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By Bill Catchings and Mark L. Van Name Imagine having hundreds of text files -- small and large -- scattered across a hard disk and needing to retrieve a specific […]

Languages Offer a Grip on Windows Several script and batch languages for Windows 3.0 have emerged recently in response to the need for rapid development of Windows utilities. These languages […]

By Paul Bonner Until recently, disk caches were chiefly of interest to users of disk-intensive applications, such as databases or CAD programs. The ability of a disk cache to buffer […]

By Peter C. Coffee One of the most touted benefits of object-oriented programming is its potential for simplifying the reuse of code. Alas, much code doesn't even deserve to be […]

By Bruce Brown As business identify and exploit different ways to utilize information stored on computers, the pressure grows to find cost- and time-efficient methods to enter, download or transfer […]

PC SQL database servers let groups of users create shared information resources. Those resources, however, are only as good as the tools for manipulating the data in them. To be […]

By Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings From billing invoices to expense reports, forms are thriving in the computer age. Even with the push to go paperless, most organizations […]

Matesys Corp. OBJECTSCRIPT 1.0 ObjectScript is something of an anomaly among the four script languages reviewed. It qualifies for inclusion in this category by virtue of both its low cost […]

Publishing Technologies Inc. PUBTECH BATCHWORKS 1.03 Batchworks and WinBatch are two versions of the same product, authored by Morrie Wilson of Wilson WindowWare and available through two different channels. Publishing […]

By Peter Coffee LISP can be a secret weapon for developers pushing the limits of new computing environments. Recent object-oriented and graphical user interface extensions to the programming language make […]

The Aldridge Co. CACHE86 3.51 Compared with SmartDrive, Cache86, a write-through cache, offers little or no performance gains for Windows users. Its chief asset is its minimal use of conventional […]

By Jim Quraishi and Julian Milenbach Some descriptions of computer viruses bring to mind creatures out of Stephen King's imagination that will seal the doom of modern civilization. In reality, […]

By Peter C. Coffee When looking at a circle, any statistics program can tell you the average of the points is its center. That isn't very helpful. The problem with […]

By Peter Coffee PC industry leaders often point with pride to the $15 billion base of MS-DOS applications. This pales, however, in comparison with the estimated trillion-dollar base of COBOL […]

LAN software packages that allow remote access to PCs on a network can make life easier for a network manager. These programs allow one PC on a LAN to view […]

For companies that want to convert large groups of documents in bulk and place them on the World Wide Web, learning to live with the tedious interface in HTML Transit […]

Dataware Technologies Inc.'s $995 CD Record Version 2.2 for Windows, in combination with a CD Recorder, provides the means to master CDs in a variety of data formats, from CD […]

WizSoft Inc.'s $495 WizRule 1.01b is a fine-toothed comb for finding flaws in the logic of company databases. WizRule, which shipped in March, analyzes every record in a table and […]

First Floor Inc.'s Network Central for Windows 1.0 makes it easier for workgroups to collaborate by giving Windows users the ability to quickly access, organize, and comment on shared files. […]

Software AG is heating up the competition in the market for client/server database-management and query tools by introducing its easy-to-use Esperant 2.1 for the surprisingly low price of $595. IS […]

Pages Pages Software Inc.'s page-processing package for NextStep --called, oddly enough, Pages -- lets users quickly and easily produce good-looking documents. The $795 program, which shipped at the end of […]

Aldus Corp.'s IntelliDraw 2.0 for Windows drawing program shares ease of use, a similar interface, and strong cross-platform capabilities with its Macintosh counterpart. Shipped in February, the $199 program uses […]

When a vendor says 'CASE tool,' the first thing we imagine is a constellation of clouds, bubbles, or boxes joined by swoopy arrows whose endpoints look like chicken tracks. But […]

Concentric Data Systems Inc.'s R&R Report Writer for Windows 2.0, SQL Edition, features new graphics capabilities such as line and box drawing, background shading, and support for color printing, as […]

Like a Ginsu knife for data, Brio Technology Inc.'s DataPivot 1.5 for Windows slices and dices, but only if the data has been packaged in small, bite-sized pieces. The $299 […]

Better performance and more flexible QuickTime editing capabilities make Adobe Systems Inc.'s Premiere 3.0 for the Macintosh a significant upgrade over Version 2.0. The $695 program, which shipped in August, […]

Adobe Systems Inc.'s delivery of Photoshop 2.5 for both the Macintosh and Windows makes the company's high-end image-editing tools easier to use across both platforms. Performance problems will make the […]

