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This week brings you an in depth look at QuickMail 3.0, CE's
   latest and greatest release of its popular email program. We
   also have a short review of Links Pro, for the golf fans out
   there, a look at some of the issues surrounding fat binary
   programs, and a recollection of Kai Krause's demo at Macworld
   Boston, complete with lots of links to interesting and
   related Internet sites.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/22-Aug-94
    Should Fat Binaries Diet?
    Links Pro Hits a Hole in One
    Kai at Macworld Expo
    QuickMail 3.0 in Depth
    Reviews/22-Aug-94

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MailBITS/22-Aug-94
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  The second edition of my Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh is now
  available. It's significantly different from the first edition (a
  larger disk with an installer, and approximately twice as much
  actual text, although the appendices are smaller) and I'm still
  working on a change list. More later, but I wanted to mention it
  so people could stop asking me when it will be out. [ACE]


**Bounce of the Week** -- Every now and then you get a sign that
  lets you know that creativity is not dead, even among those who
  write mailer error messages. This message was one of those signs.
  It's not often that something on the Internet bounces because the
  recipient's machine isn't a typewriter. [ACE]

421 rex.re.uokhsc.edu.tcpld... Deferred: Not a typewriter
550 [e-mail]... Host unknown: Not a typewriter


**Speaking of QuickMail** (which we do below) there's a fledgling
  new Internet resource with news and information about QuickMail
  and related third-party products. Fire up your favorite World-Wide
  Web browser and check out this URL. Comments are welcome. [MHA]

http://dolphin.csudh.edu/qm/qmhome.html


Should Fat Binaries Diet?
-------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Now that the Power Macs are increasingly common, a few issues need
  to be addressed in terms of how to best accommodate them when
  distributing software. I don't know that there are any complete
  answers here, but there are certainly some issues to consider when
  shipping a software product, and for those of you who consider
  yourselves merely users, when receiving a software product.

  First, the Mac world now has three basic types of software. 680x0-
  only, PowerPC-only, and software that works on both the 680x0
  family and the Power Macs. The first two are easily handled;
  developers simply make it clear (on the box, in the ReadMe, _and_
  additionally within the program itself by means of an informative
  dialog box) that the program only works on non-Power Macs or on
  Power Macs. (Programs that only contain 680x0 code and work
  normally on all Macs and in emulation on Power Macs aren't
  particularly interesting either, since they're simply a little
  slower in emulation than might be desirable.)

  But what of the programs that run in native mode on the Power Macs
  and which also contain 680x0 code for normal Macs? The question
  raises its ugly head when it comes time to ship the program - do
  you ship two versions of the program, one containing only 680x0
  code and one containing PowerPC-native code? Or perhaps you should
  ship a single fat binary program that contains the code for both
  platforms? Or finally, maybe you should use an installer that
  installs only the appropriate code for the platform on which it's
  being installed? All are valid choices, but all have trade-offs.
  Which would users prefer to receive, keeping in mind that adding
  disks raises costs, and large files mean longer download times?


**Option 1: Ship Two Versions** -- The first option, shipping two
  separate versions of the program, seems the least attractive. With
  shareware or freeware programs it's a minor pain to send the file
  twice to the <[e-mail]> address for posting
  on the world-wide file sites. Commercial developers will have more
  of a problem, though, since they must either add disks to a
  package or create two separate boxes. Either way, it's more work
  and expense for the developer.

  The main advantage for the user that I can see for this scheme is
  that if disk space is at a premium, 680x0-based Macs need not
  waste any space on PowerPC-native code and Power Macs need not
  waste space on unnecessary 680x0 code. In situations where the
  files are being downloaded from the nets, the user doesn't waste
  download time on the unnecessary code.


