HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: Fax Modems and CD ROMs
Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:37:21 GMT

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?"


The reason is that the fax-drivers for NeXTstep 2.0 were written at a very  
early stage of the class-2 development.  So NeXT wrote drivers that worked with  
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.


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: chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes)
Subject: Re: Printer Accounting
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, New York City
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:33:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.005549.1702@nic.csu.net> sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes:
how to add printer accounting...
>in the shell/terminal window, do "cat > /usr/adm/NeXTprinter.acct"
>and, presss Ctrl-D to create the empty file.

Actually the appropriate Unix way of creating an empty file is
"touch filename"  Creates if none existed, leaves it if there
"cp /dev/null filename" make an empty file (if there before or not)


Not to pick nits, but it's a VERY important shell script trick


chuck

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chuck yerkes         chuck@fsg.com
sys. admin
fusion systems group, NY NY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: POP3 Server for NeXT
Keywords: POP, SysAdmin
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:35:14 GMT


mikes@velo.ucr.edu (Mike Shebanek) writes:
|I got the POP3 version using anonymous FTP from Cal Berkeley. 

  Anyone got a pop **client** for a Next?  I may well end up with a
number of ``lonely'' nexts without a mailhub to be had, but I do have
pop services everywhere (:-))

--dave
-- 
David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
Willowdale, Ontario,  | He's so smart he's dumb.
CANADA. 416-223-8968  |     -- Joyce Collier-Brown
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hyl@cs.brown.edu (Heng-Yi Lin)
Subject: Getting incoming mail within a non-Netinfo network
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Summary: how do I add a mailhost to the hosts database
Keywords: network, mail
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:11:03 GMT

Hi all,

I just spent several hours reading the System Admin manual but still
could not fix this problem.  I have a stand-alone NeXTCube (NS2.0)
twisted-paired to a non-Netinfo network.  The machine is configured
with an assigned + registered hostname (b206d.tsq.brown.edu) in the
brown.edu domain and an assigned IP address (you should be able to
nslookup the machine).  I have also enabled BIND using the brown.edu
nameserver.

So far ftp, rlogin, telnet, as well as outgoing mail work correctly.
The problem is that incoming mail messages still are not delivered
correctly -- they bounced back to the sender (you can try this too,
mail hlin@b206d.tsq.brown.edu).  When I boot the machine, I get this:

	mount: mailhost not in hosts database
		giving up on /usr/spool/mail
	mount: mailhost not in hosts database
		giving up on /LocalLibrary/Images/People

Any tips on how to add mailhost to the hosts database or how to
resolve this situation are appreciated.  Please e-mail as I doubt this
will be of general interest.  Thanks.

-- Heng

[] Heng-Yi Lin, hyl@cs.brown.edu, hyl@browncs.BITNET
[] PO Box 4901, Brown Univ., Providence, RI 02912
[] Phone/Fax: 401.274.4217 or Phone: 401.863.4988
From: jmd@banana.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk partitioning question.
Date: 4 Apr 92 14:58:00 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.

I'm now (1 year later) considering partitioning my 1.4 gb harddisk.  I
initially chose not to, as I was only familiar with PC and MAC partitioning,
which have fixed sizes to the partitions.  But now, I'm setting it up as a
netboot server, and am having the usual NFS server conflicts.  I'm not finding
any references to fixed sizes in Mach partitions, so I'm wondering if both
partitions can draw from the same free pool?  If so, that would remove any
concerns I have at trying to decide what size each partition needs to be.

Jim De Arras
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: More on NFS Export problems
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 16:28:50 GMT

In <1992Apr7.200756.4257@knipp.en.open.de> elmar@knipp.en.open.de (Elmar Knipp) writes:


>I am not sure, but I think that you had to reboot 
>a NeXT to make changes in /etc/export are recognized
>from NFS-Server.

Not true, just run 'exportfs' with appropriate parameters. 

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Funke, Gasteinerstr. 29, 1000 Berlin 31, Germany, +49-30-8618224  
** Registered NeXT Developer **
E-mail:  thf@zelator.in-berlin.de
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From: altenber@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Typing "*" on executables:  HELP.
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:04:42 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Originator: altenber@soc13.acpub.duke.edu

For some reason, for me to run executables from a C-shell, I have to add an
asterisk after the executable's name.  (This is not a problem for Bourne Shells).
For example:

localhost> runthis
runthis: Command not found.
localhost> runthis*
Now the program runs.

localhost> ls -l runthis
-rwxr-xr-x  1 me         57520 Apr 12 12:26 runthis*
localhost> cp runthis* runthis
cp: runthis and runthis are identical (not copied).
localhost> cp runthis runthis*
cp: runthis and runthis are identical (not copied).
localhost> 


This is a real drag if I also have a file "runthis.c", because then I get:

localhost> runthis
runthis: Command not found.
localhost> runthis*
runthis*: Ambiguous.
localhost> 


What is going on here, and how do I fix it so that I don't have to type the
durn * every time I execute a program?

