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Oraganization: Computerized Processes Unlimited, Inc.

Index for Products and Services

0. Rumors and other miscellaneous...

P1. Use of TCL/TK for Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications

P2. CASE Tool Code Generation

P3. CPU's Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition Sytem (SCADA)

P4. NeoSoft Tcl

P5. Other NeoSoft products

P6. SYSTEM 9 Geographic Information System (TM)

P7. Cyberterm - a Networked 3D OS for PCs

P8. NANNY - CPU-time balancer for UNIX compute servers

P9. KIS - Kernel Information System

P10. Telebit NetBlazer

P11. Cray Visualization Toolkit

P12. SCO Visual Tcl

P13. SimCityl

P14. PARTEK software

P15. Sibylla

P16. TclXess

P17. TickleTop

P18. Operator - Files & Applications Manager (Desktop Manager)

P19. VHDL Design Entry System

P20. System/Network Monitoring System

P21. Use of TCL/TK for Text To Speech Synthesis in the TrueTalk GUI
Applications

P22. VHDL/Verilog Simulation System

Index - Training

T1. Training by AT&T: "Object Oriented Programming with [incr Tcl]"

T2. Training by Computerized Processes Unlimited: "Introduction to
Programming in Tcl/Tk"

T3. Training by Computerized Processes Unlimited: "Building Graphical User
Interfaces in Tk"

T4. Training by Computerized Processes Unlimited: "Extending Tcl via C"

T5. Training by NeoSoft: "Tcl and Tk: An Applications-Based Approach"

T6. Training by Data Kinetics Ltd.: "Tcl/Tk: What This Means For Your
Organization"

T7. Training by Data Kinetics Ltd.: "Building X-Windows Interfaces with
Tcl/Tk"

T8. Training by Enniskillen Consulting: "An Intensive Course in Tcl"

T9. Training by Enniskillen Consulting: "An Intensive Course in Tk"

T10. Training by Enniskillen Consulting: "A course in Tcl/Tk Extensions"

T11. Training by Computerized Processes Unlimited: "Introduction to Expect"

T12. Training by AT&T: "Building Applications with Tcl/Tk"

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This file contains brief descriptions of how Tcl/Tk is being used in
commercial products. If you have questions about specific postings, contact
the person who made the submission directly. The purpose of this listing is
to show that Tcl/Tk is being used in commercial products and to discuss
that use.

Part 1 contains a complete index.

Index - Part 2 Only

0. Rumors and other miscellaneous...

P1. Use of TCL/TK for Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications

P2. CASE Tool Code Generation

P3. CPU's Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition Sytem (SCADA)

P4. NeoSoft Tcl

P5. Other NeoSoft products

P6. SYSTEM 9 Geographic Information System (TM)

P7. Cyberterm - a Networked 3D OS for PCs

P8. NANNY - CPU-time balancer for UNIX compute servers

P9. KIS - Kernel Information System

P10. Telebit NetBlazer

P11. Cray Visualization Toolkit

P12. SCO Visual Tcl

P13. SimCityl

P14. PARTEK software

P15. Sibylla

P16. TclXess

P17. TickleTop

P18. Operator - Files & Applications Manager (Desktop Manager)

P19. VHDL Design Entry System

P20. System/Network Monitoring System

P21. Use of TCL/TK for Text To Speech Synthesis in the TrueTalk GUI
Applications

P22. VHDL/Verilog Simulation System

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ENTRY 0 - Rumors and other miscellaneous...

Several companies are using Tcl or Tcl/Tk in their products but do not
advertise that fact.

It is rumored that the following computer vendors may be using tlc/tk in a
future version of some of their management tools: SCO, Digital, Cray.

It was stated at the Spring 1994 DECUS Symposium in New Orleans by a
speaker from OSF that the management tools "DCE Shell" that is part of DCE
Version 2.0 is an extended tcl/tk shell. The speaker did not know if
dynamic loading was present nor what extensions are present.

In addition, numerous companies are using Tcl to automate regression
testing. In essence, they are using the framework developed by folks at Sun
that is used to test the Tcl implementation. Take a look at the files in
tcl/tests.

Tcl/Tk and its archive have begun to appear on CD-ROM archives. One such
archive was made by Dr. Dobb's Journal.

A customer of Itasca Systems created an initial Tcl interface to our ODBMS
using the C API as the underlying transport mechanism. He did not complete
the work, but did have some miminal functionality implemented. This code is
included is as a freeware ObjectShare library that is shipped with each
product. If someone is also interested, Itasca Systems has said that they
could easily send it to them. Note that this is not a supported product,
nor is it complete.

Contct information:
Who: Randal V. Zoeller
Company: Itasca Systems, Inc.; 7850 Metro Parkway;Minneapolis, MN 55425
E-Mail: r...@itasca.com
Voice: (612) 851-3154
FAX: (612) 851-3157 FAX

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ENTRY P1. - Use of TCL/TK for Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications

Usage: Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications
Company: ICEM CFD Engineering, Berkeley CA
Contact: Wayne A. Christopher
Email: wa...@pmac.com

We have been using Tcl/Tk extensively since 1992 for front-ends to
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) systems. We currently have two main
products. The first is ICEM CFD, a general purpose front-end that includes
a CAD system, several mesh generators, and interfaces to numerous flow
solvers. The second is ICEPAK, which is specific to electronic cooling
simulation.

In ICEM CFD, Tcl/Tk is used for several components. The first is a
"manager", or a graphical shell that is written entirely as a wish script
and ties together over 100 component programs, manages the files they use,
and gives the overall system a more unified look and feel. The second is
Leo, which is a grid visualizer that is partly written in Tcl and partly in
C++, and allows the user to examine and modify computational meshes that
are potentially very large. The third is a CAD tool, P-Cube, which is a
large program mostly written in Fortran, that has some rather tricky
qualities that made retrofitting a Tcl/Tk interface an interesting task,
especially in the area of event loops. Finally, several mesh generation
tools have separate Tcl/Tk interfaces that run as pure wish scripts and
communicate with the "real" application using pipes.

ICEPAK, which was developed in collaboration with Fluid Dynamics
International, was designed to be a very application specific tool. It
recognises electronic cabinet components such as cooling fans and printed
circult boards and handles each of them specially. There are three
components to this system: the front-end/postprocessor, the automatic
hexahedral mesh generator, and the solver. Only the first was written with
Tcl/Tk. The code specific to the front-end includes about 35K lines of Tcl
and 35K lines of C++, and some rather large Fortran components which,
fortunately, another group maintains.

Our experience with Tcl/Tk in the CFD environment has been very positive.
The key to using Tcl with large data sets is to ensure that only data that
remains small is manipulated at the Tcl level, and that all other data is
passed around using handles or pointers to the lower level. Industry
acceptance has been very good, both due to the ease of fast modification
and customization and also to the high quality of the interfaces that can
be created. It also helps that most tools previously available for
mechanical engineers have had rather unfriendly GUI's.

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ENTRY P2. - CASE Tool Code Generation

Usage: CASE Tool Code Generation
Company: Westmount Technology B.V., Holland
Contact: Eko Bousema, Tineke Keuzenkamp
Email: ek...@wmt.nl
US Subsidiairy: Westmount Inc., Arlington, VA 22209
Tel. (+1) 703 875 8799
Fax. (+1) 703 527 5709

Products:

Westmount I-CASE Yourdon

Westmount I-CASE Yourdon is an Open Integrated Computer Aided Software
Engineering (CASE) tool (based on X and OSF/Motif) running on Unix and VMS.
This product supports the complete software life cycle. It supports Yourdon
SA/SD. All Information is stored in a central repository (Ingres, Informix,
Oracle or Sybase). Code is generated Ingres, Informix, Oracle and C.