**Option 2: Ship One Fat Version** -- The second option, shipping
  a fat binary program, has a lot going for it in terms of getting
  the software to the user. It's a single product, which eliminates
  customer confusion, extra packaging expense, and general
  headaches. It works perfectly on all Macs and Power Macs without
  any foreknowledge on the part of the user (a major plus for many
  users, especially if the program lives on a server), and is
  generally the easiest solution. The only disadvantage of a fat
  binary is that it may be significantly larger than a 680x0-only or
  PowerPC-only version of the same program. It's a non-issue for
  people with large hard disks, but people having smaller drives
  (such as PowerBook users) won't appreciate the inflated size.

  One possible solution to this disadvantage is a pair of freeware
  programs called Strip68K and StripPPC, written by Bill Woody of In
  Phase Consulting <[e-mail]> (as an aside, In Phase
  Consulting published the two programs as method of promoting their
  development and design consulting business - I highly approve of
  such useful forms of Internet promotion). The programs do
  precisely what their names imply - strip out 680x0 or PowerPC code
  from fat binary applications. I haven't tested them personally,
  and the documentation implies that they weren't tested
  particularly rigorously, but they come with source code and are
  worth a try if you're concerned about wasted disk space.

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/cfg/strip-fat.hqx

  In some quick tests, Jonathan Lundell <[e-mail]> reported
  that StripPPC brought NewsWatcher 2.0b9 down from 616K to 288K,
  and Fetch 2.1.2 from 483K to 216K, thus saving 595K on only two
  applications. That's a noticeable amount for users with small hard
  disks.

  Of course, you almost certainly won't be able to use an updater or
  patcher on applications that you've stripped, so please pay
  attention to this detail before you complain to a programmer that
  a patch doesn't work on a stripped application.


**Option Three: Let the Installer Solve the Problem** -- The third
  option, using an installer to install the appropriate code for the
  target machine, would seem to be the ideal solution for programs
  that would use an installer anyway. Users run the installer
  (Aladdin's excellent StuffIt InstallerMaker can install either
  680x0 or PowerPC code from fat binaries; I assume the Apple
  Installer can do something similar) and it checks the machine type
  and installs the proper code. It's conceivable that the installer
  could even ask if you wanted to install a fat binary or the
  specific code. No matter what, you don't run into the confusions
  created by two separate programs, and there's no wasted hard disk
  space, as in the fat binary option, although downloading would
  take longer, and in the case of a commercial product, there would
  be more floppies.

  The main disadvantage is that if a user moves from a Mac to a
  Power Mac, she may have to remember to reinstall a number of
  applications to be able to use them at full speed. It's likely to
  be something that people would forget, and being forced to
  reinstall might prove irritating at an already stressful time.

  If a developer did set the installer up to install the correct
  code, it would make sense for the developer to leave enough 680x0
  code in the PowerPC-native version that the program would be able
  to exit gracefully with an informative dialog when run on a normal
  Mac, and be able to inform Power Mac users that additional
  performance could be gained by reinstalling, rather than using the
  slower emulation mode. It's even been suggested that Apple should
  release a code stub that all developers could use for this sort of
  user information, thus making it both standard and far more
  common.


**Final Thoughts** -- So in the end, it's pretty clear that there
  are no set answers, as I said originally. Which you use depends on
  how you view the trade-offs and on your specific product. If an
  installer is involved, a single fat binary, with optional
  stripping on installation, would seem to make the most sense. For
  shareware/freeware programs that don't need an installer, two
  separate versions may work fine. And finally, if all else fails,
  there's always StripPPC and Strip68K.


Links Pro Hits a Hole in One
----------------------------
  by Richard C.S. Kinne <[e-mail]>

  Links Pro, by Access Software, is certainly one of the prettiest
  games I've seen on the Macintosh. The trees, lawn texture, and
  golfers are almost photo-realistic. The beauty of the graphics
  will be the first thing to hit you, and the graphics alone may be
  worth the purchase price of the software. Not only is the game
  pretty, but a good bit of thought went into the program's
  controlling mechanisms and layout as well, so I consider Links Pro
  a quality product in both form and function.

