At Ease 2.0.3 Updater

Copyright 1994 Apple Computer, Inc.

The enclosed file is a self-extracting archive of a Disk Copy 800K disk
image.  To use, download, double-click the downloaded file (this
decompresses it), and use Disk Copy to create a disk.

Disk Copy can be found in the Utilities folder posted here.

From the "Using At Ease 2.0.3" Read Me:

AT EASE 2.0.3 UPDATE

This update lists important changes in version 2.0.3 of At Ease and
adds information about new features. The update addresses the following
topics:

   Installing and upgrading At Ease 2.0.3 New features Using At Ease
   2.0.3 with System 7.5 Using At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups Tips for
   using At Ease 2.0.3

For additional information, consult the At Ease 2.0 Owners Guide or the
At Ease 2.0 for Workgroups Administrators Guide.


INSTALLING AND UPGRADING AT EASE 2.0.3

The following sections give you important information about installing
At Ease 2.0.3 and upgrading to At Ease 2.0.3.

Do you have the original At Ease disks?

If you have the original disks for At Ease 2.0.3 or At Ease 2.0.3 for
Workgroups, use the Installer program that came with the software to
place At Ease and Mouse Practice on your hard disk. See the At Ease 2.0
Owners Guide or the At Ease 2.0 for Workgroups Administrators Guide for
installation instructions.

If you have problems installing At Ease on 2-megabyte (MB) systems, you
can make more memory available by temporarily turning off all
extensions. To do so, restart your computer and hold down the Shift key
while it is starting up.

Do you have the At Ease 2.0.3 Updater disk?

If you have the At Ease 2.0.3 Updater disk for At Ease 2.0.3 and At
Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups, use the Updater program on that disk to
update your earlier version of At Ease to At Ease 2.0.3 or At Ease
2.0.3 for Workgroups.

Upgrading from At Ease 1.0 to At Ease 2.0.3

If you have At Ease version 1.0, you must first obtain and install At
Ease version 2.0 or 2.0.1 before you can install and use At Ease 2.0.3
using the At Ease 2.0.3 Updater disk.  Once you have installed version
2.0 or 2.0.1, open the At Ease Setup program.

If you created a password in At Ease 1.0, you are asked to enter it as
the administrators password when you open the program. If you have At
Ease for Workgroups, a new setup called At Ease 1.0 appears in the
setup list, along with a new user also called At Ease 1.0. You can
rename the user or the setup if you wish. Then turn on At Ease and
restart your Macintosh.

When you restart with At Ease turned on, all items that appeared on the
At Ease 1.0 Items panel appear on the At Ease 2.0 or 2.0.1 Items panel.
You can use the At Ease Setup program to remove items. Initially, the
user panel is empty; as users create new items, buttons for these items
will appear on the panel.

Now that you have installed At Ease version 2.0 or 2.0.1 on your
system, follow the instructions in the next section, Upgrading from At
Ease 2.0 or 2.0.1 to At Ease 2.0.3.  Upgrading from At Ease 2.0 or
2.0.1 to At Ease 2.0.3

If you have At Ease version 2.0 or 2.0.1 on your hard disk, it is
automatically upgraded to At Ease 2.0.3 when you use the Updater
program that came with version 2.0.3.

To update to At Ease 2.0.3:

1.  Turn on your Macintosh.

2.  Insert the At Ease 2.0.3 Updater disk.

3.  Double-click the Updater icon.

4.  Click Begin.  Some At Ease files are automatically updated.

5.  A screen then appears asking you to locate At Ease Setup. Select
the At Ease Setup program, then click Update.

After a few moments, updating is complete. You are now ready to use At
Ease 2.0.3 or At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups.

Note:  You cannot use an earlier version of At Ease once youve updated
to At Ease 2.0.3. The earlier version wont be able to read the
preferences file created by At Ease 2.0.3. If you attempt to install
and then use an earlier version after installing At Ease 2.0.3, a
window appears telling you to contact the administrator, and then your
computer shuts down. In order to use At Ease, you must install the At
Ease 2.0.3 program again.

Removing At Ease permanently from your hard disk

To remove At Ease from your hard disk, use the Installer program that
came with the At Ease software. Follow the instructions for removing At
Ease in the At Ease 2.0 Owners Guide or the At Ease 2.0 for Workgroups
Administrators Guide.

Do not remove At Ease by dragging the files to the Trash; if you do,
you may not be able to restart your Macintosh.


NEW FEATURES

Creating buttons for file servers

The administrator can create At Ease buttons for file servers so that
individual users or particular setups can have direct access to file
servers. If you have At Ease 2.0.3, a button is created for an
individual user. If you have At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups, a button is
created for a particular setup. The administrator must connect to the
file server before he or she can create  a button for it in At Ease.

