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News and updates this week, as we bring you news on Intuit's
   MacInTax fix and Microsoft's efforts to escape Apple's
   QuickTime lawsuit. We also have follow-up information on
   ShrinkWrap and the U.S. Congress's latest attempt to
   legislate cyberspace, along with news of a nifty utility disk
   from Apple and World-Wide Web security problems. We round out
   the issue with reviews of the Epson Color Stylus printer and
   Human Computing's ComicBase Encyclopedia.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/06-Mar-95
    MacInTax: Getting a Fix Intuit
    The Mighty Comic CD-ROM
    The Epson Color Stylus
    Reviews/06-Mar-95

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MailBITS/06-Mar-95
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**Nisus Software Returns** -- We'd like to welcome back Nisus
  Software as a TidBITS sponsor. For those of you who have been
  hiding under a rock recently, we just finished a three-part review
  (starting in TidBITS-263_) of Nisus Writer, the latest version of
  the company's powerful word processor. Their less well-known
  products include Nisus Compact (sadly lacking the capability to
  run Nisus Writer macros, in my opinion, since it's otherwise a
  nicely honed version of Nisus Writer), QUED/M (a powerful
  programmer's editor), Easy Alarms, and LaserTech Fonts.

  The big news at Nisus is that they now have a Web site. Current
  highlights include company contact information, feedback and guest
  book forms, links to Nisus Writer-related information on the Web,
  a page of Nisus Software demos and extra files (including a new
  filter for QuarkXPress that retains formatting, graphics, and even
  defined styles if you've attached a named ruler to the style), and
  a graphical map interface straight from the screen of the
  Macintosh. Information to look for soon includes technical support
  questions and answers, online ordering, and hopefully more tongue-
  in-cheek touches like the one you get when clicking the Trash icon
  or the Apple menu icon.

  It makes sense for a company as international as Nisus Software to
  make heavy use of the Internet and the Web, and their Web site,
  and an accompanying FTP site, are at:

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

  Note that the character before the last "nisus" in the http URL
  above is a tilde. Some mail gateways swap it with other
  characters, and the resulting URLs don't work, causing no end of
  frustration. [ACE]


**System 7.5 Network Startup Disk** -- Apple's finally done what
  Macintosh network managers have been doing for years: created a
  DiskCopy image of a minimal startup disk that boots almost any
  Macintosh **and** puts it on a network. This disk will boot System
  7.5 on any Mac introduced before Nov-94 that has a high density
  drive; it includes a Chooser and Network Control Panel and lets
  the machine connect to a LocalTalk or EtherTalk network. This disk
  may not do everything under the sun, but in a networked
  environment it's a good tool to have handy.

  This URL is long, thanks to the naming scheme used on Apple's
  official support site. Be sure to remove line breaks when you use
  it! [GD]

ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/Macintosh/
Utilities.Software/Network.Access.Disk.7.5.sea.hqx


**ShrinkWrap Update** -- Some TidBITS readers were confused when
  the URL given for the disk-image utility ShrinkWrap 1.2 in
  TidBITS-260_ seemed invalid. Turns out Chad Magendanz,
  ShrinkWrap's developer, has been especially ambitious lately,
  releasing new versions to add capabilities and fix a few problems.
  As of 06-Mar-95, the current version of ShrinkWrap is 1.3.1 and a
  correct URL is:

ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/disk/shrink-wrap-131.hqx

  If this URL seems broken, you might check Info-Mac's /disk
  directory to see if a newer version has been uploaded in the last
  few minutes. These newer releases of ShrinkWrap have fixed the
  problem reported with MODE32, added a new Apple event suite for
  scripting ShrinkWrap (plus a gluefile for use with Frontier),
  included some new disk format and processing options, and feature
  "cool" new About box. [GD]


