HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: tekton4tek submitted to sonata
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:29:49 GMT
Organization: LLNL Chemistry and Materials Science

Whoops. Forgot to include the README with the first post.

I have uploaded the file tekton4tex.tar.Z to the submissions directory
on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It contains files that enable the use of
Adobe's Tekton font with the NeXT's TeX implementation, or any
implementation that uses Tom Rockicki's dvips. The README file is
appended to this article. Although the README file does not mention it,
these files would be rather useful as a template or guide for anyone
wishing to use other Postscript fonts with TeX.

====README.tekton4tek

This directory contains files that enable the use of Adobe's Tekton font
in TeX and LaTeX on the NeXT computer and other machines using Tom
Rockicki's dvips.

The files are useless unless you have a legitimate copy of the Tekton
font.

The makefile builds tfm and vf files from Adobe's afm files. It has an
install option. Be sure the paths are right for your setup, and that you
won't write over any information you need to keep, before you run it.
This install will write over your psfonts.map and psfonts.sty files, so
BEWARE! I have followed the standard font-naming conventions.

Any LaTeX style files in this directory assume you are using the New
Font Selection Scheme. This is *not* distributed with the NeXT; you will
have to pick it up from an archive (see below). If you get this, you
will also want psfonts.tar.Z.

I have included some example files:
 tekton-sample-plain.tex
 tekton-sample-latex.tex
 semteksampl.tex            (requires seminar.tar.Z)

The file tekton-font-height.tex calculates the x-height of Tekton. This
information was used to construct psfonts.sty and semtek.sty. See
npsfont.sty for the reason why x-height font scaling is useful.

NeXT TeX versions I used:
 dvips 5.485
 texview a9

Other packages I have used, all available by anonymous ftp:
  latex nfss 92.03.25 by Mittelbach and Schoepf, rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
  psfonts.tar.Z by dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu
  seminar.tar.Z by tvz@princeton.edu

Erik Sowa, 92.09.09
sowa@amdew.llnl.gov
sowa@netcom.com
--
erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
From: grant@Manticore.COM (Grant J. Munsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: troff->rtf
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:09:25 GMT
Reply-To: grant@Manticore.COM

I have a user that wants to take her docs which are currently done
with troff and move them to .rtf format. Anyone know of an utility on
the NeXT that does anything like that?
----
Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc. (408)252-1135
grant@Manticore.COM,  uunet!ub-gate!gouche!grant   NeXTMail ok.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Subject: Re: Printing (HP) "binary" files
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:46:33 GMT

In article <HARDY.92Sep8220541@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
>I remember a utility called PCL2PS (or was it the other way around?)
>which can translate PCL to postscript.  Try archie for finding it.
>--
	I couldn't locate PCL2PS but I did find hpgl2ps which may serve
	our needs. Thanks.

	Charlie

	ps-I posted instead of emailed since I thought there might
	be some interested in this. 

>Hardy 
>-----
>Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
>e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET
>


-- 
	NeXTMail to:		|	...to confer, converse, and 
	charlie@technosci.com	|	otherwise hobnob with my    
				|	brother wizards.	    

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: Alex Raftis
Subject: Re: Stability of Next as a company
Reply-To: alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 21:12:00 GMT

Peter Resele writes
> 
> - built-in video compression/decompression (H.261, MPEG)

Well, thanks to C-Cube we didn't get jpeg compression of the original  
NeXTdimension, but I've been told by NeXT that something will become availble  
for the dimension to handle hardware compress. The rep wouldn't give me  
details, however, except that it will plug into the socket where the C-Cube  
chiop should have gome.

> - ISDN and B-ISDN access (just look at the "NCLATM" document from them, a  
draft standard for an ATM (B-ISDN) local area network, see  
comp.dcom.cell-relay.

I thought this is what the PhoneKit and ISDN Adapter from Hayes was suppose to  
do.

> - video in a window, naturally

You've got this on a NeXTdimension, and most people aren't will to pay the  
price for it unless they need it.

> - support for 128MB MODs

128MB MODs will work on a cube, assuming they're SCSI compliant. I know of  
people currently running these on NeXT's. For that matter you can also use the  
higher capacity 5.25" drives (Up to 1 Gig on a MOD).

