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Local exploder aliases 54.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email alias to obtain a long description about SunFlash 54.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of ftp sites that store the month-by-month SunFlash archives 54.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by sending volume and part number to and email address 54.00.E June's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to read the longer summary 54.00.F June's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary - abstract of each article This monthy digest article and the article by article abstracts are designed to help you quickly scan the large amount of information that I post to SunFlash. Please send email to flash@sun.com and tell me what you think of these changes. Your comments (good and bad) will be appreciated! John J. McLaughlin SunFlash Editor Ft. Lauderdale, FL July 2nd, 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash Aliases To distribute the administration of the mailing list and to keep network traffic as low as possible, I encourage each site to create its own sunflash alias (also know as exploder aliases). The standard names for the aliases are: sunflash: owner-sunflash: If you are forwarding SunFlash to multiple people at another site, please encourage them to create aliases similar to the ones above. At the start of each SunFlash message you should find a couple of lines that show the name of the alias that I am actually posting to and the email address of the administrator who can make changes to that alias. 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Place the vol.part in the subject line. e.g. $ mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 53.06 53.07 53.04 ^D $ Notes: - more that 1 vol.part allowed in subject line - for multi-article messages (such as 53.04 which has 9 articles), you will get the whole message. - body of message is empty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: June's Articles - 1 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54.00 The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest June 1993 54.00.A SunFlash Aliases - how mail aliases are used to distribute SunFlash. 54.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email 54.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of 54.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by 54.00.E June's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to 54.00.F June's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary - abstract of each article 54.01.A SMCC To Air New Sunergy Broadcast 54.01.B Sunergy Satellite Technical Details 54.02 SunSpectrum CUSTOMER SUPPORT PROGRAM 54.03 New Paths for the HP/Apollo Migration Program 54.4 Welcome TO THE CMW Users Group 54.05.A USENIX Information Available via Mail Server 54.05.B BatchMaster for UNIX 54.05.C CERAM's fixed size RAM disk 54.05.D Ilog Views makes complex graphics possible in C++ 54.05.E GENROCO High Performance RAID Functions on TURBOstor Disk Controllers 54.05.F Siren Editor - Poweful Point & Click Editing 54.05.G We need more colors displayable for imaging 54.06 SMCC And Cap Debis Announce A Strategic Alliance 54.07 SunSoft and Fujitsu Announce Software Agreement 54.08.A NetShare SDK: Distributed Computing Tools 54.08.B Pure Software's Quality Awareness Campaign Announcement 54.08.C New Performance Improvement Product From Pure Software 54.08.D KnockKnock - Simple Network Management 54.08.E News and mail via an 800 number with no per-minute charges 54.09 SunPro Announces SPARCworks Professional Ada 2.0 54.10 Sun Network CoProcessor for SunOS 4.1.3 54.11 SunLink Enterprise Integration Products For Solaris 2.1 54.12 SunConnect Introduces Powerful, User-Oriented OSI Suite 54.13 May 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) 54.13.A STB Editor's Introduction 54.13.B Sun and Industry Acronyms 54.13.C May 1993 STB Contents 54.14 Sun Opens Regional Headquarters in Moscow 54.15 SUG-East Summer 1993 Conference & Exhibition 54.16.A New Fortran90 Pricing 54.16.B Language Translation System - Globalink 54.16.C Artecon reduces price of Sbus products 54.16.D Fore Systems Announces Sun SBus ATM Computer Interface 54.16.E SBus Datakit Host Interface For Solaris 2.2 54.16.F Book: "High Performance Computing" 54.16.G Control Data's E-Mail Suite of Services Now Available On Sun 54.17 One Year Return-to-Factory Warranty Policy 54.18 A Concise Guide to UNIX Books from misc.books.technical 54.19 Call For Papers - December 1993 Sun User Group Conference 54.20 Sun Microsystems, Inc. And World Cup 1994 54.21.A An Open Letter to All Sun User Group Supporters 54.21.B SUGMembers: The Sun User Group's electronically Transmitted Newsletter 54.21.C Become a SUG member today! 