---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 66 #81 June 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Electronic Journal For Sun Users Since 1988 John J. Mclaughlin, Publisher & Editor - flash@sun.com ____________________________________________________________________________ 66.81 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. There were problems on Monday June 27th with email to aliases on sun.com including my aliases: flash@sun.com (add/delete, submissions etc) and flashadm@sun.com (send for full-text articles) If you tried sending mail to either of these aliases and it failed, please try again. If the problem happens again, then try sending your mail to flashadm@sunvice.east.sun.com or flash@sunvice.east.sun.com Sorry for the trouble! -johnj 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 (11 articles, 101 Kb, 2555 lines - about 39 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 66.70 5 84 Rover: Contact and Calendar Manager 66.71 7 140 O'Reilly/USENIX BSD4.4 Doc Set and CD 66.72 3 61 Freedom Desktop 1.0 for Motif 66.73 6 116 New Version of ACCENT R 4GL Available 66.74 6 133 Xyvision's Parlance Document Manager 66.75 5 87 Object Design, Syrinx Courses on Objects 66.76 3 59 Artecon Optical Jukebox Offerings 66.77 4 69 Artecon: Rackmount SPARCstation 5, 20 66.78 4 76 Sphinx 48 Volt Rackmount Enclosure 66.79 3 66 SunLink and PTI/PCC SBus WAN Controller 66.80 55 1664 Concise Guide to UNIX Books (June 1994) ** Large ** WARNING: article 66.80 is Very Large. Do not send for it if your mail system cannot handle large files. Please use ftp if possible. Copies are available on draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/1994/66.jun Note that the article abstracts also refer to the most current ftp sites for these documents. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 66.70 Solsource Announces Rover: Contact and Calendar Manager for Unix From: sales@solsource.com Solsource Computers, Inc. unveiled at the SunWorld Expo new Unix software that provides users with an easy to use contact and calendar management tool. The new product, called Rover, is the first in the Unix market to integrate contact management, a day planner format calendar, and action item management with a graphical user interface. (84 lines) 66.71 O'Reilly/USENIX BSD4.4 Doc Set and CD From: Brian Erwin The USENIX Association and O'Reilly & Associates are publishing the final, definitive release of the Berkeley version of UNIX, which has been the basis for many commercial UNIX variants. Written by the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, the complete five volume set includes a CD-ROM and will be available in early July. 4.4 BSD SYSTEM MANAGER'S MANUAL (SMM) 4.4 BSD USER'S REFERENCE MANUAL (URM) 4.4 BSD USER'S SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS (USD) 4.4 BSD PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE MANUAL (PRM) 4.4 BSD PROGRAMMER'S SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS (PSD) 4.4 BSD-LITE CD COMPANION (140 lines) 66.72 Freedom Desktop 1.0 for Motif From: freedom@telerama.lm.com Freedom Software is shipping Freedom Desktop 1.0 for Motif, an advanced desktop manager integrated to the Unix environment. Beginning in March of 1994, more than 100,000 demo copies of Freedom Desktop 1.0 will be distributed worldwide through the Sun CDware 6 program. (61 lines) 66.73 New Version of ACCENT R 4GL Available From: dave@nis.com E-mail National Information Systems, Inc. (NIS), has released version 11.60 of the ACCENT R SQL 4th Generation Language and DBMS. ACCENT R 4GL is a high-productivity environment for developing applications. It features the efficiency and flexibility of a 3rd Generation Language within an Open SQL database architecture. NIS is a leading developer of 4th Generation Language (4GL) software. (116 lines) 66.74 Xyvision's Parlance Document Manager (PDM) 2.1 Available on Sun From: jhall@xyvision.com Xyvision, Inc. announced the release of version 2.1 of its Parlance Document Manager (PDM) content, workflow, and application management system. This new PDM release incorporates several major enhancements that augment performance and expand usability, including: * a PC Windows client for data creation and update * integration of INFORMIX-OnLine as the underlying database * graphical workflow creation tools * standard "Where Used" and "Work In Progress" reports * a Work Pool object allowing multiple access to individual projects * user interface enhancements (133 lines) 66.75 Object Design & Syrinx Offer Course on Object Database Technology From: "Luisa Zauli" Object Design, Inc. announced it has teamed with Syrinx Corporation to offer a new training course, Analysis & Design Techniques for Object Databases. The new course will make software developers more successful in deploying applications using object database technology. (87 lines) 66.76 Artecon Extends/Enhances Optical Jukebox Offerings and Lowers $/MB From: Gerry.MacDonald@artecon.com (Gerry MacDonald) Artecon unveiled enhancements and extensions to its optical jukebox family, dramatically lowering the cost per megabyte of optical storage in the process. (59 lines) 66.77 Artecon Adds SPARC 5 and 20 Support to SPHINX Rackmount Enclosures From: Gerry.MacDonald@artecon.com (Gerry MacDonald) Artecon announced the release of SPARC 5 and SPARC 20 versions of their widely popular SPHINX family of rackmount enclosures. (69 lines) 66.78 Artecon Sphinx 48 Volt Rackmount Enclosure From: Gerry.MacDonald@artecon.com (Gerry MacDonald) Artecon announced that they have developed a 48 volt version of their new rackmount enclosure, "Sphinx". This offering affords the same level of flexibility, high-availability and security to telecommunications companies that standard Sphinx products provide to commercial and government customers. (76 lines) 66.79 SunLink Software Operates on PTI/PCC SBus WAN Controller From: pccinfo@pt.com (Don Turrell) Performance Computer's dual port high speed intelligent WAN SBus Controller (Model PT-SBS332) now offers comprehensive "Plug N' Play" compatibility with SunLink WAN software packages available through SunSoft. This is accomplished through "ComLink" a transparent interface that operates on the PT-SBS332 and provides a fully compliant environment for the SunLink WAN packages. By providing a means of easily using the SunLink packages the user enjoys the advantages of operating standard Sun supported software with the performance enhancements and broad selection of line interface options found on the PT-SBS332 module. (66 lines) 66.80 A Concise Guide to UNIX Books (V 4.1, June 1994) From: sko@helix.net (Samuel Ko) From Samuel's Intro: This is a good selection of over 150 "best" books and documentation on UNIX and related areas like the Internet. The selection is based on i) recommendations from netnews readers, ii) the US/Canada sales figures, and iii) a bit of my own preference. ** Subject areas covered: A. General Unix Texts a. for beginning / intermediate users b. for intermediate / advanced users B. Shells C. Unix Editors D. Networking and Communications E. The Internet F. System Administration G. Unix Security H. Programming I. TeX J. X Window System K. Dictionaries and Glossaries L. Other Lists M. Other Books This doucment can be ftp-ed from: rtfm.mit.edu: /pub/usenet/news.answers/books (1664 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. 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