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THE NGEDW coaWaEvEDKuL Y SEsORR MACINTOSH 08.20.91 Volume 5 Number 29 MANAGERS This week in Reviews Sidewinder EasyServer file server Address Express printer PacerTerm telecom software See Page 35 Mac x on bas for October fest Power portability | to be key themes at October rollout By Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif — With the biggest CPU introduction in Apple's history scheduled for Oct. 21 at ComdewFall ’91, new details about the company’s fall lineup are emerg- ing (see chart, Page 92). » Macintosh PowerBooks. The three notebook Macs, called the Mac PowerBook 100, 140 and 170, will not come with slip cases or handles, buta bevy of optional accessories will be available Prices for the three PowerBooks will range from $2,300 to $4,600. An external floppy drive for the entry- level model, which has only a hard disk built in, will list for $200, while Apple’s internal fax/data modem will cost an additional $350. Other accessories include 2-Mbyte and 4- Mbyte RAM expansion kits, an external battery charger, and a SCSI cable and adapter that make it possi- ble to access a notebook’s hard drive from a desktop Mac Apple won't offer a carrying case for the new portables, but sources said third parties are working on cases. See New Macs, Page 92 Mac PowerBook 170 $4,600 Mac PowerBook 140 $2,900 Preliminary pricing for baxe models. F ‘or a comprehensive price and feature list, see Page 92. nermat Whither A/UX after IBM pact? By Mitch Retdiffe A/UX 3.0, an en- hanced and System iP compatible version of Apple's Unix, is scheduled for release early next year, but last ANALYSIS month's Apple/IBM agreement has some users un- easy about the product's long-term prospects A/UX users have been enthusiastic since the release of Version 2.0 last year. Before that, the bare-bones Unix command shell sold by Apple | commanded little public favor. “I used to be very bigoted against the Mac, then I saw A/UX 2.0 and fell in love with it,” said Ed Carp, a consultant in Alameda, Calif. “It combines the Mac desktop and win- dowing system with the Unix com- mand shell.” “(A/UX's) Commandos are a good feature because they allow users to select options from a dialog box to build a Unix command,” said Marcelo Gallardo, test and evalua- tion specialist at Princeton Universi- ty in Princeton, NJ > 7.0 compatible, A/UX 3.0 will be System 7-compatible, In addi- tion, serial drivers, tape and SCSI device drivers that failed when running under the current A/UX are due for a fix. However, in late July Apple was still interviewing engineers to build in more Unix features and to solve a crucial incompatibility that prevents Finder 7.0 from working with the MUX filing system, Though beta- See A/UX, Page 92 Upgrades set for Classic, Ilci, Ilex By MacWEEK staff Cupertino, Calif. — Users of some but not all current Mac models will have an opportunity to move up to the new systems due this fall without throwing away their old machines. The company's October CPU- fest also will mark the end of the line for several older products and bring new prices to others. > Upgrades. Apple will offer a $700 logic-board upgrade that will turn 68000-based Classics into 68030-powered Classic II models. For Mac Icx and Ici owners, the transition to the next generation is a bit more complicated — and expen- sive. For about $3,500, owners of the See Upgrades, Page 90 Lure of totables overshadows towers; » buyers will wait and see about 040s By Rochelle Garner and Margie Wylie San Francisco — What's light- weight, fits in a briefcase and is likely to sell like gangbusters? The answer: Apple's PowerBook notebooks, com- ing to a dealer near you this October. Of the six new CPUs scheduled to share center stage at Apple's Comdex/Fall "91 booth — Power- Book models 100, 140 and 170; Classic II; and '040-based Quadra 700 and 900 — volume purchasers said they are practically climbing the walls in anticipation of Apple's forthcoming notebooks. > PowerBooks. “The ultimate traveling toy,” in Steve Alburty’s Scanner, lasers: Sharper image for Apple DTP By Neil McManus and Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif. — Apple will retum to its desktop PALIGhIAR roots this October when it unveils a new eight-bit gray-scale scanner and two high-end printers with enhanced text and graphics output. The scanner and printers will be part of Apple’s “Image Publishing” rollout at the Seybold Computer Pub- lishing Conference & Exposition to be held in San Jose, Calif, in October. Key to Apple's Image Publishing concept is scanner software that automatically adjusts image quality and printer fete that can output more than 65 gray levels and can smooth text and graphics. > Scanner software. The new Apple OneScanner’s software, called Ofoto, calibrates the tones of a scanned image to the output device and straightens and crops the image automatically, The resulting image closely matches the original without the need for any post-scan manipula- tion, sources said. At the heart of Ofoto, developed by Light Source Inc. of Greenbrae, Calif, is its Adaptive Calibration technology. Users set up Ofoto by See Publishing, Page 90 opinion, applications in his company. Albur- ty, who is vice president and MIS manager for Chiat/Day/Mojo ine., a large advertising agency in Los Angeles, said on-the-road ad execu- tives will use the 30 or 40 notebooks he plans to buy to log into their home networks. PowerBooks will come with 976, a remote AppleTalk link (see MacWEEK, July 30) While the PowerBook 140, with its 16-MHz 68030, built-in floppy drive and competitive price, seems particularly attractive, nearly all users said they are pleased to have a selection of configurations “I think it is good news, having « a full line of notebooks,” said C) Fortin, manager of compuler applica- tions marketing for Telesat Canada, in Gloucester, Ontario. “Organiza- tions are always trying to find a happy medium between power and buying enough machines for everyone. The price spread on the PowerBooks is enough to satisfy all our constituents.” > Quadra models. The Quadra 900’s vast memory and expansion ca- pability, internally configurable hard disk, and key switch to prevent tam- pering make it the ideal server plat- form, managers said. But they said they won't buy Apple's most powerful machine meee database and file-server software become available. See User survey, Page 92 will have some serious | | CLASS SECOND NEWSPAPER Put your hand on the EMAC Silhouette, and you'll know this isn’t like anything else for your Mac. But you could probably see that. The Silhouette is the | io avoid the temptation ..1:en 6m ana Of compromise We asked or Des people like you to design it. etd Be you, People who use a Mad Pedple who were tired of being forced to fit the hardware. That's why it looks and feels so * different. ‘And why you should Zo try it for vonele today., | Call\ EMAC at 1-800- 821-0806, extensidi 22 for the lotal dealer ‘ \ ‘mearest you. 4 ty t\ Ki \ “Just Take sure you get bot ieeel \ Xd tes We Ave \\ Sidhesatr EMAC, ta EAE ite aw fi PS emdae! ars a, (OT 5 § ee (2 2 2 ee bs ubcapbidmaerel: | eae NMA param, as Geen Sn temp By Dartanyan L. Brown Emeryville, Calif. — SoundEdit Pro, an update of Farallon Com- puting Inc.’s $195 Mac sound- recording and editing utility, is nearing completion: Developers. who need to add sound to their applications, stacks and multimedia presentations will be getting an improved set of recording and editing features, according to sources who have seen a beta version of the pro; Most important for desktop sound- meisters will be Pro's ability to record directly to disk. While SoundEdit's Apple goes to 21 for new monitor By Neil McManus Cupertino, Calif. — Apple will move into the large-screen monitor market with the October release of the Macintosh 21" Color Display, sources said. Thenew model, Apple’s first color monitor measuring more than 13 inches, reportedly will retail for less than $5,000. It will be introduced at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference & Exposition in San Jose, Calif, in early October. The display offers a resolution of 1,152 by 870 pixels at 79 dpi and has a 75-Hz refresh rate. It works with a variety of Apple and third-party graphics cards. Apple's $799 Macin- tosh Display Card 8¢24, for exam- ple, brings eight-bit color to. the screen, giving users 256 colors from apalette of 16.7 million, ‘The Apple monitor comes with an anti-glare screen, a tilt-and-swivel base, and brightness and contrast controls, It conforms to Swedish safe- standards for extremely low- Pease and very low-frequency emissions, sources said. 0 To our readers MacWEEK will not be pub- lished Aug. 27 and Sept. 3. Look for our next issue Sept. 10. Farallon tunes up SoundEdit: Pro update records to disk recording capacity was limited to available RAM, SoundEdit Pro’s files will be as large as the amount of free hard disk space. Other enhancements include: > Multiple tracks that can be added to a document. Any or all tracks can be played, edited and mixed to either mono or stereo sounds simultaneously. > Waye-form and color-spectrum editing views, as well as cue point identification of track sections. > Improved mixing with gain control on every track, stereo options and the ability to name tracks. A sound preview is included in the Open dialog menu. SoundEdit Pro will support Sys- tem 7.0 and additional sound file types. Pro requires Farallon’s Mac- Recorder or an Apple digitizer. Farallon Computing Ine. is at 2000 Powell St. Suite 600, Emeryville, Calif. 94608. Phone (415) 596-9000; fax (415) 596-9020. a Court backtracks on Mac originality By Dartanyon L. Brown San Francisco — U.S, District Judge Vaughn Walker, reversing a month-old decision, said Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. could try to prove that parts of Apple's user interface were not original. Vaughn had ruled earlier that Apple's window display for the Mac- intosh met the standard of originali- ty needed for copyright protection and that Microsoft and HP could not challenge that originality The judge last week changed his mind here and granted permission for Apple's rival to show that ele- ments of the Mac interface may have been copied from Xerox Corp. Jack Brown, Apple's chief counsel, was unfazed, saying that Microsoft's and HP’s moves at this point are epee much diversionary. They've lreacly made all their arguments, and this is the fourth time around on [this issue],” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to be a significant defense.” 0 News MicroBusiness gets real with feature-rich printer RealTech offers PS Level 2, 11-by-17, 400-dpi output. 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One-year: Extra Copyright laws: Vendors are gearing up for the legal fangles System 7.0's file-sharing may bring GA RasterOps puts CD sound, video, 24-bit color on board MediaTime card boasts 16-bit audio fidelity Users get into Virtus’ Vision 3-D modeler controls HyperCard via Apple events Editorial Sinking the software pirate ship. Letters Why all the whining about System 7.08 Commentary /Jean-Louis Gassée Now that Microsoft has Visual Basic Mac Manager/Don Crabb Superstores for super managers. VOL.5 NO.29 08.20.91 Ea Reviews 35 Address Express stamps out envelopes, labels Tidemark’s networkable printer is built for addressing office correspondence, 35 Keeping pace with VAX, Unix connections PacerTerm trips on telecom performance. 