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Welcome to 1996! In this issue we being you news on updates to RAM
   Doubler, Fetch, and Netscape Navigator, plus some pre-Macworld
   highlights and info on Roaster, the first Java development system
   for the Mac. Also, Adam reviews recent developments with the
   Newton MessagePad, Tonya takes a look at the Macintosh Software
   Update Report, and we round out the issue with an overview of two
   new Internet scripting technologies for the Mac.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/08-Jan-96
    Newton News
    Level-headed Help from LEVEL 6 Computing
    Macs Scripting the Net
    Reviews/08-Jan-96

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MailBITS/08-Jan-96
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**Web Issues on Hiatus** -- Due to life changes and moving on the
  part of Bill Murphy, who translates TidBITS issues from setext to
  HTML for posting on the Dartmouth site, recent issues haven't
  appeared there. Bill will resume the translations soon, and we're
  working on other ways of providing TidBITS on the Web. In the
  meantime, you might want to check out TidBITS in HTML format on
  the PathFinder site at: [ACE]

http://pathfinder.com/pathfinder/pulse/hsw/tidbits/tidbitsnew.html


**Please Feed the Nerds** -- Macworld Expo attendees may wish to
  check out BMUG's free rent-a-nerd service. You can participate as
  either a nerd or as a user seeking assistance. "Rented" nerds
  provide guidance for dealing with the hype and confusion inherent
  in an Expo the size of a European principality, and they may
  accompany users out on the show floor. Nerds mainly earn
  gratitude, but pizza is also considered appropriate payment. To
  find out more, visit the User Group Room in Moscone's North Hall,
  Room 121. [TJE]


**RAM Doubler 1.6.1 Update** -- Late last month, Connectix
  released an updater to version 1.6.1 of RAM Doubler. This update
  addresses a freeze during boot on some configurations using SCSI
  Manager 4.3.1, and is compatible with ALSoft DiskExpressII 2.20
  and the PowerBook 190. Like previous RAM Doubler patches, this
  updater brings both the version of RAM Doubler currently installed
  and your master disk to the current verison; see the ReadMe file
  for instructions and additional information. [GD]

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cfg/ram-doubler-161-updt.hqx


**Netscape 2.0b5 Available** -- Netscape released version 2.0b4 of
  Netscape Navigator late last month, but we aren't going to talk
  about it much since 2.0b5 just appeared. Version 2.0b5 expires
  01-Mar-96 and does not include the much-delayed support for Java,
  although it does fix file corruption problems with some FTP
  downloads and troubles with PowerBook 5300s. The release also
  rolls in a "What's New" feature for bookmarks (letting you check
  for outdated or changed bookmarks), regains compatibility with
  System 7.0, and incorporates a number of user interface changes
  (some of which have met with mixed response). This release also
  purports to be more stable, although that claim is not evidenced
  on my machines. The archive is about 2500K; please see the release
  notes if you're thinking about using this release. [GD]

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/2.0Beta5/mac/netscape-2.0b5.sit.hqx
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/mac-2.0b5.html


**Java Roaster to Ship** -- Natural Intelligence has announced
  plans to ship Developer Release 1 of Roaster, the first available
  integrated Java development system for the Macintosh, this week at
  the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Roaster lets Macintosh
  developers write and test Java applets on Power Macs, and Natural
  Intelligence plans to ship a 68K version soon. No publicly
  available Web browsers for the Mac support Java yet, but Roaster
  includes a runtime environment for Java applets, and applets can
  (and should) be tested on other platforms with Java-capable
  clients. The company's Web site says Roaster will be available as
  a subscription for $299 (although their press release says $399),
  which will include unlimited tech support and free updates through
  the second commercial release of Roaster. [GD]

http://www.natural.com/


**Fetch 3.0.1b1** -- In TidBITS-307_ we mentioned that Fetch 3.0
  has problems on 68000-based Macs (the Plus, SE, Classic, and
  PowerBook 100) and truncates some files uploaded on machines
  running Open Transport. Jim Matthews has released version 3.0.1b1
  of Fetch, which addresses these problems, plus includes a setting
  to bypass Fetch's Open Transport code (using MacTCP code instead)
  in the event other problems appear with Open Transport. If you
  experienced problems with Fetch 3.0, check out this release. [GD]

ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/software/mac/Fetch_3.0.1b1.hqx


**Metrowerks Programming Kit and Promo** -- If you've wanted to
  learn to program the Macintosh but didn't know where to start,
  Metrowerks has something to think about. "Discover Programming for
  the Macintosh" contains a complete working copy of CodeWarrior for
  68K Macs plus the text of three books, Learn C on the Macintosh,
  Second Edition and Learn C++ on the Macintosh (both by long-time
  Mac programming author Dave Mark), plus Jim Trudeau's Programming
  Starter Kit, which I recommend as a solid introduction to Mac
  Toolbox programming with CodeWarrior. The books are on a CD-ROM in
  Adobe Acrobat format, along with four Apple Guides that work with
  CodeWarrior and Netscape Navigator. This product replaces
  Metrowerks' Programming Starter Kit, and is priced at $79. If you
  pick this bundle up at Macworld this week, you get paper copies of
  Learn C on the Macintosh and Tricks of the Mac Game Programming
  Gurus, plus a CodeWarrior t-shirt and a Metrowerks mouse pad. [GD]

http://www.metrowerks.com/products/books/


Newton News
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  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Over the past few months, several interesting events have happened
  in the world of the Newton, and since no Newton experts have
  stepped forward to discuss them, I figured I would. I have and use
  a Newton, one of the original MessagePads that were sold for about
  $199 a year or so back. I like my Newton, but I only use it for
  one thing - keeping track of present lists in Notion, which came
  with the bundle I bought. With Tonya's birthday in late September,
  mine in mid November, and Christmas in late December, I use the
  Newton about four months each year. I don't keep contact or event
  information on it since I seldom go anywhere, and when I do travel
  I take a PowerBook with Now Contact and Now Up-to-Date files on
  it.

  In some sense then, I'm the perfect Newton user. I don't pretend
  it's a computer, I don't expect it to act like a computer, and I
  don't expect Apple to treat it as a computer. It's a simple
  organizational tool for me, since I don't lose it during the eight
  months when I sporadically add items to the present lists.

  Apple's main Newton news is that they've released version 2.0 of
  the Newton operating system to fairly impressive fanfare. Newton
  2.0 won the Best of COMDEX award in the Operating System category
  at November COMDEX in Las Vegas. For that, Apple deserves credit,
  especially on a platform that hasn't received widespread acclaim,
  despite having been lampooned in Doonesbury, the Simpsons, and
  many other places for its handwriting recognition gaffes.

  Newton 2.0 reportedly improves the Newton's handwriting
  recognition significantly, so much so that people reported ceasing
  to use Graffiti, a utility that required you to modify slightly
  the way you wrote a few characters in exchange for almost perfect
  recognition. Newton 2.0 can now switch into landscape mode, which
  is no doubt more appropriate for certain applications. Other
  enhancements include a better human interface, a "comb-style"
  correction picker (to make correcting a single misinterpreted
  letter easier), better performance, more consistent treatment of
  unrecognized "ink," and an optional keyboard for more serious text
  input.

  The catch, of course, is that Newton 2.0 only works with the
  MessagePad 120, and not with any previous versions of the
  MessagePad. Current MessagePad 120 owners can have their
  MessagePads upgraded to Newton 2.0 for $109 (call the Apple
  Assistance Center at the number below), but owners of all other
  versions of the MessagePad can take comfort only in a $100 rebate
  on a new MessagePad 120 with the new operating system (call the
  Newton Information Service at the number below).

