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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 13:54:26 PST
From: Conrad_Geiger
To: [e-mail]
Subject: v6.9 - NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 9, February, 1993)

NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 9, February, 1993)

             ***  TABLE OF CONTENTS  ***

NeXT/NeXTSTEP RESOURCE GUIDE AND MISC.
 =>   37. BANG-up Magazine Seeks Authors to Write Columns, Articles
 =>   38. Announcing Yet Another NeXTSTEP Programming Book!
 =>   39. New Mesa Spreadsheet User Open Forum forms
 =>   40. NeXTSTEP 3.0 Documentation Reference
 =>   41. Announcement: New CD ROM Disc For NeXTSTEP 3.0 Now Shipping
 =>   42. FTP NeXTSTEP Public Domain and Demo Archives
 =>   43. Music Kit and DSP Tools CDROM Release
 =>   44. Winter 1993 release of NeXTanswers Now Available
 =>   45. NeXTSTEP Information Management Applications on the
                Internet
 =>   46. Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking
 =>   47. First Book on Programming in NeXTSTEP Release 3.0
 =>   47a.You can Order your technical Books by Email
 =>   47b.Review of Mahoney/Garfinkel's NeXTSTEP Programming Book
 =>   48. Announcing VVI Services


Conrad Geiger
Manager, International NeXT User Group Program (over 420 groups
worldwide)


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NeXT/NeXTSTEP RESOURCE GUIDE AND MISC.


 =>   37. BANG-up Magazine Seeks Authors to Write Columns, Articles

BANG-up Magazine is a publication for NeXTSTEP users

Updated January 12, 1993

BANG-up Magazine is targeted at the NeXT user community. The magazine
covers a wide range of topics, both technical and non1technical. We
continue to solicit articles, suggestions, and advertisements.

We are now looking for new submissions of articles and columns for
the upcoming issues of the magazine. All contributions remain the
property of the author. Any submission to the magazine will be used
at the sole discretion of BANG-up Magazine. BANG-up reserves the
right to make editorial changes to original works as necessary.

The next issue of the magazine will focus on Object Oriented Systems.
What makes NeXT a leader in the race for object oriented platforms?
How will the race for object oriented technology affect us, from the
perspective of the user as well as the programmer. The following
issue will focus on NeXTSTEP/486.

In addition to the headline articles of the magazine, regular columns
and articles are published which do not fall within the topics chosen
for a specific issue.  If you have a submission which is not
specifically related to the topics at hand, please send us your work
regardless!

Send submissions to:            [e-mail]
Inquiries to:                   [e-mail]
Advertising info:               [e-mail]
OR CALL:                        1-800-843-0328

If you have any questions regarding the magazine, please feel welcome
to contact us at 1-800-843-0328 extension 2, or send NeXTMAIL to
"[e-mail]." BANG-up is the user's publication for the Bay
Area NeXT Group, a NeXT user group based in northern California. The
magazine is published as a service of Dolphin Software Inc.



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 =>   38. Announcing Yet Another NeXTSTEP Programming Book

From: [e-mail] (Alex Duong Nghiem)

I'm getting ready to wrap up my NeXTSTEP book (which includes a fair
amount of   Objective-C code), and I have placed  a tar file on
sonata.cc.purdue.edu and   cs.orst.edu under the submissions
directory: the tar file   (AlexNeXTSTEPBook.tar.Z) contains the
table of contents and list of figures.    The book will be published
by Prentice-Hall and should be available before NeXTWorld on May
25-27.

As for scope, the book is 500+ pages in the current format, although
that may   change when it's actually trimmed to fit the standard book
size.  BTW, the book will probably _not_ include a disk: the source
code will be available via   Internet and Usenet. I encourage you to
download the file and check it out.

If you need more info, please feel free to e-mail me directly: I'd be
more than   happy to answer any general questions, such as
availability, coverage, etc.


Best regards,

Alex Duong Nghiem          Phone: [phone]
Pencom Software            Fax:   [phone]
9050 Capital of TX Hwy N.  Mail:  [e-mail]
Suite 300
Austin, TX 78759
USA



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 =>   39. New Mesa Spreadsheet User Open Forum forms

Athena Design is proud to announce the Mesa e-mail alias.  The intent
of the alias is to allow people an open forum to discuss Mesa, its
uses, features, short-comings, etc.

