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From: support@Radical.Com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RadicalNews 0.9 Date: 1 May 1997 06:28:01 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <5k9d5h$1nk$1@news.digifix.com> April 30, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. This release contains the foundation required for the next release of RadicalNews that will provide MIME reading/posting. This version supports displaying of MIME subject lines. RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is free, and will run until December 31, 1997. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.README ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.NIHS.tar.gz Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: Van Simmons <Van_Simmons@vnp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Announces DevMan Acquired by Sun Microsystems Date: 1 May 1997 20:35:34 GMT Organization: VNP Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5kauqm$iju$1@news.digifix.com> Contact: Van Simmons, VNP Software, Inc. Van_Simmons@vnp.com, 617-252-9220 VNP Software Announces DevMan Acquired by Sun Microsystems VNP will work with Sun to transition DevMan technology to Java Cambridge, MA - April 29, 1997 - VNP Software today announced that its DevMan source code control and configuration management software has been acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. In addition, VNP Software will work with Sun to bring existing DevMan technology to the Java environment. "DevMan is a powerful SCM tool for Java developers," said Jonathan Schwartz, general manager of Lighthouse Design, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business. "Making DevMan part of Sun's Java strategy will offer major benefits to our customers, particularly through its integration with JavaPlan, the place Solaris and Windows NT customers start for enterprise Java development." Said Ronald Simmons, president of VNP Software: "VNP Software is very excited to partner with Sun to provide a comprehensive Java based solution to enterprise developers. This is also great news for the customers who have invested in VNP technology. Teaming the solid, Internet-friendly features of DevMan with the strength of Java will result in a powerful, platform-independent SCM tool - enabling widely dispersed teams to work together more efficiently than ever." VNP Software also confirmed that it will continue to honor existing maintenance agreements with DevMan customers through their expiration dates. DevMan, a leading software configuration management package, provides powerful, yet easy-to-use support for development projects of any size. DevMan provides programmers with easy, reliable access to source code control functions, such as synchronizing with and committing changes to shared repositories. In addition, DevMan's powerful configuration map feature allows developers to work on logical sets of repositories as a single unit. Configuration management features provide versioning and recovery capabilities at repository and map levels, with branches enabling source to be managed along parallel lines of development. With DevMan's distributed capabilities, all of this functionality is available to DevMan clients that need to share code across the Internet. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is the Computer (tm)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ "SUNW"), to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $7 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. VNP Software offers development tools and consulting expertise to the Java and OPENSTEP communities. Founded in 1990 , VNP Software is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and has offices in Atlanta and Detroit. For more information, contact VNP Software at http://www.vnp.com or 617-252-9220. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Lighthouse Design, Ltd., JavaPlan, Java, Solaris and the Network is the Computer are serviced marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries. VNP, VNP Software, and DevMan are trademarks of VNP Software, Inc.
From: Greg Anderson <greg@afs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TEST: Anderson Financial Systems seeks OPENSTEP 4.2 beta testers Date: 1 May 1997 20:36:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kaus9$ik0$1@news.digifix.com> Subject says it all. If you need to know more, you probably won't qualify. 8^) Must be able to test on the 4.2 Mach or NT release. Initial group will be limited to 20 participants. Preference given to prior beta testers and existing users, but others who will have time in late May and June are welcome to apply. OS/NT 4.2 users are especially desirable. Interested? Curious? Dedicated? Contact <greg@afs.com> for details.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (2.5.97) Date: 2 May 1997 19:00:06 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5kddjm$rte@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 60668 Apr 27 22:58 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 4027 Apr 27 22:58 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.0.README 2549 Apr 27 22:58 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.0.README.rtf.gz 174106 Apr 27 22:55 Games/network/MazeWar.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 1621 Apr 27 22:55 Games/network/MazeWar.2.0.README 4962 Apr 27 22:57 i486/audio/MultiWav.1.13.I.b.README 30790 Apr 27 22:57 i486/audio/MultiWav.1.13.I.b.tar.gz 492262 Apr 27 22:52 Tools/cdrom/OmniCD.0.6.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 0 Apr 24 07:47 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 Apr 24 09:07 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b 1433985 May 1 08:12 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1527202 May 1 04:12 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.NIHS.tar.gz 2012 May 1 04:01 Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.b.README 1965209 Apr 27 22:53 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.4.NIS.b.tar.gz 4044 Apr 27 22:53 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.8.4.README 173076 Apr 27 22:56 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.1.8.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 8128 Apr 27 22:56 Mail/programs/mailapp-utilities.1.8.README Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: Mike Gabrys <Mike_Gabrys@bang.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BANG General Meeting: Thursday, May 15, 1997 Date: 3 May 1997 06:39:36 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kemj8$ef$1@news.digifix.com> **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Special Mid-month Meeting ! Apple Developers Conference **** ANNOUNCEMENT **** Bay Area NeXT Group Meeting When: Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 7:00 PM Where: Apple Headquarters Town Hall - R&D Building 4 Infinity Loop, Cupertino, California Topic: Create: OPENSTEP's First Application Speaker: Andrew Stone, Founder and CEO of Stone Design Corp The monthly meeting of the Bay Area NeXT Group will be held Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 7:00 PM, at the Apple Headquarters, R&D Building 4, Town Hall, on Infinity Loop in Cupertino. The meeting date, which is earlier than usual, was chosen to coincide with the Apple Developers Conference. Andrew Stone, a 9-year NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP developer, presents the newest version of Create, and shares implementation tricks. He will also discuss cross-platform issues. Create is a high-end drawing package that also lets you explore "design space", with neon, fills, multiple, shadows, skews, and includes advanced capabilities such as autotrace and a PostScript hacking module. Due to the fast-changing nature of the software industry, you'll just have to come to see all the new features for yourself! Join us for announcements, Q&A, Andy Stone's presentation, and a discussion of news and events from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. After the meeting, join us at a nearby restaurant for dinner. Where to Get More Information: * Information: info@bang.org * World Wide Web: http://www.bang.org/ * Telephone: 1.415.487.6237 * Snailmail: BANG, P.O. Box 1731, Palo Alto, CA 94302 Directions to the Apple Town Hall, Building 4: Apple Computer's R&D facility is located at the corner of De Anza and the 280 freeway in Cupertino. The facility is a group of 6 large four-story buildings that are located on a road called Infinite Loop. Driving North From San Jose on Highway 280: Take the Cupertino exit and turn left. On De Anza, turn left at the first street light -- this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. Driving South From San Francisco / North Bay on 280: Driving south on 280 from the upper peninsula, take the De Anza exit and turn right. On De Anza, turn left at the first street light -- this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. Driving South on Highway 101: Take 101 South. Cross over to Cupertino on 85; head south on 280. The first exit will be De Anza; turn right. On De Anza, turn left at the first street light; this is Mariani Blvd. If you keep left, Mariani becomes Infinite Loop. Stay on Infinite Loop until you come to Building 4 (large numbers are posted outside the buildings). Park in the lot outside. ** Entry to Building 4 and Town Hall ** Town Hall is a large auditorium with entrances in the lobby of the R&D 4 building. [Note: If the door is locked, please knock; someone will be there in a moment to let you into the building.] [Special thanks for the directions and venue arrangements go to Carl de Cordova, Internet and Rhapsody Evangelist at Apple Computer, and to everyone who helped arrange this meeting.]
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <25195862113623@digifix.com> Date: 4 May 1997 03:59:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <851862718425@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. news:comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! news:comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: - (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next - Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl - (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it - (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next - eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: - See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <25197862113625@digifix.com> Date: 4 May 1997 03:59:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <853862718427@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: Stefan Schneider <stefan@ping.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: LatinByrd II Date: 5 May 1997 03:45:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kjl4o$nnu$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stefan Schneider Software DI Stefan Schneider Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-523-5834 stefan@ping.at http://members.ping.at/stefan/ ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF LATINBYRD II Vienna, May 3, 1997 -- LatinByrd II has been submitted to FTP sites. LatinByrd is an RTF/RTFD to HTML converter, and a TIFF/EPS to GIF/PNG/JPEG image converter. LatinByrd converts RTF documents, RTFD documents, and ASCII documents to web pages in HTML format. LatinByrd converts single documents as well as document trees. In addition, LatinByrd also converts TIFF and EPS images to GIF, PNG, and JPEG graphics formats. LatinByrd is a commercial product. Fully licensable demo. Localized to English, French, and German. NEW IN LATINBYRD II (see below for a general list of features) - conversion of TIFF/EPS images to PNG graphics format - automatic creation of RGBA colormaps for partially transparent PNG images - new "Progressive" JPEG option - selectable maximum amount of output colors (from 256 down to 2) for GIF and PNG images - grayscale GIF images now can be Netscaped and/or Floyded - more zoom steps in the Image Conversion panel - selectable background wallpaper in the Image Conversion panel - selectable background color in the Image Conversion panel - side-by-side image wells in the Image Conversion panel - new menu commands to load/save all preference settings from/to .LBSetup files - HTML code can be embedded directly into documents - CedarWord's .cw extension is recognized - various bug fixes - the Image Conversion functionality can be licensed separately FEATURES Conversion of Documents and Document Trees - converts single RTF, RTFD, and ASCII documents - converts document trees, like an entire NS3.x on-line help - various hands-free, semi-automatic, and manual image conversion strategies available - local sharing of identical images (i.e. per document) - global sharing of identical images (i.e. per document tree) - stores embedded files and folders as .tar/.Z/.gz archive files - cross-ref validation of links - detects damaged documents, missing or damaged images, missing or damaged embedded files/folders, invalid link target docs, invalid link target markers, duplicate marker definitions, and unreachable documents - selectable text and background colors - selectable background image - adjustable mapping of font sizes - customizable conversion rules for special characters - simulates RTF ruler settings with invisible spacer images and invisible HTML3.2 tables - optionally replaces bullet char with selectable bullet image - optionally aligns left margin for minimal use of tables - optionally replaces divider images with <hr> tags - HTML code can be embedded directly into documents - optionally replaces link buttons by anchoring neighboring text - selectable link image for remaining link buttons - automatically turns <URL> text into links Note: LatinByrd is optimized to convert documents which are in NeXT's version of RTF. Converting RTF documents created on other platforms may deliver poor results. Conversion of Images - converts TIFF and EPS images to GIF, PNG, and/or JPEG format - sync-view of both GIF/PNG and JPEG versions, on-the-fly changes of image options are rendered immediately - selectable background color / background wallpaper - zoom factors from 25% to 800% - selectable gamma correction factors - selectable maximum amount of output colors (GIF, PNG) - optionally applies Netscape colormap (GIF) - optionally applies Floyd-Steinberg error distribution (GIF, PNG) - selectable threshold for pure transparency (GIF) - partial transparency is either pre-rendered over the selected background color (GIF, JPEG), or fully preserved by creating an RGBA colormap (PNG) - images can be stored in interlaced/progressive format (default for GIF, optional for PNG and JPEG). Note: For LatinByrd to display the contents of GIF, PNG, and JPEG files in its image wells, you need to have an image filter application installed. ToyViewer.app is strongly recommended, as it can handle the new PNG format as well as ProgressiveJPEG. ToyViewer is freeware - get it now if you still don't have a copy. Other - compiled for Motorola, Intel, HPPA, and sparc - requires NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher, or NS/OS 4.x for Mach - LatinByrd is localized to English, French, and German - in demo mode, every 8th character is X'd out, and images contain a tiny DEMO string AVAILABILITY LatinByrd II (1.78MB) can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.LIESMICH ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/converters/LatinByrd.II.LISEZMOI PRICE Commercial license: US$ 119 Academic license: US$ 69 Image conversion only: US$ 49 (sorry, no academic discount) FREE time-limited test keys are available. For information on how to purchase a license key for LatinByrd II, please contact Stefan Schneider Software at stefan@ping.at, or visit us at http://members.ping.at/stefan/index.html Upgrade to LatinByrd II is free for registered users of LatinByrd. Please send email to stefan@ping.at to receive your upgrade key. Fuer Bestell-Informationen senden Sie Email an stefan@ping.at, oder besuchen Sie uns auf http://members.ping.at/stefan/gindex.html Pour vous procurer une licence de LatinByrd II, veuillez communiquer avec SCRIBEX COMMUNICATIONS a : ventes@scribex.com, ou visitez notre site http://www.scribex.com
