MAE 2.0 - Installing and Getting Started

	Table Of Contents	MAE 2.0 - Installing and Getting Started - Preface	Chapter 1

Preface

Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) is an Apple software product that runs a virtual Macintosh environment on your UNIX workstation. MAE displays the Macintosh desktop interface in an X window. The Macintosh desktop within the MAE window gives you access to your Macintosh applications as well as to UNIX files.

This book explains how to install and set up MAE and how to perform some basic operations (how to start and quit MAE and how to print using MAE). MAE also comes with two on-line documents: Macintosh Application Environment User's Guide, which provides detailed instructions on the use of MAE, and MAE System Administrator's Guide. You can print the on-line documents using the printing instructions in Chapter 4 of this book, or in Chapter 4 of the MAE User's Guide. See also "On-Line Help and Documentation," later in this chapter.

What you need to know

This book assumes that you are familiar with UNIX and with the X Window System. You should know how to perform basic tasks on your workstation, including starting and quitting X applications.

For general information about the X Window System, you may want to read the X Window System User's Guide for X11 Release 5, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.

This book also assumes that you are familiar with the Macintosh user interface, including the use of icons, windows, and folders. For a summary of Macintosh commands, see Appendix A of the MAE User's Guide, which provides information on basic Macintosh skills. For complete information on the use of the Macintosh, see Macintosh User's Guide (part number
030-2651-B). Macintosh User's Guide is not included with MAE.

New features in MAE version 2

MAE version 2 contains many new features that considerably expand its usefulness:

Improved speed and performance
AppleTalk support: AppleTalk allows you to use a wide variety of Macintosh networking features:
- AppleShare client for accessing remote AppleShare servers and FileShare for sharing files and folders with other MAE users and with Macintosh users locally or across the network; see Chapter 7 of the MAE User's Guide
- program linking for allowing programs to exchange information; see Chapter 7 of the MAE User's Guide
- AppleTalk printing allows you to use the Print command in your Macintosh applications; see Chapter 4 of this guide
MacTCP support: MacTCP is the Macintosh implementation of the TCP/IP networking protocol; see Chapter 7 of the MAE User's Guide.
Sound capability: supports Macintosh sound-based applications. See Appendix B of the MAE User's Guide.
Dynamic resizing of the MAE window: You can resize MAE either by using the Monitors control panel or by using your workstations window controls to resize the window without having to reboot MAE. See Appendix B of the MAE User's Guide.
Macintosh System 7.5 enhancements including:
- Desktop Patterns control panel: See Appendix B of the MAE User's Guide.
- Launcher control panel: See Appendix B of the MAE User's Guide for details.
- Sticky Notes: See Appendix B of the MAE User's Guide.
- WindowShade control panel: See Appendix B of the MAE User's Guide.
- Extensions Manager: See Appendix B of the MAE User's Guide.
License Binder: helps the system administrator keep track of the number of MAE licenses used. See Chapter 1 of this guide.
Temporary Installer Volume (TIV) provides an alternate method for installing applications. See Chapter 3 of the MAE User's Guide.
Improved Support for Network File System (NFS): See Chapter 2 of the MAE System Administrator's Guide.

What's covered in this guide

This guide contains information on the following topics:

Installing the Macintosh Application Environment: installing MAE on your workstation from a locally mounted CD-ROM disc or across the network
Starting and quitting MAE: starting MAE from the command line after it is installed; quitting MAE
Using the on-line documents: a brief summary of the capabilities and commands of DocViewer, the on-line documentation reader
Printing in MAE: using the Chooser to select AppleTalk printers and UNIX PostScript printers; printing Macintosh applications
New features in MAE Version 2: new MAE features and enhancements to the standard system features of System 7.1
Index

Terminologyused in this guide

This section explains the terminology used in this guide to refer to modifier keys and to various mouse and keyboard operations.

