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From: brianc@dc_scom (Brian Caslis @ SST)
Subject: Problem with Renderman on standalone NeXT
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:56:53 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: mentor
Keywords: renderman
Followup-To: 

Hello World!

I've been trying to print the image of a rib file from the
3D demo application included in 3.0. This is a standalone
NeXTstation Color. It tells me it can't connect to localhost.
My machine has a hostname of sapphire.

So... I look in the netinfo database and sapphire doesn't 
appear but localhost and broadcasthost are there (as expected).
So, I experimented by changing the local render entry to look
for sapphire instead of localhost. Still no good.

When I upgraded to 3.0, I booted from the 3.0 CD and had it do
a complete upgrade rather than use the update application. I've looked
at the online application notes, but if you have a standalone machine
there is no entry in the netinfo database that corresponds to the 
hostname as it states. It would appear to me that you need to create
a network to get this to work, but that can't be right.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
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From: usatoday@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Dalsgaard)
Subject: Connection between NeXT and MAC via Ethernet
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 13:03:56 GMT

Hi NeXT users !

Do you know of any program that sets up a connection between
a Mac and a NeXT. The program should act like a deamon that
waits for input from the other machine.

Any info is greatly appreciated

Peter

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From: hbergh@nl.oracle.com (Herbert van den Bergh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Hiding header fields in Mail.app
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:29:40 GMT
Reply-To: hbergh@nl.oracle.com

In article <Bx7nw1.37G@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca  
(William Gilbert) writes:
| Herbert van den Bergh writes
| > 
| > Is it possible to hide header fields of mail messages when reading
| > them with Mail.app? For example, I don't need to see the To: field,
| > especially if it contains hundreds of users, and I know the mail
| > was sent to me...
| 
| Run DefaultMgr in the Investigate mode on Mail.app/Mail.
| In OS 2.1 there is a default called MailFilter that can be used to  
filter
| out unwanted fields.
| 
| Will Gilbert

	Oops. Forgot to mention I am running NeXTstep 3.0. I don't
	see a DefaultMgr around here. Any other ideas?
--
	Herbert van den Bergh
	Oracle Europe
	hbergh@nl.oracle.com
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: 3K Retouche
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:17:29 GMT
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.

In article <1992Nov5.004120.1359@eps.com> steve@eps.com writes:
>DiD anyone see the article in NeXTWORLD EXTRA november issue regarding an image  
>application called I believe 3K Computerbuild Retouche??
>If so can you please give me a contact name or address, phone #, email to get 
>info on this..

Matthias Kurwig 
Director of Marketing
3K-Computerbuild
Wevelinghoven 26
D-4054 Nettetal I / Lobberich
Germany

0 21 53-91 86 61
0 21 53-91 86 86 fax

Pretty robust piece of software.  If I remember correctly, at Seybold,
Appsoft was demo'ing Image with a 282k image (the Coke can gif),
Chromagrafx was demo'ing PixelMaster (hopefully to be renamed) with a
1,400k image, but 3k was demo'ing Retouche with a 28 MEGABYTE image.

and it was fast

While 28 megs isn't extraordinary, I was impressed that they were
demoing it with such an image.


andrew
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From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
Subject: Re: Telephone Message DELIVERY / Answer Center
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22:36:04 GMT

In article <SCOTT.92Nov12000933@nic.gac.edu>  writes:
> This isn't to say that such legislation is highly prevalent.  All
> I know is that this is how things work in Minnesota.  Even then,
> there _may_ be loopholes for certain situations.  For instance, in
> your situation you could have people give you written permission
> to have the computer call them and leave messages, which means that
> you've removed the major complaint about such systems (the harrassment
> sort of concerns).  But, the lucrative bucks would be in selling
> such systems to telemarketers, who'd be paying thousands of dollars
> for them whereas I suspect your underfunded group will not be
> willing to pay.  And the package _is_ almost exactly the same
> (precisely, anything that does what you want done could also be
> used for automated telemarketing stuff).

Maybe this isn't the right place to discuss this. If so, please feel free  
to tell me the correct place to move this discussion.

You get to the heart of the issues Scott. (1) This technology should not  
be used to deliver UNSOLICITED messages (although we allow this in the US  
Mail which I don't like either). (2) Developers want to make money for  
their efforts. (3) Once such a system is developed, it will be equally  
useful to commercial and noncommercial concerns.

Certainly this technology has a beneficial use in the private non-profit  
sector where developer profits probably would be slimmer. But think of the  
social benefits (eg. inexpensive grassroots democracy).

