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AUIS64L4 - Andrew User Interface System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Mar 13 18:15:36 1995
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:42:48 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: tpg@zaphod.mr.net (Terry Gliedt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: AUIS64L4 - Andrew User Interface System
Organization: HomePage Services, Commercial Services on the Internet
Reply-To: tpg@mr.net
Keywords: Andrew User Interface System, binaries, packages, X11
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.x
This is to announce that a complete, new series of packages of the
Andrew User Interface System (AUIS) have been made available for Linux.
These are available via anonymous FTP from two places:
sunsite.unc.edu in pub/Linux/X11/andrew
and
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu in pub/AUIS/bin-dist/linux
This is a refresh of the earlier release, still based on AUIS 6.3. This
version contains a few fixes, but its primary purpose is to make an
X11R6 version of AUIS available. I have grouped the full 40MB of
compiled programs and data into several logical "packages". These
should run on any Linux system using XFree3.x (I used Slackware 2.1.0
with a 1.92 Linux kernel).
Terry Gliedt
tpg@cfa.org ********* Please note my new mailing address *********
The Andrew User Interface System is an integrated set of tools that
allow you to create, use, and mail documents and applications containing
typographically formatted text and embedded objects. AUIS has three
principal components:
The Andrew User Environment (AUE) is an integrated set of
applications beginning with a 'generic object' editor (ez), a
help system, a system monitoring tool (console), an editor-based
shell interface (typescript), and support for printing
multi-media documents.
The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) is a portable user-interface toolkit.
It provides a dynamically-loadable, object-oriented environment
wherein objects can be embedded in one-another. Thus, one could
edit text that contains not only fonts and styles, but also
embedded raster images, spreadsheets, drawing editors,
equations, simple animations, etc. These embedded objects could
themselves contain other objects, including text. ATK is an open
system so programmers can create new objects that can be
embedded as easily as those system-defined objects.
The Andrew Message System (AMS) provides a multi-media interface
to mail and bulletin-boards. AMS supports several mail
management strategies and implements many advanced features
including authentication, return receipts, automatic sorting of
mail, vote collection and tabulation, enclosures, audit trails
of related messages, and subscription management. It also
provides a variety of interfaces that support ttys and
low-function personal computers in addition to the high-function
workstations.
The software has been configured for the relatively novice community.
The software comes in tar files varying from 0.8MB to almost 4.0MB in
size. Everything is based on the word processing package and only
requires about 4.5MB after being extracted.
The following packages are available:
auis63L4-wp.lsm Summary for EZ - the Word Processor
auis63L4-wp.tgz Contains textviews, help, image, figure, raster, typescript,
pipescript ...
auis63L4-src.lsm Summary for EZ - for Source Code Development
auis63L4-src.tgz Contains all the srcviews, bush... (requires -wp package)
auis63L4-mail.lsm Summary for Messages - MIME Mail Interface
auis63L4-mail.tgz Contains messages et al (requires -wp package)
(no support for AFS, AMDS, or White Pages)
auis63L4-full.lsm Summary for A Complete AUIS Distribution
auis63L4-full.tgz Contains the entire AUIS tree from my build. This
contains all the ATK development files and documentation.
This flle replaces the previous -dev and -doc packages.
*** This is ONLY available at ftp.andrew.cmu.edu ***
*** This tar file is over 9MB is size and requires 40MB of space ***
Changes in this release:
- This version requires XFree 3.x shared libraries
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Terry Gliedt tpg@cfa.org MIME OK 507/356-4710
Communicating for America http://www.cfa.org
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