HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: d_mc%McCube.tucson.az.us@arizona.edu (Don McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PLI 2.88MB followup
Date: 15 Apr 92 04:16:55 GMT
Reply-To: d_mc%McCube.tucson.az.us@arizona.edu (Don McCollam)
Distribution: na,local

I posted earlier about problems with tarred/compressed files copied to
my PLI 2.88 MB floppy.  It turns out that ALL files writen to ED diskettes
are corrupted.  Does anyone have experience with this type of problem?  Is
it the drive?  Is thare a parameter setting somewhere.  I note that the
ED diskettes are described as 2MB - I would have guessed they would have
been called 4MB  (the 1.44 MB diskettes have 2MB capacity).

Advice appriciated.

Don
From: altenber@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Typing "*" on executables: SOLVED
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:01:07 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Originator: altenber@teer30.acpub.duke.edu

The problem is solved by including the subdirectory with the executable in
the .cshrc path.

-Lee Altenberg
altenber@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
From: cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Alternate shells
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Reply-To: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:51:43 GMT

Nik Gervae writes
> GET ZSH!!!  (God, I wish we'd ship that as a standard shell....)
> 
> It's at princeton somewhere.  Does anyone know an actual ftp address?

princeton.edu:/pub/zsh. Both the current version 2.1 and the latest  
beta of 2.2. Easily the best of the usual shells.

	Carl Edman
From: ngervae@next.com (Nik Gervae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Linking files to external SCSI drive
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:45:57 GMT

Here's what I did:

I have an external drive that I call stan*.  I added this line to /etc/fstab:

  /dev/sd1a /stan 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2

and created the directory /stan on the internal drive.  The directory has to be  
there for the disk to mount properly (and you have to reboot to get this to  
work).  The fstab thing is there so that file ownership and permissions are  
preserved.  So now when I boot I have:

  /
  /stan/<all the files on my external drive>
  <all the other files that NeXT ships>

Since I keep another whole OS on stan, I have a single directory for all my  
non-shipped stuff, /Local, with links as appropriate.  So the setup is:

  /stan/Local/{Apps, Library, Developer, and so on}
  /Local        -->   /stan/Local   ("-->" means it's a link to another
                                     file; see below)
  /LocalApps    -->   /Local/Apps
  /LocalLibrary -->   /Local/Library
  ...
  /users        -->   /Local/users   (my user accounts)
  /usr/local    -->   /Local/usr/local  (UNIX weenie junk)
  /usr/spool/uucp --> /Local/usr/spool/uucp  (uucp weenie junk)

  and so on

The reason you make a /Local --> /stan/Local is that if you rename the external  
drive, you only have to relink one directory.  Even if you only keep your own  
files on the external, you might want to link /Local --> /externalDrive and  
link all the other things to /Local.  That way you can still rename the hard  
drive or replace it with another with little pain.

To create the links, either control-drag the folder in Workspace, or type the  
following in Terminal:

  ln -s <file to link to> <name of new link>

For example, to make the /Local, I typed:

  ln -s /stan/Local /Local

That's basically it!  If you have problems, give me a holler.  Maybe this  
should be put in the FAQ (or better yet, our documentation...not :-).  I've  
never done disk partitions, and am vague on their advantages;  if someone would  
like to add something about that, I'd like to hear it.

* Stan is a character appearing on "The Commish," a show I'm growing to enjoy.   
If you know the name of the actor who plays him, I'd appreciate hearing it.

--
Nik Gervae
Software Publications
ngervae@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Re: getty and logon
Organization: University of Missouri
Date:  8 Apr 92 04:14:14 GMT

In <1992Apr3.211816.8408@n1.nsf.gov> bryan@ad.cise.nsf.gov (Bryan Thompson) writes:
>I had a login session that dropped without the user logging out.  Ever since  
>then, I getty keeps spawning copies of login -- even after the machine has
>been rebooted.
>I keep getting messages like this in the console:
>Apr  3 16:04:16 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, log-K^BB!
>Apr  3 16:09:53 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, ach (ad.cise.nsf
>Apr  3 16:09:55 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, Password
>Apr  3 16:09:57 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, login: l
>Apr  3 16:10:04 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb,  logink+
>Apr  3 16:10:15 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, H(H(H(H(
>Apr  3 16:10:31 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, QloLogin

It appears that the modem is echoing getty's login prompt back to it.
The problem may go away if you toggle the power to the modem.

