This is to announce that a complete, new series of packages of the Andrew User Interface System (AUIS) have been made available for Linux. These are available via anonymous FTP from two places: sunsite.unc.edu in pub/Linux/X11/andrew and ftp.andrew.cmu.edu in pub/AUIS/bin-dist/linux This is a refresh of the earlier release, still based on AUIS 6.3.5. This version contains a few fixes, BUT ITS PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO MAKE AN ELF-FORMAT VERSION OF AUIS AVAILABLE. I have grouped the full 40MB of compiled programs and data into several logical "packages". These should run on any Linux system using XFree3.1 (I used Slackware 3.0 with a 1.2.13 Linux kernel). Terry Gliedt tpg@cans.com ********* Please note my new mailing address ********* The Andrew User Interface System is an integrated set of tools that allow you to create, use, and mail documents and applications containing typographically formatted text and embedded objects. AUIS has three principal components: The Andrew User Environment (AUE) is an integrated set of applications beginning with a 'generic object' editor (ez), a help system, a system monitoring tool (console), an editor-based shell interface (typescript), and support for printing multi-media documents. The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) is a portable user-interface toolkit. It provides a dynamically-loadable, object-oriented environment wherein objects can be embedded in one-another. Thus, one could edit text that contains not only fonts and styles, but also embedded raster images, spreadsheets, drawing editors, equations, simple animations, etc. These embedded objects could themselves contain other objects, including text. ATK is an open system so programmers can create new objects that can be embedded as easily as those system-defined objects. The Andrew Message System (AMS) provides a multi-media interface to mail and bulletin-boards. AMS supports several mail management strategies and implements many advanced features including authentication, return receipts, automatic sorting of mail, vote collection and tabulation, enclosures, audit trails of related messages, and subscription management. It also provides a variety of interfaces that support ttys and low-function personal computers in addition to the high-function workstations. The software has been configured for the relatively novice community. The software comes in tar files varying from 0.8MB to almost 4.0MB in size. Everything is based on the word processing package and only requires about 4.5MB after being extracted. The following packages are available: auis635L1-wp.lsm Summary for EZ - the Word Processor auis635L1-wp.tgz Contains textviews, help, image, figure, raster, typescript, pipescript ... auis635L1-src.lsm Summary for EZ - for Source Code Development auis635L1-src.tgz Contains all the srcviews, bush... (requires -wp package) auis635L1-mail.lsm Summary for Messages - MIME Mail Interface auis635L1-mail.tgz Contains messages et al (requires -wp package) (no support for AFS, AMDS, or White Pages) auis635L1-full.lsm Summary for A Complete AUIS Distribution auis635L1-full.tgz Contains the entire AUIS tree from my build. This contains all the ATK development files and documentation. This flle replaces the previous -dev and -doc packages. *** This is ONLY available at ftp.andrew.cmu.edu *** *** This tar file is over 9MB is size and requires 40MB of space *** Changes in this release: - This version requires support for ELF format binaries and libraries