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- Press Release Contact: Brady Flowers
- President
- 507-388-7001
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- QWK MAIL READER FOR OS/2 2.0 PRE-RELEASE AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC
-
- Mankato, MN, Jan. 4, 1993 - Oberon Software announced today that
- the current pre-release version of its 32-bit application PMQWK,
- a QWK Mail reader for OS/2 2.0, will be made available to the
- public effective immediately. The program is available for
- download from Oberon Software's BBS at 507-388-1154.
-
- "QWKMAIL" is a standard procedure for reading and replying to BBS
- mail off-line and is supported by the majority of BBSes through-
- out the world. PMQWK is designed to interface with any BBS or
- on-line service which offers QWKMAIL uploads and downloads.
- PMQWK is the first and only off-line mail reader available which
- exploits OS/2 2.0 to fully multi-task your off-line mail reading.
- PMQWK allows the user to read and reply to any number of confer-
- ences and messages from any number of BBSes simultaneously;
- allowing for easy cross-referencing, cut and paste between mes-
- sages and replies, and much more. PMQWK has built-in support for
- automatic quoting of message text in replies, Fidonet and Inter-
- net addressing, regular expression searching through message text
- and envelopes, a personal address book feature, custom tagline
- generation, and interfaces with all popular text editors and OS/2
- based archiving programs.
-
- Users of this pre-release version will be able to place early
- orders, at a special introductory rate, for the general release
- version of PMQWK when it become available later in the first
- quarter of 1993.
-
- Oberon Software has been developing OS/2 software and providing
- OS/2 related services since 1988. More than just a specialty,
- OS/2 related products and services are Oberon Software's only
- business. Other Oberon products include TE/2, the Oberon Termi-
- nal Emulator/2, a general purpose telecommunications program for
- OS/2; FSHL, Oberon Software's Alternative Command Line Executive;
- and the Commpak/2 Programmer's Toolkit for creating telecommuni-
- cations routines under OS/2. The release of the 32-bit Commpak/2
- Dynamic Link Library marked the first step by Oberon to convert
- its entire line of software to OS/2 2.0 compatibility.
-
- In addition to the conversion of its present product line to OS/2
- 2.0 and 32-bit operation, Oberon Software intends to expand its
- product line in 1993 to include several new, native 32-bit
- applications.
-
- ** OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines