HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de(Ralf Neumann)
Subject: Re: Fax software for SupraFAX modems?
Reply-To: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
Organization: no
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 13:14:59 GMT

In article <79487@hydra.gatech.EDU> tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj)  
writes:
> I use PDFax for sending faxes using a SupraFAX v.32bis modem. I have
> also placed an order for the fax software from Total Systems Software.
> Since TotSysSoft does not seem to be ready, and there is no indication
> when it will be available, I would be interested in other fax software.
> Is there anything else available? Thanks.
> 
> govind
> --
> T. Govindaraj	+1 404 894 3873		tg@chmsr.gatech.edu,NeXTmail  
welcome.
> Member, League for Programming Freedom	(write lpf@uunet.uu.net)
> School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of  
Technology
> 765 Ferst Drive, ISyE-0205, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205.

I ordered the TotSysSoft faxsoftware about one month ago and they replied
that the software is ready!!!(who knows?) but the installation package
is not yet available. So I wrote that I can installate it myself and
that I want to get it now. Since four weeks I am waiting for a reply!!!
What a nice strategy isn't it ?
Does anybody knows something more?
Anyway I would be happy if somebody could mail me the PDFaxsoftware.
I even didn't knew that one exists!
Thanks a lot and still a happy new year from Berlin to the US
				
					Ralf

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: andrew@cubetech.com
Subject: Re: PasteUp Trick!
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:09:10 GMT

In article <93Jan11.174733.23721@acs.ucalgary.ca> kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kelly Thompson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.035553.24510@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>Well, I thought I would try something.  I brought up the INFO
>>panel in PasteUp (v1.1 edit 7) and held down the Alternate
>>Key while clicking on various parts of the INFO panel with 
>>the mouse.  WOW!  To my amazement, the application dock had
>>shifted to the bottom of the screen.  More clicking prompted
>>every window on the screen to float around wildly.
>>
>
>I was nosing around the app wrapper and found the 3 eps files
>that did this little magic. I hadn't seen the effect yet and
>wondered why they were there. 

Yeah, they used to be called Dock_Hack1.eps and other equally
suspicious names until Glenn changed them....


andrew
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Andrew Loewenstern       |  lest we lose our now for a phantom of our
Cube Technologies, Inc.  |  own design." - Erendis
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.software:3266 comp.emacs:3901 gnu.emacs.help:5227
From: miyasita@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (MIYASHITA Ken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Qestion: webster and telnet with Emacs on NeXT.
Date: 4 Jan 93 02:23:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dept. of Info. Sci., Fac. of Sci, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

Hello, net people!

I noticed that there is a front-end software that enables us to use
Webster from Emacs, that is webster.el. But I found that this didn't
work on NeXT. As I checked into the webster.el, I found that there must
be some trouble when it is trying to establish a telnet process. Then I
tried M-x telnet. It asked me for a host machine and then displayed a
prompt "telnet> ", that's all. As I did the same thing on another
machine than NeXT, I found the following message to come...

------------------
telnet> Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.. 
Connected to audrey.
Escape character is '^]'.


NeXT Mach (audrey) (ttyp0)

 login: 
------------------

So, something is wrong with telnet.el on NeXT. Has somebody fixed this
problem already? Any information is welcome. Thanks in advance.


--

        MIYASHITA Ken
        miyasita@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
        (Dept. of Info. Sci., Fac. of Sci,  Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities)
Subject: Re: When will NextSTEP 486 be available?
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 02:28:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.154032.14086@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell) writes:
>In article <1itd7vINNri8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> claude@cse.ucsc.edu (Claude  
>Noshpitz) writes:
>> 
>> Any word? What will it cost? Has anyone platyed with the betas?
>> 
>> 				Claude
>I'm helping a colleague in my office purchase a 486 PC to run NeXTSTEP in  
>color, through our university purchasing system and they are attempting to  
>get information from NeXT regarding the system requirements before they  
>send the PC order through.  They are having a very difficult time getting  
>any information about hardware requirements but were told that the  
>software was delayed until Quarter 3.   
>
>--
>James Powell >>> Library Automation, University Libraries, VPI&SU
>             >>> JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU 
>	     >>> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu - NeXTMail welcome here
>	     >>> Owner of VPIEJ-L, a discussion list for Electronic
>	     >>> Journals


I am doing the same thing for a client at a large engineering firm, only
the Intel machine is a notebook. The only thing NeXT will admit to is that
NS486 runs well with Dell and Compaq, with either the new Dell/Intel video
card and with a C&T Wingine. The system engineer I spoke with said that
the goal is to get NS486 to run on all popular flavors of PCs.