36 Reviews In Brief 38 38 46 94 47 50 72 MacWEEK > JAG: Anti-aliaser puts snag on ‘jaggies.” > Active Memory: Users can remind themselves. Powerful Sidewinder slithers out of ShirtPocket Inexpensive PC-clone file servers beat Mac-based systems in price, performance. Modules add dimension to ACIUS’ 4D AD Write, AD Calc build functionality into databases. Aldus separates PrePrint 1.5 from previous version Makes PageMaker a color-publishing contender. ProductWatch Low-end DTP systems competing with the big boys Desktop publishing isn’t just for Quark and Aldus ‘anymore, as low-cost systems make headway. MaclnTouch/Ric Ford Finding your way around the 7.0 desktop. Ask David The SANE solution to Mac mathematics. The Help Desk Putting PrintMonitor 7.0 in its place. BusinessWatch ‘Apple deals new pricing schedule to resellers New scheme simpler, includes new Macs. Avatar, Tri-Data make connection | Mokers of Mac-to-IBM mainframe links to combine product lines in September. Mac the Knife Apple talks Type 1 with Adobe What once was on, and then was off, is now on again. Goodbye to the jaggies and all that Ad Showcase 85 Careers Mail Order 93 Product Index. Classified 93 Advertiser Index News MACWEEK 08.20.91 RealTech Laser ships; bigger model due By Neil McManus Conroe, Texas — MicroBusiness Solutions Ine., parent company of the mail-order house called Soft- ware and Hardware That Fits, last week began shipping its first PostScript Level 2 printer and | announced plans for a companion model offering higher resolution and larger-page output > RealTech Laser. The model available now, the $1,995 RealTech Laser, offers 300-dpi output on letter-sized pages at 9 pages | per minute. Since the unit was first announced (see MacWEEK, May 14), MicroBusiness decided to incorporate a second 250- sheet paper tray into the base configuration > RealTech newly Laser 400. The ved printer, due in November at $3,995, will offer reso- lution of 300 dpi or 400 dpi on paper sizes up to 11 by 17 inches. The printer achieves the higher resolu- tion by modulating the dot size to create smaller dots. Built around a Weitek RISC reduced instruction set computing) processor, the printer will come with 35 PostScript Type 1 fonts and 4 Mbytes of RAM, which can be upgraded to 16 Mbytes. Its engine anne speed is 8 ppm for L1-by-17-inch pages and 16 ppm for letter-sized pages. It comes with two 250-sheet Paper trays that accommodate a variety of paper sizes up to 11 by 17 inches. Adobe PostScript Level 2, built into both printers, will support faster performance, 25-to-1 com- pression, new halftoning algo- rithms, new graphics pattern opera tors, forms handling and larger character sets, while maintaining compatibility with existing Post- Script applications. Both printers also emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II and can automatically switch between AppleTalk, RS-232/RS-422 serial and Centronics parallel ports. A built-in SCSI interface allows users to attach a hard disk to the printer. MicroBusiness Solutions Ine. is at P.O. Box 3106, Conroe, Texas 77305. Phone (409) 539-3959; fax (409) 539-4141. HP to ship Mac version of LaserJet IIISi By Neil McManus Boston — Hewlett-Packard Co. next month will ship a Mac version of its HP LaserJet IIISi, a 300-dpi network laser printer. Available in September for $6,995, the Mac model comes with 5 Mbytes of RAM, which can be upgraded to 17 Mbytes, and 35 Postscript Type 1 fonts. The 17 pages-per-minute printer switches between on-board Adobe PostScript and HP PCL5 The Mac model also adds an AppleTalk port to the printer's RS- 232-C/RS-422-A serial and Cen- tronics parallel interfaces. The HP printer is built around Sunnyvale, Calif'-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Am29000 RISC (reduced instruction set com- puting) processor. The HP LaserJet HISi was intro- duced without an AppleTalk interface in March (see MacWEEK, March 5) HP is offering the AppleTalk inter- face separately to those who already own a LaserJet I1ISi for $2’ Hewlett-Packard Co.'s sales in- formation group is at 19310 Pruner- idge Ave., Cupertino, Calif. 95014 Phone (800) 752-0900. Ricoh HyperSpace drive will boost 5.25" magneto-optical performance By Dartanyan L. Brown and Henry Norr Los Altos, Calif. — A new storage mechanism unveiled this month by Ricoh Corp., based here, could give a boost to the market for 5.25-inch magneto-optical devices. The drive, which Ricoh expects to begin shipping to storage vendors next eal approaches hard disk levels of performance, yet is able to read and write cartridges in the International Standards Organiza- tion format used by most current 5.25-inch magneto-optical drives. Officially called the RO-5031E but marketed under the HyperSpace, the new mechanism will be offered on an OEM basis at prices starting at $3,990. The drive, which stores about 600 Mbytes per cartridge (300 per side), promises an average access time of 37 milliseconds and sustained data- transfer rates of 1 Mbyte per sec- ond, compared with 67 milliseconds and 450 Kbytes per second in the company’s older models, The performance boost is mainly a result of three technical enhance- ments, according to Ricoh > Split optics. First-generation name How to be social. Think how much more effective your people would be if they could communicate better. That’s the idea behind WordPerfect Office”3.0 for the Macintosh. It's actually several programs in one. WordPerfect Office comes with a very versatile E-mail package (WordPerfect Office Mail’), that makes it easy for you oday 1 : Mail necd E To get ahead people on a Macintosh network to keep in touch. 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The new mechanism’s standard spindle speed is 3,600 rpm, compared with 1,800 in earlier Ricoh drives and 2,400 in Sony 5.25-inch systems. The higher speed will cut latency time and boost sustained throughput. Extra cartridges for the new drives will cost $230 each. With older media, the system will drop back automatically to 1,800 rpm. 6 annotation, broadcast a message to anyone logged onto your network, or send carbon and blind copies. Ever wish you could take back your words? Mail’s unique status tracking capabilities let you any format. Beyond that, you can add sound or voice _ can retract and edit it. know when a message has been delivered or opened. So if message hasn't been read yet, you New 040 accelerator to rocket dash 30fx E-Machines’ Futura MX brings color, QuickDraw acceleration to 19" screens By Henry Norr Scotts Valley, Calif. — A new 68040-based accelerator due this fall from Sixty Eight Thousand Ine. could make the company’s dash 30fx workstation the fastest Mac in exis- tence — even after Apple releases its tower models in October The accelerator, which will be unveiled at next month’s Print 91 exhibit in Chicago, will incorporate an '040 running at 33 MHz, com- pared to the 25-MHz processor expected in the initial release of the Mac towers. The card, which plugs into both a NuBus slot and the processor direct slot on the dash 30fx’s Mae IIfx- based He board, can function as a NuBus bus master; the 50-MHz 68030 that powers the standard dash 30fx will be dedicated to tasks such as /O and video processing. “It will outperform any 25-MHz ‘040 machine by a factor of two,” said Robert Meyer, vice president of strategic planning, Code-named Frisbee, the card will provide six new slots that fully implement the NuBus "90 standard, plus 16 SIMM (single in-line mem- ory module) slots and four propri- etary PDSes that allow further expansion without the bottlenecks of Apple’s NuBus design. Sixty Eight Thousand will adapt the SCSI Bolt, its SCSI-2 coprocessor card, to the new format. The company said it also is working on PDS cards with fast floating-point coprocessors, digital dgnal peoeestare and addi- tional 040s, Sixty Eight Thousand said it hopes to begin shipping the card “in a few months,” as soon as the 33-MHz chip is debugged and avail- able in production quantities and key applications are updated for the new processor, Meyer said. Pricing has not been set. The tower-style dash 30fx is available in configurations starting at $11,000. Sixty Eight Thousand Inc. recently moved to 160 Technology Circle, Scotts Valley, Calif. 95066, Phone (408) 438-1777; fax (408) 438-2967. 0 Sixty Eight Thousand Inc., which markets its dash 30fx work- stations primarily to pre-press sites, is working not only on improving the processing power ofits systems, but also on reducing the time its customers spend waiting while transferring large graphics files. Its latest scheme, called FastTalk, mises to move data more than ive times faster than Ethernet . The system links as many as four dash 30fx stations through cables attached to a special version of the SCSI Bolt, the company’s SCSI coprocessor card, mounted in the machines’ processor direct slots. FastTalk reduces the wait for big files Each user gets read-only access to drives on the other users’ machines; for example, after a scanning station operator saves a file, a touch-up artist at another station could open the file and use Save As to make an editable copy. According to Sixty Eight Thou- sand, a user running FastTalk could open an 11,366-Kbyte 24- bit scan in 12 seconds, compared with the 110 seconds needed to transfer the file on Ethernet. The downside? Maximum length for the whole SCSI “network” is cur- rently limited to 6 or 7 meters. — By Henry Norr MACWEEK 08.20.91 By Neil McManus Beaverton, Ore. — E-Machines Inc, this month will begin shipping the Futura MX, an accelerated graphics card that brings 24-bit color to monitors as large as 19 inches, The $1,995 NuBus card offers a resolution of 1,024 by 808 pixels at 76 dpi on 19-inch displays from compa- nies such as SuperMac Technology, RasterOps Corp. and E-Machines In_ addition, the E-Machines board carries a resolution of 1,024 by 808 pixels at 87 dpi on 16-inch screens, and 640 by 480 pixels at 72 dpi on 13-inch monitors. The Futura MX _ accelerates QuickDraw commands up to 500 percent using a custom application- specific integrated circuit (ASIC), according to E-Machines The new board also can output video signals in RGB (red, green, blue), NTSC (National Television System Committee) and PAL (a European video standard) E-Machines offers the similarly configured Futura EX ($995) for 12- and 13-inch monitors, and Futu- ra SX ($1,495) for 16-inch displays. In addition, E-Machines has an- nounced it will ship a version of its DoubleColor card for the Mac LC in September for $595. E-Machines Inc. is at 9305 S.W. Gemini Drive, Beaverton, Ore 97005. Phone: (503) 646-6699; fax (503) 641-0946. c RasterOps merger fails Santa Clara, Calif. — The planned merger of video giants RasterOps Corp. and Truevision