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BroadCast 2.1
BroadCast is a tool to exchange short messages between Macintoshs.
It is installed by dragging it into the system folder. To send a
message, open the chooser and select first broadcast, then one or
more recipients. Click OK and enter your message. You may select an
icon to accompany the text. Voila. The receiver will get a dialog
on his screen. The dialog shows the icon, text, the time the message
was received, the sender and two buttons: OK and Answer. The answer
is used as the direct path back to the sender without opening the
chooser.
BroadCast 2.x adds a "background" mode that allows to receive multiple
messages in the background (using notifications), and each message is
displayed in a window of its own and can be answered individually.
BroadCast is shareware: it costs $25 per zone, or $100 per entire
appletalk network. Send your money (check in local currency, please),
and you'll receive the disk with all the necessary files. Btw,
registered users will get an invoice, a license and a disk.
BroadCast 2.1 fixes the following bugs that had been present
in version 2.0:
- crashes with 32bit mode and Tune-up
- crashes with Microsoft programs on the 68000 based Macs and
the Mac LC
- GetRequest -1099 when switching AppleTalk connections. This should be
the same bug that causes the same error id on PowerBooks. Most likely
to occur if File Sharing is enabled.
- background mode does not work in system 7.0 when Broadcast is open in
the chooser in the background while the first message arrives.
- less sensitive to erroneous messages. Messages are now verified to be
either declared size (256 or 384 bytes) or dynamic (string size + 1).
This should reduce the likelihood of interferences with InterPoll.
As a new feature, this version includes colour icons (hopefully, I don't
have a colour monitor at present) and also adds balloon help.
Joachim Lindenberg, Postfach 4064, W 7500 Karlsruhe 1, Germany
GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com, October 20, 1992