HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: ZyXEL 1496 modem
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:44:01 GMT

billb@fnbc.com (Bill Burcham) writes:

>Yeah.  I got mine from:  Black & White Software (Craig Goss):   
>(802)496-5113.  He bundles a ZyXel in a _black_ case, with the _latest_  
>ROMs that he has worked w/ ZyXel to tweak for the bundled NXFax software.   
>You pay a premium for this level of integration, but mine worked  

Or, if you're a cheap hacker, you might want to go with what I
found to be the rock bottom price for ZyXEL 1496-E's.  Sheri Hamel
at Boston Computers & Peripherals at 617-551-0166 sold me one which
I received the other day.  They got it in 1.5 weeks and shipped it
to me COD.  It seems to come with PC FAX software, but my PC's
monitor is fritzed out, so I can't check it out. (it's on 5.25", so
can't check it out in my CubeFloppy) Of course, you
will need NXFax from Craig Goss if you want Fax to work from your
NeXT. BTW, mine came in a white case. (horrors!)
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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From: vg@uwasa.fi (Vesa Gunther)
Subject: Sending faxes using lpr ???
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:30:34 GMT

Hi there, fellow NeXT addicts !
Is it possible to use lpr-command to send faxes from command line, like

lpr -PLocal_Fax_Modem SomeFile(s)    ???

I'm running 3.0 pre-release 2, and I took a look at the spooled files
dfAxxxx  and cfAxxxx after a) using the Fax Panel on a file b) doing
lpr >bla bla< the_very_same_file.  Seems like the only differences in
resulting data (PS) files are:

1. the cover page
2. lines starting with %NXFax...

One would think there could be a reasonable way of stuffing these strings
(containing fax number, recipients name etc.) and the cover page in.
The reason I'm interested in this stuff is that some people still have PeeCees
on their desks, and they wanna send faxes, too (sigh).

Appreciate any responses/pointers/hints - u name it ;-) !!!
---
Vesku @ Santa Monica Software Finland
(vg@sms.fi)
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From: gsteen@student.business.uwo.ca (Garnet Steen)
Subject: Re: NeXT b&w laser printer
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:20:51 GMT

tlm@iastate.edu (Dr. T.L. Marchioro II) writes:

> In <BuJqE6.EHJ@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) write
> 
> >gsteen@student.business.uwo.ca (Garnet Steen) writes:
> 
> >>     I have a NeXT station and need to buy a laser printer for it.  I 
> [[[[[Trimmed for brevity]]]]]]
> >>Suggestions?
> 
> >Unless you go with one of the 'mini' laser printers (HP IIIP, etc.),
> >you are going to have to look hard to find a cheaper laser printer
> >than the NeXT Laser Printer.  
> >If you have a IIIP with PostScript card, it shouldn't be too hard to
> >make it work- but you will have so much less troubles if you get the
> >NeXT Laser Printer, and it will be a lot faster than most any other
> >solution. (esp. for that price)
> 
> I'd have to second that.  Not only is the price very good for the NeXT LW
> but at 400 dpi and pretty good speed it's also superior in quality to 
> virtually anything else you'd look at.  Maybe high DPI is not important to
> you now, but what about down the line?  Is it worth it to save a few $ now
> when maybe in a couple of years you own something which is inadequate for
> your needs?  
> 
> the one disadvantage to the NeXT printer, obviously, is that it's a "dumb"
> printer which has to be used off a NeXT,  but since you already have the 
> NeXT. . . . . 
> 
> tom
> 
> 


      Well, everyone who has responded (including the private e-mail I 
received) had come down pretty solidly on the side of the NeXT printer.  
I hadn't looked around too much but was thinking about third party, what 
with the prices NeXT charges for memory and hard drives.  I wondered if 
maybe their laser was overpriced too.  But, I think you are all correct - 
the quality and seemless integration are probably worth it.  Now, a 
fax/modem...

gsteen@student.business.uwo.ca (Garnet Steen)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
Subject: Re:  NT: please define vapor.
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:52:54 GMT

