Sun FlashBack November 1994 ============================= Contents: 1051: NOVEMBER Advanced Systems Magazine Table of Contents 1052: LOTUS NOTES: AGONY & ECSTASY - from Advanced Systems 1053: NTX: System Management Tool for Large Networks. 1054: REDIVIEW - The Report Distribution and Viewing System 1055: JSS/UNIX, The Job Scheduling and Control System 1056: Sbus T1 WAN Access Card for Sun SPARCstations 1057: Technology for Information Security Conference 1058: SLED's Four11 Online User Directory 1059: SPARC-FLASH 9/94: Table of Contents 1060: The SPARCShop Library of Documents and Design Licenses 1061: BudTurbo from PDC 1062: Legent Paradigm/XP Software Development Kit 1063: Paradigm/XP to Extend Cross-Platform Problem Management 1064: Legent demonstrates upcoming new technology at Summit '94 1065: RAD Releases ScreenPlay Internet Multimedia Publishing 1066: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 4 1067: the Sun User Group SECURITY CD-ROM 1068: Competitive Automation, SunSoft and DHCP 1069: SoftQuad shipping HoTMetaL PRO 1070: Efficient Networks' 155 Mbps ATM SBus Adapter 1071: New Sun MidSouth Training Center 1072: Newbridge and InSoft ATM Desktop Video Applications 1073: ZShadow a Time and Space Efficient Utility 1074: Aurora: Solaris x86 Data Comm Cards & SPARC PPP 1075: Client Server GUI for Sending Alpha/Numeric Pages 1076: Berthold Quality Types in Type-1 Format (SunOS, Solaris, etc.) 1077: Continuus Software Ships Continuus 4.0 (client/server CMS) 1078: PowerBroker Version 1.0: selectively Share Root 1079: WEBster Table of Contents: November 7 1080: Component-Ware Consortium Awarded TRP Funding 1081: CRISP GUI Text Editor With Colorization Support 1082: New X USER TOOLS book/CD from O'Reilly 1083: Control Data Systems Adds Lotus Notes Gateway 1084: GUI Advanced Operations Manager For Mail*Hub Administration 1085: DSSLIB - Fastest Mathematics Libraries 1086: IRI Releases UNIX COSORT Version 4.0 1087: Razor: Multi-Platform, Multi-Site Problem Tracking/CMS 1088: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 11 1089: IDE's Leading OO Environment Ready For Corporate IS 1090: Sbus Lossless Compression Accelerator 1091: PowerBroker 1.1 now available 1092: MSD Consulting Releases StatusLine V1.2 1093: SPARC-FLASH 11/94: Table of Contents 1094: Visual SCCS for Sun 1095: Artecon State-Of-The-Art RAID: LynxRAID 1096: Artecon Announces FileTrek Version 2.0 1097: Mentalix Announces Exciting New Pixel!FX 3.0 1098: Interleaf Cyberleaf for Internet Publishing 1099: OpenVision's OpenV*Xfer, a Software Distribution Application 1100: Multi-Threaded ANSYS PowerSolver on Sun 1101: Veracity: data-integrity/security s/w from Rocksoft 1102: Salix Systems introduces DocStor 1103: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 18 1104: Tartan Ada 9X for Embedded Processors 1105: Tartan Enters Real-Time C Market 1106: Sun Observer December Table Of Contents 1107: Sample Article from December's Sun Observer 1108: Cray CS6400 Breaks 100,000 SPECrate92 1109: FirstWatch and the SPARCstorage Array 1110: Ishmail (Information SuperHighway Mail) from HaL 1111: WEBster Table of Contents: November 22 1112: ICL's AccessManager Single Sign-on Available for Sun 1113: Antares Microsystems TurboGX & TurboGX+ 4M 1114: X-Designer 4 Cross-Platform Gui Builder 1115: Celeste's Guide to Terminals & Modems under Solaris 2.x 1116: Professional Mailing Software Systems from Postalsoft 1117: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 23 1118: Microport Virtual Sales/Training Conferencing System 1119: IONA Releases Orbix(r) Version 1.3 1120: PARTEK: Integrated Data Analysis 1121: Generic Logic Toolkit (GLG Widgets) for X and Motif 1122: Mecklermedia Internet-related info 1123: ORB Delivers UNIX DBs As OLE Objects 1124: PageMe: Alphanumeric Paging Software 1125: FlashBack O'Reilly Special 1126: About O'Reilly & Associates 1127: O'Reilly's Free Magazine/Catalog ora.com 1128: UNIX Review Award for O'Reilly & Associates 1129: The Wide Appeal of Linux from ora.com 1130: Getting the Big Picture on Mosaic 1131: O'Reilly's Catalog 1132: POSIX.4 - Real World Programming 1133: Writing Portable X Code 1134: Stopping the Information Railroad 1135: The Sendmail Story 5051: Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun 5052: HPCwire Table of Contents: October 21 5033: HPCwire Table of Contents: October 28 5054: Siren Fax 2.0 Direct Inward Dialing, Client-Server Support 5055: Siren Mail 2.0 with advanced folder management and spell checker 5056: Siren Messaging Environment Cross-Media Architecture 5057: WEBster--Table of Contents - October 25th 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1051: NOVEMBER Advanced Systems Magazine Table of Contents Advanced Systems, the product magazine for Unix professionals, is published each month by International Data Group (IDG) and specializes in comparative product reviews. Cover story: Lotus Notes: The Agony & the Ecstasy NEWS Sun gets clustering fever REVIEWS 18 Unix statistics, math, and visualization packages compared and scored; code coverage tools Veritas Vista and ASA Hindsight. TECHNOLOGY Doing Busines on the Internet COLUMNS Michael McCarthy on Fear of Testing; Hal Stern on keeping RAID safe; Brian Fromme on configuration management; Edgar Saadi on conquering career complacency; Harris & Randy on keeping sysadmin order without autocracy; and David Card on how so many Unix vendors can all be Number One at the same time! (Includes information on qualifying for free subscription.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1052: LOTUS NOTES: AGONY & ECSTASY - from Advanced Systems Excerpted with permission from Advanced Systems Magazine November 1994 issue Advanced Systems, the product magazine for Unix professionals, is published each month by International Data Group (IDG) and specializes in comparative product reviews. This is a review of Lotus Notes for Solaris 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1053: NTX: System Management Tool for Large Networks. NTX, the Network Task Expert, is a sophisticated tool for system administrators. It lets them run UNIX commands or shell scripts interactively on dozens or even hundreds of machines -- simultaneously and securely. NTX removes the repetitive, error-prone process of "login"-ing to multiple systems and manually entering and re-entering the same command. Command results are displayed in real-time in the NTX front-end, can be logged to files or recorded in NTX's integrated database. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1054: REDIVIEW - The Report Distribution and Viewing System REDIVIEW is a powerful report distribution system designed to help distribute information quickly and efficiently. REDIVIEW permits you to take your existing reports and tailor them to fit your information needs. It is designed to save you time and money by reducing, or even eliminating, paper generation, and simplifying the task of distributing whatever paper is generated. It additionally improves the accessibility of important report information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1055: JSS/UNIX, The Job Scheduling and Control System The Job Scheduling and Control System is a simple to use, yet powerful system that will submit batch jobs according to special instructions. It supplements the UNIX standard operating system batch job submittal features by allowing jobs to be SCHEDULED, MONITORED and CONTROLLED. The system can be used directly by 'casual' users to schedule any jobs that they desire, or by operations personnel to keep tight control on production jobs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1056: Sbus T1 WAN Access Card for Sun SPARCstations Newbridge Microsystems announces the SPRITE 212, the first T1 wide area Internet access card for Netra Internet Servers and Sun SPARCstations. The SPRITE 212 incorporates the ease-of-use, simple installation/configuration and network manageability that Sun has successfully designed into the Netra Internet Server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1057: Technology for Information Security Conference Technology for Information Security December 5 - 8,1994 Galveston, Texas The NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Operations Directorate (MOD), the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association, and the Mission Operations Directorate AIS Security Engineering Team are pleased to present the 1994 Technology for Information Security Conference on Managing Risk The conference is unique, in that the Mission Operations Directorate AIS Security Engineering Team (MOD ASET), at NASA's request, is responsible for assessing current technologies, enhancements, safeguards and protection mechanisms. Selected speakers were invited by MOD ASET to ensure that only the best and most current issues are presented and discussed at the conference. Pre-Conference Workshops December 5, 1994 o Firewalls o Client/Server Security o UNIX Workstation Security (ISC)2 Certification Presentations on December 6-8, 1994 o Internet Security Issues o Intruder Management Panel with "A. Darkside Hacker" o Introduction to Firewalls Security Awareness o Internal Audit o Computer Crime Cases Penetration Ethics & Laws The o Importance of Professional Certification o Up to 40 CEU Credits ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1058: SLED's Four11 Online User Directory SLED Corporation's recently announced Four11 Online User Directory answers the cry of many Internet users: "How can I find someone's e-mail address?" Basic access to this directory, of almost 1/2 million Internet users, is provided as a free service to the Internet community. The highly interactive directory is easily searched by e-mail, through the use of e-mail forms, or the Web, by using browsers such as Mosaic or Lynx. A rich collection of search features includes: search by name, search by location, search by old e-mail address, Group Connection, and wildcards. Group Connection is an innovative feature which makes it possible to enter searches for: "Bob at Garden Computers", "Jane in New York City who graduated from Tuckahoe High School", or "Paul who's going to Columbia University". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1059: SPARC-FLASH 9/94: Table of Contents The following is the table of contents for SPARC-FLASH, the monthly email bulletin from SPARC International. If you would like to receive a free subscription to SPARC-FLASH, please send your full name, title, company and email address to sparc-flash-request@sparc.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1060: The SPARCShop Library of Documents and Design Licenses Interested in developing SPARC-based products? Need to implement a version of the SPARC Architecture? Want a listing of the latest SPARC-related products? Look no further - SPARC International's SPARCShop has what you need. SPARCShop offers a range of technical documents that provide valuable information for developers and users of SPARC technology. Review the list below and contact SPARCShop at 800-453-6657 or, e-mail: to place an order. (A brief description of each document follows the order form.) Credit cards are accepted! Quantity discounts are also available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1061: BudTurbo from PDC PDC has announced the availability of a new non-proprietary software product--BudTurbo(TM)--that backs up and restores large servers faster and more reliably than any other utility of its type. Time savings for system administrators and network managers are impressive. The first such utility for UNIX workstations, BudTurbo not only backs up large servers quickly and safely, it is the only way to take advantage of higher performance tape drives. PDC product trials indicate BudTurbo outperforms all other backup products by up to 10X. Typically, it moves 3.5 to 7 GB of data per hour per tape; with high performance hardware, it moves up to 60 GB/hour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1062: Legent Paradigm/XP Software Development Kit Legent Corporation announced the availability of the Paradigm/XP Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables resellers, systems integrators and users to easily build custom applications for, and interfaces to, Paradigm/XP, Legent's industry-leading problem management system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1063: Paradigm/XP to Extend Cross-Platform Problem Management Legent Corporation announced the availability of Release 2.10 of Paradigm/XP, the company's award-winning problem management application. Delivering upon Legent's XPE Distributed Systems Management Initiative, Paradigm/XP, previously named Paradigm, now includes interfaces to XPE's XPErtware. XPErtware provides middleware services which allow applications utilizing various protocols and running on a variety of platforms to gain access to problem management functionality -- regardless of the problem manager's location on the network. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1064: Legent demonstrates upcoming new technology at Summit '94 Legent Corporation will be exhibiting at the Enterprise Management Summit '94 to be held this November 14 - 18 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in booth #315. At Summit '94, Legent will be demonstrating newly released Paradigm\XP and upcoming new technology which allows mainframes and Unix systems to share problem management information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1065: RAD Releases ScreenPlay Internet Multimedia Publishing RAD Technologies is now offering Internet Publishing licenses for RAD ScreenPlay Viewer. RAD ScreenPlay is the leading workstation screen video recording, editing and viewing software for interactive multimedia sales, marketing, training and service applications. ScreenPlay Applications o Internet Audio/Video Applications o On-Line Training and Education o Interactive Marketing and Service o 'Live' Product Demonstrations o Software Simulations and Visualization o CAD/CAM/CAE Design Automation o Multimedia Kiosk Applications This new Internet Publishing license allows unlimited distribution on Internet of ScreenPlay movies for any licensed Developer using RAD ScreenPlay providing unlimited flexibility for world-wide distribution of ScreenPlay multimedia applications on Internet. Special volume and educational pricing available. To download RAD ScreenPlay by ftp: www.rad.com/products/screenplay Select platform o solaris Release 2.3 o sunos Release 4.1.3 o hpux Release 9.0 o windows Release3.1 (Video for Windows 1.1 REQUIRED) o macintosh Release 7.0 (QuickTime 1.5 REQUIRED) For more information: info@rad.