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This week we bring you info on a new set of DeskWriter drivers for
   PCI Power Macs, Adobe's purchase of Ceneca Communications, and
   version 2.0 of Netscape Navigator. Also, learn about StarNine's
   acquisition of the moribund Microsoft Mail, a new release of The
   Internet Adapter, and Pinehill Software's Newton application
   development tool AppGen. Finally, we round out the issue with
   highlights from the mammoth Apple Expo in Paris and Tonya's look
   at the font management utility TypeTamer.

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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/25-Sep-95
    Seeing Double?
    TIA 2.0 Available
    Newton Tool Builds Custom Applications
    StarNine Rescues Microsoft Mail
    Apple Expo in Paris
    TypeTamer Meets Grunge Fonts
    Reviews/25-Sep-95

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MailBITS/25-Sep-95
------------------
  By the time you see this, Tonya and I will have moved into our new
  house in Issaquah, Washington. We simply needed more space to
  escape the gravitational pull of our computers and explore the
  most appropriate ways to integrate technology into life. TidBITS
  will be moving as well, so if you need its new snail mail address
  for items that can't travel via the Internet, send email to
  <[e-mail]>. We think we have the transition figured out in
  terms of where to site our Apple Internet Server, although we'll
  personally be limited to modem connections to the Internet until
  U.S. West installs our ISDN line. Needless to say, please be
  gentle with email and don't send large attachments without asking
  first. Please also try to bear with us through any periods of
  server flakiness during the move. [ACE]


**New DeskWriter Drivers for PCI Macs** -- Last week, Hewlett-
  Packard released version 6.0.3 of its DeskWriter drivers which
  attempt to correct serial printing problems on the Power Mac 7200,
  7500, and 9500 using HP's DeskWriter, DeskWriter C, 510, 520, 540,
  550c and 560c printers. (See TidBITS-294_ for a description of
  serial printing problems on these machines.) So far, indications
  are that the new drivers are working well for most people;
  however, some users report various (possibly unrelated) problems
  remain. The drivers are available on HP's CompuServe and AOL
  forums as well as via the Internet, and are distributed as a disk
  images between 1 and 2 MB in size. The URL below points to the
  English version; localized versions for German, French, Dutch,
  European English, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish are available in
  the same directory. [GD]

ftp://ftp-boi.external.hp.com//pub/printers/software/dw110en.hqx


**Adobe Buys Ceneca** -- Adobe Systems announced last week that it
  is buying Ceneca Communications, Inc., makers of the not-yet-
  shipping World Wide Web production and site-management programs
  PageMill and SiteMill, big hits at Boston's Macworld Expo in
  August. (See TidBITS-290_.) The amount of money involved was not
  disclosed, and Adobe is expected to integrate Acrobat PDF and
  other Adobe technologies into the products over time. Pricing and
  product availability is expected to be announced in the next few
  weeks. [GD]


**Netscape Announces Navigator 2.0** -- Last week, Netscape
  announced version 2.0 of its widely-used Netscape Navigator Web
  browser, and the first public betas may be available as early as
  this week. Version 2.0 will be split into two products: Netscape
  Navigator, an enhanced Web browser, and Navigator Gold, which will
  also provide Web authoring capabilities. Navigator 2.0 will
  feature improved integrated email and newsgroup capabilities,
  integration of Adobe PDF, Apple QuickTime, and Macromedia Director
  playback via plug-ins, support for Java applets to create
  interactive objects, plus Netscape's own Java-based scripting
  language. However, people with a bitter taste in their mouths from
  the non-standard "enhancements" to HTML included in previous
  releases had better break out the Rolaids right now. Although
  Netscape supports a good portion of what's likely to become HTML
  3.0, it also includes a bevy of new non-standard tags and a
  feature called "frames" (separate from the HTML 3.0 <BANNER> tag)
  that enables authors to split the display area into a number of
  independent regions. [GD]

