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MetroSuction 1.0 30-Jun-92 MetroSuction is a utility for examining and removing support for different hardware architectures in Multi-Architecture Binary files (so-called 'fat binaries'). It easily handles folders of applications and multiple binary files per application. It's a freeware utility from Metrosoft, the makers of MetroTools and proud new owners of SimonSays. Multi-architecture Binaries (MABs) or 'fat binaries' allow the same NEXTSTEP program to run on different types of computers (currently NeXT computers and supported Intel-based computers). MetroSuction allows you to easily see which architectures are supported by a given application and to remove support for a given architecture, freeing up disk space. Many people wouldn't otherwise be able to take advantage of removing support for an architecture during program installation due to a bug in the NEXTSTEP Installer utility that occurs when creating multi-disk installation packages. MetroSuction will allow you to easily do so without using the UNIX command line. MetroSuction will run on both NeXT computers and NEXTSTEP for Intel computers running NEXTSTEP 3.1. Full source code to the MetroTools version of this utility (which is remarkably similar to the stand-alone version) is available free as part of the MetroTools 2.0 API package. Enjoy! Metrosoft
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.