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From: da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Apfelbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Linking to SPARC based ORACLE using DBKit ?
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:46:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YfFwx=G00WA74v8YUO
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Sorry folks, but my email bounces to the origianl sender & I thought
this might be of general use...


Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.programmer: 18-Dec-92 Re: Linking to
SPARC based .. by Neil Greene@??? 
>In article <1992Dec18.180203.4193@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> sheep@tankgirl (Sheep  
>T. Iconoclast) writes:
>>
>>  <Messege deleted for space, basically questions about connecting to
>>   an oracle server on a SPARC from a NeXT, and said difficulties...>
> 
>You will have to modify your NeXT NetInfo database alittle to allow it to  
>communicate with the Oracle server on port 1525.  This information can now  
>be found in the 93_Winter_NeXTAnswers, but here it is:
> 

Keep in mind that this is merely registering the tcp socket-port number.
 It also helps to be running the deamon process that will listen on this
socket -- namely oracle's ORASRV.  Note: DBKit can NOT talk to Oracle
without this process running!  (Even when it's on the same machine...)

I suggest you ask the SPARC guys to contact Oracle & obtain this program!



> 
>Also remember, that the Oracle Adaptor is _only_ going to see tables owned  
>by the user logging into the Oracle server thru the adaptor.  To see  
>tables used by others for use in the DBModeler, see the following. Also  
>found in 93_Winter_NeXTAnswers:
> 

humf.   Running DBModeler, under the "Entity" menu, 
select "Choose Entities...".  Then log into oracle as the oracle user of
your choice.  Select the tables you wish to build a model for...  Boom,
your halfway there...  (You still need to enter the relationships... 
And allow the original account permission to select said tables...)

Anyway, it makes life easier...


>If that still does not work, I would check for the correct information to  
>be correct:
> 
>          Oracle instance name (this is the database name)
>          Oracle user account
>          Oracle user password
>        


YES!!!  Particularly check that the letter-CASE is correct!  And that
your NeXT can access the SPARC-machine!  (telnet sparc.machine??).


Good luck.

        -David.
From: reggie@stein.u.washington.edu (Reginald Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: c++ and Project Builder (was: Problems using gcc 2.3.3)
Keywords: c++, g++, Objective-C++, Project Builder
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:43:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1ilhltINN6cn
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu

vin@netcom.com (Vin Locke) writes:


>To summarize, my goal is to use both c++ and Objective C in the same app;
>I must be able to do one of the following:
>	1) find a way to get the compiler bundled with NS3.0 to compile my 
>		    c++ code and link it with the rest of the app
>	2) get PB to know how to compile the c++ code with the g++ compiler 
>		    AND link it with the app.
>		
>I would much appreciate hearing from anyone who has succeeded with such.
>(please, no flames about using c++ )
>Also, if anyone from NeXT would care to expand upon the quoted release notes,
>I would very much like to hear it.  Is Objective-C++ (mentioned in 
>release notes) NeXT's dialect of c++?


	Maybe I should have posted a summary of what I did since I was
the original poster of the gcc thread.
	1) I got rid of gcc-2.3.3 It was useless for what I wanted to
do ( have an integrated environment)
	2) I have installed libg++-1.39.0, putting a soft link from
the includes into /usr/include/g++-include. The libg++.a is in
/usr/local/lib.
	3) When I compile things I use:
	    gcc -g -O -I/usr/include/g++-include -L/usr/local/lib thing.cc
	4) Everything now works fine and I am happly C++ing and
Objective-Cing.

Thank the gods for comp.sys.next.*

				Reggie	
>	   
>   
>-- 
>                                         --vin
>vin@netcom.com
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>If productivity can really be measured as the rate at which lines of
>code are produced, why not just use a tight loop to spew code as fast
>as possible, and send the programmers home?
>                                            --Brad Cox

> 

-------------------
Reginald S. Perry                               | I'm a Husky Fan
reggie@quantum.phys.washington.edu  (NeXTMail)  | I'm a NeXTSTEP Man 
reggie@u.washington.edu             (OtherMail) |
                                                | GO DAWGS!!!
                                                |________________________
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NeXTSTEP engineer positions available at ICTV (Santa Clara, CA)
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:10:05 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

ICTV currently has 2 NeXT based engineering positions available.
ICTV (Interactive Consumer Television) is a Silicon Valley start up
company, with excellent advancement opportunities and a competitive
compensation package. ICTV is currently building a consumer oriented
interactive multimedia system for near term deployment.

ICTV is an  equal opportunity employer.

JUNIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER/ ADMINISTRATOR

Minimal requirements include:
- BA or equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
- At least 6 months experience with NeXTSTEP.
- A strong Unix/C background.
- A desire to learn.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Minimal requirements include:
- MS or equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years industry experience.
- 1-2 years NeXTStep experience or solid background in object
   oriented development.
- A solid Unix/C background.
- Strong knowledge in at least one of the following areas:
    * Distributed Computing, Networking, and Client/Server
        architectures
    * Database design experience
    * Language design
    * Communications
    * Multimedia systems
    * Video
    * Audio and Video Compression algorithms.

Successful applicants must be willing to work in a team
environment and be energized to meet aggressive deadlines.

If you are interested in MultiMedia it is happening here.  Send
(preferably EMAIL) a cover letter and resume describing your
experience to:

Bruce D. Nilo
VP Software Systems c/o ICTV
280 Martin Ave.
Santa Clara, CA 95050

FAX: 408 986 9566
EMAIL bruce@ictv.com (NeXT Mail Welcome.)
From: campb001@casey.mc.duke.edu (Jim Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: is mixing libg in with appkit/dbkit worth the effort
Keywords: libg appkit
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:04:18 GMT
Reply-To: campb001@mc.duke.edu


I'd like (I think) to use some of the libg classes in NeXT apps.  However,  
while I can build C++ (with libg) or Objective C programms seperately, I'm  
not having much luck mixing them together.  I'm using libg++-1.39.0 and  
looking at the sample Calculator program. I'm getting complaints when the  
appkit headers include things like math.h which end up coming out of the  
g++includes.

Having screwed around with this for a while, I'm wondering if it's worth  
the effort.  All I REALLY want is a String object :).  I'd hoped that libg  
would be a nice source of reliable software components, but I'm wondering  
if adding it in to the mix will really end up making my life harder.  Has  
anybody else mixed libg stuff in with the appkit or dbkit in production  
code?  Is it worth the effort?  

--
Jim Campbell
Duke Univ. Med. Center Info. Systems 
campb001@mc.duke.edu (NeXT Mail ok) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Subject: Re: The Darker Side of C++ (forwarded)
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:51:54 GMT

In article <63320@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>>I thought some Obj-C users would find it interesting.
[munch munch]
>>
>>                       ANNOUNCEMENT OF A LECTURE
>>                       
>>                    
>>                    -- "THE DARKER SIDE OF C++" --
>>                    
>>                     Wednesday, January 27, 1993
>>               15.15 o'clock (end at 17.00 at the latest)
>>
>>
>>          Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - Site Ecublens
>>          Batiments du Departement d'informatique - room INR 219
>>         
>>
>>           by MARKKU SAKKINEN, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
>>
>>
[munch munch]

>>The worst disadvantage of C++ at the moment is political:  accepting
>>C++ as the standard OO language de facto tends to kill other existing
>>languages, and stifle the development of a new generation of
>>essentially better OO languages.

Aaaaaaaaaamen!!

--
Ronald Pomeroy		[Objective-Cruntime: [Smalltalk runtime]];
Advanced Micro Devices	[self dream-on];
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
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From: sunthej@alleg.edu (Jake Blues)
Subject: NeXT lex
Reply-To: sunthej@alleg.edu
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:22:43 GMT


I am having a problem with lex on NeXTSTEP 2.1.  It refuses to put the  
final '}' on my main() function when it is transformed to lex.yy.c. ie

   	%%

   	^File:.*     {};
   	^\*[^*].*    {};
   	%%

   	main()
   	{
	 	yylex();
   	}

is transformed into

	main()
	{
		yylex();

and I have to close the { by hand.  Has anyone else had this problem?
Anyone have any solutions.

I am using lex for the first time (on my own, not for class... I swear) so  
the problem could be the input, but I don't see how.

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From: optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (J.Cassidy - Optometry)
Subject: Re: Getting Renderman examples involving RiLightSource to work?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:19:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.000209.14805@csis.dit.csiro.au> pwm@csis.dit.csiro.au (Peter Milne) writes:
>Unfortunately thought, I haven't been able to get the next example on
>page 20 to work.  This example involves a RiLightSource call.
>When I execute this example I get the following warning msg:
>
>	Warning in context RMContext00001 in command RiLightSource :
>	nullpointer: 'light' == 0
>
>Cheers,
>    Peter	(milne@csis.dit.csiro.au)
>

I have been having precisely the same problem and would be
very interested in knowing if anyone has a solution!

=========================================================================
Jim Cassidy                           jcassidy@focus.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo                optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
200 University Ave.                   VE3RTS
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1     (519) 885-1211 ext. 6240



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From: nwc@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (Nick Christopher)
Subject: Re: NeXT lex
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:32:25 GMT


Do you have a newline after the final } ?

