From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
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Subject: TidBITS#152/16-Nov-92
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:16:19 GMT
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TidBITS#152/16-Nov-92
=====================
 
 Great reviews this week, including Now Utilities 4.0.1 and Rich
   Wolfson's excellent book, The PowerBook Companion. Other
   articles include news of an updater for Word 5.1, WordPerfect
   buying BeagleWorks, a great way to roll your own Portable
   DeskWriter, and a tip that could avoid serious hair-pulling for
   tech support people. Read on, or forever be woefully uninformed!
 
 
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Topics:
    MailBITS/16-Nov-92
    Driver Education
    PerfectWorks
    Portable DeskJet Trick
    Travels with Charley
    What's Up, Now?
    Reviews/16-Nov-92
 
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MailBITS/16-Nov-92
------------------
  We'd like to welcome our new sponsor, Nisus Software, publishers
  of Nisus, Nisus Compact, and the programmer's editor QUED/M. You
  can get an index of their information files (and find out how to
  request files) by sending email to <sponsors@tidbits.com>, or to
  automatically receive a 38K file containing all six information
  files, send email to <nisus-all@tidbits.com>. This file will not
  pass through the AppleLink or America Online gateways, so users of
  those services must request files individually.
 
  Among other useful information, Nisus Software's files include
  news about the just-updated QUED/M, Nisus hints and tips, using
  Nisus foreign-language versions (the only foreign language word
  processor available in the US, according to MacWEEK), descriptions
  of Nisus Software's other products, and instructions on how to get
  free demo versions of Nisus and Nisus Compact.
 
  Many thanks to Nisus Software for supporting TidBITS!
 
 
Mail.Test Mistake
  Last week Yoshiki Shibata accidentally sent a message to our
  mailing list that slipped through the LISTSERV's setting that
  allows only me to post to the group. The LISTSERV promptly
  distributed it to everyone on the list. Yoshiki apologized
  immediately, and certainly meant no harm. If you haven't replied
  to the message already, please don't - all replies come to me, and
  I've received some 300 responses.
 
  Interestingly, the text of Yoshiki's message was essentially, "How
  are you?" and the vast majority of the responses were an
  optimistic, "I'm fine," although a few people qualified that
  statement. The winner was Phil Ryan of Melbourne, Australia, who
  wrote, "And I am quite well, were it not for the problem of trying
  to rewrite a Ph.D. in Physics, do a Law degree part-time, and work
  full-time, as well as be a father to two under-fives." Glad to see
  so many people doing so well. :-)
 
  On a related note, there's a chance that Internet users will see
  two copies of this issue. I know some of my mailfiles are being
  duplicated, and my mail host and I hope to solve the problem soon,
  so please don't inundate me with notices if you receive the issue
  in stereo. Thanks!
 
 
Word 5.1a patcher available
  On Friday the 13th, Tony Huang posted to the Info-Mac digest,
  saying "Believe or not, there's already a updater for the newly-
  released Word 5.1. Word 5.1a fixes a bug in Word 5.1 during 
  fast-saving when headers or footers are involved."
 
  Order the free updater from Microsoft Customer Service by calling
  the number below, or download it from sumex. The 10K file is
  archived on <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> as:
 
    info-mac/app/word-51a-updater.hqx
 
  To address the prevalent net question about spending $15 on the
  upgrade from Word 5.0 to 5.1, we at TidBITS feel the upgrade is
  worth it for the serious Word user. Although the tone of the
  program has not changed, Microsoft reportedly fixed a number of
  bugs and added a few features, perhaps most important of which is
  the ability to print even or odd pages. Welcome to the 1990's!
 
    Microsoft Customer Service -- 800/426-9400
 
  Information from:
    Tony Huang -- tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu
 
 
Driver Education
----------------
  Steve Kalkwarf writes "We received about a dozen Macintosh
  Classics earlier this year. I discovered that if I had them on an
  AppleTalk network with machines of any other type, they would
  crash when I connected to them with Apple's Likewise network
  distribution software (the best $150 I ever spent). If they were
  the only machines powered up, everything worked fine. Last night I
  found the problem. Apparently Apple took a bunch of their System 6
  Macs and installed System 7 WITHOUT UPDATING THE HARD DISK DRIVER.
  When I unboxed the machines, I noticed the boxes had been opened
  and retaped, and one box had a serial number label (from the
  outside of the box) on the inside of the box that listed System 6
  as the installed system. Running the 7.0.1 HD Setup program and
  updating the driver cleared everything up. If any TidBITS readers
  are having bizarre problems with Classics that came with System 7
  installed, I'd check the driver."
 
