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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                Third Party Product Announcements

SunFLASH Vol 45 #8					      September 1992 
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   UNIX Media Erasure Tool Conforming to Government Standards

         Sunburst High Resolution LCD Screen Projection

                     NEW SUG CD-ROM (1992.2)

                 SharpShooter (network monitor)

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Subject:	UNIX Media Erasure Conforming to Government Standards
Email: 		info@lat.com (Los Altos Technologies Information)
Contact: 	Steve Bach, Director of Marketing
Org:		Los Altos Technologies
Address:	346 Costello Court
		Los Altos, CA 94024
Phone:		415/949-4567
		(800) 999-UNIX (sales office) 
Fax:		415/949-4825 


Los Altos Technologies Ships the First complete UNIX Media Erasure
Application conforming to Government and Commercial Standards


LOS ALTOS, CA, August 11, 1992 --- Los Altos Technologies begins
shipping UniShred today, a complete suite of powerful media erasure
applications.  UniShred irrevocably deletes one or more files and
securely obliterates the data contained in the files.  Once deleted,
the files can not be retrieved in any form.  UniShred may be used on
disks, tapes, floppies and all writeable media as well as across
networks.  For extra safety, the programs include a fail-safe protocol
to confirm deletion instructions.

UniShred is the first UNIX software to conform to the strictest
government and commercial standards.  The media erasure and
declassification standards to which UniShred currently conforms to
include the Department of Defense (DOD 5200.28-STD), National Security
Agency, National Computer Security Center (NCSC-TG-025 and CSC-
STD-005-85) as well as Air Force, Navy and Army guidelines.

The software erases data forever.  It should be used at any site
concerned about data security," says Ben Dubin, Chief Technologist.
Dubin also indicates that the software is an easy to use, direct
replacement for the UNIX utility rm.  UniShred is a superset of the
standard rm UNIX command with significant functionality enhancements
such as full device erasure."

UniShred is priced at $229 per license and is available immediately, as
are evaluation licenses.  UniShred is available for UNIX systems
including SCO, SUN, HP and Addamax.  The programs are available on 1/4"
cartridge, 1/2" magnetic tape, 3.5" diskettes or 8-mm tape.

Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Los Altos Technologies has been
the leader of affordable UNIX utility software since 1990.  As the most
experienced developer of low-cost UNIX utility software, the company
has over 500 customers.  Los Altos Technologies markets its products
both directly and through selected resellers including UNIX Central,
Qualix Group and DUX Software.

UniShred is a trademark of Los Altos Technologies, Inc.
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Subject:	SUNBURST UNVEILS HIGH RESOLUTION LCD SCREEN PROJECTION
email:		gary@sunburst.com (Gary Gwin) Marketing Director
Phone:		(619) 633-4307
Alternative:	Daniel Vahalla     President          (619) 633-4303     


                 SUNBURST UNVEILS HIGH RESOLUTION 
               LCD SCREEN PROJECTION SYSTEMS FOR UNIX


San Diego, CA, August 28, 1992 -- Sunburst Computers announced today
the addition of the only commercially available high-resolution LCD
panel to its Sunburst Presentation Series for SPARC workstations.  The
new model, which features a Super VGA LCD display, brings to the
workstation market the resolution users are requesting to project their
full screen SPARCstation applications on overhead screens or walls.

With the fast growth of the Sun market, companies require portable Unix
presentation systems for sales demonstrations, marketing seminars,
trade shows, in-house and off-site training, and more.  Sunburst
addresses this market by providing a complete line of portable,
easy-to-use presentation products for SPARCstations, known as the
Sunburst Presentation SeriesTM.  These Sunburst products provide users
with powerful, light-weight, and portable systems that make
SPARCstation demonstrations and presentations easy and efficient for
audiences of any size.

"We're excited to add a high-resolution LCD projection system to our
Sunburst Presentation Series," said Daniel Vahalla, president of
Sunburst Computers.  "SPARCstation users who require high resolution
for their full screen applications have been waiting for the portable
LCD technology to increase to SVGA resolution.  You can let them know
that the wait is over, these users now have an integrated high
resolution LCD panel for the SPARCstation from Sunburst."

The new Sunburst SPARC PresenterTM SVGA forms part of The SPARC
Presenter product line.  Features of the new SVGA model include:

      o  A state-of-the-art 1024x768 resolution, 24,389 color
	 projection panel with remote control for image adjustment

      o  Air Mouse interactive pointer with Sunburst software for X
         Window System application support under SunOS

      o  All necessary video hardware and cables for connection to
	 SPARCstations

      o  Soft carrying case

The Sunburst Air Mouse enables users to interact directly with the
projected image.  The Air Mouse enhances a desktop mouse allowing users
to make menu selections, push buttons, and move windows directly on the
projected image.  With the Air Mouse, presenters maintain control over
their audiences and enhance communication by driving presentations from
the projected image.