The alias is [e-mail].  To subscribe, please send mail to
[e-mail].

We would like to see a solid discussion of all issues regarding Mesa
so we can respond with a better product.

Thanks.

David Pollak

P.S.  Mesa 1.3 is available for anonymous ftp at athena.com,
Purdue, cs.orst.edu, and other places.  In addition, we have put
CultureShock into the public domain.  Copy it and have fun.


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 =>   40. NeXTSTEP 3.0 Documentation Reference

Below are the ISBN numbers for ordering the new NeXTSTEP 3.0
documentation (that is currently shipping) from your local bookstore:

Title:                                           ISBN

NeXTSTEP Development Tools and Technique,   0.201.63249.7
NeXTSTEP Network and System Administration, 0.201.63254.3
NeXTSTEP Operating System Software,         0.201.63252.7
NeXTSTEP Programming Interface Summary,     0.201.63253.5
NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines,         0.201.63250.0
NeXTSTEP General Reference, Vol. 1,         0.201.62220.3
NeXTSTEP General Reference, Vol. 2,         0.201.62221.1
NeXTSTEP OOP and the Objective C Language,  0.201.63251.9 *


* Expected to ship on April 2, 1993.




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 =>   41. Announcement: New CD ROM Disc For NeXTSTEP 3.0 Now Shipping

Company:                monoChrome Inc.
Comany Address:         173 Westgate Drive
                        Edison, NJ  08820-1163
Email:                  [e-mail]
                        [e-mail]
                        [e-mail]
Product Name:           monoLib (i.e. mono(lithic)Lib(rary))

Product Description:    CD ROM full of shareware/freeware/demoware
information,source code (examples, shareware/freeware/demoware,
examples, GNU, pallettes classes etc), graphics (tiff, gif, eps,
ps, etc), literature (recipies, bible, works of over 50 different
authors, lyrics), refrences (FAQ's, NeXTanswers etc), and other
files typically found on FTP (next and non next) archive sites.

Other Info:             -Over 1 gig of Information on 2 CD ROMs.
                        -Information is uncompressed and usable
                           right off the CD ROM
                        -Information, references, literature are
                        all indexed with Digital Librarian
                        -A great wealth of programming examples
                        and source code

Pricing:                $90.00
                        Volume, User Group, & Higher Education rates
                        available.

Our pricing structure is based on what organization you are from
and what quantity you purchase...


********************************************************************

  Educational/User Group/Reseller*    (send photo copy proof that you
  are a student/staff/faculty member.  If you are a usergroup member
  please ask your user group leaders to place an order for you)
  *If you would like to become a reseller please contact us to make
  arrangements.

   qty            price

  1-4          $75.00 each
  5-24         $70.00 each
  25-49        $65.00 each
  50-99        $60.00 each
  100+         contact us for larger orders


  Regular Pricing

   qty            price

  1-4          $90.00 each
  5-24         $85.00 each
  25-49        $75.00 each
  50-99        $65.00 each
  100+         contact us for larger orders


********************************************************************

Our Propaganda:  We (John Kheit & Arvind Soni) are members
of the NeXT Jersey Users Group and were putting together a public
domainshareware/demoware/etc.ware collection for our NeXT user group.
John was in charge of maintaining the software library for the group
and found it was killing him.  The users suggested that we put the
over 1 gigabyte worth of software on a CD.  So we did!  This task was
much more difficult than we had expected, but was extremely
pleasureful because of all the great (and we really do mean this)
people we got to know by making this product.  We always thought
that the NeXT community and its developers were wonderful people but
doing this project has proven this to be fact.

    Please email us for further ordering information.  Also, if you
wish to see a listing of all the files that come on the two discs...
you can find listing information order forms on nova.cc.purdue.edu
in the pub/next/submissions or pub/next/3.0/demos or somewhere on
the site!

John & Arv





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 =>   42.  FTP NeXTSTEP Public Domain and Demo Archives

Below are some of the latest archived files on the
sonata.cc.purdue.edu ftp archive site under /pub/next/submissions:
(If you have an internet connection, use the command "ftp" or the
public domain NeXTSTEP application: GatorFTP+, to retrieve or browse
these files.)


