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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Driver for the Complete PC handscanner
From: paul@nextus.tucson.az.us (Paul Tognato-Haddad)
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:35:58 MST
Distribution: World,local
Keywords: Scanner

I have a Complete PC handscanner for the Macintosh.  Does anyone know any  
way to use this to scan stuff on my NeXT???

Please E-mail responses to paul@nextus.tucson.az.us

Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: trimble@pell4l17.alleg.edu (Eric Trimble)
Subject: WordPerfect columns
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:11:15 GMT

I have a problems with Word Perfect.

I've scanned several pages that were in 3-column format (like a newspaper)  
using Scan-X and OCR'd them using OCR-Servant. The result is RTF files  
that have the columns aligned using spaces. I'd like to be able to turn  
this file into a WP file that has columns instead. I can import the RTF  
into WP, but I can't figure out how to get WP to change the doc into  
columns. I'm not sure it is possble, since WP takes tall text up to a HPg  
and puts it into the first column, then all the rest up to a HPg in the  
next column, etc and the files are columnized by using spaces, thus all  
the info is on the same line. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Erik Trimble 
trimble@alleg.edu

PS - I know I could rescan all the pages, only scanning one column per  
page per file, but I don't want to rescan ~50 pages.
From: hketola@agsm.ucla.edu (Heikki Ketola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Free Appsoft Draw
Keywords: Appsoft Draw
Date: 18 Aug 92 03:47:46 GMT

randy@appsoft.com (Randy Adams) writes:

>In article <1992Aug17.092120.16171@urz.unibas.ch>  writes:
>> Nice, and now for some fire from abroad: (also mailed directly)
>> 
>> Have you (AppSoft) fixed the damm problems with the "forreign" characters? I  
>> WANT TO TYPE UMLAUTS! It won't work in AppsoftDraw - it worked in the last  
>> release of Draw ...
>> 
>> And: how doy you think we (from outside the USA) are to reach you at the  
>1-800  
>> number??????? 


>Ouch!  Problem noted.  Problem results from a decision by Media Logic to write  
>their own text engine and then not supporting localization completely.  We are  
>in the process of fixing this and will get you (and everyone else) a free  
>update as soon as this is fixed.

>About the 800 number, I wish the telephone companies could offer 800 number  
>support throughout the world, but it is currently not possible.   You can  
>either email us at register@appsoft.com or call us on our direct toll line  
>415-802-2900.

>randy adams
>randy@appsoft.com

Media Logic?  Foreign characters (at least the Scandinavian chars I
played with) worked perfectly with TopDraw.  How come this is suddenly
Media Logic's problem?
I bought two copies of Draw the day it came out, and AppSoft answered
to my complaints about kerning of foreign characters by aknowledging
the existence of the problem.  I did not get idea of when the problem
is going to be fixed.

Randy again aknowledges the problem.  I still have no idea as of when
AppSoft is going to fix this (big) problem that renders Draw pretty
much unusable for users of foreign characters.  

When can we expect a working version of Draw that supports even approximately 
proper kerning of foreign characters? 

Heikki Ketola
hketola@sms-usa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: In-line graphics (was Re: SoftPC 2.0 or 3.0)
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 04:03:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.172502.393@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) writes:
>In article <1992Aug10.132122.16546@athena.mit.edu> ray@mtl.mit.edu writes:
>>However, it still  
>>falls to the user community to hold developers accountable (why can't I  
>>copy RTF out of FrameMaker????) and not tolerate applications that do not  
>>integrate well into the environment.
>>
>
>But the users don't have a choice when FrameMaker is something of a
>standard. Boycotting it will only hurt themselves.
>
>As for not being able to copy RTF, this is a problem also shared by that
>other "standard" app, WordPerfect. The reason is that neither program uses
>the Text object. They must output postscript directly (ugh) thus avoiding
>the object-oriented inheritance of features like cut-and-paste of rich text.
>
>It would be interesting to know *why* they didn't use the Text object.

