HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Files in my home directory, and other ruminations
Date: 11 Apr 92 04:02:13 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com

Robert E Davis writes
> 	Another solution to consider is something that Right Brain
> used to do (I use the past tense because I'm not sure if their latest
> mini-apps use this method -- maybe they do).  They put all the stuff
> in a .RightBrain folder in your home directory, kind of like the .NeXT
> directory.

We still do this.  The .RightBrain directory is a garbage dump for lots
of small but important files that are critical to the program but not
important for users to see (however, they are documented in the Help
panel for people who want to know what is being done to their systems).

I like the idea of ~/Library/RightBrain except for a couple of things.
First, people sometimes delete things that they see if they know they
didn't create them.  Second, I know that a lot of people (myself among
them) don't like the creation of "visible" directories in their home
directory.  For example, I don't like "fmdictionary" and "fmtemplates"
one little bit.  Surprisingly enough, a lot of people don't have
~/Library directories, and creating one is an annoyance if all you
do is put your temporary files in it.

We decided to compromise with .RightBrain.  It's reasonably clean,
and it turns out that we've got four or five files that can get created
in there, depending on which applications you have, and it's a great
solution to the "crud" problem.

I, too, dislike .achihg, .TetrisScores, .createImages, and whatever.

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.

--
 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California		Font Hotline: 800-525-FONT
From: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Supra fax/modem...What say, owners?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:07:33 GMT
Reply-To: bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head)
Organization: Headfirst Software, Vancouver, BC, Canada

rick@nugget.rmNUG.ORG.mu.edu writes
> 
> The FAX doesn't work on the NeXT yet, nor was it advertised that it worked on  
> the NeXT. Supra has always said the Fax will not work on the NeXT.
> It is a hot little modem and work fine on the NeXT as a modem. Though it will  
> even be hotter when Fax Driver is made for it.....
> I haven't seen a V32bis V42bis at that price (Under $300) with or without the  
> FAX...
ZOOM Telephonics now has some competition for Supra. Just saw an advert. from
Egghead quoting $360 (Canadian). V.32bis, Class 2 fax, blah blah...

If NeXT would let me know what their plans are with Fax support in 3.0 I'd  
continue working on the driver I started awhile back. Can't see wasting my time
if NeXT goes ahead and covers this gaping whole in 3.0 themselves while  
squeezing out an opportunity for 3rd party developers. - worth it so long as it  
gets done!

...Brad
-- 
Bradley Head, bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (NeXTmail :-)
InStep Mobile Communications, Inc., Headfirst Software Ltd. 
Executive of Vancouver NeXT User's Society, Vancouver, BC.
From: michael@stb.info.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Help: Monitor problem
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:05:31 GMT
Organization: STB BBS, La, Ca, 310 397 3137


I have monitor problems.

Symptoms: The Dark black color is bluured slightly; it isn't sharp. This
makes text appear darker (as the "ink" covers a little more screen area),
but makes graphics slightly "smeared" looking.
	There is a line about 8 pixels wide running down about 2/3rds
of the way to the right of the monitor; this area is slightly lighter
than the other areas. It is very noticable on white or light grey background,
barely noticable on dark gray, and not noticable on black. The position
of this depends on the brightness; as the brightness is turned down, it moves
to the left.
	This band wiggles when sound is being recorded.

Comments? Is this fixable at home, a major repair, or "death of a monitor"?

		Michael
-- 
		Michael Gersten		michael@stb.info.com
HELLO! I'm a signature virus! Join in the fun and copy me into yours!
ex:.-1,. w $HOME/.signature
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From: overlord@amy9.stanford.edu (Marcos Polanco)
Subject: OSF/1 for NeXT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 04:19:11 GMT



Is there any reason why NeXT should not replace BSD4.3 with OSF/1?

OSF One is based on Mach, so the move would not be tremendously difficult.

It would also make NeXT a bit more friendly with DEC, HP, IBM, etc., etc.
From: sphere@netcom.com (Sam Goldberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Forsale: ND SIMMS
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:09:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.vvqjr7=.sphere
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

I have 8 of these that I'll sell for $375, once the
first ones are gone.

Sam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: slh@scire.hampshire.edu (Sean L. Hill)
Subject: Browser Filters
Reply-To: slh@scire.hampshire.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 18:58:58 GMT

I would like to see NeXT add the ability for the browser to have custom  
filters turned on or off for each directory.  I would LOVE to be able to  
hold down cmd or alt while selecting a directory to view the hidden files  
instead of having to select expert mode in preferences.

I would also like the ability to have a definable set of pulldown filters  
to view all files that have "xxxxxx" in them or end with ".XXX"  I'm glad  
we have SORT BY KIND, but I would like something a bit more customized.   
Essentially, ls *XXX*.*, or ls *.XXX but from the browser.

