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From: beeman@cats.ucsc.edu (Adam Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Objective-C "modem object", anyone?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 01:30:54 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu



Hi, I'm just starting to learn Objective C and NeXTStep, and was thinking that
perhaps a good first project that might teach me a lot would be to do a NeXT 
port of the BSX mud client.  Basically it's a program that draws graphics and
writes text from a remote multi-user game.  However, as I'm not directly on
the network, before I can focus on how the hell to do the graphics, I need to
find some way to communicate with my modem so that I can watch for the various
messages that are meant for the client and not the user.

This doesn't have to be all that complicated of an object, but it had occured
to me that maybe someone has already written something that might make this
whole area easier to work with, since I don't really want to know how the modem
works, etc, I just want to be able to dial, read from it, send to it, and hang
up.

If you have anything, either post it or mail it... if it's after December 17
you should probably mail it because I'll be off the net for a few weeks.

Thanks in advance (if you can help ;-))

-Adam
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From: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:32:25 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu


In regard to Peter Kocks's comments...

You are right...WP apps for NeXT are functional...that's it...what people want
is more power, a better interface, and more features...I don't want something
bloated like MS-WORD (I hate MicroSoft and hope they NEVER develop for NeXT...
NeXT is too cool a platform to be plagued by their garbage)...I personally
would something full featured and less buggy...Word Pefect has a lot features
and a lot of bugs...WriteNow has few features and few bugs...can't anyone get
it right???

-Rob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: andrew@cubetech.com
Subject: Re: Adobe Photoshop: Port that suckah' over!
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:27:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.141950.9223@chromagrafx.com> msb@chromagrafx.com writes:
>after they buy Image.  When I saw it at Seybold they had most of the features
>of Photoshop but were greatly lacking in speed and it seemed that it crawled  
>when making changes to the image.  

The new beta of Image is significantly faster than the previous ones.


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com      |  "C++'s runtime sucks shit!  Virtual functions
Andrew Loewenstern       |   can go straight to hell!"  - Ron Pomeroy
Cube Technologies, Inc.  |
From: Jim_Laredo@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Upgrading to 3.0
Date: 20 Dec 92 14:04:07 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I just bought a HD, one of those 1.23GB beasts, and I am planning to
subtitute my internal drive with it. At the same time I would like to upgrade
to 3.0. The problem is that NeXT is not hooked to the network, so I intend
to:

    1) Swap HDs
    2) Connect CD-Rom Driver
    3) Boot from floppy
    4) Format HD and Load 3.0

I have my floppy ready (I used the tar file from sonata Bootfloppy2.1 by
mike- carlton@cs.berkeley.edu) Now I just need a bit more of hints
to finish the deed!

thanks!
Jim Laredo
From: ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Gcc-2.3.2 and libg++2.3
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:36:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BzDAH5.Hww.2
Distribution: comp
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

Does GCC 2.3.2 include all the latest mods to the Objective-C portion
by NeXT?  Will protocols and catagories work?  Precompiled headers?
Basically I'm trying to find out if there's any reason not to use it
as the only compiler on the system.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu
From: mic@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Indexing ~/Mailboxes under 3.0?
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:12:59 GMT
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services

We are having trouble indexing a user's ~/Mailboxes directory under
3.0.  The objective is to be able to use the Librarian to find all the
mail messages that refer to a particular topic.  However, the obvious
procedure of dragging ~/Mailboxes into the Librarian and creating an
index doesn't seem to work -- all queries on the index fail. 

Is there some particular reason NeXT mail files can't be indexed?  Or
is there some conceptual leap I'm not making?  Any ideas or pointers
into TFM would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,




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From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Subject: WordPerfect ADB Fix?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:46:01 GMT

Just got WP, but NeXTconnection sent me the non-adb version.
After fifteen minutes on hold with WP Corp I'm quite frustrated!

Eric

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From: jaeger.ka.sub.org!stephan (Stephan Jaeger)
Subject: FORTRAN-  and Pascal-Compiler
Organization: Stephan's Unox Bastelladen
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:50:08 GMT

Hello people out there in NeXTland,

I am a student and for my studies I need a FORTRAN- as well as a  
Pascal-Compiler for my NeXT-machine, because my professors don't want to  
believe, that it makes more sense to learn NeXTSTEP-programming or  
Objective-C
Does anybody know, whether there exists software, maybe free of charge ?
Has anybody made experience with it ?

I heard, that there is a Pascal-Compiler for students for the price of
150 US-$, but I don't know, where to order.