-Lee Altenberg
altenber@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "dump" params for DAT
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:43:45 GMT
Organization: L5 Computing

In article <3699@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> pgr@ramandu.ext.vt.edu (Patrick Robinson)  
writes:
|> intend to use dump/restore forever, I'd sure like to understand how to make
|> it work.
|> 
|> Here's the problem:  I'm having trouble understanding the man page for the
|> dump command.

Here's what I use on 60m tape:
dump 0usdf 2352 593480 /dev/rst0

Divide 2352 by 12 and you get roughly 60m. The 's' param seems to be in
inches, not feet.

Dump/restore don't grok DCLZ compression. Unless you have some readout
on your drive it will basically just boost your throughput. You will also
find the file recovery speed of restore to be somewhat ridiculous, it doesn't
block address the tape, it streams it.

Scotty
From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem using a MO DISC from SONY SMO D501
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:12:12 GMT

Christoph Draxler writes
> The driver on our NeXT supports only single-sided MO discs, but the 
> SONY MO Disc is double-sided. It is possible to store data on this MO
> disc with the NeXT (we did it), but  
>    - only single-sided, and
>    - this data cannot be read on SUNs or DECstations.


Wow! I knew you could use the Canon double-sided disk, but the Sonys?


Really!!??

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: System Admin. & Re: Adobe Systems Incorporated -- and a Question
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:32:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.165330.3692@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca>
	jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes:
>I cannot emphasize enough the importance of keeping non-NeXT-distribution  
>stuff separate from those that come with the "official" operating system.  

I really wish 3rd party vendors would take that to heart!

One of the most serious offenders I've seen is Pencom's co-Xist
2.1.1, which feels it has some God-given right to scribble all
over /NextLibrary and /usr/lib.  Their "Setup" script was beyond
hope of easy repair, but the only "nonobvious" thing it does is
run ranlib on their libraries, which work just fine installed in
their *proper* place--/usr/local/lib.  Actually, I just dropped
                           ^^^^^
symlinks there--and four more for /usr/co-Xist and
/usr/{bin,include,lib}/X11.  It has absolutely no business in
/NextAnything.

Let's just say that I'm exceedingly disappointed with Pencom,
and (I know NeXT is reading this) I hope NeXT starts applying
extreme negative pressure to developers whose products take such
unreasonable liberties.

					-=EPS=-
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HALP! Can't print to remote on non-ni network
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:35:44 GMT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada

Rich Winkel writes
> I can print a test page from the printmanager, but every other 
> application says "No Printer Chosen" in the print dialog box.
> There's no scrollable menu of printers to choose from, unlike
> the illustrations in the manuals.
> We're using NIS here.
> WhadoIdo?
> 
> Rich


Do this:

Below is my nidump of a network printer.
	Do an niload of this into your root netinfo domain, or if you aren't  
running network netinfo into your local domain.

Aldus|WS|lp|ps|aldus|Aldus: \
        :rm=arafel:rp=LP:lp=:ty=NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer: \
        :note=Hallway -- Everyday & draft use: \
        :sd=/u/scratch/spool/Next/Aldus:lo=lock:

You will have to change variables:
sd is spool directory.  Normally /usr/spool/NeXT/printername
rm is the name of the remote machine
rp is the name of the printer on the remote machine
ty is the type.  For remote printers it's informational ony.
note is what shows up in the printer panel comment.

Now it will show up on the printer panel.

Your host's name must either be in hosts.equiv or hosts.lpd on the remote  
machine.  Put it in hosts.lpd if you don't have an account on that machine,  
otherwise in hosts.equiv.

Hope this helps
From: azamora@hexagon.cs.indiana.edu (Tony Zamora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TeX printing on NON-NeXT printer
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:12:27 GMT
Reply-To: azamora@cs.indiana.edu
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University

In article <1992Apr14.163942.2737@vax1.umkc.edu>  writes:
> I have a user who has a NeXTStation.  Its the only one that
> I have so far.  He prints to an apple laser writer over the
> network.  He has found a way from within TeXView to change 
> the printout dpi from 400 to 300, but he must do this each
> time he prints.  Is there a way to set this printing 
> preference permenantly.