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TCP Wrappers 7.6 Installer package Date: 7 May 1997 20:05:57 GMT Organization: R&A Message-ID: <5kqnb5$e7b$1@news.digifix.com> Hello World, An Installer package for TCP wrappers (access control facility for internet services, a nice tool if you want to control access to your machine or if yo want to catch intruders) is available from: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet It's an installer package with the binaries (NIHS) and the man pages only. I'll add a README later, but the man pages explain everything in detail, so maybe I'll just forget about that (volunteers?). The .asc file contains a signature for the binary package, so if you trust me and you have PGP, you may just install the binary package. The package installs the binaries in /usr/local/etc/tcp_wrappers and the man pages in /usr/local/man. The package contains two example files, one for /etc/hosts.allow and one for /etc/inetd.conf. They are installed in /etc as /etc/hosts.allow.example and /etc/inetd.conf.tcpd.example. If you want the sources to compile it yourself, you can find them at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security They'll just compile for NEXTSTEP. I just added the following statement to the Makefile to create MAB binaries: # Make a NEXTSTEP multiple architecture binary next-mab: @make EXTRA_CFLAGS="-arch m68k -arch i486 -arch hppa -arch sparc" next Yours, -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Sound Consulting to exhibit at Apple's WWDC '97 Date: 8 May 1997 03:18:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5krgls$mv3$1@news.digifix.com> SOUND CONSULTING TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE'S WWDC '97 May 7th, 1997 -- Bellevue, WA, USA -- Sound Consulting announced this week that they will be showing at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference on May 14th through May 16th. Visitors to the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Web Objects/Rhapsody Pavilion will be able to see demonstrations of the newly released Audio Driver for the ENSONIQ SoundscapeVIVO sound card under NEXTSTEP 3.2, 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.x releases, among other custom applications based on NeXT's technology. Sound Consulting's president, Brian Willoughby, will be available to discuss the porting of major MacOS-based applications to Apple's Rhapsody environment. "I look forward to the opportunity to work with major software companies whose products are currently based on the Macintosh operating system, but who would like to make simultaneous delivery of Rhapsody based software when Apple makes their new OS available to the general public," said Brian Willoughby, President of Sound Consulting. "Although emulation should be a viable solution for smaller MacOS based products, Sound Consulting believes that major players in the Macintosh MIDI and Digital Audio arena should begin porting to the OPENSTEP model now in order to take advantage of the advanced technology in Rhapsody." Sound Consulting has been providing quality finished software and object-oriented design services to the NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP community for over five years. Experience covers the full range from low-level devices drivers to high-level user interface object design. A partial client list includes: id Software, Inc., Rogue Entertainment, AT&T Wireless Services, Microsoft Corp., and ENSONIQ Corp. For additional information about Sound Consulting, visit the web pages at http://www.nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/sounds.html or send Email to Sound_Consulting@Sounds.wa.com dio Driver for the ENSONIQ AudioPCI sound card is currently under development at Sound Consulting. For additional information on the EnsoniqSoundscape Audio Driver, including pointers to sources for the sound cards, please visit the web pages at http://www.nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/ss_nsi.html
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (9.5.97) Date: 9 May 1997 19:00:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5kvs7k$kq2@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 10311115 May 2 22:19 Commercial/developer/apps/JavaPlan.3.03.NIS.b.tar.gz 5333 May 3 22:53 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.LIESMICH 5862 May 3 22:54 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.LISEZMOI 1864168 May 3 23:14 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.NIHS.b.tar.gz 4776 May 3 23:14 Commercial/network/LatinByrd.II.README 0 May 9 11:05 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 May 9 13:18 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ARDI TO DEMO CROSS-PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY AT APPLE WWDC Date: 9 May 1997 20:36:46 GMT Organization: ARDI Message-ID: <5l01su$g8u$1@news.digifix.com> ARDI TO DEMO CROSS-PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY AT APPLE WWDC Albuquerque, NM (USA) -- May 9, 1997 -- ARDI is honored to have been asked to demonstrate its cross-platform technology in the OPENSTEP developer's pavilion at Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference at the convention center in San Jose, California. ARDI Founder Cliff Matthews will be demonstrating and discussing the technology he helped create. He will be present at all three days of the pavilion: Wednesday, May 14 (morning), Thursday (morning) and Friday (afternoon). Now that Apple is publicly endorsing the concept of helping developers write *new* programs that deploy on their new operating system and on Windows 95 and Windows NT, we're grateful for this opportunity to show existing Macintosh developers how they can take their *existing* programs and deploy them on Windows 95, Windows NT, OPENSTEP/Intel, and even Linux. "Our engineers know how to take PowerPC and 68000 applications and move them from a RISC platform to a CISC platform and achieve incredible performance" Cliff exclaims. Visitors to the ARDI booth will be able to see both technology that is already shipping and technology that is still being developed. Members of the press are encouraged to stop by. This is not only an opportunity to see a portable and efficient rewrite of the Mac OS service routines, but also a chance to discuss the implications or implementations with ARDI's founder in an intimate setting. __________________ Abacus Research & Development, Inc. (ARDI) is a privately held Delaware Corporation with primary offices in Albuquerque NM. Founded in 1986, ARDI has rewritten a substantial fraction of the Mac OS and toolbox calls, optimized to run on Intel and Intel compatible CPUs. This unique technology is incorporated in their Macintosh emulator, Executor, and is also the foundation for their porting technology. In addition to the Mac OS rewrite, Executor incorporates an advanced "Just-In-Time" compiler that translates Motorola CPU instructions into Intel CPU instructions. Press Contact Consumer Contact Dealer Contact ctm@ardi.com questions@ardi.com dealer-inquiries@ardi.com ARDI Suite 4-101 1650 University Blvd., NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 http://www.ardi.com/ +1 505 766 9115 Phone +1 505 766 5153 FAX Executor is a registered trademark of ARDI. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
From: Todd Nathan <info@thoughtful.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: HyperSense HyperMedia is FREE of Charge Date: 9 May 1997 20:45:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l02d3$g9a$1@news.digifix.com> Thu May 8 19:48:30 EDT 1997 Announcement: FREE HyperSense Licenses Available Now May 8th, 1997 Thoughtful Software, the pioneer in the NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP hypermedia software market, has announced FREE licenses for their acclaimed HyperSense authoring system. The licenses are for the full development environment and are available to anyone, whether programmer or casual user. HyperSense is the most powerful tool for prototyping and information management available today for NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP. As Douglas Simons, President of Thoughtful Software said, "We hope everyone in the OPENSTEP market will take advantage of this free offer. As we charge ahead with future development plans, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share HyperSense with the OPENSTEP community and ask for your feedback. We're working on some radical new ideas and technology for the next version, and we'd love to hear your ideas, too. With a tool as broad as HyperSense, your input now can help shape the product to meet your needs." To download your free version of HyperSense and supporting documentation, browse to http://www.thoughtful.com/products.html and grab a copy of HyperSense for yourself. License keys are available via email to anyone interested in enabling the product, FREE of charge. Send email to info@thoughtful.com for a license good for 6 months of full use. Hypermedia documents and tools created during the free period will be useful forever, thanks to the HyperSensePlayer which has always been available with a free non-expiring single-user license. Mr. Simons went on to say, "HyperSense will be available to all Rhapsody owners in a native Rhapsody port before they finish reading the release announcement from Apple. We have absolutely every ounce of energy focused on being the premier player in the Rhapsody hypermedia marketplace. We invite everyone to take a look at what we have available today. We are interested in feedback to shape the product to your needs for tomorrow. This gives you a chance to be a key player in the Rhapsody marketplace today. Our product is the ONLY hypermedia product available on NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP today, and will be the first fully functional product available for Rhapsody. See for yourself, take a look with others at the OpenStep/Rhapsody Pavillion at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose." We look forward to hearing from you and meeting your authoring tool needs, now and into the future. For more information contact: Mishelle Baun Thoughtful Software 616 Locust Street Fort Collins, Colorado 80524 Web: www.thoughtful.com Voice: +1.970.221.4596 Email: info@thoughtful.com ------------- Enter exactly as you see ----------------- Customer Name: You, Courtesy of Thoughtful Software License Number: 101 License Key: EE-ENACR-BMJFF --------------------------------------------------------
From: Todd Nathan <info@thoughtful.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Thoughtful Software to Display HyperSense at WWDC Date: 9 May 1997 20:46:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l02eq$gg9$1@news.digifix.com> THOUGHTFUL SOFTWARE TO EXHIBIT HYPERSENSE AT APPLE'S WWDC '97 May 8th, 1997 -- Fort Collins, Colorado, USA -- Thoughtful Software announced this week that they will be showing HyperSense at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference on May 14th through May 16th. Visitors to the OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Pavilion will be able to see demonstrations of the premier OPENSTEP hypermedia tool for NEXTSTEP 3.2, 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.x releases, along with other custom tools and applications built with HyperSense. "I look forward to working with all those folks who have been developing HyperCard stacks and applications in the MacOS," said Douglas Simons, President of Thoughtful Software. "We feel the timing is finally right for a great advancement of 3rd party applications, and what better way for the developer using the MacOS to migrate to OPENSTEP than with our HyperCard-compatible authoring and prototyping tools." Thoughtful Software has been providing quality finished software and object-oriented design services to the NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP community for over eight years. For additional information about HyperSense and how it can decrease your migration time to OPENSTEP, visit, email or call Thoughtful Software at: Web: www.thoughtful.com Voice: +1.970.221.4596 Email: info@thoughtful.com ~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews.0.95a.README http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.README http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/HNNews/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz HNNews-KJ version is for Korean, Japanese, and needs NEXTSTEP-J or OPENSTEP-J. If you have suggestion or find bugs, contact to Hayan Nalgae Software at: http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ --- Hayan Nalgae Software, NEXTSTEP Development. http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr <Kang Hyun> Hayan Nalgae means White Wing in Korean. NeXT, Mime mail OK.
