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Dan Wilder Issue #17, September 1995 Dan’s previous article (Linux Journal #14) explains why Eiffel is a language of great interest. In this article Dan reviews two Linux implementations of Eiffel-3. The two packages reviewed, ISE Eiffel-3 from Interactive Software Engineering (ISE), of Santa Barbara, California, and TowerEiffel from Tower Technology, of Austin, Texas, have much in common, including: A ...

Arnold Robbins Issue #16, August 1995 This month’s column takes a brief look at the GNU coding standards, a document that describes how to write and package GNU software. What is it that makes a GNU program a GNU program? What makes GNU software “better” than other (free or non-free) software? The most obvious difference is the GNU General Public ...

Randolph Bentson Arnold Robbins Issue #16, August 1995 While Linux Journal went to DECUS in Washington DC, Randy Bentson attended the Internet World Show and Arnold Robbins took in the sights of the East Coast Comdex. Comdex and Internet World While Linux Journal went to DECUS in Washington, DC, Randy Bentson attended the Internet World Show and Arnold Robbins took ...

Stephen Uhler Issue #16, August 1995 This month, we inaugurate a bimonthly column for Tcl/Tk programmers. Stephen Uhler will cover some useful but perhaps poorly-known or poorly-understood features of the Tcl language and the Tk windowing toolkit. For those new to the Tcl language, the name of this column might be confusing: Tcl is pronounced “tickle”. This column will be ...

Jim Shapiro Issue #16, August 1995 Perl is often considered a scripting language for systems administrators. Jim demonstrates that it is useful to applications and scientific programmers as well—as a prototyping tool. If you are like many Linux users you may have heard of Perl, but have been reluctant to learn another language. This was my situation several months ago. ...

Garrett D’Amore Issue #15, July 1995 The Linux File System Standard, abbreviated FSSTND, is important to more than gurus. In this artile, Garrett explains how it has worked behind the scenes to make life easier for all Linux users. Many of us in the Linux community have come to take for granted the existence of great books on Linux like ...

Phil Hughes Issue #15, July 1995 On April 25, over a sushi lunch, Phil Hughes interviewed Orest Zborowski, the person who wrote X-Windows to Linux. Phil: I would like to get a little background on you. Orest: I grew up in Connecticut and then got a degree from Duke in North Carolina. I had a dual major in Electrical Engineering ...

LJ Staff Issue #14, June 1995 Who is Caldera, and what is Corsair, really? Many conflicting rumors about Novell’s “Corsair” project have been floating about the Internet. Recently, there have been sensationalized stories that Ray Noorda, formerly the President and Chief Executive of Novell, is backing a company called Caldera to use the “Corsair” technology to take Microsoft on head-to-head. ...

Linux Journal Staff Issue #14, June 1995 Mark Bolzern talks about a recent trip spent promoting Linux and Flagship, the product he sells for Linux and other Unix-like systems. Mark Bolzern is the President of WorkGroup Solutions, Inc, a company selling the FlagShip CA-Clipper language product, and is also a board member of Linux International. When we heard that he ...

Mark Bolzern Issue #14, June 1995 Linux International, Linux Journal, and WorkGroup Solutions have arranged for Linux to have a major presence there. But, there is a problem. We need help. This show is bigger than any of us. COMDEX/Fall is America’s largest computer trade show. It usually has 200,000 attendees, and worldwide is second in size only to CeBit ...