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A relational datalese fox Windows 8.0.

DATARASESA D S t l R I I B I f r I II I e r • 00000000 • E • 0 • 0 0 0 0 • • • • 0 • 0 $ • 0 • • • • E • • $ $ $ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 30An overview of the database world.By Peter Lincoln.

A dv4$eeck Reve l I I t lo n • 00 • 000 000 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 0 • s s s oso • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0000 0 • 00 • 00 • 0 33Even accountants can modify this system,By Peter Lincoln.CIIIrion Professional Developer .............................34The lack of a graphic environment doesn't stop this &om being a powerhouse.By Peter Lincoln.

Cl• IPPer 0 0 0 • • • $ 00 0 • 0 00 0 $ • • sss e e • • • 0 • 0 • 0000 0 3 5Progxauuning with an accentBy Peter Lincoln.P araIIox ..................................................................36As intuitive as Lotus, with the power of dBase.By Merry ZamotL

8 IIpe r h a e e 4 0 • 0000000$0 0 • 00 0 • 0 0 0 • $0 $ $$ $ $ • 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 $ • 00 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • E • $ 0 0 0 $ 40By Stephen Snnth.F Ile Force 0 • 0 • • $$$$ • 0 • 00000 • • 0 • 0 • 0 • E • $$$$ • 0$0 • 0 • • OOOUO • 000 • 0 • 0 • • • E • $$$$$464th Dimension gets a little brother databas~ as ier to use, still powerful.By Jsirtan St'ngh lotatea.FlIlemsker Pre .........................................................48The best selling flat file databaae on the Mac gets an upgrade.By Roger Stafechis.

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Christxnas time already, starting to windup another year.Databases

This month we take a look at databaseLWe start with a primer on databases, whatthey are, why you seoul d want oxie. We thenasked four database developers why theychose the package they did to develop cus-

sponses are insightful in choosing a data-base development package. Conspicuouslyabsent is an article on dBase itself. Perhapsindicative of the market turning its back onAshton-Tate's behemoth last year becauseof the release of a buggyversion of dBase IV,we found it di8icult to locate a developer

Tate has subsequently releaseci a new im-proved and supposedly bugkree version 1.1

Finally we close the database section with areviewof Superbase 4, a serious databasefor Windows 8.0, a look at Toolbook, an interesting but slow equivalent of HyperCardfor the Windows 8.0 xnarket, and two Mac databases.

Backdoing a Mr chunkof the writingon this feature is our old &iend Peter Lincoln,who did a feature on local area networks last year.WIIIuiPeg Echelon

We' ve been busy again, we are launching a new edition in Manitoba starting inJanuary. We plau to do a distribution of 80,000 there, giving us a total circulation inWestern Canada of 180,000 copies. We have editions that cover the major centres ofVancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and in ganuaxy Wmnipeg. (Bear with me dearreaders, I am boastmg here to impress potential advertisers, It is for th ee folks in theEast who think that the Globe and Mail, or Torontekased computer publications arethe only ways to reach Western customers. We are encouraging them to take a closerlook)Complex North

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T he Games G a m e S ES • 0 • 00000 0 • E • • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • ssssso • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 • 0 52An interview with Don Mattrick of Distinctive Software Inc,By Lynne Hnukrxon.Adobe Illustrator 3$0 00 • 00 $ $ $ $ $ • • 00 0 00 • 0 • 0 • 0 • E E S O E • 0 • • 0 • OOE 0 $ 0 0 0 0 • 0 59The Mac poweruser graphics program gets an upgrade.By Graeme Ben nett.

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As Mr. Bennett states, "Consider thatpfodlxct Irainmg and support nlay be apackage'smostixnportant features." Thisis one of Great Plains'manystrongpoints.Info World said "The technical supportrepresentatives we spoke with wereknowledgeable about the product. Inaddition, Great Plains seems to have themost cheerful and helpful technicalsupport staK around. O t her vendors.could do worse than emulate ifxi ap-proach. We rate technical support ex-

There are a number of Qaali6ed In-stallers and Qualified Resellers ( I amonel) of Great Plains in the LowerMainlancl I have a full shelf of GreatPlains demo software which I would behappy to allow Mr. Bennett to explore sothat neither he nor The Cmrrputer Paper"sreaders miss this excellentsoftware seriesin the future.

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$u our Whet's Nnu section thLx nrerxthforrrrrpre info orx Great Pkxins' acre versirnx thatsuPPirrtr GST and Canadian PayrelL I haveheard great things about their eusfoeer suP-Porf ax xeeR

I Can't Get No RespectI was qiute surprised when in your

feature article on 5-D rendering andanimation, you referred to the Amiga asa "budget machine" in order to explainthe low software prices in the Amigamarket. Unfortunately, I have foundthat prices for Amiga hardware mn beexorbitantly high. I own an Amiga 2000with 9 MBof MM, a46MB hard drive,anA2088 Bridgeboard (for MS-DOS com-patibihty), and a Raven PR-9104 (~)printer, for which I paid a total of $4,950:

Amigs 20N (1 MS RAM 880K drive ....$2,000SupraRem 20N 8MB board, w'dh 2MS 450S eagste SCSI ST157N heal drive..... 9 5 0A2088 Bridgeboard & 5.25" ffoppy ...... 70010848 monitor stereo speakers........... 5NRaven PR-$104 Q~in printer ....................850Tetef Ceet uuU~leuE FNraar a N r E I E E L @ PS

Even if the cost of the Bridgeboardand the ~in pxinter is excluded (to findthe cost of the "basic" system), the totalcost is $8,900f I could buy a MacintoshLC with 2MB RAM, a 40MB hard drive,and a 12" RGB monitor for only $3,'700IIn addition, the Mac LC has a 68020microprocessor at 16 MHz, whereas theAmiga2000hasa68000at7.16MHzf Torival the speed of the Mac LC, I wouldhave to spend about $1,000 more for anantiquated A2620accelerator to come toa final total of about $4,900 for aneqmvalent systemf I

In addition, to solve the fiickermgproblem in the Amiga's hi~ca modes, Iwould have tospendanadditional $1400:$400 for the A2MODisplaymnhancementCard, and$8M for the Commodore 1950multisync monitor. Subtract the 1084Sstereo monitor, and add the A2520/1950 multisync combination, and youget a total of$5,600 for an Amiga systemequalling the $8,'700 Mac LC system interms of raw speed1 Which system ismore "budget" now? 1?

Interestingly enough, to get perfor-mance rivallmg the Ma'c II line among

Macintosh could be touted as the "mul-

the Amiga line, one must go to the togof-the%ac Amiga 8000, which, with a68080 at 25 MHz, a 68882 matchcoprocessor at25MHz, a built~ 100MBhard drive, a built~ dosnterlacer, and aCommodore 1950 multisync monitor,costs $6,000, a price that is in Mac IIterritory, and which could buy a '486IBM~ompatible. Again, I ask the ques.tion, which computer is the true budgetmachine? I would have to answer witheither "Atari ST" or, even more likely;IBMwompa6bke."

Despite the high cost of some Amigahardware components I am extremelysatisfied with my Amiga 2000. As I axnwriting this, DeluxeMusic is playingBach's Fugue in G Mnor in the back-ground. I can even use my wordprocessor...Sculpt-Anixnate 4-DJr...DeluxeMusic, etc., at the same time.

Unfortunately, OS/2 doesn't comedose to giving the IBM worldmultitaskingin as friendly a way as AmigaDOS does. Ihave yet to see a Macintosh run twoprogxams together simultaneously, notjust switch between them. The wholepoint of multitasking is, why leave yourcomputer on wlule you wait 6xr it tofinish calculating? Why not type a letterto Mom and Dad while you' re waiting?The advantages of multitasking even in asingle~ e n vironment are fairly clear.

I find it particularly odd the The Conx-puter Paper has only one constantly run-ning Amiga ad and vexy little Axnigacoverage at a time when even PC heavy-weights like Byre and Corrrpuferrecrld arebeginnmg to treat the Amiga as a sig-nificant computer. Granted, the Amigahaa limitations and problems, but so doMacintoshes snd MS-DOS computers. Ia m constantly amazed at ho w t h e

timedia" machine. Animation on theMacintosh is so unnatural andjittery thatI fail to see how any good animafioncould be made with anything less than aMac IIci with a 24-bit graphics board andspecial blitter hardware.

When Disney decided to release TheAnimation Studio, which computer ver-sion did they write first? The Amigaversion. In fact, Disney used Amigas inthe creation of "The Little Mermaid."Axnigas have also been used in the mak-ing ofmanymovies, including "Die Hard"and "RoboCop II." Try more Amigacoverage, and you might find more sub-scribers, more adverbsers, and a muchlarger au+ence.

Franic Lui,Vancouver, B.C.

I xeould estimate fhaf you are annPreringthe purchase price of your machirxe about oneyersr age to the suggeskd hsf Price of a newlyannounced cxnnputer, the Mac I.C. This isappks to oranges, as lheIrrice of most cornpuf-ers have conre douln substarxfia8y. The Amiga500, xehich offers lorAevel arxiniafion, isdefxrxifely irx the h4xgue of xehat ree considerbudget nrachines, and xee saxe that cmmPuferadvertised this week red a color monitorforCf999.

We have rxxrx a fairly sfeady stream ofarticles on the Aniiga thrnxrghouf the Pastthree years, and mill continue fo do so. IfycncvlarN xval depth of Aurigacrrverage, nray xeesuggest a subseriptiorx tooneof the wrathy goodArniga specxjx c magazines, or possibly Inputnragexine out of Ednrorxton. The old probkmof frying toPlease evnyme, leaves us with the '

thecomputersthat nroxt Pcngie have. Thehadstnxarhet corxfinues lo be MOOS andMacintosh cnnxPuters.

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The Computer Paper I Dec '90

Faxo graphyFremont Communications has begun

shipping a US$99 software aden calledFaxography~ LQ for its Frecom Fax96

Faxography~ LQ lets users faxdocuments formatted with Epson hQprinter typogxaphic information. Theprogram provides full emulation of 24-pin graphics and hQ text, enabling anyPC program that supports Epson print-ers and can "print to disk" to create aFaxography file.

When transmitted to another fax ma-chine, itwill be prin ted at either 100x200dpi or 200x200 dpi. Fax versions of allLQfonts (regular, bold and italic versionsof two type styles in eight sizes plus fivestyles of proportional spaced type foreach style) are includedwith the software.The Faxography software is also avail-

able as part of a new bundle &om Fre-mont, which includes their Fatt96 9600bps Sm board and 2400/4800 bps MNP5modem with software; 1-Limr, whichenables incoming voice and fax calls tobe correctly and automatically answeredusing a single phone line; and FcmtQupP',newsoftware which couples astandalonefax machine to the Fax96 board overstandard telephone wires and allows bi-directional communications between faxboard and machine (including using a

ner to provide 200x200 scanned inputinto DTP programs, or allowing the faxboard user to "print" to the faxmachine-useful for previewing and keeping a hardcopy of whatever is sent).

Other software includes Fa&etchFazt,which allows the 'user to remotely re-trieve fax messages. The package, calledthe Frecom CommCenter, is scheduledto ship in December, 1990 for US$495.

Contact: Fremont CommunicationsCompany at 41M38-5000.

are couriered to the customer. Costs are$9 per slide, plus courier charges. Inaddition, SUZY online charges for thisfeature are 20 cents per minute duringprimetime, 17 cents per minute duringnon-prime hours.

SUZY enables personal computersequipped with modems to retrieve andexchange information over telephonelines. SUZYs other featuresinclude real-time stock quotations and online stockresearch capabilities, airline schedulesand hotel directoxies, national real estatelistings including colour photos of list-ings, live multiuser online conferencesand information networks on dozens ofsubjects.

New features are being added every

edition of The Cotmputer Paper. Articles&omcuxrentandbackissuesare availablefor reading or downloading. Just look inthe area called Information Networksfor "The Gmtpukr Paper.

Users incur no longWstance tele-phone charges if they calI &om any of

pay a base charge of approximately 20cents per minute for the time spent onthe system, which is automatically billedto their credit card. There are discounts&om this base rate for nongrime hoursand surcharges for some of the system's

In other SUZYnews, Harvard Graph-ics publisher Software Publishing Cor-poration has announced that it willlaunch its own information network onSUZYto communicate with its Canadiandealers and users.

SUZY was introduced to the market-place in April 1990. Two months later itwas already one of the bestmlling soft-ware products in Canada.

Recent dislculties in raising equitySnancinghaveresultedinseveral changesin senior management, including theresignation of president and directorAlex L Morton, and vice-president ofcorporate development Terry R.MacDonald. Morton is replaced byThompson J. MacKie, who becomespresident at a substantially reduced sal-ary. Thompson and Stratford Chairmanof the Board AdrianJ. Robson own 60%of the company'soutstanding5.1millionshares. Stratford estimates that it willtake another sixmonths for the companyto become profitabl.

For further information: Spittin' Im-age Software Inc. (604) 525-2108 orSharka Chobot, Marketing Manager;Stratford Software Corp. (604) 489-1$11.

Softw:ue B.C./CADAPSGAunounces 1991 AwardsFor Excelence

It's that time of year again to startthinking about entering the SoftwareB.C./CADAPSO (Canadian Associationof Data, Professional Services and Soft-ware Organization) Award of ExcellenceCompetition.

This award is significant recognitiongiven to a B.C. company whose primarybusiness is software development, andwho best exempli6es excellence in the

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this is a new no-hassle way to gethigh-resolution slides quickly and eco-nomically," says Ken Davies, president ofSpittin' Image Software Inc. of NewWestminister, B;C., which developed thetechnology and operates the service onSUZY. The new SUZY feature is calledAction Slides.

A SUZY user first downloads specialsoftware &om a library on SUZY, thenuses the so&ware to capture screen im-ages. After the user has reviewed theimages, they are compressed into onefile and sent for processing via SUZY's

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are David Hughes, David Rebak, PeterWestwood, Norm Francis, and a repre-sentative from Digital Resources SystemsLtd., last year's winner.

Entries will be accepted until Decem-ber 20, 1990. Shortlisted firms will beinterviewed during January 1991, andthe award will be presented during theFebruary Software B.C. / C ADAPSOmeeting,

Entries should be sent to: Dr. D.KChowdhury, Dean, School of Engineer-ing Technology, BCIT, 3700 WillingdonAve., Burnaby, B.C. V5G 3H2. Inquiriesmay be directed to the above address bymail, by phone (4324404), or by fax(432-1816).

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BCIT. Other members of the committee

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Although Commodore U.K's mar-keting plans for the Amiga A1500 haveyet to be revealed, sources close to thecompany sufgest that the machine willbepitchedatboth businessandconsumermarkets. To date, the A500 Amiga ismarketed vexymuch as a games machinein the U.K while the A2000, 8000 and$500 series are pitched at the business

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Suejget Axnilp VideoDigitizing Systcnn Unveiled— Digital Creaiions, an Amiga systemsspecialist &om hscho Cordova m Cali-fornia, has unveiled DCTV, a video dis-playdigitizingsystem for the Amiga. Thesystem cosis just $495.

DCIV stands for digital compositetelevision and uses the Amiga's chipmemory as its &arnebufFer. The so&wareand hardware system creates a fullwolorscreen imagewith the sameresolution asconventional NTSC television. Imagescan then be manipulated and edited asIeqmle(L

Like other video digitization systemsfor the Ausiga, DCIV uses the normalhigh~esolution display modes on theAmiga, butinterpretingthe Amigavideosignal to give — the company daims — aradically new image. Using a videocompression technique, thedigitaivideosignal &om the Amiga's RGB port isconverted into a fuSwolor compositevideo signal.

A normal Amiga picture can onlydisplay images with a palette of up to4,096 colors. DCIV removes the 4,096color barrier and allows the Amiga tocreate images with several millioncolors. Also, because'DCIV uses &arnememory, fullwolar animations are pos-

When demonstrated to Newsbytes,DCIV's system looked ixnpressive. Thecompany dain+ that the system is sub-stantially cheaper than, as well as beingtechnically superior to, existing systemsfor the'Amiga. Contact Digital CreationsTel: 916/8444825; Fac 916/6854475.

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TOPEKA, KANSAS, NOV 22 (NB)-NewTek has finally shipped its videotoaster, an add~ board for the Com-modore Amiga which offers desktopvideo effects like titling, productionswitching, and genlocking for $1+95.The board replaces a host of dedicatedmachines costing$1$80,000, andean beused by both independent producersand cable1Vcompanies toproduce new'shows on the RISC standard used forbroadcasting in the U.S. andJapan.Since the announcement of the

Toaster, however, the Amiga platformhas lost ground in the broadcastingmarket. This despite the fact that, unlikethe Apple Macintosh or IBM PC, theAmigacan easily display broadcastsignalswithout the "antiMasing" problem en-countered by other machines.

Put simply, "antin g occ urs be-causemostcomputersredxaw,or re&esh,

TVsets, however, re&esh alternate halvesof the screen 60 times each second. ThediKerence is ixxvisible to the naked eye„until a picture of a computer screen isbroadcast on TV — then you' ll see whatappears to be a white bar moving downthe computer screen, as the outmf~cdFect of an6efiasing is magnified.

Bx'oadcasting executives interviewedby Newsbytes over the last few months,including thoseat anhnafion andspecial-emects houses, have noted an absence ofmeaningful support &om Commodorefor bmrssdcast systems.

These houses, and software develop-ers like Linker Systems — makers of theAnixxsation Stand cartooning system-have moved to the Apple Macintoshplatform. The result, analysts say„maymean trouble for the Toast>+, despitethe high praise it has won &om reviewersand other analysis since announcement,and despite the fact that it is generallyagreed that technically, the Amiga re-mains a better platSoxm for broadcastenhancements than the Apple Macintosh

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, NOV 12 (NB) Evans predicts the Canadian worksta-— Amid a plethora of existing products tion market will grow at 24 percent inrolled out once again for the Comdex 1990, while the personal computer in-Fall show crowds, Atari has two new dustrygrowsatl7percent.Softwaresalesproducts up its sleeve - the Mega STE are forecast to grow at 16.1 percent, andseriesandtheSLM605laserprinter.The pro fessional services at 14 percent.M a STE series is essentiallyan existing General hardware sales and processingSTE motherboard fitted into a slimline seivices are the areas dragging the in-TT~tyle case, and targetedatnew Mega dustry average down. Contact: CharlesST users who want a sleek low-profile Whaley, Evans Research,41649$4664case version of the Mega ST, plus animproved desktop user interface. gISt

dard configuratio includes a graphics TORONTO, ONTARIaccelerator chip plus a number of design (NB) — With the first snowo the seasonimprovements over the previous Mega on the ground outside, the CanadianST machines launchedseveralyears ago. Computer ShowandConferenceopened

The SLM605 laser, ineanwhile, is its doors for the 21st year at Toronto'sbundled as a DTP laser printer with the International Centre of Commerce onMegaSTE series.Asampleconfiguration November 12. This year's show, sched-with Mega STE, 50MB hard disk and uledoppositeComdex/FallinIasVegas,SLM605 laser will sell for $2,800. This was notable for the absence of someprice includes end-user training as weIL major players.

Pricing on the individual Mega ST For the first time in recent memory,and SLM605 laser printer had yet to be IBMCanadadidnotexhibitatthisyear'sconfirmed. The systems will be out in show. Nor did Digital Equipment oftime for Christmas, said a company rep- Canada. However, show organizers saidresentatiye. Contact: Andy Marken, 400 exhibitors accounted for $55,000Marlen Communications,408/296.8600 square feet of floor space. About 80,000

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TORONTO, ONTARIO, NOV 12 databaseL In the keynote address, Fred(NB) — last year brought a steep drop Gibbons, president and chief executivein growth in the Canadian information of Software Publishing,said thecomputertechnology industry, and 1990's figures industry must focus on decision man-will be the lowest since 1986, according agement and not just on data manage-to E Rese arch an information in- ment. That means making informationdustry research firm here. Evans said in available to end users, he sai .its recent Top 200 report that Canada's He said the software technologies thattop 200 information technology compa- will make this possible include Microsoftnies grew at an average of 9,1 percent in Windows and OS/2, the dynamic data1989, down from 17.4 percent in 1988. exchangecapabilitiesbuiltintoWindows,

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The CARtechniqueinvolvesonepieceof softwareJaspin helped develop, called9-Track Express, which can downloaddata &om a main&arne tape into thehard disk of a fast M6kased PC, &omwhich analysis can be done with con-ventional databases. "I tahe pains to ex-plain there are other software packagesyou can use for this," he adds.Jaspin says that about 50 reporters

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Berkeley Speech ChimsPatent For Fax4peechTechnolo©Berkeley Speech Technologies says itspatent application for a system whichconverts afaxed messageinto speech fordelivery has been approved. The an-nouncement is important because it willallow far more integration between fax,which is becoming a preferred methodof sending electronic mail, and the millions of executives who now relyon voicemail to get their messages.

The Grst application of the new tech-nology will be in a program calledReadOut Message Center, being devel-oped by the company's BestspeechProducts unit. ReadOut Systems willtranslate both electronic mail and faxinto voice messsages for delivery to re-

BST has been working on text<o-speech conversion technologysince1979,and the new patent is an extension of itsBestspeech text-speechsystem. Thecompany notes that some products al-ready in use can create recorded voiceannouncements which notify recipientsof an incoming fax, but that their systemactually reads the fax back to the recipi-ent. BST said its fax-tospeech capabilitywill be designed into custom chips foruse in fax machines, and these chips will

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(NB) — Sharp Electronics of Canadalaunched a high~eed laser printer andan improved pocket organizer at theCanadian Computer Show here. But thestar of Sharp's introductions was the PC-8501, a laptop computer with a thin~transistor (TIrT) color VGA display, acomputer called the Colorstar in the

The PC8501 displays 256 colors froma palette of 256,000 on a 10 inch flatscreen. Malcolm Robins, national salesmanager for system products, said thenew machine is "second generation inseveral respects."

The PG8501 weighs 16 pounds andonly runs on AC power. Robins saidSharp's research showed potential buy-ers of color laptops were more interestedinportabilityand color than in the abiTityto run on batteries, However, a battery-powered version is possible in the f'uture,

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Sharp also announced two new mod-els of its pocket electronic organizer.The IQ8100 and IQ8300 oKer morememory, bigger displays, basic word pro-cessing built in, andQWERTYkeyboards.The 64K-byte IQ8100will sell for C$449,and the 128Kkyte IQ8900willcostC$549.Both will be available in mid-December,saidTim Sample, head of Sharp Canada'sIQ, divisi'on.

Sharp also launched the+-9700, a 16-page-per-minute laser printer. Robinssaid the new machine will be priced ataround C$4,000 when it becomes avail-able early next year. "We' re not provid-ing a PostScript version of the machineyet," he added.

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Intel Offers Real-TimeVideo in Smallest Package

Princeton, NewJersey, NOV 9 (NB)— Intel's newest multimedia processors,introduced earlier this week, representthe first time full multimedia capabilityhas been available using just two com-puter chips, according to Intel.

Applications for the i750 Video Pro-cessor chip set are not limited to PCs,said Karen Andring, an Intel spokes-woman in Princeton. "We expect thisstuff to be designed into almost anythingthatcontainsmicroelectronics,"she said.The chip set is designed to work with avariety 'of central processing units(CPUs), includingIntel's80x86line, she

Multimedia enhancement boards forPCsare among the potentialapplications,she said, but so are multimedia en-hancements to automated teller ma-chines, fastkood drive4hrough systems,and highland graphics workstations.

In an industrial education environ-ment, Intel said, employees can use acomputer for training. Instead of read-ing how to prepare a hamburger or cali-brate a machine, they can watch andinteract with the process, improving re-tention. In a travel agent'sofilce, travelerscan "walk through" rooms at varioushotels to choose the right one for theirtastes. They can also review sites andactivities to finalize their schedule of

Samples of the i750-video processorareavailable today. Production quantitieswill be available in the first quarter of1991. The cost of the i750-video proces-sor is US$105in 1,000unitorders, US$85in 10,0004xnit orders.

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Recehrables ModulesGarcfen City, New York, NOV 5 (NB)

— Computer Associates has announcedupgrades to the accounts receivablemodules of both Accpac Plus and AccpacBPI Accounting. Both upgxades indudeimproved tax collection trading, in-duding features necessary for handlingthe Canadian Goods and Services Tax,scheduled to take efFectJanuary 1.John Schoutsen, marketing manager

for businessapplicationssoftwareat CA'sVancouver, British Columbia offlce, saidthe improved tax tracking features aroseout of the need to modify both packagesto support the new Canadian tax. Anupgrade to Accpac Bedford accounting,CA'sentry4evel accountingproduct, willappear byyearwnd to handle the tax, he

Scheutsen added that while the taxchanges are the principal additions toAccpac BPI, the Accpac Plus upgrade ispart ofabroader plan toaddnewfeaturesto the Accpac Plus product. The releaseof Accpac Plus Accounts Receivable 6.0follows the launch earlier this fait ofVersion 6.0 of the General Ledgermodule, he saicL The new versions allowAccpac Plus to record and report moredetailed accounting information thanbefore, he saicL Contact: Computer As-sociates, 604-787-2258.

Intel To Unveil FastestSupercomputer

Santa Clara, California, NOV 7 (NB)— Intel will announce the develepmentand installation of the world's flsstestsupercomputer next week, according tothe San Fras cisco Chroaicle. Thesupercomputer, installed at Pasadena,CatiforniaInstituteofTechnotogy,issaidto be ef the massively parallel varietyinstalled with 512 i860microprocessors.

The report quotes Andrew Grove,Intel's chief executive, assaying that "It' sarguably the highest-performancesupercomputeranybodyhasever shippedin the industry" during an October 25

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SSSkased NotebooksFrom Samsung

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, NOV 7(NB) — Samsung Information SystesnsAmerica has rolled out the NoteMaster8868/16, a $4,499 notebook~ed com-puter weighing seven pounds, equippedwith Intel's 82+it 16enegaherts80386SXnncfeprecesser-Standard features indude a 20snega-

byte hard~kchive and LapLinklilsoft-ware from Traveling Software. The dis-play is controlled by a new chipset f'romChips 8c Technologies, billed as offeringusers a near~hotographic quality VGAgraphics display that can keep up with acursor, moved by a mouse, without the"ghosting" efFect.

offer Salable Smart Sleep, a proprietarySamsung feature in which the CPUmonitors screen activity as well as key-board activity. This allows the CPU tocomplete processing tasks that do notinvolve the keyboard before going intothe sleep mode, eliminating the need toconstantly touch the keys in order toprevent the sleep mode from activating,the cempany says.

Contact: Patty Liebscher, Samsung,

Microsoft Sbrd K 5.5Redmond, Washington, NOV 7 (NB)

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— Microsoft has issued a new version ofMicrosoft Word. Version 5.5 for DOSsysternsfeaturesagxaphicaluserinterfaceand compatibility with other membersof the Microsoft Word family, the com-pany saysi

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recent research which found that visualinterfaces are easy to learn and use,provide better access to features, andgiveusersexpandedftexibitityandpower,the companysays. The newversion ofFerssuch MacintoshkkefeaturesasputlAownmenus, dialog boxes and other visualaids used for formatting.

Contact: Lisa Wilson, Microsoft, 206/8824080.

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Lotus Offers $1S.S4/ShareFor Samna

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Lotus will provide North SubsidiaryCorp. with the approximately $65 mil-lion of funds required for the offer andthe merger. Lotuswill obtain these fundsf'rom cash on hand, or borrowings underits existing credit lines, the companysays. The First Boston Corporation isserving as dealer manager for the offerand Georgeson & Company Inc. is serv-ing as information agent for the offer.

Press Contact: Susan Yeomans, Lotus,617493-1540

Toshiba Adds AnotherLaptop To Line

Irvine, California, NOV 8 (NS) -Toshiba has added the T1000LE, a 6.5-pound notebook. computer with built~hard disk and diskette drives, to its line ofnotebooks portables. The new entry,which lists for $2,499, has a 9.54 MHz(megahertz) 80C86 processor and runsfor three hours on a standard removable,rechargeable slim4ine battery pack andhas an optional second battery to extendbattery life to five hours.

The T1000LE is the third member ofToshiba's 80C86kased notebook com-puter line and brings the total number ofnotebookmodelsavailable from Toshibato six. The introduction of the newmodelwas coupled with the announcement oflower prices for other models in thefamily. The T1000SE single diskette drivemodel has been reduced from $1,699 to$1,499 while the T1000XE, with a harddrive, has been reduced from $2,599 to$2,199.

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slower speeds where requirecL The mo-dem is an OEM (erigmal equipmentmanufactured) device and was chosento meet the telecemmunicatians stan-dards and regulafians ef as many coun-tries as passible.

Alfa has traditionally developedproducts for ether companies — its best-known oKspring is the MainLAN net-worksystcmitproduced forsage. Disklaxis the first product thatwill go out underthe Alfa badge.

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Messetipnp '9O ShowThe theme of the Messaging '90 confer-ence, which ran &om November 68 atthe New York Hilton Hotel, turned outto be the integration ef messatjng tech-nologies inta a simpler whole. The shawwasproducedbyInformation Pubhshingef Houston, Texas.

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But all that is changing, as exhibitorsattheshowmadeClea. Berkdeyspeech'sfaxepeechpatentwill bringfsxmessagesto voice mail systems within the next fewyears. Nearly a dozen companies nawoffer phon~clivated fiur delivery sys-tems, which will replace mail~ cards inmagazines and allow for faxed broad-casts &om anywhere.

Hotelecopy andJoe Franklin Enter-prises are both bringing public faxing tothe fore, the former with cainwperatcdmachinesin hotelsaadairlrcuts, the latterwith plain~ pe r emits at copier storeswhichcan replace couriers. Manyaf thosefaxAelivery systems will be placed annew 9tOcrumbers, which have finallybeen purged af sex hnes and are nowbeing used for consumer contests andthe selling of cereaL

Voice mail and interactive voice tech-nologies used in the 90Q numbers arealso being integrated by companies likeVaicetck of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.That campany's new Gerrerations soft-ware will let voice mail systems delivercustomized information to customers aswell as employees through a ~ afprompts, which will help tuxn voice mailsystems &om a cost centre to a prafit

Few people interviewed at the shaw byNewsbytes questioned that a recession istaking hold in the U.S. But they all ex-pressed the hope that integrating voicemail, voice response, fsx and electronicmail will increase whi~ellar produc-tivity and help at least some companies

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revelations, made at the firm's recentconferences, include a prediction thatthe U8. information systems industry,slowing ta a 7 % grewth rate atter severalyears of growth at up te 20%, will climbback in midMecacfe if vendors solveconnectivity problems, indigestion (im-proper assimilation of existingsystems),arid cr'cate ncw tcchlleleglcal dlrvcrs.

The Gartner Group forecasts that thehot praducts of the decade will be palm-top computers, wireless phones, imagemanagement, abject~riented program-ming, speech recognition, RISC and par-allel processors, optical disks, fibre op-

Worldwide micro, mini and main-&ame computers will grow &am about$%0 billion this year ta almost $700billion by the year 2000, the companypredictk Further, the gap between mi-cros, workstations and main&ames willwiden 24 percent each year aver the nextten years, resultingin 700 more MIPSfereach $1 spent on microcomputers vs.

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$25,000unit price market sharewill growfrom 45 percent in 1990 to 52 percent in1995 and to 57 percent by 2000.

In the operating system arena, thecompany predicts that those which are"open" in the DOS, OS/2 and Unixarenas will be purchased for 60 percentof total systems by 2000 — up f'rom about45 percent now.

The big winner of the '90s, it predicts,will be Fujitsu/ICL, which will second-best IBM and strengthen its grip on thenumber-two spot in the world-wide dataprocessing industry as it increases itsmarket share two-thirds by 2000.

Conract: Kris Dale, 208-9644096.

AT8cT Dedines CommentQn NCR Rumor

Morristown, NewJersey, U.S.A. 1990NOV 8 (NB) — AT8cT has dedinedcomment on the latest rumor of acqm-sition talks between ATILT and NCRCorp. NCRis a prominentmanufacturerof Unix computers.

The Wall StreetJournal reportedThursday that the two companies-werediscussing several difFerent acquisitionschemes. Under one reported plan,ATScT would buy NCR. Under anotherplan, ATkT would spin ofF its computerbusiness into NCR and buy a stake in thecombined company.

"As a matter of policy, we can't com-ment on rumors of acquisitions ormergers," said ATScT spokesman Don

TheATScT NCRrumorsarenotnew.

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ATILT has been said to be shopping fora computer company almost since 1983,when the FCC's Second Computer In-quiry ruling allowed the company to getinto the computer business. Over theyears, AT8c T has been linked with AppleComputer, Digital Equipment Corp.,NCR, and others, but no purchase has

ATSc T's experience going it alone inthe computer business has been mixed.Despite winning an increasing numberof major public and private sector con-tracts, and despite the growing accep-tance of its Unix operating system, ana-lysts say ATScT's computer businesscontinues to lose money.

Companyofficials appear determinedto make the computer business work,however, on the grounds that data net-working is the wave of the very nearfuture, and that Abc T is well positionedto take advantage of that trend,

NCR, for its part and like AT8cT, is anold line firm; it was NCR that ThomasWatson quit to create IBM. Like ATScT,NCR has reinvented ilaelf several times.It was a second-tier player in the main-frame market and has finally achievedsome prominencein the "open systems,"or Unix, market. Contact: Don Ferenci,ATILT

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Your eaess technique on the sequen-tial file was not sequential — yau didn' tfiip through every folder to find outwhere the R'swere — youused an msfemarflookup. Your desk, by contrast, wouldpile up in a different manner. After you6nished working with a falder, youmightthrow it ta one'side, and then do thesame with subsequent ones.

Random orderHere you were storing the folders in

rsrrrrfem arder and if you had to get ane,it might not be as smooth an anair ta findit. So maybe yau color-coded your 6les— all your topsecret documents were inblue files. Thus, if you had been workinga little while earlier with a memo, youwould look at the pile of folders on yourdesk, spot the blue one and pull it out. Inelect, you were using an index but onethat might not be apparent to anyoneelse — "where does it say that am the bluefolders are memos?" With an apology tadatabase purists,you were usinga specialtype af index — hashish. In hashing, yougive a record a unique code, and thenyou can Snd that recard very quickly, inwhat ostensibly looks like a mesa (Gfcourse, this depends on there heing onlyone blue file, so to keep on thinkingalong the lines of this analogy yau willhave to think in terms of superMuperVGA — I zillion colors &om a palate ofane jillion colors. Thus each folder isuniquely colorwoded and, you, havingperfect polychromatic ~ mem o ry,can look at the big heap and find the oneyou are laoking far.)

SlipsThe computer's "electronic paper"

mode changes the wayrecords are storedand accessed. Your document is a seriesof magnetic blips surraunded by othermagnetic blipson your harddrive. Peoplelooking at the recards never see the blips— they only see copies of the bfiipa

If you store the blips in physical se-quential order in this magnetic world,you run inta a problem — you can't justshove the record into place. The blipsthat come before or after are going tohave to be elbowed aver one so you can

If you have several 6les and you' vecrammed them on the drive, yau're ga-ing ta have ta da a lat of pushing and

Swished,Boxesuse allow for this type of matching so thatyou can look up twa files at once. Inalder, jfet jifcsystemsyau couldn' t relate61es in this way. Flexibilities in these

shoving, and one big push and all thecards come dawn. For this reason, mostrecardetarage techniquesput the recordin the next free apace an the disk re-gardless of whether it's in the right place"logically" and then use irrsfsawd lookupsar hashing to find the record.

Secret hagredieatsRecord~rage, indexmg and hash-

ing techniques are some of the secretingredients that separate one database&om another aa that even though twalanguages such as dLLse and Foxbasemay look alike when you create a pro-gram, Foxbase may run SLster — it hasmore eKcientstarage and retrievaltech-rnques.

Besides eancernirig themselves withhow informatian is stored, databasesconcern themselves with retrieval andmarupulation — this is the programmingpart that most of us see.

Relational DatabasesThe paper world's corresponding

t echnique might b e te r med a"procedure"; e.g., "If you want to figmeout an employee'ssalary, go to the greenSling cabinet in the back offiee, pun outthe drawer marked Payroll, find theemployee's time card in the sectionxnarked Time Cards and then ga to thesecfion marked Personnel anrl pull outthe employee's file. The rate that theemplayee is receiving is marked on thatcarrL Multiply that rate with the numberof hours on the employee's time card tocome up with the gross. Make a note ofthe deductions the employee is entitledto and then go the 61e marked IncomeTax and in it you' ll find a table with thedeductions thatshould be taken for eachgross pay leveL..".

In databases, procedures to aeeess andmanipulate data are carried aut by pra-grams and databases that can be com-pared on the ways that their program-ming module allows data ance enteredta be manipulated and farmatterL

In the above example, various fileshad to be matched to get the end resultThe time card was used to look up thepayroll histaryof theindividual and then,given some information on the payrollhistory, the table in the Revenue CanadaSle was checked. In databaM: terms, thisis a swfatiorrll srructure.

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The above concept might be consid-ered a speed type of variable — the speedofdevelopment time. Earlier wediscussedthe access methods and the part theyplay in speed of access. A third consider-ation of speed is how fast the program

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Data convertibility or portability is areal problem in the world — how do youget am your customer files on the PC inAccPac over to your Mac's version ofWord so you can do a fancy mail merge?Well, there'ssomethingcalledASCII anda lot of progxams can pmduce an ASCHfile or read an ASCII file. Also, becauseLotus and dSase are so popular, a lot ofprogxams can read/create files based onthese standardL Still, it's all very hap-hazard — alittlemessy. Solution: databasesexvexs aud SQL

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Les Leibrandt, president af CalemaConsulting, Inc. has been in the softwarebusiness a cansiderable length of time.As a professional accountant, he hadexperience with several database pro-grams before settling on Revelation.

Revelation was chosen because Lessaw the Sexibility inherent in a data dic-tionary driven system. "Even dumb ac-countants can modify the system," Lesboasts. (It would be an even dumberprogrammer that would let them, anunidentified saurce retorted.)

Calema'sprolpammer, Aiden Massey,lists his favorite aspects of Revelation as:

Active Data Dictionary

an AREV dictianary does nat define thephysical structure af a file. Instead, thedictionaryis a view that is apphed to dataas it is accessed. The dictionary allowsthe developer to define a field, set upvalidation criteria, assign attributes, de-fault display lengths, justiflcation and

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Variable Length RecordsAREV recordscan holdup to 64Kwith

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Multi Value FieMsAREV allows repeating data in a Geld.

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Symbolic FieldsSymbohcs act like any other Seld but

instead af actual data their values arecalculated at time af display. These val-ues are calculated by a program that mayrange f'rom a single lme to 8RK.

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Database Con't from PaNe 32tabaseaf customer namesinta your wordprocessing package.

In the bestmfM~par worlds,you willbe able to access this by choosing Retrieveor Load File from your File menu choice,click on the SQL server choice, choose afile from the list shown residing on theSQL server, see a list of the fields thatmake up the file, highlight the Selds youwant ta work with, select certain subsetsof them — over 40, sen6vegetarian, la-tent pseud~tellectual — and then dickto retrieve — and here it is naw — halfthe population af KitL

Sounds tao good ta be true) It's herelThe only thing missing is — say, howgood are yau at entering, with unerringaccuracy, endless pages of last names,6rst names, middle names, social insur-ancenumbers,addresses,zip codes,Axes,phone numbers, heights, sexes.... Boy,have we gat a job for youl

Unhke traditional data dictionaries,

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ANSI Standard SQLAn SQL assistant allows you to easily

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A huge chart was drawn up with all

6lledin over an extended length of time.Clarion didn't come up in the initialstudies. Itwas only seeing an ad for it and

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Fave FeaturesAndrew, with a background in Basic,

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— the variety and integration of thesupport utilities: the editor, compiler,sorter and scanner are only a hot keyaway from each other

— help is never hr away and is infor-

— adebugger is built into the xunfime

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— network support is built in so there

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Superbase 4 and Toolbook (they wouldsolve the graphical problem) but eo farthe performance parameters have notbeen promising.

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Dave works in the dBase or xBaselanguages, mainly in the Clipper dialect.He started with dBase II, and has writtenapplications in dBase II, III, and ID Plusbefore concentrating on Clipper at hisciurent job where he has written thefolio~ a p plications:

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Dave prefers the Clipper dialect ofdBase (or xBase) due to the great num-

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Dave's petpeeves with Clipper are itshigh price for what amounts to a bare-bones compiler with no integrated de-velopment environment or tools (CASE,design, documenters). Clipper third-party library prices are rising above theU8$20O price as well, making Clipperprohibitive to inany progrunmers. Healso distrusts the possible directions thatNantucket is taking the language (leav-ing the dBase language in favor of an-other type of C).

For professional database develop-ment, Clipper is stiH the only game intown, since neither Fox nor Ashton-Tatehave dehvered on an EXE Compiler, andBorland has not announced anyplans tojump into the dBase market

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— screen editor is a little slow— no memo field support

— interactivity allows powerful use bynovice and experienced users

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Disadvantages

— "table" concept is complex. Thedisk gets a big workout without lots ofRAM (which is mostly dedicated tocaching)

— no easy access by external pro-grams (like dBase call command)

— smaller user base than dBase, soless local support

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1.2MB 5.25 fioppies, four 720K 8.5 Hop-pies, a quick reference guide, gettingstar tedguide, using ToolBookguide anda using OpenScript re5erence and intro-duction guide. OpenScriptis the Object-Orientedprogrttmminglanguage (OOP)which is the heart of ToolBook.For the conveyance of finished infor-

mation, a OOP prograauning language

ventional, such as "C" or PascaL OOP isa means of grouping instructions into"objects" so they can be used repeatedlyif necessary. What makes a hypertext(ToolBook) application so useful is theabilityof the user to "backtrack" througha path of inquiry to a branch which theysawearlier,and then take anewdirection.Or ro6race a path of inquiry and to beback at a point they passed throughearlieri This looping is part of thelearning process and is an importantpart of t h e h y pertext concept.OpenScript is a higher4evel languagewhich, even if you have never pro-grammed before, can be mastered with-out a degree in computer science. But,'keep in mind that using OpenScript isnot a weekend chore, it requires anamount of dogged determination to

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become proficient. Some examples ofscript terms are; Value, Variable, Oper-and, Handler, Function. The rewards oflearning this scripting language are thecreation of such things as informationmanagement systems, applications pro-totypes, customized fron tends for exist-ing programs, shelhj for use in computerpublic~ccess kiosks, etc.

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Toolbook on a generic 286-12 Mhz ATwith 4 mego of RAM, 65 megs of storage,and 640 X 480 X 16 color graphics cardand monitor. When running the demoapplications the response time for screenrefreshes was not mind numminglyslow,but it was very noticeable. Apparently,there is no compiler for ToolBook, andthis could be a problem for the seriousdeveloper. Second installation was on a386-16 Mhz clone with 4 megs of RAM,same storage and graphics card/monitorcombo. Running the demos a secondtime produced a barely perceptible in-crease in speed and response. If the in-tended user group happened to be high-priced executives, the life span of aToolbook book would be rather short.

Again, from a user perspective,ToolBook offers a very attractive envi-ronment On a 640 X 480 X 16 colorscreen, itis a pleasure to browse throughbooks and pages of books looking at andreading about various "things". A screenof that resolution is spacious and allowsfor the layout of a page to be complexwithoutbeingclutterecLThisisimportantfrom the developers' point of view, be-

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This make the most dilficult part of aToolBook application the planning of anapplication! Since ToolBookescistswithinthe Windows user interface, access to allthe aspects of Windows is within easyreach. When writing scripts for ToolBook,the author has access to a debugger tohelp with the syntax and logic problemsthat are inherent in any programminglanguage. Some of the other advantagesofToolBookare the abilityto use DynamicLink Libraries, external code. librariesand code created within other windowscompatible languages. Also supported iswindows Dynamic Data Exchange. Cer-tain features available in spreadsheetprograms are available in ToolBook-sorting pages based on a field for pageswith acommonbackground,forexample.For technical support Asymetrix offers90daysfreeandyearlyadditionalsupportfor a fee. Also, a BBS is available for theexchange of information and ideas.

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Product File Force Yersion 1.0.1.Publisher: ACiUS, 10351 Bubb Road,Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 252-4444.System Rettulrsments: File Force 1.0requires a hard disk and a Mac Plus orhigher running System 6.0.3 or later.MuitiFinder compatible. Multiuser-ca-pabie on networks such as AppieShareand supports automatic record locking.Price: US$395.

Sammy:Fik Force is an euytousc re-kstional database that inherits nsuch of itsdesign and capabilities pens thc company'sjlagshipproduct,4thDimension2,0. Targetedat thesamc market as Chris's neyeFikMehcrPro, FikForce can create a jiling system usingup to 10 fiks and relate them autrrrnats aly.

4th Dimension'sisconsideredbymanyto be the best of the relational databasesavailable on the Macintosh. It has a truerelational nature, a graphicatructureeditor, and a powerful programminglanguage. File Force brings relational-database capabiTities to new users whomight have chosen Filemaker for theirneedsaswell as users who have outgrownFilemaker's "ftatWe" capabilities. FileForce is less demanding than 4th Di-mension because it eliminates the po-tentiailybewildeiingsetof design choicesthat 4th Dimension gives you.

Featuresinchsdeverycompactfile siz;extensivedocumentation; asophisticatedforms generator with disks of clip art;facilities for generating quick reports,maiTing labels and business graphs; nu-merous data~ da t ion tools; multiusertransaction management; automaticrecord lochng.

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You can create reports &om yaur datain File Farce either by using a layout orwith the@sick Report editor. The lattercreates tabular and textual reports, butthese can contain nuxed fonts, sizes andstyles. Reports designed in the layouteditor can contain graphic elements anddata in almost any fermat.

DocumentationFile Force has extensive documenta-

tion. It includes four coil-backed manu-als and three thinner stapled beoklets.The documentation goes a long way toexplaining things, including the nature

This deluge of manuals can be a littledisconcerting to the beginner at data-base creation. Fortunately, the companyhas includcct a number af already builtapplicatians to play with and add an to.They cover a wide range of the mastcommon uses for databases, so there is agood chance that mere than half af yourideal database is already built, and allthat yeu may have to do is customize.

If you want deeper explanations ofFile Force features, you can turn ta theUser Reference and Design Referencemanuals. Accessing this mass of informa-tion is made easier by the inclusion of aGlossaxy and Master Index volume.Clip Artofferings ta help polish your database.Similar to the "Button Ideas" included inHypnCard, you get several pages af use-ful clip art, including stylishly designedbuttons and headers far your databasereports

of relational databases

File Farce includes a bonus set ef art

4th Dimension.

Less Is MoreFile Force has fewer commands avail-

able than daes 4th Dimension, which isgood news and bad news The good newsis that it makes things simpler for newusers. The bad news is that it limits thepower af the database tools available.The designexs of File Force seem to havechosen a good middle ground for theneeds af users. To really tweak themaximum perfonnance ef a relationaldatabase, users will probably want to goup te its more expensive sister product,

Multiuser CapabiTitiesFile Force has built in multiuser capa-

bilities. Unfortunately, unlike FilemakcrPra,you are forced to huymultiplc copiesto gain additional serial numbers ta ac-cess this feature. (Filemaker Pro also saysthat you sheuld purchase additianalcopies, but you do not in fact need thcadditional copies to access the database.)

Switching between modes is simplebut notveryintuitive. Itrectuires thatyouhold dawn the mouse butten when youstart up File Force. It would have mademore sense te indude the multiusermade as a menu option. As itis, you haveto hunt through the manuals te find outhow to turn it on. In multiuser mode, theprogram prevents two users fromchanging the same record at the sameinstant but still lets the secend user viewthe record.

There is Be run%Hie cnvix'Qilnicnt fafFile Force as in 4th Dimension.

PerformanceO ur tests af File Farce showed it to be

fiurly stable and predictable. We com-

The worst problem with File Force isthat it is a confusing and non-intuitiveenvironment far designing layouts. Itscemsredundant that theprogram forcesyou to use separate screens far datainputand output. A simpler approach wouldhave been to emulate Filemaker's strat-egy, which allaws you to beth enter dataand print it aut &om the same screen.Acxuswas Batvcrysuccessfuiin shieldingthe user &om 4th Dimension's struc-ture.

The Computer Paperpared File Farce with FileMaker H andFilemaker Pre with regard to some basicoperations: ixnporting text files, search-ing and sorting.

File Farce excelled at imparting textThe files created were considerablysmaller. (File Force separates your data&am the structure ef the data. It createstwo separate files: a structure file, and adata file.) Filemaker Pre is somewhatfiistcr than the elder Filemaker, howeverits data files are considerably larger.

Once the data was in place, file ap-erations were slower than with Filemaker,often considerably slower. If you have asmall database, this is nat an issue, but ifyau have a database of a few thousandrecords, you could have problems.

Ups ~Ifyou find yaurself needingmorefiex-

ibiTity in programuiing than File Forceprovides, you can convertyaur File Forcedatabase directly into a 4th Dimensionapplication without recanstructing thefile structure ar dealing with record im-part and expert.All Is Not Rosy

actual use.

I Dec'90 47 ~printed graphics, in either bitmap orvector graphic form,they endeduplook-ing awfuL Fonts within vector graphicsprint like they would on an Imagcwritcrin dxaft mode, and bitmaps come outjagged and inconsistent. We printed thesame graphics in Pagemaker, and theyworked beautifully.

The program's good documentationwould have been made even better withan an%ac help system.

The prognun stops short of allowingusers to create their own menu items, afeature ~ le &em et h er databasevenders such as Double Helix and evenFilemaker te a limited degree.

The Sig PictureThe average Macintosh user could

probably design a simple Filemaker da-tabase witheuteven cracking the manuaLF ile Fo r ce , des p i te what theadvertisements say, is nat in the sameleague. Be prepared to do some reading.

Patentialpurchasexs ought to be awareof the direct and indirect casts involvedin using such a complicated productBuyers sheuld carefully evaluate whatthey really need in the way of a database.Relational features can be wonderful ifyou really need them, but if they areoptional, they slew dawn both speed efdevelopment and in this case, speed ef

File Force is net earthWattering initspotential, but it does offer a good set oftools to build custom database+ Thetoolsare there, theyare a hitcanfusingtouse, and the perfannance leaves some-thing ta he desirecL

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grouping, Iockingandtayer controlhavebeen included. Objects can be automati-caUy aligned with a graphic example asto how the command will afFect the ob-jeces. Rulers have finally been added andanobjects window allows for theprecise positioning and sizing of objects.

The text component in FileMaker hasalways been weak so a speu-checker is awelcomed addition. It includes a user-definable dictionary and will be inter-changeable with other Claris dictionar-ies (most notably MacWrite's).

Brand new also is the addition of on-screen buttons, i la HyperCard, thatperform scripts, menu commands ornavigate toalayout. More button supportcomes in the way of check boxes andradio buttons that accept specific userinput as field data. Unfortunately thereis no sczipting language built into thesebuttonsor anywhere else in the program.

OMer And 8etterarea of layouts. They can new be namednnd navigated to through apopoep menu.There are more formatting optionsavailable to display fields, with the mostnotable work done with custom~teformats. Fields can now be individuallymanipulated as to how they slide and inwhat tab order they' re placed.

On»screen visual aids like arrows andnumbers help to edit their designationsaLines and fills can be added directly tofields as an attribute. Nonyrineable ob-jects are now supported.

allowformanualpositioning. Dropdownlists have finally gained scroll bars tofacilitate the editing of long lists. Un-fortunately,you have to navigate throughmiles of dialog boxes to get to the lists tomate a minor change. The repeating-field option has likewise been buriecL Anewfield typ, time, hasbeen added withaeoochted formatting options.

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menu. The commands themselves havemore options. The Find and Sort com-mands can now pause for input, therebyenabling for interactive scripts. You canchoose which named layouts to navigateto and can print with or without the printdialog.

Some impressive work has been donewith the security access to the database.Group layering as welt as password pro-tection is now supported. The system istightly integrated throughout the pro-gram and surfaces in field and layoutdesign. The end resultis an intricate andcomprehensive security system with lotsof flexibility.

The preview mode now shares thesame functionality as the other modeswith active menus, etc. Overall perfor-

things move along a little zippier thanthey used to. The Import and Exportcommands now support Ctaris'sXTENDtechnology, therebyincludingFileMakerin their product integration scheme.

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can do these days. A tuck here, a lift thereand Yoitaf a new program. FileMakerPro is a thing of beauty and has stood thetest of time. I just wondex what her chil-dren will look like.

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Our summaxy is organized by pricerange, convverted from North Pole dol-lars to loonies using VixenCalc, but first,a preview of Santaware.

Santaware is a combination of hard-ware and so8twme that promises to de-liver presents to all good little girls andboys all over the world by the morning ofDecember 25th. The powerful XMAS&,¹ckwamed "The Gift," is wrapped in abright red case with flashing ChristmasIree lights. XMAS90 not only is respon-sible for the database XMAS-List thatincludes everyone on Earth, but also

in their Christmas wishes(555-WISH).As well, XMAS90 has run the roboticteam of toymakers throughout the yearin preparation for the new automatedChristmas Gift Merge.

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Hocnayl The YANCOUVERPUBLICLIBRARYis new acceptxng calls to its on-line catalog, giving access to the VPL

You can call from a personal com-puter at 500, 1200or 2400bps. Presentlythey emulate a few terminal types in-eluding ANSI,VT52, VT100,Wyse, ADDSRegent. (I6ndVT100worksbest,settingmy end with Tehx for VT-102). PlainTIYemulation won'twork,asclearscreenand reversevideo codes axe used exten-sively.

The number: 665-5010 (24-hrs/day, Ibelieve). Hit enter a couple of times ifsystem doesn't respond after "Connect."

You can reviewborrowers' recordswitha valid YPL card number (barcodenumbers).

At present, you can't place holds orleave email to librarians with inquiries,etc., but apparently that's due "real soon

Overall, I fmd it reasonably goo' Ican 6nd out when my holds are in forpictuxp several days before the letter-carrier brings the printout.

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The XMAS90 is much mere accuratethan the farmer, manual, "Chectung ItTwice" system. The computer can berelied upon by Santa for those very last-minute updates, hke when a "nice" childtiu ns inta a "naughty" child or vice versa,

When the gift order is confirmed witha password, er perhaps, by a Gngeralongside the nose, then a color Comet-

pllter Paper / Dee '90printer {made by Reindeer Technolo-gies, a close cousin ef the lasergrinter)prints out the gift label and the packageis processed by the Gik Bundler, thatsorts by postal code and packs the giftsinto red velvet bags.

XhGWIist keeps an accurate countef the gi&s, se girls and boys can be

shortages, as may have happened in thepast»Santaware includes The Nutcracker

software security program, as there aremischievous computer users out therewhe would love to break into Santa'ssystem to: 6nd out what they' re gettingahead ef time, change "Ne-Nos" te "He-

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Hos," or to tamper with their gift data.On Christmas Eve, navigation of

Santa's sleigh will be handled by an on-sled computer linked by satellite te theXMAS90. As mentioned above, thecomputer can advise Santa of a statuschange &om "naughty" to "nice" evenwhile on a rooftop, though he won't becarrying the computer down the chimneywith him, so there's still a small margin

Has Santa lost the spirit ef gift~vmgte an impersonal computer? Does hollyreally mix with high<ech? Don't worry,Santa will still xnake that important per-sonal visit to each home en Christmas

Eve. Santawarehasgreatlyimpreved thelaborious, theugh always-merrily~p-proached task, butwill never replace thejelly one.

In an interview with The Computer Pa-psr, Santa said that "Applicatiens for Elfsoftware pmgrammers and hardwareengineexs will be taken starting BoxingDay. We have much work ahead to pre-pare Santaware for next year. For in-stance, in your country alone we have toupgrade for the GST. As well, we pmjectmany New Year's babies, so we-will im-prove eur Mistletel chip fer increasedmemory demands."Applicants mustsing the 'Twelve Days

of Christmas' by heart, and be willing torelocate to the North Pele. Look for theXMAS91 te be ready for next Christmas.New, have yeu all been good little beysand girls this year? Ho, ho, ho. Merry

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Gifts Under $50Dlske~ rege odstocking~tuffers.

But, unless the stocking is very large,don't try to atua a 5 1/4 o disk into astocking or yeu win damage it; stick tothe S 1/2o kind. Diskettes can be pur-chased in boxes of 10 to 100, or individu-ally &om bulk bins. They come in basicblack or seasonal pximaxy colors. Take asample disk to the store with yeu if youhave to get the right kind ef diskette. Ifyou want te splurge, you could buy adiskette case as a giftbox.

Cemlmter Paper — In keepingwith theevergreen season, give recycled tracter-feed paper.

Printer Ribbo — Aclone4ype printerribbon averages $6.25. The best way toget the exact ribbon for their printer is to"borrow it and take it along to the stere.Perhaps, the printer ribbon might evencome in a color version; just ask and youmay brighten up someone's life.

Document Holder — Santa's partner,Ma Claus, recemxnends The Curtis Clipor The Thingi document-holder to savethe computer user in your life from sorenecks, headaches, and backachescausedfrom bending over copy like the cray-

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The Computer Paper / Dec '90to KNAS-List stats. The Solitaire Gamethat comes with the program would keep

that these are not the hnd of windowsyou spray snowflake patterns onto withcanned snow.

Meme — A mouse is a good present,but Santa warns, "Do not expect it to stiron the Night before Christmas." So thatthe mouse of the house won't sufferharm from spilled eggnog and cookiecrumbs, throw in a textured snouse pad.

Beoke and Sulsecripsione — On Box-ing Day, the computer bookstores Gllwith people searching for books andsnagazines to help them enjoy the newsoftware and/or hardware they got &osna generous gift er. Computer book-storesissue giftcertiflcates; they' re a one-size-fltsell, low-risk gift that is sure to bea surprise. A computer bookstore is alsoa good place to look for magazines thatyou might want to give subscriptions to;popular ausgazines with computer usersinclude, Byte, PC Magcszissr„Horns OjjScsCessspssting, Mesc@'os, Unix Workhand, ofcourse, The Computer Paper. A book thatSanta recommended was The Ant of Hu-srsass-Coepsctcr Isstcrfms Design, BrendaLaurel (ed.). Here is a list ofvancouver'sspecialty computer bookstores:

Book Warehouse Ltd. - 872-5711Cody Books - 525-9850Doppler Cosnputer Centre -8754261Friendlyware Computers - 437-$118Granville Books - 687-221$Siliconnections Books - 222-2221Strider Cosnputers - 276-9697Super Software - 278-7688Unihall Cosnputer Books - 682-7842UniversityBookstore (UBC) -2284741

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Gifts ader $500Modem — Your cosnputer users could

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Agift that keeps on giving throughoutthe year would be a subscription to BIX,an electronic conferenceservice that letsthe user contact computer experts,journalists, and provides thousands of&eeware programs.

Fax Board — For the same price as amodem, a Gas board will let your com-puter kids send real faxes to fax ma-chines &om the flles they create oa thecomputer. There are fax boards that canshare telephone lines, and can distin-guish between Sax, data and voice trans-

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Fax96 board starts at under $800. Santatreated himself to an early Christmaspresent, the SatisFAXtion board &omIntel, and says he will be using it to con-tact all those "bad" little boys and girls

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aad the Hercules graphics cards are inex-pensive. Nowwould be areallygreat timeto upgrade a loved one's monochrometo VGA — okay it won't cost you $800, but

puter Paper j Dec '90you could get started for about $500.Printers — Not everyone can afford to

give away something like the Comet-printer, but there is a very good selectionofspindot matrix printers available.Don't forget to give some computer pa-per with this one, or you' ll have to waitfor Boxing Day to try it out.

Windows Software — There are manynew Windows applications available thatwould be appropriate for a Windows

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of game software for the PC user; thesetoys don't need batteries or assembly.

• Microsoft Excel — A spreadsheetprogram that will be upgraded in theNew Year, so itcould be a good dealright

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Computers — MacIntosh and IBMhave come out with more reasonablypriced versions of their products: theMac Classic at under $1500 and the PS/1 atjust over $2000 make good presentsif you want to stick to name products.Yet, with a little work and many hints&om a potential computer user, Santasays that you could put together a PC-compatible giftbox &om only $1000.Still, many users would want a 886 ma-chine under the tree.

NeXT Computess have also loweredthe price of theirdistinctiveblackgiftbox.You would have to be very, very, very,very good as well as very lucky to get oneof these $5000+ machines.

Notebook Computers-~od thingsstill come in small packages. Notebooksstart in the $1500 range, and with a copyof Microsoft Works on board, they couldhelp generate New Year's resolutions.

CD-ROM — This is a CD player for thecomputer." a device thatreads CDs filledwith. electronic encyclopedias, dictio-naries, thesauruses, atlases, etc. Invest-ing in one of these could give you giftsuggestions for years.

Laser Printer — Since this is a wish list,let's make it a color laser-printer. Seri-ously, though, laser-printers have comedown significantly in price over the pastyear, so give HP and the gang somethought.

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Cathalynn Labont~mlth ls aVancouver freelanoe writer. She haswritten recently for the Vancouver SttnHigh Tech season on space-agesewing machines.

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An interview with Don MattrichofDistinc-tive So@were Inc.

by Lynne HendersonDon Mattrickis ia the games game. As

co-founder of Distinctive Software Inc.,26-year~id Mattrick has come a long way&om his Burnaby North high schooldays and his first business success withthe computer game, Evolution. Now, asthe chairman of B.C.'s largest computergame development company, he pres-eatly devotes 60 to 70 hours a week togames and entertainment software, hisgrowing business that yielded $8.2 mil-lion revenue in 1989.

Nautical But NiceHis 4th~orey view oflice, decorated

with a large Metal Art fish sculpture anda spectacular wall-to-wall tropical fishtank, is reminiscent of a captain's quar-t ers in a luxury yacht It is a Nem~ u ehaven apart from the madcap oKces ofhis Rand D group where creative licenseis apparent with high<ech toys, MIDIequipment, arcade games, and graffition the "playroom" walls.

Mattrick speaks modestly of his suc-cesses which have inJanuary 1990allowedhim to takeover theentire14,000orquare-foot fourth floor of his building — onestep toward even greater future expan-

"We' ve had a lot of successM venturesas a company. I think some of the mostimportant accomplishments thatwe haveare the client base that we work with atthis time... companies like Walt Disney,Koaami, Electronic Arts, Accolade,Brssderbund, NEC, IBM... companiesthat publish products throughout theworld and are in the top ten in ourindustry."

Mattrick cofounded DSI in 1982with a partner, Jeff Sember. The two:severed their relationship three and onehalf years ago. The company has growasteadily in the past few years and em-.loyees number dose to 80 at this time.he average age is only 27.

Mattrick is proud of his unique team.The creation of software is very time-intensive, he explains, and projects tsrkemanyman-years to complete andrequirespecializedshlls, teamwork,patienceand

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Matlrick is enthused about the futuredirections his company could take. 'Theemergence of optical disks, CD ROM,CDI, DVI and CDTV all lend themselvesto a number of exciting future prospects.Outside of that you even have the de-velopment of new technologies like vir-tual reality."

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tensity, Mattrickdenies the adage that allwork and no play make him a dull guy.Equally important are friends, sports,car racing, and travel. For December, heplans to combine Spanish beaches withhis European work schedule, which in-cludes visits with Mindscape, SoftwareToolworks, and some friends at compa-nies such as US Gold andInfograr arne.tiring at ay: 3Q, this computer veteranjokingly replies, "I' ve booked my flighti"He looks forward to a time when hisbusiness could function without him."That still leaves me four years andprobably a lot of hard work and longevenings between now and that futurepoint."

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Data Perfect Business Computers, aRichmond+ased manufacturer of IBM-PC compatibles, is one of the first NorthAmerican suppliers to offer '486 EISAPCs at a reasonable price. At a suggestedretail of $6500 for a basic machine with afloppy drive and 4 MB RAM, it's a deal.

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tion. For most of the tests, we used themon~ aphics mode at a resolution of640x480 (a limitation forced upon usdue to lack of device: drivers in the Unixsoftware we used).

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applications, system performance wasoutstanding. When we fired up the GUI,performance was both &ustratingly slowand comicaL Screen re&eshes werechoppy, background tasks took forever,and moving the mouse would visibly slowdown the execution of an application onscreen. System response dwindled tosub-'286 level when we enabled 4 bitplanes to give 16 colors.

I attribute most of theslowdown to theAT bus. When we replaced the ATmotherboard with an EISA model andused the EISA VGA card, the perfor-

Using an EISA Western Digital diskcontroller did wonders aswelL We couldactually make use of the 15 MIPS and 1MFLOP the CPU is capable of.

The BencbmarksI have always been skeptical of bench-

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A '486 Unix WorkstationsThe Computer Paper

A'486 would make a good Unix work-station, but only when a few caveats arekept in mind.

Unix is a big operating system. On awell~aintained and supported system,a person can get aroundwith justahand-ful of commands. Installing and main-taining a Unix system is a completelydifferent matter, and it's not a job for

A novice would be able to get a bare-bones system up and running, but itwouldn't do much. There is a goodreason why vendors charge a fair pile ofmoneyfor their Unixworkstations. Thereis a high degree of valu~ded pro-gramming that is done to make systemadministration tasks easy and documen-

Buying a '486, installing Unix, andinstalling a GUI is no easy task Eventhough Data Perfect'sEISA486wasup tothe task, I'm not sure most people wouldbe. If you like to tinker and aren't easilyfrustrated, it's a good learning experi-ence. If you need to get some work donenow, think about getting a Unix worksta-

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However, after seeing what an EISA'486 was capable of, I think that a PCrunning Unix can work well. If you needa singl~ graph ic workstation, DataPerfect builds a machine that can do thejob.

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ancr ease e o ~ ~ c pr enskyoftheimage. Indeed, thenewHlusirator'sfeature list bodes well for its' success incorporate America.

Editable PostScript

imported into virtually any desktop pub-lishing program, much as may be donewith most other PostScript drawing pro-grams. What makes Illustrator unique isthat the EPSF image may later be loadedback into Illustrator, and still retain itseditable control points.

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(Incidentally, FreeHand users maydiscover what appears to be a bug in thenew mustrator'9 Export as Illustrator I.Iformatoption. Unlike exportedfilesfroprevious versions of the program, Free-Hand cannot load the I. l output filessaved by Illustrator S.O. The fix, however,

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I Dec '90 99 ~is simple: just chocee the Include EPSFheader option, save in I.I format, andFreeHand has no trouble).

Another Illustrator advantage is in therendering of on~een text effectL Un-doubtedly because they developed thePostscnpt language itself, as well as theAdobe Type M anager program (which isnow included with Illustrator 8.0), Illus-trator is much more accurate than Free-Hand at rendering large text sizes on-

Othertexteffects,such astextoutlines,are not shown on~een with FreeHand,but Illustrator properly displays them.Unfortunately, not all PostScript effects

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All-In4neIn the blu~ t e d world of business,

where artistic aspirations are budget-constrained and the the operative modeis "good enough," the typical office'sprinters are not PostScript printers, butHewlett-Packard LaserJets, orsimilarlow-end non-PostScript laser printers.

It is a world of corporate letterheads,progress charts to plot, the companylogo on the fax~ut form, and reportsthat last year 'were printed from a wordprocessor, this year kom the new desk-top publishing program that everyonewas supposed to learn. It's no wonderthat so many people can't find enoughtime to learn a highwnd graphics pro-gram. This, I suspect, may have beenAdobe's motivation in shaping their II-lustrator program into an all-inanegeneral~urpose drawing, graphing andpage-layout program for text and graph-

A wide variety of charts can be auto-matically created simply by importingspreadsheet data. Modify the data, andthe graph refiects the changes. For thosewho don't draw, Illustrator can auto-matically trace and incorporate scannedphotos or other bitmapped source ma-

The new Type tools allow the importa-tion of text in several formats, multi-column text fiow, control of tracking,kerning, and scaling, the wrapping oftext around objects, even the conversionof text to editable outlines (Ooh, ahhl).And, with the inclusion of Adobe TypeManager, users with non-PostScriptprinters can also produce the scalablefonts that LaserWriter owners have longgloated about

Andwhile the bestresultsare obtainedwith a PostScript printer, Illustrator'sgraphics, too, print well on non-PostScript printers, especially whenprinted at 25% of the original size to

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the Basics" which comes as part of theexcellent documentation that accompa-nies the Illustrator 8.0 program, the de-scription of an efFect called TransparentType confides that "the dFect of over-prmting is not visible during preview orcomposite printing. The file must becolor separated to show the dFect"

Good griefl And thisis&om the peoplethat put Display PostScript on the NeXTcomputer?

A Stroke Of GeniusThe four Illustrator 8.0 disks come in

a compressed form, meaning that youmust use the supplied installer program

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T he release of theMacintosh Classic on

October 15 has alreadychanged the world-widemicro computer market. Thefirst few weeks saw moreClassics sold than all of theMac Plus sales of last year.

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puter Paper I Dec '90to install them onto your hard disk. Intotal, the program, related templates andsample documents occupy 8.8 MB ofspace, although by removing non~n-tial files, you may reduce that by about

When the application is first startedup, you are required to personalize yourcopy by entering your name (and op-tionally, your company's name). As withrecent versions, the 8,0 version requires2 MS of RAM, and starts up with no on-screen tools visible.

Sy selecting New, I noticed the first inaseriesof small delights. Previouslypeskyannoyances like the need (in earlierversions) to always choose a tracingtemplate or dick None can now be by-

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passed by holding down the Option key.The None buttonitselfnowhasalabelledCommand-Nshortcut, hence Command-N-N quickly opens a new documentwin-dow. (Illustrator 88also sportedthislittle-known, unlabeled shortcut.)

Once a window is opened, theprogram's considerably~nhanced toolpalette appears at the left side of thescreen (see Figure I). In a stroke of puregenius, the program's designers havecreated a description panel iri the lowerleftcorner of the main documentwindowthat describes the function or mode ofthe currentlyeelected tool. Sy pressingthe various operator keys (Command,Shift, Option and Control) or selecting

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I would like to see all Macintosh pro-grams adopt this obvious, butrarely seenfeature. (Calamus, a desktop publishingprogram for the Atari ST, uses a panellike this to good effect).

Curve BallMy Least Favorite Feature is the fact

that Illustrator still can'tworkin previewmode (FreeHand users love this feature,even though itslows down thatprogram'soperation tremendously). However, atleast you can now preview part of anIllustrator image with the new Preview

Another boo-hoo is the inability tocreate simple gradient fills for objects.Illustrator's Blend tool can certainlyduplicate the FreeHand fountain" look,butnotaseasilyorquicklyasthatprogram

While I'm griping, I'm not too crazyabout the number of steps it takes tocreate a graph design with Illustrator8.0's new Graph function. By my count,it is thirteen steps, a few of which aredownright tricky. Luckily, over fiftypagesof manual (I) and tutorial are devoted tothe graphing process.

Spot Color Bug 'Lurking amid the wealth of new f~-

turesin version 8.0isanastybug. Customcolors, which worked great in '88, nolonger work when files are exported toother applications. A properly definedspot color, when placed in XPress 8.0,for example, no longer separates prop-erly as a spot color. It ends up either onthe blackplate orprocesaseparated, evenwhen no process has been specified.

An Adobe technical rep admitted theyhad been flooded with calls, about thisdefect. She would say only that "we' reworhng on it." She suggested saving an'8&compafible file and defining/apply-ing the custom color there until a bug-fixis available. If you choose this route,remember thatyou can'tuse compoundsto create "doughnut holes." It's back tothe old splice and overlap. (Thanks toSteve St. Laurent of Imagineers for re-porting this bug.)