The SPARC Presenter SVGA model is available immediately from Sunburst
Computers for the price of $9,995.  The SPARC Presenter is also
available bundled with BriteLite portable SPARCstations starting at
$17,695 (portable SPARCstation BRTL-IPC-M model).  For more
information, contact the Sunburst sales department at (619) 633-4310
(or send e-mail to sales@sunburst.com).

Sunburst Computers is a privately held integrator of Unix
technologies.  The company offers a broad range of presentation
products to the Unix market with its Sunburst Presentation SeriesTM.
Presentation Series products enable users to easily transport and
demonstrate SPARCstation software and hardware products to audiences of
any size.  Sunburst also provides value-added products for PC/Macintosh
to Unix connectivity, Unix office automation, and hardware systems
requirements.

Sunburst Computers 187 Calle Magdalena
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Subject:    	NEW SUG CD-ROM (1992.2)
From: 	    	peter@sug.org (Peter Salus)
Newsgroups: 	comp.newprod
Organization: 	The Sun User Group
Address:	Inc; Suite 315; 1330 Beacon St.; Brookline, MA 02146
Phone:		+1 617 232-0514		
fax:		 +1 617 232-1347

The Sun User Group 1992.2 CD-ROM has gone to press!  Order now!

The SUG CD 1992.2 is priced at $150 to SUG members, including a caddy!

The SUG 1992.2 CD is an ISO9660 disk with Rock Ridge Extensions (which
means it can be used on PC, Macintosh, and many workstations as well
as on Suns).

The SUG 1992.2 CD-ROM emphasizes information sources (archives of
useful textual information) and includes plug-and-play Sparc binaries
for many useful libraries and programs.  (Naturally, sources are
provided also...) Almost 650MB of useful and interesting material in
an easy-to-use form.

This CD supplements (does not entirely replace) the 1992.1 CD (which
contains X11R5 and GNU as of Feb '92) and updates most of the content
of SUG CD 1991.


TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR 1992.2 SUG CD 


The highlights:

shells, languages, development tools, and libraries:
gcc (2.2.2)- GNU c and c++ compiler and associated libraries and tools
j (4.2) - a dialect of APL by Iverson and Hui.
perl (4.019, 4.035) - all-singing, all-dancing language (and scripts, 
tutorials, archive of newsgroup examples by subject, book examples, etc.)
tcl (6.3 and X6.2b) - embeddable tool command language and 
tk (2.1), a tcl-based toolkit for X11 windowing applications.
zsh (2.2.0) - a shell with a zillion features (many even useful)
p2c (1.20) - Pascal to c translator
f2c (5 May 1992) - Fortran to c translator
python (0.9.6) - a portable, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented language
pmake - parallel make program, and gnumake (3.62)
stdwin (0.9.6) - portable window environment (for X11, PC, Mac, et al.)
skiplist - "the last sorted list package you'll ever need."
idyl - incremental dynamic loader and dl-dld - portable dynamic loader
libraries for SPARC: Wc, Xp, Xpm, com_err, date, dld, expect, g++, lxt, 
gcc-lib,readline, speak, tiff, tcl, tk, vim, win and many others

editors:
epoch (4.0p2) - an X-oriented version of GNU emacs 18.58, with many addons.
mx (2.4) - a mouse-based editor for X11, based on tcl.
jove (4.14.6) - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs (smaller and faster)

archives and frequently asked questions (FAQs): a vast collection
(around 4000 files) of FAQs, welcome postings, and regular
informational postings from > 150 netnews groups, Internet RFCs,
Telecom archives, and a complete snapshot of the UUCP maps.
sun-managers, comp.sys.sun*, sunspots, sunflash archives. (21000
files). Sun-related and non-Sun-related documents are separately 
fulltext indexed using lqtext.

