sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Digest SunFLASH Vol 63 #20 March 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63.20 Non-Sun Information/Product Digest This digest contains brief descriptions of Third Party products or 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 (9 articles, 40kb, 906 lines, about 14 US Pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 63.11 5 102 Bristol Group PowerBase 2.2 63.12 3 51 SmartChoice - the choice processor 63.13 2 39 TimeBase: Groupware Calendar Manager 63.14 7 144 UltraCom Personal Media Pilot 63.15 3 78 Portable Mail for Windows 63.16 5 124 schematiX11 DesignEntry Tools 63.17 4 92 schematiX11 - VHDL Options 63.18 6 120 Internet-In-A-Box 63.19 5 156 Xplot Version 4.0 Totals: 40 906 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 63.11 The Bristol Group Introduces PowerBase 2.2 PowerBase is Bristol Group's network contact manager and shared database for Unix network users. Features include -Action Items and To-do Lists -Searches and Sorts -Utilities (email, dial a phone, export to IsoFax(tm) for faxing, and printing) -Notes -Category Buttons (102 lines) 63.12 SmartChoice - the first "choice processor" From AURKEN@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU Groupware product that facilitates group choices. SmartChoice allow you to set up a group choice, collect information (synchronously or asyn- chronously), and analyze the results with insight. SmartChoice's menus make it easy to import multimedia files located anywhere on the network. (51 lines) 63.13 TimeBase: Groupware Calendar Manager From: bryan@alex.com (bryan) Alex Technologies Ltd is pleased to announce the availability on the net of demonstration copies of TimeBase, the Groupware Calendar Manager for Windows and Motif. TimeBase manages appointment diaries for people and groups of people, and allows users to view them individually, or overlapped to check for times when several users are available. (39 lines) 63.14 UltraCom Personal Media Pilot From: ultracom@world.std.com (Douglas L Ashbaugh) UltraCom Incorporated of Austin, TX, a developer of multimedia software for open systems since 1992, announces public access to and initial release of an advanced multimedia email communications software package for UNIX based workstations and servers. Concurrent to this announcement, UltraCom is announcing "GNUware" shareware email communications client enabling software which is freely available via the internet and provides a virtually no cost solution for clients wishing to receive and playback UltraCom Media-Grams(TM). (144 lines) 63.15 Portable Mail for Windows From: bcoll@qualix.com (Barbara Coll) Portable Mail for Windows is a cost effective solution for frequent UNIX e-mail users - allowing you the freedom to read and respond to mail off-line and off-site. It is perfect for people in the field with a laptop or at home with a PC. (78 lines) 63.16 schematiX11 DesignEntry Tools From: info@softsmiths.oz.au@softsmiths.oz.au (Information Request) SoftSmiths is pleased to announce the availability of its X11 design entry and schematic editor tool, schematiX11. schematiX11 is bundled with various options, libraries and capabilities to target different market segments. schematiX11-spice schematiX11-ASIC schematiX11-FPGA schematiX11-C schematiX11-vhdl (124 lines) 63.17 schematiX11 - VHDL Options From: gsmith@softsmiths.oz.au@softsmiths.oz.au (Geoffrey J Smith) schematiX11-VHDL - an X11 Sun based VHDL design entry package for the purpose of capturing VHDL designs in a graphical format and writing VHDL netlist descriptions. Being in a graphical form it is much simpler to transfer the design concepts to other colleagues and the VHDL option allows direct browsing of the functional code for any block at any level in the hierarchy. (92 lines) 63.18 Internet-In-A-Box From: deanna@spry.com (Deanna Leung) Offers Complete Desktop Internet Solution O'Reilly & Associates and SPRY, Inc. join Forces to Provide "Off-the-Shelf" Internet Access for MS-Windows users. The package includes SPRY's AIR Series, Windows TCP/IP applications for the Internet and a customized version of the best selling The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog from O'Reilly & Associates. In addition, NovX InterServ, the first Internet access provider to partner with O'Reilly and SPRY, will provide TCP/IP-based Internet services via Sprint's SprintLink 1-800 data services. (120 lines) 63.19 Xplot Version 4.0 From: dux!nev@global.net (Neville Griffin) Many new functional and presentation enhancements now compliment Xplot's existing powerful features. Xplot is ideal for those organizations requiring graphical XY plotting output for scientific/engineering or financial data. It is an X-windows based, Open Look compliant plotting application supporting the Drag & Drop metaphor thus allowing the user to simply drag and drop a file icon into the plotting window to create XY plots of multi- column ASCII data files. It supports color and monochrome PostScript hardcopy and re-sizeable windows. Xplot also contains graphics drawing tools, text drawing, has interactive editing facilities, includes a powerful batch file format resembling a command line language, and much more. (156 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 62.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. 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