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From: mary@metrosoft.com (Mary Donnelly)
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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Metrosoft Aquires Squash
Date: 6 Sep 1993 22:17:01 -0400
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mary Donnelly
(619) 488-9411 Fax: (619) 488-3045
E-mail: info@metrosoft.com
San Diego, September 5, 1993 - Metrosoft Announces that it has
agreed to take over support and development of the popular archival
utility program, Squash and that a fat version of UnsquashOnly will
be available as freeware.
"It made a lot of sense that Metrosoft was asked to take over the
popular program" said Ron Miller, V.P. Development, Metrosoft, "Many
users were left 'crushed' when they couldn't 'unsquash' their files
due to Squash not porting to NEXTSTEP 3.1. Metrosoft can help out
the NEXTSTEP community, while adding a great addition to our product
line."
Our current plans for upgrades are as follows:
1. In the immediate future (the next 2-4 weeks), we will upgrade
the decompression utility, UnSquashOnly, to run on white hardware.
This will be made available as freeware on the usual ftp archive
sites. We feel that this will get the current users of Squash out
of the immediate bind of trying to recover their archived data on
white hardware.
2. In the near future, we will release an upgrade to Squash,
which will allow it to run under NEXTSTEP 3.1 and white hardware.
There will not be any significant changes to it's feature set other
than it being "fat". This will be made available to current users
of Squash for free (a nominal fee of $10 will charged for materials,
shipping and handling).
3. Longer term, we plan to come out with Squash Deluxe, which
will among other things provide support for multiple archive file
types including: arc, zip, gzip, tar, and compress formats. It
will also include an enhanced interface and feature set. The release
date will be in Q4 1993.
Contact Metrosoft directly for new orders and upgrades. For product
information, you can e-mail info@metrosoft.com.
Metrosoft is a San Diego based company specializing in the development
and publishing of NEXTSTEP applications such as MetroTools, MetroKeys,
SimonSays.
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