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From: lemson@fnbc.com (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: 3.0 right to use license without CD?
Reply-To: lemson@fnbc.com
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:39:30 GMT

In article <SCV-GPC@engin.umich.edu> wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M.  
Jabi) writes:
> I don't think I am divulging any secrets here (I hope not), but
> I heard that NeXT will offer a right-to-use license with no media
> for $99 (educational?!!?)

No, it's no secret.  That's close to the educational quantity discount.   
The standard <10 pcs upgrade discount is your regular 30% or whatever your  
campus gets off.
If you buy between 10 and 49 copies, you get a higher discount, and above  
50 is even more.  Some campuses' computer stores are putting together big  
orders for people who don't want to keep a CD-ROM (you only get 10 discs  
with the 50+ special, no matter how many licenses you buy).  Contact your  
campus computer reseller for more info on any sort of group deal they  
might be doing.  The purchases have to be all together on one purchase  
order to get the discount.  Many campuses may have already made their  
purchases, this was announced several months ago.
Most campuses don't want to bother with such a big production, and feel  
that most people are going to want to keep a CD-ROM for backups.

No printed docs come with this upgrade, so there is no issue about that  
(that was the first thing I called about back when this was announced).

--
David Lemson                                           (312) 732-4741
FNBC Sys Admin (Summer) UIUC NeXT Campus Consultant(rest of the time)
E-mail to: lemson@fnbc.com                          NeXTMail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: sbgreene@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steven Greene)
Subject: Trouble telnetting to my NeXT
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:18:21 GMT

I have a NeXT attached to our campus network.  Elsewhere, there are a bunch
of IBM PC's running NCSA Telnet PU 2.2TN.6 that you can use to connect
to many machines on campus, for which they seem to work fine.  However,
when I use them to telnet to my NeXT, I have the following problems:
(I set the terminal type to vt100.)

1) Characters you type are not echoed to the screen at login, or
within mail or write.  However, they are echoed at the Unix prompt.

2) Ctrl-h seems to be captured somewhere, so I can't send a ctrl-h
to Emacs.  Also, when I type enter within Emacs, I got the following
in the message line: "Symbol's value as variable is void: xxx" where
xxx is the last thing typed on that line.

As is probably apparent from this note, I'm not too familiar with the
intricacies of Unix or communications, so any assistance would be
appreciated.
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From: dmitri@physics (Dmitri Linde)
Subject: InstantTeX now does drag and drop pictures
Organization: none
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 23:11:02 GMT

There have been very many requests for this feature...

	With InstantTeX, you can now insert pictures into your
TeX files, just by dragging them into the file windows. You can
also send the files with pictures to people who do not have NeXTs.
The new demo version is available from nova.cc.purdue.edu as
/pub/next/submissions/InstantTeX.tar.

		- Dmitri Linde
dmitri@StarConn.com
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From: aj681@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Carlin Wiegner)
Subject: Re: NeXT's vs. mainframes -- sales of 6000 machines
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 14:32:47 GMT


oh, I agree.... At first, only one division of 500 people or
so should be converted and then division by division they would
convert over. 500 people is just about right to see if it can
really work...

UPDATE: I found out that most of their processing is done at
night in batches. Thus, a distributed processing network would
work. Just leave the machines on at night when you go home and
the 500 machines would chug away at the claims, etc.
CW
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From: blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU (Tom Blenko)
Subject: Allegro Common Lisp performance on NeXT?
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:52:26 GMT

I am soliciting performance reports for Allegro Common Lisp on NeXT
machines (please specify which one), and would appreciate comparisons
with Sun Common Lisp on Sun-2's if you have them. I have the Gabriel
benchmarks, full-scale application data would be more useful.

Also, time (to reply) is of the essence!

	Tom
From: bavenell@next.com (Bette Avenell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: STOLEN NeXTstation
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:27:34 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul14.165812.19297@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>  
jporter@picard.ksc.nasa.gov writes:
> This is great, but I have a question:  If I wish to buy a used NeXT, can I  
> check the numbers with you to make sure my fingers (and pocketbook) don't get  
> burned?
> 
> John Porter
> jporter@picard.ksc.nasa.gov

Yes you can.  I checked with Paula and she said she'd be glad to do this. Email  
Paula at plorenz@next.com with the serial number that's on the cube or pizza  
box and she'll be able to tell you if it's hot or not.

Bette Avenell
bavenell@next.com
From: ssietz@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Steven Sietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Emacs app as default editor
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:16:44 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I just installed the app yesterday.  I tried a dwrite Workspace
DefaultOpenApp Emacs to set it up as the default editor but it didn't
work properly.  After I logged out and in again, I couldn't open up
any of the text files (not even with Edit).  Any suggestions??