Once the administrator creates the button, a user or a particular setup
is able to use that server. In most cases, a user must be registered to
use a server and is required to enter his or her name and password
after connecting to the file server (by clicking the server button).
However, some servers do allow guest access.

To create an At Ease button for a file server you are connected to:

1.  Open the At Ease Setup program.
 If At Ease is already open, choose Go To At Ease Setup from the
 Special menu.  If you are in the Finder, double-click the At
 Ease Setup program to open it.

2.  Type the administrator password and click OK.

3.  If you have At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups:
 Select a setup and click Open.  Then go to step 5.

4.  If you have At Ease 2.0.3:
 Select a user and click Open.  Then click Next.

5.  Click the Find Items button.  The Find Items screen appears.

6.  Type all or part of the name of the file server in the upper box.

7.  Click the Find button.  A list of items appears on the left,
showing all items whose names contain the text you typed, including any
file servers you are connected to.

8.  Click the file server and click the Add button.  The selected file
server now appears on the right. To select more than one item in the
list, hold down the Shift key while you click the names of the items.

9.  When you have finished searching and adding items, click OK.

10. If you have At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups, click OK. Then go to Step
12.

11. If you have At Ease 2.0.3:
 Click Next.  Click Next once more, then click Done.

12. Choose Quit from the File menu to leave the At Ease Setup program.

Choosing application preferences

Some application programs need to access special files that come with
the application. Sometimes these files may not be available to a user
or setup, because of file or folder restrictions placed on a user or
setup.

For example, The Writing Center comes with a set of pictures that are
in the Pictures Folder. To use these pictures, The Writing Center
application program must have access to that folder. A setup or user
may not have access to that folder, however, and therefore would not be
able to see or use these pictures because of security features within
the At Ease program.

The administrator can now allow an application to bypass a setup or a
users folder and open and save these special files anywhere, such as in
the applications folder or in the System Folder. In most cases, this
enables programs to run more smoothly.

This feature is normally turned on. The administrator may want to turn
it off for a particular application if it is not running properly with
this feature turned on.

To change the application preferences:

1.  Choose Go To At Ease Setup from the Special menu.

2.  Type the administrator password and click OK.

3.  Choose Application Preferences from the Options menu.  The Set
Application Preferences window appears.

4.  Click the desired application.  Information appears in the
Application Preferences window at the bottom.

5. If you wish, click the checkboxes to change the settings.  For most
applications, the default setting is for both checkboxes to be active
(marked    with an X).

6.  Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each desired application. When you are
finished setting application preferences, click OK.

7.  Choose Quit from the File menu to leave the At Ease Setup program.

Changing the administrators password

The administrator now must type his or her old password before changing
the administrator password. The administrator is the only user who can
change this password.

1.  Choose Go To At Ease Setup from the Special menu.

2.  Choose Administrator Password from the Options menu.  The
Administrator Password screen appears.

3.  Type your old password in the upper box. Then type your new
password in the middle and lower boxes.  You can type up to 15
characters. As you type, dots () appear in place of the text so that
anyone nearby will be unable to see what password you have typed. Be
sure to choose a password that only you would know.

4.  If you wish, click inside the lower box and type a clue that will
help you remember your new password.  You can type up to 63 characters.
The clue will appear each time you are asked to provide the
administrator password. As with the password itself, be sure to choose
a clue that only you will recognize.

5.  Click OK.  In the future you will need to provide the administrator
password before you can use the At Ease Setup program. You can change
the password at any timebut only after entering the original password.

6.  Choose Quit from the File menu to leave the At Ease Setup program.

Sharing files while using the computer for other work

You can share files on your computer in At Ease while you are doing
other work, such as writing a document. If file sharing is turned on,
it starts when the computer starts up and stops when the computer is
shut down.

Using ClarisWorks

A printing problem in versions 2.0 and 2.0.1 of At Ease has been fixed.
You can now print and view entire pages of ClarisWorks documents in At
Ease 2.0.3 and At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups.


USING AT EASE 2.0.3 WITH SYSTEM 7.5

At Ease 2.0.3 and At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups are compatible with
System 7.5. However, some control panels and other features of System
7.5 may work differently while At Ease is running. This section
provides information on these differences. Please refer to the
Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide menu (marked with a question
mark icon on the right of the menu bar), for more information on these
topics.

AppleScript Scripts written using AppleScript can be launched by At
Ease. However, scripts that require the Finder will not run properly.

Extensions Manager You cannot change the settings in this control panel
while At Ease 2.0.3 is running.

Find File When At Ease 2.0.3 or At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups is open,
Find File does not allow you to open or print items that are found.

General Controls control panel
     Documents This option can control where the Documents folder is
     created on your computer. At Ease always tries to open or save a
     document in the users folder, within the At Ease Documents folder,
     regardless of the settings in the Documents option.

