 CompuNews

Windows/PC Edition	         Copyright (c) 1993 by Bolt Publishing Co.

About

Information about CompuNews

Mailing and Publishing Info

In-the-News

Microsoft and Truespeech

Norton Commander 4.0

Novell's Netware 4.01

WordStar and Softkey Merger

BusinessLine

AutoDesk Earnings Report

StockReport

AutoDesk Inc.

Adobe Systems Inc.

Aldus Corp.

Computer Associates International Inc.

Caere Corp.

Intel Corp.

Lotus Development Inc.

Microcom Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Novell Inc.

Quarterdeck Office Systems Inc.

Softkey Software Products Inc.

STAC Electronics

Symantec Corp.

Wordstar International Inc.

PC Life

A Matter of Degree


 CompuNews Info

All material in CompuNews Online (CNO) is copyright (c) 1993 by Bolt Publishing Co. and Purple Mountain Computers, Inc. unless otherwise specified.  All rights reserved.  No material may be reproduced without the express written permission of Bolt Publishing Co. (BPC) or Purple Mountain Computers, Inc. (PMC).  Opinions expressed in CNO are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of CNO, BPC, or PMC.  CompuNews, CompuNews Online, BusinessLine, StockReport, and In-the-News are trademarks of PMC.  All other trademarks belong to their respective holders.

About CompuNews Online

CompuNews Online is a bi-weekly electronic newspaper with up-to-date news and descriptive reviews of all Windows and PC based matters.  It is available on major telecommunication networks (such as CompuServe, Delphi, GEnie and NVN), as well as on local BBS's.

Users, Public Domain/Shareware organizations, and BBS sysops are encouraged to freely distribute this publication (charges to the end user may not exceed $2 per disk) in its entirety.  You are not allowed to reprint portions of material in CNO.

How to Access CompuNews Online

CNO is published in the Windows Help file format.  Simply double click on the CompuNews icon within Windows.  Then click on the news stories you want to view.  To go back to the main menu, click on the Contents button.  For further details select How to Use Help from the Help menu.

Writing for CompuNews Online

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You can order a subscription to CompuNews Online, which will guarantee that you receive each issue on time.  To receive CNO on a 3.5" disk via mail ($2 per issue) or via FAX ($2 per issue), send a check or money order made out to PMC to our mailing address.  You may order as many issues as you like and you may cancel your subscription at any time for a refund on the remaining issues in your subscription.  Issues will be sent as soon as they are produced.


Mailing/Publishing Information

 Mailing/Publishing Info

Publisher:	Bolt Publishing Company, a division of Purple Mountain Computers Inc.

Editor: 	Oscar S. Steele

Assistant

Editor: 	Kathleen A. McNelley

Staff

Reporters:	Bob Garsson	Jay Morton	Ed Williams

Columnist:	Alan Frayer

Correspondence and products for review may be sent to:

Mailing	PMC

Address:	15600 NE 8th Street Suite A3-412

Bellevue, WA  98008

Phone:	(206) 399-8700

GEnie:	PMC.INC

CompuServe:	72567,302

Delphi:	OSTEELE

NVN:	ODONOHUE


Ed Williams first became professionally involved in computers and EDP with his co-founding of a company called Checkfree in 1980.  He spent the next ten years working in related areas for large companies like GTE and Bank One.  Between 1989 and 1993, he was vice-president of marketing and operations for a clone computer company in California.  He headed all technical services, including hardware and software product evaluation and selection.  Presently he is a consultant for Enron Corporation, a Fortune 100 natural gas company, handling their LAN conversion and institution of Windows operating environment.  He has published articles in MicroTimes, Computer Monthly and the Orange County Business Review.


Bob Garsson is a freelance writer with many years of experience in newspapers and non-fiction writing.  He is highly familiar with many aspects of PCs and Windows.


Jay Morton's background is radio.  He has programmed stations in San Francisco and New York City.  Now he consults radio stations helping them with their programming, marketing and management.  He has written commercially in trade publications such as Billboard and Variety.  Spare time activities include teaching a marketing-research course in Radio department of a local college.


Alan Frayer is a professional writer, published in InfoWorld, the Clarion Tech Journal and Sarasota's Business Magazine.  He is also a member of InfoWorld's Review Board, as well as a certified NetWare 3.11 administrator.


