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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 18:15:54 CST
From: Prasad Ravi <U21709@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Alternate Key in /etc/termcap??

Hi everybody,
I want to program Alternate/shift in combination with 1-9 to generate
escape sequences. Any ideas what the termcap entries should look like?
I did look at the man pages on termcap. The capabilities listed there do
not refer to the Alternate key. Any suggestions/comments please sent to
the address below

    rilluri@is.rpslmc.edu

Thanks -Rekha Illuri
From: drew@phantom.gatech.edu (Drew Gonzi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer accounting/monitoring
Date: 22 Dec 1992 09:04:30 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: oit.gatech.edu

greimann@pecan.cns.udel.edu (J. Brandon Greimann) writes:

>	I was wondering if there is any way on the NeXT to monitor and/or
>regulate printer use?  Basically, I want to be able to keep a log of who
>uses the printer and how many pages the documents are.  If possible, I'd
>also like to be able to regulate who is allowed to use the printer.  Any
>help on this would be appreciated...

	Sure ....  Read the man page on printcap(5).  One of the things
you can specify is a flag: ...:af account_file:  Basically if this
file exists and is writable, Every file printed on the printer will be logged
after completion of the job.

	The entries are in the format:

	#pages host:user

	Unfortunately, there is no timestamp.
-- 
Drew Gonczi         
Systems Analyst I
Office of Information Technology
drew.gonczi@oit.gatech.edu      
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From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
Subject: Re: CDPlayer and 2 drives tips
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:19:23 GMT

In <1992Dec24.082517.28608@athena.mit.edu> karuzis@wccf.mit.edu (GLENN HOLM) writes:


>after mucking with fstab on both drives, you manage to make both
>unusable, and single-user mode mounts the internal as read-only.

The "remount" option of the "mount" command will help out here.

>here you open the NeXTSTEP 3.0 release notes and learn about
>booting (and reinitializing) from the CDRom.  Tucked away in 
>there is how to boot from a higher ID drive (and left out of the
>2.1 Sysadmin book). (and wish you had made that bootable floppy).

There is a need for an easier way to boot from an external that doesn't
have a SCSI id selector switch.
Having to say "bsd(1,0,0)"
AND "rootdev=sd1"
AND having to already have changed "fstab"
is 2 things too many.
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Subject: Re: Which app is launched for what file suffix?
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:14:21 GMT
Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Distribution: usa
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik

In article <12261@cayman.COM>  writes:
> Where is the mapping between a given filename suffix and the app that is
> launched with the icon is clicked in the File Browser?  My machine has taken  
to
> launching the "Background" application for .ps files, presumably instead of  
the
> Previewer application.
> 
> How does one change this?
> --
> Jay Batson
> Product Marketing
> Cayman Systems, Inc.
> jbatson@cayman.com
> (617) 494-1999

[Hey, this message got to Europe, although the distribution field sys usa...]

Select a .ps file, press cmd-3 (or, in the browser, select Tools Instpector  
Tools) and select the program to be activated for these files. Click 'Set  
Default' that's it.
Robert
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From: eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz)
Subject: Hooking up a Mac Performa to a NeXTstation via Ethernet
Reply-To: eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz)
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Distribution: portal
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:24:46 GMT

I imagine someone may have a summary of answers to this question already,  
which I'd love to see:

What software/hardware do I need on a Macintosh Performa 400 to hook into my  
NeXTstation via ethernet?  I know of MacTCP but am not sure if there are other  
options.  I'm hoping to find an unbeatable bargain on an ethernet board for  
the Mac, if there is such an unbeatable thing.

I'm mostly interested in cleanly setting up the Mac to print to the NeXT's  
laser printer, and to receive e-mail via NNTP from the NeXT (which gets its  
mail via a SLIP connection).  If anyone can warn me about Postscript  
compatibility problems, that would be helpful too.

