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MetroSuction 1.1
16-Jul-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.

Version 1.1 fixes three problems in 1.0:

	- Incorrect use of the -i486 and -i386 architectures - caused 
	  problems thinning many binaries

	- Error messages weren't being routed to the log view

	- Extraneous debug information was being sent to the console

Full source code to the MetroTools version of this utility (which is 
remarkably similar to the stand-alone version) is available free as 
part of the MetroTools 2.1 API package.

Enjoy!

Metrosoft

These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.