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From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Garfinkel & Mahoney's book : please post ordering info
Reply-To: Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com
Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:56:47 GMT

In <2131.2b4c0d0d@mbcl.rutgers.edu> hamm@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
>Could someone please post the full title, publisher, ISBN, etc., for
>the book -- I'd like to order it.

If you order it from me, you can save a few bucks and get
better-than-average service.

I'm charging $39 _including_ U.S. shipping, vs. $42.45 from the 
publisher, allow you to order conveniently by e-mail, and save you 
from having to deal directly with the publisher (which can be a big 
or small advantage, depending on the particular publisher -- no 
comment on which it is in this case; try it with a bunch of them 
and see for yourself). 

(Yes, you $40 people who already ordered are being re-priced at $39 
when your books ship and you are finally billed.  We're decent 
folks here!  And your books should arrive any day now!)  

We'll need your Visa or Mastercard (only) number and expiration 
date, mailable delivery address, and, to the extent they exist, 
e-mail, fax, and day and evening phone numbers.  THIS IS IMPORTANT!  
People almost as smart as you have accidentally given us impossible 
(there's a check digit) credit card numbers, phone numbers with 
exchanges that don't exist, and street addresses but no city.  
Protect yourself by giving us as many ways of reaching you as 
possible!  My re-selling your home phone number is about as likely 
as your re-selling mine (which you have, by the way, so please be 
courteous about when to call; I'm on the West Coast). 

We're happy to take overseas orders if you're happy to pay the 
shipping.  We charge an averaged rate of $9 by sea (but expect 
arbitrary delays beyond actual shipping time of up to 4 additional 
weeks, by both countries' postal authorities, to encourage the use 
of airmail) or $17 by airmail.  

We also sell the official (by NeXT) NeXTSTEP Developer's Library at
an even more attractive price (thanks to a bigger discount from the
publisher); please inquire if interested.

Regards and happy programming,
 - Irving
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From: darenp@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daren Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Anyone know about NeXTstaion powerdown sequence?
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:09:21 GMT
Reply-To: darenp@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daren Patel)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: darenp@happy.cc.utexas.edu


	I would appreciate any info on how the NeXTstation machines power down
once the power key has been pressed.  The reason for my query is that my
station no longer seems to make that characteristic "snap" when it powers down.
I had a motherboard that went bad that exhibited the same symptoms before it
bought the farm and I'm praying that it's not the same thing again.  I dought
that the machine is getting bad power because it's hooked up to an UPS which
I know to be in proper working order.  Any info is greatly appreciated...


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gtoews@engr.UVic.CA (Greg  Toews)
Subject: Re: Login Tiffs
Reply-To: gtoews@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 19:54:26 GMT

I have never been able to display a login window tiff
that fills the whole screen.  Is it possible to use the
space below the bottom edge of the original panel?

Greg
From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NUCA
Summary: NeXT Users' Choice Awards
Keywords: NeXT Users' Choice Award
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:38:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


N U C A
NeXT Users' Choice Awards---Thanks to Conrad Geiger for the name!

     I will take submissions from the net until Jan 23, 1993.

     All you need to do is send back the form attached below with
your favorite software or hardware products for 1992.
     The subject of the post should be Re: NUCA (or just replying
to this post).  Send votes to szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu

     I will post the results and maybe see about getting little
trophies or ribbons made up for the winners.
     This is your chance to reward the great NeXT Developer
community by shining some well deserved praise their way.

The rules are:
- You can only vote once (i.e. one vote per e-mail address).
- You can vote for any product you wish; be it from NeXT a 3rd
party developer (or those tasty frosted donuts from Hostess under
the 'other' category ;-)

     Finally I made up a logo for the winners to use (if they want
to) to let everyone know that they won the NUCA.  I'll put it up on
both orst and nova.  People can let me know if they think it stinks
and if so please feel free to make your own (after all it is the
U S E R S ' choice award so the users should get involved!).  BTW
you will need Helvetica-Black and Avant Garde (Book Oblique & Demi
Oblique) to see the logo in all of its glory :-)

NUCA Form below:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

1.)  Software
a.) Audio              :
b.) Communications     :
c.) DataBase           :
d.) Developer          :
e.) DTP                :
f.) Game               :
g.) MultiMedia         :
h.) Spreadsheet        :
i.) Wordprocessing     :
j.) Utility            :
k.) Video              :
l.) Other              :

