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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re:  Recovering ROM monitor password
Distribution: world
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:09:51 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

>It works, but I have heard a couple of NeXT SEs say that this will
>void your warranty.  You never know when the diode that prevents
>reverse current will fail and fry who knows what.

    IF there is an inline diode there preventing the reverse current it
    will never fail.  The reverse breakdown voltage for most standard
    diodes is a hellofalot larger then anything a battery puts out. No
    current == no heat.  For example, diodes are often used in battery
    charging circuits like this:

	+12V from supply ----*DIODE*----x----> system power
					|
	+!2V from battery --------------/

    When AC is available it charges the battery.  When AC is not available
    the battery does not try to feed the supply, the diode is reverse
    biased by 12V when the supply DC is at 0V.	This is standard operation
    and the diode will never break down for this case.	Now, shorting
    system power to ground is a different case... in that case the diode is
    forward biased and dissipates W=Ix0.7 (usually) in heat. Any diode can
    handle large forward currents for a short while, how long they last
    depends on their current rating but usually the solder melts on the PC
    board before the diode dies.  Diodes are usually rated 500mW, 1W, or 5W
    the smallest being applied to glass diodes.

    I presume that NeXT is using a similar circuit to power the real time
    clock and prevent the battery from trying to power the system +5.

					-Matt

>MUCH safer to let the capacitor sit and discharge for a few hours on
>its own.
>What's your hurry?
>:-)
>--
>David Lemson						     (217) 244-1205
>University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
>Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu		   UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
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    Matthew Dillon		dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
    1005 Apollo Way		uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
    Incline Village, NV. 89451	ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
    USA 			Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: ROM boot command
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:35:44 GMT
Reply-To: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Distribution: usa

Paul S. Sears writes
> In article <1992Oct3.180446.17361@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu
> (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
> => >In article <1992Sep29.163803.20641@dvorak.amd.com>
> => >rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com writes:
> => >I want to change the boot parameter such that the device at
> => >SCSI address 4 is the default boot device.
> => Actually, the floppy is not a SCSI device.  SCSI address 7
> => corresponds to the NeXT host adaptor's SCSI address.

A bit more on this.  Configuring two devices with the same
SCSI target is a bad thing, and will lead to, at best, the
machine hanging during boot and, at worst, data being silently
corrupted.

> => bsd(2,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd2
>  Another way is the change the SCSI address of the 400M drive to 0.
>  The internal drive is set by NeXT to have an SCSI address as 1.
>  The device with the lowest SCSI address will end up being sd0.
>  The default boot device for the NeXT is sd0....

This is, in fact, the only way to make the external disk be the
default boot devices.  The NVRAM where the default boot command
is stored only holds 11 bytes.  The required command to boot
from and root on sd2 is far too long.
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re:   Recovering ROM monitor password
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:27:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: cube.1992Oct15.022711.26392
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.

In article <dillon.0pa7@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US  
(Matthew Dillon) writes:
> 
>     Believe it or not people use trickle charge circuits all the time to
>     extend the life of lithium batteries in backup situations.	This is
>     usually necessary only when the battery would discharge due to current
>     requirements long before it's normal shelf life expires.  With a proper
>     charging circuit you can extend the lithium batteries backup
>     capabilities all the way to its shelf life limit (5yr or 10yr usu).  In
>     applications where the shelf life would expire before the nominal mAH
>     of the battery is used up such a circuit is not required.
> 
WRONG.  Please checkout my domain name.   Hand Held Products, Inc.  I have been  
designing battery powered devices for over 10 years, now.  Every FedEx courier  
out there has a scanner of my design.  Among many other companies.  I know more  
than a little on the topic of batteries and their use/misuse.  With the  
exception of a few, VERY recent, VERY special, non-memory backup, lithium  
batteries, you NEVER charge a lithium battery.  Period.  Unless you are  
suicidal.  Remember that jumbo jet that went down in thailand a while back?   
One of the early things seriously suspected of causing the explosion was a  
shipment of cheap watches with shorted lithium batteries.  There are severe  
restrictions on the transportation of lithium batteries by air.  There are  
restrictions as to how many can be in a completed device carried on an airline.
When we use lithium back-up batteries, VERY careful consideration is given to  
the blocking diode's reverse leakage to INSURE no current EVER flows INTO the  
lithium battery.
> 
> 				    -Matt
> --
> 
>     Matthew Dillon		dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
>     1005 Apollo Way		uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
>     Incline Village, NV. 89451	ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
>     USA 			Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000

I sure hope Sandel-Avery Engineering is not charging standard lithium batteries  
in equipment delivered to customer sites.

