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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Login Tiff
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 11:53:38 GMT


Well, here I sit, head hung in shame.

Spurred on by the news emailed from at least three sources
that dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path_to_file> *does* work,
I discover that in each of my previous trials, I must have
screwed up, for (tra-la!) it certainly works now.  I guess
that because the path is really quite long in my case (eight
levels down from root, about 70 characters), I must have
had a typo that my eye/brain corrected.

There's a lesson to be drawn, naturally, from the Zen of
computing. :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gumby@cygnus.com (D V Henkel-Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: downloading fonts to printer?
Date: 23 Dec 92 07:47:21
Organization: /0h/users/gumby/.organization
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How can I print using fonts not in my postscript printer?

I have a QMS 810.  My NeXT knows about it (it has an entry for it).
But if I try to print a document that uses a font not in the printer,
the printer uses Courier in place of the unknown font.  How do I tell
the system that it needs to download certain fonts to the printer
before they can be used?

Thanks,
d
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From: tsui@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (yufeng tsui)
Subject: Re: Has anyone found a way to fax from the command line?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:08:33 GMT

In article <62956@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>Has anyone found a way to fax from the command line?
>I've seen several people ask & no one answer - so I assume the answer is no.
>It probably wouldnt be such a hard custom app.
>-- 
>---------------------------------------------------
>Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu   NeXT mail accepted
Make suer the file is postscript (if it is not, use enscript and turn
it into a postscript file).
Use lpr and specify the phone number and the name using comment like:
%%NXFaxNumber: 9,1-800-234-5678
%%NXFaxTo: me
%%NXFaxNotify: YES
%%NXFaxHires: YES

It seems to work under both 3.0 and 2.x.
Anyone want to give us a shell script?

My question is, how do I specify to send a fax at 11:00pm through
command line under 3.0?  Thanks.

--yufeng

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From: hal@niftyneato.com(Hal Fox-Palmer)
Subject: Re: CDRom drives/3.0 from NeXT
Organization: Hal's phony Co.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:44:56 GMT

In article <dillon.0t3u@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>  
dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>     I kinda expected when I bought this package deal from NeXT that they
>     would ship everything necessary to get the thing up and running, but
>     when my CD-Rom finally arrived I found that it did not contain a  
SCSI
>     cable or terminator!  Now I have to wait another few days to get the
>     proper cable.
> 
>     Since no one has complained about it on the Net I feel as though I
>     missed something... were people expecting to have to buy the cabling
>     necessary to get the CD-Rom drive working as a separate item?  I was
>     expecting, it being bundled by NeXT and extremely useful (NOT!)  
without
>     a means to connect it to the slab, that the cabling would come with  
it.
> 
>     Post to the net please, this is just a casual query.
> 
> 					    -Matt

Yes I agree it would have been the "right" thing for NeXT to include the  
scsi cable & term. BUT all product literature about the CD-Rom even  
including the dealer price list all state you need scsi cable & term. So  
possibly the person you ordered it from forgot to tell you. Also the Apple  
CD-Rom which is the same Sony product comes packaged the SAME way, no scsi  
cable no term.

On a side note about the NeXT CD-Rom:
Apple sells the Sony CD-Rom, The old model is called the 150, the new one  
is called the 300. From what I understand the big differance is the 150  
does single session photo-CD and the 300 does multi session photo-CD.  
After looking at the Sony part # my guess is the latest batch of CD-Roms  
NeXT just shipped are in fact the same ones Apple is using in the CD-300  
which means they should surport multi session photo-CD (the part #s were  
not the same but were very close to each other but not close to the  
CD-150)

What has anyone else found ouyt ?

Hal

hal@niftyneato.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: rob@hobbes.cuc.ab.CA (Rob Parkhill)
Subject: Re: heard anything about SoftPC
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:49:27 GMT

gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.123714.18331@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu 

>(Joe Rosenfeld) writes:
>
>>
>> This is all very interesting, but does anyone know what improvements we can
>> expect to see in SoftPC 3.0?  I, for one, would like to see improved
>> networking support for Novell.  One cannot run any of the NetWare utilities,
>> such as syscon from SoftPC 2.0.
>>
>> If anyone knows, please tell us all!
>>
>
>The main features are Windows and VGA graphics, I don't know about Novell,
>but my understanding is that NeXTstep 3.0 supports Novell already.
>If you want to find out more call Insignia at 800-848-7677

Does anyone know if this is like the new version on the Mac that INCLUDES
Windoze 3.1.0.6.5.2.4.Whatever in the price?  If so, then $249 isn't as bad as
I thought for the upgrade (still a bit steep for me though! :-)
Now if only I could play all of those great PC games with it...

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From: lemson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: CDPlayer.app v1.0- How do I make this thing work?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:06:15 GMT

alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes:

>I finally got my NeXT CD Rom. But for some reason no sounds come out of the  
>speaker, seems to work with headphones. Is this the only way to play CD's or can  
>I listen to them through the computer speaker?

