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This week we bring you news from last week's MacWorld Expo in
   Boston, with info on exciting and noteworthy products like the
   show-stealing WYSIWYG HTML tools PageMill and SiteMill, plus
   Nisus MailKeeper and SoftWindows 2.0. If you don't have real
   Internet access, check out an overview of FTP via AOL and
   CompuServe, plus get the real info on the SLIP patch for
   Netscape 1.1 and the rumors of Microsoft buying a stake in
   Turner Broadcasting.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/14-Aug-95
    MacWorld Expo Notes
    PageMill and SiteMill: HTML Tools for the Rest of Us
    Commercial FTP: AOL and CIS
    Reviews/14-Aug-95

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**More Netscape SLIP Patch Info** -- We have more information
  about the recently released update to Netscape 1.1N (see
  TidBITS-289_). First, the patch is intended for SLIP users, and
  shouldn't make any difference for users with PPP connections or
  direct Internet access. Second, the patch only applies to Netscape
  1.1N; users who purchased Netscape 1.1 and want the patch should
  download a copy of 1.1N and patch that version. So, if you use a
  SLIP connection and experience problems with Netscape 1.1, you
  might want to try the update. Be sure to keep an unpatched version
  of Netscape around in case the fix doesn't help. [GD]

ftp://ftp.netscape.com//netscape/mac/slip_patch/


**Bill and Ted's Excellent Network?** The Los Angeles Times
  reported last week that Bill Gates and Ted Turner recently met in
  Seattle to discuss Microsoft buying a $1 to $2 billion stake in
  Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Microsoft is said to be
  interested in both the CNN brand name and in Turner's video
  library for use on the Microsoft Network; Turner is probably
  interested in an infusion of cash either to buy back Time Warner's
  18 percent share of his company or to make a bid for CBS, the
  broadcast network currently being purchased by Westinghouse. If
  this goes through, perhaps we can look forward to the release of
  "Casablanca 96." [GD]


**MSN to Offer TCP Services, Mac Client?** Bill Miller, director
  of marketing and business development for Microsoft Network (MSN),
  said Thursday that MSN will offer direct TCP/IP connections in the
  first half of 1996 on a city-by-city basis for a fixed
  subscription rate. Miller also said that MSN will be available to
  Macintosh users a year after MSN's introduction on 24-Aug-95. Time
  will tell, but I wouldn't be surprised if these statements were
  only half true. [GD]


**Third Party and Vendor Directories** -- Apple Developer Services
  recently released the Third Party Products Web Database, a series
  of Web pages that contain short descriptions of products, along
  with live links and/or email addresses for vendors. The listing
  can be viewed either by category or alphabetically, and though it
  isn't yet comprehensive, it seems off to a good start. Of course,
  the ultimate vendor listing has been and remains at Elliotte
  Harold's Well-Connected Mac, which now lists over 1,300 Mac-
  related vendors. [GD]

http://www.info.apple.com/dev/thirdparty/third_party.html
http://www.macfaq.com/vendor.html


MacWorld Expo Notes
-------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Another MacWorld Expo has come and gone, and I was heartened by
  some changes from previous years. First, and pleasant for those
  attendees who don't hail from the tropics, both the temperature
  and humidity were reasonable for most of the week. More important
  was the fact that the show had more energy to it than previous
  years, and it had more products that might interest a large
  proportion of Macintosh users.


**PageMill and SiteMill** -- The software product names on
  everyone's lips were PageMill and SiteMill from Ceneca Software
  (see Tonya's article in this issue for more information). The $195
  PageMill is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that works as it should, without
  relying on any codes or much knowledge of HTML itself. The more
  expensive SiteMill, although priced out of the range of the
  individual at about $795, enables you to easily manage an entire
  Web site.


