HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: GISO 3.0
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:57:49 GMT
Originator: matthews@oberon.umd.edu

Has anyone gotten this to work?

It compiles OK (a few warnings).  But it just doesn't run.  When I run it in
gdb it just starts and exits, no errors, no nothing.  Sounds like a logic
problem to me but I don't feel like digging through the source code yet.

Or I could be missing some file / shared lib somewhere.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: hinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Hinds)
Subject: Re: FAX modems (again!) - Turbo Modem
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:55:17 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.010458.27877@venice.sedd.trw.com> verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) writes:
>Alexander Hinds (hinds@camis.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
>: I purchased a really cheap 14.4 .42bis modem at Fry's the other day.  It claims to have to GroupIII FAX compatability, but when I tried it with NeXT's classII driver or Interfax driver (really the same, I realize) I get the following error:
>: 
>: 	!! No such device: !! Wakeup Pipe
>: 	(on the console)
>: 
>: I'm really confused.  Does NeXT's driver not support all classII devices (and by extension classIII drivers)?  have I done something wrong?  I checked
>: /usr/lib/NextPrinter and sure enough the driver is there...
>
>Group III is the spec for how the image bits are transmitted between two
>fax machines/modems. Class 2 is the spec for how the computer talks to
>the modem (think of "AT" command set). They are specs that cover
>two separate portions of the problem. Your modem probably supports the
>class 1 interface spec and, therefore, can't be used with the NeXT.
>
>Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)

Paul,
	Thanks for the followup, and I wish this were the problem, but the manual also claims that the modem supports the EIA class 2 spec.  I called their
tech support number and they people there know less than I do.

--X



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From: andersen@reality (Robert Andersen)
Subject: Re: Stolen NeXT Station Color
Organization: Encompass
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:18:27 GMT

In article <kezgWWD0BwyOMEi048@transarc.com> Ward_Travis@transarc.com writes:
> Impressive -- somebody steals a NeXT, everybody assumes that the thief
> doesn't know how to get into the system, and so for a full day the net
> is abuzz with free, primo advice for the crook. The wheels are really
> spinning today. Doesn't anyone have any advice for changing the serial
> number? How about the ethernet address?
> 
> --

You made one big mistake in your assumption Ward.  If he knows how to get onto  
the net then he is obviously computer literate.  Which means he can use the  
on-line documentation to find out how to change the root password, or go down  
to the local bookstore and buy a next network/sysadmin book, so it doesn't  
really matter if the net talks about it.  
--
Robert John Andersen           
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: hfp@macadam.com (Hal Fox-Palmer)
Subject: adding file suffix
Organization: MACadam - NeXT Related Sales and Support
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:55:58 GMT

I just transfered about 200 Mac tiff files from a Mac HD to my NeXT HD.
Of course they show up just like text files which I just add the .tiff  
suffix and everthing is fine. But I don't want to change them all by hand  
so the QUESTION is;  is there a neat UNIX thing that will allow me to  
batch them all with the .tiff suffix ??

THANKS

Hal Fox-Palmer    MACadam Computers
hfp@macadam.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: Jeff Adams
Subject: Re: More Font Installation Problems
Reply-To: jeffa@wri.com
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:36:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.021854.26235@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
> I tried to install some of the PD/SW fonts on the archives, following  
> advice from the net, and got mixed results.
> 
> As root, I placed the fonts in LocalLibrary/Fonts, then ran  
> buildafmdir and cacheAFMData on the directory.  The fonts appeared in  
> the fonts panel and seemed to work (eg they would preview correctly).
> 
> Then I logged out and back in as a regular user.  But now only some  
> of the fonts work.  They all show up in the font panel, but most are  
> marked unusable.  Some, however, do work correctly.
> 
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Try looking at the read permissions of not only the .font file but also the  
files inside this directory.  If I am not mistaken, this problem occurred with  
someone I know and there where files with read permissions only for root, and  
changing this made the fonts usable by all.

--------------------------------
Jeff Adams
jeffa@wri.com    
Wolfram Research Inc.
--------------------------------
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Password file
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:58:39 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <BxBIwK.97H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>The NeXT password file is not shadowed accessible without even having an  
>account on the system.  You can do remote nidumps of someone else's password  
>file.  Unfortunately making one's password information secure seems to be hard  
>(if not impossible) without changing a MAJOR portion of the operating system  
>(or at least this is what I was told by people on comp.sys.next.* when I asked  
>a similar question).

You can easily fix the problem with remote nidumps (trusted_networks), but it
would take some sort of access listing built right in to NetInfo to change
the greater problem.

