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Local exploder aliases 56.00.B Information About SunFlash - how to use the automatic email alias to obtain a long description about SunFlash 56.00.C SunFlash Archive Sites and Locations - locations of a number of ftp sites that store the month-by-month SunFlash archives 56.00.D Obtaining Back Issues By Email - how to get back issues by sending volume and part number to and email address 56.00.E August's Articles - 1 line Summary - for those who don't want to read the longer summary 56.00.F August's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary - abstract of each article This monthy digest article and the article by article abstracts are designed to help you quickly scan the large amount of information that I post to SunFlash. Please send email to flash@sun.com and tell me what you think of these changes. Your comments (good and bad) will be appreciated! John J. McLaughlin SunFlash Editor Ft. Lauderdale, FL SEptember 2st, 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash Aliases To distribute the administration of the mailing list and to keep network traffic as low as possible, I encourage each site to create its own sunflash alias (also know as exploder aliases). The standard names for the aliases are: sunflash: owner-sunflash: (** must include full domainname **) If you are forwarding SunFlash to multiple people at another site, please encourage them to create aliases similar to the ones above. At the start of each SunFlash message you should find a couple of lines that show the name of the alias that I am actually posting to and the email address of the administrator who can make changes to that alias. 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This will cause all errors and replies to go to that email address instead of mine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Information About SunFlash An automatic email reply that describes SunFlash in great detail can be obtained by sending mail to sunflash-info@sun.com (or info-sunflash@sun.com). Included in this reply will be: o An article that describes SunFlash o A list of SunFlash distributors by Geography o A recent SunFlash table of contents article (such as this one) o One line titles for some of the most recent articles Requests to be added should be directed to your local Sun office or sunflash-request@sun.com. Please feel free to pass this information on to other Sun users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SunFlash Archives I archive SunFlash onto a number of ftp servers. Each volume (or month) is stored as a compressed tar file. 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Place the vol.part in the subject line. e.g. $ mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 53.06 53.07 53.04 ^D $ Notes: - more that 1 vol.part allowed in subject line - for multi-article messages (such as 53.04 which has 9 articles), you will get the whole message. - body of message is empty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: August's Articles - 1 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 49.00 January 1993 Table Of Contents 50.00 February 1993 Table Of Contents 51.00 March 1993 Table Of Contents 52.00 April 1993 Table Of Contents 53.00 May 1993 Table Of Contents 54.00 SunFlash Monthly Digest June 1993 55.00 SunFlash Monthly Digest July 1993 56.00 SunFlash Monthly Digest August 1993 56.01 Sunergy #7: Cyberjockying in the 21st Century 56.02 Call For Papers - December 1993 Sun User Group Conference 56.03 July 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) 56.03.A STB Editor's Introduction 56.03.B July 1993 STB Contents 56.04 Networking Companies Form Fast Ethernet Alliance 56.05 European Solaris 2.2 56.06 SunConnect To Certify Third-Party Products 56.07.A Book "!%@::A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing & Networks" 56.07.B Book: "Software Portability with imake" 56.07.C ICSW ANNOUNCES ANONYMOUS FTP AVAILABILITY OF UUCPADM 56.07.D Island Graphics Ships IslandOffice for Motif on Sun 56.07.E Qualix ships Buyer's Guide for client-server software products 56.07.F iXOS Ports TUXEDO to Sun and Siemens Nixdorf 56.08 MOTIF 1.2.2 Developers Toolkit for Solaris 2.2 56.09 SMCC and The Dodge Group To Deliver Client-Server Financial Apps 56.10 SunSoft Announces ONC+ Licensees 56.11.A SunSoft Launches NFS Version 3 56.11.B NFS Version 3 Spec Via ftp 56.12 New Fibre Channel Used by Lawrence Livermore 56.13 SPARCworks Professional Ada 2.0 56.14 New Line of OSI Communication Platform Products 56.15.A NetNews on CD's - USENET Newsfeed on CD-ROM 