http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/index.html


**La Cie Software Updates Online** -- Users of La Cie's
  Silverlining disk formatter and other software products have long
  been frustrated by La Cie's software update policy. First, La Cie
  never told customers about updates, and when you learned about
  them yourself, obtaining them involved the irksome process of
  sending your original disks to La Cie along with payment. Given
  that history, La Cie customers will rejoice to learn that La Cie
  has set up a Web site which, along with some decent technical
  information and product info, includes updaters to current
  versions of its Silverlining, Silverscanner, and Joule RAID
  software. You still must have an original version to upgrade, but
  this sure beats relying on the postal service or word of mouth.
  Possibly the only folks happier about this than La Cie's customers
  are La Cie's technical support staff. [GD]

http://www.lacie.com/~lacie/


Seeing Double?
--------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  Many people subscribed to the TidBITS mailing list wrote us last
  week to inform us (or complain) that two copies of TidBITS-295_
  had appeared in their mailbox. "Did you hit that Send button twice
  or something?" and "Stop that!" were common refrains. Well,
  there's no single button that sends TidBITS out the door, so we
  couldn't press it twice even if we wanted to. But it's clear from
  the reaction that some comments are in order.

  First, the problem last week was caused by a misconfigured machine
  at Pennsylvania State University, but it could have been anywhere.
  The TidBITS list is configured to reject unauthorized attempts to
  distribute material, but every now and again this is going to
  happen - it's a fact of life in the online world. The TidBITS list
  has been remarkably free of accidents like this over the last few
  years, and subscribers can take some satisfaction in knowing the
  list successfully rejects several "spamming" attempts per week
  (including the usual chain letters, advertisements, and
  inappropriate materials).

  Second, isolated subscribers will occasionally receive multiple
  copies of an issue. In all cases so far - including the one that
  occurred last week - there's nothing we've been able to do about
  it. The most common cause of receiving duplicate copies is a
  problem with a subscriber's Internet provider or a machine between
  your mailbox and the LISTSERV at Rice University. Our best (and
  only) recommendation in this situation is to contact your system
  administrator to see if they can identify or fix the problem.

  Third, if you think there's a problem with the TidBITS mailing
  list and want to tell us about it, don't. We maintain several test
  subscriptions to TidBITS and are aware of any problems just as
  soon as everyone else. Writing us only contributes to a flood of
  essentially identical messages, and until we get a proverbial
  "staff of thousands," it takes us time and resources to deal with
  that flood. We appreciate the concern, but we do keep an eye on
  things. Really.


TIA 2.0 Available
-----------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Cyberspace Development has updated The Internet Adapter, or TIA.
  Released in August of 1994 (see TidBITS-239_), TIA enables a Unix
  machine to provide graphical Internet access without additional
  expensive hardware by emulating SLIP, and - new in version 2.0 -
  CSLIP (Compressed SLIP) and PPP. TIA is available for entire
  machines ($495) or single user accounts ($30), and is important
  because it allows people to avoid learning and using Unix if their
  Internet connection was previously limited to a Unix shell
  account. Single users can update for free through 13-Oct-95 (but
  you must get a new license code from the TIA Web site), although a
  $12.50 upgrade fee provides six months of email tech support and
  all future 2.x upgrades. The upgrade is only available through
  01-Nov-95, after which the price increases to $15, and after
  01-Jan-96, the upgrade option disappears entirely and you have to
  buy a new copy for $30.

  TIA's new CSLIP support provides improved SLIP performance, and
  its PPP support gives users the option of using PPP client
  software like MacPPP instead of SLIP client software like
  InterCon's InterSLIP. Also new in TIA 2.0 is port redirection,
  which enables people to connect directly to your machine even if
  you don't have a true IP number.

  TIA has spawned at least one imitator, the free SLiRP, which also
  emulates SLIP and PPP on Unix machines. Since I have always had
  access to hardware-based SLIP and PPP accounts, I haven't
  attempted to compare TIA and SLiRP, but I suspect you're likely to
  get more support from the TIA folks, given that it's a commercial
  product.

http://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/~danjo/

  For more information about TIA 2.0, send email to
  <[e-mail]> or check the Web page below, where
  you can also download the free trial version.

http://marketplace.com/tia/tiahome.html


Newton Tool Builds Custom Applications
--------------------------------------
  by Mark Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  Pinehill Software Corporation has announced a new version 3 of its
  AppGen software for Apple's Newton handheld organizers, scheduled
  to ship in early October. AppGen allows users to build customized
  complete applications for data management on any Newton.

  The currently shipping AppGen 2.1 supports only one custom
  application at a time, though version 3 will allow multiple
  applications. It also lets users use previously entered data in
  calculations and offers more direct access to data transfer via
  the Newton Connection Kit.

  AppGen development takes place entirely on the Newton MessagePad,
  so no external computer is required for programming. Setup is
  simple and intuitive, with an on-screen form that lets users
  specify field names, data types, and behaviors.

  Currently, AppGen 2.1 is available for $49.95 ($69.95 for a bar-
  code-capable version). Those who purchase AppGen during September
  1995 will receive a free upgrade to version 3, and a free copy of
  the company's FormulaGen tool for adding custom formulas to
  AppGen.

  Pinehill's package includes step-by-step instructions for setting
  up a time-and expense-tracking application, though the software
  can clearly be used for data collection and management in almost
  any field, from inventory to farm management.

  Pinehill Software Corp. -- 508/548-4470 -- 508/548-8731 (fax)
    <[e-mail]>


StarNine Rescues Microsoft Mail
-------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  StarNine and Microsoft jointly announced last week that StarNine
  will assume all responsibilities for the moribund Microsoft Mail
  (now called StarNine Mail), including development, marketing,
  sales, and support. When StarNine Mail starts shipping within 30
  days, it will include a 10-user copy of StarNine's Mail*Link
  Remote UUCP gateway to the Internet. Users interested in an SMTP
  gateway for a dedicated Internet connection can use StarNine's
  Mail*Link SMTP for Microsoft Mail. Interestingly, given Microsoft
  Mail's proprietary nature, StarNine has committed publicly to open
  Internet standards. David Thompson, StarNine's director of
  marketing, said, "StarNine's server strategy calls for all of our
  MacOS servers to be accessible by any commonly used, open
  standards (i.e. Internet) client, whether it's our Web server,
  mailing list server, or email server." I'll let you interpret that
  statement as you will, but think about the possibilities of using
  the Web for remote access to email.

  Pricing for StarNine Mail will stay roughly the same, at about
  $270 for the server, $270 for a 5-user license, and $900 for a
  20-user license. You can receive email updates about the
  transition by sending email to <[e-mail]>
  with the word "subscribe" in the Subject line (you can also
  discuss the future of the product there with the product managers
  and engineers). Information about the transition will be available
  on the company's Web server.

http://www.starnine.com/

    StarNine -- 800/525-2580 -- <[e-mail]>


Apple Expo in Paris
-------------------
   by Richard Erickson <[e-mail]>

  As it has for the last ten years, Apple recently rolled out its
  "pommes" for the annual Apple Expo, in a vertical business ghetto
  just west of Paris. As I have never attended any computer show or
  Apple Expo outside of France, I can't tell you what makes a Gallic
  version different from one in Boston or Reykjavik. Perhaps the
  underwear is a bit more chic here, but who can know for sure?


**Meet Me Tonight** -- Some things have been around in fiction so
  long that when you see them working in real life, you may not even
  notice. This happened to me with the Visioconference system for
  Macintosh, which is being marketed as Meet-Me. At the heart of the
  system lies a box called the GeoPort ISDN Adapter, co-developed by
  Apple and France Telecom developer and supplier, Sagem. Although
  the box was characterized by Jeff Soesbe of Apple as a "beta
  prototype," I saw it functioning all over the Expo site - so much
  so that I just about took it for granted.

  The Apple Expo price for the system is 42,200 francs. Before you
  gulp, some explanations are necessary. This French price includes
  a 20.6 percent value-added tax, and you get a Power Macintosh
  7100/80 with 16 MB RAM, a CD drive and an AV card, a 17" Apple
  monitor, and the Meet-Me kit; which includes a video camera.
  Straight conversion to dollars yields about $8,000. On top of the
  kit, you have to find and pay for an ISDN line; a Sagem engineer
  told me Meet-Me will run on 56 or 64 Kbps line, and that a 128
  Kbps line would be nice. The engineer added that France Telecom
  charges $20 a month for a 128 Kbps line, plus, of course, line
  charges.

