From: rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Remote Andrew Demo Service Update
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:43:03 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

The Andrew Consortium of Carnegie Mellon University is proud to announce
the second return of...

                     THE REMOTE ANDREW DEMO SERVICE!

After being offline for several weeks due to reorganization of our
filesystem it has been returned to service, now on an RS/6000!  (The
demo service previously operated on 4 IBM RT's.)

This revolutionary network service allows you to run Andrew Toolkit
applications without the overhead of obtaining or compiling the Andrew
software.  It used to be that trying out Andrew required ftp'ing
megabytes of source and performing a lengthy build... but no longer! 
The Remote Andrew Demo service will have you running Andrew software
within 5 minutes.

You need a host machine on the Internet, and you need to be running the
X11 window system.  A simple "finger" command will allow you to
experience ATK applications firsthand.  You'll be able to compose
multimedia documents, navigate through the interactive Andrew Tour, and
use the Andrew Message System to browse through CMU's three thousand
bulletin boards and newsgroups.  NOTE: some corporate networks restrict
incoming network access in such a way that the Demo Service cannot
function.

                         HOW TO USE THE SERVICE

To use the Remote Andrew Demo service, simply run the following command
on your machine:

    finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu

The service will give you any further instructions that may be necessary.

                             WHAT IS ANDREW?

The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) is a multimedia graphical toolkit running under
X11.  It provides, among other things, an editor for composing rich-text
documents complete with embedded insets such as raster images,
spreadsheets, graphs, drawings, animations -- even embedded audio and
video.  Documents can be cross-referenced with embedded "hyperlinks."

ATK includes an application builder, extension language, and a rich set
of object types which make the creation of complex graphical interfaces
easy.  ATK is an open system, allowing new object types to be written in
C.  There's also an ATK-based mail/news program which allows the sending
of graphical ATK documents through the mail.  It complies with the
forthcoming Internet RFC concerning multimedia mail formats (the "MIME"
RFC).

ATK has been a part of the campus computing environment of Carnegie
Mellon University since 1986 and has continuously evolved to remain at
the forefront of multimedia information technology.  The Andrew Toolkit,
release 5.0, is available free of charge on MIT's current distribution
of X11 (release 5), in the directory contrib/andrew.  And coming soon, a
binary distribution of Andrew on CD-ROM, compiled for several of the
most popular Unix platforms.

For further information about ATK and the ATK Consortium which supports
it, contact:

    wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu
    Wilfred J. Hansen
    Director, ATK Consortium
    School of Computer Science
    Carnegie Mellon University
    4910 Forbes Avenue
    Pittsburgh, PA  15213

We invite you to experience ATK yourself -- right now -- with the Remote
Andrew Demo.