From: brian_hall@markspace.com (Brian Hall)
Date: 21 Mar 97
Subject: Mark/Space Newsletter #5 - Mac, Windows, Web & Newton

Included in this announcement:

  1. PageNOW! Personal Edition (Mac) 1.6 Released
  2. PageNOW! (Web) 1.1 Released
  3. PageNOW! Personal Edition (Win) 1.0 - MAPIPAGE update
  4. Japanese language version of ZMODEM Tool Now Available
  5. Site Web en Franais - http://www.markspace.com/fr/
  6. Online reference for DDE/AppleScript now available
  7. Using PageNOW! with Telstra in Australia
  8. Success story: Mission Critical use of PageNOW! on info.apple.com

To change your subscription to this newsletter, please send e-mail to "listmaster@markspace.com".


PageNOW! Personal Edition (Mac) 1.6 Released

http://www.markspace.com/pagenow_mac_newstuff.html


PageNOW!/Personal Edition for v1.6 for Macintosh is now shipping.
Key points of the new version include:
  1. alphanumeric *and* numeric paging
  2. personal web paging
  3. ability to work w/PCS digital phones in the US
  4. new protocols for use internationally with GSM phones and pagers
    (TAP/IXO/PET, UCP, EMI, Citiruf)
  5. additional pager models for pager preview
    (Motorola Advisor Pro and Gold, Socket PageCard, Philips)
  6. Additional services and modem definitions pre-configured
  7. and much, much more!

For a complete list of new features and solutions, as well as some screen shots, please visit:

http://www.markspace.com/pagenow_mac_newstuff.html

The upgrade price is $29.95 for a single copy, $99 to upgrade a 5-pack or Workgroup Edition, and $198 to upgrade a 10-pack or Enterprise Edition. Shipping and handling extra, starting at $7. Special prices are available to those who purchased PageNOW! 1.5a direct from Mark/Space after January 7, 1997 (contact sales@markspace.com for details).

Workgroup and Enterprise Editions of 1.6 will ship in April. German and French language versions of all editions will ship later this Spring.


PageNOW! (Web) 1.1 Released

http://www.markspace.com/pagenow_web_pr.html


PageNOW!/Web v1.1 is now shipping. This is a free update, just contact sales@markspace.com to have this new release sent to you via e-mail.

Changes include:

For more info on this product, visit:
http://www.markspace.com/pagenow_web.html


PageNOW! Personal Edition (Win) 1.0 - MAPIPAGE update

ftp://ftp.markspace.com/pub/markspace/support/MAPIPAGE101D1.ZIP


A minor update to the MAPIPAGE email to pager forwarding application has been posted at our ftp site. It corrects a problem where some messages would not be marked "read" after having been forwarded to PageNOW!. This is a free update, and is recommend for all users of MAPIPAGE - just replace your existing MAPIPAGE.EXE file with the one at the URL given above.


Japanese language version of ZMODEM Tool Now Available

http://www.markspace.com/zmodem.html (info)
ftp://ftp.markspace.com/pub/markspace/demo/zmodem-tool-demo-j1-103.hqx (file)


A Japanese language version of the Mark/Space ZMODEM Tool is now available. A demo version may be downloaded from our ftp site. To upgrade to or license this version, please contact sales@markspace.com.

Coming soon: We will be offering a Japanese version of our Web site later this spring. Watch the newsletter for further details!


Site Web en Francais

http://www.markspace.com/fr/


Mark/Space is proud to announce the French language version of our web site, along with French language e-mail for sales, support, and webmaster. Thanks to Jean-Marie Chauvel, customers around the world can access product information, support files, and more!

Currently Mark/Space offers Communicate Lite, ZMODEM Tool and Videotex (Minitel) Tool in French. These products will soon be joined by PageNOW! for use with pagers and GSM phones in France (as well as the rest of the world).

Here is how to check it out:

German and Japanese language versions of our web pages will premier later this spring.


Online reference for DDE/AppleScript now available

http://www.markspace.com/pagenow_suite.html (Mac OS/AppleScript)
http://www.markspace.com/pagenow_dde.html (Windows/DDE)


If you are interested in controlling PageNOW! from AppleScript (Mac OS) or DDE (Windows), you will appreciate our new online reference manuals. Just visit the above web pages for complete command references for both our Mac OS and Windows versions of PageNOW!

Using AppleScript and/or DDE you can send pages, schedule pages, check on the status of PageNOW!, import and export service and subscriber databases, and manipulate the activity log.

Coming soon: Additional sample code and other developer kit resources via the Web. (These will be online versions of the developer kit that ships with each copy of PageNOW! on disk).


Using PageNOW! with Telstra in Australia

http://www.telstra.com/ (Telstra Corp. Home Page)


Many of our friends in Australia have reported success using PageNOW! to send messages to GSM phones on the Telstra system using Mac, Windows and Newton versions of PageNOW!. The trick is to use the proper service phone number and password. Just create a new service, and enter the following information:

Name: Telstra (Australia)
Protocol: TAP (only need enter for Mac PageNOW! 1.6)
Number: +61-18-018-767
Password: mnmail

Then create a new subscriber and select Telstra as the service, and off you go!


Success story: Mission Critical use of PageNOW! on info.apple.com

http://support.info.apple.com/support/thegoods.html


Our friends in Austin forwarded us this URL for a behind-the-scenes look at the hardware and software Apple is using to run the info.apple.com web site. Helping keep the server administrators on top of status of each server is the combination of PageSentry from Maxum together with PageNOW!.

From http://support.info.apple.com/support/thegoods.html

Server Monitoring System:
To make sure all of our public web and FTP servers are running 24 hours a
day, we use PageSentry from Maxum Development Corporation.
PageSentry simulates a web browser or FTP client and checks each server
every few minutes. If a server does not respond, an alert detailing the
problem is sent to the alphanumeric pager of the appropriate server
administrator.

We use an Apple Workgroup Server 8150/110 as our monitoring system. In
addition to PageSentry, we use PageNOW! from Mark/Space Softworks as
our alphanumeric paging software.



Thank you,
from the team at Mark/Space!

To change your subscription to this newsletter, please send e-mail to "listmaster@markspace.com".