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VENDOR: Post Road Mailer and Netscape Navigator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Porter)
Fri Sep 13 19:08:01 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 13 Sep 1996 22:00:33 GMT
From: drporte@ibm.net (Dan Porter)
Reply-To: innoval@ibm.net
Reply-to: innoval@ibm.net
Submitted by: drporte@ibm.net (Dan Porter)
Source: Dan Porter, InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc.
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InnoVal Announces New Release of Post Road Mailer
For OS/2 Warp 4 and Netscape Navigator
Harrison, New York - September 16*, 1996 - With the launch of IBM's OS/2 Warp
4 on September 25th, popularly known by the codename "Merlin," and the
impending release of Netscape Navigator for OS/2, InnoVal Systems today
announced that it will release an enhanced version of the Post Road Mailer for
the new version of OS/2. (*Please note that this Internet Release is an
expansion of the official press release being issued by InnoVal on September
16th.)
The Post Road Mailer, a popular email client for OS/2, is available in two
editions:
* An Internet/intranet edition, Post Road Mailer Pro, for business and
personal email that uses the standard Internet protocol, TCP/IP.
* A PROFS edition, that provides offline and online mail processing for users
of IBM's OV/VM mainframe email system. The PROFS edition is also called the
Blue Edition.
Enhancements to both editions of the Post Road Mailer, Releases 2.5, will
include integration with the Netscape Navigator (including MIME type "Content
type: Text/HTML" with imbedded graphics) and support for an enhanced version
of SpellGuard, an add-on spell checker which includes British-English, Dutch,
French, German and US-English dictionaries. The upgraded version will also
include an optional feature for sending messages to and receiving replies from
SkyTel 2-way pagers. It will also be enabled for IBM ARTour wireless Internet
Technology and ARTour's significant server-to-client security methods.
The Internet edition, Post Road Mailer Pro, is the premier email client
program for OS/2. It supports multiple accounts, nested folders for message
organization, multiple address books, mail filters, built-in FTP, support for
PGP, newsgroup postings as mail, and programmable user exits.
Fax Integration
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Post Road Mailer Pro also works with FaxWorks Pro and PMFax, popular OS/2
faxing software. This enables small businesses and mobile workers to forward
faxes from a fax phone number to an email account and receive faxes anywhere.
Faxes can also be sent through the Internet rather than as point-to-point
calls.
"Our customers use various tools such as Word Pro, 1-2-3, and in-house
programs to prepare reports for distribution to employees who work at home or
who travel," explained Chuck Kowarz, Technology Vice President of InnoVal
Systems. "Fax software acts as a printer so it doesn't really matter what
software is being used to generate output. It is easier and much more cost
effective to email faxes than to fax print-outs to a phone number. Have you
ever tried to fax a confidential report to a hotel for someone who won't
arrive until late at night?" Kowarz added.
Demonstrations and Preloads
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Full-function demonstrations of both editions of the Post Road Mailer are
being included on the Sampler CD packaged with OS/2 Warp 4. The Internet
edition of the mailer is also being preloaded along with OS/2 Warp 4 by
distributors of computer systems preloaded with OS/2, including Indelible Blue
of Raleigh, North Carolina, and Simply Intelligent of Austin, Texas.
Demonstration copies of the Post Road Mailer are also available from these
sites and other including BMT Micro and Compuserve.
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/demos/post200.zip
http://www.aescon.com/bestofos2/demonstrations/post200.zip
http://www.os2.musthave.com/OS2/ftp/post200.zip
http://www.tiac.net/innoval/post200.zip
NetExtra for Netscape Navigator
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In a related announcement, InnoVal also announced an add-on tool for the
Netscape Navigator for OS/2 called Post Road NetExtra. NetExtra provides a
number of useful navigational functions for everyone who surfs the Web. These
functions include advanced bookmarking of pages into nested folders, nicknamed
page retrieval, an unlimited month-by-month history of all visited web pages,
a persistent jump list that is carried forward from session to session, and a
local agent for downloading a series of web pages to a user's hard drive.
Downloaded web pages, called "wacked" pages, can be viewed very quickly, even
while disconnected from the Internet.