54.21.D Sun User Group CDs 54.21.E The SUG CD ROM ORDER FORM 54.22.A Box Hill Systems: Networked Tape Box 54.22.B IDE/Advanced Concepts Center Object-Oriented Software Development 54.22.C Prime Time Freeware for UNIX, Issue 2-2 54.22.D GVI Announces X/TeleScreen for UNIX-based Groupware Collaboration 54.23.A New Sample Solaris 2 Device Drivers 54.23.B Draft Solaris Teleservices API document is available for anonymous ftp 54.23.C /pub/sun-info ftp Directory on sunsite.unc.edu 54.24 "Jurassic Park" Scientists Using Sun Systems 54.25 SunConnect to Deliver Interoperability Between SNM & Novell's NMS 54.26 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ANNOUNCES STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAM 54.27 SunSoft Announces Shipment of Developers DOE 54.28 SunSoft/HP/IBM to Cooperate on OMG-Compliance 54.29 SunSoft Announces PRC OEM Agreement 54.30 Sun's Hottest Volume 3 Number 4 54.31 Sun Offering Energy-Efficient Workstations and Printers 54.32 SunSoft Unveils Comprehensive Service/Support Program 54.33 SunSoft Announces Solaris 2 Customer Initiatives 54.d1 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest June 1 to June 11 1993 54.d2 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest June 14 to June 20 1993 54.d3 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest June 21 to June 27 1993 53.00 The Florida SunFlash Montly Digest May 1993 52.00 The Florida SunFlash Montly Digest April 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: June's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54.01.A SMCC To Air New Sunergy Broadcast SUn press release that describes Sunergy satellite broadcast 54.01.B Sunergy Satellite Technical Details Names and locations of Satellites that will carry the June 8th broadcast 54.02 SunSpectrum CUSTOMER SUPPORT PROGRAM SMCC announces new breakthrough in customer support called SunSpectrum Support. Four program levels ranging from total business support to backup telephone and replacement part services for self-maintainers: Platinum,Gold,Silver,Bronze 54.03 New Paths for the HP/Apollo Migration Program New migration paths to SPARCstation 10 models 40 and 51 and SPARCstation LX provide a variety of choices when trading in an HP(R) or Apollo(R) system. 54.4 Welcome TO THE CMW Users Group The CMW Users Group is (for now) simply an alias for users of the SunOS CMW Operating System. 54.05.A USENIX Information Available via Mail Server The USENIX Association now has a mail server that will answer requests received through electronic mail. e.g. membership, conferences, and publications 54.05.B BatchMaster for UNIX Multi-platform facility to schedule, run, and monitor your batch data processing. 54.05.C CERAM's fixed size RAM disk CERAM announces the highest performance, lowest cost RAM disk for SPARC based Systems. CERAM provides a FREE performance analyzer. 54.05.D Ilog Views makes complex graphics possible in C++ ILOG VIEWS is an an advanced tool for building interactive, graphic-intensive applications. 54.05.E GENROCO High Performance RAID Functions on TURBOstor Disk Controllers Raid functions available for 24 megabyte/second enhanced IPI and 20 megabyte/second fwdSCSI controllers for SBus platforms running SunOS or Solaris 2 54.05.F Siren Editor - Poweful Point & Click Editing New Motif-based text Editor Goes Way Beyond Simple Tools Provided by Hardware Vendors 54.05.G We need more colors displayable for imaging This is an article from Tech-Source that explains some of the technical problems in using color imaging and how Tech-Sources Sbus frame buffers can solve those problems 54.06 SMCC And Cap Debis Announce A Strategic Alliance This announcement is part of Sun's Integration Alliance program and is especially applicable to the engineering integration market in Europe. The alliance will market an integrated engineering solution comprised of multiple third-party products including Autodesk and Computervision applications. 54.07 SunSoft and Fujitsu Announce Software Agreement Fujitsu, the second largest computer company in the world, will use SunSoft's Solaris software environment for its full line of S-Family SPARC workstations. SunSoft and Fujitsu will work together to enhance interoperability with Fujitsu's UXP/DS O/S 54.08.A NetShare SDK: Distributed Computing Tools the NetShare Software Development Kit (NetShare SDK) is a set of application programming interfaces to the core NetShare services that automatically and intelligently find and use network-wide processing resources in parallel to achieve dramatic performance improvements. 54.08.B Pure Software's Quality Awareness Campaign Announcement Twenty-One Companies Form Partnership To Improve the Quality of Software Available to End-Users by using Pure Software's tools. 54.08.C New Performance Improvement Product From Pure Software Helps Developers Optimize Software Application Performance Quantify is built on the same Object Code Insertion (OCI) technology as Pure Software's Purify product. 