But this is all old news. I did hear from this same engineer that it
should be out Q2, not Q3. But then everything slips, doesn't it.


-- 
Yan Fang-Magnusson
Ph.D. candidate, philosophy, University of Utah
yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu
yanfang@cc.utah.edu (NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Looking for CAD NeXTSTEP software
Organization: Cleveland State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:33:51 GMT



--


| Joe Rosenfeld			  cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu
| CSU Law Library                joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu
|         "We look for things ... to make us go!"

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From: tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu (Todd A Green)
Subject: DarkForest submitted to ftp.cica.indiana.edu
Keywords: DarkForest, ftp, cool app
Organization: CICA - Center for Innovative Computer Applications
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:51:43 GMT

DarkForest.tar.Z has been placed in /pub/next/3.0/bin on
ftp.cica.indiana.edu (which can also be reached via our gopher server
cica_gopher.cica.indiana.edu)

Thanks to Dr. Cahalan (cahalan@gsfc.nasa.gov) for submitting it.

Todd
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NeXTmail:  tagreen@cica.indiana.edu
From: hay@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za (Angus Hay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: DTP Software
Keywords: DTP
Date: 10 Jan 93 11:13:11 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand

Can anyone give me a quick summary of available NeXT DTP software,
and say what I should be prepared to pay for what quality? I would
prefer suggestions from people who do DTP regularly, and can compare
packages (and packages on other platforms - Mac, Amiga etc).

Replies by mail please.


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    **   *  University of the Witwatersrand,                 
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From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: GoldDigger help
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:25:08 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <1993Jan8.134557.16809@athena.mit.edu> ray@mtl.mit.edu writes:
> Has anyone gotten past level 5 in GoldDigger?  I have no idea how to get  
> those 4 gold dubloons in the bottom middle of the screen.  I figured I  
> somehow have to get the step ladder in the top left quadrant down to the  
> middle, but the path has eluded me. Any help would be appreciated...   The  
> damn game is already taking way too much time away from my thesis :-)

you need to learn to walk across the bad guys heads.
in this case its easy, later on it gets more and more challenging.

make sure 2 guys are following you, go to the short stubby ladder on
the right of the middle block of the lowest level. climb to the top
and wait. just as the first guy is about to reach you, step across his 
head and hang from the little pole.  repeat for the next gap.

the higher levels are even more time consuming (wasting)
quit now and get back to your thesis! (me too :)
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From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Software copyright procedure
Keywords: copyright
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:13:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


Thanks to all who replied to my software copyright question.

I received such a variety of somewhat conflicting responses that an
intellectual property attorney's advice seems really prudent.  App architecture
has changed dramatically from the old huge, monolithic Cobol model, so this
suggests that the copyright procedures have changed (some say they have, and
others say they haven't :-)

Some clever (to me, at least :-) tips suggested how to insert copyright strings
into nibs (use an NXStringTable), sound files (sndconvert -i copyright_string),
and even tiffs (Tag 33432 in Tiff 6.0 format, but I'm not sure what utility to
use).
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                             Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Appsoft Draw COMPLAINTs
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:06:13 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com


[this is a bit old, but our news software got munged and all of our
postings for the past month or two have not gone out at all!]

Andrew Loewenstern writes
> In article <1992Dec4.194312.2890@tetrasoft.com> Joseph R. Grace  
<JGrace@TetraSoft.com> writes:

> >Check out Virtuoso!  I am no graphics design expert, so I can't
> >definitively compare it to what else is out there, but Virtuoso
> >is seriously *hot* :-),  
> 
> It's great unless you want to print under 3.0.  Then it makes the
> colors in embedded TIFF images psychedelic.  Sometimes I get the
> feeling that Altsys didn't do any external beta-testing.  Will anyone
> here who was a beta tester for Virtuoso be kind enough to raise your
> hand?
> 
> 
> Virtuoso is a pretty serious program though.  For most people though,
> Create is a much better alternative to AppsoftDraw than Illustrator or
> Virtuoso.

I got Email from Meaghan Hogan, the product manager for Virtuoso.  Altsys
doesn't have access yet to comp.sys.next.whatever, so she asked me to post
this for them.  Apparently they have found and fixed the color problems.

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:20:06 GMT-0500
From: altsys!mhogan@uunet.uu.net
To: glenn@rightbrain.com
Subject: Virtuoso 

Glenn:

Please post the following message for me. I really appreciate your help!

Meaghan 

Virtuoso was released as a NeXTSTEP 2.x app, and we didn't include any  
3.0-specific features besides pressure sensitive tablet support in the  
initial release. After shipping the product, we received feedback about the  
printing issue, and we have immediately responded by adding 3.0 color support  
to Virtuoso. We are currently testing this version, and we will notify all  
registered users when it is ready. 

