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SMARTSUITE FOR OS/2 BETA AVAILABLE ON CD FROM INDELIBLE BLUE

The much anticipated beta release of OS/2 SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 is finally here! Official beta testers have already been chosen, but the beta code is freely available for download from Lotus at ftp://beta.lotus.com/os2 for anyone who would like to try it out. You can read more about the beta program at: http://beta.lotus.com/warpbeta.

Since this is a very large download (120+ MB of zipped files including the special fixpack!), Indelible Blue is making the files available on CD for a service fee of only $10 + shipping. Orders are now being taken for immediate shipment.

Here are a few details you should be aware of before downloading or ordering the beta code:

The general release of SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 is expected the first quarter of 1998 and will be available from Indelible Blue on the earliest possible date. For more detailed information about SmartSuite, go to http://lotus.com/smartsuite/os2 (this site is currently being updated, so it may be temporarily out of order.)

If you have any questions, give us a call at (800) 776-8284 ext 247 or e=mail sales@indelible-blue.com

- Tracey Phillips Peake
Indelible Blue
November 10, 1997

OS/2 COMPUTING SUPPORT COMMUNITY OPENS ON COMPUSERVE

MT.LAUREL, NJ (November 14, 1997) - Creative Systems Programming Corporation and CompuServe Interactive are happy to announce the creation of the OS/2 Computing Support Community on CompuServe. Serving as the cornerstone of this new online community are the OS/2 Central™ Forum, OS/2 Central Developer Forum and OS/2 Central Networking Forum.

New menus tailored to the OS/2 community will make it easier to find exciting topics of interest for OS/2 users and OS/2 developers. All of the content is geared to the OS/2 Community and can now be found in a single location, accessible by entering GO OS2COMPUTING at any CompuServe prompt. Current users of OS/2-CIM™ will automatically be directed to the OS/2 view when they select Computing Support from the Explore CompuServe menu.

Creative Systems Programming Corporation is further expanding their OS/2 Central area on CompuServe by creating a new OS/2 Central site on the World Wide Web. The OS/2 Central World Wide Web site is free and can be found at http://www.os2central.com.

The OS/2 Central Web site has been designed to create a focal point for OS/2 users on the World Wide Web and showcase the OS/2 Computing Support Community on CompuServe. There is significant information available including a comprehensive OS/2 user group directory, a complete listing of OS/2 books, periodicals and electronic magazines, as well as archives of many of the popular OS/2 list servers from the Internet. Additional information and resources are under development for the OS/2 Central Web site and will be made available as soon as they are completed.

"We're very excited to be able to provide these new resources and services to the OS/2 community," said Larry B. Finkelstein, president of Creative Systems Programming Corporation. "With the introduction of our OS/2 Central Web site and the recently announced C from CompuServe, we expect to build a lot of interest in the thriving OS/2 Community on CompuServe Interactive."

Creative Systems is continuing to work with CompuServe to insure that OS/2 users will continue to have a selection of first class tools for accessing all of the content available on CompuServe. This includes plans for updates to Golden CommPass (an offline reader for accessing CompuServe forums) as well as the planned release of their new online browser, Golden CommPass Interactive™ (formerly known as OS/2-CIM). A new forum has been opened to provide support for this product, GO GCPINTERACTIVE.

Founded in 1984 and a privately-held company, Creative Systems Programming Corporation is a CompuServe Business Partner and provides management of the OS/2 Central areas on CompuServe. Creative Systems Programming Corporation provides custom consulting and training services, designs 32-bit client-server applications using the latest object technology and is a leading developer of communications software, including the internationally acclaimed Golden CommPass, OS/2 Navigation Software.

- Larry B Finkelstein

NOTES GATEWAY AND WIN95/NT CLIENTS SHIP FOR PMFAX LAN FOR OS/2

WHITE BEAR LAKE, MN (November 10, 1997) - Keller Group, developer of the OS/2 fax software sold as FaxWorks for OS/2 and PMfax, has released a new fax gateway for Lotus Notes/Domino, an enhanced fax gateway for cc:Mail, and enhanced fax workstation client software for Win95 and NT. All of the new products are now shipping and can be used with PMfax LAN version 3.01 and later, including extensive multiline and multi-department versions.

"These new packages demonstrate our ongoing commitment to supporting OS/2 and integrating our fax products into the LAN environment," says Mark Ahlstrom, President of Keller Group. "The new Notes fax gateway and enhanced workstation client for Win95 and NT allow users of all popular LAN systems to use our powerful OS/2-based fax servers, and our Notes gateway is now tightly integrated for Notes address books, outgoing faxing from Notes e-mail, and delivery of incoming faxes via Notes e-mail attachment."

