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TidBITS#318/11-Mar-96
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The big news this week is Apple's release of System 7.5.3, with
   better performance, the final version of Open Transport 1.1, and
   a host of new features. Also this week, Apple announces the end
   of eWorld, Adobe withdraws PageMill 1.0.1, and Macromedia
   finalizes Shockwave for Director. Finally, Adam follows up on
   his article on personal Web publishing, and we finally release
   the details on TidBITS translations - now five languages and
   counting!

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Copyright 1990-1996 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/11-Mar-96
    Requiem for a Featherweight
    Personal Web Publishing Redux
    Apple Releases System 7.5.3
    Reviews/11-Mar-96

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MailBITS/11-Mar-96
------------------
  Thanks to a number of enthusiastic volunteers, TidBITS is now
  available in French, Spanish, Chinese (Big-5) along with Japanese
  (Kanji) and German. We hope to add Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese
  as well. You can read translated issues of TidBITS on our Web site
  - just select the appropriate link from the top of the home page.
  [ACE]

<http://www.tidbits.com/>


**PageMistake** -- In TidBITS-317_ I reported Adobe had released
  an updater that upgrades PageMill from 1.0 to 1.0.1. I also
  reported some users of the update were experiencing color shifts
  in graphics edited through PageMill. Adobe has decided the color
  shift problem is severe enough to warrant a recall and has
  withdrawn the update. Adobe hopes to release a corrected version
  1.0.2 in a few weeks. Although the problem appears to happen only
  on 68K Macs (and usually only if you have more than 256 colors
  showing onscreen), Adobe's engineers are not convinced it couldn't
  happen on a Power Mac. Remember, if you use 1.0.1 and experience a
  color shift in an open image, do _not_ save your file, or the
  shift will be saved in the image. [TJE]


**Shockwave Released** -- Macromedia has released final versions
  of Shockwave for Director 4.0 Plug-Ins, and says it's hard at work
  on Shockwave for Director 5.0. Macromedia has also released a beta
  Shockwave plug-in for FreeHand, which allows viewing and
  manipulation of scalable vector graphics. As with previous
  releases, Shockwave plug-ins want plenty of memory, and reports on
  stability remain mixed. [GD]

<http://www.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/>
<http://www.macromedia.com/Tools/FHShockwave/>


**Fetch 3.0.1** -- Jim Matthews has released version 3.0.1 of
  Fetch, a popular FTP client, including expanded preferences and
  Internet Config support, improved AppleScript capabilities, and a
  number of fixes and feature enhancements. Fetch is free for
  educational and non-profit users, others may license Fetch online
  for $25. If you licensed Fetch 2.1, you can upgrade for free; the
  download is about 1 MB. Fetch 3.0.1 is native on both 68K and
  Power Macs, and is Open Transport-savvy. [GD]

<ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/fetch-301.hqx>
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch.license.form.html>


Requiem for a Featherweight
---------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Gil Amelio wasted no time focusing Apple's attention on projects
  at the core of the company's business. As of 31-Mar-96, Apple will
  discontinue its online service eWorld and turn to America Online
  for help. AOL will now be the preferred online service on
  Performas sold in North America (as well as on the appropriate
  Educator Advantage machines, Power Mac Small Business Solutions,
  consumer PowerBooks, and at least some Macs in Europe), and Apple
  will move its online programming efforts to AOL. It's still
  unknown if Apple's official technical support will move to AOL -
  the press release notes only that Apple "intends to expand its
  corporate and technical support services on the service [AOL] as
  well as launching new interactive programming on AOL as well as
  the Internet."

  After the 31-Mar-96 closure of eWorld, Apple and AOL will work
  together to move eWorld customers to AOL by offering special
  transition forums, email forwarding, and 15 free hours on AOL.
  Finally, AOL has "renewed its commitment for development and
  innovation to the Macintosh platform with new refined client
  software and complete World Wide Web integration." We'll see -
  frustration accessing the Internet through AOL's client software
  and Web browser is one of the main reasons I hear from people
  switching from AOL to a true Internet dialup account. In related
  news, both AOL and CompuServe have signed deals with Netscape to
  use Netscape Navigator as their Web browser.

