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- From: stevej@ais.org (Steve Jovanovic)
- Subject: TopSoft, Inc. Seeking Developers!
- Message-ID: <BxvouG.MqC@ais.org>
- Followup-To: stevej@ais.org
- Keywords: TopSoft, FilterTop
- Organization: UMCC
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:56:38 GMT
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- Dear Netters,
-
- I'd like to update you on the status of the FilterTop
- project, and invite new programmers to join the final
- leg of the 1.0 development effort!
-
- TopSoft, Inc. is a non-profit company formed to produce
- free software, sample source code, libraries, etc. for
- the Mac community. We started off as a loose group of
- programmers in 1991, and incorporated half a year ago,
- adding several new projects to the fold (to be announced
- in later postings).
-
- Our main product currently is FilterTop, an intelligent
- file "filtration" utility based loosely on UNIX pipelines,
- multi-threading, graphical "superfilter" creation and
- configuration, etc. It's a bit hard to describe without
- seeing...for more info, if you are seriously interested
- in helping with development, please contact me and we'll
- get you set up on our mailing lists, etc.
-
- We are also looking for developers interested in creating
- filters for FilterTop. Examples (which we have) are:
- Binhex, Debinhex, Mac->UNIX Text, Macify, etc. In short,
- a filter can do virtually anything, from various types
- of file conversion (graphics formats, sound formats,
- word processor formats) to filtration, such as UNIX's
- "sed," "wc," "grep," etc. We are trying to establish the
- FilterTop filter format as an open standard, so that all
- developers will be able to make use of FilterTop filters
- in their applications. These filters are similar to the
- idea behind XTND, but much more flexible, and can run
- concurrently via threads in the FilterTop environment :-)
-
- We're anxious to release FilterTop 1.0, with LOTS of
- filters, and are very eager to find other programmers
- who would like to take on the challenge of a complex
- project, and help us put out a great piece of software
- available freely to all Mac users.
-
- Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you!
-
- steve jovanovic
-
- President, TopSoft, Inc. FilterTop Project Manager
-