> - etc...


> Also get out NeXTstep 486. I really would like to run it on my 486, and I  
even would pay quite some money for it - if it works. It could support the S3  
graphics accelerator, this would be great (I think this type of cards sells  
quite well in the PeeCee market at the moment, and it supports blazing fast  
BitBlt, Draw, etc.). Maybe I would start developing with NeXTstep, because I  
know it and really admire the developing environment?

NS486 should be out in a few months. I've been told (also by NeXT) that they  
planned to delay the release of NS486 to about 3 months after NS3.0 for their  
own machines. The main benefit this delay gives is that NS486 should be able to  
support a wider array of hardware, especially in the video area. 

> Cheers,
> 
> Peter

Alex
--
______________________________________________________
    Internet: alex@data.acs.calpoly.edu (NeXT mail)
              alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Information on SNUG
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

In article <1992Sep2.042801.14446@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>  
joe@schemer.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Joseph Jupin) writes:
> Could someone send me information on how to get in contact with the So.  
California Next User's Group....  
>
> JOe...


Below are two NeXT user group contacts in the Southern California area:

conrad
Manager, International NeXT User Group Program


        SNuG (San Diego NeXT User Group)
        Nicholas MacConnell, president
        1135 Stratford Ct.
        Del Mar, CA  92014
        Phone: (619)481-7535 or (619)565-9738
        Email: nicholas@network.UCSD.EDU or
                tfinn@next.com
        SNUG BBS: 619-456-2522 (24 hours)
        Founded: December, 1989

        Carl Lowenstein,SNuG Developers Group
        Email: clowenstein@UCSD.EDU




        SCaN (Southern California NeXT Group)
        Michael Mahoney, Professor and Chair
        Computer Engr. and Computer Science Dept.
        California State University, Long Beach
        Long Beach, CA  90840
        Phone: (310) 985-1550
        Email: mahoney@beach.csulb.edu

        Bob Desharnais, SCaN Vice-President
        Phone: (213) 343-2056
        Email:  bob@biol1next.calstatela.edu
From: David.Gursky@p394.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (David Gursky)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Spreadsheets (was Mesa vs. Appsoft)
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 21:05:15 -0500

I'll throw my two cents in to this debate.  The one thing missing from
everyone's spreadsheet application is compatibility with Excel*.  Yes, it's very
nice that everyone can read and write SYLK and 1-2-3 formats, but SYLK and 1-2-3
are not the dominant format for spreadsheets anymore, Excel is.  So why is this
important?  Because organizations have gone ahead and built "Mission-Critical"
applications using spreadsheets (notably Excel), they shy away from a new
product that forces them to re-engineer their application, and justifiably so.

Now this is not to say that the company that is first to bring an Excel
compatible spreadsheet to market is going to make a small fortune and capture
the lion's share of the NeXT spreadsheet market for years to come, and become a
major component in the suite of applications that sells thousands of NeXTs
(don't think this is possible?  Look at how memory sales increased after Apple
released Hypercard, or how laser printer sales increased with the advent of
mature desktop publishing applications), but if any of the four spreadsheet
vendors out their (Appsoft, Athena, Informix, or Lotus) expects to achieve that
goal, Excel compatibility is must be a key piece to that puzzle.

* What is Excel compatibility?  It is the ability to interpret correctly a
complete set of Excel features in an Excel spreadsheet, including references to
Macros, external documents (i.e. charts), formulas, the whole shebang.
From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: ARCHIVES: n2m Version 1.1
Keywords: n2m Image Filtering Canada
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:43:19 GMT
Reply-To: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca
Followup-To: poster
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada


  Version 1.1 of n2m, a filter for reformatting NeXT mail to MIME, is now
available for anonymous ftp on

	nexus.yorku.ca:/pub/n2m.1.1.shar.Z

I will also mail it to people without ftp.

  The program reads NeXT-format mail messages and makes
them into usable (if by no means optimal) MIME.  No serious
attempt is made to translate things: this is just a repackager
that makes the ``ought to be readable'' contents readable, and
puts the rest into base64 instead of uuencode.

  Despite all the above caveats, it is quite usable.
Of course, I'm biased!!