Westmount I-CASE Ward/Mellor

Westmount I-CASE Ward/Mellor is an Open Integrated Computer Aided Software
Engineering (CASE) tool (based on X and OSF/Motif) for developers of
technical/real time systems running on Unix and VMS. This product supports
the complete software life cycle. It supports the Ward/Mellor, Yourdon and
Constantine methods. All information is stored in a central open repository
(Ingres, Informix, Oracle or Sybase). Code is generated for C applications.

Westmount I-CASE SSADM

Westmount I-CASE SSADM is an Open Integrated Computer Aided Software
Engineering (CASE) tool (based on X and OSF/Motif) for SSADM Developers
running on Unix. This product supports all 5 modules of the SSADM method;
Feasibility Study, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Specification,
Logical System Specification, Physical Design. It provides full life-cycle
support and seamless target integration. The Physical Design module will
support code generation for SQL-schema building and 4GL target environments
from Ingres and Informix. The project information will be stored in an open
repository (Ingres and Informix).

Westmount I-CASE OMT

Westmount I-CASE OMT (Object Modeling Technique) is an Open Integrated
Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool (based on X and OSF/Motif)
for developers to meet the goals set by Object Modeling techniques running
on Unix. This product supports all four phases and models described by
Rumbaugh et al.. It provides full life-cycle support and seamless target
integration. All information is stored in a central repository (Informix,
Ingres or Sybase). Westmount I-CASE OMT generates client-server
applications for C++, Ingres and Informix environments.

Westmount Lite

Westmount Lite is the most advanced database designer available in the
market today. Westmount Lite designs, documents and maintains databases.
Westmount Lite is also very useful for maintaining existing databases. A
reverse engineering module supports in recreating the design for existing
databases. Supported databases: Ingres, Informix, Oracle Integrated DTP
packages: Framemaker, Interleaf, WordPerfect Development environment: Unix

TCL/Tk;

The code generation of all Westmount products is based on parsing diagrams
and generating code from that. This conversion is written in C++, the
generation in TCL. The advantage of that is that users can adapt the code
generation themselves, which is even more interesting because they can also
extend the diagram definitions.

We have extended TCL with some features which converts diagrams from the
repository into an internal datastructure (model) which can be accessed
from within TCL.

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ENTRY P3. - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) by
Computerized Processes Unlimited, Inc.

Usage: Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition (SCADA)
Company: Computerized Processes Unlimited
Contact: Gerald W. Lester
Email: g...@cpu.com

Computerized Processes Unlimited, Inc. (CPU) is an independent consulting
system integrator. The company serves oil and gas, energy and other process
industries. CPU's staff has expertise in requirements analysis; and design
and implementation competencies in process, electrical,mechanical,
instrumentation, software, and control systems. The company's product is
knowhow in the technical areas it has targeted.

CPU has embraced Tcl/Tk technology and made it the basis for its SCL System
Integration Technology. In combination with Hewlett-Packard Company's
RTAP/Plus applications enabler product, CPU has engineered and delivered
powerful SCADA systems.

RTAP/Plus is not a complete SCADA package. A user must furnish applications
(including the GUI) to build an RTAP system. CPU's SCL brings all of RTAP's
API (i.e., call interface) up into Tcl as Tcl commands. The GUI and
application programs are written in SCL (system configuration
language)--Tcl/Tk with CPU's RTAP extensions. This technology has been
implemented and delivered on the distributed client/server model.

The most ambitious application of this technology is for an oil and gas
production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell Offshore Incorporated's
tension-leg platform, Auger, was designed to produce 40,000 barrels of oil
per day and 150 million cubic feet of gas per day. This $1.2 billion
facility began producing oil and gas in April 1994. The monitoring and
control system integrates numerous state-of-the-art technologies--in excess
of 12 workstation-class computers on an ethernet network, communicating
with over 40 programmable logic controllers, in a distributed data base
environment, using both copper coaxial and fiber optic cable--in an open
system architecture. The system is connected with all aspects of facility
operation: production, drilling, utilities, and marine operations.

CPU's Tcl/Tk efforts for SCL System Integration Technology and Auger have
resulted in excess of 250,000 lines of Tcl/Tk code, the largest known
Tcl/Tk project to date.

For information about the technology and CPU's services, contact:

Gerald W. Lester
Computerized Processes Unlimited
4200 S. I-10 Service Road, Suite #205
Metairie, LA 70001

Voice: (504)-889-2784
FAX: (504)-889-2799
E-Mail: g...@cpu.com

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ENTRY P4. - NeoSoft Tcl

Usage: Support
Company: NeoSoft
Contact: Karl Lehenbauer
Email: sa...@NeoSoft.com.

NeoSoft Commercial Tcl Support

Thank you for your interest in NeoSoft's commercial Tcl support. We offer a
flexible support plan that can be tailored to your organization's needs.

NeoSoft Tcl is our integration of the core Tcl technologies into a
professionally maintained and supported release.

Below is a description of NeoSoft Tcl and our Tcl services.

To set up a support contract, or if you need more information, please
contact us at +1 713 684 5969 9-4 M-F, or send email to sa...@NeoSoft.com.

NeoSoft Tcl:

Includes the latest Tcl, Extended Tcl, Tk, and XF source.

Includes the graph and photo widgets, compiled in at your option.

NeoSoft's Tcl support libraries are included, providing useful tools
such as dialog boxes, a file requester, and many additional functions.

Includes xpm pixmap library to allow any widget's bitmap to be a
color pixmap, TIFF, GIF, etc.

Point releases of Tcl, Extended Tcl, Tk and XF integrated and
made available within thirty days.

Major releases made when code is stable and needed tools are
available.

No license is required to redistribute with an application.

Documentation comes in nroff and postscript (tm) formats.

Available via FTP, DC-600A data cartridge, DAT tape
(in DATA/DAT format) or 3.5" high density floppy disks.

Service types:

Basic service:
Source copy of NeoSoft Tcl.
Binaries built on your machine using telnet or modem, if needed.
Free updates for a year (available via FTP or media).
20 hours of remote support, including consulting, bug fixing, etc.
Standard documentation set.
Release notes.
NeoSoft Tcl T-shirt (specify L or XL).
Additional support available on an hourly basis.

Price: $2500/year

Additional services (billed as Time and Materials):
Help desk.
24 hour emergency support.
Training.
On-site work.
Hard-copy documentation sets.
Software development.
Software integration, release building and porting.
Builds for additional architectures.

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ENTRY P5. - Other NeoSoft products

Usage: Other
Company: NeoSoft
Contact: Karl Lehenbauer
Email: sa...@NeoSoft.com.

Additional NeoSoft products:
Tcl source encryption system.
Tcl X-windows desktop.
Control Station - programmable network monitoring software.
CUTE - programmable, Tcl-based telecommunications program.

To set up a support contract, or if you need more information, please
contact us at +1 713 684 5969 9-4 M-F, or send email to sa...@NeoSoft.com.

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ENTRY P6. - SYSTEM 9 Geographic Information System (TM)

Usage: GIS
Company: Unisys Canada Inc, GIS Division
Contact: Alex Lee
Email: al...@system9.unisys.com

SYSTEM 9 Geographic Information System (TM) is a workstation based
commercial software developed by the Unisys Corporation. It is being used
worldwide in facility/utility management and mapping applications. Some of
the SYSTEM 9 functionality includes spatial data capture and management,
raster image processing, graphic data display and plotting, and
client/server distributed processing. SYSTEM 9 currently runs on Solaris
1.x, 2.x, HP-UX 9.0, and IBM-AIX 3.2 platforms operating in the UNIX/X
environment.

