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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 10:06:25 -0800
From: Conrad_Geiger
To: user_groups@
Subject: v6.5 - NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 5, February, 1993

NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 5, February, 1993)


             ***  TABLE OF CONTENTS  ***


NeXTSTEP DEVELOPER SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS (Fall 1992/January)

 =>   13. Trego Systems Announces Managed Health Care System
 =>   14. FISCAL DIMENSION Announces Accounting Software for NeXTSTEP
 =>   15. Intuitive Edge Announces the Reporter Suite of Applications
 =>   Extra - Pinnacle's Multi-Document Print/FAX tool for NeXTSTEP
 =>   Extra - StediWatt Announces "Stedi-LANding System for NeXT
 =>   Extra - Total System Software's DFax


Conrad Geiger
Manager, International NeXT User Group Program



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NeXTSTEP DEVELOPER SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS (Fall 1992/January)


 =>   13. Trego Systems Announces Managed Health Care System

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  December 18, 1992

CONTACT:   Ellen Williams      Donald Stinnett
           Trego Systems       Franciscan Health System of Cincinnati
           [phone]      [phone]

TREGO SYSTEMS SIGNS FIRST AGREEMENT FOR MANAGED CARE SYSTEM WITH
FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM OF CINCINNATI

SUMMARY: Trego Systems of Walnut Creek, CA announced the signing of
their first customer, Franciscan Health System of Cincinnati, who
will be installing CaseServ - Trego's managed care system.  Trego is
dedicated to providing the most comprehensive provider based managed
care solution on the market today.

WALNUT CREEK, CA -- Trego Systems finalized an agreement with
Franciscan Health System of Cincinnati of Cincinnati, Ohio to install
the CaseServ managed care application in each of the System's three
Cincinnati hospitals; Providence, St. Francis-St. George, and
Emerson.

According to Don Stinnett, Vice President of Finance and Chief
Financial Officer at Franciscan, "We have chosen a vendor who is
defining what "state-of-the-art" means in the managed care area of
information systems. CaseServ is the only product on the market today
that will administer capitation arrangements. The system is the
cornerstone for Franciscan Health System of Cincinnati becoming
"managed care friendly", both with our patients, as well as with the
insurance carriers".

Franciscan will be using the CaseServ application to monitor all
aspects of the System's managed care business, including anticipated
capitation arrangements.  NeXT workstations will be placed in
strategic locations throughout the institutions to facilitate access
to managed care contract information, eligibility lists, decision
support capabilities, and care protocols.  CaseServ will be
interfaced to the hospital's patient accounting system on a daily
basis.

"This agreement with Franciscan marks a very important milestone in
our company's history," said Ellen Williams, president and CEO of
Trego.  "Franciscan believes strongly in our product vision and
understands the competitive advantages which will result from having
CaseServ as a resource for their institutions.  Their desire to
participate as our initial implementation site and first customer is
just one example of their proactive approach to the radically
changing healthcare delivery environment.  We are very proud of the
fact that they have chosen us as their partners."

Trego Systems was founded in 1991 in order to address the evolving
systems needs of healthcare providers in the increasingly complex
managed care arena.  Headquartered in the highly volatile California
healthcare marketplace and maintaining a regional office in Atlanta,
Georgia, the company is focusing its efforts on building
comprehensive solutions for meeting the challenges faced by all of
the parties involved with managed care contracts in provider
institutions.  Taking full advantage of the best technology offers,
the system runs on a client/server UNIX workstation platform,
utilizing NeXTSTEP, the premier graphical user interface and
object-oriented development environment, and incorporates all current
healthcare standards including HL7.

NeXT Computer, Inc. designs and markets the industry-acclaimed
NeXTSTEP object-oriented software environment, and designs,
manufactures and markets UNIX-based workstations that run NeXTSTEP.
NeXTSTEP and NeXT workstations are used by medium and large
organizations to develop and deploy mission-critical applications,
using both custom and shrink-wrapped software.  NeXT is headquartered
at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, California, 94063.

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 =>   14. FISCAL DIMENSION Announces Accounting Software for NeXTSTEP

Contact:

Helen Flood
AXSYS, Inc.
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
AVAILABLE NOW FROM AXSYS:

FISCAL DIMENSION
not just accounting software; accounting know-how

Shying away from setting up your books on your NeXTTM machine because
you cannot face the task or feel that it is overly complicated?  Then
order Fiscal Dimension.  AXSYS has done more than simply design an
accounting solution, AXSYS has given new meaning to the term
"support".  AXSYS will not only help you use the package, but help
you understand and organize your finances.