Inc. fell through last week. RasterOps, based here, had in- tended to make Truevision a wholly owned subsidiary by issuing 2.8 mil- lion shares of its stock in exchange for all existing Truevision stock. The companies “failed to come to terms” in negotiations, and the stock was never issued, a RasterOps spokes- man said | Indianapolis-based Truevision is | best-known in the Mac market for | its NuVista+ high-end video pro- | duction board. RasterOps made its | name in the Mac market with color | graphics boards and video produc- tion cards. | Ofcourse, open communication is only one of many ways to bring people together. That's why WordPerfect Office 3.0 for the Macintosh also offers an integrated calendar and network scheduler to help you make appointments, coor- dinate meetings, schedule events and company How to geta date. Mail, Notebook, and Calendar. Tesources as well as make to-do lists. Along with WordPerfect Scheduler and Calendar, WordPerfect Office includes other useful desktop utilities such as Notebook, a flatfile database program; File Manager to help you organize your files; and Forms Maker to create custom forms for Want to know more about WordPerfect Office 3.0 for the Macintosh? That's easy, too. Just call us at (800) 526-2286. It could be the start ofa very productive relationship. News Alysis updates compression util | By Henry Norr San Francisco — Alysis Software Corp's SuperDisk!, already updat- ed several times since it first hit the streets in May, is slated to get acom- panion utility this week and a major | upgrade next month. The $89 control panel automati- cally compresses files with a “.s” | extension or anything placed in a “s" folder. Version 2.0, which will be free to current owners, will | bring a new and more standard interface, minus the animations | that accompany compression in the current version. Users will be able to create self- | expanding archives of folders as well as single files automatically by appending ax" to the file or folder name; adding “exe” will create a file that decompresses automatically under MS-DOS. The new version also will let users compress or decompress files from a Finder menu or via hot keys, with- out adding an extension. » Version 1.7.3. The current release, which appeared last month, eliminates a number of previous limitations, including partial incom- patibilities with HyperCard, Adobe Systems Inc.'s Photoshop, and sev- eral popular utilities and desk acces- sories. Modification dates are no longer changed when a file is com- pressed or decompressed, and new safeguards prevent users from com- By Wode Williams Cupertino, Calif. — Symantec Corp. this month began shipping new versions of its C and Pascal pro- ming languages. Poth the $299 Version 5.0 of THINK C and the $249 Version 4.0 of THINK Pascal are compatible with System 7.0's 32-bit memory address- ing and virtual memory, Both support required Apple events, the Macintosh Communications Toolbox and all Toolbox calls documented in Inside Macintosh Volume VI. New objects were added to the THINK Class Library for both C and Pascal, including support for dial bores, multwindow documents an System 7.0 aliases, balloon help, and required Apple events. THINK C underwent the most- significant changes, including a compiler rewrite to provide com- pact and fast code, Symantec said. “I particularly like the code opti- mizer — anything to get rid of the bloat and inefficiency that we've had in the past,” said Dennis Cohen, a senior software engineer for Claris Corp., who has tested Version 5.0 of THINK C. MACWEEK 08.20.91 ‘SuperDisk! 2.0, add-on in the works SuperDisk! Uti 4 ities, an add-on meetin dive this week — for Alysis’ on- a SSS telat B Doptinre Oraster OtWater grom, will == ‘optimize previ- Ea Lcenvert samt ree Clemwert 00 Fier C)tanrert Congsetor ously com- pressed files Operation and convert [hd Downe Fes Diet ren vim done (5) Pan wnatiented files squeezed hetbes = with other [c=] Nignae pressing and open applications, doc- uments and system files. For System 7.0 users, Version 1.7.3 provides balloon help and can =veae network file sharing by 20 percent to 30 percent, according to Alysis. If SuperDisk! is installed on two machines sharing a ~.s” folder, files are now transferred to the remote machine in compressed form, with decompression taking place at the receiving end. > SuperDisk! Utilities. A free add-on called SuperDisk! Utilities, due this week, checks files previous- ly compressed with SuperDisk to see whether more space can be saved by recompressing with one of 10 additional algorithms SuperDisk! already rivals hard- ware-assisted products in perfor- mance in many circumstances (see MacWEEK, June 25), but accord- ing to Alysis President Justin Gray, optimizing with the utility will cut decompression times to about a third of what they were previously. THINK C, Pascal now 7.0-compatible Markers have been added to the THINK C editor, allowing users to jump quickly to portions of their source le. e —source-level debugger now remembers break ints and the data displays tween sessions. The Preprocess and Disassemble commands let users view code just before compilation and after the built project has been converted to Assembly, THINK C’s projects now can be of nearly unlimited size, depending on memory and disk space, Symantec said. THINK C requires 2 Mbytes of RAM and MultiFinder or Finder 7.0 if the debugger is used. THINK Pas- cal requires 1 Mbyte of RAM (2 are recommended); 4 Mbytes are recom- mended when using the THINK Class Library or Apple’s MacApp Users can upgrade to the new THINK C for $89 and to the new THINK Pascal for $69. Users who purchased either language after June 6 can upgrade for free. Symantec Corp. is at 10201 Torre Ave., Cupertino, Calif, 95014 Phone (408) 253-9600; fax (408) 252-4694, 0 “It should outperform [Sigma Designs Inc’s] DaubleUp cant b about two to one on any machine where DoubleUp runs,” Gray said, “and it’s the only product that makes on-the-fly compression feasible on low-end machines.” On a Plus, he said, decompressing Microsoft Word, which used to take about 19 seconds, requires only seven sec- onds; on a Ici, optimizing cuts de- compression time for Word from six to two seconds. The SuperDisk! Utility also lets users convert files compressed with Aladdin Systems Inc.’s Stuffit prod- ucts or Salient Software _Inc.’s DiskDoubler to SuperDisk! format, provided that the Stuffit engine or Salient decompression software is on the hard disk. With Version 2.0 of SuperDisk!, users can configure the utility to come up automatically at shutdown to optimize compression and back up recently modified files to a “s” folder on another volume. Peter Shapley, a designer at Glen Fleck Inc., a presentation and de- sign company in Santa Monica, Calif,, said his company uses Super- Disk! to turn files it sends to cli- ents into compressed self-extract- ing files. “When you have to send a 6-Mbyte MacroMind Director file by modem to Japan, cutting it to 3 Mbytes makes a huge difference, even at 9,600 bps,” he said. “There's not much that's easi- er than just renaming a file or folder and watchin, itshrink™ Alysis Software Corp. is at 1231 31st Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 94122. Phone (415) 566-2263 or (800) 825-9747; fax (415) 566-9892. PakWorks has filters, archive segmenting By Henry Norr Old Greenwich, Conn. — Some might say it would take a miracle of more than modest proportions for a new player to make much headway in the now-crowded compression field, but a company here called Small Miracles thinks it can work the trick with a new utility called PakWorks 1.03. Available now at $79.95, Pak- Works falls into the category of general-purpose archiving applica tion, a category that includes such products as Aladdin Systems Inc.’s Stuffit Deluxe and Bill man’s shareware application, Compact Pro. But the new program promises com- pression speeds rivaling those of quick desktop utilities such as Salient Software Inc.'s DiskDoubler or Aly- sis Software Corp.'s SuperDisk! The program lets users combine multiple files and folders into a sin- gle compressed archive with the original folder hierarchy intact. Individual components. of an archive can be removed at any time, without decompressing the others, and other files can added. Archives can be sorted by a variety of criteria and can be password-protected. PakWorks also can create self- extracting archives for transmission to users who don’t have the PakWorks application. A file-filtering feature lets users select or exclude files by file type when creating an archive, ‘The program also offers intelli- gent segmenting and joining of large archives, even to partially used fop- pies: If the file won't fit on the disk, PakWorks will divide it into “Smart- Segments” sized to use all available P Version 1.03, released this month, adds improved integrity-checking, Kas Thomas, developer of Pak- Works and president of Small Mira- cles, said tests on a Mac LC show his rogram working 10 to 100 times Festerattianertene op tanil alee compression applications. Corp. last week aed ates Tne., adding the Woburn, Mass.-based company’s cee compilers to the Symantec ine. Zortech's compilers for the rofessional-level object-oriented. Jeogiat are available for the Mac, Windows, OS/2 and Unix systems. ‘The Mac version runs under Mac- intosh Programmer's Workshop. Symantec earns a C++ in acquisition Effective immediately, cus- tomers can contact Symantec for sales and support of Zortech products, the company said. To complete tadaeiistsons its outstanding common stock, which has an estimated value of more than $10 million, for the remaining shares of Zortech stock, — By Wade Williams “Tests run on §-Mbyte Mac Ife under a In preliminary tests on a Mac IIfx at MacWEEK, PakWorks in default mode shrunk a 2.9-Mb test folder containing 86 files various types by 38.5 percent in seconds. By contrast, Compact Pro | _ compressed the same folder by 52 percent, but needed three minutes and 25 seconds to do the job; and Stuffit Deluxe 2.01 delivered 45.1 percent compression in three min- utes, 13 seconds. DiskDoubler 3.7, working with Sigma Designs Ine.’s DoubleUp NuBus card, shrunk the folder by 45.7 percent in seconds. Small Miracles is at P.O. Box 625, | Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870. | Phone (203) 967-8260. 5 For the Record In our review of Lapis Technolo- gies Inc.’s Full Page Display, which appeared Aug. 13, we neglected to mention that Mobius Technologies Inc. also offers a low-cost Saas ated full-page display system. It is priced at $895 direct from Mobius. NuDesign Engineering’s Nu- Drives, mentioned in last week's issue, always block a second NuBus slot in six-slot Macs. Installing the card in the last slot to avoid blocking the adjoining slot can be done only in three-slot models. The Aug 6 issue incorrectly reported that interfaces to Apple's Data Access Language (DAL) and’ Oracle databases will be included with Version 2.5 of TGS Systems Ltd’s Prograph visual programming language. The company's DAL API and Oracle API, bandas Oct. 1, will be offered separately at $199 each. The July 16 article about SQL*Forms Runtime for the Mac- intosh incorrectly identified Ora- cle for the Mac Version 1.2 as the company’s Mac-based SQL server. SQL*Forms Runtime will work with the company's SQL server, Oracle Server for the Mae, but is not compatible with the stand- | — alone product, Oracle for Mac Ver- sion 1.2. PowerCache th at + fits th em ec gil: The best has just gotten better. Our new PowerCache’ is even faster and it fits into almost any Mac, from the LC and IIsi up to the Ici... all you have to do is change the adapter board. It’s completely universal. The same card fits 7 different machines! 