>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: timm@xongmao.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim McClarren)
Subject: Re: Results of installing Fujitsu 520M internal
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:27:28 GMT

matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:

>If anyone's considering buying a Fujitsu 520M internal hard drive for their
>NeXTstation, it'll work just fine.

>It's a 2624F drive.

>It Just Works.  Rory Bolt's formatter app for old Fujitsu's works just fine.
>It gives 516368 K after formatting, 464731 useable for mortal users.  Access
>times are in the 12-17ms range.  It's noticeably faster than my old Fujitsu
>2261.  Disk's 'read' utility reports > 730K/s transfer rates.

Yes, this has gone around a few times.  It should be in the FAQ if
it isn't yet.  One comment though, I DIDN'T use Rory Bolt's formatter
app but used builddisk instead and I get approx. the same amount of usable
space:

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a             490984  395840   46045    90%    /

I will also mention that I did have slight heat problems with this
drive on the INSIDE of the machine (but my office is pretty hot
to begin with...with proper ventilation you'll probably be okay),
and have since moved it out and put the old drive in and put
the Fuji in an external case (although it's still SCSI ID 0).

Tim

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From: drew@fnbc.com (Drew Davidson)
Subject: Re: adding file suffix
Reply-To: drew@fnbc.com
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 21:57:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.215031.5855@fnbc.com> drew@fnbc.com (Drew Davidson)  
writes:
> In article <1992Nov7.175558.3483@macadam.com> hfp@macadam.com (Hal  
Fox-Palmer)  
> writes:
> > I just transfered about 200 Mac tiff files from a Mac HD to my NeXT HD.
> > Of course they show up just like text files which I just add the .tiff  
> > suffix and everthing is fine. But I don't want to change them all by hand  
> > so the QUESTION is;  is there a neat UNIX thing that will allow me to  
> > batch them all with the .tiff suffix ??
> > 
> > THANKS
> > 
> > Hal Fox-Palmer    MACadam Computers
> > hfp@macadam.com
> 
> Put them all in a single directory, open Terminal (you should get csh by  
> default).  Type:
> 
> foreach file (*)
>     mv $file $file.tiff
> end
> 
> and voila!  your files are now TIFF.
> --

I forgot:  After opening Terminal type "cd" then drag the folder from the  
Workspace into your Terminal window and hit return.  This will put you in that  
directory.
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From: alex@fiskville.mc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Mac-to-NeXT sound converter. Where?
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:27:02 GMT

John Jay Feiler writes
> In article <Bx4521.H6@taligent.com> jwishnie@taligent.com (Jeff Wishnie)  
> writes:
> > I remember seeing a utility that converted Mac soundfiles to NeXT  
format,  
> > but I can't find it at the archive sites.
> > 
> > Does anyone know where I can find it? 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff
> 
> I think GISO.app will do the trick.  (Stands for Garbage In, Sound Out,  
if I  
> remember correctly.....)  SHould be on the archives...
> 
> 	John

MetroSoft's MetroTools will convert Mac .snd files to NeXT format but so  
far it will not work with System 7 .sfil format sounds. I only have a demo  
version so the release may actually work. 
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University of Texas at Austin

NeXTmail Preferred
From: dblakele@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Mac Powerbook Connectivity
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:52:25 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Originator: dblakele@raphael.acpub.duke.edu

Greetings,

On a current grant/project I'm involved with, our Primary Investigator
has deemed that we use Macintosh's as our presentation standard for 
the meetings.  (I can use the NeXT, as long as it can send output to
a Mac)  As of late, I've been getting rather symbiotic with a PowerBook
170 on loan from the project office to review Medline abstracts.  Now,
somebody here at Duke was spreading rumors that they had successfully
hooked a Mac PowerBook up to their NeXT.  That sounds intriguing, since
I've got a copy of Executor (a nod to all the nice folks at ARDI, especially
Cliff Matthews).

Has anybody had any luck or thoughts on doing this?  If so, drop me a line
down south (or north depending on where you are).  Thanx.

Peace


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From: mcn@cwru.edu (Michael C. Neuman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: WindowManger  and netstat
Date: 9 Nov 1992 22:49:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mcn@b62103.student.cwru.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62103.student.cwru.edu

 Two questions:

1) I recently upgraded to 3.0, and did a netstat. Much to my chagrin, 30 or so lines of connections that look like this popped up:

tcp        0      0  b62103.STUDENT.C.6 
95   b62103.STUDENT.C.673   ESTABLISHED

  Port 673 seems to love making connections with every other port imaginable... Any ideas what this is? These worthless(?) connections are obfuscating the real information netstat has to offer.