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1066: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 4 November 4, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 43 The E-zine for High Performance Computing and Commercial Processing This is a for-fee service. Trail subscriptions are available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1067: the Sun User Group SECURITY CD-ROM The Sun User Group is pleased to announce the newest addition to our award-winning line of software libraries. This volume is particularly exciting because it includes binaries compiled for both SunOS and Solaris -- giving you the convenience of two volumes in one package. Like all of our previous software libraries, the SECURITY CD-ROM emphasizes information sources (papers on security from all over the world, including the US Government and, of course, Sun) and includes plug-and-play Sparc binaries for many useful libraries and programs. As in all previous years, wherever possible sources and help-files are also provided. We were also careful to insure that this sensative volume is completely compatible with US restrictions on software packages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1068: Competitive Automation, SunSoft and DHCP Administering TCP/IP networks, particularly large networks, will become easier and more straightforward under a licensing arrangement between SunSoft and Competitive Automation. Under the agreement, Competitive Automation's DHCP client, as implemented in its administrative product JOIN, will be licensed to SunSoft and included in future versions of Solaris. DHCP, the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to simplify the administration of computers on TCP/IP networks. Specifically, DHCP dynamically assigns IP addresses, subnet masks and other configuration parameters at boot time when new machines appear on networks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1069: SoftQuad shipping HoTMetaL PRO SoftQuad Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, shipped the first copies of SoftQuad HoTMetaL PRO, the commercial version of its popular HTML editor. The software is now available for Microsoft Windows 3.1, and also for Sun SPARC Unix systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1070: Efficient Networks' 155 Mbps ATM SBus Adapter Efficient Networks began shipping their 155 Mbps SONET/SDH (STS-3c/STM-1) SBus ATM adapter in volume in August 1994. This adapter and it's supporting software address some of the bottlenecks found in any network architecture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1071: New Sun MidSouth Training Center Sun Microsystems announces the opening of its MidSouth Training Center in Nashville, TN! Sun has teamed with NSC Systems Group, the Southeast's leader in UNIX-based Open Systems Education. Now the same courses you find in the Sun Educational Services Catalog are available in Nashville to better serve you. The MidSouth Training Center is fully staffed by Sun Certified instructors and its facilities can accommodate up to ten students working in a hands-on environment with Sun equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1072: Newbridge and InSoft ATM Desktop Video Applications Newbridge Networks Corporation, a worldwide leader in ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) networking products, and InSoft, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative computing, desktop conferencing and distributed digital video solutions, announced a joint development agreement to bring to market the world's first integrated ATM-based desktop videoconferencing application. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1073: ZShadow a Time and Space Efficient Utility ZShadow periodically (or on demand) creates an image of one or more file systems, called watchpoints. It's similar to a backup, but instead of creating an entire copy of the file system ZShadow saves only the changes between watchpoints. Because ZShadow only saves the differences between files, ZShadow compliments your current backup strategy by making more efficient use of your disk space. Watchpoints are created automatically or on demand and take only seconds to complete, users won't even know its there. ZShadow maintains the watchpoints in a private save area where they can be retrieved through an easy to use graphical user interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1074: Aurora: Solaris x86 Data Comm Cards & SPARC PPP Users of Sun Microsystems' Solaris x86-based PCs can now extend local and wide-area networks cost-effectively, using Aurora Technologies' family of asynchronous terminal servers and synchronous multi-protocol communications controller cards. The products give original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, and MIS depart- ments a method of network expansion scalable across the most popular UNIX workstation and server platforms, including SPARC and HP 9000. Aurora Technologies has introduced a series of PPP Accelerators that give SPARC-based network users high-speed access to the resources of the Internet over standard dial-up phone lines. The products provide up to 32 remote Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) links at three times the speed of any SPARC system's native serial communications ports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1075: Client Server GUI for Sending Alpha/Numeric Pages Wynn Data Limited is pleased to announce the availability of Beeptool Version 2.0 for Sparc. Beeptool provides a client- server based graphical tool for sending messages to both alpha and numeric pagers from sparc based systems running Sun OS 4.1.x ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1076: Berthold Quality Types in Type-1 Format (SunOS, Solaris, etc.) The BertholdDiamondCD represents a Berthold typeface product in Type-1 format, both for Macintoshes, IBM and compatible PCs (requires Windows 3.1 and ATM), and for UNIX-Workstations (requires SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.3 or BertholdRipExpress). This means that 1400 Berthold Quality Types are available on one single data carrier: high-quality hinted outlines with Berthold aesthetics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1077: Continuus Software Ships Continuus 4.0 (client/server CMS) Configuration Management Solution for Team Engineering Delivers New Facilities For Distributed Code Management, Rapid Start-Up, and Object-Oriented Make Continuus Software Corporation (formerly CaseWare, Inc.), a leading provider of client/server change and configuration management solutions for software development teams, is now shipping a new generation of the Continuus product family. Targeted at commercial and in-house developers, Continuus 4.0 is the central component of Team Engineering, a comprehensive, process-oriented solution for software development. Team Engineering combines advanced software configuration and change management products (Continuus/CM and Continuus/PT) with professional services to provide a full solution which improves quality, shortens the development cycle, and reduces development costs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1078: PowerBroker Version 1.0: selectively Share Root PowerBroker lets UNIX sites selectively share root power among users on a network without disclosing root's password. root sessions can be