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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:04:00 PDT
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From:         CSP1DWD@UCLAMVS.BITNET
Subject:      Netbios Programming : Good Books and/or C-Libraries ?

Hi everybody,

I want to do some Netbios programming using Borland C++ in a Novell network.
The outcome is supposed to be an inter-workstation-communication library,
so that a C-program running on an arbitrary machine in the network can
send and receive binary data to/from any other machine. The library
might be ported to non-Novell protocols later, that is the reason to use
Netbios rather than SPX/IPX.

Can anybody recommend a good book and/or a C-library for Netbios ? Was Netbios
designed by Microsoft, should I get the MS-Docs so ?

Could you respond by e-mail, I will summarize if there is enough interest.

Thanks for any info, Ernst.

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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:23:12 -0500
From:         Paul V Hardiman <hardiman@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ETHERNET interface card for IBM 3720
X-To:         IBM-NETS%BITNIC.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU

In article <IBM-NETS%92072816221157@BITNIC.EDUCOM.EDU> you write:
>Is there an Ethernet interface card for IBM 3720 remote communications
>controller?.  My problem is how to connect an IBM 4341 mainframe to
>an Ethernet backbone, if possible through the IBM 3720.
>
>Xavier Salmon


The only LAN interface supported in the 3720 is 4mbps token ring.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:31:00 -0600
From:         Vide Infra <CEARLEY_K%WIZARD@COLORADO.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Questions TCP/IP to SNA - LU6.2 gateways

Jason, I would be interested in what response you get to this. We get
about 80K throughput on a 3090 XL60 class machine heavily loaded with
transaction processing using Interlink's FTP across a McDATA 6100E to
ethernet. Will have some stats on a BTI interface soon. If you can
get 200K with LU 6.2, we would be very interested...

                -Kent Cearley
                -University of Colorado, Boulder
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:48:05 CDT
From:         Alan Hinds 6-4541 <U32472@UICVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: GDDM and Postscript
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              from 6381710@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM

> On Wed, 3 Jun, Tom Merrick said:
>
>>An even easier way is to generate PSEGxxxx or LISTxxxx and then use the
>>PREPPS command from ProcessMaster to convert it to postscript.
>
> And also said:
>>On the down side, all PSEGxxxx files and includes of them all print out
>>correctly, but are done as bit images (not as lines, etc).  This is due
>>to the format of the APA format of the PSEGxxxx files.
>
> For me the REALLY BIG down side is that the whatever activity converted
> GDDM to the PSEG or LISTxxxx file converts my GDDM colors to black and white
> PSEG/LIST, so the PREPPS conversion can only gives me a non-color Postscript
> file.  B/W is okay in some cases, but sometimes I've been in the middle of
> this conversion activity before I've remembered that I'm going to lose
> my colors!

I have a different problem with PREPPS.  PREPPS converts my PSEG/LIST files
to postscript, but the aspect ratio of the output is changed.  My circles
print as elipses.  On 8.5X11.0 inch paper, the ratio of the major to minor
axes of the ellipses appears to be about 11/8.5.  Since I factored PREPPS
out of the ProcessMaster package by hand, I may be missing something that
is normally handled by ProcessMaster menus.  In particular, I have no
clue to what are valid PREPPS options.  All I pulled off the ProcessMaster
tape are the files:
                      CHARNAME PSTABLE
                      FONTNAME PSTABLE
                      HEADER   PS
                      PREPPS   EXEC
                      PREPPS   MAP
                      PREPPS   MODULE
                      IBMAFPDS PSEBCDIC
                      IBMAFPDS PSPROLOG
The PREPPS exec accepts options, which it passes on to PREPPS MODULE, but
the exec does not document the legal options.  Does anyone see right off
the cause of my problem?  Must I install all of ProcessMaster to use PREPPS
successfully?  Thanks for any suggestions.  - Alan Hinds
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:28:31 EDT
From:         bmcconne <bmcconne@VTSERF.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      NOTICE - SGANet libraries offline
X-To:         sganet@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu, sganet-n@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu,
              sganet-s@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu, sganet-e@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu,
              sganet-a@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu, sganet-t@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu

Just a general notice to everyone. The SGANet file libraries are no longer
available for automated retrieval. The files were removed due to disk space
limitations at the computing centre here at Virginia Tech. As was mentioned
previously, we are looking at other options (i.e. we just started a gopher
server here at Tech, so that might be an option, among other things)

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Have a nice summer!

Brian McConnell, SGANet Moderator
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:23:08 PDT
From:         "Eric P. Scott" <eps@TOASTER.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: file ownership with external drive

>       /dev/sda1 /UserDisk rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
               ^^
           try 1a

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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:02:40 -0500
From:         "Kelly Cunningham Random Deviate" <F_CNNGHAMJK@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU>
Subject:      ...could not connect to print daemon...

