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From: steves@truevision.com (Steve Spicklemire)
Subject: Upgrade 3.0
Summary: Upgrade killed some stuff
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:17:49 GMT
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Keywords: upgrade uucp wtmp

Hi,
	I upgraded a slab the other day (from 2.1 to 3.0) and while it
went well for the most part, there were some problems. 1) UUCP is broken.
I can uupoll and send mail fine, but my machine is not running any of the
X./* files that have been piling up. 2) utmp and wtmp are no longer being
updated correctly when folks log in. I *had* the 2.1 MOTD running, but I
think I've gotten rid of it. Everything else (that I've tried) seems to be
O.K.. I assume these are permissions problems of some kind, but I have no
idea what they might be. Any ideas? (when folks log in a message like:
(opening wtmp: bad file number) appears on the console. Also, root's
logins are recorded alright ???)

thanks!
-steve

(email to steve@estel.uindy.edu)

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From: brueck@inm.uni-sb.de (Stefan Brueck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: syquest compatability? (with MSDOS?)
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:25:43 GMT
Organization: Institute for New Materials (INM), Saarbr"ucken, Germany.
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In-reply-to: kcarroll@stein.u.washington.edu's message of 9 Jan 1993 02:03:19 GMT

how is it possible to change data with a MSDOS computer via the syquest
media? i tried to read a MSDOS syquest disk in a next with the mtools 
package (works fine with floppies), but i had no success...

thanks for help
stefan

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From: wave@media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:28:43 GMT

In article <C0DBLw.C8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>>I've read only one review of G&M's recently-released book, of those  
>> 
>>that have read it, would you post your opinion of the quality of the book and why you feel the way you do about it?
>>

G&M's book, combined with a 3.0 system and NeXT's printed versions of
"NeXTSTEP Development Tools and Techniques: Release 3" and "NeXTSTEP
General Reference: Release 3, Volume 1 & 2" is everything you need
to leap feet first into real world, serious NeXT hacking.  I wish I'd
had this book two years ago when I started.  The single nicest thing
about the book is its emphasis on building a fulll blown application-it's not a
series of demo programs strung together, but a clear, well thought 
(set of) application(s) that they're talking about building (and build). 

The only depressing thing about this book is the fact that it points out
all the great books that should/could be written for the NeXT market.
Let's hope the market continues to expand so books of equivalent caliber
on other areas (like the two they talk about in the intro) will be 
written.

Congrats to Simson and Michael for a job well done.  It's been long in
coming; I'm just happy it's here so I can recommend it.


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From: Alex Raftis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: GraphicsWorkshop broken under 3.0?
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:33:54 GMT
Reply-To: alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

Douglas Scott writes
>I have just noticed that GraphicsWorkshop, the viewer for gifs and jpeg files,  
>refuses to open any files under 3.0.  The Open menu command does nothing, and  
>double-clicking on a .jpg file produces an error panel saying it cannot open  
>the file, but that there is no error.  Is there a new version of this program?
>
>Thanks.

You have an older version of GraphicsWorkshop. The version you are using 
would also not work on non-extended release versions of 2.1 and 2.2. You
can get a working copying from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It's been sitting
around in the submissions directory since aroud July, when I uploaded it.

Alex
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From: dblakele@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: RLE Viewer for NS3.0?
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:24:48 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Originator: dblakele@raphael.acpub.duke.edu

Good morning folks,

Last night my wife (The Unix/C Programming Goddess) was fooling around with
her raytracing programs and the Utah toolkit.  However, when it became time
to view the RLE file under RLEViewer she found that it wasn't recognized 
by NS3.0.  When one looks at it in the FileViewer, it doesn't show up
under it's old app.icon; and when trying to inspect a RLE file with the
Tools Inspector, ImageViewer and Edit are the only choices.  ImageViewer
works fine, but she's been kind of partial to RLEViewer.  (Don't ask me
why, I'm just the Physician who Mungs Unix Well, so I never challenge
her authority on this one).

So, has anybody heard of a version of RLEViewer that will run under 3.0?
Thanks a bunch.

Peace

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From: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Subject: Re: syquest compatability?
Reply-To: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Organization: Digital Technology, International
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 17:04:30 GMT

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

It's plug-and-play.  Works fine.  No extra driver required.

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From: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Subject: Re: RS/6000 and NeXT Machines
Reply-To: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Organization: Computer Science & Information Engin., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:29:18 GMT

In article <1i7nn2INNh4m@pith.uoregon.edu> bjorn@darmok.uoregon.edu (Bjorn S.  
Fjeld Pettersen) writes:
> It all depends on what you are going to use the NeXTs for. If you need X  
> terminals, I would consider getting a Sun (or something equivalent :) If  
> however you are planning to use your RS/6000 as a server, the NeXT is  
usually a  
> very good front end. If you are planning on interfacing to (different)  
> databases the NeXT is by far the most powerful machine around (IMHO).
>

Indeed. I agree.

