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MWJ: Mac OS 9 the Weekly Journal for Serious Macintosh™ Users MWJ: Mac OS 9 The Weekly Journal for Serious Macintosh™ Users ❝ Top of the Special Issue ❞ N Our Mac OS 9 coverage begins with “Getting but lots has changed since Mac OS 8.6. The “major Started,” a quick look at Mac OS 9’s requirements, features” in that revision were sometimes no more sensible precautions, where to find software updates than text files. Now we get the real deal, done the you might need, and a couple of cautions that might right way (though poorly documented at times), and save you time and trouble, plus a look at “error 119,” thoroughly integrated into the Macintosh. Join us as the most notable of the potential compatibility prob- we explore exciting new ways to merge the Internet lems in the new release. The Mac OS 9 Basics, Page 2. with your desktop. Living in a Wired World, Page 31 N We next look at the release’s marquee feature. N We next provide examination of features beyond Sherlock 2 is an outstanding addition to the Mac OS the most heavily marketed. In Watch This Space, we in almost every important way. Sherlock’s original mas- look at five key technologies that you can’t really see terstroke was in both expanding file searching to today, but they’ll become the foundation for new fea- include indexed contents, and in describing Internet tures and greater productivity in the future as Mac OS search engines with simple text files. Sherlock 2 goes 9 becomes more of a baseline system. We examine new even further, breaking down artificial barriers in File Manager APIs granting access to advanced fea- Sherlock’s file searching and grouping Internet search tures of the HFS Plus File System, and the quiet but sites into thematic channels. The channels are slightly extremely exciting addition of real font management more restrictive than in original Sherlock—but they’re to the Mac OS (yes, it’s the real deal), a new self-repairing, self-updating, and you can make your Multilingual Text Editor, the HTML Rendering own. The program has a few bumps—most notably the Library, plus an overview of the Carbon and Core atrocious interface and a bad advertising policy—but Foundation technologies that preview Mac OS X. Join if you like Sherlock, you’ll positively drool for its suc- us as we look deep under the hood for signs of future cessor. Sherlock 2 The Next Level, Page 5. software. Features of the Future, Page 44. N Then comes our look at three of Apple’s “Nine N The Nitty-Gritty is the home stretch—a look at all Internet Power Tools”—the three that relate the least to those tiny changes in the new version that affect your the Internet. Multiple Users doesn’t turn the Macintosh daily use but aren’t comprehensively documented. into a multi-user operating system, but it’s a surprisingly The Control Panels section is the largest with three elegant way to share customized environments on one fairly major changes—ColorSync 3.0, FontSync 1.0, computer with reasonable—though not foolproof— and the changes that make all control panels work as security. Voice Verification is a nice password alternate separate applications. We also track the splitting of that may foreshadow even more powerful methods in “Monitors & Sound,” lots of extensions including the the future. Apple File Security’s encryption of files frustratingly-vague Open Transport 2.5, Finder looks great at first, but sadly, fails to withstand scrutiny. changes, “Package First Aid,” and even System file Ironically, the only Internet part of any of these three goodies like the Notification Manager QuickDraw features is the one that Apple’s not talking about: digi- enhancements. There’s too much in here to summa- tal signatures for downloaded files with thorough rize—it gets technical at times, so don’t be afraid to Macintosh support, painting enticing possibilities for read it more than once. If you want to know what’s future self-updating software with reasonable security. really in Mac OS 9, this is your source. The Nitties and Sharing Your Personal Space, Page 17. Gritties, Page 57. N We consider the remaining five of Apple’s Nine N The Weekly Attitudinal, our right-by-definition opin- Internet Power Tools: the Keychain, Network Browser ion feature, wraps it all up with a short (no, really!) 