get a handle on the versions of
  MacPPP and find out the real story. [ACE]

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com//pub/tidbits/tisk/tcp/mac-ppp-211sd-doc.txt
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com//pub/tidbits/tisk/tcp/mac-ppp-211sd.hqx


**Apple CD-ROM Software for Quad-Speed Drives** -- Apple released
  version 5.1.1 of its CD-ROM software last week, primarily to
  support its new AppleCD 600e quad-speed CD-ROM drive. It also
  includes support for multisession, CD Plus, and Enhanced CD
  formats. Weighing in at about 600K binhexed, version 5.1.1
  requires System 7.1 or later and works fine with earlier Apple
  CD-ROM drives. If you have problems installing this software on
  System 7.1 for use with an internal AppleCD 300, Apple recommends
  zapping your PRAM (press Command-Option-P-R when restarting your
  computer), then re-installing. [GD]

ftp://ftp.support.apple.com//pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/
display_periph_sw/CD-ROM_Setup_5.1.1.hqx


**Open Transport vs. QuarkXPress** -- I've heard reports of two
  conflicts between Open Transport 1.0 (shipped only on the Power
  Mac 9500s) and QuarkXPress. If you have an XTension installed that
  receives the XT_NETRECEIVE opcode, QuarkXPress will hang on
  launch. I doubt there's any easy way to determine if you have such
  an XTension loaded other than by empirical testing. Apparently,
  Open Transport 1.0.1 fixes the problem. Even with Open Transport
  1.0.1, if you have either the printer port or the modem port
  chosen as your network connection in the AppleTalk control panel,
  QuarkXPress will hang on launch if any XTensions that use network
  serial copy protection are installed. [ACE]

ftp://ftp.support.apple.com//pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/n_c/
other_n_c_sw/Open_Transport_1.0.1_patch.hqx


**More Performas Introduced** -- Last week Apple announced a
  series of new Performa computers, including the 5200-series and
  6200-series (each based on the PowerPC 603 processor), the Performa
  640CD DOS Compatible, new 630- and 6100-series machines, and the
  MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) Media System (basically an
  MPEG add-in board for the 630-, 5200-, and 6200-series systems
  that ships with a set of MPEG CD-ROM titles). The new systems
  range in price from about $1,600 to $3,000; the MPEG Media System
  is about $300. [GD]


Novell Previews WordPerfect 3.5
-------------------------------
  by Mark Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  Novell announced today that Internet publishing and editing
  capabilities, better automation tools, and a new talkative bent
  will highlight the planned August release of WordPerfect 3.5 for
  Macintosh. The package will carry a suggested retail price of $189
  for floppy or CD-ROM version, and upgrades will be available next
  month for $89.

  The new Mac version of WordPerfect won't quite put buyers on the
  Internet, but it will include a copy of Netscape Navigator and
  built-in HTML exporting capabilities. The WYSIWYG Web-building
  feature should allow users to generate attractive, if
  straightforward, Web pages without much fuss.

  More innovative is a new "Make It Fit" feature, which will
  automatically adjust a document's margins, font size, line height,
  and spacing to force the text to fit or fill a given number of
  pages. An Easy Envelope function and  85 new document templates
  will also make quick-and-easy document publishing simpler for
  those without the time or talent for their own creative design.

  We're not sure it's crucial to most users, but the new version's
  integration of Apple's PlainTalk technology will allow WordPerfect
  to speak all or part of a document's text, "for easy proofreading,
  or to bring presentations or demonstrations to life." Even if we
  don't expect to use PlainTalk for the next live demo, we applaud
  Novell's thoroughness in implementing Mac OS technology.

  Look for a crowded booth in Boston next month, but hope for a more
  intriguing demo focus than HTML editing and talking Macs.

