Year: 1999

MESA, Arizona, — March 19 — Public Access Software today announces
its first ever hardware and software product called “MacStat”
(http://www.pasoftware.com/products/macstat/).

MacStat will allow you to view a variety of information about your
Macintosh computer including CPU load, computer uptime (length of
time since booting), total amount of free memory, the number of
currently running processes and a computer efficiency rating.

Using a small Mac OS application running in the background various
data is constantly and unobtrusively collected and displayed on an
external

Subject: Valentina 1.1 – the scriptable database.
From: Ruslan Zasuhin (sunshine@public.kherson.ua)

Welcome to Valentina.

Valentina is a database engine which works hundred and thousand times
as fast as other MacOS DBMS (4th Dimension, FileMaker Pro,
NeoAccess), see benchmarks at (http://www.kagi.com/paradigma).
In particular: indexing 100-200 times faster;
searching 100-500+ times faster;
sorting )1000 times faster.

Benchmark:
1) It takes Valentina 68k on the Macintosh LC/68020
31 seconds to perform the

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Pacific Coast Software’s turnkey eCommerce
product, WebCatalog, will soon be available for UNIX users, according
to John A. Hill, VP of Marketing. WebCatalog currently supports all
major web servers on Windows and Macintosh.

Adding support for UNIX makes WebCatalog uniquely qualified as a
truly cross platform product. “Few products offer the convenience of
site development on either Macintosh or Windows that can be sent to a
UNIX server without re-compiling or modifying in any way.

Vicomsoft have now released a major upgrade to their FTP Client and
FTP Client Pro. FTP Client has all the Vicomsoft hallmarks of
ease-of-use, reliability, flexibility and performance.
There are over 35 new features which include:
– File and directory synchronization
– Persistent downloads
– MacBinary III support
– Additional server support for AppleShare IP 6.x, Serv-U FTP and NetWare
4.11 among others

The shareware version of FTP Client may be downloaded free of charge.
Pricing of FTP Client Pro is $30.

For Immediate Release

CanOpener goes cross-platform

Pleasantville, NY — March 18, 1999

Abbott Systems (http://www.abbottsys.com) said today it is now
shipping a Windows version of CanOpener, its popular universal file
opener currently celebrating its 10th year on the Mac.

CanOpener 1.0 for Windows lets users search and retrieve text from
just about any PC file, including damaged files, using a variety of
special text filters.
Special text filters allow users to..

– Extract Names, Phone Numbers, URLs, Email, Web and IP Addresses.
– Strip HTML Coding.
– Remove