In article <dillon.0noj@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep13.053045.25655@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin) writes:
>>>In article <jbone.716346951@splat> jbone@splat.dell.com (Jeff Bone) writes:
>>  <<stuff deleted>>
>>>I don't think that argument is refutable --- it's merely one
>>>...
>>
>>UNIX is hell on wheels for your average user.	Would you have your
>>secretary writing up printcaps?  True UNIX has a pathetic file system
>>(fsck? BAHAHAHA!!!), doesnt support a standard uniform model for threads,
>
>    Oh this is really funny... so you would rather use CHKDSK on a PC?
  <<tons o' stuff deleted>>

The topic was Windows NT vs UNIX.  Windows NT uses a log based file system,
so it can rebuild itself completely after a crash.  I recently came across
an article indicating the Univel system will be using the same type of file
system, so this may be a moot point.  As for crashing, Ive had a number of
of crashes on DOS, UNIX and VMS.  Ive never had a DOS crash Norton couldnt
fix.  Ive never had a VMS crash where the basic boot process didnt restore
the file system correctly.  Ive had numerous problems with fsck on UNIX,
and my experience indicates that UNIX is far more likely to require operator
intervention if the power went down when no users were logged in.

One of the neat things about UNIX is that it has no internals (:-) and its
externals are easily duplicated.  As a microkernel with personality modules
(one of which is a POSIX module) you should have youre most important system
calls available (though some NASTY \r <-> \n mapping problems) to build
your favorite UNIX tools and shells.  If someone can merge an X server into
the POSIX environment the question becomes "if it looks like a duck and acts
like a duck, why are we still calling it a Pigeon?"  Yes, it has shades of the
"MACH as the next UNIX" argument, but Windows NT is in many ways the next MACH.

>    Matthew Dillon		dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
>    1005 Apollo Way		uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
>    Incline Village, NV. 89451	ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
>    USA 			Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000
>

-Steve
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From: arrigo@cube.sublink.org (Arrigo Benedetti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: tekton4tek submitted to sonata
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:19:06 GMT
Reply-To: arrigo@cube.sublink.org
Organization: Arrigo Benedetti

In article <SOWA.92Sep9122949@amdew.llnl.gov> sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C.  
Sowa) writes:
> Whoops. Forgot to include the README with the first post.
> 
> I have uploaded the file tekton4tex.tar.Z to the submissions directory
> on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It contains files that enable the use of
> Adobe's Tekton font with the NeXT's TeX implementation, or any

Could you please tell us more about this font? As it name implies, I
presume it has been designed by Adobe to work with TeX. Is it
possible to use it in formulas?

Thanks,

-Arrigo


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From: ddj+@CMU.EDU (Douglas F. DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Reading Tar floppies on a NeXT
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:10:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Eef9UU600VI8IL2GUo
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Try typing "tar xvf /dev/<floppy-device>" before inserting the disk into the
NeXT.  You should be prompted to insert the disk, and it should work.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu
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From: heller@lisboa (Helmut Heller)
Subject: NewsGrazer under 3.0 has grey font
Reply-To: heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:25:25 GMT
Keywords: NewsGrazer, 3.0, font

Hello,
since I upgraded to 3.0 the article text in NewsGrazer, release 2.0, version  
71.9, appears in GREY and not in black any more. This is very hard to read. I  
have not been able to change this, can anyone help? Is there a newer version  
of NewsGrazer which does not do that?

Thanks for any help,

--
Servus, Helmut  (W9/DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail preferred________________
heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu   "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" 
FAX:   (217)244-6078                      ZEN, one of BLAKES7                
Phone: (217)244-6914        -------------------------------------------------
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Theoretical Biophysics Group, Room 3143, MC 251
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From: bfield@sirius.UVic.CA (Bruce  Field)
Subject:  video editing 
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 16:16:20 GMT


I wish to edit VHS video (cut and splice, overlay graphics
and headings) on my NeXT Station.  Is there a hardware/software
package which will allow me to load the video into the computer, 
edit frame by frame, and play the result to an external VHS
recorder?  Sound editing would also be a useful feature.


Please respond by email:  bfield@sirius.UVic.CA
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From: tim@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh)
Subject: Re: How do I print to a PostScript file?
Keywords: PostScript redirect output
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 17:50:04 GMT

While the save feature of the print pannel solves the problem for
subsequent printing on perhaps another printer/system, what does
one do to eliminate the time consuming process of printing multiple
copies of a complex graphics image?  The file save option produces
a "ps" file which still must be rendered.  Thus each printed copy
must be re-rendered.  Is there a solution to this problem, shy of
using a xerox machine?  Thanks for any helpful hints.