With the increasing diversity of end user applications, SYSTEM 9
architecture allows users to build custom applications to meet specific
requirements using the Application Tool Box (ATB)(TM) module. The ATB
module supports Unix style commands that interface with underlying SYSTEM 9
functionality. In addition, a C API is also available for applications
written in the C language.

Currently, the Korn Shell (KSH)(TM) is being used as the scripting language
for building applications. The majority of SYSTEM 9 customers are using KSH
for customisation. The C API is used only by a few who require performance
and have in-house 3GL programming support staff. One of the drawbacks of
KSH is performance and a lack of GUI support. The Windowing Korn Shell
(WKSH)(TM) from AT&T may fill the GUI gap, but the complexity of Xt/Motif
syntax is beyond the comprehension of many of our customers (who are not
trained programmers). This has led to the requirement for an extensible
command/scripting language that supports GUI, easy to use, extensible,
fast, and syntactically like KSH. This is where Tcl/Tk fits in.

Our plan is to use Tcl/Tk as the front-end command parser/dispatcher which
operates in sync with special tasked servers across the network. This fits
in nicely as the client side C API of ATB is already in a format that can
be easily integrated into Tcl. However, new protocols will be needed to
allow servers to communicate with the Tcl/Wish interpreter or vice versa.
The client/server model reduces the size of the interpreter and yet
maximizes the processing power of networked machines.

We expect to use Tcl/Tk as a common programming language for both internal
core development as well as end user customization. Using Tcl to implement
base functionality hopefully will give us a better turn around time in both
development and field support. We also plan to establish guidelines and
standards for building Tcl/TK applications to ensure consistency across our
products.

At time of writing, a prototype Tcl/Tk interpreter with a subset of SYSTEM
9 functionality is completed for internal evaluation. Also, the first draft
of the Tk style guidelines is being reviewed. The tentative customer ship
date of this product is around end of this year.

We understand that the SYSTEM 9 GIS extension will not be public domain
software, but by adopting Tcl/Tk in our product will help extend the Tcl/Tk
horizon into the commercial arena, especially the ever expanding GIS
market.

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P7. - Cyberterm - a Networked 3D OS for PCs

Usage: Cyberterm - a Networked 3D OS for PCs
Company: Cyberterm Pty Ltd
Contact: Michael Snoswell
Email: snos...@guest.adelaide.edu.au

Cyberterm is a 3D type of operating system, a bit like a multi-user flight
simulator where everyone can log into central servers via modems from their
PCs. The servers can also be connected together to form a single huge
cyberspace. All objects within the environment are user programmable, using
Tcl, extended by about 150 functions for object manipulation, file and
message handling, user interaction, environment control, networking,
security and general administration.

Tcl is used to write applications within the environment. Such applications
currently include an artificial life demo with growing, breeding and
evolving plants, herbivores and carnivores, a 3D file system manipulator
and a multi-user shooting game.

The system is currently in beta test. The server runs under QNX, the PC
client under MSDOS (compiled with Watcom) using a slightly modified version
of Tcl 7.3 (mainly for security reasons).

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ENTRY P8. - NANNY - CPU-time balancer for UNIX compute servers

Usage: UNIX System Administration
Company: Parallelograms
Contact: Terry Coley
Email: te...@pgrams.com
Telephone: 818 577 5515
Fax: 818 577 5515

NANNY

Nanny is a Tcl-based CPU-time balancer for UNIX compute servers. Nanny
automatically balances CPU-time between users and groups of users on single
and multi-processor UNIX computers by periodically adjusting relative
process priorities. Nanny can also be configured to automatically give high
priority to a console user. Tcl scripts are used to configure Nanny. The
package includes a Tk script which graphically displays the CPU-bound per
user load for any Nanny host in your network.

All Parallelograms products are enhanced with TCP/IP communications Tcl
commands which are an extension of Kevin B. Kenny's tclTCP package.
Included in the extensions are timers for creating applications which run
periodically. Source code for this enhancement is freely available and
distributable, with or without a license of Parallelograms products.

Contact in...@pgrams.com for more information and free trials.

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ENTRY P9. - KIS - Kernel Information System

Usage: UNIX System Administration
Company: Parallelograms
Contact: Terry Coley
Email: te...@pgrams.com
Telephone: 818 577 5515
Fax: 818 577 5515

KIS

The Kernel Information System allows rapid creation of platform-independent
UNIX process management tools. KIS implements a single (multiple option)
Tcl command which provides UNIX kernel information for any KIS host on your
network. With just a few lines of script, you can query the state of
processes throughout your network. KIS has powerful filtering capabilities
to let you select only those processes of interest. For example, the filter
"RSSIZE > 5MB && delta(CPU)/delta(TIMESTAMP) > 10%" will select all
processes with a resident memory size greater than 5MB and using more than
ten percent of CPU-time since the last scan. Perl users can also use the
socket() function to obtain information from any KIS server.

Parallelograms maintains a growing library of freely distributable KIS
application scripts.

Contact in...@pgrams.com for more information and free trials.

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ENTRY P10. - Telebit NetBlazer

Usage: Scripting Language for Telebit NetBlazer
Company: Telebit
Contact: Bill Webb
Email: we...@telebit.com
Telephone: 1-800-Telebit
Fax: 408-745-3810

Telebit NetBlazer

Telebit uses tcl (actually the non-Unix subset) as a scripting language for
their Wide area router product (the Telebit NetBlazer).

This allows customers to implement extentions to the NetBlazer in a
convenient standard scripting language rather then by adding extentions to
Telebit's existing interactive command language.

Among other things that have been done with tcl scripts are to provide a
global command that implements pattern matching on existing commands over
users, files, routes, dialouts, etc. etc., and new ease-of-use scripts that
allow users to avoid use a menu-like interface to configuring their
NetBlazers.

Telebit customers have also implemented their own scripts for their own
needs that range from a few lines of code to hundreds or thousands of
lines.

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ENTRY P11. - Cray Visualization

Usage: User Interface Management Systems, Program Development Software
Company: Cray Research
Contact:
Email:
Telephone: (612)-683-7198
Fax:

Cray Visualization

Cray Research, Inc. has announced Cray Visualization Toolkit 2.0 (CVT 2.0),
which contains the most recent releases of six standard windowing and
graphics tools for user interface development. The components included in
CVT 2.0 are: X window System (X11R5), which lets users run X application on
their Cray system and connect to any workstation, PC or terminal running
the X Window System; Sun Microsystems's XView Toolkit 3.0, which supports
XView applications on Cray systems; Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Motif
Toolkit 1.2, which provides a library of graphical objects; Silicon
Graphics' Distributed Graphics Library (DGL) which provides interactive
three dimensional graphics; the PEXlib library of low-level graphics
routines; and the Tk/Tcl toolkit command interpreter, which provides
high-level access for X programming.

Each of the toolkits in CVT 2.0 has been ported to the company's entire
product line. For more information contact Cray Research, Inc., Eagan, MN,
(612)-683-7198.

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ENTRY P12. - SCO Visual Tcl

Usage: System Management
Company: SCO
Contact: David H. Young
Email: dav...@sco.com
Telephone: 408 427 7784
Fax: 408 427 5417
WWW: http://www.sco.com/Products/vtcl/vtcl.html

SCO Visual Tcl

SCO is distributing pre-release copies of SCO Visual Tcl at its SCO Forum
'94 this week on the campus of UC Santa Cruz in California. It is now
available on the SCO Skunkware 2.0 CD-ROM as well as the SCO on-line
technical library (TLS) for anonymous uucp/ftp. SCO Visual Tcl is a new
technology that extends the Tcl scripting enviornment with Motif
1.2-specific commands.