		-Steve-
-- 
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77A West Bluebell Lane  |  uucp:      {backbone}!rutgers!cs.rutgers.edu!ssietz
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054  |
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From: heller@lisboa (Helmut Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.graphics
Subject: color eps => TIFF with high resolution??
Keywords: eps, color, TIFF, PICT, file formats, image conversion
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:10:57 GMT
Reply-To: heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Hello all,

I need help in converting color eps files to TIFF *with high resolution*, not just  
with 72dpi screen resolution.

Let me explain my problem in more detail: we can use a slide recorder (4000 lines  
resolution), which is unfortunately connected to a Mac IIfx. The only format it  
accepts is Mac PICT format. When I compose my presentation slide on the NeXT, all I  
end up with is a nice color eps file (I use Adobe3, with imported eps files from  
other machines [those files may contain pixel graphic from screen dumps], to compose  
the graphic part, then I use LaTeX to compose the page [with text and graphic],  
dvips makes a ps file out of the one page [even with the -E option it most often not  
able to produce eps, only ps], then I place this in a new Adobe file and give it an  
invisible surrounding box and save it as eps with all placements included).

Now I have a high res (I can choose a high custom resolution in dvips) color eps  
file. My problem is: I could not find an app which could transform this into a *high  
res* PICT file. Well, once I would have a high res TIFF file I would know how to  
convert that to high res PICT, but all the apps I tested (Scene, ImageViewer, Icon,  
Appsoft, Draw) that can convert to TIFF save the TIFF file with only 72dpi,  
presumably the screen resolution. And this is just not enough for the slide  
recorder. Also, the TeX test is very hard to read as parts of the characters are  
simply missing (e.g. the horizontal bar of a capital H).

I also looked into pbmplus, the utha raster toolkit, and the SDSC image conversion  
utilities but none could READ eps, only write it! I also looked into comp.graphics  
but didn't find anything in the FAQ lists. 

Here my question: is eps a one way road? Once eps, eps for ever? Everything on the  
NeXt is geared towards eps, but is there no way to convert it to something else  
*without loosing resolution* so that one could use output media available on other  
computers?

Please reply by e-mail or follow-up to comp.sys.next.misc

Thanks a lot,
--
Servus, Helmut  (W9/DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail preferred________________
heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu   "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" 
FAX:   (217)244-8371                      ZEN, one of BLAKES7                
Phone: (217)244-6914        -------------------------------------------------
Helmut Heller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute
Theoretical Biophysics Group, Room 3143, MC 251
From: wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Powering on at a certain time with upgraded Cube?
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:45:15 GMT
Reply-To: gerben@rna.ltb.bso.nl
Organization: BSO/LT, Baarn, The Netherlands

Dear everybody,

	I was wondering if I will be able to make an arrangement where I can
make my computer turn on/off at certain times. I was looking into:

	Timed power, power turns on at 18.00, machine boots
		Machine does things...
	halt performed at 20.00
	Power shutdown at 20:10

The weak point is of course that to boot the machine I have to press the
"Power" button on the keyboard. Is there a way I can make the machine forget
about the power button at power up time?

This is an upgraded NeXTcube running 2.1

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: mikes@ceco.ceco.com (Michael Stepniczka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: how do sz, rz work?
Summary: How do I connect the serial port to rz
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:08:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co., Chicago, IL

I've downloaded the sz and rz sources and executables from nova,
but I haven't been able to find any documentation on how to get
the programs to send and receive data to the serial ports. Is there
some shell program I'm missing? Can I use the terminal window? Thanks in advance.


						Mike Stepniczka
						ceco!mikes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: 3.0 right to use license without CD?
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:23:29 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.174854.6556@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> tom@cse.fau.edu  
(Tom Horton) writes:
> Does anyone know if NeXT plans to offer a right-to-use license/upgrade  
> *without* the CD for less money than buying 3.0 on CD?   This would  
benefit  
> sites with more than one machine, and folks with personal machines and  
access  
> to a CD-drive and CD at work.   If so, does anyone know the list price?
> Thanks,
> Tom
> --
> 
I've heard of no plans to do this. The cost of duplicating and  
distributing a CD-ROM are so low (they come "free" in periodicals now)  
that I can't imagine that it would significantly affect the upgrade cost  
anyway. Seems $295 isn't a bad price for the license itself.

Gordon
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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Subject: Using MANPATH on Next
Reply-To: sanguish@digifix.com
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:08:38 GMT

We are wanting to set up the MANPATH enviroment variable for our users so that  
it searches

/usr/man
/usr/local/man
~/Unix/man

Unfortunately, we haven't had any success as yet.

