HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ray@mtl.mit.edu (Ray Ghanbari)
Subject: GoldDigger help
Reply-To: ray@mtl.mit.edu
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:45:57 GMT



Has anyone gotten past level 5 in GoldDigger?  I have no idea how to get  
those 4 gold dubloons in the bottom middle of the screen.  I figured I  
somehow have to get the step ladder in the top left quadrant down to the  
middle, but the path has eluded me. Any help would be appreciated...   The  
damn game is already taking way too much time away from my thesis :-)

--
  Ray Ghanbari                   |                                 
  (617) 253-0723                 | "Talkin' bout a revolution..."  
  ray@mtl.mit.edu (NeXTmail OK)  |                                 
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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Re: PasteUp Trick!
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:05:32 GMT

zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>I urge all owners of PasteUp to try this.  Let us know if all
>versions have this cool "hidden feature".

What really needs to be tested is the reasoning behind the need for
any of this to be done at all when everyone can do it themselves.
Also, why would any of this be necessary by PasteUp?  I'll save my
$600 and pay myself every time I move the dock down or shuffle windows
about the screen.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail ok
From: eystein@smyril.fi.uib.no (Eystein Dugstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Is there a PCX-GIF or TIFF convertor somewhere
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:24:22 GMT
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway

I'm looking for a pcx-gif or pcx-tiff convertor that can run on NeXT or  
any other platform. The type of user interface is irrelevant.

Please let me know where I can find one.

Eystein Dugstad
University of Bergen, Norway
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: tcarr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Carr)
Subject: proper version of tex question.
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:52:58 GMT

A simple and probably stupid question.
Will NeXTTeX 3.0 work only on NS3.0?  I'm still on NS2.1.

How can I get a copy of NeXTTeX, version "which ever one runs on my
machine?"  

Thanks,  Tom
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Thomas W. Carr                   
Northwestern Univ., Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics
tcarr@nwu.edu  (not NeXT mailable)
From: gerilla!mgilula@uunet.UU.NET (Marshall Gilula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: NewsGrazer problems
Date: 10 Jan 1993 22:32:17 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

My uucp link is through an Amiga500(megalith) and I have manually-operating NeXTMail.  My regular
Internet node, a ND cube that is hardwired into the Internet (tigger) has a DecStation server that
does not yield to my attempts to run uucp through it....yet.    I have the opportunity to get "flat file"
unix-script skimming of Usenet newsgroups from another node and I take my flat file and read it
via NG72.3.  Because my uucp is functional, I am actually able to "r" a given article in NG, and have
my reply go via my uucp link automatically.  But I am unable to post directly to the group or to add on to
a given thread.   Forgive my slightly convoluted statement of the problem I have, but here it is.

I am using NG v 72.3 with the "flat-file" option and need to know where "inews" in supposed to 

reside.  A friend from GUN told me that his inews was in either /usr/local/bin  or /usr/bin, so I logged
out to root and made the folder, inews, in /usr/local/bin and the owner was root-wheel.  after going back to 

ordinary user level, I opened a shell, su'd to root, and cd'd to the location of the inews folder.
I then did a "chmod 4755 inews" but discovered that  I was still unable to post the group or
to "Follow up".    When I try to do so, I get the following message:

       Post failed: sh: /usr/local/bin/inews: cannot execute

Have I f****d up my set uid root to the 'inews" folder, or am I missing something very obvious?

-73-

---
Marshall F. Gilula, M.D              "El que busca mucho nada encuentra, pero  

mgilula@tigger.rsmas.miami.edu         el que busca nada mucho encuentra"
mgilula@gerilla.megalith.miami.fl.us (NeXTMail)
NeRD#1054     Co-Founder, MiamiNUG    ******standard disclaimers apply*****
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Whither jot?
Organization: P & L Systems
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:17:51 GMT

> In article <1if6foINN7to@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> joe@mathcs.emory.edu  
(Joe  
> Christy) writes:
> > I've always been a fan of jot and have quite a few notes that I've
> > always managed in jot. In NeXTStep 3.0, jot has vanished from
> > /usr/bin, but there are the undocumented (as far as I can tell) check
> > boxes in the Target Inspector Services panel of the Librarian. My
> > question is how do they work? Can I emulate the old behavior of jot,
> > i.e. writing a free from note into an automagically numbered file in a
> > directory of my choosing, which is indexed in Librarian. I tried
> > experimenting with checking the box and invoking the service from
> > Edit, but as far as I can see, nothing happened.
> > 
I never used jot in 2.x; but I have been using the jot service with 3.0.   
Both ways of invoking it work; with some text selected, which will be  
stored as a date named file; and with a filename from the Workspace.

