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From: jeffa@janderholm.lotus.com (Jeff Anderholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Improv API
Message-ID: <1991May30.193419.11261@lotus.com>
Date: 30 May 91 19:34:19 GMT
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In article <00949545.0B8C4040@UAVAX0.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>  
citdem@UAVAX0.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU writes:
> An article in the May 27th issue of _COMPUTERWORLD_ states that Lotus is
> shipping its Improv Application Programming Interface (API) Toolkit at no
> charge to Improv users.  Is anyone knowledgeable on this subject?  How does
> one get the API?  What's in it?  (Maybe someone from Lotus can comment -
> unofficially of course.)
> 
> I know about the API on the archive.  However, is it the "gold" version?
> The last time I looked, it was not supported by Lotus - so perhaps this is
> an early or beta release???  What's the story?
> 
> D. McCollam  (citdem@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu - ASCII responses only, please.)

The version of the Improv API toolkit that is out on various servers (it's on a  
server at Purdue, and other locations) is indeed the gold version.   This  
contains online documentation, internal Improv function calls, two  
implementations of the common API:  one for use by external apps and one for  
use in code that can be dynamically linked into Improv, utility routines for  
adding new menu items to Improv, and a set of examples.

We say that it is not officially supported...but it has been tested and is  
already in use.

That's the official story....let me know what you do with it.

Jeff Anderholm
Lotus