You can buy a stereo phono->1/8" jack cable and plug it into your
sound box/monitor microphone input.  Then, use some sort of sound
app to play the current input. (I'm not sure what's the best to do this
without recording the sound too)
Of course, you can buy amplified speakers, too.  They're very
available, now that sound cards are commonplace for PC's and
everyone needs magnetic shielded speakers for the sides of their
monitors.

 The sound data can't travel over the SCSI interface to your computer.  
Very few CD-ROM drives have this capability (the SGI unit is the only 
one I know of). (Well, actually, it's in the drive BIOS, 
but Dave Olsen (sp?) will come in and correct me if I'm wrong :-)
-- 
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From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: Old old Cube needs an upgrade...
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:58:22 GMT

In article <1hs0e4INNiu5@agate.berkeley.edu> slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu  
(Shelley Louie) writes:
> We've got an old, old '20 cube running (cough) NS 1.0 and want to 

Oh yeah, well I've got an old '00 cube running NS -0.3 and.... ;-)

--
Nathan Janette
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu

Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: ScenePatch.app
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 05:48:48 GMT


ScenePatch.app.compressed is listed at sonata with length 0
and a completely screwy timestamp; clearly the upload did
not work.  I think the server is hosed; I had trouble there
the other day.  My guess is the maintainer is away at the
moment and not minding the store.

If you have it and will mail it to me, I will put it up on
my machine so people can get it.

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From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Looking for Floor Plan Drawing software
Organization: Cleveland State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:44:34 GMT

[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.software ]
[ Author was Joe Rosenfeld (cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu) ]
[ Posted on Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:40:53 GMT ]

Hello.  I am interested in finding any software that exists for use with
NeXTStep (3.0) that is either floor-plan drawing software or CAD software,
which performs the floor-plan drawing tasks.  I would prefer
non-commercial, if any, but we are also interested in commercial software
variants, if any.

Appreciate any responses.  Please feel free to email me at:
cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu.

Thanks,
Cowboy


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From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Compiling bash on NeXT
Date: 24 Dec 1992 05:28:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <1992Dec23.225958.21247@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:
>I have just attempted to compile bash 1.12 on a NS3.0 TC station. All the
>modules compiled, but the linker spat out:
>
>   /bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
>   _ulimit
>   *** Exit 1
>
>I'd appreciate any help and if there are other problems I should be
>watching for, I wouldn't mind being forwarned.

Add -DHAVE_RESOURCE to the definition of SYSDEP_CFLAGS or add
#define HAVE_RESOURCE in the NeXT entry in machines.h.
-- 
``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
	-- Arthur Schlesinger

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: pkim@cory.Berkeley.EDU (-)
Subject: Re: Get one more free dock entry under 3.0
Keywords: dread dwrite Workspace DockPaths
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:32:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.160202.6283@almserv.uucp> bnixon@fnma.com (Bill Nixon) writes:
>Ever need just one more free entry on your NeXTSTEP dock.
>Well, here's one way to do it.  I have only done this under
>3.0, so I am not sure if it will work on older versions.
>
>The trick is to move the Recycler icon off the dock.  Here's
>how:
>
>1. Open a terminal session and type "dread -n DockPaths" at
>the command line.
>
>This will return the current entries on your dock.  Mine
>looks like this:
>
>Workspace DockPaths "Workspace Manager;/NextApps/Preferences.app;
>/NextApps/Mail.app;/NextApps/Librarian.app;/NextApps/Edit.app; ;
>/NextDeveloper/Apps/ProjectBuilder.app;
>/NextDeveloper/Apps/InterfaceBuilder.app;
>/NextApps/Terminal.app; ; ; ;Recycler"
>
>(NOTE:  the above will appear as one line, I added newlines
>so the various news reader don't complain.)
>
>2. Write out a new DockPaths entry without the Recycler
>entry.
>
>dwrite Workspace DockPaths "Workspace Manager;/NextApps/Preferences.app;
>/NextApps/Mail.app;/NextApps/Librarian.app;/NextApps/Edit.app; ;
>/NextDeveloper/Apps/ProjectBuilder.app;
>/NextDeveloper/Apps/InterfaceBuilder.app;
>/NextApps/Terminal.app; ; ; ; "
>
>(NOTE:  the above will appear as one line, I added newlines
>so the various news reader don't complain.)

an easier (and safer) way to do this is to just command-drag the recycler
from the dock.

>3. Logout and login again.  You should have a blank entry
>at the bottom of you dock and the Recycler icon will show
>up at the bottom rightmost corner just like any normal
>application icon.

the recycler shows up at the bottom left (which is what i think you meant).

>4. I did the same thing with the Workspace Manager entry
>and "it just worked".  I got a free entry at the top of my dock.
>But I didn't get a File Viewer and couldn't log out since I
>couldn't get to the Workspace menu.  Therefore I would NOT
>recommend this.
>
>5. Note that this is not supported by me, FannieMae or NeXT.
>If you screw things up, it's all your fault...
>
>Bill
>-- 
>bnixon@fnma.com or ...!uunet!fnma.com!bnixon (NeXT Mail Okay)
>Bill Nixon, Senior Programmer Analyst, Advanced Technology, 2H-4S
>FannieMae, 3900 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 22016  (202) 752-5468

paul kim
mtcoak!paul@netcom.com (NeXTmail OK)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jr@sade.ka.sub.org (Jochen Richter)
Subject: tcsh: man shows exit (1)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:05:59 GMT
Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn

Hi,

in my configuration of tcsh typing man always shows exit (1) at the end.
Can this be avoided.

