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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: Re: Bug in Kermit5A(188) under 3.0 (with a patch)
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company
Followup.to: comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:57:54 GMT

In article <ntomczak.725563464@vega> ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann) writes:
   There are some other minor gotchas but generally things seem to be
   in a good shape.  Is there any demand for patched 3.0 executables?
   If there is I may be persuaded to upload them to archives.
   There are somewhat below 300K.

Please do.

Another peculiarity I found was that for some reason, "set handshake" no
longer has a separate option for cts-rts handshakes.  If I select "none",
will this hardware handshake be enabled?
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From: mstankus@oba.ucsd.edu (Mark Stankus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: How is Obj-C project coming?
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:28:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Mathematics @ UCSD

Some time ago, there was a news item which said that FSF was going to
work on a objective-c compiler (whose objects were c++
compatible) and an interface builder
on X-windows. I have not heard anything sense.

What is the status of this project? I'd like to see a game plan if it
exits.

Also, is there a plan to put a GUI on top of the GNU
operating system (to be) ? Like the stuff the NeXT (no flames please) has.
In particular, there could be objects like a print panel,
a color wheel,...

Mark Stankus
-- 
mstankus
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: agnus@amylnd.stgt.sub.org (Matthias Zepf)
Subject: Re: Software for Music Publishing
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Organization: Agnus' Home, Leonberg/Warmbronn, Germany
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:12:58 GMT

slugg jello () wrote:
> > we want to publish an new songbook in Germany and looking
> > for a software to do this easy as possible. 
> I'm waiting for the same product to come out, as I too want to
> publish a music book and refuse to do it on my PC.

NeXTWORLD, Winter 1992, page 54:
"Score(tm) - A brilliant professional music notation editor written
by William Clocksin of Cambridge University. For serious music pub-
lishing." (Right Brain Software)

I do not know this application, and I do not know, whether it is
shipping or not, but it sounds like what you are looking for ...

Happy New Year, Matthias
-- 
** Matthias Zepf, Riegelaeckerstrasse 27, 7250 Leonberg, Germany **
** +49 7152 41917    Email: agnus@amylnd.stgt.sub.org (NeXTmail) **
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: heard anything about SoftPC
From: citdem@VIOLET.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:51:06 GMT
Reply-To: citdem@VIOLET.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Distribution: na,local
Organization: University of Arizona

What ever became of a NeXTSTEP 3.0 version of SoftPC?  Anybody heard anything?

Don
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: hal@niftyneato.com(Hal Fox-Palmer)
Subject: Re: Converting Mac PS fonts to NeXT?
Organization: Hal's phony Co.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:25:14 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.192946.3346@metrosoft.com>  writes:
> In article <1992Dec17.232029.16328@Princeton.EDU>  
> tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) writes:
> > 
> > What is the currently recommended way to convert Mac PS fonts
> > for use on a NeXT?
> > 
> 
> I always suggest MetroTools, but since I wrote and sell it...
> 
I use MetroTools and have converted LOTS of Mac fonts, both Adobe and  
nonAdobe. MetroTools works great ! Would like to see more features (ala  
Suitcase II) for grouping and installing. There is something called  
typedrawer for Imaginet that will do that kinda stuff but its not out yet.

Hal-

hal@niftyneato.com
From: dmitri@physics (Dmitri Linde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: CDPlayer.app v1.0- How do I make this thing work?
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:54:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: sol.1993Jan3.175402.5082
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
X-Posted-From: physics.stanford.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1993Jan3.071544.1136@parsec.mixcom.com> alberto@parsec.uucp writes:
>In article <1993Jan2.192057.379@parsec.mixcom.com> alberto@parsec.mixcom.com  
>(Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes:
>> I finally got my NeXT CD Rom. But for some reason no sounds come out of the  
>> speaker, seems to work with headphones. Is this the only way to play CD's or  
>> can I listen to them through the computer speaker?
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Due to the audio CD industry's copy restrictions, moving audio data across the
>SCSI bus where it could be played through the speakers or copied to disk is not
>implemented.  So I'm afraid you're stuck with headphones or stereo output jacks
>on the back of the CD-ROM drive.
Yes you can listen to CDs thru NeXT speaker. You have to get a cable to connect
the output of CD-ROM drive to NeXT microphone input at the back of the
monitor. Then run CDPlayer (or CDAudio) and play the CD. Immediately after that
type in the Terminal:
record|play
You can get the record and play commands from Gopher source on nova.cc.purdue.edu

Dmitri Linde
dmitri@physics.stanford.edu
P.S. You lose some quality of the sound though... Therefore I prefer headphones.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Lack of color brilliance in GIF pictures?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 22:38:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moica.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec23.071448.20157@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch) 
>>Florian Gutzwiller writes
>>
>>> If I compare the color brillance of GIF prictures on a NeXT 16bit
>>> system and a Sun 8 bit display the Sun is much more brillant. This
>>> is not a monitor problem for sure. I'm using ImageViewer.
>
>
>The dithering required of an NS color for a paletted image surely
>is -- and I do sweat it. 

