HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nimno!john@wupost.wustl.edu (John Bartley)
Subject: Microcassette recording ==> .snd files
Reply-To: nimno!john@wupost.wustl.edu (John Bartley)
Organization: John Bartley
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:31:00 GMT

I'm somewhat electronic-theory-impaired, so bear with me if this is a  
really stupid question. :-) My wife is a law student and she records  
many hours of lecture each week on a little Sony microcassette  
recorder. Is it electronically possible to "zap" the recordings into  
the NeXT as .snd files, at speeds that are faster than real time. I'm  
sure I could hook something together that would allow me to input one  
hour's worth of recording in one hour. But is there a way that the  
cassette could be read by some other (unknown to me) device that could  
feed the output into a .snd file that could be managed on the NeXT?

It would defeat the purpose to spend an hour dubbing the tape into the  
computer. But if this could be done, if effect, at super-fast-forward  
speed, it might be more helpful.

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the nuts and bolts of this to  
know if this is feasible or not. If anyone has done it, or knows how to  
do it, or knows of products on the market that would help, please let  
me know.

Thanks!

John Bartley
nimno!john@wupost.wustl.edu
From: wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Interesting Tibits - Microsoft & NeXT?
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:00:12 GMT
Organization: BSO/LT, Baarn, The Netherlands


Hmm. Looks like "wishful thinking" to me. Remarks like "known facts" and such
make me careful. And there is more in the article that makes it very
unbelievable.
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From: lakeman@plains.NoDak.edu (Brian Lakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: files on ext. HD change their ownership by themselves ?!
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:12:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

In article <1992Apr13.012225.178@proimage.toledo.oh.us> brett@proimage.toledo.oh.us (Brett Bullock) writes:
>In article <1992Apr09.170729.2403@hiss.han.de> fifi@hiss.han.de (Axel  
>Zinser) writes:
>> All worked fine up to the moment I recognized that the ownership of all
>> files had been changed to fifi.nogroup (my own id is fifi.fifi). I  
[stuff delete]

The same thing happened to me.  I added my external drives to /etc/fstab
so that they mounted on start-up rather than mounting when I login, and
that fixed the problem.

-Bri

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations
Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 13:40:46 GMT

In article <727@rtbrain.woodside.ca.us> glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)  
writes:

>  I do have to point out that Edit, a NeXT application, requires you to
>  name files ".pipedict" and ".commanddict" to use its extensible menus,
>  which adds to the crud.  The "vacation" program accounts for a few, the
>  Csh for a lot more, /bin/mail, NewsGrazer, aaaaargh.

I definitely have a whole lot more '.' files in my home directory than regular  
files, but it is better than having visible files in there.  Of course, you  
could load up the defaults database...  ;-)



andrew
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Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings
From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: List of poor educational dealers
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:28:18 GMT
	<1992Apr7.230019.27915@macc.wisc.edu>
Organization: Penn State Computer Science


In article <1992Apr7.230019.27915@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

   You show me, dog-breath, where *anyone* from the University
   of Wisconsin (the which state's name you can't even spell)
   posted even a mildly negative comment about the NeXT sales
   program at this university.  If you can, I will promptly
   apologize for calling you a name.  In return, assuming you
   cannot produce -- I've tried to be a little more than
   ordinarily vigilant, both before and since calling you
   earlier on this mistake -- I think fairness indicates that
   you should apologize to me and to my institution.

Think you might be overreacting?

   >The list below, is a list of schools that I have recieved
   >outstanding and glowing reports on their enthusiasm with
   >supporting NeXT products. 
   >
   >Good schools:
   >University of Illinois          University of British Columbia
   >MIT

Btw, who posted from UIUC?  Do they happen to know Doug McDonald from
the Chemistry department?  He's got a few NeXT/Unix horror stories.  I
particularly like the one where the NeXT salesman crashed a NeXT while
running Mathematica, and 1/2 hour later the machine still hadn't be
rebooted.

-Mike
From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXTcube Turbo SIMM Slots
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:18:06 GMT
Organization: The Deep Thought Cafe

In article <1992Apr9.002147.5496@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.Stanford.EDU (M Carling) writes:
>Aside from the electrical reasons which I posted previously, you may be  
>interested to know that the only difference between the Turbo slab board  
>and the Turbo cube board is the NeXT Bus Interface Chip and three PALs.  

Seems like we infer from this that it would be similarly trivial to
adapt the turbo *color* slab board into a cube CPU board, no?
Something to pester NeXT about?
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (NeXT mail, AMS/ATK mail, and MIME mail welcome)
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Diagram! Engage! Enough!
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:59:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.051620.7708@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)  
writes:
> 	I think I will rename The Shaman Group, The Shaman Group. 
> That's "The Shaman Group." full stop. Should get editors real confused.  
> :-)  

Not the editors of "The Wall Street Journal.", I hope.