        93_winter_NeXTanswers_README
        93_winter_NeXTanswers_docs.tar.Z
        93_winter_NeXTanswers.tar.Z
        92_fall_NeXTanswers_Supplement.tar.Z
        92_summer_NeXTanswers_Supplement.tar.Z
        93_winter_NeXTanswers_Supplement.tar

        EquationBuilder3.0.README
        EquationBuilder3.0.tar

        Mesa1.3.tar.Z

        ObjInspector.compressed
        gcc-2.3.3-NeXT.tar.Z
        Broadcast_1.0.compressed
        VirtSpace3.0-CORRECTION
        VirtSpace3.0.tar.Z

        PRI_NewProducts.tar.Z

        Nugget_News_Digest_Dec92.tar.Z
        Nugget_News_Digest_Nov92.tar.Z

        Nugget_News_Digest_Dec92.txt
        Nugget_News_Digest_Nov92.txt

        sounds

        Desktop1-1.README
        Desktop1-1.tar
        Digit.app.tar.Z
        Digit.README
        TimeFlies.1.8.tar.Z
        AlexNeXTSTEPBook.README
        AlexNeXTSTEPBook.tar.Z
        TimeWarp.tar.Z
        TimeWarp.README
        rman-dec92.tar.Z
        rman-README
        Dual_CPU_Back-plane.Z
        FrontDesk.tar.Z
        TimeSync1.0DEMO.tar.Z
        ScenePatch.app.compressed
        co-Xist3.0.demo.tar
        tip_zmodem.tar.Z
        tip_zmodem.Read.me
        score-inventions.tar.Z
        Presto_v0.9.6b.tar
        pCD.tar.Z.TAKEME
        photo_cd.tar.Z
        photo_cd.tar.Z.README
        pCD.tar.Z
        HP_LaserJet_4_PostScript_600DPI.ppd
        HP_LaserJet_4_PostScript_300DPI.ppd

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 =>   43. Music Kit and DSP Tools CDROM Release

The CD ROM release of the Music Kit and DSP Tools INSTALLATION
PACKAGE comes free with a year membership to the Bay Area Next Users
Group (BANG).  To join BANG and obtain the CD ROM, send a check for
US $35 to the following address:

        BANG
        P.O. Box  1731
        Palo Alto, CA 94302
        phone: (415) 327-BANG
        e-mail: [e-mail]

The CD ROM also contains a wide variety of other NeXT software.


____________________________________________________________________

 =>   44. Winter 1993 release of NeXTanswers Now Available

The Winter 1993 release of NeXTanswers is now available on the
Internet archive servers.  NeXTanswers is a collection of answers to
commonly asked technical questions about the NeXT Computer System.
The topics covered include system administration, programming, and
NeXT applications and should be indexed for use with Digital
Librarian.

NeXTanswers can be obtained three ways: by ftp from an archive
server, by email from Purdue, or as a subscription on floppy disk
from NeXT (call 1-800-484-NeXT for information).  You'll want the
latest release (in this case referred to by the 93_winter prefix).

You can obtain NeXTanswers via anonymous ftp from one of the
following Internet archive servers (it may be found on others as
well):

________________________________________________________
hostname                IP address     directory
________________________________________________________
sonata.cc.purdue.edu  128.210.15.30    pub/next/docs/NeXT
cs.orst.edu           128.193.32.1     pub/next/documents/NeXTanswers

Note that at the time of this posting, NeXTanswers may still be in
each archive server's submissions directory.

The NeXTanswers release is also available by email from the Purdue
archive server, for those without ftp access.  Send a message
consisting of "help" to [e-mail].  If the "From:"

line in your message header will not be in Internet format (e.g.
[e-mail]), include a line like


       path [e-mail]
or
       path wellknownsite!yoursite![e-mail]


Note that [e-mail] or [e-mail] won't work.

There are two versions of NeXTanswers: a complete set, and a monthly
supplement for those who already have the previous month's complete
set.  The complete set is called 93_winter_NeXTanswers.tar.Z and
occupies 664 Kb of disk space.  The supplement is called
93_winter_NeXTanswers_Supplement.tar.Z, occupies 82 Kb, and contains
files that are new or changed since the Fall 1992 release.  When the
Winter 1993 release is installed and indexed, it occupies about 2.41
Mb.

Each release also includes instructions on how to install and use
NeXTanswers.  The documentation (INSTALL.rtf, README.rtf, and
CHANGES) is included in a separate file called
93_winter_NeXTanswers_docs.tar.Z.