**SpeedDoubler** from Connectix also garnered some attention with
  its claim to significantly improve the performance of emulated
  applications on Power Macs. It includes some features for 68K
  Macs, intelligent disk caching and faster copying and trashing
  code, but the impressive feat is speeding up performance of
  emulated applications. Connectix claims that the $99 SpeedDoubler
  (street price of about $60) outperforms even the new 68K emulator
  included in the Power Mac 9500 and its more recent brethren.
  Connectix also showed a tape loop of the movies that won their
  QuickCam contest - some of them are hilarious and may show up on
  the Web soon. Connectix -- 800/950-5880 --  415/571-5100 --
  415/571-5195 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


**Digital cameras** have become increasingly popular, and we give
  the $750 Casio QV-10 digital camera (available soon at major
  electronics stores) honors for coolest hardware toy at the show,
  thanks to its active-matrix, full-motion display and other
  innovative features. Electronic images are great, but sometimes
  you just have to print them for the set of grandparents you
  haven't yet turned on to the Internet, and for that Fargo's $500
  ($400 at the show) FotoFun printer would be perfect, since it's a
  4" by 6" dye-sublimation color printer. Several companies were
  shipping lenses and accessories for the QuickTake, including a
  tripod accessory that simplifies the process of taking pictures at
  the set angles necessary for creating QuickTime VR movies.
  Fargo -- 800/327-4694 -- 612/941-9470

http://www.fargo.com/


**I.R.I.S DataPen** -- A close second to the Casio camera for
  neatest hardware device of the show was the I.R.I.S. DataPen,
  which scans and performs OCR on single lines of text. It's shaped
  like a bulky pen, and you have to be careful to move the pen over
  the line of text without varying too much and at a constant speed,
  but it enters the text into any Mac application where you'd
  normally type. The recognition isn't perfect, especially on
  strange fonts or small text (and the DataPen can't do text larger
  than its scanning head), but for certain data entry operations
  (say, stock quotes or census figures), the DataPen could be your
  friend. IRIS -- 408/255-7190


**MailKeeper** -- Along with the native version of Nisus Writer
  4.1, Nisus Software shipped a neat little utility called
  MailKeeper. Although aimed at email, MailKeeper looks as though it
  will be the "textbase" program that I've wanted for so long now.
  You can easily capture any text selection and send it to
  MailKeeper, where MailKeeper automatically categorizes the
  information, recognizing special elements like email addresses and
  URLs. You can drag URLs from MailKeeper into Netscape, and it's
  extremely easy to narrow the set of items stored in MailKeeper in
  order to find what you want. A full review of MailKeeper is
  definitely forthcoming. Nisus Software -- 800/890-3030 --
  619/481-1477 -- 619/481-6154 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

http://www.nisus-soft.com/~nisus/


**You've Heard It A Thousand Times** -- If in future issues you
  notice the titles and jokes in TidBITS becoming more of a
  punishing experience, it will be because we plan to test drive
  Eccentric Software's A Zillion Kajillion Rhymes and Cliches. A
  Zillion Kajillion Rhymes has been around for a while, but it now
  has 20 percent more rhymes, a new interface, and comes with a new
  Cliches feature. Type in most any word, and the program offers a
  list of cliches and catch phrases that include the word. The
  program lists for $49.95, and Eccentric Software sells it for
  $39.95. Eccentric Software -- 800/436-6758 -- 206/628-2687 --
  206/628-2681 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


**Retrospect 3.0** -- Dantz Development showed pre-release
  versions of their new Retrospect and Retrospect Remote 3.0 backup
  software. New features stem from a rethinking of how users
  actually back up information, resulting in EasyScript, which asks
  users a few questions and then creates a custom backup script for
  them; Backup Server, which uses guidelines established by a
  network administrator to adapt to changing network configurations
  (such as PowerBooks appearing and disappearing); and finally, the
  concept of Groups, which enables easy backup of certain sets of
  machines on the network. Dantz -- 510/253-3000 -- 510/253-9099
  (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


**SoftWindows 2.0** -- Insignia Solutions released SoftWindows
  2.0, the much-awaited Power Mac-only upgrade to its PC emulator.
  Speed is still the main limitation, with performance claims of
  486SX speeds, but SoftWindows 2.0 now emulates a 486 CPU rather
  than the 286 chip emulated in 1.0. This change allows programs
  which require Windows Enhanced mode to run under SoftWindows,
  something not previously possible. Insignia -- 415/335-7100 --
  415/335-7105 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

http://www.insignia.com/


**Windows 95 Absent** -- Windows 95 demos were conspicuously
  absent from Microsoft's spacious booth, although Windows 95 was
  reportedly running on Orange Micro DOS cards. A friend who was
  working at the Microsoft booth said that a number of people had
  come up and asked to see it but that (a) the people working at the
  Microsoft booth were Mac folks and (b) they didn't want to be
  tarred and feathered, an activity of some historical note in
  Boston.