**Communications Decency Act Follow-Up** -- Several civil
  liberties, privacy, and electronic advocacy organizations are
  coordinating a campaign with the Voters Telecommunications Watch
  to oppose the Communications Decency Act, Senate bill 314,
  outlined in TidBITS-263_. For information and background, check
  out: [GD]

http://www.phantom.com/~slowdog/
gopher://gopher.panix.com/11/vtw/exon/


**John T. Chapman** <[e-mail]> writes:
  A number of postings have shown up recently regarding an Edupage
  article on 21-Feb-95. This article suggests that there is a
  security hole in "Mosaic," which could lead to destruction of a
  number of Web sites.

http://www.educom.edu/edupage.old/edupage.95/edupage-02.21.95

  Unfortunately, this article is somewhat inaccurate: the security
  weakness lies in the NCSA HTTPd server software (version 1.3) for
  Unix Web servers. The client software (Mosaic or otherwise) is not
  responsible for any security problems; in addition, this problem
  does not affect Macintosh Web servers like MacHTTP.

  For more information, check out NCSA's Web page; there is also a
  link to a patch for the code and a patched pre-compiled binary
  version. The URL is:

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/patch_desc.html


**The Demands of Video** -- Microsoft announced that it will
  shortly release to developers version 1.1e of its Video For
  Windows (VFW) software, just a day before a federal judge issued a
  temporary restraining order halting the distribution of VFW 1.1d.
  According to Microsoft, version 1.1e will not contain any of the
  code Apple alleges was originally developed for its QuickTime for
  Windows software and subsequently distributed by Intel and
  Microsoft. (See TidBITS-263_.) Despite Microsoft's earlier claim
  that none of the performance improvements seen in recent versions
  of VFW were related to Apple code, word on the street is that
  version 1.1e can be significantly slower than 1.1d in certain
  situations. [GD]


MacInTax: Getting a Fix Intuit
------------------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  As noted in TidBITS-261_ and TidBITS-264_, MacInTax has exhibited
  problems importing data from other software programs. Several
  TidBITS readers have reported other problems they've encountered
  with this year's version of MacInTax, and these folks certainly
  aren't alone. In recent weeks, Intuit's forums on AOL and
  CompuServe have virtually overflowed with reports and complaints
  from customers. Some people are having problems with the software,
  but others are reporting problems with delivery, failing to get
  through to Intuit's technical support, or with inappropriate
  billing. Some comments have been considered and civil, but - as
  you might expect - a good deal of consternation has been
  displayed. The problems have even made it into the mainstream
  media, appearing in computing and financial forums as well as
  general news.

  On 01-Mar-95, Intuit announced that it is making available at no
  charge revised versions of MacInTax and TurboTax to correct tax
  calculation errors in those programs. The revised version of
  MacInTax is available in Intuit's AOL and CompuServe forums. (The
  update is supposedly available on Intuit's own BBS, but just try
  to find a phone number for it!) But be warned: the update is a
  complete version of the program rather than a small patcher
  application. Weighing in at around 5 MB, the update consists of
  four disk images and copy of Apple's DiskCopy (although we
  recommend you use ShrinkWrap to mount the four images instead). At
  9600 bps, the update takes more than two hours to download. As of
  this writing, there's no official word on whether the update will
  be distributed to the Internet.

  Intuit has also set up a special support number at 800/224-0948 to
  handle requests for the updated versions. They also claim they're
  contacting registered users to inform them of the revision.

  Intuit says the problems in MacInTax only impact about one percent
  of its customers. If you fall into one of the following
  categories, be sure to obtain the new version:

* If you're importing financial data from another program
* If the tax return only has disability income
* If the tax return takes a section 179 deduction for an
  automobile
* If you use the Estimated Tax Worksheet to estimate payments for
  the 1995 tax year
* If the tax return depreciates an asset in the final year of its
  depreciable life

  In an unusual move, Intuit Chairman Scott Cook issued a statement
  apologizing to Intuit customers for the handling of the situation.
  "We have known about most of these errors for three to four
  weeks," he wrote, "and could have notified our customers earlier."
  In addition, Mr. Cook acknowledged that Intuit was aware of the
  MacInTax import bug reported in TidBITS-261_ as early as December,
  1994, but "internal procedures broke down, and the problem was not
  formally communicated within the company until much later." Intuit
  also indicated plans to increase support staffing, and emphasized
  their guarantee to pay any penalties or interest due to the IRS
  resulting from errors in its tax software.