Written permission? That sounds like a lot of beauracracy. Why not allow  
people to give consent over the phone-in message line? They could  
subscribe by leaving their phone number (and optionally their name and  
address). This subscription phone message could then be stored in an  
archive. In the rare instance that legal problems arose (eg. someone was  
impersonated) wouldn't voice pattern analysis be possible? Of course  
unsubscribing may be the problem. An unscrupulous organization could claim  
they never received the unscribe message. Perhaps a confirming number  
could be returned to the caller? If the preceeding is a good idea, I'll  
add it to my design specs list (which I notice Darcy BROCKBANK has  
responded to as a modifier to his current development).

Anyway wouldn't this subscription system also work for commercial  
organizations? Some people may not mind receiving messages from certain  
commercial organizations and thus be willing to subscribe to their  
announcements.

I hate to see this obvious NextStep application buried by overly severe  
privacy concerns. I'm the most fanatical privacy person you're likely to  
meet, but I'd rather accept reasonable protections than prevent the  
development of new potentially useful technology.

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Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu
From: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Subject: Re: Why is NewsGrazer so slow?
Reply-To: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Organization: Digital Technology, International
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:00:11 GMT

In article <BxKL53.HKq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)  
writes:
> In article <19110@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> stuarts@jeeves.ucdavis.edu (Stuart  
> Staniford-Chen) writes:
> >
> >I have started using NewsGrazer lately.  It's lovely to use, except that  
> >it's so darned slow.  I can understand that things like fetching articles
> >from the nntp server would be slow.  However, just hitting a menu option  
> >to get a submenu takes 5 to 10 seconds.  Editing this post is agony  
> >because it is so slow to update the window.  It cannot keep up with my  
> >typing and loses a lot of what I input.  
> Hmm.  I use news grazer on a similar setup to yours (16M ram, 25MHz  
> 68040), and I don't have any problems with speed.  Perhaps your machine is  
> thrashing because you are using too much swap space?  Just a thought.
> 
> --
> William Magro                                       NeXTMail welcome
> wmagro@uiuc.edu

I got similar responses out of NewsGrazer on an over-extended Ethernet
that was experiencing transmission difficulties.  Strange that in this
case, NewsGrazer seemed to be the most affected-- everything else sort
of worked.

Shortened the e-net line and the symptoms went away.

--
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NeXTmail preferred, but ONLY at my REAL email address: nevin@dtint.dtint.com

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From: carsten@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Dos extenders on SoftPC?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 16:04:08 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Reply-To: carsten@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: nexts.math.tu-berlin.de

Hi,

is there a version of SoftPC, which is capable of running 286 protected  
mode
programs as tpcx (Turbo Pascal)?

Thanx in advance,

Carsten
(carsten@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de)

Please answer via e-mail only.
From: dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Dots address
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:10:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: seas.1992Nov11.011055.23128
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science

Does anyone know if dots supports the HP Color InkJet printers?  If
so, how well?

David
dleon@seas.smu.edu
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From: mathmyka@tpki.toppoint.de (Mathias Myka)
Subject: What happened to Metaresearch ?
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 16:49:06 GMT
Keywords: Metaresearch, SoundWorks

I recently had problems contacting Metaresearch, creators,
among others, of SoundWorks.

Does anybody know what happend to them ? Have they moved ?

Thanks for any information,

-- Mathias

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From: gn@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Repost: DBKit Adaptor for Ingres [DEMO]
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:38:36 GMT
Organization: Rathe, Inc.

penUltimate development is proud to offer a demonstration version
of our soon to be released product _DBConnect for Ingres_.

DBConnect for Ingres allows a NeXT workstation connected to 
a Unix Host running Ingres to build an application that 
accesses an Ingres database.

DBConnect for Ingres has three Components:

>> 	The Connection Server:
	
	The Connection Server, which executes on the Ingres Unix Host,
	allows the NeXT to access Ingres Databases.

>>  The IngresAdaptor

	A DBKit Adaptor which, through the Connection Server, allows a NeXT
	developer to build a NeXTstep Ingres application.

>> 	The DBConnect API

	An application programmers interface which allows a C programmer to
	port existent Ingres applications to the NeXT. Additionally the
	DBConnect API can be used to supplement NeXT's DBKit functionality.


The Demo
--------

penUltimate will email you a copy of the IngresAdaptor and Connection Server
for your evaluation. The DBConnect for Ingres Demo has the following 
restrictions:

1. Only the Sun Version of the Connection Server is available, contact 
   penUltimate for information and availability of other platforms.

2. The Connection Server will exit after disconnecting from a database
	( you need to restart it after an application exits )

3. The Connection Server will only run for an hour.

4. The DBConnect API is not included.

5. Silent login through the adaptor is disabled.


penUltimate has included several demonstration programs to allow you to
easily evaluate it's functionality.