Oscar S. Steele is a Communications major specializing in Editorial Journalism at the University of Washington.  When he isn't inundated with paperwork and work in general, he's editing CompuNews Online.  He has nine years of computing experience and has participated in publishing several computer related publications.


What is PC LIFE?

PC LIFE is a column where the author shares his opinions on the issues surrounding the PC industry and occasionally mixes in product reviews. The columns are written in an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek style, meant not only to entertain but also educate.


AutoDesk Inc. Report

 AutoDesk Report

by Jay Morton, Staff Reporter

Autodesk's board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 12 cents per share of common stock, payable July 9 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 25, 1993.  Autodesk is the world's leading supplier of desktop CAD (computer-aided design) software.

The company reported net income of $15.4 million (62 cents per share) on net revenues of $101.7 million for the fiscal quarter ended in April.  The corresponding year-ago figures were $9.3 million income (39 cents per share) on $75.4 million in revenues.  Autodesk closed their first fiscal-93 quarter with $181.9 million in cash and equivalents, with about 23.7 million shares of common stock outstanding.

Based in Sausalito CA, Autodesk Inc. develops, markets, and supports computer-aided design, scientific, and multimedia software products for personal computers and workstations.


 Microsoft and TrueSpeech

by Jay Morton, Staff Reporter

REDMOND, WA -- Microsoft has licensed a more efficient voice-compression technology called TrueSpeech from DSP Group, known for its development of the chipset which allows many telephone-answering machines to record messages without using a cassette tape.

Sources say Microsoft will incorporate TrueSpeech into its Windows Sound System (WSS) later this year.

With Microsoft's WSS, a voice file can be added to any OLE-compliant software under Windows version 3.1, though not efficiently.  Audio files take up a lot of hard-drive space with today's two-to-one compression ratio, making them impractical for most users.

If a user, for example, added a voice file to explain various calculations in an Excel spreadsheet, a brief elaboration of 30 seconds could take almost half a megabyte of hard drive storage space.

Microsoft sources say that TrueSpeech's advantage over current technology is that the compression ratio of TrueSpeech is in the range of at least 10-to-one, perhaps up to 20-to-one, instead of the standard two-to-one.

"TrueSpeech," explains DSP president Eli Porat, "is based on complex mathematical algorithms derived from the way air from the lungs is shaped by the throat, mouth, and tongue when we speak."  This allows for the better compression ratios without substantially compromising audio quality.

Compaq offers the Microsoft WSS with some of its Deskpro models, with more systems to be announced in the future.  Gateway and Dell are among the other manufacturers now shipping compatible systems.

"DSP Group's experience in working in the highly cost-sensitive consumer electronics market has provided a distinct advantage in developing voice compression technology which meets both the cost and technology requirements of the PC market," says Bob McBreen, Microsoft's product manager for the hardware accessories group.  "We believe this technology will become ubiquitous in the personal computer market within a few years."


 WordStar and Softkey Merger

by Bob Garsson, Staff Reporter

NOVATO, CA -- The proposed merger of Wordstar International, Inc., with SoftKey Software Products, Inc. took another step forward recently with the filing of a preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

In announcing the filing, Wordstar said the proxy statement will be mailed to company stockholders following its review by the SEC. When this will take place is not certain.

The earliest the review could be completed would be mid-August, Wordstar said, but added that a longer review time would not be unusual given the complexities of merging with a Canadian company.

Wordstar said shareholder meetings of both companies will take place approximately 45 days after completion of the review. The merger must be approved by shareholders of both Wordstar and SoftKey.

Wordstar also announced the appointment of Thomas Rickey as acting chief financial officer. Rickey, who joined Wordstar as corporate controller in January, 1992, succeeds David H. Russian, Wordstar vice president for finance and administration. Russian will serve as a consultant to Wordstar until the merger with SoftKey has been completed.


 Norton Commander 4.0

by Ed Williams, Staff Reporter

CUPERTINO, CA -- Over three years after the introduction of version 3.0, Symantec Corporation announced on June 21 the release of version 4.0 of the industry's best selling DOS shell utility, Norton Commander.

Norton Commander version 3.0, which set the stage for the DOS shell market by introducing enhanced functionality beyond basic file management, was delivered to the market by Peter Norton Computing, Inc.