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Prescience said that while the current version, 2.07, is System 7.0- compatible, Version 3.0 will be Sys- tem 7-savvy. For instance, the com- | pany is building in support for Apple events that will enable other appli- cations to call on Expressionist to | edit equations embedded in their | documents. | Other 7.0-specific features, such as balloon help, are expected as well. Price, upgrade cost and release date for Expressionist 3.0 have not been set >» MathType 2.5 from Design Science Ine. also will be System 7- | savy, but it will use a differ- ent approach for interapplication communications. | Due by year-end, the new version will support object linking and embedding (OLE), Microsoft's pro- tocol for application int ition. As a Sars Sama | equations in documents of OLE-sup- ported applications and can launch MathType to edit equations. Instead of having to cut, copy or paste, users simply can select an meres embedded equation and either ane click on it or activate MathType’s editing tools from a menu command. Only Microsoft Excel 3.0 currently supports OLE on the Macintosh, but Word 5.0 for the Mac, due by the end of the year, also is expected to par support it. Design Science already supports OLE in the Win- dows version of MathType MathType 2.5 also will include a ‘TrueType version of a math font, bal- loon help and other minor enhance- ments. It will remain priced at $149. Design Science Inc. is at 4028 Expressionist 3.0, shown by Prescience at this month’s Macworld Expo, indudes new tools to make it more usable for equation editing. Broadway, Long Beach, Calif. 90803. Phone (213) 433-0685 or (800) $27- 0685; fax (213) 433-6969. Prescience is at 939 Howard St., San Francisco, Calif, 94103. Phone (415) 543-2252; fax (415) 882-0530. 0 Quicken profits from new features By Dartanyen L. Brown Menlo Park, Calif. — Intuit Inc. earlier this month released a new version of its Quicken financial- management package. Still priced at $69.95, Version 3.0 now offers: > CheckFree electronic pay- ment. With CheckFree Corp.’s electronic bill-paying software now integrated within Quicken, users pay a $9.95 monthly fee to pay bills electronically to any individual or organization in the United States. » Account types. Quicken now ‘NewLife accelerates Classics | | By Ralees Cobos Kanata, Ontario — NewLife | Computer Corp. this month began shipping a line of 68030-based accelerators for the Mac Classic. The NewLife Accelerator! is available in three versions. The base model, with a 16-MHz ‘030 but no math coprocessor or RAM, lists for $525; with a 68882 math chip it costs $599. A Business Bundle yer- sion, priced at $1,136, includes a 20- MHz '030, a 68882 and 4 Mbytes of | RAM, plus a copy of Connectix Corp.’s Virtual 3.0 when that pro- gram is released next month. All | three versions also require a $132 | installation kit containing brackets and a power supply | _ The accelerator, which fastens over the top of the Classic's logic board, has four memory-expansion slots that can accommodate up to 16 Mbytes. The RAM left on the logic bo be used as a RAM disk or, with Virtual 3.0, as virtual swap space; with the Connectix software users will be able to access up to 16 Mbytes of contigu- ous memory, even though the Classic ROMs normally allow only 4 Mbytes. The cards, which are covered by a two-year warranty, include a socket for optional NewLife video adapters, which support monitors ranging in resolution up to 640 by 860 pixels, NewLife Computer Corp. is at 603 March Road, Kanata, Ontario K2K 2M5, Canada. Phone (613) 592-5080 or (800) 663-6395; fax (613) 592-9738. handles cash, credit card, asset accounts and liability accounts, and can transfer funds among those as well as checking and savings accounts. > Better reporting. Users can prepare reports that consolidate information across all accounts or user-selected accounts. Cash flow, tax summary, net worth, monthly budget and item- ized categories are preconfigured in Quicken 3.0. > Improved bookkeeping. Version 3.0 comes with preset reports for income statements, bal- ance sheet, accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash flow, recon- ciliation, job/project and payroll. Quicken files can be exported to Softview Inc, 's MacInTax or Chip- Soft Inc.’s TurboTax tax-preparation programs and SYLK, ASCII and STD (Standard Tax Data) formats. Other new features include pay- ment reminders, font control for checks and reports, and flags that wam of duplicate check numbers. Intuit Inc. is at 155 Linfield Drive, Menlo Park, Calif. 94026. Phone (415) 322-0573 or (800) 624- 8742; fax (415) 322-1597, c Shredder keeps confidential files safe from recovery on System 7.0 By Henry Norr San Diego — A System 7.0- dependent utility slated to ship this fall will give users of the new system several easy ways to prevent recov- ery of confidential data from delet- ed files on their disks The DLM Software Inc, package, called Shredder, will take advantage of Apple events and Finder 7.0's “drag-and-drop” technique to let users overwrite old files so they can- not be restored even with sophisti- cated recovery tools. The program, due in early October for: $60 wll have Hires inten » Shredder. Users will be able to securely erase a file, a folder or a disk at any time by dragging icons to a Shredder icon on the desktop: > Scrubber. A onaschedule set by the user. Other applications will be able to use the DLM software via two custom Apple events, Shred and Scrub, Three modes will be available for both shredding and _ scrubbing, including a three-pass option that complies with government stan- dards for declassification of magnet- ic material DLM’s Shredder has no relation to a utility with the same name announced earlier this month by Microcom Ine., as part of its new Citadel with Shredder security package (see MacWEEK, Aug. 6). DLM Software Ine. is at 10509 San Diego Mission Road, Suite M, San Diego, Calif. 92108. Phone (619) 283-2343; fax (619) 481-0816. a related application Sie tat called Scrubber will overwrite old infor- mation that might be hidden within a file on disk, without destroying current data. > Background Shredder. A third application, Back- ground Shredder, when installed in System 7.0's Start- up Items folder, can shred and scrub in the background © Shree Monvatiy (Shred immesiately DLM’s Shredder provides desktop icons for quick removal of confiden- tial data and can overwrite all deleted files ot user-defined intervals. Optima extends memory on System 6 ‘dirty ROM’ Macs By Henry Norr Menlo Park, Calif. — In the latest update to its line of memory- management utilities, Connectix Corp. this month released a new yersion of its Optima series Optima/32 and Optima/128 let $2-bit-clean applications running under System 6's Finder access up to 32 or 128 Mbytes, respectively, of real RAM (see MacWEEK, Dec. 18, 1990). Although the original release worked only on newer Macs If there's anyone in the Mac com- munity whe can keep straight the now-bewildering range of memory- configuration options facing Mac users and managers, {t ought to be Connectix Corp., and the pioneer- ing developer of Mac memory utili- ties is now offering to share some of that expertise for free. The company, which counts the first implementation of virtual memory for the Mac and o cleanup utility for older ROMs credits, this month began distribut- ing a free handbook called The Macintosh Memory Guide. Along with paar by-model out- line of the Mac family’s memory- addressing capabilities and six pages of ads for Connectix’s products, the 26-page handbook covers such issues as which NuBus slots to fill Connectix fo share wisdom about memory management first to minimize memory fragmenta- tion and what banks to fill when expanding LaserWriter memory. The Macintosh Memory Guide is available free by calling (800) 950-5880. Connectix, which said it has already printed 35,000 copies and plans a second edition of 100,000, also is offering the guide free in lots of 100 to user groups. — By Henry Norr with 32-bit-clean ROMs — the Ici, the IIsi and the ITfx — the new ver- sion, 2.0, also works on the SE/30, the IIx, the Ilex and the original Mac Il, even without a PMMU (paged memory management unit) chip installed Because the new version also is fully compatible with KanjiTalk 6.0.7, according to Connectix, it will for the first time bring 32-bit addressing to users of that system software. A System 7.0 version of KanjiTalk is not slated for release until next year. Optima comes with Version 2.0 of Maxima, another Connectix utility, which gives applications that are not 32-bit clean access to as much as 14 Mbytes of RAM. Optima/32, priced at $269, is dis- tributed by Connectix; Optima/128 is available exclusively in bundle deals with 16-Mbyte memory mod- ules from Newer Technology of Wi ichita, Kan. nnectix Corp. is moving this: month to 2655 Campus Drive, San Mateo, Calif, 94403. Phone (415) 571-5100 or (800) 950-5880; fax (415) 571-5195. 9 MACWEEK 08.20.91 News Sigma cuts prices on display cards, monitors ITC votes heavy active-matrix tariff; Apple may build new laptop offshore Boards compatible with System 7.0 By Neil McManus Fremont, Calif. — Sigma De- signs Inc, this month cut the prices of its Mac display cards by up to 26 percent > PageView Multi-Mode Mon- ochrome cards for the SE, SE/30 and NuBus-based Macs were dropped to $295 from $399. The cards drive 15-inch monitors in 72-, 80- and 88-dpi resolutions. > L-View Multi-Mode Mono- chrome boards for the SE, SE/30, IIsi, LC and NuBus-based Macs were lowered to $395 from $499. The boards support 19-inch land- scape monitors in six modes from 36 to 120 dpi > SilverView Monochrome Controller for the SE, SE/30 and NuBus-based Macs were cut to $495 from $599. The cards inter- face with 21-inch monitors at 72 dpi > SilverView GrayScale Con- troller for NuBus-based Macs was stopped to $795 from $999. The board brings 256 shades of gray to 21-inch monitors at 72 dpi. Some of Sigma’s monitor prices were reduced as well. The price of the L-View 19-inch monochrome display, for example, was lowered to $1,295 from $1,500. In addition, Sigma announced System 7.0 compatibility with its ColorMAX, SilverView, SilverView Portrait and PageView GS display cards. The L-View Multi-Mode and PageView cards require a free Sig ma software upgrade for full System 70 comipatitality The Sigma Utili- ties software for the PageView GS also requires a free upgrade L-View NuBus display adapters purchased before May 1990 require a $200 replacement card Sigma Designs Ine. is at 46501 Landing Parkway, Fremont, Calif. 