**MacWEEK Every Day** -- MacWEEK editors were in short supply on
  the show floor, since they were holed up at the Four Seasons Hotel
  putting out eight-page, daily versions of the industry weekly. We
  heard that even with an impromptu Ethernet network of rented Macs
  and various cool hardware on loan for the show (such as a pricey
  Nikon digital camera), the task of meeting daily deadlines on top
  of the usual weekly deadline was a major challenge. MacWEEK takes
  a good bit of flak (with nicknames like "MacLeak"), but it's one
  of our favorite publications and we enjoyed the daily versions.
  [I'd like to say it's one of my favorite publications too;
  unfortunately, Ziff-Davis has spent the last ten months messing up
  my subscription. -Geoff]


**Netscape and Apple** -- Flush with money from its record-
  breaking IPO (initial public offering), the new billion dollar
  baby Netscape Communications and Apple announced plans for a
  future version of Netscape Navigator to support Apple's QuickTime
  VR. What with support for Adobe's Acrobat PDF format, Macromedia's
  Shockwave technology, and the Java programming language from Sun,
  it's going to take Netscape a while to incorporate code from all
  these strategic alliances. Apple also announced the Apple Internet
  Connection Kit, a $59 package reminiscent of my
  _Internet_Starter_Kit_for_Macintosh_ disk, although Apple includes
  Netscape and an Internet-only version of Emailer instead of MacWeb
  and Eudora. More important differences include Apple Guide
  information, a dialer application that uses Netscape's Internet
  registration service with only a few national providers, and a lot
  less Internet documentation.


PageMill and SiteMill: HTML Tools for the Rest of Us
----------------------------------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  Boston MacWorld had more of a buzz than the last few major
  MacWorld Expos, and that buzz came in no small part from the
  steady hum of Internet talk, with an emphasis on HTML and the Web.
  (This was the first MacWorld Expo where many of the booths had T-1
  connections.) I spent a few hours in the booth of my book
  publisher, Hayden, and watched a steady stream of people walk over
  to the Internet section, pick up a few books with "HTML" or "Web"
  in their titles, and then walk over to the cash register without
  even looking through the books.

  In terms of HTML products, several word processors sported HTML
  features, including the currently shipping ClarisWorks 4.0 with
  its HTML export capability, the currently shipping NisusWriter 4.1
  with an improved set of Sandra Silcot's excellent HTML macros, and
  the soon-to-be-released WordPerfect 3.5 with its HTML features.
  WordPerfect 3.5 will export to HTML and has some WYSIWYG-like HTML
  editing features (plus table-creation and link resolution), but
  it's not a complete solution except for simple HTML documents.
  WordPerfect takes many of the ideas in today's crop of shareware
  HTML tools, cleans them up a bit, and pushes them a little
  further. Finally, although it's not a sure thing, Microsoft
  continues to consider the possibility of releasing a Macintosh
  version of its Internet Assistant for Word 6.

  Evolutionary add-ons to word processors get a smattering of
  applause, but the HTML tools I've been waiting for appeared at the
  show, in the form of two programs - PageMill and SiteMill.
  Developed by a new company, Ceneca Communications, the programs
  offer outstanding tools for making Web pages and managing Web
  sites.


**PageMill** -- Simply put, PageMill is the PageMaker of the Web.
  Previous attempts at a WYSIWYG approach have had edges rough
  enough to give splinters; PageMill is polished, professional, and
  utterly Mac-like (not surprising given the Apple and Taligent
  backgrounds of the people who started Ceneca Software). PageMill
  users need not know any HTML whatsoever - creating Web documents
  in any other program is like writing Word documents in RTF,
  Microsoft's human-unreadable Rich Text Format. Mac users almost
  never do anything in straight RTF, and they overwhelmingly
  rejected the idea of WordPerfect's codes, so I expect that given
  an option like PageMill, many Mac users will reject the idea of
  using (or even knowing) HTML tags.

