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MKS Announces New Patch Release for MKS Toolkit and MKS X/Server
MKS Toolkit Supports Microsoft's 64-bit Operating System
Upcoming MKS Events
MKS Toolkit Quick Tips
Buy MKS Products Online

MKS Announces New Patch Release for MKS Toolkit and MKS X/Server

MKS Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate availability Patch 2 for MKS Toolkit 9.2 and Patch 1 MKS X/Server 8.5. MKS Toolkit 9.2 Patch 2 is a maintenance update for MKS Toolkit 9.2. It includes all fixes provided in MKS Toolkit 9.2 Patch 1 as well as those listed in the link below.

For a complete description of the fixes and new features included in this update, please see http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/rn/relnotes_tk92p2.asp

MKS X/Server 8.5. Patch 1 is a maintenance update for MKS X/Server 8.5. For a list of the fixes included, see the link below. Additionally MKS X/Server 8.5 Patch 1 includes the following new features:

MKS X/Server now supports overlay planes on systems with video cards that support that feature(for examples, cards that use the NVIDIA Quadro FX or ATI FireGL chipsets).
MKS X/Server now supports compressed fonts (that is, ..gz files). Such fonts can be used exactly like uncompressed fonts (that is, .pcf files). X/Servers on Linux systems commonly use compressed fonts and this support allows these Linux system fonts to be easily moved and used with MKS X/Server.

For a complete description of the fixes and new features included in this update, please see http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/rn/relnotes_mksx85p1.asp

Customers with a current PCS Support contract and who are running MKS Toolkit 9.2 or MKS X/Server 8.5 can immediately download the patches using http://www.mkssoftware.com/support/patches.asp

Customers with a current PCS Support contract and who are running earlier supported versions of the products, may request their free upgrades using the following site: http://www.mkssoftware.com/support/upgradeform.asp

MKS Toolkit Supports Microsoft's 64-bit Operating System

MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit Edition simplifies the migration 64-bit UNIX applications to 64-bit Windows enabling customers to deploy their UNIX/Linux applications on both Extended Architecture (i.e. AMD64 and EM64T) and Itanium-based platforms.

64-bit Windows operating systems are ideal for applications that require large amounts of memory and high-performance mathematical computation, such as Web caching, data warehousing, complex mechanical design and analysis, scientific applications and research. MKS was the first to 32-bit Windows and now MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit Edition is the ONLY solution for porting robust, mission-critical 64-bit UNIX/Linux applications to Windows. To learn more see: http://www.mkssoftware.com/products/tk/ds_tkedev64.asp

Upcoming MKS Events

Online Events:
Lower Costs & Increase Quality with Better Requirements
Date: 12-Feb-2009
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, MST

Project Managers, QA Managers, Process Managers and Development Managers - Register if you are a Manager struggling in today's world to maintain requirements and understand the traceability of requirements to other project artifacts.

Details & Registration: http://www.mks.com/Interop_QualityBetterRequirementswebinarpm

A Stickyminds.com Webinar, Featuring Author Robin Goldsmith:
тАЬOvercoming Requirements-Based Testing's Hidden PitfallsтАЭ
Date: February 24, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM EST

In this Web seminar, Robin Goldsmith, a respected authority on software testing practices and author of Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success will identify key sources of requirements-based testing oversights, including:

Failing to distinguish real business requirements from product/system requirements
Falling into the testability trap
Equating requirements-based testing with a single technique
Presuming one test per requirement or use case scenario suffices

Space is limited. Register now: http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=132924&s=1&k=3468C7290236A9BA84BDAC6914D0DEFA&partnerref=TheSource

Tradeshow Event:
COMMON's 2009 Annual Meeting & Expo
Date: 26-Apr-2009 to 30-Apr-2009
Place: Grand Sierra Resort and Casino,Reno, NV, United States

COMMON's 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Reno, Nevada, taking place from April 26 - 30, 2009 - gathering of the Power Systems user community. IBM nd AIX education will include all-day pre-conference workshops, Integrated Seminars and open labs. The Annual Meeting will kick-off on Sunday, April 26th with the Opening Session, followed by four days of leading-edge IBM i and AIX-related education, closing with the fun and exciting iSocial Main Event on Thursday, April 30th. To register for the conference, or to learn more visit: http://www.common.org/conferences/2009/annual/index.html.

MKS Toolkit Quick Tips

Q:   Can I install MKS Toolkit in a clustered server environment?
A:   Yes, normally, to install MKS Toolkit on the individual systems (or nodes) that make up a clustered server, you simply install it on each of those systems. If, however, you are planning on using MKS Secure Shell with such a cluster, there are additional steps that need to be taken.

Installing MKS Toolkit on Clustered Nodes (PDF) will walk through those steps as well as the rationale for their need.

Q:   How do MKS Toolkit utilities support long file names or UNC names?
A:   MKS Toolkit commands support long file names with spaces by allowing the use of double quotes around a path. You can also put a backslash in front of each space.

Examples:
   cd "Program Files"
   cd Program\ Files

MKS Toolkit commands support UNC names in a similar way to the rest of Windows except instead of backslashes it requires forward slashes:
   cd //machinename/sharepoint

You could also use:
   \\\\machinename\\sharepoint

Q:   How can I mix MFC and UNIX code in the same program?
A:   Using MFC requires your code to include Microsoft standard header files, which clash with Toolkit header files. To resolve this, build your UNIX code with Toolkit into a stand-alone NuTCRACKER Platform DLL (see the Building Standalone DLLs in the Porting Shared Libraries chapter of the UNIX to Windows Porting Guide for more details).

Build this DLL in a Toolkit build environment. Then use VC++ to build the MFC code which loads the DLL you built from your UNIX code. (Remember the _NutEnableNuTC()/_NutDisableNuTC() calls around the UNIX code). Pay special attention to those calls which might block the thread. The MFC message cannot respond while the thread is blocked in a NuTCRACKER call.

To get more MKS Toolkit Tips visit our knowledge base at: http://www.mkssoftware.com/support/kb/
To see more on the Porting Guide visit: http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/sg/#uwpg
To download the Resource Kit visit: http://www.mkssoftware.com/reskit/

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