It is my pleasure to announce fistgen-0.0.1, the first release of the FiST code generator, used to create stackable file systems out of templates and a high-level language. This package comes with stackable file system templates for Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. It also contains several sample file systems built using the FiST language: an encryption file system, a compression file system, and more --- all of which are written as portable stackable file systems. Linux 2.3 folks: my stackable templates now support Size Changing Algorithms (SCAs) such as compression, uuencoding, etc. See specific papers and sample file systems for more details. For more information, software, and papers, see the FiST home page: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/fist/ Happy stacking. Erez Zadok. --- Columbia University Department of Computer Science. EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk