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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: "Christopher M. Maeda" <ztech@well.sf.ca.us> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Zippytech Ships InetObjects for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jun30.200454.7934@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 20:04:54 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Zippytech PO Box 322 Homestead PA 15120 ztech@well.sf.ca.us 412-421-9588 Zippytech Ships InetObjects For White and Black Hardware Pittsburgh, PA; 25 June 1993 -- Zippytech began shipping the InetObjects Base Collection version 1.0, a collection of TCP/IP networking objects. According to S. D. Cooper, Zippytech's top dog, "This object collection is the only one that provides seamless integration of TCP/IP networking and the NEXTSTEP Appkit. It is now much easier for programmers to construct network applications in a heterogenous TCP/IP environment." The InetObjects Base Collection provides classes for TCP/IP and UDP/IP sessions, header files, online documentation, and source code for a NEXTSTEP app that uses the object collection. The InetObjects Base Collection runs on both Motorola-based and Intel-based hardware. Under condition of anonymity, one Zippytech programmer reported that it was more painful to install NEXTSTEP on their Intel box than it was to port InetObjects for it. The InetObjects Base Collection sells for $100 with substantial student discounts. Cooper: "Our pricing is structured so that developers can try the objects with minimal up-front costs. Our educational discounts also make the InetObjects Base Collection ideal for students wanting to learn network programming." Zippytech is a privately held company that develops objectware for heterogenous network environments. For more information, contact Zippytech (ztech@well.sf.ca.us). - 30 -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: "Jay Wallin" <p00370@psilink.com> Subject: JOB: NeXT consulting-NYC area Message-ID: <1993Jun30.200638.8090@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 20:06:38 GMT At last some NeXT activity on the East Coast. A large development project needs 8-10 Senior NeXT consultants for long term independent on-site contracts at good rates. Seven senior developers are needed with Objective C, Sybase a plus and two senior Sybase specialists (almost DBA's). E-Mail me at p00370@psilink.com or call 212-410-1400. Thanks - Jay Wallin PS The firm involved has been in business 8yrs, has a great reputation and pays on time!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: info@benatong.com Subject: PRESS RELEASE: BenaTong Announces BarCodePalette Message-ID: <1993Jul2.161852.8811@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 16:18:52 GMT News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Victoria Tong, BenaTong (614) 276-7859 Availability: June 30, 1993 Pricing: $199.95 - First Copy $169.95 - Additional Copies BenaTong Announces BarCodePalettetm for NEXTSTEP Columbus, OH, June 30, 1993_ BenaTong today announced BarCodePalettetm - a DBKit compatible palette that allows you to add bar code generation to your custom applications. BarCodePalettetm is an easy to use palette of objects for including industry-standard bar codes in your custom NEXTSTEP applications. BarCodePalette provides four InterfaceBuilder view objects - each with its own custom inspector panel. Supported bar code standards: * UPC - Version A, Version E, EAN-08, EAN-13, and UPC Supplemental * Postnet * Code39 * Code128 Each bar code can be customized by scaling, rotating, or adjusting its character display attributes. BarCodePalette objects are fully integrated with the NEXTSTEP DBKit so you can drag and drop from a DBModule string onto the BarCode object, and your database will automatically store and retrieve the bar code type and its contents. Barcodes can be generated from any database field or from any custom application variable. BenaTong, based in Columbus Ohio, is a consulting firm that specializes in providing commercial applications and custom software for computers running NeXTSTEP. BenaTong can be reached at (614) 276-7859 voice and fax or by email at info@benatong.com _30_
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: info@benatong.com Subject: PRESS RELEASE: BenaTong Announces ImageIt Palette Message-ID: <1993Jul2.161936.8875@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 16:19:36 GMT News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Victoria Tong, BenaTong (614) 276-7859 Availability: June 30, 1993 Pricing: $249.95 Vanguard Software Announces ImageIttm For NEXTSTEP - To Be Distributed By BenaTong. Columbus, OH, June 30, 19931Vanguard Software, Inc. and BenaTong, today announced ImageIttm - a DBKit compatible palette that allows you to add image manipulation to your custom applications. "ICImageView is a class that allows you to rotate, flip, scale, tile, and dissolve an image over a background", says ImageIt creator Takis Mercouris, President of Vanguard Software. A rich set of controls allows you to place the image within the view in a variety of ways: 7 in the center 7 in the corners 7 scaled to fit the entire view 7 scaled proportionally 7 tiled over the view ICImageView is DBKit compatible; it emulates DBImageView, so you could substitute it for DBImageView in your programs. It allows storage of either the image or the path name, depending on the data type of the property connected to it. ICImageView supports full cut and paste and drag and drop capabilities for all images supported by NXImage. Placement modes can be applied independently of all others. BenaTong, based in Columbus Ohio, is a consulting firm that specializes in providing commercial applications and custom software for computers running NeXTSTEP. BenaTong can be reached at (614) 276-7859 voice and fax or by email at info@benatong.com 1301
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WordPerfect Corporation Releases WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jul3.003525.10010@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 00:35:25 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WORDPERFECT CORPORATION Contact: Paul D. Eddington (801) 228-5006 Fax: (801) 228-5077 WORDPERFECT CORPORATION RELEASES WORDPERFECT FOR NEXTSTEP OREM, Utah -- June 17, 1993 WordPerfect Corporation today announced its new WordPerfect 1.0.1 for NEXTSTEP interim release is shipping. The updated release includes support for NeXT Computer Inc.'s new NEXTSTEP operating system for Intel processors. The interim release also adds support for NEXTSTEP's drag and drop text feature and on-line help. "Programming for NEXTSTEP is a developer's dream" said Nathan Hatch, UNIX product marketing manager at WordPerfect Corporation. "Because of the way NEXTSTEP manages information, we were able to add powerful new features to this interim release in a relatively short amount of time." The program disks include multiple File Allocation Tables (FAT) allowing WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP to run on NEXTSTEP for Motorola-based proprietary machines as well as Intel-based 486 and Pentium personal computers. NEXTSTEP for Intel was introduced last month at NeXTWORLD EXPO in San Francisco. Two key new features in the interim release of WordPerfect for NeXT take advantage of advanced NEXTSTEP 3.0 technology. WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP's drag and drop feature lets users select text or graphics and move them anywhere within the same document, other opened WordPerfect documents, or other NEXTSTEP software applications that support the NEXTSTEP drag and drop feature. The drag and drop feature also lets users drag and drop file icons to open WordPerfect documents. WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP accepts WordPerfect, ASCII, WPG, TIFF, EPS, and RTF file formats. WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP documentation is tightly integrated with NEXTSTEP's own on-line documentation system allowing users to access both WordPerfect and NEXTSTEP on-line help from within WordPerfect. "Productivity software is an important component of NeXT's strategy to provide a client environment that fully integrates shrink wrapped applications with custom applications and legacy systems," said Julie Saffren, NeXT developer advocate. "We are please WordPerfect Corporation continues to support NEXTSTEP customers with current and next generation products." "These advances are steps toward WordPerfect Corporation's goal to develop a version of WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP that will be feature and file compatible with its DOS and Windows counterparts and take advantage of NeXT's technology," said Hatch. WordPerfect Corporation, headquartered in Orem, Utah, is a privately held company that develops business software to help people process, share and present information across a wide variety of computer operating systems. Among the company's key products are the worlds best-selling word processor, WordPerfect, as well as WordPerfect Office, WordPerfect InForms and WordPerfect Presentations. Recognized for its leadership in providing outstanding customer support, WordPerfect Corporation is represented throughout the world by 50 international affiliates serving 106 countries in 27 languages. WordPerfect is a registered trademark of WordPerfect Corporation NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: mary@metrosoft.com (Mary Donnelly) Subject: SUBMISSION: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility Message-ID: <1993Jul3.003618.10070@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 00:36:18 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mary Donnelly (619) 488-9411 Fax: (619) 488-3045 E-mail: info@metrosoft.com Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility San Diego, July 1, 1993 - MetroSuction is a commercial-quality utility for examining and removing support for different hardware architectures in Multi-Architecture Binary files (so-called "fat binaries"). It easily handles folders of applications and multiple binary files per application. It's a freeware utility from Metrosoft, the makers of MetroTools. Multi-architecture Binaries (MABs) or "fat binaries" allow the same NEXTSTEP program to run on different types of machines (currently NeXT computers and supported Intel-based computers). MetroSuction allows you to easily see which architectures are supported by a given application and to remove support for a given architecture, freeing up disk space. "We felt there was a need for a high-quality NEXTSTEP utility for manipulating fat binaries.", said Gordon Van Huizen, President, Metrosoft. "Many people won't be able to take advantage of removing support for an architecture during program installation due to a bug in the NEXTSTEP Installer utility that occurs when creating multi-disk installation packages. And even when that problem is resolved, it'll be nice to have an easy-to-use utility for dealing with fat binaries. We felt it should be free for the NEXTSTEP community." MetroSuction is available via anonymous FTP at sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu. or a nominal fee of $10 for materials and handling if you need a disk sent. Feel free to give away copies! -30-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@next.com (Conrad Geiger) Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Programming Positions Available at WhiteLight Message-ID: <1993Jul3.003641.10129@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 00:36:41 GMT POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR NEXTSTEP DEVELOPERS If you are a proficient NeXT programmer... If you want to advance the object-oriented state of the art... If you are interested in enterprise-wide computing... If you want your contributions to be recognized... If you like the work environment of a small, dynamic, financially-sound company... The please email, call or fax: Norman Goldfarb WhiteLight Systems, Inc. 350 Cambridge Ave., Suite 200 Palo Alto, CA 94306 (415) 321-2183 (tel) (415) 321-2083 (fax) norm@whitelight.com Competitive compensation, including equity, and benefits. Would prefer that you work in our offices, but your own location is a possibility. Our principal product is WhiteLight/Engineer, object-oriented business modeling software for financial planning, analysis and control. It addresses a fundamental problem shared by every large company: The complexity and dynamics of the business have outgrown the ability of current technology to deliver instantly the information that management needs to run the business. WhiteLight/Engineer is the first software product that enables a company's management and staff to build a shared model of the business from a common library of business objects and their computational relationships.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: andrew abernathy <andrew@wire.gatech.edu> Subject: SUBMISSION: FireflyView v.0.9: new BackSpace module Message-ID: <1993Jul5.033317.8265@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 03:33:17 GMT FireflyView0.9.tar.Z has been placed on sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/submissions; expect it to move as appropriate. Please let me know what you think. Here is the README file: FireflyView version 0.9 July 4, 1993 andrew abernathy This is a screensaver module for Sam Streeper's excellent BackSpace screensaver. This module randomly moves "fireflies" (pixels) around on a solid background. I think it's way cool in total darkness and a complete washout in bright light. Judge for yourself - it's free. This package contains both source and a fat binary for the module, though it hasn't been tested on Intel. The makefile defaults to creating a fat binary for both Motorola and Intel. To install, either copy FireflyView.BackModule to ~/Library/BackSpaceViews or /LocalLibrary/BackSpaceViews, or type "make install" from a shell while in the FireflyView directory; this installs in ~/Library/BackSpaceViews by default.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: sanguish@digifix.com Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Tickle Services Mailing List Message-ID: <1993Jul5.160625.10534@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 16:06:25 GMT Announcing the Tickle Services Mailing List With the advent of Scott Hess's excellent shareware utility Tickle Services, there must be a glut of users who have written Tickle Services of their own. Well now we have a method of exchanging these services, the tickle-services mailing list! Thanks to the andrew@cubetech.com for supplying the resources for running the listserv. To subscribe, send a mail to majordomo@cubetech.com with SUBSCRIBE Tickle-Services in the body of the message. If you have any questions, send e-mail to sanguish@digifix.com ..