FISCAL DIMENSION - PERSONAL EDITION FEATURES:

Designed specifically for NeXTSTEP

Suitable for home and cash basis organizations, or a general ledger
for any organization

Developed by a CPA  (Certified Public Accountant)
      Over 14 years experience in systems integration and software
        development
      Available to provide technical and accounting support

Full double entry accounting with single entry ease

Input screens that are representations of paper forms
      Checks, deposits, withdrawals, credit card slips
      Subcatagorize and distribute transactions without limitation
         using accounts and sub-accounts

Reorganize information for reports and analysis using sub-accounts
and groups

Sub-accounts and groups combine to create the dimensionality in FD
       Use these features to greatly reduce the effort required to
         produce sophisticated analyses

Reconciliation
      Perform both bank and credit card reconciliation
         Printed reconciliation reports

Access multiple sets of books simultaneously
      Manage multiple entities with FD in a single session

Flexible calendar and full date sensitivity
      Select from daily to multi-year calendar periods
      Change your calendar at any time

On-line totals stored for each account and sub-account per calendar
period
      No period or year end processing
      The accounting for periodic results (profit/loss) is dynamic
      Books are always open, yet closed, simultaneously

Manage other parties in a single database
      As your business grows, only one database is maintained,
          virtually eliminating multiple entry of data

Ability to back out adjustments rather than offset entries
      Produces proper cash flow accounting

Allows for both monetary and quantitative amount
      The program is able to serve as both a general ledger and as
          sub-ledgers
      Use FD to track an investment portfolio at cost, or a simple
          inventory, etc.

Full general ledger financial reporting capabilities
      Complete range/type selection

Saves selection criteria as customized reports
      Summary and Detail Transaction Register
      Transaction Journal
      Ledger with full transaction detail
      Trial Balance
      Income Statement
      Balance Sheet
      Reconciliation

Customized check layouts
      Use standard templates
      Set up custom specifications to match your forms

Set preferences to suit your needs
      Choose default directory for books
      Choose default book and account to open on launch
      Designate check entry mode
      Set default window size and location

Call AXSYS today (215.667.6822/[e-mail]) for your free demo.  A
free registered copy is available to users groups who have reviewed
FD or written an article on FD in their newsletter.  Call now for
details.


Helen Flood
AXSYS, Inc.
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]


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 =>   15. Intuitive Edge Announces the Reporter Suite of Applications

News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Monty Zukowski, Intuitive Edge(TM), [phone],
[e-mail]

Intuitive Edge Announces the Reporter Suite of Applications -
January 8, 1992-- Intuitive Edge announces the release of the
Reporter suite of applications which run on the 2.0 release of the
NeXTSTEP(TM) OS.  The programs are Reporter, ReporterBuilder and
ReporterLimitedVersion.

Main features include:

  -Info Items: easily created, dynamically loadable modules which
   provide information for documents with all three programs;

  -Quick and easy management of "Question and Answer" databases and
   in-house bug reports with Reporter;

  -Bug reporting made easy for your pre-release application testers
   with ReporterLimitedVersion.

Info Items form the core of the Reporter applications by providing
information such as the date, version number or memory configuration.
Info Items can be text strings or dynamically loadable objects.
These modules are easy to create and give you flexibility in
controlling the content of documents.  When first saved, each
document can have a designated group of Info Items automatically
inserted at its end.  For instance, if you use Reporter mainly for
customer support, you can have a "QA" group containing the current
version number of the software, the date, and the document number as
the default group.  Every document created would then by default have
that information inserted into it upon saving.

Reporter uses Info Items to help you create and maintain a database
of documents for use with Digital Librarian(TM).  Three uses of
Reporter include customer support through question and answer
document databases, in-house bug reports and updates, and tracking of
personal insights and ideas.  Reporter is specifically designed to
prepare directories of RTF files for use with Librarian.  With
Librarian, people will be able to search for answers to their
questions in your "Questions and Answers" directory (as an
indexed Librarian "target") before calling you, saving both parties'
time and money.  To organize and maintain these document databases
Reporter can generate filenames for new files, add information to the
end of new documents, append messages to every file in a directory,
and keep a style dictionary for commonly used font and ruler
combinations.

ReporterLimitedVersion is a freely distributable bug reporting
application which communicates with your pre-release software via
Info Items.  Once you configure ReporterLimitedVersion with your Info
Items using ReporterBuilder, you can send it out with your testing
software.  The Info Items in ReporterLimitedVersion communicate
directly with the software being tested, giving you whatever
information you need to debug and improve your product.
ReporterLimitedVersion provides document handling, information
insertion, and NeXTmail(TM) document preparation.  This allows the
bug report to be sent as NeXTmail directly to you.

ReporterLimitedVersion will not crash when your test
program does so your testers will still be able to send in bug
reports.  An Info Item which receives all error messages would give
you an idea of why your program crashed.  ReporterLimitedVersion
makes it easy for your customers to give you the information you
need.

