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From: root@aunext1.amd.com (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:16:34 GMT
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <1993Jan6.000145.13689@mksol.dseg.ti.com> dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com  
(alexander dahl) writes:
> In article <1993Jan5.082843.20911@news.media.mit.edu> wave@media.mit.edu  
(Michael B. Johnson) writes:
> >In article <C0DBLw.C8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B.  
Nicholson-Owens) writes:
> >>>I've read only one review of G&M's recently-released book, of those  
> >>> 
> >>>that have read it, would you post your opinion of the quality of the book  
and why you feel the way you do about it?
> >>>
> >
> >G&M's book, combined with a 3.0 system and NeXT's printed versions of
> >"NeXTSTEP Development Tools and Techniques: Release 3" and "NeXTSTEP
> >General Reference: Release 3, Volume 1 & 2" is everything you need
> 
> 
> Does this mean that I must have 3.0 to use the book????

no (2.1, 2.2, or 3.0)

Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
Austin, Texas
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
From: adunn@fnalo.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: SoftPc Professional
Date: 7 Jan 93 01:21:40 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnalo.fnal.gov


I saw the ad in the latest NeXTWorld for SoftPC Professional.  Has anyone tried
it yet?  How well does it work under NeXTStep 2.1?
From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:12:37 GMT
Reply-To: mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu
Distribution: usa

alexander dahl writes
| In article <1993Jan5.082843.20911@news.media.mit.edu> wave@media.mit.edu  
(Michael B. Johnson) writes:
| >In article <C0DBLw.C8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B.  
Nicholson-Owens) writes:
| >>>I've read only one review of G&M's recently-released book, of those  
| >>> 
| >>>that have read it, would you post your opinion of the quality of the  
book and why you feel the way you do about it?
| >>>
| >
| >G&M's book, combined with a 3.0 system and NeXT's printed versions of
| >"NeXTSTEP Development Tools and Techniques: Release 3" and "NeXTSTEP
| >General Reference: Release 3, Volume 1 & 2" is everything you need
| 
| 
| Does this mean that I must have 3.0 to use the book????
| -- 
| Alex Dahl
| dahla@lobby.ti.com           or        dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com
| 
| Remember:  My expressions are unknown to my employer nor do they care.

No.  The book covers both 2.x AND 3.0 versions of NeXTStep.  I thought I'd  
post this response since many people might be asking the same question.

Mikael
From: rob@spectre.test.rose-hulman.edu (Rob Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Exception#3
Date: 13 Jan 1993 04:01:42 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
NNTP-Posting-Host: snyderre.test.rose-hulman.edu

Howdy, just a quick note, as per my Expcption #3.  I was just playing  
around for a while, when I found it necessary to reboot.  Anyway, I hit  
command-command-~ to reboot.  I wouldn't.  It just got stuck at the first  
line of the reboot screen.  Anyway, I tried rebooting a couple other ways.   
And finally ended powering off, cause I had to go to class, and didn't  
have time to play with it.  Anyway, I called a friend of mine, to look at  
it, we powered it up, and it worked beautifuly.  No Exception #3, no  
nothing.  It worked flawlessly...  These things confuse me so sometimes...  
Oh well... One other quick question, I had a file on how to change the  
loginwindow, but alas, I lost it.  I was wondeirng if someone could  
enlighten me on how to do this again.  Thanks a lot!!!
 
Rob.

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From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Canon BJ10 with Dots
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:46:41 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: indian.cps.msu.edu
Originator: perkins@indian.cps.msu.edu


I reviewed the 91 archives (couldn't find the 92 yet :-) but didn't find
an answer.  If you use the Canon BJ10 bubble jet printer with the Dots
software, are you happy with the results??  I am also curious as to
how you cabled the sucker.  As I understand it, the printer does not
support serial communications.  Are you using a special cable from the
printer port??

I'll post a summary if there is enough interest.  If one has already
been posted, a copy would be appreciated.  All info will be sincerely
appreciated!

Thanks,

Steve
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Michigan State University          |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jim@lennon.claremont.edu (Jim Kieley)
Subject: Re: NeXT in a Mac network, any experience?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:39:26 GMT

In article <1i9nvrINNk52@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> punch@cps.msu.edu (Bill Punch)  
writes:
> I'm looking for some comments by people who have used a NeXT machine in a Mac
> environment (running appletalk, providing file service to Macs, etc.). We are
> considering buying a NeXT (which I like a lot) as a file server and mail 
> server for a small lab of Macs, presently running apple-ethershare. Any 
> experience would be very helpful, thanks in advance.