Thanks,

Eric

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eric@WhyaNeXT.com (NeXTmail spoken here)
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FAX  )408( 279-7167

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From: gjditchf@plg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield)
Subject: how many man page directories?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:02:52 GMT


My NeXTstation is running release 3.0.  It has two man page directories
under /NextLibrary/Documentation: ManPages, and Unix/ManPages.  They seem
different: Unix/ManPages contains only some cat directories which contain
some old ascii man pages.  /usr/man is a link to ManPages.
   I assume that Unix/ManPages is just a left-over from an earlier release,
and can be deleted, but I thought I'd check.  Does anything use it?
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 18:25:36 CST
From: Prasad Ravi <U21709@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo across different subnets

Hi there,
We have two different subnets x.x.21.x and x.x.14.x connected via a router.
I tried setting up a NextStation today as a Netinfo client on the 14
subnet while the Netinfo server is on the 21 subnet. Well...
The client couldn't find the server and i was informed the routers do not
pass broadcast information. Is there any way of getting around this apart
from the expensive proposition of assigning a configuration server for each
subnet?
       Eternally grateful if can get some input on this.
    reply to
                   rilluri@is.rpslmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Subject: Register App for Classes
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:31:11 GMT

I'm looking for the source to an app I saw at Developer Class.  It provided
a login screen to register for the class, generated the account in the
proper place and let the user set their passwd.

I need an app like this to set up a NeXT classroom for teachers in Oak
Ridge TN.  We're going to be teaching Internet Educational Resource
Utilization, and I need to be able to have them register themselves, etc.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

John W.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: cleeland@cs.tulane.edu (Chris Cleeland)
Subject: Using an Apple Imagewriter II with NextStation COlor 3.0
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:51:33 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-15516]: sinbad

I am trying to hook up an Imagewriter II (leftover from my
Mac days) to my NextStation Color running 3.0.  I noticed
that under /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj there
are two dot-matrix printers listed -- an IBM ProPrinter and
an Epson 510.  Also, somwhere under /usr/lib/NextPrinter
(and some subdir under this) this are two corresponding files
with a .pmdb extension.  Does anybody have any docs or
knowledge of this file format?

Has anybody already hooked up an Imagewriter II to a Next?

Thanks in advance!
-cj
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From: jbatson@cayman.com (Jay Batson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail address lists in Mail.app
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:50:17 GMT
Reply-To: jbatson@cayman.com
Distribution: usa

I am at a site with two NeXT machines, and a plethora of Sun's/....  As you  
might expect, I manually administer my NeXT separately from what our mainstream  
administrator does.

I would like the "Addresses" panel within Mail.app to contain the contents of  
our corporate smtp "aliases" file.  Since we don't run Netinfo for any other  
systems, I have no idea where Mail.app get's its information.  I can enter all  
the names manually, but our organization is large enough that a) this is  
sufficiently time consuming that it isn't worth the effort, and b) the list  
changes in some way virtually daily, and I'd spend forever making manual  
changes.

So I need it done in some automated way.  My NeXT machine can see the corporate  
aliases file (via NFS) but is there an automated way to get the information re:  
user names, groups, etc. in to the place where Addresses in the Mail.app are  
stored?

There is another way to ask this question: if I were an all-NeXT site, where  
would this feature get it's info from?
--
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Product Marketing
Cayman Systems, Inc.
jbatson@cayman.com
(617) 494-1999
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Chuck Kincaid)
Subject: running X remote
Organization: University of Fl, Department of Statistics
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:57:09

Hello,
	I think that that is what the subject line should be.  I have
a NeXTstation running NS2.1 and the MIT X11R4 distribution.  I am hooked
directly into the network here on campus (UF).  I would like to login to
a S*n and set the DISPLAY variable to be my NeXT's X server.  Then I
could run applications with windows, etc.
	So I say  
		setenv DISPLAY 128.227.8.68:0 
which is the IP number of my station.  However, it tells me that the
client does not have authorization to connect to server.  Can anyone
tell me what I am missing?  How do i provide authorization?  Better yet,
where can i look this up in the manuals?  
	Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

charles d. kincaid
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: death@netcom.com (David Burrowes)
Subject: Wanted: hint about news software installation
Followup-To: death@kira.net.netcom.com 
Summary: maybe all I want is your localize.sh for B news 2.11 
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:31:40 GMT

I have installed B news 2.11 on my NeXTcube for use with Newsgrazer.
Things mostly seem to work, but I think I'm loosing some articles, and
having various other little problems (lots of uucp-bounce messages).
  a) Should I be using some other version of the news software?
  b) If this is the right one, could someone send me a copy of their
     localize.sh file used for either NS2.1 or 3.0, so I can figure
     out what setting(s) I'm being stupid and not setting right?

Thanks!

\david john burrowes
From: rick@panther.net.wsu.edu (Rick Wegner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to get arrow keys to work with vi
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:59:40 GMT
Reply-To: rick@panther.net.wsu.edu
Organization: Washington State University

I'm having problems getting the arrow keys to cursor position in vi. I've tried  
the supplied termcap entries to no avail, and am using "terminal". Anyone got  
any clues? Thanks.

