sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest July 1993 SunFLASH Vol 55 #00 July 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55.00 The Florida SunFlash Monthly Digest July 1993 This article contains information about the Florida SunFlash mailing list and a brief summary of each of the articles posted during July, 1993. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55.00.A SunFlash Aliases - how mail aliases are used to distribute SunFlash. Local exploder aliases 55.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email alias to obtain a long description about SunFlash 55.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of ftp sites that store the month-by-month SunFlash archives 55.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by sending volume and part number to and email address 55.00.E July's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to read the longer summary 55.00.F July's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary - abstract of each article This monthy digest article and the article by article abstracts are designed to help you quickly scan the large amount of information that I post to SunFlash. Please send email to flash@sun.com and tell me what you think of these changes. Your comments (good and bad) will be appreciated! John J. McLaughlin SunFlash Editor Ft. Lauderdale, FL August 1st, 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash Aliases To distribute the administration of the mailing list and to keep network traffic as low as possible, I encourage each site to create its own sunflash alias (also know as exploder aliases). The standard names for the aliases are: sunflash: owner-sunflash: (** must include full domainname **) If you are forwarding SunFlash to multiple people at another site, please encourage them to create aliases similar to the ones above. At the start of each SunFlash message you should find a couple of lines that show the name of the alias that I am actually posting to and the email address of the administrator who can make changes to that alias. (Note: some mail-relaying and mail-to-newsgroup programs remove these lines.) sunflash-Distributed to mailing list ALIAS_NAME sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to ALIAS_ADMIN_NAME Please direct requests to be deleted, changed etc. to the address listed after the "sunflash-Send" header line in your mail. DO not send mail to the whole mailing list as listed in the sunflash-Distributed line. You could be sending your message to many thousands of people, dozens of whom will send you email saying "Don't send messages like that to the whole mailing list"! I have recently reorganised many of the sub mailing lists that I use. You many notice changes to the names of the aliases in the sunflash-Distributed line. e.g. a sunflash-Distributed line might now have USA/TX/foobar.com As I obtain permission, the "From:" line in the mail header will be changed to the owner name listed in the sunflash-Send line. This will cause all errors and replies to go to that email address instead of mine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Information About SunFlash An automatic email reply that describes SunFlash in great detail can be obtained by sending mail to sunflash-info@sun.com (or info-sunflash@sun.com). Included in this reply will be: o An article that describes SunFlash o A list of SunFlash distributors by Geography o A recent SunFlash table of contents article (such as this one) o One line titles for some of the most recent articles Requests to be added should be directed to your local Sun office or sunflash-request@sun.com. Please feel free to pass this information on to other Sun users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash Archives I archive SunFlash onto a number of ftp servers. Each volume (or month) is stored as a compressed tar file. When uncompress and un-tar-ed, a directory of the form xx.mmm (e.g. 49.jan) is created with files, one per article (e.g. 49.01.ppp). For each month, I produce a "table of contents" article, such as this one. It is called xx.00.toc. The toc article is also called the Monthly Digest. To help you decide which volumes you might be interested in, I have placed a copy of the xx.00.toc files with the xx.tar.Z files for each volume xx. Size Directory/Filename 1993/55.00.toc 1993/55.jul.tar.Z 24356 1993/54.00.toc 219443 1993/54.jun.tar.Z 31382 1993/53.00.toc 265574 1993/53.may.tar.Z 27886 1993/52.00.toc 172347 1993/52.apr.tar.Z 30614 1993/51.00.toc 200697 1993/51.mar.tar.Z 27088 1993/50.00.toc 139637 1993/50.feb.tar.Z 31113 1993/49.00.toc 169435 1993/49.jan.tar.Z 18304 1992/48.00.toc 108351 1992/48.dec.tar.Z SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations ------------------------------------ ftp server Directory name newstop.ebay.sun.com sun/sunflash (Sun access only) sunsite.unc.edu pub/sun-info/sunflash draco.nova.edu pub/sunflash src.doc.ic.ac.uk sun/sunflash ftp.uu.net systems/sun/sunflash ftp.adelaide.edu.au pub/sun/sunflash * NOTE * solar.nova.edu - the main archive - has been renamed draco.nova.