---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 65 #38 May 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65.38 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, 59 Kb, 1630 lines - about 25 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 65.31 2 43 Computer Industry Almanac on CD-ROM 65.32 12 197 HPCwire Table of Contents: May 13 65.33 2 63 GNU tools "packaged" for Solaris 2.3 65.34 4 82 MKS Internet Anywhere Now Shipping 65.35 7 203 TeX binaries for Solaris 2.3 65.36 2 46 "HEAD START KIT" SBus Developers 65.37 30 996 Sbus Information Sources 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 65.31 Computer Industry Almanac on CD-ROM From: karenj@libre.com (Karen Juliesson) A very useful and inexpensive computer reference book is now available on CD-ROM--The Computer Industry Almanac. This CD-ROM is full of information about the computer marketplace: computer industry overview, product and technology trends, market forecasts, computer history, employment/salary data and much more. (43 lines) 65.32 HPCwire Table of Contents: May 13 From news@hpcwire.ans.net HPCwire is a for-fee Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing. This article is the weekly Table of Contents. There are articles in this HPCwire Table of Contents that non-subscribers can retrieve, but you must be a subscriber to request the bulk of the articles. A free trial subscription is available. (197 lines) 65.33 GNU tools available "packaged" for Solaris 2.3 From: jim.CRammond@quintus.COM (Jim Crammond) The ftp directory camus.quintus.com:pub/GNU contains various GNU programs for Solaris2.X running on sparc. These are packaged to enable installation using pkgadd. Included GNU emacs, GNU gcc, Perl and GNU tools (and gunzip). (63 lines) 65.34 MKS Internet Anywhere Now Shipping From: erin@mks.com (Erin Hintz) Mortice Kern Systems announces MKS Internet Anywhere. Internet Anywhere is an easy-to-use software package that demystifies PC access to the Internet. It offers a collection of programs to explore and take advantage of the incredible resources of news and mail on the Internet. (82 lines) 65.35 TeX (and friends) binaries for Solaris 2.3 From: grif@corsa.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith) Binaries for TeX, MF, LaTeX, dvips, xdvi, etc are available on: cs.ucr.edu:/pub/solaris/tex-binaries/tex-sol2.3.tar.gz You will need 14 megs of disk space and make both a user tex and group tex. Please see the README file for more information. (README file enclosed -johnj) (203 lines) 65.36 "HEAD START KIT" Now Available for SBus Developers From: jlyle@netcom.com (Jim Lyle) Troubador Technologies introduced an "SBus Head Start Kit" to help developers of SBus add- in products for SPARC/UNIX workstations and servers. This kit is a "cook book" that provides all the information needed to make PLD- or FPGA-based SBus slave interfaces, and includes the actual source code (on diskette) for several devices. Also included are application examples, and detailed instructions that describe how the devices work and how they can be modified to suit a particular application. (46 lines) 65.37 Sbus Information Sources Contents: SBus Publications SBus Specification MBus Information SBus Product Lists Other Publications SBulletin SMCC Catalyst Marketing Program Technical Support SunService Platform Testing SBus/SCSI Design Consultants Backplates and Connectors DMA Interface Chips SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit, Release III (996 lines) ********************************************************************** 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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