HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jk8l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan W. Kimball)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: finger
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:14:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8erhlIK00WBLE2OVsh
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I've discovered that my finger command (under NS2.2) works fine locally,
but if anyone tries fingering me remotely, it just shows who is logged
in.  A friend of mine has a version that works correctly, but it's for
NS3.0.  Does anyone know of a more correct finger that's compiled for
2.2?





Jonathan Kimball
kimball+@cmu.edu

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied...
From: al@expovision (Andre_Lalonde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Another NS3.0 feature I didn't know about
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:26:00 GMT
Reply-To: al%expovision@CAM.ORG
Organization: Edition Electronique Expovision inc.

In article <1992Oct12.193936.1639@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
-------------------CUT---------------
> Another "undocumented feature": if you double-click to launch an app that is already running,  
> it open the running app, rather than launch a new copy of it.
-------------------CUT---------------
Another "documented feature": if you press the Alt-key when double-clicking to launch an app that is  
already running, it opens a new copy of the running app.

  -Andre
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From: chris (Chris Larson)
Subject: class instances from class name strings
Reply-To: chris@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:47:32 GMT

I would really like to be able to setup a list of character strings that represent  
classes, and at run time be able to create an instance of the class from the class name.

An example:

classList[] = {
"Class1",
"Class2"};

then at run time do some type of alloc & init from the class name. ie:

newClass = [[classList[0] alloc] init]

Any ideas?

Chris
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From: jamast00@nx17.mik.uky.edu (john a mastrolia)
Subject: Re: Diagram!
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:11:53 GMT

In article <BvxDFu.LsA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried  
Mayer-Kress) writes:
> In article <92Oct10.171451.36443@acs.ucalgary.ca> kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca  
> (Kelly Thompson) writes:
> > 
> > Has anyone else noticed that Diagram! doesn't work under 3.0. Or do I have
> > an older version. What's Lighthouse Design's e-mail address?
> I have version 1.1 and it works just fine...
> does anyone know about 2.0?
> 
> --
> Gottfried Mayer-Kress
> Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics
> 3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801
> gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail)
> gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu 
> (217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)

According to NeXT Connection, it's due out 1st Quarter 1993, maybe a little  
sooner.

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From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Truth: what is it? (was: Re: Praise and gripes about 3.0)
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:06:32 GMT
Reply-To: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com

In article <1992Oct3.180849.9395@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Adrian Smith) writes:
> In article <2151@dutiws.tudelft.nl> dimitri@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Dimitri  
> Tischenko) writes:
>  
> > Well, !Truth==lie is certainly not true (pun intended!). Because the
> > question "what is truth" is sometimes impossible to answer. For
> > example: "There exists another life besides the one on earth" is
> > this a truth? is this a lie? Maybe it can be both or none?
> > 
> 
> I agree. Ever do any prolog programming? If a consequence cannot be  
> obtained from an information base through the use of inference rules, that  
> does not make the consequence false. It may mean that your database didn't  
> contain the necessary information to obtain the consequence.
> 
> What, if anything, does this have to do with 3.0?

If you're a true NeRD, you'll realize it has everything to do with 3.0.  NeXTSTEP V3.0 is the One True OS, and so our quest for Truth is over. ;-) ;-) ;-)

Michael

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From: Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Subject: Thank You Re: Looking for cut for the NeXT
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:04:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.203204.11191@samba.oit.unc.edu> Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd  
M. Lewis--That's me) writes:
>I'm looking for a "cut" for the NeXT.  Anybody have one or know where I
>can get one?  Much appreciated.  E-mail preferred--don't get to read this
>group very often.  (Cut is a text utility available under other UNIXen.)
>--
>Todd M. Lewis / Todd_Lewis@unc.edu / utoddl@guitar.oit.unc.edu

Wow! You folks are great!  Thanks to all thouse who pointed
me to the sources and even sent me the executables.  Happy computing,
--
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From: jesper@harry.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh)
Subject: Now Shipping: SplitBuilder/Receiver for large files with NeXTmail
Keywords: Xanthus
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:23:05 GMT


            Xanthus International Announces 

                  SplitBuilder/Receiver 

      - for sending large files with NeXTmail

(Stockholm, October 9, 1992) Xanthus International AB today announced that  
it is shipping SplitBuilder/Receiver, a utility program for the NeXT  
computer that makes it possible for users to send files of any size with  
NeXTmail by dividing them into smaller files.