NextStep 3.0 comes with client software for Appletalk, but this won't help you  
for using a NeXT as a Mac server.  We use a Gatorbox CS running GatorShare and  
GatorPrint.  This allows Macs to access NeXT file systems that have been  
mounted with NFS which is part of the standard NeXT distribution. It also  
allows NeXT's to print to Apple Laserprinters (this can also be done with the  
NeXT Appletalk client software). This system works fine as a backup for our  
Novell 3.11 server.  It would probably be adequate for a small network, but the  
overall performance of a Novell system is much better in my experience.  There  
are other 3rd party solutions that allow sharing of Mac and NeXT resources.  I  
haven't tried them.

- jim@lennon.claremont.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang)
Subject: NS3.0 Gold .vs  Green????!!!
Reply-To: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:34:55 GMT

Hi,

	Just notice that my 3.0 CD-ROM is different from others.
Mine has got a green top, and I heard someone's got GOLD.

	What are the difference between these two? I got my from the Edu  
CD-ROM Drive bundle deal, is that why I get the green instead of Gold?

Gary

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Northwestern Univ.      E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Subject: Re: Printing Even or Odd Pages using dvips
In-reply-to: bryant@math.duke.edu's message of 12 Jan 93 17:14:31 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:37:55 GMT

In article <8519@news.duke.edu> bryant@math.duke.edu (Robert Bryant) writes:

???
???           I know that this has come up before, but I couldn't find any mention of  
???   it in the FAQ on nova and couldn't remember what the resolution of the problem  
???   was. 
???           I need to be able to print just the even or the odd pages of a long  
???   dvi file (so that I can Xerox double-sided copies) and this option does not  
???   seem to be available in dvips.  Is there a header file that I can load which  
???   will redefine the showpage command so that it only prints the even or odd  
???   pages?


Tom Rokicki has produced a program called dvi2dvi which will convert
the dvi-file appropriately. Get it from labrea.stanford.edu. 

Another good program which can do this directly on postscript output
is quarto -- available on sonata (and maybe orst). 

--
Hardy 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos)
Subject: Re: Running PPP on the NeXT?
Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:18:06 GMT

: There is a next-ppp package at merit.edu, with all the binaries, and some

Can you give the filename, please...

thanks in advance...

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regards,
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From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Richard Page resigns ...
Date: 11 Jan 93 07:11:36 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com

ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET writes

> to this also mentioned that he was burnt out and would
> probably start a company of his own.

Couldn't possibly be true.  No one in their right mind who was burnt
out would start their own company :-) :-)

--
 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.misc
From: meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl)
Subject: Re: New version of Mouse-X front end now available
Keywords: X11R5, server, MouseX
Originator: meyergru@hpradigc.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:39:39 GMT


In article <7283@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>, doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) writes:
|> I have put a new version of the front end App for use with Mouse-X in the
|> archive on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu.  This new version of the App is compiled to
|> run only under OS 3.0  I have configured it specifically to work with the new 
|> X11 R5 color Xnext server binary which works on the NeXT color Turbo machines.
|> A copy of this binary is also included in the tarfile, which is in ~ftp/pub as 
|> MouseX-R5-color.tar.Z.  There is a text file called MouseX-R5-color.README 
|> which gives additional information on setting things up.  BE SURE TO READ THIS
|> BEFORE TRYING TO USE THE NEW FRONT END.  A word to the wise is sufficient.
|> 
|> This version of the front end App allows you to pop back and forth between X
|> and NextStep in the same manner as the R4 versions did.  It also has the added
|> feature of a menu for restarting Xnext and for hiding the App itself.
|> 
|> Though there is currently no version of the R5 Xnext which will run on the
|> monochrome Turbo, I am planning to get one built and tested in the next month.
|> I will post when I have results.
|> -- 
|> 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>

Why is it that no version of Mouse-X does exist for any of the four
possible configurations (i.e. Color, Mono, Turbo-Color, Turbo-Mono)
on which Mouse-X is supposed to be able to run (i.e. memory-mapped
displays)?

I have a color station (non-turbo) and have not yet found a version
that runs fine. Isn't there a kind soul to put a fully installable
version of X11R5 and the appropriate X servers on some ftp archive?
Maybe a package, which would be quite NeXT-like?



cheers, Uwe

Uwe Meyer-Gruhl                      Confucius say: 
Lehrstuhl Informatik IX              "Unlucky to play leapfrog with unicorn"
Technische Universitaet Muenchen     email:MeyerGru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Orleansstr. 34, D-8000 Muenchen 80   tel: ++49 89 48095-209
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Subject: Source for USENET archives of comp.sys.next
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 22:58:44 GMT

I like to maintain a monthly update to my Digital Librarian indexed version
of comp.sys.next newsgroups. I have been using nova.cc.purdue.edu (or
sonata), but the maintenance of these archives is really slipping. For
instance, the hardware, advocacy, marketplace, and software groups have not
been archived since they were started. Some of the Current files in those
newsgroups are several MBs. Also, recent archives of the other groups are
not compressed, because year old versions of the same files are still around.
(I've posted a friendly message to the archive management to no avail).