Modifier keys

This book refers often to several modifier keys that appear on standard Apple keyboards: Command (x), Option, Control, and Caps Lock. Since most workstation keyboards do not come with these modifier keys, MAE assigns the Macintosh modifier keys to keys on your workstation keyboard. MAE also assigns two commonly used X Window System modifier keys, Alt and Mode Switch, to keys on your keyboard. When this guide mentions the name of a Macintosh modifier key, such as Option, you should use the key on your keyboard to which it has been mapped.

To check your modifier key settings, open the MAE Keyboard control panel. (Choose Control Panels from the Apple ([[apple]]) menu and double-click the icon for the MAE Keyboard control panel.) To learn to reassign modifier keys, see "Changing the Keyboard Mapping" in Chapter 9 of the MAE User's Guide.

Mouse buttons

This book often refers to the mouse button, because the Macintosh operating system (Mac OS) was designed to be used with a single-button mouse. The phrase the mouse button refers to the first button (often called "the leftmost" button or "Mouse Button 1") on a mouse or trackball with multiple buttons. For example, if a step instructs you to "press the mouse button," you would press the first button on a three-button mouse.

You can use X window features to change the mapping of the mouse buttons.

Basic mouse and keyboard operations

In this guide, some terms represent a series of actions that you perform with the mouse, keyboard, or both. For example, the word enter indicates that you type a character (or a series of characters), then press the Return key.

Here is a list of standard terms for mouse and keyboard operations and the meaning of each term.

Term	Action
Click	Press and then immediately release the mouse button.
Double-click	Press and release the mouse button twice in quick succession without moving the mouse.
Drag	Position the pointer on an item on the screen, such as an icon that you want to move. Press and hold down the mouse button while moving the mouse until you have accomplished the desired task, such as moving the icon to a new location, and then release the mouse button.
Choose	Activate a command in a menu by positioning the pointer on the menu title and dragging (usually downward) through the menu until the command you want is highlighted. Then release the mouse button.
Select	Designate where the next action will take place. To select an object such as an icon, position the pointer on the object and click the mouse button once. When selected, the object appears highlighted. To select text, drag across the text until the entire range of text that you want to select is highlighted.
Type	Type a series of characters without pressing the Return key.
Press	Press a single key or key combination without pressing the Return key afterward.
Enter	Type a series of characters and then press the Return key.

On-line help and documentation

To use an on-line document, double-click the document icon located in the docs folder in your home directory. For details on using the on-line documentation, see Chapter 3 of this guide. For a more detailed description, see the Apple DocViewer Guide, which is also available in the docs folder.

The following on-line documents are shipped with MAE:

The Macintosh Application Environment User's Guide contains all user information needed to use MAE, including starting and quitting; setting up and using printers, CD-ROM disks, and floppy disks; installing and using Macintosh applications; managing UNIX files with MAE; networking with MAE; and customizing your MAE desktop.
The Macintosh Application Environment System Administrator's Guide contains information on placing MAE on a server for installation onto separate workstations, resource requirements (cache, memory, disk), packages, NFS, AppleTalk, and applications on an NFS server.
The Apple DocViewer Guide contains a full description of the on-line documentation viewer.
To display information on using the Toolbar, see Chapter 5 in the MAE User's Guide.

The Read Me file (README.TXT)

MAE also includes an on-line Read Me file, which provides late-breaking information about MAE, and troubleshooting information about installing and using MAE on your workstation. The Read Me file (named README.TXT) is located in the root directory of the Macintosh Application Environment CD-ROM disc. You can view the Read Me file by using the SimpleText application or a standard UNIX tool, such as more(1) or vi(1).

Balloon Help

MAE comes with a feature called Balloon Help, which provides immediate on-screen help when you need it. Many Macintosh applications also support Balloon Help. If you want to know more about a window, button, menu, command, or icon in the MAE window, use Balloon Help to get the information you need. For instructions for using Balloon Help, see Appendix A of the MAE User's Guide.

	Table Of Contents	MAE 2.0 - Installing and Getting Started - Preface	Chapter 1