Says Grant Johnson, Symantec's business unit director for the Peter Norton Group, "The fourth generation Commander is not only fast and lean, making it ideal for portables, but it's also powerful, versatile, and feature-rich.  It contains improvements with recommendations and suggestions from users all over the world."

The new version of Norton Commander offers significantly improved speed to its file management functions, adds new file viewing capabilities, provides direct application launching, enhances electronic mail flexibility for MCI Mail users, boosts its capacity for PC-to-PC file transfers, and introduces a new front-end for handling most of today's popular file compression utilities.

Recognizing the need of most computer users to manage compressed files, Norton Commander 4.0 introduces new functionality for an impressive variety of data compression utilities.  Commander boasts built-in, internal support for one of the most widely used:  Phil Katz's popular PKZIP.  Integrated external support is included for ARC, ARJ, LHARC, PAK, and ZOO files.  An appreciated supplement allows the user, with a simple modification, to enable external support for additional compression programs.

Quick View is a Norton Commander mainstay that offers users a directory file listing in one window while displaying the contents of a selected file in the other.  The new Quick View lets users, with no need to first load the parent application, view compressed, database, spreadsheet, or word processing files.  Quick View's Zoom function allows toggling between the half-screen and expanded full-screen view with one keystroke.

"It's a pretty spectacular program, but the most dazzling thing they've done is the viewer feature," said Bill Alvernaz, a computer consultant in Livingston, California.

More than 30 new file formats have been added to the viewer in Norton Commander 4.0.  Over 50 application-specific formats are now supported, including Microsoft's Word for Windows and Excel, Borland's Paradox and dBASE, and many others.  Viewing of graphics files has been expanded, too.  Version 3.0 of Commander supported paintbrush PCX images, to which has been added GIF, TIFF, and Windows' BMP and ICO.

"Commander Link will probably be the biggest attraction to users," said Clint Laing, a Kansas-based dBASE programmer and consultant, commenting on Norton Commander's PC-to-PC file and directory transfer utility.  The single greatest enhancement to this feature is the enabling of high-speed parallel port communications, the same method used by software dedicated to this function.

Other important changes to Commander Link include cloning and New File options.  Cloning allows duplication of Commander Link to a connected PC upon which the software is not already installed.  This greatly improves the ease and flexibility of on-the-fly PC connections.

New File is a time-saver for people who regularly interchange data between two computers.  Rather than having to search and select along the file tree, New File will quickly transfer only those files which are dated later than those--or which don't exist at all--on the target disk drive.

J.B. Williams, president of JBW Consulting, Houston, sums up Norton Commander 4.0:  "The earlier versions were highly useful.  This one is indispensable.  You can include directories and sub-directories in copies, moves, or deletes.  The text editor is better.  The find feature is improved.  Most important, given my clients, Norton Commander 4.0 is LAN compatible.  It also summarizes system information, hardware and software, from a simple menu option."

Of note is that Norton Commander 3.0 appeared in 1989 with a suggested retail price of $149.  This new edition debuts with a suggested retail price of $99.  Registered users are entitled to an upgrade for $39, plus shipping and handling.


 Novell's Netware 4.01

by Ed Williams, Staff Reporter

PROVO, UT -- With the release of NetWare 4.01 on July 23, Novell is on time with its promised modifications and additions to version 4.0, the platform the company is now referring to as its "enterprise network operating system."

Following its predecessor by only four months, NetWare 4.01 represents the enhancements expected of a minor upgrade, but surpasses that status by introducing what Novell has now established as the standard for its NetWare Directory Services (NDS).

NDS, introduced with NetWare 4.0 last March, is a technology that allows users of large networks to view them as a single entity rather than a collection of individual file servers.  In enhancing NDS, Novell continues to move toward object-oriented programming by introducing infrastructure code that will open the door -- both for Novell and third-party engineers -- for the future development of network administration tools far superior to those familiar to NetWare 3.11 administrators.

"NDS is a vital tool for our customers, and in NetWare 4.01 we've made NDS even better.  We've added new capabilities that will become essential in the future," said Robert Young, Vice President of Marketing for Novell's NetWare Systems Group.  "For this reason, we determined that it was in our customers' best interests to make the directory in NetWare 4.01 the new NDS standard."