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 =>   45. NeXTSTEP Information Management Applications on the
          Internet

If you are in the internet, you have to try these public domain
applications!

Here are a few Internet Applications that are available for the
NeXTSTEP environment among others.  These tools can be used by anyone
on the internet to help you better manage information.  If you know
of other available tools or applications in progress, please drop me
a message.

thanks,
[e-mail].


>From David Spitzler:

Archie.app
The School of Computer Science at McGill University developed a
server that enables users to locate programs, documents, etc. on the
Internet (more than 300,000 machines). More than 1000 sites are
archive servers. To simplify the task of locating files, McGill wrote
software that lists and updates all files at archive sites. It proved
so popular that McGill now makes the service available to anyone on
the Internet. McGill calls its server Archie, the "server's server."
Archie allows users to search for specific program names or strings
and find which server contains the program, or to list all the
software on the server at a particular site.

GatorFTP+
A full featured, graphical front-end to the FTP protocol. Commonly
used FTP sites can be selected from an on-screen scroll view, and
connection to a remote site is made by the click of a button.
GatorFTP+ displays remote directories in a NeXT-style browser and
allows multiple "puts" and "gets". There is also an automatic
"uncompress" and "untar" feature.


Gopher.app
The internet Gopher uses a simple client/server protocol that can be
used to publish and search for information held on a distributed
network of hosts. Gopher clients have a seamless view of the
information in the gopher world even though the information is
distributed over many different hosts. Clients can either navigate
through a heirarchy of directories and documents or ask an index
server to return a list of all documents that contain one or more
words. Since the index server does full-text searches every word in
every document is a keyword.

The NeXT-Gopher client is now being maintained at Michigan State
University.  The Gopher release (available via FTP at
boombox.micro.umn.edu) also bundles and app called Ph which gives you
access to directory information at many universities.  It is used to
obtain traditional phone book information.  More importantly, for
e-mail users, it provides access to e-mail addresses.  Some
Universities provide other data, such as information about courses,
restaurants, and weather. Ph is a client program.  It communicates
with a server program, written by the Computing Services Office (CSO)
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.


LibraryOfCongress.app
This is an interface to an Internet service for searching the Library
of Congress card catalog.  You can find items in the catalog and then
e-mail orders to on-line bookstores to "check them out."  This app
was written by Mike Hawley, of the MIT Media Lab.


Tree.app
Also known as "Gopher in a Forest," this is a graphical look at
"gopherspace," this app, although totally useless as an information
access tool, is a nice virtual reality demo.  Every gopher site
worldwide can be visualized as a tree, with "wires" connecting the
branches of different sites.


WAIS
WAIS stands for Wide Area Information Servers and is a protocol
between clients and servers for accessing and retrieving information.
A NeXT client called WASItation allows you to tap into a variety of
databases around the world. You can also use WAIStation to create
your own databases.

Originally conceived for commercial purposes for distributing
for-profit information (i.e Dow Jones), this is a public domain
package that is used widely in education for accessing many WAIS and
Gopher servers.


Weather.app
An interface to weather information, primarily via the Weather
Underground at the University of Michigan College of Engineering,
Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences (downwind.sprl.umich.edu).
Sources include Zephyr Weather Information, National Weather Service
forecasts for US cities and regions, ski reports, Environment Canada
weather information, severe weather logs from the National Severe
Storms Forecast Center, and earthquake reports from the U.S.
Geological Survey.

The interface also fetches weather maps and taps other material from
the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder
(ncar.ucar.edu), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(vmd.cso.uiuc.edu), labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(everest.lcs.mit.edu, synoptic.mit.edu), the Solar Terrestrial
Dispatch (xi.uleth.ca), the University of Washington
(geophys.washington.edu), and Contel (duats.contel.com) which
provides FAA flight planning and weather information.
This app was written by Mike Hawley of the MIT Media Lab.




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 =>   46. Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking

A new book entitled the Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to
Global Networking (Addison-Wesley, $10.95) was just published, and a
sample chapter of it is available via ftp at world.std.com in
/OBS/The.Internet.Companion.  The forward is by US Vice
President-Elect, Al Gore.