DocumentationThevoluminous documentation (over

650 pages in teal) is nothing short ofexcellent, and includes aQuck Refer-ence Card, Color Guide (for the accom-panying Adobe Separator 8.0 program)as well as the aforementioned Tutorial,User Guide, Adobe Type Manager andBeyond the Basics booklets.

As with all Adobe products I haveseen, registered users are entitled toproduct updates for 90 days and Adobe'sexcellent. technical support I have hadoccasion to call Adobe tech supportseveral times, and have never yet beenput on hold while "all lines are busy," orfound them unable to answer my ques-

Reportedly a new version of Free-Hand (developed by Altsys for Aldus) isbeingreadied for market, but for now, atleast, Adobe reasserts its position as theprominent PostScript drawing tool forthe Macintosh.

The Coyyhpeter Paper I Oec '90

Cemdex: An Electrenic NeecistecktThe Phenomenon

by D.BlankcnhornLAS VEGAS, NEVADA, NOV16 {NS)

— Sheldon Adelson didn't hesitate, buthe didn't shed any light either. Whenasked about the meaning of COMDEX,which keeps growing despite the demiseof the small computer stores for which it

was created and named, he said simply,"COMDEX is a phenomenon."

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Later, he can endose the downstairsgaxages and have 2 million dq. feetunderone roof, at a cost of$100 million so far,plus construction costs over the next 5years. One's feet get tired just thixxktxxg

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uter Paper I Dec '90The Sands, unlike the assortment of

10 hotels the show has been forced intothe iadt fewyears, givesmore exhibitors alevel playing Seld — Taiwanese circuitcard makers and major players likeHyundai and Kodak It makes compari-

But what is the phenomenon ofCOMDE3V It has become too big for anyone person to take in. You have to spe-cialize, in certain products or trends, tomake any sense of it. Everyone has theirown COMDEX, as Adelson noted xn hisNewsbytcs interview. Some exhibitors stilldealt mainly with computer store man-agers. Others talked mainly to corporate

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buyers, exporters, or importers. Every-one got a fair chance to make their caseto their chosen audience, which was thepoint.

COMDEX has become an annualElectronic Woodstock, "our penance forbeing in this business," in one bookauthor's words. It's the one week whenjust about anyone in the industry makesthemselves available, regardless of theirspecialty. From Ml Gates to St. Silicon,

.everyone plays their own'part in their

A few years ago some people, includ-ing me, thought folks would just tixe ofCOMDEX, opting instead to cool their

feetin the new high~eh "trademarls"inDallas, Atlanta and elsewhere. We werewrong. In fact,other industries have been"COMDEXed," Irom sporting goods tocable programmers. It's yeast more eax-cient for evexyone to take one week outof their calendar aud see it all," gainingthe contacts for the nextyear's business,than to traipse about the country, andnow the world, seeking out customers.

As the world increasingly becomes astxlgle marketr suclx large shows becoxneeven more important. Given the newSands centre, and LasVegas' status as thelargest source of hotel rooms in the U.S.,this assures a bright future. Sheldon

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peter Paper I Dec '90showed the LspPort 2400 modem fam-ily, a set of internal laptop modems andfax/modemswhich can beupgradedwithnew firmware. "We can send the newcode on a floppy disk and you upload it,"Cheng Eng of Xecom told Newsbytes."Mth other laptop modems, you cannotchange the firmware if new standardsemerge, like V.82bis or MNP 10. Gurmodem will never be obsolete."

Versions of the 2,400 bit/secondLapPort for the Compaq SLT and LTEretail at$849, while versions for the NECProSpeed, Toshiba 1600, ZenithSuperSport, HP Vectra.LS/12 andMacintosh Portable cost$299. Fax/datamodems, which can move 4 fax pages

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Also at the Riviera was Fremont Com-uct will be priced at under $500 retail,butlike other Fremont productsitdoesn'tfollow any of the emerging standards ofthe firxindusuy, like Class One and ClassTwo. Nor does the modem follow theV.82bis standard recently approved forfast modems, using instead the olderMNP5 data compression standard.

At the Sands, Touchbase Systems in-troduced a V.82 laptop modem, theWorldPort 9,600 V.82. It's compatiblewith major communications packageslike Smartcomm and Pr oconun Plus, of-fers MWP 4 error correction, and weighsjust 8 ounces„or .2 kg. The product willretail at $899.

Jack Cohen of Touchbase toldNewsbytes the companywill in the futureadd MNP5 to the line, but has no plans tofollow V.82bis, a new data compressionstandard which should become an inte-gral part of most 9,600 bit/second mo-dems over the nextyear, given thatmarketleaders like Hayes and U.S. Robotics haveendorsed it and engineered itinto futureprodllcts.

Also at the Sands was the Faxpak, aninternal laptop fax/modem costing just$250 which comes bundled with theMirror communications software. It' sfrom Advanced Microcomputer Systemsof Fort Lauderdale, FL InternationalComputers' Communicationsdisplayedthe IC~ax, a fax card which plugs intothe optional I/Oslotofa Hewlett-PackardLaserJet printer„ turning it into a plain-paper fax machine.

Contact Paul Masters, Fremont Com-munications, 41~8-5010; Cheng Eng,Xecom, 408-9454640; Touchbase Sys-tems, Michael Beraard, 516-2614428;Advanced Microcomputer Systems, 805-9'754515; International Computers eeCommunications, 2134864946.

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not just new full~olor LCD displays, butthose capable of photoreahsm= 8000 by2,000 pixels with an image as fine as aphotograph. Therewilil also be'486basedmachines that will fiti the purse or shirtpocket, not just for computing, but forcommunication, doubling as phones.These were two of the many forecasts ata panel discussion among distinguishedexperts.

At COMDEX's "State of the Art Tech-nologies for the Mid-1990s" conference,Robert Carr of Go Corporation, a com-pany building perusedcomputingsystem software which IBM has alreadyhcensed,outlined thefour majorchangeswe' ll see in computing products in mid-decade, all of which point to the producthe's developing.

Fu3t, he says, the physrcal form factorwill change. As a 486 computer is finallyreduced to a single chip, the size of theunit will get smaller too. "One vision isalready on the floor," he said, referringto the presence of the i~ mud Poqetcomputer atCOMDEX. Sutcorrventionalcomputers are hmited by the presence ofa keyboard. 'You can't shrink the key-board," he said, suggesting that a pen-based input system will be the best idea

1995's computers will feature variablescreens from standard page to notepadsized screen and input surfaces.

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Thirdly, we' ll see digital computersworking with more analog information.By 1995, he says, a wide variety of analoginformation will be used: digitized voice,images, and video, all of which are dif6-cult to mix today. Costs will come downand operating systems will be able tosupport this variety of inputs. The seam-less integration of multimedia, he sug-gested, would usher in a new way of usingcomp~ers. "Desktop computers areproductivity devices today," he said."When they' re carried around all daylong they' ll become communication

The emergence of computers as com-munication devices will mean t h at"electronic mail will bhtr into voice mail.There will be a single interface to man-age all of them."

This theme was echoed by Hewlett-Packard's William Crow, manager ofNewWave Systems Technology, who showedoff the New Wave operating environ-ment as the architecture which will makepossible the changes to which Carr re-ferr'ed. He said that "objects and agents"will work together, objects being the icon-based technologyof graphical interfaces,and agents being methods by which us-ers can link diverse analog and digitalinput sources.

He showed a videotape similar toApple's "Navigator" video, which por-trayed a neatly dressed executive of thefuture conducting a telephone conver-sation, viewing a real-time video pictureof his associate on a window of his laptop.

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In another window is a spreadsheet, andduring the course of conversation theyare jointly working on the file, transmit-ting new screen shots to each other, eachin separate windows on the PC. Agents,for example, will enable full~ation videoto be included in a word processingdocument and will open desktop calen-dars and automatically insert dates, he

Pat Geisinger of Intel's Platform Ar-chitecture Group reflected on the changeof the past ten years, recalling when, in1985, a 10 megabyte hard disk was con-sidered stateaf-the-art, black and whitedisplays were the norm, and all PC usershad to use DOS commands to run theirprogf ams.

1995, he said, will be the year we' lltake for granted fullwolor LCD displays,3-D graphics, multimedia, high resolu-tion approaching photorealistic quality,continuous speech recognition by com-puters, and the further humanizing of

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UVC is backed by theJackson family,whose musician members indudeJanetand MichaelJackson, although Tito isthe most prominent hitcher to befound in the UVC booth. But UVC wasnot the only unusual offering in thisfestival of things that are difFerent

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Independent Computer Consultants Assacktdon, Box820, Station A, Van., B.C. 682-2747. FAX 926-1386

Kaypro Ussr Group/Vancouver Poriable ComputerClub, 3rd Mon., at Kwantlsn College Richmand(OOS 8 CP/M) 271-1 51 9.

Madntosh Owners - ABCCS contact person: JohnNailer 433-1795.

MacWest Computer Society, 2 manthly meegngs farmembers, plus PD copy sess»a. General Meetings- 2nd Wed. • 780 pm.

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Microfog-128 SWL Uses Gmup, c/o Robert Anderson,105S Moeselaw SL, Penlhton • B.C.

Ngsshn Computer Users Group, »st Tuse.,7 pm,38845 Second Ave., hgsshn. Rabin L McGormhk,826-9SOO, John Gale or Clndy MscGreger, 826-8800.

Maple Ridge Computer User Group, 2nd Tues of everymonth, M.R. Sr. Secondary 7:30, J. Brohman 468-

NEC APC Users Gtaup, Lee 980-5825.NewViews User Group, 322-6198, POCO, 1379

Laurier, Hyele Creek Centre.PaciTic Information Exchange, P.O. Sox 67866, Station

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Smart User Group, Brian Wiebe SSM065.Society for Technhal Communhation. Call 688-2655

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684-7432 meetings at Benedht's Restaurant, 1177W Pender St., Vancouver, Third Thursday af themonth 590 PM.

T.I. 99/4A Computer B.C. $9sr Usent Group, EveryThurs 7 - 10 pm, Cameran Rec Ctr., Bby. Ron: 622-2598. 1st Thurs Tutorials, 2nd Thurs General, 3rdThurs Tutorials, 4th Thurs Copying Ptctg.

TRACE (Rhhmond Atarl Club), Thompson Comm.Cire, 272-5789 1st 8 3rd Mon. 780-980.

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