Not all the changes made to NDS are compatible with NetWare 4.0.  However, CompuNews sources at Novell say that the 4.01 standard will be just that; all foreseeable NDS enhancements will support backward-compatability with this release.  NetWare 4.01 NDS modifications include selfrepairing capabilities, faster synchronization, and better inter-networking support.

NDS is one of the factors driving Novell's magnanimous upgrade offer.  This new version of NetWare is free -- and automatic -- to any registered user of version 4.0.  Additionally, customers who register NetWare 4.01 prior to October 31, 1993, will receive all updates and revisions to the operating system, free of charge, through April 30, 1994.

While Novell maintains a policy of non-disclosure regarding its specific sales figures, PC Week recently reported that there were over 50,000 registered users of NetWare 4.0.  CompuNews sources at Novell concur this is a conservative figure.  There is more at work behind this upgrade offer than simple support of a new release.

NetWare has possessed the lion's share of the LAN market for some time.  As a Network Operating System (NOS) it has entrenched itself in its niche almost as securely as has Microsoft DOS in its own.  But, a scant few years ago, Novell bought Digital Research, author of DR DOS (a Novell DOS 7.0 is being readied for release later in the summer).  Novell then acquired AT&T's UNIX Systems Labs.  "The most significant advancement in NetWare 4.0," said a beta-tester for the software, "is its integration with UNIX."

Clearly, Novell is taking its description of "enterprise network operating system" seriously.

Says Gordon Jones, Vice President of Information Services for Novell, "We're already running extensive portions of our business on NetWare 4.01.  The product has enabled our IS department to create a multi-site, multi-platform network that is solid enough to support the applications essential to our business.  Our NetWare 4.01 deployment already connects hundreds of clients over X.25 and T1 links, and it has continually met and exceeded our requirements."

Adding to this universality is Novell's promised inclusion of support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.  Users of NetWare 4.01 may select the language in which they see help screens, utilities, network messages, and on-line documentation.  Further, users on the same network may select different languages.  Planned future releases include modules for Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese.  Novell is also developing Language Development Kits (LDKs) to allow third-party developers to add other languages to the selection.

"In NetWare 4.01 we've made it even easier for customers to create networks that encompass many different languages and geographic locations," adds Robert Young.

Included in NetWare 4.01 is a five-user layer of NetWare for Macintosh.  This enables any Macintosh user to access a NetWare 4.01 server.  Another new feature includes utilities for the OS\2 Presentation Manager.  Also included in NetWare 4.01 are updated versions (v1.02) of the Virtual Loadable Modules (VLMs) for both DOS and Microsoft Windows.

In this release, Novell also provides directory synchronization software that efficiently integrates NetWare 3.11 with 4.x.  By enabling network administrators to use the new NDS utilities to control 3.11 networks, the software will help companies introduce NetWare 4.01 into their production environments.


A Matter of Degree

PC Life: A Matter of Degree

by Alan Frayer, Columnist

As Debbie contemplates a college education and sets goals for her life, she finds herself facing a difficult and expensive question: how long she plans to stay in college. It isn't that she expects to drop out, but the economical question, balancing the education against the expense.

The college she plans to attend specializes in culinary degrees. If she attends for two years, she'll learn all she needs to know to get a good job as a chef. Nothing fancy, but the cooking skills will all be there. If she sticks in there for a total of four years, she can get a BA and a great job as a head chef. To get that extra benefit, she needs to find the bucks to pay for the extra two years. Her question to me: is it worth the expense to get the degree?

In the computer industry a similar question arises, and the question becomes more difficult to answer each time it's contemplated. The question isn't as much one of college degrees as it is vendor certification.

The most famous such certification has to be Novell's acclaimed Certified NetWare Engineer (CNE). CNE candidates must prove to Novell a basic proficiency with some extremely technical aspects of NetWare to receive certification. For this, CNE's become some of the most widely sought individuals in the industry, to the benefit of Novell.

Opponents to vendor certification point out Novell does not require a candidate have any field experience to qualify for the certification. They also feel the certification is too narrow, focusing only on Novell products while ignoring the technology behind competing products. A small consortium has even formed to offer its own certification, vendor-independent.

