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 Read all about it! Virus authors caught and charged! We also have
   some important details about the MBDF virus. In addition, check
   out the news about an impressive new Unix-based Macintosh
   emulator, a review of the DataClub virtual server software, why
   you should wait to buy a LaserWriter IIf or IIg, Apple/IBM news
   from France, and hopefully the last word on the new StyleWriter
   driver.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/24-Feb-92
    Elephantine IIf & IIg
    MBDF Virus
    Taligent Up & Running
    Quorum
    StyleWriter Driver Info
    DataClub Review
    Apple/IBM: French happenings
    Reviews/24-Feb-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-108.etx; 29K]


MailBITS/24-Feb-92
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  Thanks to all of you who have returned the survey to us. I'm sure
  results will continue to flow in, so send yours in if you want to
  be in the running for a button. Some people have expressed
  confusion about some of the numbers asked for in the survey -
  don't worry about these too much, estimates are fine if you don't
  know the specific answer. If you've already discarded that issue,
  I've posted the text of the survey form on the fileserver, so you
  can easily request it, fill it out, and return it. Just send email
  to <[e-mail]> with the single word "survey"
  (no quotes) in the Subject: line. Thanks!


Errors of the week
  I originally had a funny mailer message slated for this spot, and
  I will include that below for a little relief from the real error
  of the week, which was the SFU mailing list. It has had problems
  on and off for a while now, but this week the underlying mailer
  software kept crashing and every time it crashed, it sent another
  copy of whatever it had to everyone on the list. My sincere
  apologies for this, and I would recommend switching to the TIDBITS
  LISTSERV at Rice if you are terribly frustrated with SFU. To do
  that, send email to [e-mail] including this line
  in the _body_ of the mail:

    SUBSCRIBE TIDBITS your full name

  I made a mistake last week in saying that the name should be in
  parentheses - if you do that, the LISTSERV will think they belong
  in your name. You can also have more than two words in your name,
  but must have at least two. If you wish to delete those
  parentheses or change your name on the LISTSERV, just send in
  another SUBSCRIBE mailfile with your name sans parentheses.

  If you do subscribe to the LISTSERV, please remove yourself from
  the SFU list (you may have to wait a day or two until the site
  comes back up - it's been shut down temporarily) by sending email
  to [e-mail] with the single word "remove" (in
  lower case and without the quotes) in the Subject: line. Thanks!


Funny error
  I occasionally receive messages from mailers when requests to the
  fileserver bounce, and this one takes the cake. This is the sort
  of thing that artificial intelligence researchers should watch out
  for from the very beginning - a little introspection is a good
  thing. :-)

    <<< 553 poly.polytechnique.fr I refuse to talk to myself


SuperClock! error
  Steve Christensen, the author of SuperClock!, writes in regard to
  Mark H. Anbinder's article "Quadra Vampires", "Well, that's news
  to me. SuperClock! was written completely in assembly language, so
  there aren't any compiler-oriented issues to deal with. SuperClock!
  also doesn't do any cache-oriented operations directly - I make no
  hardware assumptions of that type since I want to be able to run on
  68000s as well as 68040s. It's possible that some of the system
  code I call may flush the cache as part of its operation, though.
  I work with the software guys that did the ROMs for both Quadras,
  both use SuperClock! on their Quadras, and I haven't heard any
  complaints."

  [Adam: Our apologies, Steve. Mark said that the information came
  from someone within Apple, so it's more curious that you weren't
  contacted first. Though SuperClock! is off the hook as a Quadra
  vampire, I would warn people to generally be aware of older
  programs that might exhibit this behavior. We don't know of any
  specifically, but older compilers had no way of knowing about the
  Quadras and certain out-of-date code may run slowly on them.]

  Information from:
    Steve Christensen -- [e-mail]
    Mark H. Anbinder -- [e-mail]


Elephantine IIf & IIg
---------------------
  We've heard a rumor from the illustrious Pythaeus that the
  LaserWriter IIf and IIg will soon ship with more memory, standard.
  My spec sheets claim that the IIf ships with 2 MB and the IIg with
  5 MB, but there have been rumblings from early purchasers that 2
  MB in particular is just not enough, especially when printing
  legal size pages or pages with complicated graphics. Apparently,
  the low-memory symptom will often appear as a PostScript error,
  which might also imply something wrong with the document or
  printer driver, thus making the issue even harder to diagnose.

