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