FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Don Yacktman
(801)221-0344
Don_Yacktman@byu.edu


ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF THE MISCKIT VERSION 1.2.5

Update to Kit of Free Objective-C Objects Is Now Available

PROVO, UT, May 31, 1994 -- A new maintenance release
of the MiscKit has just been publically released.  It
countains many new objects and fixes all of the problems
reported since the previous release.  The MiscKit may be
obtained via ftp to any of the following sites:

    cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/sources/objects/MiscKit1.2.5.tar.gz
    sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions/MiscKit1.2.5.tar.gz
    ftp.et.byu.edu:/pub/next/misckit/MiscKit1.2.5.tar.gz
    ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:
        /pub/comp/platforms/next/Developer/objc/misckit/MiscKit1.2.5.s.tar.gz

The byu site always has the most recent official MiscKit
distribution available in /pub/next/misckit and older versions
are archived in /pub/next/misckit/old.  Please note the change
from ftp.byu.edu to ftp.et.byu.edu!  (The old name will soon
point to an entirely different machine.)

The MiscKit is an easy to install kit consisting of Objective-C
objects, Interface Builder palettes, bundles, and other useful
programming resources.  All the resources in the MiscKit have been
donated by various Internet personalities for the benefit of other
NEXTSTEP programmers.

Objects include data structures (string, tree, stack, queue,
priority queue, linked list), interface widgets (find panel,
textfield, button and slider subclasses, clock and calendar views,
icon wells, progress pie/bar), macros, other useful objects (lock
file, log file, time, stopwatch, serial port, colors, subprocess,
remote subprocess), frameworks for building complex interfaces
(MiscSwapKit, MiscInspectorKit, InfoMenuKit) and even some
useful example applications...plus much more!

To make the MiscKit more attractive to developers, use of the
MiscKit resources is absolutely free of charge, no matter how
the resources are used.  Redistribution of the MiscKit is also
encouraged.  Many developers are reluctant to use objects which
are under the GNU "Copyleft".  As a result, the MiscKit has its
own license, which allows developers to reuse the code freely,
even in commercial projects.  Everything possible has been done
to encourage the use of the MiscKit to speed development efforts.

Any developer who has generally useful objects, palettes, or
other programming resources and would like to donate them to the
MiscKit effort is welcome to do so.  Contact Don_Yacktman@byu.edu
for information on how to prepare a MiscKit submission.  By
making a submission to the MiscKit, a developer can avoid the
hassles of packaging up a formal distribution of their resources
and in turn help add to a growing centralized pool of useful
resources.

Also available are several MiscKit-based mailing lists.  The first
list is for those who are interested in participating in the
development of the MiscKit.  Anyone who is interested in following
the discussion should send mail to misckit-request@byu.edu to be
placed on the list.  Send mail to misckit@byu.edu to post messages
to this list.  The second MiscKit mailing list is for distributing
announcements of new MiscKit releases.  Anyone who would like to
receive e-mail notification of new MiscKit releases should send
mail to the MiscKit administrator, Don_Yacktman@byu.edu, and
request to be placed on the MiscKit release list.  Anyone on the
development list already receives notification of new releases
and should therefore not ask to be added to the release list.  Two
other lists are mentioned in the MiscKit's top level README.rtf file.

The MiscKit has evolved from the DAYMiscKit and several objects
released over the past few years by Don Yacktman and other USENET
personalities.

Don Yacktman

Don Yacktman is a student at Brigham Young University, working
towards a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He acts as the MiscKit administrator in his spare time between
class and various NEXTSTEP consulting projects.

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