From: alancook@cyberstore.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OpenBase SQL Database to be distributed at WWDC97 Date: 10 May 1997 03:16:35 GMT Organization: RE/MAX Crest (Westside) Realty Ltd. Message-ID: <5l0paj$o61$1@news.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE: OpenBase SQL Database to be distributed at WWDC97 May 9, 1997--OpenBase International, Ltd. announces that it will be distributing single-user evaluation licenses for it's popular OpenBase SQL database at WWDC97. The OpenBase 5.1 licenses will be included in the conference bags so that conference attendees can see the power of OpenBase for themselves. OpenBase will be released on Rhapsody in July. OpenBase SQL database provides high performance and unparalleled ease of use. Along with support for the latest in object-oriented tools, including Enterprise Objects Framework and WebObjects, OpenBase offers graphical tools for designing database schemas, managing user access and viewing database information. OpenBase ODBC drivers will also soon be released for compatibility with existing MacOS and Windows NT applications. If you are attending WWDC97, use your evaluation copy of OpenBase 5.1 to see why it has become the database of choice! Highlighted Features: - Application Notification tells applications when data changes so users always see current information. - Platform Independence allows databases to move seemlessly between operating systems and computer architectures. - Variable Length Record Technology removes blank space to make data files small and compact. - Multi-threaded architecture processes queries simultaneously so client applications never have to wait. The Royal Danish Police NextCenter Danmark, the leading Danish NEXTSTEP system integrator, is using OpenBase for a new state-of-the-art command-and-control system for the Royal Danish Police. "The command-and-control center handles all 911 calls for Copenhagen, the capitol of Denmark, and its vicinities, which in total encompasses approximately 1.5 million people," says Geert B. Clemmensen, Managing Director of NextCenter Danmark. "We selected OpenBase because it is a fast database engine that is fully integrated with the NEXTSTEP environment and Enterprise Objects Framework. OpenBase International, Ltd. has also shown excellent response time in providing service." The new police system automates many functions previously performed manually by the department. It records all communication, stores live video from mobile camera crews, coordinates the positioning of police vehicles, communicates with high-end GIS systems and logs events. Most critical is event logging. Whenever a 911 call comes in, the event logging mechanism helps police officers record all relevant information about the call. Critical databases are automatically transferred to replicated servers eliminating down time due to network or hardware problems. "Going with OpenBase gives you a benefit that no other database vendor gives you: a vendor that listens and is responsive. ", says Geert, "After using OpenBase extensively we recommend the product and the company." About OpenBase International, Ltd. OpenBase International has sold OpenBase database software to customers in 37 foreign countries, spanning over 20 industries. Included are: Adobe Systems, Allegheny College, AT&T, Canon Systems Globalization, Walt Disney, First National Bank of Chicago, MCI, Motorola, NeXT Software, and The Shaper Image. Contact Information: Scott Keith (scott@openbase.com) OpenBase International Ltd. voice: (603) 547-8404 fax: (603) 547-2423 http://www.openbase.com OpenBase is a registered trademark of OpenBase International Ltd. -- Alan Cook alancook@cyberstore.net
From: "Walt Beisheim" <walt@running-start.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Running Start Delivers Version 1.2 and Introduces Web-Hosting Service for Request Resolution System Date: 6 May 1997 19:33:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ko12h$ddt$1@news.digifix.com> RUNNING START DELIVERS VERSION 1.2 AND INTRODUCES WEB-HOSTING SERVICE FOR REQUEST RESOLUTION SYSTEM TUCSON AZ., May 6, 1997 Running Start, Inc today announced the availability of a new and enhanced version of its popular Request Resolution System, version 1.2. In addition to the new version, Running Start also announced the availability of a web-hosting service, "Request Center(SM)" that enables customers to have the benefits of the Request Resolution System provided as a turnkey service maintained by Running Start. Running Start's extensible Request Resolution System provides full life-cycle tracking of requests from both internal and external sources. The system provides distributed access via the world-wide-web and is designed for use by any group or organization that needs to assign, track, manage and generate reports for a high volume of customer requests. Typical uses of the system include tracking software defects, requirements change requests, help desk applications, and system administration requests. "The Request Resolution System has provided customers with a flexible, extensible method of ensuring the highest level of customer support and responsiveness." said Walt Beisheim, VP of Marketing for Running Start. "With the availability of version 1.2 and our Request Center service, not only is the function of the system greatly enhanced, new customers can implement the system quickly for a low monthly charge as a turnkey, web-accessed solution." The Request Resolution System was developed to support the principles of continuous process improvement that are fundamental to quality management efforts. The system can be customized to fit the practices used by an organization instead of forcing the use of new procedures. Organizations can reduce costs by controlling change and monitoring its effects. NEW IN VERSION 1.2 Topic Dependent Parameters - System parameters such as priority, status, and severity can now be defined on a per-topic basis. This allows groups with different terminology or workflow requirements to share a single database. HTML Report Generation - New tools for the generation of on-line information. Export the results of queries as HTML documents including index pages. Command-Line Interface - Command-line tool providing request creation and reporting. This tool can be used to produce period reports, and enables integration with other applications. E-mail Request Processing - Filtering scripts are provided to produce requests from e-mail messages. This is just one example use of the new command-line interface! New Request Submission Tool - Improved web request application to provide better integration for non-OPENSTEP platforms. Improved Windows/NT Support - The Windows/NT release of the application client is significantly improved! REQUEST CENTER PRICING One-time startup cost: $1,295 Cost per concurrent user: $49.95/month 1-10 users $39.95/month 11-100 users $29.95/month 101-1000 user $19.95/month 1001-10000 users $9.95/month 10001+ users MORE INFORMATION On-line information can be found at the following URL: http://www.running-start.com/products/RRS.html or by contacting Walt Beisheim walt@running-start.com Running Start, Inc. 602-661-0805 tel/602-661-5795 fax ABOUT RUNNING START Running Start, Inc. was founded in January of 1996 by Ralph Zazula and David Koski, two veteran NeXT developers. Running Start uses industry best-practices to deliver high-quality software designs and implementations to clients such as NeXT Software, The Filoli Information Systems Company, and Koyosha Graphics of America.
From: mmalcolm crawford <Malcolm_Crawford@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: P & L SYSTEMS TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE WWDC Date: 7 May 1997 20:00:52 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5kqn1k$e40$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Elizabeth Lynch +44 1494 432422 liz@plsys.co.uk URL: http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys/ P & L SYSTEMS TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE WWDC. May 7th 1997 -- AMERSHAM, UK -- P & L Systems today announced that they will be exhibiting at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference next week. Stand visitors will be able to see, among other products, prerelease versions of Mesa 2 for OpenStep, and a preview of Mesa 2.1 features. Mesa is a fast and highly functional traditional spreadsheet for NeXTSTEP and OpenStep with 1-2-3 and Excel interoperability. Mesa also provides a powerful API used by many of its extensive customer base. "We're delighted to be attending WWDC and to have the opportunity to show Apple developers our OpenStep porting expertise, and share our enthusiasm for the forthcoming operating system," said Matt Ware, Sales Manager of P & L Systems. "When Rhapsody is made available we expect to be able to use our skills to get our OpenStep products ready for the new platform almost immediately." P&L Systems will be exhibiting in the Developer Pavilion on all three days of the Technical Conference. Mesa 2 for NeXTSTEP is available from P & L Systems at ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk/pub/Products/Mesa2/. P & L Systems is the leading supplier of products and services for OpenStep and NeXTSTEP in the UK. With a complete range of software and hardware products and services, P & L Systems offer full support for customers in the aggressive and sometimes bewildering world of object oriented solutions. Products developed by P & L Systems include Mesa 2; the Oracle Adaptor for Mesa; the QuickBase Adaptor for Mesa; Pager, a flexible application for pagers and beepers; PassKey, a password management tool for administrators; AppManager, a software usage monitoring and license allocation utility; and Informant!, a radical new real-time data feed distribution application for Reuters and other feeds on NeXTSTEP, Solaris and Windows NT. For additional information about P & L Systems and its products and services, contact the company directly at +44 1494 432422, send electronic mail to info@plsys.co.uk, or visit P & L Systems' World Wide Web pages at http://www.plsys.co.uk/plsys/. -- Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <851862718425@digifix.com> Date: 11 May 1997 03:58:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8856863323226@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. news:comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! news:comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: - (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next - Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl - (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it - (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next - eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: - See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. 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From: "Frank M. Siegert" <frank@this.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CAPer V6 - Appletalk connectivity packet Date: 11 May 1997 03:47:36 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l3fgo$o0m$1@news.digifix.com> 11. May 1997, Frank Siegert is proud to announce the release of the CAPer Version 6 to the next-ftp.peak.org archive. Instant Appletalk connectivity for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep based on the Columbia Appletalk Package (CAP) pl198 and afpmount 1.7. (for Copyright see the CAPer Information Panel) This is a revised version of the CAPer package which replaces the V4 or older releases, V5 was only a internal beta test version. CAP/afpmount is able to: + export UNIX filesystems to Macintosh machines + export UNIX printer queues to Macintosh machines + allow access to remote LaserWriter printers from you NeXT + import remote Appleshare volumes to your NeXT CAPer is the installer and administrative setup program for CAP on NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. A precompiled and adapted version of CAP/afpmount is part of CAPer. This packet needs root permissions to install and run. It will install itself SUID at the first run but will ask you for the root password on every startup. CAPer can be used free of charge, however certain restrictions apply. Please read the Licence agreement in the Information panel. All trademarks, icons and images are used for identification purpose only and remain property of their owners. The author of CAPer would appreciate to receive a bottle of Scotch Whisky if you really like this software, however you are not obliged in any way. I'd like to thank all people out there who made this package possible. In particular my thanks goes to Suzuki Yoshiaki and Satoshi Adachi for their work on porting CAP to NeXTSTEP and for the Berkeley Packet Filter. Supported hardware: m68k (NS3.[123], OS4.x) , intel (NS3.3, OS4.x) Some network drivers are known to fail under NS/OS Intel, see the CAPer URL for more information. CAPer.V6.I.b.tar.gz is the INTEL only version CAPer.V6.N.b.tar.gz is the M68K only version There is no FAT version. CAPer can be found on the PEAK archive: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/ Changes/Improvents in V6: - Much improved administrative user interface, no mor#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.apfel.