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From: paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky)
Subject: Micropolis 2gig drive problems
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:16:35 GMT



We just took delivery of a Micropolis ASI-500L 
2 Gig (formats to 1.7 gig) drive.  It is plug
and play and comes up with no problems.  
What is wrong is that it is quite slow on 
non sequential transfers.  That is cating
a big file to /dev/null (using dd) yields
only about a 400kbyte per second transfer
rate.  This is very slow.  Our wrenVII gives
us almost a meg a second under these conditions.

The NeXT disk utility program, on the other
hand shows a 1.5 meg per second transfer
on sequential transfers, but this is 
not how life works.  The disk is formatted
at 512k.

Anyone have any experiences or recommendations
on this?

Thanks

Paul Lansky
paul@princeton.edu

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From: David.Kelman@launchpad.unc.edu (David Kelman)
Subject: Disk space
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:47:44 GMT

	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?

David Kelman
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From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Saving Postscript files in 3.0
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:04:08 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com


Jeff Adams writes
> 
> I am trying to create oversize pages (like 11 x 20.5 inches) to be  
eventually  
> sent off to a typesetter using a Linotronic 200.  
> ...
> However, If I create a dummy Linotronic 200 printer using PrintManager, and  
for  
> example save postscript on a document with an oversize page (like 11 x 20.5  
> inches) using the chosen printer (Linotronic 200), and save two versions,  
both  
> a version with device independent postscript (the default) and postscript  
for  
> the chosen printer (Lino) the only difference between the two files (using  
> diff) is the Creation Date field.  

I think the problem is that you are asking for a non-standard page size,
and the NeXT software is only set up to handle specific named page sizes.
The Linotronic can handle user-definable page regions since it uses
roll-fed paper, but most printers have only fixed choices.  The PPD files
have a key entry called "VariablePaperSize", I think, that can be either
True or False.  If it's True, then it should let you specify non-standard
sizes and generate calls to the "setpageparams" operator to effect this
change.  I think NeXT does not support this under 3.0.

There are two things you can do.  The first is to choose a pre-existing
page size, like Tabloid, for example, and I believe it will put the
correct code into the file for you.  The other choice, which I have not
verified but think should work, is to edit the PPD file yourself and add
an entry for the paper size you need.  You should be able to copy/paste
the code for some of the other page sizes and get the entry to show up
in the popup list on the NeXT panel, and it should then also copy the
code into the print file for you.  I have not tried this, since I don't
use 3.0 in my daily work (I'm still happily at 2.1).  You may need to
look in the Linotronic manual to get the exact "setpageparams" code to
put into the PPD file, but I think it should all work okay.

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From: teb@dendron.forestry.umn.edu (Thomas E. Burk)
Subject: help installing gnuplot
Reply-To: teb@dendron.forestry.umn.edu (Thomas E. Burk)
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:27:36 GMT

I have 3.0 of gnuplot, gnuplot.NeXT, and gnuplot.NeXT_term.v2. I can make the
stuff in gnuplot, but have no luck with the other two. If I understood the
relationship between the three things it might help. Would some kind person
please help me understand?

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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Score file -> Snd file ??
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:39:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moica.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan8.203046.3491@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov(Oscar Brooks) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how to convert a score file to a sound (snd)
>file? 

playscore can do this according to the man page.  See man playscore.

or

ScorePlayer.app which is in MusicKit from CCRMA can do this.
It can convert between a lot of formats including snd, midi, playscore,
and DSP commands from the Save As menu button.

Get MusicKit 3.1 from ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu.

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From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT Programming Book
Date: 7 Jan 1993 21:40:14 -0800
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
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One can also order the book directly from the publisher via 800
number.  I got mine the week before Christmas and my local bookstore 
has it now also.  Their selling fast.  Good luck.


maurices
From: timo.vendelin@vtt.fi (Timo Vendelin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXTmail and non-NeXT mode (adieresis->braceleft)
Date: 4 Jan 1993 12:46:10 GMT
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
Distribution: world
Reply-To: timo.vendelin@vtt.fi (Timo Vendelin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bluecube.gra.vtt.fi
Keywords: ascii, NeXTmail, adieresis, braceleft


Hello,

In NeXTmail (non-NeXT mode) I can type "adieresis" (a-with-dots, look  
Swedish keyboard) and that will turn to simple "a". That is ok and nice,  
but now I would like to turn it to "{" (braceleft). Is that possible and  
how should I do that.

Timo
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From: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT announces ports to RISC environments
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:00:49 GMT
Reply-To: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: pundit.cithep.caltech.edu

In article <marcos-060193074619@pmarcos.kaleida.com> marcos@kaleida.com (Paul  
Marcos) writes:
> In article <93006.003117U54876@uicvm.uic.edu>, U54876@uicvm.uic.edu wrote:
> > 
> >   Haven't read it myself, but I was relayed the information that Jobs was
> > demoing a PowerPC NeXT box this week. 
>
> I'd find that hard to believe seeing as key developers were rumored to get
> prototype PowerPC boards just a coupld weeks ago.  Either NeXT has it's
> porting strategy down pat (and will blow us away in '93 with a zillion
> ports:) or it's just hot air.

