Thursby Announces Free Version of DAVE for Mac OS X.Business Editors & High Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2001 At Macworld Expo in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Thursby Software Systems announced they are making a free release of the first Mac OS X version of their popular DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses (R) Mac to PC file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. software. Thursby Software is demonstrating this new release at the show and is making it immediately available for free download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. from their Web site: www.thursby.com. When asked why a commercial software company would give away a key technology, company president, William Thursby, responded, "Apple's engineers have done an outstanding job of supporting us. Unfortunately, they just have not been able to complete the key features to allow us to properly integrate DAVE into Mac OS X in a timely manner. We remain optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op that we will be able to release a commercial version of DAVE for Mac OS X in the near future, but for now we felt that we owed early adopters of Mac OS X an interim solution." This free release will only work with Mac OS 10.0.4 and there is no formal support for it. Turning to a discussion of what the future holds for DAVE, Mr. Thursby went on to note, "The commercial release of DAVE for Mac OS X is well on its way for beta but requires a future release of Mac OS X. This isn't a product that has been cobbled cob·ble 1 n. 1. A cobblestone. 2. Geology A rock fragment between 64 and 256 millimeters in diameter, especially one that has been naturally rounded. 3. cobbles See cob coal. tr. together from public source, it is a product that we have invested millions of dollars into and that has been designed for the Mac user from the very beginning. This release will not only include formal support for Mac OS X, but will also include some key enhancements for Mac OS 9.x users including support for very large files sizes and long file names File names that exceed the common eight plus three (8.3) character limitation used in DOS and Windows 3.1. Unix, Mac and Windows starting with Windows 95 support long file names. For compatibility with the 8. ." For details on the free download, go to www.thursby.com. Thursby Software Systems, Inc. has been developing, supporting and marketing a wide variety of file share and print share software solutions since 1986. In addition to DAVE, Thursby products include MacSOHO(R), TSStalk(TM) and MacNFS(R). For additional information, see the Web site, www.thursby.com or contact Randy Phillips 817/478-5070, phillips@thursby.com. |
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