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From: lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly)
Subject: Can I print to an AppleTalk printer?
Keywords: AppleTalk GatorBox
Organization: University of Victoria
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:08:34 GMT

	I've just installed my new NeXT and I'm delighted. But am I
satisfied? No, of course not!

	I have no printer. 

	What I do have is a perfectly decent, AppleTalk-connected
PostScript printer in the next office. On the AppleTalk network,
there's a GatorBox connecting the LAN to the university's ethernet
and, in a few days, the NeXT will be connected to ethernet.

   1.	Is there a practical (no $$$) way of instructing the NeXT to
	print to the PostScript printer on the AppleTalk network?

   2.	I'm unclear about what "native" AppleTalk support in NeXTstep
	3.0 means. How would one connect a NeXT to an AppleTalk LAN?

	Thanks.

	Michael.
--
Michael O'Henly                 
McPherson Library                Internet:  lux@sol.uvic.ca
University of Victoria                      lux@uvvm.uvic.ca
Victoria, B.C., Canada             BITNET:  lux@uvvm
From: rmrohre@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Randy M. Rohrer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: X11 with NeXTStep 3.0
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:59:55 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Aug20.212915.12286@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl> khan@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Osman Khan) writes:
>Does any beta tester have experience with using X11R4 or X11R5 with
>NeXTStep 3.0. We use X a lot and want to be prepared for the move to
>3.0 with a working X11 (preferably X11R5). Please comment on where the
>X11 you are using can be obtained in both binary and source form.
>

	We are using a third-party X11 product, CoXist by PennCom,
with beta NeXTStep 3.0 and have not experienced any noticable
problems. I'm not sure whether our current copy of CoXist is based
on X11R4 or X11R5 but I would guess X11R4.o

Randy

-- 
Randy Rohrer		   	&&   The George Washington University
rmrohre@afterlife.ncsc.mil           Depratment of EE&CS
                          	     rohrer@seas.gwu.edu
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From: bandari@cs.ubc.ca (Esfandiar Bandari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NeXT sound format
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:40:35 GMT
Reply-To: bandari@cs.ubc.ca (Esfandiar Bandari)
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

I used soundEditor to digitize some sound and edit it afterwards.  I then
wrote the data portion of the sound object to a file and looked at it using
gnuPlot.  The data looks completely different than the one on soundEditor.

Is the data in a sound Object in a compressed form or something.  Please
reply to me by mail.

					Thanks
					Esfandiar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: chopper@gumbytsg.tandem.com (Michael Chop)
Subject: Re: Access to Archives?
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:21:04 GMT

You can get mail access to nova.cc.purdue.edu by sending mail (any type) to 
	archive-server@cc.purdue.edu
	
Simply put "help" in the subject line.

If you have NeXTmail access the process is really simple.  When you make a request for a file, you get it back in your NeXTmail.  Otherwise you have to uu-this and  cat-that...

michael...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Subject: Re: Squash
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 14:36:43 GMT


Glenn Reid replies to Eric Scott:

>> >  Using it for software distribution is
>> > questionable at best.
>>
>> How come?  If you also ship the uncompressor, what makes it "questionable"?

This is a non-issue.  It's obvious when you would use Squash and when you
wouldn't.  Squash is only good for distributing software or what-have-you
between 680x0 machines running NeXTstep.  You can distribute with it the
UnSquashOnly application.  If you are unsure of the integrity of the Squash
program, you would simply check that UnSquashOnly works on the files
before you ship it.

If you are distributing beyond the NeXT-universe, then you obviously
can't use Squash (unless you're Greg and can recompile it for another
machine).

Another concern might be that you want your user to use the NeXT
Installer utility for consistency with other manufacturers.  I do not
know of a way to get Installer to invoke UnSquashOnly--as it stands
Installer uses tar and compress.

