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Winter 1998
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Panamint Ventures have announced the latest release of 4-Word@Connect, the office suite for MultiValue Database systems, comprising internet e-mail, fax and word-processing.
4-Word is currently available on Pick's D3 (all versions), Advanced Pick (all Unix-hosted systems, SCO, AIX etc), GA's mvBASE and R91, MDIS Reality X and UniVision. Other implementations are being planned.
4-Word's fax system can be accessed by application programs, and accepts input in plain ASCII text, Jet (The Works), HTML, Postscript or 4-Word format. Using HTML allows tags to be inserted to include graphical images (JPEG, TIFF files etc) along with text. A wide variety of font styles can also be used. 4-Word can convert any plain text, Jet or 4-Word document to HTML prior to faxing allowing great flexibility of document design and appearance. Errors are reported to the sender via 4-Word's e-mail.
Faxed documents may be sent via a hold queue, so that they can be inspected and edited prior to committing to transmission.
4-Word's e-mail connects the MultiValue user directly to internet e-mail giving you a fully-functional system operating from the Pick or Pick-like environment.
4-Word's e-mail system provides a subroutine interface for e-mail to be integrated into your application programs, and a comprehensive interactive interface for use from character-based terminals, PCs or telnet sessions. A wide range of popular terminals are supported.
Features include create, send, view, reply, forward, postpone, search, save, print. E-mails are automatically routed either to local users' mailboxes, or via your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Create e-mails either by using the simple e-mail editor or the full word processor, or generate mailings from your application programs, perhaps using the mail-merge facility. The same mailing can then be selectively sent either by snail-mail or e-mail.
To make it easy to adapt existing applications to use e-mail, you may "print" to an e-mail print queue. All you have to do is insert a subroutine call to crate the necessary header lines, or indeed build them yourself. MIME attachments are supported, and incoming e-mails may be saved to a disk file.
E-mails can be optionally submitted via a hold queue so that they can be inspected and edited before finally despatching. This feature is especially useful when using the mail-merge facility.
Mail transfer may be configured to PPP or POP/IMAP.
For more information, contact Russell Cowe at Panamint Ventures on (01506) 834550/834596.
Last Updated: 22 December 1998