With this feature now added, Virtuoso is ideal for NeXTSTEP 2 and 3 users.
Other 3.0-specific features will be added soon, but we do not have a definite  
release date for this version yet. 

Thanks for the feedback, and if you would like to send additional comments,  
you can also forward them to me directly: 
meaghan_hogan@altsys.com
214-680-2060
(fax) 214-680-0537

Meaghan
 
--
 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California		Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert Kieffer)
Subject: Re: GoldDigger help
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 21:39:23 GMT

In article <63266@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
> 
> has anybody figured out how to get past the top left hand corner of  
level 7?
> 

.. How do you get to the whole left hand side of level 7?  That's where  
I'm stuck.

Bob Kieffer
kieffer@spf.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Subject: Re: Improv development frozen ?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 03:16:35 GMT

Florian Gutzwiller wrote:

>I understand that the 50 NeXT developers at Lotus are working on the Windows  
>version of Improv. I also understand that since the very first release of  
>Improv there have been no new releases and enhancements. Many spreadsheets 
>are coming out, but none of them offers the way Improv handles data. Still
>that's not enough. Some of the features I would like to see:
>
>	- proper support of the NeXT keyboard (non US)
>	- better color support
>	- 3.0 version with object linking
>	- better graphics (better text, 3DKit, ...)
>
>Will there ever be a new version ?
>

I recently read somewhere (I can't remember exactly--but I think it was a
NeXTworld Extra article--that Lotus has dropped development of the NeXT
version of Improv indefinitely, citing 'lack of sales volume'. Let's see.
They gave the program away for several months to new NeXT owners, they 
didn't have any sort of copy protection or registration procedure, and
they haven't fixed the problems that hinder the program from being
exceptionally useful to everyone--not just financial users. Surprise!
It isn't selling like hotcakes! Do they think it _will_ sell just because
they port it to Windoze?

My list of improvements that would make Improv my numero uno spreadsheet:

1. A macro capability.
2. An undo feature.
3. Handling of numeric data as category names (sorely needed).
4. Closely related to 3: Chart data with non-equally spaced numeric
   X values.
5. A significantly improved Presentation Builder with support for
   'real' pie charts and line graphs (multiple line types for better
   data ID). Better text handling (buggy now).
6. An end to the 2000 item barrier per worksheet.

Obviously some of these things _will_ be fixed and/or improved for the 
Windoze port. Also, all the hype regarding Lotus' real interest in users
has been just that--hype. No newsletter, no mailings, no book to help
really learn how to use the product in any depth, and no mention in
Lotus' own magazine. Improv is not easy to learn--it's sort of like
OO programming after years of procedural programming--you have to
relearn...

One more thing, Windoze programming must be a real nightmare if it's
taken Lotus 2-3 years to port. Or those 50 NeXT programmers all quit. :-)

Michael McCulloch
Huntsville, AL

Waiting to upgrade to an improved NeXT Improv...and will pay a
reasonable fee.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
Subject: Re: Info in Open Systems Today ( NeXTSTEP ports!! )
Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:25:27 GMT

In article <Jan06.153100.46355@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, randall@redfish.atmos.colostate.edu (Dave Randall) writes:
|>
|> >   Let's take HP's chip, just for example.  It seems to me that there are two
|> >   ways NeXT could go.  (1) They could port Mach/NeXTstep to HP hardware, or
|> >   (2) they could incorporate an HP cpu into NeXT hardware.
|> > 
|> >   Which is more likely?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of
|> >   each?
|> > -- 
|> In order to do (2), you have to do (1).

This is not really true.  HP hardware is more than just a CPU.  By just
incorporating the HP chip into the existing NeXT hardware philosophy you
save having to port the drivers.  You're then left with such jobs as supporting
(well) the HP's MMU with such things as its virtual address cache.

Luckily Mach already runs on HP harware (I'm reading News with it) so some of
the work is already done.

David.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: CPU hog
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 09:30:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.105831.3732@nic.csu.net> sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes:
>My problem is with console (Window Server).  It took up 12.7% of cpu time
>when no other application running.  If I run Microphone, and do downloading
>it goes up to 60% for console (Window Server).  Why????  It really slows down
>the machine.  I am running NS 3.0

It would be interesting to know if Microphone turned out to be the culprit.
When I used to run Synapse on the Neuron there were no such problems when
downloading (with Microphone you can't really do anything else while d/l'ing).
Same with tip and zmodem- no problem. 
 
Perhaps Software Ventures has newer drivers for the various modems they 
support? Microphone has potential, but the downloading issue and the updating
of the screen could do with a small fix.      

