sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Announcements SunFLASH Vol 57 #17 September 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstacts 57.17.A GISExpress ARC/INFO Enhancement New GISExpress Software Provides Speed Enhancement for ARC/INFO. The product significantly enhances the display speed of ARC/INFO, the leading GIS software developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). 57.17.B Prentice Hall Online Catalog You may now ftp to ftp.prenhall.com or gopher to gopher.prenhall.com. Browse or download our Networking and Data Communications catalog. 57.17.C Highland X-recorder for creating both quick, easy and professionally produced demonstrations of your X Window-based Unix software products. Highland Xrecorder captures everything taking place on your screen, including mouse movements, menus, and graphical output, by recording the X commands produced by your application. 57.17.D Vista Technologies announces release of PCTE Workbench 1.1 PCTE Workbench 1.1 is a toolkit for constructing hypermedia-based environments and applications with the Portable Common Tool Environment (PCTE). It provides environment builders with an easy-to-use interface for browsing, building, editing, and querying the PCTE object base. Its sophisticated tool integration framework enables hypermedia applications to be built quickly and easily. 57.17.E XView to Motif transition toolkit - beta sites sought Qualix Group, Inc., a leading provider of UNIX and client/server software and support services, has signed an agreement with UK-based Interface Engineering Software Ltd. to develop an API-level solution for porting applications from OPEN LOOK to Motif. The product will ship in Fall '93. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: GISExpress ARC/INFO Enhancement Newsgroups: comp.newprod From: wtofenstein@tasc.com (Tom Ofenstein) Org: TASC Address: 55 Walkers Brook Drive Reading, MA 01867 Phone: (617) 942-2000 Fax: (617) 942-7100 New GISExpress Software Provides Speed Enhancement for ARC/INFO The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), a subsidiary of Primark Corporation (NYSE...PMK), has introduced a new GIS product for ARC/INFO users -- GISExpress. The product significantly enhances the display speed of ARC/INFO, the leading GIS software developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). Advanced Features/Functionality GISExpress enhances the display speed of ARC/INFO version 6.1.1 by an average of 2000 percent. First, the software reads map layers and constructs a symbolization which is stored in memory. The visualization environment then allows the user to easily navigate through the spatial context of the data without further need of disk I/O or symbolization. Users have full control over which map layers to display at any given time. GISExpress offers a full set of visualization capabilities to rapidly display and manipulate the graphic image, including: pan, zoom, window and refresh. These functions are accessed through a small set of GISExpress commands which can be used directly from the command line, via menus and ARC Macro Language (AML) programs. Providing additional versatility, GISExpress is completely integrated into ARC/INFO's command environments -- ARCPLOT and ARCEDIT. GISExpress' visualization capabilities are supported by low-level, user-transparent adaptations of standard ARCPLOT and ARCEDIT commands. For further information about GISExpress, contact Bill Arruda or Gerry Kinn at TASC (617) 942-2000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Prentice Hall Online Catalog Newsgroups: comp.newprod From: vulcan!phyllis@uunet.UU.NET (Phyllis Eve Bregman) Org: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ * PTR Prentice Hall Announces Online Catalog Service * You may now ftp to ftp.prenhall.com or gopher to gopher.prenhall.com. Login as anonymous, use your e-mail address as your passwd and cd to pub to browse or download our Networking and Data Communications catalog. Read or download the readme.lst or readme.ps file for more information. Other electronic catalogs will be available later this month. We also accept orders by electronic mail at orders@prenhall.com. The order form is available by ftp'ing to ftp.prenhall.com and cd'ing to pub/ptrph_cat/net.comm. (( This is the readme.lst file from ftp.prenhall.com:pub/ptrph_cat/net.comm -johnj )) ftp Site for PTR Prentice Hall Catalogs PTR Prentice Hall, a division of Paramount Publishing's Higher Education Group, welcomes you to the PTR Prentice Hall Online Catalog. The Catalog is a one-stop source for fast, convenient, and comprehensive information on PTR Prentice Hall's Networking and Communications titles. Over the next few months we will add