  Information from:
    Steve Kalkwarf -- kalkwarf@netcom.com
 
 
PerfectWorks
------------
  No, it's not another integrated package. Several weeks ago, Beagle
  Bros. closed its doors and is no more. WordPerfect Corporation has
  acquired BeagleWorks, the flagship product of Beagle Bros, along
  with the list of registered users, the program, and the code.
  WordPerfect plans to support existing BeagleWorks users, but the
  program's name will change to WordPerfect Works (we preferred
  WorksPerfect, though that might be pushing it, given some quirks
  we've heard of). Beagle Bros. President Mark Simonsen will
  continue as director of development.
 
  Although we mourn the passing of Beagle Bros., a long-standing
  company from Apple ][ days, the acquisition is probably for the
  best for BeagleWorks. The program had trouble competing with
  ClarisWorks and GreatWorks, whose developers have more marketing
  clout. It was plagued by delays and early bugs, and despite its
  undeniable power, BeagleWorks is harder to use than ClarisWorks.
  From what we've seen of BeagleWorks and its full-support of
  Publish & Subscribe for data transfer between modules, it's best
  thought of as an integrated package for a power user, someone who
  doesn't need full power but wishes to move data among numerous
  programs. We wish BeagleWorks well in its new home.
 
  Information from:
    WordPerfect propaganda
 
 
Portable DeskJet Trick
----------------------
  We said in TidBITS#146 that Hewlett-Packard had come up with a
  Portable DeskJet, but no corresponding Portable DeskWriter, a
  seemingly-obvious move given the popularity of the PowerBooks. We
  don't have news  about a Portable DeskWriter, but it turns out
  that you can achieve the same functionality using the PowerPrint
  2.0 collection of printer drivers from GDT Softworks.
 
  Generally available for about $95, PowerPrint supports over 1,000
  printers, and according to Steve Gully of GDT, the HP DeskJet 500
  driver works fine with the Portable DeskJet. PowerPrint includes a
  spooler and a parallel-to-serial converter cable for hooking to
  printers that only have a parallel port. If you travel regularly
  with a PowerBook and want to use printers wherever you end up,
  PowerPrint would be a good addition to your travelling kit.
 
    GDT Softworks -- 800/663-6222
 
  Information from:
    Steve Gully -- 72137.3246@compuserve.com
    Michael E. Costello -- Michael_E._Costello@fourd.com
 
 
Travels with Charley
--------------------
  So you bought a Power Book, perhaps one of those cute 100s? It's
  different from your desktop Mac, isn't it? I recommend that you
  read its manual - it was the first Apple manual I've read in
  years, but I was curious. It helped, a little, but I still had
  questions.
 
  Then I came across Richard Wolfson's "The PowerBook Companion,"
  (Addison-Wesley, $24.95, ISBN 0-201-6088407) and, to set the tenor
  of this review, I think Apple should license Rich's book and ditch
  the manual. Sure, Apple has that snazzy 80% Garamond font and
  slick paper, but Apple's manual doesn't answer enough real world
  questions. Rich's book answers all my questions, and periodically
  I go back to it when I think of a new question. The answer is
  usually there.
 
  In addition, if you regularly travel with a Mac, any Mac, buy this
  book. It gives excellent advice on what to bring, why to bring it,
  how to power it in electrically-challenged situations, and most
  importantly, how to take your Mac through airport security. Hint:
  it's OK to run the Mac through the X-ray machine - put it on the
  belt close to the flaps and far from the end where the magnetic
  field from the motor could possibly do damage. That will save you
  having to demo the Mac for the airport security people, who by
  definition cannot have a sense of humor. Rich even printed X-rays,
  taken at a medical friend's office, of his two PowerBooks, which
  work perfectly even now. (Yes, I asked him.)
 