Code examples from books about network programming, Xtoolkit, Motif,
system administration.  Almost 300 Postscript documents (and
previewers to look at them).

networking and data communication:
fax (3.2) - send-receive fax modem software for UNIX.
tipx - tip extended, with slip, beeper, scripted dialing, [xyz]modem etc. 
access_control  - monitor and syslog(3) connections to the SYSTAT, FINGER,
FTP, TELNET, RLOGIN, RSH and EXEC network services.
bind (4.8.3) - the Berkeley Internet Domain Name Server.
dig (2.0) - display name server records
ping/tcpspray/tsock - for measuring latency and performance
tcpdump (2.2.1) - packet dumper understands many types of packets
traceroute - report on packet delays and routing within a network
sendmail (5.6.5) - Berkeley Sendmail
ppp (sunos4.1,pl6) - point to point protocol.
cslip, slip-4.0, slip-4.1 - serial line IP code
gated (2.0.1.4) - a routing daemon that handles multiple routing protocols 
(RIP, BGP, EGP, and HELLO) and replaces routed(8), egpup(8).
ipmulticast (1.2) - multicast protocol support for SunOS.
Sun RPC distributions (4.0 and TIRPC)
cap (6.0pl100) - Columbia Appletalk Package
conmon (1.1) - a perl script from monitoring TCP connections
tcpcon - connect stdio of an arbitrary process to a pty or port
rover (1.1) - network monitoring and problem alerting package
xntp3 - Network Time Protocol (for clock synchronization)
taylor-uucp (1.03) - GNU's uucp, can co-exist with your other uucp.

file transfer/conversion, tools for connecting with wimpy machines:
soss (3.1) and sos - Stan's Own Server, nfs servers for MS/DOS.
mtools (2.0.5) - tools for dealing with MS/DOS floppy disks on UNIX.
macutils - tools for communicating and file sharing with Macs. 
MacLayers (1.10k) - a nice multiwindow Mac terminal emulator.
kermit (5a.174) - c kermit for file transfer to almost anything.

fulltext indexing, searching and hypertext:
lqtext (1.12-beta) - Liam Quin's full-text indexing and search package
wais (.8b5) - Wide Area Information Server and clients
hyperbole - Imbeddable, highly-extensible hypertext tool and doc viewer.
agrep (2.01) - fast text searching allowing errors.
anrep (1.0.1) - approximate network regular expression pattern matching.

typesetting, previewing, font, printing and image tools:
TeX3.14/xdvi/SeeTeX-2.17.3 - TeX and previewers for .dvi files
utah raster toolkit (3.0) - tools for dealing with run-length encoded images
bdftops, bintobdf, snftobdf - font format conversion tools
psroff (3.0pl11) - Chris's psroff (use old troff to drive many output devices)
xv (2.21) - viewer for gif, jpeg, many other formats of image files
pbmplus (10Dec91) - tools for image conversion to/from portable formats and
libtiff (3.0) - tools for TIFF and fax formats
jpeg (v3) - JPEG compression/decompression
ghostview (1.3), gspreview (2.0) - interfaces for Postscript previewing
ghostscript (2.4.1) - GNU's Postscript interpreter
sgml tools (Vm2, sgml-to-latex-format1.2, sgmls-.8)

compression/decompression:
compress (4.1p1) - compress uses a heavily modified LZW algorithm.
unzip (4.1), zip (1.0), zoo (2.10) - for popular pc archive formats.

X- and interaction-related:
expect (3.22.2) - a programmatic front-end for insistently interactive programs
Xkernel (1.5) - revive those old Sun 3/50s as X terminals
andrew (5.1) - the CMU Andrew distribution
BWE - Brown Workstation Environment: an extensive set of tools for building
interactive applications (tools for menus, windows, text editing, terminal
emulation, data management, etc.)
xmx - display one X session on multiple displays at the same time

many X client programs (including binaries of calentool ghostview
gspreview oclock++ pbmconvert pgmcomvert pixmap rk snftobdf swisswatch
tvtwm twm ups vtwm xalarm xataxx xbiff++ xboard xcalendar xcard xcdplayer
xcuckoo xdaliclock xdu xfig xfortune xgrab xgrabsc xgraph xgrasp
xkeycaps xlock xmailtool xmemo xnetload xp xperfmon xphoon xpick
xpostit xrolo xsleep xsnap xtetris xtiff xtroff xv xvnews xzap and others...)

system administration:
tconsole - Sun console accelerator
amd (5.2 and 5.3alpha14) - public-domain automounter
delete(pl14)  - a safer file deleter (you expunge them later on...)
backup - a disk to disk backup daemon.

batch, parallel execution tools:
Condor (4.0.0) - execute jobs on a pool of cooperating idle workstations.
batch - a batch daemon for independent queues of batch jobs
nqs - Network Queuing System, supports remote queuing and control of 
batch and device requests on diverse collections of machines.