    Information from:
      Novell propaganda


SoftArc Ships Native FirstClass Client
--------------------------------------
  by Mark Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  On the heels of last week's Mactivity conference, which showcased
  Macintosh connectivity technology, Ontario-based SoftArc, Inc.
  released version 2.7 of its FirstClass Client software for
  Macintosh. The new version of its email and group conferencing
  client software doesn't offer significant changes in
  functionality, but offers native PowerPC performance.

  SoftArc is now shipping three separate flavors of the FirstClass
  Client to satisfy all tastes. A version for 68K Macintosh systems
  still works in emulation on Power Macs; a pure native PowerPC
  version works only on Power Macs. The third, a fat binary, is
  about a third again as large as the others, but contains all the
  code necessary to run to best advantage on either 68K or PowerPC
  technology.

  The client software updates are available at no cost. All three
  are available from SoftArc Online, the company's own FirstClass
  support headquarters, which can be reached on the Internet via
  FirstClass itself at 198.133.37.10 (port 3004) or by modem at
  905-415-7070. They're also available via anonymous FTP; pointers
  are on the Web at:

http://www.ithaca.ny.us/Orgs/MemoryAlpha/

  For assistance connecting to SoftArc Online over the Internet,
  look at Ed Leslie's page at:

http://tfcserv.edu.yorku.ca/www2fc

  SoftArc says version 2.7 fixes a few minor bugs that most users
  would never notice. The software also now includes support for
  over 500 different modem types. Readers without Power Macintosh
  systems or with already-supported modems may not want to bother
  downloading the software via a long-distance modem connection, but
  those with other downloading options will at least get to enjoy
  the snazzy new globe graphics for their trouble. (If you have the
  disk space, we recommend downloading and installing the fat binary
  version. You'll always be prepared for an upgrade, and you'll
  always have the right version to give a friend.) It's worth noting
  that the main bottleneck in the performance of the FirstClass
  Client is usually your modem or network connection; using a Power
  Mac-native version of the FirstClass Client isn't going to make
  either of those things any faster.

  Testers have reported that the new client software works with
  Apple's Open Transport networking technology (so far shipping only
  with the Power Macintosh 9500 systems), though SoftArc hasn't
  claimed official compatibility. The FirstClass Server software,
  still at version 2.6, has no PowerPC native version, though
  SoftArc has said they plan such a release. Meanwhile, FirstClass
  Server 2.6 (available as a free upgrade to registered users, only
  on SoftArc Online) supports the Modern Memory Manager on Power Mac
  systems, which gives it a slight performance advantage over
  version 2.5. (Until more of the I/O portion of the Mac OS is
  native and Open Transport is available for general use, the
  FirstClass Server would gain little from native code.)

  SoftArc has also mentioned plans for an upcoming Intel-based
  server package and a Windows client that offers the styled text
  capabilities of its Macintosh cousin.

    SoftArc -- 905/415-7000 -- 905/415-7151 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>

    Information from:
      SoftArc propaganda
      Ed Leslie <[e-mail]>


FullWrite Follow-up
-------------------
  by Tonya Engst

  A few people wrote in to correct what I wrote about FullWrite's
  beginnings in TidBITS-284_.

**Leonard Rosenthol** <[e-mail]> said, "FullWrite
  started life at Ann Arbor Softworks, the same company that was the
  first to try (and succeed) in competing with MacPaint with their
  wonderful FullPaint product. The biggest history note for
  FullWrite during the Ann Arbor Softworks days was that they
  started advertising it a bit too early, and it was, for the
  longest time, the _longest_ vaporware product around - close to
  two years!"


**Roy Leban** <[e-mail]> helpfully filled in some details,
  saying that the FullWrite project began at Ann Arbor Softworks
  (abbreviated as A2S) in April of 1986, and the public first knew
  that something was up in January of 1987, when A2S gave demos at
  MacWorld Expo. Although A2S thought they could ship FullWrite by
  April of 1987, by MacWorld Expo in January of 1988, they weren't
  quite shipping, though they did give away 10,000 beta copies at
  the Expo. About a month later, Ashton-Tate acquired A2S, and in
  April of 1988, FullWrite finally shipped.

