HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
Organization: The Smelly Ditch
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 22:03:16 GMT

[A bunch of people complaining about how slow the DOS
floppy access is under various unices.]

I don't use a NeXT and have never tried to do any DOS file
manipulation with one.  I do use a 386 running SVR4.
DOS access of the floppy drive is incredibly slow as well.
However, I know why and perhaps can help anyone
else trying to do the same on their machines.

Under SVR4, the various ``dosdir'',``doscp'', and
other dos* utilities read and write the floppy in
512 byte chunks.  Each DOS sector is 512 bytes, so
this would seem like a logical way to do it.  But
it is very slow.  By using dd with large buffer sizes
I've been able to get very fast floppy access.

For example:

	dd bs=1474560 if=/dev/rdsk/f0 of=/tmp/dos_disk

Copies the entire 1.44 floppy disk to a file in /tmp
in less than a minute.  If the DOS utilities in NeXTOS
can be told to treat a file as a DOS disk, then feeding
them ``/tmp/dos_disk'' will make them much faster.
Of course when you are done working with the disk, you'll
need to put it physically back on the floppy disk with
a command like:

	dd bs=1474560 if=/tmp/dos_disk of=/dev/rdsk/f0

Which will put it back on the floppy.

Now, I'm pretty sure that ``/dev/rdsk/f0'' does not correspond
to the floppy disk on a NeXT.  I don't know what the proper
device filename is, but with a little looking you should be able
to figure it out yourself.

I also expect that this method will work on any unix machine
that has slow DOS access.

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``written by a drunken insane pathological liar''        guru@stasi.bradley.edu
From: reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Checking disk space from terminal window
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:51:19 GMT
Organization: SPS

In article <1992Jul29.215806.23801@nmsu.edu> rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu  
(Joseph Good) writes:
> 
> Is there a way to see how much space is left on the hard disk and  
not use the  
> workspace?  I'm wanting to check it on a remote machine (i.e. the  
printer  
> server) and that is in another room... and most of the time,  
somebody else is  
> on.
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> --
> 
> 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)

The unix command du does what you want.
--
-----------------------------------
Tim Reed
Motorola Inc.
Prism CIM System Admin.
reed@prism.sps.mot.com
-----------------------------------
From: sowa@netcom.com (Erik Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: USDebtWatch submitted to purdue archive
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:08:36 GMT
Organization: Wahoo 5


I have uploaded my program USDebtWatch to
sonata.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/submissions. A description follows:

USDebtWatch
FreeWare Version 0.1 (92.07.23)

Algorithm:
USDebtWatch displays an estimate of the national debt of the United
States of America. The estimate is updated at a regular interval
specified by the user. Debt computation routines are taken from Jamie
Zawinski's xdebt. The debt estimate is derived from the 1989 Survey of
Current Business (SCB '89). It assumes a starting figure of
$2,707,284,000,000 as of December 31, 1988, with a linear rate of
increase of $7673.015 per second. Although the result looks horrifying
enough as is, it is certainly an obsolete underestimate. If you know of
a more recent and/or accurate algorithm for estimating the national
debt, please send me email. I used a FormCell, so it would be easy to
upgrade the program to simultaneously display the results of more than
one estimate.

Icon:

The icon is intended to depict Lady Liberty being crushed by the burden
of a heavy debt portfolio. I am not an artist; otherwise, I would have
done a better job.

NeXTSTEP Notes:

Interface by Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com). USDebtWatch is an old FORTRAN
hacker's first publicly-released NeXTSTEP program! Preferences are
stored in the defaults database.

--
Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
-- 
Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
From: mgrdla@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (David L. Allabaugh, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Preferences - UNIX setup
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:33:10 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology


In article <1992Jul27.213926.7386@pencom.com> alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)  
writes:
> Public Sound Server -- allows/prohibits others from sending sounds over  
the  
> network to your speaker
> + allows you to create "haunted house effect" (hey, where's the music  
coming  
> from?)
> - I don't know of any
Setting yourself to be a Public Sound Server also allows the microphone on  
the machine you are using to be accessed by someone else.  This can (yes  
I've seen it done) be used to listen to the environment around a machine  
without the knowlege of the person on that machine.  That is a definite  
security risk.  Would you want all of what was said in your office to be  
heard by person X on your local network?  If not, then don't set yourself  
to be a public sound server.
					Dave Allabaugh
					Asst. Unix Mgr.
					Rose-Hulman Inst. Tech.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: nextc.Princeton.EDU!mdd (Mark D. Doyle)
Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (and InstantTeX demo warning)
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Reply-To: mdd@nextc.princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:00:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.185459.11141@socrates.umd.edu>  
fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) writes:
> I agree with Sherwood's (and Jess') complaint of the "two-minute demo".  
Here's
> another current data point.
> 
> Flame on--
> 
> InstantTeX also supports the two-minute demo movement. (Who thought this  
up
> anyway--I can't even load TeX and type \relax in two minutes!-) 

I complained about this yesterday on c.s.n.software. The author has since  
put a 10 minute version of the demo on the archives. It gives a much  
better idea of the program. For other physicists out there, it has some  
nice things related to harvmac and phyzxx. As for using the old TeXView,  
this will be updated when 3.0 comes out apparently. The demo is probably  
worth a second look. 

