12/20/91
Number 6 Vol 1

                             ANuG
                          Newsletter

The Albuquerque NeXT Users Group

President: Gregory Burd
           gburd@nmsu.edu
Treasurer: Donald W. DeLand
           deland@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
Librarian: Chris Zoeller
           zoeller@lampf.lanl.gov

Intro:
There are many exciting things that ANuG is involved with.  Not only
the T-Shirt and the Trip to NeXTWorld EXPO but also the idea of a
large meeting will national attention and a vendor show.  If you have
any ideas with respect to this type of meeting, feel free to tell me
about them I am very interested in finding help and ideas!

Group Recognition:
ANuG has been recognized by Conrad Geiger as one of the top users groups.
In the past Conrad has placed a '#' sign next to the user group name
in the distribution of the list of users groups.  This has caused some
confusion and will not be used anymore.  At any rate ANuG has joined the
ranks of BANG, V-NUS, SCaN, SNuG, rmNUG, and others.  So the hard work
is paying off.  Because of this ANuG has received a video tape titled:
    "NeXT vs. Sun: A World Of Difference"
A tape showing a NeXTstep programmer, and a Sun programmer working on
the same program against the clock.  This video is realistic and not
overly biased against the Sun programming environment.  It shows the
programmers giving estimates of the time required to do the programming
and then their annotation as the work through the project.  Near the
end , like any good client, the moderator asks the programmers to add
a new feature.  Well I won't tell you who wins the race, but I would hope
you could guess.

Newsletters; Present and Future:
I mentioned in the last Newsletter that Frame Inc. had donated a copy of
Framemaker to ANuG.  I plan to use that to produce future issues of the
Newsletter, in conjunction with an ascii release as well.  There will 
be a Frame version as well as an rtf version at the Sonata ftp site.  This
will change when the group has a next and everyone can receive NeXTmail.
Currently I have put the first five issues of the Newsletter at the
Sonata ftp site and they are in the /newsletters directory for anonymous
ftp.  Again if we as a users group are going to produce a Frame version
in the future then there needs to be more submissions, graphics, or other
interesting things to put in it.  As well as some sort of production staff
of 2-3 persons.  If you have code, picts, or anything of general
interest send it to me.  If you want to help or even head up the production
of the Newsletter in the future also please contact me.  I know that we all
have major constraints on our time, but one saturday a month would be all it
would take, and the benefits of having a nice Newsletter are worth it.


January 11th Meeting:
THIS WILL BE THE BEST MEETING BY FAR ANuG HAS PRODUCED YET!!!
It will be held at Sandia Labs with a video projection system so
everyone will be able to see the demonstrations.  If you didn't get
the Meeting Announcement then mail me and I will send you one.
DON'T miss this meeting!!!!


ANuG in the News:
If you had not already noticed, ANuG is now advertised in the Albuquerque
Journal.  Look in the Business Outlook section under Computer Users Groups
and ANuG is there.  Tell your friends!


T-Shirt Progress:
Well the shirts are about to go into production.  Next week I will place
the first order from Zia Graphics for the Shirts.  Unfortunately the shirt
price had to go up.  The reason is that the colors that NeXT uses are
non-standard printing colors, and have to be specially mixed each printing
cycle (at $30 dollars per color!).  This along with some other unexpected
expenses has raised the price of the shirt to $20.  Our profit margin is
only $2.00, so there was no choice.  Also, due to the cost of color, and the
fact that there was so little color on the front of the shirt I have added
some to the front.  The shirt will be posted on comp.sys.next.announce, as
well as sent out by Conrad Geiger as NeXTmail and a small note in ascii
telling those without NeXTmail where to find it.  It will also be at the
Sonata ftp site in submissions for a while until it moves to the appropriate
dir (which one I don't know yet).  So look for the advertisements and get
one.  To cover costs we must sell 125 shirts.  Then the profit starts.  If
the shirt sales go well I have a friend who would be willing to sell them at
NeXTWorld EXPO for the price of admission.  I have made a complete cost
work up of the entire T-Shirt project if you would like to see it I would be
happy to send you a copy.


Side note on T-Shirts:
If there is a desire to produce a group version of the shirt before EXPO,
or at any time for that matter, tell me.  I was thinking about a sweet shirt,
or a turtle neck shirt, or something nicer than a t-shirt.  Email if you
are interested.


Executor:
The Mac emulator called Executor produced by Abacus Research headed by
Clifford Matthews has been released as Executor-MSW.  The demonstration
given was fantastic at the last meeting, and Executor is well on its way to
becoming a full Mac emulator.  Buy this now, it may get killed by Apple Inc.
in the near future, and it will help fund the next release.  Purchase info was
sent out in the last NugNews(v).  If you don't have that info email me.


ScriptWriter Demo:
William (Bill) Edney showed off the latest alpha version of ScriptWriter, a
graphical way to represent UNIX command line scripts as well as any other
command line scripts.  With the release of Real Time Renderman in NeXTstep3.0
this tool will be very handy.  It could also take care of a lot of house
keeping that you can stumble through once and then forget about.  Back ups of
HD's could be scripted, as well as other mundane tasks at the prompt of the
past.  This product is very flexible and I believe it will make event the
hardened UNIX hacks stop typing a little.


Trip to the NeXTWorld EXPO:
If you haven't already heard, ANuG is driving to EXPO.  Chris Zoeller and
Bill Edney are the organizers of this trip and if you want to go and
haven't been hearing from them you better contact one of them soon (like
today!).  Final arrangements are being done now.  This will be a trip to
remember!  Go with us and have a great time!!!


December Meeting Notes:
I have touched on the major persons involved with the December meeting.
I would like to thank every one who came and stayed, it was a long one.
There were approximately 20 persons there.  I would also like to thank
our Professor Sponsor for getting us the room.  It was a step up for sure!
Thanks to Clifford, and Bill for presenting.  Thanks to Bill for the
market update and interesting rumors.  And thanks to Chris for his
excitement and enthusiasm at the meeting.  Thanks also to Andrew, for
trying so hard to get ready for the show.  By the way, to those of you who
helped in trying to fix the ColorStation, it was a plug in wrong.  It
works fine now.  :-)


ANuG Icon:
As I said at the meeting, there is an ANuG icon as well as letter head,
envelope template, and other interesting stuff.  If you would like it
email me and we will work something out.


ANuG Database of Members:
I am trying to complete a member database on DataPhile, and I have most
of the information I need.  I will have the database printed out at the
meeting for corrections and additions.  Below are the fields I have in the
database, if you know that I don't have the information for you please send
me it.  Also if you don't want your info to be public then tell me.  This
database will be used to maintain a membership roster, for dues, to print
name tags at meetings, for mailings, and for simple contact and member info.
Please sent in the info, thanks:
__Data Base Fields__
+Name
+email address
+Home Address
+Home Phone
+Currently Working at
+Business Phone
+Business Address
+Fax Number
+Keep information private(yes/no)


New Members:
There are several new members to ANuG.  Welcome and get involved!  We are
only as good as our members!


NeXT / CD-ROM's / PLI:
NeXT will distribute its system software on CD-ROM in the future.  There
are several advantages to this type of distribution.  I have spoken to
PLI about their CD-ROM drive and they are willing to give us a group deal
on it.  If you are interested then email me.  The price will be about $600.


ANuG has a PO Box:
To contact ANuG by US mail send to:
           ANuG
       PO Box 20927
Albuquerque, NM 87154-0927


Thanks as always, and keep in contact!

Greg Burd
President of ANuG
gburd@nmsu.edu