"SCO Visual Tcl" is the SCO trademarked name for the revised version of the
SCO technology formerly referred to as the "Widget Server." The new SCO
Visual Tcl has been reworked to

* support a hierarchical, dot notation style of widget naming,
* provide more control of the Motif environment to the programmer, and
* enhanced widget callback support.

The goals of SCO Visual Tcl are to

* provide a rapid environment to develop Motif and Character
applications simultaneously, with a feature set highly-driven by the
needs of systems management, and
* make it simple to graphically extend the SCO Open Desktop environment
via an easy-to-use scripting environment.

SCO Visual Tcl will be the graphical interface technology-of-choice for
SCO's next generation system administration tools. While the primary
purpose of SCO Visual Tcl is to simplify creation of system management
interfaces, "Vtcl" is also quite capable of satisfying the needs of
light-to-mediumweight general Motif application development.

Key Features of SCO Visual Tcl include...

* Event-driven (callback) environment
* Display engines for both Motif 1.2 and curses-based Character Motif
* Point Help, Context-sensitive Help, and Status Line
* Convenience Function Library
o includes ToolBar, ComboBox, Spin support, and assorted widget
combinations (e.g. text fields with labels or titles)
* DrawnList Widget (icons in list widget)
* Window Manager controls
* Relative-positioning geometry management
* Based on Public Domain U.C. Berkeley Tcl 7.3b
* POSIX-specific and other extensions
o e.g. fcntl, select, nice, kill, sockets, fmtclock, trace
* Package library support, as well as vtcllib.a and header files for
those wishing to extend the Vtcl interpreter with C-based routines.

IXI, a subsidiary of SCO, is planning to port Vtcl to other major Unix
platforms.

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ENTRY P13. - SimCity

Usage: Game/Educational/Simulation
Company: DUX Software
Contact: DUX Software, 4906 El Camino Real, Suite 1, Los Altos, CA 94022
Email: sim...@dux.com
Telephone: 1-800-543-4999 or 1-415-967-1500
Fax: 1-415-967-5528

SimCity, the original award winning city simulation game from Maxis
Software, now runs on powerful Unix workstations with X11! DUX's
implementation of SimCity for Unix was awarded product of the year 1992 by
Unix World in the January 1993 issue, and reviewed in the April 1993 issue.
Now it's souped up, works with standard X11 servers, and even supports
networked multi user collaboration! Multi Player SimCity is designed to be
a fun cooperative educational experience!

SimCity is a colorful animated interactive system simulation game,
providing a set of rules and tools for planning and building a complex
dynamic simulated city. Several people on different X11 workstations can
participate in the same city, cooperating and coordinating their actions
across the network.

Working together, you can zone land use, hook up the power grid, build
roads, bridges, parks and stadiums, raise taxes, and even summon disasters,
causing the city to grow and thrive, or crumble and die. It's a creative,
entertaining way to develop your political skills!

Requirements

SimCity runs on Silicon Graphics Irix, SPARC SunOS, and other Unix
workstations. You can play it locally or over the network on most 8 bit
color or monochrome X11 displays, like NCD X terminals. And you can hear it
on standard sound devices, and NCD's NetAudio server.

OPTIONS:

SimCity supports but doesn't require the X11 shared memory and shaped
window extensions, and a local sound device or NetAudio server. And you can
turn off the sound so your boss doesn't know you're playing!

FEATURES:

Multi Player SimCity for X11 sports the Motif look and feel, implemented
using the efficient TCL/Tk toolkit. It features multiple city editors and
maps with overlays, fast colorful animation, engaging sound effects, easy
to use pie menus and direct manipulation interaction, simultaneous multi
player editing, communication and annotation facilities, and voting dialogs
for group decision making. It includes eight challenging scenarios and a
library of interesting cities.

AVAILABILITY:

Multi Player SimCity is available directly from DUX Software, and via
anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9), in the directory
"vendor/dux/SimCity". You may freely copy it, and play the fully functional
game in "demo mode" on one display without a license, but the city melts
every 5 minutes. If you enjoy SimCity, you can buy a license over the phone
by credit card, without leaving your seat! A single player license lets you
save and restore your cities, and play for as long as you like on one
display; a multi player license lets you play SimCity with your friends
over the net!

PRICING:

* Single Player Node Locked License: $49
* Multi Player Node Locked License: $89
* Single Player Floating License: $129
* Multi Player Floating License: $149

NOTICE:

X11 SimCity Copyright (C) 1993 by DUX Software Corporation. Unix
implementation and multi player user interface by Don Hopkins, DUX. Based
on the original SimCity concept and design by Will Wright, MAXIS. SimCity
is a registered trademark of Maxis Software.

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ENTRY P14. - PARTEK software

Usage: Data Analysis, Visualization, Classification, and Prediction
Company: PARTEK Inc.
Contact: Tom Downey, PARTEK Inc. 5988 Mid Rivers Mall Dr. St. Charles, MO 63304
Email: t...@partek.com
Telephone: (314)-926-2329
Fax: (314)-441-6881

PARTEK OVERVIEW

PARTEK is a powerful, integrated environment for visual and quantitative
data analysis and pattern recognition.

Drawing from a wide variety of disciplines including Artificial Neural
Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, and Statistics, PARTEK
integrates data analysis and modeling tools into an easy to use "point and
click" system.

PARTEK is available on HP, IBM, Silicon Graphics, and SUN workstations.

The following modules are available from PARTEK:

