HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: noyau@pelane.cubx.com  (Eric Noyau)
Subject: Re: Disk space
Reply-To: e_noyau@cubx.com
Organization: Cub'X systemes
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:15:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.004744.10378@samba.oit.unc.edu>  
David.Kelman@launchpad.unc.edu (David Kelman) writes:
> 	This will probably sound like a very naive question, but I am a novice
> at Unix and the NeXT.  According to Workspace, I have 133 Meg free on my
> disk. According to Inspector, the entire file system is taking up 222 Meg.  
> I have a 406 Meg disk, formatted as per norm (512K blocks), and that is what 
> is reported as it's size when I boot up the machine.  Where are the other 51 
> Meg?
> 

Perhaps an explanation...

excerpt from "man tunefs" :
> [...]
> DESCRIPTION
>      Tunefs is designed to change the dynamic parameters of a
>      file system which affect the layout policies.  The parame-
>      ters which are to be changed are indicated by the flags
>      given below:
>      [...]
>      -m minfree
>           This value specifies the percentage of space held back
>           from normal users; the minimum free space threshold.
>           The default value used is 10%.  This value can be set
>           to zero, however up to a factor of three in throughput
>           will be lost over the performance obtained at a 10%
>           threshold.  Note that if the value is raised above the
>           current usage level, users will be unable to allocate
>           files until enough files have been deleted to get under
>           the higher threshold.
> [...]

default minfree = 10%. 10% of 400 meg = 40 meg lost...

Eric
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From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NUCA
Summary: NeXT Users' Choice Award
Keywords: NeXT Users' Choice Award
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:09:57 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


     Hi, I forgot to EXPLICITLY mention this in the previous
post so...  The competition is open to Shareware/Freeware software
too.  So if you love a non-commercial piece of software/(I dont
think anyone is giving away hardware :) dont hesitate to nominate it
for product of the year!  These guys really deserve praise for
donating (in many cases) their talent to the NeXT community.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------

N U C A
NeXT Users' Choice Awards---Thanks to Conrad Geiger for the name!

     I will take submissions from the net until Jan 23, 1993.

     All you need to do is send back the form attached below with
your favorite software or hardware products for 1992.
     The subject of the post should be Re: NUCA (or just replying
to this post).  Send votes to szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu

     I will post the results and maybe see about getting little
trophies or ribbons made up for the winners.
     This is your chance to reward the great NeXT Developer
community by shining some well deserved praise their way.

The rules are:
- You can only vote once (i.e. one vote per e-mail address).
- You can vote for any product you wish; be it from NeXT a 3rd
party developer (or those tasty frosted donuts from Hostess under
the 'other' category ;-)

     Finally I made up a logo for the winners to use (if they want
to) to let everyone know that they won the NUCA.  I'll put it up on
both orst and nova.  People can let me know if they think it stinks
and if so please feel free to make your own (after all it is the
U S E R S ' choice award so the users should get involved!).  BTW
you will need Helvetica-Black and Avant Garde (Book Oblique & Demi
Oblique) to see the logo in all of its glory :-)

NUCA Form below:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

1.)  Software
a.) Audio              :
b.) Communications     :
c.) DataBase           :
d.) Developer          :
e.) DTP                :
f.) Game               :
g.) MultiMedia         :
h.) Spreadsheet        :
i.) Wordprocessing     :
j.) Utility            :
k.) Video              :
l.) Other              :

2.)  Overall Software Product of the Year   :


3.)  Hardware
a.) Audio             :
b.) Communications    :
c.) Display           :
d.) Graphic Input     :
e.) Mass Storage      :
f.) Printing/Output   :
g.) Video             :
h.) Other             :

4.)  Overall Hardware Product of the Year   :


5.)  Overall Product of the Year            :
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From: hinkle@sundance.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Hinkle)
Subject: Re: X11R5: how to switch to NeXTStep
Originator: hinkle@sundance.cso.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaing - CCSO
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:12:45 GMT


In article <1ianuqINNrus@tamsun.tamu.edu>, steve@donald.tamu.edu (Steve Rikli) writes:
> In article <7255@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu writes:
> >In article <1992Dec16.015800.8597@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
> >kenny@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Kenny Leung) writes:
> >] In article <3044@ulysse.enst.fr> laroche@wayne.enst.fr (Jean Laroche ) writes:
> >
> >The new R5 version of Xnext does NOT yet have the NextStep switch in it.  There  
> >is currently no way to go back and forth.  I am planning to take up where Paul  
> >Poh left off on this--he told me it shouldnt be difficult.

