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From: magnus@Fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: BinHex on a NeXT?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:55:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.032915.24864@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
avery@ccrma.stanford.edu  (Avery Wang) writes:
> In comp.sys.next.misc article <1k204jINNn9@golden.kaleida.com> you wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Is there a utility for NeXTs that will un BinHex a file sent from a Mac to  
> > the NeXT?  Ideally, a utility would do this through the Services menu.  
> > 
> > Otherwise, is the BinHex format published somewhere?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Paul
> 
> You want to get Opener.app.  It does just about everything you need for  
> archiving/unarchiving in various formats.  I think you can get it from the  
> public archive servers (sonata, for example)
> 
> -Avery

There is also "mcvert" which is line based only. Source is available from  
sumex-aim.stanford.edu (somewhere in info-mac).
--


		Magnus Nordborg
		Department of Biological Sciences
		Stanford University
		magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred)
From: paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Toby Paterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:05:09 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Reply-To: paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: gdss.commerce.ubc.ca

In article <SOWA.93Jan22102901@amdew.llnl.gov> sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik  
C. Sowa) writes:
> >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Raftis <alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu> writes:
> 
> One person's opinion: I hate packages for freeware/shareware. I end up
> looking inside the .pkg directory and unpacking the .tar.Z directly with
> Opener.app. I like to see what's inside before I install. The idea of a
> new user simply double-clicking to install a .pkg obtained from the net
> is a little scary to me. I do some risky things along those lines, but
> at least I'm aware of the potential consequences.
> 
That's not the way it works.  When you double click on the package, it  
opens up in Installer.  One of the options available there is to list the  
contents of the package.

There are several advantages to using packages:

1. If the package contains many files scattered all over the place, there  
are no messy installation scripts to be executed or vague README files  
which need to be digested.  The click of a button does it all for you.

2. A means for removing the package from your system or, if you just need  
a little space for a while, compressing the package is automatically  
provided.

3. It provides a convenient way to see exactly what software is installed  
on your system.

However...

> And those receipts always go to /NextLibrary/... Baaaad! They should go
> to ?localLibrary or ~/Library, depending on where the installation takes
> place.
> 

I agree whole-heartedly on this issue.  I think the person installing the  
package should have an option of where to place the receipt for a package.   
This would certainly be convenient in a network environment where software  
can either be installed on a single machine or provided to the whole  
network.

> p.s. Alex - GW is great!
> --

Ayup.

> erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
X

--
\\  /    Who:   Toby Paterson
 \\/     How:   tpaterso@cs.ubc.ca, paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca
 //\     What:  Grunt and NeXT hacker; GDSS Fellowship
//  \    Where: University of British Columbia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Subject: Re: Mail questions
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:36:18 GMT

In article <1jmq26INNf4e@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> dave@downie.commerce.ubc.ca (David  
Downie) writes:
>>Two questions:
>>
>>1.  How do you include a .sig file into outgoing messages.
>>Thanks

One approach is to use Terminal services.  Simply make a service that performs  
a "cat /<fullpathname>/.signature".  At first I tried "cat ~/.signature" but  
alas, it choked.  Adding the full path fixed it though.

>>2.  When you're replying to a message, is it possible to include the  
>>original message?

Yes. Hit the "Forward" button.

--
Ronald Pomeroy		"The Internet is just a giant petri dish"
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
From: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Business Week article
Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:42:25 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca
Keywords: business week Next

In article <1jjvohINN87h@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca writes:
>In article <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark  
>Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
>> Anyone read the Business Week article about NeXT yet?  Looks grim.
>
>What issue exactly? Can you summarize it? Give us some details!

Subscribe to comp.sys.next.advocacy!
 RWW.

Hey, Oli!

-- 
Robert W. "What!?! I've-been-tying-my-shoelaces-backwards-all-my-life?" Wong Jr.
wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only)
From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:29:01 GMT
	<1993Jan20.222852.125885@zeus.calpoly.edu>
Organization: LLNL Chemistry and Materials Science
In-reply-to: Alex Raftis's message of 20 Jan 93 22:28:52 GMT

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Raftis <alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu> writes:

Alex> There's perhaps one problem with this idea. Many of us post packages to sonata  
Alex> in order to make installing them easier for new users.

One person's opinion: I hate packages for freeware/shareware. I end up
looking inside the .pkg directory and unpacking the .tar.Z directly with
Opener.app. I like to see what's inside before I install. The idea of a
new user simply double-clicking to install a .pkg obtained from the net
is a little scary to me. I do some risky things along those lines, but
at least I'm aware of the potential consequences.