Anybody have an alternate sight with current maintenance and anonymous ftp
access for the comp.sys.next newsgroups, preferably on a monthly basis?

Thanks,
Michael McCulloch
Huntsville, AL

P.S. What about the NeXT community having a fund drive for the Purdue 
archives so they can purchase more HD space? I'd contribute...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: johair@afit.af.mil (John R. O'hair)
Subject: FAXing?
Summary: How do you receive a Fax?
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:54:20 GMT

I'm running NS2.2 on a NeXTstation Turbo, and I want to set my
computer to receive a fax. I understand how to send a fax, but
it isn't obvious how to set the computer and modem to wait for
and receive one? Any help out there? (For this particular problem,
that is ;)

John
From: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Speed of next CD?
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:05:08 GMT
Organization: Serial Tree BBS, +1 310 319 3778

Does anyone know what the speed of the next CD rom drive is?
Both seek time and throughput bytes/sec?

Please reply by mail, and I'll summarize. (I'm a month behind reading this stuff)

		Michael
-- 
	Michael Gersten		michael@stb.info.com
NeXT Registered Developer (NeRD) # 3860 -- Hire me! Quick!
Will program computers for food (and net connection, health benefits, cash,...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: cs000rdw@selway.umt.edu (Richard D Warner)
Subject: Low-level format of 400MB drive
Organization: University of Montana
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:46:23 GMT

	Our power went off a few weeks ago and since then our color station
won't boot properly.  I have to tweak it a little bit every time the computer
goes through a hard reboot, but can get it running.  I have the CD-ROM drive
and have loaded 3.0 but that didn't fix that problem.  Also, the error log
lists a couple hundred files with messages such as, "couldn't copy", "couldn't
make folder", and {my favorite:->) "couldn't change settings on".  It looks
like hard disk damage to physical blocks, and in fact fsck says there are 
some unresolved problems.  Has anyone out there done a low-level format
or surface analysis?  What is the trick to loading 3.0 if you are working with
an empty hard drive?  Obviously you must boot from the CD-ROM.  Any help on
this would be appreciated.

Rich
From: Neil_Greene@kynug.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: WordPerfect - PIECE OF CRAP!!!
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:56:19 GMT
Reply-To: Neil_Greene@kynug.org
Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.

May I preface this post by saying I just wish one person from WordPerfect  
reads this!!!

May I suggest some of the more talented NeXT programmers head to 1555  
North Technology Way in Utah and offer their services to WordPerfect  
Corporation free of charge for about a week to fix this app. 

We just purchased version 1.0.1 of WP and it sucks.  Granted, v1.0.1 fixes  
the COMMAND-B, COMMAND-I bugs; but, If you ever plan on doing any serious  
word processing, don't purchase WP.  And I don't consider what we are  
doing any serious word processing.  Sorry students, I am afraid you will  
find it in the labs.  

Users need to be able to edit text easily!  I would like the ease of use  
of WriteNow with character strike through and style management.  I also  
don't want to see TimeMon go crazy when I run WP and select some text.   
And I don't want to see a spinning disk everytime I highlight some text  
and select bold.  Do not use the INDENT function in WordPerfect and try to  
edit text.  You will find some new ways of displaying postscript text on  
the megapixel display.  

Granted there is more functionality in WP, but the functionality is no  
good if you cannot use the program.  Our office greatly depends on the  
capabilities of our word processors.  And it makes me look bad when a user  
wants a CompuAdd portable computer running AmiPro in Windows 3.1 over  
his/her NeXTStation Turbo.  

Appsoft says there next release will support drag and drop styles,  
character strikethrough, and multiple file formats.  Available in July.  
-- 
Neil Greene
President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.
Email: neil@kynug.org [NeXTMail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: dpeter@hsd.com (David W. Peter)
Subject: Re: What/where is NXFax?
Reply-To: dpeter@hsd.com
Organization: HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:04:38 GMT

In article <1ia8juINNmh9@gap.caltech.edu> kcb@coyote.caltech.edu (Kim  
C. Border) writes:
> I have seen several references to NXFax and B&W software on the  
net.
> 
> What does NXFax do, and/or  how do I contact B&W?
> 

Call Craig Goss at B & W Software (802) 496-8500

Or send email to craig@bandw.com

David W. Peter
dpeter@hsd.com (NeXTmail)
(800) 828-5522
(415) 964-1400
From: bryant@math.duke.edu (Robert Bryant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Printing Even or Odd Pages using dvips
Keywords: dvips, TeX
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:14:31 GMT
Distribution: usa


	I know that this has come up before, but I couldn't find any mention of  
it in the FAQ on nova and couldn't remember what the resolution of the problem  
was. 
	I need to be able to print just the even or the odd pages of a long  
dvi file (so that I can Xerox double-sided copies) and this option does not  
seem to be available in dvips.  Is there a header file that I can load which  
will redefine the showpage command so that it only prints the even or odd  
pages?
	I am sure that this can be done, but I don't want to have to write the  
PostScript header myself if someone else has already done it.  If someone has  
done this, I would appreciate getting a copy of the header file that you use.

