HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)
Subject: Re: 3K Retouche
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:32:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.004120.1359@eps.com> eps!uunet (Steven Kornreich)  
writes:
>DiD anyone see the article in NeXTWORLD EXTRA november issue regarding an  
image  
>application called I believe 3K Computerbuild Retouche??
>If so can you please give me a contact name or address, phone #, email to  
get  
>info on this..
>
>Thanks
>Steve

Retouche is an application from Germany that can do photo retouching and  
other image effects.  It has been available on the Atari line of computers  
for a couple years now, and it is both highly regarded and expensive.   
Unfortunately I do not have a contact address.  A good place to ask would  
be comp.sys.atari.st.  I am sure plenty of the German readers there could  
give you contact info for 3K Computerbild.

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From: ganz@resumix.portal.com (Jonathan Ganz)
Subject: halp! Can't get HPIIIP to regurgitate
Keywords: HPIIIP printer non-NeXT urp
Organization: Resumix Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 22:20:58 GMT

Hi there most intelligent ones! :)

Ok, this is probably a stupid question or a FAQ, but I'm stymied!

I have an HpIIIp and I'm trying to hook it up to my NeXT color slab,
but nothing seems to work.  I tried using the PrintManager.  I identified
the printer as one of the several HPs listed (V2.0, BTW) and used
the serial cable I have for connecting my DeskJet to my PC (gulp). I also
tried using my modem cable supplied by Nextconnection, but nothing
spits out.  In fact, the printer just sits there, no blinking, nothing,
as if to say "Get Real, ask a programmer or something, I'm not 
cooperating with a mere mortal." I press the "test" button and nothing
happens except the file gets put in the queue.  I also tried lpr with
the appropriate printer name, but again, nothing happens except that
the queue is now the length of the Tigres.

So, what do I do?  I even looked in my printcap file, but I wouldn't
know what to put there since the example is for a Laserwriter or 
some such.  I suspect the printcap is the answer, but I thought the
PrintManager is supposed to *deal* with this.  Or, do I need another
"special" non-NeXT printer serial cable for $149.95 plus tax?

So, what do I do and how do I do it?

Please feel free to email me directly.  I do read this newsgroup, but
obviously I could miss the answer. I mean I'm missing half my brain
right?

Thanks in Advance (aka formfeed)!

Jonathan

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From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Subject: Re: Fonts in .ps files
Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:07:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.233454.29447@athena.mit.edu> shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane  
G. Artis) writes:

> How do you install a printer if you don't own a printer?  I'd like to
> dump the Postscript fonts along with my document so that I can print
> the document on a Postscript printer at school.  I browsed through the
> on-line documentation and didn't find the references needed.  When I
> try the 'chosen printer/Include Fonts' option it remains
> un-highlighted so I can't invoke it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shane

You don't need to own a printer to install it.  Just use PrintManager to
install the printer, and when you go to print, highlight that printer in your  
list of "installed" printers and hit the save button.

The only hassle is that you have to remember to reset to your real local  
printer when you want to print something else out.  If you forget to do this,  
be sure to use PrintManager to clear the print queue for the "virtual" printer.

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voice: 313-764-2364     Dept of Economics
fax:   313-764-2364     Univ of Michigan
                        Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
From: rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Dots address
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:22:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: dvorak.1992Nov9.172244.21276
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

Hello Netters,

I'm looking to buy Dots - the NeXT printer driver that supports my HP  
DeskJet500C.  Does anyone have an e-mail address or phone number of the  
manufacturer ?

--
Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM/EIS Applications Group
Austin, Texas
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
From: jam@marge (John McNeil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Contour plotting wanted:
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:42:11 GMT
Organization: Technology Research Group, SAIC

I too moved from a mac to a NeXT and missed the Spyglass
apps.

I have ported the NCSA HDF libraries (no big deal) to the
NeXT and written an image viewing program.  It is not the
full suite of spyglass stuff, but it will show raw byte,
raw float, HDF ris8 and HDF sds 2d files.  It will also scale
the image, show the pixel coordinates and value that you
are pointing at, and give a histogram from which you can
re-scale the image.  It will open tiff files, but the
histogram stuff needs to be debugged here.  It will save
tiffs as ris8 and vice-versa.

If there is some interest, I can probably release it to the
public domain,

Let me know,

 
-- 
John
jam@trg.saic.com
NeXTmail preferred
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From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: UI Suggestion: Color Panel/Well use
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:54:23 GMT

This isn't a big issue but it is one that I'm seeing lot of and it annoys me.   
With the color well, please don't resize the well so that there's only a 2-5  
pixel well where the color is shown.  It's really hard to see in black and  
white (and ugly looking, to me) and hard to use when it's that small.  Now that  
the drag and drop functionality is being used in more places it's really  
important that applications have wide areas where objects can be dropped onto  
or dragged from accurately with one drag of the mouse.

