HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Re: Framemaker character update is SLOW, any solutions?
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:50:14 GMT

In article <1jp4c7INNohv@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> punch@cps.msu.edu (Bill Punch) writes:
>I have a NSC(non turbo), running 3.0 with 32 Megs of memory and a dedicated
>100Meg swap disk. Despite this wonderful setup when I type to Framemaker (3.01)
>there is a noticeable delay between keystroke and screen appearance. If you type
>quickly (60 wpm) it is terribly distracting to watch the screen, you are
>typically 1-2 characters behind. 
>
>Any reason for this slowness? Any solutions?

I believe the problem is because Frame comes up in 2 bit B&W mode and there
is some misalignment between that image and the default colour frame that
accounts for the extra delay.  There was a posting about this a while back.

The work around is to put a colour element into the Frame document and
magically everything is aligned and the performance is just about right.
I do this all the time.
-- 

Mark T. Dornfeld                              Voice: (416) 234-9048
CYANTIC Systems                               Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103                Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP <--> ISOLatin encoding vector
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:22:22 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.cs.tu-berlin.de
In-reply-to: hidoine@clip.inria.fr's message of 19 Jan 93 12:14:18 GMT

In article <4867@seti.inria.fr> hidoine@clip.inria.fr (Bernard Hidoine) writes:

> Path: news.cs.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!julienas!seti!clip.inria.fr

> does exist filter in the service nenu to make the conversion between  
> NeXTSTEP and ISOLatin
> 

There is a (commandline) program under the GNU license called recode-3.2.4 that
allows you to recode between various (ascii) encodings. It should be on most
ftp-servers.  I wrote a small patch to also allow recoding of NeXTSTEP
encoding. I put it on our anonymous ftp-server (ftp.cs.tu-berli.de
filename incoming/recode-3.2.4-3.2.5beta.patch ). I also mailed
my changes to the author so maybe they will be included in the next
release.

If you are interested i can also post the patch. (It's about 11k)

Greetings Bastian 
-- 
 Bastian Schlueter		TEL.: +49 030 / 693 49 26	     __o
 Urbanstr. 25 Aufg. E		e-mail: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de	   _`\<,_
 D-1000 Berlin 61						  (_)/ (_)
  -- Radfahrer haben nichts zu verlieren als ihre Ketten --	~~~~~~~~~~~
Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.software:3683 comp.sys.next.misc:24192 comp.sys.next.sysadmin:7654
From: ricardo@pencom.com (Ricardo Parada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Microphone II (send/receive e-mail via compuserve?)
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:37:52 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software


Has anybody used Microphone II or any other software packaged to automatically  
download e-mail from compuserve?

Does it work?

Does it work with NeXTmail?

P.S. I have a friend with Compuserve only access who has a NeXT and would like  
to send/receive e-mail using compuserve.

--
+ Ricardo J. Parada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin)
Subject: using mh to route messages on NeXT
Keywords: sendmail.cf 
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:55:46 GMT

I'm running MH on a NeXT and am using it to automatically route messages  
to a series of filters.  I've tested the MH configuration extensively, the  
filters, and the link between the two.  Everything seems to work fine.  In  
fact, everything does work fine when I send test messages from an RS/6000  
to the NeXT, or from the same NeXT to itself.  But when I send the  
messages from another NeXT (using the same sendmail.cf), it fails,  
complaining that there is no "open dbm" (for the user?).  Does anyone have  
a clue why this would fail?

John Price-Wilkin
jpw@virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: pfkeb@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul F. Kunz)
Subject: Re: Bar graphs w/ error bars ?
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:48:49 GMT

>>>>> On 14 Jan 1993 16:28:19 GMT, schreine@byron.u.washington.edu (Robert Schreiner) said:
> NNTP-Posting-Host: byron.u.washington.edu


> Greetings,

> I have a number of very wonderful and useful plotting apps that do
> great things, but cannot find a app that allows me to make bargraphs with
> error bars.  Does anyone know of an app for the NeXT with this capability
> (preferably shareware) ?

HippoDraw, written by me and others at my site, does error bars.  It does
it one of two ways...

- If you have a table of data in form of one n-tuple per row and one
column is the error, then HippoDraw easily understand that.

- If you have a table and make histograms from the columns, then
HippoDraw understands that error bars are the SQRT() of the number
of entries.

