All links on this page are "live" links.
Aatrix Software, Inc.
Paycheck Updater 7.5.4
Needs: Aatrix Paycheck 7.5.1x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Additions
- Automatic posting to Aatrix CWPro and exporting to A4 Accounting.
Aatrix Software, Inc.
Payroll Updater 7.5.4
Needs: Aatrix Payroll 7.5.1x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Additions
- Automatic posting to Aatrix CWPro and exporting to A4 Accounting.
Aatrix Software, Inc.
Ultimate Payroll Multi/Single Company 7.5.4
Needs: Ultimate Payroll Multi or Single Company 7.5.1x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Additions
- Automatic posting to Aatrix CWPro and exporting to A4 Accounting.
ACI US
4D Client 1.2.1 b1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Incorrect result after a division of Integers or Longints (Power Mac version).
Notes
- Outstanding Bug: Return character is incorrectly added to search criteria in the Search Editor.
ACI US
4D First 1.2.1 b1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Incorrect alert appearing when not connected to a network (Power Mac version).
ACI US
4D Server 1.2.1 b1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Incorrect connection authorizations for two servers on the same machine (Power Mac version).
ACI US
4th Dimension/4D Runtime 3.2.1 b1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Incorrect alert appearing when not connected to a network (Power Mac version).
- Incorrect result after a division of Integers or Longints (Power Mac version).
- Failure to recognize key disk in second drive.
Notes
- Outstanding Bugs: Installer doesn't eject disk during installation on computers with 2 drives.
- Return character is incorrectly added to search criteria in the Search Editor.
Adobe Consumer Products
DateBook Pro 4.0.1
Needs: DateBook Pro 4.0
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Problem with scheduled alarms not ringing (unconfirmed).
Additions
- Ability to hide the palette.
- A pop-up menu listing all items in a time period when there are more items than can fit in the normal view.
- Searching by keywords "Any" or "All".
- Searching for items with no Keywords or None Priority.
- Drag and Drop of a Preferred Listing from TouchBase into a DateBook Summary field.
- DateBook Pro Extension now runs Power Mac native mode.
- New paging options.
Incompatibilities
- "Mini DateBook Pro" feature is only available from the Finder, not from At Ease.
- SuperPaint 3.5 pop-up palettes will not work properly if more than two items are added to the menubar, which happens when using TouchBase and Datebook. DateBook Pro includes a patcher to correct this.
- Conflict between Mini DateBook Pro and the WindowShade Control Panel: Mini DateBook's title bar will not roll up.
- Incompatibility with HP DeskWriter Driver 2.1 (fixed with the latest driver).
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Adobe Consumer Products
TouchBase Pro 4.01
Needs: TouchBase Pro 4.0
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Additions
- Picture Field.
- Copy Label item in TouchBase menu.
- Ability to hide the palette.
- Preferred Indicators for phone and address.
- Command Key for Time/Date Stamp.
- Improved Drag and Drop from TouchBase to DateBook.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adobe Type Manager 3.8.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
-
- This update was released prior to the publication of the November issue of MSUR but was not included because of insufficient information.
Changes
- Modification to work optimally with Mac Acrobat Reader 2.0.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Akimbo Systems
FullWrite 2.01
Needs: FullWrite 2.0
Update Type: Updater/Patch
-
- The following problems are caused by an incompatibility with System 7.5 or with some of Apple's hardware/software updates to 7.1.
Fixes
- Windows Menu extension failing.
- Crashing or non-operation when accessing Spell Checking or Thesaurus or the Picture extension.
- Crashing on boot, whether or not FullWrite extensions were loaded.
Vendor's ftp site.
Aladdin Systems, Inc.
DropStuff with Expander Enhancer 3.5.2
Needs: -
Update Type: Installer
Changes
- Improved detection of ZIP, gzip and Unix Compress files.
- Improved System 6 compatibility.
Fixes
- "Stuff" command under File menu not working.
Expander Enhancer: Failure to delete all segments after joining.
- Problems expanding ".tar.gz" files.
Additions
- Support for expansion of StuffIt SpaceSaver 3.5 files, ZIP self-extracting archives, QWK files, and tgz files.