Jim De Arras
VP., R&D
Hand Held Products, Inc.
jmd@cube.handheld.com
WA4ONG@wa4ong.ampr.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Systems Engineer, NeXT Computer, Inc (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
From: feijai@endor.byu.edu (Sean Luke)
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:27:05 -0700
Reply-To: sean@digaudio.byu.edu

In article <1992Oct10.151128.6813@gamelan>  writes:
>In article <5350@rosie.NeXT.COM> Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger -  
>Manager, International NeXT User Groups) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> Relevant Experience:
>> 
>> - Advanced application programming in C, LISP, and FORTRAN (or
>>      equivalent)
>
>What is equivalent to FORTRAN ???? :-)


Hitting yourself in the face with a hammer.  :)

--

Sean Luke
Brigham Young University                   MILK:  It Comes From Cows
sean@digaudio.byu.edu  
NeXTmail and nifty Mac stuff welcome
From: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: News Readers for NS 3.0 and other bitches
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:51:34 GMT
Reply-To: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Organization: Totally Disorganized

In article <1992Oct11.111358.19692@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joe  
Chin) writes:
> Okay ... I upgraded the production systems to 3.0, I am impressed by all the  
new bells and whistles and imaginative abuses of colours ...
> 
> But then I found out neither Newsbase 2.1.1 nor NewsGrazer will work! Both  
readers will start up and select the groups just fine, but the application  
will disappear from the screen the moment I select an article for reading. So,  
I have resorted to reading news on a Sun Sparcstation sitting beside the NeXT.  
Does anyone know a NeXTstep nntp newsreader that will work under 3.0?

This is no direct help to you, but I am running newsgrazer under 3.0 w/ nntp  
and having no problems. The news server is a sun sparc 2. Perhaps the problem  
is local.

> 
> While I am at it, the more I use 3.0, the more I get pissed off! The server  
crashed twice in the last two days with a "Workspace Error 1000" ... what does  
it mean? Why isn't the user manual included on my 3.0 CD-ROM? Why doesn't  
Appleshare work as advertised? Hell ... it doesn't work at all! Is NeXT using  
paying customers to beta test NS 3.0? When will 3.1 be available? It better be  
a free upgrade!

I'm runnning Appleshare and having no trouble printing or working w/  
servers.....
> 
> Joe
> ---
> Joseph Chin				Prodigy Technologies Corp.

I have to say, I've been very pleased w/ 3.0. I upgraded a networked color  
slab and a stand-alone color slab. The former w/ 20M of memory, the latter w/  
32M. Both have "just worked," and the perceived difference in speed between  
2.1 and 3.0 has been very minimal for me . Given the contradictory accounts on  
this, one is forced to conclude that performance is very sensitive to the  
local environment.
--


-Michael


  mgb@moksha.UUCP
-- 


-Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jsc@athena.mit.edu (Jin S. Choi)
Subject: Re: Reading NeXTmail on other unix systems
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:50:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.163342.19600@slate.mines.colorado.edu> eshuck@slate.mines.colorado.edu (SHUCK EDWARD LEE ) writes:

   I have received Nextmail at my normal mail address on an IBM
   RS-6000.  Is there any way to make this readable on this 
   system or to read the uuencoded file on a Next after transferring
   the file. 
   I have not found the answer to this one in the FAQ or the Next 
   docs.
   Thanks for your help,
   Ted Shuck		eshuck@mines.colorado.edu

I worked up a little system that lets me read NeXTmail from emacs, using
a combination of procmail, perl, and hyperbole (an emacs hypertext
system). It basically intercepts incoming NeXTmail, unpacks everything,
cleans up the rtf spew in index.rtf replacing attachments with hyperbole
links to the attachments, and puts everything back in the incoming mbox.
It only deals with plain text and rtf attachments, but it wouldn't be
hard to make it deal with tiff files.  No current way to play back sound
files, unfortunately.

Oh, and I also have something that lets me send NeXTmail easily from
emacs. Can only attach files, I'm afraid.

Anyway, if you're interested, send me mail. It would be trivial to
modify it to just unpack NeXTmail if you don't use hyperbole.

-Jin
--
Jin Choi
jsc@athena.mit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: News Readers for NS 3.0 and other bitches
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 18:06:48 GMT

jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joe Chin) writes:
> Okay ... I upgraded the production systems to 3.0, ...
> 
> But then I found out neither Newsbase 2.1.1 nor NewsGrazer will work!

I don't know about Newsbase.  I had no trouble with NewsGrazer under 3.0.

I did have one disappointment with NewsGrazer, though.  It was my  
understanding from beta-tester reports that 3.0 would fix the dreaded  
"sending mail while a Send Window is already open in Mail" bug.  Under  
release 2.x, hitting "Reply" in NewsGrazer would open up a new send window  
in mail, but then wipe out the message that was sitting in a previous send  
window (if there was one already open).

I thought this was supposed to be fixed in Release 3.0, but the behavior  
seems about the same to me.