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu Subject: SUBMISSION: CD Template for Appsoft Draw Message-ID: <1993Jul6.195005.3369@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 19:50:05 GMT I have just uploaded to cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu a simple template to make CD jewel box labels with Appsoft Draw. It is currently in /pub/next/submissions, but should migrate to a more permanent location at some point. >From the readme: CDTemplate.drw For all those CD-ROMs that don't come in plastic jewel boxes... This is a simple template for making CD jewel box labels in Appsoft Draw. Templates for the back cover and for the front cover insert are provided. Just draw in your cover (or paste in an image), type the text that will go on the spines, print, and cut out. The 400dpi NeXT laser printer does a very good job on these; I presume the Color Printer would do an even better job. You can get empty jewel boxes at most record stores (eg at Tower Records for about $0.70) Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: bromine@ISI.EDU (Bill Romine) Subject: SUBMISSION: MailSearch beta - search for keyword in NeXT-style mailboxes Message-ID: <1993Jul6.210801.4104@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 21:08:01 GMT MailSearch: search for keywords in NeXT-style mailboxes Version: beta 2-Jul-92 Description: MailSearch provides a convenient way to search for keywords in NeXT-style mailboxes. It runs under 3.0, I haven't tested under other releases. Most of the icons are stolen from NeXT. Bugs/suggestions to bromine@isi.edu. Available on sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/submissions as MailSearch_beta.tar.Z Known bugs: - Horizontally resizing the window while displaying a message with an attached file will cause the attached file cell to be displayed in the wrong location. - If the mbox and table_of_contents files of a mailbox cannot be stat()-ed, the mailbox will be reported as being staged. Notes: MailSearch was originally written for an installation with an Epoch file server. The "Search All" function will actually only search the unstaged mailboxes. If you are using an Epoch, you'll probably want to edit the NIB to change the pop-up from "All Mailboxes" to "All Unstaged Mailboxes".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: warrior@pindar.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Charles M. Dudley) Subject: MEETING: Michigan NeXT Users' Group Message-ID: <1993Jul6.211548.4458@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 21:15:48 GMT Michigan NeXT Users' Group meeting Thursday, 8 July, at 6:00 pm in the Tap Room of the Michigan Union. Come one, come all. Topics: IFS support for NeXT's, Future placement of NeXT boxes, Question and Answer, Adgenda for August and September meetings.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: mikem@afs.com Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP demo at PC Users Group of South Jersey Message-ID: <1993Jul6.211631.4654@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 21:16:31 GMT NEXTSTEP demo at PC Users Group of South Jersey There will be a demonstration of the NEXTSTEP operating environment at the next meeting of the PC Users Group of South Jersey. The June 28th issue of PCWeek states: NeXT Inc.'s NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors 3.1 is not your Dad's Operating System. It combines an arresting interface with excellent connectivity, multitasking muscle and a powerful object-oriented development environment. When: Tuesday, July 13 Time: 7:00pm-9:15pm Where: Queen of Heaven Church (behind the church) Route 70, 0.8 mi east of the Garden State Race Track (on north side of Route 70) For more information contact Michael McConnell, Vice President, PC Users Group of South Jersey, 609/678-3598 Mike Matlack, President, PhANG, 609/428-5774 Sponsored by the Philadelphia Area NeXTSTEP Users Group (PhANG) Projection provided by System Solutions
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: OTI: 1993 NeXTWORLD Best of Breed Award Message-ID: <1993Jul7.181209.2446@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 18:12:09 GMT From: Objective Technologies, Inc. Dear NeXTWORLD readers, We would like to apologize for a printing error in our advertisement in the upcoming NeXTWORLD issue. Our advertisement is running on the back outside cover of the coming issue. The ad primarily describes our new product Impress - the DBKit Report Writer. At the bottom left hand corner, we had designed an inset, mentioning one of our other products, SmartField Palette. SmartField Palette has recently won the 1993 Best of Breed award for ObjectWare. We wanted to mention its success in the advertisement. Due to a printing error, the text of the inset as described below was dropped: Also from OTI SmartField Palette Winner of ObjectWare "Best of Breed" Award Also in the inset, is the 1993 NeXTWORLD Best of Breed Logo (used with permission). This was not dropped from the inset. Our concern and reason for this note was any confusion as to claims that our new product Impress has won a Best of Breed award. We want to make it clear that we in no way are making any claims to that end and apologize for any confusion the printing error may have caused. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, Alex B. Cone Objective Technologies, Inc. July 6, 1993 P.S. Of course, we look forward to Impress winning the 1994 Best of Breed Award.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: rlm@sss.com Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SS&S Announces CodeReviewer CASE Tool for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jul7.184758.3413@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 18:47:58 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 30, 1993 Contact: Robert L. Masterson, Vice President Software Services and Solutions, Inc. Phone (203) 630-2000 Fax (203) 630-2020 email rlm@sss.com Meriden, Connecticut, June 30, 1993 - Software Services and Solutions, Inc., Announces CodeReviewer CASE Tool for NEXTSTEP Software Services and Solutions, Inc., announced today shipment of CodeReviewer, a graphical CASE tool for software analysis and project tracking under NEXTSTEP. CodeReviewer is currently shipping at a per-seat cost of $495 (floating license), and discounted site licenses are available. CodeReviewer is available now for NEXTSTEP on NeXT, 486, and Pentium, with ports to Motif under other Unix systems to follow. CodeReviewer helps track and manage changes to objects and other code in multi-person development efforts. CodeReviewer allows project managers and developers to analyze versions of code visually and formally, according to industry-standard software metrics. Visual analysis is supported for any type of code, while software metrics can be computed, compared, and graphed for C, C++, Objective-C, and YACC code. Developers can use CodeReviewer to quickly appraise the state of legacy code and the work that has been done on it in the past. The complexity analysis functions of CodeReviewer can point developers to problem spots in code before they become bugs or maintenance headaches. CodeReviewer is fully integrated with NEXTSTEP, and its user interface is immediately familiar to users of standard NEXTSTEP applications. CodeReviewer provides its analysis capabilities via inter-application services, as well, to allow easy integration with the current development environment. CodeReviewer is capable of reading projects created by SS&S's DRCS graphical revision control system, as well as RCS directories. "With CodeReviewer, project managers can gain control of changes to code and avoid the morass of object incompatibilities that can plague large object-oriented development efforts. Development can proceed with greater efficiency toward its goals with CodeReviewer. Also, CodeReviewer can get developers up to speed on an unfamiliar project in a fraction of the time it would take them without it." said Robert L. Masterson, Vice President of Software Services and Solutions, Inc. For more information, contact Robert L. Masterson, Vice President, Software Services and Solutions, Inc., at 94 Murray Street, Meriden, Connecticut 06450, or via email to rlm@sss.com, phone to (203) 630-2000, or fax to (203) 630-2020; or contact Bruce LeSourd at the SS&S, Inc., Pacific Northwest Regional Office at 1222 East Crockett Street, Seattle, Washington 98102, or via email to lesourd@pnw.sss.com, phone to (206) 860-9295, or fax to (206) 860-6896. Software Services and Solutions, Inc., is an information technology consulting firm specializing in open systems technology, object-oriented software design and development, and networking. Through its two main offices and various ancillary offices, Software Services and Solutions, Inc., provides technology consulting, reengineering, and custom development services to businesses and governments worldwide.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: rlm@sss.com Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SS&S Announces DRCS CASE Tool for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jul7.184831.3472@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 18:48:31 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 30, 1993 Contact: Robert L. Masterson, Vice President Software Services and Solutions, Inc. Phone (203) 630-2000 Fax (203) 630-2020 email rlm@sss.com Meriden, Connecticut, June 30, 1993 - Software Services and Solutions, Inc., Announces DRCS CASE Tool for NEXTSTEP and Unix Software Services and Solutions, Inc., announced today shipment of its DRCS graphical CASE tool. DRCS is currently shipping at a per-seat cost of $195 (floating license), and discounted site licenses are available. DRCS is available for most Unix platforms, including NEXTSTEP on NeXT, 486, and Pentium, Hewlett Packard/HP-UX, Sun/Solaris, Digital/Ultrix and OSF/1, SGI/Irix, IBM/AIX, SCO UNIX, and Unixware. DRCS provides project lifetime tracking and revision control for entire directories as well as files. Users can freely access the contents of a directory revision archive or treat the entire archive as a single unit. DRCS directory archives maintain a history of their previous contents, even if files have been renamed or deleted. Users can call DRCS shell commands directly from a terminal window or access the full power of the system through the DRCS NEXTSTEP Graphical User Interface. The DRCS NEXTSTEP Graphical User Interface allows the user to open an arbitrary number of Workspace Manager-like File Viewers rooted at different locations in the file system. Revision control is provided transparently through standard mouse operations. For example, the user can select a group of files in the Workspace Manager File Viewer and drag them into a project revision control directory in a DRCS File Viewer - the revision histories are automatically updated. Inspector Panels allow the user to select revision control options and make log entries, and a Preferences panel provides a full range of default settings. DRCS provides full compatibility with existing RCS revision archives ("RCS" directories). The DRCS shell commands support 100% of the command-line options of the corresponding RCS commands, while extending those commands to operate on directories as well as files. In addition, DRCS offers advanced features like automated file renaming and whole-project revision histories. "DRCS breaks new ground in functionality and ease of use, and it's a fraction of the cost of other graphical CASE systems. NEXTSTEP and Unix users - whether they're developers or not - can finally enjoy full revision control of everything from .rtfd files to entire filesystems. And best of all, anyone who can use NEXTSTEP can learn how to use the DRCS NEXTSTEP Graphical User Interface in a matter of minutes." said Robert L. Masterson, Vice President of Software Services and Solutions, Inc. For more information, contact Robert L. Masterson, Vice President, Software Services and Solutions, Inc., at 94 Murray Street, Meriden, Connecticut 06450, or via email to rlm@sss.com, phone to (203) 630-2000, or fax to (203) 630-2020; or contact Bruce LeSourd at the SS&S, Inc., Pacific Northwest Regional Office at 1222 East Crockett Street, Seattle, Washington 98102, or via email to lesourd@pnw.sss.com, phone to (206) 860-9295, or fax to (206) 860-6896. Software Services and Solutions, Inc., is an information technology consulting firm specializing in open systems technology, object-oriented software design and development, and networking. Through its two main offices and various ancillary offices, Software Services and Solutions, Inc., provides technology consulting, reengineering, and custom development services to businesses and governments worldwide.