Puma Technology Offers Free Maintenance Release To Eliminate Software Error.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1995--Puma Technology Inc. today announced a free maintenance release of TranXit. The new release eliminates a software error that can erase information on a computer's hard disk drive in rare instances. The new version 1.03, is now available via the company's electronic bulletin board to the more than 200,000 licensees of TranXit. The company has also announced that it is shipping the new version to OEMs who preload preload /pre·load/ (pre´lod) the mechanical state of the heart at the end of diastole, the magnitude of the maximal (end-diastolic) ventricular volume or the end-diastolic pressure stretching the ventricles. the software on notebook computers A laptop computer that weighs in a range from five to seven pounds. The term originated when laptops were routinely more than 10 pounds, and those that became lighter were placed in a special "notebook" category. In practice, notebook computer and laptop computer are synonymous. . TranXit (pronounced Trans' sit) is a popular program used to transfer and synchronize See synchronization. data between computers using IrDA-compliant (a) infrared An invisible band of radiation at the lower end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 750 nm to 1 mm, infrared starts at the end of the microwave spectrum and ends at the beginning of visible light. wireless connections. The program is fast becoming the standard way for hundreds of thousands of notebook computers with infrared links to transfer information to desktop computers and printers. The new version of the software eliminates an error that, in the worst case, can erase information on a computer's hard disk. The error occurs when the software, which is intended to synchronize files between two separate directories, is inadvertently used to synchronize the same directory on the same disk drive. In the existing versions (1.00, 1.01 and 1.02) of the software, attempting to synchronize a directory onto itself, can result in the loss of all the data in that directory. This loss of data only occurs in a special non-default condition. Version 1.03 of TranXit eliminates this problem by automatically canceling these unintended operations. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bradley A. Rowe, President of Puma "From the day that Puma was founded, we have done everything possible to ensure the highest possible quality in our software. We have instituted programming procedures that make our software reliable by design, and we have backed that up with a quality assurance lab that does extensive testing. Furthermore, our software is tested rigorously by the OEMs who bundle TranXit with their computers. So far this approach has paid off, with over 200,000 copies of TranXit on the market, this is our first reported software problem. "In addition to our quality safeguards, we have in place a quick response team, set up and ready to respond to software errors. In this case, our response team received the report of the software error on Thursday, March 23, and had it repaired, tested and released by March 29." Current owners of TranXit can obtain the new version of the software via the company's bulletin board. The new maintenance release on the bulletin board will only work in computers that already have an installed version of TranXit. To obtain the new version, users need to set their modem to 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity Not using a parity bit to check for errors. For example, an 8-N-1 setting in a communications program, which was widely used before the Web, means each character transmitted contains (8) eight bits, (N) "no" ninth parity bit and (1) one additional stop bit to mark the end. See non-parity memory. and any speed up to 14,400 bits per second. Then, beginning on April 3, 1995, they can dial their modem into the bulletin board at 408/970-8766. The bulletin board will adjust the users modem speed and guide the user through the downloading downloading - download procedure. Company Background Puma Technology Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. The company is a leading provider of infrared connectivity solutions for OEMs and end-users worldwide, and is a member of the IrDA Association. For more information, contact the company at 3375 Scott Boulevard, Suite 300, Santa Clara, Calif., 95054. Phone: 408/987-0200, Fax: 408/970-8750. -0- (a) IrDA (Infrared Data Association See IrDA. (standard, body) Infrared Data Association - (IrDA) A non-profit trade association providing standards to ensure the quality and interoperability of infrared (IR) hardware. ) is a consortium of leading computer companies that have agreed on a physical specification that provides a standard method of interconnecting computers and peripherals. CONTACT: Puma Technology Inc. Ted Sanchez, 408/987-0200 X206 or Curtis & Associates Curtis Panasuk, 408/730-4747 |
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