--
Rick Wegner, Network Communication Services
Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
Internet: rick@panther.net.wsu.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
Subject: Re: Mail address lists in Mail.app
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:04:05 GMT

In <1992Dec22.190030.6358@sunova.ssc.gov> faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught) writes:


>I can't vouch for it's usefulness, but this is what I use:

>#! /bin/sh
>cd /LocalLibrary/Images/People
>ypcat -k aliases | grep , | sort | sed "s/ /:/g" >> aliases

You might also try:

ln -s /Net/foo/etc/aliases /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases

Is anyone running procmail on a NeXT ??

... Richard <tilley@tilley.cc.umanitoba.ca>

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From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Subject: No Sound - please help
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:10:59 GMT

Well I came in this morning and my NSTC makes no sound. 
I checked in preferences and mute is not selected.

Any ideas?

Eric

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Subject: Re: HELP: Can't login as root on console
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:13:07 GMT

: In article <86@blue.cis.pitt.edu> rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers)  
: writes:
: > I have a NextStation which will not let me login as root on the console.
: > I can login as myself and su to root.
: > 
: > Specifically, when I try to login as root I get the following result:
: > The WorkspaceManager comes up as expected and the arrow cursor appears  
: for  
: > about 1 second and then reverts to the spinning wheel.  Then an error  
: > window pops up and says 
: > 
: > Workspace error:
: >   Internal error (signal 10) occurred.  Try to save changes to files
: >   in other applications before logging out.
: > 
: > If I then go into the NMI monitor and say 'msg' I see the error message:
: >   Workspace[240]: NFS read error 13 on pagein.
: > 
: > Any ideas what's going on here?
: > 
: > Robert C Cyphers
: > rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu
: > University of Pittsburgh

from /usr/include/sys/errno.h
#define EACCES          13              /* Permission denied */
from /usr/include/nfs/nfs.h
        NFSERR_ACCES=EACCES,            /* Permission denied */

In short, you need to have root access to the nfs server's partitions in
order to login as root.  This is a hemeroid.   

So re-export from the server with -root=hostname1,hostname2,hostname3...
for whatever hosts you want to be able to log in as root.

=> Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 
=> University of Alberta         Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=         
=> tel:403 492-3713                             fax: 403 492-4256 <=         
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Subject: Re: No Sound - please help
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:07:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.153712.17161@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.151059.11751@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
>>Well I came in this morning and my NSTC makes no sound. 
>>I checked in preferences and mute is not selected.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>MORE info: on powerup the sound test fails with error code: e2
>
>HELP!
>>Eric
>>
>
>

Well, NeXT is sending out a new motherboard for Motorola to install.
Apparently my sound chip is dead - bummer.
Anyway, case closed thanks folks.   

Eric

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ijeff@hank.carleton.ca (Ian Jefferson)
Subject: Re: running PC-NFS with NeXT
Keywords: PC-NFS
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:57:48 GMT

Just a comment on NFS packages for PC's.  Have a look at products for
Beame&Whiteside, and from FTP software.  

We use B&W with DOS 5 and still have ~600KB free memory (ugh) so
applications can still run. (a nice feature :-)

My experience with um ... Other NFS products for the PC was that you 
could run the network or you could run your apps but not both.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
From: mikhe@ida.liu.se (Mike Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: End of NeXT
Date: 25 Dec 92 14:10:11 GMT
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden

rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:

>	has exactly been the users friend ("Hey, let's design our
>	machines without parallel ports, sell a brainless laser engine
>	and paper feed in a box and make it impossible for users to 
>	buy much more powerful printers for themselves!!"  -- re: 
>	NeXT $1000+ "dumb" printer vs. just about any printer in the 

Duh?

If you've already got a 68040 doing the postscript rendering for you already,
then why would you want to buy a printer that does it to. Do you always do
everything twice and pay more for doing it? Big deal if there isn't a parallel
port; if it is communication speed you need then why don't you hang your
printer off the ethernet hose? As if the download to the printer is really the
bottleneck anyway...

I print on my HP LaserJet faster through the serial port than any high end PC
through the parallel port. This is fact.

>	last 4 years), and not to be xenophobic or paranoid or anything,
>	but we are already in a pretty bad way and don't need our software
>	industry's jewels going overseas as well.

