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- From: rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Remote Andrew Demo Service Update
- Message-ID: <kePjqrG00Vsn8nfkQB@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:43:03 GMT
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- The Andrew Consortium of Carnegie Mellon University is proud to announce
- the second return of...
-
- THE REMOTE ANDREW DEMO SERVICE!
-
- After being offline for several weeks due to reorganization of our
- filesystem it has been returned to service, now on an RS/6000! (The
- demo service previously operated on 4 IBM RT's.)
-
- This revolutionary network service allows you to run Andrew Toolkit
- applications without the overhead of obtaining or compiling the Andrew
- software. It used to be that trying out Andrew required ftp'ing
- megabytes of source and performing a lengthy build... but no longer!
- The Remote Andrew Demo service will have you running Andrew software
- within 5 minutes.
-
- You need a host machine on the Internet, and you need to be running the
- X11 window system. A simple "finger" command will allow you to
- experience ATK applications firsthand. You'll be able to compose
- multimedia documents, navigate through the interactive Andrew Tour, and
- use the Andrew Message System to browse through CMU's three thousand
- bulletin boards and newsgroups. NOTE: some corporate networks restrict
- incoming network access in such a way that the Demo Service cannot
- function.
-
- HOW TO USE THE SERVICE
-
- To use the Remote Andrew Demo service, simply run the following command
- on your machine:
-
- finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu
-
- The service will give you any further instructions that may be necessary.
-
- WHAT IS ANDREW?
-
- The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) is a multimedia graphical toolkit running under
- X11. It provides, among other things, an editor for composing rich-text
- documents complete with embedded insets such as raster images,
- spreadsheets, graphs, drawings, animations -- even embedded audio and
- video. Documents can be cross-referenced with embedded "hyperlinks."
-
- ATK includes an application builder, extension language, and a rich set
- of object types which make the creation of complex graphical interfaces
- easy. ATK is an open system, allowing new object types to be written in
- C. There's also an ATK-based mail/news program which allows the sending
- of graphical ATK documents through the mail. It complies with the
- forthcoming Internet RFC concerning multimedia mail formats (the "MIME"
- RFC).
-
- ATK has been a part of the campus computing environment of Carnegie
- Mellon University since 1986 and has continuously evolved to remain at
- the forefront of multimedia information technology. The Andrew Toolkit,
- release 5.0, is available free of charge on MIT's current distribution
- of X11 (release 5), in the directory contrib/andrew. And coming soon, a
- binary distribution of Andrew on CD-ROM, compiled for several of the
- most popular Unix platforms.
-
- For further information about ATK and the ATK Consortium which supports
- it, contact:
-
- wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Wilfred J. Hansen
- Director, ATK Consortium
- School of Computer Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- 4910 Forbes Avenue
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213
-
- We invite you to experience ATK yourself -- right now -- with the Remote
- Andrew Demo.
-