  The beauty and performance do come at a price, and that price is
  memory. Links Pro is the most memory-hungry game I've seen yet,
  with suggested memory partition of 8 MB. Thankfully, for those of
  us working on smaller systems, it will survive in only 2.5 MB if
  it must. The game is quite playable with less memory than it
  prefers, but I suspect it would do that much better on what it
  considers a properly configured system.

  Access Software put a good amount of thought into the game's
  control layout. I especially like the "hot buttons." When choosing
  a club, for instance, you bring the mouse to the "choose club"
  panel and (before you even click) Links Pro automatically displays
  a radio button menu of clubs to choose from. The game also allows
  for multiple views of your shot on the screen and you can save
  those wonderful (or amazingly bad) shots or games to disk. You can
  later play them over again and analyze them, if you wish. If
  you've ever played a golf game on the Mac before, you'll be able
  to dive right in without referring to the manual. After you play a
  few rounds, however, you'll want to refer to the manual to find
  out about the features you're missing.

  One of the neatest features is voice control. If you have an AV
  Mac or Power Mac you can use voice commands to choose your club
  and hit your ball. I tried the voice control on my office Quadra
  660AV and it did indeed work as advertised. The commands the
  program accepts are natural enough, but I did find myself
  referring to the list in the manual every so often to make sure I
  got things right. I figure if you find yourself using this feature
  often enough, you'll quickly memorize the program's vocabulary.

  You can also create your own fictional golfers and keep statistics
  on them. They can be male or female, and the game even provides a
  varied wardrobe! You can print out score cards and statistics, and
  you can even select background noises so that when you step up to
  the tee a bird chirps in the background, and when you make your
  shot you hear applause and comments from your buddies on the
  green.

  Links Pro, about $45 mail order, is a quality game from start to
  finish. If you have any interest in golf this game would make a
  fine edition to your software collection.

    Access Software -- 800/800-4880


Kai at Macworld Expo
--------------------
  by Radical Liberation <[e-mail]>

  I joined a packed auditorium at Macworld Expo in Boston to see Kai
  Krause <[e-mail]> demonstrate some of the graphic art tools
  from HSC. Though his presentation was nominally for graphics
  professionals and hobbyists who create images with tools like
  Photoshop, I suspect others attended for the same reason I did -
  to see Kai give one of his legendarily enthusiastic demos and see
  some fantastic images, some of which you can see by looking on the
  Internet as well.

http://www.wimsey.com/Pixel_Pushers/

  Some of Kai's tips and tricks are also available on the Web at:

http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/KPT.html


**KPT Bryce** -- Although I'll probably never use any of Kai's
  tools myself, seeing Kai use them to make cool images rated as one
  of my favorite parts of Macworld. Kai showed a couple new tools,
  but KPT Bryce, a recent addition to Kai's Power Tools (Photoshop
  plug-ins), blew me away.

  KPT Bryce creates landscapes, and it is named after the beautiful
  Bryce Canyon in Utah (here's a photo of the canyon).

ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/jpeg/unindexed/940414/bryce.jpg

  KPT Bryce can create beautiful and convincing skies, mountains,
  wisps of fog, and so on (and I do mean convincing. For now on, any
  landscape image I get off the nets will have me wondering, "Is it
  live or is it Memorex?"). And, at least when Kai does it, it looks
  incredibly easy. I was particularly taken with the images that
  look almost, but not quite, real. They remind me  of one of my
  favorite painters, the surrealist Rene Magritte (here's a site
  where you can find, when it's working, GIF-compressed images of
  many of his paintings).

