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COMMERCIAL/BETA: WebKit[tm]--Toolkit for WWW-based database applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Dec 1 16:39:25 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:35:21 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: catfood@apk.net (Mark Schumann)
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Subject: COMMERCIAL/BETA: WebKit[tm]--Toolkit for WWW-based database applications
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| New toolkit for Internet World-Wide-Web-based |
| database applications |
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CLEVELAND, Ohio--Software Under Flap[tm] and WorkGroup Solutions,
Inc., announce an open beta period for WebKit[tm], the World-Wide Web
add-in for FlagShip.
WHAT IT IS
WebKit is a toolkit which, together with FlagShip, makes it easy to
write form-based, interactive applications with a fast data engine.
These applications can be deployed on the World Wide Web, where they
can be used from any WWW browser.
FlagShip, already in its 4.3 release, with thousands in use, is an
application development language and database. FlagShip is a
complete re-implementation of CA-Clipper through version 5.2e for
Linux, or virtually any Unix operating system. FlagShip creates
lightning fast, 32 bit, multi-user native mode applications.
WHAT IT DOES
Using WebKit and FlagShip, Clipper programmers will for the first time
have a robust and easy way to publish databases, provide data-entry
forms, and perform complex business calculations, all on the Internet.
Programmers who already use C, Perl, or shell scripts to read and write
databases on the WWW will gain an industrial-strength ISAM database tied
to a powerful and flexible high-level programming language.
HOW DO I GET IT?
Software Under Flap and WorkGroup Solutions anticipate Webkit 1.00 for
Linux to be released in late November 1995, at a limited-time price of
$99.00. Webkit will support both COFF and Elf binary formats.
Anyone may download the beta from:
ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs/webkit/webkit-b.tgz; or
ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs/webkit/webkit-0.91-beta.tar.gz
(a link to the same file)
To use Webkit, you will need FlagShip release 4.3 for Linux,
whose free test drive version is available from:
ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs/fs4lix.gz1
ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs/fs4lix.gz2
or from similarly named files on LIB 16 of the FLAGSHIP forum on
Compuserve. (Please first read the file fsdemo.txt in both locations.)
You will also need any 1.2.x release of Linux.
If you do not already own Linux, WorkGroup Solutions sells and supports
WGS Linux Pro, the version with which WebKit is developed and tested.
A free copy of Webkit 1.00 with online documentation will be given to
beta testers who provide usable feedback during the beta period.
There are a few ways to get more information on Webkit or FlagShip.
email <info@underflap.com> or <info@wgs.com>;
on the WWW at http://www.wgs.com; or
via FTP at ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs
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