HippoDraw is free and available at the NeXT archive sites as well as
heplib.slac.stanford.edu.
--
Paul F. Kunz	pfkeb@slac.stanford.edu (NeXT mail ok)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
Voice: (415) 926-2884   (NeXT) Fax: (415) 926-3587
From: machang@llewella.uchicago.edu (Andrew C. Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Statistics software
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:00:04 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Can anyone tell me what kinds of statistics software are available for  
NeXT? such like Minitab, SAS, SPSS, etc. And where I can get them. Thanks  
a lot.

Andy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: New Version (0.3.1) of pCD.app (photo CD reader)
Keywords: photo CD pCD
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:24:39 GMT

I made a few minor changes to pCD.app, and have called it version 0.3.1.   
This is still available via anonymous ftp from eclipse.its.rpi.edu, as is  
version 0.3 (just in case I introduced some bugs in the new version).

Most importantly, this is the first version where I was successful at  
uploading my pCD changes to the standard NeXT-related FTP archives.  So, at  
the moment, you can also find this at the hosts:

	 sonata.cc.purdue.edu
	 cs.orst.edu
	 ftp.cica.indiana.edu

in the directory pub/next/submissions.  I imagine they'll be moved to other  
directories at some point.  The archive maintainers might want to delete  
older copies of pCD (the original version which Dick Phillips uploaded in  
December).  sonata might want to consider saving a bit over 5 meg of disk  
space by deleting photo_cd.tar.Z too, given that space seems to be a bit  
tight there (photo_cd.tar.Z is a sample of a photo CD, it isn't a  
program...).

Filenames to look for are:
	pCD0.3.1.README
	pCD0.3.1.compressed

Here's an excerpt from the README about the new version:

---[excerpt:]
Finally, the application now has some "help" information for pCD itself.
This isn't much, but it does include a "version history", so I don't have
to include so much info in this README file!  The help info also includes
a few disclaimers.

There are only two minor coding changes.  For one, pCD will now do the
right thing if the user tries to open "photo_cd/overview.pcd" instead
of the (expected) "photo_cd" directory by itself.  For two, there's an
preference-panel option to control what pCD should do when printing
large images.  Before it always used to scale the image to fit on a
single page, and that is still the default.  The user can also request
that it not be scaled (and thus prints on multiple pages), or that it be
clipped off to fit on a single page.

I'm calling this version 0.3.1 (instead of 0.4) partially because very
little changed, and partially because I didn't spent much time checking
what little I did change.
---[end excerpt]

The compressed folder includes both the source code and a compiled &  
stripped version of the application itself.  This application will only work  
on NeXTSTEP 3.0 machines.

--
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.software
From: rs69@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Rong Shen)
Subject: jpg to postscript converter
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:30:11 GMT

Hi:

	I would like to know whether there are softwares that can
convert a jpg image file to postscript or ln03 format that can be
printed out? If there are such softwares, can I get them through
anonymous ftp?

	Thanks.

Rong
--
rs69@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: seidel@infotech.tu-chemnitz.de (Uwe Seidel)
Subject: IEC-Bus Interface for NeXT?
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:38:06 GMT

hallo folks,

I'am looking for a IEC-Bus Interface (GBIB, or other) for the
NeXT-machine. I need also the application software for the
interface. If anyone knows about this, send me please the e-mail
adress of the company. 


Thanks

Uwe Seidel

e-mail: seidel@infotech.tu-chemnitz.de
phone: +49 (0371) 561 3175
fax: +49 (0371) 561 3186

Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.misc:24115 comp.sys.next.advocacy:3954 comp.sys.next.software:3649
From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Email Change for John Kheit & monoChrome Inc
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:05:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi all,
	My szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu account will be going off line
for at least a little while if not permantly.  So, if you need to get
in touch with me for any reason, please use my old and still valid
account at:

kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu

	Thanx, and take care

later, John
-- 
NeXT Campus Consultant---Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |my    %^)
John Kheit/monoChrome  | Opinions expressed represent me only!       |fried %-)
173 Westgate Drive     | Audix Voice Mail# (415) 366-0900 X5512      |brain %>)
Edison, NJ 08820-1163  | kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu,szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: What newspaper is on the NewsGrazer icon?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:01:33 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: jax.cs.ubc.ca
Keywords: flake


Looking at the unfolded newspaper on the NewsGrazer icon, it looks like
something like "La****** Times"   (Yow!  It just folded up as I was typing  
this, and I can't get it back!)   Does anyone know what it is?    Anyone figure  
out when it unfolds?

Other puzzlers:

	* What's that lead story with the picture of the forest fire  
devastation?

