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From: trung@cs.bu.edu (Trung Dung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Emacs-3.0 problem?
Date: 12 Dec 92 22:37:05 GMT
Distribution: na,local
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA


Hi there,

I got the message "The event handler has exited abnormally with code 256"
when I first start up emacs-3.0. Any reasons/explanation/how to fix for this?

Much Thanks!
Trung.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Subject: Digital Librarian AND/OR
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:52:50 GMT

How do I do AND/OR searches with DL 3.0? They 
don't seem to work. 2.0 supposedly did 'em.

Robert de Lucca
rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: CAD inquiry
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:26:21 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

If anyone out there know the status of CAD software for NeXT please email
me. I read some stuff in NeXTWrag a while back, but haven't heard anything
lately.

Thanks,
Eric
eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov or just 'r' me.
From: kdb@dukebar (Kurt Bollacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Emacs-3.0 problem?
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:14:20 GMT
Distribution: na,local
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

d_mc@mccube.tucson.az.us (Don McCollam) writes:
: I retrieved Emacs-3.0.tar.Z from sonata (and orst) yesterday (4 Dec.).  I  
: can't make the app work. (No mouse support, "open" menu item does nothing,  
: etc.) Anyone else having problems with this app?  Did you get it working?   
: How?

I also cannot get Emacs3.0 mouse support working.  Would somebody post the
steps to upgrade Emacs2.1( mine never worked) to Emacs3.0 under NS3.0? The
included instructions seem to not be enough.  Also, I have my <Alternate>
key as my <META> key but often accidentally hit <Command>Q instead of
<Alt>Q (The results are disastrous!) I don't want <ESC> as my only <META>
key, but Emacs3.0 doesn't adhere to the convention of at least ASKING to 
verify that I want to quit, and I don't know how to get around it.
Thanks for any help one might be able to give.

Kurt D. Bollacker
Duke University Medical Center			919-660-5104
Durham, NC 27710				kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu
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From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato)
Subject: Looking for feathers (tape archiver)
Reply-To: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:09:23 GMT

Anyone have the source for feathers (the replacement for tar)?  Is it
compilable on a Sun?  I need a copy. 

Thanx,
Michael

--
Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
~18 kyu
Q16
NeXTMail appreciated
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Scene under NS 3.0 (Re: NCSA XImage and Icon)
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:16:23 GMT

John Bartley writes
| (Borre Ludvigsen) writes:
| > Has anyone:
| > [...]
| > 2) Successfully patched Icon to run under NS 3.0?
| 
| I got the 3.0 patch for Icon from the archives and got it to "sorta"  
| work. It has problems with jpeg files now that didn't exist under 2.1.  
| Also there are some strange things that happen with the file viewer  
| when opening a file (different sort order or something.) As long as I  
| save files as straight TIFF files instead of jpeg, the patch seems to  
| work as advertisted.

The Icon.app patch also works for Scene, which provides some very useful image  
retouching effects as well as the ability to change the dpi setting on a TIFF.
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting and Signal Processing Software
NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Subject: Mailing list software?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:12:32 GMT

Is there any mailing list software available for the next?

 _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
:   Shane M. Zatezalo         : i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu :
:   CIS Eng Ohio State        : NeXTMail>  shane@kiwi.shws.ohio-state.edu :
:  ....call the Atomic Playground 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS .... :
:GS:::: Apple II forever!! ::::::GO BUCKS!::::::: Play Lacrosse! :::::::GS:
From: blaubsch@gluttony.reed.edu (Bertrand Michael Laubsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: german spelling checker
Date: 12 Dec 92 19:31:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec12.193138.29162
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

does anyone know of one? 

--


bl

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Subject: Pefmeter?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:48:53 GMT


I think I remember discussion of a performance meter type program for 
NeXT. Could someone send me the name and source for this program?

Thanks,
Eric

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From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: I can't see my Novell Servers
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:58:47 GMT

In article <1gi636INNmr@mozz.unh.edu> Thomas_Baker@UNH.edu writes:
>
>I'm having a problem with the Novell client.  We have about 8 servers on our  
>campus backbone but I can't see most of them.  All the newer servers have some
>name followed by -NOV311 like "MUB-NOV311".  My machine can't see any of these.   
>Is there some problem with the -NOV311 suffix?  I don't have a netinfo filter 
>set up - I should be seeing any server out there.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.  I've looked at the documentation and everything  
>seems to be in order.