for dealing with data:
Calc-1.24 - a multifeatured arbitrary precision, programmable calculator.
calc-2.02 - a calculator which works within emacs (and output to gnuplot)
sc (6.19) - GNU spreadsheet
gnuplot (3.2) - a versatile plotting program
encore/observer - object-oriented database
eris and REQUIEM - relational databases

mail and netnews software (also see networking):
cnews (patched to 22dec91) 
newsreaders (nn-6.4, gnus-3.14, rn-4.4, xvnews 2.0pl2).
metamail (2.3) - infrastructure for multimedia mail (audio, richtext, images)
elm (2.3) and pine (2.4) - fullscreen mail readers
mh (6.7.1) - UCI-RAND Message Handling System
mail servers (almanac 1.4, b-server, kiss, mserv 1.3, netlib2, csdserv 1.1,
decwrl 1.0) - for serving up information in response to mail messages.

literature, dictionaries, wordlists, and online reference books: 
Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass,
Paradise Lost, Roget Thesaurus (1911), Japanese-to-English dictionary
(>2000 entries), English Dictionary (>68000 entries with
pronunciation, part of speech), MRC Psycholinguistic Database: Machine
Usable Dictionary (>150000 words, up to 26 linguistic properties for
each entry) (from Oxford Text Archive) wordlists in English, Dutch,
French, German...

historical and geographical reference materials - CIA World Map, US
Census data extract, US places latitude and longitude, CIA World 
Factbook (1990 and 1991).

bibcite/bibdb - bibliographic references to 6100 works in 22 areas of
Computer Science

audio and sound:
mixview (3.5) - audio recording/playback/mixing program
speak - primitive English to phoneme translation
radio (1pl3) - plug a radio into a Sun -- supply tasteful music via UDP.
sox/sk - sound kit, translates sound samples among different formats.

games and cute/silly hacks:
xautotetris - a block-dropping game which wastes its own time, not yours
xsdi - a depressingly realistic game of shooting missiles.
Spider - difficult double-deck solitaire game
xataxx, xlander, xtrek, xtank, gnuchess (4.0pl54), audio clock...

This product includes software developed by the University of California,
Berkeley, and its contributors, and many other authors.

This disk was edited by Mark Seiden (mis@seiden.com).

----------------------ORDERING INFORMATION-----------------------------

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The 1992.1 SUG CD-ROM is still available, too!  $50 plus shipping to
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From: 	 brian@aim.com (Brian Flock)
Subject: SharpShooter
Org:	 AIM Technology
Phone:	 (408) 748-8649 


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*          FREE OFFER TO SUNFLASH READERS FROM AIM TECHNOLOGY       *
*                                                                   *
*                     FREE RESPONSE TIME UTILITY                    *
*                                                                   *
*                     FREE TRIALS OF SHARPSHOOTER                   *
*                 CLIENT/SERVER PERFORMANCE MONITOR                 *
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AIM Technology (Santa Clara, CA) is introducing a free, promotional
NFS response time utility to network and system administrators. This 
easy-to-use command line utility runs on SPARC workstations running
the Network Interface Tap (NIT) and SunOS 4.1.1 or higher. NOTE: The
NFS servers that the utility will monitor DO NOT have to run SunOS. 

The utility outputs the following data for each server receiving NFS
requests via the local network:


* Percentage of NFS requests that had response times exceeding a
  definable threshold in milliseconds
* Average response time for each server (in milliseconds)
* Maximum response time for each server (in milliseconds)
* NFS operations per second for each server on the monitored subnet


This free utility is generating significant interest from the
networking community. The product includes a white paper that discusses
important NFS performance issues. A COPY OF THE SOFTWARE AND WHITE
PAPER CAN BE OBTAINED BY COMPLETING AND RETURNING THE REQUEST FORM
BELOW.


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*                   30-DAY TRIALS OF SHARPSHOOTER                   *
*                                                                   *
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AIM's primary performance management software is SharpShooter, a
Client/Server Performance Monitor for TCP/IP networks. Qualified
network and system administrators can trial a fully functional copy
of SharpShooter for 30 days to evaluate their client/server
performance problems in detail.


SHARPSHOOTER -

   QUICKLY IDENTIFIES PROBLEM USERS
       Monitor NFS traffic by: server, file system, client.
       Control from one location.
       Identify: unexpected usage, resource misuse, load imbalances.
       Free up or add NFS bandwidth on critical servers.
       Tune NFS and see results.

   ACCURATELY PINPOINTS BUSY APPLICATIONS
       View NFS, X Windows, NIS, RPC, and others by: server, interface,
         client.
       Define services of interest.
       Balance load across interfaces, servers.