1. The PARTEK/AVB - The Analytical/Visual Base. (TM)
Analytical Spreadsheet (TM)
The Analytical Spreadsheet is a powerful and easy to use data
analysis, transformations, and visualization tool. Some features
include:
+ import native format ascii/binary data
+ no limit to number of rows or columns
+ recognition and resolution of missing data
+ complete set of common mathematical & statistical functions
+ univariate histogram analysis
+ extensive set of smoothing and normalization transformations
+ easily and quickly plot color-coded 1-D curves and
histograms, 2-D, 3-D, and N-D mapped scatterplots,
highlighting selected patterns
+ Command Line (Tcl) and Graphical Interface
+ Graphical Interface to Row/Column Filters allows you to
easily select the portion of your data you wish to analyze
Pattern Visualization System (TM)
The Pattern Visualization System offers the most powerful tools
for visual analysis of the patterns in your data. Some features
include:
+ 2-D, 3-D Viewers can contain unlimited # of graphical
objects
+ automatically maps N-D data down to 3-D for visualization of
*all* of your variables at once
+ hard copy color Postscript output
+ a variety of color-coding, highlighting, and labeling
options allow you to generate meaningful graphics
Data Filters
Filter out selected rows and/or columns of your data for flexible
and efficient cross-validation, jackknifing, bootstrapping,
feature set evaluation, and more.
Random # Generators
Generate random numbers from any of the following parameterized
distributions:
+ uniform, normal, exponential, gamma, binomial, poisson
Many distance/similarity metrics
Choose the appropriate distance metric for your data:
+ euclidean, mahalanobis, minkowski, maximum value, absolute
value, shape coefficient, cosine coefficient, pearson
correlation, rank correlation, kendall's tau, canberra, and
bray-curtis
Tcl/Tk command line interface
Tcl/Tk are quickly becoming a standard in the Unix community as
an easy to use, powerful, and extensible command and graphical
scripting language.
2. The PARTEK/DSA - Data Structure Analysis Module
Principal Components Analysis and Regression
Also known as Eigenvector Projection or Karhunen-Loeve
Expansions, PCA removes redundant information from your data.
+ dimensionality reduction
+ data visualization
+ component analysis, correlate PC's with original variables
+ choice of covariance, correlation, or product dispersion
matrices
+ choice of eigenvector, y-score, and z-score projections
+ view SCREE and log-eigenvalue plots
+ principal component regression
+ fully integrated with the PARTEK/AVB and Tcl command
interface
Cluster Analysis
Does the data form groups? How many? How compact? Cluster
Analysis is the tool to answer these questions.
+ choose between several distance metrics
+ optionally weight individual patterns
+ manually or auto-select the number of clusters
+ manually, randomly, or auto-select initial cluster centers
+ dump cluster counts, mean, cluster to cluster distances,
cluster variances, and cluster labeled data to a matrix
viewer or the Analytical Spreadsheet for further analysis
+ visualize n-dimensional clustering
+ asses goodness of partion using several internal and
external criteria metrics
+ fully integrated with the PARTEK/AVB and Tcl command
interface
N-Dimensional Histogram Analysis
Among the most inportant questions a researcher needs to know when
analyzing patterns is whether or not the patterns can distinguish
different classes of data. N-D Histogram Analysis is one tool to
answer this question.
+ measures histogram overlap in n-dimensional space
+ no limit to size or resolution of histogram
+ automatically find the best subset of features
+ rank the overlap of your best feature combinations
+ fully integrated with the PARTEK/AVB and Tcl command interface
Non-Linear Mapping
NLM is an iterative algorithm for visually analyzing the structure of
n-dimensional data. NLM produces a non-linear mapping of data which
preserves interpoint distances of n-dimensional data while reducing to
a lower dimensionality - thus preserving the structure of the data.
+ visually analyze structure of n-dimensional data
+ track progress with error curves
+ orthogonal, PCA, and random initialization
+ fully integrated with the PARTEK/AVB and Tcl command interface
* The PARTEK/CP - Classification and Prediction Module.
Multi-Layer Perceptron
The most popular among the neural pattern recognition tools
is the MLP. PARTEK takes the MLP to a new dimension, by
allowing the network to learn by adapting ALL of its
parameters to solve a problem.
+ adapts output bias, neuron activation steepness, and
neuron dynamic range, as well as weights and input
biases
+ auto-scaling at input and output - no need to rescale
your data
+ choose between sigmoid, gaussian, linear, or mixture of
neurons
+ learning rate, momentum can be set independently for
each parameter
+ variety of learning methods and network initializations
+ no size limitations
+ view color-coded network, error, etc as network trains,
tests, runs
+ dump any parameters to Analytical Spreadsheet for
further analysis
+ fully integrated with the PARTEK/AVB and Tcl command
interface
Learning Vector Quantization
Because LVQ is a multiple prototype classifier, it adapts to
identify multiple sub-groups within classes
+ LVQ1, LVQ2, and LVQ3 training methods
+ 3 different functions for adapting learning rate
+ choose between several distance metrics
+ fuzzy and crisp classifications
+ visually analyze prototypes & data from n-dimensional
space
+ set number of prototypes individually for each class
+ no limit to the number of prototypes
+ fully integrated with the PARTEK/AVB and Tcl command
interface
Bayesian Classifier
Bayes methods are the statistical decision theory approach
to classification. This classifier uses statistical
properties of your data to develop a classification model.
+ fully integrated with the PARTEK/AVB and Tcl command
interface
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ENTRY P15. - Sibylla

Usage:Tcl based World-Wide Web application development framework
Company: Ariadne Engineering, 27020 Torre d'Isola (PV), Italy.
Contact: Marcello Ricotti
E-mail:ric...@liber.cib.unibo.it
Tel (+39) 382 407538
Fax (+39) 382 407538

General Description

Sibylla is an application development framework for World-Wide Web
based application. Sibylla supports interfaces towards BasisPlus from
Information Dimensions Inc., towards World-Wide Web (WWW) and, in
general, towards applications running on the server computer. Sibylla
allows the access, through Internet or TCP/IP LAN, to data stored in a
BasisPlus database or managed by a server-side application.

Sibylla lies between the information sources (e.g a database ), the
user application and the WWW server. The user application is a custom
application and defines, for each application, how the user can
interact with the information sources.

Purpose of Sibylla is to permit the access to information sources
through WWW. Information can be organized, on the server side, using a
DBMS (as BasisPlus) or through indexed HTML files, or getting data
from a server application actived with parameters sent by the client.
The server application is completely general and the duty of the user
application, developed with Sibylla, is to manage the input/output
between WWW and server application.

Software, developed with Sibylla, is organized in simple modules which
allow rapid application definition and prototyping together with
simplicity in integrating external applications. Sibylla is a set of C
functions which extends the official Tcl/Tk libraries allowing, from a
Tcl script, manipulation of WWW related standard and functions as well
as databases and server applications.

SUPPORTED PLATFORM

Sibylla architecture has been design in order to guarantee completely
portability of user application among different hardawre and O.S.
where Sibylla is available. Sibylla Ver 1.0 e 2.0 are available for
Unix (SunOS 4.1.3/Solaris 1.1.1, HP-UX 9.0, OSF1 1.3) for VMS 5.5.2.

SOFTWARE VERSIONS

Version 1.0

Version 1.0 is organized in a single read module with all Sibylla
functions.

Version 1.0 functions allow:
o communication with an HTTP server according with the CGI standard
o URL manipulation
o management of HTML documents ripetitive parts.
o BasisPlus access
o query building and sending to BasisPlus
o to activate server side application programs and to pass them
parameters received by the WWW client
o to build reports merging queries and server application outputs
BasisPlus conventional and continuos record can be accessed in Ver.
1.0.

Sibylla ver. 1.0 will be released in December 1994. A user application
using a Beta version of Sibylla will be available on the WEB by the
end of November 1994 at Centro Interfacolt` per le Biblioteche,
Bologna, Italy.

Version 2.0

Sibylla ver. 2.0 will be available in Summer 1995. This new version
will contain a write module able to manage data input in BasisPlus
records and will permit access to BasisPlus sectioned record. Moreover
BasisPlus non standard document format will be managed by Sibylla and
viewed on the WWW client using local browser. Http functions able to
manage http protocol requests will permit multiserver-multiplatform
information system development. Interface toward ORACLE database is
under evaluation.

System Architecture

The simplest system architecture which uses Sibylla is composed of a
WWW server, the Sibylla package, the information sources, the user
application(s) and one or more WWW client. On the server computer
where the information sources reside (the BasisPlus database, indexed
HTML files, general applications) there is the Sibylla package too.
The generic WWW client resides on another Internet (or TCP/IP )
connected computer. On the server computer there are the scripts,
which constitute the user application, which defines how a user can
interact with the information sources. For example we want the user
prompted first with a static HTML home page which explains the service
offered; then an HTML form can be selected to query the information
system. The form data are managed by Sibylla and sent to the database
or to any other information source kernel which contains the data
required. Finally the user application get the data returned by the
information source, format and (eventually) analyze them and send back
all things to the client. Navigation (e.g the hierarchy of html files
which defines how the information have to be presented to end user) is
defined within the same user application which handle the user query.
From the end user point of view Sibylla is completely transparent. The
end user simply queries the information system and navigates through
the dynamically generate HTML files. The end user has a single
information view and do not have to take care of where the information
is actually stored or how it is organized.