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ott.istar!news.istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!digifix!not-for-mail From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <853862718427@digifix.com> Date: 11 May 1997 03:58:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Lines: 70 Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <8858863323229@digifix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: digifix.digifix.com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.23 Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Carl Edman's EnhanceMail 2.0 beta 6 Date: 8 May 1997 20:28:50 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Message-ID: <5ktd22$ek9$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a bugfix and maintenance release of Carl Edman's EnhanceMail bundle. EnhanceMail extends the capabilities of Mail 3.3 / 4.x by adding quoting, signatures, X face support, a distributed, cached user-image database, full-text indices PGP encryption/decryption/signatures and a number of other features. What's new: (*) `Vanishing signature' bugs fixed (for real this time, hopefully). (*) Add preference (in Options) to delimit unread-mail check in the Mailboxes panel to mailboxes with table_of_contents size smaller than the given value. (Default is 100K, which corresponds to about 1000 messages on average. Set it to 0 to turn off the unread-mail check completely; Set it to -1 to check all mailboxes, regardless of its TOC size.) Attempts to improve performance of unread-mail checks. (*) KANJI-aware quoting should be enabled automatically when Japanese is the user's preferred language. No need to recompile with -DKANJI anymore. (*) Incorporate updated German (by Gerald Erdmann <gerald@stepman.com>, David Andel <david@nexttoyou.de>) and Japanese localization (by Yanagisawa Takeshi <yanagisw@aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>, SHIROYAMA Takayuki <psi@fortune.nest.or.jp>). The online help is only partially translated to Japanese at the time of this release. (*) Incorporate per-compose-window PGP-options patch (by David Schuetz <dschuetz@access.digex.net>). (*) Automatically rebuild index after compacting an indexed mailbox. (based on a patch by Jonathan Adams <jonathan@filoli.com>). (*) XImageURL: HTTP/FTP proxy support now works. Avoid downloading in EnhanceMail.bundle/Images/ by making it read-only. (*) Solved online-help loading clash with Colorizer.bundle. (*) Some more Smilies (just to keep me sane... }-) Source code and a quad-fat binary are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.README> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> It is also linked to <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/latest_versions/EnhanceMail.tar.gz> [I expect it will turn up at ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to: <enhancemail@basil.icce.rug.nl> (this is just an alias, _not_ a mailinglist.) Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBM3IgfDHcGwCnCAFpAQF82wQAr0JF2YhTSXukJuIoHs+I3dCZhvZGpfR6 0h5TqCMOJqav8pMNgwOz4uxqRECuqTNup4a0Lg6L1vRLIfftaogNrJVG9t8c/Jmy HL4nE675LxH4r5YbUDjodPlv+NfRNSlNrHBWlECqUHlGzzLosHZv+eZeh3Lo1LDV SoDK+AVmvcI= =xg8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Carl Edman's EnhanceMail 2.0 beta 6 Date: 8 May 1997 20:27:58 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Message-ID: <5ktd0e$eg5$1@news.digifix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is a bugfix and maintenance release of Carl Edman's EnhanceMail bundle. EnhanceMail extends the capabilities of Mail 3.3 / 4.x by adding quoting, signatures, X face support, a distributed, cached user-image database, full-text indices PGP encryption/decryption/signatures and a number of other features. What's new: (*) `Vanishing signature' bugs fixed (for real this time, hopefully). (*) Add preference (in Options) to delimit unread-mail check in the Mailboxes panel to mailboxes with table_of_contents size smaller than the given value. (Default is 100K, which corresponds to about 1000 messages on average. Set it to 0 to turn off the unread-mail check completely; Set it to -1 to check all mailboxes, regardless of its TOC size.) Attempts to improve performance of unread-mail checks. (*) KANJI-aware quoting should be enabled automatically when Japanese is the user's preferred language. No need to recompile with -DKANJI anymore. (*) Incorporate updated German (by Gerald Erdmann <gerald@stepman.com>, David Andel <david@nexttoyou.de>) and Japanese localization (by Yanagisawa Takeshi <yanagisw@aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>, SHIROYAMA Takayuki <psi@fortune.nest.or.jp>). The online help is only partially translated to Japanese at the time of this release. (*) Incorporate per-compose-window PGP-options patch (by David Schuetz <dschuetz@access.digex.net>). (*) Automatically rebuild index after compacting an indexed mailbox. (based on a patch by Jonathan Adams <jonathan@filoli.com>). (*) XImageURL: HTTP/FTP proxy support now works. Avoid downloading in EnhanceMail.bundle/Images/ by making it read-only. (*) Solved online-help loading clash with Colorizer.bundle. (*) Some more Smilies (just to keep me sane... }-) Source code and a quad-fat binary are included. See the accompanying README file for more information. It can be found at: <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.README> <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.NIHS.bs.tar.gz> It is also linked to <ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/latest_versions/EnhanceMail.tar.gz> [I expect it will turn up at ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/ in a few days...] Please report any bugs or suggestions to: <enhancemail@basil.icce.rug.nl> (this is just an alias, _not_ a mailinglist.) Enjoy! Tom Hageman. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: next iQCVAwUBM3IgfDHcGwCnCAFpAQF82wQAr0JF2YhTSXukJuIoHs+I3dCZhvZGpfR6 0h5TqCMOJqav8pMNgwOz4uxqRECuqTNup4a0Lg6L1vRLIfftaogNrJVG9t8c/Jmy HL4nE675LxH4r5YbUDjodPlv+NfRNSlNrHBWlECqUHlGzzLosHZv+eZeh3Lo1LDV SoDK+AVmvcI= =xg8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: Katie Graunke <katie@stone.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE'S WWDC Date: 9 May 1997 04:52:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kuahv$oha$1@news.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com www.stone.com 505-345-4800 STONE DESIGN TO EXHIBIT AT APPLE'S WWDC May 8, 1997 -- ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, USA -- Stone Design Corp. announced today that they will be exhibiting the very latest version of Create at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California next week. Come visit Stone Design in the OpenStep developers pavilion on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Look for Andrew Stone and Katie Graunke at the WWDC and get your FREE Stone CD Volume 4 -- hot off the press. "We guarantee that you will encounter happy surprises at the WWDC when it comes to Stone Design!" exclaimed Andrew Stone, Chief Executive Hacker at Stone. "If you can't make it live, check out our web site next week for special announcements: www.stone.com." You can also catch Stone Design and Andrew Stone at the BANG General Meeting: Thursday, May 15, 1997 at 7pm at Apple Headquarters: Town Hall - R&D Building 4, Infinity Loop, Cupertino, California. For more information about BANG, please see www.bang.org. =*= Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for Rhapsody, Java, and OpenStep. 3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design 1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: info@stone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announce Create (HTML) for Rhapsody Date: 13 May 1997 05:17:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5l8tgg$p48$1@news.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke info@stone.com 505-345-4800 http://www.stone.com Stone Design Announces Create 4.1 for Rhapsody on Power PC, Windows, Solaris and OpenStep Mach May 12, 1997, San Jose, California -- Stone Design, a longtime leader in the NeXT/OpenStep marketplace, announced Create 4.1 for Rhapsody today. Create is full-featured design, layout and drawing application that has been shipping for 8 years. This version of Create will run on Apple's new operating system code named "Rhapsody", as well as on OpenStep. It will be the first application to ship on Rhapsody. "Macintosh developers and end users will just love Create!" said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "Because we ported Create to OpenStep last year, it already runs well on INTEL, SPARC and Motorola architectures. This gave us the head start needed to be the first to market." Create 4.1 adds several new features to the OpenStep and NeXTSTEP versions of Create. Especially useful is ability to turn Create documents into sets of interconnected web pages, instantly. The video tool enables users to run QuickTime videos within a Create document. Create 4.1 can export objects as JPEG, as well as the standard EPS, PS, RTF, TIFF, ASCII and Create formats. "We're excited about the new release and know that our existing customer base can testify that Create is the drawing package to use, for any purpose!" said Katie Graunke, Marketing and Sales director for Stone. "Come visit us at the World Wide Developer Conference in San Jose May 13 - 16 and see for yourself how amazing Create is." This new version has an introductory price of $249. Look for Stone Design at Apple Computer's World Wide Development Conference to get a free CD! Create Features: ---------------- Tools: * Drawing tools include: Line, Straight Line, Curve, Arc, Rectangle, Oval, Rounded Rectangle, Bezier Spline, Spline-Line, Poly Line, Freehand, Brush, Polygon Star, Interface "Box", Video, Rich Text and Super Text. * Other types of graphics include: Text bound to a path, EPS and TIFF images, Groups, Box Groups, Mask Groups, and Date & Page Markers. Effects: Each graphic can contain some or all of the following PostScript effects: * Outline - set the width, color and visibility of the stroke of an object. * Neon - Stone's unique Neon feature makes splashing, 3D lines. * Multiple - each object can be repeated any number of times at any offset. * Skew - torque and twist objects. * Shadow - set the color, direction and offset of the object's shadow. * Shaded Fill - fill objects with blended colors lines: across, down, radially or solar fill. * Pattern Fill - PS Level II patterns that you create with Pattern Editor. * Group - Manage complexity by grouping objects. See also Levels below. * Mask Group - Clip any number of objects to the object on top of them e.g., fill Super Text with a picture of a sunset. * Box Group - a grouping technique which puts an interface box around objects * Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical. * Scale - set the vertical and horizontal scaling separately or together. * Rotate - Using Stone's rotational slider, precisely rotate objects. * Copy and Paste effects from one graphic to another. * Color blends: transparent colors, CMYK, RGB, HSB, and Grayscales. Precise Design: * Zoom: Unlimited zoom and custom zooms are remembered. You can zoom in on an area with CONTROL-SHIFT drag. * Undo: as many levels of undo and redo as you like - 30 by default. * Object layering: Bring To Front, Bring Closer, Send to Back, Send Further, Lock and Unlock. * Grids: control grid spacing, color, visibility and "snap-to" independently. * Rulers: Work in points, picas, inches or centimeters. * Layers: Each page can be composed of independently nameable, hideable, lockable layers * Layout Guides for easy placement of objects. * Alignment: Align objects to top, bottom, middle, left, center and right. * Distribution: Distribute objects evenly left to right and/or top to bottom. * Nudge: using arrow keys or Nudge inspector, move objects precise amounts. * Each page can have a background image for tracing or presentation. * Define default colors of an object's effects. Text Handling: 2 Text types available: Super Text and Paragraph Text * Paragraph Text has full support for Rich Text Format: multifont, multicolor, multi paragraph text. Sub and superscripting, ligatures, kerning and line spacing. Spell Checking. Underline, italics, bold. * Super Text: can have all of Create's effects applied to it. Instantly place along rose, circle, upper or lower arc. Optional background color. Support for 2-byte fonts, like Kai-Su. Convert Super Text to splines. Place along any path: bind Super Text to Splines or Spline-Lines. * Convert Super Text to Paragraph Text and vice versa. Multiple Pages: * Add, Copy, Paste, Duplicate or Delete pages. * Reorder pages with easy interface. * "Play" (continuously loop through) pages. * Automated pagination with Page Marker. Splines and Lines: * Add and delete handles, Join and separate splines and lines. * Turn objects into splines. Tighten, Loosen and Animate splines. * Reverse path of splines and polylines. Import/Export * Import EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, and