"These have been exciting development projects for everyone at InnoVal," said
Dan Porter, President of InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc. "We have received
extraordinary help from IBM and Netscape in developing these OS/2 products.
Netscape has a philosophy of open network architecture which encourages
development of plug-ins and add-on products. IBM, with the new release of OS/2
Warp 4, has delivered superb function and ease-of-use. This is a win-win
opportunity for everyone involved including IBM, Netscape, third party
software developers, and individual computer users. What we once viewed as a
niche market we now view as an expanding prime market for software."
Along with the announcement of Post Road NetExtra, InnoVal is also announcing
a free subscription service called the "NetExtra Bookmarks of the Month Club."
Each month, NetExtra users will be able to download folders of interesting new
web pages. Periodically, InnoVal will also provide additional agents for
NetExtra. Some of the new agents will include automated scripts and filters
for working with popular search engines such as Yahoo and Lycos, directory
converters for converting links in directory pages into bookmarks, and scripts
for downloading popular e-zines for offline reading. Many of these agents will
be delivered as Java applets and OS/2 REXX scripts. All of them will be
designed to work with the Netscape Navigator for OS/2.
OS/2 Warp 4
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"When we started working with OS/2 Warp 4 it confirmed that our company had
picked the right operating system," said Porter. "With a much improved
interface, integrated Java support, voice capabilities and the Netscape
Navigator as a standard browser; we were able to solidify our development
plans. We are going to be building several plug-ins and add-ons, creating Java
applications, and expanding our Internet product line.
Availability
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The enhanced versions of the Post Road Mailer will be available in October.
Customers who purchased the Post Road Mailer in the last 90 days and customers
who register an upgrade to release 2 by September 30, 1996 will receive a free
upgrade to release 2.5. InnoVal will also release, free of charge, interim
maintenance upgrades 2.01 and 2.1 as soon as possible to all licensed
customers of the Post Road Mailer. For additional details please send email to
innoval@ibm.net.
InnoVal has always offered pre-release special pricing. Between now and the
release of version 2.5 (with Netscape Navigator support), InnoVal is offering,
through Best of OS/2 (http://www.bestofos2.com), the Post Road Mailer Pro
Version 2 for $29.95 US with a free upgrade to 2.5 when it is released. This
includes a full year of upgrades. Please note that the MSRP for this product
is $59.00 and the average street price is $49.00.
NetExtra will be released at the same time that the Netscape Navigator for
OS/2 is released. Best of OS/2 (http://www.bestofos2.com) is accepting
discounted pre-release orders for NetExtra.
InnoVal will also release an updated version of its popular WebExtra add-on
for the IBM WebExplorer. WebExtra customers will also be able to convert to
Post Road NetExtra which provides significant additional function, Netscape
Navigator support, and support for the IBM WebExplorer. The cost for the
conversion will be $20.00 US. See the Best of OS/2 web page for details
(http://www.bestofos2.com)
InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc. is a leading producer of OS/2 software. Other
products produced by InnoVal include the Surf'nRexx library of TCP/IP
functions for use with the Rexx programming language and the Post Road News
Reader. InnoVal also develops OS/2 DB2 client/server solutions for major
corporate clients in several cities throughout the United States.
InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc. is located at 600 Mamaroneck Avenue, Harrison,
New York. The company can be contacted by telephone at (914)835-3838, by fax
at (914)835-3857, and by email at innoval@ibm.net InnoVal's home page is
http://www.innoval.com.
IBM, OS/2, DB2, REXX and ARTour are trademarks of the IBM Corporation.
Netscape and Netscape Navigator are trademarks of Netscape Communications
Corporation. Word Pro and 1-2-3 are trademarks of the Lotus Corporation. Post
Road Mailer, Post Road NetExtra and Surf'nRexx are trademarks of InnVal
Systems Solutions, Inc. SkyTel is a trademark of SkyTel Corp. Yahoo is a
trademark of Yahoo Corp. Lycos is a trademark of Lycos, Inc. FaxWorks and
PMFax are trademarks of the Keller Group, Inc. References to trademarks apply
to registered trademarks also. All other trade and service marks are the
property of their owners.
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