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ENTRY P16. - TclXess

Usage: Spreadsheet
Company: Applied Information Systems, Inc.
Contact: 100 Europa Drive; Chapel Hill, NC 27514; USA
E-mail: in...@ais.com
Tel: 1-919-942-7801
Fax: 1-919-493-7563

XESS - The Advanced Spreadsheet For Business and Technology

o Comprehensive functions, flexibility, and speed
o Real-time, protocol-independent data exchange and control of
remote clients
o Presentation-quality color reports and graphs for business,
science, and engineering
o Easy Integration with other client/server applications
o C and FORTRAN programming interfaces available
As the first spreadsheet designed specifically for X Windows and
Motif, XESS has always been a star performer. Its flexible environment
accommodates complex calculations and data manipulation. Its extensive
computational and graphical tools are ideal for both financial and
scientific/engineering applications. And thanks to the unique XESS
Connections API, this spreadsheet easily integrates with other
applications for seamless sharing of data and control.

Created for the demands of highly technical workstation computing,
XESS provides a full range of mathematical, statistical, financial,
matrix, and string functions. Yet it handles these complex
calculations with the ease of a familiar spreadsheet format with
attractive screen displays and an intuitive, point-and-click user
interface.

XESS is simple to learn, but well-equipped to handle sophisticated
applications:

o Financial trading
o Statistical analysis
o Process control monitoring
o Interactive product design
o Laboratory experimentation
o Quality assurance testing
o Scientific visualization

Functions

In addition to traditional spreadsheet tasks, XESS supports all
arithmetic, Boolean, and logical operators available in the C
programming language. XESS has a wealth of functions for complex
engineering, scientific, and financial calculations.

With XESS's embedded tools, you can enter and recalculate matrix,
vector, and Fourier transform operations as easily as other
spreadsheet functions. You can use constraint expressions to indicate
when cell values are outside desired boundaries or use goal-seeking to
solve a system of equations to a desired value. XESS also includes
powerful tools for searching, sorting, and data visualization
capabilities.

Enhanced Graphics

XESS puts presentation graphics at your fingertips. Build basic graphs
with a single selection and mouse click, use colors and shading to
emphasize differences, then print the graph or export it to your
favorite publishing system.

You can see your data in the form you prefer, from simple pie chart to
complex 3D surface, or both at once. As your data changes, your graphs
change automatically, and dynamic annotation highlights important
aspects of the results. View your graphs in separate windows or place
them on the sheet with your data.

Real-Time Client/Server Integration

XESS's most compelling feature is its ability to adapt to a changing
world. While most spreadsheets capture only a snapshot in time, XESS
reflects live action, sending and receiving data and commands from
other client/server programs -- even on other computers -- and
automatically recalculating the affected worksheets.

XESS runs under Motif on UNIX and OpenVMS workstations. This operating
environment is especially valuable for engineers, scientists,
financial traders, and other professionals who require powerful
computing, ease-of-use, and hardware flexibility.

XESS users can transfer data between spreadsheets running on different
computers. And with the Connections API toolkit for C and FORTRAN,
other applications can transfer data into or out of an XESS
spreadsheet as the data is calculated. Your XESS spreadsheet can
display a real-time summary of data originating on networked computers
in other buildings, cities, or countries. And applications can control
all aspects of the spreadsheet.

While other programs fade away, XESS remains a bright star in the
client/server universe. With its smooth touch, powerful technology,
impeccable graphics, and total flexibility, XESS defines what a
spreadsheet should be.

Selected XESS Features

The XESS Environment

o Standard Motif Graphical User Interface
o Main menu bar with pulldown sub-menus
o Industry-standard spreadsheet orientation
o Mouse or keyboard actions
o Maximum 4,096 columns and 32,767 rows
o Multiple spreadsheets can be active simultaneously
o Copy and paste between active spreadsheets and with other
applications
o Cells/ranges referenced by address or name
o Undo previous operation
o Spreadsheets stored as text for easy mailing

Formatting the Display

o Full WYSIWYG user interface
o User-selectable colors for foreground/background, highlight,
titles, etc.
o User-selectable cell formats (hex, dollars, etc.)
o User-selectable type fonts, sizes, and styles
o International character support
o Cells aligned left, right or center
o Multi-line text with word wrap
o Best-fit column and row sizes
o Simplified date entry

Data Manipulation

o Copy/move formulas or values to other spreadsheets maintaining
formulas and formats
o Search by textual, numeric, or Boolean expressions
o Sort in ascending or descending order maintaining all cell
dependencies
o Goal-seeking

XESS Calculations

o Unique high-performance calculation engine
o Arithmetic, conditional, Boolean operations
o C language or standard spreadsheet operators
o Double-precision calculation
o Iterative calculations
o Cell linking between sheets
o Formula constraint checking

Mathematical Functions

o Sum, product, absolute value
o Logarithm with base 10, base 2, base e
o Square root, square root of a sum of squares
o Uniform and Gaussian random numbers
o Nth degree polynomial
o Sigmoid function
o Gamma and log gamma functions
o Visual sum
o Interpolation
o Matrix determinant and dot product
o Exponential function
o Trig and Hyperbolic trig functions

Financial Functions

o Extensive financial functions
o Depreciations
o Present and future values
o Investment, annuity, and security functions
o Treasury bills and various coupons
o Interest rates and internal rates of return
o Yield calculations
o Specialized date calculations

Statistical Functions

o Maximum, minimum, median, sum
o Standard deviation of population or sample
o Variance of a population or sample
o T and F distributions
o Paired and unpaired t tests
o Sum and mean of squares
o Geometric and harmonic means
o Correlations and multiple regressions
o Conditional statistical functions

Embedded Tools

o Matrix multiply and inverse
o Eigenvalues
o Fourier transforms and inverses
o Linear equation solving
o Correlation matrices
o Curve fitting

String Functions

o Complete suite of functions for string manipulation and
conversions including regular expressions

Other Functions

o Date and time functions
o Indirect cell reference functions
o Table look-ups
o External alarms and controls
o Logic and digital logic functions
o Plus many more

Graphs and Charts

o Surface, scatter, line, pie, X-Y, high-low, contour, polar,
histogram, and bar graphs
o Multiple graphs in independent windows or on sheet with data
o Automatic updating when data changes
o Multiple data ranges
o Dynamic graph annotation
o 3D graph rotation
o Graph shading and coloring
o PostScript (EPS) output with color

Communicating with Other Programs

o Unique Connections API Toolkit for developing client/server
applications with XESS
o Dynamic links with other X Windows programs, even at remote
locations
o PostScript, ASCII or LaTeX print formats
o Import/export sheets in WKS or WK1 formats
o Import/export data in files
o Flexible License Manager
XESS is a licensed trademark of Applied Information Systems, Inc. All
others are trademarks of their respective holders.

Tcl/Tk Interface for XESS Spreadsheet Simplifies Application
Development

Applied Information Systems has tclXess, a Tcl/Tk interface for its
XESS spreadsheet product under Unix and OpenVMS. This makes it easier
to construct advanced applications which integrate the XESS
spreadsheet with other products. AIS has placed the sources for
tclXess online in the Tcl archives at ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl and at
ftp.uu.net:/vendor/ais in the file tclXess-1.0.0B.tar.gz.

The tclXess interface between XESS and Tcl/Tk is derived from work
done at General Electric Corporate Research and Development under
DARPA contract MDA972-88-C-0047. AIS will provide continuing
development and support of this interface software.

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ENTRY P17. - TickleTop

Usage: Telecomm program for NEXTSTEP
Company: TipTop Software
Contact: PO Box 30681, Bethesda, MD 20824, USA
E-mail: tip...@tiptop.com
Tel: +1 (301) 656-3837

TipTop Software Ships TipTop Version 1.5

Bethesda, Maryland, December 22, 1994 --- TipTop Software is proud to
announce that TipTop v1.5 is now shipping. TipTop is the most
advanced, easy-to-use telecommunication and terminal emulation program
for NEXTSTEP available today.

