8/96 News: Heads Up

In WordPerfect 6.1, if you use the spell checker's Replace window to correct duplicate words, the checker runs through the document and corrects only those mistakes beginning with an uppercase letter. For example, if you want to replace "can can" with "can the," only duplicates beginning with "Can" are fixed. Novell is aware of the problem and is working on a solution, but until then you can work around it by turning off Auto Replace under Speller Options.
We weren't looking for a laugh, but we did take one pratfall in the April issue. In our review of the HP ScanJet 4Si network scanner, we mentioned a SCSI port on the scanner. Actually, the SCSI port connects the scanner to its Novell NetWare-interface option, not to a computer. The editor regrets the error on our behalf.
While not yet ubiquitous, coaxial cable is the biggest bandwidth pipe into the typical modern home. And that hasn't escaped the attention of Zenith, Microsoft and Cisco, who announced a partnership to develop high-end Web technology to communicate over cable TV networks. Microsoft will provide Windows NT, the Internet Information Server, a proxy/caching server and the Internet Explorer browser; Cisco will add routers, switches and the Internetwork Operating System; and Zenith will throw in cable modems. The modems alone can pump out 40Mb per second of data on a 6MHz cable channel, allowing communications as much as 1,500 times faster than current phone line modems.