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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dave Anderson
Flying Monkey Software
8424 Todd Creek Cr.
West Chester, OH 45069
djanders@nox.cs.du.edu
513-865-6800 x6087 Day
513-779-6489 Evening
FLYING MONKEY SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES NEW SHAREWARE: A STANDARDIZED
DEFAULTS MECHANISM
WEST CHESTER, Ohio, September 30, 1994 -- Flying Monkey Software
announces the beginning of it Shareware Department. The first offering
is a standardized defaults mechanism for NEXTSTEP, which features an
extensible framework for defaults database access and manipulation.
Three objects, FmsDefaultController, FmsPointerPair, and FmsStringPair
make up the shareware, and along with a couple "helping" classes
implement a very minimal control panel for a racing simulator called
RaceDay. The pseudo-app is Nothing Fancy, but it does demonstrate the
defaults database hiding and clean access technique. There are many
possibilities for variations on this theme. We're doing this one as
shareware because we want to see how that goes, and, well, because
something like this could make a lot of jobs easier, and give
everybody a break...
You see, Back a while ago, a small set of rebel monkeys in
Monkeychusettes, led by their beloved Richard Stallmonkey, started
writing free gncode. They believed that writing gncode was something
that you'd just do, and if you gndid stuff gnothers gnliked, they'd
just give you gnmoney. Gnwell, gnwe flying monkeys gnsometimes gnfeel
a gnsort of gnattraction to gnyoung Richard's gnideas and gnhave
gndecided gnto gnshare gnsome gnsoftware gnwith gneverybody...
So best of all it's free! If you find use for it in your own stuff,
or you use a compiled form in your products, we ask that you make a
small charitable donation to the Flying Monkey Shareware Fund. If you
try to sell the source to someone else for money, though, bad things
may happen to you - you formally do not have permission to do that. If
you modify it and want to redistributed the source, you have to give
your changes away for free (or as shareware asking for a small
donation. Copyleft and all, you know.)
To get at the Shareware, simply ftp it. It's on the stepwise ftp
server at...
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Vendors/Flying_Monkey_Software/DefaultsExample.tar.gz
or you can get it, and other Flying Monkey stuff, through that wild
and wooly world wide web...
<a href="http://digifix.digifix.com/ThirdParty/Developers/Flying_Monkey_Softwa
re.htmld/index.html">just click here</a>
If you don't have www access yet, we can send you an email copy of the
Flying Monkey Software Catalog directly, in rtf or postscript. (Rtf is
default, otherwise you'll get postscript. Ask for what you want.)
Flying Monkey Software provides object, application, graphic design,
and shareware services to the NEXTSTEP community. The monkeys have
been flying software for more than twenty years, and would like to
be the monkeys you turn to with your flying needs. Our credo is
satisfaction guaranteed: all Flying Monkey products will work - or
we'll fix them for free. We'll also extend them for requesting
customers on a contractual basis. Fly the monkey skies!
NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Postscipt is
a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. FmsDefaultController,
FmsPointerPair, and FmsStringPair are public shareware classes from
Flying Monkey Software, code rights reserved. "Stallmonkey Lives!"
--
Dave Anderson
Mead Data Central B5F2 9555 Springboro Pk Miamisburg OH 45342
513-865-6800 x6087
dja3@meaddata.com djanders@nox.cs.du.edu
http://www.meaddata.com/~dja3/