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Marimba's Castanet Tuner 1.0, Bongo and Transmitter 1.0demo in outland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Tue Feb 25 01:49:50 1997
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 01:35:58 -0500
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-outland@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU, java-hackers@MIT.EDU,
software-announce@MIT.EDU
Marimba's Castanet Tuner, Bongo, and Transmitter version 1.0 are now
available in the outland locker. To run:
add outland
tuner # For Castanet Tuner
bongo # For Bongo
bongo-player # For Bongo Player
castanet-admin # For Castanet admin
castanet-publish # For channel publisher
castanet-transmitter # For Castanet transmitter
They are installed for (and work on) the Solaris and Linux platforms.
(They may also work on NetBSD 1.2 machines.) Bongo and Transmitter are
DEMO versions; the Transmitter is restricted to 5 unique users per hour,
and Bongo will paint a demo string on the presentations it saves.
Caveat: the Castanet tuner caches channels in .marimba/files. This
is very annoying, and rapidly eats quota; but I can't think of a good
workaround. (I would set $HOME to something else, but then you would
have to reconfigure the tuner every time you ran it.) Suggestions
are welcome.
If you have run an earlier version of Castanet tuner, please delete your
.marimba directory.
What is Castanet? "Castanet automatically distributes and maintains
software applications and content within a company or across the Internet.
[http://www.marimba.com/products/]" It's a Java application which
represents the leading edge of the so-called 'push technologies.' It's
pretty nifty. Play with it, you'll see.
Bongo is a visual tool for designing and implementing GUIs for Java
applications.
"Marimba's Castanet system fulfills a promise made by applets and Web
browsers: distributing up-to-date self-installing software and data
across companies and continents.
Castanet channels (applications and their data) observe the security
of applets while improving upon applets in several ways. Although
channels are automatically distributed and installed like applets,
they appear to users more like applications. [...]"
(from http://www.marima.com/products/castanet.html)
Enjoy!
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