94538. Phone (415) 770-0100; fax (415) 770-2640. Bullet mixes acceleration, compression By Raines Cohen Fremont, Calif, — Sigma De- signs Inc. last week shipped Bullet 030, a card that combines CPU ac- celeration and file compression for the Mac IIci and si. Bullet 030, announced earlier this year as the Bullet 3040 (see MacWEEK, April 8), uses a 50- MHz 68030 processor. In addition, it incorporates a 40-MHz lossless compression chip from Stac E! tronics Inc. of Carlsbad, same chip used in Sigma’s Double- Up compression card for NuBus- based Macintoshes. Using the in- cluded DiskDoubler 3.7 software from Salient Software Inc., the card can rapidly compress and de- compress doaindtle and applica- tions as they are opened, under sys- tems 6 and 7.0. The $1,995 card includes Slot- Doubler, an installation kit for the Mae Ilsi that accepts any add-in card that fits both the Mac SE/30 and Hsi. In the Mac IIci, the Bullet 030 fits the cache slot, leaving the three NuBus slots free. An optional 20-MHz 68882 floating-point co- processor can be added to the card in the IIsi for $195. Sigma Designs Inc. is at 46501 Landing Parkway, Fremont, Calif. 94538. Phone (415) 770-0100; fax (415) 770-2640. By Henry Norr Washington — In a move likely to force Apple to move production of its high-end laptop offshore, the Inter national Trade Commission last week voted to impose a 62.67 percent tariff on Japanese active-matrix displays. The PowerBook 170, the most powerful of the three Apple laptops due in October, incorporates an active-matrix screen, as does the cur- rent Mac Portable. The screens, man ufactured for Apple by Hosiden Elec tronics Corp. in Japan, will be subject to the tariff adopted last week, but Apple could avoid the charge by shift- ing production to its factories in Singapore or Cork, Ireland “We haven't made a definitive decision, but frankly I don’t see any alternative,” said Jim Burger, Apple’s senior trade counsel. “Moving pro- duction offshore may mean some increase in cost, but it won't affect availability. Believe it or not, Apple sometimes plans ahead. We thought we had this case won on the merits, but just in case, our manufacturing people have been working for a long time on contingency plans.” The ITC by a3-to-1 vote approved a recommendation by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which last month found evidence that Japanese manufacturers were dump- ing the advanced ser market (see MacWEEK, The extra charge on the sophisti- cated screens would add hundreds of dollars to the cost of the new lap- top — a premium Apple officials have said would price their new model out of the highly competitive laptop market. Most DOS laptops use passive-matrix liquid-crystal dis- plays, a technology not subject to tariff because last month’s Com- merce Department ruling found no evidence of dumping The case originated with a com- plaint filed last year by the Advanced Display Manufacturers of America, a trade organization repre- senting the handful of U.S. flat- panel display manufacturers “It just doesn’t make sense,” Burger said. “Who does it benefit? These companies didn’t have any ability to get into this market.” Burger said Apple is considering a court challenge, but that would take at least 18 months. 36) GE Rental/Lease Computers for Business When You're In A Crunch, The Newest Apple® Macintosh Computers Are Within Reach. * Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Rentals For All Types of Short-Term Projects. © Complete Selection of Apple Macintosh Computers and Peripherals. ¢ Depot Maintenance Included. Many Areas. Call Now! 1-800-GE-RENTS Nationwide Overnight Delivery. 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Removable Storage CO 62 Mutimedia Currently Owned | Plan to Buy (0-12 Months) (auaniyy ‘dusnty) FEY 000 Macnosh iti cx is PEW 69020 Macintosh isi 4 FE 68020 Macintosh il/ LC 5 E31 68000 Macintosh Portable 6 5 5 Fg} 68090 Macintosh SE/00 7 Tue Dept FE] 62000 Macintosh Cassio 8 @ [22] 68000 Maciniosh SE/Pus/S12__ 9 i ee Your Signature & E=# ISW/Compatible Micro 10 G EE Workstation (9. Apolo, Sin) 11 Te, Date__j_j__ PLEASE BE SURE THAT ALL QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED, wera an Future version will include SequeLink By Roines Cohen Boston — Tactics International Ltd. announced at Macworld Expo here this month several enhance- ments and modules to its Tactician phical information system application. Tactician, which can be used as an executive information system and sales analysis and planning tool, includes a mapping engine, 3-D spreadsheet sak other data-analysis tools. It costs $2,500 to $5,500, depending on the amount and detail of included geocode and demo- graphic data. The enhancements include: > Foreign maps and data. The omy released detailed carto- graphic and data files for the United Kingdom and Canada. Tactician for Canada will include provincial ies, street intersec- By Roines Cohen Boston — Computer Care Inc, announced at Macworld Expo here this month Two Step, a memory expansion board that enlarges the RAM capacity of some Macs. An extension of the company’s Softstep add-ins, Two Step not only lets users fit two SIMMs (single in-line mem- ory modules) in slots designed for just one, it lets otherwise incompati- le Macs use 4-Mbyte SIMMs. > Mac I and Ix. When the Mac II and IIx were designed, 4-Mbyte SIMMs were still on the drawing board. Unfortunately for Apple, the hardware architecture of the machines puts 4-Mbyte SIMMs into test mode. As a result, the expansion capability of the CPUs r| i wd RAM, SIMM sizes given in Mbytes. Other configurations are possible. 5 Mbytes of ‘Source: Computer Care Inc. ‘Includes 2 ‘on-board RAM. Sample Two Step configurations tions, demographic cartography, shop- ping center loca- tions and roads, Compusearch Market and Social Research Ltd. of Toronto supplied marketing informa- ab es. life- style demographic a cet demo- graphics, consumer Paadlae potential and 1990 demo- sare projections. @ cartograph- ic files will milton about $1,300 to $4,200; data files will run $3,000 to $21,000, depending on the U.S- Canadian exchange rate. Tactician for the United King- dom will include postcode and postal district boundaries, postal sector boundaries, primary roads, motorways, and secondary roads. Take Two Steps up for more RAM has been relatively limited, even though the systems can address up to 128 Mbytes of RAM. The $179 Two Step for the Mac II and IIx removes this limit, allowing expansion of up to 64 Mbytes of RAM. Using the RAM, however, may require software such as Mode32 from Connectix Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif, The Two Step plugs into two SIMM sockets; it includes four SIMM sockets. The Two Step allows certain configurations __ otherwise impossible or unreachable with the Mac II and IIx (see chart below). > Mac LC. Different physical and logical constraints in the Mac LC led Computer Care to design a different product, Two Step for the Mae LC, to assist expansion in that machine. The $29 device plugs into a SIMM_ socket and includes two sockets Both Two Steps will ship next month, The com: said it will release cards for the Mae IIcx and ci later this fall. All the company’s products include a one-year warranty. Computer Care Ine. is at 420 N. Fifth St, Suite 1180, Minneapo- lis, Minn, 55401. Phone (612) 371- 0061 or (800) 950- 2273; fax (612) 371-9342. 0 Tactics adds data for U.K., Canada Tactician provides maps with detail down to street level, ike the one of Boston pictured here, for marketing ond sales analysis. The U.K. cartographic data files will sell for $13,500 to $14,600; mar- ket data files will range from $5,000 to $30,000. > U.S. data. Tactics is offerin; three types of data on the United States: supermarkets, demographics and hospitals. Chicago-based SMG Marketing Group Inc., a health-care database publisher, created a Hospital Database for use with Tactician. The database contains more than 90 items for more than 7,600 U.S. hos- pitals, as well as local and regional summaries. The data is available from Tactics for $300 to $800 per module. A full set sells for $6,950. Progressive Grocer’s Trade Dimen- sions, owned by Maclean Hunter Ltd. of Toronto, created Supermarket Database, containing information on more than 30,000 U.S. supermarkets, for use with Tactician. Data includes name, ownership, suppliers, physical characteristics and geographic indica- tors, The database sells for $42,500. Urban Decision Systems Inc., a census data supplier based in Mil- ford, Conn., released nine demo- graphic, socioeconomic and busi- ness data modules through Tactics. The modules include Standard Pop- ulation, Household and Business Data; Age Data; Retail Trade Data; and Retail Potential Data. Modules are summarized by state, county, metropolitan statistical area, domi- nant marketing area, area of dominant influence, ZIP code and census tract, Modules range from $195 to $1,495. >» Data access. Tactics announc- ed that a future version of Tactician will incorporate SequeLink, a SQL Matareteal aes TechGnosis Inc, of Boca Raton, Fla. The new ver- sion is due late this year. ‘Tactician, which requires a Mac I-class machine, includes a 90-day warranty, telephone support and updates. Extended support also is available. Tactics International Ltd. is at 16 Haverhill St., Third Floor, Andover, Mass. 01810. Phone (508) 475-4475 or (800) 927-7666; fax (508) 475-2136. 9 News MACWEEK 08.20.91 News Bi fe |) fe FS MacroMind goes into Action! with Windows San Francisco — MacroMind Inc. will start doing Windows in September when it ships Action!, a new IBM PC-based multimedia pre- sentation program. MacroMind, best known for its MacroMind Director animation soft- ware, has put together a $495 program that eases the process of creat- ing mulfimedia presentations — on PCs running the Microsoft Windows ‘operating system. A Mac version of Action! will be available in the first quarter of 1992, according fo the company. Action! will ship with templates into which users simply insert their ‘own text, graphics, sounds and animations to quickly create presenta- tions. The program also includes a Clip Media Library, containing clip sounds, graphics and animations. To read Director files created on a Mac, Action! requires Macro- Mind’s $995 Windows Player. MacroMind Inc. is at 410 Townsend St., Suite 408, San Francisco, Calif. 