     If At Ease is running and you have not changed the Documents
     option, At Ease creates the Documents folder on the startup disk.
     If At Ease is not running and you select the Documents folder
     radio button, the Documents folder is created on the desktop.

     Launcher The Launcher does not work with At Ease 2.0.3 and if it
     is set to open at startup, it will not do so.

Macintosh Easy Open (version 1.1 or later) If you attempt to open a
document without the application program that created it and Macintosh
Easy Open is active, a dialog box asks if you want to open the document
with another program. The only programs displayed are those made
available to the user in the At Ease Setup program.

PowerTalk You can now receive PowerTalk mail in the background while
you are in At Ease. However, to read or write mail, you must be in the
Finder.

QuickDraw GX At Ease now supports printing from QuickDraw GX. However,
once you start a print job you cannot log out of At Ease or go to the
Finder until the printing is completed. If QuickDraw GX is installed,
print jobs that are stopped cannot be restarted within At Ease. The
user or the administrator must go to the Finder to restart a print
job.

    Printer menu When the user has access to the Chooser and QuickDraw
    GX is active, a new menu appears in At Ease called Printer. This
    menu contains all desktop printers that have been created, with a
    checkmark next to the currently selected printer. To select a
    different printer, simply choose its name.

    Printer Status command To view the status of the currently selected
    printer, choose Printer Status from the Printer menu. Print jobs
    started by your computer are displayed. A pop-up menu allows you to
    view the status of other printers.

Shutdown Items folder The Shutdown Items folder is located within the
System Folder. All items in this folder are started when you choose the
Shut Down command from the Special menu to shut down your computer.


USING AT EASE 2.0.3 FOR WORKGROUPS

Security in At Ease for Workgroups

Several new security options are included with At Ease 2.0.3 for
Workgroups. These include the ability to prevent users from
disconnecting from file servers and the option of remembering the file
servers that a user is connected to at login. The Lock Startup Volume
option has also changed.

In addition, changes have been made in At Ease 2.0.3 and At Ease 2.0.3
for Workgroups to better ensure that the administrators password cannot
be easily obtained. These new and changed features are described next.

Preventing users from disconnecting from AppleShare volumes

When this option is active (marked with an X), the administrators
password is required to disconnect from file servers. This allows the
administrator to decide whether a file server should be disconnected
and prevents unauthorized users from disconnecting file servers. This
option also ensures that connected file servers are always available.

Remembering users AppleShare volumes at login

When this option is active (marked with an X), if you connect to a file
server while in At Ease, you are reconnected to that file server when
you log in to At Ease again.  When this option is not active (the
checkbox is blank), file servers that are set in the Chooser to open at
start up will now be available to all users. If you connected to a file
server while in At Ease, and then quit At Ease, the next time you log
in to At Ease, you are not automatically reconnected to the file server
you were connected to earlier.

Locking the startup disk

When you choose this option, At Ease locks your startup disk by
installing security software on it. This security software cannot be
installed on hard disks that have been initialized by driver software
that is not compatible with At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups.

If At Ease detects an incompatible hard disk, the Lock Startup Volume
checkbox is dimmed. Contact the publisher of the driver software to see
if a compatible version is available. The At Ease security software
cannot be installed on any hard disk partitioned with A/UX.

  Updating disk drivers If you need to update the driver software for a
locked disk, first choose Security from the Options menu in the Setup
program and click the Lock Startup Volume checkbox to remove the X.

  Changing the startup disk If you lock the startup volume, do not
change the startup disk selected in the Startup Disk control panel. If
you change the startup disk, your At Ease startup volume will not
appear on the desktop when you restart the computer, and you will not
be able to reselect it from within the Startup Disk control panel.

  Virtual memory If you have more than one hard disk, the Lock Startup
Volume security feature may not protect the startup disk when virtual
memory is turned on. Turn off virtual memory on your startup disk if
you want to use this security feature.

For more information on security features, see Chapter 5 of the At Ease
2.0 For Workgroups Administrators Guide.

To change the security options:

1.  Choose Go To At Ease Setup for Workgroups from the Special menu.

2.  Type the administrator password and click OK.

3.  Choose Security from the Options menu.

4.  Click the checkboxes to change preferences.

5.  When you are finished changing the settings, click OK.

6.  Choose Quit from the File menu to leave the At Ease Setup for
Workgroups program.

If you forget the administrator password

If you forget the At Ease administrator password, follow the
instructions below instead of those in the manual.

Note:  If your startup disk is locked, youll first need to run the
Unlock program on the At Ease 2.0.3 Utilities disk to unlock the
startup disk. Consult the At Ease 2.0 for Workgroups Administrators
Guide for information about the Unlock program.

