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Subject: ANN: Release 1.1 of Xtend: The X10 to UNIX controller.

Announcing release 1.1 of Xtend: The X10 to UNIX controller.

There are a bunch of ways to control X10 gadgets via a UNIX box, but there
isn't a way to turn it about and have X10 commands control the UNIX box. 
Now there is! 

Xtend is a daemon that is used in combination with a CM11a X10 interface
that hooks to one of your serial ports.  It executes UNIX command lines
based on what X10 commands it sees.

This is a pretty large upgrade since version 1.0.  Xtend now keeps track
of the state of all X10 devices.  This allows you to have conditional
execution of commands (e.g. "do this only if lights A1 and P7 are on"). 
This data is also made available to all programs run by Xtend and to any
interested process running on the computer. 

Information made available to programs:
	* On/Off status for all 256 devices
	* Addressed / not addressed status for all 256 devices
	* Appliance or light for all 256 devices

Performance with Heyu has been improved, and here are also a number of bug
fixes over version 1.0.

Xtend is freeware, and you can get it at:

	http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/xtend/

It should work just fine with any POSIX-ish UNIX, including Linux, BSD/OS,
OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.