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From: anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Icons
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:47:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BzMErG.9oG.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


OK, I've created this pretty cool icon for this hack of mine.  The problem is
that the background isn't the right color...or rather, that it has color (white)
at all.  I'd like to achieve the same translucent effect that some icons 
(writenow, concurrence to name a couple) manage to achieve.  I've tried endlessly
by mucking with the colors in IconBuilder, in which the icon was created.

I can't find my NeXTWorld issue discussing icon design.  Could someone clue me
in?

thanks,
anwar
-- 
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ASAP PhD SCS CMU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Loginwindow tiffs
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12:54:12 GMT

In article <168C6220.UC512052@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
uc512052@mizzou1.missouri.edu (David K.  Drum) writes:

>In article <1992Dec23.033251.9950@macc.wisc.edu>
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
 
>>In article <17691@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu
>>(Mike Matthews) writes:

>>>While we're on the subject of loginwindow tiffs, anyone
>>>know how to get alpha into those puppies?

>>>I know how to do it in Icon, and I know the image had
>>>alpha, but it doesn't look like it makes a difference.

>>Yer right, no alpha.  Don't know why that is.  Sure is a big
>>pain in the butt, though.

>And another thing about alpha (other than the fact that it
>doesn't work): How come some programs interpret alpha (when
>there is no alpha) as black, and sometimes as white?  Icon,
>bless its heart ;-), does it both ways in different sections
>of the program!

My model of that (don't know if it's right) is that you can
write 0% of any color you like (white and black being the
easiest ones to get from the monochrome picker).  Since the
on-screen appearance is the same in either case (within
Icon, I mean), you don't know what you're doing unless you
make a careful, conscious choice.  Then, presumably, if the
alpha information is ignored, the underlying color
information (setgray in PostScript, for example) remains.


-- 
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[Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson]
[Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888]
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket)
Subject: Re: downloading fonts to printer?
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:18:56 GMT

In article <GUMBY.92Dec23074721@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> gumby@cygnus.com (D V  
Henkel-Wallace) writes:
> How can I print using fonts not in my postscript printer?
> 
> I have a QMS 810.  My NeXT knows about it (it has an entry for it).
> But if I try to print a document that uses a font not in the printer,
> the printer uses Courier in place of the unknown font.  How do I tell
> the system that it needs to download certain fonts to the printer
> before they can be used?

In NS 2.x you need to manually download the font files using "fontloader" or  
Abobe's FontInstaller.app. There's a man page for fontloader and you get  
FontInstaller.app with adobe fonts.

In NS 3.0, the fonts are downloaded automatically before your print job.

Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
From: somaiya@ozstar.cc.vt.edu (Sandeep Somaiya)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Looking for Expert System Shells for NeXT
Date: 31 Dec 92 05:53:58 GMT

I am looking for general-purpose expert system shells and/or graphic tools  
for capturing expert knowledge, that run on NeXT machines; preferably  
public domain/shareware. Any pointers? 
Thanx in advance,
Sandeep Somaiya
Email:    somaiya@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
NeXTmail: somaiya@oliveoil.cs.vt.edu
PS:
I am aware of the Marble Software "NeXT Decision-Builder API" and "NeXT  
Decision-Makers Developers Kit"...but these tools are far too expensive  
for a graduate student like me.
From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Subject: Re: ksh
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:14:00 GMT

isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
>
>Have you possibly neglected to strip bash?
>
>259[~]% ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/sh
>-rwxr-xr-x  2 root      122880 Jul 21 06:16 /bin/sh*
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root      221184 Oct  5 11:28 /usr/local/bin/bash*
>260[~]% bash -version
>bash -version
>GNU bash, version 1.12.1

I'm talking about incore memory use. An ls is not a good indicator of
code/data size anyway, there's lots of junk in Mach-O executable
files. Try size instead...

$ size /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/bash
__TEXT  __DATA  __OBJC  others  dec     hex
114688  24576   0       8192    147456  24000   /bin/sh
245760  16384   0       8192    270336  42000   /usr/local/bin/bash
$

(This method has it own problem as it is measuring static code size and not
the working set of the acutal executable.)

-- 
Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: CDRom drives/3.0 from NeXT
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:01:40 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

    I kinda expected when I bought this package deal from NeXT that they
    would ship everything necessary to get the thing up and running, but
    when my CD-Rom finally arrived I found that it did not contain a SCSI
    cable or terminator!  Now I have to wait another few days to get the
    proper cable.

    Since no one has complained about it on the Net I feel as though I
    missed something... were people expecting to have to buy the cabling
    necessary to get the CD-Rom drive working as a separate item?  I was
    expecting, it being bundled by NeXT and extremely useful (NOT!) without
    a means to connect it to the slab, that the cabling would come with it.

    Post to the net please, this is just a casual query.

					    -Matt
--

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From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:44:20 GMT
Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Dec22.135658.1340@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
[ detailed instructions describing a way to replace the system login panel ]

I've not tried it under 3.0, but I think there's a better way.  Replacing the
login panel as Jess describes seems somewhat perilous and does require messing
with system files.  NeXT has provided a defaults variable for loginwindow that
points to the location of the desired login panel tiff.  Setting this defaults
variable and leaving the system login panel where it is seems like a cleaner
approach (but of course, if the defaults variable is set incorrectly, problems
will still occur :-)

# dwrite loginwindow ImageFile fullPathForNewLoginPanelTiff

Then restart the window server as Jess described.
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                             Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn)
Subject: SoftPC
Reply-To: euro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn)
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:15:47 GMT

I have a floppy disc entombed in my Station running 3.0 curtesy of  
SoftPC 2.0. Can someone tell me how to get it out?

Andrew Penn
E-Mail:		andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca


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From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: heard anything about SoftPC
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:18:57 GMT
Reply-To: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Distribution: na,local
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus

In article <009656C7.CE866284@VIOLET.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>  writes:
> What ever became of a NeXTSTEP 3.0 version of SoftPC?  Anybody heard  
anything?
> 
> Don


I asked for a price quote two weeks ago for a group discount, and they
told me then that all orders at that time included a free upgrade to 
SoftPC 3.0.  When I questioned as to 3.0 rollout, the woman told me
"definitely First Quarter of 1993".

FWIW,
--
- Geoff
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
Subject: Re: Old old Cube needs an upgrade...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:40:23 GMT

In <1992Dec31.050748.4215@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) writes:

>In article <1992Dec31.045822.3793@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
>>In article <1hs0e4INNiu5@agate.berkeley.edu> slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu  
>>(Shelley Louie) writes:
>>> We've got an old, old '20 cube running (cough) NS 1.0 and want to 
>>
>>Oh yeah, well I've got an old '00 cube running NS -0.3 and.... ;-)

>Hey, be nice!! Every smart person knows that is a typo, isn't it?!


Yes, Shellie says it's a typo, though the "old, old" had me wondering for
a while if there might not have been an 020 back before I knew NeXT 
even existed.  

Based on his posting history Nathan is indeed a nice guy, perhaps he just
needed a big (48 point) RTF ;-)  ?


Tom


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: af530@yfn.ysu.edu (Peter Whitfield)
Subject: Re: Missile Command and Other Submissions
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:45:35 GMT


Sorry to waste the bandwidth on this, but a couple of days ago
someone from AFS.COM posted about having MONDO 2000 TIFF Icons
for the NeXT machine, since I know a guy who writes for Mondo,
uses a NeXT personally and is a founder of a company that uses
NeXT's to create online environments, I think this would make a
great Christmas mail to pop up in his mailbox.

If someone could send me the icons in mail, or forward them to
the intended target (heh) "digital@phantom.com" with a small 
note that I inspired this lunacy, I'd be forever grateful 
because I don't know how Nextmail is dealt with through these
mailers.

thanks!

PW
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: fantasy style login image
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:55:49 GMT
Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik

In article <1992Dec22.135658.1340@macc.wisc.edu>  writes:
> In article <1992Dec22.101601.20122@macc.wisc.edu>
> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
> 
[ long explanation of substituting nextlogin.tiff deleted]

There's a much easier way of donig this, without having to tamper with the  
NeXT-supplied files:

Login as root and enter:

dwrite  loginwindow ImageFile <path>

where <path> is the absolute path and name to the new login file. Then just log  
out and viola - the new image shows up (no typing errors assumed).
--
Robert Frank                         tel. + (061) 321 99 67                 
Institut fuer Informatik             fax  + (061) 321 99 15                 
University of Basel, Switzerland                                            
Mittlere Strasse 142      rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted)  
CH-4056 Basel          X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
From: duca@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Karen Duca, a.k.a. Rocky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: RS/6000 and NeXT Machines
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:32:03 GMT
Reply-To: duca@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

My group is considering getting a NeXT as a client machine for an RS/6000.
Seeing as the RS has been such a "delight" to use since we got it several
months ago, I want to make sure that this mating is compatible before we
go ahead.  Any suggestions from people who are working with these two 
machines now?  What software is the best for running X-Windows on the NeXT?