  We have no word on whether or not existing printers will be
  retrofitted with extra memory in the US, and there is conflicting
  evidence. When the IIsi went to 3 MB standard, 2 MB machines were
  not upgraded. However, in the UK there is currently a free upgrade
  program that will take a IIf to 4 MB and a IIg to 8 MB. The
  upgrade is not advertised, but dealers should have known about it
  since a service note dated the 10th of February explained the
  situation. Again, this upgrade is only in the UK.

  In other non-US news, we've heard that Apple Canada is running a
  special deal through March 31st in which you can get a PowerBook
  100 bundled with Salient's AutoDoubler for a mere $1799 list. I
  have absolutely no idea how expensive the PowerBook 100 normally
  is in Canada, and AutoDoubler certainly isn't that expensive ($45
  mail order), but it seemed worth mentioning for our Canadian
  readers.

  Oh, if anyone wishes to contribute information or rumors
  anonymously (and I always honor such requests in mail I personally
  get), send it to [e-mail] and Pythaeus will check it
  out for inclusion in an issue.

  Information from:
    Pythaeus -- [e-mail]


MBDF Virus
----------
  Just after I wrote last week that the Mac world hasn't seen a
  virus in some time, one has to pop up. The latest and slimiest
  entry into the virus hall of infamy (I know some people who are in
  a kneecap-breaking mood over this one) is called MBDF after the
  resource that it uses to infect System files and applications.
  MBDF resources are normally present in some files, so do not be
  alarmed if you see them while poking around with ResEdit.

  The MBDF virus was discovered in Wales. Early detection was made
  possible by the foresight of Claris programmers who included
  integrity checking code in their applications, something which
  other application programmers would do well to add. As a
  suggestion, perhaps someone (at Claris perhaps?) could release
  some integrity checking code into the public domain so that it
  would be easy for all programmers to add such capabilities to
  their applications.

  Several popular Internet archive sites contained some infected
  games for a short period of time, so a number of people around the
  world were affected. The games were named "10 Tile Puzzle" and
  "Obnoxious Tetris." In addition to these two games, a third game
  named "Tetricycle" or "tetris-rotating" was a Trojan horse which
  installed the virus. If you have any of these programs sitting
  around, do everyone a favor and delete them. It's all too easy to
  release these viruses again.

  I don't think that MBDF was as widespread as some of the earlier
  viruses, such as nVIR, but there is a possibility that your Mac
  has been infected by a completely different program so it is worth
  checking your Mac with the latest virus checking software. We
  recommend Disinfectant 2.6 because it is free and easy to use, but
  new versions of Virus Detective (5.0.1), Gatekeeper (1.2.4), or
  any of the updated commercial programs should also do the trick.

  Disinfectant identifies both infected files and the Trojan horse
  as being infected by the MBDF virus and can repair any infected
  files, which removes the virus and returns the file to its
  original clean state. Repairing the Trojan horse renders it
  ineffective and inoperable. Shucks.

  The MBDF virus is not malicious, but it can cause damage in
  certain instances. In particular, the virus takes quite a long
  time to infect the System file when it first attacks a system. The
  delay is so long that people often think that their Mac is hung,
  so they do a restart. Restarting the Mac while the virus is in the
  process of writing the System file very often results in a damaged
  System file which cannot be repaired. The only solution in this
  situation is to reinstall a new System file from scratch. There
  have also been reports of directory damage which may or may not be
  related to the restart process.

  Special thanks to John Norstad, as usual, for his excellent and
  timely response to the new virus, and to the folks at Claris for
  providing the defensive code that helped find this virus early on
  before it had a chance to spread its evil tentacles even further.
  Ooo, there's not much like a virus for evoking some good imagery.