catalogs for Objected-Oriented technology, C, UNIX, X Window and more. The catalog directory contains ASCII files for an Author Index, Title Index, Book Descriptions, US/Canada Order Form, International Order Form, Magnet Store directory, and a readme file. These files are in ASCII and PostScript formats. The files can be searched online or downloaded to your computer. To access the catalog, ftp to ftp.prenhall.com, login as anonymous and use your e-mail address as your password. You can also reach the PTR PH Online Catalog through gopher by connecting to gopher.prenhall.com. The Catalog can be found in the /pub/ptrph_cat/net.comm directory. Read the readme file first. In addition to providing these books through the PTR Prentice Hall catalog, they can also be found at all participating PTR Magnet Stores. Read the file magnet.txt in the ptrph_cat/stores directory. The Catalog contains U.S. prices, which are subject to change without notice. As new books are published, the catalogs will be updated. PTR Prentice Hall is the professional's choice in technical and reference publishing. Paramount Publishing, the publishing operation of Paramount Communications Inc., is America's leading publisher of educational materials from textbooks to computer-based learning systems, and has significant operations serving the consumer and business, technical and professional publishing markets. Paramount Communications Inc. is a global entertainment and publishing company. ptrph_cat/net.comm directory filename description author.ps Author Index, in Postscript title.ps Title Index, in Postscript desc.ps Book Descriptions, in PostScript author.lst Author Index, in ASCII title.lst Title Index, in ASCII desc.lst Book Descriptions, in ASCII ord-na.lst US/Canada Order Form, in ASCII ord-int.lst International Order Form, ASCII readme.lst Readme file, in ASCII ptrph_cat/stores/magnet.txt Magnet Store Directory (( first few titles from title.lst -johnj)) TITLE INDEX ALL ABOUT ADMINISTERING NIS+ Ramsey, Rick Title Code: 06880-9 $35.00 ISBN: 0-13-068800-2 (Paper) APPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENT SPECIFICATION (AES) DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Open Software Foundation Title Code: 04368-7 $36.00 ISBN: 0-13-043688-7 (Paper) ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE: SOLUTION FOR BROADBAND ISDN 2/E De Prycker, Martin Title Code: 17854-1 $48.00 ISBN: 0-13-178542-7 (Paper) BASIC COMMUNICATION THEORY Pearson, John Title Code: 06107-7 $52.00 ISBN: 0-13-061078-X (Paper) C PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO THE IBM TOKEN RING, THE Roetzheim, William H. Title Code: 72376-7 $42.00 ISBN: 0-13-723768-5 (Paper) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Highland X-recorder From: bb@highland.com (Robert Bruce) Contact: Paul Lansky pal@hisoft.com Contact: Robert Bruce EIS Group Org: Highland Digital Address: 1001 Elwell Court Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 415-493-8550 Ext. 204 Fax: (415) 493-4506 Email: xrecorder@hisoft.com DESCRIPTION Introducing Highland XrecorderTM - for creating both quick, easy and professionally produced demonstrations of your X Window-based Unix? software products.Highland Xrecorder captures everything taking place on your screen, including mouse movements, menus, and graphical output, by recording the X commands produced by your application. Editing and Audio Enhancements After xrecording, you can edit and enhance your demo with music clips and voice-over narration, plus highlight key points, add visual explanations in graphic or text form, and compress or lengthen time sequences. User Playback When you distribute the xrecording, a VCR-like playback panel puts users in the driver's seat, letting them pause, rewind, and replay your demonstration. Demo Uses Use your xrecordings to qualify leads, supplement sales presentations, target specific market segments, introduce your latest features, or create audio visual "Getting Started" presentations to distribute with your product. Demo Action A demo is worth a thousand words, so check out the following features and benefits and call Highland Software to try this valuable marketing tool. MAJOR BENEFITS Professional Software Promotions Tell your best and most complete story: Create a targeted demo prior to your sales call. Reduce sales costs Minimize unnecessary calls by pre-qualifying with targeted demos to focused target audiences. Supplement in-person sales Leave an xrecording of your live in-person demo for prospects to review. Get Users Excited Don't just write: Show and Tell with video-like xrecordings and synchronized audio for a dynamic presentation. Introduce Upgrades Distribute "getting started" presentations to move