Eamonn Sullivan ZyIndex 5.0 for Windows is a good choice for corporations that need to search for specific data locked in numerous files on a network. This upgrade, from the […]

Without a doubt, Autodesk Inc.'s new Windows add-on makes AutoCAD more approachable for both advanced users and novices. The add-on's strong ties to AutoCAD's command-line interface, however, compromise its potential […]

PAGEAHEAD 1.1 EASES TRANSFER OF DATABASE INFO PAGEAHEAD 1.1 LETS USERS TRANSFER SEARCH RESULTS INTO PUBLISHABLE FORM WITH THE ABILITY TO APPLY PREDEFINED STYLES. -------------------- By Quabidur R. Safi PageAhead […]

Wollongong Group Inc. PATHWAY ACCESS FOR DOS 2.0 PathWay Access for DOS is a good product with good performance and decent RAM usage. Its integration with Windows, however, needs to […]

Novell Inc. LAN WORKPLACE FOR DOS 4.01 LAN WorkPlace for DOS is a solid product with excellent Windows support, good performance and decent RAM usage. Excellent Windows utilities are some […]

TransFax Corp. TRANSFAX 1.1 TransFax 1.1 in its stand-alone form is both too much and not enough product for single-user Windows applications. It provides an abundance of fax-management features especially […]

Caseworks Inc. CASE:W CORPORATE EDITION 3.12 CASE:W simplifies Windows development by handling many of the programming minutiae that confound the beginner and distract the expert. With versions also available for […]

Bitstream Inc. FACELIFT 1.5 FaceLift's output was the most impressive of all the packages tested, with excellent laser-printer output and kerning that was close to perfect. Output from the test […]

Shana Corp. INFORMED DESIGNER 1.1.1 Informed Designer sports the most features and the highest price of the products in this review. It offers the most layout control of any of […]

By Christopher Stetson Adobe Systems Inc.'s $695 Illustrator for NeXT exploits the powerful NeXT environment, proving itself a much quicker, richer drawing package than its Mac sibling. The superior speed […]

Capella Systems Inc. SMARTSCREEN OPEN 2.1.0 By hiding most of the background terminal-emulation functions that form the links to the host, Capella has largely succeeded in moving most of the […]

Easel Corp. EASELOFFICE 2.0 EaselOffice has a clean, well-designed menu that uses 10 icons: eight for PROFS and two for system setup and access to the built-in terminal emulator. Although […]

By Eamonn Sullivan Sumak Enterprises Inc.'s QuickGraph Plus and QuickGraph Plus for Windows, both scheduled for shipment at the end of the month, will up the ante in the increasingly […]

By Robert D. Frank Microsoft and Micrografx move over: A new star is born in the Windows presentation-graphics arena with this week's release of IBM's Hollywood. With its built-in outliner, […]

By Garry Frenkel Several new and upgraded products from Lotus Development Corp.'s cc:Mail division have made the popular E-mail package more accessible, both to novice users and to large organizations. […]

By Eamonn Sullivan Software Publishing Corp. brings its top-selling Harvard Graphics into the '90s with a graphical-style point-and-click interface, though version 3.0 falls short of the state of the art […]

By Jack M. Nedelman Digital Equipment Corp.'s new Windows-based query tool brings graphical ease of use to the often cryptic world of SQL databases. DECquery for Windows -- DEC's first […]

By Ted Mirecki Nantucket Corp.'s Clipper 5.01 offers improved memory management and bug fixes that fulfill the promise of the initial 5.0 release. In addition, the high-capability database tool now […]

Mansfield Software Group Inc. PERSONAL REXX 2.0 The most striking aspect of REXX is its simplicity. REXX is designed to be transparent to the application, providing the control and variable […]

By Peter Coffee Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Program Development Link (PDL) aims the power of multiwindow interactive tools at affordable, hand-held applications. The $120 PDL lets PC-based developers write and test programs […]

By Peter C. Coffee Digitalk Inc.'s Smalltalk/V Windows release 1.0 (SVW) presents an attractive new option for programmers who require rapid development of Windows 3.0 applications, especially if they need […]

By Paul Merenbloom Frye Computer Systems Inc.'s NetWare Early Warning System does more than simply react to Novell Inc. NetWare LAN problems -- it can identify and correct those problems […]

By Peter Coffee Borland International Inc.'s C++ 2.0 is a uniquely integrated suite of high-performance tools that should add to the already raging torrent of Windows 3.0 development. The new […]