HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: key@blacksea.csc.com (Gerry Key)
Subject: Splitting TIFF Images
Keywords: Multi-page TIFF FAX 
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:34:36 GMT

I received a TIFF file which contains a multi-page FAX.  However, when I  
view the file with any of the standard TIFF-manipulation tools (e.g.,  
Scene, Icon), all I see is the first page of the FAX.  

Are there any public domain tools for the NeXT that will split the TIFF  
file into separate pages?  

--Gerry Key 
Computer Sciences Corporation 
Internet:		key@csc.com
FAX:			619.225.2583
Voice:			619.225.2504
From: guttalu@alnitak.usc.edu (Ramesh S. Guttalu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXTStation for sale
Date: 28 Aug 1992 16:00:31 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: alnitak.usc.edu
Keywords: NeXT computer

	A NeXTStation with standard configuration is available for sale:
	8mb RAM, 105mb disk, MegaPixel Monochrome Display, and NeXT System
	Starting Point Kit; delivered in March 1991.

	(1)  The computer is hardly used; about 20 hours or so total.

	(2)  Additional software:
		Lotus Improv (2 sets with manuals; one still in the box)

		Diagram! (installed on the disk, original diskettes unavailable)

		Of course, Mathematica is available free of cost but
		it is not provided on the 105mb disk.

	If interested please e-mail your bids (or call).

	Ramesh S. Guttalu
	Department of Mechanical Engineering
	University of Souther California
	Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
	(213) 740-0484

	e-mail: guttalu@alnitak.usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: coil@everest.eng.ohio-state.edu (Stacy D. Coil)
Subject: Is there a Mouse-X for NextDimension?
Keywords: Mouse-X NextDimension Color
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:00:44 GMT

I have found X11R5 (Mouse-X variaty) for a monochrome NeXT and for the
"Slab."  However, I haven't found it for the NeXT Dimension.  Does
anyone have an X server for that machine?  Or, could someone direct me
to an archive that has it?

Thank you

Stacy

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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Remote printing from PC
Date: 4 Sep 92 07:30:48 GMT
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University

In article <1992Sep03.030101.11052@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com
	(Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:
>I'd like to use the laser printer connected to my Turbo from a PC on the
>network running Beame and Whiteside's TCP/NFS product, version 2.1.  All
>the NFS functions work correctly, but when I try to link a MS-DOS device to
>the laser printer, it fails with an 'invalid printer' message.
>
>I am quite sure this has to do with running Netinfo and not a standard BSD

I am quite sure you're wrong.  NetInfo doesn't make a whit of
difference.

>print manager, but I'm wondering if anyone has found any workarounds. I am
>also suspicious of the way Beame and Whiteside use the gethostbyname()
>function call since their NFS daemon would not compile on the NeXT.

That's a separate issue.  In any case, I've never had any problem
printing from PeeCees to NeXT Laser Printers using CUTCP's LPR
program.  Either you have misconfigured something, or there's
something broken in B&W land (surprising, if true).  You may have
better luck in the comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc newsgroup.

>Too bad the world has been 'blessed' with MS-DOS :-).

What are YOU doing about it?

					-=EPS=-
-- 
Recipe for survival:
Have few predators.
Breed like crazy.
From: preuss@mozart.sfsu.edu (Peter Preuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT's CD-ROM power?
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:34:00 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University

ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) writes:
 = Does anybody know if NeXT's CD-ROM works with 240V like their other hardware.

Yes, it does. Automagically.

Peter.
From: unregistered@newcastle.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: CD -> NeXT
Date: 4 Sep 92 10:40:42 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: Synapse Computer Consultants
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have a Marantz CD player which is capable of Digital Output via
two RCA jacks as well as Optical Output....how hard would it be
to make a wire/widget that would allow this to somehow connect to
the DSP for sampling?  If no DA conversion is needed...