Whatever it is, I don't think it's the dithering on NS color.
GIF images appear similarly washed out on NeXTdimension as on NS color,
and ND doesn't dither.

--
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)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From:  (slugg jello)
Subject: Re: Software for Music Publishing
Reply-To: slugg@mouthers.wa.com
Organization: Mouthing Flowers
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:06:54 GMT

In article <1hhdk2INN14u@schroeder.cpp.ob.open.de> paschman@cpp.ob.open.de (Uwe  
Paschmann) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> we want to publish an new songbook in Germany and looking
> for a software to do this easy as possible. 
> 
> In art of WYSIWIG we want to see simultaneous lines of notes
> and songtext. And if we can generate the music notes with an
> YAMAHA-Keyboard with Midi-Interface.... super!
> 
> Is there any product we can use? Who can help us?

I'm waiting for the same product to come out, as I too want to publish a music  
book and refuse to do it on my PC.  Anybody listening?
-- 
Doug Kent
slugg@mouthers.wa.com
From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Converting to relative time in .score files.
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:45:36 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH


Does anyone know of any way to convert the times in a .score file from  
absolute times to relative times.  For example,

t 0.00;
Left_Hand (0.50) keyNum:e3k;
t 0.25;
Right_Hand (0.50) keyNum:e5k;
t 0.50;
Left_Hand (0.50) keyNum:fs3k;
t 0.75;
Right_Hand (0.50) keyNum:ds5k;
t 1.00;
Left_Hand (0.50) keyNum:gs3k;

converted to

t 0.00;
Left_Hand (0.50) keyNum:e3k;
t + 0.25;
Right_Hand (0.50) keyNum:e5k;
t + 0.25;
Left_Hand (0.50) keyNum:fs3k;
t + 0.25;
Right_Hand (0.50) keyNum:ds5k;
t + 0.25;
Left_Hand (0.50) keyNum:gs3k;

If no solution is offered, I'll probably write a quick c program for it.   
See, I want to tell some of the code to repeat itself, via "repeat n { ...  
}", but you can't put in absolute times in the part that repeats.

Michael Glenn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: john@logiconultra.com (John Martyniak)
Subject: Re: RIB examples
Keywords: RIB,graphics
Organization: Logicon_Ultrasystems
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:51:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.211651.16181@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>  
eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
> Anyone want to NeXT mail some RIB files to me?
> Thanks!
> Eric

If anybody out there has some RIB files I would be interested in them too.   
Maybe we should see if we can get some space allocated on a server, to be  
sort of a NeXT Graphics (RenderMan) library.  Any suggestions?  Now that  
3.0 is widely available, more and more RIB files will be around, so we  
should set up someplace to make them available.

John Martyniak
From: rs69@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Rong Shen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: two ?'s: how to reboot and how to view gif without crashing the machine
Date: 31 Dec 92 22:40:57 GMT
Followup-To: --------------------------> poster
Organization: Columbia University

Hi everyone:

	Happy new year!

	I just want to know (1) how to reboot next machines, and (2)
how many graphic files <average 100K each> I can open at once without
making the machine "freeze."

	Any hints will be greatly appreciated.

--
rs69@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
From: longrie@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Terry Longrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Upgrading '030 Cube to 3.0
Date: 30 Dec 1992 02:45:03 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.9.13

Hello

I recently recieved NeXTStep 3.0 and am trying to upgrade my old 68030
NeXT Cube but I seem to have run into a problem.  What happens is that
after I run UpgradePrep and reboot the computer it will successfully 
execute the rc scripts but  will hang at the very end with the error
message "loginwindw: could not find window server port!"

Here are the vital statistics of my setup:
	68030 NeXT Cube
	ROM revision 1.0 v3.7
	350 meg HD
	Optical Drive
	16 meg memory

Is there something different that needs to be done with the older cubes
when upgrading?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

						
						Thank You

						Terry Longrie
						-------------
						longrie@miller.cs.uwm.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester)
Subject: need disk advice
Reply-To: ph@pencom.com
Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:09:37 GMT

I've got an mono-040-upgrade cube with an OD and 340mb Maxtor disk.
Well I'm out of disk space and could use some advice...
I'm looking for somewhere over a gig and around 12ms access (or faster).
The plan is to ditch my Maxtor and replace it with another internal
disk. Who's got recommendations for such an animal? Oh, and I'd like
it to be a quiet drive.

