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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Contact: Scott Hess
12550 Portland Ave S #121
Burnsville, MN 55337
Telephone: (612) 895-1208 (work)
Internet: shess@winternet.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (IF NOT SOONER)
SCOTT HESS RELEASES Stuart2.6.1
Variation on a theme of Terminal
Tuesday January 16, 1996, 1:00pm CST
SCOTT'S OFFICE - Stuart2.6.1 is a new release of Stuart which includes support
for execution under NeXTSTEP running on NeXT, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and Sun
SPARC machinery. Also included are some bug fixes and new features, though
to list them would greatly exceed our 100 line allowance.
The most significant change is that the storage and display engine has been
completely rewritten to provide a solid base for future development. As a
side effect it provides some basic color and font support and more efficient
memory usage.
Of lesser significance are things like VT100 graphics characters and
double-size lines, and a mostly rewritten online manual.
Background
Stuart is a close cousin of the Terminal.app which is shipped with NeXTSTEP.
A large number of small enhancements have been added to the program to make
it more useful to myself and my users. Since the basic programs are quite
similar, there is really no substitute for downloading the program and trying
it out, if you think you might be interested in such things.
As a whole, the improvements are somewhat similar to those you find in better
shell programs - you're usually hard pressed to list the features when using
them, but when you're on another machine _without_ the right environment,
you really notice it. You know what I mean.
Availability and Pricing
Stuart2.6.1 is available NOW for NEXTSTEP3.x running on NeXT, Intel, PA-RISC,
and Sparc hardware. As tradition demands, Stuart is shareware, and will be
distributed via the same tried and true channels that have worked in the
past; namely, the Internet archive sites. Stuart has been placed on:
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/shess/Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl/pub/next/submissions/Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/comm/Stuart_f/ (single architecure packages)
To unarchive Stuart, get to a command-line and use the command
"gzcat Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz | tar -xvf -". If you do not have ftp access,
contact Scott Hess and he can send you a copy via email. If you're the kind
to care, the output of running sum(1) on the file is:
30834 1055 Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
Stuart is priced at $40 for an individual license and $25 for a student
license. Site licenses are available for both academic and
commercial/government sites. Since Stuart is shareware, the user is allowed
a reasonable evaluation period during which they can determine if Stuart
provides functionality that they are willing to pay for.
Scott Hess develops and distributes the popular Stuart terminal emulator and
TickleServices Services framework, and also crafts custom code for clients
willing to foot the bill. Periodically he contemplates becoming a company,
or even a corporation, but he so intensely dislikes wearing a suit that it
is doubtful if we will ever find the vulture capital to do so. Located in
snowy Burnsville, Minnesota, Scott's office is the scene of much
caffeine-driven sorcery. Scott is again located in his spare bedroom, where
he works under intense halogen lighting. Scott can periodically be spotted
bicycling about Burnsville, and is currently feeling a bit cooped up due to
a blanket of snow which will not be gone until April ...
NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. Intel is a registered trademark of
Intel Corporation. HP and PA-RISC are trademarks of Hewlett Packard. SPARC
is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. Any other trademarks are surely held by
their respective trademark holders. If not, then they aren't.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.