  I admit it's somewhat disappointing to see Apple charging for the
  upgrade for MessagePad 120 owners and only giving older MessagePad
  owners a $100 rebate, but I think that's my computer experience
  talking. When you buy a normal appliance, you're lucky if you get
  any rebate upgrading to a better model, and in most cases I doubt
  you'd get much. The simple fact of the matter is that the Newton I
  have now does what I want it to do acceptably, and that's good
  enough for the amount of money I paid. Those who bought the
  original MessagePad at full price and use it constantly for
  everything it can do - much as one might use a computer - are
  probably far more irritated than I about the upgrade policies.

  So should you spend money on the upgrade or a new MessagePad? The
  answer depends on how you use your Newton. If it's essentially a
  computer to you, then yes, you will likely find the new
  functionality compelling. If, however, you're more like me and use
  the Newton as a secondary appliance, then, no, I don't think you
  should upgrade, assuming you're happy with your Newton. There are
  features I'd want in the Newton, but mostly I'd like to see
  different form factors and case designs. That's when I'll spend
  the money and retire my elderly MessagePad.

  For an article from the December Apple Directions newsletter about
  Newton 2.0, check the URL below.

http://dev.info.apple.com/appledirections/dec95/newton.html

    Apple Assistance Center -- 800/767-2775
    Newton Information Service -- 800/909-0260


Level-headed Help from LEVEL 6 Computing
----------------------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  Do you support Macs for a living? If you do, you probably spend
  too much of your valuable time keeping track of software updates,
  time that otherwise could be spent using the updates or playing
  around with HTML. Kevin Garrett once supported Macs for a living,
  and he became so frustrated with trying to keep up with software
  updates that he started the Macintosh Software Update Report. The
  Update Report is a subscription-based, bimonthly newsletter
  published by LEVEL 6 Computing, and it uses a variety of media to
  cover the latest on updates from over 800 companies.

  The Update Report narrowly focuses on updates - you won't find any
  advertising, humor columns, or vaporware announcements here.
  Instead, you'll find tightly written text explaining what products
  have been updated, when each update came out, and what each update
  changed. Each "issue" includes a paper newsletter, plus a disk of
  setext files that you can index and a HyperCard stack of vendor
  information.

  Each printed newsletter lists updates from the past few months and
  gives information about the changes. For instance, by randomly
  flipping through the October 1995 issue, I learned that: Astrobyte
  updated BeyondPress, a QuarkXPress to HTML converter; Connectix
  released Speed Doubler 1.0.2; and Natural Intelligence released
  DragStrip 2.0.1.

  Subscribers also receive a disk that contains one setext file for
  each update listed in the newsletter. (A setext file is a normal
  text file in a specific "structure enhanced" format. TidBITS also
  uses the setext format - send email to <[e-mail]> for
  more information.) The setext files contain the same information
  as the newsletter, but sometimes go into more depth. Setext files
  lend themselves to being read in a viewer that lets you easily
  jump between topics and sub-topics within all setext files stored
  in a particular Macintosh folder (you might put them in a folder
  called "Update Report"). A viewer also enables you to search among
  the setext files stored in a folder.

  The Update Report comes with Easy View, a popular viewer from Akif
  Eyler (see TidBITS-194_ for more on Easy View). When a new issue
  arrives, you can add the new setext documents to your Update
  Report folder, and view the new documents along with older ones
  that you've kept around. As more and more issues arrive, you
  squirrel away the setext files and slowly develop a large,
  searchable database that records changes in software versions.

  Easy View was the cat's pajamas for text distribution back in
  1992, and although it's excellent for what it does, electronic
  publications these days need a Web presence. The Update Report is
  on the Web, with samples for anyone to browse, and with a special
  section for subscribers. The special section is updated frequently
  (recent updates have been weekly), so subscribers need not wait
  for the bi-monthly issues. Although the subscribers' section is
  nicely organized by date, it would be nice to see it also offer a
  searching capability.

http://www.webcom.com/level6/

  Each issue's disk also comes with an updated HyperCard stack
  listing vendor contact information, including how to find vendor
  BBSs and sites on online services such as AOL and the Internet.
  The stack currently has about 700 entries. The contact information
  is also available to everyone on LEVEL 6's Web site, complete with
  lots of live links. Large contact databases on the Web are nothing
  new, and I think it's good to have more than one entity
  maintaining a Macintosh-oriented contact database. My favorite
  contact database is still at The Well Connected Mac, a Web site
  devoted to "everything Macintosh."

http://www.macfaq.com/vendor.html

  That said, do note that LEVEL 6 checks their contact information
  to make sure it's accurate; The Well Connected Mac doesn't do any
  such checking.