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: gartenb@northstar.com Subject: JOB: Ten Open NEXTSTEP Positions with NorthStar (New York City) Message-ID: <1993Jul7.184920.3531@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 18:49:20 GMT NorthStar Technologies, Inc. is a small software development and consulting firm based in New York City specializing in the use of object-oriented and client-server technologies. We provide innovative software solutions for financial institutions and other businesses. We are enlarging our staff due to an influx of new business and seek employees that match the following profiles: 1) Two senior managers - BSCC or equivalent, MS preferred - 7 to 9 years of software engineering experience - Mastery of object-oriented design and development techniques - Mastery of client-server techniques - Extensive knowledge and ability using C++ and other object-oriented languages - Extensive knowledge of UNIX - Extensive knowledge of Sybase, both the Open Client library (API) as well as the server. Knowledge of other RDBMS products in commercial use a plus - Good working knowledge with GUIs including Motif - Knowledge of the financial business a strong plus - Good working knowledge of NeXTstep a strong plus - Consulting experience preferred, especially technical leadership and account management 2) Five senior software engineers/consultants - BSCC or equivalent - 3 to 5 years of software engineering experience - Good working knowledge of object-oriented design and development techniques - Good working knowledge of client-server techniques - Good working knowledge of C++ - Good working knowledge of UNIX - Good working knowledge of Motif (OpenLook experience a plus) - Good working knowledge of the Sybase Open Client library (API) - Good working knowledge of NeXTstep a strong plus - Consulting experience a strong plus - Knowledge of the financial business a strong plus 3) Two NeXTstep software engineers - BSCC or equivalent - More than a year's experience with NEXTSTEP application development - Extensive knowledge of the NeXTstep appkit - Good working knowledge of Objective C - Good working knowledge of UNIX - Experience with the Sybase Open Client library (API) and other commercial RDBMS application programming a strong plus - Knowledge of C++ a plus 4) A UNIX system administrator - BSCC or equivalent - Significant experience with heterogeneous UNIX network environments - Good working knowledge of UNIX system administration tools - Commercial RDBMS installation and maintenance - Significant experience with hardware purchasing, installation, configuration and maintenance - Good working knowledge of NeXTstep a strong plus - C, C++ or Objective C experience a plus - Consulting experience a plus If you match any of these profiles, please contact us: NorthStar Technologies, Inc. 15 Maiden Lane, Suite 803 New York, New York 10038 Attention: Morris Gartenberg Phone: 212-267-4100 extension 135 Fax: 212-267-4468 e-mail: gartenb@northstar.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: mikem@afs.com Subject: USERGROUP: Under the Steps - Call for Easter Eggs Message-ID: <1993Jul7.232241.1628@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 23:22:41 GMT "PhANG Notes" is a bimonthly publication distributed by the Philadelphia Area NEXTSTEP Users Group. "Notes" includes a column, "Under the Steps", that is used to announce and reveal easter eggs (i.e. hidden features or surprises) found in NeXTSTEP applications. An example of an easter egg is the animation revealed in the Concurrence Info Panel after the right sequence of mouse clicks is performed. If you find an easter egg, please send the necessary information to uncover the egg to phang-eggs@nexta.dccs.upenn.edu. Developers may also send email to this alias to announce the existence of an egg for readers to search. PhANG documentation is archived in pub/PhANG on ftp-next.upenn.edu. Thanks! mikem
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Software Engineers Wanted for Legal Market Message-ID: <1993Jul8.050420.1115@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 05:04:20 GMT Inherent Technologies, Inc. is a small software architecture and engineering practice focused on the application of object-oriented and client-server technologies to legal computing. We provide leading edge software solutions, technology consulting and education for law firms, corporate legal departments, Bar associations and Court systems. Growth sparked by NEXTSTEP for Intel and associated developments has created the following contract position(s). (2) Contract Software Engineers: o BSCS, equivalent or better; o 3 to 5 years of software development/engineering experience; o Solid knowledge of object-oriented principles; o Working knowledge of Objective-C and C++ ; o Strong knowledge of data structures techniques (list and tree processing); o Sound programming principles and work ethic; o Knowledge of NEXTSTEP Appkit a plus; o Good knowledge of Smalltalk a great benefit; and o Exposure to Windows and Windows-NT helpful. These position(s) are available immediately and involve technical software development in ObjC for NEXTSTEP, but not much in the way of NEXTSTEP IB at this point. Lots of knowledge of Interface Builder, the Developer Environment or Mahoney's book is nice, but not enough. We need solid data structures knowledge for solid implementation of new objects. Exposure to Windows and Windows NT would help with compatibility work downstream, but is not important now. These positions are compensated at industry competitve rates, commensurate with skills and experience. The positions may work into permanent staff employment, if mutually interested. If you match this profile, please contact us: Inherent Technologies, Inc. 3720 SW 12th, Suite 14 Portland, Oregon 97201 Attention: Staffing Phone: 503-224-6751 Fax: 503-274-4622 e-mail: workform@inherent.techlaw.com and/or gam@inherent.techlaw.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: thompson@netcom.com (Eric Thompson) Subject: MAILING LIST: MicroPhone Pro for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jul8.185037.3697@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 18:50:37 GMT Hi, I have started a mailing list devoted to MicroPhone Pro for NEXTSTEP. Its purpose is to discuss the software, and to share hints, scripts, and other information with fellow users. Anonymous ftp will available for archives, scripts, etc. If you use MicroPhone Pro for NEXTSTEP, this is the place to be :-) SUBSCRIBE TO: mpro-request@netcom.com Eric Thompson MPRO Mailing List Manager
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: sanguish@digifix.com Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 27 - 1993 Message-ID: <1993Jul8.185554.3786@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 18:55:54 GMT Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 27). Tuesday June 29 through Tuesday July 6 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 26 - 1993 SUBMISSION: KaBLAM.app.tar.Z PRESS RELEASE: Zippytech Ships InetObjects for NEXTSTEP JOB: NeXT consulting-NYC area PRESS RELEASE: BenaTong Announces BarCodePalette PRESS RELEASE: BenaTong Announces ImageIt Palette PRESS RELEASE: WordPerfect Corporation Releases WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP SUBMISSION: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility JOB: NEXTSTEP Programming Positions Available at WhiteLight SUBMISSION: FireflyView v.0.9: new BackSpace module ANNOUNCEMENT: Tickle Services Mailing List ANNOUNCEMENT: Tickle Services Mailing List SUBMISSION: CD Template for Appsoft Draw SUBMISSION: MailSearch beta - search for keyword in NeXT-style mailboxes MEETING: Michigan NeXT Users' Group MEETING: NEXTSTEP demo at PC Users Group of South Jersey If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier. As always feedback is welcome. Scott Anguish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: sanguish@digifix.com Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 27 - 1993 Message-ID: <1993Jul8.190228.4316@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 19:02:28 GMT Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 27). Tuesday June 29 through Tuesday July 6 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 26 - 1993 SUBMISSION: KaBLAM.app.tar.Z PRESS RELEASE: Zippytech Ships InetObjects for NEXTSTEP JOB: NeXT consulting-NYC area PRESS RELEASE: BenaTong Announces BarCodePalette PRESS RELEASE: BenaTong Announces ImageIt Palette PRESS RELEASE: WordPerfect Corporation Releases WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP SUBMISSION: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction - a Freeware Utility JOB: NEXTSTEP Programming Positions Available at WhiteLight SUBMISSION: FireflyView v.0.9: new BackSpace module ANNOUNCEMENT: Tickle Services Mailing List SUBMISSION: CD Template for Appsoft Draw SUBMISSION: MailSearch beta - search for keyword in NeXT-style mailboxes MEETING: Michigan NeXT Users' Group MEETING: NEXTSTEP demo at PC Users Group of South Jersey If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier. As always feedback is welcome. Scott Anguish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: thompson@netcom.com (Eric Thompson) Subject: MAILING LIST: MicroPhone Pro for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jul8.190239.4375@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 19:02:39 GMT Hi, I have started a mailing list devoted to MicroPhone Pro for NEXTSTEP. Its purpose is to discuss the software, and to share hints, scripts, and other information with fellow users. Anonymous ftp will available for archives, scripts, etc. If you use MicroPhone Pro for NEXTSTEP, this is the place to be :-) SUBSCRIBE TO: mpro-request@netcom.com Eric Thompson MPRO Mailing List Manager
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: mary@metrosoft.com (Mary Donnelly) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Simon moves to Metrosoft Message-ID: <1993Jul8.190727.4698@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 19:07:27 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mary Donnelly (619) 488-9411 Fax: (619) 488-3045 E-mail: info@metrosoft.com Metrosoft Announces Simon Says 2.0 San Diego, July 3, 1993 - Metrosoft announced today that it is pleased to be taking over ownership of the popular Simon Says program. "We were impressed with Simon the first time we saw a demo at the 1992 NeXTWORLD Expo." said Mary Donnelly, E.V.P., Metrosoft, "If there is a way to make the NEXTSTEP platform look more impressive than it already is - Simon does it." Simon is a voice recognition program. It saves you time by performing a sequence of actions with one voice command. Simon can listen for voice commands for specific applications or globally . Voice commands are trainable to your voice, no matter what your language, dialect or accent. It is easy to use and a lot of fun too! Simon Says 2.0 will have an improved interface and added functionality. It will be distributed as a fat binary that will run on NEXTSTEP for Intel as well as NeXT computers. It will be available in October 1993. Currently anyone using Simon Says cannot run the program under NEXTSTEP 3.1. There is an intermediate upgrade, Simon Says 1.5. When pre-ordering Simon Says 2.0, you can receive version 1.5 now for free. Contact Metrosoft directly for new orders and upgrades. For product information, you can e-mail info@metrosoft.com. For technical support, please e-mail simon@metrosoft.com. Metrosoft is a San Diego based company specializing in the development and publishing of NEXTSTEP applications. -30-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: HSD Announces PowerScan 2.0 for NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jul8.233123.5599@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 23:31:23 GMT For more information, contact: HSD Microcomputer Telephone: (408) 774-1400 Fax: (408) 774-1402 Email: info@hsd.com HSD Microcomputer U.S. Announces PowerScan 2.0 for NEXTSTEP! PowerScan 2.0 features NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP/486 compatibility, plus PowerFax, PowerCopy, and more... PowerScan is HSD's easy-to-use but powerful scan software package for both NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP/486. PowerScan can be used successfully with little instruction, and yet it has all the features you need to do your work fast: - PowerFax (included!) allows you to use your scanner and fax/modem as a fax machine WITHOUT starting PowerScan 2.0! Simply put your document on the scanner, select PowerFax from the Services menu and PowerFax will do the rest. - PowerCopy (included!) allows you to use your scanner and printer as a photocopier. Simply put your document on the scanner and select PowerCopy from the Services menu! - Continue working in PowerScan (i.e do image processing on a previous scan) while a new scan is taking place. - Spectrum Enhancement (only from HSD!) allows you to expand the dynamic range of scanners for each color individually. Capture subtle details, highlights and nuances that other scanner software would miss! - Powerful image processing features, like rotation, brightness, contrast, sharpness, resolution, size, scan type, and more can change the scanned image to suit your needs. - Supports transparency adapters, Batch Scan Processing, and automatic document feeders - Supports all HSD Scan-X scanners, and all UMAX scanners. Please call for projected availability for Epson, Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu scanners. If you order now, PowerScan 2.0 is only $269.95! Upgrade PowerScan 1.03 to 2.0 for $114.95! (education, government and quantity pricing available) To order, or for more information, please call Danielle at: telephone: (408) 774-1400 fax: (408) 774-1402 e-mail: info@hsd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Subject: SUBMISSION: TickleServices1.02mab - it's fat Message-ID: <1993Jul9.163421.2724@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 16:34:21 GMT CONTACT INFORMATION: Contact: Scott Hess 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 Telephone: (612) 895-1208 Internet: scott@nic.gac.edu or shess@ssesco.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (IF NOT SOONER) SCOTT HESS INTRODUCES TickleServices1.02mab An Evolutionary Framework For Rapid Prototyping of NeXTSTEP Services July 8, 1993, 11:00pm CDT SCOTT'S DEN - Since the initial TickleServices release on May 13, Minnesota has seen an unprecedented amount of rain, which has caused much flooding. Due to the pertinacious downpours and the rise in mosquito population which has resulted, TickleServices has spent entirely too much time indoors in front of the television. This has resulted in TickleServices becoming FAT! [No, no, idiot, that has nothing to do with it.] ... "With the addition of support for File Allocation Tables, TickleServices will become more useful than ever" asserts Scott Hess, the slightly confused developer ... [We are now experiencing technical difficulties. Please stay tuned for more information. *slap* %bruise% $kick$ $kick$] ... "With the release of Multi-Architecture binaries, TickleServices will now support both Motorola _and_ Intel platforms" said the late Scott Hess, the developer of the package. "Previously it was very hard to run the application on Intel machines. This release should make use of TickleServices on such machines much simpler." [Oh, close enough.] TickleServices1.02mab is a new version of TickleServices ported to and recompiled under NeXTSTEP3.1. In the bargain, a couple of minor bugs have been fixed, and some new services were added, though no really neat new features were added. Well, the Lipo.ts services are sort of neat. Background TickleServices provides a framework upon which new services entries may be built. It uses a string-based scripting language to direct execution, which allows many text-handling services to be written in just one or two lines. Built-in commands are provided for a number of commonly required functions, such as prompting the user for input or selecting files in an Open Panel. As a side effect of the ease of developing and modifying new services, TickleServices1.02mab includes a library of 79 example services, many of which implement services that used to require the aforementioned basket of applets. These services range from handling archive files to counting words in text to reformatting C /* ... */ comments. Beyond the basic utility these services provide to any user, they are a valuable source of code to copy and paste for use in new services. Availability and Pricing TickleServices1.02mab is available NOW for NeXTSTEP3.1 Motorola and Intel. In the tradition of Stuart, TickleServices is shareware, and will be distributed via the same tried and true channels; namely, the Internet archive sites. TickleServices has been placed on: # As of 1am, I couldn't get sonata to accept the entire file :-(. sonata.