Razor:
Additional Information...

Customer stories

Occasionally, some of our customers allow user stories to be written, emphasizing how Razor has helped their operations. They get nothing directly out of doing this other than knowing they've helped spread the good word.

• MIT, Lincoln Labs is one of the largest federally funded research laboratories in the country. This note discusses how one group there decided to use Razor for CM on a large C++ effort for the (US) DoD.
• The European Southern Observatory has the unique problem of having their scientists and software developers located near Munich, Germany while the telescope they are working with is in the Atacama desert in Chile! Razor allows them to work off synchronized problem tracking databases, even over these huge geographical distances.
• Both LSI Logic and Salix Systems use Razor, but in notably different businesses. The first one handles issue management in a semiconductor house, and the second for source code management related to document storage technology.
• The National Center for Genome Resources is perhaps one of the coolest technical efforts underway on the planet; they're working to map the entire human DNA sequence (and they use Razor to help).

You may be interested in looking over an abbreviated list of some other customer sites.

Concepts newsletters

As situations warrant, we send out an e-mail newsletter to various people. These volumes contain notes about products from Tower Concepts, as well as bits of trivia related to working with shells, C, and X. If you'd like some back issues...

• Volume 3 - March 1995
  Announcing and discussing Razor 3.5... Promise of a new manual... A call for papers.
• Volume 2 - November 1994
  Discussion of Motif applications on OpenLook window managers... Notes about the 3.3j and 3.4 b releases... Pointers to popular e-mail lists... How to customize function keys in Razor... The 'fancy_header' shell script for Sun cmdtool windows.
• Volume 1 - October 1994
  Press release about syncronized problem tracking... Announcements about HP and SGI ports... New ($495) price schedule... Notes about the CRISP editor... Stupid UNIX tricks.

More things to download...

Although much of this is also mentioned over on the 'specs' page, we mention it all here as well in the name of thoroughness... Please note: this CDWare 'web page' was generated in July (95), so it's quite possible (likely) that we have more supported platforms, and a newer release than what's shown below. Please contact us for the latest information.

Demo/eval copies

Demo/eval copies of the software and postscript copies of the documentation set are available by ftp.

• AIX: Razor_3.5a.tar.Z (~6 Mb)
• IRIX: Razor_3.5a.tar.Z (~3.2 Mb)
• SunOS: Razor_3.5a_release_notes (~31 Kb): Version 3.5 release notes.
• Razor_manual.tar.Z (~470 Kb): A compressed dir of the full manual set

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