  I'm not surprised Apple finally decided to pull the plug on
  eWorld. The service reportedly garnered only about 150,000
  subscribers, which is a drop in the bucket compared to AOL's five
  million (CompuServe currently boasts about four million). For the
  most part, the heyday of the online service is over, and only the
  strongest will survive and adapt to the continuing growth of the
  Internet. AOL seems quite healthy, but GEnie and Delphi have more
  or less faded from view, Prodigy (with its 1.5 million users) is
  reportedly up for sale, and H&R Block is turning CompuServe into a
  publicly traded company. More telling perhaps is that Microsoft
  has canned Microsoft Network as an online service and is instead
  moving MSN's content to the Web.

  eWorld suffered in a number of ways right from the start. For a
  long time Apple didn't offer official technical support on eWorld,
  something that if done correctly at eWorld's launch might have
  made a difference. Due in part to its reliance on the AOL software
  and Apple's modifications, it took eWorld longer than AOL to
  embrace the Internet, all while the Internet rapidly became the
  reason many people took the online leap. Finally, for various
  reasons, Apple never pushed eWorld as hard as AOL pushed their
  service, which resulted in Mac users choosing AOL over eWorld much
  of the time. Had eWorld picked up a million users in its lifetime,
  it might have stood a better chance.

  Ironically, AOL was to be "Personal AppleLink" in its early days,
  but Apple backed out of the deal before starting eWorld several
  years later. Perhaps even more ironically, it seems as though the
  venerable AppleLink will outlive eWorld, its one-time successor,
  if not by long.


Personal Web Publishing Redux
-----------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  A number of folks wrote in regard to my article about personal Web
  publishing in TidBITS-316_, but Scott Dickson <[e-mail]>
  and John Kawakami <[e-mail]> offered a more realistic
  and generally better solution to some of the problems I outlined:
  a Web folder synchronization utility.

  Most people use Internet through a local Internet provider (or
  even one of the commercial services like AOL and CompuServe) have
  access to some space on that provider's Web server. A few people
  failed to see why using this Web space didn't meet the
  qualifications of my personal Web publishing software, but my
  feeling is that uploading via FTP and maintaining a set of files
  on what's usually a Unix machine is way too hard. I get quite a
  bit of mail from people who can't figure out how to upload using
  Anarchie 1.5, where it's merely a matter of drag & drop (Anarchie
  1.6 added a Put item to bring uploading more obviously into the
  interface).

  Imagine, then, a utility that simply synchronizes files between an
  FTP-accessible directory on a Web server and a specific folder on
  a Mac. I use the term "synchronize" because the utility should
  delete files on the host if they're deleted from the Web folder.
  Synchronization has the added advantage of making it easy for
  users to stay under a disk space limit enforced by the provider,
  since you can easily see how much space is used by a folder (or
  the utility could warn you if you went over a user-defined value).

  Use of this Web synchronization folder shouldn't be modal; you
  should be able to work with the files all you like when you're
  offline, and only once you go online should the software kick in
  and perform the synchronization. In an ideal world, the utility
  could automatically translation of text to HTML, PICT to GIF or
  JPEG, or that sort of thing, but such features aren't necessary
  and could certainly be added later.

  If you think about it a little farther, though, this Web
  synchronization utility could help not just individuals for whom
  dealing with FTP is a stretch, but anyone who maintains a Web site
  on a Macintosh. Our Web server at www.tidbits.com is only
  accessible via FTP now that the machine isn't on our network, and
  keeping all the files up to date with the local version we work
  with has become a pain, especially since Tonya, Geoff, and I can
  all make changes. It's not hard to remember what to upload if you
  change one or two files, but in a serious session of HTML
  authoring, you might change ten or twenty files. It would be great
  if you could make all those changes, connect to the Internet, and
  have the Web synchronization software automatically merge in your
  changed files, at the same time downloading all the files that
  others have changed.