And those receipts always go to /NextLibrary/... Baaaad! They should go
to ?localLibrary or ~/Library, depending on where the installation takes
place.

p.s. Alex - GW is great!
--
erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
Subject: Re: Business Week article (what a joke!)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:48:50 GMT

In article <1jp39tINN1hd@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill  
Smith) writes:
> be a black standard.  With NS486 and NSHP they will cover a larger

That should probably read NSPA instead of NSHP.
-- 
Gerben Wierda                 Tel. (+31) 35 833539
  "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
  From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".

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From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: NeXT to Mac sound conversion???
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:15:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Please send replys to kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu; THANX!!!

Does anyone out there know of a program that can convert from NeXT
.snd format to mac snd format?  I know that there are many that do the
converse i.e. Mac to NeXT, but I really need the product to work in
the other direction.  I dont care if its PD or commercial.  I checked
out MetroTools and apparently that goes in only one direction (which
is too bad because its a really sharp product).  So any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Later, John
kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu
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John Kheit/monoChrome  | Opinions expressed represent me only!       |fried %-)
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From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:52:26 GMT
Organization: LLNL Chemistry and Materials Science
In-reply-to: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 00:55:27 GMT

>>>>> "gad" == Garance A. Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> writes:

gad> What else would you want to see?

Sometimes I actually look at file contents. But this thread has gone too
far off, and it's my fault for using the word "hate" carelessly when I
really meant to express a preference. Let me say what I should have said
in the first place:

For examining and installing software I obtain from the net, I *prefer*
Opener.app to Installer.app. Installer has some advantages, particularly
with complicated installs (e.g., TeX) , but most stuff from the net is
not that complicated---just drag the app into the proper folder and
that's it---and Opener has its own advantages. It's a trade-off like
anything else in life; your mileage may vary. IMHO, unless you're using
some fancy GUI ftp tool that automatically untars files, the .pkg
doesn't buy you much---you still have to get the file and untar it into
a .pkg before you can double click to invoke Installer---but what the
heck, it doesn't hurt.

There you are. "prefer A" sounds better than "hate B". I'll be more
careful the next time. And I can get inside the .pkg to find the .tar.Z
or .zip I prefer, so the .pkg doesn't keep me from getting my way. Maybe
I'd be happier if that Receipts problem were solved, but it's really no
big deal.

And I could not live without Opener.app. That happy note bears
repeating. :-)

--
erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang)
Subject: SLIPCommander 2.0 submitted to archive sites
Reply-To: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:42:04 GMT

Hi,

	SLIPCommander 2.0 is now on both sonata.cc.purdue.edu and  
cs.orst.edu archive sites. Enclosed are extracted from the README file:

============================
Welcome to SLIPCommander2.0!


		SLIPCommander.app  is a NeXTStep Interface to the SLIP  
commands provided in the TransSys DialUpIP  SLIP package by Louis A.  
Mamakos.   Installation of  the latest SLIP_v1.pkg version 920904 is  
highly recommended. 

	SLIPCommander simplifies the SLIP connection/disconnection process  
as well as retrieving mails from remote sites.  A set of very informative  
panel buttons are used to provide a NeXTStep looks & feels Interface. If  
you use SLIP connection a lot, you will find SLIPCommander a very sexy  
companion along with your NeXT.


What's in the SLIPCommander?
============================

*	Toggle SLIP with connection/disconnection button.

*	NeXTMails are always just a 'click' away.

*	Auto-redial within time-out upon a busy phone line .

*	Monitoring your SLIP connection status.


Version 2.0 Improvements
========================

*	Yes, SLIPCommander is now 3.0 color and Help ready.

*	SLIPCommander is more stable and  responsive than ever due to a  
new fine-tuned mechanism of message passing.

*	A much easier way to customize your personal preference. The root  
password is no longer needed. A configurable path for finding SLIP  
commands.

*	New-Mails notification. (you no longer need to watch the logwindow  
closely for mail arrival.)

*	An improved Commander window  that controls and displays SLIP  
activities with a set of colorful icon buttons.

*	A memory saver, bi-colored logwindow.

*	Elimination of the $(HOME)/.SlipCommander file. Preference are now  
store in the Defaults database.




--
+----------------+
| Gary I. Chang	 |
+----------------+   
Northwestern Univ.      E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:01:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.081439.24884@btree.uucp> bly@btree.uucp (Roger Bly) writes:

[ ]
>
>Really looks like Steve is going to have to dump the hardware business
>to keep NeXT and NeXTStep going.  With deals in the works with Compaq,
>HP, etc. It looks like NeXT will be a software company by the end of the year.
>But of course, software is where all the value/money is!

In my opinon dropping out of the hardware business would be a terrible 
mistake and a very real setback in computing to those who don't only care
about speed.
 