56.15.B DB.h++: A C++ Class Library for Database Applications 56.15.C FREE TRIAL OFFER: H P C S E L E C T N E W S 56.15.D NetMake 1.3 - Available on Solaris 2.X 56.15.E O'Reilly International Distributors 56.15.F Sun Users Group Call For Papers deadline extended to Sept 1 56.16 Sun System Sets New TPC-A Price/Performance Record 56.17 SPARCengine 10 Model 30 and 41 Transition 56.18 Support Strategy for Solaris 1.1C 56.19 SPARCclassic X X-terminal 56.17 COSE Developers Conference October 26-28, 1993 San Jose CA 56.21.A Announcing Artek Innovations EnergySaver 56.21.B Project Gutenberg is now available on CDROM 56.21.C X11/Motif 2D Plotting for SunOS 56.21.D A C software testability tool 56.21.E Midnight Networks' Recon/Map makes TCP/IP management easier 56.21.F Rnet - A Distributed Messaging Toolkit for Unix 56.21.G Pencom Designs New Solaris Developer Training, Education Program 56.22 Upgrades from SPARCclassic X X-terminal to SPARCclassic Workstation 56.23 SPARCclassic X is now available from SunExpress 56.24 New, lower prices on select SPARCserver 600MP module upgrades 56.25 SPARCserver 600MP Upgrades Transitioned Off The Pricebook 56.26 Sept 28th Sunergy Satellite Broadcast 56.27 Breakthrough Performance for SPARCserver 2000 56.28 Sun's First Estonia Distributor 56.29 Japanese Solaris 2.2 56.30 SunSelect Announces IBM As Newest Wabi Licensee 56.31 Mass Storage Products - Update 56.32 SPARCstation 10/SPARCserver 10 New Model 40 Configs and Lower Prices 56.33 Phase Out of upgrades to SPARCstation ELC, 56.34.A Artecon FileTrek: A Distributed Hierarchical Storage Management System 56.34.B Motif (tm) for Sun/OS (tm) with support for X11.5 56.34.C Prime Time SDK for Intel SVR4.2 56.34.D SPARC International Announces SPARCBuilders(sm) Catalog 56.34.E Wind/U 1.3 - Microsoft Windows and Visual C++ Applications On UNIX 56.34.F ANDATACO and XpressWare announce XpressFax 2.0 56.35 Sun and TI Team Up For UltraSPARC-I -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: August's Articles - 2 to 5 line Summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56.01 Sunergy #7: Cyberjockying in the 21st Century September 28, 1993 Satellite broadcast early notification. 56.02 Call For Papers - December 1993 Sun User Group Conference Theme: The Metamorphosis of SunOS: from classroom to boardroom Suns in the corporate environment; Migrating from mainframes to Suns; Conversion to Solaris 2: a global issue 56.03 July 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) The STB "Table of Contents" and "Editor's Introduction" are posted to SunFlash so that customers who have a support contract are made aware of the contents of this execellent publication. 56.03.A STB Editor's Introduction Brief description of each of the major STB articles by the STB editor. 56.03.B July 1993 STB Contents 56.04 Networking Companies Form Fast Ethernet Alliance Eight leading networking companies including SMCC, announe the creation of the Fast Ethernet Alliance. The Alliance was formed to support the standardization and interoperability of 100Mbps Ethernet CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) protocol solutions. The main objectives in announcing the Alliance were to build a momentum and evangelize our solutions over HP/AT&T's 100 Base-VG solution. 56.05 European Solaris 2.2 - French, German, Italian, and Swedish versions of Solaris 2.2 are now available. - Localized European Solaris 2.2, along with translated AnswerBook on-line documentation and end user documentation, will be provided to workstation users worldwide 56.06 SunConnect To Certify Third-Party Products Enhanced SunNet Manager Partners' Program. Certification program guarantees SunNet Manager Partner products comply with SunConnect's standards of performance and interoperability. 56.07.A Book "!%@::A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing & Networks" Completely updated, lower priced edition. Includes intro to e-mail; description of over 800 networks; index to networks by network name, country or area name and country code 56.07.B Book: "Software Portability with imake" by programmer Paul DuBois. Explains how to make this tool do the "dirty work" by configuring projects where large numbers of parameters vary according to hardware manufacturer, operating system, or site. 56.07.C ICSW ANNOUNCES ANONYMOUS FTP AVAILABILITY OF UUCPADM UUCPADM is a comprehensive GUI-based package for configuring, testing and maintaining local and remote E-MAIL, asynchronous communications ports, modems, and the UUCP 56.07.D Island Graphics Ships IslandOffice for Motif on Sun Includes Island Write, Draw & Paint; IslandPresents; And New IslandCalc Spreadsheet. 