A brochure is available by mailing "[e-mail]".
The Reporter programs come as a package and are available on the
upcoming Electronic AppWrapper(TM) from Paget(TM).  For
information about the Electronic AppWrapper, send email to
"[e-mail]".

Intuitive Edge, located in Columbus, Ohio, develops objects and
applications for NeXT(TM) computers as a registered NeXT developer
and is available for contract work.

Intuitive Edge is a trademark of Intuitive Edge.  NeXTSTEP, NeXTmail,
and Digital Librarian are trademarks ofNeXT Computer, Inc. Electronic
AppWrapper and Paget are trademarks of Paget Press, Inc.


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 =>   Extra - Pinnacle's Multi-Document Print/FAX tool for NeXTSTEP

For Immediate Release:

Multi-Document Print/FAX tool for NeXTSTEP

Tucson, Arizona - Friday, January 15, 1993

Pinnacle Research, Inc. today announced the release of its
multi-document print and FAX utility, PageChain.

PageChain solves the problem of FAXing, printing or electronically
mailing multiple files by allowing you to quickly add the desired
files to a PageChain document.  PageChain then converts the input
files to a single PostScript file that can be FAXed, printed or sent
via NeXT Mail.  A PageChain document can consist of PostScript, EPS,
TIFF, FAX, RTF, and/or Plain Text (ASCII) files.  Printing, FAXing
and EMailing of chained files requires less time and effort.

"PageChain's multi-document faxing clearly helps to make NeXTSTEP a
superior office productivity solution." - Dan Tortorici / Systems
Engineer, NeXT Computer, Inc.

PageChain's document support allows you to save pre-assembled
documents containing elements such as cover-sheets or price-lists and
augment them with new documents as necessary.  Using PageChain
documents, you have instant access to collections of files that you
frequently print, FAX or e-mail during your work day - no more
hunting through folders for the files you need.

Printing and FAXing documents require that they be converted to
PostScript format.  For file types including TIFF, FAX, RTF and
ASCII, this usually corresponds to an increase of up to 400% in the
amount of disk space required to store the files.  By using PageChain
documents, you can store references to the required files in their
native format and perform the PostScript conversion only when needed
for FAXing or Printing.

System Requirements: Any NeXT computer running NeXTSTEP version 3.0.

For bulk purchase discounts, site-license arrangements or additional
information contact:

           Pinnacle Research, Inc.
           4725 E. Sunrise Dr. #435
           Tucson, AZ 85718
           [e-mail] (NeXT mail)
           [phone] (Voice)
           [phone] (FAX)

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Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Pinnacle Research Inc.  PageChain is a
trademark of Pinnacle Research, Inc.  NeXT and NeXTSTEP are
trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.  All other trademarks mentioned
belong to their respective owners.  Contact Pinnacle Research for
info on other great software products for the NeXT computer.



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 =>   Extra - StediWatt Announces "Stedi-LANding System for NeXT

Contact:      Scott Liddick, National Sales Manager
              Phone: [phone]
              Fax: [phone]
              Internet: [e-mail]

StediWatt Announces "Stedi-LANding System for NeXT

CHAMBERSBURG, PA, January 5, 1992 - StediWatt today announced the
Stedi-LANding System for NeXT, a fully integrated hardware and
software system that provides computer power monitoring, backup,
diagnostics and pure power protection. The Stedi-LANding System
monitors power conditions and prevents data loss caused by power
surges, brownouts, and blackouts.

"Today's organizations depend on their computer systems for
competitiveness and survival, and their computers depend on power
lines that are more busy and overloaded than at any time in history",
said Richard Diller, President of StediWatt. "Stedi-LANding's
ultimate benefit to organizations is the peace of mind that comes
with knowing their complex systems will have safe, reliable power, 24
hours a day, to maintain the integrity of their information."

The fully integrated Stedi-LANding System assures a full time "Life
Support System" for NeXT by combining an Uninterruptible Power
Refinery (UPR), and Power Monitoring/Auto-shutdown software. The UPR
and software work together to constantly monitor power conditions.

When a power failure occurs, the Stedi-LANding System provides
instant backup power in as little as 20 microseconds and the
software's three-stage warning process notifies all logged-on users
of impending danger. If the blackout condition continues, the
Stedi-LANding System issues the shutdown command and then powers down
the computer according to time sequences predetermined by the user.
When utility power returns to normal, the Stedi-LANding System will
reboot the NeXT system and reinitialize previously selected software.

If utility power is restored prior to issuing the shutdown command,
all logged- on NeXT users are notified, and the system returns to
normal. As an additional safety feature during the shutdown
procedure, the Stedi-LANding System will perform an immediate and
safe shutdown if UPR battery power is determined to be low. This
feature provides protection during multiple blackouts by ensuring a
reserve of battery power.