Paul
-- 
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems                   (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501                      paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
Fax: (0494)680228                       76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: gravatt@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (Robert Howerton Gravatt)
Subject: Using Sybase SQL
Reply-To: gravatt@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:30:21 GMT

Hi:

I recently posted a request for help on Sybase and have gotten a litte  
further, but I am still in trouble.

1) The Sybase that I am using is version 4.0.2 shipped with NeXTStep 2.x  
as /NextLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty.orig/Sybase_DB-Library.pkg, not with  
1.0 as I earlier reported.

2) Upon my efforts and upon review of Doug Clapp's "The NeXT Bible", I  
have noticed that the "Sybase" which was shipped with NeXTStep v 1.0 was  
Sybase v. 4.0.  However, version 4.0 of "Sybase" has files that version  
4.0.2 does not.  Version 4.0.2 looks like:

next12csc> pwd
/afs/.Automount/nd.edu/next_mach30/usr/sybase
next12csc> ls -l
total 23
drwxr-xr-x  2 sybase      2048 Oct 12  1990 bin/
drwxrwxrwx  2 sybase      2048 Oct 10  1990 database/
drwxr-xr-x  3 sybase      6144 Oct 12  1990 doc/
drwxr-xr-x  2 sybase      2048 Oct 12  1990 include/
drwxr-xr-x  3 sybase      2048 Oct 12  1990 install/
-rw-rw-rw-  1 sybase       545 Jan  3  1990 interfaces
drwxr-xr-x  2 sybase      2048 Nov 13 14:46 lib/
drwxr-xr-x  2 sybase      2048 Oct 12  1990 msgs/
drwxr-xr-x  3 sybase      2048 Oct 12  1990 sample/
drwxr-xr-x  2 sybase      2048 Oct 12  1990 scripts/

It does not however have any of the executatbles in /usr/sybase/intall
that v. 4.0 does such as intallserver and startserver.  Moreover the
"samples" in .../sample which rely upon things in .../install that aren't  
there.

My questions are:

A)  Is the "Sybase" 4.0.2 the whole enchilata or some subpart that does
not include SQL Server but only DB-Library ?

B)  What is an SQL "server" anyway ? 

C)  Assuming that you do not have write permission to /usr/sybase and wish  
to keep your own personal interfaces file in your home directory, what do  
you need to have in this file and how do you set the enviroment variables  
etc. so you don't get:

Operating-system error:
        Connection refused
DB-Library: Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does not  
exist.
From: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Setting up a NeXT based Accounting system
Date: 3 Jan 1993 23:17:33 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu


We are looking for someone in the Washington D.C. area to help us set up a
NeXT based accounting system...does anyone know of any good software?  Is there
anyone in the D.C. area who could assist us...please email experience,
references, salary reqs., etc...please include a phone number as well...

Thanks!

-Rob
rawyatt@scf.usc.edu
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Another new feature (Was Re: Get one more free dock entry under 3.0)
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:11:41 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com


Dick Silbar writes

> Except (of course) for Communicae.  I continue to be amazed that the  
> Active Ingredient people resolutely DID NOT follow the NeXT GUI  
> guidelines, even in the latest version (v 1.35, for me) that was fixed for  
> 3.0.

The last I knew, they are defiantly proud of themselves for not doing
so, and have no plans to change.

--
 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California		Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: honor@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Honor)
Subject: Re: PasteUp Trick!
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:41:04 GMT

In article <93Jan11.174733.23721@acs.ucalgary.ca> kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kelly Thompson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.035553.24510@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>Well, I thought I would try something.  I brought up the INFO
>>panel in PasteUp (v1.1 edit 7) and held down the Alternate
>>Key while clicking on various parts of the INFO panel with 
>>the mouse.  WOW!  To my amazement, the application dock had
>>shifted to the bottom of the screen.  More clicking prompted
>>every window on the screen to float around wildly.
>>
>
>I was nosing around the app wrapper and found the 3 eps files
>that did this little magic. I hadn't seen the effect yet and
>wondered why they were there. 
>
>Kelly
>
>
>
After reading this I, of course, had to try the alt key for
myself. When I brought up the Info Panel and held down
the alt key and selected the upper right hand quadrant with
the mouse everything on the screen except the dock slowly
melted. Pretty cool.
/alex


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca)
Subject: Re: Oxyd installation?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:09:19 GMT

Well, I've done the chown and chmod, the app starts, but on this
non-networked NS Turbo with 16 meg the screen dims and the cursor
slows to a crawl, and I have to log out, when Oxyd app starts. I'm 
running 3.0 and have renamed app to Oxyd_3.0.app.

hmm..

Brooks

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From: buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
Subject: Re: OCR Software?????
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:38:06 GMT

In a previous episode on comp.sys.next.software,
athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) drops complete science:

>I am looking for some good OCR software for my NeXTstation colour turbo. We
>have a 600 dpi scanner that scans to TIFF files, and we would like to run these
>through OCR. It needs to be accurate, and capable of recognising bold, italic
>and normal text.