Mark Doyle
mdd@nextc.princeton.edu
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Swapfile Question
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:07:20 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1992Jul16.195458.8181@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
>	I agree that it would be nice if mach implemented some form of garbage  
>collection so that the swapfile would shrink dynamically.    But it's really no  
>worse than what the other unices do.

Also, at the risk of finding out the NeXT can do this, no Unix I have
seen can shrink a file.  You can truncate them to zero, but as
desirable as it would be, you can't seem to free part of a file.  On the
surface this would seem to be a simple thing to do so maybe somebody
does it, but I haven't seen it.

-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA         rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us         412-471-5320
venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail]  !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie)
Subject: Presto (was Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers)
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 08:58:14 GMT

In article <1634@heurikon.heurikon.com> gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) writes:
>I've personally been pleased with the way that Ralph Z. at Pinnacle
>has managed to get updates for Presto out by using a registration
>"key" which allows us to download the demos via ftp and then use
>the key to turn them into completely functional programs. I think that
>he's done his firm a real credit by putting an almost completely 
>functional program into the hands of potential customers *AND* getting
>updates to us out in the field in a timely way.

Not to mention that Presto is a really great program.  Even if you're
not into MIDI *at all*, I highly recommend checking out what this
app can do.  The user interface is top notch -- definitely NeXTSTEP
through and through.

Even if you're a casual user who occasionally fires up ScorePlayer
to play the stuff in /NextLibrary/Music, Presto is a must-have.

Stuart (just an impressed user)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (and InstantTeX demo warning)
Summary: Flame on: InstantTeX demo warning
Keywords: Demos, InstantTeX
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:54:59 GMT

I agree with Sherwood's (and Jess') complaint of the "two-minute demo". Here's
another current data point.

Flame on--

InstantTeX also supports the two-minute demo movement. (Who thought this up
anyway--I can't even load TeX and type \relax in two minutes!-) I am (was?)
really interested in this product since I work a lot with TeX, but how much
TeXing can you do in two minutes. Look at its Preference panel--it should 
take awhile just to figure all the options there (from what little I got to 
see, it did look interesting.)

Now for the good part--I clicked on help and InstantTeX passes its help(.dvi)
file to TeXView (NOTE: It installs its own Beta version(2.1) of TeXview!!!)
which in my rush I decided to print out. DO NOT DO THIS!!!! Since I didn't 
notice that the "Custom Resolution" switch was ON (The InstantTeX version
of TeXview came this way, I checked)
my NeXT began generating fonts at 1270 dpi (also using up about 10 M of
needed space in the process.)

Fixes--(1) Make sure the CR switch is off,

OR     (2) Don't use the TeXview supplied by InstantTeX

OR     (3) Forget about the InstantTeX demo so you won't waste the 
	   ENTIRE F****** afternoon for a two minute demo!!!!!!!

Flame off (but temper still up).

Charlie



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From: Moose@nosc.NOSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT to ship128MB EO's as replacements for 3.5" drives--Nice thought?
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:17:10 GMT
Reply-To: moose@moose.nosc.mil
Distribution: comp.sys.next.misc

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).

I think that this would be a bold and wonderful move.  I just wish that  
some dear company would really mass market those drives.  I am  
sure that they could put one of these in every machine at a more  
affordable rate and set a new standard.  I would definitely run out and  
buy one if it were priced in the a more reasonable range. (Around 650  
would be fair.)  I have seen the inner workings, and there is not $1500  
worth of hardware there.  

The drives are really small, and are getting faster and achieving  
higher format capacities.  In the 17 Jul MacWeek, there is an add for  
a higher capacity 256 drive(not done with compression either).   
NeXT's dream to use the EO technology failed because the drives  
were too slow.  3.5" EO's could really set a new standard and  
revitalize that earlier "vision thing" NeXT started.  I wish that NeXT  
would embrace this idea and put that technology to work in the NeXT  
community.  They are creating new standards in every other facet of  
the computing environment.  Why don't they jump on this one.  Have  
users purchase a 3.5 DOS/MAC floppy as an external.  If they have  
to have that.  At $49.00/128MB's there would be a lot of happy users. 