Who cares "why", they _should_ be supporting the pasteboard.
WriteNow, FrameMaker, and WordPerfect are the only 3 NeXTSTEP text
processing applications available besides edit, and NONE of them have
ANY RTF pboard support.  And I'll just kill Glenn if PasteUp doesn't.


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com     | "We shall not cease from exploration
Andrew Loewenstern      |  And the end of our exploring
Cube Technologies, Inc. |  Will be to arrive where we started
                        |  And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: chopper@gumbytsg.tandem.com (Michael Chop)
Subject: WhichX?		
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:34:42 GMT

Hello fellow netters,

I will be plopping down some money on a X-package.  Could some X-package users post some reviews, reccomendations, or experience with them.  

I understand that the three major packages are co-Xist, eXodus, and cub-X.  

My major concers are I'd like to run an X-applications alongside my NeXTstep stuff.  And I'd like the performance to be pretty good too!

Thanks,
michael...
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: HELP WITH HP LASERJET IIIPRINTING NeXT STUFF TO HP LASERJET III
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:43:03 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

I cannot print NeXT files to HP Laserjet III (with postscript cartridge)--the 
light blinks and nothing happens for the duration of the queing--or
the other HP Laserjet III (with regular font cartridge)--I get the file 
printed in addition to all the formatting stuff thats supposed to be 
invisable--.  I'm trying to print one graduate thesis with a .ps extension
and some faq's from NeXT.  I assume that .ps extension still means postscript
even in the NeXT world and I think that faq's are not postscript.  Anyway,
I use an HP 9000 817s here at work with a NeXTstation at home.  Any 
suggestions or explanations?


maurices
From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Mesa --- lack of database functionality
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:56:48 GMT
Organization: Primitive Software Ltd.

In article <1992Aug22.172708.406@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) writes:
>
>I think there is an easier way to provide this feature. Rather than the
>command line tool doing the conversion itself, it should simply use the
>Mesa API and send a message to Mesa to say "please save this spreadsheet
>file as ascii text" and then wait for the reply.
>

Sorry, should have engaged my brain a little more before posting that. The
original poster wanted to be able to dial-in to his NeXT and run the
command line tool. That's the tricky part. (If he was logged on through
the Workspace manager the only problem may be having Mesa displaying the
spreadsheets it was converting, although a good design would seperate the
data retreival/storage from the actual display).

My question then: is it possible to launch NeXTStep applications from a getty
(dial up) shell? Like supply a flag to say "don't display the windows for
this app" (a bit like redirecting output to /dev/null). You may say what's
the point?, since the app couldn't receive any mouse/keyboard events. True.
But it _could_ receive messages for it's API.

Dave Griffiths
From: rainman!brian@ms.uky.edu (Brian Bias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: soundCheck at archives
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:28:50 GMT
Reply-To: Brian Bias <rainman!brian@ms.uky.edu
Organization: ARCI, Inc.

I have uploaded version 1.0 of soundCheck, a utility for monitoring and
setting the volume level, mute status, and balance on NeXTstations.  It
also allows for drag-n-drop playing of .snd and .au sound files.  I am
open to all comments on how I can improve this little app, so please let
me hear your comments.  So if you are tired of ramping your volume all the
way up the hard way or frustrated in not knowing if the speaker is muted,
try out this app.  A 3.0 version is in the works, so let me hear from you.


Respectfully,

Brian Bias
Whetstone
email:  rainman!brian@ms.uky.edu    (NeXTmail gladly accepted)

-- 
Neil Greene 
Director, Computer Information Systems ARCI, Inc.
President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.
Email: deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu [NeXTmail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Re: EquationBuilder - WriteNow - Create, questions, etc.
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 04:00:00 GMT

shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis) writes:
: In article <1992Aug20.195523.4994@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:
: >A few questions for those of you who are using equation builder:
: 
: I'd like to keep it simple: How (precisely) does EquationBuilder
: compare to TeX and LaTeX?  In which areas does EquationBuilder match
: up or fall short in creating mathematical expressions (not counting
: EquationBuilder's lack of tables).  As I would use EquationBuilder to
: replace TeX and LaTeX, this is an important point for me.

