NAME:

Wind/U v2.1

 

VENDOR:

Bristol Technology Inc.

241 Ethan Allen Highway

Ridgefield, CT 06877 (203) 438-6969

(voice) (203) 438-5013 (fax)

Email: info@bristol.com

WWW: http://www.bristol.com/

 

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

Wind/U is an implementation of the Microsoft Windows API under Unix/Motif. Wind/U supports Win16 and Win32 and the Microsoft Foundation Classes 3.0 (MFC, the API under Visual C++). It contains custom widgets to allow applications to utilize multiple document interface (MDI), combo boxes, dynamically linked libraries (DLLs), dynamic data exchange (DDE), WinSock, and PostScript and PCL4 and PCL5 (Hewlett Packard's Printer Control Language) printing. You can use your MS Windows Help file source on Unix with Bristol's HyperHelp. In addition, they support the Windows GDI graphics drawing interface, including the coordinate system choices. Finally, they support Common dialog DLLs as well as DDEML (Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library) DLLs. Their toolkit includes several programmer tools including Wind/U Spy (an application that runs under Motif but looks like the MS-Windows Spy program), online documentation, a makefile generation program (to help compile your MS-Windows program under Unix), and other tools to help prepare your PC source for Unix. COMMENTS: Bristol has entered into a source code license agreement with Microsoft. This agreement allows Bristol to incorporate MS-Windows code into their product. Bristol was founded in 1990 and has maintained a profit every quarter since 1992.

 

FUTURE PLANS:

HyperHelp V4.0 is also due out this summer and should include improved FrameMaker support, dynamic text retrieval, user reporting, improved printing and searching, and a bunch of other stuff. Bristol has also demonstrated OLE 2.0 on Unix platforms. WHAT THE USERS SAY: One user says, "[Wind/U] is a fairly complete implementation of the Windows API for unix. There are some bugs, and some unimplemented features, but it seems to be getting better over time. Bristol's support for their product is truly excellent: they are very responsive and have been able to provide rapid turnaround for our problems."