  The book begins with specs and comparisons of the various
  PowerBooks (this edition covers the 100, 140, and 170 - Rich is
  working on a new edition for the new PowerBooks). Rich then
  touches on upgrades you might want, from more RAM (YES) to a
  larger hard drive (maybe) to a carrying case (yes).
 
  Then he discusses basic usage and system software. Configuring a
  PowerBook is a task of a different color, and as long as I'm
  trampling equine allusions, you'd do well to check the System
  Folder's teeth. Rich offers specific suggestions about what to
  remove, including a chart that lists everything and the sizes
  involved, and then repeats the process for RAM usage, providing a
  useful chart of memory uses and the trade-offs involved. Since you
  may wish to jam a System Folder into a RAM disk and boot from
  that, memory usage takes on new meaning with a PowerBook.
 
  Although Rich covers third party PowerBook hardware and software,
  he doesn't look deeply into those subjects, which makes sense
  given the speed at which the industry moves. He spends time on
  using and caring for PowerBook batteries, both in and out of the
  machine. For many of us desktop Mac folks, this will be the most
  valuable section of the book, because our years of Mac use don't
  help in knowing how to conserve power. The basics? Turn down
  backlighting as far as possible, turn AppleTalk off (use Jon
  Pugh's free ToggleAT FKEY), and avoid hard disk usage by running
  entirely in RAM if possible. We put the System Folder on a RAM
  disk, boot from the RAM disk, run Nisus Compact, which loads
  entirely into RAM, and save documents to the RAM disk. Other
  helpful hints in this section include the actual voltages for good
  batteries (5.7 to 7 volts) and the warning NOT to use ANY other
  power adapter to charge the PowerBook.
 
  In his section on connections, Rich offers ideas on how to make a
  SCSI chain work. Although he skips my favorite (ritual tofu
  sacrifice), the rest helps with the more complex PowerBook SCSI
  configurations. Other real world advice shows up in the section on
  upgrading, where Rich walks you through taking a PowerBook apart.
  Although I haven't done so, the instructions seem clear and
  complete. I appreciate an author not treating me, the reader, as a
  complete idiot and assuming there's no way I could open a
  PowerBook and do good.
 
  The worst nits I can pick are that Rich capitalized the "W" in
  Macworld incorrectly (which he promised to fix in the next
  edition); when talking about modem compression he doesn't mention
  that it does no good when the file is already compressed; and he
  occasionally uses the term "AppleTalk" when the Apple Nitpicking
  Police (who once pulled me over for this offense) would prefer he
  used "LocalTalk."
 
  In the end, I view this book as an extremely knowledgeable friend
  telling me all I want to know about the PowerBook. Outside of the
  book, Rich spends time on CompuServe answering questions (and not
  with an obnoxious "Read my book." answer, either), and his online
  writing strongly resembles the clear, uncomplicated writing style
  in this book (which is due in part to longtime Macintosh author
  Sharon Zardetto Aker's editing). If you feel that you don't know
  enough about your PowerBook (and I'm still learning), ask Rich by
  reading this book. And no, he didn't pay me to say so. Highly
  recommended.
 
    Addison-Wesley -- 800/447-2226 -- 617-942-1117 (fax)
 
  Information from:
    Rich Wolfson -- 72467.617@compuserve.com -- wolfsonr@aol.com
      wolfson@apollo.montclair.edu
 
 
What's Up, Now?
---------------
  by Matt Neuburg -- clas005@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
 
  Now Utilities (hereinafter, NU) is a collection of system
  extensions, most of which started as shareware or freeware on the
  nets, where faithful fans could not imagine life without them. By
  giving these programs a home, Now Software ensured the
  functionality would remain even when other utilities might fall by
  the wayside of system software upgrades.
 
  The neat part was that Now didn't steal the shareware ideas, but
  co-opted the original authors. It was a win-win situation. Our
  hacker heroes could make some well-deserved money. Non-netters
  could obtain these great utilities, and netters who owned one of
  the utilities in shareware form got a great discount on the
  commercial package.
 
  Then the story took an odd twist, when Now Software announced NU
  4.0.
 
  First, it seemed a bit soon for a major upgrade (and major new
  fee); we know that buying software is really buying a
  subscription, but the pricier issues should appear at decently
  well-spaced intervals. Second, 4.0 was to be System 7-dependent;
  System 6 users felt abandoned.
 
