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- CONTACT INFORMATION:
-
- Contact: Scott Hess
- 12550 Portland Ave S #121
- Burnsville, MN 55337
- Telephone: (612) 895-1208 (work)
- Internet: shess@winternet.com
-
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (IF NOT SOONER)
-
- SCOTT HESS RELEASES Stuart2.6.1
- Variation on a theme of Terminal
-
- Tuesday January 16, 1996, 1:00pm CST
-
- SCOTT'S OFFICE - Stuart2.6.1 is a new release of Stuart which includes support
- for execution under NeXTSTEP running on NeXT, Intel, HP PA-RISC, and Sun
- SPARC machinery. Also included are some bug fixes and new features, though
- to list them would greatly exceed our 100 line allowance.
-
- The most significant change is that the storage and display engine has been
- completely rewritten to provide a solid base for future development. As a
- side effect it provides some basic color and font support and more efficient
- memory usage.
-
- Of lesser significance are things like VT100 graphics characters and
- double-size lines, and a mostly rewritten online manual.
-
-
- Background
-
- Stuart is a close cousin of the Terminal.app which is shipped with NeXTSTEP.
- A large number of small enhancements have been added to the program to make
- it more useful to myself and my users. Since the basic programs are quite
- similar, there is really no substitute for downloading the program and trying
- it out, if you think you might be interested in such things.
-
- As a whole, the improvements are somewhat similar to those you find in better
- shell programs - you're usually hard pressed to list the features when using
- them, but when you're on another machine _without_ the right environment,
- you really notice it. You know what I mean.
-
-
- Availability and Pricing
-
- Stuart2.6.1 is available NOW for NEXTSTEP3.x running on NeXT, Intel, PA-RISC,
- and Sparc hardware. As tradition demands, Stuart is shareware, and will be
- distributed via the same tried and true channels that have worked in the
- past; namely, the Internet archive sites. Stuart has been placed on:
-
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/shess/Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl/pub/next/submissions/Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
- ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/comm/Stuart_f/ (single architecure packages)
-
- To unarchive Stuart, get to a command-line and use the command
- "gzcat Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz | tar -xvf -". If you do not have ftp access,
- contact Scott Hess and he can send you a copy via email. If you're the kind
- to care, the output of running sum(1) on the file is:
-
- 30834 1055 Stuart2.6.1.NIHS.tar.gz
-
- Stuart is priced at $40 for an individual license and $25 for a student
- license. Site licenses are available for both academic and
- commercial/government sites. Since Stuart is shareware, the user is allowed
- a reasonable evaluation period during which they can determine if Stuart
- provides functionality that they are willing to pay for.
-
-
- Scott Hess develops and distributes the popular Stuart terminal emulator and
- TickleServices Services framework, and also crafts custom code for clients
- willing to foot the bill. Periodically he contemplates becoming a company,
- or even a corporation, but he so intensely dislikes wearing a suit that it
- is doubtful if we will ever find the vulture capital to do so. Located in
- snowy Burnsville, Minnesota, Scott's office is the scene of much
- caffeine-driven sorcery. Scott is again located in his spare bedroom, where
- he works under intense halogen lighting. Scott can periodically be spotted
- bicycling about Burnsville, and is currently feeling a bit cooped up due to
- a blanket of snow which will not be gone until April ...
-
-
- NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. Intel is a registered trademark of
- Intel Corporation. HP and PA-RISC are trademarks of Hewlett Packard. SPARC
- is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. Any other trademarks are surely held by
- their respective trademark holders. If not, then they aren't.
-