  Though it's rare for a software company to air a product's dirty
  laundry in public, Intuit is apparently taking a lesson from
  recent incidents in the computer industry where companies have
  been dealt huge public-relations blows via online services and the
  media. This incident points out that as the population of computer
  users grows and online access increases, the proportion of
  "impacted users" required for a small problem to turn into a major
  incident is constantly shrinking. Here we've seen a problem that
  Intuit claims impacts about one percent of the customer base for a
  _single_ software product propel the company into front page news.
  Admittedly, with an estimated 1.6 million copies of its tax
  software in the market this season, that's about sixteen thousand
  people. But how many of those users called or tried to contact
  Intuit? How many even knew about the problems? Clearly, the
  actions of a relatively small group had a strong impact on
  Intuit's operations.

    Intuit, Inc. -- 602/295-3080 -- <[e-mail]>
      800/224-0948 (tax updates only)


The Mighty Comic CD-ROM
-----------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  One of my current pet theories - to be tested this summer when I
  go to my ten year high school reunion - is that in many ways, our
  teenage years form the basis for the people we become. Perhaps I
  don't yet have sufficient perspective to truly judge in this
  matter, but another small data point appeared on the graph as I
  played with Human Computing's ComicBase Encyclopedia of Comics
  CD-ROM. Human Computing bills the $69 CD-ROM as "the ultimate
  reference source for comic book collectors," and although far from
  ultimate, it does an overall good job.

  As a teenager, I collected comics. I didn't do it for the
  investment value (my best friend in high school had a tremendous
  collection along those lines), but because I was intrigued by the
  characters and the storylines and, to a lesser extent, the
  artwork. At some point, I outgrew my fascination with these
  fantastic worlds, abetted perhaps by the price increases that made
  35 cent comics cost a dollar or more. I was also bothered by the
  increasingly dark subject matter that shattered much of the
  fantasy and humor I had grown to appreciate. But, a few years ago
  when I moved from Ithaca to Seattle, I brought my two large boxes
  of comics with me, most of them nicely bagged and organized.

  Checking out the ComicBase Encyclopedia then, was a trip back in
  time as I browsed through the descriptions of comics from before,
  during, and after my years of collecting. I read about the
  characters whose stories I'd devoured and looked at a number of
  the representative cover images from over 2,000 titles. Many of
  the titles come from companies I'd never dreamt of beyond my
  limited universe of Marvel and DC comics. The range is impressive,
  and for those who perhaps do have an interesting collection, the
  ComicBase Encyclopedia includes pricing information for over
  45,000 near-mint condition issues. You can even see a graph of how
  the price of any given issue has varied over the last four years.
  Also included in the list of the issues within a title are
  milestones that helped me remember what issues I have - things
  like first appearances of specific heroes or villains, deaths,
  crossovers with other titles, and origin myths.

  Within the descriptions, hypertext links take you (somewhat
  sluggishly since the browser is written in HyperCard) to other
  appropriate title descriptions. Or at least they usually do -
  clicking on any of the characters in the X-Men description moves
  you to a description of another title in which that character
  stars, with the exception of the Beast, whose link jumps to "666:
  The Mark of the Beast," a completely different title from a
  completely different company. It's often a bit unclear where the
  links will end up, since multiple links tend to use the same name,
  but can point to different titles. After a while, though, I
  stopped worrying about where I was going and enjoyed the ride. The
  descriptions are well-written, and as much as I can remember,
  accurate. I only found one typo, and if I'd remembered where it
  was, I could have fixed it, since an Edit Title Descriptions
  command unlocks the text fields for editing.