  Third, 4.0 consisted, in a way, of less than 3.0.2. NU 3.0.2
  comprised ten elements; in 4.0, three are missing. MultiMaster is
  missing too as a separate item, but its functions remain in
  NowMenus, and Now added a new item, Now Scrapbook. (At one point
  an employee at Now's duplicating house wrongly told a netter that
  the three missing utilities would break once 4.0 was installed;
  nets being what they are, flames ran rampant.)
 
  Finally, 4.0 was buggy in ways that Now Software had clearly not
  anticipated, and it implemented some questionable changes. When I
  started writing this review I was full of criticism for these.
 
  But Now has largely taken the wind out of my sails with NU 4.0.1,
  which corrects the bugs and the most controversial of the design
  changes, and adds important clarifications to the manual. However
  this has happened (smart rethinking? serious attention to feedback
  from netters?), the result is an admirable product.
 
 
Zooming In
  Here I'll consider just Super Boomerang (SB) and NowMenus (NM),
  because I take these to be the heart of NU; they both do something
  indispensable, as in their old net-ware manifestations.
 
  Hiroaki Yamamoto's Boomerang memorized names and locations of
  files and folders you had recently opened, and modified the
  Standard File dialog (SFDialog) to list these so you could bypass
  shuttling around the hierarchy. Also, the dialog came up in the
  most recently used folder, and in any folder the most recently
  used file would be pre-selected.
 
  Jorg ("jbx") Brown's hierMenus let the menubar appear under the
  mouse; it also let you choose a Control Panel as a submenu to the
  Apple menu, bypassing the tedious CP scrolling in System 6.
 
  For these achievements, Yamamoto and jbx achieved canonization,
  and perhaps hacker nirvana.
 
 
Boomerang: the Commercial Version
  In NU 3.0.2, SB works its magic in three different places.
 
* It installs a SB item in the Apple menu (the "Apple SB" menu),
  with the list of recent folders and files as a submenu.
 
* It attaches a submenu to the Open menu item of every program
  (the "DirectOpen" menu), listing the recently opened files
  available to that program.
 
* It modifies the SFDialog with a menubar of its own. The first
  three menus are Folder, File, and Drive, so you can go right to
  any recent file or folder.
 
  (For brevity I'll skip the fourth menu in the SFDialog, which does
  neat stuff, but doesn't bear heavily on the comparison between
  3.0.2 and 4.0.1.)
 
  The fifth menu added to the SB menubar is Groups. Here, you make
  each program a member of one of five groups (there is also an
  automatic catch-all group, Universal), so that the groups consist
  of programs that do roughly the same thing. The SFDialog then
  always appears preset to the present program's group, and when you
  choose its Files or Folders menu, only those belonging to a
  program in that group are shown. But you can change groups via the
  Group menu, so you can quickly reach any recent file or folder.
  The Apple SB menu matches the program group you're in, defaulting
  to Universal if the Finder is to the front; but the first item of
  the Apple SB menu is Open, giving the SFDialog, where again you
  can change groups and go right to your goal. The Groups feature
  thus lowers the number, and increases the relevance, of entries in
  the Files and (especially) Folders menus, and lets you use any
  program's SFDialog to quickly launch another program's recent
  document.
 
  SB 4.0.1 is both better and worse. It is smarter than 3.0.2 about
  knowing that a file has been opened, and adding it (whether
  document, program, or DA) to the full list of recent files, even
  when it wasn't opened through the SFDialog; 3.0.2 tries to do
  this, but isn't always successful. Both 3.0.2 and 4.0.1 are also
  smart about knowing which recent files can be opened by the
  present program, but in 4.0.1 you now have three choices:
 
* to limit recent files to those actually opened by the present
  program, and folders to those containing them;
 
* to include some other recent files that the present program can
  open, and the folders containing them;
 
* or to use Groups, so that all openable recent documents
  belonging to programs in the present Group are shown, and folders
  containing them, plus any folders designated "permanent" for that
  Group - and a mere single keystroke at any time will so designate
  a folder.
 