The Notes/cc:Mail Gateway Option ($995) lets users send and receive faxes directly from Lotus Notes and cc:Mail e-mail systems. It now supports both the Notes API and Lotus VIM interface, including the 32-bit versions of Notes and cc:Mail. Notes users can send outbound faxes using Notes address book, external domain or subject line addressing. Address book support means the program can obtain the fax numbers directly from the Notes address books for transparent e-mail faxing. External domain support allows sending of a fax using "faxnumber@Fax" e-mail addresses, while subject line support lets the fax number be in the subject of the e-mail message. Users can also broadcast faxes to distribution groups from both Notes and cc:Mail.

The enhanced Windows workstation client (included in various PMfax LAN configurations starting at $699) provides an interface which is similar to Keller's popular OS/2 workstation client software and allows the PMfax LAN products to support workstations running NT, Win95, Windows 3.1, DOS and OS/2 through an OS/2 fax server. The OS/2 fax server can be a non-dedicated OS/2 workstation on any popular LAN system.

All PMfax products are now shipping for electronic web orders which are placed directly with Keller Group (http://www.kellergroup.com/). PMfax customers who have purchased these PMfax LAN version 3.00 options from Keller Group can get a free upgrade from Keller Group.

PMfax is a trademark of Keller Group Inc.
FaxWorks is a trademark of Global Village Communication

- Mark Ahlstrom
President, Keller Group
Tel: 612/429-7273, Fax: 612/653-1987
http://www.kellergroup.com/

PRERELEASE OF MESA 2 VERSION 2.2

This Spreadsheet Really Shines

SEAL BEACH, CA (November 4, 1997 - Sundial Systems is proud to make the version 2.2 PreRelease of the Mesa 2 spreadsheet available to the public. The product has already been through a very intense period of beta testing and is now ready for the gamma "shake down."

The list of new features is long and impressive. Here's some of what's new in version 2.2:

Customizable and movable toolbars.
Customizable menus.
Customizable accelerators.
Smart Freeze for row and column locking. It's title locking plus more.
New smaller and more capable file format.
Printing enhancements including fit-to-page, centering on page, printing just a graph, printing the entire workbook, and preventing printing of graphics.
Enhanced graphs.
Cell notes/attachments.
Page comments.
Numerous REXX Enhancements.
Over 30 new MScript functions.
Microsoft Excel XLS version 5.0, 95, and 97 file import for files up to 7 megabytes in size.
Autoformat ranges.
Image support. Metafiles can be used as an image frame, a background image for a layer, or as an image for pictogram bars on bar/column graphs.
New functions including AVEDEV, DEVSQ, MEDIAN, INTERCEPT, and TREND.
Drag and Drop printing from the workbook system menu and layer selector.
Increased spreadsheet size with layers up to 99,999 rows.
File templates.
Expanded export options for a range including to an HTML table, Rich Text Format, delimited text file, bitmap, or OS/2 Metafile.
Seamless file compression.
File type Extended Attributes to remove all dependencies on the file extension.

Mesa 2 is definitely a full featured spreadsheet. It conforms to traditional spreadsheets in terms of general layout, available features, and fundamental behavior. But, Mesa 2 is better because it makes the most of OS/2's advanced capabilities. Unique tools for performing tasks such as drag-and-drop ranges, SmartFill, Formula Inheritance, and REXX scripts make Mesa 2 stand out.

The Mesa 2 PreRelease of version 2.2 can be downloaded from the Sundial Systems Web site at http://www.sundialsystems.com/ and feedback on the PreRelease is appreciated. The gamma cycle for version 2.2 is expected to last for 6 to 8 weeks. Information about pricing and upgrade options is not yet available.

Sundial Systems Corporation has been providing quality applications to the OS/2 community since 1988. For more information, contact Carla Hanzlik, Vice President at 562/596-5121 or Carla@sundialsystems.com. On the Web, visit Sundial at http:www.sundialsystems.com/.

Sundial Systems Corporation
Suite 204
909 Electric Avenue
Seal Beach, CA 90740 USA
Tel: 562/596-5121

Mesa, Formula Inheritance, and SmartFill are trademarks of Athena Design, Inc., and used by Sundial Systems Corporation under license. OS/2 and REXX are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.