\n
From: oscar@msen.com (Oscar Linares)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: UNIX INTERFACE
Date: 6 Jan 1993 10:59:03 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


Subject:UNIX INTERFACE QUESTION
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Summary:
Keywords:

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a Nextstep 3.0 object that would allow me to interface to the UNIX
on a color turbo station.  Hopefully, an interface along the lines of the C-shell but which
would allow me to exploit the GUI features of the next.

Thanks in advance,

Oscar A. Linares, MD
Laboratory of Computers in Biomedical Applications
(oscar@msen.com)
From: schreier@next242.ECE.ORST.EDU (Richard Schreier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: C++
Keywords: C++
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:57:29 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: next242.ece.orst.edu

Thanks to the friendly folks at NeXT (Allen Denison),
who in turn acknowledges madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
I have managed to get C++ to go. Here is the magic.

Create a folder, say /me/tmp.
% mkdir tmp
% cd tmp

Get libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu
from the directory pub/gnu.
% ftp prep.ai.mit.edu
..

Get NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from next242.ece.orst.edu
from the directory pub.
% ftp next242.ece.orst.edu
..

Unpack the gnu stuff, and cd to the newly created directory.
% zcat libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z | tar xf -
% cd libg++-1.39.0

Unpack the mods file while in the newly created libg++-1.39.0 folder.
% zcat ../NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z | tar xf -

Create /usr/gnu, and /usr/gnu/lib (writable by whoever is doing this).
% mkdir /usr/gnu
% mkdir /usr/gnu/lib

Change Makefile line 32 to "PWD=/me/tmp/libg++-1.39.0"
				^^^^^^^ may need changing

Then
% make src			(takes a while--ignore the warnings)
% make install-lib"		(puts libg++.a in /usr/gnu/lib)
% make install-include-files"	(this puts the include files in 
				  /usr/gnu/lib/g++-include)
% make tests" 			(this takes rather a lot of disk space).  

There are differences from the expected output, most likely due to
finite precision effects.

Make a test program, x.cc, containing:
        #include <stream.h>
        main() {
          cout << " Hello world!\n";
        }
Compile it.
% cc++ -I/usr/gnu/lib/g++-include -O x.cc -L/usr/gnu/lib -lg++
Run it.
% a.out
It should print
 Hello world!

And THAT IS ALL!

--
Professor Richard Schreier
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oregon State University			Tel (503)-737-2051
Corvallis, OR 97331-3211		Fax (503)-737-1300
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMail and .signature file
Date: 9 Jan 1993 05:00:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Reply-To: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: ah3.cal.msu.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


>Under 3.0 NeXTMail is not using the .signature file to append my name to
>messages.  News does this and I thought 2.0 mail did.
Does it in 2.0, I've never figured out how to get NeXTmail (Mail.app) to do a 
sig-type file?  If it does please let me know.


--

Gary J LaPointe
gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu
Michigan State University
Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley)
Subject: Re: Solution to -NXHost re-directs with SLIP
Keywords: SLIP
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:27:23 GMT

In <1993Jan9.080053.25350@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> jmack@space.ualberta.ca (Jim MacKinnon) writes:

>(for DialupIP version 920904)

>DialupIP will support '-NXHost' transactions across
>the slip interface. To set this up on my remote
>client, I started up the slip.rc early in the rc
>boot, and prevented en0 from being enabled in
>hostconfig. Thus slip0 will be the only interface

Doesn't this make the local ethernet port kinda useless?

... Richard
-- 
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From: dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow)
Subject: no email confirmation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:33:55 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Having two (possibly related) problems with NeXTMail.

1) No receipt is ever received (I request a read receipt, the addressee  
reads the message, but I never get a receipt).

2) The nodename on messages is being truncated  
(userid@crob.flint.umich.edu becomes userid@crob).  This is OK as long as  
our local nameserver is running, but when it is down (or overworked),  
messages are sent on to its nameserver for processing and the message  
bounces with Host Unknown. Also - it seems to only be doing it to messages  
destined for the same domain (userid@infotech.tamu.edu works OK).

thanks in advance

--
=================================================================
*NOT* an official document of the University of Michigan - Flint
=================================================================
            David A. Cheslow
			          
E-Mail    : dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu
From: lnb@netcom.com (Nick Brosnahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Keyboard Mapping
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:41:46 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Is there any way to remap the backquote, pipe, and backslash keys to a more
reasonable location on the original keyboard under NS 3.0?
I tried to set up the command key alternatives, but it isn't cooperating.

If anyone has done this or has any idea, please respond by e-mail to:
lnb@netcom.com.