(If you don't get the joke, you must have missed their ad
campaign that stressed the '.' in their title.)

ab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: bbs@neb.uucp (BBS System)
Subject: More on ND compression (followup survey)
Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:06:19 GMT

I have an ND cube system.  I would like to be able to do multiple
successive frame grabs from my VCR and/or camcorder, at a rate of at
least 3 or 4 frames a second (a far cry from the promised 
real-time-video-to-disk rates).  It takes almost a second to complete a
frame grab, however.
 
I have been told that the frame-grabbing bottleneck is the speed at
which data is moved across the backplain to the '040 board.  Seems to me
that if that is the case, you could move 10-20 times more frames per
second if the ND board supported compression.
 
Anyway, this is one more reason for wanting compression on the ND
board.
-----
Posted by BBS User: Nevin Pratt
From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXTstep pricing (was: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations)
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:36:00 GMT
Reply-To: bwebster@pages.com
Organization: Banzai Research Institute

In article <3533@rosie.NeXT.COM> sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) writes:
>
> More idle pondering...  Is NeXTstep expensive?  Is it a bargain?  I think
> the answer to both may be yes...
> 
> When you count licences for Unix, PostScript, Fonts, Renderman, etc etc
> it all adds up.  On top of that, have you ever priced similar (if
> inferior) tools and libraries on the sun?
> 
> Looking Glass is "something like" WorkSpace.  $795
> I just got a brochure for a MallocDebug like tool, $3000
> The list goes on.  This is expensive stuff!
> 
> But you know, I see that Bill Gates expects to sell 1.3 million copies
> of Windows 3.1 in the first couple of months of release.  Do you ever
> get the feeling that the computer world just waits for Bill to decree
> what the next OS will be and then buys several million copies?
> 
I've been one of those grumbling about the NeXTstep pricing announced at the  
expo, but I've lately reconsidered just a touch. Microsoft's cheap pricing of  
Windows is not unlike the low cost to buy a Gilette Sensor razor; since  
Microsoft has the best-selling Windows app in just about every category  
(presentation and software development being the two major exceptions),  
Microsoft can afford to give away (so to speak) Windows while making billions  
of dollars selling Windows apps.  Since NeXT has no NeXTstep apps to sell, and  
since every off-the-shelf sale of NeXTstep is, in effect, a lost NeXT platform  
sale, NeXT has got to keep the price up so as not to lose money on the whole  
thing.

On the other hand, I think the $995 vs. $2500 for developer version pricing is  
awfully hard to justify, especially since development centers on the Gnu  
gcc/gdb development tools (which are free).  ..bruce..

Bruce F. Webster
Director, BRI
bwebster@pages.com

#import <pages/disclaimer.h>
From: wisdom@stingray.micro.umn.edu (Scott Wisdom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer crashes, GNUS doesn't
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:53:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Apr12.235327.17115
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS

In article <CNH5730.92Apr12171955@calvin.tamu.edu> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles N. Herrick) writes:
>
>Several folks at my univ are experiencing a crash of NG. I'm reading
>and posting in GNUS to ask this: any ideas? NG comes up and says
>it's locating news groups and then goes down.
>
>Any idea of where to look? Our nntp news-server is tamsun.tamu.edu.
This is due to the fact that someone created a bogus newsgroup with the
'&' character in the name. This causes NewsGrazer to crash, and now that this
is known, we should see a new '&' group every time someone posts in RTF and
someone else wants to retalitate against NewsGrazer. We will never be
rid of these groups.

This may be the end of NewsGrazer - NeXT has said nothing regarding
intentions on NewsGrazer updates (nothing that I've come across). So in
other words, NewsGrazer is now only a side note in computer history unless
NeXT decides to release an update. I wonder if the older versions will run?

-Scott Wisdom
wisdom@geom.umn.edu
From: mdm@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Mike D Marchionna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Ac_Chen cheat
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:16:08 GMT
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs

mgrjhb@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jon H. Bohlke) writes:

>In article <1992Apr5.021038.11135@Princeton.EDU>  
>jeffblum@tolast.Princeton.EDU.mu.edu writes:
>> 
>> This only happened once, so I don't know if it is
>> repeatable, but I was at the end of my time, and EXACTLY
>> when time hit 0 I completed a connection. (With many other
>> pieces on the board.) It passed me on to the next level
>> exactly as if I had cleared the board.
>> 
>> <grin>

>Yes, It will work every time.....

True, but the timing is pretty tricky.  I find that holding the right mouse
button down (provided you have it enabled) stops the clock.  This can be
a lot more reliable.  Also has anyone noticed that occasionally the
connection path will go right through pieces on the same level.  And other
times it will refuse to remove pieces that have an obviously valid path.
Great game, but these bugs got to be fixed.  Oh yeah, It also needs another
90 levels. 8->

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From: jez@praxis.co.uk (Jeremy Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT's RISC Workstation
Summary: More rumours for the mill...
Keywords: NRW 88110 RISC
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:20:37 GMT
Organization: Praxis plc, Bath, England.