  This functionality isn't entirely a new idea - the Aretha release
  of Frontier included AutoWeb, a utility for creating Web sites
  from specially named and formatted text files. Along with AutoWeb
  came an Upload script that used Anarchie to upload all the files
  in a special Upload folder to your Web site.

<http://www.hotwired.com/staff/userland/aretha/specialfolders_234.html>

  In the AppleScript world, a.h.s boy <[e-mail]> has
  written a script called WebLoader that does much the same thing.

<http://www.nothingness.org/dt/scripting/Webloader.sit.hqx>

  These scripts are half the battle. There have also been a number
  of file synchronization utilities for PowerBooks that could
  perhaps be modified to work over the Internet. We obviously have
  the technology available to accomplish this task. If it's only a
  matter of scripting in AppleScript or Frontier, someone could go
  the next step and make a useful and successful Web utility. I
  could imagine a WebSync control panel or background application
  that watches the designated Web folder, controls disk space
  warnings, and interacts with Anarchie, Fetch, or Allegiant's
  Marionet to synchronize files. Such a utility could serve both the
  personal Web publishing market and the many people out there who
  build and maintain Web sites using the Mac.


Apple Releases System 7.5.3
---------------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  After months of rumor and speculation, Apple has finally released
  System 7.5.3 to the general public. System 7.5.3 is a universal
  system release that will run on any Mac from the Plus on up, which
  should be a welcome relief to anyone trying to keep up with a
  myriad of updates from Apple in recent months. In addition to bug
  fixes and added functionality, System 7.5.3 incorporates previous
  additions to the system software (such as the System 7.5.2
  Printing Fix and the PowerBook 5300 System Update), and expands
  the availability of additional technologies such as Open Transport
  that were only available for a small range of machines.

  System 7.5.3 takes two forms. The first is the classic set of
  system disks that can be used to install a clean, complete set of
  system software on any Macintosh. The second form is that of
  System 7.5 Update 2.0, which will upgrade any Macintosh computer
  running version of System 7.5, 7.5.1, or 7.5.2 to System 7.5.3,
  but cannot be used on its own to install a complete system. As
  with previous updates, Apple has made System 7.5 Update 2.0
  available online, but the complete version of 7.5.3 will only be
  available on selected new Macs and as a separate commercial
  product from Apple. Also in keeping with previous releases, Apple
  is making each version available as both a set of floppy disk
  images and as an all-in-one network install.


**Where To Get It** -- Be warned: System 7.5 Update 2.0 is a
  little over 20 MB in size, with the floppy disk version requiring
  14 disks. Just to give you a sense of perspective, that's about
  100 minutes of download time on a 28.8 Kbps modem in the best of
  circumstances, probably considerably longer in real life. What's
  more, Apple's servers are likely to be overwhelmed for several
  days, so you might save yourself time and frustration by waiting a
  while before attempting to download this release.

  A better alternative might be to order the update from Apple - or
  rather, Claris. Customers in the United States can order a CD-ROM
  or floppy-disk version of the update for $13 (plus any applicable
  sales tax) by calling 800/293-6617, extension 984. Claris
  currently says the updates will ship "as soon as they're
  available."

  That said, System 7.5 Update 2.0 can be found at the following
  locations, among others:

<ftp://ftp.support.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/system_sw/
System_7.5_Update_2.0/>
<ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/
US/Macintosh/System/System_7.5_Update_2.0/>
<http://www.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/
US/Macintosh/System/System_7.5_Update_2.0/>
<http://www.support.apple.com/pub/Apple%20SW%20Updates/US/mac/
system_sw/System_7.5_Update_2.0/>

  Apple has also made the update available on most online services
  including AOL, CompuServe, and eWorld. In addition, the update
  should be available from MacUser and possibly other Macintosh
  software sites.

<ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/macuser/US_apple_sw_updates/>


**New Features** -- The first thing anybody wants to know about
  new system software is what features it offers, so here's a
  selected summary. System 7.5.3 installs no less than _seven_
  ReadMe files (the important ones include three for the System
  update and one for Open Transport) with detailed information on
  new items and specific fixes. These files can be found on the
  first disk of the system update (or in the first folder of the
  network installation).