your application users quickly from novice to productive wizards.Easily create a voice-over demo of your latest upgrade features with Highland Xrecorder. Penetrate specific markets Reach hot market segments with special demos oriented to specific interests and specific requirments. Increase market exposure Increase market awareness of your product. Offer demos in CD-ROM magazine supplements. Create your own direct mail demo CD. MAJOR FEATURES Easy demos Simply click to record a live demo by your sales people, your staff, your engineers, or even your CEO. User controlled demos Use the VCR-like graphical user interface. Alternatively, create demos from a script file without the GUI. Audio demos Add voice-over product testimonials by executives at your key accounts. Add dramatic music, or just your own melodious voice. Faultless demos Don't have to worry about hardware configuration at the user's site. All media demos Distribute short demos on floppy, custom demos on tape, and full demos on CD-ROM. No software demos You distribute only the xrecording. With Highland Xrecorder, you don't send your application. You don't send extra data files. XRECORDER OPERATIONS Authoring your demonstration Highland Xrecorder's graphical user interface looks like the controls on a VCR. It's as simple to use as this: launch your application from within Highland Xrecorder. While you operate your application, Highland Xrecorder saves a time-stamped list of all the screen X commands in the background. Highland Xrecorder captures everything appearing on the X Window screen, including all of your product's windows, cursor movements and menus. Playback The finished presentation is viewed by your customers with an easy-to-use no-cost runtime playback module. Since the recorded presentation is entirely self-contained, there's no need for your original software to be present. This eliminates lengthy installation time and large demo files required in order to view a demo. Distribution rights to the playback module are included with the purchase of the Highland Xrecorder license. XRECORDER CONSIDERATIONS Standard X11 Highland Xrecorder adheres to the X11 Unix windows standard. It does not record those portions of applications that make non-standard X based calls. Cumulative xrecording Due to cumulative xrecording, demos must be built from the beginning. Users can pause, fast forward, or start over; however, they cannot reverse or branch within a single xrecording. SYSTEMS SUPPORTED Sun Sparcstation and compatibles olwm v2 and v3, mwm, twm MITX, X/NEWS SunOS 4.1 or Higher HP 9000/700, IBM RS/6000 All Available now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Vista Technologies announces release of PCTE Workbench 1.1 From: hurst@vistatech.com (Dave Hurst) Org: Vista Technologies, Inc. Address: 1100 Woodfield Road Schaumburg, IL 60173-5121 USA Phone: (708) 706-9300 FAX: (708) 706-9317 VISTA TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF PCTE WORKBENCH 1.1 August 16, 1993---Schaumburg, IL. Vista Technologies, Inc. announced today that it is releasing PCTE Workbench 1.1, a toolkit for constructing hypermedia-based environments and applications with the Portable Common Tool Environment (PCTE). It provides environment builders with an easy-to-use interface for browsing, building, editing, and querying the PCTE object base. Its sophisticated tool integration framework enables hypermedia applications to be built quickly and easily. PCTE Workbench is fully open to third party tools and includes integrations of Emacs and FrameMaker. Even tools which are not PCTE-aware can be integrated into a PCTE environment without requiring source code modifications, making PCTE Workbench ideal for those who are contemplating the move to PCTE. An object-oriented scripting language, called HyperLisp, offers capabilities for presenting forms and dialogs to the user and for attaching menus to third party tool windows without modifying the third party tool. A complete environment can be constructed by adding domain-specific tools to those supplied by the PCTE Workbench and gluing them together with inter-tool messages, menus, dialogs, and scripts. Scripts can be executed based on dialog inputs, items selected from tool window menus, or messages received by tools. Complex webs of information composed of highly interrelated objects containing text, graphics, images, and other media can easily be assembled and maintained for applications as diverse as requirements tracing, document management, software engineering, electronic packaging, and geographic databases. "Since no one vendor can provide a complete solution, PCTE Workbench allows you to select tools that are best-in-class for your application and make them