  You can browse forward and backward alphabetically (but oddly,
  there's no Back command to return to a card after following a link
  from it), and you're given a good interface for finding specific
  titles and any of the milestones, as well as any piece of text in
  any description. However, the window for Titles (for finding a
  title), although modeless, won't stay on screen after you select
  an entry and click the OK button. If the window remained on
  screen, it would be much faster to use as an ad hoc index to the
  encyclopedic information.

  Although the ComicBase Encyclopedia of Comics is essentially a
  massive 9 MB database of text descriptions and pricing information
  (the 175 MB of cover pictures are stored separately on the CD-
  ROM), it let me down as a database. I would have liked to use
  typical database querying and categorizing functions, which would
  help me with exploring genres and companies I know nothing about
  or, for example, to query for all comic titles published between
  1978 and 1983 by Marvel (such a search and reporting feature is
  slated for the next release). And, speaking of dates, I think the
  data field I missed the most was the date of publication, although
  this is apparently the most common request Human Computing gets,
  so they'll be working on satisfying it in the future as well.
  Without knowing when a comic was published, it's difficult to
  figure out where it fits into a genre or comments on a current
  society (and believe me, comics often contain rather biting
  commentary). Sometimes you can tell this from the cover image, but
  it's not always easy.

  The ComicBase Encyclopedia does a fine job, but it ultimately left
  me wanting more. I'd like to see more in-depth information on
  specific characters and situations - the one-screen descriptions
  often tantalize more than satisfy. I did run across entries for
  titles like the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master
  Edition," and information from a book like that would be
  tremendously welcome in expanding the textual and graphical
  content of the CD. Of course, that involves getting the Marvel
  media empire to help, but hey, I never said my suggestions were
  easy.

  For truly serious collectors, Human Computing also offers a $149
  ComicBase CD-ROM that melds the encyclopedic information with a
  collector's system for managing a comic collection. (This CD is
  available as an $89 upgrade from the ComicBase Encyclopedia, and
  there's also a six-disk Personal Edition for those without CD-ROM
  drives.) It lets you track a collection's value over the last four
  years, print price labels and reports, and generate checklists of
  missing issues, among other features.

  So if you want to travel back into the alternate reality of the
  comic book universe without removing your books from their bags,
  check out the ComicBase Encyclopedia. It's specialized, sure, but
  it's neat for anyone who's ever enjoyed comics. Hardware-wise, you
  need a color-capable Mac (though a color monitor isn't necessary -
  there are black and white versions of the cover images), 2.5 MB of
  free memory, 10 MB free on your hard disk, and System 6.0.7 or
  later.

  And, for the obligatory Internet link, I searched for information
  on comic books and found a lot of relatively detailed, but random,
  material, as is common on the net. Check it out in Yahoo's Comic
  Book page:

http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Entertainment/Comics/Comic_Books/

    Human Computing -- 408/774-9016 -- <[e-mail]>


The Epson Color Stylus
----------------------
  by Robert Kaneko <[e-mail]>

  This Christmas, my wife sent me on a scavenger hunt. As I followed
  the clues, I finally ended up in her closet and found a big,
  beautiful box hidden beneath some clothes. Inside was the color
  printer I'd been telling her about for the last six months, the
  Epson Color Stylus. I hurried to open the box and start playing
  with my new toy.


**What You Get** -- Inside the box I found the printer, two ink
  cartridges, manuals, and samples of Epson's special coated papers.
  I also found a disk with a Windows 3.1 printer driver. I found no
  cables, and no Macintosh printer drivers. (The Macintosh drivers
  should be shipping in the box by now, but it wouldn't hurt to
  double-check before purchasing. You can also download the drivers
  from CompuServe.)

  The printer has both a parallel port for use with IBM-compatible
  machines and a serial port for use with Macintoshes. The serial
  port uses the mini-DIN 8 connector common on the Macintosh instead
  of the 9-pin or 25-pin serial ports standard on most PC-based
  printers. I took this as a good sign; I figured it meant the
  machine was designed with the Mac in mind. It also has an
  expansion slot designed for alternative interface cards. The main
  one that might interest Macintosh users is the LocalTalk board
  that lets you use the printer on an AppleTalk network.
  Unfortunately, the board costs $240, nearly half the printer's
  price.