[ ]

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: nether@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Joel C Belog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Will NeXT printer work with NS486?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:24:39 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <C18ryI.D0L@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) writes:
>
>>Will the standard NeXT printer work with NextStep 486? I don't see why it  
>>wouldn't but there hasn't been any mention of this one way or the other.
>
>Interesting thought - I haven't seen any mention of it either.
>Obviously, you would need someplace to plug it in!  NeXT (or
>someone) would have to design a card (probably EISA) that would give
>you the connector on your PC.
>I believe I did read that the NCP (Color Printer) will work OK with

	Hmmm ... first a disclaimer ... NOT a hardware guru!

	but, the NeXT printer is only a print head.  All the
	imaging and such goes on in the 680x0 and gets sent
	out to the printer.  If NeXT does the same with the
	P5, then you are right .. all you need is a place to
	plug it in.

	I think the same can be said about the NCP.

	Later, hope my thinking is right. :)

	Joel Belog
	nether@wpi.wpi.edu
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:14:12 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Distribution: world
Reply-To: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cachet.cs.tamu.edu
Keywords: Display PostScript

In article <1993Jan24.190616.8512@athena.mit.edu> jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G  
Shirlaw) writes:
| In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu>, daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C.  
Daugherity) writes:
| |> SunSoft is announcing their intention to use Display PostScript
| |> today at the X Conference in Boston.  Once again NeXT leads the way!

[press release deleted]

| Does this mean that we will be able to use a sun as a terminal for  
NeXTStep... as
| they both will use DPS as a windowing model or am I just being simple minded?
| 
| john.

No, but it would make it a lot simpler to code :-).
--
Walter C. Daugherity			Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
Texas A & M University			uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher
College Station, TX 77843-3112		BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS
	---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: dse@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (donald.s.eaves)
Subject: Re: Business Week article (what a joke!)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:25:15 GMT
Keywords: business week Next

In article <1jjvohINN87h@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca writes:
>In article <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark  
>Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
>> Anyone read the Business Week article about NeXT yet?  Looks grim.

BW did so much spinning on this article, its slanderous.   
Compare the NeXT article to the Borland article on the facing page:

THE FACTS:
NeXT posts its first profit, has big sales of its hot new NeXTSTEP 486 
product which is two years ahead of the competitors and has a 1992 growth
that outpaced the workstation market growth.

Borland is loosing market share and revenues, announces a 11 million 
dollar operating loss. is beat to the market by Microsoft and its stock 
is at a 52 week low.

THE PICTURE:
BW presents an unflattering, candid, off-center, mainly unfocused picture
of Jobs.

Kahn carefully poses, with an artificial smile, for a great publicity shot.

THE TITLE:
"NeXTs BLACk BOX MAY BE THE NEXT TO GO"
  (A RUMOR denied by Jobs!!!  This title can easily be misunderstood as
meaning that NeXT is next to go.)
  
"A BRUISED BORLAND IS UP AND SWINGING"
  (Another rumor, creating quite a different perception.)


I think the real problem is, as BW points out, that NeXT doesn't buy ads 
in BW, while its competitors certainly do.  To present a positive article
about NeXT could potentially result in some of those competitors pulling
ads from BW.

I'm pissed and I'm writing a letter to BW.  Maybe if they receive enough
letters they will publish one in the Reader's report.

Don
Hypersight Inc.
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From: David.Kelman@launchpad.unc.edu (David Kelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Workspace multi-volume save
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:33:14 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service


	I tested out NS 3.0's ability to save a file too large for one
floppy.  I had tarred and compressed a directory, which ended up to be
just about 8 Meg.  I then saved it to a floppy, and workspace properly
asked for more disks, etc.  The problem is that it required four entire
floppies to perform the save.  The original file would have filled a touch
more than three floppies, but somehow the split file grew by about 2 Meg!
Should I not have compressed it first, as Workspace claims to compress it
before saving it?  What is taking up all this space?

David Kelman

--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
From: kickaha@siddhartha.math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian K. Boonstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Keyboard remapping - help w/ modifiers?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:35:58 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Reply-To: kickaha@siddhartha.math.lsa.umich.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: siddhartha.math.lsa.umich.edu

In article <1jkf6bINN43f@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>  
kickaha@siddhartha.math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian K. Boonstra) writes:
> 	problem deleted

Thanks to Scott Hess for the answer to this. I foolishly thought that when the docs  
mentioned the shift key they meant the *actual* shift key on my *keyboard*, and not  
the representation thereof on my screen.

The answer, therefor, is that one uses the mouse to click the picture of a shift  
key in the window.