As a confirmed TeX-o-phile, and also an EqB beta tester and now owner
I'd like to say your "postulate" is probably a poor starting point. I.e.
if you already are familiar with TeX and/or LaTeX then you shoudl look
upon EqB as a *complement* to what you already have, rather than a replacement.
As has been detailed by several people (myself included) in the past, 
EqB is possibly the best WYSWIG equation editor on any platform (it's
certainly better than the Mac ones, which I've used extensively in my
previous life as a Mac owner).  At the same time, EqB is not, as of
yet, capable of generating typesetter quality documents.  Display math
is fantastic, but trying to do in line stuff (as has been noted 
elsewhere) is problematic.  I use EqB a lot for making overheads, 
since it's much easier to make something in Diagram! or Illustrator
and drop a little EPS math into it than to have to make awhole TeX 
document that you crib the figure into.  Also, as someone who's TeX 
fluent I really appreciate the "two-way" TeX compatibility of EqB.  
That is, you can take an equation and copy it into TeX (HINT:  in 
your preferences set it so that the EqB header is not included) and
you can also give TeX commands to EqB --- BTW, part of the reason I
appreciate these features so much is that I argued for both of them with
the EqB developers --- *on the fly*.  That is, if you hit a \ EqB 
automatically goes into TeX input mode and accepts commands.  I find myself
sliding 'tween using the mouse and typing at the keyboard quite transparently.

Look, you've got an EDU mail address, so the cost is (probably) only
$50 for you.  There's a demo on Sonata.  Check  it out and I bet you'll
find it's a steal at the price.

Tom

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: jesper@harry.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh)
Subject: Xanthus LaserMan - Laser Disc Controller for the NeXT
Keywords: CraftMan, LaserMan, CraftMan, Xanthus
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:30:40 GMT


            Xanthus International Announces 

                      LaserMan

- the Laser Disc Player Controller for the NeXT Computer


(Stockholm, August 13, 1992) Xanthus International AB today announced  
LaserMan, its Laser Disc Player control application for the NeXT computer  
platform.

Aimed at both commercial and in-house corporate multimedia developers,  
LaserMan is an application for controlling  Laser Disc Players from the  
NeXT computer.  LaserMan can control Laser Disc Players either directly  
through a remote control on the computer screen, or through messages from  
other applications via a Speaker/Listener interface.

For example, LaserMan can be used in combination with Xanthus CraftMan -  
the multimedia programming tool from Xanthus - to produce complete Laser  
Disc based multimedia applications in a very short time.

LaserMan can also be used to control other consumer electronics like tape  
recorders and VCRs, and can be configured to control any device with a  
RS-232 interface.

Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a privately  
owned software development company that specializes in the NeXTSTEP  
platform. LaserMan is the second in a series of general-purpose  
productivity tools for NeXTSTEP. In May 1992 Xanthus started to ship its  
first product CraftMan, the multimedia programming tool for the NeXT  
computer. Xanthus International was founded in 1990.

For more information about LaserMan please contact:

Xanthus International AB
Kungstensgatan 14
S-113 57 Stockholm
Sweden
fax: +46-8-612 89 96
mail: laserman@xanthus.se
From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:09:51 GMT
Organization: ARDI

Just a reminder to people who have read Jeff Nicholson-Owens' question,
my reply and his reply:  If you're looking for a word processor that does
tables, and more, Word 5 for the Macintosh will run under Executor and
is a viable alternative to WriteNow! and WordPerfect.

Although Word5/Executor doesn't provide what *Jeff* was looking for, the
combination does provide more than WriteNow! and WordPerfect supplies.