Any suggestions?


Thanks

Scott

-- 
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
From: laroche@wayne.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Changing Keymap in software
Keywords: Keymap, dwrite
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:49:22 GMT

Hi there!

Does anyone know how to software-change the keymap? I know you can use the  
Preference program to switch from US to French and stuff, but I'd like to know  
how to do that from a cshell terminal.
Using dread/dwrite doesn't help much: if you do "dread -o NeXT1", you get
NeXT1 Keymap /NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA.keymapping

But if you change it with dwrite, the change will take effect only when you  
login again. My question is, how can you tell whoever is in charge  
(WorkspaceManager?) to switch to the desired keyboard.
Preference does that pretty well (the change is immediate), so I guess there's  
a way to do it from a terminal.
Has anyone a clue?

Jean Laroche

P.S. The reason I ask is that we have several NeXT machines, and some of them  
have different keyboards (French, US etc...). It would be cool if the .cshrc or  
the .login could tell which machine it is, and select the appropriate keyboard.
From: rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Stanley Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: RE:Amiga emulator
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:07:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YePUNYK00WB5ECXq4i
Organization: Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Your post's title was a bit misleading, after all you only seem to
want to emulate the Amiga's file system.  Well there is a relatively
easy way to share disks between the two machines:

Move the files onto 720K DOS floppies, then using the amiga to read
the disks (there are a few different programs that will let you read
MSDos floppies, and there are two MessyDOS (Shareware) and CrossDOS
(commercial) which give the amiga the MSDOS filesystem. 


//      Rick Francis  rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu      \\
\\       #include stddisclaimer.h               //
 \\  "I never respected a man who could spell" //
  \\               -M. Twain                  //
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: New Objects For NeXTSTEP:  SUMatrix and SUFloatingImage
Keywords: SUFloatingImage SUMatrix Object NeXTstep Canada
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:53:16 GMT
Reply-To: info@solutions.ca
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Solutions Unlimited, Canada

Contact: Darcy Brockbank, or Neil Gilday at (514) 849-3631

Re: New User Interface Objects for NeXTstep 

Date: July 21,1992


        SAN FRANCISCO - Solutions Unlimited announced today 
two new user interface objects for NeXTSTEP: SUMatrix, and SUFloatingImage.

        SUMatrix is a subclass of the Matrix class that is provided in NeXT
Computer Inc.'s Application Kit. Matrix places a restriction on programmers:
all cells must be the same size. SUMatrix was written to overcome that
restriction, yet retain all the functionality of the Matrix class. As a
result, SUMatrix may be transparently interchanged with the Matrix class
without loss of functionality, while also giving programmers the ability to
explicitly set arbitrary cell heights for arbitrary rows of cells, and
arbitrary cell widths for arbitrary columns of cells. For example, SUMatrix
can be used in the creation of a table of rows with varying size columns or
in a simple spreadsheet.

        SUFloatingImage is a subclass of the Window class, also provided in
NeXT's Application Kit, that simplifies the incorporation of mouse-controlled
"dragging" into applications.The use of a mouse to "drag and drop" objects
in a user interface requires that the user interface supply feedback to the
user, so that the user can know where he or she will be "dropping" the
object. SUFloatingImage supplies an object that can be assigned an image to
be used to indicate to the user where his or her "drop" will take place.
This image (an arrow for example) can be constrained to a rectangle, or a
grid, so when the user drags an object over a receiving view, the image
will indicate the "closest" receptacle of the object. 

        SUFloatingImage can be used to indicate a rectangle the graphic will
cover, and can be constrained to the margins of the page. The image can also
take advantage of transparency bits, to allow portions of the receiving view
to show through. An example usage of SUFloatingImage is dragging graphics
into a word processor. SUFloatingImage is extremely easy to incorporate, and
requires no extensive programming to set up and use. 

        Call Solutions Unlimited at (514) 849-3631 for pricing, or send
e-mail to info@solutions.ca.

        Solutions Unlimited is a partnership devoted entirely to programming
and consulting in the NeXT arena. Solutions Unlimited offers user interface
objects, custom programming, and standard shrink-wrap applications. Located
in Montreal, Solutions Unlimited is currently building innovative tools for
use in the financial industry.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: eps@sutro.sfsu.edu
Subject: User Interface Guidelines for 3.0 available for anonymous FTP
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: NeXT UI Guidelines 3.0 ftp BANG EPS
Reply-To: info@bang.org
Organization: Bay Area NeXT Group (BANG)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:10:49 GMT

The latest version of NeXT's User Interface Guidelines document
(.rtfd) is now available for anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu
[130.212.15.230] in the directory pub/UIGuide_July_92/.  This
supersedes the previous draft release already on the archives.