To receive your demo:
--------------------

Send your name, email address, telephone number and ground mail address to:

rathe!penultimate@cs.umn.edu

and we will email the demo to you post haste.

For information about the the full DBConnect for Ingres Release
contact Greg Noel at Rathe, penUltimate's development partner, at
612-225-1401 or rathe!gn@cs.umn.edu
--
Greg Noel
rathe!gn@cs.umn.edu
penUltimate development, inc.
1319 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, Mn 55101-2901
(612)225-1401
From: mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: PasteUp Arrives
Date: 11 Nov 92 03:46:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.1992Nov11.034605.163481
Reply-To: mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1992Nov8.183821.10192@netcom.com> yikes@netcom.com (Michael  
Brill) writes:
> kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca writes:
> 
> >What's it missing most? KERNING!!!
> 
> Place the cursor between two characters and ALT-left arrow or
> ALT-right arrow... KERNING!!!
> 
> ....Michael Brill
> 
> -- 
> ----

Is this a joke or is it really that easy???

--
-Mont

   NeXTmail OK :-)
   President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
   mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Faster 3.0 on Color Machine via dwrite
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:36:05 GMT
Organization: Next Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Oct30.235141.4139@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Gary Ritchie writes:
>What I have done is to turn off color by default in ALL applications with:
>      dwrite -g NXWindowDepthLimit TwoBitGray
>...you can reenable color selectively, ie:
>      dwrite GoldDigger NXWindowDepthLimit TwelveBitRGB

What a fine choice of an app to run in color. 8-)

>Have others tried this technique before?  Is my machine really going  
>faster, or am I just light-headed from hunger late on a Friday afternoon?

The window server uses lazy promotion to assure that windows remain skinny
until they need to draw some color that cannot be represented in the current
depth. All windows start life out as 2-bit windows, the moment you draw
one of the non-standard 4 grays, they get deeper. This promotion
continues upto the time the windows reach their depth limit.

On a 2-bit machine, all windows are depth-limited to 2-bits (by default). Thus
windows will never get deeper than 2 bits. On a NSC, they are depth limited
to 12 bits. Thus, by doing the TwoBitGray dwrite on a NSC, you are simply
making all windows remain at 2 bits.

This operation will save memory; backing stores of would-be color windows
now occupy 8 times less memory. It can also speed up drawing, depending on the
type of drawing operations. However, it does slow down the flush from the 
backing  store to the screen in some cases; for instance, flushing an 8-bit 
window to a 12-bit screen isn't too zippy. Flushing a 2-bit window to a 12-bit
screen is pretty quick, so it is conceivable that your machine might seem a 
bit faster with a 2-bit window depth limit. The reduced swapping probably
helps as well, when switching between apps.

One final note... Flushing 2-bit windows with alpha to a 12-bit screen is
rather slow, and I believe this is what causes Frame to run real slow
on a NSC when the window depths are limited. If you don't limit the
depth, Frame's windows become 12-bits (with alpha), and in that case the
flush is much faster.

Ali, Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com











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From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: System 2.2 d/n write/format DOS floppies!
Keywords: DOS, Floppies
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:33:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.180850.6211@news2.cis.umn.edu> walt@molbio.cbs.umn.edu (Walter Sauerbier) writes:
>3) 'Successfully' formatting MS-DOS diskettes, and writing files to them 
>  often yields diskettes that appear EMPTY to MS-DOS machines.  I am writing
>  filenames in the proper MS-DOS format (xxxxxxxx.xxx).  


	I found formatting a DOS floppy (BuildDOS) on the mono 16meg
	slabs at school to be both very slow and very unreliable.  
	1.44 meg _true_ disks also have this problem, but I have found
	that "punched" disks (which work fine on my PC, and on the
	PS/2s at school w/o error) are _completely_ unreliable if you
	use them with the NeXT system.
	
	For empty files, most of the time a simple chkdsk /f a: run from
	a true-blue PC will fix the problem. 
	(i.e. the lost files are what you're looking for, but the 
	names, at least, go the way of the dodo)..

	My solution to this problem is to log into a PC on the net
	and FTP the files local from my account... :-(



>Is this a hardware or a software problem?  
>Is there an upgrate/utility that can consistently deal with MS-DOS floppies?  
>Are there utilities that can read/write Macintosh or Amiga diskettes?
					^^^^          ^^^^

	I thought NS3.0 was supposed to add Mac disk compatibility?
	As for Amiga, if anyone is interested, the 880k format is
	really rather simple.  Unless the controller is crippled 
	(a la IBM PC) it should be fairly easy to do.  The various
	other formats (i.e. the various High density standards) on 
	the other hand, are probably next to impossible.  (FFS 
	LD floppies shouldn't be any more difficult than OFS LD 
	floppies...)..