TipTop Software thanks all its customers for making the release of
v1.5 possible. As always, our design is driven by your feedback.

The demo version is available by anonymous FTP from the
ftp.cs.orst.edu archive:

o TipTop-1.5.tar.gz
o TipTop-Supplement-1.5.tar.gz
Currently in ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/demos/comm/. The demo version
runs 13 min at a time and has a limitation on file transfer size.

The main TipTop features include:

o Easy to use GUI: Standard NEXTSTEP user interface features. The
terminal window features a toolbar, a scrollback buffer, a find
panel, changeable fonts, etc. Built-in PhoneBook and Inspector
facilitate easy and convenient configuration of the communication
parameters, window appearance, and other settings.
o Terminal Emulation: ANSI, VT102, and VT220, all including ANSI
color support.
o Serial Ports/Shells: Multiple serial (modem) port connections and
shell sessions. The UUCP locking protocol is used for serial
ports.
o Scripting: A powerful script programming language based on Tcl,
Expect, and Objective C! The automatic script generator makes it
easy to create basic scripts. [Among other things, the scripting
language can run ``term'' which is used to establish a SLIP-like
connection to a remote site. This allows several simultaneous
terminal sessions to be connected to a remote site, while files
are transferred and remote commands executed. One can even run
remote X-window clients connected to the local X-server.]
o Application Programmers Interface (API): TipTop's internal
objects can be messaged from a script as well as from other
applications.
o File Transfer: Bundled transfer protocols include X-, Y-, and
ZMODEM. Any external transfer protocol can be used with TipTop.
o Key Bindings: Flexible keyboard mapping. Any key (with or without
combinations of the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift modifiers) can be
redefined as any character, string of characters, script, or even
as an Objective C message!
New features in v1.5 include:

o Loadable bundles allow end-users to extend TipTop without limits.
For example, end-users can design their own objects, such as
toolbars, dialog panels, etc. and fully integrate them into
TipTop.
o Remote serial port feature allows access of serial ports on any
NEXTSTEP computer reachable through a network from TipTop, i.e.,
a remote modem session can be opened just as if the modem were
directly attached to the local computer. The server machine,
i.e., machine to which the modem is physically attached, requires
a TipTop Serial Port Server. The server will be released soon.
o The API is greatly improved. It is now easy to design new
toolbars, new session objects, new session panels, etc.
o Many GUI improvements, including new Toolbar, Dial, and Term
interfaces.
o ISO Latin 1 character encoding is included. Users can create
their own character encodings.
o Email transfer scripts allow email transport from and to Mail.app
through TipTop. When the deliver button is clicked in Mail.app,
the outgoing message gets queued. When the SendMail script is
run, all the messages that are queued locally get transferred to
the remote machine and sent to the appropriate recipient(s). When
the GetMail script is run, all the messages stored in the remote
mailbox get transferred to the local machine so that they can be
read in Mail.app. This is very useful if one has a Unix account
with email access, and no email access for the local NS machine.
(These sample scripts are not supported by TipTop Software.)
o And much, much more...
TipTop telecommunication software runs on Motorola, Intel, and HP
PA-RISC machines running NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher. TipTop still costs
only $185 + S/H ($4 FirstClass Mail within US, $8 AirMail to Europe).
Site licenses are available as well as academic discounts.

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Operator - Files & Applications Manager (Desktop Manager)

Usage: Operator, Files & Applications Manager, Desktop Manager.
Company:
Contact: Erez Strauss
Email: str...@actcom.co.il or 100274,2...@Compuserve.Com
Tel: (+) 972 3 695 3679
Fax: (+) 972 3 695 3679

OPERATOR

DESCRIPTION

The Operator is a Graphical desktop manager based on Tcl/Tk. The idea
is to provide simple and intuitive User interface to most of the unix
commands. The Operator program is not only for software developers,
but is a general tool for any kind of users. The interpretive nature
of the Tcl/Tk gives it flexibilities that are mostly not found in
other packages. It displays directories and files in different ways in
few independent windows. It provides the user a friendly interface to
the xterm command line interface, with buttons and menus. The XTerm
interface is also useful as Drag & Drop target, what makes it
sensitive to files, directories and Operations that the user drop into
it.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

It is running (and was tested) on Linux (Slackware distribution 2.1.0)
and sun-Sparc-Solaris-2.3, 2.4. If you are running the Operator on
other platform, please drop me an e-mail letter that describes the
system and any problem that you had bringing it to work.

AVAILABILITY

The Operator is available from different hosts on the internet. I put
the latest version on ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/pub/tcl/incoming The
administrator probably moves the files into
ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl/code/Operator-1.0b1.tar.gz) The
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/tcl/code site should have it also. Shareware
diskettes and cdroms from different publishers might have it. I'll
provide a list in future versions :-) In case you don 't have access
to the above internet sites or a copy of a sharewares disk (cdrom)
with a copy of Operator you can get a copy of the Operator-??.tgz file
from anyone that has a copy of the file. You can also use ftp mail
servers to get a copy from the above sites. As a last resort you can
send mail to me (10027...@compuserve.com) with the following as a
subject line 'REQ: Operator copy' as a result I'll send you a copy of
the latest version of Operator through e-mail.

INSTALLATION

For the installation procedures please read the INSTALL file in the
distribution file.

COPYRIGHTS

The Operator is not public domain, it is a shareware. Please look at
the file COPYING in the Operator distribution for more information
about using / copying it . Thanks :-)

In short, one evaluation month, afterwards, $38.

BUGS, PROBLEMS AND COMMENTS REPORTING

I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts and ideas about this
program. Please feel free to send me mail (or fax) about the Operator
software or any part of the distribution files, including this
document (English is not my first language). You can find me at

Erez Strauss
E-Mail: 10027...@Compuserve.Com
str...@actcom.co.il
Tel/Fax: (+) 972 3 695 3679
P.O.Box 23386, Tel Aviv 61231, Israel

Thank you very much for your interest in the Operator software package
:-)

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VHDL Design Entry System

Usage: Electronic Design using VHDL
Company: SoftSmiths Pty. Ltd.
Contact: Geoff Smith
Email: gsm...@softsmiths.oz.au or in...@softsmiths.oz.au

Product: VHDLcapture
Description: VHDL & State Machine Design Entry
X11 based Design Entry Tools from SoftSmiths

Overview

VHDLcapture is a general purpose design capture tool supporting the
VHDL language. VHDLcapture is a second generation development based on
SoftSmiths schematiX11-VHDL tools. The user interface has been been
completely rewritten in the Tcl/Tk language giving the user maximum
customization capability.

VHDLcapture allows five tasks to be performed:

1. Graphical capture of state machines and automatic generation of
synthesizable VHDL code from the state machine diagram.
2. VHDL Behavioral Definition of functional blocks.
3. Datapath definition with pre-defined parameterized symbols.
4. Hierarchical graphical capture of the interconnect of these
functional blocks and/or predefined library elements.
5. Automatic generation of VHDL structural netlists including
support for multiple configuration statements.

Finite State Machine Generation

For blocks that can be defined as a state machine, VHDLcapture offers
a powerful tool for the graphical capture of state machines. The state
machine is defined in a flow chart style using state, conditional test
and signal assert symbols.

For simulation VHDLcapture can produce VHDL code that matches the
functionality of the graphical state machine. This VHDL code is
compatible with most known synthesizers.

Behavioral VHDL - The VHDL Tool

Using graphical design entry the user may design high level VHDL
blocks by defining symbols and entering VHDL code for their functional
description.