- Rollin White
Sundial Systems Corporation

OS/2 SPECIALS, UPDATES & PRICE REDUCTIONS

Christmas is coming early! Okay, Christmas is not exactly coming early but we have some great new pricing on nearly 100 OS/2 applications, toooo many to mention here. Take my word on it and visit our site and compare.

Over 50 new items have also been added. For example: WorkSpace On-Demand, DB2 Universal Database, SyQuest EZFlyer & SyQuest Syjet drives.

While you're on our site check out November's raffle, we're raffling off a Sony Digital Mavica FD7 Camera with free shipping. This camera would be great to have for the holiday season! See site for details.

BTW: If you haven't been on our site in a few days you should reload the index page to receive current information. For anyone that doesn't know the URL by now it is http://www.os2store.com/

Need a Scanner? Check out our Epson bundles.

-Jim Ames
J3 Computer Technologies
Internet Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP
November 6, 1997

OS/2 FIXPAK CD ANNOUNCEMENT

BMT Micro and the OS/2 Supersite announce the first major update to our OS/2 FixPak CD which allows the most recent FixPaks to install directly from the disc. Complete instructions are on the disc in HTML format.

Important note: These fixpaks and all the utilities on the disc are available free for download directly from IBM. None of the parties involved are selling fixpaks or any utilities on the supplied media. What we are selling is the convenience of not having to download the fixpaks and (with this new release) the ability to apply the selected fixpaks directly from the disc without having to create diskettes manually. It's also neat to have it all on one disc for storage and multiple machine updates.

The disc can be ordered directly from the following vendors and has an SRP of $15 + $2 shipping. Each disc ships with whatever is the latest fix available on the date of your order.

BMT Micro: http://www.bmtmicro.com/
Indelible Blue: http://www.indelible.blue.com/bmtmicro/
OS/2 Supersite: http://www.os2ss.com/

These FixPaks may be installed directly from the CD:

* Warp 3.0 US English - FixPak 32

* Warp 3.0 French - FixPak 32

* Warp 3.0 German - FixPak 32

* Warp 4.0 US English - FixPak 4

* Warp 4.0 French - FixPak 1

* Warp 4.0 German - FixPak 3

The disc also contains the following FixPaks which require you to create diskettes prior to installing the fixpaks.

* Warp 3.0 US English - FixPacks 16, 17, 22, 26, 30, 31, 32

* Warp 3.0 German - FixPaks 5, 17, 22, 26

* Warp 3.0 Internet Access Kit FixPak

* Warp 3.0 IBM Works Fixes

* Warp 4.0 US English - FixPaks 1, 2, 3, 4

* Warp 4.0 German - FixPaks 1, 3

* TCPIP Fixes for OS/2 Versions 2.0 - 4.0

BMT Micro, Inc.
Suite 202
5019 Carolina Beach Road
Wilmington, NC 28412
Tel: 800/414-4268 Sales
Tel: 910/791-7052 General
Fax: 910/350-2937
WWW: http://www.bmtmicro.com
FTP: ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro
E-Mail: bmt@wilmington.net

Fine print:

IBM is a trademark of International Business Machines. All copyrights belong to their respective owners, etc.

Always back up before altering your base operating system. BMT Micro or the OS/2 Supersite make no promises about the suitability of this product for your particular system and offer no warranties, etc. etc.

If installing a fixpak breaks something on your system please don't send us hate mail - we're just delivering the fixpacks to you, not writing the code. :-)

- Thomas Bradford
Internet Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP
November 6, 1997

INTERNET ADVERNTURER V1.20 RELEASED

Internet Adventurer is OS/2's premier Internet Suite, it integrates all major internet protocols into one program.

IA supports WWW, IRC, News, Email, Java, FTP and Telnet.

For further info and download, refer to http://www.inetadv.net - where a free demo is available.

Internet Adventure has been awarded 5 cows by TUCows - the highest possible score, and Software Showcase has rated IA "Excellent".

The newest edition of the EDM/2 magazine has this to say about IA:

"In conclusion the Internet Adventurer suite of programs is an excellent program which has great potential. The GUI design is clean and direct. The user is never overpowered with too much information even though at times the program has several presentation manager windows opened."

It also says, "In short, this program can fulfill the needs of all but the most demanding of Internet users."

Internet Adventurer is shareware, and costs $40 to register - you can register direct from http://www.inetadv.net

This is a list of changes since the last version...

Version 1.20

- Kim Rasmussen
President, Adventure Software
http://www.inetadv.net/
October 25, 1997
Internet Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP

POST ROAD MAILER V3.0 AND NET EXTRA V2.0 ANNOUNCED

HARRISON, NY (October 24, 1997) - InnoVal Systems Solutions announces new releases of software.

