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From: lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly)
Subject: Weird Terminal Anomoly
Summary: Telnetting from Sun to NeXT produces deranged terminal emulation...
Keywords: telnet terminal VT100
Organization: University of Victoria
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:24:39 GMT

	I have a NeXTstation (running 2.2) in my office and also an account
on one of the computing centre's Suns. 

	When I telnet from the Sun to my NeXT, I run into terminal emulation
problems.  For example, 'ls -al' produces the following display...

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% ls -al
total 3
       drwxr-xr-x  3 me          1024 Jun 11 01:30 .
                                                    drwxr-xr-x  3 me    
     10
24 Jun  9 23:40 ..
                  drwxr-xr-x  2 root        1024 Jun 10 15:46 .NeXT
                                                                   %
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

	It looks to me like the newline function is not working properly. 

	I should add that this seems to only happen in line mode when I'm
telnetting from the Sun to the NeXT.  When I run full-screen commands
like emacs, everything's fine.  When I run Terminal on the NeXT,
everything's fine.  When I telnet to the NeXT from my Mac everything's
fine.

	What's puzzling is that I've been telnetting from the Sun to other
machines for a long time and I've NEVER observed this before -- so it
makes me think the problem lies with the NeXT.

	I'd be very grateful for any suggestions here.  (My only access to
the NeXT from home is by dialing up the Sun and then telnetting -- so
I'm really needing to solve this problem.)

	Thanks.

	Michael.
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Michael O'Henly                 
McPherson Library                Internet:  lux@sol.uvic.ca
University of Victoria                      lux@uvvm.uvic.ca
Victoria, B.C., Canada             BITNET:  lux@uvvm



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From: homjen@srrc.gov.tw (Homg-Jen Tsai)
Subject: CD-PLAYER 
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:41:46 GMT

=======================
email  homjen@bd05.srrc.gov.tw
From: erickson@oak.mcs.gvsu.edu (Carl Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: low-level format of Fujistsu M2624FA
Keywords: disk scsi format
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:24:11 GMT
Reply-To: erickson@oak.mcs.gvsu.edu (Carl Erickson)
Organization: Grand Valley State University

I'd like to reformat my new Fujistsu M2624FA to 1024 byte blocks
to get a little more space and better performance.  Can someone
please tell me what tool(s) to use to do this?

Thanks,
Carl

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From: fxmlk@acad3.alaska.edu (KIENENBERGER MIKE L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New NeXTstation Turbo Color with NeXTstep 3.0
Date: 13 Sep 92 07:45:00 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC

In article <1992Sep13.051211.216@codex.oz.au>, bpja@codex.com.au writes...
>In article <1992Sep11.163307.25785@newsgate.sps.mot.com> reed@prism.sps.mot.com  
>(Tim Reed) writes:
>> We just received a new NeXTstation Turbo Color machine with  
>> NeXTstep3.0 installed. I haven't turned it on yet because I was  
>> wondering if there are any problems to look for when starting a new  
>> machine (like this one) on a NetInfo network of other machines that  
>> are at NeXTstep2.x? No Network and System Administration manual came  
>> with the new machine and the User's manual doesn't even mention a  
>> NetInfo network, it only mentions NetWare. I assume that it is  
>> totally compatable with the present NetInfo network. Am I correct?  
>> Any other comments or suggestions are welcome.
>> 
> 
> 
>Absolutely 100% NetInfo compatible. Won't hurt anything that I know of.
>(Having examined the NetInfo source code, I feel confident in saying this!)
> 
>regards,
> 
>-- 
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Brett Adam                 Xedoc Software Development Pty. Ltd.
>NeXTMail: bpja@codex.oz.au                  AppleLink: AUST0335
>(Preferred.)                                 (Only if you must) 

Are you sure?  While helping to betatest 3.0 PR, I made my 2.0 server into
a netinfo client of the 3.0 test server.  I accidentally changed a value
for the 2.0 machine from the 3.0 machine and I totally destroyed my 2.0
netinfo database.  I was eventually forced to do a BuildDisk to restore
my 2.0 machine so that it could be a server again.

=============================================================================
-Mike Kienenberger                       FXMLK@ALASKA           (BITNet)
 Academic Computing                      FXMLK@acad3.alaska.edu (Internet)
 University of Alaska-Fairbanks
From: ppoh@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu (Paul B. Poh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting a MS-DOS floppy
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:00:30 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA


I am correct in assuming that there is no way of mounting an MS-DOS floppy
in a NeXT. ex. "mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0a /DOS" like on a Sun. NeXT's docs
seem to indicate that by putting a MS-DOS formatted disk into the drive a
folder named DOS will appear in the root folder. But I don't see a
directory named /DOS.

