WinMail developer Finansa Limited announces new Self-Displaying Document
(SDD) standard for Windows at Novell NetWare MHS forum in San Jose.

     Finansa Ltd. (London, England) is announcing (June 9, 1992) a new
Self-Displaying Document (SDD) standard for Windows(TM), coincident with
the Novell NetWare(R) MHS(TM) Messaging Developers Forum conference this
week in San Jose. SDD provides a way to view an application's documents,
images or other outputs at a site that does not have access to that
application. It does so by combining this output with an
application-specific executable viewer to provide a single-piece .EXE file
that, when run under Windows, displays the original information as
intended. 

     "We're introducing SDD," says Finansa Managing Director Gavin
Whichello, "to address a very common problem: how to view a received data
file that was created by an application that is not available to the
recipient. We don't know of a Windows equivalent to the viewers in
Magellan(R), and from our MHS e-mail perspective, we view that as less a
foreground task and more a job to be built into electronic mail and other
applications."

     The executable Self-Displaying Document encapsulates a copy of the
data file being sent. When run, it allows the option to view, clip, print,
save as another file name and more.

     An SDD/Windows SDK, including documentation and a .DLL library, will
be first available in the third quarter of 1992. The SDD architecture will
be extensible to such other platforms as DOS, OS/2, UNIX and Macintosh,
though there is no commitment yet to development on those platforms.

     E-mail application users' first encounter with the new standard will
be as a "Create Self-Displaying Document" check-box or option within a
mailer. A recipient can, of course, execute the received file, so no
modifications are necessary to support SDD on the receiving side. Finansa
will also provide an extension to the Windows File Manager to let users
create Self-Displaying Documents from there, and to extract the data
without viewing it (which may be a security requirement at some sites).

     Finansa will provide SDD creation and viewer programs for plain text
files, popular word processor files, and a variety of image and fax
formats. As an open standard, other developers will be invited to add to
the pool of application-specific creation and viewer programs. Third
parties will also be free to incorporate SDD creation as an output option
from within their applications. 

     Finansa invites contributions regarding the formalization of the SDD
standard. Interested parties should contact Adrian Jones, Finansa Ltd.,
Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych, London WC2B 4HN, UK; +44-71-405-4054; fax:
+44-71-831-5737; MHS: AdrianJ @ Finansa [NHub or CServe]; Internet:
"adrianj@finansa.mhs.compuserve.com".

     Finansa Limited is the London-based developer of Finansa WinMail(TM),
which last week in Cannes was awarded the honor of best new UK product by
the Software Publishers Association. 

     In December 1991, Finansa received a substantial injection of
development capital from investment house 3i, becoming one of the few UK
software companies to receive such support for several years. In January
1992, Finansa launched its first mass product - WinMail. 

For more information contact Finansa Ltd., Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych,
London WC2B 4HN, UK; +44-71-405-4054; MHS e-mail to "Sales @ Finansa" via
NHub; fax: +44-71-831-5737.

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