  Here's how it works: Your caller can hold up an FBI badge to the
  camera and say that you are under arrest. Or, you can work
  together with your accountant on your tax form. You can send your
  accountant a still photo of your receipts (or any other kind of
  document) or just do a screen dump of the FBI agent's badge.

  [The basic Meet-Me technology appears to also be available as a
  NuBus board (apparently priced around $3,000); if you are
  interested, check out the URL below -Tonya]

http://nw.com/satusa/MeetMe1.html


**Apple Djinn Pro is not a Sexy Sports Car** -- The Apple Djinn
  Pro is Apple off-white, looks like a small 1930's table radio just
  smaller than an AppleDesign speaker, and was developed by Apple
  France and France Telecom. What's behind the sexy name?

  The Pro succeeds the plain old AppleDjinn, which was essentially a
  9600 bps modem with special features: Djinn Pro is also a
  fax/modem, it answers and records phone messages, and - France
  Telecom holy of holies - it is also a Minitel terminal emulator.
  The new Pro offers speeds up to 14.4 Kbps.

  The rhythm of development in France seems to dictate that as soon
  as the next fastest modems take off, the AppleDjinn moves up to
  the previous fastest speed. Too bad, because it looks neat - just
  like those 1950's movies where the boss used a desktop box to say,
  "Monica, get me a reservation for lunch at Maxim's."

  It is a usual plug-and-play Apple product: plug it into Mac, plug
  it into the phone box on the wall, and plug in the power. It comes
  with all the software necessary for its functions, including a
  software telephone book that supports QuickDraw GX and PowerTalk,
  plus an onscreen dialer that can handle international prefixes and
  keep a log of calls. It can manage nine voice-message folders, and
  can be consulted remotely. Like any modem, it can access the
  Internet as well.

  In case you were wondering, Minitel emulation means that the
  AppleDjinn permits you to look at a Minitel-service videotext
  screen on your Mac monitor. On a stock (but free) Minitel 1 from
  France Telecom, these screens look like computing in 1978. But
  Minitel is moving ahead too; enough so as to have color displays
  and color photos online.

http://www.minitel.fr/

  Basically, the Minitel service was introduced by France Telecom to
  replace the phone book, so they gave the terminals away. Taking an
  idea from Yellow Pages, Minitel soon offered all sorts of services
  and access to databases as well. Early on, somebody dreamed up the
  idea of making a lot of money from these services, and France
  Telecom has made a bundle.

  All this wonderful but somewhat clutzy stuff has a downside.
  Although France Telecom gives away the basic Minitel terminals
  (which are plug-and-play, with no configuration and no software),
  their keyboards are terrible and they are slow - line charges! -
  and the search engine was designed to keep you online. But aside
  from those faults, they are free. So, why buy a Mac and go online
  when there is a Minitel alternative? Despite the fact that Apple's
  eWorld-France considers Minitel to be its main competitor rather
  than the Internet or CompuServe, there they are, France Telecom
  and Apple France going down the road together, sexy but slow with
  AppleDjinn and very sexy and fast with the ISDN-GeoPort-based
  Meet-Me video-computer/telephone. With cheap ISDN lines available
  to household users, a Macintosh offers considerably more online
  potential - and more advanced multimedia - than Minitel, giving
  you the best of both worlds. If you live in France, maybe it is
  the future.


**Nomai Removable Cartridges** -- A small French company, Nomai,
  located near Mont St. Michel in Brittany, presented its new
  removable hard disk cartridge drive, the MCD 540, and
  corresponding 540 MB cartridge. MCD stands for Multimedia
  Cartridge Drive.

  Nomai, a French cloner of SyQuest cartridges, settled last spring
  whatever beef (patent infringement) it had with SyQuest, allowing
  it to manufacture and sell SyQuest-technology cartridges with the
  SyQuest logo. This has resulted in a general drop in prices of
  cartridges made by both SyQuest and Nomai.