work cooperatively with the entire environment," said Adarsh K. Arora, President & CEO, Vista Technologies. The Portable Common Tool Environment is a standard originally developed in Europe, but actively supported world-wide and accepted by the US government as the basis for future software development tool acquisitions. It defines a standard interface to a set of facilities designed to support data repositories for software engineering environments. "PCTE Workbench is the only toolkit currently on the market for building applications with PCTE," said David Hurst, Principal Software Scientist, Vista Technologies, Inc. PCTE Workbench 1.1 is available on Sun SPARCstation workstations running SunOS 4.1.X and IBM RS/6000 workstations running AIX 3.2. It requires Emeraude PCTE V12.3.1. It costs $5000. Vista Technologies, Inc. designs, markets, and supports Computer Aided Software Engineering tools for the design of software and hardware systems. Vista is located at 1100 Woodfield Road, Schaumburg, IL 60173. The telephone number is (708) 706-9300. Vista's FAX number is (708) 706-9317. PCTE Workbench and HyperLisp are trademarks of Vista Technologies, Inc. FrameMaker is a registered trademark of Frame Technology Corporation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: shirleyk@qualix.com (Shirley Kumamoto) Subject: XView to Motif transition toolkit - beta sites sought Org: Qualix Group Address: 1900 S. Norfolk St. Suite 224 San Mateo, CA 94403-1151 voice: (415) 572-0200 fax: (415) 572-1300 email: shirleyk@qualix.com QUALIX FORMS AN ALLIANCE WITH INTERFACE ENGINEERING SOFTWARE TO MOVE OPEN LOOK APPLICATIONS TO MOTIF Qualix seeking beta sites for API-porting solution SAN MATEO, CA. (August 23, 1993) -- Qualix Group, Inc., a leading provider of UNIX and client/server software and support services, has signed an agreement with UK-based Interface Engineering Software Ltd. to develop an API-level solution for porting applications from OPEN LOOK to Motif. The product will ship in Fall '93. The product with the development name of XvM, recodes the XView library to make calls to the Motif library. The XView mouse and menu behavior are also modified to reflect a Motif look and feel. The result is an implementation of XView that can be used to create Motif applications. This provides two user benefits. First, applications coded in XView can be rapidly converted to a Motif look and feel. Second, the extremely productive XView API remains a viable choice for X applications programming. It continues to be a simple and easy to use API for X developers, especially in the COSE/Motif world. "The XvM product will be the cleanest, most efficient answer to the problem that all XView programmers currently face - moving to Motif," says Dr. Doug Shaker, vice president of technical support and training at Qualix Group. "XView is the most productive API for X Windows, and XvM is the only product offering a way to make the transition and still preserve the productivity gains of XView." The alternative to XvM is hand translation, an extremely time- consuming process, especially if the XView user must learn Motif before he can even begin. XvM, on the other hand, allows the user to keep working in the XView API. Interface Engineering Software's experience as a X windows developer gives them an understanding of the problems developers face in migrating code base from XView to Motif. The company believes that XvM is the most expedient solution and Qualix Group is the most qualified publisher to bring this product to market. "Thousands of developers have standardized on XView as their X windows API," said John Felahi, director of developer product marketing at SunSoft. "The XvM technology will play a key role in enabling developers to preserve their current investments in XView, and quickly transition to Motif and the common desktop environment in the future." Qualix Group is currently accepting beta site applications to test run the new porting product. If interested in beta site testing, contact Shirley Kumamoto, programming tools product line manager at Qualix Group, at (415) 572-0200 or e-mail xvm.beta.interest@qualix.com. Founded in 1990, Qualix Group, Inc. is a leading independent marketing organization that publishes, markets and supports software for client/server applications. For more information, contact: Qualix Group, Inc., 1900 S. Norfolk Street, #224, San Mateo, CA 94403. Telephone (415) 572-0200, e-mail info@qualix.com. # # # OPEN LOOK is a trademark of AT&T. XView is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Qualix Group is a trademark of Qualix Group, Inc. All other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. 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