94107. Phone (415) 442-0200; fax (415) 442-0190. ComGraphix maps out new prices for modules Clearwater, Fla. — Prices go up. Prices go down. Proving that that paradigm applies to the Mac world, ComGraphix Inc. last month announced a host of price adjustments for its mapping system modules. » MapGraphix GIS (geographic information system), which lets users create maps, change map types or map data, is now $4,995, down from $8,500. » Maplink, a translation module for importing and exporting differ- ent formats, has increased to $995, up from $495. > MapGraphix Display, a runtime version of the full GIS product, is now $995, up from $850. ComGraphix Inc. is at 620 E St., Clearwater, Fla. 34616. Phone (813) 443-6807; fax (813) 443-7585 Developers can dial up help with new directory San Francisco — Mac sofware developers now have a Yellow Pages of their own with the MZ Group's Macintosh Development Services Directory. The first issue of the directory, expected to be released twice a year, is available for $29.95. It includes information on almost 1,000 contacts in the areas of technical training, software development, contract program- ming, product localization, product testing, technical writing and techni- cal support. A separate geographic index and phone list is included. “We're very excited. Being a service organization, we've found it diffi- cult to get our message across,” said Anthony Meadow, whose Berkeley, Calif.-based consulting and training company, Bear River Associates Inc., is among the directory’s sponsors. “I think more and more compa- nies are finding that services are just as important as products, but there haven't been any channels of communication available.” The MZ Group is at 221 Main St., Suite 700, San Francisco, Calif. 94105. Phone (415) 543-8290 or (800) 974-1100, Ext. 400; fax (415) 543-8232. Trade in your old Apple® and COMPAQ.” ‘Trade up to PS/2" Thanks to IBM, your old Apple and COMPAQ computers—even your IBM computers—can do more for you now than ever before. Through December 31, you can redeem specific COMPAQ and Apple models, such as the DESKPRO® 286e and Macintosh” SE, for up to $1,250 toward the purchase of the latest generation of IBM PS/2s, including i386 SX and i486” SX models. So PS/2 computers have never been more affordable. For example, if you trade in your DESKPRO 286¢ with a color monitor, you can get up to $850 toward the purchase of the world’s best-selling 386 SX IBM believes these computers But only until personal computer, IBM's PS/2 Model 55 SX. If you already own an IBM computer, there's never been a better time to upgrade. Because you can also trade in specific IBM PS/2 and PC models toward IBM newest PS/2s. Then you'll know what people have known for years—an IBM computer retains its value exceptionally well. And now more than ever, you'll realize the rede it can help you buy a PS/2. Contact your IBM Authorized Remarketer or call 1 800 272-3438, ext, 386 for the remarketer nearest you. IBM and PS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, 386 and 486 are trackemnarks of intel Corp. Allother products are trademarks of their respective comparses. ©1991 IGM Corp. alue of an Apple or COMPAQ computer: have some redeeming value. January |. How're you__ going to do it? PS/2 it! Gateways > Communicati Mac, DOS, Windows, Unix use one server By Mitch Retdiffe | Inglewood, Calif. — Users hun- gering for four flavors of computing | ina single file and print server will like the taste of Locus Computing Corp.’s new PC-Interface for the Macintosh. The new software lets Mac, DOS, Windows and Unix clients share a single Unix-based server. Shipping now for $360 per user, PC-Interface for the Macintosh is a package that creates an Apple- | Share-compatible file server on top of the Unix operating system. It currently works with Unix System V/386 or Open Desktop from The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. of Santa Cruz, Calif, and 386/ix Unix from Santa Monica, Calif.-based Interactive Systems Corp., both of which run on IBM PCs or compatibles. Macs physically connected to the server via an Ethernet card (or LocalTalk-to-Ethemet gateway) use Apple's standard AppleShare client software to connect to the PC- Interface server through the Chooser. After logging on, Mac users can browse directories and files on the server, whether created by Mac, DOS, Windows or Unix clients. PC- Interface works invisibly to convert Unix directories and subdirectories into customized icons within folders on the Mac desktop. Managers map icons to file types. The server automatically converts between Unix’s end-of-line termi- nation and Mac and PC text formats so that text files created on PC- Interface Mac, Unix, DOS or Win- dows clients are accessible to all. The server will not translate between file types other than text. However, the cross-platform for- matting capabilities built into some By Wade Williams South Dartmouth, Mass. — Soft- Stream International Inc. last month began shipping its HyperHIT- Network database server, Priced at $600, HyperHIT-Net- work operates as the link between five pebeoned’ ues) aad HyperCard databases created with the company’s HyperHIT or HyperHIIT-Relational. Other users can ie added at a cost of $200 for groups of five. The product supports a maximum of 55 users. “What we like about HyperHIT- applications, such as Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Word or Lotus Corp.'s Lotus 1-2-3, let users on dif- ferent platforms work on the same documents stored on the server. For example, a Mac user need only click on a Frame Technology Corp. FrameMaker document created by a Macintosh or Unix workstation to access it Managers use a Unix utility that comes with PC-Interface for the Macintosh to administer the serv- er. The utility lets managers set up What PC-Interface offers PC-Interface: 1 server, 4 platforms a server name; add and delete shared volumes; and manipulate users, groups and access rights. PCiterm, a terminal-emulation application included with PC- Interface, lets Mac clients run Unix applications on the server or access other Unix services, such as elec- tronic mail, directly. PC-Interface also allows programmers to use Mac word processing applications to edit Unix code. Also available now, Locus’ $500 Print Services allows PC and Unix users to send either PostScript files or non- PostScript files Apple LaserWriter print- er. Print Services encapsu- lates non-PostScript files in PostScript on the fly. Macs and PCs also can print to Unix queues. Locus Computing cp is at 9800 La Cienega Blvd., Inglewood, Calif. 90301 Phone (213) 670-6500; fax (213) 670-2980. 0 Packet /3270 Mac lets users log onto SNA nets via modem By Mitch Rotdiffe Farmington, Conn. — The Mac- to-IBM mainframe connection has never been a flexible or inexpensive arrangement, but a new terminal- emulation application from Tele- partner International Inc. provides users with their first opportunity to log onto a Systems Network Archi- tecture network using their modem. Shipping now, the $295 Packet/ 3270 Mac 2.0 lets users dial up IBM SNA 3270 mainframe applications piel mide’ se meena of up to 9,600 bps. With Packet/3270, users also have the option of making the HyperHIT links users, Hyper databases Networkis its database engine,” said Jerry Daniels of Daniels & Mara Inc., an Austin, Texas-based con- sulting company, “It doesn’t bother me with an interface; it lets me pro- vide the interface I need.” Users of HyperHIT or Hyper- HIT Relational may purchase the product for $400, SoftStream International Inc, is at 10 Twin Pond Road, South Dart- mouth, Mass. 02748, Phone (508) 991-4011; (800) 262-6610; fax (508) 991-4223. 5 connection over a public packet- switched network, carriers that pro- vide compressed, high-speed trans- missions. Telepartner said users could save between 30 percent and 50 percent of the long-distance costs of an ordinary dial-up connec- tion by using packet-switching services. Users can dial directly into an IBM mainframe if the host is running the $20,900 Packet/3270 server; the soft- ware comes with 20 copies of Packet/ 3270. Users also can dial in through an IBM-compatible PC running the $15,400 Packet/3270 Gateway. The gateway acts as the Packet/3270 serv- er, passing Mac commands to the mainframe as ordinary 3270 terminal commands. The gateway also comes with 20 copies of the Packev3270 emulator. ‘The emulator takes advantage of IBM Corp’s SNA interapplication communications features to transfer files or run several mainframe appli- cations simultaneously. Packet/3270 2.0 also supports Conneetivité Corp.'s front-end de- sign environments, called Both and Masquerade3270 (see MacWEEK, July 16). Telepartner International Ine, is at 135 South Road, Farmington, Conn. 06032, Phone (203) 678- 1961; fax (203) 674-8234. 0 to an | International Transware brings oUS. internetwork, WAN builders By Mitch Ratcliffe Mountain View, Calif. — AppleTalk with a Euro- pean accent landed on the shores of the United States this month as International Transware Inc. introduced two routers for building internetworks and wide- area networks, The $599 InterTalk rout- er for connecting LANs ata single site and the $899 ‘TransTalk half-router, which allows users to connect remote LANs by dial-up or dedicated telephone lines, are available now. The ‘TransTatk: routers are the first prod- ucts from Transware, a U.S. (Compression rate Serial errer rate com: that purchased the Pat Ihe from French Macintosh develop- er and distributor P'Ingen- ierie earlier this year. TransTalk provides both asyn- chronous alt synchronous links between remote AppleTalk LANs, allowing it to work with either dial- up or dedicated telephone lines (see story below). A unique call-back feature lets administrators increase network se- curity by setting TransTalk to screen dial-up users, TransTalk identifies a caller, hangs up and calls back to a specific telephone number associat- ed with that user to initiate a net- work connection. Zones and indi- vidual printers can be hidden from remote users. InterTalk, a two-port LocalTalk router, offers the ability to create “blind” and “private” zones on a net- work. Users in a blind zone cannot see network resources outside their zone, although the rest of the net- trocks the TransTalk router’s performance and compression. work has access to the zone. Private yr zone users have access to the entire | network, ao devices in their zone are unavailable to others. A user password can override either configuration to provide full net- work access. Both routers include direct mem- | ory access to the router CPU, which — Transware officials said increases local and remote file transfer speeds | by at least 50 percent over other Management soft included with the routers pro diagnostics for network router performance; and compre sion statistics for TransTalk, y compresses data on the fly. | International Transware Ine. is at 800 El Camino Real W., Suite 180, Mountain View, Calif. 