Even between NeXT's, there is a usage where Squash falls flat.  That
is dialing into a NeXT over a modem from a NeXT at home, and using
compression to reduce the time to transfer stuff in either direction.
There is no purely command-line utility to Squash or UnSquash.  I end
up using zip and unzip for that purpose.

Squash is a really nice GUI compression utility that is reliable and
compresses very well.  However, there are compressors out there that
are better.  One is comp-2 and expand-2 which come in source and work
from the command line.  Like Squash, comp-2 is memory and cpu intensive.

Eric Scott felt:

>> Trusting one's data to a proprietary (and unique) scheme strikes
>> me as incredibly foolish.

Only if it doesn't work.  Squash works.

I endeavoured and succeeded in getting Greg to put a crc check into
Squash during beta testing.  This provides similar confidence in the
data that you get when you read it off of a hard disk.  In all my
usage of Squash, it has not failed to decompress.  That's more than
I can say for other commercial programs whose format is neither
proprietary or unique--in particular, PKZIP.  Having a disclosed
format offers limited protection against bugs in the software.  If
it is an error in the uncompression software, then maybe you can find
a way to fix it.  However, if it was an error in the compression
software, then it is likely that you cannot recover, no matter how
much you know about the format.

Mark Adler
madler@tybalt.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: BBS->NeXT->Mac
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 09:25:03 GMT

I would like to download Mac software to my NeXT cube, and then
transfer it to my Mac (either via DOS, directly from Mac floppies
when 3.0 comes out, FloppyWorks, etc...).
 
The Mac has this thing called MacBinary ( keeps track of file creator and
type and the data in a separate part). If I use binary to d/l to the 
NeXT and then move the files over to the Mac then I have to change
the type/creator using MacTools or whatever. This almost never works in
that .sit or .sea or .cpt files end up being corrupted. It only works 
with .hqx (which are text files within which you find the archive).
 
Does anyone know how to do this? Or even better, is there a program to 
massage the files on the NeXT before moving them to the Mac. One of
the problems seems to be CR's and LF's. Confusing. Going the other way
is fine (Mac->NeXT).

Any clues would be much appreciated.
 
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu (NeXT Mail)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: borrel@dhhalden.no (B|rre Ludvigsen)
Subject: Mail <> NextMail
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:17:26 GMT

Can anyone please explain how I get Mail and NextNMail to coexist?
I often have to log in through a terminal from the "outside world"
to read and reply to my mail. Most things work, but "r"-replies are
not happy as my name gets added to the to field, the cc field on the
outgoing mail gets the user <addressee@myhost>, and when I look at
the Outgoing.mbox/mbox with NextMail all outgoing mail sent by mail
don't have "to's" at all. If I look at it with mail, their all to me.

There seems to have been a posting about this sometime back, but I only
have a second hand rumor. Anyone save it?

- barre ludvigsen <borrel@dhhalden.no>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca  (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Supra Modem/BFJ Enterprises
Keywords: modem, Supra
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:18:16 GMT



I ordered a Supra modem from BFJ back in the early Spring, and was about  
due to receive it (the long waiting list being bad news #1).  For the last  
week when I called to check on the status of the modem their number just  
rings and rings, both the 800 number and the local number (which I tracked  
down).  Does anyone have any information about what is going on at BFJ?  

Assuming no one does, could someone PLEASE mail me the phone number for  
Supra??, since their sales department shoulve some idea of what happening.

Thanks --- Tom
From: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Postscript Fonts
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:57:09 GMT
Reply-To: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

Peter C. Schuyler writes

> I thought that New Century Schoolbook was a built in
> postscript font, but I don't have that for my Next.

Different PostScript devices often come with a different
set of basic fonts.  The NeXT comes with the basic 13
that we all know and love (Four Times faces, four
Helvetica faces, four Courier, and Symbol).  To fill out
the basic 35 (which includes ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
and the NewCenturySchoolbook faces) you can get the Adobe
PlusPack.

