Category: News

The evolution of the SCO Xenix and UNIX operating systems continues unabated, and as-such will be affecting all users of INFONETICS Accounting software. As such, we are providing this review of where we're at, and where we're headed. First, There Was Xenix We first started using Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) …

We hit the motherload. TWICE! All things happen for a reason, and as you learned from last months newsletter, we lost a couple of good people recently. Well, after weeks of interviews, we've hired not one, but two Internet Specialists! These guys come from radically different backgrounds, but both have …

At each and every training session we conduct, we stress the importance of cross training. We nag, prod, pull, entice, chide and generally make life miserable until you relent and ask a co-worker to join in the training of each and every software package we install. While this sometimes seems …

Boy, have we got our work cut out for us! In unrelated developments, we've lost the services of two of our staff. First, Curt has left us and moved on to a similar, but not quite as varied (or harried) a position supporting PC and Unix systems with a hospital …

We've recently made some rather significant enhancements to our INFOFAX software package, and felt you'd like to know about them. First, we've implemented a new version of the Trufax software used as the low level transport. This has improved the transmission/completion rate to some of the more finicky fax machines …

Greetings. INFOACCESS continues to grow in both installations, and content. As you'll find on the back page, we're making substantial headway on the publishing of MSDS's (which is, after all, where the whole INFOACCESS concept got its start). On the hardware front, we're continuing to beat our heads on the …

When most of us computer types use those two words together in a sentence, we're usually referring to being prepared in the event a catastrophe befalls your computer system. And we've seen more examples of this than we'd like to admit to. Everything from spilled Cokes in terminals to direct …

A recent software enhancement permits the printing of actual Service Charge Invoices as they are calculated/created by the Create Service Charge program. This new invoice should draw the customers attention perhaps better than a simple reference to a service charge on the existing statement. Furthermore, large corporations sometimes require an …

We've upgraded the Accounts Receivables' Service Charge calculation program to print an actual Invoice. And, actual saving of the Service Charge transactions in the database is now optional. Progress on our major development fronts continues to roll forward; A new Pentium Pro (200mHz) dual processor motherboard is in the works, …

A funny thing happened on the way back from Portsmouth on Mother's Day. As many of you might recall from last month's President's Console, I've been preparing for a long distance bicycle ride called the Tour of Scioto River Valley (along with 5,000 other riders). It's 210 miles from Columbus, …