Rich
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: chris@cognet.ucla.edu (Christopher McRae)
Subject: Summary: NewsGrazer crashes -- too many groups?
Summary: Yes
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:59:22 GMT

  This is a summary of the responses I received as a result of the
following post.  Thanks to all who replied. :-)

In article <1992Apr15.221558.19453@cognet.ucla.edu> chris@polaris.cognet.ucla.edu (Christopher McRae) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  Our newsgroup count recently passwd the 1500 mark and we
>ended up having to recompile rn.  Now, we've noticed that
>NewsGrazer isn't working anymore either.  It starts up and
>chews on the active file for a little while and then quits
>with a "Bus Error".
>  Is there anyone out there with any ideas on how to proceed?
>
> [ sig deleted ]

  It turns out the problem is not due to the number of newsgroups
we have.  Rather, it is due to number of dots in a newsgroup name.
Someone recently created the following two bogus newsgroups:

alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.the.poppies.are.on.patrol
alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.X.Y.and.Z.electrix.sunshine.mix

NewsGrazer crashes with a "Bus Error" message when it sees groups,
such as these, with 10 (or more) dots in the name.  The solution
is to remove these bogus groups (ask your news admin).

  Pascal Chesnais (lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu) says that NeXT
has a version of NewsGrazer which fixes this, but is not releasing
it yet.  

Thanks again -- Chris

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Chris McRae					chris@cognet.ucla.edu
Cognet System Administrator                    	(310) 206-3960     
Cognitive Science Research Program
University of California at Los Angeles
From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Linking files to external SCSI drive
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:44:11 GMT
Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <2145@exua.exeter.ac.uk> SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott McIntyre) writes:
>
>My internal 400 is filling up and I have a 1.6Gig external drive that
>doesn't like to boot on its own...so is there a way of getting a 
>symbolic link between crucial directories such as LocalApps, LocalLibrary
>and so on onto the external drive?
>
I have all my documentation for my cube on an OD and have a symbolic
link to where it actually shoud go in the NeXT directory structure.

If you want all the apps to reside on the external including directory
names, no problem.   Create the LocalApps, LocalLibrary directories on
the external.  Put the applications and other stuff in those directories.

Now there are two ways to proceed.
1.  Link each file by (I can't remember which and it depends on the owner)
either <command>, <shift>, <alt> dragging the file where you want it
linked to.

A double sided arrow will appear as the pointer as opposed to the copy and
move representations.

2. You can delete those empty directories on the 400 and just link the
directories from the other drive.


I didn't do option number 2 because I kept my frequently used stuff in place.
I also didn't do it because since that directory is a link you can't put
anything in it and have it reside on the 400.
--
/*  -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers.    */
/*      For I can only express my own opinions.              */
/*                                                           */
/*   Kent L. Shephard  : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com   */
From: pgr@ramandu.ext.vt.edu (Patrick Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "dump" params for DAT
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:42:11 GMT

I wrote:
> intend to use dump/restore forever, I'd sure like to understand how to make
> it work.

Strange.  This originally said "Although I don't intend..."

-Patrick
 pgr@ramandu.ext.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes)
Subject: Re: Fax Modems and CD ROMs
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, New York City
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:49:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr4.032155.26678@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes) writes:
>Second [question] relates to NS Version 3.0...
>Can it be gotten on an optical.  The company is not psyched to buy more
>stuff for the NeXT and I'd like 3.0.  If not can a CD be used from a
>another machine - is it High Sierra Format?  We have CDs on Sun/HP's
>Can the NeXT drive them?

Thanks for the responses, apparently a next will drive a Sun or Other
CD-ROM fine (not that the Sun's can drive the NeXT or Other CD-ROMs....)

Appreciate the comments.

chuck

chuck@fsg.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: twm3@world.std.com (Thomas W Moore)
Subject: Postscript printing request
Keywords: remote printing, postscript, pscf
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:53:25 GMT

Having a NeXT printer that isn't being utilized that much, I decided that its
400 DPI would be very nice to use a network printer.  So after tinkering with
/etc/hosts.lpd on the NeXT and /etc/printcap on the other systems on the 
network, I can now use utilities like lpr to send files to be printed (in
courier 10pt :-( ).

But trying to get a program such as WordPerfect on the Suns to actually print
has been something else.  Each time I print a document on Sun, the NeXT 
printer gives me:

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

WARNING:  Unable to convert document to Postscript

Printer:  Local_Printer
User:  root
Host:  sitzmark
Filter:  "pcsf" not available

This filter needs to be installed and the appropriate shell scripts need to
be edited.  For the NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer edit /usr/lib/NextPrinter/comm.
For other Postscript printers edit /usr/lib/transcript/psint.sh.  Contact your
system administrator for assistance.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When I did an ls -l of the /usr/lib/NextPrinter directory, pcsf is there but
is linked to /usr/lib/NextPrinter/comm.  

So what do I need to do (besides sacrafice something to the Bit Bucket Gods)
to get the NeXT to print "foreign" postscipt files?

E-mail to twm3@world.std.com is fine.  If there is sufficient interest, I shall
post a summary in a few days.

TIA,

-Tom
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 09:37:19 EDT
From: <CADER@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject:    Miscellaneous (Mail/Edit/User Profile)

I had the following questions.  Please note that the NeXTs we use are all
using NFS/NIS because we are in a sun/mac/next heterogeneous net.

1)  Adding a "reply to" field to every outgoing mail message
    automatically (not using the lame single message reply to of Mail.app)

2)  DOS driver and automount deamon seem to conflict and disks get
    stuck in the drive.  How does one reinitialize the deamon after
    manually ejecting the disk (or ejecting with DOS.util).


3)  How can the environment be saved so that when one logs in,
    applications which were open last time (before logging out)
    would open automatically.  I may not have space for all of them
    or a particular one on the dock.  How does one get individual
    applications to open multiple windows in certain places.
    Example:  When editing a program using edit, there are likely to
              be many open windows.  If I quit, I would like edit,
              upon relaunching to configure all my windows as before
              even with the correct file being open.

      PS   I am aware that dwrite can be used to establish some
           application preferences.  Perhaps edit does not provide
           for a rich enough set of features when it comes to the
           aforementioned.

4)  To login as root from any next to any next on the network do I have to
    change the values of the ttyp's in /etc/ttys to include the setting
    secure for that terminal.

All replies are appreciated.  I would like to thank those who have already
provided comments, and will post replies.

BTW, I couldn't find these things in NeXTAnswers.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: Fax Modems and CD ROMs
Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 07:44:12 GMT

andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:

>the more popular fax modems at that time...  3.0 will have drivers that will  
>work with most of the fax-modems on the market, and writing drivers for  
>fax-modems that aren't supported shouldn't be too difficult.

There are even rumours, that those drivers will be well documented ...
-- 
Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
YOU!!  Give me the CUTEST, PINKEST, most charming little
 VICTORIAN DOLLHOUSE you can find!!  An make it SNAPPY!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smb3u@squeeg.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Re: breakins
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:54:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.162220.6992@next.cambridge.ma.us> simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us writes:
>I'm doing an article for NeXTWORLD about discovering and dealing with breakins.
>
>I'm interested in stories from people in the NeXT community.
>

Here is a phenomenon that one of my users reported to me.  Once, on logging
in to his system, he saw an alert panel raised in the upper left corner
of the screen that said "Security Alert: INTRUDER".  Now the funny thing
is that this machine is not networked and does not even have UUCP enabled.
There is no getty on the modem line, although the user does dial in to the
university daily.

Has anyone else seen this panel.  I went looking for it with strings and
grep, but I haven't found what would put it up.

Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: khw2x@Virginia.edu(Kevin Weiss)
Subject: No namelist when I do a `w`
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:31:24 GMT

What's wrong with my NeXT?  I does like this...

{sonja}/users/khw2x>w
No namelist

So, what gives? `who` still works, but not `w.`  Please help me...

Thanks!
kevin

--
Kevin Weiss                                Department of Mathematics
khw2x@sonja.math.Virginia.edu (NeXT mail)  University of Virginia
khw2x@virginia.edu (Non-NeXT mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca  (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: MS Windows Printing on NeXT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:11:26 GMT

Doug Booth writes
>  We are trying to get a Next machine and printer working as a network printer
> on an ethernet network to give pc's access to laser printing. We are using
> the LPR network printing utilities from the University of British Columbia.
> Everything works fine - text files print with no problems, postscript files
> print correctly if they are generated by WordPerfect drivers, Autocad drivers
> and Quattro Pro drivers. Postscript files generated from Microsoft Windows
> will not print. If the same file is moved to the Next and ran through the
> Previewer it complains a bit but the file comes up and will print.
>  Does anyone know of a way to make this work - defining a new printer in the
> printcap file, a new poscript driver for MS Windows, a way to use the 
> Previewer as a filter???
>  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> 	Doug Booth  userDABO@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca

MS windows puts a control-D at the beginning and end of the file.  Remove  
those, and it prints fine.  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP and NeXTOS 2.1, problems...
Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:58:09 GMT

In article <1621@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>  Has anybody gotten Taylor UUCP 1.02a or 1.03 to work with NeXTOS 2.1? Call  
out
>  is fine but call-in gives loads of problems. mainly two:
>  
>  	the port stayes blocked after a call-in and one has to do TIOCEXCL on
>  it to get it working again.

I've been running Taylor for about a month and it's been working fine.  I  
installed 1.03 on saturday morning.  The only problem with 1.03 is that dialup  
seems to be fried now.  When the modem gets a RING it picks up then  
__immediately__ hangs up.  So fast that the line keeps ringing.  I can't figure  
it out, and I can't seem to fix it, but from looking at the lights I think  
getty is sending something to it...  I'm pretty sure the port isn't blocked  
since when a dial-out completes DTR goes low and the modem resets, etc...

Sending SIGHUP to process 1 doesn't fix it either...


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: Re: Is the NeXT Computer DEAD? (Response to SunWorld NeXT review)
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 05:41:01 GMT

In article <1992Mar31.193007.27039@cs.yale.edu>
	nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
>                                                 Some flat files
>aren't even in the Netinfo database!

Because it's pointless for them to be there.  (e.g. /etc/exports)

					-=EPS=-
From: nowacek@cis.ohio-state.edu (charles graham nowacek)
Subject: Bad to power off?
Originator: nowacek@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:03:00 GMT

I've gone through FAQ and could not find an answer.  Should I be
concerned about powering my station down at night?  Excessive wear of
drive or power supply? Inhibiting cron from doing it's thing?

Thanks,

Chip
From: simsong (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fax Modems and CD ROMs
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:15:30 GMT
Reply-To: simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us
Organization: NeXTWORLD Magazine

In article <1992Apr4.032155.26678@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes) writes:
> 
>   So I can go out and buy, for around $150 dollars a send/receive
> fax modem for the Mac and PC.  Gateway has Windows software packaged
> with it for less than $200.  My Question (#1) is "Why won't the NeXT
> run the -Standard- fax modems, even for send only?"  

What is a "standard fax modem"?
-- 

................................................................simson
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help!  NewsGrazer just stopped working!
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:15:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB


Sorry I didnt take the time to read the other articles on the crashing problem
(see what happens when NG goes down?).  I'll try getting rid of the new
overly-long newsgroups from our active list.


-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail problem
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:25:10 GMT

Colin Allen writes
> If I send mail directly to his
> NeXT, it leaves my mail queue but does not get delivered to him. 
[...]
> it looks to my machine as if
> his accepts it.  
[...]
> What is going on here? 

> mail -v daugher@cachet.cs.tamu.edu
> Subject: test
> test
> EOT
> daugher@cachet.cs.tamu.edu... Connecting to cachet.cs via ether...
> Trying 128.194.2.173...  connected.
> 220  cachet.cs.tamu.edu  Sendmail NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail
> 5.52)/NeXT-2.0 ready at Thu, 9 Apr 92 11:41:00 CDT
> >>> HELO  zacnxt19.tamu.edu
            ^^^^^^^^
                |-----> ask yourself this ... what is zacnxt19 doing here?
                        contact your local DNS admin and ask them what
                        Mail Exchanger they have listed for cachet.

> ---
> Colin Allen            INTERNET (& NeXTMail) : colin@snaefell.tamu.edu
> Assistant Professor                |  BITNET :        cfa0802@tamvenus
> Philosophy, Texas A&M University   |  FAX    :          (409) 845-0458
> College Station, TX 77843-4237     |  VOICE  :          (409) 845-5660
> -- 
> Colin Allen            INTERNET (& NeXTMail) : colin@snaefell.tamu.edu
> Assistant Professor                |  BITNET :        cfa0802@tamvenus
> Philosophy, Texas A&M University   |  FAX    :          (409) 845-0458
> College Station, TX 77843-4237     |  VOICE  :          (409) 845-5660


do you really need two of these?


geesh, this guy probably plays Squash or rides bicycles or something :-)


	chuck
From: mfriedel@monolith.rmnug.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with talk
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:28:07 GMT
Reply-To: mfriedel@monolith.rmnug.org
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Well here is what I get when I try to invoke talk on my machine

[Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)]

(It is the original talk as distributed by NeXT).
Here is what ls -l has to say
-rwxr-sr-x  1 root       32768 Nov 11  1990 /usr/ucb/ta
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root        5896 Nov 11  1990 /usr/etc/talkd*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root        5896 Nov 11  1990 /usr/etc/ntalkd*

I checked services in netinfo and /etc/services as well as /etc/inetd.conf

That is all I could think of. Any hint would be greatly appretiated.

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: Re: Is the NeXT Computer DEAD? (Response to SunWorld NeXT review)
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:28:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.054101.7317@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)  
writes:
> In article <1992Mar31.193007.27039@cs.yale.edu>
> 	nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> >                                                 Some flat files
> >aren't even in the Netinfo database!
> 
> Because it's pointless for them to be there.  (e.g. /etc/exports)

Not for us: we use the same /etc/exports and hosts.equiv files
on all machines.  It would be great to have them in the root
Netinfo domain...

--
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)

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