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/submissions/TickleServices1.02mab.compressed cs.orst.edu:pub/next/submissions/TickleServices1.02mab.compressed ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl:pub/next/submissions/TickleServices1.02mab.compressed It will likely migrate from there to a more appropriate place on the archive. Note that it's a 3.0 commercial program (so on sonata, it would end in pub/next/3.0/com). To unarchive TickleServices, use the Workspace Contents panel, or use the command "zcat TickleServices1.02mab.compressed | tar -xvf -". If you do not have ftp access, contact Scott Hess and he can send you a copy via NeXTMail. If you're the kind to care, the output of running sum(1) on the file is: 48090 848 TickleServices1.02mab.compressed TickleServices is priced at $30 for an individual license and $20 for a student license. Site licenses are available for both academic and commercial/government sites. Since TickleServices is shareware, the user is allowed a reasonable evaluation period during which they can determine if TickleServices provides functionality that they are willing to pay for. Scott Hess develops and distributes the popular Stuart terminal emulator, and also crafts custom code for clients willing to foot the bill. Periodically he contemplates becoming a company, or even a corporation, but he so intensely dislikes wearing a suit that it is doubtful if we will ever find the vulture capital to do so. Located in beautiful Burnsville, Minnesota, Scott's den is the scene of much caffeine-driven sorcery. Residents of nearby Savage have frequently complained of the bright flashes of colored lights emanating from his window, though the frequency of such complaints has fallen off markedly since the curse was renewed last April. TickleServices may become a trademark of Scott Hess or any company he accidentally founds or makes agreements with, so don't use it for your product. NeXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Any other trademarks are surely held by their respective trademark holders. If not, then they aren't. -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nwc@ny.shl.com (Nick Christopher) Subject: MEETING: Gotham Users of NeXT Message-ID: <1993Jul9.214359.3642@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 21:43:59 GMT GOTHAM USERS OF NeXT Wednesday, July 14th I. Q&A - 1830 Questions. Answers. News. II. ObjectWare/CASE Tools/QuickBase - 1900 Software Services and Solutions, Inc. will be showing much of its newest work, specifically its ObjectWare and CASE Tools and, if time permits, its Networking tools. Also, SofDesign will give an update on the its database product QuickBase. III. NorthStar's $TREETwise Trader - 2000 NorthStar Technologies, Inc. will show STREETwise Trader its complete equity system for hedge funds, offering comprehensive deal management, trade execution, and securities position tracking. IV. Auction GUN has a copy of Mesa as well as the Electronic AppWrapper to auction off at the meetings end. Electronic Directions 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 503 212-213-6500 Questions to GUN at 718-260-9848 or info@gun.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: MEETING: WANUG (Washington, D.C. area NeXT User Group) July 14 meeting Message-ID: <1993Jul9.214508.3767@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 21:45:08 GMT Announcing WANUG (Washington, D.C. area NeXT User Group) July Meeting TIME AND LOCATION The Wednesday, July 14 meeting will be held at MITRE Corp, 1820 Dolly Madison Blvd, McLean, VA. The meeting begins at 7pm. AGENDA AND PRESENTATIONS Stephen Master: "Music, MIDI, and Sound" - A frank discussion of the tools available under NeXTSTEP. and Andreas R. Glocker: "CheckSum" - ACCOUNTING Software for NEXTSTEP For further information, contact: Hugh O'Neill President Washington Area NeXTSTEP Users Group (WaNUG) 571 Coover Road Annapolis, MD 21401 Telephone: (410) 224-3116 Email: honeill@nextsrv1.andi.org (NeXTmail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: <zac@dolphin.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Dolphin Kit Object Library Message-ID: <1993Jul10.025230.5276@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 02:52:30 GMT Press Release Dolphin Technologies Inc. Announces Dolphin Kit Object Library Contact: Zacharias J. Beckman Dolphin Technologies Inc. 10329 Viretta Lane Beverly Glen, CA 90077 July 1, 1993--Dolphin Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the Dolphin Kit NeXTSTEP compatible class library, version 3.1, for NeXTSTEP (available for both Intel and Motorola hardware). The kit is a set of classes which run in the NeXTSTEP environment and focus on common functionality that many applications require. The classes expand upon the existing NeXTSTEP API and deliver new objects not formerly available. The Dolphin Kit provides a comprehensive set of tools, classes, and protocols for building applications that use a high-level object oriented approach to many common needs in application development. The kit provides services that include: Simple string and "sentence" storage and manipulation. Encapsulated use of Mach files and devices (i.e.: flat files). Management of C Threads and multitasking. Extensions to several standard NeXTSTEP API classes. New container classes. Facilities for generating NeXTMAIL. Part of the functionality of the Dolphin Kit is a set of tools for building more robust applications. Most applications make use of memory to store strings or other blocks of data. Dolphin's String class can be used to greatly simplify direct use of memory. For example, calls to memory allocation and free functions are encapsulated. By encapsulating the use of memory in a robust library, many problems in the area of memory management and memory overrun are prevented. The Dolphin Kit helps by providing: Several String classes for containment of a block of memory (typically used to store terminated character strings, read only strings, and an ErrorString class to encapsulate error handling). A Parser to provide greater flexibility in manipulation of character strings. This makes it possible to manipulate such strings without danger of memory overruns and other miscalculations. Classes for the encapsulation of Mach file and device manipulation and use of multiprocessing via C Threads. Tight integration between the File, Process and String class make an excellent tool for execution and reporting on Mach command line operations. A NodeTree for storage and manipulation of data which can be stored in a tree. Subclasses of List for sorted storage and delegate notification in the event of changes to the container contents. A simple but very handy encapsulation of memory allocation using NXZone's. The Memory class makes using zones and blocks of memory a little bit less tedious and much more reliable. An interface to creating authentic NeXTMAIL, including attachments and rich text, via Mailer. C++ wraps around those Dolphin Kit classes that benefit most from C++ features. The Dolphin Kit version 3.1 will be available July 30, 1993, for a purchase price of $249.00 US. For detailed information on the kit, send electronic mail to <info@dolphin.com> or contact Dolphin Technologies Inc. at 10329 Viretta Lane, Beverly Glen, CA 90077. Facsimile can be sent to 310-441-9041 and voice calls are accepted at 800-843-0328. -- END --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: gery@ares.fdn.org Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ZZVolume version 1.4 for NEXTSTEP 3.1 Message-ID: <1993Jul10.042215.370@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 04:22:15 GMT For more information, contact: ARES +33 72 80 16 30 +33 72 80 16 32 fax zz@ares.fdn.org USA: Alembic Systems, Inc (303)799-6223 (303)799-1435 fax infos@alembic.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LYON , France, the 25 of June 1993 : ARES announces the availability of ZZVolume version 1.4 for NEXTSTEP 3.1 Motorola and Intel. ZZVOLUME PUBLIC PRICES (Prices are in USD, taxes excluded). Retail Price : 1995 $ Education Price : 998 $ Prices subject to change without notice. Taxes, shipping and handling charges are additional, and vary with the size of your order. ZZVolume (TM) is the first architectural CAD program available on NEXTSTEP. As a powerfull modelisation tool, ZZVolume enable to create 3D spaces at an incredible speed - including entire buildings - and to virtualy tour the spaces you create. As a professional tool for architects, interior designers, booth designers, facilities managers, and anyone who needs to quikly plan and present space, ZZVolume is indispensable. Features Included: - Multiples support for importation and exportation including 2D and 3D DXF-Autocad , EPS, export RIB formats to Solid Thinking (TM), Datalink to Intuitiv 3D (TM). - Wireframe,shadows, Postscript vectorial hidden faces with or without edge rendering, direct Renderman connexion . - All transformation, creation and connexions benefits of real CAD precision and can be done in any view, even perspective view. - Multiple Views, Multi Layering (up to 4000 layers in a project), User definable tool palette. - Support for walls(blocks), polylines, splines, circles, openings, objects and automatic sized frames and sashes. Features in development : - Animation (walk through your house). - Light directly included in objects - Connexion to database ZZVolume features interactivity like you wouldn't believe....... Please contact ARES or Alembic for any informations
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Mark Chamberlain <mark@xexos.com> Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Positions in London/Chicago/Houston Message-ID: <1993Jul10.173817.2067@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 17:38:17 GMT NEXTSTEP POSITIONS IN LONDON/CHICAGO/HOUSTON Xexos is the leading European NEXTSTEP Systems Integration and Software House, responsible for some of the largest NeXT networks in the world today. We are a small, highly-focussed team and are looking for talented individuals to join us on a permanent basis in our London and Houston offices. We also plan to establish a presence in Chicago this year, and to this end are looking for people based in that area as well. Xexos business is principally servicing and supporting large NEXTSTEP users worldwide, where we are typically engaged in infrastucture and LAN design, project management, and building applications both custom and shrink-wrap to serve professional users. We have a great deal of experience in implementing NEXTSTEP technology in the financial-services industry, particularly the front-office trading environment, and were responsible for some of the first entirely NEXTSTEP-based trading floors. We are looking to hire people with experience in the following areas. Immediate permanent requirements are in London - Chicago are needed Q3/Q4 1993. 3 Analyst/Programmers (2 London, 1 Chicago) + 2 years NEXTSTEP experience + Experience in one or more of the technical areas helpful : - SysAdmin/netinfo - TCP/IP at packet level - NeXTMail, sendmail, SMTP etc - Sybase/AS400/Oracle/DbKit + Prior experience working in a trading environment an advantage 1 Networking/SysAdmin (Chicago) + Netinfo/NFS/TCP-IP networking + Good knowledge of WAN methods + 3 years Unix + 2 years netinfo/NEXTSTEP 1 Sales/Marketing in Financial Services (Chicago) + 1 years NEXTSTEP + 5 years selling Financial Services products and consultancy in the US + Good knowledge of market-data products/services + Self-motivated, used to working in a small team 2 NEXTSTEP User-support (London, Chicago) + previous NEXTSTEP experience supporting end-users + "amazing" communication skills + good knowledge of NeXTMail, ccMail etc 2 NEXTSTEP/Appkit Consultants (Anywhere - remote) + 2 years AppKit + experience working remotely on a contract basis + Technical Experience : - DBKit - sendmail, SMTP, X.400, X.500 - TCP/IP + ability to work to a tight spec We are looking for motivated, focussed people with good communication skills and a high sense of professionalism and pride in their work. Applicants should send a resume, along with a covering letter of application to Xexos, Ltd 1 New Concordia Wharf Mill Street London SE1 2BA United Kingdom +44 71 237 4535 fax +44 71 231 0844 email: work@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: ctm@ardi.com Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Executor_122e now available Message-ID: <1993Jul12.124641.4171@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 12:46:41 GMT July 12, 1993: ARDI would like to announce that a complete (multi-archictecture-binary), time-limited, release of Executor is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.unm.edu for evaluation. What is Executor? Executor is a program that allows you to run programs originally written for the Macintosh, on your NeXT computer. Currently the two major applications that we support are Microsoft Word (versions 4.0E, 5.0 and 5.1) and Microsoft Excel (versions 3.0A and 4.0). You must own a copy of these applications in order to use them; Microsoft software does not come with Executor. Executor is actually a full-blown Macintosh emulator, except we have prioritized the bug fixing and fixed all the bugs pertaining to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel so that we can sell this version now to people who want it. Executor works nicely in the NeXT environment, allowing the use of services and cut and paste of ASCII and Rich Text between Executor and other NEXTSTEP applications. Word 5 can read and print .eps and .tiff files. What doesn't Executor do? Reverse engineering the Macintosh is a difficult task. There are some pieces of the software yet to do. Consequently, Executor 1.x has the following limitations: No Color, No Sound, No System 7, No AppleTalk, No Script Manage (i.e. no non-US localizations) and limited Desk Accessory support. What is HFS_XFer? HFS_XFer is a Desk Accessory that allows you to transfer files between HFS (Hierarchical FileSystem) Macintosh disks and the NeXT, where they're stored in Apple Double format. This allows you to copy files to the NeXT and later back to a Macintosh floppy without having to worry about reassembling the "resource fork". Naturally HFS_XFer and Executor work well together. HFS_XFer is what you use to load your copy of Microsoft Word onto your NeXT in the first place, but it's good for much more than that because you can use it to transfer any information on a Macintosh disk to your NeXT, and vice-versa. What doesn't HFS_XFer do? The extensions to HFS that were introduced with System 7 are not supported, and files are transferred over directly without any translation in between. HFS_XFer reads and writes Mac floppies and reads Mac hard drives and CD-ROMs. HFS_XFer is limited to disks that the hardware can read, so you can not read 800k disks unless you have special hardware such as the CubeFloppy Plus from DIT. How Much? The price of Executor has been reduced until the end of August. During that time, a one user network license for Executor costs $149 and comes with free updates until, and including a free update to Executor 2.0 which will support color. An Educational Version is available for $99 and is exactly the same as the non-Educational version except that the manual, binder, slipcase and disk are stamped "Educational Version". The Educational Version is sold only to University or College faculty or students and may not be resold except to other University or College faculty or students. Proof of eligibility is required before an Educational Version can be sold. Executor 1.3 will support both NeXT and Intel hardware. How do I order? Executor at this price is available from us: ARDI PHONE: +1 505 766 9115 Suite 101 FAX: +1 505 247 1899 1650 University Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 With the this price, we charge you what UPS charges us. We can ship ground, Blue or Red; you're paying for it, it's your choice. Orders are usually sent within one business day. Useful e-mail addresses Useful e-mail addresses are questions@ardi.com, suggestions@ardi.com, and occasionally bugs@ardi.com You can send a message to "executor-request@ictv.com" and be put on a mailing list for people interested in Executor. How to test before buying The latest experimental copy is available via anonymous ftp on ftp.cs.unm.edu, in /pub/ardi/Executor_xxx.tar. This is a complete release of Executor that can be tested in demo mode or fully enabled with your serial-number/authorization key pair. Executor is a registered trademark of Abacus Research and Development, Inc. Apple, AppleTalk, HyperCard, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.. QuickDraw is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: kris@doberman.com Subject: MEETING: Salt Lake area NeXT Group 21 July Message-ID: <1993Jul12.180036.5601@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 18:00:36 GMT News Salt Lake area NeXT Group to Meet 21 July at Alpine Computing MicroAge in SLC Contact: Kristopher Magnusson President, SLaNG (801) 268-8877 kris@doberman.com 11 July 1993, Salt Lake City--Salt Lake area NeXT Group (SLaNG) will meet to discuss business and to enjoy demonstrations of NS/I running on new hardware. The primary business topic: SLaNG president Kristopher Magnusson will present to the group a proposal to begin an official Programming Class to introduce new owners of NeXT's latest software release to the world of object-oriented programming. The proposal will consist of 1) plans for regular meetings at Serius Corporation on the last Saturday of the month; 2) plans for an attendance drive to attract members of SLaNG's parent organization, the Utah Computer Society, to object-oriented programming; and 3) preferences for subject material. The course will be taught by BYU students and alumni Sean Luke and Don Yachtman. The demonstrations will include performance comparisons between favored NS/I platforms Epson Progression NX, Intel Professional GX, and Cobra VL-Bus/66. Part of the demonstration will include informal performance testing with NXBench. The meeting will take place at Alpine Computing MicroAge, at 6066 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84107, (801) 268-8877. It will begin at 7 p.m. For more information contact Kris Magnusson, SLaNG president, at Alpine Computing MicroAge, or by email at: kris@doberman.com. SLaNG is a registered NeXT users group and is a member of the Utah Computer Society, a group consisting of 800 professional and amateur computer enthusiasts who live in the Wasatch Front area. -30- Kris Magnusson yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu Salt Lake area NeXT Group ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ``The Empire never ended.''
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Kristopher Magnusson <kris@magnusson.uucp> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SLaNG Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes Message-ID: <1993Jul12.215131.7589@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 21:51:31 GMT NEWS Contact: Kristopher Magnusson SLaNG President (801) 268-8877 Sean Luke BYU NeXT Users' Group Co-Founder Guy sean@digaudio.byu.edu Don Yacktman BYU NeXT Users' Group Guru-In-Residence don_yacktman@byu.edu Salt Lake area NeXT Group Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes 12 July 1993, Salt Lake City--Today the Salt Lake area NeXT Group (SLaNG), in conjunction with Info..., Brigham Young University's NeXT Users' Group, announces its NEXTSTEP Programming Class, providing Utah-based users group members with entry-level instruction on programming in the NEXTSTEP environment. Sean Luke and Don Yacktman of Info... will co-teach the class. "Don and I are excited to teach Utah NeXT users about the unique development advantages that NEXTSTEP affords," says Sean Luke, co-founder of Info..., BYU's NeXT Users' Group, and recently appointed head of the SLaNG Programming special interest group. "Sean and Don's programming class is a long-awaited addition to our monthly meetings," says Kris Magnusson, president of SLaNG. "These classes will get all of us fledgling programmers into the world's best development environment under the expert tutelage of Sean and Don." The course is taught at no cost to all registered SLaNG and Info... members and is meant to bring amateur programmers up to speed in NEXTSTEP software development. Sean Luke and Don Yacktman are both experienced NEXTSTEP programmers, each with published applications. The classes cover five general topics: -- Interface Builder and the Appkit -- Objective-C and Object-Oriented Programming -- C, UNIX, and ProjectBuilder -- PostScript and Graphics Programming -- Sound and Music Programming Course length depends on demand and courses will be held once monthly. For more information, or to register for the course, contact Kris Magnusson at Alpine Computing MicroAge, at (801) 268-8877, Sean Luke by email at sean@digaudio.byu.edu, or Don Yacktman by email at don_yacktman@byu.edu. -30-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: jon@afs.com Subject: MEETING: Philadelphia Area NEXTSTEP Users Group (Phang) - July 15th Message-ID: <1993Jul12.215344.7653@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 21:53:44 GMT Announcement: FREE FOOD! FREE VALUABLE SOFTWARE! FREE VALUABLE SOFTWARE! FREE FOOD! The next Philadelphia Area NEXTSTEP Users Group (Phang) meeting will be on July 15th Thursday (THIS THURSDAY) from 7pm to 9pm at the University of Penn. Room A-8, David Rittenhouse Lab, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 The theme for the meeting will be "NEXTSTEP Accounting Solutions". Meeting Agenda-> I. Meeting Assembly - Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m Room A-8, David Rittenhouse Lab, 209 South 33rd Street, University of Pennsylvania Campus, Phila. PA 19104 Refreshments served at the beginning of the meeting. II. Executive Cabinet Reports Welcome and Introduction of board members. Opening comments by President Mike Matlack. Treasurer's Report NeXTWORLD EXPO Report III. Feature Presentations: The theme for the meeting is "NEXTSTEP Accounting Solutions" (2 - 30 minute demos) Demo: Fiscal Dimension Personal Edition, AXSYS, Inc. Demo: CheckSum, Sirius Solutions, Inc. Possible Demo: Demo:Virtuoso, Altsys Corporation Virtuoso is an advanced Postscript language design & production program. IV. Adjournment (9:00 p.m.) General discussions and private conversations and interaction with vendors, speakers, members and guests. Make sure to spread the word of the meeting! Everyone should try and bring a friend or co-worker to discover NeXT. Just tell them your going to a party with free food and cool apps. Hope to see you all on Thursday! For more info, contact Jonathan Hendry jon@afs.com 215-662-1755
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: sanguish@digifix.com Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 28 - 1993 Message-ID: <1993Jul13.195417.14210@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 19:54:17 GMT Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 28). Tuesday July 6 through Tuesday July 13 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 27 - 1993 OTI: 1993 NeXTWORLD Best of Breed Award PRESS RELEASE: SS&S Announces CodeReviewer CASE Tool for NEXTSTEP PRESS RELEASE: SS&S Announces DRCS CASE Tool for NEXTSTEP JOB: Ten Open NEXTSTEP Positions with NorthStar (New York City) USERGROUP: Under the Steps - Call for Easter Eggs JOB: NEXTSTEP Software Engineers Wanted for Legal Market MAILING LIST: MicroPhone Pro for NEXTSTEP PRESS RELEASE: Simon moves to Metrosoft PRESS RELEASE: HSD Announces PowerScan 2.0 for NEXTSTEP SUBMISSION: TickleServices1.02mab - it's fat MEETING: Gotham Users of NeXT MEETING: WANUG (Washington, D.C. area NeXT User Group) July 14 meeting PRESS RELEASE: Dolphin Kit Object Library PRESS RELEASE: ZZVolume version 1.4 for NEXTSTEP 3.1 JOB: NEXTSTEP Positions in London/Chicago/Houston PRESS RELEASE: Executor_122e now available MEETING: Salt Lake area NeXT Group 21 July MEETING: Philadelphia Area NEXTSTEP Users Group (Phang) July PRESS RELEASE: SLaNG Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes MEETING: Philadelphia Area NEXTSTEP Users Group (Phang) - July 15th If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier. Price Reduction Notices... In the past week there have been several notices of price reductions on products, and in order to get this information out in a controlled manner, I have summarized those submissions here... Black & White Software Announces Price Reductions on ZyXEL Modem Packages Example: ZyXEL U-1496E modem, NXFax, and a cable - $500 (reg price $600) For more information contact - Linda Rosen, Marketing Coordinator Black & White Software Tel.: (802) 496-8500 Fax: (802) 496-5112 email: linda@bandw.com Software Ventures Corporation Extends Microphone 1.0 price reduction MicroPhone Pro 1.0 for NEXTSTEP it is extending the offer through July 31, 1993 - $95 (reg $395) For more information contact Software Ventures Tel.: (510) 644-3232 or Fax: (510) 848-0885 Rightbrain Software Offers Reduced Prices for July PasteUp: $397.50 (reg price $795) PasteUp Edu: $149 (reg price $298) Adobe Type: 50% off! (reg price $95 - $370) These products all include full source code! LockScreen: $49 (reg price $99) LaunchPad: $49 (reg price $99) Rulers: $49 (reg price $99) Portfolio: $49 (reg price $99) RightBrain Software Tel.: (415) 326-2974 Fax: (415) 326-2977 email: info@rightbrain.com MONOCHROME reduces CD ROM collection price to $25.00 For more information contact monoChrome Inc. 173 Westgate Drive Edison, NJ 08820-1163 email: kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu email: soni@rwja.umdnj.edu Executor is reduced until the end of August. Executor $149 Executor Edu $99 For more information contact ARDI Tel.: 505 766 9115 Fax: 505 247 1899 email: questions@ardi.com ------------------- This is an experiment, and constructive feedback is welcome. As always feedback is welcome. Scott Anguish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: nPOINT Ships Frontface for NEXTSTEP 3.1 Message-ID: <1993Jul14.015430.16399@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 01:54:30 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Jens von der Heide nPOINT, Ltd. 8026 North Washington St. Niles, IL 60714 info@nPOINT.COM +1.708.825.7278 (voice) +1.708.825.7898 (fax) nPOINT, LTD SHIPS Frontface FOR NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 Frontface IS A HIGHLY INTERACTIVE 3-D MODELER FOR NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 THAT USES PIXAR'S DE FACTO INDUSTRY STANDARD RENDERMAN. Niles, July 12, 1993 -- nPOINT, Ltd., announced today that it will begin shipping Frontface, an intuitive and elegant program for generating three-dimensional models for all machines running NEXTSTEP Release 3.1. "Frontface performs extremely well on NEXTSTEP for industry standard Intel machines," said Jens von der Heide, nPOINT's Vice-President of Marketing. "We found the performance and compatibility to be superb. For example, both the NeXT hardware and Intel hardware beat a Quadra 950 in rendering times." Frontface is a high-end 3-D modeler with a full set of features for creating photorealistic images. Objects (primitives, groups, complex surfaces, lights, and cameras) are directly manipulated in any one of Frontface's windows not through a secondary 2-D window. Complex objects such as extrusions, lathes, or skins are also be manipulated directly to create a wide range of surfaces and solids. PostScript Type 1 fonts can instantly be turned into 3-D geometry and placed into a 3-D scene. Anyone familiar with 2-D programs like Adobe's Illustrator will instantly feel at home with the tools available in Frontface. NEXTSTEP's drag and drop feature is exploited to save/retrieve 3-D objects, shaders, cameras, and lights. A