I just read the following article in Unigram.X(*) newsletter, which I include
below verbatim and without comment (reprinted with kind permission):

[Begin Included Text]
			  NEXT TAKES ON 88110 CPU FOR
			     NEW RISC WORKSTATION
    NeXT Computer Inc has decided to go ahead and adopt the Motorola
    Inc 88000 RISC according to Microbytes Daily, which hears from "a
    source that wishes to remain anonymous" that NeXT is planning to
    announce in October a workstation based on two 88100 RISCs.  The
    machine is said to be code-named NRW - NeXT RISC Workstation
    presumably - and will include real-time video compression to disk
    and may also support FDDI.  The 88110 combines the functionality
    of the 88100 CPU and the 88200 cache and memory management units
    on a single chip and includes a high degree of parallelism;
    Motorola rates it at 63 SPECmarks.  It says the chip will support
    three-dimensional colour graphics in addition to parallel
    operation, and the Mach operating system used in the NeXT can
    support multiple processes via threads.  The box is to be about
    $100 per MIPS.
[End Included Text]

(*) "Unigram.X is a weekly information newsletter for the UNIX(R)
     community worldwide"

[Begin Public Disclaimer]
    The above was typed in by me from the newsletter.  The included
    text is Copyright Unigram Products Ltd 1992.  All spelling
    mistakes & typos are my own work :-) I have no association with
    Unigram Products Ltd, other than being on their subscription list.
    For more information, contact Unigram Products Ltd at 4th floor,
    12 Sutton Row, London, W1V 5FH.  +44-71-867-9880(tel),
    +44-71-439-1105(fax), unigram!george@uunet.uu.net
[End Public Disclaimer]

[Begin Private Disclaimer]
    I have no authority to speak for anybody other than myself!
[End Private Disclaimer]

jez
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From: clech@disuns2.epfl.ch (Bertrand Clech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Educational Prices
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:29:59 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Could somebody please mail me Educational prices list ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: digifix!sanguish@uunet.ca (Scott Anguish)
Subject: Re: files on ext. HD change their ownership by themselves ?!
Reply-To: digifix!sanguish@uunet.ca
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 04:30:16 GMT

> 
> The same thing has been happening to me lately. The ownership of my  
> external HD and everything on it changes to whoever loged in last.  It  
> must not be happening every time, though, because I found out when I was  


The Network and System Administration manual says on page 169...

	On new SCSI disk drives, all files are acessible to anyone who  
logs in.  If you want to assign individual file permissions to restrict  
file access, a little extra disk configuration is necessary.

	I'm just about to initialize my Macintosh hard disk for use on the  
NeXT.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Subject: Re: Cool .dir.tiff/.opendir.tiff (small RTF)
Organization: L5 Computing
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:53:15 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.031855.4843@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess  
Anderson) writes:
|> We should know the results of the voting in a few hours, as
|> the deadline is under four hours away as I write.  I had the
|> *very* strong impression, however, that there was a
|> near-unanimous consensus that RTF postings would appear
|> *only* in the csn.rtf newsgroup, which was the primary
|> reason for proposing that group and a major factor in
|> expanding the CSN hierarchy at all.
|> 
|> If the new groups pass (I'll be surprised and disappointed
|> if they don't), then I think it very likely the appearance
|> of RTF postings here will be met with near-universal
|> opprobrium.  Nothing (other than good citizenship) would
|> *prevent* such postings, but that's true of any form of
|> irresponsibility on Usenet.
What/who is giving you this "*very* strong impression"? Have you been
hacking the voting computer??!!??

Frankly I see this RTF group as a mistake. When SEF doesn't have any
actual RTF postings to bounce he'll move on to bouncing the re-director
postings telling people about postings in the RTF groups.

And I dare say that the major factor leading to the desire to split
up csn wasn't RTF postings, but rather the desire to bury the
inane postings from those with nothing else better to do than
attempt to supress other people. Remember the OD wars? Do you think they
added to the breakup spirit? csn needed spliting up for reasons other
than to give RTF postings a SEF-free zone. Far too many topics were being
jumbled together in csnm.

As for control, what will keep ASCII posters out of the RTF group??? Will
SEF decide the best way to continue his campaign will be to post ASCII 
messages in csn.rtf? Nothing in the mandate says you can't post ASCII there.
And nothing said you couldn't post small RTF's in csnm either, this whole
thing is bull shit.