Put the following line in a file called .dvipsrc in your home directory.

D 300

This tells dvips that your printer is 300 DPI.

Tony
-- 
Tony Zamora
Department of Computer Science, Indiana University
azamora@cs.indiana.edu
"They thought it was love, but it was only the caffeine."
From: ngervae@next.com (Nik Gervae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mach equivalent of cuserid() ??
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:36:31 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <4084@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)  
writes:
> Does the NeXT have an equivalent of the subroutine cuserid()?  The Sun man  
page  
> describes it as follows:
> 
>      cuserid() returns a pointer to  a  string  representing  the
>      login  name  under which the owner of the current process is
>      logged in.  

From NeXTstep reference, volume 2 (release 2 page 3-65):

NXHomeDirectory(), NXUserName() 

  SUMMARY
    Get user's home directory and name
  LIBRARY
    libNeXT_s.a
  SYNOPSIS
    #import <appkit/Application.h>
    const char *NXHomeDirectory(void)
    const char *NXUserName(void)
  DESCRIPTION
    These functions return the user's home directory and name,
    both of which are cached at launch time.  If the user's id
    has changed since launch time or since the last time either
    of these functions was called, the values are recomputed
    using the standard C library function getpwuid().  (getpwuid()
    is described in its UNIX manual page.)
  RETURN
    NXHomeDirectory() returns a pointer to the full pathname of
    the user's home directory.  NXUserName() returns a pointer to
    the user's name.

--
Nik Gervae
Software Publications
ngervae@next.com
From: elmar@knipp.en.open.de (Elmar Knipp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More on NFS Export problems
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:07:56 GMT
Organization: Private/FRG

giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) writes:

>Thanks for all the suggestions, but most of them are one of the following:

>1. Make sure machine 2 is in the host tables
>2. Make sure that I have run "exportfs" on machine 1

>I have done these things, and rechecked them several times I still get  
>"permission denied" when machine 2 tries to NFS mount a directory from machine  
>1.  I can get it to work the other way (machine 1 mounts a directory from  
>machine 2), so this gives me the feeling it has something to do with file  
>protection modes or something I previously changed on the older machine 1.

>Any other sugestions would be greatly appreciated.

>--
>Michael Giddings                   | DNA sequencing technologies 
>giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu  | Artificial Intelligence
>giddings@cs.wisc.edu               | Sciences NeXT User Group founder
>            |---------\-----------/|\------------/---------|

I am not sure, but I think that you had to reboot 
a NeXT to make changes in /etc/export are recognized
from NFS-Server.

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From: wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Taylor UUCP and NeXTOS 2.1, problems...
Date: 12 Apr 92 12:17:55 GMT
Reply-To: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
Organization: BSO/LT, Baarn, The Netherlands

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:

	a dropped connection after a call in gives signal INT or RDWR instead
of HUP.
	the port stayes blocked after a call-in and one has to do TIOCEXCL on
it to get it working again.

People running tUUCP on call-in NeXTOS 2.1 systems are hereby invited to react
and to help.

Thanks,
-- 
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."
	Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
From: eer1@midway.uchicago.edu (Paul Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More on NFS Export problems
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:20:25 GMT
Reply-To: eer1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <12105@tamsun.tamu.edu> cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick)  
writes:
> I've changed export information in /etc/exports and then did the following  
> on many NeXTs:
> 	% exportfs -uav
> 	% exportfs -av
> 
> only to have to reboot the NeXT NFS server because the damn
> 	EXPORTFS
> didn't work!!
> 
> Now, I don't even think twice. My rule is:
> 	If you changed /etc/exports ...
> 1) do exportfs -uav
> 2) then reboot.
> 3) no kidding.
> 
> 	chuck
> 
> 

I don't know why you have to re-boot, but you should not have to.  I make  
changes to the /etc/exports file on many NeXT's on a daily basis (don't ask) and  
never have to re-boot.  One thing that you might want to try is picking up a  
product called NFS/TEST from Intercon Corp. (you need a mac to run it) and you  
will be able to see if your d's are up and running properly.
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP: 64-byte packet -> 256-byte packet
Date: 10 Apr 92 05:04:41 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com

In article <1992Apr8.144248.4078@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us>  
roberroberto@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us (Roberto Arrocha) writes:
>  In order to reduce uucp communication overhead, and improve throughput,  
>  I've been told to increase packet size from 64-byte packets to 256-byte  
>  packets.
>  
>  Any suggestions on how to set uucp to accomplish this?
>  Current setup: 040 NeXTcuce <-> Hayes ULTRA 9600 <-> UUNET (T2500)

The packet and window sizes are determined at compile time.  Get TaylorUUCP.   
It compiles fairly easily.  I have my packets set to 128 bytes and 7 packet  
windows (which is the max that our feed can handle) and I get much much better  
througput.  Taylor will let you set up to 2k packets.