hierarchy browser allows the user to effortlessly work with complex groups and single objects. Inspectors allow fine-tuning of object attributes and shading. "Frontface fills an important need for NeXT's desktop publishing customers who have a strong need to manipulate and render 3-D images," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "By creating images with objects, it provides customers with a graphics program that takes full advantage of NEXTSTEP's easy-to-use, powerful software development environment for building advanced applications." Frontface uses Quick RenderMan and PhotoRealistic RenderMan, both included as part of NEXTSTEP Release 3.1, providing a powerful and intuitive means to build beautiful photoreal images. RenderMan data can be stored in a file format called RIB, the RenderMan Interface Bytestream Rendering may done to a RIB file, EPS file, TIFF file or directly to a window so that users may try out different options. Management of multiple rendering jobs is made easy by Frontface's render queue which show the current jobs' status and progress. "Because Frontface imports any structured RIB file as point-editable geometry, Frontface allows a user to seamlessly move their work from other modelers." said Kurt Stephens, nPOINT's president. "We also export to RIB so that users may use them in other application programs." The RenderMan Interface is a software standard for 3-D scene description. It is a series of procedures which transfer the description of a scene to a rendering program. RIB is a platform-independent way to transfer information regarding 3-D scenes. The RenderMan Interface has been adopted by many of the leading computer graphics companies and has become a de facto industry standard. The process of creating an image described by the RenderMan interface is generally completed in two steps. The first is to create a scene in a modeling application such as Frontface, which may include the description of the shape, surface textures, or other characteristics of an object. The second step, is to translate the description into a final image with a renderer like PhotoRealistic RenderMan. Frontface is available directly from nPOINT at the introductory price of $695 until September 1, 1993. Substantial educational discounts are also available. A demonstration copy is available from major NeXT archive sites on the Internet or upon request. nPOINT, Ltd is a privately held company founded in 1991 to bring powerful tools for graphics and publishing to the NEXTSTEP marketplace. For more information, contact Jens von der Heide at nPOINT, Ltd., 8026 N. Washington St., Niles, IL 60714. at +1.708.825.7278 or info@nPOINT.COM. Frontface is a trademark of nPOINT, Ltd. RenderMan and Pixar are registered trademarks of Pixar. Quick RenderMan, PhotoRealistic RenderMan, and RIB are trademarks of Pixar. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All others are Trademarks of their respective companies.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: tammy@alembic.com Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ALEMBIC Presents NEXTSTEP Development Courses Message-ID: <1993Jul14.053510.18345@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 05:35:10 GMT News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Tammy Phillips Training Coordinator Tel.: 303.799.6223 Fax: 303.799.1435 E-mail: tammy@alembic.com Alembic Systems International presents: NEXTSTEP DEVELOPERS TRAINING COURSES DENVER, Colorado, 1 July 1993--Alembic Systems International announces the courses availability of NEXTSTEP & DBKit PROGRAMMING and NEXTSTEP SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Courses for the months of July and August 1993. The PROGRAMMING NEXTSTEP course will be held on August 23-27, 1993. The DBKit PROGRAMMING course will be held on August 30-31, 1993. The NEXTSTEP SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION course will be held on July 19-23, 1993. The training facility is limited to only 10 students. Please place your reservation immediately. For more information about the course syllabus, course pricing, course schedules or other details, please contact: Tammy Phillips Training Coordinator Alembic Systems International Ltd. Tel.: 800.452.7608 Fax: 303.799.1435 E-mail: training@alembic.com Alembic Systems's training facility is located at 14 Inverness Drive East, Bldg. G, Suite 228, Englewood, Colorado 80112. Alembic Systems International is an authorized NEXTSTEP Training Facility. Alembic Systems also provides courses for end-user applications.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: David Stella <sdc!dave@bmt.gun.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SofDesign announces a user-group management system Message-ID: <1993Jul14.154935.21875@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 15:49:35 GMT Greenwich, Connecticut July 12, 1993 - SofDesign Solutions Corporation announces a user-group management system. SofDesign Solutions Corporation today announced the development of a user-group management system in conjunction with Gotham Users of NeXT (GUN) located in New York City. Paul Murphy, a board member of GUN, was on the design team that met along with veterans from BaNG and BCS. "We all spend too much time with the details of running a user group. This system will take care of everything from member lists and billing to sending out announcements", said Murphy, "Some people have NeXT mail, others simply have regular mail or fax. The new user-group system will automatically send out announcements in the user's preferred mode of communication." Scott Keith, president of SofDesign Solutions Corporation, will oversee the project. "Our databases are already highly integrated with electronic mail.", said Keith, "We are simply going to apply our in-house technology to automate user-groups world-wide." The user group management system will be priced at $395 and will include SofDesign's popular QuickBase-SQL server. The system will be available this fall.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: janthony@andi.org Subject: MEETING: New Albany NY Area NEXTSTEP Users Group Message-ID: <1993Jul14.160529.22216@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 16:05:29 GMT A new NEXTSTEP user group is being formed in the Albany, N.Y. region, covering Albany, Schenectady, Troy and surrounding areas. Our first meeting will feature a demonstration of NEXTSTEP and third-party applications to new users. We will also be giving away free NEXTSTEP software. When: Wednesday, July 21, 7:30pm Where: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Room 337 in the Darrin Communications Center For more information, contact Jason Anthony at janthony@andi.org - or - (518) 346-0568 Voice/Fax We hope to see you there!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad Geiger <Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Absoft Announces Object-Oriented FORTRAN 77 for NEXTSTEP for Intel Message-ID: <1993Jul15.022020.26361@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 02:20:20 GMT News July 14, 1993 For more information, contact: Absoft sales department voice: (313) 853-0050 fax: (313)853-0108 email: support@absoft.com CompuServe: [76360,3551] Absoft Announces Object-Oriented FORTRAN 77 for NEXTSTEP for Intel Absoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Object-Oriented FORTRAN 77 v3.2 for NEXTSTEP486 for Intel processors. The new compiler is 100% source compatible with Absoft Object-Oriented FORTRAN for NeXT's 68040 based computer systems, allowing application migration to the NEXTSTEP486 environment with a simple recompilation of source code. Object-Oriented FORTRAN for NEXTSTEP for Intel processors combines Absoft's experience in developing optimizing compilers for other 32 bit Intel UNIX environments (SCO, SVR4, UnixWare) and our five years of experience with NEXTSTEP on the original NeXT hardware platform. Major features of the new compiler are: o Special Intel486/Pentium processor optimizations yield maximum performance from NEXTSTEP486 FORTRAN applications/libraries o 100% source compatible with Absoft Object-Oriented FORTRAN for 68040 based NEXTSTEP o VAX/VMS, IBM/VS, Sun/Cray compatibility options aid in porting to the NEXTSTEP for Intel processors environment The compiler is fully ANSI Standard X3.9-1978 including all MIL-STD 1753 extensions. An Intel 486DX or Pentium processor and the NEXTSTEP 3.1 Developer Release are required. Part of Absoft's Multi-Platform Solution suite of tools, Absoft FORTRAN for Intel based NEXTSTEP provides source compatabilty with existing Absoft FORTRAN products for: o Intel Unix platforms (SCO ODT, Interactive SVR4, UnixWare, etc.), o DOS (32 bit extended), o Windows NT for Intel486/Pentium, o Macintosh, o SunOS SPARC, and o AIX IBM RS/6000. Regular retail price of Absoft o Motorola OCS/BCS 88K platforms (D.G. AViiON, Motorola Delta, etc) Object-Oriented FORTRAN for NEXTSTEP for Intel processors is $995.00 for a single user/single CPU license. From now until September 1, 1993, registered users of Object-Oriented FORTRAN for 68040 based NEXTSTEP are eligible to purchase a copy of Absoft FORTRAN for NEXTSTEP486 for the introductory price of $495.00, a savings of up to $500.00. Offer good for registered 68040 NEXTSTEP Absoft FORTRAN users in the US and Canada only. Limit one copy per customer. If you have questions or require further information, please contact Absoft sales department at voice: (313) 853-0050, fax: (313)853-0108, email: support@absoft.com, or CompuServe: [76360,3551]. (U.S.A. & Canada).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Neil Greene <neil@bmd.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Design TIFFany II's Manual Cover Contest Message-ID: <1993Jul16.164212.2494@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 16:42:12 GMT News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: benchMark Developments, Inc. 2040 Regency Rd. Suite C Lexington KY, 40503 Kevin Solie, (606) 276-3983 info@bmd.com Design TIFFany II's Manual Cover Contest LEXINGTON, KY - June 15, 1993 - After careful consideration and pondering, benchMark Developments, would like your help to design the cover art for the upcoming TIFFany II Users Manual. This is your chance for fame and glory. Who may enter the contest? All users of TIFFany may enter the contest. If you do not currently have a TIFFany license, contact the bMD office for order information. Please have your computer's hostid ready when calling the office. Staff members of bMD and Caffeine Software are ineligible to enter the contest. Image submissions? To enter the contest, submit your image, created with TIFFany, to bMD by August 1, 1993. Due to the large size of some images, submissions may be mailed to the bMD office on diskette . Submissions media will be returned. All images become the property of benchMark Developments, Inc. Image judges? Images will be judged by staff members from benchMark Developments, Inc., Caffeine Software, Paget Press, Objective Technologies Inc. and Whetstone. What is in the prize? The winning image will be featured as the cover art for the upcoming TIFFany II User Manual. The winner will, also, receive a free licensed copy of TIFFany II, scheduled for release this fall. TIFFany brings the power of PhotoShop to NEXTSTEP by offering users of NEXTSTEP a suite of mathematic algorithms for digital imaging. Images may be enhanced and manipulated using various tools for color correction, noise reduction, resizing, image composition, morphing, and filters for: burn in, edge detection, edge enhancement, color separation, embossing, image noise reduction, and correction, relief, shake, smear, smooth, sobel, and others. Manual image editing functions include: pen drawing, airbrush, and adjustable transparency capabilities. TIFFany is currently NEXTSTEP 3.x and Intel compatible. TIFFany's suggested commercial price is $395, with academic pricing available at $145. Interested in ordering TIFFany? Contact bMD at 1-800-872-3131. Users with ftp access may find a demo versions of TIFFany at sonata.cc.purdue.edu, Purdue, cs.orst.edu, Oregon State, and f.ms.uky.edu, University of Kentucky. Founded in early 1991 by Stan Jirman and Ralf Brunner, Caffeine Software currently develops professional imaging software for NEXTSTEP. Founded in 1992, benchMark Developments develops software for the Health Care and Thoroughbred Racing Industry The TIFFany logo is a trademark of Caffeine Software, the bMD logo is a trademark of benchMark Developments, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: bangmail@vivid.com (Bay Area NeXT Group) Subject: MEETING: BANG July Meeting, Wednesday July 21st, Message-ID: <1993Jul19.034417.5651@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 03:44:17 GMT Bay Area NeXT Group Monthly Meeting Goldleaf will be showing XtraScan and XtraRead July 21st, Wednesday 7:00 pm Turman Auditorium, Stanford University Members and non-members alike are welcome. There is no charge to attend. DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING FROM PALO ALTO FREEWAYS: >From I-280: East on Page Mill road Exit (1.3 miles) Left on Junipero Serra Blvd (1.9 miles) Right on Campus Drive West (0.3 miles) Right on Santa Teresa Street (0.4 miles) Park in lot opposite Morris Way Auditorium is in the Terman Engineering Center at the corner of Santa Teresa and Morris Way >From I-101: West on University Avenue exit (2.5 miles) (Through Palo Alto into university campus) Right on Campus Drive (1.9 miles) Left on Santa Teresa Street (0.4 miles) Park in lot opposite Morris Way Auditorium is in the Terman Engineering Center at the corner of Santa Teresa and Morris Way _____________________________________________________________________ BANG Calendar July 21st, Wednesday 7:00 pm Goldleaf will be showing XtraScan and XtraRead Turman Auditorium, Stanford University August 18th - Wednesday RightBrain Software will be showing ExactlyWrite _____________________________________________________________________ BANG PO Box 368 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. Contacts: President: M Carling Information: Janet Hufnagel Membership: Andrew Creighton Meetings: M Carling Auctions: Dan Lavin All the above people can be reached by email directly or at firstname_lastname@bang.org.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Subject: MEETING: Chicago's LoopGroup Meeting, July 27 Message-ID: <1993Jul19.064136.487@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 06:41:36 GMT LOOPGROUP (CHICAGO) MEETING FOR TUESDAY, JULY 27th, 1993 Dave Pollack from Athena Design will be discussing applications of Mesa 1.5 specifically: Support for database access MOLI - Programmatic interface for Mesa The new Mesa Scripting Languauge THE MEETING WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 6:30 PM Mezzanine Level - Auditorium The Chicago Mercantile Exchange 30 South Wacker (South Tower) Thanks to GLOBEX for providing our location. For more information call: (312) 587-2000