Vendor certification does have its value, however, regardless of how opponents may feel. Novell's CNEs, and to a lesser extent their CNAs, may not be required to have field experience, but they are required to pass difficult tests, demonstrating more than just a passing familiarity with the subjects in question. To require field experience in a CNE is like requiring a candidate for an MBA to have experience running a corporation. An employer interviewing potential employees is responsible for looking at the work experience of the candidate, regardless of the presence of a degree or certification. The degree or certification should only offer an edge, something to demonstrate the technical knowledge is there, not serve to show whether the individual knows how to use those skills.

Vendor certifications provide the vendors with avenues to plug their wares, but they also can reduce vendor support woes by educating key users in solving their own support questions, as well as helping others in need of support. The over-all support base increases at a fraction of the cost of vendor-provided support. The success of the Novell CNE program, and its spinoff ECNEs, CNIs, and CNAs, now lead other vendors to offer their own certification programs. Two vendors offering such programs are WordPerfect for their WordPerfect Office, and Saber for their Saber LAN Workstations.

The existence of a degree or certification does not mean the holder has all the answers. It does mean the holder should know where to find them. The degree or certification holder has a right to be proud of their achievement, and deserves respect for having made the extra effort. Those who scoff at the designations should take another look at themselves and their skills, then put their jealousies behind them.

Debbie, the degree is worth the expense, whatever that expense is, because it means more than just a great job. It represents the effort undertaken to gain the knowledge needed to get that great job. The degree will mean more to you than the job it gets you.

Copyright (c) 1993 by Alan Frayer, CNA

All Rights Reserved


 ACAD: AutoDesk Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	52 1/2	50	51 1/8	10108
07/09/93	51 1/4	46 3/4	48	19628
07/12/93	49	45 3/4	47 3/4	14128
07/13/93	48 1/2	47 3/4	47 3/4	6093
07/14/93	47 1/2	46	46	6949
07/15/93	47	43 3/4	45 1/4	7155
07/16/93	44 3/4	43 3/4	44 1/2	6517
07/19/93	44 3/4	43	44	5581
07/20/93	46 1/2	43 3/4	46 1/2	4980
07/21/93	47	44 1/2	45 1/2	4539
07/22/93	46 1/4	44	44 1/4	3147
07/23/93	45 1/4	44 1/4	44 1/2	3413


 ADBE: Adobe Systems Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	56 3/4	55	56 3/4	8490
07/09/93	59 3/4	57	59 3/8	9280
07/12/93	60 1/4	58	58 3/4	5551
07/13/93	59	58 1/4	58 3/8	4036
07/14/93	58 3/4	57 1/2	58 1/4	4557
07/15/93	58	56 1/4	56 1/4	6028
07/16/93	55 3/4	53	54 1/8	7350
07/19/93	54 1/4	51	52	10307
07/20/93	54 1/4	51 3/4	53	5511
07/21/93	53 3/8	52	52 5/8	3899
07/22/93	55	52 1/2	53	4872
07/23/93	53 3/4	52 1/4	53 1/2	4629


 ALDC: Aldus Corp.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	15 1/4	14 3/4	15	1299
07/09/93	15 1/4	14 3/4	14 7/8	2036
07/12/93	15 1/4	14 3/4	14 7/8	1488
07/13/93	15 1/4	14 1/2	15	1388
07/14/93	15	14 1/2	15	1197
07/15/93	15	14 1/2	14 3/4	846
07/16/93	14 3/4	13 3/4	14	2061
07/19/93	14 1/4	13 1/2	14	963
07/20/93	14 3/4	13 3/4	14 3/4	1788
07/21/93	15 3/4	14 1/4	15	1569
07/22/93	15 3/8	14 1/2	15 1/4	690
07/23/93	15 1/2	14 3/4	15	1322


CA: Computer Associates International Inc.

 CA: Computer Associates Int'l Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	29 5/8	28 5/8	29 1/4	2934
07/09/93	29 3/4	28 1/2	29 5/8	4413
07/12/93	29 7/8	29 1/2	29 3/4	2453
07/13/93	29 1/4	28 1/4	28 3/8	16084
07/14/93	28 5/8	28 1/4	28 3/8	7049
07/15/93	29	28 1/8	29	6023
07/16/93	29	28 3/8	28 1/2	4250
07/19/93	28 7/8	27	27 5/8	4379
07/20/93	29	27 5/8	29	5855
07/21/93	29 1/2	28 5/8	29 1/2	5676
07/22/93	30 3/4	29 3/4	30 3/8	13930
07/23/93	30 3/8	29 1/2	29 5/8	7977