Anyone know how I can read a MS-DOS disk on a NeXT if I'm not at the
console or if I'm not running the NeXT window manager.

--
Paul Poh                        Unix Systems Programmer
ppoh@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu     Computer Services, Tufts University
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Subject: Disabling the setting in Preferences
From: sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi)
Date: 12 Sep 92 19:33:42 PDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: San Francisco State University

I am using NeXTSTEP 3.0, and reading through the documentation 
in /NextLibrary/Documentation, following the file about security

In the file Implementing.rtfd, it says to change the mode for Preferences
file into 6755.  As a user, I am still able to change the date.  
What should I do to disable Preference changing the date?

Thanks
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From: tuti@tutiki.toppoint.de (Torsten Buelck)
Subject: Re: Wangtek streamer
Reply-To: tuti@tutiki.toppoint.de (Torsten Buelck)
Organization: Tuti's... private UUCP-Site
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:14:34 GMT

In article <1699@nextpoint.UUCP> reini@demo10 (Michael_Reinemuth) writes:
> Hi ....

Hi, too.

> had anybody ever connectet a Wangtek streamer to his NeXT ??

Yes, I did.

> Ich had an Wangtek 5150 250MB streamer and have to connect it to my
> NeXTstation .. 

I have the same model.

> in the the bootup the streamer delivered on the screen and it looks 
> it works fine .. but when i made TAR or Dump i had an I/O Error...
>
> Can anybody help ??

Yes. Look at "hardware.762" in the spring version of the NeXTanswers.
There's a little program that switches the device driver from 
variable block mode to fixed block mode which is necessary for the
Wangtek (and most others).

If you don't have access to the NeXTanswers let me know and I'll mail
you this program.
 
> greetings Micha

Torsten.

P.S.: I did post this because I mailed this hint to so many people in the
      past. I hope, all potential users of streamers will read this :-)
--
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Germany                             /___/Ne\  \\\  ///
                                    \   \XT/   \\\///
Computers (in order of preference):  \___\/ ,   \XX/ Amiga, ..., PC, VIC20.
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Integrating NeXT and Novell with 3.0.
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:12:04 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Sep10.142055.24373@Princeton.EDU> tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU () writes:

>  The network at our institute uses a so-called Arcnet interface
>  to connect the server with the workstations, with simple
>  telephone wires and standard U.S. telephone plugs.
>
>Can anyone tell me what will be involved in connecting the
>NeXTStation to the network, under NeXTStep 3.0?

You can't (easily).  ARCNET, while using similar wire and connectors
is not compatible with 10Base-T ethernet which is available on the
NeXT.  You would need a MAC-level ARCNET/Ethernet bridge if you wanted
to use the NeXT as an Novell client.  This is hardly a cheap or cost
effective approach.

louie
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From: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Subject: Re: Macintonsh files with resource forks under 3.0
Reply-To: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Organization: Digital Technology, International
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:52:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.094622.1598@xenon.stgt.sub.org> alf@xenon.stgt.sub.org  
(Ingo Feulner) writes:
> Is there any way to work with such files?
> Currently, only files with data forks are accessible.
> 
> Thanks for advance, Ingo.
> -- 
> Ingo Feulner - Wolfacher Weg 22 - 7030 Boeblingen - alf@xenon.stgt.sub.org
>                                   ---
>   "Scheisse." - "Was?" - "Ne Streife." - "Nein." - "Doch." - "Scheisse."
>                             (Blues Brothers)

***********************************************************************
"/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/MixedNet.rtfd" says the following:

"Apple files are made up of a data fork, a resource fork, or both. The data  
fork holds the file contents, while the resource fork includes system  
information, such as the name of the application used to create the file. On a  
NeXT computer, a data fork appears with the same file name as on the AppleShare  
server, while resource forks appears as .filename.rsrc. For example, a file  
named Milestones that has both a data fork and a resource fork will appear on a  
NeXT computer as Milestones and .Milestones.rsrc".
***********************************************************************

I have found that (under 3.0 PR2--I don't yet have the real release) the
resource fork file (ending in .rsrc) is not shown in the file browser.   
However, you can copy it just fine from a terminal shell.

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NeXTmail preferred!
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From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Subject: UUCP help, please!!!
Keywords: UUCP
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:12:52 GMT

I'm setting up UUCP access to my Internet/Usenet connected system.  I've been  
struggling through it, and so far, a user can call, and leave mail, and files.   
Usenet groups are being batched, and he gets them.