I think it's sold through RightBrain in a NeXT-native
format.  Otherwise, I think Adobe has it in NeXT native
format.  Otherwise, there's the PC PlusPack and you can
use pfb2pfa to convert.

[DISCLAIMER - I work for the company that makes the font programs.]

Scott Byer                                   NeXTMail: byer@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated               These are *my* opinions, and  
1585 Charleston Road, P.O. Box 7900        do not necessarily reflect
Mountain View, CA 94039-7900             the opinions of my employer.
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From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Free objects from FSF
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:21:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: unmvax.1992Aug20.012158.25606
Organization: ARDI

Dear Folks,

I would expect that any free objects that would come from the
Free Software Foundation would fall under the GNU *LIBRARY* GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE.  The FSF recognizes the difference between libraries and
utilities and has a separate license for this very purpose.  Look in
the glibc or libg++ source to find out exactly what the GLGPL specifically
says (it's too long for me to post here), but my interpretation (we don't
use any GNU libraries in any of our products, hence I've never had our
counsel look at the GLGPL) is that you can use anything that's covered by
the GLGPL in a couple of ways:

	1)  You can distribute your stuff and allow the end-user to link
in the appropriate GLGPL covered libararies.

	2) You can link them in yourself (the average customer doesn't want
to be bothered with this stuff), provided you provide some mechanism where
the recipient can re-link modified versions of the GLGPL covered libraries.
Possibilities include supplying both a linked and an unlinked version or
just the former, as long as you will provide the latter when asked.

There are also rules concerning letting people know the terms mentioned
above, but I believe I've imparted the gist of the section of the GLGPL
that applies to stuff linked in with GLGPL created libraries.

As I've stated before, I'm a big fan of the FSF.  Their software is not
only a major win to use, there's a lot to be learned by reading their
source.  If you're not familiar with the FSF, I highly urge you to check
them, their software and their policies out.  FSF Objects?  A win in my book.

		--Cliff[ord T. Matthews]
		ctm@ardi.com

[bias alert:  a former ARDI employee is hard at work writing the GNU HURD].
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: paulben@is.morgan.com (Paul Bennett)
Subject: Re: Gotham Users of NeXT (8/12)
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:19:04 GMT

In article <BsxqpB.76I@world.std.com> gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth) writes:
   [ deleted ]

   SUN

   George said that Sun isn't all bad.  For one thing, Sun is doing a lot
   to legitimize Unix on the desktop.  [See NT below!]

   As for porting NeXTstep to the Sun SPARCstation, apparently Steve Jobs
   said NeXT would do the port "if `they' will pay for it."

This is not quite correct. George quoted Steve as saying NeXT would do
the port "if `they` were willing to pay the price".

Which has many, many more possible meanings ....

--
Paul Bennett, Consultant
Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.
New York, NY						(212) 703 2181
From: midiapolis@cup.portal.com (Gerard Thomas Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: WarpIt Image Manipulation Tool ships for NeXT Computers
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:15:39 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world


	WarpItTM Image Manipulation Tool for NeXTTM computers begins
shipping, MIDIapolis Systems and Black Adder Research announce distribution
				agreement


MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 4 1992 -- Black Adder Research announced
today the release of WarpIt, an image manipulation application for NeXT
computers. MIDIapolis Systems announced an agreement with Black Adder
Research in which MIDIapolis Systems will distribute WarpIt throught its
dealers.
	"WarpIt is a powerful image processing too, the first of its
kind on the NeXT platform", said William Rozzi, owner of Black Adder
Research.
	WarpIt allows user to perform animated transformations of digital
images, similar to the morphing effects featured in recent videos and
feature films. For example, an image of a person's face could be distorted
over a series of frames to make their nose grow. The resulting sequence 
may be edited, played back, and saved as an animation file.
	In addition to the non-linear mesh warp, WarpIt also includes
rotation, shear, perspective, mirroring, and scale change operations, all
implemented using non-aliasing algorithms.
	"It's another step towards establishing NeXT as a leader in the
computer graphics world", said Gerard Schwarz, president of MIDIapolis
Systems.
	WarpIt is expected to be used in a large variety of field including
graphic arts for photo correction and electronic caricatures, law
enforcement for mug shots using composites of warped real images, multi-
media for still graphics and animations, cartography for image registration,
and for the development of icons from real images.
	Because NeXT workstations have built-in Display PostscriptTM, the
user sees high-quality graphics on the screen and on the printer. More than
any other computer, the NeXT compuger provides true WYSIWIG (What you see
is what you get) capabilities. WarpIt takes full advantage of these
capabilities.