A problem with NeXTmail is that sometimes you want to send attachments  
that are so big that some gateways on the net will refuse to deliver your  
letter because of its size.

SplitBuilder/Receiver solves this problem by allowing the sender to divide  
big files into smaller pieces, called "splits". Each split can be sent by  
NeXTmail. The receiver can then assemble the splits to restore the  
original file.

SplitBuilder/Receiver consists of two different applications:

- SplitBuilder divides big files into smaller pieces ("splits") that may  
be sent by NeXTmail.

- SplitReceiver puts all the splits together on the receivers machine.

For more information about SplitBuilder/Receiver please contact  
splitbuilder@xanthus.se

Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a privately  
owned software development company that specializes in the NeXTSTEP  
platform. SplitBuilder/Receiver is the third in a series of  
general-purpose productivity tools for NeXTSTEP. In May 1992 Xanthus  
started to ship its first product CraftMan, the multimedia programming  
tool for the NeXT computer. In September 1992 Xanthus released LaserMan,  
an application for controlling Laser Disc Players from a NeXT computer.  
Xanthus International was founded in 1990.

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From: aherskow@reis5.alleg.edu (Aaron David Herskowitz)
Subject: Accessing WP files in DL
Reply-To: aherskow@alleg.edu
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:33:28 GMT

Is it possible to access files created in WordPerfect through DigitalLibrarian without  
having to make text files out of them??

Pre-thanks,
Aaron

(Yes, I am going a little post crazy)

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From: rsnyder@atl.ge.com (Bob Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Good Perfmeter?
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:41:58 GMT
Organization: GE Aerospace, Advanced Technology Labs

Anyone have a suggetsion for a good performance meter for the NeXT, providing
similar functionality to Sun's perfmeter (CPU usage, load, etc)?  I tried
looking around on Sonata, and didn't see too awfully much.  Running under
3.0 would be a definate plus, since that's what I just installed. :-)

Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: outland!jmast (John A. Mastrolia)
Subject: Disregard -- test post
Reply-To: deepthought!outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu
Organization: Kentucky NeXT Users Group (KYNUG)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 12:12:15 GMT

A test post.  Just installed news and need to make sure it's  
working.
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From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Total Systems Software Fax software
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:55:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.000557.700@cs.wisc.edu> roth@cs.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)  
writes:
> Has anyone bought Total Systems Software Fax software? If so, how do
> you like it?

Total Systems has failed to ship yet after months of waiting. I am starting to  
lose faith...


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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: The Great NS3.0 Disk Eject Problem.
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:51:13 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA

In article <SCOTT.92Oct5021549@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
>know of anything a mere mortal like myself could do to cause my
>programs not to invoke this behaviour?  Is the problem precisely
>"autolaunched programs that request file icons", or is it "programs
>that request file icons before XXXXXX occurs"?  If it's something
>where I could wait until a certain point and _then_ request the
>icons, I can make that modification ...

I believe it to be purely an autolaunch problem.  If I start Engage!
AFTER logging on I have no problems with CD, OD or FD.  An interesting
point that kept me confused for a long time is, for some reason, root
CAN autolaunch Engage! and STILL eject disks!
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From: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Subject: Re: Appsoft Draw/Allegro Lisp - $150 ea
Reply-To: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Organization: Digital Technology, International
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 18:23:13 GMT

Wow, I'm being bombed with requests about the Lisp package.
It's sold.

However, Appsoft Draw is still for sale.

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From: David.Gursky@p394.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (David Gursky)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Diagram!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:52:35 -0500

  JNO is jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B.Nicholson-Owens),
  RR is rjrjr@lighthouse.com (Ray Ryan)

  JNO> [Diagram!] should work under 3.0 (but I've noticed that it doesn't work 
  JNO> unless you have the default menu and window fonts as your current
setup).
  JNO> If you have your 3.0 settings for menu and window font choice set to
look
  JNO> like 2.x did, Diagram! should work.  All I can safely say is that when I
  JNO> did this, it worked for me.
 