	I have found one OCR commercial software for the NeXT:

OCR Servant by HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
700 KB disk space req.
1,500 installed
1991 debut
$295 retail
Free phone support
Site licensing avail.
	OCR software that utilizes automatic omnifont recognition tech-
nology. Recognizes and converts scanned documents into ASCII text for
import into word processor, page layout, or desktop publishing program
or archived and retrieved later. Includes editor, layout and cut/copy/
paste functions. Supports character sizes from 8 to 36 points.

-- 
               Carlos D. Butler, buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu
     President of Butler Services--DTP, typing, and information gathering
    Champaign, IL      (217) 359-7632 Home	     (217) 373-4781 Pager
          "People often condescend what they fail to comprehend...
From: klakeman@plains.NoDak.edu (Keith N. Lakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:07:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.C0Cqvx.IoK
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <C07qDD.Hot@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Dec30.103733.1133@marcon.ka.sub.org> emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org  
>>(Evstathios Marinos) writes:
>>> 
>>> When you set the buffers to values > 255 you will get problems.
>>                                           ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>
>>Like what?
>
>Like your machine crashing all the time for no apparent reason.  I
>have seen a posting by a NeXT engineer (don't remember where,
>though) to this effect. 

I'm running my NeXTstation (32MB RAM) with 256 buffers and not having
any noticable problems.  Is this truely a bad thing to do?

-- 
Keith Lakeman				   klakeman@plains.nodak.edu (Internet)
					       uunet!plains!klakeman (UUCP)
North Dakota State University			     klakeman@plains (Bitnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: Software copyright procedure
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:52:12 GMT

In article <1ilg5aINNd1m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu
	(Art Isbell) writes:
>I've been dutifully placing copyright notices in each Objective-C file header,
>but doing the same for nibs, tiffs, dbmodels, etc. hasn't worked so well :-)
>What's the proper procedure?

For TIFFs, the proper procedure is to insert the copyright notice
in a Tag 33432 (Copyright) string [TIFF 6.0].

  N.B.: TIFF 5.0 (used prior to NS 3.0) specified the Tag 315
  (Artist) string for this purpose.

For .snd files, use  sndconvert -i  to insert the copyright
notice in the infostring.

[Do I detect a potential FAQ item here?]

					-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.text.tex
From: woo@ra-next.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo x6010 227-6 rm 315)
Subject: TeX equations to WriteNow or RTF software?
Reply-To: woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:25:57 GMT

Some time ago, there was an announcement some time ago about
a program which would take TeX equation input and output
something for WriteNow or RTF.  Unfortunately, I didn't
save it.  Can someone mail this to me?

Thanks.

--
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Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000     SPANET        24582::WOO
(415) 604-6010 (FAX) 604-4357   {hplabs,decwrl,uunet}!ames!woo
==============================================================
From: kirchner@tera.cs.umn.edu (Roger B. Kirchner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Scheme for NeXT?
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:16:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.C0r6rL.4tL
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

The best is Schematik from Gustavus Adolphus College, at ftp.gac.edu.
In pub/next/scheme -- Schematik-1.1.5.1.tar.Z.  It contains the
latest version of MIT-Scheme and has extensions for graphics and
robotics.  The source is also there.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson)
Subject: Re: PasteUp Trick!
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:22:51 GMT

In article <1itij4INNt3c@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan12.035933.27818@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>In article <C0pv1n.Fry@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu writes:
>>>zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>>>I urge all owners of PasteUp to try this.  Let us know if all
>>>>versions have this cool "hidden feature".
>
>>>What really needs to be tested is the reasoning behind the need for
>>>any of this to be done at all when everyone can do it themselves.
>>>Also, why would any of this be necessary by PasteUp?  I'll save my
>>>$600 and pay myself every time I move the dock down or shuffle windows
>>>about the screen.
>
>>>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>>>-- NeXTmail ok
>
>>Boy Jeff, why don't you take a deep breath and lighten up a bit.
>
>Right-on!  There's a couple of folks who seem to find fault with just about
>everything that RightBrain does.  What's wrong with a little surprise fun in 
>an app?  If you don't agree with the price, don't buy it.
>
>And Jeff's recent complaint about sexist ads seems pretty weak also.  I really
>don't find a woman with a green right eye and brown left eye holding a French
>horn in Chromagrafx' PixelMaster ad in NeXTWORLD to be a particularly sexist
>ad.  Maybe Chromagrafx was just demonstrating how PixelMaster could change eye
>colorings :-)
>-- 
>
>Art Isbell                                                     Cubic Solutions

I second that motion.  That ad was FAR from sexist.  Oh, but Jeff if probably
right.  That French horn is a phallic symbol, right?  And the woman was 
forced to pose for that picture under duress, right Jeff?  She was USED
by the male-dominated system, according to Jeff.  COME ON!  