Price and availability

WarpIt is available now from MIDIapolis Systems dealers for a suggested
list price of $###.##. For more information about WarpIt contact
MIDIapolis SYstems directly.

MIDIapolis Systems, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a software
developer that specializes in multimedia and graphics software. WarpIt
follows their release of SoundBursts Digital Sound Collections for
NeXT Computers in March 1992.

Black Adder Research, located in Stillwater, Minnesota, was founded in
1991 to develop high-quality graphic tools for NeXT computers.

Contacts:

	Gerard Schwarz			William Rozzi
	MIDIapolis Systems		Black Adder Research
	3208 W. Lake St Suite 133	730 Norell Ave North
	Minneapolis, MN  55416		Stillwater, MN  55082
	612-822-1604			612-436-5021
	midiapolis@cup.portal.com

WarpIt and Black Adder Research are trademarks of Black Adder Research.
NeXT is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Display Postscript and 
Postscript are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: shawn@monitor.com
Subject: ObjectDesign - NeXT partnership - Info?
Reply-To: shawn@monitor.com
Organization: Monitor Company / IE
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:19:34 GMT

can anyone point me towards any information which sheds some detailed  
light on the ObjectDesign - NeXT partnership?

thanks!

Shawn Broderick
shawn@monitor.com
(NeXTmail accepted, of course)

ps: feel free to email if you've got good info!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: koelman@cuby.stc.nl (Ton Koelman)
Subject: Re: Anyone have opinions on NeXT 17" and 21" color monitors?
Reply-To: koelman@stc.nato.int
Organization: SHAPE Technical Centre, NL
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:36:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.031029.24849@tamsun.tamu.edu> steve@math.tamu.edu  
(Steve Johnson) writes:
> kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu (Kurt Bollacker) writes:
> > I'm about to buy a color NeXTStation but cannot decide between the 2  
color
> > monitors that NeXT offers...
> 
> I've been placed in front of both the 17" and 21". After about 10-15  
minutes,
> I found it very difficult to continue.  The colors seem washed out, and
> the curvature of both screens was quite noticeable. IMHO, NeXT is  
doesn't
> seem to take color seriously; if they did, there would be a trinitron
> offering.  On the other hand, I think the NeXT mono (gray) is very nice,
> although it could use an anti-glare coating.
> 
> My advice:
> a.) Buy the color station, but get the monitor elsewhere.
> OR
> b.) Don't buy a NeXT, and learn to live with X :-|
>     I'm satisfied w/ nearly every other competitor, when it comes to  
color.
> 

Agreed. NEVER buy the NeXT 17"
I'm using a Sony

--
Ton Koelman   e-mail: koelman@stc.nato.int (NeXT Mail Welcome!)
SHAPE Technical Centre, P.O. Box 174, 2501 CD  The Hague
The Netherlands  (voice: 31-70-3142429, fax: 31-70-3142111)
From: dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Does Type1 NeXT == Type1 Mac??
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:16:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: seas.1992Aug19.201625.26860
Organization: School of Engineering and applied science; S.M.U.; Dallas, Tx

In article <1992Aug9.215211.757@net23.uucp> coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com (Brian Policky) writes:
>Does Adobe mind if fonts are converted over to the NeXT with something  
>like Metamorphasis? (Legally speaking)
>-- 
>coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com  |  Life without
>..szebra!spectrx!net23!coke    |  Coca-Cola
>                               |  wouldn't be

I think Adobe allows you to use ONE copy of your font per network.  ie 
you can use the font on one machine per copy (unless you have some sort
of site licence).  Therefore, if you used the Metamorphosis created font
and did not use the Mac native font, all should be well.