logged and replayed. A central policy specification controls a whole network. Powerful policy language meets site-specific needs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1079: WEBster Table of Contents: November 7 Vol. 1: No. 5 The Cyberspace Surfer Nov. 8, 1994 WEBster is a for-fee text-on-demand newsletter. FREE INFORMATION FOR NON-SUBSCRIBERS! There are articles in this and every issue of WEBster that are FREE to non- paying subscribers. They are those articles indexed with number series starting with 6, 7 or 9 (such as 65004, 70005 or 90001). Plus, WEBster offers a BONUS article each week that is normally available to subscribers only. This week, select 69000 for your bonus item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1080: Component-Ware Consortium Awarded TRP Funding The Component-Ware Consortium (CWC), comprising six leading companies in Distributed Object Management, won $4 million in TRP funding to greater facilitate software reuse in the 90's. The Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) is a federal initiative to integrate the commercial and defense sectors through cooperative R&D and commercialization of critical high-technology. I-Kinetics will manage the CWC, whose membership includes Heuristicrats Research, IONA Technologies, NetLinks Technology, SunSoft, and Pratt & Whitney. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1081: CRISP GUI Text Editor With Colorization Support CRISP is a state of the art graphical text editor on various Unix and Windows platforms which is 100% compatible with BRIEF. The latest release of Crisp supports chroma/colorized coding for the following language in a true GUI fashion. Ada Awk Basic C C++ Cobol Crunch Fortran HTML Lisp Mail Pascal Perl Postscript Nroff / Troff Shell Sybase Transact SQL Tcl Tex Verilog Ingres Win4gl VHDL For information please send an email to: info@vital.com or call VITAL at +1 (214) 491-6907. Evaluation copies can be downloaded from ftp.uu.net, /vendor/vital directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1082: New X USER TOOLS book/CD from O'Reilly X USER TOOLS By Linda Mui & Valerie Quercia 1st Edition November 1994 856 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-019-8, $49.95 (CD-ROM included) We have just released this CD/book set filled with hundreds of tips, tricks, scripts, and programs for X Window System users. This collection of software and hard-won wisdom is an easy-to-use reference for getting more power and enjoyment from the X Window System. The emphasis in X USER TOOLS is on useful programs, culled from the network and contributed by X programmers all over the world. The CD-ROM contains source files for all and binary files for some of the programs (for a number of platforms, including Sun 4, Solaris, HP 700, Alpha/OSF, and RS6000/AIX), as well as the software for both emacs and tcl/tk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1083: Control Data Systems Adds Lotus Notes Gateway Control Data Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDAT) announced availability of a Lotus Notes gateway and companion directory synchronization software module for version 2.3 of Mail*Hub, the company's UNIX(r)-based messaging switch. The directory synchronization module is the first in the industry to link Lotus Notes directories to a global X.500 directory, simplifying E-mail exchange and providing Notes users with access to up-to-date, enterprise-wide information stored in the X.500 directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1084: GUI Advanced Operations Manager For Mail*Hub Administration Control Data Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDAT) announced availability of a graphical user interface (GUI)-based management application for version 2.3 of Mail*Hub, the company's UNIX(r)-based messaging switch. Called the Advanced Operations Manager, the product will provide Mail*Hub administrators with a simple and intuitive "front-end" for Mail*Hub's administrative tools, reducing Mail*Hub management time and allowing administrators who aren't proficient in UNIX to manage the messaging switch more easily. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1085: DSSLIB - Fastest Mathematics Libraries Users of over 10,000 engineering and scientific applications can now get a speed increase of up to 60% on single-CPU systems or run up to 30 times faster on multiprocessor machines simply by relinking those applications with DSSLIB(tm) from Dakota Scientific Software, Inc. DSSLIB is the fastest implementation of LAPACK, FFTPACK, VFFTPACK, LINPACK, and levels 1, 2, and 3 of BLAS available for the entire Sun software and hardware line. For example, on a SPARCstation 5 DSSLIB runs the standard LINPACK 1000x1000 benchmark 60% faster than libSci from CraySoft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1086: IRI Releases UNIX COSORT Version 4.0 Information Resources, Inc. is now shipping COSORT Version 4.0, its sort/merge/select/report software for client/server environments. The new COSORT is faster, includes a state-of-the-art JCL conversion utility, and provides more report writing options in its mainframe sort interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1087: Razor: Multi-Platform, Multi-Site Problem Tracking/CMS Tower Concepts, Inc. made two announcements concerning Razor, their problem tracking and configuration management package. o Geographically separated sites are now able to easily coordinate their activities, tasks, and priorities through Razor's GlobalTrack capability. Multiple project teams can organize engineering efforts through synchronized problem and issue tracking databases without requiring full TCP/IP connectivity between locations. GlobalTrack is presently shipping as part of the standard Razor release at no extra charge. o Tower has expanded their support of different platforms. Razor is now available for HP's and SGI machines. The package has already been avaialble for all combinations of SunOS/Solaris & OpenLook/Motif. The full documentation set, as well as executable versions of all supported platforms are available by anonymouse ftp. For more information please contact 'sales@tower.com'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1088: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 11 Vol. 3, No. 44 HPCwire is a for-fee electronic newsletter, "The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing". FREE INFORMATION FOR NON-SUBSCRIBERS! This week, select 9020 for your bonus item: 9020) INFORMATION ON DEMAND TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1089: IDE's Leading OO Environment Ready For Corporate IS Interactive Development Environments (IDE) introduced the second generation of its highly successful StP/OMT object oriented (OO) analysis, design, and code generation toolset. This product has been significantly enhanced to meet the needs of IS organizations transitioning to large-scale, enterprise-wide object oriented (OO) software development. Since its introduction last year, StP/OMT has quickly established a dominant market position among all tools automating OO methodologies, outselling its nearest competition two to one. StP/OMT 2.0, available immediately, provides support for business process modeling through Jacobson Use Cases, and can now automatically generate both Smalltalk and Ada source code as well as