2) Has anyone gotten X11 to start up on login? I'd like to make my console start up xinit instead of WindowManager, but MouseX X11R4 currently won't grab the mouse and screen, so I get some weird results.

  Thanks in advance!

--
        Mike Neuman                mcn@b62103.student.cwru.edu
  "To make a machine that will be proud of us." - Thinking Machine's motto
==============================================================================
* Maintainer: NeXT netrek archive--b62103.student.cwru.edu:/pub/games/netrek *
 connections with every other port imaginable... Any ideas what this is? These worthless(?) connections are obfuscating the real information netstat has to offer.

2) Has anyone gotten X11 to start up on login? I'd like to make my console start up xinit instead of WindowManager, but MouseX X11R4 currently won't grab the mouse and screen, so I get some weird results.

  Thanks in advance!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
Subject: Re: RenderMan-High resolution rendering?
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:24:57 GMT

Michael B. Johnson writes
> Charles Fletcher writes
> 
> > 
> > 	How can you get high resolution images out of the NeXT?
> Well, first I'll  
> assume you're either 3D competent (i.e. you understand the 3DKit and can list  
3  
> reasons why what Dave Springer did is hard) or you're using one of the 3D  
apps  
> that are beginning to appear.  My personal favorite so far is 3D Reality  
> (blatant plug) from Stone Design.  Either way, let's say you've modeled  
> something, have applied a shader, and have now saved it out to a RIB file.  A  
> RIB file is the RenderMan equivalent of a PS file in PostScript - it's an  
ASCII  
> file you hand to RenderMan (the same way you have an ASCII file which you  
send  
> to a PostScript interpreter) and ask it to give you back bits.  
> 

To (briefly) follow up my followup, I thought this deserved another line or two  
of explanation:

In Postscript, you would never edit the ASCII PS file to stick in resolution  
information because the resolution is implicit in the device you are sending  
the PS file to for it to be rendered on.  With RenderMan, you are (in the end)  
always sending it to prman, the PhotoRealistic Renderer, and therefore need  
(want) to instruct it what resolution to render at.  Actually, if you are a  
hardcore production person, there is one (at least) area in PostScript where  
this would be an issue: lines per inch.  Depending on the resolution of your  
final output device, you might hack the PS file to have a different screen  
value.  Actually, the same might go for flatness of strokes.  Hmmm...  anyway,  
the analogy of PS/2D RIB/3D holds up pretty well in explaining this stuff, so I  
hope this has been useful...


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From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
Subject: Color Printer Problems with A3 Paper
Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:29:31 GMT

I've just bought a NeXT Color postscript printer.  All is fine until I want
to print a large TIFF/GIF format file from ImageViewer  (a scanned color map).
I put A3 paper in the printer and select A3 from the page layout menu.  When I
preview the image it fits nicely into the A3 sheet.  However when I try printing
the picture is cropped at the A4 paper width (8 inches not 11 !) although the
length is okay.  Using the printer Test Print mode confirms that I could print
A3.

Anyone know where the problem lies ?  I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.0.

David.

david@osf.org
From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Choosing csn.announce moderator
Date: 5 Nov 1992 17:42:43 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: stephen.cs.ubc.ca

Now that Todd is gone, do you think we'll ever see SimCity?
From: hinds@camis.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: FAX modems (again!) - Turbo Modem
Date: 5 Nov 1992 20:38:03 GMT
Organization: Stanford School of Medicine
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: camis.stanford.edu

I purchased a really cheap 14.4 .42bis modem at Fry's the other day.  It claims to have to GroupIII FAX compatability, but when I tried it with NeXT's classII driver or Interfax driver (really the same, I realize) I get the following error:

	!! No such device: !! Wakeup Pipe
	(on the console)

I'm really confused.  Does NeXT's driver not support all classII devices (and by extension classIII drivers)?  have I done something wrong?  I checked
/usr/lib/NextPrinter and sure enough the driver is there...

I'd appreciate any help or even a suggestion of a possible software fix or other
cheap modem.  Thanks in advance.