Does anybody know if something like this will be in 3.0?  If not then when  
will we be able to build our own objects into the browser or other NeXT  
apps?  It just takes too long between releases when you're working in a  
mission-critical world.

-Sean
slh@scire.hampshre.edu (NeXTMail+)
From: et@ocf.berkeley.edu (Eric Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: List of poor educational dealers
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:38:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.rtbpbINNf7o
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

pmiles@kili.eecs.wsu.edu (Peter Miles - MME) writes:

>The bottom line is that these university campus computer
>sales reps, are not promoting the NeXT product line, and
>try to confince you that the only computer worth buying is
>a Mac or IBM. For NeXT to do better in their university 
>sales, these reps should at least acknowledge that NeXT
>is a quality machine and should be looked at when making
>a decision on which machine to purchase.

Sorry, wrong.  When I complained about Berkeley, this was NOT the
complaint I had.  The campus consultants are GREAT.  They don't sell
the machines, however.  They work independently to provide info about
the NeXT to prospective customers.

The clerk/order form people are the ones who are not knowledgable
about the NeXT, and unfortunately it is these people you have to
deal with in placing your order and following up on it.

Try not to generalize so much: I'm sure everyone who had problems
with their edu store had slightly different problems.  

Eric
(still waiting for my NeXT...)
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Chinese on the NeXT?
Date: 10 Apr 1992 22:36:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moica.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Apr10.064118.1924@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:

> Chinese is non-trivial, even more Kanji than Japanese and Korean and a  
> lack of a real standard input system. But then again, NeXT uses Unicode,  
> so it isn't out of the question.

I don't think NeXT uses Unicode in 2.1J, at least not yet, although they
might have announced intentions of doing so some time in the future.
The current standard code for Japanese NeXT OS (2.1J) is EUC.

--
Izumi Ohzawa             [ $BBg_78^=;(B ]
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: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Subject: Mathematica 2.0 -> 2.* to fix memory bugs?
Organization: UCLA, Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 01:28:59 GMT

I thought I heard that there is a Mathematica Version 2.0.1
or some such for the NeXT, that fixes some memory management bugs 
in the 2.0, and that this was a free upgrade. Is this true?



--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
Subject: Re: NeXTStep 486 should cost $250
Reply-To: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:51:47 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.164205.3372@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu  
(Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> In article <bf7H1pbm6@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)  
> writes:
> 
> > NeXT now has to explain to the
> > world why NeXTstep is better than OS/2, which has VM,
> > memory protection, multiprocessing, threads,
> > 512MB/process, drag and drop capabilities, IPC, ...,
> > which can be purchased for $200, and which will run 25,000
> > PC programs.
>
> Not only that, but NeXTstep 486 will only run on *select*
> (ie the most expensive) 486 machines.
> 

This is really the problem.  NeXTstep is a high performance system.  The price  
is a secondary issue.  The real questions for most DOS users are:
  1) Will it do DOS/Windows3 emulation at a decent speed?
  2) What is the minimum (i.e., cheapest) usable configuration?

NeXT will never take away the Windows 3.1 market.  Period.
It would be folly to try.

*IF* NeXTstep '486:
  a) is able to 'co-exist' with full-speed Windows 3.1 (a la coXist)
  b) can run something like SoftPC at >= '386 speeds
AND
  has the same requirements as Windows NT
  (disk drive, monitor, RAM)
THEN
  they should aggressively compete price-wise with Windows NT.

Otherwise, they should just compete with the smaller (but still lucrative!)  
Unix windowing market:  Solaris, SCO (what GUI, if any?), Mach386, etc.

Sure, they will be a niche market, like Apple is relative to PCs.  Not everyone  
desires perfection, after all. :-)  NeXT does not have to be "the biggest" in  
order to survive.   (Besides, if they were, Steve Jobs would probably turn into  
Bill Gates II!).

You can't put a ramjet on a skateboard.
You can't put Unix on a minimal DOS-box.

- Ernie "NeXT purity" Prabhakar
--
Ernest N. Prabhakar                  Caltech High Energy Physics
Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
CaJUN President        NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
"...and ourselves, your servants for Jesus sake." - II Cor 5:13a
#import <std/disclaimer.h>
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: MIME-capable software
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:45:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: rpi.r19tbt

sphere@netcom.com (Sam Goldberger) writes:
> One may not approve of Mark's guerilla techniques for introducing
> a thread; in my own case, it was a wake-up call. Sometimes you've
> got to hit the mule over the head to get its attention, and we
> can surely be quite mulish.

For someone to:

     1) post complaints about the wasted bandwidth of RTF posts
and  2) post a 700K *sound* file in a non-binary group

is simply not called for.