Jochen

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: ed@talus.com
Subject: Emacs
Keywords: Emacs - 3.0 - Default App
Reply-To: ed@talus.com
Organization: Talus Corporation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:11:44 GMT


Hello there, 

	sorry to pollute but I've missed the post few months ago about making  
Emacs front-end the default appplication to be oppened for Text/Sources files.  
Could someone send me instruction on how to do that ? Also can I use the mouse  
in Emacs too ?

	I currently have Emacs 2.1

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but of the best shots.   
		 

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From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:24:19 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Dec23.032924.9696@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
> In article <1h7gl4INNeeo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
> 
> ># dwrite loginwindow ImageFile fullPathForNewLoginPanelTiff
> 
> >Then restart the window server as Jess described.
> 
> Naturally I tried that.  Doesn't work, at least not for me.
> I'd like confirmation that it *does* work under 3.0, for
> someone.  Standard-issue 3.0, off the CD-ROM.  Needless to
> say, I've checked *very* carefully that the dwrite was set
> as Art (and others) have mentioned.
> 

Aside from needing to do this from root, be sure to restart the  
loginwindow.app, which as someone informed me by email can be done most  
easily by putting "exit" as the username, and a blank password.  Of  
course, rebooting the whole machine will work too, I guess. :)

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: mph@percival.fokus.gmd.de (Michael Hoeft)
Subject: fantasy style login image
Organization: GMD-Fokus
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:35:50 GMT

Yet another login image....

For those who like fantasy images I have downloaded a fantasy style NeXT  
login image to sonata.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.15.30). It's placed in
/pub/next/submissions and the filename is fantasy.login.tiff.Z (570 kB).

It's a compressed 24 bit tiff, it's also nice on 12 bit displays, but I  
don't like it on 2 bit displays.

Enjoy.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: The Future of Next, Inc.
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 01:53:05 GMT

Hi everyone.

This is my "anniversary" post since about 1 year ago, I posted an
article pointing out that Mr. Job's announcement of a public stock
offering was really an attempt to raise the value of the stock so that
those with a vested interest could unload all their (eventually
worthless) stock.  I also pointed out that if Mr. Jobs were smart,
he would switch the central processor in upcoming Next machines to
a SPARC chip and would switch manufacturing facilities to someplace
like Thailand.  (By "smart", I mean, "wanting a company that is
profitable.)

Well, I was laughed off this place.  True, I did err about the stock
announcement; Mr. Jobs did announce that the company _would_ go public
but _had_ not yet gone public at the time.  (I erroneously thought that
he had already gone public.)  Several people pointed out--huffy and puffy
--that Next was doing fabulously well and should not switch to a SPARC
chip and that moving manufacturing facilities to Thailand wouldn't
help a bit.

Think again.

I just read the status of Next, Inc. in the latest issue of the
Economist.  The line in the 1st paragraph reads, approximately,

         "Next, Inc. has yet to turn a profit".

At the end of the article, it notes that a high-ranked official had
jumped ship and moved to Sun Microsystems.  Mr. Job laments that
Sun may yet crush the daylights out of his company.

So, if Mr. Jobs is reading this, I wish him well and again offer the same
advice.  Keep R & D in the USA but move _all_ manufacturing facilities
to Thailand.  For crying out loud, use the Matsushita-designed 64-bit
SPARC chip.  So, what do you care if people laugh because you chose
the SPARC chip?  You will earn enough money to _burn_.

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From: grio@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Daniel L Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: WriteNow mail merge
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:39:08 GMT
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Makemail: v1.4pdist
Mime-Version: 1.0
Dmail: v0.9n



Does anyone have any documentation on WriteNow's mail merge?
I'm using any old 2.0 version under 3.0.


Thanks.
			--Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 10:16:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.224618.13182@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:

>Remind me how to replace the system login image with new ones. (NS 3.0)

As root:

cd /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj

If you've never changed your login panel tiff before, save
the original (which is just good system administration, eh?):

mv nextlogin.tiff nextlogin.tiff.orig

Then put your new tiff in its place:

cp -p <yourpath/yourimage.tiff> nextlogin.tiff

If English isn't your local language, your *.lproj directory
will be appropriately different, of course.

Then log out, and type exit<return> as the login name; that
restarts the Window Server, bringing up the new login panel.
Woe to you if you've misspelled the name nextlogin.tiff, so
be careful.  

Within NeXTstep, logged on as root, you can open
loginwindow.app with command-O, similarly
<local_language.lproj>, rename the old file, and drag in a
copy of the new one.  

I've been designing a big batch of new login panel tiffs and
am about to release them to the world (I wasn't sure of the
world was all that interested), so I've done this a lot
lately.

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