-Anyway it is just an idea........
Moose
NeXTMail > moose@moose.nosc.mil

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Gianfranco Pocecai)
Subject: Keith Ohlfs e-mail address
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:34:38 GMT

Hi everybody,
I need urgently to contact Keith Ohlfs!!
Anybody can give me its e-mail address???
Thank you very much

Please reply by e-mail

Gianfranco

--
Gianfranco Pocecai
Coordinator of "NeXT2You" The Italian NeXT User Group
University of Milano - Computer Science Department
Via Comelico, 39/41
20135 Milano - Italy
E-mail : gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Subject: Re: 3.0 right to use license without CD?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:32:32 EDT
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reply-To: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul27.212329.481@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon  
Van Huizen) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.174854.6556@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> tom@cse.fau.edu  
>(Tom Horton) writes:
>> Does anyone know if NeXT plans to offer a right-to-use license/upgrade  
>> *without* the CD for less money than buying 3.0 on CD?   This would  
>benefit  
>> sites with more than one machine, and folks with personal machines and  
>access  
>> to a CD-drive and CD at work.   If so, does anyone know the list price?
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>> --
>> 
>I've heard of no plans to do this. The cost of duplicating and  
>distributing a CD-ROM are so low (they come "free" in periodicals now)  
>that I can't imagine that it would significantly affect the upgrade cost  
>anyway. Seems $295 isn't a bad price for the license itself.
>
>Gordon
>-- 
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Gordon Van Huizen           vox: 619.488.9411  fax: 619.488.3045
>Metrosoft                   gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome]
>----------------------------------------------------------------

I don't think I am divulging any secrets here (I hope not), but
I heard that NeXT will offer a right-to-use license with no media
for $99 (educational?!!?)
--
Wassim M. Jabi                            (313) 936-0229
Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard  Ann Arbor  Michigan 48105-2313
wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu             NeXTMail-friendly
From: cap+@cmu.edu (Chris Paris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: How to get an emacs META key?
Date: 24 Jul 92 05:01:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8ePzwXX0_ek1Q6BE48
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1992Jul22.102713.863@glocke.hotb.sub.org>  
frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas) writes:
> In article <35747@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mclegg@cs.ucsd.edu (Matthew Clegg)  
> writes:
> > I'm curious if there is a (relatively easy) way to cause emacs to
> > identify the "Alternate" key on the keyboard with its concept of the
> > "META" key.  For example, I would like to be able to press the
> > keystroke combination "Alternate-<" to go to the beginning of the file
> > instead of the usual "ESC-<".  Any advice or pointers along these
> > lines would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > -- 
> Get Emacs2.0 which is a frontend for your emacs. I think i found it on
> cs.orst.edu or {nova,sonata}.cc.purdue.edu. Emacs2.0 uses ALT as META,
> you can use the mouse to set the cusor to any point, and you can use
> CMD-{X,C,V,Z} to do what you expcet from it. 
> My problem is, that this is not of much use in Germany where we have to
> type eg 'ALT-8' to get '['.

Getting Emacs is the best way to go, but you can also get the meta key to  
work in your shell windows by placing the following line into your .emacs  
file.

(setq-default meta-flag t)

--
Chris Paris
cap+@cmu.edu (NeXT mail)
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: EXACT locations of files on archives (was Re: Palletes and PD Objects.)
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:38:37 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.090712.25012@metropolis.com> robert@metropolis.com  
(Robert Munyer) writes in response to me:
> > Some submitters (especially of demos) will submit a new
> > version with the same revision number as the last one. 
> Arg!

(Agreed.  Completely.)

ab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel)
Subject: Re: Amiga (DOS) emulator
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:46:40 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

In article <54889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
|> 
|> You probably could make the NeXT drive do the trick.  An
|> MS-DOS DD disk is 80 cylinders, 9 sectors per.  An Amiga
|> disk is 80 cylinders and 11 sectors per.  If you can coax the
|> drive into doing that, you'd just have to implement the
|> filesystem, which shouldn't be much harder than the
|> MS-DOS one was.
|> 
|> (An Amiga drive can do either as well as more bizarre
|> stuff.)
|> 
Yeah, an Amiga drive can do very many tricks, especially using a non MFM coding
sceme - it's Commodore's own GCR format. So you won't be able to even read
a single sector with a 'standard' disc controller.

