Item    5408705                 93/07/02        08:34
 From:   CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET#    Internet Gateway
 Subject: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 Contact: Mary Donnelly
 (619) 488-9411
 Fax: (619) 488-3045
 E-mail: info@metrosoft.com

 Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility

San Diego, July 1, 1993 - MetroSuction is a commercial-quality utility for
examining and removing support for different hardware architectures in Multi-
Architecture Binary files (so-called "fat binaries"). It easily handles
folders of applications and multiple binary files per application. It's a
freeware utility from Metrosoft, the makers of MetroTools.

Multi-architecture Binaries (MABs) or "fat binaries" allow the same NEXTSTEP
program to run on different types of machines (currently NeXT computers and
supported Intel-based computers). MetroSuction allows you to easily see which
architectures are supported by a given application and to remove support for a
given architecture, freeing up disk space.

"We felt there was a need for a high-quality NEXTSTEP utility for manipulating
fat binaries.", said Gordon Van Huizen, President, Metrosoft.  "Many people
won't be able to take advantage of removing support for an architecture during
program installation due to a bug in the NEXTSTEP Installer utility that
occurs when creating multi-disk installation packages. And even when that
problem is resolved, it'll be nice to have an easy-to-use utility for dealing
with fat binaries. We felt it should be free for the NEXTSTEP community."

MetroSuction is available via anonymous FTP at sonata.cc.purdue.edu and
cs.orst.edu. Feel free to give away copies!

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