David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
Willowdale, Ontario,  | Stupidity is evil waiting to happen.
CANADA. 416-223-8968  |               -- Clay Bond
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: mike@tome.media.mit.edu
Subject: ARCHIVES: LibraryOfCongress.app Version 1.0 posted to the archives
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Library Searching On-Line Sonata Archives
Reply-To: mike@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 07:38:15 GMT

LibraryOfCongress.app is a NeXT interface to an internet service
for searching the Library of Congress card catalog.  When you find
a book you can order it by sending e-mail to an on-line bookstore.

It can be found on sonata.cc.purdue.edu in
pub/next/2.0-release/source/LibraryOfCongress1.0.tar.Z

Enjoy -

Michael

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: andrewd@cs.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: ARCHIVES: Dips Image Processing program made available
Keywords: DIPS HIPS TIFF Processing GNU
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:30:58 GMT
Reply-To: andrewd@cs.tamu.edu
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University

I have uploaded 'dips.tar' to nova archive server at

	nova.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions

Dips is a public domain interactive image processing program.  In this
distribution, you'll find dips (command line version), gui_dips (gui version) 
and hips (hips image display).  The program works on HIPS images and may
write to TIFF or HIPS format.

Feel free to try it out, improve on it, expand it.  Let me know if
you like it, how it's been improved etc.

Andrew Duchowski
andrewd@cs.tamu.edu
--

                Not an Official Texas A&M University Document
From: jland@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: USERGROUP: ChiNUG September meeting time and location
Keywords: ChiNUG September SBook Electrofile NS3.0
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:20:43 GMT
Reply-To: jland@nwu.edu
Followup-To: poster
Organization: ChiNUG

The Chicago NeXT Users Group will hold a meeting on Wednesday September 9th at  
7pm in room A310 of Northwestern University's Technological Institute.

The following hot items will be shown this month:
3.0 - REAL AND IN COLOR
SBook
Electrofile


Directions:
Sheridan Rd. North in Evanston to intersection of Sheridan and Noyes  
(stoplight).
Parking lot on west side of street.  Tech building on right side of street.
3rd floor (follow signs)

More info:
Joseph Yoon, ChiNUG Coordinator, 708-332-1340, onyx@nwu.edu
Chuk Craig, 708-491-7862, chuk@giskard.acns.nwu.edu
John Landwehr, 708-864-7811, jland@nwu.edu
From: untereck@vipmzk.physik.uni-mainz.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: ARCHIVES: CIC - ComposeInColor Update
Keywords: CIC Image Processing Archive Large
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:17:10 GMT
Reply-To: untereck@vipmzk.physik.uni-mainz.de
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Unter Ecker Software

CIC - ComposeInColor is the first application for professional 
image processing and retouching on NeXT computers.
In addition to the usual features of an image processing and 
retouching application, features include a special low-resolution
technology, freely definable retouching tools, scripts and databases.

CIC is available at sonata (128.210.15.30).

	'sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions' or 
	'sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/2.0-release/demos' 

Note: the file size is 10.3 mb.

CIC will run in demo mode until you enter an activation code.

There is also an update for users of the previous demo versions.
	'ComposeInColor_1.0.update.tar.Z'

File size: 1.7 mb


Enjoy!

UNTER ECKER SOFTWARE
untereck@vipmzk.physik.uni-mainz.de
From: gsk@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: GNU Objective-C Project Has Begun
Keywords: GNU ObjC MIT Stallman FSF
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:09:19 GMT
Reply-To: gsk@world.std.com
Followup-To: poster
Organization: GNU at MIT

The GNU Objective-C project was launched at a dinner September 1,
1992.  Attending were: Simson Garfinkle, Dennis Glatting, Mark Henry,
Geoffrey Knauth, Dave Pollak, Sunil Sivji, Richard Stallman, and Andy
Sudduth.  Bob Brown and Charles Perkins could not attend, but tried.