54.08.D KnockKnock - Simple Network Management connectivity information, device status information, access to sys admin UNIX utilities, Point-and-click access to UNIX utilities, Visual status of remote and test machines, User definable menus for frequently performed functions, extensive help facilities - no formal training required 54.08.E News and mail via an 800 number with no per-minute charges Rabbit Network is introducing a service which will revolutionize USENET News and E-MAIL. 54.09 SunPro Announces SPARCworks Professional Ada 2.0 Enhanced Ada Development Environment for SPARC. Delivers Faster Compilation and Application Performance on Solaris 2. 54.10 Sun Network CoProcessor for SunOS 4.1.3 Complete support now available for high-performance NFS file server configurations of the SPARCserver 470/490 systems & SPARCserver 600MP series systems. Delivering transparent performance improvement without application modification or client rebooting 54.11 SunLink Enterprise Integration Products For Solaris 2.1 The following product are now supported by Solaris 2: SunLink SNA 3270/RJE 8.0 SunLink BSC 3270 Gateway 8.0 Client 3270 8.0 SunLink SNA Peer-to-Peer Gateway 8.0 SunLink DNI 8.0 SunLink TE320 8.0 SunLink SNA Peer-to-Peer Runtime 8.0 Environment 54.12 SunConnect Introduces Powerful, User-Oriented OSI Suite Delivers Intuitive Configuration And Management Package; Full GOSIP V2 Suite Including OSI Platform, FTAM, X.400, CMIP And VT 54.13 May 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) The STB "Table of Contents" and "Editor's Introduction" are posted to SunFlash so that customers who have a support contract are made aware of the contents of this execellent publication. 54.13.A STB Editor's Introduction Brief description of each of the major STB articles by the STB editor. 54.13.B Sun and Industry Acronyms Acronyms & Definitions in common use around Sun and the computer industry. 54.13.C May 1993 STB Contents 54.14 Sun Opens Regional Headquarters in Moscow Intercontinental division to support Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). More that 1,000 systems have been shipped into the CIS in the months preceding the office's opening. 54.15 SUG-East Summer 1993 Conference & Exhibition To be help in Boston, MA, USA July 27-29, 1993 This will be an educational exposition and conference designed exclusively for professionals involved in the management, purchase, use and development of Sun and Sparc-compatible workstations, servers, hardware, software, and peripherals. 54.16.A New Fortran90 Pricing ParaSoft Corporation's portable Fortran90 translator has been repriced agressively 54.16.B Language Translation System - Globalink Globalink produces a rough translation to and from English and either German, French, or Spanish. A Russian to English version is also available. 54.16.C Artecon reduces price of Sbus products Lower prices for serial/parallel multiplexors and SBus expansion boxes expansion boxes 54.16.D Fore Systems Announces Sun SBus ATM Computer Interface ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) Sbus interface for less than $2,500 54.16.E SBus Datakit Host Interface For Solaris 2.2 Pacific Access Computers announces as SBus Solaris 2.2 interface for multiplexed data transfer between AT&T's Datakit VCS/Datakit II VCS and Sun Systems 54.16.F Book: "High Performance Computing" by Kevin Dowd from O'Reilly & Associates 54.16.G Control Data's E-Mail Suite of Services Now Available On Sun The Mail*Hub suite of E-mail integration services and products includes support of X.400, SMTP, X.500, cc:Mail, Beyond Mail, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, Word Perfect Office, Higgins, POP, QuickMail, UUCP, IBM PROFS, DEC Mail 11, DEC ALL-IN-1 Mail, fax support enhanced version of sendmail 54.17 One Year Return-to-Factory Warranty Policy Applies to SPARCstation 10 systems, upgrades and attached peripherals. One year return-to-factory warranty on all Sun internal and external tape, disk, and floppy storage devices. 54.18 A Concise Guide to UNIX Books from misc.books.technical A list of recommended books and documents on UNIX and related areas Keywords: books, documents, UNIX, related areas 54.19 Call For Papers - December 1993 Sun User Group Conference SUG will host the 11th Annual Conference in December. Technical papers and presentations concerning the use of Suns in education research, and business are invited. 54.20 Sun Microsystems, Inc. And World Cup 1994 Sun has been named as the exclusive computer supplier to world cup 1994. Sun will provide a SPARCcenter 2000 and about 1,000 workstations for mission-critical applications. The FIFA World Cup is the world's largest single-sport event. 54.21.A An Open Letter to All Sun User Group Supporters The SUG and USENIX (no merger). Chapter 11 (protection from creditors pending reorganization) What you can do to help keep SUG alive! 