  Now that you've read the technical details, here's the human
  interest side. We just heard that two arrests have been made at
  Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The virus had been traced
  to Cornell fairly quickly, and an internal investigation led to
  the arrests of two sophomores, David Blumenthal and Mark Pilgrim.
  The two suspects have been charged with second degree computer
  tampering and are spending the night in Tompkins County jail.
  Further charges are pending based on the distribution of the files
  to sumex-aim.stanford.edu and to its mirror sites around the
  world, specifically Japan. The legal system will decide whether or
  not these two are guilty of the charges and what the punishment
  will be, but if I were them, I'd be watching my kneecaps.

  Information from:
    John Norstad -- [e-mail]
    Chris Johnson -- [e-mail]
    Jeff Shulman -- [e-mail]
    Mark H. Anbinder -- [e-mail]
    and many others around the world who helped nail
    this virus to the wall.


Taligent Up & Running
---------------------
  Apple and IBM announced today the appointment of the senior
  officers and board of directors for Taligent, the joint operating
  system company the two formed last October. Joseph M. Guglielmi of
  IBM was named CEO, and Edward W. Birss of Apple was named COO of
  the independent company. Finally.

  Why is this interesting? Well, it's not really. What is
  interesting about the announcement is that it shows that Apple and
  IBM are truly serious about this alliance and have passed all the
  major hurdles, the first of which was getting FTC approval.
  Taligent has over 160 employees already, and will be working in
  space leased from Apple until more permanent offices can be
  obtained. Similar and equally ambitious mergers have fallen by the
  wayside when two large and opinionated companies tried to work
  together, and the odds were good that this alliance would go that
  way too. Apple and IBM have risen above the infighting to set
  Taligent up, and now it's up to the programmers to produce the
  next generation of operating systems. Full speed ahead!

  Information from:
    Mark H. Anbinder -- [e-mail]


Quorum
------
  Latest in the line of Macintosh emulators to be announced (but how
  many of those have actually shipped - two?) come two programs from
  a small developer called Quorum. First, and most interesting is
  Latitude, a set of libraries that can be used to compile ANSI
  standard C code into a binary application that will run on several
  different RISC-based Unix workstations, including machines from
  Sun, IBM and Silicon Graphics. This method of porting the code
  directly (more or less, anyway, depending on how the code has been
  customized) from the Mac to the Unix environment has a number of
  positive features. Since Latitude replaces the Macintosh interface
  specifics with whatever windowing system is in use on the Unix box
  - Open Look, Motif, etc. - you don't need Apple's proprietary
  System and Finder. That has been a big barrier for many of the
  other emulators, because to create a true Macintosh clone, you
  have to have the real System and Finder. Latitude uses the
  operating system and windowing environment of the RISC machine, so
  that's no problem. In addition, since Latitude creates a native
  binary application on the Unix box, that application will run at
  speeds you would expect out of a RISC machine - fast, to
  understate the situation. Finally, since Quorum based the display
  parts of Latitude on Adobe's Display PostScript, there is no
  conflict Apple's patented QuickDraw software (which is why most
  other emulators have required that you find some Mac ROMs to pop
  in).

  Equal is the second product from Quorum, and unlike Latitude, it
  does not require that Macintosh applications be recompiled to run.
  It will run standard applications by rerouting the Mac Toolbox
  calls to the equivalent in the RISC machine's OS and windowing
  system. Of course, the price for not having to recompile the
  application is speed, since Equal has to intercept almost
  everything a normal application does and translate it into the
  appropriate calls for the host machine. Nonetheless, remember that
  a typical RISC machine will still stomp on a normal Mac in
  performance, so the end result may still be decent. We've heard a
  couple of off-the-cuff comparisons, one comparing Equal to a Plus,
  the other to a IIci. I'd like the IIci personally. No idea what
  pricing will be on these programs yet, but people have been
  tossing around $1000 as a price for Equal, a typical price for
  Unix applications.

  Of course, lots of Mac software will not work with these products
  because it simply won't make sense. For instance, if you have no
  System and Finder, extensions that modify them in some way won't
  work. Similarly, any program that touches hardware directly won't
  work because that hardware can't be there in the same way.
  Nonetheless, Latitude and Equal seem like the strongest entries in
  the Mac emulation market (such as it is) so far. One plus of
  Latitude particularly is that it will allow third party developers
  like Aldus, Quark, Adobe, and Microsoft (nah, probably not
  Microsoft - they don't use standard programming practices anyway
  as far as anyone can tell) to recompile their flagship products
  for Unix, thus allowing them to quickly broaden their markets
  without the trouble of rewriting the entire program and
  maintaining two completely different sets of source code. Only
  really Lotus, WordPerfect, Frame and perhaps a few others have
  managed to provide much in the way of multiple platform versions
  in the past, but that might change with Latitude.

