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- PRESS RELEASE
-
- TipTop Software Ships TipTop Version 1.5
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-
- Bethesda, Maryland, December 22, 1994 --- TipTop Software is proud
- to announce that TipTop v1.5 is now shipping. TipTop is the most
- advanced, easy-to-use telecommunication and terminal emulation
- program for NEXTSTEP available today.
-
- TipTop Software thanks all its customers for making the release of
- v1.5 possible. As always, our design is driven by your feedback.
-
- The main TipTop features include:
-
- - Easy to use GUI: Standard NEXTSTEP user interface features.
- The terminal window features a toolbar, a scrollback buffer, a
- find panel, changeable fonts, etc. Built-in PhoneBook and Inspector
- facilitate easy and convenient configuration of the communication
- parameters, window appearance, and other settings.
-
- - Terminal Emulation: ANSI, VT102, and VT220, all including ANSI
- color support.
-
- - Serial Ports/Shells: Multiple serial (modem) port connections
- and shell sessions. The UUCP locking protocol is used for serial
- ports.
-
- - Scripting: A powerful script programming language based on Tcl,
- Expect, and Objective C! The automatic script generator makes
- it easy to create basic scripts.
-
- [Among other things, the scripting language can run ``term''
- which is used to establish a SLIP-like connection to a remote
- site. This allows several simultaneous terminal sessions to
- be connected to a remote site, while files are transferred and
- remote commands executed. One can even run remote X-window
- clients connected to the local X-server.]
-
- - Application Programmers Interface (API): TipTop's internal
- objects can be messaged from a script as well as from other
- applications.
-
- - File Transfer: Bundled transfer protocols include X-, Y-, and
- ZMODEM. Any external transfer protocol can be used with TipTop.
-
- - Key Bindings: Flexible keyboard mapping. Any key (with or
- without combinations of the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift modifiers) can
- be redefined as any character, string of characters, script, or
- even as an Objective C message!
-
- New features in v1.5 include:
-
- - Loadable bundles allow end-users to extend TipTop without
- limits. For example, end-users can design their own objects,
- such as toolbars, dialog panels, etc. and fully integrate them
- into TipTop.
-
- - Remote serial port feature allows access of serial ports on
- any NEXTSTEP computer reachable through a network from TipTop,
- i.e., a remote modem session can be opened just as if the modem
- were directly attached to the local computer. The server machine,
- i.e., machine to which the modem is physically attached, requires
- a TipTop Serial Port Server. The server will be released soon.
-
- - The API is greatly improved. It is now easy to design new
- toolbars, new session objects, new session panels, etc.
-
- - Many GUI improvements, including new Toolbar, Dial, and Term
- interfaces.
-
- - ISO Latin 1 character encoding is included. Users can create
- their own character encodings.
-
- - Email transfer scripts allow email transport from and to Mail.app
- through TipTop. When the deliver button is clicked in Mail.app,
- the outgoing message gets queued. When the SendMail script is
- run, all the messages that are queued locally get transferred to
- the remote machine and sent to the appropriate recipient(s).
- When the GetMail script is run, all the messages stored in the
- remote mailbox get transferred to the local machine so that they
- can be read in Mail.app. This is very useful if one has a Unix
- account with email access, and no email access for the local NS
- machine. (These sample scripts are not supported by TipTop
- Software.)
-
- - And much, much more...
-
- TipTop telecommunication software runs on Motorola, Intel, and HP
- PA-RISC machines running NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher. TipTop still costs
- only $185 + S/H ($4 FirstClass Mail within US, $8 AirMail to Europe).
- Site licenses are available as well as academic discounts.
-
- For more info or to place an order contact TipTop Software:
-
- TipTop Software
- Email: tiptop@tiptop.com
- Tel/Fax: +1 (301) 656-3837 (9am--5pm US EST, Mon--Fri)
- USPS: PO Box 30681, Bethesda, MD 20824, USA
-
- Visa/MasterCard accepted.
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- To unpack TipTop-1.5.tar.gz type:
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- gnutar xzvf TipTop-1.5.tar.gz
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