Thanx,
Karen
duca@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gbowie@dreams.skidmore.edu (Gavin Bowie)
Subject: Re: Get one more free dock entry under 3.0
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:37:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.181708.21618@news2.cis.umn.edu>  
peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (Peter Eisch) writes:
> In article <1992Dec21.160202.6283@almserv.uucp> bnixon@fnma.com (Bill  
> Nixon) writes:
> > Ever need just one more free entry on your NeXTSTEP dock.
> > Well, here's one way to do it.  I have only done this under
> > 3.0, so I am not sure if it will work on older versions.
> > 
> > The trick is to move the Recycler icon off the dock.  Here's
> > how:
> > 
> 
> Or:
> 1. Or command-drag the recycler off the dock.
> 2. Place whatever app icon you which (if any) in its place...
> 
> Thanks to Dick Silbar for showing me this...
> 
> peter

that's bogus...I just tried it, and no go.

trip
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Sybase Package for NeXT
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:10:23 GMT

In the directory /NextLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty there is a *.pkg file
called Sybase_DB-Library.pkg.  First of all, what is this package.  The
intaller complains about an error reading an "info" file and cannot do
anything with the package.

We would like to get Sybase and docs up and running as soon as possible.
Is there still a runtime/limited license on the NeXT, or do we have to buy
a license from Sybase?

Any help/pointers would be appreciated.
-- 

Mark T. Dornfeld                              Voice: (416) 234-9048
CYANTIC Systems                               Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103                Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: hal@niftyneato.com(Hal Fox-Palmer)
Subject: infoWorld Dec 21
Keywords: Jobs, Canon
Organization: Hal's phony Co.
Distribution: USA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:29:36 GMT

"Not even the Buns of Steel can keep Steve Jobs from being Canonized"

That's the headline from Robert X. Cringely column, back page of this  
weeks InfoWorld.

here's bits & pices

"Santa Steve. Not!...  The stress level at NeXT Inc., for example, is off  
the meter. Steve Jobs is driving his kids toward a new hardware generation  
as the company runs on fumes and money borrowed from Canon. Bad idea....   
NeXTSTEP is the best such environment around and is at least two years  
ahead of its nearest competitor...  If the new workstations don't make  
it...,Canon gets the whole company.

Hal-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: rlp@sunset.lanl.gov (Dick Phillips)
Subject: Help with Blue Sky CM fonts for TeX
Keywords: PostScript, fonts, Type 1
Reply-To: rlp@lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:17:50 GMT

Folks:

This may seem like an esoteric problem, but it's very real when you
MUST solve it.  I'm running TeX on a NeXT.
For a book I'm doing, I need to use PostScript versions of the CM fonts;
bitmapped versions are unacceptable.  Fortunately, Blue Sky Research
sells Type 1 versions of the CM fonts, 75 in all.  I've bought them and
installed them.  Everything seemed to go smoothly until I tried printing
the quadratic equation.  That is, I used the simple Plain TeX expression:

	$$-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}\over 2a$$

Curiously, all elements appeared to be correct, except the minus and
plusminus signs were missing.  I've tried several other equations with
integral signs, matrix brackets, greek characters, etc., and I get
mixed results.  For example, theta is missing, while alpha and phi are
correct.  Also, the multiply "x" and left arrow don't appear.  Any 
thoughts on what might be amiss?  Seems like an encoding problem, but
I wouldn't know where to look.  Since this problem is not likely to be
of widespread interest, please reply directly to me at rlp@lanl.gov.
Thanks,

	Dick Phillips
From: longrie@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Terry Longrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading '030 Cube to 3.0
Date: 2 Jan 1993 04:40:04 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.9.13
Summary: Problem Fixed

In article <1hr2ffINN3pa@uwm.edu> longrie@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Terry Longrie) writes:
>Hello
>
>I recently recieved NeXTStep 3.0 and am trying to upgrade my old 68030
>NeXT Cube but I seem to have run into a problem.  What happens is that
.......<Rest of problem Deleted>....

I discovered that I had munged the UpgradePrep application when I copied
it from floppy to my Optical disk.  I made a new copy and everything worked
as advertised.  Thanks to everyone who responeded!

						Terry Longrie
						longrie@miller.cs.uwm.edu
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: cacheAFMData crashed my NeXT
Keywords: bug, yet-another
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:53:27 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: University of Durham

After installing some new fonts, I ran cacheAFMData like I was told to in some readme or
other...a few second later everything got ugly.  Workspace came up with an error along the
lines of "Internal error -3007, Continue at your own risk or log out"  I continued, things
were ok, till I tried to do anything involving fonts...there were also a few pages of
errors in the messages file along the lines of:
Dec 21 08:02:59 shrug WM[185]: App Kit: Pasteboard Mach messaging error #-102, i
n (null pointer)
Dec 21 08:03:11 shrug Mail[2003]: App Kit: Pasteboard Mach messaging error #-102
, in _NXGetSession
Dec 21 08:03:38 shrug Edit[2175]: App Kit: Pasteboard Mach messaging error #-203
, in (null pointer)



I eventually had to reboot, as logging out and back in had no effect on the problem.