  Working with PageMill is much like working in a simple page layout
  program - you can type text or use drag and drop to add text from
  pre-existing files. You can use drag and drop to add graphics
  (PICTs are automatically converted to GIFs), and a built-in
  graphics tool can do interlacing, transparent backgrounds, and
  image maps. PageMill can import existing HTML documents and
  correct errors in those documents. PageMill demos extremely well,
  and I'll save more specific comments for when I review the program
  later this year.

  PageMill supports HTML 2.0 (which includes forms) and some
  Netscape extensions (but not tables in this version). If Ceneca
  priced PageMill for $50 or less, I think they could sell the
  program to virtually every Web-savvy Macintosh user on the planet.
  Instead, Ceneca plans to sell the program for around $200,
  restricting its use to Web professionals and businesses. Although
  I think the price is steep, perhaps the high price will keep the
  number of customers to a manageable level. Ceneca's greatest
  challenge may be in growing fast enough to keep up with interest
  in their product - PageMill was easily the most-talked-about
  product at the show. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the
  program acquired or at least marketed by a larger organization
  like Apple or Claris; rumor has it that Guy Kawasaki is trumpeting
  the importance of PageMill and SiteMill within Apple, and from
  what I've seen, PageMill is the best HTML editor available on any
  platform.


**SiteMill** -- PageMill's companion program, SiteMill, helps you
  manage a Web site, and each main feature happens in a different
  view:

* Site View offers a hierarchical Finder-like overview of what
  resources are on your site, including pages, graphics, scripts,
  and so on. In this view, you can rename or move any item, and all
  links to that item will automatically change as well. The view
  also helps you identify errors relating to links.

* External References View shows all external links from your
  site. If an external link's URL changes, you can update all
  external links to that URL in one easy step.

* Error View helps you fix up links in sites created without the
  help of SiteMill. You'd probably only use this view to fix up an
  existing site that you've decided to manage with SiteMill, since
  making errors in SiteMill itself is difficult.

* Finally, Page View is essentially the same as the full PageMill
  application, so if you buy SiteMill, you need not also buy a copy
  of PageMill.

  SiteMill also demos extremely well, and I'll save a more detailed
  look for when I review SiteMill later this year. SiteMill will
  list for $795.

  Both programs require a 3 MB memory allocation, a color-capable
  Macintosh, and run on any version of System 7. Ceneca plans to
  ship them in the "third calendar quarter" of 1995. At a later
  date, Ceneca also plans to release Windows and Unix versions of
  both products.

http://www.ceneca.com/

    Ceneca Communications -- 415/842-6810 -- 415/842-6818 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>
    Claris Corporation -- 800/544-8554 -- 408/727-9054 (support)
      <[e-mail]>
    Nisus Software -- 800/890-3030 -- 619/481-1477
      619/481-6154 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>
    Novell Applications Group -- 800/451-5151 -- 801/225-5000
      801/228-5077 (fax) -- <[e-mail]> (support)


Commercial FTP: AOL and CIS
---------------------------
  by Travis Butler <[e-mail]>

  For people without access to a direct Internet connection, both
  the CompuServe Information Service (CIS) and America Online (AOL)
  have added graphical FTP capabilities through their client
  software. (For those unfamiliar with FTP, it stands for File
  Transfer Protocol and is the major way of transferring files on
  the Internet.) Unfortunately, although they are a godsend for
  those who don't have direct access and can't use MacTCP-based
  programs like Anarchie or Fetch, both CompuServe's and AOL's FTP
  services leave much to be desired. Of course, CompuServe now has
  PPP dialup access for its customers (see TidBITS-274_), so
  CompuServe users with MacTCP and MacPPP can use the excellent
  Anarchie or Fetch programs for FTP. Rumor has it AOL may add some
  sort of direct Internet connection in the future as well.


