http://www.scriptmeridian.org A Resource for Frontier Users en-us Copyright 2002, Script Meridian Community jim\@roepcke.com seth\@macrobyte.net http://www.scriptmeridian.org/67 TLS 0.3.1 has been released. It's a bug-fix release, primarily, to fix problems with the secure server. TLS stands for "Transport Layer Security". It includes SSL, and is the proposed standard that is superceding SSL. Macrobyte's TLS is software which http://www.scriptmeridian.org/66 John VanDyk has released a new Frontier/Radio suite, The Tracer Suite . It shows you the scripts that are executing (in order of their invocation) to help you learn what's going on. Very handy! http://www.scriptmeridian.org/65 Macrobyte Resources has released Conversant , the groupware/CMS platform Script Meridian runs on, among hundreds of other sites . Conversant runs on Frontier and Radio on Mac 9/X and Windows. http://www.scriptmeridian.org/64 A recent essay by Seth Dillingham explains the optimal methods for building large strings in UserTalk , including why these methods are the fastest. In order to optimize this process as much as possible, there are two things the scripter needs to remember: http://www.scriptmeridian.org/63 Eric Soroos: RFC: Port Forwarding Tool . "On Osx, Frontier runs as a user process, not as root. Therefore, it can't bind to ports below 1024. We have been using port forwarding to forward low numbered ports to high numbered ports." http://www.scriptmeridian.org/62 Jim Byrne: CommentIt 2.6.6 for Manila adds new features. http://www.scriptmeridian.org/61 Tallent Communications Group has updated the ODBC Extension . This new version works on Mac OS X; it also works with Radio UserLand. http://www.scriptmeridian.org/60 André Radke: PostgreSQL Extension for Frontier . http://www.scriptmeridian.org/59 Macrobyte Resources: Secure Server for Frontier and Radio in Development . "Early pre-release versions have already been tested successfully. A public, time-limited beta version will be available in late March."