alliance-support '1998
PTF Bulletin - January 1998


rdm@cfcl.com
Fri, 16 Jan 98 12:32:10 PST

Sent to: descamps@masi.ibp.fr (Gilles-Eric Descamps) Prime Time Freeware (PTF) sends these bulletins to customers, prospects, and other interested parties. If you do NOT wish to get our bulletins, or if we are using a bad address, please send a note to us at are using a bad address, please send a note to us at info@ptf.com. Include the "Sent to:" line (above), and tell us what you want us to change. PTF Bulletin, January 1998 ========================== MacPerl Book/CD =============== As you may be aware, Vicki Brown and Chris Nandor are hard at work on "MacPerl: Power and Ease", PTF's upcoming book/CD product. More than half of the chapters are available for perusal on the MacPerl Pages (http://www.ptf.com/macperl). We hope to have the finished product available by April. Meanwhile, Vicki and I have created Version 0.5 of the PTF MacPerl CD- ROM. (Version 1.0 will ship with the book.) We started with the "Perl Developer's Kit" (2nd. edition), from ADVICE Press, added lots of handy Macintosh utilities, then indexed and Macintized the results. The disc, IMHO, is really pretty cool. Most of the CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) has been unpacked and indexed, letting you browse modules (for instance) by author name (first and/or last), category, or module name. There is also a set of HTMLized POD text for modules, tons of other documentation, lots of useful Macintosh utilities, the latest version of MacPerl (5.1.9r4), and many other goodies. The list price for the disc is $20. Of course, if you have purchased PTF products before, you can apply the "Continuing Customer" discount to your order, saving $10 on your order. In any case, by buying the disc, you will qualify for the discount on "MacPerl: Power and Ease" in a few months. In short, this is a real bargain... For more details, including ordering information, please visit http://www.ptf.com/macperl/ptf_book/cdrom.html or send email to Prime Time Freeware at mailto://info@ptf.com MkLinux DR3 =========== (For those of you who came in late, MkLinux is Apple Computer's port of the Linux kernel and utilities to the Power Macintosh, with help from the Mach 3 Microkernel. Developer Release 3 (aka DR3) is the long-awaited new baseline release for the system. For more details, visit http://www.ptf.com) First, the good news. DR3 will support a greatly expanded range of machines. The installation process will allow users to select which packages (out of a cast of hundreds!) they wish to install. And, of course, users will be able to install other modules at a later date. Support is also being added for assorted hardware, along with a slew of bug fixes, compatibility and performance enhancements, etc. Now, the bad news. DR3 is still under development. At this point, the release appears to be about a month off. So, if you haven't sent in your "Free Update" cards, please hang onto them! As soon as we go into production, we'll let you know, and you can send them in... Yours, Rich Morin President, PTF

 



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