Subject: GREAT
From: [email-masked] (Michaela Merz)
Date: 18 Jan 1994 21:59:25 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Preview of the GREAT beta release
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The FSAG (Free Software Association of Germany) proudly announces:

GREAT (the Graphical Environment and Desktop) will be released as BETA 
starting February 1st, 1994. During beta state we will only offer GREAT
binaries to the public.

GREAT supports transparent network access to remote ressources w/o
using NFS-mounted partitions. All you have to do is to install the
GREATCOMM server netfd which is released in binary form as well.

GREAT requires X11 (XFree 2.0) and kernel patchlevel >= 13, libxpm,
and Motif 1.2 (or you have to use the statical linked binaries).

Depending on your installation we will offer GREAT as

a) GREAT_bmf.tgz      GREAT for systems w/o Motif Runtime license
                      (statically linked to libXm)
b) GREAT.bin.tgz      GREAT for systems with Motif Runtime license

GREAT consists of the following packages:

CMDFRAME - The GREAT 'DeskTop' :

An icon bar on the left and/or right,top of the screen consists of (possibly
colored) icons used for calling programs and 'drag and drop' actions.
You can bind sound effects or (icon) animation sequenzes to these
icons.

GFM - 

The Great Filemanager enables you to perform file maniupulation tasks like
copying/deleting (w/ recovery) of single or previously marked files, even
recursivly. You can 'drag and drop' icons onto the CMDFRAME and perform
specified multiple tasks (view pix, listen to sounds, etc.).

GFLEX -

is a fully configurable CMDFRAME-Button to perform varios 'drag and drop'
 tasks based on the file's extension and/or magic number.

GREATCOMM Tools

netfd

The GREATCOMM network server for Linux.

gls,gcat,gcp,gfile

Like the genuine  utilities but with GREATCOMM support (for example:
gls -l remotehost::/etc/*.c)

greatpw:
 
To register a user for remote access.

gsound:

Plays sounds available on GREATCOMM remote machines
(ex: gsound hostname::/usr/sound/greatsound.au)

gpipein, gpipeout

pipe stdin to remote ressources 
(ex: tar cvf - /foo/bar | gpipeout hostname::Streamer)

greatfile

Enables regular tools w/o GREAT support to access remote files using
GREATCOMM syntax.

Further tools (like GREATmail, GREATnews, GREATcockpit) are currently under
development and will be released together with GREAT v1.0

GREAT v1.0 will be released as Free Software under the terms of the 
Deutsche Free Software Lizenz (german free software license) or the GPL
(GNU public license) respectivly.

Until then, the Comp-TO-Comp GmbH Frankfurt holds the Copyright of GREAT.

Commercial distribution of the GREAT beta version, even free of charge
without our permissions not allowed.

GIF pictures are available on request.

Free Software Association of Germany
Heimatring 19
60596 Frankfurt / Germany
Voice/Fax: ++49-69-6312083
Email: [email-masked]
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