--
Brian K. Boonstra    (313) 764-6046     kickaha@umich.edu

 "My strength is as the strength of ten because my code is pure."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: dpeter@hsd.com (David W. Peter)
Subject: Re: HP ScanJetIIc on a NeXT ?
Reply-To: dpeter@hsd.com
Organization: HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:48:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.225244.14885@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>  
brit@wagner.Physics.McGill.CA (Dave Britton) writes:
> Can a HP ScanJetIIc be used on a NeXT ?
> If so, how? 
> 
> Thanks, Dave. 

Well, yes... Indirectly. Trade it in (we'll give you $500 credit)  
and purchase an HSD Scan-X Color, the top-rated 24-bit color  
scanner for the NeXT (see Feb/Mar 1993 issue of NeXTWORLD  
Magazine).

You'll get:

	- Spectrum Enhancement
	- 600 dpi resolution for Color and Gray
	- 2400 dpi for line-art
	- PowerScan Software (also top-rated)
	- Incredible dynamic range
	- The best scanning hardware available
	- HSD support, service and innovation
	
In addition, it's directly supported in the following NeXTstep  
applications: 

	- Appsoft Image
	- Insight Electophile
	- VISUS Papersight
	- Imagine Media Station
	- 8 others currently in the works

As for the HP IIc, you can even keep it, or sell it to someone with  
a Mac. We'll give you the credit just because you own one!

Please contact me if you need additional info.
--
David W. Peter
dpeter@hsd.com (NeXTmail)
(800) 828-5522
(415) 964-1400

NOTE: This offer is available to all HS ScanJet IIc owners. And HSD  
offers a scanner trade-in program no matter what scanner hardware  
you own. Contact me directly for details.
From: cmumford@iat.holonet.net (Chris Mumford)
Subject: Re: how to ftp a whole directory?
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:53:03 GMT

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From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:09:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drexel University, Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


 
 
garylang@netcom.com (Gary Lang) writes:
: In article <1993Jan23.224301.25461@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
: >In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
: >>SunSoft is announcing their intention to use Display PostScript
: >>today at the X Conference in Boston.  Once again NeXT leads the way!
: >>
: >>Quoting Sun:
: >>
: >>
: >>
: >>SUNSOFT'S WINDOWS DIRECTIONS
: >>
: >>SunSoft recently entered into an agreement with Adobe 
: >>Systems to license the Display PostScript System (DPS) 
: >>for Solaris. This message is intended to clarify 
: >>SunSoft's OpenWindows directions in light of our 
: >>partnership with Adobe and our commitment to MIT's X 
: >>Window System. 
: >>
: >
: >>Q. Is DPS a standard?
: >>
: >>A. Though DPS is not a sanctioned standard, it is fast 
: >>becoming a de facto UNIX standard. All major Unix platform 
: >>vendors (SGI, IBM, DEC, NCD, etc.), except Hewlett-Packard, support DPS.
: >         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >
: >What about NeXT??  Sun intentionally did not mention NeXT, even though they
: >were the leaders of the DPS bandwagon.  Boy are they ever feeling the heat!
: >
: >
: >>--
: >>Walter C. Daugherity			Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
: >
: >Eric
: >
: >
: 
: Well, they were talking about major UNIX vendors and not
: technical leaders. Since this is based on market share, 
: they were probably right to leave NeXT off the list. If they
: were talking about technical leaders, then they wouldn't have
: anything to write about because neither Sun nor most of the
: companies on that list have done anything to make UNIX
: as useful as it is on the NeXT. 
: 
: 
: As Glenn Reid likes to say, just my opinion, and your
: mileage may vary.
: 
: -g

If I'm not mistaken, didn't NeXT outsell IBM in 1991?
(In units sold, not $)

I seem to remember something around the end of 1991.

--
Jonathan W. Hendry
Drexel University College Of Information Studies
Anderson Financial Systems "Programmer-in-Exile" :)
hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (No NEXTMail :( )
<set loose the marmosets!>
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: Will NeXT printer work with NS486?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:13:15 GMT

gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) writes:

>Will the standard NeXT printer work with NextStep 486? I don't see why it  
>wouldn't but there hasn't been any mention of this one way or the other.

Interesting thought - I haven't seen any mention of it either.
Obviously, you would need someplace to plug it in!  NeXT (or
someone) would have to design a card (probably EISA) that would give
you the connector on your PC.
I believe I did read that the NCP (Color Printer) will work OK with
486 - it is a SCSI device, which most NS 486 systems will support.
(You'll need a SCSI controller to hook up your CD-ROM so that you
can load it!)

(Disclaimer: I don't have any inside info on this, I'm just as
clueless as the rest of the netnews reading population)
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail & MIME accepted                           BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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