---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Product Announcements 2 SunFLASH Vol 39 #20 March 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IOC - SCSI based IBM 370 Connectivity TCP/IP Ethernet Printer Interface Documenter's Workbench Release 3.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: IOC - SCSI based IBM 370 Connectivity I/O Concepts- Easy Solutions for Sun Workstations to IBM 370 connectivity. Connect Your Sun Workstations,fileservers and networks to IBM mainframes with the X-Direct Connection from I/O Concepts. The X-Direct Connection is a family of simple-to-install, easy-to-use Sun to IBM mainframe connectivity products. X-Direct provides a gateway from a Sun workstation's SCSI port to the standard COAX hook-up of an IBM Class 370 mainframe. As a SCSI device, the X-Direct hardware emulates a tape drive. There are three standard configurations of X-Direct: X-Direct 1 works in Cut Mode only for a single session Coax Connection to any IBM or IBM compatiable cluster controller. X-Direct 1+ works in SNA/DFT Mode for up to five sessions on a single workstation connected to a Coax port of an IBM or IBM compatiable SNA cluster contoller. X-Direct 5 works in SNA/DFT mode (only) and supports up to five simultaneous IBM sessions anywhere on a TCP/IP network (on one or more workstations) throught the coax port of any IBM SNA controller or equivalent. As a consequence, the X-Direct 5 is an effective, low-cost TELNET gateway into an IBM 370 Host. All X-Direct connections support model 2,3,4 and 5 terminal emulation, IND$FILE file transfer, menu-driven keyboard mapping, international language customization, Sunview, Openlook or MOTIF GUI, TTY interface, printer support, an optional API, and much more. For additional information, contact Virgil Presta at uunet!ioc-sea!sales, or I/O Concepts Inc. 2125 112th Avenue NE, Suite 201 Bellevue, WA 98004 Voice : (206) 450 0650 FAX : (206) 622 0058 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: TCP/IP Ethernet Printer Interface Microplex Systems Ltd introduces the M201 TCP/IP Printer Adapter for 10BaseT. The Microplex M201 interfaces one parallel and two serial printers to TCP/IP Ethernet networks. Designed for high performance applications, the M201 uses a 16 bit DMA driven parallel interface to achieve throughputs in excess of 50,000 characters per second. Serial ports operate up to 38.4k b.p.s. Host software for many flavours of Unix is included and provides applications with a powerful high speed network connection to the M201. Each unit can be configured remotely from the host system or through a serial port. - switchable Thick or Twisted Pair Ethernet port - one high speed parallel port - two serial ports - Motorola 68000 CPU - non-volatile RAM - compact plastic case - external power transformer - US $995, quantity one - available now For more information please contact: info@microplex.com Tel: 604 875-1461 Fax: 604 875-9029 Microplex Systems Ltd 265 East 1st Avenue Vancouver, BC V5T 1A7, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Documenter's Workbench Release 3.2 From: andrew@uel.co.uk (Andrew Josey) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Organization: UNIX System Laboratories Europe Ltd. NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: Documenter's Workbench Release 3.2 (DWB3.2) Documenter's WorkBench(DWB), Release 3.2, is a complete document formatting package. Based on troff, DWB is the original UNIX System document formatting package and is undoubtedly the most widely-used UNIX system formatter in the world. Enhancements relative to older versions includes PostScript device support, picture inclusion, color, and a powerful new picture-drawing program called Picasso. In addition, Documenter's Workbench Release 3.2 will run under UNIX SVR4 as well as earlier releases. It includes international character set support, a new more accurate hyphenation algorithm, the merging of System V, BSD and other -man macros, the -mpm page makeup package, a re-write of 'tbl', several new PostScript (Adobe Systems, Inc.) utilities, streamlined PCL fonts, and various other improvements and bug fixes. HIGHLIGHTS o Enhancements to 'troff' and Macros Strings and macros are now managed dynamically, thus circumventing some "out of space" problems. The interpretation of four-character escapes of the form '\(xy' has been moved forward to make them more like regular single characters. This permits x or y to be a quote. In the -mm, -mcs, and -man macro packages strings 'Rg', 'Tm', and 'Sm' produce the registered mark, trademark, and service mark symbols, respectively. o New Hyphenation Algorithm The 'TeX' hyphenation algorithm can be invoked in preference to the 'troff' algorithm by '.ha 1'. This new algorithm is somewhat more cautious, but about 10 times more accurate. o New Page Makeup Macros and Software The -mpm macros are based on and similar to -ms, but provide automatic figure placement and window(single line of a paragraph at a page top or bottom) suppression. The macros dynamically call the pm program at runtime, so