  Although the Update Report has a friendly feel to it, new users
  won't understand much of the terminology. That's okay, because the
  publication is designed for savvy support people who need to know
  technical details. The Update Report's pricing reflects its
  intended audience. Casual Macintosh users won't pay $150 per year
  for such a resource, but businesses who offer technical support or
  consulting services may find their $150 well spent. Subscriptions
  cost an additional $25 for readers outside the United States.
  LEVEL 6 also offers "special pricing" to self-employed
  consultants, offers Web-only pricing, and can arrange site or
  volume discounts.

  The Macintosh Software Update Report is just over a year old, and
  its strengths lie in its technical content and mix of paper and
  electronic media. Although the publication may be most useful to
  those who have fast Web access, people without much Internet
  access will still find it a useful tool. Also, people who want (or
  require) paper get paper, but the text also comes on disk and can
  be searched.

    LEVEL 6 Computing -- 818/888-0675 -- 818/888-5635 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Macs Scripting the Net
----------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  If you've heard anything at all about hot, emerging technologies
  shaping the future of the Internet, you've heard about Java, a
  platform-independent programming language developed by Sun
  Microsystems. Java has been licensed by everyone from Netscape to
  Microsoft for use in their Internet products, and offers the
  possibility of smart, distributed "applets" that can be run on
  virtually any platform.

http://java.sun.com/

  One reason Java is such a hot commodity is that it is independent
  of platforms and operating systems. In theory, the same Java
  applet will run unchanged on a Macintosh, a Windows machine, a
  Unix box, or almost any other platform. Java accomplishes this
  trick by being written and compiled to a rather sophisticated
  Virtual Machine - essentially a description of a single, generic
  computer. Anyone wanting to run Java applets must provide an
  environment that behaves like that Virtual Machine. In a sense,
  computers running Java applets are providing an emulation layer in
  much the same way SoftWindows lets a Macintosh run Windows
  applications, with the crucial difference that Java was actually
  _designed_ with this in mind.


**Bitter Beans** -- So far as Mac users concerned, there are three
  problems with Java right now. The first is that it's vaporware.
  The average Macintosh user has no way to run Java applets.
  Netscape has yet to include Java support in the Macintosh beta
  releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 (although it has included
  preliminary releases of JavaScript, a lightweight scripting
  language based on Java). Other browsers and products may
  eventually support Java, but as of this writing none appear to be
  close to market.

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

  The second problem is that Java is a sophisticated, object-
  oriented programming language with roots in Unix and C++. Java is
  not friendly to the average user. Although Natural Intelligence
  has just released a Java development environment for the Macintosh
  (and both Metrowerks and Symantec have announced plans to produce
  Java tools for the Mac), there's no way for the average Mac user
  to take advantage of this technology. In a sense, an Internet user
  getting excited about Java is like a dancer getting exciting about
  a communications satellite. Sure, the satellite might let the
  dancer receive an important phone call, or watch a concert halfway
  around the world. But the dancer isn't interested in the
  satellite; the dancer's interested in things the satellite makes
  possible. Similarly, Internet users aren't going to be any more
  interested in Java than they are in C++, but they might be
  interested in things Java can make possible.

  The third problem is that Java is not a Macintosh technology. Mac
  users like their computers because of the things that distinguish
  them from other systems. Java supports only its Virtual Machine,
  which means that distinctive Macintosh technologies like
  PlainTalk, Speech Recognition, QuickDraw GX, and countless others
  will not be supported by Java directly. If we want to use these
  Macintosh technologies over the Internet, we'll have to look
  elsewhere.