	*  Just who is that letter addressed to in MailApp?  Is that a U.S. or 
Canadian stamp (sure looks like the Queen to me).  The Canadian Conspiracy  
continues...

	* Is that a BASIC program on the Terminal/Stuart monitor?  Why are  
there line numbers? 

	* Is that "Halliday and Resnick" second from the left in the Librarian  
bookshelf?


Far and away too much spare time today,
	Chris
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Information on ordering NeXT  3.0 Documentation from Addison-Wesley
Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:19:43 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: sears@uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu



Can anyone provide me with ordering information for the NeXT 3.0  
documentation (I know it was posted a while back, but we didn't need it  
then!).  We need information (Title, ISBM, etc) on all the new 3.0  
documentation and pricing for a complete set and on the individual manuals  
(and if there is an educational discount) if possible.  We might be  
interested in purchasing multiple sets of this documentation.

--
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."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische)
Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata. (Yo, NeXT, please read this)
Reply-To: uunet!lkba!lkb
Organization: LKB Associates, Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:31:23 GMT

Actually, I like the idea of us users supporting our archive site with $ so  
they can buy another Gig or two of space.  If many of us can afford the $40  
book can't 50 of us afford $40 for $2000 of disk space.  Or 100 x $20?

But how does purdue feel about this?

The sonata mail server (I'm not on the Internet) used to be very useful to  
me, but for the last month or two, it never mails anything back.  Gee, I  
hope it's not queueing all of those requests for 00ls-lR.txt!
-- 
Larry Blische              uunet!lkba!lkb
LKB Associates, Inc.
3118 Dunglow Road
Dundalk, Maryland 21222-5304 USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
From: garylang@netcom.com (Gary Lang)
Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:03:39 GMT

" It's not _Adobe_ PostScript, but it is PostScript nonetheless.  Especially when looking over the             "

If it's not Adobe, it's not really PostScript. Ask any print shop...

-g
From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:13:12 GMT
Organization: LLNL Chemistry and Materials Science
In-reply-to: paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca's message of 22 Jan 93 22:05:09 GMT

>>>>> "Toby" == Toby Paterson <paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca> writes:

Toby> That's not the way it works.  When you double click on the package, it  
Toby> opens up in Installer.  One of the options available there is to list the  
Toby> contents of the package.

Listing the files' names is useful but names are not the only thing one
might wish to examine before installing.

--
erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
From: Bill.Smith@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bill Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: BUSINESS WEEK ARTICLE (WHAT A JOKE!)
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:37:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO

--  
Bill Smith - via ParaNet node 1:104/422
UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
INTERNET: Bill.Smith@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:43:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moica.berkeley.edu

In article <C1K6M1.K1A@utstat.toronto.edu> philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:

>Well that depends on what NeXT does with its hardware. I for one would like to 
>see them get right out of the workstation/Unix label that many have placed on
>them. Their real competition, as many have said, is the Mac and the PC ( and
>as you point out itself!).

I suppose NeXT is in a bind.

NeXT's strength is in the NeXTSTEP software, but they are not selling
enough of it yet to rely on as the primary source of revenue.
NeXT just broke even, more or less, in 1992, and the most of the
revenue must have come from their hardware sales.

If NeXT were to annouce tomorrow that they will be dropping hardware
business, that would be suicide because people would be reluctant to
buy hardware that is soon to be orphaned.  Their sales of hardware
will drop immediately, and NeXT will fall into red.  So much for
the growth and let alone breaking even.

It seems to me that it is a matter of timing.  Yes, NeXT may be
a software company 5 years from now, but they can't afford to annouce
that they are dropping hardware now when the hardware business is the
only source of revenue that made modest growth and break-even in 92 possible.
When they annouce that kind of direction change, they have to be already
making enough money from software sales.  And that won't be any time
soon.


--
Izumi Ohzawa             [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440     Fax:  (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:52:40 -0500 
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: How to convert BSD a.out files to Mach files using atom

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 26-Jan-93 How to convert BSD
a.out fi.. by Michael Sepa@enel.ucalga 
>         I have an executable file on a SUN computer and I want to use
>         atom to convert it to an executable on my NeXT.  I have tried
>         to use:
>  
>         >atom a.out machfile
>  
>         and then execute the machfile:
>  
>         >machfile
>         Segmentation fault
>         
>    [ ...munch...]
>  
>         I have studied the atom man page, but I don't have a clue.  Could
>         some kind person show me the light?  Maybe I don't know what
>         atom is supposed to do.  I thought it could convert executables.