VHDLcapture provides rapid access to the functional code description
for each block. By simply clicking on the block, VHDLcapture finds and
opens the appropriate entity, architecture/configuration files using
the editor of your choice.

Being in a graphical form it is much simpler to transfer the design
concepts to other colleagues and allows direct browsing of the
functional code for any block at any level in the hierarchy.

Datapath Library

VHDLcapture comes with a library of parameterized datapath building
blocks. Simply place a unit, adjust its properties to suit, e.g.
number of bits) and interconnect the units with other datapath or user
defined blocks.

VHDL Structural Netlists

Regardless of how the symbols are created, state machine, behavioral,
datapath or predefined library, these symbols may be graphically
interconnected.

Symbols may be hierarchical compositions of other symbols using the
general schematic features of the VHDLcapture product.

Facilities exist via the properties mechanism to set and modify VHDL
generic values and to set and modify port types.

VHDL code representing the structural interconnect of these designs
are automatically generated as part of the netlisting process.

The result is a collection of VHDL files that either define the
structural interconnect or define the behavior of the leaf level
blocks of the hierarchy.

Simulation Interfaces

Simulation interfaces to MTI's V-System and Synthesia's MINT simulator
are directly provided. Or provide your own with Tcl/Tk customization.

Tcl/Tk Customization

The graphical user interface is designed with the Tcl/Tk script
language originally developed at Berkeley University. Tk provides the
graphics and Tcl is the script language that ties the interface to
SoftSmiths C database.

From a user's perspective the real benefit is the ability to customize
the tool for their environment using an "industry standard" language.
For example, suppose you have a proprietary VHDL simulator, Tcl/Tk
allows you to easily add a menu and windows to give direct control of
your simulator from within the VHDLcapture tool.

Licences

VHDLcapture is available under very cost effective site licences that
allow UNIX based productivity at prices per user comparable to PC
based products.

VHDLcapture runs on Sun Workstations (Sunos 4.1.3 & Solaris 2.4)
and/or attached X terminals. For more information please contact
in...@softsmiths.oz.au.

You're at a University? Ask us about our university program.

Evaluations

SoftSmiths supplies evaluation software for all of its CAD products.
Just ask by sending email with FULL mailing address to
in...@softsmiths.oz.au and specify your preferred media.

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ENTRY P20. - System/Network Monitoring System

Usage: An alert monitoring system with integrated hyper-text help
Company: Enniskillen Consulting, 3396 Enniskillen Circle, Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada, L5C 2N1.
Contact: Paul Wujek
Email: wu...@sys-x.com
Voice: (905) 279-5885

This monitoring system watches logs from operating systems, databases,
and applications across a network. Written in Tcl/Tk it serves as a
framework for a custom network monitor, extensions include monitoring
Oracle V7 database parameters, and applications. The hyper-text help
system is tied into the GUI monitoring allowing operations staff to
search the help system, operations manuals, and trouble logs for
references to error messages via simple a 'click-and-shoot' interface.

Messages to the system may trigger multiple actions, including dialing
pagers, sending e-mail, demanding operator attention, and executing
processes. Different individuals may monitor different messages, for
example security staff might want to view all login attempts, while
the DBA will view only database related messages.

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ENTRY P21. - Use of TCL/TK for Text To Speech Synthesis in the
TrueTalk GUI Applications

Usage: TrueTalk(tm) Text To Speech Synthesis
Company: Entropic Research Laboratory, Inc., Washington DC
Contact: Tom Veatch
Email: t...@entropic.com

Entropic Research Laboratory, Inc. has recently begun shipping
Personal TrueTalk 1.0, a software-only text-to-speech (TTS) system
with a single-user GUI built using Tcl/Tk. TrueTalk is based on a
large effort at AT&T Bell Laboratories to advance the state of the art
in TTS technology, and it has been made into two products by Entropic.
First is Developer TrueTalk, a client/server API and C function
library for adding speech output to applications. Second is
PersonalTrueTalk, an easy-to-use graphical interface, designed to
voice-enable a UNIX X-Windows workstation. Personal TrueTalk also
accepts input via the Tk "send" mechanism, so that Tcl/Tk applications
can use it as a speech output server.

You are invited to examine Personal TrueTalk either by accessing our
new, interactive talking WWW page
(http://www.entropic.com/ttdemo.html) -- type in text, get back audio
waveform -- or by downloading and running Personal TrueTalk in Demo
Mode (ftp page), which is available free of charge for evaluation
purposes. You can fully-enable your evaluation copy at any time by
purchasing a license key from Entropic or its distributors.

A brief listing of features, requirements, platforms, and contact
+information follows. We are getting positive reviews of this new
product, and we hope you will try it, like it, and use it.

FEATURES

o Highly intelligible speech with natural intonation
o Text taken from
+ file input,
+ highlighted X selections,
+ the interface scratch pad,
+ other programs connected through a TCP/IP socket, or
+ Tcl/Tk applications via the Tk "send" mechanism
o Stop, as well as Pause and Resume while speech is in progress
o Visual indication of corresponding text position when Paused
o Nine speaking voices, and Male and Female versions of each voice
o Adjustable speaking rate and volume
o Supports drop-in text filters; "email" and "lively" examples
included
o Audio output through workstation headphones or speaker
o Complete on-line documentation, including mouse-activated help
windows

REQUIREMENTS

o 14MB disk space.
o 8MB process size (24MB system RAM recommended)

PLATFORMS

o Sun Sparcstation 2/5/10/20 with SunOS 4.1.3 or Solaris 2.4;
o SGI Indy/Indigo/Indigo2 with IRIX 5.2.
o Other platforms in development.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Contact information for Entropic Research Laboratory, Inc.

TrueTalk is a trademark of Entropic Research Laboratory, Inc.
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ENTRY P22. - VHDL/Verilog Simulation System

Usage: Electronic Design Simulation with VHDL/Verilog
Company: Model Technology (an Antares Company)
Contact: Greg Seltzer
Email: sa...@model.com or sup...@model.com

Product: V-System/Plus Workstation, V-System Workstation, V-System Windows
Description: VHDL-Verilog Simulator

Overview

Model Technology develops high performance, high capacity High Level
Design Language (HDL) simulators for the Engineering Design Automation
(EDA) market. The demands for increased productivity in the
engineering community are unrelenting. Newer design methodologies
using high level design languages such as VHDL and Verilog enable
engineers to describe their products in an abstract language.
Simulators like V-System and V-System/Plus enable them to verify the
functionality and timing of these designs at various stages in the
design process. Model Technology develops simulators for both the PC
Windows (3.1, 95, NT) and the Workstation Unix (SUNOS5, SOLARIS,
HP700, & RS6000) Operating Systems. These products are sold
stand-alone by our direct sales channel and are integrated into
bundled solutions by our OEM partners.

Model Technology's goal is to provide the best value to our customers
by developing high performance, highest capacity, easiest to use, and
the most cost effective simulators for the HDL market.

For more information see our home page at: Model Technology.

Tcl/Tk Usage

Our current product line uses Tcl for the command language interface.
Future releases will use Tcl/Tk for all command language and GUI
operations.

Company

Model Technology
Suit 150
8905 SW Nimbus Avenue
Beaverton, OR 97008-7159 USA
Phone: 503-641-1340
Fax: 503-526-5410

gwle...@cpu.com

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This file contains brief descriptions of commerical training options for
Tcl/Tk. If you have questions about specific postings, contact the person

who made the submission directly. The purpose of this listing is to show
that Tcl/Tk is being used in commercial products and to discuss that use.

Part 1 contains a complete index.

Index - Part 3 Only