Thanks
-- 
L. Nicholas Brosnahan, Jr.
INTERNET: lnb@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rc.local
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:33:45 GMT
Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Distribution: Distribution: 
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik

In article <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>  writes:
> Subject: 
> Summary: 
> Expires: 
> Sender: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch
> Followup-To: 
> Distribution: Distribution: 
> Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),  
Zurich, CH
> Keywords: nppower
> 
> 
> Hi people,
> since I have the new NextStep3.0, over all it's very good, I can't do
> some things I did bevore.
> 
> Especially things I want to do at boot-up time.
> 
> In NS2.1 I had entries in the rc.local to play a sound and to power the
> printer off. The entries looked something like this:
> 
> sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/mysound.snd &
> 
> ....
> 
> nppower off
> 
> ....
> 
> 

I always had to put a sleep <some seconds> before the nppower off command in  
rc.local. On the 'old' station and 2.1, 3 seconds were fine, now I need 5  
seconds or the printer won't turn off.

--
Robert Frank                         tel. + (061) 321 99 67                 
Institut fuer Informatik             fax  + (061) 321 99 15                 
University of Basel, Switzerland                                            
Mittlere Strasse 142      rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted)  
CH-4056 Basel          X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
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From: ian_stewart@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: Icon for scripts
Organization: PYRIAN - Software Group, San Francisco Calif, 415-664-1170
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:17:20 GMT

How do i assign an Icon to a shell script.
It looks really bad to have the normal icon.
I was trying to firgue out how to add an extension
and then where do I put the Icon resource so that 
Workspace will relate the two together.

Any answers is appreciated.

-- 
Ian H. Stewart                            |  voice/fax 415-664-1170
Pyrian Software Group                     |  CIS  71101,1260
Always looking for new SW to market       |  Net  Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com
NeXT,Mac,PC & Sun                         | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmack@space.ualberta.ca (Jim MacKinnon)
Subject: Solution to -NXHost re-directs with SLIP
Keywords: SLIP
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:00:53 GMT

(for DialupIP version 920904)

DialupIP will support '-NXHost' transactions across
the slip interface. To set this up on my remote
client, I started up the slip.rc early in the rc
boot, and prevented en0 from being enabled in
hostconfig. Thus slip0 will be the only interface
up on the client. You will get a couple of warnings
from nmserver (it will use a broadcast of 255.255.255.255)
but it's not fatal, and from then on, -NXHost re-directs
will work in either direction (although slowwwerr :-) ).

Also be sure that 'fake' arp entries exist on the server
for the remote client(s) as permanent and published. This
can be accomplished by adding an appropriate arp command
at the end of slip.rc (This makes the server a gateway to
your client from the rest of the internet - assuming also
that the client's name and IP is fully registered in your
domain - and will allow connectivity internet-wide).

Cheers,
--
James S. MacKinnon             Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Center for Subatomic Research  Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics          email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta          uucp  : uofaphys!jmack  iskye!jmack
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5       bitnet: jmack@triumfcl  jsm1@ualtamts
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:06:45 -0800
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: spock.dis.cccd.edu

In article <1993Jan5.222822.5009@midway.uchicago.edu> chwe@quads.uchicago.edu writes:
>I have been having all sorts of problems installing system 3.0
>on my external hard disk.  Before trying to upgrade, I had system 2.1
>on both my internal (105M Quantum from NeXT) and external (1G Fujitsu)--
>the external's SCSI ID was set up so that it would be the default
>bootup drive.
>After plugging in a friend's CD-rom with the 3.0 CD, and running 
>UpgradePrep.app from the CD-Rom tools diskette, it took me a long
>time to get the computer to read the CD-rom.  Finally it did and I
>did the automatic installation on my external drive, which seemed
>OK.  But after installation, booting from my external drive 
>puts me into a System Panic window, which eventually stops and
>then tries to boot again.  I tried booting from the CD-rom as detailed
>in the manuals but this did not work either.  If I unplug the external
>and CD-rom I can still boot up from my internal drive, luckily.  
>Currently I can't access my external drive at all (I've tried
>bsd(1,0,0) from the ROM Monitor to boot from my internal drive, 
>but I haven't tried changing the SCSI ID of the external drive,
>which involves opening the enclosure and moving the jumpers).
>
>Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated!  I've been
>out of the country for the last four months so I haven't been able 
>to keep up with the current folklore on system 3.0--so excuse me if
>this is an old question.  Please repost or send email (regular,
>not NeXT) to chwe@chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu.

I was testing the Ocean Vista 256 3.5 inch optical and learned the following:

1)   NS 3.0's BuildDisc Application doesn't seem to work; therefore
using the Optical as an external boot device won't work yet.

2)  There is a difference between device address and SCSI address.
I believe that the external peripheral should be SCSI #0 to become
the external boot device.  Also, in booting from the ROM monitor I believe
that one is addressing the device number which is different from the 
SCSI address.  I forget the exact designations but everything concerning
SCSI address and device numbers is explained in the upgrade documentation
provided with NS 3.0 CD.    

Hope this helps.  Good luck.


maurices


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