David L. Leon
dleon@seas.smu.edu
.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca)
Subject: Mail sounds?
Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Homewood Academic Computing
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:37:05 GMT


Now that I have a NeXT, the closest thing to Fred Astaire on a desktop,
and not being a good programmer, I have 2 questions:
1. How can I make a .snd file play when mail comes in?
2. What would a crontab line be to play a snd file at a certain time?

The third question is, what is a good source for tips of this nature? I mean 
without having to ask on the Internet, etc.

Thanks

Robert de Lucca
rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins University

Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Keywords: 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jcelam@confused (James Clifton Elam)
Subject: Re: pittsburgh project manager
Keywords: I've got it, and, well....
Reply-To: jcelam%confused@glv.com
Organization: Encompass
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:56:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.212429.10663@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> pkim@cory.Berkeley.EDU  
(-) writes:
> just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with the pittsburgh project
> manager, a project management package sold by visus.  

PPM is a relatively well done MacProject clone.  The programmer who wrote it  
for Visus doesn't work there: some sort of contractor or whatever. (Visus -  
correct me here if I've got this wrong.)  

It's not the most NeXTy application I've ever seen and has some (in my opinion)  
serious bugs: poor scrolling, date calculation problems, some mac-isms in  
cut/paste/move/etc that conflict with my NeXT habits.

It worked ok for small stuff, quickly knocked off, but I'd never try to manage  
my whole project with it.

Having said that, it has drawn some pretty pictures for me and was worth the  
$175 or whatever deal I got.  On the other hand, they supposedly have a new  
version and I've heard squat!

--
James "Cliff" Elam                      | I want NeXTStep 3.0. Now!
(919) 380-6522 (v,w)                    | I want NeXT/Intel too!
jcelam%confused@glv.com - NeXT mail!    | DBKit will sell more NeXT's than IB!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adam Trent Phillips)
Subject: Re: music on the CD ROM drive?
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 18:12:59 GMT


	
 I am sure that some CD ROM drives do that. The ones at the Cleveland 
Public Lib. have headphone jacks and a volume knob ! I do not
know what else it can be for

-- 
"Speak to me in many voices, make them all sound like one.
 Let me see your sacred mysteries, reveal to me the unknown tounge."--B.O.C.
A. Trent Phillips     |personal E-mail:bb099@cleveland.freenet.edu
alias: White Rook     |   NWROC E-mail:aphillip@heartland.bradley.edu
From: ccx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Adam Bentley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Kerberos for NeXT
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:09:06 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Coventry University

Does anyone know of a working Kerberos port for NeXT machines?

thanks for any info.


-- 
						_
					       /-\dam

FLESH: Adam Bentley (Fraggle), Systems/Networking, Coventry University. UK
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXTstep 3.0
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:17:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: metrosof.1992Aug19.021716.301
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft

In article <1992Aug18.212907.21004@lsa.umich.edu> Hal.Varian@umich.edu  
writes:
> 
> I've been beta testing 3.0 PR2, and I think that it is *very*  
> stable.  The major gaps are in the documentation.  My guess is  
> that 3.0 will be better than most other x.0 releases in the  
> computer industry.
> 

Ditto.

Gordon
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: colo@odie.ee.wits.ac.za (Illan Colombick)
Subject: Re: Call for junk mail.
Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Novell Users).
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:27:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.210027.12265@terminator.cc.umich.edu> hubt@umich.edu (Hubert Chen) writes:
>I'd like to see those display postscript hacks too

Me too, why aren't they on sonata (or are they)?

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