I think a good size for the color well is the size that you drag off of the  
palette in IB.

Lastly, if you use the standard color well, there's no need for a "Color..."  
button near it (as in Preferences app).  The border of the color well and the  
menu choice are enough to get to the panel.

Thanks.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail welcome
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From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: nbuf=64/128 theory
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:52:27 GMT


If nothing else, do this on any machine that is both an nfs server and  
has a tape drive.

I was getting spurious SCSI buss device resets about every 2-4 hours of  
tape operation.  This was with three different Exabyte drives and 1 HP  
DAT drive on two different Nexts.  Problem went away with a larger nbuf  
number.

I've not a clue why I had these errors and no one else did. No one at  
exabyte or at Next was of help, although the fellow that wrote the SCSI  
driver went to great lengths to try to assist.
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Future of Newsgrazer?
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:59:06 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU


I know that there are alternative non-gui news readers available, which  
are (arguably) better than Newsgrazer, but NG does everything that I need  
in a newsreader, but perhaps needs a bit of enhancement here and there..

Is there a future with Newsgrazer?  Will someone be selling it  
commercially?  Making it more 3.0 friendly (in terms of look, it works  
fine)...?

Any info appreciated!

Scott
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From: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard)
Subject: UI suggestion: Differences Panel
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:48:20 GMT

Now that "gdb" has been integrated into Edit, wouldn't it be real nifty to have 
 
"diff" integrated as well?  Sometimes you have to go thru diffs by hand, and Edit doesn't make it fun.  More naive, GUI-bound users don't yet have any intelligent way to compare documents.

The "Differences Panel" would work kind of like the Find Panel, except that it 
would highlight the subsequent differing chunks in each of  
two windows (the 
main document window and the one for another document selected in the 
Differences Panel).  This Panel could have an API like all the others, and 
become a standard part of NeXTSTEP.

Whaddaya say, NeXT?

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``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
Subject: Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
Reply-To: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:45:36 GMT

Michael Glenn writes
-> 
-> My second attempt at posting this.  Dunno if this is old news, but...
-> 
-> After installing amstex and amslatex on my NeXT, I discovered several  
-> additional files that were not needed.  Namely duplicate copies of files  
-> that could easily be replaced with symbolic links.
-> 
-> In /usr/lib/tex/formats:
-> 
-> splain.fmt == slitex.fmt (576k)
-> lplain.fmt == latex.fmt  (496k)
-> plain.fmt  == tex.fmt    (288k)
-> 
-> In /usr/bin:
-> 
-> latex  == tex (184k)
-> slitex == tex (184k)
-> virtex == tex (184k)
-> 
-> /usr/bin/tex apparently looks at what command line command was used to  
-> execute it to determine which .fmt file is loaded in.
-> 
-> I've removed latex, slitex, virtex, splain.fmt, lplain.fmt, and plain.fmt,  
-> and replaced them with symbolic links, a total savings of 1912k, almost 2  
-> meg!
-> 
-> Does anyone else know of other such duplicate files that come with the 3.0  
-> packages?

Hmm, well, I looked and all of these files are already links! Jost not symbolic  
links vs hard links! 
There is no disk space savings.

if you had not blown them away ;-) you could do an ls -i /usr/bin/*tex and see  
that they all pointed to the same inode...the same is true of the formats  
files.


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From: pbeiler@fnma.com (Phil Beiler)
Subject: I'm Looking for Intercomm Software... 
Keywords: Intercomm
Reply-To: pbeiler@fnma.com
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:37:04 GMT

I have heard there are some intercom-like products for the NeXT that take  
advantage of the sound box.

Any information would be appreciated...

Thanks.

--
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Phil Beiler, Senior Programmer Analyst, Advanced Technology
Fannie Mae, 3900 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 22016   (202) 752-3667
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From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Subject: nbuf=64/128 theory
Keywords: buffers nbuf
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 13:04:18 GMT


I've changed my boot params using nbuf=128 or rather 
nbu=128 because of 12 character limit.

Now, I know this will speed up long compilations, perhaps
various sorts of number crunching. BUT is there any advantage 
or speed gain in workaday world? I notice none, and wonder if 
the memory used by the buffer might be better used as just 
plain old memory. 

I ask because I keep hearing people exclaim: "Change buffer
size in boot params! You'll be amazed!" I'm not. BTW I have 
(only) 16 megs of memory in this NS Turbo. 

This has been discussed but only as per instructions to change 
parameters, not vis a vis advantages/disadvantages. 

