HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: disabling keyboard equivalents?
Date: 26 Jul 92 11:17:16 GMT
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University

In article <1992Jul26.003628.5481@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
	rob@shw.optics.rochester.edu (Rob Smith) writes:
>	Is it possible to disable Terminal's Command-q quiting, or, put more
>generally, to override the keyboard equivalents in an application for which you
>don't have the sorce code. Of late I have been pocessed by demons and keep
>quiting out of Terminal, in the middle of things.

Try this:

	dwrite Terminal NXCommandKeys Quit,Q

then you'll need Shift+Command+Q to blow away Terminal.  (Note
that this won't take effect until the next time you launch
the application.)

					-=EPS=-
From: andrew@wire.ogi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: My Absence (or Why Andrew Was Being So Rude)
Date: 19 Jul 92 03:18:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: wire.1992Jul19.031821.4483
Organization: or lack thereof


Well, a virtual Comedy of Errors has caused my uucp link to be
down for over a week now (with the exception of about half a day).
If anyone had tried to get in touch with me and mail bounced or
I maliciously ignored it, please try again.  (Hope I didn't miss
any real important news!)

I must note at this point that part of my problems were due to me
messing about with my hard drive, and I find that I backed up up the
wrong version of the uucp setup document I have been working on.
Therefore, I'm hoping someone to whom I sent the RTF version of
setup.NeXT.uucp.0.1.1 could send it back to me.  Preferably, just
send me mail letting me know you're willing to send the document to
me, so I won't get 20 copies of the document.  Thanks, and my
apologies for allowing this to happen.

--
andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (NeXTmail gleefully accepted)
I'll deny I ever said it
-- 
andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (NeXTmail gleefully accepted)
From: ssietz@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Steven Sietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs app as default editor
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:28:59 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I have been in contact with J.G. Gregory (author of Emacs 2.1.app) and
have resolved the default editor issue.  It turns out that the dwrite
command must indicate strictly "Emacs" and not /LocalApps/Useful/Emacs
like I had originally done.  The app has to be in /LocalApps.

Now, might there be a way to launch the app to run in RMAIL mode (i.e.
emacs -f rmail)?

		-Steve-
-- 
Steven Sietz	        |  Internet:  ssietz@cs.rutgers.edu
77A West Bluebell Lane  |  uucp:      {backbone}!rutgers!cs.rutgers.edu!ssietz
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054  |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: farach@dickens.rutgers.edu (Martin Farach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Emacs 2.1 FAQ?
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:56:44 GMT
Organization: /climax/u2/farach/.organization

This may be an FAQ, but when I lauch Emacs 2.1, it gives me the error
message:

Unknown host "vixen"

vixen being the name of my machine.

I remember people mentioning this a long time ago but I don't remember
the fix.

Can anyone help?

Martin Farach

--
Martin Farach			farach@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: marcel@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:09:21 GMT

dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>Uli
>
>    Even though the Amiga's controller can stuff raw bits, the Amiga uses a
>    standard MFM encoding.  The difference is that the Amiga reads and
>    writes whole tracks at a time and therefore needs no gaps between
>    sectors, thus getting 11 sectors/track instead of 9.
>
>					    -Matt
>

Yes, that's what it _usually_ does (its native format).  But if you look
at the tech docs, you'll see that it can also do group code, a fact
used to great advantage by Mac Emulators (with some additional hardware
to do the disc speed.)  I never tried it out myself, but I would have
loved to do a Apple DOS 3.3 compatible file system in 68K Assembler :-)

Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu (Joseph Good)
Subject: running Popi.app from sonata.cc.purdue
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:42:21 GMT


popi (digital darkroom) from sonata.cc.purdue.edu

Has anybody been able to 'make' this file yet?
I tried, and it didn't work.. too bad.

Here's what it said before it quit...

/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _scalb
/usr/lib/libm.a(support.o) definition of _scalb in section (__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(support.o) definition of absolute _scalb (value 0x5003794)
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _copysign
/usr/lib/libm.a(support.o) definition of _copysign in section (__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(support.o) definition of absolute _copysign (value 0x5003710)
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _logb
/usr/lib/libm.a(support.o) definition of _logb in section (__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(support.o) definition of absolute _logb (value 0x5003782)
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _finite
/usr/lib/libm.a(support.o) definition of _finite in section (__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(support.o) definition of absolute _finite (value 0x5003740)
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _drem
/usr/lib/libm.a(support.o) definition of _drem in section (__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(support.o) definition of absolute _drem (value 0x5003722)
*** Exit 1
Stop.

Then.. ***blip** gone...

everything worked but the lines above...

any hints??