Hello all,

Can anyone tell me why an application would fail to connect to the printing
daemon?  I strongly suspect it has something to do with permissions...

Randomly, Kelly Cunningham
<deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu>  NeXTMail (encouraged)
<f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> VMS Mail (tolerated)
"Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to
listen to only new music." -- Scott Simon
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:05:31 CDT
From:         bsielaff@TAHITI.UMHC.UMN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Changing Time

> Anybody know how I can change the network time on the file server? We
> are running about 20 minutes slower and I can't change the time on
> the file server via Preferences at all for an unknown reason (i.e.
> it's fixed). What should I do?
>


Use the unix utility "date" in a terminal window.

Bruce H. Sielaff, Ph.D.
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota

<bsielaff@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu>
(NeXT mail welcome)
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:14:57 EDT
From:         TOM RASSMANN <ISS26@ESDSDF.DNET.GE.COM>
Subject:      file ownership with external drive

I recently purchased an external hard disk for my NeXTStation Turbo.  I'm
having a problem with file ownership.  Here are the symptoms of the problem:

If I log in as "root", everything seems to be fine (user files/directories show
the individual user as the owner).  But, when a user logs in, the user shows
up as the owner of the hard disk and every file contained in it.  So much for
file permissions...

Could someone please help me out?!

Note:  I put the following line in the /etc/fstab file:
       /dev/sda1 /UserDisk rw,noquota,noauto 0 2

                         Thanks,

                         Tom Rassmann
                         iss26@esdsdf.dnet.ge.com
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:17:37 EDT
From:         jon@AFS.COM
Subject:      Maxtor drives

Does anyone have any experience with using Maxtor hard drives on a
NeXT? I've been offered one, but I've heard that there is a different
PROM for each kind of computer.

Is it possible to get the correct PROM?


Its a 330 megger.

Also, could anyone supply me with a phone number for Maxtor?

Thanks,

Jon Hendry
jon@afs.com
hendryjw@duvm.bitnet
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:35:24 -0400
From:         "David C. J. Leip" <david@SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA>
Subject:      File Viewer

I've noticed that when using the icon view in the file viewer that when in
certain directories icons are arranged and rearranged automatically as files
are added and deleted, such that there are no vacant positions between the
icons and they're in alphabetical order. Within other directories, however, the
file icon is simply added on at the bottom of the viewer. Can anyone tell me
why this is and how to change it.

btw, Has anyone ever noticed that Digital Webster's sometimes looks-up what
would seem to be the definition of the succeeding word in the dictionary.
This problem seems to be limited to many of the words ending with 'est'
(ie. best, jest, nest, pest, quest, rest, vest, west, etc.)

- David

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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:56:01 BST
From:         next@MATHS.TCD.IE
Subject:      Netboot NeXT from Suns - How?

Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible to netboot NeXTs from a Sun Server and
how one would go about doing it. There are some people here who are
interested in getting some NeXTs, but they are not sure if they can get a
server, and they want them to netboot from an existing server. I presume
it can be done, using the relevant TCP/IP protocol, but how do I set the Sun
up to act as a boot server for the NeXTs.

If you could please mail me with any ideas/suggestions/success stories I
would be very grateful. I will post a summary to this list if requested.

Thanks in advance,

Peter.

next@maths.tcd.ie
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:35:10 GMT
From:         Graham Lindgren 267-4614 <lindgren@CUUGNET.CUUG.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Maxtor drives

I have the XT-8000S Product Specification and OEM Technical Manual (1988)
which covers the XT-8380S (unformated capacity of 410.09 MB) and the
XT-8760S (unformated capacity of 768.92 MB).  I believe the only difference
in PROMS between drives would be a newer drive may have a newer PROM which
makes a small change or improvement to the drive but should not effect its
compatibility.  Maxtor reserves the right to do this.  If you have any other
specific questions, please feel free to email me. By the way,

MAXTOR CORPORATION
Technical Publications
211 River Oaks Parkway
San Jose, California 95134
Telephone: (408) 432-1700
Telex: 171074
FAX: (408) 434-6469

Graham Lindgren
lindgren@cuug.ab.ca
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From: uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel)
Subject: Re:      file ownership with external drive
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:47:25 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

In article <9207251914.AA14360@aitgw.ge.com>,         TOM RASSMANN <ISS26@ESDSDF.DNET.GE.COM> writes:
|> 
|> Note:  I put the following line in the /etc/fstab file:
|>        /dev/sda1 /UserDisk rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
|> 
Besides the 'sd1a' another one mentioned, you should consider deleting
the ',noauto'. This way you will have it mounted automatically. If
there is another way to do this nicely (I just don't want to have
a separate file browser window for my external hd, but for a floppy
that I insert, I want it), I would be glad to hear about it.
My problem is that if you decide to boot the NeXT without the external
drive, you are only able to enter the single user mode in a pretty
small window (at least if you boot in 'picture mode').

