sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Information/Product Digest SunFLASH Vol 62 #33 February 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62.33 Third Party Information/Product Digest This digest contains brief descriptions of non-Sun products or informative announcements. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more article numbers (e.g. 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size Article Number Kb Title 62.25 5 O'Reilly's X Resource : Issue 9 62.26 3 Intelligent Technologies Database on CD-ROM 62.27 49 FAQ: Big Dummy's Guide 1.4, Life, and Everything... 62.28 5 O'Reilly releases Vol. 6A: Motif Programming Manual 62.29 7 Prime Time Freeware's January 1994 line-up 62.30 27 1994 SANS III CONFERENCE 62.31 4 New satellite usenet receiver 62.32 10 The Internet Shopping Mall [dated 13 Feb, 94] --- 110Kb 8 articles 2818 lines (about 40 US Pages) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 62.25 O'Reilly's X Resource : Issue 9 From: Brian Erwin Proceedings of the 8th Annual X Technical Conference Edited by Adrian Nye Winter 1994 256 pages The X Resource is a quarterly working journal for X programmers that provides practical, timely information about the programming, administration, and use of the X Window System. It is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by O'Reilly (98 lines) 62.26 Intelligent Technologies Database on CD-ROM SilverPlatter Information, in conjunction with the Turing Institute of Glasgow, has announced the addition of the Intelligent Technologies database to its range of CD-ROMs. The database provides coverage of the world's literature and leading edge research in a range of advanced computing topics. One of the leading databases in its field, Intelligent Technologies contains over 80,000 records with abstracts, providing access to technical literature, applications, overviews, case studies, product information, developing trends in the industry, and conference papers. (80 lines) 62.27 FAQ: Big Dummy's Guide 1.4, Life, and Everything... From: joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg Heitkoetter) This posting tells you everything you ought to know about an exciting project that helps so-called Newbies to survive their first year on The Net. It gets you softly into most of the often severe details of mindboggling complexity that popup when you're hooked into The Net. It is also intended to help you get around the trap doors, avoid pitfalls and other non-funny things (e.g. local gurus that laugh at you), you'll encounter during life as a Netizen in Cyberspace. It is styled after a FAQ list, ie. "Frequently Asked Questions and their respective Answers". (1364 lines) 62.28 O'Reilly releases Vol. 6A: Motif Programming Manual From: Brian Erwin The manual for writing applications using the Motif toolkit from the Open Software Foundation (OSF). It goes into detail on every Motif widget class, with useful examples that will help programmers to develop their own code. It has been updated to Motif 1.2, but is still usable with Motif 1.1. (90 lines) 62.29 Prime Time Freeware's January 1994 line-up From: rdm@cfcl.com More that 5000 MB of public domain source code in the two-disc set. Issue 3-1 contains updated versions of most of the packages found on previous PTF issues. It also contains nearly 100 *new* packages. Prime Time Freeware for UNIX (PTF4U), Issue 3-1 $60 Prime Time SDK for UnixWare (PTS4U), Issue 2-1 $60 XFree86-2.0 for UnixWare (XF4U) $40 (151 lines) 62.30 1994 SANS III CONFERENCE From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia) Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA The Third Annual System Administration, Networking, and Security Conference April 4-8, 1994 (Cherry Blossom Season) Washington, D.C. USA (740 lines) 62.31 New satellite usenet receiver From: norman@pagesat.com (Norman Gillaspie) Organization: Pagesat Inc. PageSat Inc. has announced a significant enhancement to the already popular Satellite Delivered Usenet Newsfeed. 45+ megabytes of Usenet news each day via satellite. The complete system allows you to receive 4500+ Usenet Newsgroups available on the Internet, and wireless email delivered directly to your domain. (74 lines) 62.32 The Internet Shopping Mall [dated 13 Feb, 94] From: taylor@netcom.com (Dave Taylor) A monthly list of commercial services available via Internet This listing is maintained by Dave Taylor, who is responsible for the specific prose in each listing. If you disagree with anything stated, have good or bad experiences with any of these services, or, most importantly, have additional services to add to this list, please send electronic mail to taylor@netcom.com. (221 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 61.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. 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