CapeSoft Newsletter #29
- 8 April 2003 -

CapeSoft Email Server (v1.51)
CapeSoft is proud to announce CapeSoft Email Server. This new software product is a compact SMTP & POP3 Server for small or medium businesses and home environments. It's easy to use and provides you with full control over email domains, mailboxes and aliases.

For $30 it's a steal. As usual - upgrades are free. The number of mailboxes are unlimited so you don't have to pay again as your company grows or your needs increase.

CapeSoft Email Server, which has been built using our popular NetTalk accessory, presents you with the following functionality:

Price: $30

Download a 60-day trial or read all about CapeSoft Email Server at:
www.capesoft.com/utilities/EmailServer/CapeSoftEmailServerIntroduction.htm
Software programmers please note we will be selling the source code and a personal version of this mail server shortly. More details .
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NetTalk (v2.73)
Quite simply, NetTalk is the Networking accessory for Clarion. Using low-level Winsock functionality you get unmatched flexibility, performance and compatibility. Whether you're writing Clarion programs that need to talk to each other, or interacting via TCP/IP with other software, NetTalk is the solution for you.

NetTalk features : SMTP / POP3 (Email), NNTP (News), HTTP (Web) and FTP. Dial-Up-Networking. NetTalk Protocol, for ultra-robust, ultra-easy Clarion-to-Clarion communications. 150+ pages of documentation, 10 Jump-Starts and 20 Examples.

Read all about NetTalk at
http://www.capesoft.com/accessories/netsp.htm

Price: $299

More important recent changes in version 2.73 include:

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File Explorer (v2.5d)
File Explorer is currently back in beta whilst preparing for a version 3.0 release. We have rewritten the WebBrowser object and underlying engine from the ground up, making the product even faster and more stable, and opening up new functional possibilities which we're currently implementing. These include moving the Html Editing control away from the Clarion OLE dependencies, to a point where it now uses only pure (stable) COM, implementing the Plugware engine.  Lots of new methods, new examples and new possibilities.

Price: $99
For a complete list of what's been improved, please visit the File Explorer webpage at http://www.capesoft.com/docs/fileexplorer/FileExplorer.htm

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Office Inside (v1.0 beta 4c)
Office Inside is one of our new products. It wraps the MS Office COM objects, offering a truly stable approach to integrating and automating MS Office functionality from within your applications. We have just released the beta 4 release of Office Inside, which now has a fairly extensive library wrapping MS Word, and has the beginnings of Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook taking shape. We are starting off by building easy ways to add Mail Merge, Spell Checking and Reporting to your application, with many more ideas for the future.  Watch this space!

Price: $199
For more information please visit http://www.capesoft.com/docs/office/OfficeInside.htm

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Replicate (v1.0 beta 14)
Replicate provides an automatic, driver independent, file-version independent, mechanism for replicating the data in two or more databases.
Basically, Replicate logs your changes, adds and deletes and then using a transport manager of your choice, exports the changes to the other sites, where the changes, adds and deletes are imported to that data set. This all done completely automatically without your users having to do anything!!
Replicate supports both offline and online environments.

Currently still in beta, Replicate is moving towards Gold status. The product still has a way to go in terms of features, but has reached a healthy stability point. For those on the beta program, we recommend implementing the updates, and if you have not updated up to beta 14, please do so. If you are not receiving notification of upgrades, please email replicate@capesoft.com with the subject: 'Notify me of upgrades'.

Price: $349
For more information please visit http://www.capesoft.com/accessories/replicatesp.htm

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CapeSoft Mailer (v1.9m)
CS Mailer is our bulk email distribution tool (used to send you this newsletter <g>).  We have been improving and tweaking this product over the past months. For more information and screenshots, visit http://www.capesoft.com/utilities/Mailer/Mailer.htm


Price: $99

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File Manager 3 (v3.0 beta 16)
File Manager 3 continues moving through the beta stages steadily. Currently supporting the Microsoft SQL, Oracle, and ODBC drivers (ODBC limited to Microsoft SQL, Oracle and MySQL backends), it has in the last couple of months grown in features and solidity. File Manager 3 has also grown in management and design characteristics as we have gained more knowledge in best practices and design using Clarion and SQL.
 
A big thank you to Shawn Mason for his input and expertise at the Clarion/MSSQL training course held in Cape Town, South Africa last month. His contribution to our understanding of this complex topic has been extremely helpful.
 
In line with the general CapeSoft policy of maintaining support for 3 versions of Clarion, we have dropped the support for Clarion 4 and 16-bit applications. A build for Clarion 6 EA testers is available for download at our website.
 
File Manager 3 manages and upgrades the file structures of many of Clarion's supported drivers including SQL drivers. Watch while it effortlessly converts your TPS applications to SQL, including the creation of new files, and the copying of existing data.

Price: $149
For more information:
http://www.capesoft.com/accessories/fm3sp.htm
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Clarion / MsSQL training by Shawn Mason

Having experienced this intensive 3 day course right here in sunny Cape Town, we can say unreservedly say that it's highly recommended, especially for folk with little, or no, previous experience with SQL.  If it comes anywhere in range of you, and you're interested in SQL, then don't miss it... Many of the CapeSoft programmers attended, and it certainly has increased our understanding of the issues involved immeasurably.
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Recent Updates
Ezhelp - 2.53 released 25 March 2003
Winevent - 2.91 released 24 March 2003
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