This is running 3.0 on a NSC (!T).

Scott

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EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk   OR   scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail)
SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE
SUN Computers:  "Nice chips, shame about her OS"
"If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: richard@sfu.ca (Richard Chycoski)
Subject: Re: "stacker" as part of NS486
Reply-To: richard@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:19:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.203942.1004@glv.uucp> jcelam@confused (James Clifton  
Elam) writes:
> In my never-ending quest for total bankruptcy through leading edge computer  
> purchases (:-) I've come upon NS486 and the portable world.
> 
..
> Disk space.
> 
> Try to buy a portable with more than about 120M. (486's are pretty afordable,  
> surprisingly enough.)
> 
> How do those poor benighted DOS weenies live with this situation when they  
want  
> a development machine to take on the road?

There are 240 MB drives available for portable machines, all you need to
do is become even *poorer*! (:-)

- Richard Chycoski
  Academic Computing Services
  Simon Fraser University
  richard@sfu.ca  (NeXT Mail OK.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon)
Subject: Re: Old old Cube needs an upgrade...
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:21:35 GMT

In article <1hs0e4INNiu5@agate.berkeley.edu> slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie) writes:
>We've got an old, old '20 cube running (cough) NS 1.0 and want to upgrade it
>a bit. The problem is that I called up the people at NeXT and they told me
>that I can do one of two things;
>

Do you mean '030?  I wasn't aware of an '020 board!


>1: Upgrade to the new turbo 33MHz '40 board, add a new CD-ROM (the optical
>   won't work with NS 3.0), an internal floppy, and some memory. That'll let
>   us use NS 3.0.
>

Actually, 3.0 will work with your '030, but not very well (it is optimized
for '040s).  3.0 does support the optical drive, BUT the 33Mhz board doesn't.
The CDROM is a good thing to have, as is a floppy.  One can NEVER have too
much memory, regardless of the OS/CPU.

>Or...
>
>2: Upgrade to the new turbo 33MHz '40 board and get NS 2.2. The optical will 
>   still work and the price is definately lower.
>

This is incorrect information.  The 33Mhz board DOES NOT support the OD,
regardless of the OS.  The 33Mhz board lacks the OD connector and support   
chip.  The only way around this is to save your 030 board and send it to
Spherical Solutions and allow it to run as  a slave CPU concurently with
your Turbo board.  This way you can run your OD from the 030 slave while
running your 33Mhz board for other tasks.

>The questions I have is "what do you think about these two setups?" and 
>"is there a better solution?" I've got a limited budget so the price does
>make a difference (ie. the cheaper the solution the better), but I can always
>push for more funds.
>

Personally, I'd send the 030 card to SS and go with solution 1.  You'll want
the CDROM and need a floppy drive anyway.  3.0 offers quite a few advantages
over 2.x (Mac/Novell support and better faxing, etc).  You can always purchase
a cheap CDROM drive through a 3rd party (NEC comes to mind).

>I'd prefer it if you could email your responses, but post if you feel you must.
>If there is an outcry (yeah, right), I'll post the collected answers. 
>

Sorry, I thought others in a similar predicament might benefit form this.
(actually, I was answering this question by question and I just came across
this at the last moment...)

>Thanks a ton!
>

No problem, that is why we are here.


>-Shelley Louie
>slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu -or- shelley@lurnix.com
>Digital is illusion. Life is analog.

David L. Leon
dleon@seas.smu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester)
Subject: ditch that keyboard (was Re: Login Tiff)
Reply-To: ph@pencom.com
Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:27:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.115338.2267@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
> 
> Well, here I sit, head hung in shame.
> 
> Spurred on by the news emailed from at least three sources
> that dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path_to_file> *does* work,
> I discover that in each of my previous trials, I must have
> screwed up, for (tra-la!) it certainly works now.  I guess
> that because the path is really quite long in my case (eight
> levels down from root, about 70 characters), I must have
> had a typo that my eye/brain corrected.
> 
> There's a lesson to be drawn, naturally, from the Zen of
> computing. :-)

The lesson is to NOT type, but to drag the file's icon from the
workspace to the shell window. How did I ever get along without
this feature?

Of course I've been known to cut/paste letters instead of typing...

--
Patrick Hester   ph@pencom.com   (212) 513-7777   NeXT Mail OK   =8(\/\)