It's not necessary, that these compilers support NeXTSTEP-programming.

Or what about the Absoft-FORTRAN-Compiler ? Is there a special offer for  
students? Hey, it's christmas time !!

Thanks in advance,

Stephan Jaeger



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	 +49 721 554293  stephan@jaeger.ka.sub.org
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Indexing ~/Mailboxes under 3.0?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 16:32:21 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: alfred.econ.lsa.umich.edu

In article <85174@ut-emx.uucp> mic@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes:
> We are having trouble indexing a user's ~/Mailboxes directory under
> 3.0.  The objective is to be able to use the Librarian to find all the
> mail messages that refer to a particular topic.  However, the obvious
> procedure of dragging ~/Mailboxes into the Librarian and creating an
> index doesn't seem to work -- all queries on the index fail. 
> 
> Is there some particular reason NeXT mail files can't be indexed?  Or
> is there some conceptual leap I'm not making?  Any ideas or pointers
> into TFM would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Librarian doesn't understand the structure of mbox's.  However, WAIS  
understands it just fine.  Download v1.9 of NeXTWAIS from the archives and use  
it for indexing mboxes, news, etc.  It works very well.  (The latest release of  
NeXTWAIS is/was broken wrt reading mboxes; I don't know if it has been fixed  
yet.)

--
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
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: word perfect?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:44:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


what do people think of word perfect? I'm buying a NeXT and I can
get it for $115 (educational). Is there anything good for just
over $100?
CW
From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: FORTRAN-  and Pascal-Compiler
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:59:31 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1992Dec14.235008.5632@jaeger.ka.sub.org>  writes:
>Hello people out there in NeXTland,
>
>I am a student and for my studies I need a FORTRAN- as well as a  
>Pascal-Compiler for my NeXT-machine, because my professors don't want to  
>believe, that it makes more sense to learn NeXTSTEP-programming or  
>Objective-C


For pascal you should get the excellent pascal to c compiler.  It
produces C code and then you compile the C code.  It works very
well. In the past I have compiled it on both a System V machine and
a BSD one and I expect it to work without much trouble on a Next.

It handles several dialects of Pascal, including Turbo Pascal, HP Pascal,
and VMS Pascal.

Was the original poster in Germany?  Here are several places that have the
compiler, called p2c which archie provided:

Host hobiecat.pcmp.caltech.edu

    Location: /pub
           FILE -rw-rw-r--    1324407  Jul  3 16:34  p2c.tar.Z

Host kum.kaist.ac.kr

    Location: /pub/language
           FILE -r--r--r--    1543147  Jun  4 1991  p2c.tar.Z

Host nuri.inria.fr

    Location: /prog/tools
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     493255  Mar 14 1991  p2c.tar.Z

Host pemrac.space.swri.edu

    Location: /Convex/INCOMING/Hamburg
           FILE -rw-r-----    1498227  Nov 22 1991  p2c.tar.Z



-nick
kline@cs.arizona.edu
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From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SLIP dialing script for Telebit T3000?
Date: 13 Dec 92 16:24:49 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University

Does anyone else have a Telebit modem (preferably a T3000, but
anything else would probably be at least a good first approximation)
that they use with Louis Mamakos' SLIP? I need a dialing script, and
I've been having a lot of trouble constructing one starting from the
ZyXel script that comes with the software. I don't understand just why
some of the things that that script does need to be done, and what
else I might (or might not) have to do to get SLIP to work with my
T3000.  Louie says he's been hoping somebody would send him a Telebit
script, but nobody has yet....

Thanks a lot for any help,

--Steve Anderson
Dept. of Cognitive Science
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218

<anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu>
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: A tip on tip
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:55:34 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA

This is one of those obvious things, once you figure it out, and I
imagine most people can hit 'n' here.  However, if you have had trouble
getting tip to dial out automatically for you, here's one way.

I run a Telebit TrailBlazer and I could never figure out how to automate
the setup and dialing for different machines.  The other day, reviewing
the manual for /etc/remote, I found reference to cm which is a command
to issue a string of instructions to the machine you are logging into. 
Playing around with this command I discovered I could use it to
initialize the modem and to dial out.  For example, to call my office
computer I have the string :cm=at&edn\r:.  For another machine I use
:cm=ats50=0s66=1dt#######\r:, where ####### is the phone number.  I was
surprised to find these things work perfectly.

If you have been having trouble getting tip to set up your modem and
dial out, give cm a try.  It might solve your problem too.

-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA         rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us         412-471-5320
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From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
Summary: Comparison of different WP
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
Date: 12 Dec 92 10:52:12 PST


FrameMaker (FM): I have used   it now for about   2  years.   It is  rather
full-featured,  and, as   far  as  WYSIWYG,   quite  good   (although    it
unfortunately  does  not completely  follow  NeXT guidelines).  Compared to
TeX,  Frame's   equation  editor is a pain   to use,  but  its  tables  are
wonderful.  Unlike  other  platforms, FM does   not  have a  good  document
interchanging system;  i.e., when you   need to interact  with someone with
WordPerfect on a DOS machine, you cannot use FM but have to use WP (5.0) on
NeXT. This is a pity, given that DOS users can buy interchange products for
~$50. I do most of my short form documents (e.g. letters) in FM.

FM on NeXT is very stable, although it is extremely slow  on color NeXTs, a
minor  bug that Frame  is planning  to fix (turning borders off [Command-T]
helps a lot).

----------------
TeX: The  best  system for  equations  and platform  exchange. TeX's output
looks the  same everywhere, and  TeX is  now universally available.  TeX is
very mediocre for  tables.  However, TeX's best feature  is that I  can use
Emacs; I am at least twice  as productive in Emacs as  I am typing into any
word-processors---Emacs+TeX is just a great combination. So, I do most long
documents in LaTeX.

TeX on NeXT  is very stable, and  beautifully done.  Tom Rokicki's port  is
absolutely superb,  and moreover free.  [Tom and Scott Hess (Stuart) really
have  done great service to  the NeXT community---I  hope NeXT rewards them
for it].


----------------
WordPerfect: The main reason to use WP on  NeXT is  interchangeability with
DOS WP, the quasi-standard---but WP/N can only handle the old 5.0 standard.
WP/N is  not only a little buggy  (crashes happen, albeit rarely), but also
lacks some polish in its  NeXT interface.   Although WP  will do as a basic
word processor,  it really is a disappointment  for NeXT Software. WP plans
to release a  much better  version when it  will release   new DOS  and Mac
versions.


----------------
WriteNow: I only have the old version, so I cannot compare it.


----------------
MS Word for Mac   +   Executor: This   is  a surprisingly stable  and  fast
combination. It is far superior for Mac Word  users to bring over documents
from the Mac than it is for  WP users to bring over  documents from the PC,
either on     WP/NeXT  or SoftPC.  For    a    general-purpose,  affordable
word-processor on a NeXT computer, albeit one  that completely uses the Mac
interface instead of the NeXT interface, I believe Executor is the superior
low-end/medium-end  word  processor.    (Warning: I consult    for ARDI  on
financial but not technical matters; ARDI produces Executor.)


/ivo welch
Asst Prof of Finance
UCLA
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Executor...how much where?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:33:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


could someone please give me the email address or phone number?
do they have an educational discount?

Finally, has another NeXTworld come out? The last one I have has
a blue cover (kinda) and I think a grey newspaper on it. I need
my NeXT world (or atleast NeXTextra!) please respond!
CW
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From: dpeter@hsd.com (David W. Peter)
Subject: Re: german spelling checker
Reply-To: dpeter@hsd.com
Organization: HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:41:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.193138.29162@reed.edu>  
blaubsch@gluttony.reed.edu (Bertrand Michael Laubsch) writes:
> does anyone know of one? 

HSD has recently release a spelling checker that currently supports  
11 languages. Here is the text of the press release:


Contact:	David Peter, President
		HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
		(415) 964-1400

HSD SHIPS INTERNATIONAL SPELL CHECKER FOR NEXTSTEP  
ANNOUNCES BUNDLING AGREEMENT WITH NEXT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, DEC 2, 1992    HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc. today  
announced that it has begun shipping an international spell checker  
for NeXTSTEP that supports 11 languages. 

Called HSD Spell, the software will be bundled for a limited time  
with NeXT's European Starting Point Kits. It will also be available  
from HSD and resellers. Suggested retail price is $195, which  
includes two language dictionaries English and one other. Additional  
languages can be purchased for $99 each. Languages currently  
supported include Danish, Dutch, English (U.K. and U.S.), Finnish,  
French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

HSD Spell is shipped on two extended density disks which contain the  
HSD Spell application and all 11 language dictionaries. The HSD Spell  
application contains a menu choice for installing additional  
languages, which can be unlocked after purchasing an activation code  
from HSD.