Thanks,
Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: How does one become a NeXT Campus Consultant?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:43:59 GMT

darenp@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daren Patel) writes:


>	Can someone tell me how one goes about becoming a NeXT
>Campus Consultant?  I've been told that the position is open
>on this campus and was given the name of the person to call
>locally.  The problem is this:  I've tried calling this person
>on numerous (and I mean NUMEROUS) occassions, but each time
>he's been "busy".  I remember a posting a while back that gave
>an email address you could write to for more info; if anyone
>has it handy, I would really appreciate a reply.

Call your nearest NeXT regional office and ask for the name of the
Higher Education Sales manager.  Those are the people who coordinate
the CC program in each district.  You can send e-mail to anyone at
NeXT with Firstname_Lastname@next.com.
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                 UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                   BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: eronald@cnam.cnam.fr (Edmund Ronald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: DAT and other backup media: Standards considered helpful.
Date: 30 Aug 92 03:36:33 GMT

I have my cube at home, and find it very awkward to get large files off
the net. With 3.0 coming I guess I'll have to buy or borrow a DAT drive
to backup, and, because I can't afford to lose 2.1, another hard drive
too.
Now, my confused question is: Are people establishing a new media 
exchange standard for the NeXT? Will it be DAT or 8mm, with or without
compression? I would really like to be able to send tapes to other
people and have a chance of their reading them, and also be able to
have them send me stuff!
In the old Sun/apollo world, cartridges seem to be a standard exchange
medium, and it would be nice to have one on the NeXT too!

Edmund.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Subject: ZOOM VFXv32bis modem and FAXing
Keywords: modem, fax
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:54:39 GMT

There seems to be some good specials on the ZOOM VFXv32bis/VFPv32bis
14400 bps modem with FAX capabilities (<$300). Has anyone had any
experience with this modem and a NeXT? (I currently use a ZOOM 42bis
2400 bps modem and it works fine.) Also, has anyone written a driver
to use the FAX capabilities of this modem? It seems like a good deal 
without the FAX, and a great one if the FAX can be made to work.

Thanks in advance for the info,

Charlie



-- 
	NeXTMail to:		|	...to confer, converse, and 
	charlie@technosci.com	|	otherwise hobnob with my    
				|	brother wizards.	    

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson)
Subject: Re: pcomm
Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:15:26 GMT

In comp.sys.next.misc reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed) writes:

>I just obtained Pcomm from sonata. I used ProComm in the dos world so  
>I am somewhat familiar with the program. My problem is that I get  
>this error message when I try to dial a number:

>Can't open port "/dev/cua" for read and write

>What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

Well, as distributed, /dev/cua is owned by uucp and is only
read-writable *by* uucp. Thus you will have to make pcomm owned by
uucp and setuid in order for it to work correctly.

Rollie
--
Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf                   draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu
Residential Computing, Stanford University	NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: heller@lisboa (Helmut Heller)
Subject: ??Radical Eye Software??
Reply-To: heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:26:27 GMT

Hello,
does anyone have the phone number or address of Radical Eye Software (they made the  
TeX dvi-previer TeXview for the NeXT)?

Please e-mail to heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu

Thanks a lot

--
Servus, Helmut  (W9/DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail preferred________________
heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu   "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" 
FAX:   (217)244-8371                      ZEN, one of BLAKES7                
Phone: (217)244-6914        -------------------------------------------------
Helmut Heller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute
Theoretical Biophysics Group, Room 3143, MC 251
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gisli@hamilton.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson)
Subject: Solved: personal TeX formats and the -v option
Reply-To: gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Distribution: us
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:55:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.162251.15277@zip.eecs.umich.edu>  
gisli@engin.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson) writes:
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> How does one go about installing a private TeX format on a NeXT?
> The standard way, i.e.,
> 
>     alias mytex "virtex \&myfmt"
> 
> does not work since it does not accept the -v or -V TeXview options.
> 
> 			Thanks
> 
> 				Gisli

Let me answer my own question.  The document /usr/tex/ntman.dvi says
it all. To create a command 'mytex' using a the format myfmt.fmt do
this:  

  o	copy myfmt.fmt into a directory specified in the TEXFORMATS
	variable  (e.g. ~/tex/formats)

  o	ln ~tex/formats/myfmt.fmt ~/tex/formats/mytex.fmt

  o	ln /usr/bin/virtex ~/Unix/bin/mytex
	
make the mytex command executable and make sure ~/Unix/bin is in your
path.

