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From: mary@metrosoft.com (Mary Donnelly)
Subject: SUBMISSION: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility
Reply-To: info@metrosoft.com
Organization: Next Announcements
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mary Donnelly
(619) 488-9411 Fax: (619) 488-3045
E-mail: info@metrosoft.com
Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility
San Diego, July 1, 1993 - MetroSuction is a commercial-quality
utility for examining and removing support for different hardware
architectures in Multi-Architecture Binary files (so-called "fat
binaries"). It easily handles folders of applications and multiple
binary files per application. It's a freeware utility from Metrosoft,
the makers of MetroTools.
Multi-architecture Binaries (MABs) or "fat binaries" allow the same
NEXTSTEP program to run on different types of machines (currently
NeXT computers and supported Intel-based computers). MetroSuction
allows you to easily see which architectures are supported by a
given application and to remove support for a given architecture,
freeing up disk space.
"We felt there was a need for a high-quality NEXTSTEP utility for
manipulating fat binaries.", said Gordon Van Huizen, President,
Metrosoft. "Many people won't be able to take advantage of removing
support for an architecture during program installation due to a
bug in the NEXTSTEP Installer utility that occurs when creating
multi-disk installation packages. And even when that problem is
resolved, it'll be nice to have an easy-to-use utility for dealing
with fat binaries. We felt it should be free for the NEXTSTEP
community."
MetroSuction is available via anonymous FTP at sonata.cc.purdue.edu
and cs.orst.edu. or a nominal fee of $10 for materials and handling
if you need a disk sent.
Feel free to give away copies!
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These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.