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Obtaining Back Issues By Email You may obtain back issues by sending the volume and part number to flashadm@sun.com. Place the vol.part in the subject line. e.g. $ mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 53.06 53.07 53.04 ^D $ Notes: - more that 1 vol.part allowed in subject line - for multi-article messages (such as 53.04 which has 9 articles), you will get the whole message. - body of message is empty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: July's Articles - 1 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55.01 Hot off the Press - June, 1993 55.02.A USENIX 7th Systems Administration Conference (LISA VII) 55.02.B CRISP - BRIEF compatible, GUI-based editor 55.02.C DISK_PAK: Disk Optimization for UNIX 55.02.D GENROCO Announces IPI Disk Controller Trade-In 55.02.E Pencom Brings Object-Oriented Technologies to Multi-Media TV 55.03 Unix Leaders Complete 1st Release of CDE 55.04 First CDE Developer Conference Announced 55.05 SMCC Introduces Industry-Leading Graphics Workstations 55.06 Sun Establishes Independent Co. To Provide Customer Support 55.07 Exciting New Graphics, Imaging And Video Solutions On Sun 55.08 Graphics Upgrades to TurboGXplus and SPARCstation 10ZX Systems 55.09.A TestCenter from CenterLine - New Product 55.09.B DataTools Announces Development And Marketing Agreement With Epoch 55.09.C Artecon and SAIC Bring HP Task Broker to SPARC 55.09.D Book " Volume 8, X Window System Administrator's Guide With CD-ROM" 55.09.E Tivoli Systems-Management Solutions Partner Announcement 55.10 June 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) 55.10.A STB Editor's Introduction 55.10.B May 1993 STB Contents 55.11 Sun Intergraph Agreement 55.11.A Sun Microsystems, Intergraph to Develop High-Performance SPARC Chips 55.11.B Intergraph Announces Port of Windows NT to SPARC Architecture 55.12 New Initiatives to Ease and Accelerate Migration to Solaris 2 55.13 Solaris for x86 Now Available from SMCC 55.14 SunExpress Opens Distribution Center In Japan 55.15 Dialog Selects Sun Products To Reengineer New Product Development 55.16 SunSelect Launches Operations in Japan 55.17.A AIB Optimize from AIB Software Corporation- New Product 55.17.B HyperEdge 1.1 - Hypermedia/Multimedia Authoring Tool 55.17.C ViewCenter for Motif (Motif GUI Builder) 55.17.D WAIS INC. RELEASES NEW NETWORK PUBLISHING SOFTWARE 55.17.E The WAIS Server for the Unix Release 1.0 55.17.F Welcome to WAIS Inc 55.18 Emeraude Incorporates ToolTalk Into PCTE 55.19 SPARCserver 600MP SuperSPARC+ MODEL TRANSITION 55.20.A Iona announces Orbix(tm) - Object Request Broker 55.20.B Antares Cuts Prices Up to 50% on SBus Boards 55.20.C Aurora adds RS422/485 support 55.20.D New Aurora 64-port SBus Terminal Server 55.20.E MAGMA: Low Cost Sbus High Speed Serial and Parallel Ports 55.21 New 50-MHz SuperSPARC Systems and Upgrades for SPARCstation 55.22 SPARCstation 2 Product Transition Schedule and Related Options 55.25.A ACME Widgets - Table and Graph widgets for X windows 55.25.B Store[TM] - Object Oriented Virtual File System 55.25.C ICSW announces UUCPADM for Solaris 2 55.25.D Book: Learning the Korn Shell Bill Rosenblatt 55.25.E 5th Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop August 10-13, 1993 55.26 Updated Internet Services List 55.27 Sun Microsystems Fiscal Year 1993 Q4 Earnings Announcement 55.28 FREE SHOWME 1.1 PROMOTION IS EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1993 55.29 New Sun X Terminal Offers industry's easiest upgrade to workstation 55.30 SunExpress To Sell SPARCclassic X 55.31 SunPics Ships Advanced Feeder for NeWSprinter 20 55.32 SBus Officially Accepted As An Open IEEE Standard 55.33 Control Data Becomes Commercial Systems Integrator of Sun Systems 55.d1 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 1 to July 11 1993 55.d2 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 12 to July 18 1993 55.d3 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 19 to July 25 1993 55.d4 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 26 to July 31 1993 49.00 January 1993 Table Of Contents 50.00 February 1993 Table Of Contents 51.00 March 1993 Table Of Contents 52.00 April 1993 Table Of Contents 53.00 May 1993 Table Of Contents 54.00 SunFlash Monthly Digest June 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: July's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55.01 Hot off the Press - June, 1993 Recent news about Sun from SMCC's Public Relations department. About 60 news items from "Banyan Vines" to "World Cup USA 1994"! 