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: NeXT in a Mac network, any experience?
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:44:25 GMT

In article <1i9nvrINNk52@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> punch@cps.msu.edu (Bill Punch) writes:
>I'm looking for some comments by people who have used a NeXT machine in a Mac
>environment (running appletalk, providing file service to Macs, etc.). We are
>considering buying a NeXT (which I like a lot) as a file server and mail server
>for a small lab of Macs, presently running apple-ethershare. Any experience would
>be very helpful, thanks in advance.

The best product, in my opinion, for a mainly Mac environment with the 
occasional NeXT is from IPT and is called uShare/uPrint. These products turn
a NeXT into a non-dedicated AppleShare server (can't be a client at the 
same time though- i.e. you must disable NeXT's client Appletalk product) and
enable you to print to printers hooked up to Mac's (from the NeXT) or better
still to a printer hooked up to the NeXT via a spooler which you select
from the Chooser. For example, one could get an HP 550C and with Dots (a
printer driver which handles the HP inkjets and others) you could select it
from the Chooser and the Mac would think it was printing to a colour Postscript
printer! Everything is pretty plug and play.
 
There are 2 down sides in my view:

(1) printers on the Mac side need to be either on Ethertalk or you need a
program like Liason or Apple's Internet Router (no hardware gateway required).

(2) You must disable NeXT's Mac client software. Hopefully they will fix this.
 
In any case I have had this running with a rather interesting collection of
Mac's, a GS and a 486. IPT's uShare uses Appletalk, not NFS, and it's 
really impressive in being able to handle situations which they don't even
claim to support (such as a 486- running Copstalk, and a GS running System 6.0).

I really suggest you have a look at it. There's also a review in NeXTWorld.
 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: how to read next mail, inquiry
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:48:08 GMT

In article <43362@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
	(Lily Liou) writes:
>Here's what happens:  I log on to the mainframe at school by
>using my modem under Terminal to dial up.  I check my non-NeXT
>mail and find that some nice person has written stuff to me
>with a NeXTattachment.  So how do I look at this object?
>
>I've tried saving it as a file, and moving it over to my next, but
>when I open it, it's still garbage.

Don't do that.  :-)  (But it doesn't hurt anything.)

>I've tried pasting the garbagy looking part (from 'begin' to 'end'
>statements) into an active.mbox in the hopes of fooling my NeXT
>into opening it as NeXTmail, but it seems to know better :-(

Big mistake here.

>Am I just missing the obvious?

Probably.

Take the entire message (that's everything beginning with and
including the "From " line) and append it to your incoming
mailbox, which is normally /usr/spool/mail/username (where
"username" is replaced with your login name).  Then launch
NeXT Mail.  It doesn't matter how the message got there, as
long as it's in the right place.

Basically, you want to take all your NeXT Mail messages on the
remote system and save them to a [UNIX mbox format] file.  It's
OK to save several messages into one file.  Transfer that file
to your NeXT (by whatever means), and do

	cat mailfile >>/usr/spool/mail/username
	    ^^^^^^^^                   ^^^^^^^^
	    whatever                   whatever

					-=EPS=-
From: greimann@pecan.cns.udel.edu (J. Brandon Greimann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: syquest compatability?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 16:37:31 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
NNTP-Posting-Host: pecan.cns.udel.edu

In article <1ilbp7INN18u@shelley.u.washington.edu> kcarroll@stein.u.washington.edu writes:
>Any one have a Syquest running off a NeXT Station?
>How? What driver?
>
>email: kcarroll@stein.u.washington.edu
>
>thanks

I've got the 88-meg version connected to my NeXTStation Color...so far
no problems.  Drivers?  Please.  It's a NeXT!  Just plug it in! (poweroff
first)  Seriously, though.  I bought it out of a Mac catalog, discarded the
Mac cable and installation disk (hehehehe), plugged it in, powered up, and
formatted the disk...

One problem, though, is a lack of auto-eject (like the floppy)  It makes the
unmounting/ejecting a bit weird.  The NeXT asks you to eject the disk when
you drag it to the recycler or eject...so you have to push the button on the
SyQuest (no big deal really, just not as convenient as the auto-ejecting
drives.)  The disk also seems to screw up the filesystem when it is unmounted
when a file is still being used off of it...this must be NeXTs fault.  I
tried the diskejectfix that's available,  but it doesn't seem to do anything.

You also won't want to remove the disk without unmounting/ejecting it...also
a drawback to manual eject.

Overall, it's a decent drive, especially if you need compatability with
Mac SyQuest's.  I'd suggest an OD of some kind, though...the 120 meg 3.5"  
drives look like a good prospect or one of the larger NeXTlike ODs..


						--Brandon

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