Also, the old disk is a 5-1/4" full height drive. Can I replace it with
a 3-1/2" half height? If I do this can I fit a floppy drive in my cube?
Where can I get a floppy drive mechanism without the external case?
Do I need a new faceplate? Is it actually possible to house a floppy
drive, a hard disk and an OD in the same cube? And what about cables?

Please email suggestions, I'll summarize.
Thanks for any help.

--
Patrick Hester   ph@pencom.com   (212) 513-7777   NeXT Mail OK   =8(\/\)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: smg@orb.com (Samuel M. Goldberger)
Subject: Re: SoftPC
Organization: CR Labs - Internet Dialup Access (415-389-UNIX guest)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:13:11 GMT

In article <C07pzs.H46@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)  
writes:
> A safer course of
> action here is to first kill off the SoftPC process or anything else
> that might have a hold of the floppy, become root, and type 'disk -e
> /dev/rfd0a'.  Then, reboot cleanly with Command-~ or the 'reboot'
> command as root.  The reboot is necessary because you have confused
> the autodiskmount daemon by manually ejecting the disk without
> properly unmounting it.  (If you don't reboot, disks that are
> inserted will not be recognized)

You can also issue the "umount /dev/fd0a" instead of rebooting. But David is  
right that this procedure is the safest.

--
Samuel M. Goldberger	smg@orb.com--NeXT Mail OK
Spherical Solutions, 	47 Myrtle Avenue, Mill Valley, CA  94941
415.383.7512--voice     415.381.9556--fax
From: ngervae@next.com (Nik Gervae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
Date: 24 Dec 92 20:25:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.101601.20122@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess  
Anderson) writes:
> In article <1992Dec21.224618.13182@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
> fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
> 
> >Remind me how to replace the system login image with new ones. (NS 3.0)
> 
> As root:
> 
> cd /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj

[ rest of instructions deleted ]

It's tons easier (and safer) than this. As root, type this at a Terminal
shell prompt:

    dwrite loginwindow ImageFile </full/path/of/your/tiff>

Then log out and type "exit" at the loginwindow. You might also want
to try this:

    dwrite loginwindow HostName "<name_you_want>"

If name_you_want is "localhost", then the machine's host name, whatever
it may be, gets displyed on the loginwindow

This definitely works under Release 3. Your milage may vary under Release 2.
And yes, it's documented in the Network and Sysadmin manual, page 232.
Now if only someone would write a graphic app that you could drag-and-drop
your loginwindow TIFF into.... (hint, hint)

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Login Tiffs
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 12:26:02 GMT


Having received many requests, I've tried to upload my
collection of login tiffs to sonata; no go, probably a space
crunch (the clock there is wacky, too).

So I've put 'em up on my own machine, yak.macc.wisc.edu
[144.92.30.18], directory pub/next/images/logintiffs, files
jess_logintiffs.README and jess_logintiffs.tar.Z.

Those needing a mail server will have to wait until sonata
gets its problems solved.

Enjoy.

-- 
[Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin]
[Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson]
[Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888]
[---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart)
Subject: CDPlayer.app v1.0- How do I make this thing work?
Reply-To: alberto@parsec.uucp
Organization: I keep everything where I <most likely> can find it.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:20:57 GMT

I finally got my NeXT CD Rom. But for some reason no sounds come out of the  
speaker, seems to work with headphones. Is this the only way to play CD's or can  
I listen to them through the computer speaker?
-- 
Manuel Alberto Ricart
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Login Tiffs
Date: 30 Dec 92 12:38:18 GMT
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison


I'm frankly astonished by how many people were interested
enough in login panel tiffs to ftp my collection.  It seems
to interest a lot of people.  That being the case
(apparently), I guess some feedback on these would be of
interest to me.  

From a design point of view, the greatest limitations of the
present regime are that the loginwindow.app does not
recognize alpha (anyone know why?) and that the positions of
the two text windows wrt to the lower left corner are
constants.  It seems to me these four numbers could as well
be accessible in the defaults database.

At a minimum, NeXT could make the full source of the app
available; if one had access to that, diddling the nib
should be an easy matter.  I realize that invites some
obvious perils, but they are hardly greater than many others
lurking about on any Unix machine.  What's a few anguished
cries for help, more or less, among friends?

-- 
[Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin]
[Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson]
[Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888]
[---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Williams Telecommunications - email?
Date: 21 Dec 92 07:32:09 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: University of Durham

I would like to contact someone at WilTel, is there a email address?  Real address?  Any
information appreciated.