It's probably not the name.  Two of our servers are named like that...
(one with -DEVEL and the other -DEMO).


andrew
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Andrew Loewenstern       |   can go straight to hell!"  - Ron Pomeroy
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Re: Wanted: App to preview fonts without installing them.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:27:14 GMT

In <tlm.724294268@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes:

>In <Bz7wMF.M2M@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:

>>Ivo Welch writes
>>> [1] Is there an  application that would  allow me to preview fonts  
>>> without having to install them first?

>>Instead of purchasing an application, you could stick them in  
>>~/Library/Fonts and then only you would be able to see them, preview  
>>them and use them.  If they were okay, then you could move them to  
>>/LocalLibrary/Fonts so the whole system could use them.

>Actually, you can do it in Yap.  Load the outline file into Yap, then...

>uh..... I'm not a postscript programmer and have forgotten the commands
>off the top of my head.  I have them written down somewhere and will look
>for them.  Basically you say "setfont", type some text, and then say
>"showfont".  I'll look for hte commands, but if anyone can fill in the lines
>it's much appreciated.  

>hope this is helpful --- Tom

okay, I looked in the Blue Book and the commands (assuming you want the 
font Western --- a particularly boring example to be sure :) at 48 point
are to load the outline file into Yap, and then add at the end

/Western findfont 
48 scalefont
setfont 
72 200 moveto
(this is a helpful posting) show
showpage

hit the "Execute" command and the test will appear at 48 point (adjust 
the scalefont to your preference).

TLM

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From: fuad@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Turnando Fuad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: sndplay
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:42:31 GMT
Reply-To: fuad@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Turnando Fuad)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Organization: Center For Image Processing and Integrated Computing

I am trying to run sndplay remotely(via remsh from another unix host) and it 
cannot play the soundfile unless I am doing remsh as root or some one is logged
into the workspace. It also does not allow sndplay if you are running in the
console mode unless you are logged in as root.

ERROR: sndplay : Cannot play soundfile : /tmp/sound1.snd

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
Turnando Fuad 				Phone: (916)752-2387
CIPIC (Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing) 
University of California		Internet: tfuad@ucdavis.edu
Davis, CA 95616				Bitnet:   tfuad@ucdavis.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: reuven@athena.mit.edu (Reuven M. Lerner)
Subject: Confirmation: No QuarkXPress port to NeXT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:44:51 GMT

Perhaps I'm the only one, but I got the distinct impression from some
posts here a few days ago that Quark was thinking of porting its
XPress desktop publishing package to NeXTSTEP.

If any of you were wondering, the answer is a flat-out "no." I got
e-mail back from the Quark developer's desk saying that Quark had no
plans to port to NeXT at this time. They didn't elaborate, but I would
take that as fairly authoritative.

Not that another package will really be all that necessary once Pages
and Page by Page join PasteUp on distributors' shelves, but I figured
that people would want to know.

Reuven
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
Subject: Re: BBS software for next....
Reply-To: brian@coconut.com
Organization: Coconut Computing, Inc., La Jolla, CA
Date: 12 Dec 92 09:21:05 PST


> cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) writes:
>
>Does anybody know if there are any next specific bulletin board
>system packages out there? if not would anybody be interested
>in writing one?
>CW
 
Coconut Computing has been working on a bulletin board package
for NeXT for a long time.  After lots of delays, stalls,
technical problems, etc., it looks like COCONET(R) 4.0 for
NeXTSTEP will finally ship in 1st Qtr 1993.  More details will
follow as we get closer to finishing the product.
 
If anyone would like to get on the COCONET mailing list for NeXT,
send your name and full mailing address to info@coconut.com, and
you'll get all the product literature when we get close to shipping.
 
Brian Dear
Coconut Computing
brian@coconut.com
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: ryan27@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu (STUDENT)
Subject: DeskLink
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:29:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Im selling my desk link package for a peer to peer network, It comes
with box, instructions, cable, and software.

I am asking $30.00 + S&H   or Best Offer.... So E-Mail me
if you would like it or know someone who would... If this address
is not on the nte (Because of Break) send to 

Surovi29@snybufva.ca.snybuf.edu

and at the beginning put ATTENTION SCOTT....