**Setup** -- Setting up the printer was straightforward. Following
  the instructions, I assembled the parts for the sheet feeder and
  installed the ink cartridges. This printer, like the HP DeskWriter
  560c and Apple StyleWriter 2400, uses two separate cartridges: one
  for black and one for cyan, yellow, and magenta. This make
  simplifies setup but increases the cost of consumables; if a
  non-black color runs out, you have to throw away whatever is left
  of the other two. The Color Stylus uses the same serial cable as
  the ImageWriter II or the StyleWriter. I've been using the cable
  that came with my StyleWriter II and have had no problems; however
  a number of users on CompuServe have reported printing errors
  unless they used a certain serial cable from Belkin Components
  (see below for contact information). The next step involved
  installing the software. The installer gives you the option to
  install the drivers for a direct-connect printer, a network
  printer, or both. The final step is to run the calibration
  software, which aligns the color and black print heads.


**Test Systems** -- I tested the Epson Color Stylus with a variety
  of software and hardware. According to the documentation, the
  Stylus works with any Mac from the Plus on up with System 6.0.7 or
  later. When used with System 6.0.7 it requires a minimum of 4 MB
  of RAM; when used with System 7 and up it requires a minimum of 5
  MB. I used a Mac LC with 10 MB of RAM and an Applied Engineering
  40 MHz Transwarp accelerator (IIfx-class machine) and a PowerBook
  160 with 10 MB of RAM and RAM Doubler installed. The software I
  tried printing from includes Word 5.1, ClarisWorks 2.1, Photoshop
  2.5.1, PageMaker 5.0.1, Print Shop Deluxe 1.0, and a variety of
  smaller packages.


**Printing Options** --  Epson usually leaves writing Macintosh
  driver software up to third parties, but for the Color Stylus they
  wrote a driver. I've been using driver version 1.10e, which offers
  control over a variety of features: resolution (180, 360, or 720
  dpi), ink saturation (from light to dark), paper type (plain, 360
  coated, or 720 coated), paper size (letter, legal, envelope, or
  custom), print method (monochrome or color), print mode
  (microweave or high speed), and dither pattern (B&W, Pattern 1,
  Pattern 2, or Diffused). The defaults - 360 dpi, plain paper,
  letter, color, high speed, diffused. - work great for most general
  printing, although microweave mode delivers much better graphics
  quality.


**Not Quite Ready for Prime Time** -- The printer works well with
  most of the software I tested, but I did run into a few problems.
  First, the driver software is slow. It felt like working with the
  first driver for the original StyleWriter. The speed problem was
  especially pronounced when printing at 720 dpi. A single-page
  Photoshop graphic taking nearly an hour to print. General text, or
  mixed text and graphics documents printed faster, but the printer
  still sat for long periods waiting while the computer prepared the
  information. Having a Power Mac will not speed up printing because
  most print routines run in emulation.

  I also ran into a problem with borders when printing from Print
  Shop Deluxe, although to be fair, this may be Print Shop's
  problem. Pages would print shifted to the bottom and to the left.
  In Epson's defense, this is nothing like the print problems Print
  Shop Deluxe had with the DeskWriter 5.0 drivers, but it is still
  annoying.

  The final problem I encountered was that my Macintosh occasionally
  locked up when printing in 720 dpi mode from Photoshop. This
  problem only occurred on the LC, and I think it was a memory
  problem since the PowerBook (RAM Doubled to 20 MB) never had
  trouble.