94040. Phone (415) 968-8888; fax (415) 324-2020, 5 You've got two choices when linking remote LANs on a tele- phone line; an asynchronous or Jog lines used for voice communi- cations, Dedicated lines, such as T- 1 or ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), on the other hand, have their own timing capa- bilities, so LANs can operate syn- chronously over them. Modem connections are sloppy; messages are sent at irregular inter- vals because the two LANs are run- ning on different clocks. And since Last summer, we brought you EtherPrint, the easiest, most affordable way to hook a Single Local Talk printer directly to Ethernet. Now we put a new spin on our original idea. ‘ Introducing EtherPrint Plus. Now the easiest, most affordable way to connect as many as four LocalTalk devices to Ethernet. ———<—<—<—<$—._[ncluding modems Hook 4 LocalTalk devices 4 Macintoshes. And bye thernet for $899.) sorts of printers, EtherPrint Plus needs no complex set up or network configuring. Just take it out of the box and @ plug it in to thick Ethernet, thin Ethernet or 10BASE-T cable systems. And because it supports AppleTalk Phase 2, you can easily assign EtherPrint ) | ; i Plus to any of your network zones. At a price that’s easy to swallow, no wonder we're luring people away from complicated software routers and hardware that’s difficult to install and costs thousands of dollars. Call us today at (801) 531-0203. And quit fishing around for other solutions. We Connect People And The Computers They Use Dayna and the Dayna logo are registered trademarks, EtherPrint and EtherPrint Pius are trademarks, "We Connect People And The Computers They Use.” is a service mark of Dayna Communications, Inc. All other product ‘names are the trademarks of their respective holders. ©1991 Dayna Communications, Inc., 50 South Main Street, 5th Floor,Salt Lake City, Utah 84144 Customer Service: (801) 972-2000 , FAX: (801) 359-9135 Gateways MACWEEK 08.20.91 LTi links remote LANs at 56 Kbps By Mitch Ratcliffe Aptos, Calif. — Speed has been the biggest problem in building a wide-area network, but Engage Communications Inc. has dniled a 56-Kbps data channel between remote LANs with the new Synchrou LTi. now, the $2,495 router makes acon ween remote AppleTalk LANs using available dedicated digital telephone lines. “With the LT), I can use [Farallon Computing Inc's} Timbuktu to assist anyone in our four offices with data or printing problems,” said Paul Hurley, director of MIS for McDonough, Hol- land and Allen, a Sacramento, Calif., law firm. He administers a 220-node network in Northern California from his office using the LTi router. Users on LANs connected by two LTi routers will see all the resources of both networks in their Choosers. Users said performance is nearly as good as ordinary LocalTalk connections Engage includes dialing service in the LTi, which ports ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) and switched 56-Kbps dial- up services if users add a terminal adapter to handle the connection, Engage Communications Inc. is at 9053 Soquel Drive, Suite 203. Aptos, Calif. 95003. Phone (408) 688-1021; fax (408) 688-1421 Gateways ele FS WRQ adds Comm Toolbox extension Seattle — Walker Richer & Quinn Inc. last month added its own extension to the Macin- tosh Communications Toolbox, providing TCP/IP connectivity with its new Telnet Con- nection for Macintosh. Shipping now, the $129 Telnet Connec- Mathematica 2.0: the standard for technical computing tion tool lets users of any Comm Toolbox- aware application conduct Telnet and FIP (File Transfer Protocol) sessions from a cus- symbolic tomizable environment. Leer ee ENS SOAS ion at all levels, Mathematica 2.0 adds 50 " more functions. These include sound generation, differential equations, external program communi- cation, as well as enhancements to Mathematica’s Telnet Connection lets users select appro- ad priate terminal-emulation and FTP settings for browsing and downloading files stored ona mainframe. It requires Apple's MacICP. Walker Richer & Quinn Inc. is at 2815 East lake Ave. E., Seattle, Wash. 98102. Phone (206) 324-0350; fax (206) 322-8151. “The importance of the program cannot be overlooked... itso fundamentally alters the mechanics of mathematics.” New York Times built-in high-level programming language. Mathematica has rapidly become the standard for technical computing, with more than a dozen textbooks, a quarterly journal, and several newslet- ters devoted to the system. Mathematica is in use at all of the 50 largest U.S. universities, all of the technical Fortune 50 companies, and most of the world’s larger engineering firms. In fact, more than 100,000 technical professionals and students around the world are working with Mathematica every day. To find out what Mathematica can do for you, call Wolfram Research at 1-800-441-MATH. “Mathematica has the potential to change the world of science at least as much as word processing has changed the world of writing.” InfoWorld EMAC ships fax, data modems Fremont, Calif. — EMAC recently shipped a new miniature fax modem and V.32 data modem. » EMAC 24/96, a pocket-sized 9,600- bps fax and 2,400-bps data modem for the Macintosh, weighs 4 ounces and features MNP Level 5 data compression and Level 4 error correction. The modem comes bundled with Abaton’s InterFax 1.24 fax software. > MD 9600, a $649 9,600-bps Mac modem, also with MNP levels 4 and 5, comes j bundled with Abaton’s InterShare software. ] EMAC, a division of Everex Systems Inc., | “Mathematica is a startlingly good tool.” Nature Macworld 1931 World Class Software Award Survey % of votes 8.8 ° Mathematica has also received best software/new product ap ra is at 48431 Milmont Drive, Fremont, Calif. | awards from rat Mathematica 2.0 | szeemee a Discover, 1990 Business Week, 1988 ri . fs . BYTE, 1989 indo World 1968 A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer | Tri-Data upgrades Netway 3270 Santa Clara, Calif. —Tri-Dato Systems Inc. is shipping its Mac Netway Advanced 3270 terminal-emulation application, an upgrade to its Netway 3270 Systems Net work Architecture gateway. The $195 application adds support for | | 1BM31 79G/3192G All Point Addressable | (APA) graphics and supports up to eight ice? Mathematica is currently available for: ‘Surphen Wot MS-DOS 386, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, CONVEX, DG AVIION, DEC VAX (ULTRIX and VMS), DEC RISC, HP 9000, Apollo, BM RISC System/6000, MIPS, NeXT, Silicon Graphics, Sony, Sun-3, and SPARC. Prices io Mathematica Mathematica Sand Canada stat at $595, Educational discounts are availabe "i | simultaneous terminal sessions in only 700 our Wolfram Research, Inc. 100 Trade Cx 61620-7237, USA 10; fax: 217-398-0747: ema Kbytes of RAM. Previous versions required Wolfram Research (UK) Lid. P.0 Box 114 lax +44 (23 0X13 610, United Kingdom 400 Kbytes for each of the seastent | Tri-Data Systems Inc. is at 3270 Scott | Blvd., Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. Phone (408) 727-3270; fax (408) 980-6565. Faster SCSI Improve your Mac's SCSI performance by up to 400%. Eliminate the SCSI bottleneck. QuickSCSI allows data transfer rates up to 4.4MB/sec. "and beyond. That's more than twice as fast as the Mac’s built-in SCSI, because QuickSCSI uses a wider data path. And be- cause QuickSCSI doesn’t “| ~ disable the built-in SCSI, ~ you can have up to 14 SCSI devices online at a time. "Set-up is easy, because QuickSCSI is compatible with most popular disk drives, including internals. - : And you can install it in any NuBus Macintosh. Getall the: perfor: TRANSFER RATE 6.0 MB / sec QuickSCSI Burst 4.4 MB / sec QuickSCSI Sustained use QuickSCsI. eee 1.5MB sec $599 suggested oan etail, $399 when purchased with a PLI drive. _ mance your fast _ drives can give, PLI Peripheral Land Incorporated. 47421 Bayside Parkway Fremont, California 94538 415 657.2 2211 800.288 8754 Fax 415 683.9713 Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer. Mirroring QuickSCSI provides automatic, continuous backups. Everything you write to the main drive will be written to a second drive at the same a ee crashes, you can bring the second drive online in seconds. You never have to Re-create data or waste time restoring. Mirroring is by far the safest, most-reliable way to maintain current backups of your impor- tant data. And QuickSCSI uses a fast-burst, disk mirroring technique which is so fast and easy, you may never do a traditional backup again. Mirroring is useful to everybody. It's ideal for network admini- strators, desktop publishers, computer artists or anyone who hates to make backups. Gateways MACWEEK 08.20.91 Net trafficking: The copyright rift | | File servers and file sharing make illegal copying of | software far easier, but program licenses lag behind current technology. By Mitzi Waltz ave you ever read the tiny print that spells out your software licensing agree- ments? Do you actually understand what it means? One more question: Do you know how System 7.0 affects these licenses? Most network managers are too busy trying to figure out how the new Macintosh operating system will affect network traffic and data security to get involved with translating legalese. But since users can potentially access soft- ware on any networked machine, the distinctions ruling single-user and multi-user licenses are begi ning to blur. Where they stand. Mac- WEEK contacted Adobe Systems Inc., Claris Corp., MacroMind Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other software developers to find out how they're handling the dilemma of licensing software in an increas- ingly networked world. Even though some, such as Seattle- based Aldus Corp., already have special network licenses, most are still examining System 7.0 and have not yet determined what their response will be. Others seem to have been caught unaware. Denver-based Quark Inc., for example, has a machine-based license agreement that does not allow its Quark- XPress application tobe placed on any shared volume. Does that mean XPress users running Sys- tem 7.0 cannot enable file shar- ing? Quark’s legal counsel declined to answer. Others were more forthright “With HyperCard 2.1, which is our first poplin really geared for [System] 7.0, we're being more broad-minded about things,” said Steve Ruddock, public relations manager at Claris in Santa Clara, Calif. Claris’ latest licenses recog- nize concurrent use as a reality, stipulating only that licenses be purchased to cover the number of users accessing the prograi Other vendors fall somewhere in between. “[Our applications) sup- port the System 7 share stuff, but that’s not part of our license agree- ment,” said Scott Walchuck, direc- tor of product management at San Francisco-based MacroMind. “You would be challenging the integrity of the software license by placing it on a shared volume.” Several respondents pointed out that, from a legal point of view, there is no difference between a server and a shared hard disk. Large companies, such as Red- mond, Wash.-based Microsoft, seem inclined to allow software to be placed on shared volumes: “Our software [can be] available for use by more than one person, but for every copy you have installed on a hard disk, you need alicense, plus a license for every concurrent user,” said Ron Davis, manager of corporate accounts marketing for Microsoft. Davis defined concurrent users as peo- ple who will access the program rom a server or shared hard disk, a definition different from that used by most vendors. Smaller vendors were more adamant about limiting availability toa single employee. “Anything that could allow two people to using one purchased software package at the same time would violate the site license,” said Mike Saia, a representative from Edmonds, Wash.