54.21.B SUGMembers: The Sun User Group's electronically Transmitted Newsletter SUG announces its electronic mailing list 'members' - a benefit of SUG membership. 54.21.C Become a SUG member today! What is the purpose of SUG ? What are the benefits to SUG ? How do I join ? 54.21.D Sun User Group CDs The Sun User Group currently makes two software libraries on compact disk available to its members. Details for both disks follow. 54.21.E The SUG CD ROM ORDER FORM A form to fill in to order the SUG CDs 54.22.A Box Hill Systems: Networked Tape Box The Tape Box is a network device that is used as a dedicated tape driver/media changer for UNIX network backup. 54.22.B IDE/Advanced Concepts Center Object-Oriented Software Development IDE and Advanced Concepts Center of Martin Marietta (formerly GE Advanced Concepts Center) announced a joint initiative to create the most comprehensive object-oriented software development solutions for the deployment of GE's Object Modeling Technique (OMT) methodology for UNIX developers. 54.22.C Prime Time Freeware for UNIX, Issue 2-2 3.5+ Gb of Unix Freeware on 2 CD-ROMS for about $60 54.22.D GVI Announces X/TeleScreen for UNIX-based Groupware Collaboration X/TeleScreen provides both one-to-one and many-to-many conferencing with standard X Window applications - without modifying the applications 54.23.A New Sample Solaris 2 Device Drivers The "Solaris 2 Device Driver Migration Kit" has been updated and placed on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/sun-info/development-tools 54.23.B Draft Solaris Teleservices API document is available for anonymous ftp The manual explains how to use XTEL to write applications that: o Place or answer multiple calls o Hold, drop, conference and transfer calls o Provide access to data channels o Enable security and sharing of calls between processes. 54.23.C /pub/sun-info ftp Directory on sunsite.unc.edu A selection of the directories under /pub/sun-info from sunsite.unc.edu including a listing of white papers. 54.24 "Jurassic Park" Scientists Using Sun Systems Real life work in Fossil Scanning and Ancient DNA improves accuracy of successful US summer movie 54.25 SunConnect to Deliver Interoperability Between SNM & Novell's NMS SunConnect announced it is working with Novell to provide interoperability between Novell's NetWare System (NMS) and SunConnect's distributed, standards-based network management platform, SunNet Manager. 54.26 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ANNOUNCES STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAM Sun plans to repurchase up to 10 million shares (about 9.5%) of Sun's outstanding common stock in the open market. 54.27 SunSoft Announces Shipment of Developers DOE First distributed object environment based on specifications from the Object Management Group (OMG). This release is the second milestone in Project DOE* (Distributed Objects Everywhere). 54.28 SunSoft/HP/IBM to Cooperate on OMG-Compliance SunSoft will be cooperating with HP and IBM to develop a set of OMG-compliant common distributed object interfaces. 54.29 SunSoft Announces PRC OEM Agreement New manufacturing agreement with Sixth Research Institute in the PRC to manufacture Solaris/SPARC stations in China. Ed Zander was in Bejing to make the announcement. 54.30 Sun's Hottest Volume 3 Number 4 This article contains the text of a newsletter, "Sun's Hottest", that is mailed to many customers. It is an excellent summary of Sun's recent product announcements. 54.31 Sun Offering Energy-Efficient Workstations and Printers SMCC & SunPics are currently shipping energy-efficient products that meet the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) guidelines for energy savings, as specified in the EPA's Energy Star Program. 54.32 SunSoft Unveils Comprehensive Service/Support Program Today SunSoft unveiled a comprehensive service and support program for the Solaris and Interactive UNIX System product lines. 54.33 SunSoft Announces Solaris 2 Customer Initiatives Initiatives include new Solaris 2 product enhancements, a Solaris 2 communication center, an expansion of SunSoft's popular Catalyst software developer program and a Solaris x86 certification program. Also, the Solaris 1.1 software environment will be available as an option to customers of Solaris 2 on the microSPARC architecture. 54.d1 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest June 1 to June 11 1993 54.d2 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest June 14 to June 20 1993 54.d3 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest June 21 to June 27 1993 A weekly summary of messages posted to "The Florida SunFlash", a Sun-related mailing list with 120,000+ subscribers ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. 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