--

Joseph Good
+-------------------+ - More than just a band....
| Green Dot Brigade | - It's a whole damn army of dots...
+-------------------+ - And we've declared war on the 7-Up dots...

rscott@nmsu.edu (NeXT mail welcome!!)

atlantis@acca.nmsu.edu  (Just plain ol' Unix)
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Dvorak keymapping for NeXT (type at twice the speed!)
Keywords: Dvorak + vi = trouble  :-(
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:39:50 GMT

> A much better alternative is the Dvorak keyboard. This
> keyboard is considered to be at least twice as easy to
> learn, and almost twice the speed of QWERTY. 

I tried Dvorak before.  It was great.  Even with the keys
mislabeled, I managed to type well and comfortably.  Then
I tried to vi and wiped out completely.  Yeah, I know,
nobody in the NeXT universe likes vi but me, but I find it
very quick.

Has anybody worked out a set of (vi) remappings to make
this work better? 

ab
From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs app as default editor
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:13:00 GMT
Reply-To: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS, France

In article <2A70C755.3175@noiro.acs.uci.edu> cedman@714-725-3165.nts.uci.edu  
(Carl Edman) writes:
> Steven Sietz writes
> > I just installed the app yesterday.  I tried a dwrite
> > Workspace DefaultOpenApp Emacs to set it up as the
> > default editor but it didn't work properly.  After I
> > logged out and in again, I couldn't open up any of the text
> > files (not even with Edit).  Any suggestions??
> 
> Emacs does not have a openFile method. Adding it is not too hard.
> 
> 	Carl Edman

You need the last version of Emacs (2.1) that has an openFile method...
on the archives, or try spi.ens.fr in /pub/next/emacs

--
Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>

    Dipartimento di Informatica     LIENS
    Universita' di Pisa             Ecole Normale Superieure
    Corso Italia, 40                45, Rue d'Ulm
    56100 Pisa ITALY                75005 Paris FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: rc9h@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Ronald  Crozier)
Subject: USER GROUP WANTED
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:18:14 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: painless software distribution (was Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers)
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:56:05 GMT

In article <59187@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
> I called Appsoft for a student copy of WriteNow, gave them
> the credit number in the afternoon, they sent it via NeXT mail and
> I was using it that night.  A fast and painless distribution
> scheme that says money for everyone - they said its their preferred method.
> 
> Many companies will send demos that way too

The problem with that, as I'm sure you know, is that not all internet
sites want to pay for commercial traffic, which is exactly what the
transactions you described are.  Why should other people pay money
to make it easy for you to receive you private commercial purchases?

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu (Eskandar Ensafi)
Subject: Two-headed cubes & brightness control
Reply-To: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:18:11 GMT

Hi,

When you have a two-headed cube (ND & monochrome) with the color display  
attached to the ND set up as the *main* screen, do the brightness controls (on  
the keyboard & in Preferences) affect the monochrome, color or both displays?

Thanks!

- Eskandar Ensafi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
Subject: Re: Dvorak keymapping for NeXT (type at twice the speed!)
Reply-To: vhs@darkcube.radig.de
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:24:05 GMT



In article <1992Jul26.153220.24720@metropolis.com> robert@metropolis.com  
(Robert Munyer) writes:
> I would guess that the Dvorak keyboard would work well for German, because
> of similarities between German and English.  Perhaps the best idea would be
> for you to run some tests and find out for yourself.  Try this:
> 
> Try this on some German text, and let us know how it turns out ...

OK, I did. Here's the statistics

$ wc text
      53    1463    9278 text
$ homerow text sholes
hal 1
1
$ homerow text
[lotsa stuff deleted]
268

That's more than 18% of the words.
Pretty good. I think I'll go for it.

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)

If I had intel inside(tm), I'd throw up...
From: malexand@girtab.usc.edu (Michael Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: SoftPC accessing the CD ?
Date: 22 Jul 1992 15:34:44 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

Does Soft-PC work with CDs+access software supplied for DOS ?

Cheers,

**************************************************************************
*  Michael F. Alexander               University of Southern California  *
*  --------------------               Ma-Bel-Network:    (215) 573-8379  *
*  MVS:       malexan@mvsa.usc.edu    ---------------------------------  *
*  VM-Bitnet: malexand@uscvm.bitnet     "It's a window system named X,   *
*  UNIX:      malexand@chaph.usc.edu     not a system named X Window"    *
**************************************************************************
From: coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com (Brian Policky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: double .signatures
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:02:33 GMT


I have noticed on my post and others that the .signature is repeated  
twice, or in by case it is repeated twice with one line left off the  
bottom. I am using NewsGrazer 72.0. What's the deal?