http://heiwww.unige.ch/art/magritte/

  Some of the Bryce landscapes go beyond near-reality to completely
  alien looking landscapes. One of my favorites images, called
  "Planet Rising," by David Palermo <[e-mail]>, (his stuff is
  always worth a look) appears on the KPT Bryce package, but I
  haven't found it online anywhere except on America Online. As with
  many of the Bryce landscapes, it seems like you could step right
  into the picture and that, in fact, it would be nice to do just
  that. Check out HSC's forums on America Online (keyword: HSC) or
  CompuServe for more Bryce images. Several images are also
  available at HSC's Internet site. [I wasn't able to connect to
  this site to double-check this - take the <ftp.netcom.com> URLs
  with a grain of salt. -Adam]

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hsc/KPTBryce_Info/

  To find more Bryce images (and many of my favorites), try this
  file:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hsc/KPTBryce_Info/KPTBryceImage1.bin

  (By the way, when the files at this site convert from MacBinary
  they have a ".qt" suffix. Don't let it throw you, they are
  ordinary JPEG-compressed images.)


**Sphere Rendering** -- Another fun thing that HSC has made
  available on the nets is a demo of a sphere rendering tool. It is
  intended to show off the speed of the Power Mac but it also worked
  on my LC III. When you reach the interactive part of the demo at
  the end, the trick is to hold down the mouse button and move the
  mouse around. This drags the light source to different parts of
  the sphere.

ftp://grind.isca.uiowa.edu/mac/umich/powermac/kptppcspheroidsdemo.cpt

    HSC -- 310/392-8441 -- 310/392-6015 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


QuickMail 3.0 In Depth
----------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  In TidBITS-237_ we reported on CE Software's introduction of
  QuickMail 3.0, a new version of CE's popular LAN email software
  with lots of new features on the client end. Feedback we received
  on that article and a closer look during the recent Macworld Expo
  allow us to present more information on how CE's enhancements work
  for users in real-world situations.


**Spell Checking** -- The spell checking feature, implemented by
  InfoSoft, is fairly straightforward, if not particularly
  innovative as spell checkers go. Its biggest shortcoming at first
  glance is that it doesn't recognize "QuickMail" as a correctly
  spelled word! Such is life. One clever feature of the spell
  checker is that, even though it shows a word in context when it's
  presenting a word it believes is misspelled, QuickMail scrolls
  through the text of the message window in the background, so the
  user can see each questioned word as part of the entire message.


**MailManager** lets users set up rules to specify what should
  happen to incoming messages, and it looks great. Using the nicely
  laid out ruler editor, you can tell QuickMail to file, delete,
  forward, print, or reply to each message or certain messages,
  deciding which task to perform and how to perform it based on the
  original sender, subject, body text, priority, and so on.

  Unfortunately, MailManager, being a client-based feature, depends
  on the client computer staying put while its user is away or busy.
  In my case, had I left QuickMail 3.0 monitoring my mail while I
  spent several days at Macworld Expo, it would not have worked.
  During my absence, at least one other employee used my computer to
  check his QuickMail. When I returned, the surge protector had
  tripped; presumably a brief blackout left it powered down. As a
  result, my computer would have stopped performing its assigned
  mail-management tasks days before I returned.

  There are solutions to such problems; an uninterruptible power
  supply (UPS) would take care of the power outage issue on at least
  a short-term basis. You can set QuickMail to connect automatically
  at startup, and CE has apparently foreseen the resulting security
  concern and implemented a "Lock Mailbox" command that survives
  restarts. This still assumes no one will use the mail-managing
  Mac, which in some offices, mine for one, is a dangerous
  assumption.

  The good news is that MailManager is exceptionally cautious when
  messages might get lost. If a rule that files incoming messages
  from a certain sender and then deletes them from your mailbox, but
  your computer runs out of disk space, MailManager shuts down
  rather than deleting unfiled messages. Unfortunately, it will also
  then be unable to handle automatic replies, forwarding, or any
  other tasks until someone intervenes.