**New Year's Resolutions** -- These problems aside, the Epson
  Color Stylus is worth a look. The output, although slow, is as
  good as or better than Apple's or HP's inkjet printers. The Color
  Stylus also boasts a feature no other printer in its class can
  match: true 720 x 720 dpi resolution! To understand the
  significance of this, think what an increase in resolution does
  for printout quality. Resolution tends to be a geometric factor -
  the density afforded by an increase in dots-per-inch is greater
  than the raw numbers would lead you to believe. For instance, the
  original LaserWriters printed at 300 x 300 dpi, which amounts to
  90,000 dots in every square inch. NeXT's first laser printer
  printed at 400 x 400 dpi, which amounts to 160,000 dots in every
  square inch. That's nearly double the resolution of Apple's
  original LaserWriter, despite the apparent increase of only 100
  dots-per-inch. Today's LaserWriters print at 600 x 600 dpi. That's
  360,000 dots per square inch: four times the resolution of the
  original printers from Apple. In 720 dpi mode, the Color Stylus
  produces an image with 518,400 dots in every square inch, an
  amazing improvement in image quality. Text looks sharp, high-
  resolution bitmapped graphics look nearly photographic, and
  gradient blends (like those produced by Adobe Illustrator or
  Macromedia FreeHand) are smoother.


**What's the Catch?** The 720 dpi pages require a special coated
  paper from Epson, and the driver is QuickDraw-only, which limits
  the printer's utility for people who working with PostScript
  graphics. However, if you want this printer, the limitations may
  be surmountable.

  I found that the printer produced very acceptable 720 dpi images
  on coated paper from Hewlett-Packard designed for DeskWriters. In
  fact, the HP glossy paper produced images that looked almost like
  photographs. Epson does not yet have a glossy paper for the Color
  Stylus.

  PostScript output is available if the printer is used in
  conjunction with a PostScript software interpreter such as TScript
  from TeleTypesetting. (I assume Freedom of the Press from ColorAge
  would also work although I didn't test it.) The results are
  phenomenal. The Color Stylus, in conjunction with TScript, uses
  the driver's diffusion dither instead of the traditional
  PostScript halftone, which smooths the graphics even further.
  Printing through TScript's PostScript interpreter also seems to
  clear up the border problems with Print Shop Deluxe, providing a
  nice work-around. However, you do need to be patient when using a
  PostScript interpreter. Printing becomes a multi-step process
  because you must select the LaserWriter driver in the Chooser,
  save your document as a PostScript file, select the Color Stylus
  driver in the Chooser, launch TScript, and then print the
  PostScript file. The software can create a huge spool file while
  printing - one of my typical PageMaker files took an average of 25
  MB of disk space per page when printing through TScript. The
  results were worth it, in my opinion.


**The Last Word** -- The Color Stylus is a good general purpose
  color printer. At 360 dpi, its print quality equals and often
  surpasses that of its nearest competition: the Apple StyleWriter
  2400 and HP DeskWriter 560c. The grayscale output is better than
  what the StyleWriter II can do, and has none of the banding
  problems. At 720 dpi, the Color Stylus's print quality is
  unmatched by anything in its price class. An added bonus is the
  ability to use this printer with a Mac or Windows machine. The
  driver is slow and there are a few lingering problems, but
  hopefully Epson will correct them soon. If they do, the Color
  Stylus will move from being a good printer to a great one. The
  current street price is between $500 and $550. If you are
  currently in the market for a color inkjet, I recommend that you
  consider the Epson Color Stylus.

    Epson -- 800/873-7766
    Belkin Components -- 800/223-5546 -- 310/898-1100
      310/898-1111 (fax)
    TeleTypesetting -- 617/734-9700 -- 617/734-3974 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Reviews/06-Mar-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 20-Feb-95, Vol. 9, #8
    TrueAccess 1.0 -- pg. 35
    Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000 1.5.2 -- pg. 35
    Batch It! 1.0 -- pg. 36

* MacWEEK -- 27-Feb-95, Vol. 9, #9
    Network Operating Systems -- pg. 27
      AppleShare 4.0.2 68K
      Microsoft Windows NT 3.5
      Novell NetWare 4.1
    Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS

* InfoWorld -- 27-Feb-94, Vol. 17, #9
    Newton MessagePad 120 -- pg. 105
    PathWay Access 3.0 for Macintosh -- pg. 106
    PathWay Print Redirector 1.0 for Macintosh -- pg. 106


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