2.0, Software Update, AppleShare over IP, and analysis of Mac OS 9 answering the question in the AppleScript over IP. As usual, the stories behind these Ricky Martin song: do you really want it? Unguarded technologies may not be quite what you’re imagining, Opinion, Page 75. Page 2 Mac OS 9 Marquee Features MWJ Mac OS 9 Special Mac OS 9 Getting Started The Basics of “The Best Internet OS Ever” When Steve Jobs talks about Mac OS 9 at trade requires more hard disk activity, and iBook computers shows or in public speeches, he uses the same glib ship with only 32MB of RAM, so iBook owners should marketing phrase he used a year ago for Mac OS 8.5: be prepared for somewhat shorter battery lives. As “It’s a whole new Macintosh for US$99.” It was a bit of with other recent Mac OS releases, Apple is only sup- an exaggeration then, and it remains so now. However, porting the release on Apple-brand computers, but we like Mac OS 8.5, today’s US release of Mac OS 9 brings know of no reason it should fail on authorized clones. hundreds of small, under-the-hood changes to the guts of your Macintosh. Characterizing a large and Is It Compatible? wide-ranging OS release is always a challenge, and Apple Computer rarely picks the same emphases we at Oh, yah, you betcha. Pretty much. There’s only MWJ would. We’re stoked about font and text one major problem, and it was exacerbated by early improvements, a long-awaited overhauling of how the reports from people (violating non-disclosure agree- Mac OS deals with files and disks, the precursors for ments) more eager to talk about the problem than to Mac OS X support, and all kinds of tiny changes that learn what’s really going on. It led to uninformed make the Macintosh a better solution for personal speculation and semi-panicked compatibility reports productivity. Apple’s new slogan? “The Best Internet in the weeks preceding release. Here’s the real deal. OS Ever.” Don’t repeat that around UNIX advocates. As MacWEEK.com correctly reported, you’ll need Apple, however, long ago learned the danger of new versions of some applications. Some, like marketing to technical wonks like us. Instead, the SoundJam MP 1.1.1, are already available; others are company’s presentations on the new operating system coming shortly. The most significant problems occur focus on large, user-level features—stuff you could with Aladdin Systems’s StuffIt product family, and with explain to your grandma if need be. We’d hate to try Adobe Systems’s type products Adobe Type Manager to explain to Granny that “it can now create and and Adobe Type Reunion. manipulate files larger than two gigabytes when using Type Reunion is a luxury, but most applications alternate APIs in revised software,” but we’d have no require ATM to display PostScript Type 1 fonts proper- trouble at all explaining “it knows who you are when ly—and such fonts are in widespread use. Some you speak to it.” reports have obscured this by commenting on a “Type Before you upgrade, however, you should prepare. 1 font scaler” reportedly present in Mac OS 9. True enough, one exists—but it’s an Open Font Is It Shipping? Architecture scaler and only works for OFA-savvy font clients (see “The Nitty-Gritty” in this issue). Right now, Mac OS 9 is available now in the US. Suggested that means Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging retail price is US$99; current owners of Mac OS 8.5 or (ATSUI), the successor to QuickDraw GX Typography. later are eligible for a US$20 mail-in rebate with Plain old (non-GX) QuickDraw, used by literally every details in the product box. All owners of Power Macintosh application you’re ever likely to run, does Macintosh G4 and iBook computers, as well as anyone not use OFA and will only use Type 1 outline fonts who purchased a Macintosh computer on or after with Adobe Type Manager. The only way around this is October 5 can get Mac OS 9 for US$20 shipping and to use applications with built-in Type 1 rendering handling through the Mac OS Up-To-Date program. code—like all of Adobe’s current high-end applica- Note that this is different from earlier offers: purchas- tions (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat—but es of the retail Mac OS 8.6 product are not covered, not PageMaker). In short, you still need ATM to use just new computer purchases. Type 1 fonts except in very limited circumstances. Make sure you have the proper equipment: a PowerPC-based Mac OS computer with at least 40MB What Is The Problem? of addressable RAM. You can use virtual memory to boost your addressable RAM, but the system must have The major issue is a new fatal system error, #119. at least 32MB of physical RAM. Virtual memory ATM, ATR, StuffIt Engine 5.1.2, DropStuff 5.1, StuffIt MWJ Mac OS 9 Special Mac OS 9 Marquee Features Page 3 Expander 5.1.3, and several other programs stop cold file for finding the table’s address to stop the system with error 119, returning you to the Finder just like an with error 119 instead.
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