  RR> This is exactly right. If you change your System font or System Bold
  RR> font from their default values (Helvetica Medium 12 point and
  RR> Helvetica Bold 12 point), Diagram! 1.1 will not run.

Having just ordered Diagram!, I'm curious about this.  Is 1.1 the current
version?  If so, will the behavior Jeff describes be fixed anytime soon?  If
not, does the current version fix it?  Why should Diagram even care if the
default system font is something other than variations on Helvetica?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer)
Subject: Another NS3.0 feature I didn't know about
Reply-To: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 00:19:41 GMT

Lately there have been several posts about NS3.0 features that are  
undocumented; at least, they're undocumented if you rely on the on-line  
manuals.  I just found a new one (to me, anyway) - I apologize if this was  
already posted and I'm wasting bandwidth.

If you drag a file (or folder) to a floppy disk, and the file is too large,  
the workspace manager now asks if you want to create a compressed multi-volume  
archive.  It appears to use gnutar in some fashion.

Question:  how do you do this from a shell command-line?  I spent a while  
trying to figure this out - and was about to post asking for help - when I  
discovered that NS3.0 would do it for me.

				Dave

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From: tssnext!tss (Total System Software)
Subject: Re: Total Systems Software Fax software
Organization: Total System Software
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:40:39 GMT

In article <ANDERSON.92Oct9142501@sapir.cog.jhu.edu> anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu  
(Stephen Anderson) writes:
> Sounds like this is where Dan Gittleman and the Neuron folks went when
> they disappeared....same line of work, same performance.
> 
> --Steve Anderson



Mr. Anderson,

   While it *may* be valid to draw comparisons to producers such as MicroSoft 
and IBM, or even Supra, with missed release estimates, the *Neuron* comparison 
is patently unfair.

   We posted an announcement of intent to release some months ago, with a 
special pre-release offer. This was carefully labelled PRE-RELEASE.

   Unlike many others in the industry, we have not, and will not cash ANY 
orders prior to actual shipment.  We object strenuously to any *LIBELOUS* 
comparisons to Neuron.  We are in NO WAY connected to Dan Gittleman, nor
anyone in the infamous Neuron organization, and STRONGLY resent any
*LIBELOUS* statements indicating that we are.  The only thing we know about 
 Mr.Gittleman is that he has made our business a lot harder.

  We will not refused ANY cancellations.  What we WILL do, is continue, and 
ship as soon as we are satisfied with the quality of the product, and believe 
that our customers also will be satisfied.

As far as comparing our performance and business practices to Neuron,
we believe that if Neuron had taken no ones money, and held on to the
product until they were sure that it was right, as we have,
they wouldn't be infamous today.

   The short of it is this -- NO ONE'S MONEY HAS BEEN TAKEN.  NO ONE's CREDIT 
CARD HAS BEEN BILLED.  NO ONE's CHECK HAS BEEN CASHED.

  It is hard to develop quality software for the NeXT and make a profit.
We are not going to get rich off this driver, but hope to make a profit.
If you are going to spout out statements on the Net that could potentially
hurt a developer, you should DAMN WELL GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT and not spout 
out untrue statements as you obviously have.



--
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Total System Software

tss@TotSysSoft.com  or
bruce@TotSysSoft.com
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From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie)
Subject: Mathematica MathLinks Question
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:53:06 GMT

Anyone know how to have Mathematica return raw Postscript from a plotting  
command via MathLinks?  That is, I want to generate a plot, and have the  
PS returned directly to me, rather than having it go to disk.  I've tried  
tinkering with the various $Display... options, but can't seem to find a  
solution.