-based Linguist's Software Inc., which specializes in foreign-language packages for aca- demic users. The company's soft- ware is often licensed to individuals by name — a five-user network pack at a university, for example, might be licensed to five specific professors and no one else. Most vendors’ multicopy license agree- ments, however, are copy-based. Buyers need to purchase only enough copies to cover the number of users running the program at ‘once, not one for ey, computer or user on the networ! Internal controls. Some of Claris’ programs facilitate concur- rent use; they automatically track use and limit simultaneous users to a prepaid number. Other companies said such features are not practical to add at this time, but a few said that their program- ming staffs are looking into similar controls. Mountain View, Calif.-based Adobe, among others, works in the opposite direction with software that searches for illegal copies and stymies unauthorized users. “If the company is not licensed except under a single-user license, the software will check the network for unauthorized copies and inform the user,” said Colleen Pouliot, general counsel for Adobe. “We have not received complaints from users,” she added. Most of the other vendors questioned said they too wanted to avoid any features that might annoy users. Linguist’s, which identifies itself as a company run “on Christian principles,” offered an unusual rea- son for avoiding copy-protection: “If a person is going to steal, he will steal. We shouldn't tie our stom- achs in knots about it, because God will judge them — they're going to have enough problems in their life,” Saia sai Most vendors said the method of license management should be up to the company that purch. the product. University tions, for example, h casual users who may be more prone to copying pais and those sites may therefore have more security needs than compa- nies with regular work forces. Aldus sells special teaching ver- sions of PageMaker that foil class- room pirates by adding a perma- nent message on every printed page, making the output unfit for Toking applications on the food in 0 portable professional use. Other security measures that might be appropn- ate for different sites include peri- odically checking hard disks, mon- itoring software in use via the network or simply putting pro- grams under lock and key when not in use. More management strategies. One solution to staying legal is installing a software package that makes licensing agreements con- crete by preventing illegal access. Two such packages, KeyServer from Sassafras Software Inc. of Hanover, N.H., and Quota from Proteus Technology of Edmonton, Alberta, are currently available. Both give network managers tools to track program usage and to enforce software licenses over net- works (see story, Page 21). Many managers are looking at such products with interest, according to Brian Comnes, chairman of the feedback commit- tee of Managing Apple Comput- ers in Information Systems (MaclS). “Software costs are of concern,” Comnes said. “If there's a way to get software shared and not violate licenses, See Licenses, Page 20 A As the mainframe connectivity expert, DCA” has now pioneered new ground with the introduction of our enhanced 3270 gateway, IRMALAN™ for Extended Platforms (EP). With our proven expertise in both PC (IRMALAN) and Macintosh? (MacIRMALAN™) gateway support, in addition to Windows™ ema y With IRMALAN/EP 3270 gateway, you can support DOS, Mac and Windows clients with a single gateway. 3270 connectivity URMA™ WorkStation for Windows), we've developed IRMALAN/EP as the single superior gateway solution. With this single gateway, you can now support DOS, Mac and Windows clients. And it’s also designed for IBM*® NETBIOS, Novell*’s IPX/SPX protocol" and AppleTalk? And by supporting multiple platforms on your LAN, IRMALAN/EP eliminates the need to purchase more than one gateway. That’s a cost savings that puts it far above anything offered by the competition. But that’s not all. IRMALAN/EP comes with RamXpander,™ our memory manager that allows fully featured emulation in less than 40K of resident memory. Plus, our unique server licensing also makes it one of the most cost-effective gate- ways available. That’s because we base the price on how many users on the LAN need to access the mainframe at once. So you only pay for the access you need, choosing from 8, 32, 64, or 128 concurrent users. We've even made it easy to purchase IRMALAN/EP by including DFT, SDLC and 802.2 token-ring gateway software under NETBIOS, NetWare® and AppleTalk all in one package. So now, migrating to different gateway technologies won't cost a thing. To get you up and running, the DOS client is also included. To extend your plat- forms, just add software for Macintosh and Windows users depending on your needs. So now that there's only one gateway decision, just call DCA at 1-800-348-DCA-1, ext. 70H, to receive free information with further details on connecting your mixed LAN environments to the mainframe. Or better yet, just call your reseller to order IRMALAN/EP today. Because with our new single gateway solution, now there's no need for you to | even think twice. DCA ‘*Windows client software Is not yet avallable for the Novell IPX/SPX protocol. ©1991 Digital Communications Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. DCA is a registered trademark and IRMALAN, MacIRMALAN, IRMA, and RamXpander are trademarks (of Digital Communications Associates, Inc.All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owner Gateways MACWEEK 08.20.91 Licenses From Page 18 | we're interested. We want to be above board.” MaclS is pressuring Apple to add hooks in future system software to support LAN licensing, Comnes said Network-based solutions were welcomed by all vendors that we contacted. Besides Mac programs, AppleTalk networks that include larger computers might be able to take advantage of software checkout pro- grams ined on those machines. Portability counts. Although such use may be a technical violation of many licenses, most vendors contacted by MacWEEK seem willing to look the other way if a buyer copies an spplestion for use on a Macintosh Portable or even a home machine, as long as the buyer uses these machines for business- related work. The response of one vendor, who asked to remain anonymous, was typical: “You can put [our software] on your Portable or home machine, but don’t tell us.” Microsoft may have been the first Mac vendor to actually write a home-use pre sion into its licenses, but it has since been joined by Aldus and others. “We were really SOE at the way people were using our software,” Microsoft's Davis said. “They need to be able to take their work with them, [and] it’s unrealistic to expect people to buy another copy or to de-install it from their hard disk.” Nervous vendors. One gray area that’s somewhat more confusing involves the use of Apple events to send commands and data between programs running under System 7,0. Developers are working on versions of their software to take advantage of this new capability, but their legal counsels are unsure whether such use violates current licensing agreements. “If you go into a shared volume to use a program, you're making a copy of that pro- m [in RAM] — the act o! uploading it rom someone else’s hard drive or server is See Licenses, next page coming October 2-4, Seybold Seminars gathers the people, issues, products and experience into a “must attend,” once-o-year event for users and vendors in creative communications. The Seybold Computer Publishing Expo is the place to find the entire universe of design, desktop | and professional publishing and multimedia solutions with 250 exhibitors all in one location and dozens of new product launches. 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Perhaps that’s why a software piracy raid on the University of Oregon’s Continu- ation Center in Portland this spring made man- agers of other large networks more than a little nervous. The raid, like others before it, originated with a complaint to the Washington, D.C.-based ‘Software Publishers Association. What can managers do to make sure they don’t become an SPA target? Understanding the license agreement for each package at their site is a good first step. “There are basically five types of software licenses,” said SPA Executive Director Ken Wasch. “You can license to the machine, to the user, to simultaneous use, to the file server, or [you can grant] a site license. There’s even a sixth way: by copy, not by use.” If you can’t get through the jargon in your agreements, you should call the vendors for clarification. Wasch said misuse — buying a five-user package for 15 employees, for example — is a pervasive problem. He suggested that what's needed is a new way of looking at software. “How many times have we gone to the lil to check out a popular book and been told, the copies are in circulation. Can you come back another day?,’ ” he said. “The librarian doesn’t keep an extra copy under the counter to dupli- cate for you.” And the responsibility for ensur- ing compliance, he said, falls squarely on the shoulders of network managers, and ultimately, their employers. Wasch said that any packages that run over networks should be equipped with systems that can limit use, “Microsoft's movement toward concurrent use is probably a significant develop- ment, but in my view, concurrent use without a counter and lockout system just doesn’t make sense,” Wasch said. Programs such as Sassafras Software Inc.'s KeyServer and Proteus Technology's Quota may provide a solution. “I think they’re great, and MIS managers like them because they take the burden off their shoulders,” Wasch said, The University of Oregon case may soon be settled. If not, it will go to court in December. Damages will be calculated by adding up the retail value of the unlicensed software found at the site. Settling out of court should reduce the tab. There have been other SPA-instigated raids, all on corporate sites. Ninety percent of these investigations began when someone, usually an em) , consultant or temporary worker, called (800) 388-7478, the SPA’s software pira- y hot line. The future belongs to networked systems and software that runs on them, Wasch said. “(On networks], software becomes like a shared peripheral,” he said. “That means attention to licensing agreements is imperative.” Licensing agreements should also become easier to read, he added. “We're seeing more standardization, | think the indy ad progress in making them more understand- able,” Wasch said. — By Mitzi Waltz || to the old way of eyServer and Quota: |The license enforcers __ Two packages, KeyServer from Sassafras ‘Software Inc. and Quota from Proteus Technolo- “gy, may help network enforce license ‘agreements and reduce illegal copying while i jing common access to software. Denis Devin, president of Hanover, N.H.- based Sassafras, said he doesn’t want users to _ think of KeyServer as a “pirate buster.” _ “It's. library, not a policeman,” Devlin said. The program costs $15 to $47 per user, depending on the type and size of