It would have been so much more brilliant of Mark if he had posted an  
article with two directory icons in it.  We've just had several of those go  
by in RTF format, and he could have made his point quite well without  
thumbing his nose at usenet guidelines.  

It would have been a perfect way to introduce MIME to this newsgroup.  

But He seems to have been more interested in "getting back" at us for  
whatever wrongs he feels we have done to him.  In one article he's posted  
more bytes than goes thru comp.sys.next.misc in an average day (probably  
more than several days worth, in fact).

--
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Neuron
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:23:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.021216.21124@news2.cis.umn.edu> wisdom@leghorn.cs.umn.edu (Scott Wisdom) writes:
[ ]

>Are you suggesting that NeXTs are harder to integrate into mixed networks than  
>Macs? NeXTs come with (STANDARD!) ethernet + TCP/IP + NFS + RPC + etc + etc. It  
>all works very well (even with NetInfo). Macs come with what? A serial port and  
>appletalk? How is that going to get a Mac connected to a network of suns and  
>HPs or any other popular workstation? Many Macs can't even be expanded to add  
>ethernet. I think that NeXT wins over Mac in the networkability arena hands  
>down (especialy with 3.0 - system 7 networking will be nothing compared to 3.0  
>networking).

3.0 is not yet out. I was thinking more in terms of micros, but at a "higher"
level, I do think that Mac's are easier to integrate. Since we are at that
level take a Mac with A/UX 3.0. Ethernet is standard on a Quadra and Ethernet
boards are inexpensive for the rest. Even an SE/30 can use a SCSI ethernet
connection.

Moreover I don't see anything like remote Appletalk for the NeXT. I'm not
saying the Mac is nicer. I prefer the NeXT. I do wonder, though, is the NeXT
is a personal computer. Also, colour is more or less standard on most Mac's.
 
philip
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Hostname woes
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:09:13 GMT
Reply-To: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

In article <1992Apr14.055133.9623@newshub.sdsu.edu>  
johnsond@newshub.sdsu.edu (Dwayne Johnson) writes:
> I changed the name of my Nextstation and now I can't get the blasted  
thing
> to boot without getting the "server not found" message.  I've found  
nothing
> that tells me how to fix this...HELP!
> 

	Reset your NetInfo back to the one without a specific hostname;
Directly modify the /etc/hostconfig to put your own hostname there. In  
this case, you can have your own hostname appear in the prompt and yet  
still it's a local machine with default IP address as "localhost".

Gary

> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dwayne Johnson                           | Hold on to the Great Image
> Internet:   johnsond@sciences.sdsu.edu   | and the world will come to  
you.
>             johnsond@nextnet.csus.edu    |     -- Lao Tzu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: NeXT TeX and Postscript (was Re: Neuron (really networking NeXT vs. Mac))
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 07:54:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.220613.12723@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tlm@nextasy (Tom Marchioro) writes:

[More support for NeXT-TeX and claims Textures is slow...]

NeXT-TeX is nice. It is not as intuitive as Textures not as easy to
install. Since we don't want to limit TeX to only the Unix wizards I
claim this is important.

You said Textures becomes slow after a few pages. This is simply not
true at all. I've seen 15->20 page mathematical articles going along at
a very reasonable pace. Continuos previewing may not be important to
the people here with a strong Unix bias. I claim it's important to
the rest of the world.

$495 is not a lot given what you get. 

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: wln-mail@cs.columbia.edu (William Lee Nussbaum)
Subject: Re: SimonSays
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 02:27:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.083326.23643@samba.oit.unc.edu> wind1289@med.unc.edu (Stuart Kossover) writes:
>
>6. It would be nice if Simon could open specific files, like a telephone
>directory created with Andy Stone's fabulous DataPhile without me having
>to launch it first.  Maybe there could be a Doc receptical to drop these
>files into.
>

Wouldn't a unix-macro "open <filename>" do this?... admittedly,
drag-and-drop would be nicer... maybe have the unix panel read a path
from drag-and-drops and append/replace the selection with this "open
<filename>" construction?

>Stu Kossover, M.D.  e-mail----->  wind1289@med.unc.edu
From: thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark Thomsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT in Japan Magazine
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:56:28 GMT
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA

In the April 1992 issue of Business Tokyo there is an article on Microsoft   
(specifically on Susumu Furukawa - MS's chairman in Japan). In the article  
there is a picture of his former employers at ASCII, huddled around a ... NeXT!