  In 3.0.2, with only five Groups, the Universal group menus easily
  become overloaded, dropping important but less recent items. In
  4.0.1, you get seven Groups; a single keystroke at any time clears
  a SB menu item on the fly; SB remembers up to 500 total items; and
  menus can be limited to any number of items up to 99. So menus
  will stay more current. On the other hand you can't switch Groups
  within the SFDialog - the Groups menu is gone. So if I have a Text
  program group and a Graphics program group, I can't just launch a
  MacDraw document from TeachText's SFDialog via SB, as I used to in
  3.0.2; I have to hope it's in the Apple SB menu, or launch MacDraw
  first. I see this as a bad design decision.
 
  Other 4.0.1 improvements: Recent folders in the Apple SB and
  DirectOpen menus are accessed hierarchically (in 3.0.2, you scroll
  down a huge single menu of all files and folders in the Apple SB
  menu, and the DirectOpen menu has no folders). Hierarchical folder
  menus run in both directions, up and down, for more mobility (but
  limited to a depth of two sublevels, though that's one more than
  3.0.2). All SB menus can show the pathname of an item with a
  keystroke at any time! And Now shrunk 3.0.2's confusing panorama
  of 18 "hot key" shortcuts to a basic set of four.
 
  Alas, the greatest drawback of SB 3.0.2, that it increases the
  delay before the Standard File dialog appears, has not been cured
  in 4.0.1; perhaps it can't be.
 
 
NowMenus: the Commercial Version
  In System 6, NM 3.0.2 does what the shareware version did, plus
  you can have menus pop down and stay down, so you can choose an
  item without mouse-dragging (reducing repetitive stress
  injuries!). In System 7, it turns the Apple menu hierarchical.
  This means, among other things, that you can alias your whole hard
  drive in the Apple menu and go down the hierarchy of submenus (to
  a depth of four sublevels) to reach a file or folder, without
  opening windows in the Finder.
 
  NM 4.0.1 improves this. Submenus representing contents of folders
  come up more quickly; the hierarchical Chooser submenu now
  operates correctly, so you can bring the Chooser up with a driver
  pre-selected; and the Monitors CP is hierarchical, so you can
  change color depth quickly.
 
  This version is a major rewrite, with menus acting in entirely new
  ways. Menus can be any font and size. Folder and file items can
  have icons (color if desired). You can rearrange the Apple menu
  without renaming its items. You can press keys while the mouse is
  on a menu item to (among other things) change the keyboard
  shortcut for any menu item in a program, including the Finder!
 
  Sadly, though, NM disables a tiny free extension on which I depend
  heavily: Dropple Menu. This allows you to drag an icon onto the
  Apple menu, down the hierarchy of submenus, and onto an item
  representing a folder; your original file is then moved/copied
  into that folder. I use this for all moving and copying of files;
  it's much neater than first finding the folder I want to move
  into. Dropple Menu works under NM 3.0.2 but breaks under 4.0.1.
 
  A major worry with NM 4.0.1 is compatibility. Such strong changes
  to the menu definition may conflict with some applications.
  Fortunately, NM has some intelligence about what programs it
  should avoid, and can be set for additional exclusions; the pop-up
  menubar and the hierarchical Apple menu still work everywhere,
  which is the important thing.
 
 
NowMenus: the MultiMaster (MM) Component
  MM 3.0.2 is a launcher. From an icon in the menubar or by a
  keyboard command, you get a list of programs, which you have
  created; attached to each program can be a list of documents. Now
  you can launch what you can see.
 
  The big changes in 4.0.1 are increased flexibility and ease of
  configuration, and communication with SB via a new extension, Now
  Toolbox. You can configure many "launch menus," and into each put
  any folder, program, document, or control panel, rearranging the
  order in each launch menu. And, among the "items" you can add to a
  launch menu are lists of recent programs, documents, or folders.
  You can even modify these lists, to make an item permanent or to
  remove it, by pressing a key while viewing the menu.
 
  Further, you can create "worksets," combinations of programs and
  documents, all of which will be launched together by selecting
  that workset from a launch menu, or by double-clicking an icon in
  the Finder. Also, NM replaces Understudy, letting you configure
  what programs will open documents whose creator you don't own, and
  it replaces AppSizer, automatically resizing an program's memory
  allotment temporarily if there isn't enough memory otherwise, or
  letting you resize on the fly.
 
