---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 65 #30 May 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65.30 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 (7 articles, 34 Kb, 726 lines - about 11 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 65.23 5 114 Internet Security Scanner 2.0 65.24 9 227 SUN SECURITY BULLETIN: #00127a, 5 May 65.25 4 80 SPARC-FLASH April 20th, 1994: Contents 65.26 4 80 O'Reilly's Book "Making TeX Work" 65.27 4 77 MetaCard hypermedia/RAD environment 1.3 65.28 4 66 Global Wide Help & Information System 65.29 4 82 Tools, Services for S/W Maintenance 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 65.23 Internet Security Scanner 2.0 From: cklaus@anshar.shadow.net (Christopher Klaus) Been hacked ? Afraid to find your network has been compromised ? Internet Security Scanner (ISS) is the first multi-functional proactive Unix security scanner available to the public. It is flexible, portable, and quickly does its job. It provides Information that you need to fix Security Misconfigurations. With more and more hackers breaking into networks and compromising tens of thousands of machines, you will want to use ISS to protect your network. "Rather than wait for a cracker [intruder] to point out the weaknesses in your network, I suggest you grab a copy of ISS and sleep a little better at night." -- Sam Kimery, SunWorld Dec '93 (114 lines) 65.24 SUN MICROSYSTEMS SECURITY BULLETIN: #00127a, 5 May 1994 This revised version of Bulletin #127 corrects and two points concerning a security patch just announced for Solaris 2.3 systems. See the "NOTE" in section I for a description of the changes. I. Announcement of patch for Solaris 2.3 "automountd" vulnerability II. Patch Table III. Checksum Table APPENDICES A. How to obtain Sun security patches B. How to report or inquire about Sun security problems C. How to obtain Sun security bulletins (227 lines) 65.25 SPARC-FLASH April 20th, 1994: Table of Contents From: claire@sparc.com (Claire Pinkham) The following is the table of contents for SPARC-FLASH, the monthly email bulletin from SPARC International. If you would like to receive a free subscription to SPARC-FLASH, please send your full name, title, company and email address to sparc-flash-request@sparc.com. (80 lines) 65.26 O'Reilly's Book "Making TeX Work" From: Brian Erwin We have just published this guide through the maze of tools available in the overall TeX system, including myriad drivers, macro packages, previewers, printing programs, online documentation facilities, graphics programs, and more. (80 lines) 65.27 MetaCard hypermedia/RAD environment 1.3 release From: raney@teal.csn.org (Scott Raney) MetaCard Corporation announced the release of an upgrade to their award-winning hypermedia and Rapid Application Development environment. A powerful tool in both domains, MetaCard is an easy-to-use alternative to conventional GUI development environments, hypertext document creation applications and presentation packages. MetaCard 1.3 can also import and run stacks developed in Apple/Claris HyperCard versions 1.2.5 and 2.1. (77 lines) 65.28 Global Wide Help & Information System (GWHIS) From: combs@quadralay.com (Brian Combs) Quadralay Corporation announced its newest software development tool, Global Wide Help & Information System (GWHIS). GWHIS allows third party application developers to add online documentation and context sensitive help to their applications like never before. This documentation may consist of plain text, rich format text, hypertext, images, audio, and/or video animation and may easily be distributed either locally or over a wide area network such as the Internet. GWHIS consists of two primary components. An application programming interface (API), and a hypermedia viewer (based on technology licensed from the NCSA Mosaic project). Several ancillary conversion programs are also available allowing end users to easily convert existing documentation into GWHIS' native HTML format. (66 lines) 65.29 Tools, Services for S/W Maintenance, Reverse and Re-Engineering From: Charles Stanley Smith After 35 man years of sponsored research as part of the Esprit REDO and RECYCLE projects, the Information Systems Engineering Group at the University of Limerick have formed a company called Piercom Ltd to commercialise the results of their work. Piercom are launching a set of Services and Tools for Software Maintenance and System Reverse-Engineering and Re-engineering. (82 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). 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. 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