2.)  Overall Software Product of the Year   :


3.)  Hardware
a.) Audio             :
b.) Communications    :
c.) Display           :
d.) Graphic Input     :
e.) Mass Storage      :
f.) Printing/Output   :
g.) Video             :
h.) Other             :

4.)  Overall Hardware Product of the Year   :


5.)  Overall Product of the Year            :
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From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Kermit 5A(188) - 31 Dec 92 - available for ftp
Date: 7 Jan 93 06:21:11 GMT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada


Thank to kind offer ot Todd Green the following archive
  kermit.5a.188.tar.Z
was uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, directory pub/next/submissions.
It can be also reached by gopher via cica.cica.indiana.edu.
All attempts to put it on sonata.cc.purdue.edu or cs.orst.edu
so far miserably failed.  If you will find some leftovers from
these tries - do not bother.   The true archive is 442994 bytes
long.

The archive contains quite a bit of documentation, various NeXT
specific hints and NeXT binaries of the following version of Kermit
communication program:

C-Kermit>show versions

Versions:
 C-Kermit 5A(188), 23 Nov 92
 Numeric: 501188
 UNIX Communications support, 5A(104), 10 Dec 92 for NeXT
 UNIX File support, 5A(069) 31 Dec 92 for NeXT    <------- watch this!!!
 C-Kermit Protocol Module 5A(052), 23 Nov 92
 C-Kermit functions, 5A(080) 24 Nov 92
 Command package 5A(053), 21 Nov 92
 User Interface 5A(093), 13 Dec 92
 Character Set Translation 5A(018), 21 Nov 92
 CONNECT Command for UNIX, 5A(050) 26 Dec 92
 Dial Command, 5A(047) 1 Dec 92
 Script Command, 5A(015) 2 Nov 92
 Network support, 5A(016) 12 Dec 92

C-Kermit>show features

Special features:
 Network support (type SHOW NET for further info)
 Latin-1 (West European) character-set translation
 Latin-2 (East European) character-set translation
 Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, etc) character-set translation
 Kanji (Japanese) character-set translation
 Fullscreen file transfer display

Features not included:
 No debugging

Accept no substitutes.

The problem mentioned in recent messages by me, Frank da Cruz and 
Monty Salomon is fixed in this edition.

   Michal Jaegermann
   ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: rob@spectre.test.rose-hulman.edu (Rob Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Start up problem. (Exception #3)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:58:41 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
NNTP-Posting-Host: snyderre.test.rose-hulman.edu

Howdy all, I've got a little problem with my NeXT Station Mono  
(non-turbo).  When ever I either a) do a alt-command-*, or b)Power up, I  
get an Exception #3:

'Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x1000374'

After this happens I can simply type 'bsd' and everything runs fine.  Any  
help/hints would be greatly appreciated as to what this problem is!   
Thanks a lot!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Starting Workspace session from csh
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:19:25 GMT

I would like to start a Workspace session after logging in at the Console
using a character login. I modified /etc/ttys to accomplish this according
to the instructions there.

What is the command sequence to get the window server and workspace
running?

All of this is related to my earlier posting about destroying the
loginwindow application binary and not being able to mount the 3.0 CDROM
manually in order to get the loginwindow app from the distribution.

Thanks
-- 

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CYANTIC Systems                               Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103                Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: hogan@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Emmett Hogan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT biff
Date: 12 Jan 1993 10:50:15 -0800
Organization: Anterior Technology, Menlo Park, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.radiomail.net
Keywords: biff, mail notification

Hi All,

Is there a NeXT program like xbiff?  Basically, something that 
can run on the NeXT that my mail comes in on, but display an
icon on my machine that will notify me of incoming mail.  Right
now, I have a window open on the mail host and run "biff y" in 
that window...I would really like something a bit more NeXTish.

Any pointers would be helpful.

Thanks,
Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: CPU hog
From: sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi)
Date: 9 Jan 93 10:58:30 PST
Organization: San Francisco State University

My problem is with console (Window Server).  It took up 12.7% of cpu time
when no other application running.  If I run Microphone, and do downloading
it goes up to 60% for console (Window Server).  Why????  It really slows down
the machine.  I am running NS 3.0
-- 
Mul			    | Alt. address:  sulistio@futon.sfsu.edu
sulistio@sutro.sfsu.edu	    | NeXTmail ->    sarong!sulistio@cs.sfsu.edu 
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>Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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From: zeno@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Sean Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI CD-Rom messages
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:44:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1ifgajINNas3
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: phylo.genetics.washington.edu

Hi.

I'm wondering if anyone has run across this problem before.  I've installed
my CD-rom drive just fine but I keep getting console messages of the following
nature:

sd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0

sd2 (4,0): sense key:0x5  additional sense code:0x20

    SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)


If anyone knows the reason or a solution to this problem I'd appreciate
it if they would drop me a line.

Please respond by email.
-- 
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zeno@genetics.washington.edu             |    'computer of color!' "
lamont@abstractsoft.com                  |_______________________________
Abstract Software
From: sam@esl.com (Samuel S. Hahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Dial-in to NeXT machine
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:47:01 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: ESL, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA

Is there a FAQ on setting up a dial-in to a cube?  I'm trying to do
this, and need to know what to look out for.  I've got a
SuperFAXmodem, a mac serial cable (is this compatible), and have
played with /etc/ttys, but not yet succeeded.  This must have been
asked hundreds of times; where do I get answers?
Thanks much -- Sam (408-743-6454)
From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Please upload DarkForest (was: Re: Product of the Year (92))
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:05:23 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

In <C0Hz71.8r2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:

>[Why did this have USA distribution on it?]

>Robert F. Cahalan writes
>> DarkForest (It's useful, but more important, it cracks me up!)

>Would someone please upload this program to the NeXT archive at
>sonata.cc.purdue.edu?

Or even NeXTmail it to me?  please please! ?


Tom
From: borchers@poogh.llnl.gov (Robert R. Borchers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: CPU hog
Keywords: atalkd, ssslllooowwwww
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:26:07 GMT

I had to reboot my machine this morning, cube running 3.0, and all of a  
sudden things are ssslllooowwwww!!!!!. NPERFMon says that System CPU usage  
is about 100 percent. ps says the culprit is atalkd. Does anyone know what  
is going on. I presume that atalkd is related to the abortive attempt in  
3.0 to connect to appletalk, which I have turned on so I can use my Mac  
printer. Correct?? Bob

--
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L-414
Livermore, Ca 94551
borchers@llnl.gov
NeXTmail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: madhost!maduke (Michael A. Duke)
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP PROGRAMMING is here
Organization: maduke & company     {Strategy & Management Consulting}
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:33:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.121235.23382@investor.pgh.pa.us>  
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
:-)  >I got my copy yesterday.  I ordered it from Springer about two  
months
:-)  >ago.  Yes, the floppy is for MS-DOS.
:-)  

	I've had a copy on order from Waldenbooks since last August when  
the book was supposed to be out in September.  I was notified today thet  
Springer-Verlag cancelled the Waldenbook order (something about they know  
they can sell them directly for more $$ so why sell them wholesale to a  
retail chain).  It is bad enough that SV wants $40; now they won't sell to  
my local bookseller.
	Anyway, I guess I'm in the market for a cheap copy.  Could someone  
email me the address for the folks that were selling them for a few bucks  
off.  Many thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: hlam@bnr.ca (Hayward Lam)
Subject: NeXT User Group Of Ottawa Meeting on January7thNeXT User Group of Ottawa Meeting on January 7th
Reply-To: hlam@bnr.ca (Hayward Lam)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:25:03 GMT

------------------------------------------------


When : Thursday, 7:00pm
Where: ComputerActive
       21 Antares Dr., Unit 112,
       Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


Topics: 
***  Database on NeXT  ***
Demo and discussion on databases and development tools 
available on NeXT.
Inlcude Parabase, Sybase, Oracle, DBkit, Objective DBtool kit etc.
Topic will be oriented for users and developers alike.
Demo machine is a NeXTcube with NeXTdimension board.

(A guest will talk about their experience with database 
development. Not confirmed yet.)


***  General discussion  ***
CD-ROM drive available for 3.0 upgrade.
Software packages discount for user group members.
NeXTWorld Expo etc.


Please pass the news around to whoever might be interested.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.


Regards,
Hayward

phone: 613-763-3663
email: hlam@bnr.ca




Keywords: 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: billb@nasty (Bill Burcham)
Subject: Re: Product of the Year (92)
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 18:40:53 GMT

Speaking of Product of the Year -- did anyone else read the BYTE Awards  
this time?!?  I think that every product that was either announced or  
upgraded by Microsoft this year won!  There were exactly 0 NeXT or  
NeXT-related products.  This bums me out.  Microsoft is on the war-path  
with bits and pieces of technology that we take for granted on this  
platform, and here I sit waiting for the NeXTSTEP '486 and RISC ports.   
ARRRRRRGH!!!!
--
+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|          Bill Burcham          | "Make no small plans; they have  |
| First National Bank of Chicago | no magic to stir men's souls"    |
|    billb@fnbc.com  (NeXTmail)  |      Daniel J. Burnham           |
+--------------------------------+----------------------------------+
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:22:01 GMT
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <C0DBLw.C8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)  
writes:
>>I've read only one review of G&M's recently-released book, of those  
>> 
>>that have read it, would you post your opinion of the quality of the book and  
why you feel the way you do about it?
>>
>>I would be more interested in reviews of the book now that it has gone to  
press because this is the copy I would be buying were I to purchase this book.   
I also would be more interested in reviews of the book from more than just one  
person.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-- 
>>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>>-- NeXTmail welcome

This is a great book!  (I hit chapter 6 this weekend, and I just received the  
book last week!). I like it because it's organization is well thought out and  
it strikes (at least for me) a good balance between detail and breadth.  

Easily the best NeXTSTEP programming book out today.

Here a listing of the chapters to give you an idea of its contents:

	Chapter 1
	Introduction to the NeXTSTEP
	Graphical User Interface

	Chapter 2
	NeXTSTEP Development Tools

	Chapter 3
	Creating a Simple Application
	With Interface Builder

	Chapter 4
	Creating an Application
	Without Interface Builder

	Chapter 5
	Building a Project:
	A Four Function Calculator

	Chapter 6
	Nibs and Icons

	Chapter 7
	Delegation and Resizing

	Chapter 8
	Events and Responders

	Chapter 9
	Mach and the Window Server

	Chapter 10
	MathPaper and Multiple Windows  (MathPaper is an app you build)

	Chapter 11
	Spawning Muitiple Processes
	and the Text Object

	Chapter 12
	Text and Rich Text

	Chapter 13
	Saving, Loading, and Printing

	Chapter 14
	Drawing with Display PostScript

	Chapter 15
	Draw yourself:
	All About NeXTSTEP Views

	Chapter 16
	GraphPaper: A Muiti-Threaded
	Application with a Display List

	Chapter 17
	Color

	Chapter 18
	View Resizing and Mouse Tracking

	Chapter 19
	Zooming and Saving Graphics Files

	Chapter 20
	The Pasteboard and Services

	Chapter 21
	Preferences and Defaults

**note that every chapter has a number of subparts

The infomation contained in this book is easily worth the $40
I paid.

Happy happy happy

--
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Advanced Micro Devices	[self dream-on];
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:37:59 GMT
Reply-To: mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu
Distribution: usa

J.B. Nicholson-Owens writes
| I've read only one review of G&M's recently-released book, of those  
|  
| that have read it, would you post your opinion of the quality of the  
book and why you feel the way you do about it?
| 
| I would be more interested in reviews of the book now that it has gone  
to press because this is the copy I would be buying were I to purchase  
this book.  I also would be more interested in reviews of the book from  
more than just one person.
| 
| Thanks,
| -- 
| -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
| -- NeXTmail welcome

I've had the book for two or three weeks now, and I'm about half way  
through it.  So far it's very well written and helpful.  The example  
applications are used to explain and demonstrate general concepts that  
would've been much harder to gleen from the online reference material.   
There are typos here and there but I haven't encountered any that were  
hard to recognize and correct.

Summary:  So far, so good!  I'll post again when I've finished it.

Mikael Behrens
University of Texas at Austin Computer Science student
From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: SoftPc Professional
Date: 12 Jan 93 04:59:07 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca

In article <1993Jan8.023036.24274@afit.af.mil> johair@afit.af.mil (John R. O'hair) writes:
>adunn@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
>>I saw the ad in the latest NeXTWorld for SoftPC Professional.  Has anyone tried
>>it yet?  How well does it work under NeXTStep 2.1? 
>
>I called yesterday. It's not out yet. Should be released by the end of
>January. They are taking orders, and if your upgrading its $100.

So what makes this "professional"? Does it run at a realistic so that a
even professional would actually use it? :)

And what about the promise of the free 3.0 SoftPC upgrade for people who
bought the academic bundle back way in '90? (Did Insignia changed the
name to get out of that?)

George