  I'm sure that Apple is not terribly happy about this state of
  affairs, but from what I've heard, Quorum is on fairly stable
  legal ground (considering they're in California, it's nice to have
  some sort of stable ground). Even still, Apple has a lot of money
  and a lot of clout and might even buy Quorum outright if they so
  choose. That's assuming that Quorum is selling, but everyone has a
  price. Time will tell, and we'll keep you posted.

    Quorum -- 415/323-3111

  Information from:
    Don Sleeter -- [e-mail]

  Related articles:
    MacWEEK -- 20-Jan-92, Vol. 6, #3, pg. 1
    PC WEEK -- 03-Feb-92, Vol. 9, #5, pg. 47


StyleWriter Driver Info
-----------------------
  There has been some incorrect information flying around, and I may
  have even aided it in a posting I made to the Info-Mac digest, so
  let me see if I can explain what is really happening with the new
  StyleWriter driver, 7.2.2. People have been having some problems
  with the new driver, and although it's certainly possible that
  those problems are related to bugs in the driver or conflicts with
  existing software, other problems may be due to the fact that
  using version 7.2.2 of the driver can be a bit confusing if you
  are using system 6.0.7 or 6.0.8.

  If you use System 7, you shouldn't have any problems. If you use
  6.0.7 then you must upgrade Print Monitor and Backgrounder to
  their System 7 versions. If you use System 6.0.8, you should
  already have these files installed. The System 7 versions can be
  found on a set of 6.0.8 System disks or on the System 7 Printing
  Tools disk. StyleWriter driver version 7.2.2 also works with the
  versions of Print Monitor and Backgrounder that recently shipped
  with StyleWriter driver version 7.2.

  Since version 7.2.2 of the StyleWriter driver makes the
  StyleWriter print faster than the previous version of the driver,
  try using it if you can. Those of you on the Internet can get the
  driver via anonymous FTP on ftp.apple.com as:

    dts/mac/sys.soft/imaging/stylewriter-7-2-2.hqx

  It is also available on the System 7 Tune-Up disk, but I gather
  that the Tune-Up installer will refuse to work on a System 6 disk
  (not too surprising, consider that it is a tune-up for System 7).
  However, if you can get your hands on that disk, all you have to
  do is look in the Tuner Parts folder and snag the StyleWriter
  driver from there.

  Information from:
    Murph Sewall -- [e-mail]


DataClub Review
---------------
  DataClub is one of those programs that people thought would die a
  horrible death when System 7's FileSharing appeared. From what I
  gather from talking to the folks at International Business
  Software and from using it on our Macs here, DataClub is still
  doing well, and for good reason.

  Before System 7 came out, people usually used TOPS to share files
  among several Macs. AppleShare was too pricey and required a
  dedicated Mac, and some of the shareware and freeware applications
  didn't have quite enough in the way of a feature set. Then came
  DataClub, which has a completely different way of looking at the
  concept of file sharing, one which just might finish TOPS as a
  peer-to-peer networking program (although Sitka is currently
  pushing the inter-platform connectivity TOPS offers to Macs, PCs,
  Sun workstations, and soon, pen-based palmtops).

  Most file sharing programs try to replicate the original disk or
  folder on the secondary machine, which is a fine way of doing it
  in most cases. However, this gets confusing when you have ten or
  twelve folders mounted as volumes via TOPS. If nothing else, on a
  compact Mac screen, it can be hard to find the right one. In
  contrast, DataClub takes all the space you allot to it and creates
  a single virtual volume. On our network, Tonya's Classic had about
  4 MB free and my SE/30 had about 7 MB free, so the DataClub volume
  appears to have about 11 MB free. As you add more Macs to the
  virtual volume, the virtual volume size increases, so a normal
  five or six Mac network could easily appear to have a DataClub
  volume of several hundred megabytes.