55.02.A USENIX 7th Systems Administration Conference (LISA VII) Call For Papers/Announcement for USENIX Conference for system administrators. November 1-5, 1993. Monterey, California USA. 55.02.B CRISP - BRIEF compatible, GUI-based editor A fully customizable text editor which is extremely powerful, yet provides an amazingly user friendly editing environment. Available on many platforms and many native GUI environments. 55.02.C DISK_PAK: Disk Optimization for UNIX Disk defragmenter and optimization tool which dramatically improves disk performance. Includes essay: "The Myth: UNIX file systems do not fragment". 55.02.D GENROCO Announces IPI Disk Controller Trade-In Trade in your VME IPI Controller (Sun ISP80) for a TURBOstor S212 Sbus IPI Controller. Move your old IPI drives to the new Sbus only machines (SPARCcenter 1000 and SPARCcenter 2000) 55.02.E Pencom Brings Object-Oriented Technologies to Multi-Media TV Leveraging its object-oriented and Interactive Multi-Media Television (IMTV) experience, Pencom Software has announced a suite of services to help companies develop interactive multi-media entertainment and educational systems. 55.03 Unix Leaders Complete 1st Release of CDE SunSoft, HP, IBM and USL have announced the completion of the first release of the common desktop environment specification-- part of the common open software environment process through X/Open. Copies of the specification can be requested from the X/Open via Internet address: XoCdeSpecs@xopen.co.uk. For hardcopies, call X/Open Ltd. in High Wycombe, England, UK at +44 494 813844. 55.04 First CDE Developer Conference Announced SunSoft, HP, IBM, SCO, USL and Univel have announced that the first Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Developers Conference will be held in San Jose, California, USA in October. (26-29) 55.05 SMCC Introduces Industry-Leading Graphics Workstations The SPARCstation 10TurboGXplus, SPARCstation ZX and SPARCstation 10ZX deliver industry leading graphics performance. New imaging and video technologies also unvield. 55.06 Sun Establishes Independent Co. To Provide Customer Support SunService is devoted to providing systems and network support, education and value added services to end users of all Sun products. 55.07 Exciting New Graphics, Imaging And Video Solutions On Sun SPARCstation ZX, SPARCstation 10ZX & SPARCstation 10TurboGXplus graphics workstations are now shipping. SX Imaging Hardware Technology and SunVideo Video Hardware Technology announced. 55.08 Graphics Upgrades to TurboGXplus and SPARCstation 10ZX Systems SBus frame buffer upgrades to TurboGXplus graphics accelerator and SPARCstation 10ZX systems that make it very simple for customers to upgrade to Sun's industry leading graphics products. 55.09.A TestCenter from CenterLine - New Product Provides an easy, non-intrusive way for you to deliver better-tested code as part of your normal development cycle Moreover, TestCenter works without recompilation and with the addition of only a single word to your makefile. 55.09.B DataTools Announces Development And Marketing Agreement With Epoch Will develop a software module that allows the comprehensive database backup facilities provided by SQL-BackTrack for Sybase to be used in conjunction with EpochBackup, Epoch's network-based software that backs up data located on distributed Suns and other UNIX workstations and servers. 55.09.C Artecon and SAIC Bring HP Task Broker to SPARC SAIC's Advanced Systems Group today announced that it has ported and released Hewlett Packard Company's HP Task Broker 1.1 load balancing software on SPARCstations from Sun Microsystems. 55.09.D Book " Volume 8, X Window System Administrator's Guide With CD-ROM" The X CD-ROM contains over 600 megabytes of X11 related software. It includes complete MIT X11R5 "core" and "contrib" source code with fixes 1-21 applied to core and complete MIT X11R4 "core" and "contrib" source code. It has precompiled binaries of MIT X11R5 core software for several architectures. 55.09.E Tivoli Systems-Management Solutions Partner Announcement Tivoli Systems Expands Inventory of Systems-Management Solutions through New Third-Party Agreements. Open Approach Links Best-of-Breed Applications from Hewlett Packard, Epoch, Raxco, Remedy, Others with Tivoli Management Environment 55.10 June 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) The STB "Table of Contents" and "Editor's Introduction" are posted to SunFlash so that customers who have a support contract are made aware of the contents of this execellent publication. 55.10.A STB Editor's Introduction Brief description of each of the major STB articles by the STB editor. 55.10.B May 1993 STB Contents 55.11 Sun Intergraph Agreement Sun Microsystems, Intergraph to Develop High-Performance SPARC Chips; Intergraph to Port Windows NT to SPARC 55.11.A Sun Microsystems, Intergraph to Develop High-Performance SPARC Chips Intergraph's Advanced Processor Division will develop high-end 64-bit SPARC microprocessors jointly with SMCC's SPARC Technology Business 55.11.B Intergraph Announces Port of Windows NT to SPARC Architecture Windows NT already ported to Intergraph's Clipper. Full range of Intergraph technical applications for Windows NT to follow. 