InnoVal Systems Solutions announced today the availability of Post Road Mailer 3.0 for OS/2 and NetExtra 2.0 for OS/2. In a letter to customers InnoVal's president, Dan Porter, along the InnoVal OS/2 team, discussed both products.

In commenting on NetExtra 2.0, the Porter writes, "This is a major upgrade to, what has become, a wildly successful and best selling OS/2 product. You can visit any retail software outlet and find several fast-selling browser add-ons for the Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator (for Windows 95), but you won't find any that match the power, features, or usefulness of NetExtra for OS/2."

"NetExtra upgrade prices apply to prior releases of NetExtra, WebExtra, and other native OS/2 browser add-on programs."

In commenting on the Post Road Mailer, the letter reads, "We are particularly proud of this new release because it speaks to our ongoing commitment to quality OS/2 software and the OS/2 user community. With a new tool bar and several other usability enhancements, you won't want to miss out on this new release."

"The upgrade price for the Post Road Mailer applies to you if you have a license for ANY OS/2 e-mail program. OS/2 e-mail programs include Netscape Navigator for OS/2, Ultimail Lite, registered shareware, and all prior releases of the Post Road Mailer."

"By upgrading to the newest release of the Post Road Mailer, you are assured of remaining current with the all the latest improvements. To help you protect your investment in OS/2 software we are offering a $20.00 discount for the upcoming Post Road Mailer for Java (approximately 40% off). This offer is automatically extended to everyone who upgrades to, or orders release 3.0 of the Post Road Mailer. Your release 3.0 license number will be your proof of purchase for the discount."

Upgrades and new user licenses are available from various sources including:

Indelible-Blue
J3 Computing
The OS/2 Supersite
InnoVal Systems Solution

Most resellers are offering electronic delivery through the Internet. Street prices for electronic delivery of both products are estimated to be about $25.00 for the upgrade and $40.00 for a new user license. The suggested retail price (SRP) is $49.95 for the new user license.

Porter's letter to customers concluded with a request for feedback. It reads, "Two years ago we wrote to all of our customers and asked for ideas on how to improve our business. We took to heart what you told us and you can see the improvements. Again, we are seeking your input. Tell us what you think."

For further information and an update on the Post Road Mailer for Java, please see our web page at http://www.innoval.com or write to innoval@ibm.net or customer@innoval.com.

- InnoVal
October 24, 1997

INNOVAL SOFTWARE SCHEDULE

HARRISON, NY (October 15, 1997) - InnoVal Systems Solutions announces software schedule for the remainder of 1997.

InnoVal Systems Solutions announced today that it will release the following products this year:

NetExtra 2.0

To be released October 25th - This tool is a must for anyone who uses Netscape Navigator or the IBM WebExplorer. A web-browser add-on, NetExtra, provides offline browsing, advanced bookmarks, jump lists, logs of sites visited, and numerous other functions. Significant new features in release 2.0 include a small floating window to show the age of the page being viewed in your browser; a new tree view of page mining (off-line browsing) with link titles, link text, and URL information; and a click- able and fully automatic meta-bookmark folder of the web sites you visit most often. Page mining has also been enhanced significantly.

For webmasters, NetExtra now provides methods for editing HTML pages from a server and automatically saving them back to the server through built-in FTP facilities.

Post Road Mailer 3.0

To be released October 25th - This enhanced version of this best selling e-mail software has been enhanced with quicker folder access, faster message forwarding and re-sending, a new toolbar, and several other user-requested enhancements.

Codename Popover

To be released mid-December - This is a powerful and low-cost, 100% pure Java, pre-processor for Internet and intranet e-mail client software. Popover enhances performance and adds dozens of new and useful features to existing e-mail software.

Although written in Java for any Java capable platform, and designed for most Internet e-mail software, Popover will first be released for the OS/2 marketplace. InnoVal will initially offer special editions of Popover for the following OS/2 e-mail client products:

Popover for Internet Adventurer
Popover for MR/2 Ice
Popover for Netscape Navigator for OS/2
Popover for PMMail
Popover for Post Road Mailer

Additionally:

During the first quarter of 1998, InnoVal will release a comprehensive new e-mail client, the Post Road Mailer for Java. This new high-performance e-mail program will incorporate the Popover technology.

For additional information please contact Marianne Roderus at 914-835-3838, send e-mail to innoval@ibm.net or visit our site at http://www.innoval.com.

- InnoVal Systems Solutions
October 15, 1997