- Support for joining StuffIt 2.0 segments.
Vendor's ftp site.
Aladdin Systems, Inc.
StuffIt Expander 3.5.2
Needs: -
Update Type: Installer
Fixes
- Failure to expand some StuffIt archives.
- Problems when decoding MacBinary files on 680x0 Macs.
Additions
- Drag-and-drop (Drag Manager) support.
- Support for Rival, providing automatic virus checking for newly expanded files.
Vendor's ftp site.
Aladdin Systems, Inc.
StuffIt InstallerMaker 2.02
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Auto-open of a User Specified Folder is now optional.
- The "020 or greater" processor condition now includes the PowerPC processor.
- The definition of color capable machines now includes those supporting only 4 bit color and checks for potential to display color, rather than the current setting.
- When installing fonts, the installer now tries to keep them in their original suitcases, without altering their original organization.
- Language Modules changed to ease localization of the "New Folder" button and the installation progress dialog.
Fixes
- Incorrect PostScript printing of some pages from the manual's on-line viewer.
- Conflict between some telecom programs and the B&W installation progress dialog.
- Incorrect display of icons in the Standard Installation and Custom Installation on non-color QuickDraw systems (typically, with System 6.0.x on Macs older than IIci).
- Problem created by trying to stuff an alias without specifying "System 7 only" (setting this condition is now mandatory).
- Problem causing a small number of converted 1.0.1 archives to request a "PowerPC architecture" (contact Aladdin if you have an archive with this problem).
- Incorrect cursor updating in segmented installers, even when repeating installation.
- Font installation failures including damage to the System on Macs running older versions of the System.
- Problems affecting very large archives when deleting or replacing items.
- Problem with cancelling an installation when the standard package has items set, but no name defined.
- Problems with building segmented installers directly to external media.
- Poor pointing by an alias to an installed item.
- Conflict preventing restart by product installers when At Ease is running.
- Some instances of third party system extensions causing multi-segment installers to ask for two different floppy disks simultaneously.
Additions
- Support for Drag Manager and Macintosh Easy Open.
Vendor's ftp site.
Aldus Corp. (Adobe Systems)
TrapWise 2.1 (patched)
Needs: TrapWise 2.1
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Fixes
- Problems with the mirroring, scaling, and/or translating of traps when separating TrapWise 2.1 trapped EPS files from such applications as Aldus PageMaker 5.x or QuarkXPress 3.x.
- Occasional application heap corruption.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
A/UX 3.1.1
Needs: A/UX 3.1, AWS 95 Tuneup 2.0
Update Type: -
-
- To upgrade to 3.1.1, run the AWS 95 Tuneup 2.0. See Apple Workgroup Server 95 Tune-Up 2.0 below.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Apple Built-In Ethernet Extension 1.0f1
Needs: Macs with built-in Ethernet
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
-
- Affected models: 660AV, 840AV, 6100/60, 7100/66, 8100/80, AWGS 6150, 8150, & 9150.
Fixes
- Macintosh and Workgroup Server freezing/data corruption problem on Macs using the MACE Ethernet controller.
Notes
- Problem fixed in the ROM of the 8100/110. See Update Database for full information and procedures.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Apple Multimedia Tuner 2.0.1
Needs: QuickTime 2.0, Sound Manager 3.0.
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Changes
- Improved system reliability under low-memory conditions with Adobe Premier and other multimedia authoring software programs.
-
Version 2.0:
- Improved ability to play sounds under tight memory situations (requires Sound Manager 3.0).
- Improved reliability of Quadra 660AV and 840AV systems running some computation-intensive applications under low-memory conditions.
Fixes
- Problem of Apple Multimedia Tuner sometimes not active while running MacOS pre-System 7.1.
- Occasional improper display of multimedia data read from ISO 9660-only CD-ROM discs.