--
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: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>
Subject: NeXT sans monitor
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Organization: Proponent
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:33:47 GMT

Is there any way to run a NeXTcube or NeXTstation without an attached monitor?

I would like to set one up as a server and access it only via the Ethernet.

This topic doesn't appear to be addressed in the FAQs.

Thanks for any advice or input.

Monty

-- 
# Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA  01701-0405
# monty%roscom@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: cs000rdw@selway.umt.edu (Richard D Warner)
Subject: Any NeXT users in the area?
Organization: University of Montana
Distribution: bs
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:57:12 GMT

	This is just a brief message to try and contact other NeXT users
in Montana.  Send me some email - it'll be great to hear from you.


Rich
From: mhn@black.ucop.edu (Mark H  Needleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: websters and documentation on server
Date: 14 Oct 1992 21:45:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: black.ucop.edu

How do I set things up so a whole bunch of next machines can all share
one copy of the dictionary and the documentation across the local net by  
accessing the copy on a server machine

thanks

Mark  Needleman
University of California
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Wanted: Systems Engineer, NeXT Computer, Inc (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:23:17 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

Wanted: Systems Engineer, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan


THIS IS A PRE-SALES SYSTEMS ENGINEERING POSITION REQUIRING EXCELLENT
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, AND VERBAL
COMMUNICATION SKILLS.


NeXT Systems Engineers provide the technical expertise necessary
to close sales, and generally evangelize the NeXT product family.
SE's must possess superb technical skills and a sense of innovation,
combined with a personality which promotes cooperation, trust, and
the sharing of ideas.  The successful candidate will have a mix of
software engineering skills, and enjoy working with people and new
technology.


Duties and Responsibilities:

- Rapid prototyping of software for feasibility analysis
- Technical presentations to all levels of customers
- Integration of NeXT computers with existing systems
- Technical account management
- Provide strategic input and guidance to sales, marketing, and
   engineering, regarding market conditions, product requirements,
   and overall program successes or failures

A typical NeXT Systems Engineer will spend one-third of their time
writing NeXTSTEP applications for customer-based prototyping or
proof-of-concept efforts, one-third consulting one-on-one with
potential and existing customers on software development and network
engineering, and one-third performing presentations and
demonstrations of NeXTSTEP.


Necessary Skills:

- Solid software engineering background
- Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety
    of audiences
- Demonstrated aptitude at working independently
- Ability to work with limited supervision in an autonomous,
    results-oriented environment
- Ability to work within a team environment
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks
- B.S.C.S or equivalent with 4 years experience required; M.S.C.S
    preferred


Relevant Experience:

- NeXTSTEP, Objective-C, Mach
- UNIX systems programming/systems administration
- Object-oriented programming
- Advanced application programming in C, LISP, and FORTRAN (or
     equivalent)
- Windowing application development (Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.)
- Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.)
- TCP/IP, NFS, YP/NIS
- PostScript
- Pre-sales support experience


For more information please send a cover letter, resume, and salary
history via email to Central_Area_Jobs@NeXT.com or fax to
312.329.0285.  Responses without cover letters will not be
considered.  Please include at least one paragraph which reflects on
how your skills and experience will enable your success as a Systems
Engineer for NeXT.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: huhr@uni-paderborn.de (Holger Uhr)
Subject: Mathematica Book / CD-ROM
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:10:54 GMT


Hello Folks!

Our CD-Drive / NeXTstep-3.0 bundle arrived last week.
But what use is a CD-Drive without some more CD-ROMs?

So I want to know:

- Has somebody read the book 'Exploring Mathematics with Mathematica'
  by Theodore W. Gray and Jerry Glynn (Addison-Wesley), which comes with 
  a CD-ROM included?

- Does the CD-ROM work properly with the NeXT CD-Drive?

- How many MB are used on the CD-ROM and by what kind of data?

- Is the book easy to read and understand?

- And at last: What other good books about Mathematica do you know?


Thank you,

Holger Uhr


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|   Holger Uhr  ***   Engernweg 32  ***  W-4790 Paderborn   ***   Germany   |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: keith@cc.gatech.edu (Keith Edwards)
Subject: Re: OpenLook On NeXT?
Reply-To: keith@cc.gatech.edu
Organization: Georgia Tech Multimedia Computing Group
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:31:26 GMT

In article 9418@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu, eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
>One of the key programs I'll want to run is PV-WAVE on a remote Sun
>SPARC-2 running OpenWindows (aka Open Look). Which X program 
>for the NeXT will allow me to do this? 
>
>It seems that all the ones I've heard about (coXist, eXodus and Cub'X)
>support Motif, but not Open Look.

Any of the X servers should allow you to run any OPEN LOOK app remotely,
unless the app in question uses the NeWS (PostScript) portion of the
Sun xnews server.  Most of the X servers available commercially for the
NeXT seem to include (or at least offer) the Motif window manager, so
any OPEN LOOK apps you run from your Sun will have Motif-style
window-dressings on them.