Thank you,
Scott


-- 
EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk   OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail)
SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong)
Subject: Re: Old old Cube needs an upgrade...
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:07:48 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.045822.3793@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
>In article <1hs0e4INNiu5@agate.berkeley.edu> slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu  
>(Shelley Louie) writes:
>> We've got an old, old '20 cube running (cough) NS 1.0 and want to 
>
>Oh yeah, well I've got an old '00 cube running NS -0.3 and.... ;-)

Hey, be nice!! Every smart person knows that is a typo, isn't it?!

Andy

>
>--
>Nathan Janette
>PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu
>
>Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
>


Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.misc:23376 comp.sys.next.advocacy:3476
From: hal@niftyneato.com(Hal Fox-Palmer)
Subject: InfoWorld Dec 21
Organization: Hal's phony Co.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:25:55 GMT

"Not even the Buns of Steel can keep Steve Jobs from being Canonized"

That's the headline from Robert X. Cringely column, back page of this  
weeks InfoWorld.

here's bits & pices

"Santa Steve. Not!...  The stress level at NeXT Inc., for example, is off  
the meter. Steve Jobs is driving his kids toward a new hardware generation  
as the company runs on fumes and money borrowed from Canon. Bad idea....   
NeXTSTEP is the best such environment around and is at least two years  
ahead of its nearest competitor...  If the new workstations don't make  
it...,Canon gets the whole company.

Hal-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
X-Excuse: X-Copyright wegen Emma, Suedwestpresse und /C'T/DISKUSSIONEN.
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:52:29 GMT
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
		 Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
		 nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
		 schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.

In <6125@rosie.NeXT.COM> ngervae@next.com (Nik Gervae) writes:
>    dwrite loginwindow ImageFile </full/path/of/your/tiff>

>Then log out and type "exit" at the loginwindow. You might also want
>to try this:

>    dwrite loginwindow HostName "<name_you_want>"

>If name_you_want is "localhost", then the machine's host name, whatever
>it may be, gets displyed on the loginwindow

To make this collection complete: You may also do a

dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser <loginname>

This will login the user "<loginname>" instead of "me"
automatically. <loginname> must not have a password. This is
not suitable for a networked environment.

You may also do a

dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES

The loginwindow will begin to sweep across the screen after an
idle period to prevent burnin. The animation is extremely bad.

Kristian

-- 
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"Convection Machine is a trademark of Thoughtless Machines, Inc., a joint-
 venture of Hot-Air Associates and Air Heads International using vaporware
 from the Neural Network Corporation." -- RFC1217
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Compiling bash on NeXT
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:59:58 GMT

I have just attempted to compile bash 1.12 on a NS3.0 TC station. All the
modules compiled, but the linker spat out:

   /bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
   _ulimit
   *** Exit 1

I'd appreciate any help and if there are other problems I should be
watching for, I wouldn't mind being forwarned.

Cheers
-- 

Mark T. Dornfeld                              Voice: (416) 234-9048
CYANTIC Systems                               Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103                Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: karl@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Re: ScenePatch.app
Reply-To: karl@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft)
Organization: Ensuing Technologies Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:38:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.054848.14122@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>ScenePatch.app.compressed is listed at sonata with length 0
>and a completely screwy timestamp; clearly the upload did
>not work.  I think the server is hosed;

After putting ScenePatch on the archive site, I grabbed it to make sure  
that the entire file made it.  Unfortunately it seems to have become  
toast.  I've uploaded a copy to cs.orst.edu in the meantime.  I've also  
sent a copy to Jess, so it should appear on his machine some time soon.

--
__________
Karl Kraft
karl@ensuing.com  (NeXT mail)
From: ph600fbr@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (James Dehnert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:54:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

>I've not tried it under 3.0, but I think there's a better way.  Replacing the
>login panel as Jess describes seems somewhat perilous and does require messing
>with system files.  NeXT has provided a defaults variable for loginwindow that
>points to the location of the desired login panel tiff.  Setting this defaults
>variable and leaving the system login panel where it is seems like a cleaner
>approach (but of course, if the defaults variable is set incorrectly, problems
>will still occur :-)
>
># dwrite loginwindow ImageFile fullPathForNewLoginPanelTiff
>
>Then restart the window server as Jess described.

  The best way to go ( IMHO ) is to make the dwrite above look at a generic 
file called login.tiff, or whatever, and make this file a symbolic link to 
whatever file you would like to use.  This way you dont have to remember 
the dwrite command when you get a better login screen tiff, and you can 
also be a bit creative with this.  For instance, you can name all your 
login tiffs 1 through 34 ( or whatever ) and have a logout hook move the 
symbolic link at random.  I havent tried this ( I like the unix daemon 
screen myself ) but it should work.



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+ SAIC   Geophysical Div.     Eschew Obfuscation  +
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