Atom converts executables and object files compiled for the NeXT in the
BSD4.3 a.out format into the Mach-O format.  There is no way that it is
going to be able to convert an executable compiled for a different
machine into something runable on the NeXT.  (Why?  Amoung many reasons,
the Sun executable likely was compiled for a different *CPU* than the
680x0...)

You will have to get the source code to whatever it is and recompile it
for the program to run on your NeXT.  (Sorry...)

-Chuck


Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | "Foosh.  Aaughh!!"
------------------------------------------+ "Foosh.  Aauuggghh!!"
AMS & normal mail:        infidel@cmu.edu | "Cold spray deodorant...."
Failing that:        cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu |
NeXTmail:   chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu |  -- Opus, Bloom County [RIP]
From: mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Tiny.n (from the S & M book)
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:40:46 GMT
Reply-To: mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1993Jan27.052058.124126@zeus.calpoly.edu>  
mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein) writes:
> I entered the Tiny.m program in chp. 4 of the book but when I compile I  
> get the following warnings.
> 
> 	Tiny.m: In function `demo':
> 	Tiny.m:20: warning: unused variable `g'
> 	Tiny.m:20: warning: unused variable `f'
> 
> When I run the program the myWindow and myMenu come up but the graphic  
is
> not displayed.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Am I doing someting  
> wrong or is it a bug?
> 
> --
> -Mont
> 
>    NeXTmail OK :-)
>    President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
>    mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu

Thanks to everyone for the help.  I seem to have put a space between the *  
and / in the proceeding comment.

--
-Mont

   NeXTmail OK :-)
   President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
   mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata. (Ie, *BUY*ing more)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:28:44 GMT

uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische) writes:
> Actually, I like the idea of us users supporting our archive site with
> the $ so they can buy another Gig or two of space.  If many of us can
> afford the $40 book can't 50 of us afford $40 for $2000 of disk space.
> Or 100 x $20?
> 
> But how does purdue feel about this?

While there are ways to squeeze more files into the standard NeXT-specific  
FTP sites, I also like the idea of just buying some more room.  The other  
methods would also be very welcome, but I don't believe it's fair to expect  
everyone (the archive maintainers in particular) to spend increasing amounts  
of time and energy trying to stuff more things into the same amount of  
space.

I'd be willing to send some money to both the purdue gang and the  
cs.orst.edu gang to get some more real live disk space.  If enough people  
sent something like $10-$20 (to each archive), they should be able to get  
some extra disk space to alleviate the crunch.

--
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: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu  (Avery Wang)
Subject: Re: BinHex on a NeXT?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:29:15 GMT

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
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:10:54 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu


Oh, I forgot to remove the "Yo, NeXT" from that last post.  It's ok
NeXT, it was easier than I thought, and I don't need to know anything
more about Installer or Workspace.

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Mail.app and NewsGrazer: can a default Reply-To: header be added?
Organization: P & L Systems
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:43:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.222807.29222@sfu.ca> hayward@biblio.ucs.sfu.ca  
(Michael Hayward) writes:
> It seems as if the following should be do-able, but I have been unable  
to  
> discover *how*...
> 
> I want all outgoing message to contain a Reply-To: header field with a  
> reply address other than the From: address which is added by default.  
Does  
> anyone know of a way to do this?

As someone else points out, 3.0 Mail lets you do this, NewsGrazer post  
preferences also includes a Reply-To field that you can set.

The generic solution to wanting extra headers is to replace the mailer  
(or, in NewsGrazers case, inews) in preferences.  Put in a script that  
runs awk/gawk/perl as you prefer, and let it add the header.

Paul
-- 
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems                   (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501                      paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
Fax: (0494)680228                       76711.451@compuserve.com
From: rao@tree.egr.uh.edu (Jagannatha  Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: How to set up a bulletin board...
Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:22:41 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: sysmod.egr.uh.edu



I need to submit a proposal urgently on the best way we could set up a bulletin  
board, but I don't have a clue as to how to research my various options. 

(1) I have a Next conveniently sitting in my office. How easy is it to get a  
modem and set up a bulletin board? 

(2) What public domain software exists for different platforms (PC's, unix,  
etc)? 

Please point me in the right direction for more information. 

Thanks.

--
Jagannatha Rao				E-mail:rao@tree.egr.uh.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering    Tel   :(713) 743-4535
University of Houston                   Fax   :(713) 743-4503
Houston, TX 77204-4792

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