  Roy also responded to a few questions that people had asked me
  about FullWrite, saying that - unfortunately - Mastersoft's
  DocuComp does not work with FullWrite documents (DocuComp compares
  two versions of a document and identifies any differences between
  the two). Also, neither PageMaker nor QuarkXPress come with
  FullWrite filters. It's up to Adobe or Quark to decide that they
  want to include a filter, and I suspect that customer pressure
  would help in this regard.

http://www.chaco.com/~mastersoft/

    Mastersoft -- 602/948-4888 -- 800/624-6107
      602/948-8261 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


Mactivity Report
----------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  I attended Mactivity in San Jose last week and came away with a
  good feeling about the Mac's role in networks and specifically in
  the Internet. Desktop publishing certainly gets credit as the
  application that put the Macintosh on the map, but in many ways,
  the Mac's networking capabilities are more impressive. They've
  been present in every Mac since the beginning, and with the advent
  of System 7's File Sharing, have been a part of everyday life for
  even the smallest of Mac networks.

  I hadn't been to Mactivity before, but I got the impression that
  in many ways the ascendancy of the Internet has given new life to
  the conference. A special Mactivity/Web mini-conference preceded
  the main show, and on the exhibition floor, roughly a third of the
  booths were showing Internet-related products. The sessions, even
  excluding all the Mactivity/Web sessions, had about the same ratio
  of Internet material to straight networking information.

  But none of this should surprise anyone. Networking has long been
  a heavy-duty niche field that only interested in the folks whose
  job it is to set up and keep the networks running. Users don't
  care about the network topology or wiring scheme as long as they
  can share files and print to networked laser printers. However,
  users _do_ increasingly care about using that same network to get
  onto the Internet to do things that are of direct relevance to
  their daily lives. Suddenly the network has reached out to the
  world.

  Anyway, on to a few products that caught my eye.


**Delphic Software** was present and showing their AL*I Internet
  Server, which will garner as much attention for its deucedly
  difficult-to-type name (and I have no idea how to say it) as for
  the numerous Internet services it can provide. Due out before the
  end of the year, the AL*I Internet server includes a graphical
  configuration interface for the Web, Gopher, FTP, NNTP (Net News
  Transport Protocol, for Usenet news), SMTP (Simple Mail Transport
  Protocol, for sending and receiving email), POP3 (Post Office
  Protocol, for storing mail for POP clients like Eudora), UDP Time
  Server (for synchronizing clocks), DNS (domain name server, for
  translating names to IP numbers), and finally a BootP server. This
  functionality won't come cheap, though, with packages containing
  various module sets starting at $995 and ranging up to $1,995 for
  the whole shooting match.

    Delphic Software -- <[e-mail]>


**Aiwa's DAT tape AutoLoader** (marketed by CORE International)
  certainly won the best of show in terms of pure attention-getting,
  both in terms of its physical operation and its raw storage
  capacity. The device was on display at the Dantz Development booth
  - not surprising given that Dantz's Retrospect Remote backup
  software basically owns the backup market and is seemingly bundled
  with every DAT drive in existence. The AutoLoader uses a cartridge
  containing 17 DAT tapes, and a mesmerizing loader zips up and down
  the cartridge, moving tapes in and out of the DAT drive mechanism
  itself (another model contains two DAT drives for faster
  performance). There's something compelling about computer
  equipment that moves in interesting ways - perhaps that's the
  reason for all the movie scenes of tape drives spinning. Even more
  compelling was when Lars Holm of Dantz told me that you could put
  272 GB on single, easily removed cartridge (ease of removal is
  important for fostering good off-site backup habits). To note that
  272 GB is a lot of data is pure understatement. And although the
  prices sound steep, at $6,995 for the single drive model and
  $8,995 for the double drive model, just compare the costs of 17
  separate DAT drives and a network slave to feed them tapes all
  night.