This works for me.

                     So long

                        Gisli

PS:  If you are using TeX on the NeXT and haven't read 
/usr/tex/ntman.dvi do yourself a favor and read it now.
A lot of interesting stuff, thanks Mr. Rokicki!

Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.misc:19130 comp.sys.next.advocacy:1923
From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: Release 3.0 is shipping, as of Aug 24th. (?)
Keywords: NS3.0, NeXTSTEP
Date: 29 Aug 92 16:09:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: parsec.1992Aug29.160934.377
Organization: Is the act or process of organizing or of being organized.

In article <1992Aug28.210040.303@cs.sfu.ca> oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Richard O'Neill) writes:
>Since no-one on Usenet seemed all that sure, I thought I'd call NeXT and
>ask when we might expect 3.0 to appear. I was told that it started 'shipping'
>on Monday, August 28th, and to expect my copy within a couple of weeks.
>
>This could just be bullshit to appease customers, but it's what they say.
>

The next August 28th to land on a monday is not 'till 1997!

-- 
Manuel Alberto Ricart
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Subject: Re: Handling foreign payments.
Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:57:14 GMT


International Money Orders are probably the best way to handle  
foreign payments when credit cards can't be used.  The charges  
imposed by banks on out-of-country checks (even things like  
EuroCheques, which can be denominated in dollars) are simply  
outrageous.

Its been a while since I got one, but I remember the procedure was  
something like: (1) find exchange rate in newspaper, (2) compute $  
equivalent of amount owed, (3) go to post office (4) wait half an  
hour in line :-( (4) buy Int'l money order for dollar amount, (5)  
send it to recipient, who can cash it at local post office for local  
currency equivalent.  I believe the same should work in the other  
direction.

--
-
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT Sales figures
Date: 24 Aug 92 02:06:31 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.

In article <1992Aug23.230035.16836@access.usask.ca> jake@skatter.usask.ca  
writes:
> From article <BtGGwz.7JJ.2@cs.cmu.edu>, by anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar  
Mohammed):
> > In article <1992Aug20.164517.2148@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
> >>
> >>In article <1992Aug20.161439.7358@leland.Stanford.EDU>
> >>m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
> >>
> >>>M Carling
> >>>Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
> >>
> >>>I believe George Bush, Anita Hill, and Pinocchio.
> >>
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> > Can we stop complaining about .sig's?  What is the freaking point?
> > I see a lot of .sig's I've found offensive and I haven't seen you 
> > complain about them.
> > 
> > -anwar
> > 
> > Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Vote Ecoterrorists in '92!
> > -- 
> > Anwar Mohammed                           Graduate Student
> > anwar+@cs.cmu.edu  (NeXTmail welcome)    School of Computer Science
> > Voice: +1 412 268 3043                   Carnegie-Mellon University
> > Fax:   +1 412 681 5739                   Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890
> 
> Why does ANYONE ANYWHERE EVER get their shit in a knot over something
> as completely insignificant as a .sig?
> 
> I second Anwar's opinion.
> 
> jake
I tend to agree, however, in case you missed it ;-), a .sig recently caused a
flame war, where the original .sig poster choose to defend it publicly in these
forums, rather than take it off-net to e-mail.  Totally inappropriate, in my  
own opinion.  I think, therefore, the 'group' is a bit sensitive to perceived  
inflammatory .sigs here.

Hopefully it'll all die down.  Don't fan the fire.

Jim De Arras
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: cwagner@ee.ualberta.ca (Chad Wagner)
Subject: MATLAB
Summary: MATLAB on NeXT?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:35:25 GMT

Does any one know if MATLAB has been ported to the NeXT?

If not do other people want MATLAB on their NeXTs?

Electrical Engineering Sudent
Chad G. Wagner
cwagner@bode.ee.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: moose@svcdudes.com
Subject: Re: Dialing Modem - interface?
Reply-To: moose@svcdudes.com
Organization: Software Ventures, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 17:14:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.153559.29162@tamsun.tamu.edu> andrewd@tamsun.tamu.edu  
(Andrew T Duchowski) writes:
> Hi, 
> 
> I was just wondering -- is there a program out there that will
> act as a phone dialing interface, accessing the modem?
> 
> My phone is set up on tone, but the * key is screwed because
> that's the memory key.  My school uses phone registration and
> requires the * key (the # key on my phone is ok).  I'd like a 
> program that looks like a keypad and lets you dial a number, 
> then maintains the phone line and lets you dial digits, like
> 7923#
> 2*415620600#
> 9#
> the above sequence would register cpsc 620 in the 92 fall semester
> at a&m for example.

I just tried it with MicroPhone II and a Dove modem.  It seems to work fine.   
You won't be able to use our dialing routines, but you can manually dial the  
phone.  Using our scripting, you could probably make a nice front end that does  
everything you want.

However, I'm not sure all modems allow you to dial a * and a #.  


--
Michael Rutman			|	moose@svcdudes.com
Cubist				|	makes me a NeXT programmer
Software Ventures		|	maker of MicroPhone Pro
#include <std.disclaimer>	|	really offesive political statement
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Suggestions for AppSoft
Keywords: WriteNow
Reply-To: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Organization: Hot Software
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:43:48 GMT

Ditto.  WriteNow needs an overhaul when it comes to graphic import.  AppSoft  
needs to fix all the display and scaling problems and add drag and drop  
functionality.

In article <1992Aug26.135751.25176@hamblin.math.byu.edu>  
bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:
> Ok, you boys (and girls) at AppSoft, want to make me and a lot of other  
> (potential) users of WriteNow happy??  Could you PLEASE include an overstrike
> feature in the new version? Want another suggestion?  
> In your FIND panel, allow for substitution with other fonts!
> How about better handling of imported graphics??
> Oh yeah, now that I've written 4-500 or so pages of technical stuff in
> the old version, please let the new one open my old documents?!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel)
Subject: Re: Inherited a 486/33...
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 11:06:25 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

In article <1992Aug31.131316.5300@next.cambridge.ma.us>, simsong (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes:
|> Don't buy anything until NeXTSTEP 486 is out, because the required hardware  
|> config might change.  And don't forget to add in $1000 -> $2500 to puchase  
|> NeXTSTEP 486.
|> 
|> All in all, you are better of selling that machine RIGHT NOW.

especially if that kind of hyper-inflation in that currency called 'i486 computers' 
is going to last any longer - you wait a week and your machine has lost half of its
value...

It is pretty annoying (for customers at least) to see that there seems to be
nothing that could be called inflation at all with that 'mc68040 computers' currency.

;-)

Uli
From: jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: ScreenBlanker during "login" console
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:44:06 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

Is there a way to put a screen blanker on the console login window? I'm
looking for something so that the "login: password:" type console display
won't burn into the monitor. I've seen other NeXTs in our other labs with
burned in "login" console windows.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-- 
Jonathan Bradshaw | jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu | HAM: N9OXE | Prodigy XMSN02B
  WNDU-AM/FM/TV South Bend, IN | Disclaimer "My opinions are not my employers"
  - "Busy life, not enough time to look in the mirror." - Deborah Ann Gibson -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
Subject: Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND....
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 16:08:17 GMT

Greg Cockroft writes
-> In article <1992Aug13.215318.530@ms.uky.edu> soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu  
-> (John Soward) writes:
-> > Glenn Reid writes
-> > -> the compressed data.  Just yesterday I got a 10-to-1 compression
-> > -> on a directory full of TIFF files, and I thought that TIFF already
-> > -> had reasonably good compression in its internal format!
-> > 
-> > 	No actually it sucks (e.g it has none)...unless you are using one  
-> of  
-> > NeXTs TIFF compression schemes...which are lempel-ziv (same as compress)  
-> or  
-> > JPEG (radically diferrent and results in a huge compression, but is  
-> "lossy" --  
-> > which sometimes is a big deal and sometimes is not).
-> > --
-> 
-> This is incorrect information.
	I do not think so...better read again for content.