Gary Ritchie
gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: less shell escape is fixed in 3.0
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:06:26 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In the midst of the bug reports, I'ld like to point out something
that got fixed in 3.0. less no longer crashes a NeXT after a shell
escape/command.  Its a little thing in a windowed environment,
but given how late in the 3.0 cycle that bug surfaced on the net,
I'm impressed that it wasnt put off for another release.
(not that it ought to have been hard to fix, but thanks NeXT)





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From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel)
Subject: tip: feature or bugs
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:18:26 GMT

Ok, despite some other communication programms, I'm still working with the good old tip. Together with Stuart, it makes a
fabulous VT-100 emulator, but I found some things, that I don't like at all:

1. Sometimes, I'm not able to write in lowercasse anymore, just in uppercase. That's not that bad in a chatter, but you're in a real
f@#ed up situation, when this happens while a session on a case-sensitive environment like UNIX or LP-MUD!

2. does the ~t command work, or doesn't it ? (After issuing this command, I had to remove tip from memory, didn't do anything
at all anymore)

3. how to get a proper end of ~<-transmission under UNIX (cat some.text; echo ^A doesn't work)

4. Is there a descrpition of cu and .tiprc ?

5. How to resume a tip connection (modem still online, but tip is terminated) ?

daniel g. kluge
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From: osiris@ucrengr.ucr.edu (mark radleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Command line Alert Panels....
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:44:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Organization: University of California, Riverside


   I remember, many many moons ago, a post about a package containing many 
usefull command-line panel applications.  In particular, there was a program
called "Alert", which would display an Alert Panel on the screen with a 
given message in the command line.  For example, the command:


          Alert "You have a Rubber Nose\!\!\!"


Would bring up an Alert panel with the message:  "You have a Rubber Nose\!\!\!".
Any Idea where this package/program is?  Please reply via E-Mail & Thanks in
advance!


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From: matt@zeb.ame.nd.edu (Matthew J. Grismer)
Subject: 3.0 performance is fine
Keywords: nextstep, 3.0
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:33:36 GMT

I am running 3.0 on a NeXTstation Color with 16Mb of RAM, and I am quite  
happy with the performance. I notice a little more swapping on the disk,  
but other than that, the performance seems very nearly the same as 2.1 on  
a mono with 20Mb of RAM that I used. The compressed swapping seems to be  
faster than the normal swapping. I think the big difference is that I did  
not use the Installer application. I booted from the CD-ROM drive and it  
rebuilt my main disk. All the applications (Librarian, Mail, etc.) work  
fine, unlike what I have heard about from people who have used the  
installer. I also set nbuf=64, which seems to make some difference.

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From: eps!uunet (Steven Kornreich)
Subject: Compose in Color
Keywords: CIC
Reply-To: steve@eps.com
Organization: EPS
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:19:59 GMT

Has anyone tried Compose in color??

Let me know what you think


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From: dkoski@noao.edu (David Koski)
Subject: Re: Mouse pointer for NeXT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 05:38:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.130417.12460@n1.nsf.gov> thermans@n1.nsf.gov (Tim Hermans) writes:
>I'm looking for something to improve the visibility of my mouse pointer. The  
>darn thing is so small I have to wave it around on the screen for 15 minutes  
>before I pick it up. And no cracks about my eyesight either :-)

Well, this is a start (maybe).  Does anyone know how to slow it down (ie, do
a sleep in PS???).  Just paste it into pft and see what happens.  It uses
quite a bit of cpu...

% 0 setgray		% color to use
1 1 0 setrgbcolor	% a nice yellow

/dist	10	def	% distance from mouse cursor to stop
/width	1	def	% width of window

0 currentwindowbounds /sheight exch def /swidth exch def pop pop

/l 0 0 0 0 Nonretained window def
l windowdeviceround setexposurecolor 200 l setwindowlevel Above 0 l orderwindow
/r 0 0 0 0 Nonretained window def
r windowdeviceround setexposurecolor 200 r setwindowlevel Above 0 r orderwindow

/movewins {
    0 currentmouse
    1 index dist gt {0 1 index 3 index dist sub width l placewindow} if
    1 index swidth dist sub lt
    {1 index dist add 1 index swidth 4 index sub dist sub width r placewindow}
    if
    pop pop
} bind def

{ 
    movewins
} loop


David Koski
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