Notes
- Apple Multimedia Tuner helps some existing applications and multimedia titles that do not properly initiate movie playback to more effectively utilize improvements in QuickTime 2.0. The enhancements provided by the Apple Multimedia Tuner 2.0.1 will be incorporated into future versions of QuickTime and the Sound Manager.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Apple Workgroup Server 95 Tune-Up 2.0
Needs: Apple Workgroup Server 95, A/UX 3.1
Update Type: Installer
-
- Upgrades A/UX from 3.1 to 3.1.1
Changes
- Creator of the file "/etc/fstab" is now TextEditor's signature.
- NFS now maps client user IDs greater than 65533 to the anonymous user "nobody".
- Lpr(1) now supports eight-bit characters and the Grave character " ` " on all LaserWriters.
- Shutdown(1m) command no longer complains about RPC port mapper failures.
- The 'catsearchd' now uses less memory and finishes the initial scan at system startup in less time.
Fixes
- Applications:
- Hanging of A/UX Macintosh environment caused by Timbuktu Pro's TCP/IP connection method.
- AppleSearch indexing failing under heavy loads.
- Colour Central hanging under heavy load.
- Crashing caused by BeHierarchic or NowMenus.
-
AppleTalk:
- Performance degradation due to dropped packets on routerless nets with unique network numbers but identical node numbers.
- Hanging of apps utilizing ADSP due to incomplete read request when no data is available on a half closed session.
-
A/UX File Manager:
- Incorrectly maintaining volume backup time for the virtual UNIX volume " / ".
- File Manager becoming confused by remote NFS filesystems having a space in their name.
- Crashing of the entire Mac environment caused by unrecoverable disk read errors.
- Random failures during Finder copy and saving from applications to the server.
- Poor performance when saving an AppleSingle file on the UNIX filesystem where the resource fork becomes extended.
- Saving failure resulting in the message, "File couldn't be saved because it couldn't be found".
- Incorrect "find" of files or folders with names containing accented vowels or other diacriticals.
-
A/UX Kernel:
- Panicking of A/UX kernel if more than four Ethernet interfaces are installed.
- Console emulator hanging on 'Control-S' stop.
- Kernel bus errors under heavy file I/O.
- Certain I/O operations causing the kernel fault handler to panic the system.
- FIONREAD ioctl causing the system to hang when issued from a background process.
- Corruption of the kernel's asynchronous I/O data structures.
-
UNIX File Locking:
- Problem preventing the lock daemon from detecting contention between a process running on the server and a process running on the client.
- Failure of the lock daemon "rpc.lockd" after a connection timeout with the status monitor on another machine.
- Problem of some signals being ignored on a system with NFS configured while a process was waiting on a lock.
-
Misc:
- Incorrect printing of Lpr(1) via AppleTalk to the LaserWriter 810.
- Aborting an FTP connection causing the A/UX FTP server to shut down the control connection and the session to be lost.
- "cron" daemon crashing after running 17576 jobs.
- Failure of the status daemon "rpc.statd" to continue to operate when it cannot re-establish connections with other servers after a crash.
- Problem of the MacPartition (boot volume) being hidden from all users (including the super-user) under A/UX 3.1 when Password Checking is turned on in A/UX Startup.
- System date spontaneously changing to sometime in 2017 & problem of Restrospect scripts calculating next execution times for a date & time in 2017.
- System crash/hang that can occur when using a remote client to open a FileMaker database that is represented by an "alias", but does not exist.
Additions
- New environment variable to prevent the mistaken translation of bullet characters into the dot character " . " in the UNIX file system.
- Lock daemon now supports version 3 of the lock protocol for PC-NFS clients.
- The new 250MB, 500MB, and 2GB SCSI drives are now listed in "/etc/disktab".
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Chinese Language Kit 1.1.1
Needs: CLK, CLK Updater 1.0
Update Type: -
-
- Use the Chinese Language Kit Updater 1.0 to update Chinese Language Kit from 1.1 to 1.1.1.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Chinese Language Kit Updater 1.0
Needs: Chinese Language Kit 1.x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
-
- Updates the Chinese Language Kit to version 1.1.1.
Changes
- Unspecified changes/fixes to provide compatibility with System 7.5.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Color StyleWriter Pro 1.5.2
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Freezing on Power Mac systems when trying to print to the Color StyleWriter Pro the very first time (often while printing the calibration page).
