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From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: SUBMISSION: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction 1.1
Message-ID: <1993Jul22.030147.1614@digifix.com>
Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
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Organization: Next Announcements
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 03:01:47 GMT
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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 1.1
San Diego, July 21, 1993 - Metrosoft announced today that
it is releasing its first update to the popular freeware
MetroSuction utility.
MetroSuction is a 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.
Multi-architecture Binaries (MABs) or 'fat binaries'
allow the same NEXTSTEP program to run on different types
of computers (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.
Many people wouldn't otherwise 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. MetroSuction will allow you to
easily do so without using the UNIX command line.
MetroSuction will run on both NeXT computers and
NEXTSTEP for Intel computers running NEXTSTEP 3.1.
Version 1.1 fixes three problems found in 1.0:
- Incorrect use of the -i486 and -i386 architectures
(caused problems thinning many binaries)
- Error messages weren't being routed to the log view
- Extraneous debug information was being sent to the console
Full source code to the MetroTools version of this
utility (which is remarkably similar to the stand-alone
version) is available free as part of the MetroTools 2.1
API package.
MetroSuction is available free via anonymous FTP at
sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu, or for a
materials and handling charge of $10 from Metrosoft (for
people without FTP access). It will also be available on
the upcoming 3rd Electronic AppWrapper CD-ROM from
Paget Press.
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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.