So again, if your question is:

    "From what I gather WriteNow! and WordPerfect don't do tables at all.
     The latest NeXTWORLD has a preview of PasteUp and says that it too
     doesn't do tables either.  Is there anything other than
     FrameMaker(even coming up) that will do tables?  How about Pages?"

The answer most empathically is yes; Word 5 under Executor will do tables.
It may not be the solution for Jeff, but it is the solution for many people.
Remember, neither WriteNow!, nor WordPerfect, nor Frame were written with
the NeXT in mind.  Word competes nicely.

NOTE:  As the founder of ARDI, I'm  biased.  Except for announcing new
releases (keep your eye out), I generally don't use comp.sys.next.* to
plug our product, but when asked, I will point out that it's there.

	--Cliff[ord T. Matthews]	ctm@ardi.com or
	Abacus R&D, Inc.		iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
	1650 University Blvd., NE	(the latter is polled frequently)
	Albuquerque, NM  87102

	(505) 766-9115

Questions about Executor:		questions@ardi.com
Suggestions:				suggestions@ardi.com
(perish the thought) bug reports:	bugs@ardi.com
From: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Gregory Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: mounting directories to home computer?
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:35:37 GMT
Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail
Cc: ge@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
To: comp.sys.next.software@newshost.uwo.ca


   I was wondering if there is a public domain program available that will
mount the directories of my cs account which is a MIPS machine onto my
NeXT at home via my modem.

   I am a new NeXT user and am trying to find a way to use the files I
have created at school and use the apps on my NeXT to manipulate them.

   Any help is greatly appreciated and welcomed.

  Greg Gee        Honours computer science, University of Western Ontario.
  gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca           No NeXT Mail!
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y.  Goldschmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: xtex
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:11:43 GMT

I am using X-mouse with a 040 NeXTStation mono, with 2.1. Does anybody  
have a working version of xtex compiled for the NeXT? If you do, could you  
let me know and maybe post it somewhere for anonymous FTP? Thanks, yadin.
yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu
From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
Date: 18 Aug 92 06:28:30 GMT
Organization: Primitive Software Ltd.

In article <1992Aug17.164823.25311@leland.Stanford.EDU> spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu writes:
>
>With Object-Linking coming up in 3.0, does anyone know  
>whether it'll be possible to link an image of a Table in,  
>say, Improv, to, say, a WP document?  This strikes me as a  
>much better solution than to have each WP package try to do  
>tables, since most tables are originally created in  
>spreadsheets anyway.
>

If I understand it correctly, object-linking requires some support from the
applications themselves. Since there are no plans for new versions of
Improv and WP, then it won't work. Also they will also almost certainly need
to support the feature as an extension to their document format - RTF has
been extended to support links. Now if you'd suggested an image of a
Table in, say, Mesa linked into a PasteUp document then it would probably be
a different kettle of fish. :-)

You can cut and paste the table postscript from Improv to WP, but that will
still only give you fairly simple tables which is not what Jeff was after.

Dave Griffiths
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis)
Subject: Re: EquationBuilder - WriteNow - Create, questions, etc.
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:23:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.195523.4994@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:
>A few questions for those of you who are using equation builder:

I'd like to keep it simple: How (precisely) does EquationBuilder
compare to TeX and LaTeX?  In which areas does EquationBuilder match
up or fall short in creating mathematical expressions (not counting
EquationBuilder's lack of tables).  As I would use EquationBuilder to
replace TeX and LaTeX, this is an important point for me.

Regards,

Shane

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Development Continues
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 22:12:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.214748.22401@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
> If the WP people had their act together, they'd start a  
> mailing list of suggested improvements/enhancements/bug  
> corrections.