1.  Start up your computer from another startup disk.  You can use any
disk that has system software on it. (See the manual that came with
your computer for instructions on choosing a startup disk.) If your
computer came with a floppy disk called Disk Tools, you can use this
disk.

2.  Open the System Folder of your usual startup disk.

3.  Open the At Ease Items folder inside your System Folder.

4.  Drag the At Ease Preferences file to the Trash.

5.  Hold down the Option key while you choose Empty Trash from the
Special menu.

6.  Restart from your usual startup disk.

7.  Open the At Ease Setup for Workgroups application.  If you are
using an AppleShare file server as the At Ease disk, your setups may
not appear until you reset the At Ease disk to this file server.

8.  If necessary, reconnect to the file server and use the At Ease Disk
command to reselect the server.  Make sure you use the information on
the server instead of replacing it with the information on the startup
disk.

9.  Choose Administrator Password from the Options menu.

10. In the middle and lower boxes, type a new password. Then click OK.
You can type up to 15 characters. As you type, dots () appear in place
of the text so that anyone nearby will be unable to see what password
you have typed. Be sure to choose a password that only you would know.

11. If you wish, click inside the lower box and type a clue that will
help you remember your new password.  You can type up to 63 characters.
The clue will appear each time you are asked to provide the
administrator password. As with the password itself, be sure to choose
a clue that only you will recognize.

12. Click OK.  In the future you will need to provide the administrator
password before you can use the At Ease Setup program. You can change
the password at any timebut only after entering the original password.

13. Choose Security from the Options menu.

14. If you wish, turn on the following options. Then click OK.
 Allow remote administration Lock startup volume

15. Turn At Ease back on by clicking the On button.

16. Choose Quit from the File menu to leave the At Ease for Workgroups
program.

Using At Ease with a file server

If you have an AppleTalk network of At Ease computers, you can set up
an At Ease disk on an AppleShare file server. This allows you to make
changes in one place for all connected At Ease computers, and allows
users to store documents on the file server so they can access them
from any computer on the network.

To set up an At Ease disk on a file server, follow these steps:

1.  Install At Ease on all the networked computers but not on the file
server.  Dont install At Ease on the file server itself. You must use
the Finder on this Macintosh.

2. Set up the At Ease disk on the server as described in Chapter 4 of
the At Ease 2.0 for Workgroups Administrators Guide.

3.  Perform the Update Computers procedure as described in Chapter 6 of
the At Ease 2.0 for Workgroups Administrators Guide.  You need to
update computers only once. All future changes made to At Ease will
automatically be seen by any At Ease Macintosh configured to use this
server.  (The update does not take effect on a remote computer until
the computer is restarted or returned to the Login screen.)

4.  When you use At Ease for Workgroups, keep in mind the following
cautions:
       There can be no more than 1000 total users for all setups.
       Every At Ease computer is set up using the same AppleShare
       account. That account must be permitted to read and write to the
       Documents folder on the At Ease disk.  You cannot run the At
       Ease Setup program from more than one Macintosh concurrently.


TIPS FOR USING AT EASE 2.0.3

  Do not move the Finder from your System Folder. (At Ease may not work
  properly if the Finder is not present.)

  Application programs that you install are not automatically placed on
  the At Ease Items panel. Use the At Ease Setup program to give users
  access to these programs.

  When adding items for a setup, the Add Applications button does not
  add any Apple II application programs. Use the Find Items button to
  add these application programs.

  If an At Ease user saves a document in a folder other than his or her
  own user folder (or floppy disk), the document will not appear on the
  user's panel.

  When using the Copy To Floppy or Copy From Floppy command, clicking
  Stop does not interrupt copying of the file in progress, but stops
  copying after it has been completed. If additional files were
  selected, they are not copied.

  Do not run an installer program for another program from within At
  Ease. To use an installer, first turn At Ease off and return to the
  Finder.

  Make sure that virtual memory is turned off when you are using the
  Speak Button Names option.

  Turn on Balloon Help to get more information about items in At Ease
  or At Ease Setup. (For instructions on turning on Balloon Help, see
  the At Ease 2.0 Quick Reference Card or the At Ease 2.0 for
  Workgroups Quick Reference Card.)

  If you are using A/UX, make sure that all At Ease users share the
  same A/UX login user name.

  If you are running At Ease 2.0.3 for Workgroups and you use Adobe
  Type Manager (ATM), turn it off on the computers you are updating.
  Then restart these computers before using the Update Computers
  feature of the At Ease Setup program. Turn ATM back on after you
  finish updating the computers, then restart the computers.


IMPORTANT:  When you are finished viewing and/or printing this file,
choose Quit from the File menu.


 1994 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.  Apple, the Apple logo,
AppleShare, AppleTalk, A/UX, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. At Ease,
Balloon Help, Finder, and Mouse Practice are trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc.  Adobe Type Manager is a trademark of Adobe Systems
Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
.