* "Translucent dragging" on Power Macs: When dragging an item in
  the Finder, a translucent version of the item's icon will be shown
  under the mouse rather than a simple outline. (Dragging multiple
  items only shows one translucent item - the rest still appear as
  outlines.) This feature was slated for Copland (the next major
  release of the Mac OS), but was brought forward to this release.
  The programming interface for translucent dragging is also
  available, so other applications will probably start to use it
  soon.

* Apple's Control Strip software, originally introduced for use on
  PowerBooks then brought over to Power Macs, is now officially
  available on any Mac that can run System 7.5.3. Apple ships a
  selection of Control Strip modules to control things like monitor
  resolution and file sharing; additional modules are available from
  Internet archives and third parties. (You can use the MIT Info-Mac
  HyperArchive to easily search for control strip modules in the
  Info-Mac archive.)

<http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html>

* Open Transport 1.1: System 7.5.3 includes the final version of
  Open Transport 1.1. See below for more information.

* Comments stored in the Finder's Get Info windows are no longer
  lost during desktop rebuilds. Apple has attempted to incorporate
  this fix into previous systems , but somehow it's always been
  removed, sometimes at the last minute.

* Improvements to the way Macs identify themselves to software
  components, which should make it easier for clone vendors to
  produce Macs that don't pose as known Apple machines. This has
  been a persistent problem for some Macintosh clones, since some
  software will refuse to install unless it can determine the
  Macintosh model in use.

* The name column in Finder list views (view by name, view by
  date, etc.) is slightly wider, allowing more characters to
  display. Additionally, the Finder's list views show the sizes of
  large files in megabytes rather than kilobytes, saving some
  additional screen space.

* Copying large number of small files should be faster due to a
  change in the way the Finder updates the progress bar in the Copy
  dialog box and handles the calculation of sector sizes. Quick
  tests on my machines (such as copying the entire TidBITS issue
  set) revealed no significant improvement, however.

* MacinTalk Text-to-Speech software: System 7.5.3 includes version
  2 and 3 of MacinTalk (version 3 for fast 68030 Macs or better;
  version 2 for slower machines). MacinTalk is automatically
  installed when using the Easy Install option, along with a
  selection of (occasionally humorous) voices.

* If you have install disks from System 7.5 (not 7.5.1 or 7.5.2),
  you can use System 7.5 Update 2.0 to create a universal system
  folder that can be used with all Macs supported by the update.

* Apple Guide 2.0.2: This new version of Apple Guide fixes a
  number of long-standing bugs, and is also PowerPC native for
  improved performance. System 7.5.3 also includes version 1.3 of
  the Macintosh Guide (the System's Apple Guide file), which
  includes a number of enhancements and additional information.

* SimpleText 1.3.1, which now supports QuickDraw 3D (available for
  Power Macs).

  Additionally, the Installer application is relatively intelligent
  about updating system components, even if they're disabled. So, if
  you've turned off portions of the system software using something
  like Extensions Manager, the Installer will update the disabled
  components without re-enabling them.


**Important Fixes** -- System 7.5.3 includes a number of bug fixes
  and patches which should make some people's lives easier. In
  particular, Apple has gone to great lengths to reduce the
  frequency of the infamous Type 11 errors encountered on Power
  Macs, as well as to improve overall stability and performance on
  both Power Macs and 68K machines. Apple has also made a number of
  changes to improve stability with third-party software such as
  Retrospect, StuffIt SpaceSaver, and others.