Tim

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From: rfanta@cea.berkeley.edu (Richard Fanta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NRW news - Rumors, Jobs' talks at conferences, etc.
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:57:00
Organization: CEA @ UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: newport.cea.berkeley.edu


Any new rumors on the NRW?  Let's hear them...

It'd be nice to get some feedback from people who've been to
conferences where Jobs or other NeXT people (Tevanian, etc.) have
spoken (wasn't there a recent Fall Seybold conference or something
similar?).

Lot's of tight mouths lately.

Rick Fanta
Center for EUV Astrophysics

[I'm dying to hear all the speculation that NRW will run faster than a
Cray, set itself up, and do everything you'd ever want not only w/o
*any* programming, but even before you think of it. ;-) ;-) ;-) ]

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Center EUV Astrophysics		
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From: bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca (Blake Stone)
Subject: Re: more on why NeXT has not earned much credibility
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:03:54 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

> 1) Officially, 3.0 is NOT YET SHIPPING.  They said `it is
>    possible that some people got early copies, but we are not
>    shipping until later this week.'  In other words, certain
>    high-profile customers got their copies special to give the
>    appearance of 3.0 shipping.

Hello?  This has GOT to be wrong.  Virtually everyone I've talked
to in my area has received their 3.0 upgrade.  That includes
educational, VAR and developer purchases.  Copies bundled with
CD-ROMs, ordered individually and automatic upgrades for systems
ordered after January.

Heck, at the office we received five boxes full of 3.0 upgrades
(52 in all).  Would they have bothered just to make the
impression that they're shipping?  We only have one CD-ROM drive!

The University of Alberta has received at least 30 copies for
students, staff etc... not just campus consultants.

NeXT delivered with an acceptable delay.  Having to run an
additional beta period for a major product, causing a two month
delay in shipping, is not cause for concern.  If anything, it is
unusually prompt.  Compare Mac System 7.

Blake
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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Docs on Keyboard Definition Files
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:52:42 GMT

Can someone tell me where to find the Docs on the Keyboard
Definition files?  (Hopefully in /NextDev)
Thanks.
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                 UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                   BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Subject: Re: Handling foreign payments.
Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 21:25:11 GMT

David V. Henkel-Wallace writes
>    My problem is that my bank wants $35 to turn a check drawn on a
>    German bank into dollars in my account.  This is _not_ including
>    changing the money, if that's needed.  Since NeXT is such a  
world-wide
>    machine, I'm most likely not alone in this problem.  But, I've
>    never seen any postings about it.
> 
> We quote our prices in dollars ask that foreign payments be made by
> wire xfer.  Since these come in via the federal reserve clearing
> system, our bank doesn't charge for these.
> 
> We have a standard letter we fax to overseas customers, for them to
> give to _their_ bank.  It lists our bank's name, address, telex #,
> federal bank ID (it maybe called something else -- don't have the
> letter in front of me) etc.
> 

Warning: not all banks do this for free.  My bank, for one, charges  
ten dollars for the privilege of handling your wire for you.  Also, I  
believe there is a charge to the sender.


--
-
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Subject: Re: Where are the Philips monitors built?
Organization: Me
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:38:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.153807.17981@cube.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
>In article <2039@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>> I have seen a lot of complaints about the Philips monitors (mainly before I
>> went on vacation 4 weeks ago). But Philips happens to have the head office
>> here in The Netherlands, and I happen to know a Philips manager, who was
>> shocked by my story that I had seen many complaints about Philips on the net
>> and that people were being told to buy Sony.
>> 
>> He volunteered to get the message to the management. So I only need to know
>> what complaints there are about the Philips monitors and especially where  
>they
>> are made (Taiwan? Italy?).
>> 
>> Mail me, and I will try to see that the info gets to the right place.
>> 
>> -- 
>> wierda@ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) || I speak for myself and not for my  
>employer.
>> (+31) 2154 84415/(+31) 35 833539  || Support the League for Programming  
>Freedom!
>> 	"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
>> 	(Almost from) Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
>
>He can't do anything about it, Philips TV's look just as bad.  It's an issue of  
>phosphers.  Sony has the best, the best red in specific.
>
>Jim

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.  Here you have a guy in
management who is not only open to suggestions but who is even
*anxious* to hear specific ways in which they can improve their 
product, and all you can do is say "forget it, you don't stand a 
chance".  I guess it's more fun to complain about why something 
is a piece of junk than it is to offer constructive suggestions 
on how it can be made better.