Notice that when I say workaday world I'm not referring to compiling
code, which of course is part of the day's work for some.

Thanks

Robert de Lucca
NExtmail rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: RightBrain Ships PasteUp (Page Layout) for NeXTSTEP
Date: 3 Nov 92 17:43:35 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

RightBrain Ships PasteUp (Page Layout) for NeXTSTEP

PALO ALTO, CA, USA October 27, 1992 - Today RightBrain Software began
shipping PasteUp, the first page layout program completely built from
the ground up with object oriented technology and Display Postscript.

PasteUp is a full-featured design and layout package providing
sophisticated text-handling, drawing tools, and layout features.
PasteUp supports the drag-and-drop metaphor for colors, imported
files, graphic styles, and text styles. Display PostScript allows
page editing at output resolution and provides on screen previews of
color separated film. PasteUp has built-in spell checking and
hyphenation in 9 languages, full text runaround, left and right
master pages, page numbering, search and replace for colors as well
as text, arbitrary rotation and skewing of all objects including
text, grouping, locking, align and distribute, and a host of other
features. PasteUp is intended for flexible page design and documents
in the 1-to-100-page range, although its drawing tools,
word-processing features, and ease of use make it appropriate for all
short document needs.

"PasteUp 1.0 has all the features you'd expect of an
industrial-strength publishing application, but is much faster and
easier to use," said Glenn Reid, president and founder of RightBrain
Software. "We've also added some sophisticated features like
automatic drop shadows for any object, a thumbnail page navigator, an
arrowhead editor that lets you customize the shapes of arrowheads,
and copy/paste of graphic attributes."

PasteUp also has automatic "smart punctuation" that will replace
straight quotes with typographic quotes, double hyphens with
emdashes, insert fi and fl ligatures, and even transpose the period
inside double quotes at the end of a quotation. Smart punctuation
works with text import as well as during typing, which greatly
simplifies the process of importing text from other sources without
having to search and replace all the quotes and ligature

PasteUp has a suggested retail price of $795 and is available through
NeXT dealers, NeXT international distributors and NeXTconnection.
Contact RightBrain Software for more information or the location of
the PasteUp reseller nearest you.

U.S. PHONE:     1-800-472-7246
INTERNATIONAL:  +1  415-326-2974
FAX:            +1  415-326-2977
EMAIL:          info@rightbrain.com

RightBrain Software was founded in 1990 by Glenn C. Reid to provide
full-featured publishing solutions on the NeXT computer platform.
RightBrain is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and is privately
held.
From: greg@agog.com (Greg Cockroft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: UnSquashing under 3.0
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:38:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: agog.1992Nov9.173809.6362
Organization: Agog, Inc.


In article <1dbgkaINNda2@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>  
carsten@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> UnSquashOnly is not able to unarchive a multiple floppy archive on my
> NeXTstation now running NS 3.0. Just before prompting for the second  
disk
> I get an 'error communicating with Workspace'. It then prompts me fo the
> disk but does not eject the current one and does not react if I insert  
the
> disk.

I just mailed you a copy of the lastest UnSquashOnly for NeXTStep 3.0.
For others who need a copy that have ftp access.

     host:  ftp.msen.com
     path:  pub/vendor/agog/next

Has both 2.0 & 3.0 versions of UnSquashOnly.

	-greg.


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Agog, Inc.                          (517) 627-2186   fax 2673
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From: droege@infko.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
Subject: Re: 3K Retouche
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz (FB Informatik)
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:00:41 GMT

In article <Bx97ED.AEC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)  
writes:
> In article <1992Nov5.004120.1359@eps.com> eps!uunet (Steven Kornreich)  
> writes:
> >DiD anyone see the article in NeXTWORLD EXTRA november issue regarding an  
> image  
> >application called I believe 3K Computerbuild Retouche??
> >If so can you please give me a contact name or address, phone #, email to  
> get  
> >info on this..
> 
> Retouche is an application from Germany that can do photo retouching and  
> other image effects.  It has been available on the Atari line of computers  
> for a couple years now, and it is both highly regarded and expensive.   
> Unfortunately I do not have a contact address.  A good place to ask would  
> be comp.sys.atari.st.  I am sure plenty of the German readers there could  
> give you contact info for 3K Computerbild.

try	3K-Computerbild GmbH
	Wevelinghoven 26
	D-4054 Nettetal 1 - Lobberich
	Germany

	Tel:	+49 - 21 53 - 91 86 - 0
	Fax:	+49 - 21 53 - 91 86 - 86

I don't know of any e-mail address. There is an US distributor address:

	Goldleaf Publishing Inc.
	Larkspur CA 94939
	
	Tel:	(415) 381 7717

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Universitaet Koblenz,                  |       (NeXTmail ok)
Institut fuer Informatik               | Voice: +49 261 9119-421
Rheinau 3-4, D-5400 Koblenz, Germany   | Fax:   +49 261 9119-499
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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: DOTS on compuserve
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:37:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.113813.13912@heinz.in-berlin.de> federico@heinz.in-berlin.de (Federico Heinz) writes:

[ ]
>
>By the way: the Dots demo for DeskJet 500C does not work properly under 3.0.  
>There is an updated version of the product that works beautifully under 3.0,  
>but I haven't updated the demo yet. Sorry for that, I'll try to get that to  
>change soon.