  There are a couple of advantages to this system. First of all, it
  is less confusing. There is only one network volume, not ten or
  twelve, and everyone has the same one, although users and groups
  can be set up with AppleShare-like access privileges so there's no
  need to worry about security. Second, because everyone with a hard
  disk contributes space, everyone can opt to create new folders on
  his or her Mac's hard disk, thus making those folders available to
  everyone else while retaining the speed of having files available
  on the local hard disk. Of course, using a file over the network
  is not nearly as fast.

  As a rough estimate, I'd say that DataClub is a little faster than
  TOPS and about the speed of a dedicated AppleShare server.
  Actually, I'm talking about DataClub Classic, which is the version
  used only in peer-to-peer networks. If you can spare a dedicated
  server, DataClub Elite will provide even better performance on
  that dedicated Mac. In addition, the manual, which is clear and
  generally helpful (though I do admit that I didn't look at it
  until I wrote this review) suggests that you avoid putting
  applications in the DataClub volume if possible since running an
  application over a common LocalTalk network is slow and
  frustrating. For Macs without hard drives (or PCs for that matter)
  the AppleShare client software that ships with the computer will
  allow any floppy-only Mac to act as a client and mount the
  DataClub volume over the network - a good way to squeeze a few
  more months from those aging Pluses.

  Back to the advantages of the virtual server system. Third,
  because no single Mac has to provide all the disk space for the
  network, any one of the Macs can be shut down or even removed from
  the network without causing a major hubbub (assuming no one is
  using the files on that Mac's hard disk at the time). Files in
  DataClub that are on a disconnected Mac's hard disk merely look
  greyed out; similarly, when a Mac is away from the network, all
  the other files are greyed out and only local DataClub files can
  be accessed.

  This may sound like DataClub sits in the background making sure
  that files are where it wants them to be. That's true to an
  extent, but you have a fair amount of control over where you put
  files, and the administrator can also move folders around to more
  evenly distribute the load. Oh, didn't I mention the administrator
  before? You don't actually need one unless you are planning a
  relatively complex DataClub network with users and groups or want
  to get load statistics, etc. If you just want to share files, you
  can simply run the installer, restart, and be on your way. IBS has
  even sold various cheap DataClub packages in the past without the
  administrator software, in part to make DataClub available at a
  reduced price, and in part because you don't need it in every
  case.

  There are some limitations to DataClub. It does conflict with some
  other extensions, but IBS lists known conflicts in the release
  notes. You can't move an item from the DataClub volume on to the
  desktop, but if you try, DataClub will helpfully tell you that it
  can't do that and ask if you want to copy the item to the startup
  disk's desktop. Even under System 7, you can't leave files and
  folders in the Trash; DataClub will tell you that it has to delete
  them immediately and ask for confirmation. I assume that these
  last two limitations have to do with not implementing the System 7
  invisible folders in some way, but it's not really a big deal, and
  it might be a common problem with networking software. You might
  also cause some confusion if one person tried to delete a file
  while another person tried to copy it, or something like that, but
  I wasn't able to seriously confuse DataClub in my tests. You do
  need 2.5 MB of RAM and 2 MB of disk space to run DataClub, and 2.5
  MB of RAM with DataClub and System 7 will leave little for the
  application you want to run. But you knew you were going to need
  more memory anyway, and it's cheap these days. One final caveat:
  you have to be a bit careful with your disk space because if you
  have 5 MB free on your hard disk and your DataClub volume claims
  it has 6 MB free, only 1 MB of that 6 MB is coming from another
  machine. The other 5 MB is the same 5 MB your hard disk has free.
  So it might seem as though you had 11 MB available, when in
  reality, you only have 6 MB.

  All this said, who should buy DataClub? As clever and useful as it
  is, it can't come close to System 7's FileSharing in cost, and in
  the case of very small networks, like our two-Mac network,
  DataClub is overkill. It's simply easier to turn FileSharing on
  and off when we need it and not worry about it most of the time.
  However, I see the ideal DataClub network as one made up of five
  to ten Macs in a small office situation. In that situation,
  DataClub provides storage to everyone on the network and does so
  in such a way that everyone can easily access public files.
  There's no hassling with multiple network volumes or asking if
  so-and-so has turned on FileSharing, both problems likely to occur
  otherwise. Larger networks will probably need the added speed of
  DataClub Elite, in which each of the user machines can still
  contribute disk space to the virtual volume, or even AppleShare
  3.0, but I'm not going to make any sweeping statements about large
  networks, since I'm no expert. Suffice it to say that for a small
  office networks, DataClub will provide an admirable file sharing
  service. Oh, a 3-pack of DataClub Classic will run about $265 mail
  order, but keep an eye out for one of those great deals IBS
  occasionally has.

