HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
Subject: Re: Mail transferring
Reply-To: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:05:56 GMT

In article <14gc24INN876@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)  
writes:
> 
> In article <1992Jul21.060941.13650@cc.tut.fi> tomi@cc.tut.fi (Heinonen Tomi)  
writes:
> >My own next is not connected to internet but I would like to read mail with  
it.
> >I have transferred mails from my schools computer by modem. (simply copying
> >/usr/spool/mail/username to my nexts /usr/spool/mail/username)
> >Now I am wondering if there is any apps that could make the same  
automatically
> >Or even better if it could send mails from my own next (using the address of 
> >schools machine).
>[description of mailservice deleted 
> Outbound mail is not so convenient.  I mail them to myself from Mail,
>[...]

Note this solution will not easily send nextmail, or put a subject
line on the mail message...

One thought is getting Kermit for the Next.  It has a server/mail mode, which
you connect to the remote next (or actually any system running the current
C-Kermit), and escape back to the remote machine and at the kermit prompt

mail filespec user@host.domain [address2...addressn]

This sends mail via your account on the remote system, sans subject line.

Since my modem costs are almost free (one plus about dial-back security), I  
typically first download my user/spool/mail/gbb to my home next, read the mail,  
use Edit to build the response.

You get the mail transferred in error free mode, you don't have to 
go up and play with the remote host's command line mail tool, and while a 
long message is tranferring, you can be reading your next message.

An obvious hack to sending NeXTmail is to create a dummy user on your
local machine, use Mail to reply to that dummy user, and then edit the
header, leaving the attachment header line in the body of the message.
Then kermit-mail the file off to the remote user.

- Geoff
--
"The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
eye with a pointed stick." - Gene Lee
---------------------------------------------------------------
Geoffrey Brunkhorst, RCF                    brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
Guggenheim 10                                    (507) 284-1805
Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905 USA     fax (507) 284-5231 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: shiva@vega.Stanford.EDU (Marcos Javier Polanco)
Subject: Mathematica Installation Difficulties
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:13:33 GMT



I finished installing Mathematica on my Nextstation last night, after  
getting
the  password from Wolfram Research.

I expected to get a prompt like IN[1] = like the Mathematica book shows.
Instead, when I click on Notebook, I get a blank page (Untitled-1) without
any prompt.

I tried clicking on different options but nothing gave me a prompt.

I believed Mathematica is installed properly: I can type Mathematica* from
the shell prompt and the Mathematica icon appears.  (Even though the
installation booklet says I should type "math" and Mathematica will  
execute.
But that didn't work.)

My apologies to Andreas Deras, whose troubles I now share.
Any help would be appreciated.

-Marcos J. Polanco
-shiva@vega.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Mail transferring
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:03:11 GMT
Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik

In article <1992Jul21.060941.13650@cc.tut.fi>  writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> My own next is not connected to internet but I would like to read mail with  
it.
> I have transferred mails from my schools computer by modem. (simply copying
> /usr/spool/mail/username to my nexts /usr/spool/mail/username)
> Now I am wondering if there is any apps that could make the same  
automatically
> Or even better if it could send mails from my own next (using the address of 
> schools machine).
> If you know anything about apps that could help me please answer!
> 
> By the way.. is there any apps that transfer news from news-server to hard  
disk by modem?
> 
> -- 
> Tomi Heinonen	 tomi@cc.tut.fi     Tampere University of Technology
>                  tomi@nic.funet.fi  NeXT programs
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>       F e e l   f r e e   t o   s e n d   N e X T M A I L

There were several suggestions to this post. But the most obvoius (maybe not  
practicable, I don't know what finish universities policies are), namely using  
uucp for BOTH mail AND news wasn't mentioned. All you need is a uucp 'account'  
on the universities side, a uucp password, a good uucp software (try taylor  
from the archives) and a propper sendmail.cf and off you go! Mail and news will  
work as if you were on the net, just that the responses will be delayed.

- Robert
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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
                   ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
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From: xtss33n@ems14.corp.mot.com (Bob Breeding)
Subject: Re: Dove Driver Needed
Reply-To: xtss33@waccvm.corp.mot.com
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:36:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.204838.6675@wam.umd.edu> rci@wam.umd.edu (Ron Crozier)  
writes:
>
>I'm in need of the Dove Fax software driver for the NeXT.
>If yu can help, please respond via E-mail
>
>ron
>..
>

Just learned from my NeXT contacts that they went chapter 11.  Time to shop.

--
Bob
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Bob Breeding                       | EMail: xtss33@waccvm.corp.mot.com  |
| Mgr, Application Engineering       |  NeXT: xtss33n@ems14.corp.mot.com  |
| Motorola Corp. Computer Services   | Voice: (602) 441-6104              |
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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Is there a zoom faxmodem driver?
Summary: Where is there a driver for the zoom faxmodem?
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:24:31 GMT

I want to know if there is a zoom faxmodem driver publicly available,
and if so where I might find it.

