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WPCorp And The Athena Project
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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:33 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Solutions: The following information was taken from the WordPerfect Corporation Newsletter dated July 15, 1991:

WordPerfect Corporation is part of a consortium of vendors developing a multi-platform fax application programming interface. Richard Holder, manager of WPCorp's Corporate Lab, explained that WPCorp is interested in the project for future fax integration with WordPerfect products. "We would like a single specification to write to rather than having to write specific drivers for each fax product," said Richard.

The project was explained in a recent issue of PC Week:
"In an effort to promote an open PC-based fax environment, a consortium of companies is gearing up to announce a new fax application programming interface that will be hardware-independent and will work across multiple platforms, said sources close to the project.

Code-named Athena, the project has been under development for almost a year. Members of the consortium include Everex Systems Inc., WordPerfect Corp., Optus Software Inc., Biscom Inc. and others sources said. The API will enable software and hardware vendors to build computer-based fax products that for the first time will work with multiple systems and across multiple platforms. The group plans to release the technology by the fourth quarter, they said."

For marketing and development questions about WPCorp products' involvement in the project, contact Andrew Ehat. Questions about the Athena project in general should be directed to Richard Holder.

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