Hate to burst your bubble but there is more foreign ownership in U.S. (big)
buisiness than original U.S. ownership. Has been since the start. Or maybe you
don't count the British (by far the largest owners) as foreign... B^)

BTW, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (Y'all too, Netters)

		-Mike
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From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
Subject: Re: End of NeXT(It's only the beginning...)
Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 18:38:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.100912.2524@microsoft.com> edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung)  
writes:
> filibert@ohsu.edu writes:
> 
> >Unfortunately, the problems are generally all solved
> >before Microsoft gets to work on a solution.  If this isn't
> >the case, then could you possibly tell us one problem that
> >NT solves that isn't solved already by NeXTStep, or OS/2
> >for that matter?
>
[lots of low-level stuff about NT internals deleted]
> 
> I expect these OS's are all about the same overall from
> a technical standpoint. NT is not a super-standout, but
> it is a reasonable foundation upon which subsequent technology
> can be built. It is that work which is more interesting --
> again, base OS services are not that interesting any more.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Then why do you cite nothing but base OS services as positive
points for NT?

--
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Looks good on the outside, but -
	intel inside
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Subject: Re: End of NeXT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:50:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.145119.7923@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <1992Dec26.183705.4765@cuug.ab.ca> wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wilco
>x 229-3361) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec25.144047.4289@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
>writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec24.211611.15877@cuug.ab.ca> wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wi
>lcox 229-3361) writes:
>>>>Are you sure you mean vapor? There are developers out there with beta
>>>>copies.
>>>      You can *buy* NT _right now_ for $69.  Call MS.
>>No, you can buy the NT SDK. NT is not shipping a release version yet.
>>It's still beta testing and won't be released for quite a while. There's
>>an email address you can contact if you want to beta test NS486. Just
>>because MS will sell you a copy of beta software doesn't mean it's shipping.
>
>
>        Can you buy the beta of NS486--right now?
>
>	<Incidentally, people who buy the beta get the release version
>	for free>
>
>
>>In any event, the term vapor is commonly applied to annoounced but
>>non-existant software. If you choose to use the term incorrectly, that's
>>your problem.
>
>
>        You do not understand the term.  As it stands, software that
>        is demoed but not available is *vapor*.   Take, for instance,
>        the Mac-emulator-for-PC's that has been demoed on OS/2.  It
>        has been demoed at least three times in the last year (I know
>        someone who was present for one of the demonstrations)
>        yet--wouldn't you term this vapor?
>
>        I sure would.  The Apple Newton has been shown.  Is it
>        real or is it vapor?
>
>        NS486 has been demoed.  It cannot be purchased in stores.
>	It cannot be ordered.  It cannot be reliably judged.
>        Until such time as it has even limited availability and
>        can be judged by something other than NeXTs press releases
>        (which have repeatedly shown themselves to be a little
>        less than truthful) it is v a p o r.
>

In this realm of virtual software, I'd have to say that NS486 which is
after all just a port of NS, is somewhat less vapor than NT.  NT is
completely unproven.  NS486 (aka NS) will have at least some mileage behind
it when it is announced.  There are parts of NS486 (low level drivers and
the like) that will be pretty new, but the core will not be completely new
because of Mach.  NT whenever it hits the market will still be very raw and
at every layer, with the possible exception of its Window interface.



-- 
Jerry S. Weiss	  "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the antimatter!"
j-weiss@nwu.edu    Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School
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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Subject: Re:   100 Mips Intel NeXT (moved from comp.sys.next.misc)
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:35:58 GMT


In article <1992Dec20.051209.9684@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
>Is RAM cheap?	yes, yes, yes.

Nothing is ever cheap, it's merely affordable. Affordability is a subjective
thing. Saying that a particular resource is not expensive does not pardon
people from ineffecient use of that resource.
-- 
Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
From: brook@netcom.com (Lev Belov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: 	100 Mips Intel NeXT (moved from comp.sys.next.misc)
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:56:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

I just want to contribute my $.02 in the price discussion going on here.

The following is a quote from one of the latest Computer Shoppers:

Tri-Win EISA

i486DX2/66
340 MB SCSI Maxtor drive and 32-bit EISA controller
8 MB (expandable to 64) RAM
256K cache
Stealth VRAM video (1280x1024 16(??) colors I think)
17" Flat screen monitor
serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard, Windoze, etc.

$4795.  Let's add $500 for 16 MB more.  $5295.

It's about twice as low as NSTC and try to say me it's much slower...

I'm considering buying a NS-capable computer and 486-based still look
much better to me.

Lev
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Avance Technologies, Inc.           Phone: (415) 321-9977
90 Middlefield Rd. #104             Fax:   (415) 321-9978
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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