The latest release of the KBVision System, version 3.1, has been shipped to all customers with current maintenance. New features include:
Disk space requirements have been greatly reduced by linking all Tasks into one executable and stripping all KBV executables.
Future patches to the KBVision release will be added directly to KBV libraries before software is shipped. Any additional Patches requested by users can be placed in the Patches directory for installation. The Patches directory will be empty when a release is shipped to users.
Additional platform support
The KBVision System is now available on the DEC Alpha workstation running
under OSF1, V3.2 .
Floating (flexlm) licenses are available on Silicon Graphics and DEC Alpha computers, as well as SUN OS 4.* and 5.*. A floating license allows a KBVision user at a single graphics station to execute as many Tasks and interfaces as desired, while consuming a single license. Any node on the network which can access that KBV flex license may use it. As many users as desired can be added to the flex license.
New Tasks and Task enhancements
Three new Tasks have been added to release 3.1.
A number of additional Tasks are shipped in the directory UnReleased. These Tasks are not ready for official release, but may be useful to KBV users.
Thirty Tasks have been enhanced.
A number of unreleased Grouper Tasks are included in the directory:
./kbv_tasks/UnReleased/GrouperUnsupported
Nine functions have been added specifically for Token sequences. They are documented in the Programmer's Reference Manual.
Thirteen existing Tss functions have been modified to accept sequences as arguments.
The KBVision System now supplies a Motif widget which allows Gfx and DIS routines to be used directly under Motif.
More shifted buttons have been added to Gfx event functions.
Enhanced support for Large Images
New environment variables have been added to the KBVision System
to allow users to define the size of large or "blocked" images.
New plotting capabilities
Two new KBV environment variables have been
added to control PostScript(R) file output.
Documentation
The KBVision documentation has been re-organized to present the Visual
Programming Environment (Dataflow) as the primary KBVision Interface.
New pages for the following manuals are supplied with KBVision release 3.1:
A new subdirectory docs has been added to the top-level KBVision release directory. It contains:
KBV User Group
An anonymous ftp site is available for the deposit and extraction
of user-contributed files.
Users may contribute code by:
Mail code to AAI at kbv-users-contrib@aai.com or
Send code via ftp to /pub/incoming on ftp.aai.com
Files contributed can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from:
ftp.aai.com in /pub/kbv/contribAAI technical support staff will monitor the mail group. The mail list will be archived in the ftp area. The list will not be moderated.
AAI will also contribute information and unsupported source code to this mail group periodically.
KBVoice Newsletter
KBVoice, the newsletter for KBVision System users and friends, is published
several times a year and sent to all on our current mailing list.
The letter includes news about Amerinex A.I., the status of the KBVision System,
and technical info and hints for using KBV.
If you would like to receive a copy, send your request to:
aaimail@aai.com
KBVision (webmaster@aai.com)
KBVision is a trademark of Amerinex Artificial Intelligence, Inc.