---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 66 #92 June 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Electronic Journal For Sun Users Since 1988 John J. Mclaughlin, Publisher & Editor - flash@sun.com ____________________________________________________________________________ 66.92 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. 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 space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (7 articles, 30 Kb, 585 lines - about 9 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 66.86 3 58 Fax On Demand for Solaris 2.x 66.87 3 59 Pencom: Solaris Migration Services 66.88 3 77 TransferPro: Mac, DOS media under UNIX 66.89 5 97 Aggregate NetShare SDK - Distributed Apps 66.90 7 132 Connectware's ATM Product Portfolio 66.91 5 91 PDC: Metrum Tape Drives (upto 12,600 Gb) 66.92 4 71 ANDATACO's SCSI Bus Management Tool How To Request An Article - Example ----------------------------------- %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 ^D % Place the list articles numbers on the same line as the Subject keyword. Separate article numbers with a space (e.g 63.39 63.40). If Articles Don't Arrive After a Reasonable Time ------------------------------------------------ I get a number of requests that come from sites that do not have their mail system set up properly. Some requests have their return path or the From: lines mangled as they travel through the net. If you suspect that your requested article is not getting to you because of an email address problem, then resubmit and add the keyword "email-to" in the body of the message: %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 email-to foo%bar@name.domain ^D % Replace foo%bar@name.domain with your email address. -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 66.86 Fax On Demand solution for Solaris 2.x From: gradient@siemens.com Gradient Technology, Inc. announces Solaris 2.x support for its FaxDispatch(tm) Fax-On-Demand (FOD) solution for Unix environments. FaxDispatch FOD lets departments and enterprises automate document selection and delivery, to serve any user with a telephone and a fax. FaxDispatch FOD provides a voice menu to callers, quiding them in selecting documents from a database, and subsequently delivering the selected material over a multiline fax subsystem. (58 lines) 66.87 Pencom Certified to Offer Suite of SunOS to Solaris Migration Services From: Pam O'Neal Most managers of Sun systems today are considered making the move to Solaris. To assist these managers, Pencom is offering a suite of migration services designed to ensure a smooth transition at the lowest cost possible and with the least risk. Recently selected as a SunSoft Authorized Support Provider, Pencom is now offering Sun customers with one source for all their Solaris migration needs so they can reap the rewards of faster application development and hardware independence without the risks. (59 lines) 66.88 TransferPro - read, write, format Mac, DOS media under UNIX From: Melissa Beery Digital Instrumentation Technology, Inc. the creators of TransferPro, a file exchange software program that allows UNIX users to read, write and format Macintosh and DOS media, today announced a new release(R2V8) of their TransferPro product. (77 lines) 66.89 Aggregate Releases NetShare SDK for Building Distributed Apps Aggregate Computing announces the release of NetShare SDK (software development kit), the first commercially available development tool of its kind. NetShare SDK allows application developers to incorporate distributed processing capabilities into their own software appications. (97 lines) 66.90 Connectware's Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Product Portfolio From 6608992@mcimail.com The Connectware charter is to provide local area and wide area networking (LAN/WAN) convergence utilizing ATM technology, and to develop hardware and software products for integrating communications and information technology. CELLerity is an affordable ATM workgroup/departmental solution that includes a Hub and network interface cards (NICs) that support Sbus, EISA, TURBOchannel and PCI. Connectware is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AMP (fortune 144, $3.45 in sales in 1993). (132 lines) 66.91 PDC: Metrum Tape Drives and Libraries (upto 12,600 Gb) From: khegarty@pa.pdc.com (Kelly Hegarty - PDC-HQ) PDC will market Metrum RSP-2150 tape drives and the RSS-b family of storage libraries nationwide, through its regional sales offices. The products will be integrated with PDC's BudTool, the first automatic backup and retrieval software for large, heterogeneous networks, and the leading backup product for storage libraries. Metrum storage libraries hold up to six drives and 600 cartridges, handling data capacities from 696 gigabytes to 12.6 terabytes. Each unit offers fast retrieval times, robotic mechanisms, inventory and security features, and comes with a standard twelve-month warranty. (91 lines) 66.92 ANDATACO's SCSI Bus Management Tool (SBMT) 2.0 Support Solaris, Motif From: emily@andataco.com (Emily Ospenson) SCSI Bus Management Tool is a software utility which enables SPARC workstation users to easily install, configure and analyze storage systems on their computer. The major enhancement in comparison with earlier versions of SBMT includes support for Solaris 2.x and Motif. SBMT 2.0 now also has the added capability to monitor the transfer speed of disk drives and includes support for ANDATACO's GigaRAID rackmount or tower systems attached to workstations. (71 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 65.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. (Login as 'gopher' for a simple gopher client, 'swais' for a simple WAIS client (over 500 databases). 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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