	Yours,

	Robert Bryant
	bryant@math.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: jhenshaw@microsoft.com (Jeff Henshaw)
Subject: Re: NeXTWORLD Feb/Mar 1993 problems
Date: 09 Jan 93 07:38:18 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation


A couple of previous posters wrote...

|> 2) Still in the Ten Most Wanted list, it says that the 
|> current version of NeXTSTEP is 2.9.  On all the documentation 
|> and versions I've seen, my OS says that it is version 3.0.  I 
|> don't even think there was a 2.9.  A little proofreading could 
|> have cleared this one up in a jiffy.
|
|
| I think this was meant as a sarcastic comment. You know, not 
| really ready for shipping, therefore not really 3.0


Was NeXTWORLD also being sarcastic when they said that the
"Publishing Splashdown" article (pg. 7, Feb/Mar '93) continues
on page 15?

Turn to page 15; its a full-page ad for Insignia Solutions'
SoftPC.  The article is actually continued on page 14.
How ironic that this occurred in an article complaining
about publishing presence...

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From: prange@sdr.slb.com (Michael Prange)
Subject: Anyone running XNeXT on old monochrome slab under NS 3.0?
Organization: Schlumberger-Doll Reasearch
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:54:42 GMT

Where did you get XNeXT?

Michael
prange@sdr.slb.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: hallan@cix.compulink.co.uk (Hugh Allan)
Subject: Help!
Reply-To: hallan@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:38:00 +0000

I think I understand NXImages, but I'll tell you because you
understand these things.

I have an App, FLI-Play, which displays generated bitmap data. The
source image is data in VGA format, you know the sort of thing, 256
colour palette from 1/4 mil colours. So I take this data and convert
it to a 24 bit NXBitmapImageRep and drawAt the changed data to
screen. All fine so far. The problem is it's just so damn slow, the
transfer rate (NXPings are used to provide non jerky animation), is 2
to 8 frames to second, which is pretty lousy. 70 frames per second is
what I want really as the player can display more than FLI, so faster
the better.

I could make some improvements to the change optimization, but I
still won't get any better than a two times speed up I imagine. What
I could so with is a postscript context to composite from, but as I
understand it, what NXImages so is draw into an offscreen cache, and
use that for compositing later. I only use the image once, so this is
no use to me. I'm a bit stuck.

I'm using a NeXTstation colour non-turbo.

--- Hugh
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:07:58 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com

John Bartley writes

> You can turn this around, too. A client of mine bought Helvetica  
> Fractions to use with FrameMaker. EVERY NeXT app they have sees  
> Helvetica Fractions in the font panel except for FrameMaker. We asked  
> RightBrain about this and they said it was Frame's fault - ask Frame.  
> We asked Frame about it and guess what? They said ask Rightbrain. 
> 
> So, a pox upon Frame for their font panel, and a pox upon RightBrain  
> for not living up to their support promise.

Anything but the pox!  Besides, Frame didn't live up to their support
promise, either, and it's their problem, actually.

FrameMaker does not use the NeXT font panel, and in so doing introduces
all kinds of bugs.  For example, when I launch FrameMaker on my machine,
the default font is Times Phonetic instead of Times Roman.  Times Phonetic,
as you might imagine, is unreadable, since it's got weird letters as
used in dictionaries.  They don't cope well with weird font naming
conventions.

I was not aware that you contacted us with poor results, but we actually
did not steer you wrong, technically speaking.  It is Frame's bug, as
is evidenced by the fact that the fonts work in every other application
just fine.  The fact that Frame does not know about it or how to fix it
is another issue.

We have done a lot of free technical support for Frame, who have not had
a good track record in acknowledging and fixing this problem.  We will
continue to support our fonts under FrameMaker, but it is time-consuming
and difficult, and their font mechanism is not documented or particularly
well supported.  It's a process of trial and error.  Having the latest
version of FrameMaker helps quite a bit, but they still haven't got it
completely right.

In any case, I would like to lift the pox from RightBrain and help you.
I have just verified on my system that Helvetica Fractions doesn't work
in the latest version of FrameMaker, even with the custom "fontlist"
file that we have, which means that it isn't because you don't have the
latest version of everything.  I'll contact you over Email to sort it
out.

--
 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California		Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
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