native file formats. * Autotrace: converts scanned images to editable graphics. * Export as EPS, PS, TIFF, JPEG, Ascii, RTF, HTML, CreateImage and Create. * TIFF export: control bit depth, alpha and compression method. Linking * Embed Create graphics in other documents with Object Linking. * Paste and Link other application's graphics and text into Create. * Exported EPS can be reimported and edited. * True object links with no redundant storage. Automated Web Page Production: * Document can create a single web page or a group of interconnected pages. * Automatically builds graphical Table of Contents. * Creates easy to read HTML which can be edited by hand. * Optional navigation bars on top and/or bottom of web pages. * Set the color of the background, text and links with simple user interface. * Specify a background image URL. * Custom HTML: Document titles can have a custom prefix, such as the site name, and add your own custom header and/or footer to each page. * Set the quality of the JPEG images created for export. * Configure HTML Preferences per document and per page. Online Help, Sample Art and Custom Art: * Context sensitive help * Online Create Manual * Online Tutorial * Sample art provided. * Your custom art and group art gets loaded as menu items. * Entire searchable manual in HTML available at www.stone.com. Expert Features: * Preferences: customizations that control every aspect of Create. * User PostScript Editor - an environment where you can write and execute PostScript programs: Open, execute, modify and save PS files. * Templates: Create new documents from existing ones for stationary, forms, etc. Automatic access to your private and group directories. * Plug-In Tools Add Dynamically Loaded Plug-Ins as they become available Video is an example of a Plug-In. * Animator Module: The animator module allows you to create movies. * Pattern editor: Create PostScript Level II patterns using all of the effects and tools. Embeds patterns in your document for use by others. * And there are probably more features, but we've run out of room! Please visit the Stone Design WWW site to download the software and for more information about Create and other Stone Design software and services: http://www.stone.com -=- Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP and OpenStep marketplace. Like a rock, Stone is committed to Rhapsody and OpenStep development. Create(TM) is a trademark of Stone Design Corp.
From: info@bifrostworks.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Syntectic Design and Bifrost Workstations Announce Display Driver for Toshiba Tecra 740CDT, Chips and Technologies 6555x chipset Date: 16 May 1997 10:13:33 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lhq2d$dhq$1@news.digifix.com> Synectic Design and Bifrost Workstations Announce Display Driver for Toshiba Tecra 740CDT, Chips & Technologies 6555x chipset. Contact: Synectic Design Eric Brown ericb@synectic.com eric_brown@il.us.swissbank.com 967 Vista Drive Gurnee, IL 60031 Bifrost Workstations, Inc. Jason McNamara jason@bifrostworks.com 10850 Richmond Avenue, Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 (713) 952-9949 v, (713) 952-9934 f http://www.bifrostworks.com/ CHICAGO / HOUSTON - Synectic Design and BWI are pleased to announce that release 3.32 of display drivers for the Toshiba Tecra 740CDT and Toshiba Portege 660 is shipping NOW. Support is currently provided for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.x, including Kanji versions. Users may purchase the laptop preloaded from BWI, or may purchase the driver alone. Site and organization licenses are also available. Though not officially supported, the driver may also work on other laptops with video based on the Chips & Technologies 65550 and 65554 chipsets. Please contact either party if you wish to have official support for such a laptop. The following video modes are supported: * 640 x 480 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color, 16-bit color, 24-bit color (*) * 800 x 600 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color, 16-bit color, 24-bit color (*) * 1024 x 768 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color, 16-bit color * 1280 x 1024 - 8-bit greyscale, 8-bit color (virtual mode) (*) - 24-bit for external display only Both 1280 x 1024 resolutions are supported by providing an 1024 x 768 display that pans around a 1280 x 1024 workspace when the mouse moves off the edge of the screen. Other features include: * P150/166MMX power and a PCI bus * 13.3", 1024x768 Active Matrix LCD capable of 16-bit color * Compatibility with NeXT-certified SCSI & Ethernet PCMCIA cards * Display can be in on-board, external, or SIMULTANEOUS mode * Refresh rates of 75/85Hz for external-only use (65554 chipset). To help support the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep community, Synectic & BWI have again agreed to make the driver available to individuals and educational users for FREE. (Think of it this way: if you use Mach to earn money, then you should pay for the driver.) For corporate users, BWI offers the driver for sale by itself, or bundled with a laptop. The driver is included in the price of a system purchased from BWI. This includes all future upgrades and additional drivers for this laptop. Installation of a valid NS license and all drivers on machines purchased from BWI is, as always, performed free of charge. All drivers (regardless of end-user status) will be licensed through SD and BWI. Audio drivers (incl. an app which enables CDPlayer) will be available shortly on BWI's web page (URL above). Please note that these items will only work in conjunction with an SD/BWI video driver. If you don't have such a driver, don't bother downloading the audio goodies. ABOUT SYNECTIC DESIGN: Synectic Design is a dynamic consulting organization that specializes in NEXTSTEP software development. With a special focus on providing custom enterprise solutions and specialized hardware support, we are commited to providing our customers with quality products and services. ABOUT BIFROST WORKSTATIONS: Bifrost Workstations, Inc. offers one of the most complete lines of hardware focused solely on the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/WebObjects market (SUN workstations/ servers, several lines of Intel machines, and portables). We provide hardware, software, and networking solutions for the NS market. All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (16.5.97) Date: 16 May 1997 19:00:06 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5liarm$g0k@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 0 May 9 11:05 PEANUTS.sd2a 0 May 9 13:18 Commercial/PEANUTS.sd2b Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <8856863323226@digifix.com> Date: 18 May 1997 03:57:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <16065863928021@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. news:comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! news:comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: - (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next - Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl - (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it - (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next - eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: - See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: margaret@onramp.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP MENTORS AND DEVELOPERS Date: 19 May 1997 19:52:58 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lqb2q$nc8$1@news.digifix.com> NeXTSTEP MENTORS AND DEVELOPERS Object Systems Group is a OO technology-based consultancy that provides assistance to Global 1000 corporations. These clients have already made the commitment to move to objects. That means that we can offer you the opportunity to build robust infrastructures, develop good designs, and direct state of the art implementations for large scale OO projects. Our Chief Technical Officer is Bruce Webster who has been involved in software engineering for 20 years and in commercial Object Oriented Development since 1989. Bruce has written numerous articles in technical publications and has also contributed to more than a dozen commerical software products. His most recent books are The Art of Ware and The Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development. Because OSG has a proven successful OO process and a reputation for excellence, we can keep you progressing in OO technology while you are making contractors wages. OSG pays well, offers good benefits, and requires a minimum one year commitment. Please visit our Web Site at http://www.osgcorp.com PROCESS MENTORS Minimum five years total experience with one year NeXTStep or OpenStep. You will participate in the development of Object Models and will perform all the analysis and design functions for your team as well as educate team members in process, methods, and techniques. TECHNICAL MENTORS Minimum three years experience in NeXTSTEP with at least one of those in a Mentoring role. Also must have strong knowledge or experience with one or more OO Methodologies. NeXTSTEP and or OpenStep Developers If you have a minimum of 2 years experience in a NeXTSTEP environment at any level, we want to talk to you. The project is a new development (no legacy issues). All work must be done on-site. Email resume(No NeXTMAIL accepted) and current salary info in Word, TEXT, or ASCII to: margaret@osgcorp.com
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Nebula CDROM Special Offer Date: 20 May 1997 05:21:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lrcc4$669$1@news.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE SPECIAL OFFER DIRECTLY FROM THE AUTHOR Montreal, Canada, May 14th -- For everyone interested in learning more about Object Oriented programming the Nebula Quad-Fat CDROM offers hundreds of NEXTSTEP applications with full source code. This is a great resource for programmers, permitting them to learn from other peoples source code. The Nebula CDROM also offers more then 750 applications for computers running NEXTSTEP. What on Nebula? It's a collection of Quad-FAT applications. With applications in such categories as utilities, games, astronomy, financial, educational, graphics, mail, etc. They will also find graphics in tiff, PostScript, gif and login panels. Also on the disc is a large collection fonts and sounds plus many other files. Each directory on the disk contains an index listing filename, version, author and a short description of each file. A central index is also included which can be used with Digital Librarian to quickly locate the file your looking for. NEXTSTEP 3.2 or above for Motorola, Intel, PA-RISC or SPARC processors is required to use this disc. For more information Details about the this offer are available at http://www.cam.org/~ericet/special.html. Alternatively, you can send an e-mail to ericet@cam.org. For a limited time only. Special price is $49.95 U.S. for the Nebula Quad-FAT CDROM and included at no extra cost the WebMaster's Toolkit CDROM (A $49.95 savings). Prices do not include shipping (U.S., Canada and international is $5). This offer is only available from the author directly. The publisher will not and does NOT offer this special. Ordering Information: There are several ways you can order directly from the author! By Email at ericet@cam.org , By Fax (514) 281-1037
From: erik@square.nl (Erik Hommersom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Netherlands - OpenStep Developers Date: 20 May 1997 19:22:08 GMT Organization: Square BV Message-ID: <5lstl0$nht$1@news.digifix.com> Open Positions for OpenStep Developers The Square Development Team are looking for OpenStep Developers on temporary or permanent contract. Your area of software development at Square may become Document Management Solutions, with emphasis on paper to electronic document conversions, involving fully-automated press clipping software, image enhancement and optical character recognition for turn-key projects. Square is a Dutch company, located in Roermond, in the southern part of The Netherlands, at less than 60 kms distance from Maastricht, Eindhoven, Aachen and Dusseldorf. We have a tight and enthusiastic crew that specialise in developing software for Document Management Solutions as well as Service Management Solutions. Currently, the Square team consists of approximately 50 members. Do you have an object-oriented bias towards design and programming? Do you enjoy working in small teams in direct contact with customers? Do you have experiences using object-oriented tools, possibly under OpenStep? Are you interested in cross-platform developments based on OpenStep? Do you want to grow in and along with our company? If you are good at your job and feel triggered by the above, please send us your resume, an email message or give us a ring. We will be happy to provide you with all the details you want! Erik Hommersom Square BV Software Development tel 00-31-475-355-100 daytime tel 00-31-77-354-1156 evening fax 00-31-475-355-199 Buitenop 5 6041 LA Roermond The Netherlands ordering information page at: http://www.take3.com/Ordering/pricing.htm ABOUT TAKE 3 Take 3 has been creating innovative e-mail and news software for the NEXTSTEP platform since 1993. We are a user driven company, committed to responding to the electronic messaging needs of our customers, providing them with leading edge solutions in an increasingly wired world. Eloquent is a trademark of Take 3. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: Allan Noordvyk <allan@ali.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Open positions at ALI Technologies, Vancouver, Canada Date: 20 May 1997 19:22:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lstma$nhu$1@news.digifix.com> ALI Technologies has immediate openings for programmers with NeXTSTEP/OpenStep experience. ALI Technologies is a rapidly growing medical imaging software house located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, just south of the city of Vancouver. Interested individuals should send their resumes to Allan Noordvyk by e-mail (allan@ali.bc.ca, NeXT and MIME mail welcome) or by fax (604-279-5469). More information concerning ALI Technologies can be found by perusing our web page at: http://www.alitech.com/
