PRESS RELEASE

              TipTop Software Ships TipTop Version 1.5
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Bethesda, Maryland, December 22, 1994 ---  TipTop Software is proud
to announce that TipTop v1.5 is now shipping.  TipTop is the most
advanced, easy-to-use telecommunication and terminal emulation
program for NEXTSTEP available today.

TipTop Software thanks all its customers for making the release of
v1.5 possible.  As always, our design is driven by your feedback.

The demo version is available by anonymous FTP from the ftp.cs.orst.edu
archive:

ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/comm/TipTop-1.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/demos/comm/TipTop-Supplement-1.5.tar.gz

or

ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/TipTop_Software/TipTop-1.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/TipTop_Software/TipTop-Supplement-1.5.tar.gz


The demo version runs 13 min at a time and has a limitation on file
transfer size.

The main TipTop features include:

  - Easy to use GUI: Standard NEXTSTEP user interface features.
    The terminal window features a toolbar, a scrollback buffer, a
    find panel, changeable fonts, etc.  Built-in PhoneBook and Inspector
    facilitate easy and convenient configuration of the communication
    parameters, window appearance, and other settings.

  - Terminal Emulation: ANSI, VT102, and VT220, all including ANSI
    color support.

  - Serial Ports/Shells: Multiple serial (modem) port connections
    and shell sessions.  The UUCP locking protocol is used for serial
    ports.

  - Scripting: A powerful script programming language based on Tcl,
    Expect, and Objective C!  The automatic script generator makes
    it easy to create basic scripts.

    [Among other things, the scripting language can run ``term''
    which is used to establish a SLIP-like connection to a remote
    site.  This allows several simultaneous terminal sessions to
    be connected to a remote site, while files are transferred and
    remote commands executed.  One can even run remote X-window
    clients connected to the local X-server.]

  - Application Programmers Interface (API): TipTop's internal
    objects can be messaged from a script as well as from other
    applications.

  - File Transfer: Bundled transfer protocols include X-, Y-, and
    ZMODEM.  Any external transfer protocol can be used with TipTop.

  - Key Bindings: Flexible keyboard mapping.  Any key (with or
    without combinations of the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift modifiers) can
    be redefined as any character, string of characters, script, or
    even as an Objective C message!

New features in v1.5 include:

  - Loadable bundles allow end-users to extend TipTop without
    limits.  For example, end-users can design their own objects,
    such as toolbars, dialog panels, etc. and fully integrate them
    into TipTop.

  - Remote serial port feature allows access of serial ports on
    any NEXTSTEP computer reachable through a network from TipTop,
    i.e., a remote modem session can be opened just as if the modem
    were directly attached to the local computer.  The server machine,
    i.e., machine to which the modem is physically attached, requires
    a TipTop Serial Port Server.  The server will be released soon.

  - The API is greatly improved.  It is now easy to design new
    toolbars, new session objects, new session panels, etc.

  - Many GUI improvements, including new Toolbar, Dial, and Term
    interfaces.

  - ISO Latin 1 character encoding is included.  Users can create
    their own character encodings.

  - Email transfer scripts allow email transport from and to Mail.app
    through TipTop.  When the deliver button is clicked in Mail.app,
    the outgoing message gets queued.  When the SendMail script is
    run, all the messages that are queued locally get transferred to
    the remote machine and sent to the appropriate recipient(s).
    When the GetMail script is run, all the messages stored in the
    remote mailbox get transferred to the local machine so that they
    can be read in Mail.app.  This is very useful if one has a Unix
    account with email access, and no email access for the local NS
    machine.  (These sample scripts are not supported by TipTop
    Software.)

  - And much, much more...

TipTop telecommunication software runs on Motorola, Intel, and HP
PA-RISC machines running NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher.  TipTop still costs
only $185 + S/H ($4 FirstClass Mail within US, $8 AirMail to Europe).
Site licenses are available as well as academic discounts.

For more info or to place an order contact TipTop Software:

         TipTop Software
         Email:   tiptop@tiptop.com
         Tel/Fax: +1 (301) 656-3837  (9am--5pm US EST, Mon--Fri)
         USPS:    PO Box 30681, Bethesda, MD 20824, USA

Visa/MasterCard accepted.