-> TIFF 5.0 has optional compression of various types.
		^^^^^^^^
			This is the key....

->    LZW --   same as in compress. Previous substrings in a lookup table.
->    packbits --  run length encoding
->    group 4? fax compression. -- Various bit strings representing runs of
->                               0 and 1 bits. Some interline deltas.
-> 
-> NXImageBitImageRep supports LZW and packbits.
-> 
-> The JPEG data in 2.x TIFF files is a non-standard extension because it had  
-> not yet been addressed in TIFF when 2.0 shipped. JPEG will be part of TIFF  
-> 6.0.  3.0 NeXTStep is supposed to conform to TIFF 6.0.
	This is, however, claimed in the 3.0pr2 docs.
-> 
-> For the most part LZW and packbits do very well on non-continous tone  
-> images. Maybe not state of the art but certainly some big savings.

	In real-world usage, packbits seems to perform poorly, but lzw does  
okay--but not really much better than using compress (also lempel-ziv) on the  
tiff file (but then you have to actually issue uncompress to open it ;-)

--
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 /_______________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Subject: Re: Where are the Philips monitors built?
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:38:07 GMT

In article <2039@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
> I have seen a lot of complaints about the Philips monitors (mainly before I
> went on vacation 4 weeks ago). But Philips happens to have the head office
> here in The Netherlands, and I happen to know a Philips manager, who was
> shocked by my story that I had seen many complaints about Philips on the net
> and that people were being told to buy Sony.
> 
> He volunteered to get the message to the management. So I only need to know
> what complaints there are about the Philips monitors and especially where  
they
> are made (Taiwan? Italy?).
> 
> Mail me, and I will try to see that the info gets to the right place.
> 
> -- 
> wierda@ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) || I speak for myself and not for my  
employer.
> (+31) 2154 84415/(+31) 35 833539  || Support the League for Programming  
Freedom!
> 	"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
> 	(Almost from) Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".

He can't do anything about it, Philips TV's look just as bad.  It's an issue of  
phosphers.  Sony has the best, the best red in specific.

Jim
From: eric%erix@uunet.uu.net (Eric Cafritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Booting from ROM monitor
Keywords: boot mach $BOOTFILE
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 05:19:47 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Erix Remote

I have cooked my internal hard disk on a NeXT Station Color 
(25mhz - ver 2.1) in a very stupid way and have damaged or 
deleted (at least) the "sdmach" link in the root directory.

Of course, the machine won't boot, and unfortunately, my floppy 
drive is also dysfunctional.

Isn't there a copy of "sdmach" or "mach" in another directory that 
I could use to boot my machine into single user mode off the hard disk 
by entering a command such as the following from the ROM monitor:

"bsd()/correct_path_to_copy_of/sdmach [or mach] -s"?

If so, could someone please, please send me (and/or post) the correct
command and full path and any other tips for booting off the hard disk
under these very unfortunate circumstances?  

I asked this question before I went on vacation two or three weeks ago,
but didn't get any replies.  If you know, or have any ideas, about this,
have a heart.  

I guess I can always schlepp the machine down to the morons at the NeXT
dealer here in Paris and boot from one of their machines and do a 
Builddisk, can't I?  Those guys, although perfectly nice, know less about 
this than I do, if that's possible.  If I do have to resort to booting 
over their network, can anyone tell me the sequence of commands that I 
would execute to try to recover my hard disk?


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Eric Cafritz {uunet, attmail}!erix!eric or 100022.10@compuserve.com