From: John@targetdev.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Target Development Announces Release 4.3 of ReportPalette OPENSTEP/NT, with synchronized releases for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP/Mach Date: 20 May 1997 19:50:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5lsvat$o6q$1@news.digifix.com> News: For Immediate Release Contact: John Yanefski Target Development Phone: (717) 399.9550 Fax: (717) 399.9551 email: john@targetdev.com Target Development Announces Release 4.3 of ReportPalette for OPENSTEP/NT, with synchronized releases for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP/Mach! LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - May 19, 1997. Target Development announces the 4.3 release of ReportPalette for OPENSTEP/NT and the Enterprise Objects Framework 2.0. Synchronized releases of ReportPalette (4.03 for NeXTSTEP & EOF 1.1, and 4.2.3 for OPENSTEP/Mach & EOF 2.0) have also just been released! The ReportPalette is a collection of objects that allow you to easily add custom report writing features into your EOF applications. Unlike traditional report writers that directly access database tables, the ReportPalette reports on NSDictionary values from your Enterprise Objects. EOControllers can be used to define the hierarchy of the report, and Interface Builder serves as the medium for page layout. Using the ReportPalette, keys of your EO's can be mapped directly to columns or free-form text fields on the report page. Images and formatted rich text with imbedded keys can also be added graphically. This WYSIWYG reporting tool is capable of reproducing custom forms, generating mailing labels and form letters, and producing on-the-fly hierarchical column-based and free-form reports. The palette also supports auxiliary qualifiers, horizontal pagination, and runtime document archiving. Other ReportPalette Features: + Custom Page Sequences; graphical ordering of static and dynamic pages + Custom page backgrounds; for page header and footer information + Automatic Page Layout control at runtime + Multi-level group headers and footers, including totals + Column Headers and Footers, with totals + Horizontal Pagination + Runtime document archiving + Full support for the Foundation classes, including NSString, NSNumber, NSCalendarDate, NSData for RTF(D), and NSImage objects. + Fully documented API for programmatic customization The ReportPalette ships with several demo applications and NIBs, along with install scripts and EOModels for Sybase, Oracle, Informix, and QuickBase. The example NIBs can be loaded and run using IB's 'Test Interface' mode! That's how easy it is! Example NIBs include a column based report, form letters, mailing labels, a free-form report, and a custom healthcare form. A date licensed version of the palette is available via ftp or directly from Target Development. The product is licensed through June 30, 1997. The product includes the Interface Builder palette, header files, libraries, complete technical documentation, and various demo applications and NIBS. The palette retails for $895.00 per developer seat. No runtime fees apply. Educational, site, and source licenses are also available. The palette can be downloaded from our Web site at: http://www.stepwise.com/Target_Development Select on ReportPalette, and choose the version you wish to demo. Versions are available for NeXTSTEP/EOF 1.1, OpenStep/Mach (EOF 2.0) and OpenStep/NT (EOF 2.0). Download the following files. Installation_README.rtfd.tar.gz ReportPalette.pkg.tar.gz The archived version is compiled quad-FAT for Intel, Motorola, Sparc and HP-PA. Thin versions can be requested by sending email to objects@targetdev.com. Target Development is a Pennsylvania-based object-oriented solutions company, specializing in database productivity objects for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. We are currently shipping object palettes for the DatabaseKit, AccessKit, and the EOF (versions 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0, Mach & NT). We additionally offer NeXTSTEP and OpenStep consulting and training, and are available for onsight services. Interested persons should contact us by phone at (717) 399-9550, fax at (717) 399-9551, or email to objects@targetdev.com. DatabaseKit, EOF, Interface Builder, NEXTSTEP, and OPENSTEP are a trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. AccessKit is a trademark of VNP Software, Inc. ReportPalette and RetrieverPalette are trademarks of Target Development.
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ScrollViewExample 2.0 Date: 21 May 1997 03:50:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ltrea$4s9$1@news.digifix.com> ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submission ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay Intro: This is simply an example of a working scrollview. With some buttons to print a scrollview and a couple of other features. What's new?: Version 2.0 Ported to OpenStep for MACH. The Package: Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - ScrollViewExample.app binary for NeXT, Intel and Sparc hardware - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - NeXT, Intel, and SPARC binaries. Compiling: This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org History: Original NEXTSTEP Version 1.0 June 12, 1993 OpenStep Version 2.0 May 20, 1997 uted architectures, Client-Server, CORBA Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development Windows 95, NT, OLE NEXTSTEP Objective-C, C++, SmallTalk, Java Duties: Design, engineer/architect, and participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training, and support. Lead a team of highly creative, qualified engineers/architects through product development providing both the technical and managerial aspects of the project. Take responsibility for technology insertion, database architectures, performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged and to be a part of an elite staff. PDH provides excellent vacation, holiday, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual, hours are flexible, and refreshments are sponsored. If you would like to be part of our fast-paced, high growth, engineering-focused development team, send your resume to: PDH, Inc. Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com(NeXT Mail welcome) 2635 North First Street, Suite 224, San Jose, CA 95134-2034 Visit our web site at: http://www.pdh.com PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. US CITIZENSHIP Required for Position
From: support@Radical.Com (Radical Product Support) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RadicalNews.0.9.0.2 Date: 21 May 1997 21:43:03 GMT Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <5lvq97$quq$1@news.digifix.com> May 21, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California. Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version of RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader, designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace. This release contains more features required for the next release of RadicalNews that will provide MIME reading. - All header encoding types are now supported: ISO-2022-JP "base64", raw JIS, ISO-8859-1 - All appropriate header fields can be decoded. - Posting articles now correctly encodes header fields. - Posting articles now correctly encodes article body. - Removed URL zaps from forwarded articles. Known bugs: - Article editing / saving / archiving uses the encoded header. - Find panel and MIME decoding of the article body are not functional. RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is free, and will run until December 31, 1997. After the beta period, a license may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.0.2.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.02.b.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.0.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.02.b.NIHS.tar.gz Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current version: http://www.radical.com/ For further information, contact: Radical System Solutions, Inc. mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HousePrice for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 22 May 1997 05:35:00 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5m0lu4$72l$1@news.digifix.com> HousePrice (The House Shopping Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== The application will permit you to calculate the percentage of your offer on a house in comparision to the asking price and the municipal evaluation. A good tool to have when your bidding on a house. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xf Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - HousePrice.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - FontGarden.rtfd Information about the FontGarden CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org ments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ScrollViewExample for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 22 May 1997 05:35:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5m0lu7$72m$1@news.digifix.com> ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Special thanks to John Markle of the Montreal NeXT Users Group and John C. Randolph for his "Appending test in NSText objects" Usenet post. Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/sourcelibrary Intro: ====== ScrollViewExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay This is simply an example of a working scrollview. With some buttons to print a scrollview and a couple of other features. What's new?: ============ Version 2.0 Ported to OpenStep for MACH. INSTALLATION: ============= WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xf Create_4.w.NT.m.MIS.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - ScrollViewExample.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org History: ======== Original NEXTSTEP Version 1.0 June 12, 1993 OpenStep Version 2.0 May 20, 1997
From: "Andrew P. Lindesay" <apl@charcoal.poot.gen.nz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Blocks Date: 22 May 1997 21:40:42 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5m2egq$qnk$1@news.digifix.com> Blocks (c) Andrew Lindesay 1997 version 0.01beta (22nd May 1997) Compiled on NeXTSTEP 3.3 NeXT for NeXT & Intel --------------------------------------------------------------------- ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/Blocks.0.01b.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/games/Blocks.0.01b.README --------------------------------------------------------------------- This application is copyright Andrew Lindesay 1997. Please feel free to distribute this application with any media/distribution channel. The application must be distributed with this README file and must be distributed in the original distribution you obtained. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks is a simple, but nice tetr1s game for NeXTSTEP. I'm planning to extend it in several ways, but this is my primary release to ensure that the tetris engine itself is reasonably stable. I invite you to download it, give it a whirl and get back to me if you have any trouble with it. As soon as I can get hold of NeXTSTEP 4.2 Academic Bundle (and when I figure out who sells it now), I'll move it to OPENSTEP and add the new planned features ad-infinitum. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Andrew Lindesay apl@kcbbs.gen.nz Fax. 649 356 7107 9 St Benedicts Street Newton Auckland New Zealand ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Dwight Everhart <everhart@alterlife.