  MailManager could still be enormously useful for day-to-day use.
  You could set up ruler to automatically file posting from high-
  traffic mailing lists, and automatically forward messages on a
  given topic to another person or group of people. Peter J.
  Kindlmann, a professor and mail administrator at Yale University,
  wrote to say that the software holds up the computer momentarily
  when new mail arrives and MailManager processes it in the
  background. Such interruptions might be bearable, in return for
  less human time spent sorting through received mail, but Peter
  feels that most users will quickly grow frustrated with the delay.

  The primary cause of the delay when new mail arrives is the
  process of refreshing the user's mail list so that MailManager can
  scan it. Several versions ago, QuickMail would update its mail
  list even if it was not the frontmost window, whenever new mail
  arrived, and I recall having mixed feelings when CE changed this.
  I have to admit to mixed feelings now that it's been changed back,
  too! Users who keep lots of messages in their mailboxes will find
  that the refresh takes a while. (The background refresh is only
  done when MailManager is active.) Happily, the improved folder
  handling means there are fewer reasons to keep mail on the server,
  so a bit of discipline should minimize the interruptions'
  duration.


**Full-Text Searching** -- Speaking of folders, QuickMail 3.0's
  ability to do full-text searches within messages filed in personal
  mail folders is wonderful. This feature alone probably makes
  QuickMail 3.0 worth its upgrade price. The inability to search
  within the mailbox (messages still residing on the QuickMail
  server) matters much less now that QuickMail supports up to 250
  messages in each of up to 250 folders. (Inability to search within
  these folders has been my primary reason for failing to use them
  properly.) Searching messages in the mailbox would require too
  much additional server work, or too much additional network
  traffic. A network administrator who prefers to remain anonymous
  suggests that this lack will "irritate many executive types" who
  aren't interested in changing their work habits to suit the
  software.

  Searches may be performed within a single folder or across all
  folders, and may be based on the message text, or such criteria as
  subject, sender, recipient, priority, and date sent. Some software
  presents only individual found items, requiring the user to go
  from item to item, but QuickMail's search feature presents a
  complete "hit list" of found items, displaying its folder
  location, the sender, subject, and date. Even while the search is
  still in progress, the user may click one of the found items in
  the list to view the found text, in the message's context, in the
  window's lower pane. The search continues independently.

  My sole complaint with QuickMail 3.0's search feature is that it
  can't search more than one user-specified folder at a time without
  searching them all. QuickMail 3.0 also can find specified text
  within the frontmost message window.


**More Potential Problems** -- The anonymous administrator
  mentioned above is also concerned about the possibility of
  unintentional "mailstorms" caused by MailManager's automatic reply
  capability. If users are not careful, their automatic replies
  could go to all recipients of a message sent to a large group as
  well as to the sender. In a scenario with a thousand users, five
  of whom happen to have an automatic reply set up, a single message
  to the entire company user list could result in an instant barrage
  of five thousand extraneous messages. Users must be careful to set
  the automatic reply feature to reply only to the sender in order
  to avoid this; in this network administrator's experience, users
  are not always so careful.

  The auto-reply function of the MailManager also lacks the ability
  to refrain from sending multiple "I'm away..." notices to the same
  address. The absence of this feature, available in mainframe
  "vacation" utilities and in the QMConcierge package from
  Information Electronics, will render MailManager less practical
  than it should be. (Information Electronics has moved; see their
  new contact info below.) This factor could also prolong a
  mailstorm like the one described above. Since mail forwarding is
  client-based rather than server-based, a network administrator
  would have to move fast to interrupt such a barrage.


**More Pluses and Minuses** -- QuickMail 3.0 also makes handling
  address books and groups easier. For starters, an easily
  accessible dialog box allows users instantly to add the sender of
  a message to a specific address book or group list. (The applause
  for this feature is likely to be deafening.) Users may now also
  print user lists from their address books and groups, and may more
  easily import and export address book information.