    International Business Software -- 408/522-8000
      [e-mail]
      [e-mail]


Apple/IBM: French happenings
----------------------------
  by Jean-Philippe Nicaise -- [e-mail]

  On January 28th, the French government chose IBM to be the
  technological partner of Bull, the state-owned mini, workstation,
  and microcomputer builder. IBM and HP were competing for a few
  months to provide Bull with RISC technology that Bull had failed
  to develop internally. This is interesting because IBM will
  undoubtedly provide their RS/6000 architecture, the same chips
  that are destined for the PowerPCs that will eventually be a major
  hardware platform for the Pink OS coming from Taligent. Since
  Apple is the pre-eminent microcomputer company in France (and
  Apple France is the second largest market for Apple after the US),
  it's nice to see that the Bull RISC machines, which mainly end up
  in the government and schools, will be ready for Pink when (and
  if, of course) it arrives in 1993/4/5/6.

  Apple has been doing well in France directly too. The same day,
  the French government also announced the creation of a workgroup
  to do a study on future popular multimedia terminals.
  Organizations involved in the workgroup will include Apple,
  Thomson Consumer Electronics (TCE), CNET (national PTT research
  center), France Telecom (national PTT), and possibly Kaleida.
  Apple is interested for obvious reasons given their recent
  announcement about entering the consumer electronics industry.
  CNET and France Telecom have ten years of experience in popular
  terminals (the Minitel) and 150,000 B-channel ISDN lines have
  already been installed in France, running a wide range of
  character-based applications. [Adam: Go ahead, make us ISDN-less
  folks in the US jealous!] TCE has developed the D2-MAC high
  quality TV standard in the past years and has a lot of experience
  in TV technology.


Reviews/24-Feb-92
-----------------

* MacWEEK
    In Control -- pg. 51
    Cricket Draw -- pg. 51
    Data Pivot -- pg. 52
    Classic Performer -- pg. 53
    Gallery Effects -- pg. 53
    Workspace -- pg. 55

* Macworld
    Color Printers -- pg. 136
      (too many to list)
    Project Management Packages -- pg. 146
      (too many to list)
    Lotus 1-2-3 for Macintosh -- pg. 174
    Microsoft Word 5.0 -- pg. 175
    Voice Express -- pg. 178
    Voice Navigator II  -- pg. 178
    Connections 1.0 -- pg. 178
    PowerTrax 1.1 -- pg. 178
    MacInTax 1991 -- pg. 182
    HyperTax Tutor -- pg. 182
    Aldus Gallery Effects 1.0, Volume 1: Classic Art -- pg. 185
    HAM 1.0 -- pg. 185
    PEMD DiscoVery 1.3.1 -- pg. 187
    DiskFit Pro 1.0 -- pg. 187
    Carbon Copy Mac 2.0 -- pg. 189
    Mirror 600 Color Scanner -- pg. 189
    MacGlobe 1.0 -- pg. 199
    World Atlas 1.2 -- pg. 199
    RasterOps Expresso Personal Slide Scanner -- pg. 199
    First Things First 2.0 -- pg. 200
    SimAnt 1.0 -- pg. 200
    FastBack Plus 2.6 -- pg. 202
    Color It 1.0 -- pg. 202
    DayMaker 1.01 -- pg. 204
    QuickTel Xeba 9600 -- pg. 204
    TeMath -- pg. 206
    The Desktop Lawyer 3.0 -- pg. 206
    Legal LetterWorks -- pg. 206
    Crash Barrier 1.0.1 -- pg. 208
    QuadFlextra -- pg. 208

References:
    MacWEEK -- 17-Feb-92, Vol. 6, #7
    Macworld -- Apr-92


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