- Error type -39 printing problem on certain Macs with 32+ MB RAM.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Macintosh Easy Open 1.1.1
Needs: -
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Problem in which some documents cannot be "dropped" on the Document Convertor application (i.e. the Document Convertor application does not "highlight").
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacTCP & MacTCP Admin 2.0.6
Needs: MacTCP 2.0.4
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Changes
- Performance improvement via shorter retransmission delays.
Fixes
- Domain Name Resolver problems and configuration problems.
- Lengthy retransmission timeouts. (See Update Database for miscellaneous configuration changes.)
Notes
- Per MacWEEK, 1/2/95, p18: 2.0.6 does not associate numeric TCP/IP addresses with host computer names as flexibly or reliably as 2.0.4. Users unable to change preferred name servers may have to restart their computers.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Monitor Energy Saver 1.1
Needs: Quadra, Centris, LC III, or Power Mac
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Fixes
- Unspecified problem with the Apple AudioVision 14 Display.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
PowerPC Enabler 1.1.1
Needs: Power Macintosh
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
Additions
- Support for Power Macintosh 8100/110.
Notes
- Version 1.1 was a manufacturing release only. See Update Database for System Enabler chart.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Apple Computer, Inc.
SIMM Stack 4.51
Needs: HyperCard 2.2/HC Player
Update Type: Disk/Complete Files
-
- Changes to version 4.5 except where noted. The standalone "SIMM Stack 4.5.1-App" is also available.
Changes
- Resized card size to fit PowerBook Duo.
- Clarified memory requirements for higher density RAM in the Macintosh II.
- Made the distinction between Quadra 950 and WS 95 re: Parity RAM (the 9th SIMM chip).
- Included cache info under memory info field.
- Combined SIMM Info, Performa, and About buttons into one selection.
Fixes
- Incorrect VRAM and DRAM slot identifications on Macintosh LC 520.
-
Version 4.51:
- "Go Back..." button generating an error message when in "Apple Memory Part Numbers".
- Field "Miscellaneous" in the opening screen of SIMM Stack is now locked.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
APS Technology
APS PowerTools 3.07
Needs: APS PowerTools 3.x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Additions
- Enables the write cache for the Toshiba MK1824 2.5 inch drive.
Incompatibilities
- Formatting a very old SyQuest 44 from a 6100 hangs the bus (this is a bug in the SyQuest ROM). See Update Database for more problems to be fixed in planned release 3.1.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
APS Technology
PowerTools Drive Controls 3.07
Needs: PowerTools Drive Controls 3.x
Update Type: Updater/Patch
Additions
- Support for some older model APS CD-ROM Toshiba drives.
Vendor's ftp site and web site.
Auto*des*sys, Inc.
form*Z 2.6.2
Needs: form*Z 68k, Giant, or Power Mac versions 2.6.1
Update Type: Updater/Patch
-
- Two updaters: 68k/Giant & Power Mac.
Changes
- More accurate volume calculations.
- A clarification to the use of polar coordinates.
Fixes
- Project files missing after crash or reset.
- Various problems with the Coordinates, Prompts, and Layers palettes.
- Printing and Page Preview problems viewing a hidden line image with a dark background.
- Show Axis Marks option being turned off inadvertently.
- Proper setting of Altitude and Azimuth when the light is moved from within the cone of vision while in the wireframe preview.
- Hidden Lines getting caught in an infinite loop.
- Posting of invalid number message when "Redraw Buffers" option not being used.
- Stray lines being drawn when executing an insertion operation with one of the Object Snaps on.
- Problems with Sweep operations and various Modeling tools such as Vector Line, Projection of Solid, Mesh, Derive Line Of Intersection, and Query.
- Problems with Drafting: Show Indicator option, Fillet tool, and Parallel Copy tool.
- Symbol problems with placement, open lines, and symbols containing objects.
- Improper text scaling in imported DXF, IGES, and Illustrator files.
- Many other Export/Import problems, especially with DXF files. See Update Database for details on these fixes.
Some portions copyright © LEVEL 6 Computing 1994, 1995 - Do not duplicate or distribute -
msur@level6.com 5/1/95