Eric
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: named pipes in Edit
Date: 8 Jan 93 02:22:06 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <Jan07.182928.22404@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> scott@abyss.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Scott Denning) writes:

> Does anybody know how to save and name pipes and commands in the Utilities  
> sub-menu in Edit? 

edit ~/.commanddict ~/.pipedict and ~/.editdict for commands, pipes and the
expansion dictionary.

> how do you set Edit to default to the C-shell  
> instead of the Bourne shell when executing piped instructions?

how about 
menu_entry      csh script_name
in .pipedict

or putting
#! /bin/csh 
at the top of your script
-- 
---------------------------------------------------
Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu   NeXT mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: tom@discovery.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Karas)
Subject: FrameMaker to RTF Conversion
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:35:47 GMT

Does anyone know how to convert documents created in FrameMaker for NeXT   
to RTF format?

--
Tom Karas
BSD Information Systems
University of Chicago
5-4491 -or- tom@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: vesely@next.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Ivan Vesely)
Subject: Mathematica question
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:19:28 GMT

How do I disable the irritating warning messages that tell me I have picked  
"wrong" varible names, eg:

General::spell1: 
   Possible spelling error: new symbol name "yvalues"
     is similar to existing symbol "xvalues".

I happen to enjoy picking similar names!

--
Ivan Vesely, Electrical Engineering and Medical Biophysics
University of Western Ontario,     vesely@next.heart.rri.uwo.ca
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Bar code software that outputs to Postscript file?
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:03:17 GMT
Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <C0r7H0.MBD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:
>In a previous episode on comp.sys.next.software,
>georgen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (G. Ng) drops complete science:
>
>>Is there any software for the PC or NeXT that can create bar codes and
>>output the barcodes as postscript (ps or eps) files, rather than just simply
>>printing them out on the printer?  I'd like to incorporate the barcode into
>>a document created by Adobe Illustrator or something similar.
>
>	For the PC (if you are using Windows) there are barcode fonts
>that may be of some help. Another alternative is (from Windows still),
>use any barcode package for Windows and printing to a file, which is 
>a piece of cake.

No need to go for a PC solution.  As has been pointed out, a capable commercial
bar code NeXTSTEP app is available, but if all you need is either UPC or 3 of 9
formats, then a PD app and Service called BarCodes by Joe Freeman is available
from sonata.  Although it's a 2.0 app, I just fired it up under 3.0 and it
seems to work fine.
-- 

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.software
From: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu  (Avery Wang)
Subject: Re: [] [] [] Why is the GRAB service greyed out? (Caution: RTF) [] [] []
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 02:14:43 GMT



> In article <aGd=74+@engin.umich.edu> wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M.  
Jabi) writes:
> 
> Hi:
> I was wondering why the submenu in the Grab service is always
> greyed out? I checked preferences and they are not disabled.
> Here is what it looks like:
> 
> --
> Wassim M. Jabi                            (313) 936-0229
> Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
> 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard  Ann Arbor  Michigan 48105-2313
> wjabi@libra.arch.umich.e
du             NeXTMail-friendly

I don't know if this questin was answered already, BUT:
Answer:  You have to turn it on using Preferences.  Look in the Server  
category (the icon with the hand holding the plate with the menu on it).  It  
will be clear what you need to do.

-Avery Wang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
From: jtduran@athena.mit.edu (Jason Tomas Duran)
Subject: Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X
Organization: MIT Sloan School of Management
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:09:03 GMT

In article <C0Cqvx.IoK@ns1.nodak.edu> klakeman@plains.NoDak.edu (Keith N. Lakeman) writes:
>In article <C07qDD.Hot@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1992Dec30.103733.1133@marcon.ka.sub.org> emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org  
>>>(Evstathios Marinos) writes:
>>>> When you set the buffers to values > 255 you will get problems.
>>>Like what?
>>
>>Like your machine crashing all the time for no apparent reason.  I
>>have seen a posting by a NeXT engineer (don't remember where,
>>though) to this effect. 
>
>I'm running my NeXTstation (32MB RAM) with 256 buffers and not having
>any noticable problems.  Is this truely a bad thing to do?

	The original warning was for machines with 16 or less MB of RAM
I believe. I have been running with 512 buffers on my mono 25mhz slab
with 32MB for a few months and haven't panic'd once or had any other problems
I could remotely attribute to buffer problems...

	<jt>
From: tll@cco.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Info on MediaStation and other multimedia products?
Date: 6 Jan 1993 23:12:54 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

Looking for either an Email address or phone number for 
Imagine Multimedia, Inc., the makers of MediaStation.  

Are there any other Multimedia products out there for the NeXT?  


Thanks, 


Tal Lancaster
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