Scotty
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: new call for votes
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:39:58 GMT
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison


In article <1992Apr14.190134.1216@cs.yale.edu>
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:

>the obvious new newsgroup
>would be "comp.sys.next.rightbrain.rtf", which I'm
>sure would come out in every monthly top-ten USENET
>volume listing, second only to the SEF email bounces
>of the same posts.

>"It's a joke, son."

I don't think I'm humor impaired, not the least.
It's too dorky to be funny.

-- 
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Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang)
Subject: Signature in the Mail
Reply-To: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:11:45 GMT

Hi,

	Can anyone tell me if "MailHelper" is the only way to append a  
signature at each mail I send out? Shouldn't there be a file like  
signature which automatically do so? If not, will the new Mail.app in
NS 3.0 support these features as well as those enhanced by MailHelper? I  
really don't want to bother with MailHelper if they are going to be in the  
upgrade. (e.g. I've thrown CopyPath away after discovering the great  
Drag-andDrop feature in Stuart.app)

Gary
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Having problems with PD/PA fonts
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:23:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.44627

In article <01GIHT7C7X9C935E7C@TOE.TOWSON.EDU> S3LMGEB@SAE.TOWSON.EDU (Eric  
Bennett) writes:
> I'm having problems with some PD/PA fonts I snagged off sonata when I had
> NS1.0.  They work fine at sizes 25 and above, but if at any time any
> of these fonts is rendered on the screen at a size below 25pt the window
> server either crashes or it gets S   L   O   W, consumes all swap space, and
> crashes the system.

The Type 3 fonts do this because there's so much
PostScript interpreting going on ('til things get
cached).  I've been trying different things with these
fonts off and on (I maintain that archive) and have great-
but unpredictable- trouble with some of them.

I >was< trying to test them heavily before reinstalling
them in the archives, but the demand has been so great,
that I am now packing them up for installation as is.  I'm
hoping bug reports will steer me towards the ones that
need the most work.  

ab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: ermarsh@athena.mit.edu (Eric R Marsh)
Subject: Re: WRI 1-800 # & MMA 2.0.4
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:32:57 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.155803.29436@colorado.edu> spenton@irie.Colorado.EDU (Steve Penton) writes:
>
>	Is it true that a simple phone call to this # will
>        get you Mathematica 2.0.4 ?  (Thats the version that
>        saves memory usage by loading the packages only as needed)
>

I didn't have any trouble getting Wolfram to send me a copy of 2.0.4.5 which
is supposed to only load the necessary packages as needed.  However, once
I got it, the 'thin' kernel didn't work at all.  After two phone calls to
Wolfram the Tech support person told me that the thin kernel didn't work.  The 
full kernel does work and fixes minor problems with the previous 2.0.* release.

Eric
From: mikep@abekas.uucp (Mike Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Neuron == ZyXEL (Was Re: Do Neurons work well?)
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:28:23 GMT
Organization: Abekas Video Systems Inc., Redwood City, California.


>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 2-Apr-92 Neuron == ZyXEL (Was
>Re: Do.. by Mike Park@abekas.uucp 
>>People interested in Neuron 1414 modems should note that it is just a
>>ZyXEL U1496E in a different colour case (a black case rather than white).

In <kdqz7xS00YVXM93lFI@andrew.cmu.edu> "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>WRONG!  You are correct for the most part.   The Neuron modems have
>smarter firmware (ROM software-- in the modem-- not included (kind of)
>with the Zyxel) than the Zyxel standard release modem....
>Actually, as I understand it, the Zyxel release has the Neuron
>extensions, but they are disabled in some hardware fashion.


The hardware of the ZyXEL U1496E is the same hardware used by Neuron 1414.
		I compared them side by side.

The physical roms of the ZyXEL U1496E are the same as used by the Neuron 1414.
		I swapped them and they worked.

A special command is used to set the EEPROM to indicate whether the modem
should pretend to be a ZyXEL or a Neuron.

It is possible Neuron have had ZyXEL add some special (and useful) code
to the std roms; but as ZyXEL sell their own hardware I find it hard
to believe that these useful functions are disabled when the modem is acting
as a ZyXEL.

Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jgrace@netcom.com (Joseph Grace)
Subject: Help fixing "dropped characters" problem using tip.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 23:36:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: Help with tip and serial connection

Hi,

I have a Telebit T3000, a NeXT serial cable and a NSColor Turbo.  I am
using tip to log on at 14400+ BAUD to a remote UNIX computer
and am losing characters during screen draws and refreshes
(from the remote computer).  Also, I believe I have the modem
using CTS/RTS (hardware handshaking), so if my NS is paying attention
to handshaking, it should never drop characters, right?

Any help getting my machine to cooperate would be appreciated!

Also, if anyone knows how to get tip to pass characters through
transparently (particularly, ^A and ^P), I would like to know!

Thanks much,

= Joe =
jgrace@netcom.com

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