they cannot be used in combination with -msafe. o Enhancements to 'mm' String Ol(organization label) can now be defined to replace the label prefix for the organization number in the author's block. By default, 'Ol' is "Org.". The .OP macro(force odd page) accepts an optional argument as text to appear on a forced blank page before the next odd-numbered page. If the request '.nr Sg 1' appears prior to a '.AU' in an 'mm' document, the string 'ORIGINAL SIGNED BY' will be printed above the author's name. To restore the customary blank space, set '.nr Sg 0'. The escape character(backslash) is no longer turned off during title (.TL) processing. o Rewrite of 'tbl' A substantial portion of 'tbl' has been rewritten to correct many of the problems that existed before. o Upward Compatible Enhancements -- New global variable 'maxline'. This allows users to override the default maximum for the number of data lines that are effective in determining the shape of the table. For example, maxline(2000); in the global options section allows up to 2000 lines of input data to be used in determining column widths; it also allows changes to the table format(using .T&) anywhere in the first 2000 lines. The maximum value permitted is 16000; the default is 250. -- File inclusion. Anywhere between .TS and the next .TE, an input line of the form .T& < filename inserts the contents of the named file at that point in the input. The included file may contain format specifications, global options, or data in any valid combination, or even another .T&, so nested file includes are possible. -- Error recovery. The normal operation of 'tbl' is to terminate processing when the first input error is encountered. Option 'tbl -c' causes processing to continue even if there are errors in the global options section for a given table, the remaining global options for that table are not processed. If there is an error in the format specifications, the data section of the table is skipped. -- Alternative Spellings. The alternative spellings 'centre' and 'CENTRE' are allowed for the 'center' global international option. PRODUCT FEATURES 1. International Character Set Support DWB 3.2 is "8-bit clean". This means input files may either be the usual 7-bit ASCII or the more recent Western European standard, 8-bit ISO8859-1, known also as 'Latin 1'. Preprocessors and text processors will typically pass these characters through, and the 'dpost' postprocessor will convert the new characters into the appropriate graphs. Only PostScript printers running Version 50 software or newer can be expected to print the full character set. We have also provided three new filters(all read from standard input and written to standard output, with no options): atoL1 will convert any VT200-type escape strings to the 8-bit equivalent. L1toa will convert 8-bit files into 7-bit ASCII, using the escape strings when needed. atoL1sim is intended as a postprocessor for 'nroff' or 'troff -a'. It will simply overstrike the 'xy' pair, since most VT200 conventions try to emulate the appearance of complex characters by two characters which approximate it. 2. SVR4 Compatible The source code has been compiled and tested under SVR2.1, SVR3.2, SVR4.0 and SunOS 4.0. No changes are needed to compile under these systems. 3. Includes Picasso Drawing Package DWB 3.2 includes Picasso, an interactive WYSIWYG picture- drawing program that is an extension of 'pic'. Picasso runs in the X Window System(OPEN LOOK) environment and supports object filling in color or grayscale, line colors, widths and styles, object scaling, rotation and reflection. It is also a programmable language which can be used standalone or in a pipeline. PRODUCT BENEFITS DWB 3.2 offers major enhancements over previous DWB releases. A special DWB 3.2 with each platform shipment, or who agree to upgrade their entire installed base of end users. We have added interactive Picasso to the core DWB product, without increasing the price, so that pictures can be drawn WYSIWYG-style then edited as ASCII files or included directly in 'troff' documents. Likewise, files produced by the batch version of Picasso can be viewed on- screen on any X Window System terminal or PostScript previewer. Also, the internationalization of DWB will help you reach markets that were previously not available. STORAGE REQUIREMENTS The DWB 3.2 source product requires 7MB of disk storage for the core, 4.7MB for LaserJet support, and 7.3MB for Imagen support. This does not include the disk space requirements needed to run OPEN LOOK if the Picasso drawing package is used. Specifications: Documentation N/A Package Includes: Source & Docs Documentation: USL Documenter's Workbench 3.2 Reference Source Language: C Known Hardware Ports: AT&T 6386 Known Operating Systems: UNIX System V2.1, V3.2, V4; SunOS 4.0 Special Notes: Requires OPEN LOOK Release 2.0 to run interactive Picasso Source Size: 8000 kbytes Doc.Size: N/A Documentation: 200 pages For More information contact your nearest UNIX System Laboratories sales outlet. 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