Re: What's happening at KANSASFEST '98!

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 26 Jul 1998 08:55:18 GMT, buggie@argo.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)
wrote:

>Hey, yu guys at KFEST, tell us what's happening!   
>
>I attended K-Fest '96 and many of these sleepless "zombies" connect to
>their e-mail back home.  Thus, many can read the newsgroup.
>
>Many of us who could not attend in person are peering through the keyhole
>to learn what's up ----- tell us!

I didn't attend KFest this year but I did try to keep up on all the
news in chat on Delphi.  Here is what I can remember being announced
off the top of my head:

  Marinetti v2.0   - Richard Bennett
     - TCP/IP which now supports both SLIP and PPP
  Spectrum v2.2    - Seven Hills
     - update with integrated support for Marinetti; can have up to 32
       open sockets and control them from scripts
  GSoft BASIC v1.0 - ByteWorks
     - an interpreted modern structured BASIC with more commands than
       Applesoft and can generate stand alone GS/OS programs
  NiftySpell v1.0  - Shareware Solutions II
     - a spell checker NDA that can check spelling in any program that
       uses TextEdit controls such as ShadowWrite (Hermes), Teach,
       Spectrum, et al; you can use either a US or UK dictionary and
       it supports multiple custom dictionaries
  Babelfish        - Seven Hills
     - file conversion program that translators can be written by
       anyone to change the contents of files; it includes lots of
       translators including one that can convert text or Teach
       documents into HTML
  WebWorksGS       - Sheppyware
     - an HTML editor that can also convert AppleWorks files into HTML
       and keep the formatting from the AppleWorks document

There was also the announcement that Kansas Fest now has its own
domain name on the web.  You can now get KFest information from:

  http://www.kfest.org

Richard Bennett apparently was talking about or demoing, I'm not sure
which, a program called Casper which is a web page server for the
IIgs.

That's all I can think of right now.  Hopefully that satisfies your
curiousity.  :)

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