55.12 New Initiatives to Ease and Accelerate Migration to Solaris 2 Enhanced Binary Compatibility Package; NIS Network transition kit; Solaris 1.1 Version C for SPARCclassic and SPARCstation LX; New Sunsoft program to support in-house software developers 55.13 Solaris for x86 Now Available from SMCC Solaris x86 bridges the gap between the PC world and the client/server computing environment. SMCC customers with SPARC and x86 platforms now have a single operating environment to run across their enterprise. Orderable now, shipments in mid-July. 55.14 SunExpress Opens Distribution Center In Japan Broad offering of products for SPARC and Solaris now available overnight throughout much of Japan. 55.15 Dialog Selects Sun Products To Reengineer New Product Development Dialog Information Services - a mainframe user with more that 2,000 Gb of data - is rightsizing to Sun. 55.16 SunSelect Launches Operations in Japan New Tokyo Office to Meet Growing Demand for Integrating PCs with the Enterprise. SunSelect's products include PC-NFS, SelectMAIL, SunPC and Wabi 55.17.A AIB Optimize from AIB Software Corporation- New Product Take the guess work and manual labor out of application optimization. Supply AIB Optimize the application name, Makefile, run scripts (AIB Optimize will optimize your application over mutiple test cases) and verification criteria and it will return an optimized Makefile and application running an average of 30% faster than the same code optimized with -O. 55.17.B HyperEdge 1.1 - Hypermedia/Multimedia Authoring Tool HyperMedia Corporation is proud to announce the availability of HyperEdge 1.1, a hypermedia development environment which supports the authoring and browsing of hyperjournals. 55.17.C ViewCenter for Motif (Motif GUI Builder) CenterLine Software And Visual Edge Software Announce Viewcenter For Motif. A Motif GUI Builder, Based on UIM/X 2.5, it is designed for use with CodeCenter and ObjectCenter. 55.17.D WAIS INC. RELEASES NEW NETWORK PUBLISHING SOFTWARE Wide Area Information Servers Inc. (WAIS Inc.), a new company, announced its line of network publishing server software. WAIS Server for Unix and WAIS Workstation for Unix are designed for commercial-quality network publishing applications. 55.17.E The WAIS Server for the Unix Release 1.0 Based on the WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) open architecture, Release 1.0 of the WAIS Inc. Server for the Unix allows users on Mac, PC and other popular desktop environments to search and retrieve multimedia information in natural language or Boolean queries. 55.17.F Welcome to WAIS Inc Text of a speach by Brewster Kahle, President of WAIS Inc. 55.18 Emeraude Incorporates ToolTalk Into PCTE Emeraude's next version of its PCTE (Portable Common Tool Environment) will be the first software development framework to incorporate SunSoft's ToolTalk inter-application communication software. 55.19 SPARCserver 600MP SuperSPARC+ MODEL TRANSITION Marketing number change and processor change for SPARCserver 600MP systems and upgrades. SPARCserver600MP Model 512 replaces Model 52 and offers 10% more power at the same price. SPARCserver 600MP Model 514 replaces Model 54 and offers 10% more power at the same price. 55.20.A Iona announces Orbix(tm) - Object Request Broker first full and complete implementation of the Object Management Group's (OMG's) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). With Orbix, programmers can develop distributed applications using object-oriented client-server technology 55.20.B Antares Cuts Prices Up to 50% on SBus Boards Antares designs and markets the industry's broadest line of SBus enhancement products. 55.20.C Aurora adds RS422/485 support Options add long-distance and multi-drop terminal and peripheral links to SPARC workstations via low-cost SBus sync and async cards 55.20.D New Aurora 64-port SBus Terminal Server The 6400S provides 64 serial ports for terminals, modems, and other RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 devices, and occupies just one SBus slot. 55.20.E MAGMA: Low Cost Sbus High Speed Serial and Parallel Ports Mesa Ridge Technologies announced price reductions on it's MAGMA serial and paralllel port product line. From low cost serial/parallel to 128 port serial. 55.21 New 50-MHz SuperSPARC Systems and Upgrades for SPARCstation 10/SPARCserver 10 SMCC is offering 32 MB Model 51 systems, Model 514MP systems based on 4-way 50-MHz SuperSPARC and upgrades to those models. 