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The AppleWorks Gazette Follow-Up
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by Douglas Cuff
[EDITOR.A2]
In the March 1996 issue, we took a look at the premiere issue of _The
AppleWorks Gazette_. The second issue arrived in our mailbox recently, so
we'll take a quick peek to see how the issue stacks up when it doesn't have
to include so much "obligatory" material, such as the AppleWorks 5.1
update.
As with the first issue, there are three parts to this magazine on
disk: the newsletter itself, software, and data. Overall, the second
issue looks much as the first one did, only slightly better.
NEWSLETTER The second newsletter (still an AppleWorks word processing
"""""""""" file) stacks up like this:
1. Actively AppleWorks
2. The Main Menu
3. The NewsReel
4. At the News Stand
5. Letters to the Editors
6. How to Modify the AppleWorks Default Macros
7. One Touch Commands [review]
8. AppleWorks on the Mac--A First Look
9. Shrink II
10. More Features I Wish I Had in AppleWorks 5.1
11. New Utilities for AppleWorks 4.3 and 5.1
12. Do It Yourself Hard Drives
13. Inside AppleWorks: Questions and Answers
14. Inside AppleWorks: AppleWorks Segments
15. How to Cook Your Own oa-H Command
16. How to Reach Us
For readers who are Genie regulars, the NewsReel continues to be
little more than a rehash of old news. There are a few gems from the
Internet's comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup and from CompuServe's AppUser forum.
A new column, At the News Stand, examines the most recent issues of other
Apple II newsletters. (We editors are able to eke out a meagre living by
taking in one another's laundry.)
In the letters to the editor, one reader points out--as I did, here
in GenieLamp A2, two months back--that the premiere issue of _The
AppleWorks Gazette_ was geared to AppleWorks 5 users, and geared
toward screen layout rather than printed layout. The editors seem to prefer to
run their publication that way, but are willing to make changes to make
life easier for readers, as evidenced by Serreau's editorial.
Once again, the newsletter has some good articles. Howard Katz
expands on Chris Serreau's wish list for AppleWorks, which I liked very
much, and I was pleased to see that Will Nelken and Ryan Suenaga are guest
writers for this issue. As before, no serious complaints with the
newsletter, but the spelling-checker still doesn't get used enough.
ON THE DISK The software on the premiere issue gave the disk a sparse
""""""""""" feel, since so much room was taken up with the AppleWorks 5.1
update and with ShrinkIt 3.4. Things are little better this month--the
only "golden oldie" is Harold Portnoy's Change-A-File program. This is an
indispensable utility, but hardly new. Also on the disk this month are two
new inits--one to bring a monthly calendar to AppleWorks 5.1, and one to
manage inits by enabling and disabling them--bug-fix updates for TimeOut
File Librarian and Word Count, an index of TimeOut-Central, a collection of
Roy Barrows' macros, and Joe Walters' Merlin macros. This month's
non-Apple II feature is H. G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau".
In the premiere issue, ShrinkIt was used on everything but the
newsletter, everything else in the main directory, and of course ShrinkIt
itself. In this issue, the macros and other data have been packed with
ShrinkIt, but the inits, update scripts, and Change-A-File have not.
PROGRESS REPORT _The AppleWorks Gazette_ has made some improvements and
""""""""""""""" is in the process of making others to be sure they serve
their readers well. There continues to be good stuff here, both for the
AppleWorks user and the UltraMacros programmer.
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If you'd like more information on _The AppleWorks Gazette_, contact the
editor nearest you:
Christian Serreau Howard Katz
12, rue de la Censerie 1104 Lorlyn Circle #2D
49100 Angers Batavia, IL 60510
France U.S.A.
100316.14@compuserve.com h.katz@genie.com
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