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Chronographer 0.90 Date: 24 May 1997 21:08:56 GMT Organization: Sailor Hardware Message-ID: <5m7ld8$p8h$1@news.digifix.com> Chronographer -- A daily planner application Dwight Everhart everhart@alterlife.com May 24, 1997 UPDATE ====== Chronographer version 0.90 has been released. Features added: o The expire date has been extended to August 1. o Multiple schedule views have been added. In addition to the day view, Chronographer now also features month and year views. A week view will be in the next release. You can select a different view by clicking on the tab for the view. The tabs are located above the schedule view. Each view has its own to-do list associated with it. The day view's list is for items that need to be done that day. The month view's list is for items that need to be done sometime that month but aren't tied down to a particular day. Likewise, the year view's list is for items which need to be done sometime during that year but not in any particular month. In both the year and month views, double clicking on a day selects that day and switches the window to the day view. Currently appointments can only be dragged from or dropped on the day schedule. The month schedule only displays appointments; it can't alter them in any way. The year view doesn't display any appointments, since there's no room. You'll probably need to enlarge your schedule window to provide enough space for the month and year views to display properly. o The month view includes a Filter... button at the bottom of the window. Clicking on it opens a panel which controls which appointments and/or to-do items are displayed in the month view. o A button has been added to the bottom of the schedule window, next to the Now button. It's labeled "Jump To...", and clicking on it opens a panel which allows you to select an arbitrary date to change the schedule to. The panel also includes a control for calculating a new date by adding or subtracting a given number of days, weeks, months, or years. o A new menu called Schedule has been added below the Agenda menu. The first item in this menu is a New command which opens a new schedule window. The second item is a Date submenu which contains commands for changing a schedule's date. The third item is a Detail submenu which contains commands for changing the detail displayed in a schedule. The last item is a Filter... command which runs the filter panel for the month view. o A Complete command as been added to the Agenda menu. Clicking on it causes the selected item or items to be marked as completed. This is equivalent to clicking on the "Completed" checkbox in the inspector panel. If the selected item is already completed, the Complete command is displayed as Uncomplete, and clicking on it causes the selected item or items to be marked as not completed. o A hide button has been added to the button bar. It has a picture of a book being shut. Clicking on it hides Chronographer, just as the Hide menu command does. The print button has been moved to the left one notch so that the hide button could be placed at the edge of the window. Features removed: o The Calendar tool has been removed, since its functionality is provided by the year and month views now. Along with the Calendar tool, the Calendar tool button has been removed. The hide button takes the place of the Calendar tool button on the button bar. Bugs fixed: o Pasting repeating appointments into a schedule outside of their repeat range caused them to not appear in the new schedule. Now, when repeating appointments are pasted, their start date is set to the schedule's date, and their end date is adjusted to be equal to the start date if it would have been earlier. o The "Weeks" unit disappeared from the reminder inspector due to the interface changes being lost in a merge. It's back now. o Dragging an appointment with a reminder to a time which made the new reminder time equal to the current time caused the reminder to occur immediately. The same occurred when an appointment was resized so that it started at the same time. This behavior was silly. Also, in the former case of dragging the appointment with a panel reminder, the reminder was displayed but Chronographer then entered an infinite loop. This behavior was annoying. o The inspector panel did not update its title to match the type of object selected if there was no previous selection. These new features and fixed bugs are also described in Chronographer's release notes. Choose the Info-->Release Notes command to see them. AVAILABILITY ============ Chronographer is being distributed in one, quad-fat package: name: Chronographer.0.90.NIHS.b.tar.gz h/w: NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, SPARC size: 2329617 md5: ca76143789e5239a470e2aabc6f04221 sum32: 4292374772 If you would like a PGP signature of the package, please email me. Chronographer has been submitted to PEAK: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/demos/productivity/Chronographer.0.90.NIHS.b.tar.gz Chronographer has also been submitted to Peanuts: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/calendars/Chronographer.0.90.NIHS.b.tar.gz The release is binary-only and includes software for NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, and SPARC hardware. It will run on NEXTSTEP versions 3.2 and later. It might also run on 3.0 and 3.1, but it has not been tested with those versions. If you find that it does run on either of those versions, please let me know. This is the 18th release of Chronographer. It is a beta release. Version 1.00 will be commercial, but this beta release is free and is fully functional, except that it will stop running on August 1. By that time, a newer version will be available. The commercial version will cost US$40 per user.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: Submission Guidelines for comp.sys.next.announce Supersedes: <16067863928024@digifix.com> Date: 25 May 1997 03:57:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12799864532836@digifix.com> Cross Posting ============= I try very hard to make sure that postings get out in a timely fashion. Most go out in less than 24 hours. Postings that require editing because they do not contain information in a useable format, or have already been posted to other comp.sys.next.* groups may be delayed, or returned to you. If your posting is rejected, I'll try and make suggestions about what should be changed where possible. Obviously off charter messages (spams, open-letters, etc) may not get a response. Content Guidelines ================== Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address, telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone, toll-free fax, voice phone, fax phone mailing address,info@blahblah.com,retail price,educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file IN URL FORMAT supported CPU's for binary distributions, OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting, time of meeting, speakers expected Signatures will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcement of Product Sales ============================= This is an area of announcement that has caused me terrible grief in the past. The policy is tilted towards the ISV, which has worked out well in the past. Posts that announce sales of products that you are DIRECTLY involved in the development of are OK. Posts from companies trying to sell other products are evaluated on an individual basis. Time Sensitive Announcements ============================ Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <16065863928021@digifix.com> Date: 25 May 1997 03:57:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12797864532834@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CATax for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:38 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7he$nad$1@news.digifix.com> CATax (The California Tax Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== Very simple app. What's there to say? It calculates the California state tax. Nothing fancy, no bells or anything else. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - CATax.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - FontGarden.rtfd Information about the FontGarden CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet = Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: WindowExample for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:40 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7hg$nae$1@news.digifix.com> WindowExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay and Rene Guimont (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/sourcelibrary WindowExample Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay and Rene Guimont Intro: ====== Window Example shows you how to use some of the functions of windows. What's new?: ============ Version 2.0 Ported to OpenStep for MACH. Fixed some bugs, added features and made a new icon. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - WindowExample.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: BMI (The Body Mass Index Tool) for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7hk$naf$1@news.digifix.com> BMI (The Body Mass Index Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/misc Intro: ====== This application will permit you to calculate your Body Mass Index. In other words are you too fat for your weight and height? The U.S. Public Service describes people of ages 20-29 who have a body mass index greater then 27.8 for men and 27.3 for women as overweight. Normal? Normal Body Mass Index is generally betweem 20 and 25. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - BMI.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: QTax for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:30:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7hq$nag$1@news.digifix.com> QTax (The Quebec Tax Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== This is an OLD app that I "converted". It's NOT EASY the conversion from NEXTSTEP to OpenStep. At least not as easy as we were lead to believe. Even a VERY simple application such as this one does not automatically convert to OpenStep. I can only imagine the work that it takes to convert something like WriteUp or other fancy applications... Very simple app. What's there to say? It calculates the California state tax. Nothing fancy, no bells or anything else. INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - QTax.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - FontGarden.rtfd Information about the FontGarden CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Eric Tremblay <eric@CAM.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Currency for OpenStep on Windows NT Date: 25 May 1997 20:31:11 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ma7if$nd5$1@news.digifix.com> Currency (The Currency Conversion Tool) OpenStep Version 2.0 by Eric Tremblay (ericet@cam.org) Submitted to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/submissions Should end up in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/windows/apps/financial Intro: ====== This is an OLD app that I "converted". It's NOT EASY the conversion from NEXTSTEP to OpenStep. At least not as easy as we were lead to believe. Even a VERY simple application such as this one does not automatically convert to OpenStep. I can only imagine the work that it takes to convert something like WriteUp or other fancy applications... Onces converted it was VERY EASY to port it to Windows NT. Simply a recompile did the trick. Bravo NeXT! Currency is a valuble tool to the people who travel or are going to travel. It permits the user to convert his dollars into any foreign currency. How to I get the lastest rates? Well you can first start out with your local newspaper or on the World Wide Web. Here's my favorite places: http://www.ibm.net/currency.html http://www.olsen.ch/cgi-bin/exmenu http://www.bloomberg.com/cgi-bin/tdisp.sh?markets/fxc.html Other comments: =============== This application is FREE to anyone using OpenStep. If you enjoy it, please write me and email! INSTALLATION: ============ WINNT: 1. Unpack the software distribution a. open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution: gunzip TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: tar xvf TheApp.w.NT.bs.tar The Package: ============ Version 2.0 comes complete in a tar.gz package. Which includes: - Currency.app binary for OpenStep Intel for Windows NT - README.TXT This file - Nebula.rtfd Information about the Nebula CDROM - Includes Full Source Code - Intel Windows NT binaries. Compiling: ========== This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch on OpenStep 4.0 or above. CONTACT INFO: ============= Comments and suggestions are welcomed: E-mail: ericet@cam.org WWW: http://www.cam.org/~ericet