  One shock is that the QuickConference interactive chat feature of
  QuickMail has been neglected. CE's Ned Horvath admits that
  QuickConference has not been a high priority item for continued
  development, as the company has never seen an enormous interest
  among its customers. This is a shame; making QuickConference
  function in a non-modal fashion, which is crucial in today's
  multitasking-heavy work patterns, would probably not have been too
  difficult. This change was promised for the "next" release at
  around the time both 2.5 and 2.6 hit the stands, so its continued
  absence is somewhat disappointing.

  Also on the list of items expected but missing is proper network
  access to online mailboxes for Windows users. CE's boasts of
  universal access to the mailbox are just hot air as long as they
  haven't fixed this. When the Windows client was first developed,
  there was a good reason not to support AppleTalk; the only
  available AppleTalk protocol stacks supported DOS and didn't work
  well (or at all) under Windows. Now that Farallon's PhoneNet PC
  has offered a complete AppleTalk implementation under Windows for
  a while (since before QuickMail 2.6 shipped) it's hard to justify
  the continued absence of a complete Windows client for QuickMail.

  In fact, CE's new Newton client, EnRoute [discussed in a future
  issue -Adam], adds yet another client platform that lacks proper
  network access. There's a better reason for that; EnRoute is
  designed for access by the roving QuickMail user. CE assumed that
  users who can hook their Newton MessagePads to a network can
  probably sit down in front of a Mac instead. A reasonable
  assumption - but we hope CE will find sufficient interest in this
  product that a future networkable version will be worth
  developing.

  Some improvements that won't show up on a feature list include a
  more consistent use of color, and less modality. Our article about
  QuickMail 2.6 in TidBITS-171_ called CE's addition of "Turnerized"
  buttons a "cruel reminder" of the lack of a real color user
  interface. QuickMail still doesn't support color graphics or color
  message text, but at least it has more cleanly colorized interface
  elements. As for modality, we commend CE for using movable modal
  dialogs in several places, such as the search window, so the user
  could switch to another application rather than just wait. The
  non-modal help window can be moved around the screen and left open
  for reference purposes.


**Upgrade Pricing** -- CE Software announced last week that U.S.
  and Canadian customers can upgrade from QuickMail 2.5 or 2.6 to
  QuickMail 3.0 for $12 per user; customers with QuickMail 2.2.3 or
  earlier can upgrade for $15 per user (though, oddly, customers
  having competing mail products may "sidegrade" for just $12 per
  user). CE has elected not to provide discounts for large-volume
  upgrade purchasers or educational institutions. Those who
  purchased QuickMail 2.6 after 13-Jun-94 are entitled to a free
  upgrade. The upgrade kits include a complete set of client and
  server disks, new user manuals, and reference cards. Brand new
  QuickMail 3.0 packages are available immediately as well; a ten-
  user pack retails for $649.


**Concluding Thoughts** -- Lest anyone reach the conclusion from
  this article that QuickMail 3.0 is lousy, I want to stress that CE
  Software is deservedly proud of what they've accomplished in
  assembling this release. We see the MailManager function as good
  start towards automated mail handling, and the searching works as
  well as we've seen in any mail package. According to CE, QuickMail
  development is an ongoing process, not one with an end. Bearing
  that in mind, we look forward to QuickMail 3.1.

    CE Software, Inc. -- 800/523-7638 -- 515/221-1801
      515/221-1806 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

    Information Electronics -- 912/638-1893 -- 912/638-1384 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>

  Information from:
    CE Software propaganda
    Peter J. Kindlmann <[e-mail]>
    Anonymous testers


Reviews/22-Aug-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 15-Aug-94, Vol. 8, #33
    DayStar PowerPro 601 -- pg. 1
    Adobe Dimensions 2.0 -- pg. 26
    KPT Bryce 1.0 -- pg. 29
    PowerPrint 2.5 -- pg. 33
    SoundEdit 16 -- pg. 34

* InfoWorld -- 15-Aug-94, Vol. 16, #33
    Adobe Photoshop 3.0 -- pg. 104


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