Well the world moves fast. There is now an HP550C which is far better than the
500C. It has both the colour cartridge and the black one in the unit and workingsimultaneously. This would be a great printer for the NeXT (colour printer
that is). Now if only Dots were priced reasonably. One doesn't pay the same
for a printer as for the driver without wondering what's up.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Ghostscript
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:41:44 GMT

Given that "Dots" is, in my opinion, unreasonably priced and that ghostscript
offers users an inexpensive alternative, can someone indicate whether or not
this program has been moved to the NeXT. 

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

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From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Subject: Re: Why not 2,4 up printing standard?
Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 03:56:16 GMT

Ken-ichiro Aoki writes
> Why doesn't 2,4 up printing come standard in standard
> NeXT environment? It would be nice when you choose *print*
> in the menu, there is a place you could click so that you
> had the option of 1,2,4 up printing.
> I believe there are postscript filters for doing this so this
> doesn't sound difficult; or am I missing something? 
> 
> It would be nice if all NeXTstep apps came with this option.
> (esp. Terminal, mma, Draw, TeXview, etc.)
> 

I don't know about TeXview, but the other 3 apps you mention all have  
this feature. Its in the format->page layout menu choice.  Preview  
doesn't have it, which is annoying.  Neither does WordPerfect, but  
then that's hardly surprising.  Much too obvious.

You're right, though, it probably should be a print panel option  
rather than (or perhaps in addition to) a page layout option.

--
-
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Subject: Image Agent, slightly ahead of it's time (Was: Image Agent Ships !!!)
Organization: L5 Computing
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:01:58 GMT

Wordperfect strikes again.

After taking away my ADB keyboard now it denies me the use of Image Agent. I've  
got what WP says is their "3.0 compatible release" and it doesn't support the  
image filters feature of 3.0.

Great big double page ad proclaiming "Taking full advantage of the NeXT  
environment," (first sentence of the second paragraph in left-most column in  
the Winter 1992 issue of NeXTWorld.)

Hey WP, I think you guys forgot a feature.

But alas WP has company.

Shades of ADB here folks. NeXT hasn't done a very good job of getting it's
developers to support image filters either. I've just run every piece of
software I have and only three apps support Image Agent, and two of those were  
written by NeXT! (Edit/Mail) And most embarrasing, one of NeXT's own Apps
doesn't support Image Agent, NeXTtv no workee!

The one non-NeXT program I found that works with Image Agent doesn't work with
it very well ie it needs work. It's a beta app so my lips are sealed but they  
are advertizing in NeXTWorld (ie big name app.) And I've got one other "big"
beta app that just plain doesn't work with Image Agent.

So if you're thinking of purchasing Image Agent you might want to keep all
of the above in mind.

Bug reports have been sent to those who have sent me software for testing
with ADB. I ran Image Agent tests on them as well. So if any of you
developers out there want to get in on Scotty's Beta Testing Service
you can NeXTMail 'em to the e-mail address given above.

I wonder if NeXTWorld will be covering this in their review of Image Agent?

Image Agent, an app that is unfortunately ahead of it's time.

Scotty
Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.software:2520 comp.sys.next.advocacy:2869
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Kudos to Appsoft
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:04:42 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU


I would like (for a change) to commend a company publicly...

Appsoft have been incredibly helpful, professional, and just generally  
nice over the last few weeks while I've been harassing them about Image.   
They were incredibly patient with my tireless questions and problems, and  
I just wanted to say "Thank you" in public to the staff at Appsoft  
(especially Cindy and Mark) for putting up with me and being flexible  
beyond the call of duty.


Thanks appsoft!

Scott


P.S.  Is Image shipping yet?   :-)
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:54:12 CST
From: <U53076@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Improv question

Hi,
   Let's say I have a model with two categories.  One category is physical
characteristics and the other is subject number.  The items in the physical
physical characteristics category are height and weight.  The items in
subject number are just a series 1-102.  How do I graph weight as a function of
height without making height a category of its own?  This is so simple, yet I
can't see how to do it.  Thanks in advance for your help.
                                                           -Bruce Lambert
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