From: Alvin Jee <alvin@neander.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Beta Version of a Driver for the Connectix Gray-Scale QuickCam is Available Date: 26 May 1997 21:13:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mcuel$nfv$1@news.digifix.com> For Immediate Release: Contact: Neanderthal Design NeanderCam@neander.com Fax: (408) 738-8336 http://www.neander.com PRESS RELEASE: Beta Version of a Driver for the Connectix Gray-Scale QuickCam is Available. 26 May 1997 - Sunnyvale, California Neanderthal Design announces the availability of a beta version of NeanderCam and a driver for the parallel port version of the Connectix gray-scale QuickCam for NeXTSTEP 3.3. NeanderCam is a NeXTSTEP 3.3 application that displays still-frame images that are captured by digital cameras. NeanderCam allows you to save the displayed images as TIFF files. NeanderCam also supports the dragging of images from the "viewfinder" into other applications as TIFF images. NeanderCam allows users to use not only the cameras that are connected to the local machine, but also to cameras that are located on other machines attached to the network. Thus, NeanderCam can be used for remote visual monitoring and primitive video conferencing. NeanderCam makes use of run-time loaded bundles to load drivers for specific camera types. This allows users to use new camera types without requiring a new version of NeanderCam. In conjunction with this beta release of NeanderCam, Neanderthal Design is releasing a beta version of their driver for the parallel port version of the Connectix gray-scale QuickCam camera. While this driver only runs on Intel machines running NeXTSTEP 3.3, NeanderCam can access the QuickCam from any NeXTSTEP 3.3 machine. The Intel version of the driver and the quad-FAT versions of NeanderCam and the driver bundle can be retrieved from our web site http://www.neander.com. These beta versions of the software are free and will expire on 30 Jun 1997. After the beta test period, NeanderCam will remain free and licenses for drivers for specific cameras may be purchased. We welcome any and all comments and constructive criticism that will help us provide better software for the NeXT/Apple community. For more information send e-mail to NeanderCam@neander.com
From: Elmar Ludwig <feludwig@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: rtfdtohtml 1.3 Date: 28 May 1997 18:43:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mhudd$jig$1@news.digifix.com> rtfdtohtml -- Convert NeXT-rtf and NeXT-rtfd files to HTML version 1.3 (May 16, 1997) Copyright (c) 1997 Elmar Ludwig Copying policy: GNU GPL rtfdtohtml has been submitted to the Peanuts NeXT archive: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Text/programs/rtfdtohtml.1.3.README ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Text/programs/rtfdtohtml.1.3.s.tar.gz This is release 1.3 of the rtfdtohtml program, a command line tool for converting existing documents from the Rich Text Format to HTML. It supports both RTF and RTFD files created on NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP systems. It is based on (and requires to run) the rtftohtml-filter by Chris Hector. It also requires perl version 4 or 5. rtfdtohtml adds the following features to rtftohtml: o support for the complete NeXT-European character set o different font sizes and colors o conversion of inline images to GIF or PNG format o links and markers o HTML-3.2 tables The program has been tested on Linux, HP-UX, NeXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.1 (Mach), but it should run on almost any UNIX-like system. (It is not a NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP application.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact information: By email: feludwig@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Elmar Ludwig) The rtfdtohtml homepage: http://ramses.informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE/~feludwig/Local/rtfd/
From: ftpadm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (FTP Archiv d. LMU) Newsgroups: muc.archive.update,de.admin.archiv,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New files on the Peanuts FTP archive (30.5.97) Date: 30 May 1997 19:00:05 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5mn83l$crk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> On the Peanuts NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP archive the following files are new since last week (ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next, [129.187.249.15]): 395825 May 24 11:27 Games/action/Blocks.0.01b.NI.b.tar.gz 1274 May 24 11:27 Games/action/Blocks.0.01b.README 17238 May 23 23:00 Developer/objc/appkit/ClassBuilder.subproj.s.tar.gz 703131 May 24 11:29 Mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 5440 May 24 11:29 Mail/bundles/EnhanceMail.2.0b6.README 1767385 May 24 11:29 Tools/workspace/FileSpy.1.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1411552 May 24 11:32 Unix/shell/GNU_sh-utils.1.16.NIHS.b.tar.gz 1071 May 24 11:32 Unix/shell/GNU_sh-utils.1.16.README 1998349 May 24 11:33 Text/programs/GNU_textutils.1.22.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 1220 May 24 11:33 Text/programs/GNU_textutils.1.22.README 1680595 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8099 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95.README 1680647 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8221 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews-KJ.0.95a.README 1672649 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews.0.95.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8043 May 24 11:34 Network/news/HNNews.0.95.README 1673028 May 24 11:35 Network/news/HNNews.0.95a.NIHS.b.tar.gz 8165 May 24 11:35 Network/news/HNNews.0.95a.README 51113 May 24 11:38 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.1.NIHS.bs.tar.gz 4030 May 24 11:38 Tools/inspectors/MailboxInspector.1.1.README 1487494 May 24 11:39 Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.0.2.NIHS.tar.gz 13701739 May 17 00:55 .test/SynthBuilderBeta25.pkg.tar.gz 1401006 May 24 11:50 Unix/shell/bash.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz 979 May 24 11:50 Unix/shell/bash.2.0.README 1043552 May 24 01:13 Text/etext/demoETFDs.tar.gz 928264 May 24 01:17 Text/etext/eText5-0.93.App.NIHS.tar.gz 589326 May 24 01:18 Text/etext/eText5-0.93.Source.NIHS.tar.gz 36870 May 24 01:18 Text/etext/echtbrief.ps.gz 37148 May 24 01:18 Text/etext/echtdemo.ps.gz 168736 May 24 01:19 Text/etext/echtpaper.ps.gz 1962 May 24 11:30 Developer/languages/c/gcc.2.7.2.2.I.README 8581546 May 24 11:31 Developer/languages/c/gcc.2.7.2.2.I.b.tar.gz 6009912 May 24 11:35 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.9.0.I.b.tar.gz 3970 May 24 11:35 Developer/languages/java/kaffe.0.9.0.README 1023602 May 24 01:20 Text/etext/oldDemoDocs.tar.gz Our mirror-sites are: USA: ftp://ftp.evolution.com/pub/ Germany: ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/, ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/ France: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/, ftp://ftp.fdn.org/ Switzerland: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/ UUCP (Germany) wburg.hanse.de (Tel. ++49-40-307 89 06) Mailbox (Germany) (Tel. ++49-8803-61111, ISDN ++49-8803-62149). Peanuts is also available on CD-ROM. The latest issue is from december 199e. Please write to cdrom@peanuts.leo.org for details. Your Peanuts Admins (peanuts-admin@peanuts.leo.org)
From: ovidiu@bx.logicnet.ro (Ovidiu Predescu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION:: libFoundation 0.7.1 Date: 30 May 1997 20:13:39 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <5mncdj$ko5$1@news.digifix.com> We are pleased to announce you the availability of libFoundation 0.7.1, a free and almost complete implementation of Foundation Kit as defined by the OpenStep specifications, plus more classes that come with the newest releases of OpenStep 4.x. It has completely or almost completely implemented the following classes: NSObject NSString, NSMutableString NSArray, NSMutableArray NSDictionary, NSMutableDictionary NSSet, NSMutableSet NSData, NSMutableData NSValue, NSNumber NSDate, NSCalendarDate, NSTimeZone NSCharacterSet NSEnumerator NSAutoreleasePool NSException NSNotification, NSNotificationCenter NSCoder, NSArchiver, NSUnarchiver NSScanner NSInvocation, NSMethodSignature NSFileManager NSBundle NSProcessInfo NSAccount NSDistributedLock NSPosixFileDescriptor NSTimer NSRunLoop NSThread NSUserDefaults Some extensions to the OpenStep specification are also present. They include an extended exception handling mechanism, a garbage collector based on reference counting and a printf-like formatting class. The exception handling mechanism is very similar with those found in Java and C++ and requires support for nested functions from the compiler. The garbage collector adds the benefits of automatic garbage collecting to the OpenStep programs and it is fully integrated with OpenStep classes. The printf-like formatting class is a general purpose class that can be used to do various operations that require parsing of format strings like in printf(). This class is used for example to do all the formatting jobs from NSString class in libFoundation. These extensions are also available in a separate library for other OpenStep Foundation implementations; the current supported Foundation libraries are gnustep-base and the Foundation library in NeXTStep 3.3. Support for 4.x OpenStep Foundation library is planned. The library requires the 2.7.2.1 GNU Objective-C compiler with the Objective-C patches from Scott Christley <scott@net-community.com>. On NeXTStep machines the library can also be compiled with NeXT Objective-C runtime besides the GNU runtime. The library was ported on the following platforms: - m68k-next-nextstep3 - i386-next-nextstep3 - i386-unknown-linux-gnu - i386-pc-cygwin32 (Windows NT) - sparc-sun-solaris2.5 Preliminary support has been done for HPUX 9.x. The library also runs with GNU runtime on OpenStep 4.x for Mach with the GNU compiler (not the native one). Distributed Objects and Unicode support in NSString are planned. Changes since version 0.7: ========================= * The port to Solaris has been completed thanks to Aleksandr Savostyanov <sav@conextions.com>. * libFoundation was ported to Windows NT; thanks to Jeremy R. Bettis <jeremy@hksys.com>. * Shared library support has been added. New makefile targets exist on systems that support shared libraries (`shared' and `install_shared'). The currently supported systems are Linux ELF, Solaris and OPENSTEP 4.x. * NSRunLoop and NSPosixFileDescriptor classes has been finished. The NSRunLoop API has been changed to work with NSPosixFileDescriptor objects instead of Unix file descriptors. * Delayed execution of methods in NSObject is now working. * The library now works with both 960906 and 970318 Objective-C runtime patches. (You must have either one of these patches applied to the compiler before compiling libFoundation; see the INSTALL file for more info.) * Many bug fixes and improvements in NSInvocation, NSTimer, exception handling without nested functions support, NSString, geometry functions, NSDistributedLock, NSFileManager and NSRunLoop. See the ChangeLog file for a complete list of the changes. Where you can get it? ===================== You can download the source code from ftp://ftp.logicnet.ro:/pub/users/ovidiu/libFoundation-0.7.1.tgz ftp://ftp.net-community.com/pub/Free/libFoundation-0.7.1.tgz ftp://koala.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE:/pub/next/OpenStep/GNUstep/Sources/libFoundation-0.7.1.tgz Happy hacking, Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com> Mircea Oancea <mircea@pathcom.com>
From: wsi@spacelab.net (WSI Nationwide) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: US-NY-212-Nextstep / Openstep,Objective-C,WebObjects-WSI Date: 30 May 1997 20:09:09 GMT Organization: WSI Nationwide Message-ID: <5mnc55$knu$1@news.digifix.com> -(All fees are paid by our client companies and all projects are on-site at the locations listed below, 3rd party referrals or agencies, please)----------- I have been asked to identify either an employee or independent consultant candidate with strong Nextstep / Openstep, Objective-C and WebObjects experience, JAVA & Sybase are pluses. Employees will be a direct hire with the Wall Street company and the consultants be on a long term Wall Street brokerage project developing a JAVA front end for a derivatives trading system also using WebObjects and Sybase in New York City. Employees will be hired at an attractive starting salary with legendary bonuses, full benefits and an exciting professional growth opportunity. Independent consultants will be offered an initial six month+ contract with no starting rate initially defined, your asking rate will be submitted, after your approval. If you know someone who might qualify (no 3rd party referrals or agencies, please) or is coming to the NYC/NJ/CT/PA area, e-mail a resume to Jay L., perferrably a straight ascii text file, but any attachment is OK, (and please do not return a copy of this announcement with your response) to wsi@spacelab.net, or fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, New York, NY 10128-0004) When resumes are received, the candidate is contacted if there is a match, the situation is thoroughly described and the candidate tells us how they would like us to proceed. No information leaves our office without prior approval. (This makes for long term relationships, which we encourage) - - ------------------------------------------------------- WSI is a "specialty" recruiting organization with over twenty years experience and fees paid by our selected client companies, freeing our hands to find top level candidates for "better" projects all over the USA. xwsix
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