  Fortunately, there are places to look. Macintosh developers
  haven't been sitting on their hands watching Java go by - they're
  producing solutions that both take advantage of distinctive
  Macintosh technologies and help make the possibilities of the
  Internet more accessible to Macintosh users.


**MacBird** -- In May of 1995, Dave Winer made UserLand Frontier a
  free product, focussing on the Internet and the Web community.
  (See TidBITS-279_ and TidBITS-301_.) Frontier is a sophisticated
  and robust OSA-compliant Macintosh scripting system; since its
  public release, Frontier has become a standard for scripting CGI
  applications on Mac Web servers.

  One common criticism of Frontier has been its lack of integrated
  interface tools. Unlike HyperCard, in which users create and
  manipulate fields and buttons onscreen, Frontier provides almost
  no interface tools save the ability to create and share menus with
  some Frontier-savvy applications. Frontier let you do powerful
  things, but it was mostly faceless.

  Around the beginning of the year, however, Dave Winer made
  available the first test release of MacBird, a script-based
  interface designer targeted at the Web community. At this time,
  MacBird relies on Frontier and requires a working knowledge of
  UserTalk scripting to be useful. (There's also virtually no
  documentation; remember this is a _test_ release.) However,
  MacBird is interesting as a proof-of-concept and very likely
  points down one road of Macintosh scripting on the Internet.

http://www.hotwired.com/staff/userland/macbird/

  MacBird itself serves two functions. It is used to create and
  design "cards," which are onscreen windows holding buttons,
  fields, graphics, and other objects. These objects can have
  scripts associated with them, so pushing a button can trigger
  anything that could be carried out by a script. Cards are saved as
  individual documents, and basic cards are quite small, usually
  less than 10K.

  MacBird also serves as a helper application that works with a Web
  browser. When you click on a MacBird card on a Web site somewhere,
  it's downloaded and opened by MacBird, giving you access to the
  controls and interface in the card. The possibilities are wide-
  ranging: two of Dave's example cards are a four-function
  calculator (the obligatory scripting demo on the Internet, it
  seems), and a card that takes your order for Chinese food and
  sends it off via Eudora. A more humorous example that quickly
  appeared after MacBird's release is a random Zen koan generator
  from Brent Simmons <[e-mail]>, but Finger clients and
  Web page tools are quickly beginning to appear as well. Brent has
  kindly set up a temporary server to store MacBird cards as well as
  a brief guide to authoring for MacBird; if you're at all
  interested, this is a mandatory site.

http://www.wrldpwr.com/macbird/

  Right now MacBird is only valuable to experienced Frontier
  scripters, and most discussion is taking place on the Frontier-
  Talk mailing list. But MacBird is literally a brand new tool with
  the potential to bring Macintosh-specific scripting technologies
  to life on the Internet in a compelling way. As of this writing, I
  don't think anyone knows whether MacBird will be a freeware or
  shareware product, a commercial endeavor, or something else
  entirely.

http://www.hotwired.com/staff/userland/aretha/mailinglist_406.html


**Marionet** -- If Java is for hard-core developers and MacBird is
  only for Frontier aficionados, what's out there for the rest of
  us? One answer is Marionet, a new Internet protocol tool from
  Allegiant Technologies, the same folks that make SuperCard. A
  public beta of Marionet that expires on 31-Jan-96 is available
  from Allegiant's Web site; the package includes the Marionet
  application and materials, plus preliminary documentation.

http://www.allegiant.com/marionet/

  Marionet is a faceless background application that works as an
  intermediary between the Internet and dedicated applications on
  the client machine, such as a SuperCard project, a HyperCard
  stack, or a Director presentation. Via Marionet, these
  applications can gain access to Internet services, integrating
  them directly into the application in whatever manner seems
  appropriate. Using Marionet, it should be possible to write a Web
  browser or newsreader in HyperCard, a custom email client, a
  mailing list manager, a set of Web authoring tools, or something
  else entirely. Marionet allows authors to combine direct Internet
  services with the interface and multimedia capabilities of
  authoring environments, without having to learn C or Toolbox-level
  Macintosh programming.