C++. Continuing to address the evolution and convergence of OO methods, IDE also announces its full support for the Booch methodology: StP/Booch will be available January 31, 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1090: Sbus Lossless Compression Accelerator Ceram Incorporated announces the ICEBoard, the first lossless compression accelerator card for Sun SPARCstations and servers based upon IBM's Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (ALDC) technology. The card provides performance improvements of up to 20x over software based compression techniques. Drivers for Programmed Logic's DTFS Compressed FIle System are available, as well as a developers kit for OEMs who wish to incorporate high speed lossless data compression in their applications. No-charge evaluations units are available ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1091: PowerBroker 1.1 now available PowerBroker lets UNIX sites selectively share the power of root without disclosing root's password. root sessions can be logged, replayed, and queried. A central policy specification controls who can do what, where, when, as root on a whole network. PowerBroker encrypts a session's network traffic to guard against eavesdropping of sys-admin actions. Version 1.1 now includes an expanded policy language that allows call-outs to site-specific programs such as smart card readers. Also, logging efficiency and log queries have been optimized to reduce system overhead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1092: MSD Consulting Releases StatusLine V1.2 MSD enables Sun SPARCstation users to easily and immediately communicate with all workstations on the network with StatusLine. A powerful new communications utility that allows users to broadcast information to multiple workstations or a selected group on the network. StatusLine is window-based application which enables users to distribute short "status" messages, five text lines or less, to other StatusLine users on a network. StatusLine is a client-server software product based upon standard network (Ethernet and TCP/IP) protocols and a standard windowing (X-windows) system, making it flexible and easily expandable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1093: SPARC-FLASH 11/94: Table of Contents The following is the table of contents for SPARC-FLASH, the monthly email bulletin from SPARC International. If you would like to receive a free subscription to SPARC-FLASH, please send your full name, title, company and email address to sparc-flash-request@sparc.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1094: Visual SCCS for Sun Visual SCCS is a source code configuration management tool based on the established SCCS and RCS file formats. It provides: o 100% compatibility with SCCS and RCS libraries. It will draw a picture of your old libraries if needed. o Version control with named baselines. o Access control with delta states and user groups. o Works with binary and text files (RCS libraries only). o Library partitioning available. o Compliant with the Motif style guide. o Drag-and-Drop compatible with other Motif-based application, even across machine boundaries. o Interfaces to make. o What you see is what I see capabilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1095: Artecon State-Of-The-Art RAID: LynxRAID Artecon announced a full line of rackmount RAID mass storage subsystems that significantly extends the definition of high availability and advances the state-of-the-art in RAID technology. Known as LynxRAID, the new mass storage configurations feature hot plug, front removable power supplies, removable fans and loadsharing RAID controllers for complete redundancy and failover automation. Configurations range from 16GB to 232GB housed in a single rack enclosure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1096: Artecon Announces FileTrek Version 2.0 Artecon Announces the release of FileTrek Hierarchical Storage Management Systems (HSM) Version 2.0 for Sun SPARC and HP 9000 platforms. FileTrek provides a complete suite of HSM capabilities including user-transparent file migration, automatic restoration, archiving, system backup and more for the heterogeneous computer environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1097: Mentalix Announces Exciting New Pixel!FX 3.0 Mentalix Inc. announced that it has released Version 3.0 of its popular Pixel!FX suite of software applications that provides image scanning, editing, and optical character recognition (OCR) on UNIX-based systems. Pixel!FX 3.0 is available immediately and includes new features such as an integrated print management capability, a completely revitalized user interface, an application programming interface (API) that enables image scanning, file conversion and OCR to be performed from a UNIX shell or third-party application, support for ten new scanners, and support for the WordPerfect image file format (.WPG) so users can save images directly for WordPerfect documents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1098: Interleaf Cyberleaf for Internet Publishing Interleaf, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAF) announced Cyberleaf, a new easy-to-use software package for publishing information on the Internet's World Wide Web. Cyberleaf includes everything a user needs to build and maintain professional-looking collections or "webs" of information, made up of text, graphics and multimedia files, which can be distributed on the Internet and viewed with Mosaic-like browsers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1099: OpenVision's OpenV*Xfer, a Software Distribution Application OpenVision, an emerging leader in distributed systems management, announced the addition of OpenV*Xfer, a software distribution application, to its family of systems management products. Sourced from ViaTech Development, Inc., OpenV*Xfer allows users to distribute software, collect data and execute system administration functions in a TCP/IP network. It is currently in use at several Fortune 500 companies. OpenV*Xfer communicates with popular network management platforms such as Sun's SunNet Manager, IBM's NetView/6000 and HP's OpenView to share configuration information and operational alarms. It supports the four phases of software deployment: configuration, packaging, scheduling and monitoring, and its easy- to-use graphical user interface (GUI) makes administration straightforward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1100: Multi-Threaded ANSYS PowerSolver on Sun ANSYS, Inc. and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) are demonstrating parallelization of the powerful, new ANSYS iterative solver, known as the PowerSolver using the Solaris Threads Application Programming Interface from SMCC. ANSYS, Inc. has incorporated the sequential PowerSolver within ANSYS Revision 5.1 (released to customers on September 26). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1101: Veracity: data-integrity/security s/w from Rocksoft Veracity is a new general purpose data integrity software tool that detects changes in a directory tree by reading the tree and generating a small snapshot file containing the names and cryptographic hashes of the contents of the files in the tree. The snapshot can then be used to generate a list of files that have been created, deleted, or modified since the snapshot was taken. Veracity provides early warning of corruptions that would otherwise propagate through backups undetected. Veracity can be used to: o Detect changes made by intruders. o Verify file transfers. o Check compression and encryption layers. o Seal files without encrypting them. o Streamline software configuration audits. o Timestamp documents. o Certify backups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1102: Salix Systems introduces DocStor DocStor is a multi-user document control system that uses a standard Graphical User Interface (GUI) to give users the ability to control, store, retrieve and modify large numbers of files in a logical, organized manner. DocStor increases productivity by making the users job easier. The "point & click" interface allows users to access the entire documentation storage hierarchy within seconds. It controls the document storage environment and acts as a control room for electronic documents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1103: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 18 November 18, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 45 HPCwire ia a for-fee Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing. Trial subscriptions are available. There is also a free article for non-subscribers ( 9021) "U. of Minn. Demos High-Perf. High-Res. visualization at SC'94"). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1104: Tartan Ada 9X for Embedded Processors Tartan, Inc. introduces version 5.1 of its Ada development systems which contain support for several advanced Ada 9X features and include significantly improved programming tools. Tartan's products are the first production quality commercially available Ada 9X development systems for embedded processors. Tartan is providing Ada 9X support in step with the national and international standardization of this modern programming language revision. A simple command-line switch allows Tartan 5.1 system users to begin to experiment with the features of Ada 9X without disrupting existing Ada 83 code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1105: Tartan Enters Real-Time C Market Tartan, Inc. announces a new C compiler with better price/performance than any other C compiler available today for the Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C3x and C4x digital signal processors (DSPs). Tartan C produces DSP code that is over 21% faster than the most popular competitive offering. It is available for PC and Sun SPARC platforms starting at $1,495. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1106: Sun Observer December Table Of Contents This is the December 1994 Table of Contents for "The Sun Observer". o Table of Contents o Product News o Product Features o Columns o Subscription Rates o How to contact the Sun Observer A sample article from the December edition is available to FlashBack readers as FlashBack 1107. "The world's largest observatory uses Sun Computers in the quest to discover where everything came from. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1107: Sample Article from December's Sun Observer This is a sample article from December's Sun Observer. My thanks to Jonathan Roe, the Sun Observer's Editor, for making this sample and the December table of contents available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1108: Cray CS6400 Breaks 100,000 SPECrate92 The CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) system has broken its previous fastest-ever records for the SPECrate92 standard benchmarks and the 100,000 rate barrier for these benchmarks with a 64- processor system, Cray Research Superservers (CRS) announced today. The SPECrate_int92 for a 64-processor CS6400 system was measured at 101,969 and SPECrate_fp92 at 129,843. The CS6400 is a symmetric multi-processing system that is completely SPARC/Solaris compliant. Systems are available with up to 16 gigabytes of memory, more than five terabytes of online storage, and up to 64 I/O channels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1109: FirstWatch and the SPARCstorage Array FirstWatch 2.08 has been fully tested with the new SPARCstorage Array and the Vertias Volume Manager (VxVM). Qualix now offers SPARCstorage Array customers failover management software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1110: Ishmail (Information SuperHighway Mail) from HaL HaL Software Systems, the Austin, Texas-based software operation of HaL Computer Systems, announces the availability of Ishmail (Information SuperHighway Mail), a multi-media electronic mail tool for Unix systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1111: WEBster Table of Contents: November 22 .Vol. 1: No. 6 Nov. 22, 1994 WEBster is a for-fee full-text on-demand electronic newsletter covering the Internet. Free trial subscriptions are available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1112: ICL's AccessManager Single Sign-on Available for Sun ICL recently issued the following announcement about AccessManager, a network security product now available for Sun Solaris and SunOS servers and clients. The product provides single logon access to applications across enterprise networks of multi-vendor systems. Controlling user access to applications and simplifying the logon process to one ID and password are critical factors in promoting security in a distributed, client-server environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1113: Antares Microsystems TurboGX & TurboGX+ 4M Antares Microsystems, the leading SBus supplier, announced it will be adding the TurboGX & TurboGX+ 4M Graphics accelerators to its line of SBus cards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1114: X-Designer 4 Cross-Platform Gui Builder Imperial Software Technology and V.I. Corporation announced a unique new cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) builder for speeding the development of Motif and Windows applications. X-Designer 4 delivers a flexible, non-proprietary solution for software developers who are porting applications between X/Motif and MS-Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1115: Celeste's Guide to Terminals & Modems under Solaris 2.x This document uses a "cook book" approach to setting up modems and terminals under Sun's Solaris 2.x. It is not a tutorial and does not cover all variations of serial port usage. But, between the explanations and the scripts, you should be able to get common asynchronous modems and terminals working fairly quickly. o Setting up a terminal on Solaris 2.x o Setting Up a Bidirectional Modem on Solaris 2.x o Setting up a Modem for dial-out only o Tip and /etc/remote o Setting other serial port modes o Random notes of various uses of serial ports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1116: Professional Mailing Software Systems from Postalsoft In today's business environment, you have a lot of choices to make when it comes to your mailing, list management, and document processing operations. You have to choose products that will best meet your needs, increase your productivity, and make you more profitable. That's why so many organizations have chosen high performance software systems from Postalsoft to help ease the strain these complex operations put on their organizations. Postalsoft products help take you to a new level of automation by