--X

ps.  Oh I almost forgot.  The modem is made by The Complete PC and is called
Turbo Modem Plus.  It was $300.
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From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:57:49 GMT

Harry Vlahos writes
> 
> I have been working with some of the new dye-sublimation
> printers that have come on the market, and I must say,
> if you want GREAT color (or rather, if you need GREAT
> color), check out the Tektronix Phaser IISD or the 
> Shinko CP-446i duy-sublimation printers.  They are 300dpi,
> continuous tone, with either monochrome, 3 color, or 4 color,
> ribbons.  Absolutely fantastic color output.  Much, much
> better than any thermal wax transfer printers like the
> NextColor printer.
> 
> The problem with thermal wax is that you can scratch the printout
> and the waxy surface gets damaged.  With the dye sublimation
> printers, on the other hand, the ink bleeds into the paper 
> and you get a much more permanent print that is less
> susceptible to damage by mishandling.
> 
> Sure would be nice if Next had an offering in that arena.
> At least I wouldn't have to pay for a Postscript engine
> for the printer.

  Yeah.. It sure would be nice if we could all *AFFORD* the consumables costs
on this technology. I understand that the Tektronix offering has the 
lowest consumables cost (about $1.50 per page), but that's still a little
more then what the local Kinko's stores charge for Canon Color copies 
($1.25), and it's still expensive! You also forgot to mention that not only
does the ink bleed into the paper, but the ink bleeds into SPECIAL paper
(that I'm not very fond of). 
  So far, the best low(er)-cost color PostScript printer I've seen is the
IBM/Lexmark offering. If you can get a dealer to give you a sample, I think
you'll be very pleased, especially when he tells you the price! The output
IS comparable to dye-sublimation printers at a fraction of the cost.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Subject: Re: Uncompressing Alien File Formats
Keywords: Use Opener
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:49:31 GMT

In article <6897@news.duke.edu> dblakele@hercules.acpub.duke.edu writes:
> This evening I was strolling through wuarchive.wustl.edu looking for some
> ModPlayer files.  What puzzled me, though, was the .lzh and .lha extensions
> on the majority of the files.  I suspect that this is an Amiga abbreviation
> for a LZW-type file compression or something else.  I've crossed this path
> with .hqx extensions for files that have been BinHex'd in the Macintosh
> world, but this one had me stumped.  Is there anything in NeXT-ish parlance
> or Unix-speak that will uncompress these by chance.  Just curious.  Thanx.

Opener will do .lzh and .hqx.  I don't know if it will do .lha
yet, but I know the decoder is available on the NeXT.  If
you've got Opener installed, you just double click on the
files and, whamo!, they open as directories in the File
Viewer.  Just like a NeXT is supposed to work, eh? :-) 

Allen B (Sounds a lot like my last posting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: datec@gagme.chi.il.us (Charles Robinson)
Subject: Re: NeXT's Object Oriented Database
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:27:50 GMT

L J Jim Kiraly (jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: A while back there were some posts about NeXT licensing an object oriented  
: database that would likely figure in future operating system releases.  Does  
: anyone recall the specific OODB and vendor that NeXT licensed??
:
I believe you are referring to Object Design Inc. (joint announcement
with NeXT last July).

BTW there is a piece on the Object Store Technology in the Communications
of the ACM, 10/91 (Vol 34 #10). IMHO it looks impressive.

Usual discalimers.
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:02:25 GMT
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Metrosoft

In article <1992Nov11.211338.405@pages.com> bruce@pages.com(Bruce  
Henderson) writes:
> In article <1992Nov7.115521.3737@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com  
writes:
> >>some new RISC chip: the IMS3250 which is supposed to run at 100 Mhz,  
90 Mips,
> >>and be able to emulate both a 486@25Mhz and a 68040@30Mhz. 
> This chip can do all  
> of this because it has loadable microcode.  So you write microcode that  
> emulates the 486 instruction set, or the SPARC instruction set... You  
name it.
> 

Wow! Loadable microcode on a micro! Flashbacks to my super-mini days. Now  
we can have some *real* fun... :-)

Gordon
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From: serge@princeton.EDU (Serge J. Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: CCRMA Music Kit problems
Keywords: Music CCRMA DSP
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:50:34 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster



I just installed the new CCRMA Music Kit on a server machine whose root  
directory is exported to a cluster of Nexts.  I can run Ensemble on the server,  
but I get a "Cannot open DSP" alert panel when I try to run it on the servers.   
Does the kit have to be locally installed on each and every machine?
Serge Goldstein
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: steved@essex.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: unAdobe anyone?
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:48:49 GMT
Reply-To: steved@essex.com
Organization: Essex Information Systems, Inc.

Can someone send me a copy of unAdobe, the Mac program for converting Adobe  
Type 1 outline files into a text format?  I don't have ftp access...

Or, better yet, does someone know how to convert an outline binary file?  mfrc  
doesn't like the file - sayws there's no POST resource...

Thanks,

Steve
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