Uli
From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:47:39 GMT
Reply-To: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Organization: Heurikon Corporation, Madison, WI

I've personally been pleased with the way that Ralph Z. at Pinnacle
has managed to get updates for Presto out by using a registration
"key" which allows us to download the demos via ftp and then use
the key to turn them into completely functional programs. I think that
he's done his firm a real credit by putting an almost completely 
functional program into the hands of potential customers *AND* getting
updates to us out in the field in a timely way.
--
All the more beautiful in the concert hall with people in their fine clothes and
yourself in the same place as the original music. The rest, I imagine, must be 
like the sound of a radio orchestra in the 1940s, Europe fiddling beneath the 
darkness and abandoned capital cities leaning into the sound as it becomes noise
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: nextc.Princeton.EDU!mdd (Mark D. Doyle)
Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (and InstantTeX demo warning)
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Reply-To: mdd@nextc.princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:02:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.185459.11141@socrates.umd.edu>  
fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) writes:
> I agree with Sherwood's (and Jess') complaint of the "two-minute demo".  
Here's
> another current data point.
> 
> Flame on--
> 
> InstantTeX also supports the two-minute demo movement. (Who thought this  
up
> anyway--I can't even load TeX and type \relax in two minutes!-) 

I complained about this yesterday on c.s.n.software. The author has since  
put a 10 minute version of the demo on the archives. It gives a much  
better idea of the program. For other physicists out there, it has some  
nice things related to harvmac and phyzxx. As for using the old TeXView,  
this will be updated when 3.0 comes out apparently. The demo is probably  
worth a second look. 

Mark Doyle
mdd@nextc.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
Subject: CyberMan
Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:11:37 GMT


There's a great bit of shareware called CyberMan in the submissions directory of the nova archive site.  Neat Icon, neat product for automating input to NeXTSTEP applications.  No I didn't write it, it's by David Griffiths of Primitive Software Ltd.

David.

P.S. whatever happened to Jack Reynolds ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: alex@fff.chem.utah.edu (Alex Dommasch)
Subject: Re: Librarian problem:  can't create index for Unix man pages - SOLVED!
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 16:36:22 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.171720.28736@fcom.cc.utah.edu> alex@fff.chem.utah.edu  
(Alex Dommasch) writes:
> The subject line says it all.  I accidently deleted the index for the Unix  
man  
> pages in Librarian.  When press the "Create Index" button, it chugs for a few  
> seconds, the button changes to "Update Index" for an instant (like it had  
> created the index), then it changes back to "Create Index".  What's going on?
> 
> Just for the heck of it, I deleted the index on the NeXTUser reference, and  
> successfully recreated it.  The only problem is with the Unix man pages.
> 
Thanks for all the suggestions.

Several people suggested I check permissions on the files and directories  
involved.  I did - no problems there.

One person suggested I delete the carriage return on the end of the  
ixBuildOptions file.  I tried that - no dice.

One person said he had the same problem, and he suspected a bug in Librarian.   
I took his advice, and ran ixBuild with the options listed in the  
ixBuildOptions file.  Worked like a charm.  Thanks for the advice.

If this is a bug (and it certainly seems to be one), I hope it is fixed in 3.0!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Pascal Gaudette)
Subject: NeXTDimension mailing list hiccups
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:30:30 GMT


A quick request: when you subscribe to a mailing list,
PLEASE make sure that the From field in your mail
message is legal. This is what the list server uses as
your address, so if it's not legal, you'll never receive
anything from the list.

The following people have subscribed to the NeXTDimension
mailing list (dimension@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca) with
apparently illegal addresses:

- Charles L. Perkins
- Debora Dunphy
- Larry Gadallah
- Cheung Auyeung
- Robert Patrick Thille

If you are one of the above, please get in touch with me
to give me your (real) e-mail address.


Reminder:
To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message to

listserv@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca

with the following one line body:

subscribe dimension <your full name>

For example, I would send a message saying
subscribe dimension Pascal Gaudette

Later,
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MacNUG president                      | *NeXTmail encouraged* 
graduate student, McMaster university | I am not infallible.
Physics and astronomy dep.            | These are just my opinions.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kelly Thompson)
Subject: Font Help
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 00:46:05 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

Up until now, I've made sure that I used fonts that my printer had. Now
I have a document that has to be printed on Tuesday and there are quite
a few fonts that need to be downloaded. How do I do this? A search with
digital librarian came up with one selection in the FAQ:

There are utilities on the NeXT to download fonts into postscript printers.

That's good, now what the heck are they?

The printer is an Agfa Compugraphic, and I usually just save to disk and
then take it over on a PC disk. So how do I get the fonts sent along with 
it? Or does it do it automatically?

Help!!!

E-mail me please (NeXTmail fine).

Kelly
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel)
Subject: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:52:45 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

In article <ceQ1mSW00WBO42C1sh@andrew.cmu.edu>, mk46+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew E. Kowalczyk) writes:
|> 
|> This is a squash file. You will need "Squash.app" to decompress it. This
|> however is not, unfortunately, a public domain program, so you will have
|> to find someone who has Squash to help you out.
|> 
There is a public domain version that can unsquash such files, called UnSquash
or something like that.

Uli