Well, I believe that *manufactures* had shipments of the PowerPC much earlier,  
and I have confirmed reports of there being a PowerPC NeXT box (though I hadn't  
heard it was publicly seen).  The similarity to the 88110 bodes in its favor.   
Due to Mach and the FSF, it's fairly easy to get *something* running on a new  
box.  It's getting -everything- to work -reliably- that takes up all the time.

- Ernie P.
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From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Subject: Future 24-bit color solutions?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 03:54:06 GMT

The latest info on NS486 seems to leave a big hole in NeXT's product line.
What about 24-bit color? All the info I've seen says 16-bit color max on
any PC. Doesn't the prospect of turning on persons to DPS and then leaving
them with the NeXTDimension as the _only_ 24-bit NeXTSTEP solution seem 
to be yet another major goof?

This, I hope, either means the ND will have a soon announced much improved
future -- or will be soon officially abandoned and a NRW as a 24-bit NS
solution will be announced. Silence on this issue would seem, to me, to be
unthinkable.

Michael McCulloch
Huntsville, AL
From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:54:42 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I have an interesting problem with my fonts...

I use a particular font Fritz Quadrata.  In all of my regular apps only the bold version of the font appears even though I have both the bold and regular versions installed in my LocalLibary/Fonts directory.  However under FrameMaker I can see and use both?!  Why would this be so.  BTW I'm using NS 3.0 and I've copied the 2.0 version of buildafmdir to my machines so supposedly everything should work...  I do have a lot of fonts though, so may more of them are 'missing' but this is the only one I know of.  

Any ideas?

later, John
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From: mflafeer@athena.mit.edu (Mohamed F. Lafeer)
Subject: Disk buffers
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:01:40 GMT

We just upgraded our NeXTstation from 8 to 20 meg. I remember reading about
having to increase the numbe of disk buffers or something when you upgrade the
memory. How do you do this?

Thanks,

Firoze


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From: druck@.afit.af.mil  (Dennis W. Ruck)
Subject: Spurious DMA Interrupts
Reply-To: druck@afit.af.mil (Dennis W. Ruck)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:05:03 GMT

I have what I believe is a network related problem, but my network gurus here  
have been unable to track down any problems. The symptons are that whenever I  
perform some function that requires network access (nfs, ftp, ...) I get error  
messages of the following sort logged:

Spurious DMA interrupt - state = 1000000 @ 2000110
en0: transmitter not ready
spurious DMA interrupt
spurious DMA interrupt
spurious DMA interrupt
NFS server frodo not responding still trying
Jan  5 15:45:12 gandalf lookupd[77]: netinfo failure, sleeping
NFS server frodo ok
Jan  5 15:59:31 gandalf lookupd[77]: netinfo waking
NFS server frodo not responding still trying

spurious DMA interrupt
Spurious DMA interrupt - state = 1000000 @ 2000110
Spurious DMA interrupt - state = 1000000 @ 2000110
spurious DMA interrupt


Network access is definitely slower than before these symptons cropped up.  
Also, ping gives unusual results as shown:

gandalf<54> ping frodo
PING frodo: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=1. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=2. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=3. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=4. time=38. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=5. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=6. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=7. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=8. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=9. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=10. time=2. ms

[... lines deleted ...]

64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=67. time=42. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=68. time=2. ms
64 bytes from 129.92.100.18: icmp_seq=69. time=2. ms
^C
----frodo PING Statistics----
70 packets transmitted, 65 packets received, 7% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 2/6/60
gandalf<55> 

I would appreciate any help in tracking down the cause of these problems.

Thanks!

Dennis

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From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using log file for NeXT Printer
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:25:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsbcsl.7340
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB

Having once again exhausted the online documentation, I post to ask:

Is it possible to set up a NeXT Printer to keep a log of all printing jobs?

Thank you.


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From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Chuck Kincaid)
Subject: "modes" in Edit
Organization: University of Fl, Department of Statistics
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:31:07

Hello,
	(Note:  I am running NS2.1 on a NeXTstation, facing northeast,
with my shoes off. :-)
	I would like to know more about the "modes" in Edit's Text
Options under Preferences.  It currently has 

			CFileText:c,h,m
			LispFileText:cl,lisp.

I would like to add a TeX mode similar to, but obviously not as
involved, as AUC-TeX.  I am using the amazing TeXmenu 2.2, which can't
(is this right?) connect with emacs, so I can't use AUC-TeX itself.
	'edit modes' in DL gives a Dev_Tools page that says that a user
can add more suffixes to the above list, but no information is given
about adding new modes.  (Ideally, of course, AUC-TeX could be just
dropped in and all it's functionality would be available.  But, then, I
also believe that David Lynch will make another Twin Peaks movie.  Go
figure. :-)  
	I followed the many posts about adding User Commands to Edit
that allow TeX'ing of selections, etc.  This is not what I'm looking
for.  Any ideas or pointers?

chuck kincaid
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