---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 65 #65 May 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65.65 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 (9 articles, 62 Kb, 1453 lines - about 23 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 65.56 3 63 ACCENT STP Motif Conversion Tool 65.57 2 40 BRIEF/vi Compatible GUI Text Editor 65.58 11 276 Freeware for a Multimedia Internet 65.59 3 71 StatusLine: Shared Network Messages 65.60 3 59 Red Brick Warehouse V 2.1 65.61 9 282 CheckVision: Imaging Products 65.62 6 107 Amdahl Enterprise File Manager 65.63 13 294 Amdahl's A+USER Access: Backup 65.64 12 261 Amdahl's A+UniTree 3.0 HSM 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 65.56 ACCENT STP Xview, OLIT and Devguide to Motif Conversion Tool From: Dave Wagner ACCENT STP (Sun Transition Pack) is a source code translation package that converts OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications written in C or C++ language source code with Devguide, XView, and the OPEN LOOK Intrinsics ToolKit (OLIT) to Motif GUI applications. Expected conversion level is generally over 90% depending on the nature of the application. (63 lines) 65.57 BRIEF/vi Compatible GUI Text Editor From: rohit@metronet.com (Rohit Mehrotra) CRISP 4.1.9 is avialable via anonymous FTP. For folks not familiar with CRISP, it is a BRIEF/vi compatible, _truly_ graphical text editor on Unix and Windows platforms that offers some of the most advanced set of features combined with an exceptional ease of use that is unheard of under UNIX. (40 lines) 65.58 Freeware for a Multimedia Internet From: rad!jmorgan@uunet.UU.NET (Jeff Morgan) Free multimedia screen movie software for non-commercial Internet users to expand your mind and internet communications capabilities. Also, free to all FTP archieve host contributors. (276 lines) 65.59 StatusLine: Share Status Messages With Users On A Network From: ddavis@netcom.com (Debra Davis) Do you want to broadcast important information to all of your WorkStations on the network? Then you need StatusLine. StatusLine is a X window-based application which enables users to disseminate short (five text lines or less) "status" messages to other StatusLine users on a network. StatusLine does not require that the users have superuser privileges to send messages, and does not send its messages to all of the terminals or windows of each user on every system in the network; instead it sends its messages to a single application window for each user. (71 lines) 65.60 Red Brick Warehouse V 2.1 for Sun SPARC (Solaris 2.3) From: Ken Nicolson Red Brick Systems announces the immediate availability of the Red Brick Warehouse V 2.1 for Sun SPARC 1000/2000 server platforms running the Solaris 2.3 operating system. Red Brick is the first and leading relational database company focused exclusively on large-scale commercial data warehousing applications. Relative to traditional RDBMS products, Red Brick's technology offers several compelling points of differentiation that are specific to data warehousing and decision support applications. These points of differentiation are described below. (59 lines) 65.61 CheckVision: Imaging Products For Financial Services Organizations IA Corporation, formerly Litton Integrated Automation, announces their CheckVision family of check imaging products that provide financial services organizations (banks, mutual fund companies, brokerage houses) with significant operations savings, increased fee-income, product differentiation and a strategic advantage. It consists of the following products: o Check image statements o Image delivery/interchange o Archive and research o Check truncation (282 lines) 65.62 Amdahl Enterprise File Manager Enhancements for Solaris From: tzo70@oes.amdahl.com (Terri Ohryn Doyle) (408) 992-3065 Amdahl Corporation introduces enhancements to its Enterprise File Manager data management strategy. The addition of the A+USER Access backup management facility and a distributed version of the A+UniTree hierarchical storage manager (HSM) allow Amdahl to now offer centralized data management from distributed Solaris based systems. The A+USER Access backup facility integrates with the A+UniTree HSM to provide enterprise-wide backup and file management of data across departments and networks. (107 lines) 65.63 Amdahl's A+USER Access: Heterogeneous Central Backup From: Roger Goulart (rjg50@oes.amdahl.com) A+USER Access is a key component of Amdahl's Enterprise File Manager(TM) data management strategy ("Enterprise File Manager"). Enterprise File Manager consists of a suite of data management software, services, and hardware products, strategically integrated to give customers a complete turn-key enterprise data management solution. * A+USER Access Provides Central Backup Management of Heterogeneous LAN-based clients * A+USER Access is now Available on Solaris Platforms * Distributed Data is Protected in the Safest Place in the Organization - the Data Center * Central or Locally Attended Host Scheduled Backups * Graphical User Interface for Easy Client Usage and Administrator Setups (294 lines) 65.64 Amdahl's A+UniTree 3.0 Hierarchical Storage Manager From: Roger Goulart * Amdahl's A+UniTree hierarchical storage manager is now available on Solaris systems. * A+UniTree is available in a distributed version, that localizes data movement across large-scale or geographically diverse environments. * With A+UniTree high-end robotic tape silos can now be both supported by Solaris systems and shared with an MVS system. * Amdahl A+UniTree automates the storage management process of maintaining files where they can be most productively used and most cost-effectively stored. Amdahl Corporation's A+UniTree(TM) hierarchical storage manager ("A+UniTree"), now available on Solaris platforms, is designed to provide safe and cost effective data management for large enterprise environments. As organizations become dependent on electronic data, departments and end-users start looking to the data center to efficiently manage their expanding distributed desktop data. A+UniTree reduces the costs associated with managing this data and increases end-user accessibility to data across the entire enterprise. (261 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 64.00 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). 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