    CORE International -- 407/997-6055 -- 407/997-9009 (fax)
    Dantz Development -- 800/225-4880 -- <[e-mail]>


**ResNova Software** has embraced the Web wholeheartedly with
  their NovaServer 4.0 product. Originally a BBS with a graphical
  interface provided by the NovaTerm client, NovaServer has evolved
  into a interesting amalgam of Internet and BBS. All of the old
  features are still present (email, message forums, chats and
  conferences, and file libraries), but some have a new twist. All
  messages are stored internally as HTML, and users can include HTML
  2.0 code directly in messages, along with URLs that point either
  locally or out to the Web. The NovaTerm client can work with an
  optional Web add-on to enable users to browse the Web, and the
  client itself uses HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) for file
  transfers. Gateways for SMTP, NNTP, UUCP, and AppleSearch are also
  available. ResNova has addressed the current paranoia over
  inappropriate content on the Web by providing access controls and
  filtering of outgoing URL requests through a list of approved or
  prohibited sites or pages. (This concern is a bit less misplaced
  in the BBS world, where some BBS sysops have been jailed for
  allowing pornographic materials on their systems.) NovaServer is
  Power Mac-native, requires the Thread Manager on systems prior to
  System 7.5, and is scalable using multiple servers. Prices vary
  widely depending on the configurations.

    ResNova Software -- 714/379-9004 -- <[e-mail]>


**StarNine** gave me a quick demo of some of the more interesting
  capabilities of ListSTAR, their new mailing list manager and
  mailbot program (see TidBITS-258_ for a brief bit on eMOD, an
  earlier incarnation of ListSTAR). Several features stood out.
  First, ListSTAR features a rule-based interface that appeared to
  be heavily wired for use with AppleScript, although you could also
  use Frontier. This means you can extend ListSTAR's capabilities in
  interesting ways, and StarNine was showing some of those, such as
  a form in WebSTAR that provided an easy interface for adding or
  deleting oneself from a mailing list run by ListSTAR. Simple, but
  effective (you wouldn't believe how many personal requests I get
  every day, asking to be added to the TidBITS list - I couldn't
  live without QuicKeys). In the future, think about more
  intersections between the Web and email, so perhaps mailing lists
  could be both centralized on the Web (which makes for more
  coherent management) and distributed via email (since people are
  lousy about continually visiting the same Web site over and over
  again).

  Perhaps most interesting about ListSTAR for many Mac users, is
  that it comes in two flavors, SMTP and POP. The SMTP version of
  ListSTAR is a full-fledged SMTP (and POP) server in its own right,
  and would replace MailShare entirely on Mac mail servers, and of
  course requires a permanent Internet connection. (MailShare is now
  Apple Internet Mail Server, as the corporate naming weenies at
  Apple have trippingly dubbed it - at least they didn't go for
  "Apple Internet Server Solution for Electronic Mail.") However,
  the POP version of ListSTAR works like any other POP client such
  as Eudora, and only checks for new mail when you tell it to. Thus,
  any user who connects to the Internet via a modem and PPP, SLIP,
  or ARA could easily run a full-fledged mailing list. Performance
  is worse with the POP version, but that's a small price to pay for
  not needing a direct Internet connection. I feel that bringing
  this capability to ordinary Internet users without expensive
  permanent connections is tremendously important, since it opens up
  the Internet to an entire group of people who were previously
  prevented from helping improve the community by providing mailbots
  and mailing lists on specific topics. On the other hand,
  ListSTAR's complex configuration requirements may make it
  inappropriate for users with simple mail server needs.