Uli
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:18:09 CDT
From:         Theo Petersen <paisley@BILBO.SUITE.COM>
Subject:      Re: File Viewer

From: "David C. J. Leip" <david@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>

> I've noticed that when using the icon view in the file viewer that when
> in certain directories icons are arranged and rearranged
> automatically as files are added and deleted, such that there are no
> vacant positions between the icons and they're in alphabetical
> order. Within other directories, however, the file icon is simply
> added on at the bottom of the viewer. Can anyone tell me why this is and
> how to change it.

>

If you open the Workspace Inspector and look at Contents for the directory, you
 can see
how to set the directory to manual positioning or sorted by this and that.  I
 can't seem to
make this attribute stick, though.

..Theo
Theo_Petersen@suite.com
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:22:08 EDT
From:         TOM RASSMANN <ISS26@ABTAO.DNET.GE.COM>
Subject:      Re: file ownership with external drive

Thanks to all who replied to my problem.
The 'sda1' was a typo in the mail message.  My fstab file had sd1a.  A number of
people sent examples of what they used in their fstab.  The main problem seemed
to be that I need a '4.3' in the line and I also had to take out the noauto.
With these changes, the line appears as follows:

/dev/sd1a /UserDisk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

Everything seems to work as I would expect.  The drive appears with all the file
ownerships in tact.  Obviously, I'm not a Unix expert (but I'm learning fast).

Lesson #1:  Never trust a magazine article (unless you really know what you're
doing).  My original attempt was taken straight out of NeXTWorld Magazine
(Spring 1992).

                           Thanks again

                                    Tom Rassmann
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:00:16 PDT
From:         "Eric P. Scott" <eps@TOASTER.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: dwrite command and the loginwindow

>	What I was wondering was if anyone knows of anymore dwrite
>possibilities for the loginwindow (is there a list of them somewhere).

loginwindow registers the following defaults:

loginwindow DebugHook
loginwindow DefaultUser (me)
loginwindow HostName
loginwindow ImageFile
loginwindow LoginHook
loginwindow LogoutHook
loginwindow PowerOffDisabled

It also looks for:

loginwindow WindowServerTimeout (45)

It uses the users' values for:

loginwindow Workspace
NeXT1 AutoDimTime
NeXT1 ClickSpace
NeXT1 ClickTime
NeXT1 InitialKeyRepeat
NeXT1 Keymap
NeXT1 KeyRepeat
NeXT1 MouseHandedness
NeXT1 MouseButtonsTied
NeXT1 MouseScaling
NeXT1 VisualBeep
NeXT1 SystemBeep
System Language (English)
System PublicSoundServer
System PublicWindowServer
System BoldSystemFont (Helvetica-Bold)
System SystemFont (Helvetica)
System SystemFontSize (12.0)
System umask

>2. 	I have seen some NeXT's whose login window displays the
>name of the machine on the window.  What I have discovered is
>that the name changes as you change the name of the machine.  It
>is not hardcoded into the loginwindow by editing the tiff image
>of the window.  Is there a dwrite command for this?

dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost

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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:39:53 GMT-0800
From:         Philip Oster <phil@BLACKICE.COM>
Subject: Small Transgression from NeXT Topics

I know this is a NeXT related list, and only NeXT topics should be
posted.  Please allow me this small transgression.  At my office, I
write a small newsletter  now and then.  It turns up, some of the
employees thought it would be funny to send anonomys letters to my
mailbox for answering (eg. Dear Abby type of thing)  I thought I
throw two out to all 'yall for fun.


1. 	Why do men think they are so neglected / abused?
2.	Is it possible to learn to like weak coffee, or is it a sex
	thing?


I appreciate some help with these, and if I really upset anyone by
adding an extra 10K to their mail today, I apologize.


Thanks,

Phil		phil@blackice.com

		NeXTMail Preferred
		Non-NeXTMail okay, but why?
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:19:35 EDT
From:         jon@AFS.COM
Subject:      Help!!!

If someone knows how to get in touch with Liveware, please tell them
to STOP!! sending out copies of WormHole. I've received about 20
today. Our modem's been off the hook almost all day. At abut 150k
each, it's really eating up our time and money.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:01:08 EDT
From:         "Jonathan Hendry" <HENDRYJW@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Netboot NeXT from Suns - How?

I don't think you can have a NeXT "netboot" from a SUN. In fact, if the
NeXT has at least a 105 meg HD you won't have to. You can place all of the
auxillary files (Developer release stuff) on the Sun. Where I work we have
six (soon to be ten) NeXT's being served by a Sun IPC. Totally transparent.
I think you just use the regular Sun NFS stuff. I'm not the sysadmin,
so I don't know the details.