While I'm at it, I noticed a newer version of NewsGrazer at one of the ftp  
sites (72.2). What is the difference between 72.0 and 72.2. Is the  
.signature thing fixed?

--
coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com  |  Life without
..szebra!spectrx!net23!coke    |  Coca-Cola
                               |  wouldn't be
NeXTMail now GLADLY accepted.  |  worth living.
-- 
coke%net23@spectrx.saigon.com  |  Life without
..szebra!spectrx!net23!coke    |  Coca-Cola
                               |  wouldn't be
From: key@blacksea.csc.com (Gerry Key)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT Date vs DOS Date
Keywords: DOS date
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:27:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA

I checked the FAQs and found nothing on this topic, but surely someone  
asked these questions before.  

I am running NeXTstep V2.2 and a 386SX PC with DOS V5.0.  

Files I create on the NeXT and saved to a DOS diskette have a correct  
date/time when viewed on the NeXT but on the PC the year is off by +70,  
the month is off by -1, and the hours are off by +7.  There's a similar  
disparity, but with opposite sign, for files created on the PC and viewed  
on the NeXT (except the NeXT shows no time values for files created on the  
PC).  

Are these known bugs?  

Is this simply a case of the PC not using the same time offsets as Unix?

Will this be fixed in NeXTstep 3.0? 

In the meantime, is there a work-around?  

--Gerry Key (key@csc.com)
Computer Sciences Corporation
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Subject: Re: Answers to InstantTeX Questions
In-reply-to: bai@iesd.auc.dk's message of 30 Jul 92 01:05:54 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA
Distribution: world,local
	<1992Jul22.144327.25408@leland.Stanford.EDU>
	<BAI.92Jul30020554@loke.iesd.auc.dk>
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:23:58 GMT

AUC-TeX v.6a has just appeared yesterday on iesd.auc.dk -- lots of nice new
features, documentation, etc. 
--
Hardy 
-----
Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET
From: murphy@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: 3.0 right to use license without CD?
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:34:00 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department


NeXT offers a right to use license.  

N5531 Software Release 3.0 Upgrade Right-To-Use License, No Media (Available
Summer 92)  License ONLY - includes NO software.  Permits the owner of 
Software Release 3.0 Upgrade on CD-ROM to upgrade ONE additional system using
a previously (or concurrently) purchased N5527.  One N5531 must be purchased
for EACH system to be upgraded.

So, in short yes it is provided, but the cost is the same.  Remember that
in quantity, the CD-ROM doesn't cost more than a dollar to produce.

Higher Educational discounts apply.

Bill Murphy               | Old Home Cottage Cheese:  The only cottage 
			  | cheese that's not made from formaldehyde, 
murphy@physics.purdue.edu | arsenic, or rodent parts.
From: bai@iesd.auc.dk (Bo Nygaard Bai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Answers to InstantTeX Questions
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:05:54 GMT
	<1992Jul22.024043.3522@arizona.edu>
	<1992Jul22.144327.25408@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University

Use auc-latex.el and emacs. Run's tex in the background and parses any
error messages pointing them out in your tex files. And lots more!!

You can get auc-latex.el from iesd.auc.dk by ftp.
--
.___ o .__ |         | Bo Nygaard Bai  | Department of Computer Science ,_//(
|__. | |   |/        |                 | University of Aalborg (AUC)   /  |  \
___| | |__ |\ nature | bai@iesd.auc.dk | DENMARK                       A  U  C
From: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: List of database names for dwrite avail?
Date: 26 Jul 92 19:54:51 GMT
Reply-To: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Organization: Institut f. Geophysik, Uni Koeln

Hello!

There are lists for Workspace and loginwindow coming along
with the new version of DefaultMgr. What I still need
is a list of the meaning of these Defaults and their possible
values.

Thanks in advance!


--- Christoph



Christoph Schittel			Internet:
Institut f. Geophysik			schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE
Universitaet Koeln                       
  F. R. G.
From: enders@plains.NoDak.edu (Todd Enders - WD0BCI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NewsGrazer and SLIP Questions...
Date: 26 Jul 92 18:06:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19363
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND


     I've been playing with NewsGrazer and Louie's SLIP package of late, and
a couple of questions have arisen:

     On SLIP: I have a Supra 2400 baud modem, and have had trouble configuring
              it to something SLIP likes.  When I bring up the link for the
              first time, SLIP dumps, saying it has lost carrier (not true).
              In fact, it does this every time if I don't set CD on in the
              modem full-time.  If anyone has any ideas on settings, I'd like
              very much to hear from you (as to why SLIP at 2400 baud, it's
              better than no network connection at all :-)!!!