My problems are:

1.  I have never set up bang (!) addressing, it's never come up until now.  I'm  
having trouble sending him mail.

2.  I cannot uucp files to him.  "uucp <file> wperkins!~/<file>" returns  
permission error on <file>.

I'm into my 6th hour of UUCP experience, so go easy!  5 of those hours were  
spend reading.

Thanks,

Jim
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From: lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly)
Subject: SUMMARY: Weird Terminal Anomoly (fixed!)
Summary: Mod to .cshrc fixes terminal anomoly
Keywords: telnet .cshrc stty -extproc
Organization: University of Victoria
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:13:04 GMT

The problem: when telnetting from a Sun to a NeXT, the line mode display
on the NeXT shows an anomoly in the way it handles newlines.  They start
directly under the preceding line rather than in column 0. 

	This doesn't occur using Terminal on the NeXT, or when telnetting
from other machines than the Sun (i.e. at least, I didn't have the
problem going from a Mac to the NeXT). One person reported that it also
doesn't happen using rlogin.

The solution: add 'stty -extproc' to the .cshrc on the NeXT.

	Thanks very much to the folks who responded this question.

	Michael.i
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Michael O'Henly                 
McPherson Library                Internet:  lux@sol.uvic.ca
University of Victoria                      lux@uvvm.uvic.ca
Victoria, B.C., Canada             BITNET:  lux@uvvm
From: henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu (Chuck Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Editing Tiff's
Date: 6 Sep 92 00:04:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Michigan State University

Is there a tool available somewhere that will allow me to edit
NeXT tiff files?

-Crh
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From: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith)
Subject: Re: Weird Terminal Anomoly
Organization: Brigham Young University -- Mathematics Department
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 16:00:45 GMT

In article <tlm.716241114@scl2.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Dr. T.L.  
Marchioro II) writes:
> In <lux.716221479@sol.UVic.CA> lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly) writes:
> 
> >	I have a NeXTstation (running 2.2) in my office and also an account
> >on one of the computing centre's Suns. 
> 
> >	When I telnet from the Sun to my NeXT, I run into terminal emulation
> >problems.  For example, 'ls -al' produces the following display...
> 
Add the line

    stty -extproc

to your .cshrc file.
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Phone: 1-801-378-2061 Fax: 1 801 378 2800
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NeXTmail: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu
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From: esch@n1xtal.cern.ch (Erich Schaefer)
Subject: Macintosh Floppies under 3.0
Reply-To: ulrich@cernvm.cern.ch
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:09:49 GMT

Hi

I have the problem under System 3.0 that one machine can read Macintosh  
Floppies (and initialize) as described in the manual. I did build the a system  
from this hard disk (on a 105 MB internal disk) and this new system can't read  
the Mac floppies anymore. It is not the hardware, because if I connect an  
external disk with system 3.0 to this station it suddenly  c a n  read Mac  
floppies. Another computer with a system, which was upgraded from 2.1 to 3.0  
with the CD rom doesn't recognize Mac flopies either and allows only to  
initialize DOS and NeXT formatted floppies.

Does anyone know what's going on? Is there a switch I have to set in the  
system?

Thanks,

  Ulrich Wiedner
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From: tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu (Todd A Green)
Subject: AppleTalk printing under 3.0
Organization: CICA - Center for Innovative Computer Applications
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:32:29 GMT


Has anyone successfully gotten their 3.0 (golden release) NeXT to talk
to atalk printers?

I had no problem under pr1 or pr2, but the brain-damaged Upgrade_3.0.app
deleted all my atalk pr2 stuff and then didn't install the release
package.  I used the installer to manually load the
/NeXTSTEP_3.0/NextCD/Packages/NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg package from the CD.

I updated my printcap entries (and niloaded them) to what they were in
pr2, but when I try to print I get:

	Sep 15 16:26:07 lothario Server:cicalab[380]: Cannot connect to
	AppleTalk services: 1102

I have no problem printing to the same printer(s) that are connected
to our ethernet via EtherPrints from our Macs/Netware machines/servers.

Any help is much appreciated,
Todd
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From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I enable 10baseT
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:39:37 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

Just a side note.  Starlan 10 is a major bummer anyway because
of its speed.  I tried to ftp to our unix box which is about 
two feet away and could physically watch the binary data go 
over and be counted.  I might as well have had a 2400 baud modem.


maurices
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From: plenson@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca (Peter Lenson)
Subject: problem with mounting CDROM  and DOS filesystems
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:15:32 GMT

Hi,

A couple weeks ago my NeXT when down :( and corrupted my netinfo database  
and wiped out some files. I rebuilt the netinfo database using niload, and  
now most everything seems to work. However, when I try to view a DOS disk  
under a "me" account I get the message "Floppy disk is unreadable". This  
does not happen if I,m logged on as ROOT. Furthermore, I'am able as a "me"  
user to use BuildDOS to format the disk; after which I get the above  
mentioned message. Now I 've check the permissions in the dev directory  
and they seem to be O.K. Also, I should mention that in /usr/filesystems  
the directory DOS.fs exist. The second problem I have, which might  
possibly be related, is that I can't get my NeXT to mount the CDROM  
filesystem. I have no other devices connected to my NeXT other than the CD  
player.  When I place a SUN CD in the drive the message "External disk is  
unreadable" comes up and on pressing the ignore button the disk ejected.  
The same thing happens if I place a music disk in. I've also tried the  
CDplayer.app from sonata, with no success. The OS version I have is 2.1.
Any help would be appreciated.

thanx

Peter Lenson

P.S my mail is still a little buggy so if you wish to email me
send non NeXT mail to a05@seis.gp.uwo.ca
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From: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland)
Subject: changing login tiff --- where is it in 3.0 ?
Keywords: login tiff
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:56:55 GMT

We just received our new Color Turbo NeXT and I want to change the login  
tiff to include its name....anybody know where the loging tiff has moved  
to ?  It's not in /usr/lib/nextstep/nextlogin.tiff where it used to be.

Thanks

Anthony Holland
Skidmore College
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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity)
Subject: Re: Chances of a 3.1 (was: Re: 3.0 SimpleNetworkStarter)
Keywords: of course
Reply-To: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:22:17 GMT

In article <Bu7yH7.KwD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)  
writes:
[lines deleted]
| And someone said there probably wouldn't be a 3.1...somehow, I don't think  
| so.  What other apps are buggy?  Is there a definate chance or need for  
| 3.1 or are there workarounds that NeXT is telling it's users to use  
| instead?

Of course there will be a 3.1 (or at least a 3.0a :-)).  No matter how many  
beta testers, thousands of users banging on a system will uncover more bugs,  
which will then be fixed, given workarounds, or scheduled for 4.0 :-).
--
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Texas A & M University			uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher
College Station, TX 77843-3112		BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS
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From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Summary, weird dialin problem
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:28:06 GMT
Originator: matthews@oberon.umd.edu

I got one reply from Royce Howland about the modem control codes being sent
to the modem even when someone's successfully logged in.

(I've tried to mail a response but the return address was invalid and I
haven't been able to figure out the correct one yet)

Anyway, the error *might* have been the modem being set to echo codes (ATE1).
This unfortunately renders tip unuseable (no comments as to whether or not
that's the way it always is :-) ).
------
Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
------
Second Law of Business Meetings:
	If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
	will pick the wrong one.

Corollary:
	If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it
	wrong, anyway.
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: changing login tiff --- where is it in 3.0 ?
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 09:55:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.000111.9665@reed.edu> horde@reed.edu
	(Mr. Heiji Horde) writes:
>Now if we could just get tiffs of the 7 deadly sins.

You can frame-grab off the NeXTdimension, right?  Then all you
need is _Bedazzled_ on video.  :-) :-) :-)

					-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: 'nu -A' question
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:04:54 GMT

robert cyphers writes
> I want to call the command
>   nu -A  name realname uid gid shell pwd home reuse mh  
domain
> to install new users from inside a program.
> 
> My problem is:
> 
> Can I get 'nu -A' to accept "*" as a password with the  
usual meaning,
> i.e. login disabled?

Nope.  Think about it.  Nu is going to use whatever you  
type in, run crypt on it, and stuff THAT string into the  
/etc/passwd (or netinfo ) file.  Alternately, it will feed  
the string to passwd, and passwd should barf, because it's  
too short.  Entering it on the command line too, you would  
have to protect it from globbing.

HOWEVER
You can get around this by modifying the DeleteAccts shell.   
Since nu is a binary that calls the script, I don't see a  
way to make it call it with extra variables.  But you could  
have DeleteAccts check an environment variable, and based  
on that either delete the account or merely disable it.  (I  
would tend to modify the script so that disableing the  
account was default, deleting it required the extra  
variable.

Make that script make a series of calls to niutil to change  
the passwd from sdkfjqp712047612 to *sdkfjqp712047612. (*  
never comes up as the result of encrypting the password,  
and this way, you can remove the * and his old password  
works)



> 
> Also, should 'reuse' and 'mh' be N/Y or 0/1?

You want an integer. 
From /etc/nulib/nu2.sh:
if ($wantMHsetup) then
    mkdir Mail
    mkdir Mail/inbox
    ...

see also /etc/nu.cf
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