Thanks.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Announcing InstantTeX for NeXT computer
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:09:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA
In-reply-to: dmitri@physics's message of Mon, 20 Jul 92 05:15:37 GMT

Why pay $ 150 if you can TeX for free using the latest and best
NeXTTeX+TeXview (thanks to Tom Rokicki) available on
labrea.stanford.edu.
There too you can "instantly" (by pressing a button or using a
keyboard shortcut) re-TeX (LaTeX, AMSTeX, BibTeX, SliTeX, ...) your
document and have it pop up in the big TeXview previewer. 
In addition you can use your favorite editor.
Or if you are an emacs-user, there is the Free Auc-TeX package 
available from iesd.auc.dk, where you can process, preview, and print
your TeX file without leaving your emacs-buffer.
--
Hardy 
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From: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Subject: Re: AGH! NewsGrazer and Mail gang up & destroy work!
Reply-To: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:17:17 GMT

In article <Bs0CIA.C4r@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)  
writes:
> robert@metropolis.com (Robert Munyer) writes:
> 
> 
> >In article <1992Jul26.065529.23264@metropolis.com> robert@metropolis.com
> >(Robert Munyer) writes:
> 
> >> Run Mail.  Read an incoming message.  Spend 45 minutes composing a reply.
> >> Don't send it just yet.  Run NewsGrazer.  Read an article.  Hit the  
"Reply"
> >> button.  Your PRE-EXISTING Send window comes to the front, and the reply  
you
> >> spent all that time writing gets DELETED and replaced by the article text.
> 
> Did the same to me...I just learned not to do anything until I am
> done with that window after the first couple of times it did that to
> me...

Same to me as well. Maybe we should change its name to MailMuncher?

I tried sending a bug report to newsgrazer@next.com (as suggested by Info  
Panel) - no response.
--
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: PasteUp released?
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:51:33 GMT
Organization: Apple Haters synonymous, Department of Computing, IC, London


Basically what I would like to know is, has PasteUp been released in
the US yet? A dealer here in the UK says July 30th, but before they
told us June 30th, so what could be happening?

Secondly, if it has been released in the UK, what is it like? Can it
do all that Glenn Reid (thanks for some early info Glenn) assured me
it it would be able to?


James
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jrg@uk.ac.ic.doc (JANET)                     180, Queen's Gate, LONDON SW7 2BZ
jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk, (everyone else!); jgrinter@nyx.cs.du.edu (slower replies)
UUCP:  jrg@icdoc.UUCP, ..!uknet!icdoc!jrg   "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
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From: tpugh@oce.orst.edu (Tim Pugh)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Update (NOT!):  No current volume - No NeXT V6.0
Keywords: dissatisfied
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:46:51 GMT


I have not purchased WP, 'cause they have not offered me their best software.  

WP for the NeXT is missing many advanced word processing features that appear  
to be standard features in word processors today.  I would have purchased their  
word processor with WP v5.1 features but it was never offered or announced as a  
future NeXT product.  

The WP product appears to be going no where on the NeXT.  I'd be better off  
buying FrameMaker or some other product than investing my dollars or anyone  
else's dollars into WP for NeXT machines or for mixed machine networks.   
FrameMaker is much more feature rich than WP on the NeXT and runs on a variety  
of machines.  Today, I would not recommend WP.  It is hard to recommend  
software with no future.  Tomorrow...what are my choices?

Word Perfect does have a chance to gain on Microsoft and others in the word  
processing market by having the same word process on all computer platforms.   
Most companys have several different computer systems, if you can buy the same  
word processor on every computer system, then the company will buy the same  
word processor for every computer system for compatibility issues. Microsoft  
has no interest in being platform independent.  Look at the platforms currently  
supported. And PC DOS machines are a dead end.  Will PC DOS survive the 90's?   
I think not!

I would not be writing here if I did not want WP to be a success.  But they  
appear to be missing the boat.

Tim Pugh
Visual Engineering Solutions
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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Mail.app won't read mail in spool dir
Reply-To: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:13:27 GMT

When I start up Mail.app, it won't read the new mail that has come in.
Even when I press New Mail, it doesn't do it.  When I hit Compact, the
app shuts down.  I have the proper permissions set on my mail in the
spool dir and the proper dirs set up for ail.app, but this still
occurs.  Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks for your help.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please
From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Update (NOT!):  No current volume - No NeXT V6.0
Date: 30 Jul 92 06:09:15 GMT
Organization: Gore Enterprises

Well, I do own a copy of WordPerfect, and it's a nice proof of concept.