56.07.E Qualix ships Buyer's Guide for client-server software products Free Guide to over 90 of the top products in the client-server market. 56.07.F iXOS Ports TUXEDO to Sun and Siemens Nixdorf German software house iXOS Software GmbH has ported and will license and support UNIX Systems Laboratories' TUXEDO Enterprise Transaction Processing System on both Sun SOLARIS 2.x and Siemens Nixdorf RM400 and RM600 UNIX workstations. 56.08 MOTIF 1.2.2 Developers Toolkit for Solaris 2.2 - Comprehensive set of tools and standard API to create applications with a Motif look-and-feel GUI. - Includes Motif 1.2.2 libraries, Motif Window Manager and UIL compiler. - Based on X11r5 libraries and supports Level 4 Internationalization 56.09 SMCC and The Dodge Group To Deliver Client-Server Financial Apps Leading UNIX Client-Server System Vendor Teams with Leading Provider of Financial Accounting Software. OpenSeries, which consists of general ledger, accounts payable, purchase order and accounts receivable software, was specifically designed by The Dodge Group for client-server environments. 56.10 SunSoft Announces ONC+ Licensees Cray, Fujitsu, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba License ONC+. ONC+ is a complete platform for enterprise-wide connectivity in heterogeneous computing environments. It includes a new enterprise name service called NIS+, Transport-Independent Remote Procedure Call (TI-RPC), Transport Layer Interface (TLI), and the most broadly deployed Network File System in the industry, NFS. 56.11.A SunSoft Launches NFS Version 3 NFS Version 3 is the latest revision of the industry-standard file system, NFS. A number of vendors recently tested their implementations of NFS Version 3 at Connectathon `93. 56.11.B NFS Version 3 Spec Via ftp You can obtain the NFS Version 3 specifications describing the new protocol is available via anonymous ftp from serveral ftp servers. 56.12 New Fibre Channel Used by Lawrence Livermore The Fibre Channel Systems Initiative (FCSI) is a joint effort of HP, IBM and Sun to create high-speed "on-ramps" to the digital information highway. The first prototype implementation of the FCSI is at LLNL. 56.13 SPARCworks Professional Ada 2.0 (SPARCompiler Ada 2.0, SPARCworks/Ada 2.0) SunPro's Ada tools now supports Solaris 2 and are fully compatible with Solaris 1 versions (Sun ADE 1.0, 1.1) 56.14 New Line of OSI Communication Platform Products The following products are being introduced: SunLink OSI 8.0 SunLink X.400 8.0 SunLink FTAM 8.0 SunLink VT 8.0 SunLink CMIP 8.0 56.15.A NetNews on CD's - USENET Newsfeed on CD-ROM CD Publishing Corporation's NetNews on CD's provides an archiving and distribution service for USENET news and makes the wealth of information on USENET available whenever you need it without the requirement for excessive disk storage. 56.15.B DB.h++: A C++ Class Library for Database Applications DB.h++ is a C++ class library for database application developers. DB.h++ provides database application developers with the benefits of C++ and object-oriented programming. DB.h++ version 1.5 supports Oracle 7 56.15.C FREE TRIAL OFFER: H P C S E L E C T N E W S HPCwire is now offering free, four-week trial subscriptions to HPC SELECT NEWS, the highly acclaimed electronic news magazine for high-performance computing, delivered weekly over the Internet. Just send an e-mail message to trial@hpcwire.ans.net, and you will receive four weeks of free access to all of the HPC news and information listed in the weekly Select News bulletin. 56.15.D NetMake 1.3 - Available on Solaris 2.X NetMake allows software developers to use an entire network of workstations and servers in parallel, reducing compile time. With NetMake, parallel network distribution of build tasks is achieved without changing existing Sun, BSD, or GNU makefiles. 56.15.E O'Reilly International Distributors Major UNIX book publisher expands international distributors 56.15.F Sun Users Group Call For Papers deadline extended to Sept 1 December 7-9 1993 San Jose, California Theme: The Metamorphosis of SunOS: from classroom to boardroom Suns in the corporate environment Migrating from mainframes to Suns Conversion to Solaris 2: a global issue 56.16 Sun System Sets New TPC-A Price/Performance Record SMCC & Oracle reported new Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A (TPC-A) that set a new industry price/performance record. The eight-processor model of SMCC's new SPARCserver(TM) 1000 system running the Oracle7 Cooperative Server database delivered 400.47 transactions per second and $4,972 per tpsA. 56.17 SPARCengine 10 Model 30 and 41 Transition SPARCengine(TM) 10 Models 30 and 41 are being transitioned and will no longer be available to order beyond October 1, 1993. They are being replaced by higher performance and lower priced SPARCengine models 40 and 51 respectively. 