Thanks

Scott

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From: andrew@cubetech.com
Subject: Re: Adobe Photoshop: Port that suckah' over! / Gamma
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:56:35 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.214019.22849@wri.com> andre@rurutu.wri.com (Andre Kuzniarek) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.213524.6350@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com  
>(Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
>
>> This would be great if it were doing CMYK display emulation, but it's 
>> not, so that color is going to come out totally wrong (especially 
>> compared to the rest of the image) when you go to press.
>
>Even if Image did CMYK emulation, I would probably not trust what I see on  
>my NeXTstation color monitor. The monitor's colors are way too bright and  
>do not compare at all to anything printed (while still accounting for the  
>differences between additive and subtractive color systems). I'm seeing  
>bright gaudy teals on the screen when the printed colors are almost Navy. 
>
>For a while I was using HSD's color scanner on my NeXT, and found the  
>scans to be beautiful and accurate, but only on a NeXT screen. They appear  
>way too dark when viewed on other platforms (Macs especially), and they  
>printed dark as well. I have since switched to using the scanner on a Mac,  
>with the appropriate software, and the scans look beautiful on the Mac  
>screen as well as printed, but pale and overly bright on the NeXT.
>
>All this leads me to the question: Is there any gamma correction software  
>for NeXT monitors? Is it even possible to have such a thing on the NeXT?  
>The gamma software that comes with Photoshop for the Mac is very useful  
>for tweaking one's display to get as close as possible to printed output. 

Yes, the NeXT monitors are really, really HOT (like 9800K hot!).
However,  the 3.0 color matching works pretty well if you are using it
right.  NeXT has characterized their monitors (they seem to be
consistantly bad), and if you are printing to a level-2 device, you
will get pretty accurate color.  We have been getting really excellent
results printing to Iris color printers...

It's much better to adjust image values based on device
characteristics than trying to force the device to conform to some
preset "standard," which doesn't work that well (the device has
certain characteristics for a reason).


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com      |  "C++'s runtime sucks shit!  Virtual functions
Andrew Loewenstern       |   can go straight to hell!"  - Ron Pomeroy
Cube Technologies, Inc.  |                   ForYourEyesOnly public key:
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: cchan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chung Chan)
Subject: Converting NeXT .snd files???
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 20:14:21 GMT

Does anyone know if there' a way to convert NeXT .snd files to other
formats like Mac, Suns, etc....

I took a look at the "sndconvert" but I'm not really sure if that's what
I'm looking for...(couldn't understand a thing by reading the manual
pages.)

-Thanks
-Chung

-- 
CHUNG CHAN		  |
cchan@leland.Stanford.EDU |...soon-to-be ACS consultant.......
cchan@ocf.Berkeley.EDU    |

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: Hartmut Benz <benz@nestor.uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: PaperClip Replaces Command-e
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz (FB Informatik)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:53:32 GMT

In article <61624@aurs01.UUCP> beardall@next1 (Russ Beardall) writes:
> Still have not received an answer to the following:
> 
> Since upgrading to NeXTSTEP 3.0 I cannot get the Browser to display an  
> inserted 3.5" disk on the Shelf. (BTW this has nothing to do with the  
> preferences option!)
> 
> What happens: the disk is mounted into the Browser and can be searched as  
> usual, but the Shelf does not recognize the disk and therefore does not  
> allow a normal Command-e or menu selection to eject the disk.
> 
> The Rub: it has to be a permissions thang since I have no problems when  
> logged in as ROOT!
> 
> HELP - I have mounted and can't eject!
> -Russ

There are two things you can do to eject the disk
  1) Drag the disk icon into the recycler (this will NOT delete your data)
  2) Just select the disk ichon and say eject (normal Command-e)

           H.Benz              ,,,
                              (o o)
--------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------------
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D-5400 Koblenz, Germany               |       (NeXTmail ok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Re: Wanted: App to preview fonts without installing them.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:51:08 GMT

In <Bz7wMF.M2M@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:

>Ivo Welch writes
>> [1] Is there an  application that would  allow me to preview fonts  
>> without having to install them first?

>Instead of purchasing an application, you could stick them in  
>~/Library/Fonts and then only you would be able to see them, preview  
>them and use them.  If they were okay, then you could move them to  
>/LocalLibrary/Fonts so the whole system could use them.

