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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: **Stone Design Ships DataPhile 2.0 MAB, on time** Date: 1 Sep 1993 00:53:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 93 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2619sd$lbm@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information, write info@stone.com or call Elena Settanni, (505) 345-4800 *** STONE DESIGN SHIPS MULTIPLE-ARCHITECTURE DATAPHILE *** ALBUQUERQUE, NM, Sept. 1, 1993 -- Stone Design is now shipping version 2.0 of its award-winning* flatfile database program, DataPhile. This release represents the successful port of DataPhile to NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors (NSFIP). DataPhile 2.0 requires NEXTSTEP (NS) 3.1 and is shipped in multiple-architecture binary form. Multiple-architecture binary software runs on both Motorola-based NeXT hardware and qualified Intel-based systems. DataPhile 2.0 can run on NEXTSTEP networks that mix Motorola and Intel hardware. In addition to NSFIP compatibility, this upgrade of DataPhile introduces several features that make the program more powerful and easier to use than ever: * Data Well - This NEXTSTEP-style well, available while you're entering and viewing data, contains a draggable text version of your data that you can drop into another app-for example, into a mail message. * Modify All Records in View - This new command updates a field thoughout your records according to your edits of that field in the current record. * Delete All Records in View - This much-requested command deletes all records in the key view, for example, a found subset of outdated records. * Unlimited Undo - You can instruct DataPhile to remember any number of edits that you make to a view design, allowing you to undo consecutive edits as necessary. * Rebuild Indexes - This command automates the indexing cleanup procedure that is sometimes necessary to correct index-related problems in a database. * Copy Address - This command adds compatibility with RightBrain Software's ExactlyWrite word-processor. * Easier Options access - Double-click a field's name to assign it a default value or other entry option. * Export Field Types - Optionally include field types when exporting data; imports will automatically choose the correct field type. * On-line Help - Extensive hypertext help lets you click any UI component to see related information; use the Help panel's Find feature to get help by topic instantly. * Colorized UI - Ted Turner would be proud. This upgrade also greatly improves DataPhile's stability and fixes several bugs, including but not limited to the following. * Spellcheck/Spelling Panel loads quietly (NS) * Modified entry lists and default values update properly * Graphics in headers/footers orient correctly (NS) * Icons delete properly from file fields * Field background colors print and preview (NS) * /tmp clears unsaved databases A much-requested addition to DataPhile, multiuser write access, has slipped to a future release. DataPhile supports multiuser read access in that the first user to open a particular database has write permissions (assuming the file's Unix permissions are set accordingly). "We felt that the immediate need was for a fat-binary version of DataPhile, so that's where we put the effort for this release," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "There's an entirely new market for our software, and we're adapting our development and support efforts accordingly," Stone added. DataPhile is available directly from Stone Design and at the ftp sites orst.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and ftp.cs.unm.edu. Students who ftp the package and submit proof of current student status can purchase DataPhile at a special rate. No manual or support is provided with this purchase option, but easy entry for students is a firm commitment of Stone Design. Call or write for more information about Stone's Student Discount program and for regular prices. Trade-ups to Intel versions of all Stone software purchased between February 12, 1993 and May 21, 1993 are available free of charge to end users. *DataPhile was named the "The Best DataBase product of 1992" by a Usenet survey. Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of business productivity applications for NEXTSTEP software. DataPhile is a trademark of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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