   EFFICIENTLY MANAGES GIGABYTES OF DISK STORAGE
       Analyze disk storage use by: server, file system.
       Analyze file aging by: server, file system, user, group.
       Perform capacity planning.
       Formulate file archival, migration, removal strategy.
       Free up needed disk space.


The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model of network
management separates administration into five functional areas:
configuration, fault, performance, accounting, and security management.
Each functional area of the model often requires a different type of
tool.

Network managers and protocol analyzers handle the OSI areas of
configuration management and fault isolation, respectively. Network
managers provide a high level view of your network. Protocol analyzers
are useful for debugging broken networks.  However, these tools don't
give you useful, long-term performance information about who is using
network resources and in what amounts.

Performance management has only recently been addressed by tools 
from companies such as AIM. SharpShooter aids in managing all the
essential aspects of client/server performance and accounts for
utilization of disk file systems on all file servers. SharpShooter
lets you understand your client/server performance and gives you the
information you need to manage your network efficiently and
effectively.



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*                       SHARPSHOOTER FEATURES                       *
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SharpShooter uses distributed File Server Agents to collect server
performance data and displays this information on graphical monitors
and analyzers. The following paragraphs describe how these displays
can help you identify and resolve performance problems.



             NFS THROUGHPUT MONITORS PINPOINT BOTTLENECKS
             --------------------------------------------

Server throughput can be limited by I/O bottlenecks, slow disk accesses,
and insufficient processing power. Furthermore, the actual count of
NFS operations per second is constrained by the mix of asynchronous (read)
and synchronous (write) operations, since synchronous calls use
significantly more resources. SharpShooter uses an advanced calibration
method to measure the NFS potential of each server. These figures are
displayed in the NFS Throughput Monitors. Actual read and write
throughputs are graphed in a stacked strip chart format as a fraction of
potential throughput. This display gives you a quick, accurate view of
throughput usage for all servers and identifies the source of the
traffic.


                       NETWORK SERVICES MONITORS
            MEASURE THE EFFECTS OF DISTRUBITED APPLICATIONS
            -----------------------------------------------

SharpShooter allows you to monitor other network services and traffic in
addition to NFS, and break down the traffic by interface. SharpShooter
tracks throughput for services including X Windows, Telnet, E-mail, 
Yellow Pages, and others, and identifies who created the traffic. 
SharpShooter allows you to define your own network service 
categories for specialized distributed applications. With SharpShooter
installed on your servers, you can view the load on each interface,
affording you an opportunity to balance subnet traffic.


                         DISK STORAGE MONITORS
                ACCOUNT FOR USE DOWN TO THE USER LEVEL
                --------------------------------------

SharpShooter measures the available storage capacity on each of your
servers. This information is displayed in the Disk Storage Monitors. This
monitor uses strip charts to display disk storage as a fraction of the
total available space on the server's disks. SharpShooter also includes a
disk usage report that shows the growth in user/group disk utilization.


         FILE AGING ANALYZERS IDENTIFY OLD AND/OR UNUSED FILES
         -----------------------------------------------------

System performance and integrity can be sacrificed as your disks become
full. You may need to delete or archive old, unused files. The File Aging
Analyzers, a subset of the Disk Storage Monitor, display file aging data.
This data uncovers file systems with old files and identifies who owns
them. SharpShooter includes reports with file aging statistics for
all users and groups across the entire network.


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*                       SUPPORTED SERVERS                           *
*                                                                   *
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SharpShooter runs on the following servers:
     
    
   - Sun 3, Sun SPARC, Solbourne, and Auspex with SunOS 4.0.3 or higher
     
   - DEC 5000 series with ULTRIX 4.2


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*                            REQUEST FORM                           *
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To receive a copy of AIM's NFS Response Time Utility, please E-mail all
of the following information to nfsrtm-request@aim.com:

                         Name:
                        Title:
                      Company:
                      Address:
             City, State, ZIP:
Telephone (include area code):
      Fax (include area code):
               E-mail Address:
             Types of Servers:
            Number of Servers:

1. What responsibility do you have for network or system administration?

2. What performance management tools do you currently use?

3. What information would you like to see that these tools don't
   currently provide?

4. Are you interested in trying SharpShooter free for 30 days?

5. How important is response time as a means of mesuring performance?

6. How do you measure the performance of the network as perceived by 
   your users?


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*                                                                   *
*       You may contact AIM directly by calling (408) 748-8649      *
*              or via E-mail at nfsrtm-request@aim.com.             *
*                    Allow 30 days for delivery.                    *
*                                                                   *
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