Lusty Wench
From: jvargas@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Jeffrey Vargas)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:12:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Seybold Conference in SF -- where/how ?
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc

Seybold San Francisco is a conference and exposition for the computer
publishing industry.  It has seminars and classes on every aspect of
computer publishing.  Prices vary, depending on what you want to see.  The
exposition costs $30 at the door.

It's held at Moscone Center, south of Market Stree on Howard and Fourth.


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From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Subject: Re: Printing (HP) "binary" files
In-reply-to: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu's message of Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:35:31 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA
Date: 9 Sep 92 05:05:41 GMT

I remember a utility called PCL2PS (or was it the other way around?)
which can translate PCL to postscript.  Try archie for finding it.
--
Hardy 
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From: Tim.Buck@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Tim Buck)
Subject: Re: question: SoftPC and spice
Summary: need mouse driver
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:32:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.221211.4413@rtsg.mot.com> schulkow@tophat2 (Diane Schulkowski) writes:
>I have a NeXT Colorstation, and I would like to run Spice (a DOS app for  
>circuit analysis) using SoftPC.  I'm having a problem using the mouse.
>
>Although I have turned on the mouse capability with SoftPC, and I can  
>control the arrow cursor, I cannot use the buttons to select a menu item.   
>Is there a special procedure for using the NeXT mouse with DOS  
>applications?
>
>I tried to search the FAQ list (I have one in LocalApps), but I did not  
>see the answer to this.  Is there a FAQ list on the net?
>
>Thanks for any insight into this problem.
>
>Diane Schulkowski
>schulkow@rtsg.mot.com

You need the Insignia mouse driver in your startup files (it's either
MOUSE.SYS in CONFIG.SYS or MOUSE.COM in AUTOEXEC.BAT).  The mouse driver can
be found in the C:\INSIGNIA directory.

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From: heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd Heberlei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Encription in 3.0?
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:59:14 GMT
Reply-To: heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu
Organization: Computer Science, University of California at Davis.

> Did FEE encription make it into the 3.0 Mail.app?

No.

Due to restrictions on export of encryption software,
NeXT would not have been allowed to sell the software
outside the United States.  Why the chose not to release
both an international version and a domestic version, I
don't know. [see fall issue of NeXTWORLD pg. 31]

Below is another hypothesis.  Does anyone have any idea
if there is any truth behind this?

I believe FEE is a public key system (if it isn't, please
ignore the rest of this message, and I apologize for the
bandwidth).  If it is, there
may be some patent problems as well.  Public Key Partners
(or something like that, a sister company to RSA Inc) claims
to hold the patent rights to public key encryption (actually
Stanford owns the patent, but PKP has licensed it).  PKP is
trying to stop the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) from making a public key signature
alg., DSS, a national standard.

So... if FEE is based on public and private keys, PKP might
be able to force NeXT to pay for the use of it.

Any ideas if this might be the case?

Todd
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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: ZyXEL 1496 modem
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:27:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.203755.22276@fnbc.com> billb@fnbc.com (Bill Burcham) writes:

[ ]
>
>Yeah.  I got mine from:  Black & White Software (Craig Goss):   
>(802)496-5113.  He bundles a ZyXel in a _black_ case, with the _latest_  
>ROMs that he has worked w/ ZyXel to tweak for the bundled NXFax software.   
>You pay a premium for this level of integration, but mine worked  
>flawlessly out of the box, and will auto-determine whether incoming calls  
>are Fax, Modem, or Voice, and take appropriate action.

I don't want to be paranoid, but is there any relationship at all with the
Neuron people? They were also, towards the end, bundling sw with a ZyXel.
Does Black& White software have an e-mail address? 
>
>As Doctor Pournelle would say:  "Highly Recommended"

Hmm...that's what NeXTWorld said about the Neuron (3 cubes). Have you uucp'd
it?
 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
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