New BW Authoring Tools Give Windows Users Complete World Wide Web Server System.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--At Internet World this week, Beame & Whiteside will introduce a new product to support Internet information publishing. The toolset combines the new World Wide Web server functionality introduced in the company's BW-Connect NFS v3.2 for DOS & Windows earlier this year with a new set of HTML authoring tools for Windows so any Windows-based TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. workstation can now be converted into a World Wide Web (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. ) information server. "We decided to break out the Web server we added to our NFS software and incorporate a complete set of HTML authoring tools so Windows users can add World Wide Web support to any TCP/IP protocol stack," explained Patrick von Schlag, Product Line Manager for Beame & Whiteside. "The World Wide Web is seeing explosive growth as more network users have come to recognize the power of the Internet for information dissemination. Although there are a number of public domain Web solutions, we wanted to be the first to offer Windows users an off-the-shelf, commercially supported Web server, complete with a user-friendly, icon-driven, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. word processor." The WWW server will run over any Winsock-compliant TCP/IP third-party protocol stack for Windows, such as Beame & Whiteside's stack. It will also support any Windows-based WWW client, such as Netscape or Mosaic. WWW services allow the user to make information available in a standardized format, without having to use File Transfer Protocol A communications protocol used to transmit files without loss of data. A file transfer protocol can handle all types of files including binary files and ASCII text files. See Kermit, Zmodem and FTP. (FTP) sessions or TELNET commands. Using World Wide Web services, network information can reside anywhere on the Internet. Beame & Whiteside's World Wide Web server uses HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. (Hypertext Transfer Protocol See HTTP. (protocol) Hypertext Transfer Protocol - (HTTP) The client-server TCP/IP protocol used on the World-Wide Web for the exchange of HTML documents. It conventionally uses port 80. Latest version: HTTP 1.1, defined in RFC 2068, as of May 1997. ) to deliver data formatted with HTML (Hypertext Markup Language (hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard) Hypertext Markup Language - (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a ">". ). Using the Universal Resource Locator Universal Resource Locator - Uniform Resource Locator (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. ) naming convention, it is possible to transparently support different transfer technologies, such as FTP or Gopher, through the World Wide Web. In addition to the WWW server, Beame & Whiteside has packaged the HTML Edit word processor. HTML Edit allows users to embed pointers in their Web documents that reference other Internet sites. Using an easy-to-use, GUI-driven system to create HTML tags, pointers can refer to other WWW servers, Gopher servers, FTP servers, and other data types. These URL resources are automatically verified for integrity, ensuring that all documents are 100-percent HTML-compliant. These HTML authoring tools make it possible to create Windows-based Web pages for any WWW server, in addition to the WWW server included with the product. Once created, these Web pages can be accessible from any Netscape or any other Web client. The WWW/HTML toolset will be ready to ship May 1, 1995. It retails for $149. Beame & Whiteside Software can be reached at 706 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27603-1655; telephone: (919) 831-8989; FAX: (919) 831-8990, or via Internet at sales@bws.com. CONTACT: Woolf Media Relations Inc. Tom Woolf, 415/508-1554 |
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