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 =>   47. First Book on Programming in NeXTSTEP Release 3.0

News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:   Allan M. Wylde, Publisher
   TELOS, The Electronic Library of Science
   [phone]


First Book on Programming in NeXTSTEP Release 3.0
Published by TELOS


NeXTSTEP Programming--STEP ONE: Object-Oriented Appclications
Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney
ISBN: 0-387-97884-4
Price: $39.95
Hardbound, 672 pages, includes DOS diskette

Santa Clara, Calif., December 18, 1992 - TELOS (The Electronic
Library of Science) announced today that it has released NeXTSTEP
Programming-STEP ONE: Object-Oriented Applications, by Simson L.
Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney, the first comprehensive instruction
manual for new NeXTSTEP users.

NeXTSTEP Programming is a hands-on book that teaches programmers how
to write applications that take full advantage of NeXTSTEP, the
object-oriented operating-environment from NeXT Computer, Inc. Priced
at $39.95, NeXTSTEP Programming comes with a DOS floppy disk that
contains complete source code for all programs used in the book and a
tutorial for Interface Builder, the object editor bundled with the
NeXTSTEP development environment. The disk is compatible with NeXT
hardware and with any PC hardware running NeXTSTEP 486, the NeXTSTEP
operating environment for 486 PCs, available in early 1993.

NeXTSTEP combines object-oriented programming tools,
interface-customizing utilities, a multi-tasking UNIX operating
system, built-in networking, multimedia connections and Display
PostScript for WYSIWYG capabilities.

Table of Contents (chapters):

Preface

 1.     Intro to the NeXTSTEP Graphical User Interface
 2.     NeXTSTEP Development Tools
 3.     Creating a Simple Application with Interface Builder
 4.     Creating an Application without Interface Builder
 5.     Building a Project:  A Four-Function Calculator
 6.     Nibs and Icons
 7.     Delegation and Resizing
 8.     Events and Responders
 9.     Mach and the Window Server
10.     MathPaper and Multiple Windows
11.     Spawning Multiple Processes and the Text Object
12.     Text and Rich Text
13.     Saving, Loading, and Printing
14.     Drawing with Display PostScript
15.     Draw Yourself:  All About NeXTSTEP Views
16.     GraphPaper:  A Multi-Threaded Application with a Display List
17.     Color
18.     View Resizing and Mouse Tracking
19.     Zooming and Saving Graphics Files
20.     The Pasteboard and Services
21.     Preferences and Defaults

Appendix A:     Source Code Listings
Appendix B:     References
Index

About the Authors
Simson Garfinkel is Senior Editor at NeXTWORLD Magazine and an
experienced NeXTSTEP developer. He is also the co-author of Practical
UNIX Security. Michael Mahoney is professor and chair of the Computer
Engineering and Computer Science Department at California State
University, Long Beach, and is president of the Southern California
NeXTSTEP Users Group (SCaN).

About TELOS
TELOS is an imprint of Springer-Verlag New York, with publishing
facilities at 3600 Pruneridge Avenue, Suite 200, Santa Clara, Calif.
95051. Its publishing domain encompasses the natural and physical
sciences, computer science, mathematics, and engineering. TELOS
strives to wed the traditional print medium with the emerging
electronic media to provide the reader with a truly interactive
multimedia information environment. All TELOS publications delivered
on paper come with an associated electronic component.

A limited number of review copies are available. Contact Cindy
Peterson of Springer-Verlag at [phone] for a copy.

To Order: Call TOLL FREE 1-800-SPRINGER   (1-800-777-4643)
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (EST)

Credit Cards Accepted: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, Discover
In New Jersey: Call [phone]

Purchase Orders To: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 44 Hartz Way,
Secaucus, NJ 07096
Fax Purchase Orders To: [phone]

NY, NJ, MA, VT and CA residents should include applicable sales tax.
Canadian residents should include 7% GST.

Shipping: Add $2.50 for the first book; $1.00 for subsequent books.
Foreign Airmail Orders: Add $10.00 per book.

All orders are processed upon receipt. Prices quoted are payable in
U.S. currency.

For information on bulk sales of 10 or more, please contact the
Scicom department of Springer-Verlag at [phone].

For information on 30-day examination copies for course adoption,
please contact Lilliana Sierra at [phone] ext. 322.