    StarNine Technologies, Inc. -- 800/525-2580 -- 510/649-4949
      <[e-mail]>


QuickTime VR is Actually Real
-----------------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  Some readers may remember a review of the Star Trek: The Next
  Generation Interactive Technical Manual from Simon & Schuster
  which appeared in TidBITS-250_, almost nine months ago. That
  CD-ROM was launched with some fanfare as the "first" product to
  use Apple's new QuickTime VR technology; since then, however,
  there hasn't been much visible motion, aside from demonstrations
  at trade shows, and Mac aficionados have been waiting impatiently
  for QuickTime VR to enter the mainstream. Where was QuickTime VR?
  When was Apple going to unleash this thing for real?

  The wait appears to be over. Last week Apple unveiled a **free**
  QuickTime VR player and inaugurated a new Web site full of sample
  movies and technical info on QuickTime VR. Moreover, Apple seems
  to be targeting QuickTime VR solidly at the Internet audience.
  Though the new QTVR site is still a little incomplete, it's a
  promising start on what will hopefully be an exciting journey.

http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/


**The QTVR Player** -- The core of Apple's free offering is the
  QTVR Player, an application that lets a user open and navigate
  through both QuickTime VR movies and normal QuickTime movies. Be
  sure to read Apple's licence agreement before downloading and
  using the software.

http://quicktime.apple.com/archive/license.html

  The player is available in two packages, one containing just the
  player application and a small sample QTVR movie (first URL, about
  400K) and - available _only_ through 22-Jul-95 - a version
  containing both the player application and an installation of
  QuickTime 2.0, normally only available with System 7.5, from Apple
  directly, or with other commercial multimedia programs (second
  URL, abut 1.4 MB). The QTVR Player (and sample files) are also
  available on eWorld.

http://quicktime.apple.com/archive/QTVRPlayer.hqx
http://quicktime.apple.com/archive/vrkit.hqx

  Apple is clearly targeting the QTVR Player at the Web community,
  including instructions for setting it up as a Netscape helper
  application. The idea is to set up the QTVR Player to handle all
  QuickTime movies for your Web browser. Similar steps work with
  MacWeb and should be applicable to other Web browsers.

  Once you have the player installed, navigating through a QuickTime
  VR movie is surprisingly easy. When you open a QTVR movie, you're
  presented with a window that looks just like any other document
  window containing a picture: no QuickTime controller hangs off the
  bottom of the image, and there are no obvious controls to
  manipulate the movie. To get around, simply click and hold the
  mouse button in the displayed image, then drag in the direction
  you want to go. Suddenly the displayed scene is moving, as the
  image in the window pans in the direction you choose to go. If
  your finger gets tired of pointing with the mouse, your keyboard's
  arrow keys also navigate through the movie, and (surprisingly) if
  you press the Option key, the window will "zoom in" the display in
  real time, although it gets chunkier as you reach the resolution
  limits of the movie. Press Control to zoom you back out.

  The QTVR Player lets you play movies at double size and even at
  full-screen, and has an option for "high quality refresh" which
  apparently allows the player to redraw the currently-displayed
  image at better resolution if you let it sit still a moment. The
  effect is noticeable (and significantly improves the display
  quality) at double-size and full-screen. The overall performance
  of the player application seems quite satisfactory with the QTVR
  movie on a local hard disk, with extremely fast response on my
  Quadra 650 and respectable and certainly usable performance on an
  LC III I had the chance to use. While the Player application is
  not without bugs (including a particularly ugly one involving
  16-bit playback on a multiple-monitor configuration), it does seem
  reasonably stable.


**VR Movies & Objects** -- QTVR movies usually consist of "nodes"
  and perhaps "objects." A "node" is a place where the viewer can
  virtually stand an inspect a scene - it's usually the center of a
  room, the top of a staircase, or a similar location with an
  interesting view. Movies can be single-node or multi-node, and
  viewers can move back and forth between nodes within the movie.
  For example, the QTVR move of the bridge set of the U.S.S.
  Enterprise in Simon & Schuster's Interactive Technical Manual
  contains more than half a dozen nodes, including one at the
  turbolift entrance, one at the engineering station, and (of
  course) one from the captain's chair. When another node is in
  sight, the mouse cursor changes to a forward-pointing arrow, and a
  single click takes you to the new node. Apple has made several
  multi-node QTVR movies available on its site, including an
  interior of the House of Blues, the Tuesday Night Music Club, and
  the White House.

http://quicktime.apple.com/archive/index.html
http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/Samples.htm

  QTVR movies can also contain objects. Instead of the scene moving
  around the viewer, the user and turn and manipulate an animated
  object in three dimensions. The Star Trek Technical Manual
  includes a Klingon knife and a continually-blinking tricorder as
  QTVR objects. An obvious application of this technique would be in
  a virtual museum, where works of art could be viewed from a
  variety of angles and turned in space. Other applications spring
  to mind in the fields of education, engineering, and 3-D
  rendering, by letting people see how objects, components, and
  parts work and move together. I know if I'd had QTVR
  demonstrations of crystal lattice structures in my high school
  chemistry class, I'd have been a much happier person. Also, a QTVR
  simulation of a thunderstorm or Jupiter's moons could be
  infinitely intriguing.


**Lights, Camera, Action** -- With all this functionality, you
  might imagine that making a QTVR movie is a little more
  complicated than capturing a movie from a VCR or QuickCam, and
  you'd be right. Apple is in the process of putting a QTVR white
  paper up on its Web server that describes the technology and QTVR
  development process, and a good overview article on creating
  QuickTime VR movies appeared in the July 1995 issue of Macworld.
  To over-generalize, QTVR movies are stitched together from a
  series of still images, usually 12 or 16 for a full 360-degree
  shot or node. For live scenes, capturing these images can be a
  tricky process, involving specialized camera mountings and careful
  picture-taking. (I hear from one photographer who's done a QTVR
  shoot that doing outdoor shots is particularly difficult due to
  shifts in lighting.) From 3-D rendering programs, generating the
  images to be stitched together can be a more precise process,
  although still time-consuming.

http://quicktime.apple.com/qtvr/qtvrtech.html

  Once you have your images, movies are then "authored" to include
  pointers to embedded QTVR objects (if any) and pointers to other
  nodes that are adjacent to the current scene. Presently, QTVR
  development and authoring tools (including XCMDs for use in
  HyperCard and Director) are available only from Apple, are not
  very intuitive, and require a fast Mac and a lot of RAM. Apple
  does host courses on incorporating QTVR technology into other
  applications, but QTVR development resources are expensive and
  hard to come by. Still, that was also the case when QuickTime
  itself debuted; as time goes on, users can probably expect
  development tools to become cheaper and easier to use, and
  applications (especially those that do 3-D rendering) will should
  begin to support QTVR natively.


**In Summation** -- If you've got a Web connection and time to
  download a few hundred kilobytes of movies, go nuts! Once you see
  QuickTime VR, you'll see why people are excited about it. However,
  it remains to be seen whether QuickTime VR will gather the
  developer and application support necessary for it to become more
  than an expensive toy for people with high-end machines and good
  photographic equipment. Apple is billing QTVR as "virtual reality
  for the rest of us," but right now it's only "virtual reality
  playback for the rest of us." Nonetheless, the potential excites
  me.

    Simon & Schuster Interactive -- 212/698-7000
      212/698-7555 (fax)


Reviews/17-Jul-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 10-Jul-95, Vol. 9, #27
    PowerCADD 2.0 -- pg. 39
    Now Contact, Now Up-to-Date 3.5 -- pg. 39
    PathWay Access for the Macintosh 3.1 -- pg. 42
    ClarisWorks 4.0 -- pg. 43

* InfoWorld -- 10-Jul-95, Vol. 17, #28
    Conflict Catcher 3.0 -- pg. 87


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