56.18 Support Strategy for Solaris 1.1C The Solaris(R) 1.1C operating environment is a special hardware platform release for the SPARCstation(TM) LX and SPARCclassic(TM) systems. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) and SunSoft are providing this release in response to customer requests for a Solaris 1.x solution on SMCC's latest desktop hardware. 56.19 SPARCclassic X X-terminal - Extends Sun's enterprise-wide solution with a low-cost X-terminal desktop that allows easy migration to client-server - Sets a new, lower entry price for a Sun SPARC-processor based system - The industry's most innovative X-terminal with its exceptional ease of use, administration and installation, as well as its low-cost, plug and play upgrade to a workstation 56.17 COSE Developers Conference October 26-28, 1993 San Jose CA Information about conference and COSE 1. What is the common open software environment? 2. What is the Common Desktop Environment? 3. Who should Attend the CDE Developers Conference? 4. What is the Conference Program? 1. Keynote 2. Executive Panel - the common open software environment 3. Overview of the Common Desktop Environment 4. Panel Discussion - Why CDE Makes $ense 5. Roundtable with CDE Architects 5. Why should you register now? 6. What will you leave with? What will be taken away? 56.21.A Announcing Artek Innovations EnergySaver Save over 75% on your electricity bill ! EnergySaver is a device that connects between your computer and it's keyboard, and plugs into a standard wall outlet. It will monitor the keyboard activity, and turn off upto three outlets if there has been no activity. 56.21.B Project Gutenberg is now available on CDROM The $39.95 disc contains the text for many documents such as Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick, and Paradise Lost; Historical documents such as the Magna Carta, U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Inagural Addresses and many treaties; references such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, census data, the CIA World Fact Book, and mathematical constants; religious documents such as the Bible, and the Book of Mormon. 56.21.C X11/Motif 2D Plotting for SunOS QuickPlot is an easy to use general purpose X-Window plotting application for SunOS. QuickPlot can read data written in one of its built-in data formats or can be configured to read custom site-specific data formats. Graphics output is encapsulated postscript. 56.21.D A C software testability tool Reliable Software Technologies Corporation announces that its C software testability tool -- PiSCES -- is now available for evaluation/lease. This tool allows developers/testers to determine where faults are more likely to hide during testing, estimate how many test cases are necessary to achieve a specified reliability level given the fault hiding (testability) ability of the code. 56.21.E Midnight Networks' Recon/Map makes TCP/IP management easier Recon/Map is a focused software tool that keeps you aware of the current status of your TCP/IP network by providing up-to-date snapshots of it on demand. You can view an up-to-date host table and note inconsistencies in the various hostname databases on your system. 56.21.F Rnet - A Distributed Messaging Toolkit for Unix Rnet simplifies interprocess and intermachine communication in today's distributed, client/server environments. Programs can send messages to an unlimited number of other processes in a very simple fashion, eliminating the need for complicated, low level network programming. 56.21.G Pencom Designs New Solaris Developer Training, Education Program Pencom has also been selected as one of SunSoft's Accredited Education Center (AEC) sites. This designation allows Pencom to deliver courses on-site at SunSoft's Mountain View, CA headquarters, or at client sites. 56.22 Upgrades from SPARCclassic X X-terminal to SPARCclassic Workstation Sun announces a plug-and-play, customer installable upgrade that allows the SPARCclassic X X-terminal to be upgraded to a SPARCclassic workstation with 16 MB of memory, a 424-MB SCSI disk drive, and a desktop client 2.x Solaris(R) license. 