The project's initial goals are:

- to provide Objective-C tools as free software, under GNU Copyleft,
  with the relaxed restrictions of the libg++ license;
- machine independence:  the tools will run on any GNU system;
- support for X, which, as free software, is GNU's windowing system;
- a runtime system.  Dennis Glatting <dennis_glatting@trirex.com>
  has already donated this to the project, and it is undergoing
  final edits.  (For those who will ask, performance is comparable
  to NeXT's runtime system.)
- communications between Objective-C and C++ objects, so that the
  Objective-C library and libg++ can help each other; language
  enhancements to make this easy;
- a graphical object-oriented programming tool.  Those familiar with
  the NeXT computer would call it a kind of Interface Builder that
  will run on any GNU system, and that lacks the flaws of other
  interface builders.  This tool will produce stereotype code that
  does not need to be edited by the user, and which can be read back
  into the tool.  The tool will allow interfaces under construction
  to be tested with real objects.

Geoffrey Knauth <gsk@marble.com> is the FSF Objective-C administrator.
The administrator's duties are to collect software, provide quality
control, obtain releases and certifications of authenticity from
authors, submit releases to the FSF, and ensure community support and
recognition.

It would be insincere to launch an Objective-C project without
acknowledging the boost that NeXT Computer, Inc., has given to the
language, and to the popularization of object-oriented programming.
However, it is not possible for the GNU Objective-C project to accept
code that is dependent on the NeXTstep environment, because NeXTstep
is not free software.

Simson Garfinkle and Dave Pollak both generously offered collections
of their software to the project, but these collections were rejected,
for the moment, because of their dependence on NeXTstep.  Richard
Stallman said that an independent, free software project dependent on
NeXTstep could be started, but that it could not be part of GNU.

A subscriber's mailing list for persons interested in the project will
be announced in the near future.
-- 
Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc.                Member BCS-NeXT, LPF
gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555 work, (617) 547-5247 home   Standard Disclaimers

[ try this for the mailing list <gnu-objc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu> or
 drop the '-request' from the mailing list name if it bounces... -todd ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: phaedrus@leland.Stanford.EDU
Subject: ARCHIVES: DSPFFT Source Release to Public
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: DSPFFT Fast Fourier Transformations Wicked Cool and Good
Reply-To: awang@isl.stanford.edu
Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 07:25:57 GMT

Here's another attempt at announcing this, about my program
It's located at

	sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/2.0-release/source/DSPFFT.tar.Z

Briefly, it's a package that allows you to stream many buffers of data through
 the DSP and get the FFT's of each buffer out the other end.  Various frame 
 sizes are supported.  Just get it and look at it and don't ask me any 
 questions because I've forgotten all the answers.

Hope it's useful.

	Avery Wang
	Institut fuer Neuroinformatik
	Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
	ND 03/32, Postfach 10 21 48
	W-4630 Bochum 1
	Germany

	Tel: +49-234-700-7994 (office)
	            -7094-210 (Fax)
	email: awang@isl.stanford.edu
	       avery@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: jmb@maz.sma.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: ARCHIVES: Rewritten Color MahJong
Keywords: MahJong Tiles Orient Large Color NS2.x
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:37:05 GMT
Reply-To: jmb@maz.sma.ch
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Jean-Marie Bettems Software Institute

There was already a MahJong game available at public archive sites; but because
I wanted more functionality I decided to write this application from
scratch. I did it on a NeXTstation color, for this reason the tiles look far
better in color than in black and white. However redrawing the tiles is
straightforward.  My MahJong is shareware unsupported, unless I have
the time to keep it current.

It is located at

	nova.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/2.0-release/demos/MahJong.app.tar.Z

Have a look and enjoy!

	Jean-Marie BETTEMS 
	CH-8302 Kloten
	Switzerland
	e-mail: jmb@maz.sma.ch (no NeXT mail!)
From: cgb@count0.cmhnet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: UPGRADE: Serial Solutions 2.0
Keywords: Serial Objects Classes Modem and Reader
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:27:35 GMT
Reply-To: benatong@count0.cmhnet.org
Followup-To: poster
Organization: BenaTong

Company:BenaTong
		1057 Racine Ave.
		Columbus, Ohio 43204
		Voice:	 (614) 276-7859
		 FAX:	 (614) 276-7859 (Auto-Switch)
		Email:	benatong@count0.cmhnet.org

Contact:	Charles Bennett

Product Name: Serial Solutions 2.0

Columbus, Ohio , August 19, 1992 - BenaTong announces a major upgrade to Serial  
Solutions, adds support for YRRID Inc's  TTYDSP. 