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 =>   47a. You can Order your technical Books by Email

from the following locations:


Quantum Books
4 Cambridge Center
Cambridge MA  02142
[phone]
Fax [phone]
[e-mail]

WordsWorth Books
30 Brattle Street
Cambridge MA  02138-3761
[phone]
800 899 2202
[phone]
Fax [phone]
[e-mail]

Softpro
112 Mall Road
Burlington MA  01803-5300
[phone]
Fax [phone]
[e-mail]

Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.
PO Box 641897
San Jose, CA  95164-1897
[phone]
Fax [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street
Sebastopol CA  95472
800 998 9938
[phone]
Fax [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]


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 =>   47b.Review of Mahoney/Garfinkel's NeXTSTEP Programming Book

 As a NeXTSTEP neophyte with a very limited knowledge of C (and
virtually no previous knowledge of objective-C), I found Garfinkel
and Mahoney's book to be not only very informative, but surprisingly
enjoyable reading. The range of material presented (object oriented
programming, NeXT development tools and standard objects, threads,
basic PostScript, event handling, defaults database access, etc.) is
extensive. They make no claims of comprehensiveness, but sufficient
material is given to enable a meaningful foray into all of these
areas. More importantly, everything is presented in the most
meaningful context possible: development of full-blown applications.
Their example applications are well chosen both in terms of being
relevant and interesting to a wide audience as well as providing an
appropriate setting for applying all of the tools which they present.

The difficulty and complexity of the examples progresses fairly
smoothly so that the numerous hurdles of understanding which must be
overcome seem relatively tractable at the time when they are reached.
The book was written with obvious care and contains surprisingly few
typos.  Source code is provided on an accompanying disk and, with
very few exceptions,  it works as expected. The examples presented
essentially provide just the sort of annotated templates that a
newcomer needs to begin fashioning his or her own apps. All in all, I
enjoyed reading Step One; I learned a lot from it; and I strongly
recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about NeXTSTEP programming.


Duane Storti
University of Washington
Email: [e-mail]





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 =>   48.  Announcing VVI Services

For Immediate Release:

Contact:
        e-mail:  [e-mail]
        voice:   814-234-9613
        FAX  :   [phone]

VVI, a development company specializing in NeXTSTEP products,
introduces services and products, available now, for NeXTSTEP
developers to market, license, and distribute their NeXTSTEP
applications.

Imagine the future of marketing and sales: A user launches the
marketing program and reads about a whole host of applications and
resources. The description of a particular application is interesting
and they want a copy! They get it at the click of a button. A few
minutes later the user is demo'ing it, they like it - it's what they
need! With some fill in the blanks and a click of the button they are
registered for a commercial version of the application, with password
in hand! The user has immediate access to the applications they need
and the developer has immediate access to their market! Everybody
wins!

But, not only is this the future, IT'S THE PRESENT! It's happening as
you read! The software and service to do this have been rigorously
tested and are used now for products distributed by VVI.

This is what VVI provides:

Distribution Application - A network oriented distribution and
marketing application called VVdistributor. Clients can distribute
and use the developer's applications at the click of a button! The
documentation includes brochure templates for integration into this
application. This application, when appropriate, will differentiate
between host type and other client environment factors so
distribution to different machines is always easy, efficient and
transparent to the user.

Licensing Object Library - A software marketing library which
consists of ready-made Objective-C Objects for registration,
licensing, protection, demonstration mode, and distribution. This
represents a time saving resource which would take the equivalent of
another application to develop. Done in the true spirit of object
oriented programming!

A High Speed Network Server - The developer's market gets immediate
access to their latest products through our dedicated network server.
There is no need for costly duplication of floppies, CD's, or mass
mailings. Since products are immediately retrievable with no version
limitations the developer can respond quickly and appropriately to
any operating system updates, computer platform changes, or code
additions.

Billing and Registration - VVI provides billing and registration
service. Users click their buttons and we click ours! We have
developed internal applications with nice NeXTSTEP user interfaces
for the registration process.

These services and products are particularly apropos in the light of
developments regarding platform changes and operating system
upgrades. Once applications are integrated into this marketing and
distribution system developers can respond quickly to any changes.
Imagine what it will be like to have this capability during the 3.0
to 486 (and other(s)) transition!


This is a comprehensive network-marketing system with no stone
unturned! It's a WIN WIN situation! Developers win, the users win! To
find out how to win contact VVI at:

e-mail:  [e-mail]
voice:   814-234-9613
FAX  :   [phone]

VVimaging, Inc. (VVI) has developed software applications and
libraries for the NeXT computer since 1989.

VVimaging, VVI, and VVdistributor are trademarks of VVimaging, Inc.
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