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- Subject: 1996 Issue 3 of IBM Solution Developer Program (SDP) News
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- Announcing 1996 Issue 3 of IBM* Solution Developer Program News
- (SDPN6C), in ASCII format. This issue prints 84 pages on an IBM 3820
- printer. (Note: Use a monospace font so that columns align.)
-
- IMPORTANT NOTICE TO READERS:
-
- Issue 3 is the final issue of SDPnews in its current form. The IBM
- Solution Developer Program will now provide its news via the World Wide
- Web at URL http://www.developer.ibm.com . Many news items published in
- SDPnews are made available on a more timely basis on our Web page. The
- Web also lets readers link to related information, and it offers a way
- to respond interactively to some news items.
-
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-
- Produced monthly and distributed electronically by the IBM Solution
- Developer Operations (SDO) organization, SDPnews gives members of IBM's
- Solution Developer Program the latest information about all the IBM
- technical, business, and marketing services in place to help them
- develop and market their software successfully.
-
- SDPnews is *only* distributed electronically; IBM is not producing
- printed copies for distribution.
-
- SDPnews is available on the Internet World Wide Web on the IBM Solution
- Developer Program home page. The URL for SDPnews is
- http://www.developer.ibm.com/sdp/news/ .
-
- The monthly SDPnews files are ZIPped into the file SDPNym.ZIP, where
- y = last digit of year, and m = issue number represented as alpha (for
- example, SDPN6B.ZIP is the 1996 second issue). SDPNym.ZIP contains:
- -- This announcement file, SDPNym.ANN
- -- The current month's contents list, SDPNym.SMY
- -- An annual cumulative list of contents, SDPNy.CUM
- -- The current month's ASCII newsletter, SDPNym.ASC
-
- The ZIPped files are posted on several e-mail and BBS systems:
- o America Online**, in the OS/2 forum, in the Newsletters library
- o AMK HITLINE AG (Switzerland), in the OS/2 mailbox, in file area 7
- o CompuServe**, in OS2DF2 forum, *DAP library section 14
- and in OS2DF1 forum, OPEN FORUM library section 15
- o Fidonet, in the OS2 Information file area, FWOS2INFO
- o GEnie**, in OS/2 Software Library 16
- o IBM Canada BBS, in file area 35, OS/2 Programming
- o IBM OS2BBS (TALKLink), in Software library, Newsletters section
- o IBM Personal Computer Company BBS, in file area 11, OS/2 Programming
- o Internet, via anonymous ftp from ftp.software.ibm.com, in directory
- /ps/products/os2/info/wnewsltr; or via Gopher from
- os2info.austin.ibm.com, in the OS/2 Information menu
- o NIFTY-Serve (Japan), in FOS2APP forum, library section 18
- o Norloff's OS/2 Shareware BBS (1-703-385-4325 or
- telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com), in the OS/2 Periodicals file area
- o OS2NET (Europe), on all OS2NET bulletin boards in Europe, usually in
- the DSNEWS download area
- o PRODIGY**, in the OS/2 Club topic's download library, in IBM Files
-
- Note: If you cannot find files named sdpn... or dsn... (in lower case),
- look for files named SDPN... or DSN... (in upper case).
-
- Within IBM, 1996 issues, in ASCII format, are in SDPNEWS6 PACKAGE in
- both the OS2TOOLS catalog and the SDOINFO catalog. 1995 issues are in
- DSN5 PACKAGE in those catalogs; 1994 issues are in DSN4 PACKAGE in
- OS2TOOLS only.
-
- To obtain SDPNEWS6 PACKAGE, type:
- TOOLCAT OS2TOOLS GET SDPNEWS6 PACKAGE
- or
- TOOLCAT SDOINFO GET SDPNEWS6 PACKAGE
-
- To obtain DSN5 PACKAGE, type:
- TOOLCAT OS2TOOLS GET DSN5 PACKAGE
- or
- TOOLCAT SDOINFO GET DSN5 PACKAGE
-
- To obtain DSN4 PACKAGE, type:
- TOOLCAT OS2TOOLS GET DSN4 PACKAGE
-
- You can also request the packages by typing:
- REQUEST SDPNEWS6 FROM V1ENG AT BCRVM1
- or
- REQUEST DSN5 FROM V1ENG AT BCRVM1
- or
- REQUEST DSN4 FROM V1ENG AT BCRVM1
-
- To subscribe to SDPNEWS6 PACKAGE, type
- TOOLCAT OS2TOOLS SUB SDPNEWS6 PACKAGE
- or
- TOOLCAT SDOINFO SUB SDPNEWS6 PACKAGE
-
- We hope our newsletter serves your needs, and we'd like your feedback --
- please send it to dsnews@vnet.ibm.com.
-
- * IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
- Corp.
- ** Trademark or registered trademark of another vendor.
-
- Mike Engelberg, Editor