streamlining your internal mail and list management processing, and helping you attain automation incentives offered by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). o Assign ZIP, ZIP+4, and Carrier Route Information o Standardize and Correct Addresses; Presort First, Second, Third and Fourth Class: Bound Printed Matter Mail o Manifest First, Third, and Fourth Class:Bound Printed Matter Mail o Generate Facsimiles of U.S. Postal Service Required Reports o Palletize Second, Third, and Fourth Class Bound Printed Matter Mail o Create Custom Merge/Purge Processes Select Multiple-Occurrence Records o Take Advantage of List Suppression Capabilities o Find Multi-Buyer Status During List Management o Print Delivery-Point Postnet Barcodes on Envelopes and Flat Mail o Power Your Inkjet Printing Capabilities o Presort and Barcode Print Image Forms o And Much More! (If you contact Postalsoft, please tell them you read about them in "The Sun FlashBack, article #1116". -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1117: HPCwire Table of Contents: November 23 Looking for a gift for that office mate who has everything? Want to show your boss how bright and resourceful you are? Then give the gift of HPCwire!! This year, you can shop via email without ever leaving your desk. HPCwire is pleased to announce our second annual 50% off Holiday Subscription Special: A one year subscription to HPCwire for the first person at your site will set you back only $97. If there are already subscribers at your site (like, possibly... YOU), then each additional gift subscription is $49. For full details and order forms, email . HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM HPCwire!!!! FREE INFORMATION FOR NON-SUBSCRIBERS! This week, select 9022 for your bonus item: 9022) Two Faces of New Congress Will Weigh Future of HPCC and NII ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1118: Microport Virtual Sales/Training Conferencing System Interactive High Speed Application Sharing Over Standard Phone Line Conference Link, available from Microport Systems, allows Sun users to control workstations remotely and share high-speed graphics instantaneously using a standard telephone line. Workstation users are not restricted to network connectivity or dedicated high band-width phone lines in order to efficiently and rapidly share graphically intense applications. In addition to application sharing, users can converse on the same line using audio devices included with the system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1119: IONA Releases Orbix(r) Version 1.3 Orbix Upgrade Enhances Performance and Increases Platform Spread IONA Technologies announced the latest version of its Orbix(r) Object Request Broker (ORB) software. Orbix Version 1.3 includes significant improvements in performance and adds five new operating systems to the already comprehensive Orbix cross platform coverage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1120: PARTEK: Integrated Data Analysis PARTEK is a powerful, integrated environment for visual and quantitative data analysis and pattern recognition. Drawing from a wide variety of disciplines including Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, and Statistics, PARTEK integrates data analysis and modeling tools into an easy to use "point and click" system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1121: Generic Logic Toolkit (GLG Widgets) for X and Motif Generic Logic, Inc. has announced its GLG Widgets product - a low-cost modular 2D and 3D dynamic graphical widget solution for X and Motif. All GLG Widgets are based on the Generic Logic Toolkit - an Object Oriented Interactive Graphical Environment which enables a software developer to create custom widgets interactively from the supplied templates using the GLG Graphical Editor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1122: Mecklermedia Internet-related info This article describes Internet-related material from Mecklermedia: o periodicals o Internet World o Internet Research o Computers in Libraries o books o On Internet 94: an International Guide to Electronic Journals o Directory of Directories on the Internet o Electronic Style: a Guide to Citing Electronic Information o From A to Z39.50: a Networking Primer o Pocket Guides to the Internet o Internet Access Providers: an International Resource Directory o Internet Primer for Information Professionals o WAIS and Gopher Servers: a Guide for Internet Users o The Internet Library: Case Studies of Library Internet Management and Use o OPAC Directory 1994 o Libraries and the Internet/NREn o conferences o Fall Internet World '94 and Document Delivery World '94 For sample issues of Internet World, Internet Research, or Computers in Libraries, send complete mailing address to info@mecklermedia.com or call Michael Hicks at 1-203-226-6967, ext. 243, for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1123: ORB Delivers UNIX DBs As OLE Objects I-Kinetics, Inc. announced that Release 3 of its I-Bridge(R) Object Request Broker (ORB) is the first ORB that delivers UNIX applications, databases, services, utilities, and files as OLE objects to Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) operating system- based applications, the first to include object adapters to popular databases, and the first to include high level access services that are identical for different sources. The I-Bridge ORB is optimized for retrieving data from various UNIX data resources. The ORB is distributed with one part executing on Windows providing services to Windows-based applications, and a second part executing on a UNIX host along with object adapters to different types of data sources. The ObjectPump(R) is a general purpose adapter for accessing UNIX applications, services, utilities, and files and re-directs their output to the requesting Windows-based application. Specialized object adapters are available for Ingres(R), Oracle(R) and Sybase(R). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1124: PageMe: Alphanumeric Paging Software PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS, Inc announced the availability of the PAGEME(tm) alphanumeric paging solution for Sun workstations. PAGEME is the first commercial product to provide an enterprise-wide alphanumeric paging capability for unix workstation networks. Targeted at organizations that require a client-server solution, PageMe provides exceptional robustness to insure that messages are delivered efficiently and without fail. Priced at $2195, the product is shipping now for SunOS 4.1.X and Solaris 2.X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1125: FlashBack O'Reilly Special I have been granted permission by O'Reilly & Associates to repost some of the articles from their gopher and web servers. Most of these articles have been published their excellent ora.com catalog/newsletter. See URL's: o gopher://gopher.ora.com o http://www.ora.com I strongly recommend obtaining a copy of the ora.com catalog by sending your email address to catalog@ora.com. I recently listed to all of the Internet Audiotapes while driving in my car and I really enjoyed them! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1126: About O'Reilly & Associates O'Reilly & Associates is the leading publisher of books for UNIX, X, TCP/IP, and other open systems, as well as a pioneer in online publishing on the Internet. That's a fairly ambitious claim that smacks of marketing hype, but it also happens to be true. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1127: O'Reilly's Free Magazine/Catalog ora.com ora.com Issue 4, Fall 1994 Edited by Tim O'Reilly "ora.com" is a publication that we provide to our regular customers. If you'd like to receive a complimentary copy, and are not on our mailing list, simply email your postal address to catalog@ora.com In November, we released the fourth issue of our free magazine-plus-catalog entitled "ora.com." It presents a behind-the-scenes look at issues we at O'Reilly & Associates found interesting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1128: UNIX Review Award for O'Reilly & Associates "UNIX Review: The Magazine for Systems and Solutions Developers" just announced their 1994 Outstanding Product Awards. An "Editor's Award" went to O'Reilly & Associates. Thank you "UNIX Review" for the recognition and kind words -- and thanks to all the users, programmers, and system administrators who remain an integral part of O'Reilly's relationship to the world of UNIX and beyond. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1129: The Wide Appeal of Linux from ora.com In this interview Tim O'Reilly speaks with Olaf Kirch, author of the upcoming Linux Network Administrator's Guide, about the development of Linux. Olaf graduated from Technische Universitat Darmstadt in 1993 with a degree in mathematics and now works part-time as a C/C++ programmer for a company that's producing a UNIX-based CAD/CAM system. He has spent much of the past year and a half tracking changes in the networking code development of Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1130: Getting the Big Picture on Mosaic Dale Dougherty is the publisher of Global Network Navigator and an editor at O'Reilly & Associates. He is co-author of the Mosaic Handbooks: for Macintosh, Windows, and X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1131: O'Reilly's Catalog A 1 line entry for each of O'Reilly's books: o New Releases (9 titles) o Internet (15 titles) o Internet Audiotapes (8 titles) o UNIX and X Users (17 titles) o Berkeley 4.4 Software Distribution (7 titles) o System Administration (11 titles) o Programming: UNIX and C (18 books) o DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) (3 titles) o X Window System (16 titles) o X 3D Graphics (5 titles) o X Resource (12 issues) o Software Products (10 titles) o Business and Career (2 titles) o Travel (2 titles) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1132: POSIX.4 - Real World Programming Mike Loukides is editor of Bill Gallmeister's upcoming book: POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World 1st Edition November 1994 (est.) 400 pages (est.), ISBN: 1-56592-074-0, $29.95 (est.) We're convinced that this book will become the standard reference work on real-world programming. If you see real-time in your future -- and that includes areas like multimedia, games, and transaction processing -- you'll want to own this book. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1133: Writing Portable X Code This article appears in Issue 11 of The X Resource: A Practical Journal of the X Window System. We make it available here as a service to the X Consortium, so that developers can follow these guidelines as they write contributed software for X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1134: Stopping the Information Railroad This article was excerpted from John Perry Barlow's USENIX Conference Keynote Address, the first offering from ORA's exciting new audiotape series Notable Speeches of the Information Age. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1135: The Sendmail Story Tim O'Reilly interviews Eric Allman Sendmail, the UNIX mail utility, has a reputation for being difficult and frustrating. As a matter of fact, if you're a system administrator, there's a good chance that you've cursed its existence once or twice. Our customers had been requesting that we write a book on the topic, and we were happy to oblige; however, the book took a lot longer than we liked. We went through three prospective authors before finding a team that was up to the job (sendmail, the book, was published in November of 93). Upon completion of the book, we had an opportunity to chat with Eric Allman, the creator of sendmail. Eric was also quite involved in the development of our book. He reviewed it chapter by chapter as it was being written, and from start to finish when it was done. Eric even developed a new version of sendmail, due in part to the questions and probings of Bryan Costales, the principal author of our book on sendmail. What follows is a conversation Eric had with Tim O'Reilly at our office in California. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5051: Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun Adobe Systems Incorporated announced Adobe Illustrator(tm) Version 5.5 for Sun(r), a major new release of its market-leading illustration and page design program. With new features and enhancements matching Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh(r), Adobe Illustrator for Sun workstations lets users easily work in a networked environment and quickly access large collections of files. The new version includes hundreds of fonts, enhanced text- handling capabilities, a simplified user interface, Adobe ShowPS(tm) and Adobe(tm) Acrobat(tm) software. Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun is expected to ship in November 1994. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5052: HPCwire Table of Contents: October 21 Vol. 3, No. 41 HPCwire is the Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High Performance Computing. 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In addition to DID support, Siren Fax users can purchase the UniPost Agent, which allows incoming faxes to be transmitted to Siren Mail and outgoing e-mail messages to be translated into facsimile images for transmission by Siren Fax. Motif and MS Windows user agents are available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5055: Siren Mail 2.0 with advanced folder management and spell checker Siren Software has upgraded Siren Mail, the powerful electronic mail solution for communicating over the Internet. Siren Mail now includes a spell checker, auto-reply feature and sophisticated folder manager. All users can customize their Siren Mail windows with user definable fonts and colors. Intuitive Motif or Character interfaces are available. Powerful mail solution for communicating over the Internet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5056: Siren Messaging Environment Cross-Media Architecture Siren Software's integrated store and forward electronic messaging solution, SME 2.0, includes Siren Mail and Siren Fax. In addition to many foundation blocks such as "common look and feel" graphical user-interfaces, SME 2.0 offers a consistent architecture that enables organizations to effectively send and receive multimedia documents, across different messaging systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5057: WEBster--Table of Contents - October 25th Vol. 1: No. 4 WEBster is a for-fee Full-Text on demand newsletter that covers the internet. 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