As a product, it stinks.  I swear, the program's artificial intelligence.  It  
ARGUES with you!  "Nah, you don't really want that graphic to be 3.5"x2.5".   
Here, I'll make it a nice 3.273"x2.034" for you."  "Here, let me move this  
figure two pages down."  Or, my favorite:  "You must be tired.  Let me make  
all of the pages blank."

Of every hour I use WP, about 40 minutes are used to undo its spontaneous  
changes.  I do "save" every five minutes, and "revert to saved" three minutes  
after each "save."

If 6.0 is another prototype thrown at us, I'm not paying a red cent for the  
upgrade.  As far as I'm concerned, they still owe us a working version.  And  
an apology.

Jacob
--
Jacob Gore		Jacob@Gore.Com			csn!gore!jacob
         Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: gtoews@engr.UVic.CA (Greg  Toews)
Subject: KPerfmon and DrivePerformance
Reply-To: gtoews@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 20:02:42 GMT

I just downloaded KPerfmon.Z and DrivePerformance.Z 

These are not executable and I would guess that I need
to compile or assemble them.  Exactly how do I get them
to run.

Thanks,

Greg



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From: root@proxima.cc.colorado.edu (Operator)
Subject: Wanted: double sided printing
Keywords: printer
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:54:58 GMT

Is there a utility out there that allows for double sided printing on the  
NeXT laserwriter?

- Orion
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: cawc@writing.cawc.yorku.ca (Writing Centre Guest)
Subject: Nisus
Organization: York University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:59:24 GMT



Is Nisus available for the NeXT?  Is there an FTP-able demo?
Are there any comments regarding Nisus on the NeXT?

Thanks,

Jason@writer.yorku.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: laplace!samp (Sam Pigg)
Subject: Re: AGH!  NewsGrazer and Mail gang up & destroy work!
Reply-To: laplace!samp@tscs.tscs.com
Organization: Anti-Tramua Inc.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:15:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.065529.23264@metropolis.com> robert@metropolis.com  
(Robert Munyer) writes:
> 
> Run Mail.  Read an incoming message.  Spend 45 minutes composing a reply.
> Don't send it just yet.  Run NewsGrazer.  Read an article.  Hit the "Reply"
> button.  Your PRE-EXISTING Send window comes to the front, and the reply you
> spent all that time writing gets DELETED and replaced by the article text.
> 
> I don't know if it's NewsGrazer's fault or Mail's fault, but I know it  
sucks.
> 
> Be careful to stay away from this one!
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Robert Munyer            |   "I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid."
> robert@metropolis.com    |      -- Bishop, _Aliens_
> 

The strange thing is that it pops up another send window, which isn't used.
Some bug in selecting the active send window to paste the quoted article in
I guess. Very irritating.
--
Sam Pigg				NeXTMail Welcome
laplace!samp@tscs.tscs.com		dt1acaa@cfraix.cfr.usf.edu
PGP public key available by fingering my cfraix account.
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From: overlord@leland.stanford.edu (Marcos Polanco)
Subject: Re: Mathematica Installation Difficulties
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 06:37:30 GMT



Sorry to take up the bandwidth; flame me if you like, but

I try the Enter key and nothing happens. I get the beep, like
Mma finished computation and the bracket on the right side of the screen
turns to an outline, but I get no answer back!

Thanks to those who have helped me up to now...


-Marcos J. Polanco
-shiva@vega.stanford.edu
From: ppoh@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu (Paul B. Poh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: X11R5 - Work on a Monochrome NeXTstation Turbo?
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:53:56 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA


In article <1992Jul24.212753.10077@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> captain@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Andrew T. Foster) writes:

>    I have the X11R5 distribution for the Color NeXTstation Turbo. My  
>  question is will it work on a regular monochrome NeXTstation Turbo.
>  Anyone know?

No, I'm afraid that the current binaries and source are setup to only run
on a Color Turbo. The sources are available if you are willing to hack on
it. Unfortunedly, I do not have a mono turbo slab to work on. I will be
happy to help anyone who is willing to fix the server for mono slabs.

--
Paul Poh                        Unix Systems Programmer
ppoh@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu     Computer Services, Tufts University
From: snmeller@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Sebastian Meller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: video titeling software
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:49:31 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany

Hello,
I'm working on a NeXT cube with dimension card, which was bought
in our institute to produce trailers, undertiteling, little 
2-D animations in video films we make.
But our problem is that we have no software for this purpose.
Please give me a hint how and where to get programs that we could use, 
(and the prices..).

Thanks,  
     Sebastian
---
Sebastian Meller:snmeller@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Informatik-Student 
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From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: KPerfmon and DrivePerformance
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 13:34:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.200242.7305@sol.UVic.CA> gtoews@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>I just downloaded KPerfmon.Z and DrivePerformance.Z 
>
>These are not executable and I would guess that I need
>to compile or assemble them.  Exactly how do I get them
>to run.