  While SyQuest has been concentrating on the smaller capacity EZ135
  format, Nomai, with some aid from IBM, has developed a fairly
  inexpensive removable cartridge drive that takes 540 MB
  cartridges. The Nomai drives are put together at the IBM-Xyratex
  factory in England, and IBM had a hand in the development of the
  entire system. Nomai's version works with both the Macintosh and
  the PC. The cartridge is the same size as - but not compatible
  with - a SyQuest 270 cartridge. Nomai uses its own technology for
  tighter sealing and higher rotational speeds. The cartridge life
  is estimated at 10,000 in/out cycles, an the high-speed SCSI-2
  drive has a 512K cache, average seek time of 10 milliseconds and a
  burst transfer rate of 10 MB per second. Nomai said there was a
  compatible 270 MB cartridge available and plans to have a 680 or
  720 MB cartridge by year's end. I also heard hints about an
  upcoming 1.3 GB cartridge.

  Launch price in France is about the same as for a SyQuest drive
  and cartridge a year ago; so on a U.S. scale, without French
  value-added tax, this system will be very competitively priced. As
  it is, this will be a useful tool for multimedia producers.

  [Richard Erickson is a freelance journalist in Paris, France, and
  is a regular (practically real-time) contributor to Norman Barth's
  Paris Pages. More material on the Apple Expo in Paris (with
  photos) is at the URL below. -Geoff]

http://www.paris.org/Ric/

    Nomai in France -- (33) 33 89 16 00 -- (33) 33 89 16 01 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>
    Nomai in the U.S. --  1-800-55NOMAI -- 407/367-1216
      407/391-8675 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>
    SAT-Sagem in Europe -- 33-1-40-77-12-11
      33-1-40-77-14-41 (fax) -- [e-mail]>
    SAT-Sagem in the U.S. -- 408/446-8690 -- 408/446-9766 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


TypeTamer Meets Grunge Fonts
----------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  While walking the crowded aisles at Boston Macworld last month, I
  spotted a program I hadn't seen before, called TypeTamer.
  TypeTamer 1.0.6i, by Impossible Software, organizes Font menus and
  makes them easier to use. At a street price around $50, it's worth
  a look if you tend to have a lot of fonts installed or enjoy using
  and experimenting with typography. TypeTamer requires a Macintosh
  running System 7 with at least 4 MB of RAM. The program takes up
  approximately 500K of disk space.


**A Blip in the Continuum** -- Before I began this article, I
  didn't have many special fonts installed, so immediately after
  installing TypeTamer, I looked around my office for fonts in need
  of taming. My eyes immediately settled on the obvious choice, a
  collection of shareware Grunge fonts that came with,
  _a_BLiP_in_the_continuum_, a recent book by Robin Williams and
  John Tollet ($22.95 from Peachpit Press, ISBN 1-56609-188-8).
  _a_BLiP_in_the_continuum_ uses text and colorful illustrations to
  explain grunge fonts, those fonts whose characters look as though
  they were drawn with a magic marker by someone having a bad hair
  day or typed with a typewriter that's been through a centrifuge.
  As the book explains, these fonts are for people who want to break
  rules, and that while the fonts may be hard to read, they do make
  you read more slowly, thus forcing you to retain more of the
  message.

  The book suggests that if you, "look at this kind of typography
  and gasp in horror, you can rest assured you are not the market
  they wanted to reach anyhow. So who cares what you think." It's
  hard to feel much fondness for fonts used to market stuff that
  isn't targeted at me (since I have ambivalent feelings about
  grunge fonts and tend to think anything marketed with them is for
  the Pepsi generation, those people about my age who - apparently -
  continually shun education, work, and any sort of intellectual
  exercise so they can play on the beach).


**Getting Started** -- After installing the Grunge fonts, I looked
  at my Nisus Writer Font menu (though I could have looked in most
  any program, including the font menu on Word 5's Ribbon) and saw
  that TypeTamer had transformed the menu as follows:

* The Font menu became shorter and gained an All command. Instead
  of listing all my fonts, it only listed fonts currently in the
  active document. To see a full list of fonts, I used the new All
  option to view the full list in a hierarchical menu, which popped
  out from the Font menu.

* My font families grouped themselves together. For example,
  Garamond appeared in the All hierarchical menu, with a
  hierarchical menu that offered Regular, Italic, Semi-Bold, and
  so on.

* Each font showed with an icon to its left, indicating whether
  the font was a bitmap font, a bitmap font with its PostScript
  counterpart installed, or TrueType font.