  System 7.5.3 includes PowerPC native versions of the Resource
  Manager and the SCSI Manager, two important low-level components
  of the system. System 7.5.3 also includes changes to the way
  applications are launched using Virtual Memory on Power Macs that
  originally appeared in the PowerBook 5300 System Update. Apple
  made these changes mainly to help Microsoft Office products launch
  faster, but they can help other applications and at least they're
  now available to a wider ranger of users. Other performance
  improvements include more intelligent handling of caches on 68040
  and PowerPC-based Macs resulting in better Finder performance, and
  asynchronous file copying (which should let other applications be
  more responsive while files are copying). In addition, the default
  disk cache settings in the Memory control panel have been
  increased to 32K per megabyte of physical RAM; though this makes
  less RAM available to other applications, the performance
  improvements can be significant. (You can always choose a lower
  cache setting manually, if you need to.)

  Again, the ReadMe files that ship with System 7.5.3 go into
  considerable detail on the fixes contained in the release, so read
  through them for more information.


**What 7.5.3 Replaces** -- System 7.5. Update 2.0 incorporates
  many previously released updates to the system (and components
  included in those updates), including:

* System 7.5.2 Printing Fix (see TidBITS-304_)

* PowerBook 5300 System Update (see TidBITS-310_)

* PowerBook 2300c Update (see TidBITS-312_)

  In addition, several stand-alone files have been merged into parts
  of the system, including Sound Manager, SerialDMA, SCSI Manager,
  and various machine-specific enablers. With System 7.5.3, there
  are currently only two enablers: one for PCI Power Macs, and one
  for every other Macintosh. As Apple introduces new machines,
  however, you can expect to see machine-specific enablers for
  System 7.5.3.


**Potential Problems** -- Though we've been waiting for System
  7.5.3 for some time, it will not be a bed of roses for some users.

  Tucked away in the third ReadMe file for System 7.5.3 is a note
  that could send shivers down the spines of network administrators
  and MIS managers: PCI Power Macs _might_ have a different physical
  Ethernet address after installing this update, since System 7.5.3
  corrects a bug that causes an incorrect address to be used when
  TCP/IP addresses are obtained using BootP, DHCP, or RARP.
  Fortunately, Open Transport makes it much easier for a user to
  determine his or her physical Ethernet address (choose Get Info in
  either the AppleTalk or TCP/IP control panel); however, this won't
  make it any more fun for network administrators to reconfigure
  their networks if they relied on the physical addresses of these
  machines.

  A more common problem users of older Macs might encounter involves
  older disk drivers. System 7.5.3 incorporates SCSI Manager 4.3
  directly into the system. If the hard disk drivers you're
  currently using aren't compatible with SCSI Manager 4.3 (generally
  true if you haven't updated your disk drivers since about October
  of 1994), you might find you can't boot your Macintosh after
  installing this update. As always, make a complete backup of your
  drive and data before installing any system update. If you use a
  third party hard disk utility (such as Hard Disk ToolKit, APS
  Power Tools, Drive7, or Silverlining) and you aren't sure if it's
  compatible with SCSI Manager 4.3, contact your software vendor
  _before_ attempting to install System 7.5.3. If you used Apple's
  HD SC Setup, a new version with updated drivers can be found in
  the Utilities folder of the first update disk.

  If you use a PCI Power Mac on a Novell NetWare network, you should
  know System 7.5.3 incorporates version 1.0.3 of the Ethernet
  Compatibility extension. The good news is this fixes a problem
  with the system shutdown code; the bad news is that there's now a
  two-minute delay shutting down the computer.

  Finally, a drawback of System 7.5.3 is that it comes with neither
  a bootable Network Installer disk, nor a bootable Disk Tools disk.
  Although existing Macs can be booted with these disks from earlier
  versions of the system software, it's one more pesky detail to
  keep in mind, and future Mac models will probably have to have
  their own set of boot disks, complicating matters once again.


**Open Transport 1.1** -- One of the most anticipated components
  of System 7.5.3 is version 1.1 of Open Transport, Apple's
  reworking of the Mac's core networking software. As bundled with
  System 7.5.3, Open Transport replaces both AppleTalk and MacTCP on
  most Macs. Open Transport provides easier configuration, more
  flexibility, and better performance for most network tasks, even
  over dialup connections.