The user home directories are located on the Sun.

Hope this helps.

Jon
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:58:00 EDT
From:         JOSE@CLEMSON.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Anarchism

On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:57:00 EDT DGPAZ said:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:59:06 EDT Lenny <LABBEY@GTRI01.BITNET> said:
> > The only mistake that I can see that McKinley made was in not keeping
> > Cuba.  We are paying for that mistake now.
> >
> McKinley was dead when the USA gave the Cubans their
> pseudo-independence. We made the Cubans put in their
> constitution a proviso that permitted the USA to
> intervene whenever we pleased. Castro removed that
> proviso.
>
> In what way are we paying for the 'mistake'? It looks to
> me like the Cubans are the ones paying for the history
> of US interventionism.
>
> Denis Paz                                                               .
> dgpaz@clemson.bitnet


The Platt Amendment, which authorized US reintervention in Cuba in
certain situations, was abrogated in 1934, not by Castro, though Cuban
dislike of "Plattism" as a legal reality before 1934 and a political
and cultural style after, no doubt aided Castro's rise to power and
continues to influence Cuban attitudes towards the US.

Joe Arbena
Clemson Univ.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:45:00 EDT
From:         32WHEELER@CUA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: AIDS and CAWKI

What's a "normal" man?  Where can one meet them?

Carol
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:57:00 EDT
From:         DGPAZ@CLEMSON.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Anarchism

On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:59:06 EDT Lenny <LABBEY@GTRI01.BITNET> said:
> The only mistake that I can see that McKinley made was in not keeping
> Cuba.  We are paying for that mistake now.
>
McKinley was dead when the USA gave the Cubans their
pseudo-independence. We made the Cubans put in their
constitution a proviso that permitted the USA to
intervene whenever we pleased. Castro removed that
proviso.

In what way are we paying for the 'mistake'? It looks to
me like the Cubans are the ones paying for the history
of US interventionism.

Denis Paz                                                               .
dgpaz@clemson.bitnet
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:09:25 BST
From:         Christopher Currie <c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: AIDS and CAWKI

>
>
> Christopher, the infection to death span for syphilis is on the order
> of 30 years.  For AIDS it is about 8 years.
>

In all cases of syphilis? Surely the 16th-century European epidemics of
syphilis killed people much more quickly.

Christopher
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:03:09 CDT
From:         Lynn Nelson <LHNELSON@UKANVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Pouring sharkbait on troubled waters.

I wonder if anyone has considered that Castro -- of pure Spanish "blood",
well-to-do and well-educated -- overthrew Fulgencio Batista -- of Indian
extraction and poverty-stricken parents? Has anyone compared the faces of
Cuban officialdom under Castro with those in power under Batista?

And Corazon Aquino -- wealthy, well-educated, and "Spanish" -- replaced
Fernando Marcos, mixed "blood" and poor parents?  And Noriega, of mixed
"blood"and poor parents?

Why hasn't anyone brought up the question of racism?

Lynn the Peacemaker
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:04:42 CST
From:         GA3545@SIUCVMB.BITNET
Subject:      Re: meet John Doe

During the "Coughlin era" wasn't there a California M.D. that
also was going to save country?  Does anybody have this person's
name and know what happened to him?  I think he ran against
FDR in 1936.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:13:40 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: AIDS and CAWKI
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              Jul 21, 92 1:10 pm

>
> REPLY TO 07/21/92 13:06 FROM HISTORY@RUTVM1.BITNET "History": Re: AIDS and
> CAWKI
>
> >>  Of course if the virus can mutate to a form in which it is
> >>more easily transmissible -e.g. a respiratory form - then we may face
> >>extinction.
> >
> >Even the bubonic plague, which had a respiratory form, did not lead to
> >extinction.
>
> extinction of a species has been most often due to radical changes in
> its environment, not to disease.  yes, we may be facing extinction,
> but i think it may be self-inflicted, not viral.
>
> To:  HISTORY@RUTVM1.BITNET
>
There is a school of thought that AIDS is itself a result of the
degradation of the environment; it then contributed to the alteration
of the environment and so it goes...

And Re: bubonic plague, spreading  in respiratory form not causing
extinction: it's hardly a source of comfort and need not justify
complacency, as the two are very different types of diseases, the
origins and causes of the bubonic plague are positively child's
play (scientifically speaking) when compared to AIDS.

BTW, a very good question and one that is not given enough attention.
And yes, historians can have a great deal to offer on the social consequences
of pandemics, based on past cases, lessons of which we (or at least our
policymakers) ought to be cognizant.

Agnes
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