I hadn't realized that databases had achieved such capacities. :-)

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
--
Dan Quayle needs a new running mate.
George Bush undermines his chances of being re-elected Vice President.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: dprcta@inetg1.ARCO.COM (Craig Artley)
Subject: Re: What is Stuart?
Organization: ARCO Oil and Gas Company
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:35:13 GMT

In article <HARDY.92Aug20234311@golem.ps.uci.edu>, hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu
(Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
> 
> Stuart is a GREAT shareware VT100 emulator written by Scott Hess.
> Pick it up, try it out and send Scott your registration!
> No one should leave his NeXT without it,

What can I do with Stuart that I can't do with Terminal?
A concise list of the advantages and features might entice
me into checking it out.

-- 
Craig Artley           dprcta@er.arco.com          (214) 754-6145
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: dkoski@noao.edu (David Koski)
Subject: Re: Ramdisk coming for NeXT (and InstantTeX woes)
Keywords: Funky Stuff
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:53:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.103230.6707@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl) writes:
>some people have asked me how the mentioned patch to get more than 16 buffers
>is done. Well, hackers, first I should note that /sdmach is _not_ stripped 
>(sic!).  Need I say more? The rest is up to you, happy disassembling...

You can also use the nbuf=500 (or whatever) with your boot command.  

bsd nbuf=500

should boot with 500 buffers.  No need to patch the kernel.  Of course you
have to type this in every time you boot...

David Koski
From: rpomeroy@aunext3.cam.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:54:29 GMT
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext3.cam.amd.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <1992Aug18.023119.19334@lsa.umich.edu> Hal.Varian@umich.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Aug17.213921.9430@athena.mit.edu>  
>>ray@mtl.mit.edu (Ray Ghanbari) writes:
>>> That having been said, we have been toying with the idea of  
>>fleshing out  
>>> our Matrix class so that it can form the basis of a legitimate  
>>table  
>>> editor (TableBuilder?) that does all the wonderful things that  
>>one would  
>>> hope for.  The only question we had was whether there really  
>>was a need  
>>> for this sort of thing.  Comments, wish lists, PO's??? :-)
>>> 
>>> Ray Ghanbari                                
>>> Digital Tool Works
>>> ray@dtw.com
>>
>>I strongly encourage you to do this.  In fact, I spoke with one  
>>of your representatives at the Mathematica convention in Boston  
>>suggesting that this would be a great product.  A lot more  
>>people produce tables than equations (for better or worse.)
>>
>>Ideally, TableBuilder should be a palette object.  That way it  
>>can be part of spreadsheets, stat packages, presentation  
>>packages, publishing, etc., etc..  It should produce output in  
>>EPS or in TeX.  You can sell the palette object, along with a  
>>front end for it like EqB.
>>---
>>Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
>>voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
>>fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
>>                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

YES YeS yES YEs !!!!
--
Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: uunet!mwhhlaw!bob (Robert L. Hartley Jr.)
Subject: Re: HELP WITH HP LASERJET IIIPRINTING NeXT STUFF TO HP LASERJET III
Reply-To: bob@mwhhlaw.com
Organization: Martin Wade Hartley & Hollingsworth
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:33:27 GMT

In article <BtAxnr.C1u@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu  
(Maurice Shihadi) writes:
> I cannot print NeXT files to HP Laserjet III (with postscript  
cartridge)

We had no problem with this under 2.1, except when we tried to control  
the printer (like specify manual feed).  Those kinds of commands  
embedded in the postscript would cause just the problems you describe.   
If you can stand it wait till 3.0, and I don't think you will have a  
problem.

-- 
Bob Hartley
MARTIN, WADE, HARTLEY & HOLLINGSWORTH
P. O. Box 88676
3590 N. Meridian St.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: jhalchin@alleg.edu (Judy Halchin)
Subject: Re: Calculus.apps-Allegheny College
Reply-To: jhalchin@alleg.edu
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:01:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.171257.28086@hamblin.math.byu.edu>  
bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:
> I've lost the ftp address for the machine at Allegheny College -
> the one with the NeXTSTEP based apps for calculus and related
> stuff.  If you know it would you mind sending to me?

It's pellns.alleg.edu.

Judy Halchin
jhalchin@alleg.edu
Allegheny College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software