  The good news is that Open Transport 1.1 provides easier
  configuration, more flexibility, and better performance for most
  network tasks, even over dial-up connections, and is a significant
  improvement over the initial 1.0.x releases that initially shipped
  with the PCI Power Macs. (Reports from Apple's recent public beta
  of Open Transport 1.1b16 were quite positive; see TidBITS-316_.)
  The bad news is that using Open Transport can still be rather
  complicated, and may not be the best choice for all people.

  First, contrary to expectations, Open Transport 1.1 is installed
  by default on all machines with a 68030 or greater processor;
  however, it seems to be _active_ only if Open Transport was active
  before installing the system update. Installing Open Transport
  with 7.5.3 does not delete MacTCP or "classic" AppleTalk
  capabilities, it merely stashes them safely out of sight. Apple
  thoughtfully includes an application called Network Software
  Selector to switch between Open Transport and classic networking
  services, so at the very least installing Open Transport shouldn't
  be fatal for anyone currently using MacTCP. However, Network
  Software Selector doesn't work on PCI-based Macs since those
  machines technically require Open Transport. Also, please note
  Open Transport is not available on desktop 5200, 5300, 6200, or
  6300-series Macintoshes; if you use one of these machines, you'll
  apparently have to stay with classic AppleTalk and MacTCP for the
  time being.

  The potential downside to Open Transport is the amount of memory
  it requires, which can be anywhere from 400K to 1.5 MB of RAM on
  Power Macs. You can reduce this footprint by turning off services
  you don't use (so if you never use AppleTalk or TCP/IP services,
  making them inactive in their control panels will save memory.)
  Another way to reduce Open Transport's RAM impact on Power Macs is
  to use Virtual Memory (or RAM Doubler), which allows the system to
  unload portions of Open Transport that aren't in use.

  However, if you use MacPPP or FreePPP to access the Internet,
  using virtual memory isn't necessarily a good option, since
  neither PPP implementation is fully compatible with virtual
  memory. (Some users report no problems; others have easily
  reproducible crashes.) Version 2.5 of FreePPP - due to be released
  shortly - should be fully compatible with virtual memory. If you
  experience problems using PPP with Open Transport, turn off
  virtual memory, revert to MacTCP, or consider using a different
  (commercial) PPP implementation. For more information, I recommend
  Mark Sproul's collection of Web pages on Open Transport.

<http://msproul.rutgers.edu/macintosh/OpenTpt.html>

  If you use FreePPP, Open Transport will default to using BootP for
  determining your IP address. For many users, this will not be the
  correct setting, and you should instead choose Using PPP Server
  from the pop-up menu in the TCP/IP control panel. Fortunately,
  Open Transport allows you to do this without restarting, or (in
  many cases) without even re-dialing.


**Additional Information** -- Apple has released a technical note
  in Acrobat format covering the changes in System 7.5.3. Although
  much of this material is available in 7.5.3's ReadMe files, the
  note contains some technical information useful to developers and
  technical support people.

<ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Developer_Services/
Technical_Documentation/Macintosh_Technical_Notes/New_Technotes_/
System_7.5.3_Update-1017.sit.hqx>


**In Conclusion** -- Is installing System 7.5.3 a good idea? The
  general answer is yes, particularly for Power Macintosh users,
  although there is something here for everyone. Due to the size of
  the update, it's probably worth waiting a few days for the load on
  Apple's servers to decrease, or ordering a CD-ROM or floppy-disk
  version of the update if you aren't in any particular hurry.
  Although my (admittedly limited) testing of the final release of
  System 7.5.3 has been generally positive, I cannot report it's
  more stable than System 7.5.1 on any of my machines (all 68K-
  based), and I am seeing occasional new problems (although I
  haven't yet determined whether they're caused by the system
  software, or a particular application or system extension). As
  always, back up your data before installing a new version of your
  system software, and make sure you have a bootable floppy disk or
  CD-ROM handy in case something unexpected occurs.


Reviews/11-Mar-96
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 04-Mar-96, Vol. 10, #9
    mTropolis 1.0 -- pg. 29
    PowerCurve 601/120 -- pg. 29
    OneWorld Combo -- pg. 35


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