HSD President David Peter noted that HSD Spell is tightly integrated  
into the NeXTSTEP 3.0 operating system so that users can check  
spelling directly from the spelling panel built into most NeXTSTEP  
applications.  Many applications utilize the speller built into  
NeXTSTEP 3.0. HSD Spell automatically incorporates installed  
languages into this panel so they can be accessed directly,  Peter  
said. In applications that do not support the NeXTSTEP speller, text  
can be imported via the  Services  menu into the HSD Spell  
application to check spelling or perform a variety of common text  
editing functions. 

Peter also noted that HSD, a leading developer of scanning, OCR,  
image management and voice recognition products for NeXT, is working  
on an entire suite of linguistics products for NeXTSTEP, including  
thesauruses, proof readers and grammar checkers.

HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc. was founded in 1989 as an independent  
company by HSD GmbH of Berlin, a diversified German company with  
retail, distribution, and product development divisions. Today HSD  
Microcomputer U.S., Inc is a leading supplier of hardware and  
software products for Macintosh and NeXT Computers. HSD is located at  
1350 Pear Ave., Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94043. Phone (415)  
964-1400, Fax (415) 964-1538.

-30-

Please contact me directly if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

David W. Peter
dpeter@hsd.com (NeXTmail)
(800) 828-5522
(415) 964-1400
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From: zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Ed Zalta)
Subject: Will Emacs work with ADB?  With Alt as Meta-key?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 19:19:08 GMT

I plan to upgrade to the ADB keyboard.  Can anyone tell me whether  
Emacs (the front end, either 2.1 or 3.0) works as usual when you  
upgrade to the ADB keyboard?  Would someone actually using Emacs with  
ADB (and using the Alt key as a meta-key) please respond?  I use Emacs  
and LaTeX more than any other programs, and will not upgrade if the  
former is not compatible with ADB (i.e., if the keymappings for Emacs  
were altered).
  Thanks very much.
Ed
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From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu
Subject: RenderToTIFF question
Reply-To: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu
Distribution: USA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:45:43 GMT


Okay. I tried to use N3DCamera's -renderToTIFF method.

What I got was an image which was 24 bit rgba. The problem is that the
shape in the picture is all black, while the rest of the image is transparent.
The effect is like a silhouette.

The lights I'm using are on at decent levels, so I know it's not that. And, the image looks fine on screen. (What I did was I modified the Teapot Backspace module so that it will render a number of frames photorealistically and save them as JPEG-compressed tiffs in an .anim folder.. I know, I should use an N3DMovieCamera, but I thought I'd start slow.)

What am I doing wrong?

--
Jonathan Hendry  Anderson Financial Systems
jon@afs.com  (Nextmail Welcome!) or hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
. (What I did was I modified the Teapot Backspace module so that it will render a number of 
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From: takahasi@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TAKAHASHI Shin)
Subject: webster daemon for 3.0?
Organization: Dept. of Infomation Science, University of Tokyo.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:21:21 GMT
Distribution: comp
X-Bytes: 392

Is there a webster daemon for NeXT3.0?
It seems that websterd for 2.0 doesn't work on NeXT3.0 .

Shin Takahashi
Department of Information Science,
University of Tokyo
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From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann)
Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
Keywords: tex, word processors on NeXT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:45:06 GMT

aoki@physics.ucla.edu (Ken-ichiro Aoki) writes (about TeX on NeXT):

>Another drawback is if you want to do something
>rather unusual like write letters in gradually larger letters
>along a snaky curve, say. I have no idea how to do it.

Oh, that is easy. :-)  ftp to princeton.edu and get various Tim van
Zandt packages like PStricks, Seminar or texpath.  For a snaky curve
texpath is it.  This package is still under development so if you miss
something bug tvz and you will likely have it pretty soon. :-)
This stuff mixes TeX and PostScript and works very well on NeXT.

>(Trying to use straight TeX without macropackages
>is like trying to drive a sportscar which you yourself have to tune up.) 
If you do not know what you are doing getting into a ditch is equally
trivial.

  Michal Jaegermann
  ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
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From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Subject: Emacs in a shell window?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:58:07 GMT


Does a version of Emacs that will run in a shell window (like on a Sun)
exist? (whether the shell window is stuart or terminal)

If it does, where would I get it? (if it comes with the standard
system, then it was removed by the previous sys admin's here.... they
had a habit of doing things like that)

Thanks,
 shane

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