56.23 SPARCclassic X is now available from SunExpress - SunExpress now offers quick delivery and pre-sales technical support for all color SPARCclassic X configurations. - SPARCclassic X is available through SunExpress telesales operations in North America and Europe. - SunExpress End User pricing will be consistent with SMCC pricing. - SunExpress is promoting the SPARCclassic X via a direct mail campaign in August and the SunExpress catalog in September. 56.24 New, lower prices on select SPARCserver 600MP module upgrades from SPARCserver 600MP-Cypress to SPARCserver 600MP-Viking systems 56.25 SPARCserver 600MP Upgrades Transitioned Off The Pricebook Following the successful announcements of upgrades to the SPARCserver(TM) 1000 and SPARCcenter 2000 systems, Sun announces the phasing out of all system upgrades to the SPARCserver 600MP-Viking family. Upgrades to the SPARCserver 600MP-Cypress systems were announced July 8, 1993. 56.26 Sept 28th Sunergy Satellite Broadcast 7th Sunergy Broadcast will be on September 28, 1993 from 9:00 - 10:45 am PDT. Title: "Cyberjockying in the 21st Century". How will supernetworks and the Internet affect you ? 56.27 Breakthrough Performance for SPARCserver 2000 SMCC reports excellent performance for the SPARCserver 2000 in three benchmarks: NFS (LADDIS), system computational performance (the SPECrate benchmark) and multi-user throughput (the AIM III benchmark). 56.28 Sun's First Estonia Distributor SMCC has appointed Microlink A/S as its first distributor in Estonia. Central Bank of Estonia Selects Sun. 56.29 Japanese Solaris 2.2 Japanese Solaris 2.2 is now orderable in the U.S. 56.30 SunSelect Announces IBM As Newest Wabi Licensee Wabi allows UNIX systems to run Microsoft Windows applications without the need for MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows itself. IBM will offer Wabi on R/S 6000 systems. Sun and HP will also offer Wabi on their respective workstations. Also, IBM has entered a development agreement with SunSelect. 56.31 Mass Storage Products - Update Mass Storage Products Moved from Discount Category B to A Aggressive New Prices on Mass Storage and Memory X-Options New 535-MB SCSI-2 Internal Expansion Disk X-Option Transition of 424-MB SCSI-2 Disk X-Options 56.32 SPARCstation 10/SPARCserver 10 New Model 40 Configs and Lower Prices New models include mid-range 16-in. color monitor and 535-MB SCSI-2 disk drive. 1-GB configurations have been aggressively repriced. 56.33 Phase Out of upgrades to SPARCstation ELC, SPARCstation IPC, and SPARCserver 600MP-Cypress Phase Out of peripheral products related to SPARCstation ELC and SPARCserver 600MP-Cypress. Other product Phase Outs. 56.34.A Artecon FileTrek: A Distributed Hierarchical Storage Management System FileTrek provides a complete suite of HSM capabilities including user-transparent file migration, automatic restoration, archiving, system backup, and more for the heterogeneous computer environment. 56.34.B Motif (tm) for Sun/OS (tm) with support for X11.5 Metro Link's Snapix is a tool for rapidly devloping Motif apps. Metro also sells Motif environment (runtime & development & X11.5) for Sun's 56.34.C Prime Time SDK for Intel SVR4.2 Prime Time SDK (Software Development Kit) for Intel SVR4.2 is an affordable, complete, stand-alone development system. It is intended for use with Unix-Ware PE and similar Intel-based SVR4.2 products. 56.34.D SPARC International Announces SPARCBuilders(sm) Catalog The catalog gives builders of SPARC-based products a single reference to the growing infrastructure that supports the SPARC Sections include: Specifications; testing ser; Design kits; O/Ses (UNIX & real-time); Design tools; Devices (e.g CPU core components); Boards; Peripherals; Consultants 56.34.E Wind/U 1.3 - Microsoft Windows and Visual C++ Applications On UNIX Bristol Technology's Wind/U Toolkit Allows Developers to Port By Simply Recompiling Microsoft Windows or Visual C++ Applications to Run As Native UNIX/Motif Programs 56.34.F ANDATACO and XpressWare announce XpressFax 2.0 2.0 features a new easy to use OpenLook based GUI interface which allows users to send and receive fax documents directly from their SPARC workstation or X terminal. 56.35 Sun and TI Team Up For UltraSPARC-I Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. (SMCC) and Texas Instruments will work together to develop and manufacture of the first member of the UltraSPARC design family, the 64-bit UltraSPARC-I. SMCC offers UltraSPARC-I "early access"to system developers ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. Send brief articles (e.g. third party announcements) and include contact information (non-800#, fax #, email, etc) to: John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909