     On NewsGrazer:  Does NG actually *do* anything with /usr/lib/news/active?
              It seems to make precious little difference whether the file is
              there or not, as far as coming up is concerned.  It always
              seems to check the active groups via NNTP (at 2400 baud, this
              takes a good while), and I was looking for a way to speed
              startup for the few groups (all low traffic, except for c.s.n.m)
              I've been testing NG with.

     Many many thanks to Louie for his way-cool SLIP package, and to the 
folks behind NewsGrazer for developing (and supporting) the premier NextStep
newsreader!

Todd Enders          NeXTMail: uunet!bolshoi!enders
Computer Center          ARPA: enders@plains.nodak.edu
Minot State Univ.        UUCP: uunet!plains!enders
Minot, ND 58701            or: hplabs!hp-lsd!plains!enders
                       Bitnet: enders@plains
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Subject: Y&Y/BSR Computer Modern PostScript fonts
Keywords: TeX, PostScript
Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:56:27 GMT

Has anyone installed Blue Sky Research's Computer Modern  
PostScript fonts on the NeXT?  I'm trying to install the version  
Y&Y distributes.

I create ~/Library/Fonts and put a folder cminch.font in it.
Inside cminch.font is the outline file, cminch, and cminch.afm.
I then run buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts.

The font shows up in the Font Panel, but it calls it
MINCH (drops the C) and says it is <<Unusable Font>>.

I've installed lots of other Adobe fonts using their font  
installer with no problems, but this is the first font I've  
tried to install by hand.

--
Hal.Varian@umich.edu    Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: color eps => TIFF with high resolution??
Keywords: eps, color, TIFF, PICT, file formats, image conversion
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 13:11:17 GMT

There is a miniexample on the archives called 'TIFF and EPS' which
will do what you want.  However, it will violate your licensing
agreement with NeXT to output a bitmap generated by the windowserver
to a non-PostScript output device at higher than 900 DPI.


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern      | "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
Cube Technologies, Inc. |  If I am only for myself, who am I?" -Hillel
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer question
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:06:29 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com
Distribution: na

Bennett Leeds writes
> 
> Does anyone know Newsgrazer's algorithm for the order in which postings are  
> listed in NewsFolders (not NewsGroups, for which there are menu commands)?  
It  
> doesn't appear to be alphabetical, nor by date, or even the order in which  
they  
> were copied to the folder.

Mine appear in alphabetical order, although I only have 9 of them.

--
 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California
From: mgrmdk@rose-hulman.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NewsGrazer Problem
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:58:53 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Distribution: usa

I have been having problems with POSTs in NewsGrazer all year long.  When  
I try to do More Fields or Distribution (it probably didn't work above  
either), there is an extra line inserted and then the extra fields are  
regarded as text, and not fields.  This is causing problems when we are  
trying to moderate our own posts and can't use the more fields.  Does  
anyone know of a solution to fix this or some patch somewhere?  Thanks for  
your help.


Michael D. Kohlmeier			I'm pink, therefore I'm spam!
Assistant Networking Manager
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu (Eskandar Ensafi)
Subject: Re: NeXT to ship128MB EO's as replacements for 3.5" drives--Nice thought?
Reply-To: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: comp.sys.next.misc
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 17:45:33 GMT

In article <5649@nosc.NOSC.MIL> Moose@nosc.NOSC.MIL writes:
> Does anyone invision the floppy drives that ship with NeXT's to be  
> replaced with128MB EO's(3.5")??  I know that the cost per MB is  
> cheaper than floppies, and the drives are much faster than regular  
> floppies(28ms).
> 

These drives are already available -- in black cases too -- for anyone who  
might need them.  There is no reason why NeXT should manufacture their own.

As for replacing the floppies with them, it's not a good idea.  The original  
NeXT internal optical was too expensive for software distribution, even at the  
original $50/disk price.  And most software companies don't need 128 MB of  
storage (no to mention 256 MB) to distribute software -- I mean how much clip  
art, examples, etc... do you want to stuff into Illustrator, Mathematica,  
etc...?  Unless you want to distribute an entire OS, but NeXT is using CD-ROM  
for that purpose, and CD's are smaller, lighter, more durable and hold about  
600 MB!  A 128 MB device, although faster, would fail because of these same old  
reasons:

1) Expensive media -- several 1.44 MB floppies @ $0.50 each can do the job.

2) Expensive drive -- Raises the price of a NeXTstation by at least $1000.

3) File sharing & interplatform compatibility -- everyone uses floppies.

4) Demand -- not everyone needs such a high capacity removable storage device.

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