55.22 SPARCstation 2 Product Transition Schedule and Related Options Last quotes for SPARCstation 2 Products August 1993, last orders by October 1993 and last ship date December 1993. See also SunFlash 51.08 "SPARCSTATION ELC/IPC AND SPARCSERVER 600MP-CYPRESSPRODUCT TRANSITION" 55.25.A ACME Widgets - Table and Graph widgets for X windows A set of X Windows widgets which complement the Motif and Olit widget sets. They include: ACME Table Widget, ACME Hypertext Widget, ACME 2D Graph Widget, ACME Stock Chart Widget ACME 3D Shaded Surface Graph Widget 55.25.B Store[TM] - Object Oriented Virtual File System innovative new technology for providing custom applications with transparent access to a number of document formats and file server protocols. 55.25.C ICSW announces UUCPADM for Solaris 2 UUCPADM is the first comprehensive GUI-based package for configuring, testing and maintaining local and remote E-MAIL, asynchronous communications ports, modems, and the Uucp network data communications package. 55.25.D Book: Learning the Korn Shell Bill Rosenblatt This book provides a guide to all aspects of Korn shell usage: interactive "command line" use, plus thorough coverage of shell programming. 55.25.E 5th Computer Security Incident Handling Workshop August 10-13, 1993 Sponsored by the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) August 10-13, 1993 St. Louis, MO. Topics include Creating a Security Policy; Vulnerabilities of the IBM PC Architecture; Unix Security; International Issues; Professional Certification & Qualification; Incident Aftermath and Press Relations; Preserving Rights During an Investigation; Coordinating an Investigation; Liabilities and Insurance; Incident Role Playing; Virus Incidents; Databases; Threats 55.26 Updated Internet Services List A list of special services available via the internet. From Agricultural Info to WAIStation - gopher and Archie servers Over 250 services. Last version posted to SunFlash was in February (55.11). 55.27 Sun Microsystems Fiscal Year 1993 Q4 Earnings Announcement Sun reported record fourth quarter revenues of $1.26 billion. For the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1993, Sun posted record revenues of $4.31 billion (up 20%). SunSoft shipped 140,000 Solaris(R) and UNIX(R) licenses, 117,000 of which were Solaris 2. SMCC shipped a record 71,000 systems and 92,000 SPARC processors during the quarter. 55.28 FREE SHOWME 1.1 PROMOTION IS EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1993 Sun customers ordering a SPARCclassic, SPARCstation LX or SPARCstation 10 by September 30, 1993 are eligible for a free copy of the ShowMe 1.1 desktop conferencing software solution, a $349 value, for each workstation purchased. 55.29 New Sun X Terminal Offers industry's easiest upgrade to workstation SMCC's first X terminal, the SPARCclassic X system delivers industry-leading performance -- from 1.54 to 2.33 Xmarks, and from 29,900 to 102,600 Xstones. 55.30 SunExpress To Sell SPARCclassic X The direct marketing subsidiary of workstation industry leader Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that is will market and distribute Sun's new X terminal product, the SPARCclassic X. 55.31 SunPics Ships Advanced Feeder for NeWSprinter 20 1500-Sheet Feeder for NeWSprinter 20 is SunReady for Easy Start-Up with No Added Footprint. 55.32 SBus Officially Accepted As An Open IEEE Standard SMCC announced that SBus input/output (I/O) bus has been accepted as an industry standard by the IEEE. IEEE standard 1496-1993 is called "Standard for a Chip and Module Interconnect: SBus," 55.33 Control Data Becomes Commercial Systems Integrator of Sun Systems SMCC & CDC announced an agreement under which CDC will remarket SMCC's complete line of workstations, servers and software worldwide as part of the company's system integration solutions for the commercial marketplace. 55.d1 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 1 to July 11 1993 A weekly summary of messages posted to "The Florida SunFlash", a Sun-related mailing list with 120,000+ subscribers 55.d2 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 12 to July 18 1993 A weekly summary of messages posted to "The Florida SunFlash", a Sun-related mailing list with 120,000+ subscribers 55.d3 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 19 to July 25 1993 A weekly summary of messages posted to "The Florida SunFlash", a Sun-related mailing list with 120,000+ subscribers 55.d4 The Florida SunFlash Weekly Digest July 26 to July 31 1993 A weekly summary of messages posted to "The Florida SunFlash", a Sun-related mailing list with 120,000+ subscribers ********************************************************************** 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 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. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. Send brief articles (e.g. third party announcements) and include contact information (non-800#, fax #, email, etc) to: John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909