 CAER: Caere Corp.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	7 7/8	7 1/4	7 5/8	776
07/09/93	7 5/8	7 3/8	7 3/8	282
07/12/93	7 5/8	7 3/8	7 3/8	513
07/13/93	7 5/8	7 3/8	7 5/8	2326
07/14/93	7 3/4	7 1/2	7 5/8	2482
07/15/93	7 1/2	6 1/4	6 3/8	6695
07/16/93	6 3/8	5 7/8	6	2710
07/19/93	6 1/4	6	6	2392
07/20/93	6 1/4	6	6 1/8	1376
07/21/93	6 1/4	5 1/2	5 3/4	2216
07/22/93	6	5 1/2	6	1081
07/23/93	6	5 3/4	6	849


 INTC: Intel Corp.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	54 3/4	52 1/4	54 3/4	27383
07/09/93	56 1/4	53 3/4	56	40083
07/12/93	57	53	55 5/8	85292
07/13/93	55 3/4	53 1/2	54 1/2	51618
07/14/93	55	53	53 3/8	37244
07/15/93	53 3/4	52 1/2	52 3/4	29587
07/16/93	52 1/2	50 1/4	50 1/2	62860
07/19/93	51 1/4	49 1/4	50 7/8	59891
07/20/93	52 1/4	50 3/4	52	31002
07/21/93	51 3/4	50 5/8	51 1/8	21040
07/22/93	51 1/2	49 1/4	50	27441
07/23/93	52 1/2	50 1/2	51 3/4	28114


 LOTS: Lotus Development Corp.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	34 1/2	32 1/4	34 1/2	13542
07/09/93	35 1/4	34 1/4	34 3/4	6923
07/12/93	34 3/4	34	34 3/8	4305
07/13/93	36 1/2	34 1/2	36 1/2	14955
07/14/93	37 3/8	36 1/4	36 3/4	10886
07/15/93	37	35 3/4	36 3/8	10575
07/16/93	36 1/4	35 1/4	35 3/8	12181
07/19/93	36 1/4	35 1/4	36	4637
07/20/93	37 1/2	35 3/4	37 3/8	8940
07/21/93	40 1/8	37 1/4	39 5/8	38779
07/22/93	40	36 3/4	36 7/8	32704
07/23/93	38 1/4	36 1/4	38	19787


 MNPI: Microcom Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	3 1/4	3	3	417
07/09/93	3 1/4	3	3 1/16	870
07/12/93	3 1/4	3 3/16	3 1/4	383
07/13/93	3 1/4	3	3	1065
07/14/93	3	2 3/4	2 7/8	1376
07/15/93	2 3/8	2	2 1/16	4634
07/16/93	2 1/4	2	2 1/32	2474
07/19/93	2 1/4	1 7/8	2	1538
07/20/93	2	1 3/4	1 3/4	1169
07/21/93	1 3/4	1 1/2	1 5/8	3033
07/22/93	1 3/4	1 1/2	1 11/16	4478
07/23/93	2	1 5/8	1 7/8	3632


 MSFT: Microsoft Corp.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	85 1/2	84	84 7/8	21908
07/09/93	85	83 1/2	84 5/8	15625
07/12/93	84 3/4	83 1/2	83 3/4	8394
07/13/93	84	82 1/2	82 3/4	11519
07/14/93	85 1/2	82 1/2	84 1/4	13620
07/15/93	84 1/4	82 3/4	83 1/2	10966
07/16/93	83 1/4	80 3/4	81 1/8	27196
07/19/93	80 1/4	78	78 3/4	38658
07/20/93	80 1/2	78	80 1/2	23742
07/21/93	79	76 3/4	79	57195
07/22/93	81 3/4	76 3/4	77 5/8	46778
07/23/93	78 1/4	76 3/4	77 5/8	29429


 NOVL: Novell Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	26 1/2	25 1/2	26	29677
07/09/93	26	25 1/4	25 3/4	12687
07/12/93	26 1/4	25 3/4	26	11933
07/13/93	26 3/4	25	25 1/4	33854
07/14/93	25 1/4	24 1/2	24 3/4	44900
07/15/93	25	23	23 1/2	94448
07/16/93	23 1/2	22 3/4	23	42123
07/19/93	24 1/2	23	23 1/4	40719
07/20/93	24 1/4	23 1/4	23 3/4	29420
07/21/93	24 1/8	23 1/2	23 3/4	28726
07/22/93	24	23 1/2	23 3/4	27660
07/23/93	25 1/4	23 1/2	24 3/4	28292