  Unfortunately, you can't separate all these features from the rest
  of NM. I'd rather they still resided in separate components so I
  could use them with NM 3.0.2 and Dropple Menus. Also, a thing I
  disliked about MM 3.0.2 has not changed: the lists are not
  hierarchical. Documents can be attached as submenus to programs;
  but programs themselves cannot be made submenus to anything. So if
  you want a really extensive list of your programs, you get a huge
  scrolling menu. I prefer Jeremy Roussak's Apollo (currently
  freeware, soon to be shareware), which, though providing only one
  launch menu, lets it consist of meaningful categories that you
  create, into which the programs are grouped as submenus. It seems
  to me that NM provides power without a convenient interface to
  access it.
 
  NM 4.0.1 supposedly gives you many launch menus, so in theory you
  could have one launch menu for graphics programs, another for text
  programs, etc. Not so, in reality. Here's why. There are three
  ways to make a launch menu appear: as a pull-down from an icon in
  either corner of the menubar (that's two menus); as a pop-up when
  you press the mouse on the desktop (that's one more); and as a
  pop-up when you press the mouse with any combination of four
  modifier keys, except Shift, Command, or Option alone (that's 12
  more).
 
  But in fact many combinations are out, because other programs use
  them. I can't use the simple desktop pop-up, because it pops up
  when I'm dragging an icon on the desktop. I can't use the option-
  click or command-option-click pop-ups because they pop up when I
  use those combinations in HyperCard. In fact, any combination of
  modifiers and mouse used in any of your programs means that that
  combination can't be used for a launch menu, or it will interfere
  with other operations. If you have a lot of programs and
  extensions that rely on mouse-plus-modifiers you may be left with
  very few possible combinations.
 
  Besides, who can _remember_ a bunch of modifier-key combinations?
  A combination of modifiers with a letter-key to bring up a
  windoid, as in MM 3.0.2, would have been easier.
 
 
Dubious Conclusion
  Now Software is trying to improve your control and convenience in
  innovative ways, and I am grateful. But it is perhaps because my
  expectations and hopes for this upgrade were so high that I remain
  dubious about NU 4.0.1.
 
  No one should live without SB, that much is clear. In 3.0.2, the
  presence of SB alone justified the price of the whole package.
  Some of the new features of SB 4.0.1 are aesthetic, and I'm not
  convinced that the new Groups system is as good as the old; but on
  balance SB 4.0.1 remains a major must-have.
 
  On the other hand, I regret NM 4.0.1 because it disables Dropple
  Menu, and I'm not happy with the interface to the launcher. NM
  3.0.2. is stable and friendly, so I may stick with it and Apollo
  as a launcher and continue to fill in NM's other new functions
  with extensions I already own, many of them freeware.
 
  I realise this doesn't tell you what to do (not that TidBITS
  readers would stand for such a thing anyway). If you own NU 3.0.2,
  perhaps you'll consider the upgrade price worth the gamble
  regardless, especially since you can mix-and-match like me. Now
  has said that they will upgrade NU 3.0.2 to be compatible with
  future versions of the System, but don't look for that to last
  indefinitely. And who knows what will be in NU 5.0?
 
  While still scratching my head over some of Now Software's
  decisions, I heartily acknowledge their dedication, ingenuity, and
  sheer programming skill. Now Utilities 4.0.1 is a productivity
  powerhouse, and has eradicated much of the bad taste that 4.0 left
  in my mouth. The bugs aren't all gone: I still get crashes from SB
  and NM, sometimes with loss of various settings, particularly at
  crucial times like when the SFDialog is trying to appear. But this
  package still deserves full Penguins and a gasp of admiration.
 
    Now Software -- 71541.170@compuserve.com
 
 
Reviews/16-Nov-92
-----------------
 
* MacWEEK -- 09-Nov-92, Vol. 6, #40
    Kodak DCS 200ci -- pg. 53
    FastCache Quadra -- pg. 53
    QuadCache 25 -- pg. 53
    Action! 1.0 -- pg. 60
    JMP Design 2.0 -- pg. 61
    PhonePro 1.0 -- pg. 62
    Photoshop accelerators -- pg. 66
      Lightning Effects II
      ThunderStorm
    DocuComp II 1.04 -- pg. 67
 
 
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