Actually, you can do it in Yap.  Load the outline file into Yap, then...

uh..... I'm not a postscript programmer and have forgotten the commands
off the top of my head.  I have them written down somewhere and will look
for them.  Basically you say "setfont", type some text, and then say
"showfont".  I'll look for hte commands, but if anyone can fill in the lines
it's much appreciated.  

hope this is helpful --- Tom
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: followup to my WP question...
Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:13:22 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


well I can't say I'm happy about the responses I got about Word
processors for the NeXT. It is hard to believe a platform that
has been around this long still doesn't have a decent word
processor. Even the Mac at least had MacWrite! :( 

I'm suprised no one has used that text engine Steveie and all
of NeXTworld was so excited about...looks like I'll just wait
for Appsoft to write something good....thanks for your help guys....
CW
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:52:06 GMT

In article <Bz2GC7.Cpz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>
>Lastly, and this is picking the smallest nit ever, how easy is using  
>TeX on a 2nd generation NeXT keyboard (the one with all the  
>commonly-used UNIX characters in the wrong place)?  For example, I've  
>noticed heavy use of the "\" character in TeX source code, however, on  
>my keyboard, that's a real stretch; something I would hate to have to  
>use often.  I would love to get the new ADB keyboard setup from NeXT,  
>it would solve many problems with the keyboard layout that often  
>surface, but it's not available for me.

	Nah...\ is control-/ on my keyboard.  As ~ is control-. and
| is control-; and ` is control-'   :)
	Thank god for /NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard! 
	You know what sucks about the ADB keyboard, though?  Take
a look how far away Alternate is from the arrow keys.  That takes
functionality away from Stuart...(Scott, get them to fix that) :)

	Alex
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
Date: 12 Dec 92 16:45:40 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <tlm.724062989@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes:
> BTW:  As a former Mac owner I'd agree that MS Word is a pretty good 
> standard to compare to, but even it has "lost its way" and become a little
> too bloated and non-intuitive for my tastes.  I really think a "spiced up"
> WriteNow would be superior (but at what cost?) given the superior NeXTstep
> GUI, on-line documentation, etc.  

I concur wholeheartedly, but have a few comments about making MS Word the benchmark WP.
The GUI was initially designed to be useful on those tiny Mac screens
(how did I ever use them?)  So a premium was placed on the judicious
use of screen real estate - even at the expense of being intuitive.
The way styles were managed is an example.
This was the right tradeoff then, but not on a NeXT (or even large screen Mac)
The basic simplicity of the model of a document (doc, section, para, char)
is very nice.

So I'ld vote for a NeXT flavored app similar to Word in simplicity for text
but eliminating some of the bloat and simplifying some of the more arcane
things (tables and equations could be easier to use)  

-- 
---------------------------------------------------
Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu   NeXT mail accepted
From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:17:30 GMT
Organization: Xerox PARC

tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes:
    [ why would anyone use Frame instead of TeX?]

having written many pages in TeX and then switched to Frame, my primary
reason had to do with wysiwyg editing vs. document compiler editing:

the reason i format my documents in the first place is to make them more
readable.  spacing, fonts, and positioning all help the reader read &
navigate the document.

in the process of writing & editing something, i'm continuously
reading it.  if i use Frame, i get the benefits of that formatting.
if i use TeX, i don't; the file i'm editing is a continuous stream of
monospaced monofont ascii text.  previewing in another window doesn't
really help; then i have to keep mapping back and forth between the
window i'm reading & the window i'm editing.

the secondary reason has to do with TeX's formatting philosophy, which
is something like "i'm very smart and i'll decide how to format things
for you and most of the time i'll be right".  this is a reasonable
trade-off for some people & some documents, but i find i'm happier
with programs that have a philosophy more like "i'll do something
pretty straightforward and predictable, and then make it very easy for
you to adjust it if you want to".

ultimately, i find i get things done faster with Frame and like the
results better.  on the other hand, i think Frame leaves lots of room
for improvement; i've got high hopes for the next generation of NeXT
publishing tools...
                                             .mike.
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Reassigning command key equivalents without editing .nib ??
Date: 13 Dec 1992 00:10:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moica.berkeley.edu
Keywords: Command key equivalents

Aaarrggghh,  all convenient command keys equivalents are already
taken by apps like Edit and Mail, and I don't have any more key
equivalents to give to a service provider application.

Is there a way to remove a specific command key equivalent
on a app-by-app basis, so I can give that to a service ?
I know I can do this by editing .nib files, but am looking for
a way that does not mess with bundled app files -- possibly via
dwrites.

Note that I do not want to disable a particular command key for
an app.  I would like to take it off from normal menu items of
an app, so it can appear instead on an item in Services menu.

Thanks.

--
Izumi Ohzawa             [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440     Fax:  (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
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