The custom designed Stedi-LANding System for NeXT also features
modifiable warning messages, detailed power problem log, automatic
monthly battery test with full screen graphics, AC power circuit
diagnostics, RJ-11 fax/modem protection, surge and spike protection,
and EMI/RFI noise filtering.  The UPR is color keyed to match the
NeXT System and is available in sizes from 400 to 1000 watts to
accommodate large and small networks.

The Stedi-LANding System for NeXT is available directly from
StediWatt and thru select NeXT dealers and VARS.  Special
introductory pricing will be available til Janauary 31, 1993 and
includes a three year limited warranty, 1 year free software
upgrades, and toll-free technical support. Installation of the
Stedi-LANding System takes less than 30 minutes.

All StediWatt products are manufactured by Advanced Electronics
Systems, Inc.  (AESI). Founded in 1974, AESI is a pioneer and
manufacturer of power quality and power protection products for
computer and telecom environments.  They presently manufacture 85+
pure power options including surge protection, Diagnostic Power
Refineries, UPRs and Power Panel Protectors.

Contact:        Scott Liddick, National Sales Manager
                Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]
                Internet: [e-mail]


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 =>   Extra - Total System Software's DFax

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, contact:

        Total System Software
        207 Longs Peak Drive
        P.O. Box 923
        Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003-0923
        [phone]
        [e-mail]

DENVER, Colorado USA -- Complete Computer Solutions Inc. (CCSI) is
pleased to announce shipment of Total System Software's DFax -- the
subject of much speculation in several newsgroups.  In this initial
release, DFax supports transparent data and facsimile transmission
and reception on the Supra v.32bis/v.42bis 14,400 FAXmodem.  DFax
serves quietly behind the scenes, using a minimum of system resources
and avoiding interference with other system operations -- a natural
choice for system administrators.  Local users utilize DFax from
directly within the NeXT Print Panel.

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
o  DFax generates industry standard 204dpi x 98dpi (normal) or
   204dpi x 196dpi (high resolution) faxes, preserving the original
   aspect ratio and rendering a truer image -- especially important
   when faxing photographs.

o  DFax creates minimal interference with other port usages, assuming
   ownership of the serial port only when needed to transmit or
   receive data and to re-initialize the modem.  This means that
   software which is incompatible with remote logins or with other
   fax software can be used with DFax.

o  DFax uses the standard getty and login for incoming data calls,
   maintaining system security and ensuring compatibility with remote
   utilities and with activities on the local system which depend
   upon accurate login information.

o  DFax answers the line under software -- not hardware -- control.
   This prevents the "Somebody answered but nobody was there"
   syndrome -- the data communications equivalent to the heavy
   breathing nuisance call.

o  DFax can be configured to perform different tasks at different
   times.  Because DFax is controlled by standard NetInfo entries,
   and is integrated with system services, a Unix expert can set DFax
   to limit the type or availability of outgoing or incoming calls
   during certain hours or on certain days.



Future DFax releases will include support for:

o  USR, Telebit, ZyXel, HSD, Prometheus, and many other fax/modems.

o  Full NeXT (Lip Service) voice mail support for modems with voice
   transmission and receiving capabilities.  With Supra's voice
   support upgrade to your SupraFAXmodem and an upcoming release of
   DFax software, you can receive voice mail directly on your NeXT.

o  Internetworking support for Serial Link IP, Fido technology
   interfacing, and non-Fido mail session interfacing, assuming
   market viability.


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

o  NeXT computer supporting serial hardware handshaking (all NeXTs
   except 68030s), minimum configuration with NeXTSTEP 2.1 is an
   8/100 mono slab. For best fax I/O performance and for systems
   running NeXTSTEP 3.0, more memory and more hard drive space is
   highly recommended.

o  NeXTSTEP v2.1 or 3.0.

o  Up to two v.32bis/v.42bis SupraFAXmodems with most current
   (v1.200-H or v1.200-J) ROMs.

o  Proper mini-din-8 (RS-423) to RS-232c modem cable for each modem.

o  5-10 minutes for installation on standardly configured NeXTs.

o  DFax is shipped on 1.44M 3.5" NeXT diskette.


ORDERING INFORMATION

For pricing and to order, call 1-800-452-7608.

DFax Software
Complete Computer Solutions Inc.
14 Inverness Drive East
Building G, Suite 228
Englewood, Colorado 80112

ABOUT TOTAL SYSTEM SOFTWARE
Total System Software is a Cheyenne, Wyoming-based NeXT software
development company who is committed to helping you solve your
networking and gatewaying problems -- please write or call us with
your product and support suggestions.

Total System Software
207 Longs Peak Drive
P.O. Box 923
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003-0923
[phone]
[e-mail]

ABOUT CCSI
Complete Computer Solutions Inc. is a Denver-based NeXT reseller and
an international distributor of quality software products for your
NeXT computer. CCSI can be reached at 1-800-452-7608.







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