   What?  What new version are you talking about?  The version I am running seems to have
a toggle in it.  (command-command-delete)  will get you back to NeXTStep and clicking on
the icon in the dock will get you back to X.

> Where might I find the R5 version of Xnext?  Archie is only finding X11R4-NeXT-2.0
> distributions for me.

  I found it at foxtrot.ucsb.edu but, it is broken up into several parts.  It is also
available on sundance.cso.uiuc.edu in completed form.

> Is Xnext-R5 NS3.0 compatible?
 
  Yes, I am running NS3.0 now. 

-- 
Steven Hinkle                      Computing and Communication Services Office
s-hinkle@uiuc.edu                  University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
From: roland@unixg.ubc.ca (Corinne H Roland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: FAXing
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:22:58 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

I am having some trouble with my Fax software!  When I try to fax something I always get an error message saying that the fax software has failed and I should reboot my machine and try it over again.  I am running 2.1.  Has anyone else ever had this problem, if so what do you suggest I do?  Thanks for any comments.
From: kcb@coyote.caltech.edu (Kim C. Border)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: What/where is NXFax?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:01:50 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: coyote.caltech.edu

I have seen several references to NXFax and B&W software on the net.

What does NXFax do, and/or  how do I contact B&W?

Thank you.

--
Kim C. Border
Associate Professor of Economics
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
228-77
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California 91125 USA

kcb@hss.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught)
Subject: multiple page faxes
Reply-To: faught@berserk.ssc.gov
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:17:51 GMT

Does anyone know how to display and edit a multipage .fax file? They apparently  
are in tiff format but I can't figure out how to get to more than the first  
page.

--
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 Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jmuilu@joyke7.joensuu.fi (Juha Muilu)
Subject: Re: Webster CompactDictionary
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 13:05:55 GMT

In article <dillon.0tke@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US  
(Matthew Dillon) writes:
> ....
>     I'm somewhat disappointed that the NeXT CDRom drive doesn't spin-down
>     an idle drive, though, it makes for totally unecessary wear.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 
      Nice to know. I got very bad looking scratches on my NStep disk and
      bad block messages to console :-(
--
   
   Juha Muilu

   Department of Chemistry,University of Joensuu,P.O. Box 111
   80101 Joensuu,FINLAND
   Email:Juha.Muilu@joensuu.fi (NeXT mail ok)
From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Product of the Year (92)
Date: 5 Jan 93 06:31:32 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi All,
	Why dont we have a NetLand NeXT Product of the year
award/poll?

We can have hardware, software, graphics--maybe different catagories?

I just want a chance to say that I LOVE Virtuoso and it gets my
overall product of the year award thumbs up!!!  It is the best
illustration program I've used on any platform period-end of story-no
questions-hands down!!!!!!!!!  And thats just from the demo!  Now I
have to save up a few more bux to clunk down the 300 bux edu price,
but its so go its worth it!  Well enough ranting by me.  Whats
everyone think of the Net Land Best Product of the Year Award?  Then
the winners can proudly display that they one on there
software/hardware and adds.  I would be willing to do all of the
polling, but if some one else wants to I have no problems.

Now All we have to do is think up the catagories and a name for the
award.

POLYA (Product of Last Year Award?)  Lame?  just a thought.

Catagories?

Software:
	Illustration
	Painting
	DTP
	DataBase
	SpreadSheet
	Communication
	MultiMedia
	3D
	WordProcessing
	Audio
	Game
	Developer
	Utility

Hardware:
	Graphic
	Video
	Storage
	Printer
	Communication
	Display

????  Anyway.  Those are just some "I'm on break--off from school
until jan 20--got nothn better to do" thoughts.

What do you all think?

later, John
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From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Book on NeXTSTEP Programming
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:12:45 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com


Michael B. Johnson writes

> It's also probably infinitely easier (and cheaper) to get DOS disks
> duplicated than NeXT format ones.  When you want to get a few thousand
> books out, I'm sure that was a mitigating factor.