You can grab olvwm (an OPEN LOOK window manager that supports multiple
workspaces) off of export.lcs.mit.edu.  This will give you the complete
OL look-and-feel just like on the Sun.  You can also get the xview
toolkit from the same place (in case you want to compile any xview apps
for your NeXT).  Both of these are freely available in source form.

-keith




---
keith edwards				        internet:  keith@cc.gatech.edu 	
georgia tech multimedia computing group         uucp:  ...!gatech!cc!keith
    "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."  --William Blake
From: Kathy_Walrath@NeXT.COM (Kathy Walrath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Man : Another 3.0 bug?
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:22:00 GMT

Patrice Belleville writes
    Hi!
    
    	I recently upgraded to 3.0 (using builddisk) and it seems that man is
    (sometimes) broken. If a do a `man crontab', it complains that
    
    	"Reformatting page.  Wait...can't open file man8/cron.8
    	 done"
    . . . .

This sounds like a bug in the "man" command.  A workaround is to run  
/usr/etc/catman, which seems to handle these man pages correctly.  Catman  
creates preformatted versions of all the man pages, which takes up a couple of  
megs.  If you don't want all the man pages converted, you can specify which  
sections catman should work on.  For example,

	/usr/etc/catman -n 5

will make the crontab and bootptab man pages display properly.  (The "-n" just  
tells catman not to write to /usr/man/whatis, a file that nonroot users can't  
write to anyway.)

--Kathy
NeXT Tech Pubs
From: mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Next logo
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

I thought someone said that there were NeXT logo and machine pics in 3.0.
I can't find them. Could someone tell me where they are and/or send them
to me.  They might not be on the system (a school machine) so if someone
would be so kind as to send me a eps NeXT logo I would greatly appreciate
it.  I need it for a flyer for our NeXT user group meeting.

Thanks,
-Mont

NeXTmail OK :)
President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: alex@obh.in-berlin.de (Alexander Kordecki)
Subject: Sony TLO - C501 driver
Organization: obh - private bbs in Berlin/Germany
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 20:51:15 GMT

I want to install an magneto-optical SCSI drive (Sony TLO-C501) at a
NeXT Station. Where can i get a driver ?

bye (and tnx) ... alex


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From: dav@sdphu1.ucsd.edu (David A Schurig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: CAD vendors (Ditek, AutoCAD, Spatial Technologies) address/phone?
Date: 11 Oct 1992 00:51:59 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, UCSD
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdphu1.ucsd.edu

Anybody know the address/phone of these companies?  Or if you're listening,
CAD vendors, do you need beta testers?  I am anxious to put my NeXTStation
to some design work.

dav

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: lbrahm@denver.cba.du.edu (Lans Brahmantyo)
Subject: Re: Moving tiffs/EPS files from NeXT to Mac
Organization: University of Denver
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 02:06:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.190212.9320@pencom.com> alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem) writes:
> In article <1992Oct1.223030.10004@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul  
S.  
> Sears) writes:
> > 
> > 
> > We have been unable to move tiffs or EPS fils from our NeXTs to a Mac.  We  
> > tried many different programs on the Mac but none were able to read the  
tiff  
> > file.  We modified the type of the file so that the Mac thinks that it is a  
> > TIFF but there seems to be problems with the actual file structure.
> > 
> > We also tried to use Adobe Illustrator and save them as AI 3.0 compatible  
> > files with and without EPS header.  Neither attempt was successful.
> > 
> > Any other suggestions??  Any idea of which programs (Mac) will read tiffs  
> > generated on the NeXT (mono and color)????
> > 
> > --
> > Paul S. Sears                *  sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
> > The University of Houston    *  suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
> > Engineering Computing Center *  comments, complaints, questions)
> > NeXT System Administration   *  DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC 
> >           >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<<
> > "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
> 
> Paul:
> 
> I don't know about TIFF files, but I've managed to move Freehand files in EPS  
> format from a Mac without any problems.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Alex Duong Nghiem          Phone: (512) 343-1111
> Pencom Software            Fax:   (512) 343-9650    
> 9050 Capital of TX Hwy N.  Mail:  alex@pencom.com
> Suite 300                  Mail:  co-Xist_support@pencom.com
> Austin, TX 78759           Mail:  co-Xist_info@pencom.com
> USA
>                            ****************************
>                            * NeXTMail gladly accepted *
>                            ****************************

I have never encountered problems either when transfering EPS and TIFF from  
NeXT to Mac to PC and vice versa. Saving a file in AI 3.0 can be directly be  
opened in Mac AI 3.2 without any modification/specification during saving.

--

...................... Brahm ....................................
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