  Marionet supports a number of protocols, including HTTP, FTP,
  SMTP, NNTP, DNS, and Gopher searches, in addition to its own
  custom "chat" protocol which lets authors to create real-time
  collaborative applications via the Internet. Marionet can handle
  asynchronous connections (so an application could upload files and
  get new mail at the same time), and also allows synchronous
  connections for finicky or specialized operations. Marionet can
  serve a number of applications at the same time, so a HyperCard
  stack could get news postings while an AppleScript resolved a list
  of IP numbers into real site names. One of Marionet's strengths is
  the comparative ease of setting up sessions, handling data
  returned, and using that information directly within the client
  application. There's not much obfuscating syntax to deal with, and
  Marionet allows scripts to be simple yet surprisingly flexible.

  Marionet's potential is undeniable, but there are potential rough
  spots. Marionet's AppleScript support is still in development and
  shouldn't be considered final. Applications such as FileMaker Pro
  or Excel that would have to rely on AppleScript to communicate
  with Marionet could be in for some surprises when the final
  version becomes available. Also, though Allegiant supplies an XCMD
  for applications like HyperCard and Director to interface with
  Marionet, Marionet is clearly designed with SuperCard in mind. The
  Marionet XCMD takes advantage of specific aspects of the SuperTalk
  scripting language that aren't available in other applications,
  forcing them to rely on global variables and receive responses via
  an Apple event. Though these mechanisms are certainly workable,
  they are rather awkward and make users of other authoring
  applications feel as if they're being treated like second class
  citizens. (Admittedly, this is Marionet's first public beta - it's
  entirely possible this will change in future releases.)

  Also, Allegiant doesn't have a strong background in the Internet
  world. (At last year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Allegiant
  reps were consistently baffled at the concept of an online
  publication like TidBITS.) To their credit, they have set up a
  mailing list to discuss Marionet and now have a substantial online
  presence, but one wonders how responsive they will be to the
  Macintosh Internet community. It seems likely Allegiant will
  position Marionet as a developers' tool: introductory pricing of
  the final release is expected to be around $100, but the final
  list price for Marionet will probably be significantly higher,
  putting it out of reach of many online enthusiasts. I hope
  Allegiant instead chooses to make Marionet an inexpensive,
  accessible product, with a functional demonstration version
  available freely online. Even with some drawbacks, a tool like
  Marionet could earn a significant following among the Macintosh
  community if it were inexpensive and widely available.


**Something's Brewing** -- Even if the much-touted Java isn't
  accessible to typical Macintosh users (or typical Internet users,
  for that matter), products are beginning to appear that have lower
  entry thresholds and that allow users to exploit specific Mac
  technologies. Admittedly, setting up custom Internet applications
  is still more complicated than printingt labels from a word
  processor, but enough new ideas and products are appearing that I
  might not miss Java... if I had it.


Reviews/08-Jan-96
-----------------

* MacUser -- Jan-96
    HP CopyJet M -- pg. 39
    Infini-D 3.0 -- pg. 42
    SyQuest EZ135 -- pg. 44
    Authoring Tools -- pg. 50
      Digital Chisel 2.0
      HyperStudio 3.0
    OCR Business Card readers -- pg. 54
      La Cie VIP Scan
      UMAX BizCard Reader
    Claris Impact 2.0 -- pg. 57
    MapLinx for Macintosh -- pg. 60
    Speed Doubler -- pg. 65
    AddDepth 2 -- pg. 67
    At Ease for Workgroups 3.0/At Ease 3.0 -- pg. 68
    The Black Box -- pg. 69
    InfoGenie -- pg. 71
    Color Compass -- pg. 73
    CD-ROM Burners -- pg. 86
      (too many to list)
    PCI accelerated video cards -- pg. 96
      (too many to list)


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