Mark R. Thomsen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar)
Subject: Re: Adobe Systems Incorporated -- and a Question
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: LAMPF Data Analysis Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:35:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.222525.27652@cs.mcgill.ca>, samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy Brockbank) writes...
# 
#1 week ago, Adobe posted about the Adobe Illustrator 3.0.1 release.
# ...
#So, today I get the package from Adobe with AI 3.0.1, AND the
#3 free font families. 
#For no charge. After 1 week of telling them that I wanted it.
#All I can say is, WOW! Great, amazing job, Adobe-people.
# 
Similar to my feelings.  In fact, all the more amazing: these fonts can be
used with other applications, like WriteNow.

However, a QUESTION: it seems that when I installed the fonts in
/NextLibrary/Fonts (using whatever-it-is-called--FontMaker? I am not
now at my NeXT), some OTHER fonts which were in that directory that
I never saw in the Font Panel before, now also appeared there and were
usable!  These were fonts that came with WordPerfect, and include
interesting things like modern Greek, Cyrillic, Kana(s), numerous
Math symbols not found in Symbol, and LineDrawing characters.

I'm very happy about this development as well, but how did it happen?
Did the FontMaker app tell the Font Panel to install everything it
finds in NextLibrary/Fonts?

   Dick Silbar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: cs911409@ariel.yorku.ca (RICHARD DAVID ASPINALL)
Subject: FAQ, FTP, general Help
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:20:26 GMT

	Hi, I'm new to NeXT and I have some questions.

1.	Is there a designated NeXT archive/ftp site?  If so, where?

2.	Is there a Freq. Asked Questions list (with answers!) ?

Actually these would really get me started.  I really just need some beginning 
information (like how to port X11 Windows Apps and where is the COLOR switch?)

Anyway, please e-mail me so that I am sure not to miss any comments (I will 
happily mail/post a summary if there is interest).

thanks,
Dave

P.S. I am not NeXT Mail friendly YET. (soon baby soon...)

+-----David Aspinall------------+-----------------------------------------+
|email: cs911409@ariel.yorku.ca |NeXT Step :what windows should have been!|
|vmail: (416) 604-3473		|OS/2 V2   :what windows should have been!|
+snail: Apt105 - 2001 Bloor St. W. Toronto, Ontario M6S 1M5 --------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXTStep 4.0 video concerns.
From: poff@vax.sonoma.edu (Someone)
Date: 12 Apr 1992 15:15 PST  
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sonoma State University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

It is interesting that people bring up the problem of displays that aren't
memory-mapped working with the PC version of NeXTStep.  I think that several
years ago, there were some people making some truecolor boards that were pretty
darn spiffy and were memory-mapped.  I used to work for one of them, namely
Everex.  Their boards were not as fancy as the other truecolor boards, but 
they could do PAL or NTSC framegrabbing and were (by VGA standards) blindingly 
fast!  Hmmm... I wonder if I should get my hands on one of those boards and 
write a driver....

Anyway, my point is that if NeXTStep for the PC starts selling well, then PC
vendors will be able to react and start spitting out products quickly.  They
might even be variants on the VGAs themselves (GOD FORBID!).  Also it might
be worth considering that it would not be such a bad thing to dump a $50-$100
VGA board in favor of a more practical color display card.  It is my hope that
NeXTStep will give PC manufacturers to eventually dump the VGA standard for
good!

--thomas--
poff@vax.sonoma.edu
From: derwin@skipp.inre.asu.edu (Derwin Skipp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Mathematica Problems
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:58:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: ennews.1992Apr10.175813.12193
Organization: Arizona State University

When I installed Mathematica 2.0, I found that I had no problem running it from  
my root account, however my personal account had the problem with the spinning  
cursor with no output.  When I looked in /LocalApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel/NeXT
I noticed that mathexe had protection 744.  I changed this to 755 and now have  
no problem.  I have no idea how the protection was set incorrectly, it seemed  
like a straight forward install.

Derwin Skipp
Computing Services
Arizona State University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: 3.5" Erasible Optical Disk < $10/each
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:21:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.062404.3380@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu  
(Gary I. Chang) writes:
> OD is dead due to cost, performance and reliablity
> problems.  But how about the new 3.5 Erasible OD? Their
> speed is much faster than the origional OD and no caddy is
> need to hold the disk. As a matter of fact, they look
> nothing too different from the 3.5" Floppy ones. And I was
> told that Taiwan is going to mass-produce such disk for
> under $10/disk. For 128 Megs per side of one disk and the
> comparable cost, shouldn't it be a reason to dust out the
> current 2.8 Meg FD like the new CD-ROM did to the old sad OD? 

The 3.5 OD drives do seem exciting.  I'm only aware of single-
sided units that store 128 MB.  If/when they go double-sided
and can store 256 MB, they would seem to offer all the promise
of the original NeXT OD - "your world in your pocket", 256 MB -
with none of the problems - no dust failures, three times as
fast, smaller and cheaper disks.

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)