However, if you are spoofing, you won't get very much more througput if any  
unless there is net-lag in your uucp link (like in mine).  I get 800+ cps on  
recieves now, but 110- cps on sends due to lag.


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
From: andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (andrew abernathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail domain name question
Date: 14 Apr 92 04:46:17 GMT
Reply-To: andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com
Organization: jhk & associates


I've set up uucp & c-news on my standalone station, but I have a problem
with mail.  My "From:" address is incorrect.  It goes out as
"andrew@wire" instead of "andrew@wire.gwinnett.com"...apparently
upstream sites are playing with the name, so I end up with something
that works, but certainly doesn't match my actual address.  Can
anyone help me with this?  (Does it have something to do with the
fact that I'm not the mail server?)

Thanks.

--
andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (NeXTmail gleefully accepted)
I'll deny I ever said it
-- 
andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (NeXTmail gleefully accepted)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.sysadmin:3025 comp.sys.next.programmer:3429
From: patl@golem.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Help!  NewsGrazer just stopped working!
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:23:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr13.192341.28611
Distribution: usa
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology


We had the same problem here.

NewsGrazer barfs on newsgroups with more than 10 components to their names.   
Someone created groups named  
"alt.pop.will.eat.itself.the.poppies.are.on.patrol" and  
"alt.pop.will.eat.itself.X.Y.and.Z.electrix.sunshine.mix" (or something like  
that).

Either of these will give NG a segmentation fault.

Have your sysadmin delete the offending groups.  Although people at NeXT have  
fixed the problem, they are not allowed to release it due to "new company  
policy".

Have a nice day.

-Pat
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Moving NextDimension to another machine
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:44:48 GMT
Reply-To: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
Distribution: usa

Is it possible to simply move the NextDimension card and display from one 040  
OS 2.1 cube to another?  I want to be sure there isnt some low level ROM  
information ooriginal that wont be found on the new machine.

Please respond ASAP, thank you very much!!


--
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: prophet@cheshire.oxy.edu (Dale LaFountain)
Subject: HELP!  No login window!
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.  USA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:14:47 GMT

I just finished reconfiguring our two-level NI domain into a
three-level domain.  For a small amount of time (about 24 hours),
this entire setup worked fine.   I followed all of the instructions 
in the Admin book and avoided the problems mentioned in NextAnswers.
The setup looks like this:

/ served by cheetah

/student - served by cheetah        /faculty - served by cheetah
cub - NFS server                      panther
jaguar - print server                 stray

The problem started when I moved a couple of nfs mounts from local
mount directories on jaguar, cheetah, and cub to the mounts directory
in the / domain.  When I rebooted any of these machines, they would
come all the way up, EXCEPT that the login window wouldn't show up.
Yes, I have a mounts directory in every level of my hierarchy, so it's
not that particular problem, although I encountered it the hard way
this weekend.  Note that I can log into these machines remotely and do
everything normally.  WindowServer and Loginwindow are both running,
too.

I managed to keep one of them up (cub) and tried to change things back
to their original setup.  However, even the original (functioning!) 
configuration didn't work.  

I also had to shift the mail server from cub to cheetah, since cub was
the old Netinfo and mail server before all this happened.  Now, nobody
except for cub can get mail through to cheetah.  And that mail gets
bounced through another machine in our domain called gate.oxy.edu,
when I have made no reference to it in cub's sendmail.sharedsub.cf!!
I changed all of the mailhost entries in /machines/host to the 
appropriate machine, moved the spool directory, fixed all of the 
sendmail.cf files, exported
cheetah's spool directory to everyone else, and restarted the sendmail
process.  All of the sharedsubsidiary machines have their DR and CR
set to cheetah, the new mail server.  What is wrong with this
picture?

I have placed a call to Next Tech. Support, who directed us to USC
Tech. support, who in turn told us to screw off unless we had a
service contract.  I called Next back again, and filed a report about
the above, and am waiting for them to return my call (hopefully
soon).

Does anyone have some helpful advice to offer?

Thanks in advance,

Dale LaFountain
System Admin, Math Dept.
Occidental College


-- 
Dale LaFountain  +1 (213)341-4275 Occidental
prophet@oxy.edu  Math Major '92,   College