 BenaTong is happy to announce an upgrade to our "Serial Solutions" serial  
objects for the NeXT.   We have extended the functionality of the base Serial  
object and created two new sub-classes.   Modem and Reader.

Modem, builds on the functionality of the Serial object by adding that methods  
that interface to most "Hayes" style modems.	Modem also includes support for  
custom modem definitions.

Reader, is both an example application and a sub-class of Serial that shows how  
to interface to most barcode and mag-strip readers.   Source for Reader is  
included.

In cooperation with YRRID Inc. The Serial object now directly supports their  
TTYDSP drivers that  adds a high-speed serial port for the NeXT computer by  
utilizing the DSP. For more information on TTYDSP contact YRRID Incorporated,  
Phone:1-800-443-0065 Email: yrrid@world.std.com.
	
Serial Solutions puts an Objective-C wrapper around the low level UNIX serial  
drivers and makes the serial ports look like any other Objective-C class. By  
eliminating the necessity of learning the UNIX system internals, our objects   
will save countless hours of programming time.

Pricing and Availability: Suggested List    $xx.xx , $xx.xx after Sept 1,1992
Educational discounts available.   Available: Now

BenaTong, based in Columbus Ohio, is a consulting firm that specializes in  
providing custom hardware and software solutions for process control and data  
acquisition.

[ BenaTong volunteered to remove prices -todd ]
From: steve@talus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: BETA_TEST_CALL: pVisor Software from ECSC of Moscow
Keywords: Moscow ECSC NeXTstep pVisor Talus 3D Visualization
Date: 10 Sep 92 06:48:47 GMT
Reply-To: info@talus.com
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology

Talus Corporation and the Electronic & Computer Science Center (ECSC) of the
Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology are happy to announce the beta release
of the first program written in Russia for the NeXT computer. 

Their first program, "pVisor",  is a 3D molecular visualization program that
allows the user to display any complex-molecule on the screen, rotate the
molecule in space and clip the molecule. There are several ways to display the
molecule using the surfacing mode, lines, and balls, in any combination.  It
uses a very fast renderer and gives the user extremely flexible control over
the molecule display.  pVisor will read Cambridge Structural Database, Protein
Data Bank, Alchemy, and pVisor proprietary formats.

The French version of pVisor will be ready for beta testing on August 15th, and
will be followed by the German version in late August.  A Kanji version of
pVisor  will be released to coincide with the release of the Kanji version of
NeXTSTEP 3.0.

The ECSC expects to have their second program, PhysicsED, released to beta  
sites in September.  PhysicsED is a course consisting of a physics guide and a  
group  of simulation programs designed to demonstrate various physical  
processes and phenomena.  The course targets universities and secondary  
education, and was designed for use in both lecture demonstrations as well as  
for individual study.

Talus Corporation will distribute and support ECSC products in the U.S., Europe  
and Japan.  Talus Corporation expects to release a new Russian written NeXTSTEP  
software product every two months through 1992.  New product releases for  
September and October are already scheduled.

If you're interested in assisting us in the beta testing process, please send  
us the following information:

1) Name & position
2) Name of school or company
3) Address
4) Office & home phone
5) E-mail address
6) The NeXT hardware that you'll be testing it on.
7) Your profession, along with a brief description of your field of expertise               
and how you might make use of a molecular visualization program.

Please send your information to: ed@talus.mipt.su

The final release of pVisor is scheduled for September 15th, 1992.
Thanks for your help and please feel free to drop us a line in Moscow...just to  
say hi.


--
Erik DASQUE	'the French kid'
Systems Engineer,
Talus Corp.
Seattle-Moscow-Houston

MOSCOW:
Tel : (+7-095) 255 9698
E-Mail : ed@talus.mipt.su  (NeXTmail happily accepted...)
HOUSTON:
Tel : (713) 561-0700
E-mail: info@talus.com  (NeXTmail happily accepted...)

______________________________________________________________

Thanks,

David Breese
Product Manager
Talus Corporation
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