* My fonts having foundry information showed with that information
  to their right, enclosed in angle brackets. In my case, this
  mainly meant that <MT> showed by fonts from Microsoft Office (the
  <MT> means the fonts are from the Monotype foundry); the TypeTamer
  manual points out that serious typographers might find this
  feature helpful if they had installed both the Adobe and the
  Digital Typeface Corporation version of a font such as Don Casual.

* My Font menus gained a TypeTamer command. By choosing TypeTamer
  from any Font menu, I was able to access TypeTamer's controls,
  which I used to set up two additional hierarchical menus, one for
  the Grunge fonts and one for Not Grunge fonts. That was good - now
  the Grunge fonts were segregated and I only had to think about
  them when I wanted to. TypeTamer considers each additional
  hierarchical menu to be a "category," and you can set up lots of
  categories, based on font types, projects, or whatever. The same
  font can appear in more than one category, and it's easy to change
  or delete categories.


**Features** -- TypeTamer doesn't work like Now's WYSIWYG Menus
  (in fact, they are incompatible - if you launch with TypeTamer
  active, it will disable WYSIWYG menus) or like any of those other
  products that display the Font menu using the available fonts
  (such as Suitcase). Instead, TypeTamer offers the ability to
  quickly see a full display of what the font looks like. Drag the
  pointer over the icons that show left of each font name, and a
  window pops up, showing a phrase displayed in that font in three
  different sizes. (You can set up TypeTamer with whatever phrase
  and sizes you like.)

  To learn more about special characters in a font, you can press
  Option or Shift-Option while dragging over the icon or while you
  @
8 the window open. This causes the window to show the
  characters you can get by pressing Option (or Shift-Option) and
  some other key. You can select and insert these characters from
  the window, or you can note the keyboard shortcut displayed at the
  lower left.

  For an ornamental font (like Zapf Dingbats) pressing Command shows
  the standard characters that you get by just pressing keys on the
  keyboard (i.e. pressing 'n' in Zapf Dingbats gives you a solid
  box, and - by the way - if you format that box in Outline, you get
  a nice-looking checkbox).

  Although TypeTamer doesn't feel entirely polished (the windows
  that pop-up showing the font's appearances and character sets look
  out of proportion), it does have some nice features, and
  Impossible Software has thought about different issues that might
  arise while using TypeTamer:

* TypeTamer's Find Fonts feature helps you figure out what fonts
  are used in a document. Currently, TypeTamer advertises the
  feature as working with Illustrator 5.0 and 5.5, Photoshop 2.1.5,
  PageMaker 5.0, Word 5.1a, and WordPerfect 3.0a.

* You can temporarily disable TypeTamer for a given Font menu by
  pressing Shift as you drag down the menu.

* The 35-page manual begins with a glossary of terms, ranging from
  ATM to suitcase to Suitcase to Type Reunion. It's refreshing to
  see a manual that acknowledges and explains the existence of other
  products.

* TypeTamer's SpeedFont feature helps you quickly navigate a large
  All category by moving fonts that begin with the letter you type
  to the top of the hierarchical menu.


**Results** -- Now that I've used a few of the Grunge fonts to
  label a few filing folders (Basketcase-Roman is perfect for my
  Bills To Pay folder) I'm understanding them more. TypeTamer turned
  out to be a real help in choosing the fonts, because I could
  slowly scroll down my Grunge menu, looking at the font samples as
  I went. I'll be keeping the Grunge fonts installed for a while;
  perhaps I'll use them more. I also plan to keep TypeTamer
  installed.

  You can download a thirty-day demo of TypeTamer from any Info-Mac
  mirror:

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/font/util/type-tamer-106i-demo.hqx

    Impossible Software -- 714/470-4800 -- 714/470-4740 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Reviews/25-Sep-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 18-Sep-95, Vol. 9, #37
    Infini-D 3.0 -- pg. 33
    XClaim GA -- pg. 33
    At Ease for Workgroups 3.0 -- pg. 36
    DIMM Tree -- pg. 38
    Deltis PowerMO 230 -- pg. 40
    PopupFolder 2.0.1 -- pg. 40
    MaskCutter PS 2.1 -- pg. 42


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