**FTP on America Online** -- AOL was the first commercial service
  to offer FTP through a graphical client, and although the client
  is graphical and functional, it's not great. In a nutshell, AOL's
  FTP makes me feel like I'm wading through treacle; it's none too
  speedy, and using it requires a multitude of mouse clicks,
  windows, and dialogs, interspersed with seemingly interminable
  periods staring at a spinning beachball cursor. The actual file
  retrieval goes relatively quickly, but getting to that point takes
  too much effort. For instance, although AOL's FTP can handle most
  directories, dealing with a large directory requires clicking a
  More button one or more times in order to view the entire
  directory listing.

  Another disadvantage of AOL's FTP system is its excessively
  hierarchical organization. When you go to keyword "FTP" you get a
  dialog allowing you to search for FTP sites (limited and almost
  useless in my experience), a list of help information, and a Go to
  FTP button. New users may want to see this dialog; unfortunately,
  experienced users are unable to skip it. Clicking on the Go to FTP
  button brings up a short list of Favorite Sites like
  <ftp.info.apple.com>, <ftp.borland.com> (for Windows users), and
  <ftp.microsoft.com>. If you don't want to access one of these, you
  must click an Other Site button in order to use a dialog that
  permits you enter the name of the FTP site you want. Ideally, AOL
  should provide a keyword that takes you directly to this dialog.

  Although the Other Site dialog does not allow you to specify a
  directory to display, a useful shortcut lets you paste an FTP URL
  (such as you might copy out of TidBITS) that points at a
  directory, not a file (just lop off the filename if present), to
  go to a particular directory on a remote site. Once you find the
  desired file, you double-click it and get another dialog with
  information about the file, and another button to click before you
  actually start downloading. Chugging through these steps every
  time, even if you know exactly what you want, makes AOL's FTP feel
  sluggish.

  AOL's FTP does have a couple of points in its favor. Although it
  overloads you with windows early on, it does open non-modal
  windows that you can leave open and switch between once you
  connect to a site, or you can switch to another application to do
  something else or check information. Even though you can only work
  in one window at a time, it's handy to be able to switch back to a
  different one easily. In contrast, CompuServe's single modal
  dialog complicates the process of moving back and forth in an FTP
  site.

  If you retrieve a GIF file, AOL's FTP displays the file as you
  retrieve it, just as AOL does with its own files. AOL tries to
  keep original file names within the Mac's 31 characters - a
  refreshing feature after dealing with CIS's butchery of file
  names. And although AOL's option to search for file sites is
  limited, it's better than nothing (which is what CIS provides).

  Perhaps most interesting is that AOL retrieves files to the AOL
  host from the remote FTP site before downloading them to your Mac.
  Thus, once a file starts downloading to your machine, you can
  abort the transfer and make it finish later during a FlashSession.
  This is a unique feature, and makes up in large part for AOL's
  somewhat clumsy interface. Of course, the seriously paranoid will
  note that such a technique could constitute more of a security
  breach than a straight FTP connection if you're transferring
  sensitive information.


**FTP on CompuServe** -- CIS's FTP client has an unusual modal
  interface (which requires CompuServe Information Manager) and has
  its own frustrating problems.

  When you GO FTP, you see a single window that lists help files and
  offers access to CompuServe's internal File Finders (they search
  inside CIS, not the contents of FTP sites). This window also
  provides a button for Selected Popular Sites, a button for an
  almost identical List of Sites, and a button for accessing any
  specific site you wish. The huge and badly-designed modal dialog
  for selecting a particular site does allow you to explicitly
  specify a directory on the remote site. Although you will have to
  reconnect if you don't give a valid directory path, the ability to
  pick a specific directory can be a big timesaver, although it's
  clumsier than pasting in an FTP URL.

  Once you sign on to a site, you're shown a modal dialog with any
  messages from the site (just like AOL), and clicking OK displays a
  single modal dialog that lists the available subdirectories of the
  current directory in the left pane, and the files in the current
  directory in the right pane. To move into a subdirectory, double-
  click it; to move out, click the Back button. Either way, both
  lists update to show the information for the current directory.
  Unlike most list dialogs on the Mac, each entry (a filename,
  frustratingly truncated if it's too long since the dialog is not
  resizable) has a checkbox next to it; to retrieve a file, select
  the checkbox and click Retrieve. A useful Filter button lets you
  use wildcards to view only certain files in a directory; all files
  ending in ".txt", for example.