	I have also noticed that about 2/3rds of the machines in our
	labs cannot take floppies--that is, their floppy slot is there,
	but there is a piece of black plastic (a dust door??) that
	stands in the way and will not budge.


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From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:08:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.044820.12031@news2.cis.umn.edu>  
burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard) writes:
> Now that "gdb" has been integrated into Edit, wouldn't it be real nifty  
to have 
>  
> "diff" integrated as well?  Sometimes you have to go thru diffs by hand,  
and Edit doesn't make it fun.  More naive, GUI-bound users don't yet have  
any intelligent way to compare documents.
> 
> The "Differences Panel" would work kind of like the Find Panel, except  
that it 
> would highlight the subsequent differing chunks in each of  
> two windows (the 
> main document window and the one for another document selected in the 
> Differences Panel).  This Panel could have an API like all the others,  
and 
> become a standard part of NeXTSTEP.
> 
Cool idea. Maybe it should be a MetroTool...

:-)

Gordon
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From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: Contour plotting wanted:
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:44:46 GMT

John McNeil writes
> I too moved from a mac to a NeXT and missed the Spyglass
> apps.
> 
> I have ported the NCSA HDF libraries (no big deal) to the
> NeXT and written an image viewing program.  It is not the
> full suite of spyglass stuff, but it will show raw byte,
> raw float, HDF ris8 and HDF sds 2d files.  It will also scale
> the image, show the pixel coordinates and value that you
> are pointing at, and give a histogram from which you can
> re-scale the image.  It will open tiff files, but the
> histogram stuff needs to be debugged here.  It will save
> tiffs as ris8 and vice-versa.
> 
> If there is some interest, I can probably release it to the
> public domain,
> 
> Let me know,
You wrote:
> I too moved from a mac to a NeXT and missed the Spyglass
> apps.
> 
> I have ported the NCSA HDF libraries (no big deal) to the
> NeXT and written an image viewing program.  It is not the
> full suite of spyglass stuff, but it will show raw byte,
> raw float, HDF ris8 and HDF sds 2d files.  It will also scale
> the image, show the pixel coordinates and value that you
> are pointing at, and give a histogram from which you can
> re-scale the image.  It will open tiff files, but the
> histogram stuff needs to be debugged here.  It will save
> tiffs as ris8 and vice-versa.
> 
> If there is some interest, I can probably release it to the
> public domain,
> 
> Let me know,
> 
>  
> -- 
> John
> jam@trg.saic.com
> NeXTmail preferred

Hmm.  Different meaning for contour.
When I said contour plots, I meant contour as in topographic map,  
weather isobar, etc.  

However, it would be really neat if the full spyglass stuff were  
available for the Next.
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From: wkwong@fermion.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong)
Subject: E-Mail Address of Bruce Blumberg - Stealth demo
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:12:56 GMT


Greeting,

I'm looking for the source code of "Stealth" Flight simulator for
Research work on Flight COntrol system. I received mail that suggest
me to contact the writer of Stealth -- Bruce Blumberg.

Anybody know his E-MAIL address?

Please let me know, thanks in advance.

Andy
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From: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
Subject: Re: UI suggestion: Differences Panel
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:21:30 GMT

Gordie Freedman writes
> it uses multiple different colors to indicate "in 1st doc not in
> 2nd", "in 2nd,  not first", and "only in 1st/2nd".

This idea combined with a drag and drop text editing addition to the Text  
object would be really handy and an easy way to make the documents being  
'diffed' become the same (or closer to the same).  Something where you can  
select some text, or have something select some for you, and then release the  
mouse button, then drag from the selected text to a spot somewhere else in the  
document or on top of some already selected data elsewhere in the same or  
another app thereby causing the dragged data to replace (drag released on  
selected material) or be inserted (drag released on unselected data) where you  
release the mouse button.

The inability of the Text object to do discontinuous text selection might  
hamper any diff panel (unless you wouldn't mind doing each different segment  
one at a time).

Lastly, the only bad idea I can forsee with different colors standing for  
different types of differences is that easily seeable B&W versions would have  
to be made for us monochrome users.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail welcome
From: shmuli@techunix.technion.ac.il (Shmuel Browns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Concurrence demo
Date: 10 Nov 92 08:31:36 GMT
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology


   I've downloaded the Concurrence demo and sample programs from sonata but
when I run it, within seconds of clicking on OK in response to the 
demo/register dialog, the program quits. Is the copy bad or am I doing
something wrong? Has anyone got it to work?? I'd really like to demo the
program.
     Thanks,
        Shmuel
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