-rw-r--r--  1  712563 Jul 28 15:45 UserInterface.squfold
	"Squash"ed directory tree
		
-rw-r--r--  1     534 Jul 28 15:55 README
	Instructions on how to UnSquash the above

-rwxr-xr-x  1  139264 Feb 10 16:26 UnSquashOnly*
	(In case you don't already have it)

Addison-Wesley will publish the final version in hardcopy form as
part of the NeXTSTEP 3.0 documentation set.

Thanks to Kathy Walrath for making these files available to BANG
and for permission to redistribute them electronically.


BANG
P.O Box 1731
Palo Alto, CA  94302
info@bang.org
(415) 327-BANG

The Bay Area NeXT Group is an organization that provides a forum
for information exchange concerning the NeXT marketplace and
computer technology in general.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: postmaster@oceania.com
Subject: NeXT Positions Available - Oceania Health Care Systems
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: NeXT Jobs Oceania Money Big Bucks
Reply-To: postmaster@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:35:29 GMT

*** NeXT Positions available at Oceania ***

Oceania Health Care Systems is a growing start-up software
development company dedicated to improving patient care through a
progressive approach aimed at providing health care information
management solutions.  Oceania is  committed to utilizing industry
standards,  maintaining an open architecture, incorporating the
newest advances in hardware, networking/communication and
software technologies, and changing the notion of the human machine
interface. Our goal is the development of a state of the art computer
human interface and database for the clinical environment.

Oceania extends this progressive philosophy to its corporate
management and operations.  We are committed to a democratic
management approach and high quality working environment which
includes flexible hours, medical benefits, and aggressive profit
sharing plans.

We seek qualified candidates in the following areas:

System Administration and Support:
Perform traditional system administration duties, customer
support, and quality assurance. The individual will need Unix
experience, networking, and NeXT NetInfo. BS/BA in an engineering
related degree with 3-5 years of experience.

Network Designer:
Perform the design and implementation of a distributed
application. The individual will need UNIX, OLTP, Network, TCP/IP,
LU6.2, and  Client/Server application experience. MS/PhD in an
engineering related degree with 5-10 years of experience.

Software Implementers:
Implementation of a clinical health care application. The
individual will need NeXT, OOD, GUI, UNIX, Health Care, multi media,
networking, and database experience. BS/MS in an engineering
related degree with 3-10 years of experience.

Senior Software Developers:
Design and Implementation of a clinical health care application.
The individual will need strong writing and communication skills,
NeXT, OOD, GUI, UNIX, Health Care, multi media, networking, and
database experience. MS/PhD in an engineering related degree with
5-15 years of experience.


Both full and part-time positions are available with start time and
compensation package negotiable. All interested in Oceania and its
endeavors are encouraged to mail or FAX a CV/Resume (please no
electronic mail) , indicating the position(s) you are interested
in, to: 

Edmund Billings, Jr. MD.
325 Lytton Avenue. Suite 400
Palo Alto, CA 94301
FAX: (415) 322-0142

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
From: hallan@cix.clink.co.uk
Subject: Announcing Sound ShareWare on Archives: Cookie & sndplay
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: sndplay Cookie Shareware archives sound
Reply-To: hallan@cix.clink.co.uk
Organization: Hugh Allan Software Development
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:06:58 GMT

Two new ShareWare items on the purdue archive in the submission
directory:

sndplay.tar.Z: SoundPlayer+, enhanced version of SoundPlayer with
sequencing, Microsoft Wave and Amiga 8SVX, timing, and waveform
display facilities.

Cookie.tar.Z: Cookie, Cookie display program with auto kill, multiple
cookie file, multiple cookie file format, and new cookie on timer
support.

Both are come with full manuals.
From: jtaylor@paget.com
Subject: Electronic AppWrapper is now available from Paget Press
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: EAW Paget Press Electronic CD News Programs Goodies From the Net
Reply-To: eaw@paget.com
Organization: Paget Press, Inc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:59:34 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:	Jesse Taylor
		Paget Press, Inc.
		2125 Western Avenue, #300
		Seattle, Washington 98121-2136
		(206) 448-0845
		<jtaylor@paget.com> or <eaw@paget.com>

The electronic version of the omni popular AppWrapper is now
going to press.  To have your programs/documents included in the first
distribution, or your user group description files
available to scribers of the EAW you must contact Paget Press
prior as soon as possible.  Call or write for more information.
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