Not really.  As long as you stick to the 1.44 floppies, the same machines
(and companies) that duplicate DOS floppies can duplicate NeXT floppies
too.  The disk copier doesn't care about the format, as long as the low-
level format is the same (which it is).  We do this all the time.

--
 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.misc
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson)
Subject: NeXT Programming Book
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:09:33 GMT

In the early part of November, someone posted an ad saying that you could
order the NeXTStep programming book (by Simson Garfinkel) via email.  In
doing so, the book would be sent directly to your home at a price of $39.

Does anyone remember the name or address of the people who offered this 
service?

Eric
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:10:11 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com


[Sorry this is late; our last two months' postings went to /dev/null!]

Gordon Van Huizen writes
> In article <1gqa6tINNham@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S.  
> Sears) writes:
> > I guess that everyone misunderstood my question.  I know
> > how to use   buildafmdir and cacheAFMData to install new
> > fonts.  I also know about   FontInstaller.app from Adobe. 
> > Apparently they do not do exactly the same   thing, because
> > after I install fonts with FontInstaller.app, the
> > following   directories are created: 
> > 
> > afm
> > bitmap
> > outline
> > 
> 
> These are old directories - this is the way the NeXTSTEP
> had these files organized prior to NeXTSTEP 2.0. I don't
> know of any app that requires these directories to be
> there (except perhaps FrameMaker which has some sort of
> anlternate font installation scheme - I can't say). 

I can help a little with this (my name's in the Info panel on Adobe's
installer :-)

The afm, bitmap, and outline directories were indeed the NeXTSTEP 1.0
method of organizing fonts, which were obsoleted by NS 2.0 and the
"font wrapper" files, which are much better.  The afm, bitmap, and
outline directories are created by the Adobe Font Installer, but only
the afm directory has its contents updated.

The sole reason for this extra step was that FrameMaker reads all the
AFM files at startup, and the old version of FrameMaker (I think it
was version 1.0 or 2.0) used to crash immediately on startup if the
afm directory wasn't there.  I don't know of any other application that
requires these directories.

The current (and previous) versions of FrameMaker DO NOT have this
problem, and these directories can be safely deleted if you don't have
the old version of FrameMaker.

It has been long enough since NS 1.0 that the Adobe Installer could be
modified to not create these directories without any particular ill
effect, I imagine.  On the other hand, a few symbolic links don't hurt
much :-)

--
 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California		Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Virtuoso Demo on the Edu Software sampler CD-ROM
Date: 11 Jan 93 07:22:13 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com

Peter Milne writes
> I'm almost certain that at least once in the past I successfully ran the
> demo version of Virtuoso off the Educational Software Sampler CD-ROM.
> Last night I tried to fire it up again with the following result; a
> Virtuoso miniwindow appears at the bottom of the screen for a few moments
> then disappears and that's it.  No menu appears at all.

From what I understand, they accidentally put a time-bombed copy on the
CD-ROM.  It has expired.

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 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California		Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
From: thornton@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Michael Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: FrameMaker page turns black
Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:16:03 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: koan.pubs.stratus.com


Following our department's upgrade from NeXT 2.1 to 3.0, several 
users started noticing the following strange behavior with 
FrameMaker (version 3.0.1).  Occasionally, in the document window
of an open document, the background of a page turns black.  Using
redisplay (control-L) does not clear the problem, but paging forward
and back does.  The person who runs into this problem the most says
she leaves FrameMaker documents open overnight, and it is documents
that are left idle that are subject to this problem.  At the same
time there are console messages such as:

 DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 1f8258
 Dec 22 09:14:17 ninja FrameMaker[175]: %%[ Error: nocurrentpoint; 
 OffendingCommand: xshow ]%%

Anybody have any idea about what is going on?  The machines in question
are NetBoot clients, so the filesystems are used via NFS.

--
Michael Thornton                thornton@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Stratus Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: billb@nasty (Bill Burcham)
Subject: Re: Richard Page resigns ...
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:16:39 GMT

In article <93010.134049ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET> ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
<<munch>>
> In addition to the information you listed about Richard Page's  
resignation, the
> blurb in the Friday, Jan. 8th edition of the Tempe Tribune (Tempe, AZ)  
relative
> to this also mentioned that he was burnt out and would probably start a  
company
> of his own.
<<munch>>

Yeah, that's what I do when I'm burnt out -- I go start a company.

|:^>

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| First National Bank of Chicago | no magic to stir men's souls"    |
|    billb@fnbc.com  (NeXTmail)  |      Daniel J. Burnham           |
+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught)
Subject: Re: NeXT biff
Reply-To: faught@berserk.ssc.gov
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:41:35 GMT

In article <1iv3t7INN2sg@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> hogan@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Emmett  
Hogan) writes:
>Hi All,
>
>Is there a NeXT program like xbiff? 

One way would be to create a .forward file on the mail host to send the mail on  
over to your NeXT. The NeXT Mail app icon then shows pages coming out of the  
envelope when mail has arrived.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: john@wpa.com (John Bartley)
Subject: Re: dictaphone software/hardware
Reply-To: john@wpa.com (John Bartley)
Organization: Workgroup Productivity Associates
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:24:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.233436.24031@ms.uky.edu>  
kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu writes:
> anyone seen dictaphone software/hardware for the next.

Yeah. A project like this was done for the University of MO medical  
center. Customized mike unit with an interface into the computer (can't  
remember which port they used though) and some software to go with it  
that basically emulated exactly what the doctors would do with their  
traditional Dictaphone. Unfortunately, after dinking around with it for  
the last year, they decided not to go forward with a purchase. Typical  
approach and attitude for this part of the country. I think it fell  
victim to the "champagne appetite on a beer budget" syndrome.

John Bartley
john@wpa.com
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: X11R5: how to switch to NeXTStep
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:31:48 GMT
Reply-To: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Dec16.015800.8597@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
kenny@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Kenny Leung) writes:
] In article <3044@ulysse.enst.fr> laroche@wayne.enst.fr  
] (Jean Laroche ) writes:
] > Hi there!
] > 
] > I just installed X11R5 (the free version, mouse'X) on our NEXT machines,  
and I  
] > wondered if it was possible to switch from X to NeXTStep (via some command  
] > stuff).
] > Does anyone know?
] 
] In the old version, it used to be cmd-cmd * on the keypad. It may still be  
right.

The new R5 version of Xnext does NOT yet have the NextStep switch in it.  There  
is currently no way to go back and forth.  I am planning to take up where Paul  
Poh left off on this--he told me it shouldnt be difficult.


--
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Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jlu@cs.umr.edu ( Eric Jui-Lin Lu )
Subject: Re: Kermit 5A(188) - 31 Dec 92 - available for ftp
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:08:37 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO
Keywords: kermit, ftp, cica

In article <C0Htw7.CCp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu (Todd A Green) writes:
>In article <ntomczak.726387671@vega> ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann) writes:
>>
>>Thank to kind offer ot Todd Green the following archive
>>  kermit.5a.188.tar.Z
>>was uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, directory pub/next/submissions.
>
>I've moved the file to /pub/next/3.0/bin/kermit.5a.188.tar.Z.  I've also
                                  ^^^

Can I run it in NS2.x?


  --Eric

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From: andrew@cubetech.com
Subject: Re: Need Faster Screen Refresh and  Better Focus.
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:40:10 GMT

In article <C0EGyy.HFK@Novell.COM> Tony Wosnjuk writes:
>
>I just got hold of a NeXTstation COLOR. I was very excited at first.
>
>Is nice to see some different colors for a change, but my screen is not as  
>sharp as before (Black and White) and the refresh takes much longer when  
>going from one application to another. The new windows(open applications)  
>seems like to row halfway, stop and continue. This is specially true when  
>openning mail, file viewer, or any app which occupies a big enough part of  
>the screen.
>
>Does anybody know what I could do to make the response time of the  
>interface faster. I have 16M of memory, monitor model no. N4001, .
>
>Any good tweakers out there.
>
>Oh, please don't tell me to buy more memory.

Buy more memory.


The problem is that you are using quite a bit more memory than you
have RAM.  So what's happening is pages of memory are being stored on
disk, and it takes significantly longer to retrieve them.  That's why
the windows take a long time to "appear."

The only other solution is to use less memory.


andrew
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