Newton/Desktop Connectivity is a Reality!

Network Multimedia and Revelar are pleased to announce the public
availability of the Revelar Connection Utility 2.0 Beta 4. This version is
very close to final. Revelar decided to issue a fourth Beta in order to
get more feedback on features before going final, and allow users access
to the existing feature set, which is substantial.

RCU is a real-time data link between a Macintosh computer and your Newton
running OS 2.0. This is not synchronization software or fancy
text-transfer, but full access to all information stored in your Newton as
quickly as you can click. This includes support for text and graphics. RCU
will correctly ignore information that it doesn't understand, allowing
editing of entries without worry of information loss.

Users are presented with a familiar interface, consisting of an Overview
(user-defined multiple column view) and an Entry (similar to the "Show
All" on the Newton). Clicking on information in the Overview causes a
specific record to load into the Entry, clicking on a Field in the Entry
allows editing. Fields may be added by clicking on a dynamic list of
available types. Different Entry types (Person, Company, Outline Note,
etc.) can be added by simply clicking on another list.

The only feature left out of Beta 4 is import/export. The following
features have been added to Beta 4 since Beta 3:

* Support for Calendar, including repeating meetings and events.
  Support for Names and Notes existed in previous versions and is
  still included, with the addition of graphics (see below).

* Read-only support for To Do and Calls. Data in these applications
  may be viewed but not edited.

* Support for graphics in Notes (including notes in Names). Sketches
  may be viewed on the Macintosh and copied into other applications.
  Macintosh PICTs can be pasted directly into Notes on the Newton.

* Release of the ADF File format documentation and the first Beta
  version to include an external ADF file. This allows extensions
  to built in applications and definitions of other 3rd party
  applications to be added to RCU. It also allows localization of
  application-specific information.

* Support for Find in all applications.

This Beta version is intentionally limited in the following ways:

* Localization support for English and Spanish only.

* Import and Export is disabled.

* Range palette is disabled.

* You must have a serial number. This version is intended for RCU 1.5
  registered owners who wish to upgrade to version 2.0 and will test
  this last Beta for us. It is also intended for MP120 and MP130
  owners who do not want to use RCU 1.5, but would rather buy this
  Beta 4 version and receive a free upgrade to the final version when
  it ships.

Visit our WWW site at http://www.xmission.com/~revelar or download the
software directly. Note that our ISP has been experiencing extreemly high
load on the WWW server; you may want to download the files directly:

 RCU 2.0 Beta 4 (738 Kb):
 ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/users/r/revelar/macintosh/RCU2.0.B4.hqx

 RCU 2.0 Beta 4 Documentation (Envoy document) (741 Kb):
 ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/users/r/revelar/macintosh/
       RCU2.0.B4.user-guide.hqx

Watch for our development toolkit to be released soon. This set of AppWare
ALMs can be used to develop custom front-ends to the RCU Newton package,
allowing programmers direct access to soup information as well as package
downloading, etc.

Revelar, Inc.
2350 E. Parleys Way, STE#3
Salt Lake City, UT 84109-1239
800-669-5191 Sales/Support
801-485-3291 Office/International Sales
801-485-3296 Fax
AOL: REVELAR
http://www.xmission.com/~revelar
sales@revelar.com
support@revelar.com

Network Multimedia, Inc.
650 East 4500 South, Suite 100
Salt Lake City, UT 84107
801-261-8293
801-261-9668 Fax
http://www.networkmultimedia.com
sales@networkmultimedia.com
support@networkmultimedia.com
 
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