 QDEK: Quarterdeck Office Systems Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	3 1/8	2 31/32	2 31/32	1192
07/09/93	3 1/8	2 15/16	3	1266
07/12/93	3	2 13/16	2 7/8	1305
07/13/93	2 15/16	2 11/16	2 11/16	1715
07/14/93	2 13/16	2 5/8	2 13/16	1400
07/15/93	2 13/16	2 5/8	2 3/4	1518
07/16/93	2 3/4	2 5/8	2 3/4	2074
07/19/93	2 13/16	2 5/8	2 13/16	1085
07/20/93	2 7/8	2 11/16	2 11/16	1041
07/21/93	2 13/16	2 11/16	2 13/16	264
07/22/93	2 13/16	2 5/8	2 3/4	2100
07/23/93	2 13/16	2 11/16	2 13/16	542


SKEYF: Softkey Software Products, Inc.

 SKEYF: Softkey Software Products Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	5 1/2	5 1/4	5 1/4	594
07/09/93	5 5/8	5 3/8	5 1/2	354
07/12/93	5 5/8	5 3/8	5 3/8	288
07/13/93	5 1/2	5 1/4	5 1/4	257
07/14/93	5 1/2	5 1/4	5 1/4	134
07/15/93	5 1/2	5 1/8	5 1/4	2949
07/16/93	5 1/2	5 1/4	5 1/2	8594
07/19/93	5 5/8	5 3/8	5 1/2	539
07/20/93	5 1/2	5 1/8	5 3/8	2403
07/21/93	5 3/8	5 1/8	5 1/8	1282
07/22/93	5 1/4	5	5 1/8	169
07/23/93	5 1/4	5	5 1/4	71


 STAC: STAC Electronics

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	2 5/8	2 3/8	2 1/2	767
07/09/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 3/8	1852
07/12/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 1/4	126
07/13/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 1/4	212
07/14/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 1/2	193
07/15/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 1/2	194
07/16/93	2 1/2	2 1/2	2 1/2	51
07/19/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 1/2	219
07/20/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 1/4	70
07/21/93	2 1/2	2 1/4	2 3/8	227
07/22/93	2 1/2	2 1/8	2 1/2	379
07/23/93	2 1/2	2 1/8	2 1/2	50


 SYMC: Symantec Corp.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	12 3/4	12 1/4	12 1/4	2566
07/09/93	12 3/8	11 3/4	12 1/8	8106
07/12/93	12 1/4	11 7/8	12	2749
07/13/93	12 1/8	11 3/4	12	1692
07/14/93	12 1/4	11 3/4	12 1/4	2240
07/15/93	12 3/8	12	12 1/4	2963
07/16/93	12 1/8	11 5/8	11 3/4	3181
07/19/93	11 5/8	10 7/8	11	8310
07/20/93	11 3/8	11	11	11844
07/21/93	11 1/4	10 7/8	10 7/8	782
07/22/93	11 3/8	10 7/8	11 1/4	2115
07/23/93	13 3/4	11 1/2	13 5/8	12412


 WDST: Wordstar International Inc.

Date	High	Low	Close	Volume (100/s)
07/08/93	1 9/16	1 1/2	1 1/2	944
07/09/93	1 9/16	1 7/16	1 1/2	1573
07/12/93	1 17/32	1 7/16	1 1/2	1725
07/13/93	1 1/2	1 15/32	1 15/32	1580
07/14/93	1 1/2	1 15/32	1 15/32	1017
07/15/93	1 9/16	1 7/16	1 1/2	3536
07/16/93	1 17/32	1 1/2	1 1/2	6358
07/19/93	1 17/32	1 15/32	1 1/2	2700
07/20/93	1 1/2	1 7/16	1 15/32	933
07/21/93	1 1/2	1 3/8	1 3/8	1856
07/22/93	1 7/16	1 11/32	1 3/8	3011
07/23/93	1 7/16	1 11/32	1 13/32	3721