  Unlike AOL, you do all your work in this single modal dialog. Some
  (like me) may prefer the limited window clutter this technique
  results in, others may prefer the more confusing (if more
  flexible) set of multiple windows available via AOL's FTP client.

  Unfortunately, the basic simplicity of the interface is marred by
  several major design flaws. For example, the way CIS FTP uses
  checkboxes to select the files to retrieve makes it look easy to
  retrieve a batch of files at once, but in practice it's not. If
  you select several files to download and click Retrieve, CIS FTP
  will ask you to save each file just before it downloads it, so you
  can't select a group of files and leave the computer unattended.
  In fact, because of its problem with file names, I find it _less_
  convenient to select a group of files than to download them one by
  one. The use of checkboxes may also erroneously imply to some that
  you can mark multiple files for downloading in different
  directories and then get them all at once.

  Speaking of file names, CIS FTP handles file names with the elan
  of a lumberjack dancing "Swan Lake." First, it truncates all file
  names to the DOS standard of eight characters with a three
  character extension. Although this is understandable for DOS
  users, it is highly annoying for Mac users. When you consider that
  OS/2, Windows NT, and Windows 95 break the DOS straitjacket on
  file names, I call it unacceptable.

  Even worse, if the file name has multiple periods, CIS FTP ignores
  everything between the first and last period. Therefore, a name
  like "ford.engine.gear.eps" would be truncated to "ford.eps" when
  downloaded. Multiple words separated by periods are a common
  convention in Internet file names. The way CIS FTP truncates file
  names will at best confuse; at worst, if you are retrieving two
  files with similar names, you could easily overwrite the first
  file with the second. Luckily, CIS FTP uses a Standard File dialog
  to save, so if you remember the name you can retype it correctly
  before saving.

  CIS FTP also has some bugs with displaying files and
  subdirectories. If a directory list contains a number of
  subdirectories, CIS FTP will sometimes display some of the
  subdirectories in the list of files, where you cannot access them.
  Far worse, if you enter a directory that has no subdirectories,
  the subdirectory list will incorrectly retain the names from the
  previous directory. Similarly, if you enter a directory that has
  no files, the file list will incorrectly retain the file names
  from the previous directory.

  Unlike AOL, CIS FTP does enable you to upload to FTP sites that
  allow you to do so; however, this feature is extremely error-
  prone, and worked rather sporadically in testing.


**What About Searching?** Neither AOL nor CIS provide an interface
  for doing Archie searches. Archie is a method of searching FTP
  sites for file names that match certain criteria; while far from
  perfect, it's one of the few games in town if you don't know where
  a particular file might live. The lack of an Archie client makes
  it difficult to use either AOL or CIS FTP unless you already have
  some idea where to look. Since both services are aimed at more
  novice users, it's surprising neither has set up an Archie server
  for internal use (much like AOL has done with a Veronica server
  for searching for Gopher sites).


**And The Winner Is...** Well, it's a bit of a toss-up. Both are
  better than nothing if you don't have a MacTCP connection to use
  Anarchie or Fetch, but both have flaws that hurt their usability.
  I can't recommend either as a preferred way to retrieve files but
  either will work in a pinch or if you have no other choices.


Reviews/14-Aug-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 07-Aug-95, Vol. 9, #31
    FrameMaker 5.0 -- pg. 71
    Kodak Digital Camera 40 -- pg. 71
    Apple QuickTake 150 -- pg. 73
    Network Fax Servers -- pg. 78
      Faxcom for Macintosh 2.0
      FirstClass Fax Gateway 2.0
      4-Sight Fax 3.0

* InfoWorld -- 07-Aug-95, Vol. 17, #32
    Apple PCI Power Macs -- pg. 1
    Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.5
    ClarisImpact 2.0 -- pg. 80
    Vellum 3D -- pg. 81


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