They were simply compressed pather than tar'ed.  Compress does not
save the file rights, so you have to make them executable.


andrew


-- 
andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern      | "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
Cube Technologies, Inc. |  If I am only for myself, who am I?" -Hillel
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From: burkhold@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Thomas Kelly Burkholder)
Subject: McGill's Mouse-X
Keywords: X, colour, mouse-x
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:43:48 GMT

Hi all -

First, I apologize for asking what must be a very old question...

I just installed the Mouse-X package from McGill that I down-loaded from  
purdue on a Colour NeXTstation, naively thinking that it would probably  
work.  Actually, it does sort-of work - when I run it, it takes over the  
entire screen, as it should, and shows me eight miniature x-windows  
screens in eight different (vibrant) colours across the top of the screen,  
each about 1.5 inches square.  Then it opens xterms in all of them, and I  
can see by typing that they are actually working x-terminals, although  
they are way too small to be useful.  I suppose the reason I get eight  
smaller screens has something to do with the different screen  
architectures in color nextstations versus monochrome ones.

Anyway, from all of this, it is probably obvious what my question is - is  
there, and how do I get, a version of McGill's mouse-X that will run on my  
Colour NeXTStation - 25 ?

Thanks a lot, and, again, sorry if this is _really_ old. :--)

Thomas
burkhold@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca
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From: cozza@primate.cshl.org (Steven Cozza)
Subject: BackSpace
Originator: cozza@primate.cshl.org
Keywords: BackSpace
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 18:27:12 GMT

I would like to get a copy of BackSpace, but I don't know of very many NeXT
owners in my area.  In fact on my campus I am the only NeXT owner I know of.
Could somebody please contact me if they have this program?  Thanks in
advance.

Steve
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From: bungi@carson.u.washington.edu (Timothy J. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Response to Omni Group font software questions
Keywords: Omni Group, font
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:17:44 GMT
Organization: University of Washington


  Since I've received so many responses to my posting about Omni Group's
font software, I thought I'd just post/mail a summary response.

Schedule:
 None.  We have made a good deal of progress, but there is no way to know
 when, or even *if*, we will release.  So if this doesn't happen, don't be
 surprised in the least.  If you need something right now, don't wait.

Price:
  Even less firm than the schedule.

Compatibility:
  Right now it can parse all the Type1 fonts (excluding Ohlfs, since it
  simply is a 'link' to Courier) in /NextDeveloper/Fonts and all the Type1
  fonts from Fontographer that I have.  The oldest version of FG which was
  sampled for conversion was 3.1.  We handle various nasties that FG
  performs on its output, such as producing illegal encoding vectors
  (according to the Black Book), using \r instead of \n for newline, and
  telling lies about how many character strings are present.  

  Nothing has been done with TrueType or MS-DOS PS-fonts, although it
  sounds likely. 

  Type3 support will probably be limited since the parsing difficulties
  would be very large.  Type1 is better any way. 

Features (current and future):
  Type1 generation from bitmaps or user provided outlines
  Adjustable coarseness of bitmap->outline conversion
  Conversion from various non-NeXT formats to NeXT format
  Snap grid
  Auto hinting
  Subroutine optimization
  - anything else you would like to see? let me know -
  
Beta Testing:
  ... will be arranged when we have a schedule.  If you've already
  requested to be a beta, we'll let you know when that is.
From: matt@karazm.math.uh.edu (Matt Emerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: avoiding swapfile problems
Summary: put a hiwat on the size of your swapfile
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:18:52 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math

A good way to avoid having the swapfile grow to fill your disk is to put
something like the following in /etc/swaptab

/private/vm/swapfile    lowat=20971520,hiwat=42000000

This way, the swapfile won't get any bigger than the value you set for hiwat.
I seem to remember that it's important not to add any spaces between
the comma or equals sign and their surrounding words.

When you reboot, the system will truncate the swapfile to whatever lowat is.
-matt
--
Matt Emerson
matt@karazm.math.uh.edu
From: craigh@domino.sps.mot.com (Craig Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: *wanted* : GIF viewer on NeXT
Keywords: GIF
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:55:45 GMT
Organization: SPS

In article <37414@imag.imag.fr> noyau@minet (Eric NOYAU) writes:
> Where can I find any GIF viewer for my NeXT ?

Get ImageViewer from one of the archive sites; i.e., either  
sonata.cc.purdue.edu or cs.orst.edu.  This is a feebee and works great.

--
Craig O. Hansen       
Phone: (602) 897-5394
FAX:   (602) 897-3822           
NeXTmail: craigh@domino.sps.mot.com
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