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: yackd@oregon.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman) Subject: SUBMISSION: String class, DAYString, is available Message-ID: <1993Jul19.223135.4487@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 22:31:35 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News A new String class, DAYString, is available Contact: Don Yacktman (801) 221-0344 Don_Yacktman@byu.edu 19 July 1993, Provo, UT--Version 1.2 of Don Yacktman's String class is now available for public consumption. In view of a recent thread on comp.sys.next.advocacy, this class ought to make many programmers happy. It has been tailored to be tolerant of nearly all conceivable ``dumb programmer tricks.'' The new class is available as part of a kit of utility objects which provide useful functions such as lock files, log files, and manipulation of times. To obtain the entire kit, look for the file daymisckit_proj.tar.gz on sonata.cc.purdue.edu, cs.orst.edu, or ftp.byu.edu. Initially, it will be in the directory pub/next/submissions on the first two sites. It will be in pub/next on the latter. If you wish to obtain only the string class, look for DAYString.tar.gz in the same place. All future versions of DAYString will be buried in the DAYMiscKit, and not available separately. If you do not have ftp access, contact the author, who would be happy to NeXTmail you a copy of either file. This is an updated version of the class which was released during the first quarter of 1993. Several changes have been made which include bug fixes and a more robust design. The number of methods for manipulation of strings has more than doubled, including methods for insertion, replacement, and deletion of characters and substrings. Thanks are due to Carl Lindberg who contributed many of the new methods. Major changes include a name change from ``String'' to ``DAYString'' and a change in the license. The name change is intended to prevent potential naming conflicts with other string classes which might exist or come into being. The prefix ``DAY'' was chosen because it happens to coincide with the author's initials which are unusual enough so as to be unlikely to be used by anyone else. The license change makes the use of the class free for all users as long as certain minor restrictions, designed to keep the class freely available to all Objective-C programmers, are met. Don Yacktman is a freelance NeXT programmer and graduate student of electrical and computer engineering at Brigham Young University. He maintains the ftp.byu.edu ftp server, amongst other things. You might find it worth while poking through some of his projects in progress, the latest versions of which are always available in the pub/next directory.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: SUBMISSION: class-dump 1.3 available Message-ID: <1993Jul20.174543.1820@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 17:45:43 GMT class-dump examines the "fossilized remains" of Objective-C code; when offered a NEXTSTEP executable or shared library, it attempts to reconstruct the skeletal parts--classes, categories, instance variables, methods, protocols. @private/@protected/@public and most other "soft tissues" are left to your imagination. :-) Release 1.3 runs on Motorola processors using NeXTSTEP 2.1-2.2a, NEXTSTEP 3.0, or 3.1. Price: FREE! Availability: Motorola now; Intel not available Languages: English Documentation: machine-readable (man page; nroff/troff format) Source Code: not available "How to get it" Anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu [130.212.15.230] (binary) pub/class-dump1.3.tar.Z size 15839 sum 40140 >From a shell, zcat class-dump1.3.tar.Z|tar xvopBf - and follow the instructions in class-dump1.3/README (A big *thank you* to the beta testers!) -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: Systemhouse Seeks Engineers, Programmers, Analysts, Database Specialists Message-ID: <1993Jul20.223410.3318@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 22:34:10 GMT For more information, contact Steve Green - Manager, Human Resources SHL Systemhouse Inc. 885 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York, U.S.A. 10022-4834 Telephone: 212-303-5500 Fax: 212-303-5595 E-Mail: Steve_Green@ny.shl.com Systemhouse Seeks Engineers, Programmers, Analysts and Database Specialists Systemhouse, a $800 million Systems Integration firm, is recognized as the industry leader in client/server technology. Systemhouse employs over 4,000 people worldwide and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 100 NeXT machines. We are putting together the best NeXT expertise available. Since November we have hired a core group in New York and Boulder, Colorado, and by September expect to be up to a staff of approximately 100. We are executing concepts that others are still only talking about - Reusable Object Library - Standard Certification of Objects - Distributed Development - etc. Furthermore we have established an Object Technology Center(OTC) for applied Object Oriented methodologies and development techniques. The OTC in Boulder, is a research and development facility exploring the cutting edge of the relatively new object technology. The charter of the Center is two-fold: to explore and understand all hardware and software related to the object-oriented development industry; and to establish itself as a focal point where companies in diverse verticals markets can join together to leverage OTC's research and experience. Leading the OTC is Vince Jordan, recently of WilTel Advanced Technology Center and recognized in the NeXT community as a pacesetter in the object-oriented development revolution. We need bright, enthusiastic experienced people!!! The following opportunities exist in various U.S. locations: - Object Oriented Programmers (Position C101) * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C/SmallTalk) * 2+ years database design and database applications * 5 years UNIX/C application development * 2+ years RDBMS (SYBASE preferred) * 1+ years NEXTSTEP applications development * AppKit, DBKit, NEXTSTEP 3.0, OOD * GUI and Porting experience - Senior Applications Development Engineers (Position C102) * 5-7 years UNIX/C applications development * Financial trading applications * 1+ years NeXT/NEXTSTEP/AppKit/DBKit/Objective C * Sun, SYBASE/C++ a plus - Software Engineers (Position C103) * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NEXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT * Strong Objective C or C++ * 3 to 5 years experience - Database Specialists (Position C104) * 3+ years database design and database applications development (ORACLE/SYBASE preferred) * 3 years UNIX/C application development * 3 years RDBMS experience using an SQL-based RDBMS * 1+ year NEXTSTEP applications a plus * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, Objective C a plus For more information about these exciting opportunities, call or send your resume to: Steve Green - Manager, Human Resources SHL Systemhouse Inc. 885 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York, U.S.A. 10022-4834 Telephone: 212-303-5500 Fax: 212-303-5595 E-Mail: Steve_Green@ny.shl.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: ctm@ardi.com Subject: SUBMISSION: Executor_122f.tar on the archives Message-ID: <1993Jul21.041726.320@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 04:17:26 GMT Dear Folks, I've placed Executor_122f.tar in ftp.cs.unm.edu:pub/ardi and cs.orst.edu:pub/next/submissions. Executor is a limited Macintosh Emulator. This new version should allow Accelerated Graphics to work on Turbo machines (untested), as well as fix bugs that were preventing Excel's installer and Compuserve Information Manager from working. Executor_122f is a "fat" binary that can be run on i486 boxes in addition to mc68040 boxes. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: sanguish@digifix.com Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 29 - 1993 Message-ID: <1993Jul21.045652.590@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 04:56:52 GMT Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 29). Tuesday July 13 through Tuesday July 21 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 28 - 1993 PRESS RELEASE: nPOINT Ships Frontface for NEXTSTEP 3.1 PRESS RELEASE: ALEMBIC Presents NEXTSTEP Development Courses PRESS RELEASE: SofDesign announces a user-group management system MEETING: New Albany NY Area NEXTSTEP Users Group PRESS RELEASE: Absoft Announces Object-Oriented FORTRAN 77 for NEXTSTEP for Intel PRESS RELEASE: Design TIFFany II's Manual Cover Contest MEETING: BANG July Meeting, Wednesday July 21st, MEETING: Chicago's LoopGroup Meeting, July 27 SUBMISSION: String class, DAYString, is available SUBMISSION: class-dump 1.3 available Systemhouse Seeks Engineers, Programmers, Analysts, Database Specialists SUBMISSION: Executor_122f.tar on the archives If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier. As always feedback is welcome. Scott Anguish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: sanguish@digifix.com Subject: Submission Guidelines Message-ID: <1993Jul21.050138.675@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 05:01:38 GMT Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: sanguish@digifix.com Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Message-ID: <1993Jul21.050903.779@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 05:09:03 GMT The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad Geiger <Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM> Subject: MEETING: BCS NeXT User Group Meeting: August 3 - 7:00pm Message-ID: <1993Jul21.191646.510@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 19:16:46 GMT Boston Computer Society NeXT Users Group presents: SofDesign, with special guest Software Services and Solutions on Tuesday August 3rd, 7:00 pm at MIT Building 1 Room 190. SofDesign will be showing off QuickBase, their SQL server designed specifically for NEXTSTEP. In conjunction with QuickBase, they will be demoing their application builder and report writer applications: Database Builder and QuickReport! Come one, come all! Rumour of the Month, more free prizes, Q&A, and Current Events....... all coming your way at our next meeting! See you there! Buzz me if you have any questions. Shawn -------------------------------------------------------- Shawn Broderick Director, BCS NeXT shawn@monitor.com --------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@next.com (Conrad Geiger) Subject: NeXT Announces New VP and CFO: Dominique Trempont Message-ID: <1993Jul21.191719.636@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 19:17:19 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. Phone: 415/780-3786 TREMPONT JOINS NeXT AS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND VICE PRESIDENT OF GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS REDWOOD CITY, CA- July 21, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that Dominique Trempont has joined as chief financial officer and vice president of G & A. Trempont will be responsible for managing finance, as well as general and administrative operations for NeXT. "NeXT's challenge over the next year is execution and Dominique's experience will add great value to that process," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT. "Dominique was instrumental in the profitable growth of several business units during his 14 years at Raychem Corp." "Customers convinced me that NEXTSTEP solves the information system bottleneck in corporate America by integrating office automation and corporate software development," said Trempont. "NeXT has outstanding technology and a first class management team willing to make things happen." Prior to joining NeXT, Trempont was director of finance administration for Raychem Corp.'s Electronics Group, a $450 million business. While at Raychem, he was instrumental in the financial turnaround of several of the Fortune 300 company's divisions. Most recently, he helped to successfully reposition the Electronics Group from defense to commercial markets. He also has business experience in Asia, Europe and Latin America business. About NeXT NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Claire Normand <claire@cubx.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Cub'x Systemes announces Cub'X-Window for NS/FIP Message-ID: <1993Jul21.191827.789@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 19:18:27 GMT News For Immediate Release Contact : Cub'x Systemes Immeuble Sedgwick 7, Rue Peugeot 92563 Rueil Malmaison Cedex France +33 1 47 08 74 40 +33 1 47 08 74 41fax info@cubx.com Paris, France, Wednesday July 21st, 1993. - Cub'x Systemes is proud to announce the release of Cub'X-Window for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors (NS/FIP). Cub'X-Window v4.0 for NS/FIP is of course fully X11R5 compliant and has all the features you were used to have on the black hardware version : You have access to many X display options, a great range of new exciting features and Cub'X Window amazing speed ! Cub'X-Window allows you to run X applications locally on your NEXTSTEP computer, or display X applications running on other X Window workstations of your network. You can also develop or port X applications on your NEXTSTEP computer with Cub'X-Window Development Tools module. Moreover Cub'X-Window v4.0 for NS/FIP propose on CD-ROM the complete X11R5 sources and some contributions as provided by the MIT : Users will find it easier to complete their X Window environment with additional clients or contribs, especially those without access to ftp sites! Cub'X-Window supports Tab Window Manager (twm), OSF/Motif 1.2 is available as an optional module. "I believe a major factor to NEXTSTEP success is the user ability to efficiently access his legacy applications. NEXTSTEP advantages are so manifest, using NEXTSTEP is adopting it. However, there is a transitory time during which applications based on the previous system are still needed. This period must be untroublesome for a successful move to NEXTSTEP. " said Gerard Laurent, Cub'x Systemes General Manager. "Cub'X-Window ensures the continuity of the user's X11 legacy applications on NS/FIP. Its high technical qualities and complete range of features make it the most advanced X Window solution for Intel based platforms." "Because we continued to push forward Cub'X-Window's development, even after achieving great results on black hardware, we are now able to offer to PC users the fastest and most stable X solution. " said Arnaud Weber, Cub'X-Window Project Manager. "Cub'X-Window is technologically advanced, obviously, but it's keeping its very competitive pricing." You can now take a look at the speed and unique features of Cub'X-Window on Intel based platforms, by downloading its demo version located on archive server cs.orst.edu. The CubXWindowDemoIntel package is located in the directory pub/next/submissions or /pub/next/XNeXT. Cub'x Systemes, located in Paris, France, is the center of expertise for NEXTSTEP in France, through its NEXTSTEP software development and NEXTSTEP Value Added Dealer activities. Cub'X-Window is a trademark of Cub'x Systemes S.A. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. OSF/Motif 1.2 is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Subject: SUBMISSION: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction 1.1 Message-ID: <1993Jul22.030147.1614@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 03:01:47 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mary Donnelly (619) 488-9411 Fax: (619) 488-3045 E-mail: info@metrosoft.com Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction 1.1 San Diego, July 21, 1993 - Metrosoft announced today that it is releasing its first update to the popular freeware MetroSuction utility. MetroSuction is a utility for examining and removing support for different hardware architectures in Multi-Architecture Binary files (so-called 'fat binaries'). It easily handles folders of applications and multiple binary files per application. Multi-architecture Binaries (MABs) or 'fat binaries' allow the same NEXTSTEP program to run on different types of computers (currently NeXT computers and supported Intel-based computers). MetroSuction allows you to easily see which architectures are supported by a given application and to remove support for a given architecture, freeing up disk space. Many people wouldn't otherwise be able to take advantage of removing support for an architecture during program installation due to a bug in the NEXTSTEP Installer utility that occurs when creating multi-disk installation packages. MetroSuction will allow you to easily do so without using the UNIX command line. MetroSuction will run on both NeXT computers and NEXTSTEP for Intel computers running NEXTSTEP 3.1. Version 1.1 fixes three problems found in 1.0: - Incorrect use of the -i486 and -i386 architectures (caused problems thinning many binaries) - Error messages weren't being routed to the log view - Extraneous debug information was being sent to the console Full source code to the MetroTools version of this utility (which is remarkably similar to the stand-alone version) is available free as part of the MetroTools 2.1 API package. MetroSuction is available free via anonymous FTP at sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu, or for a materials and handling charge of $10 from Metrosoft (for people without FTP access). It will also be available on the upcoming 3rd Electronic AppWrapper CD-ROM from Paget Press. -30-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: zazula@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Ralph Zazula) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Announcing the WetPaint FilterKit Message-ID: <1993Jul22.032313.1963@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 03:23:13 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Tortorici Pinnacle Research, Inc. 4725 E. Sunrise Dr., #435 Tucson, AZ 85718 Phone: (602)529-1135 FAX: (602)529-0117 / (602)299-9133 e-mail: info@pri.com (NeXT Mail) Pinnacle Research, Inc. Announces Availability of WetPaint FilterKit TUCSON, AZ, July 21, 1993 - Pinnacle Research, Inc., the NEXTSTEP Utility Lab, announced today availability of the WetPaint FilterKit for developing custom image processing filters for the WetPaint image editing application. WetPaint is the first inexpensive image editing application for NEXTSTEP designed for creating or retouching icons and images. WetPaint version 1.2 began shipping last month and includes improved performance, tools, and document handling. Paint tools can now selectively apply filters and 14 new filters have been added. The WetPaint FilterKit is a set of NEXTSTEP objects that provides developers with a simplified method for creating custom image processing filters for WetPaint. In addition to modifying image data, filters can analyze data without altering it, or create new data without regard for the old. This allows users to create arbitrary textures, patterns, and colors using the original image as a starting point. Custom filters enable unique solutions to mission critical image processing problems for illustrators, scientists and business users. Users benefit from the transparent integration of the custom filter with the existing filters shipped with the WetPaint application. Developers can use the FilterKit to create both data and Postscript filters. Data filters examine and modify each value of a pixel and Postscript filters use operations inherent in the PostScript language to modify the image. The FilterKit has been designed to allow developers to focus on the design of the desired filter rather than on the mechanics of integrating with the WetPaint program. The WetPaint FilterKit (WetPaint_FilterKit.tar.Z) is available free of charge from the FTP archive sites at Oregon State (cs.orst.edu) and Purdue (nova.cc.purdue.edu) universities. The FilterKit is also available from Pinnacle Research for a shipping and handling charge of $10. Pinnacle Research Inc., of Tucson, Arizona, is a leading developer of NEXTSTEP utilities. Utilities designed to bridge the gaps between user's work requirements and NEXTSTEP applications. WetPaint and WetPaint FilterKit are trademarks of Pinnacle Research, Inc. NeXT, and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ###
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: bamberg@trane.eecs.wsu.edu Subject: SUBMISSION: New Instructional Software for Image and Signal Processing Message-ID: <1993Jul22.032834.2092@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 03:28:34 GMT Here is my announcement: Contact Person: Dr. Roberto H. Bamberger Organization: Signal Processing Instructional Facility School of EECS Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2752 email: bamberg@eecs.wsu.edu phone: (509)-335-4053 FAX: (509)-335-3818 New Software Available: We at the Signal Processing Instructional Facility (SPIF Lab) have developed some interactive software for teaching some concepts related to signal and image processing. These are all available via anonymous ftp from yardbird.eecs.wsu.edu (IP# 134.121.64.180). If you find the software helpful, please drop me a note at the above email address so I can keep my funding agents happy. If you would like to expand on what we have done, source code can be made available. All of these were developed on black hardware using NS3.0. I would love to put them out a MAB's, but NeXT does not seem interested in me doing that since their pricing is a bit high for my tastes. The new instructional apps are ImageQuantizer.app (pub/NeXT/IQ.tar.gz) A simple laboratory for experimenting with image quantization using simple uniform threshold quantizers and different types of linear prediction. It allows the user to quantize an image using PCM, DPCM, Delta Modulation, etc. and view either the compressed image, the prediction residual, the distortion incurred by the compression,... Have fun. App includes NeXTSTEP Help which discusses part of the theory of different predictive coding systems. PZPlotter.app (pub/NeXT/PZ.tar.Z) A simple interactive digital filter design program that allows a user to design digital filters by placing and moving poles and zeros on the Z plane. It simultaneously displays the Fourier magnitude and phase (or real/imag) and the impulse response. The unique attirbute of this particular package is that it allows the student to change the filter attributes (minimum phase, maximum phase, linear phase, allpass, ...) and see how this affects the pole zero locations, the impulse resonse, and/or frequency response. The app generates code for Ein.app which can then implement and apply the digital filter. Ein.app is available from ftp.princeton.edu. Weber.app (pub/NeXT/Weber.tar.Z) A simple interactive app for demonstrating how the Weber ratio can be measured. Less than thrilling on a mono station, OK on a color station, actually useful on a ND. SineWaves.app (pub/NeXT/SineWaves.tar.gz) A simple app for displaying 2D sine waves as a density plot with various amplitudes, orientation, and spatial frequency. Could have probably used Plot3D or Gnuplot instead, but this is pretty fast. I use it when I discuss the properties of the Human Visual System in my senior level image processing class. CrossSection.app (Not Yet Available) A new app we are finishing up that takes cross sections of Tiff images and displays them. It allows you to display various different color spaces. I intend to use this when discussing various different color spaces and as an image inspector. We are also developing other image inspectors which include block transforms (FFT, DCT, etc) , filter banks (such as wavelets), and other useful representations. This will be out by the end of August. There are a few other odds and ends. Feel free to poke around. All this stuff is free, just let me know if you use it and/or have comments/suggestions.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: John Jay Feiler <relief!jjfeiler@uu6.psi.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Tesseract v0.95a now available. Message-ID: <1993Jul23.073032.410@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 07:30:32 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Peterson Versatile DevelopMent 10121 Portland Ave. E. Tacoma, WA 98445-3953 Phone: (206) 531-7525 / (206) 799-2080 / (206) 536-7638 FAX: (206) 572-4195 Relief Consulting and Development 4926 152nd St. SW Edmonds, WA 98026-4433 e-mail: tesseract-info@relief.com (NeXTMail Welcome!!) Relief Consulting and Versatile DevelopMent announce Tesseract v0.95a SEATTLE, WA, July 22, 1993 - Versatile DevelopMent announced today availability of Tesseract version 0.95a, the 3D modeling and animation program for NEXTSTEP computers. Tesseract is the only inexpensive 3D modelling and animation package available today for NEXTSTEP computers. Tesseract provides a simple interface to RenderMan primitives via a drag-and-drop palette, and an advanced spline-based animation model that allows virtually any aspect of the animation sequence to be changed smoothly over time. Tesseract also provides the ability to convert any PostScript font to a 3D font for use in animations. Tesseract allows the user to save any shape to a custom palette, along with its animation parameters, and then save that palette for future use. Tesseract allows multiple views of the same animated scene, as well as the ability to move the virtual camera through the animated scene. Animations may be rendered as a sequence of tiff images, and then viewed using the PD app Movie2.51, available from the archives. The current release, v0.95a, is the third general beta release, and is being made available for a special pre-release price of $149, $89 US Educational. As with the previous releases, anyone purchasing this version is entitled to a free upgrade to version 1.0, expected to be available 3Q93. This version has greatly enhanced animation capabilities, as well as more RenderMan primitives. Tesseract is available at the standard NEXT ftp archive sites, cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next/submissions, but will probably move to a more appropriate directory soon. It is also available directly from Versatile DevelopMent at the address above. The demo can be activated by purchasing a license key from Relief Consulting or Versatile DevelopMent. Relief Consulting and Development, of Seattle, WA, is an independant NEXTSTEP software development company, also available for custom projects. Tesseract is a trademark of Relief Consulting and Development. NeXT, and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. ###
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: victor@as.com (Victor Barger) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Aurora Software Announces LoadEye 1.1 Message-ID: <1993Jul23.160901.2419@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 16:09:01 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Aurora Software 1-800-578-4809 (608) 231-3679 (608) 231-1183 fax info@as.com AURORA SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.1 OF LOADEYE LoadEye 1.1 runs on NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors MADISON, WI --- July 19, 1993 --- Aurora Software announced today the immediate availability of LoadEye(TM) version 1.1. This version runs on NEXTSTEP(R) for NeXT(R) computers and on NEXTSTEP for Intel(R) Processors. LoadEye is a system load monitor for computers running NEXTSTEP. By displaying continuously updated histograms of system load information, LoadEye allows users and system administrators to readily monitor changes in system load. In addition to supporting NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors, LoadEye 1.1 features an improved mechanism for monitoring the system load on multiple computers connected to a network. Benefts include operation over non- NetInfo networks and elimination of the requirement that LoadEye be installed on remote computers. LoadEye is completely confgurable and supports both Mach factor and UNIX system load average. A detailed description of how system loads are computed is available through NEXTSTEP Help. LoadEye has a suggested retail price of $49. Site license pricing is available on request. LoadEye is available directly from Aurora Software and through various NeXT distributors, VARs and dealers. Aurora Software develops high-quality, affordable software that runs on NEXTSTEP. The leader in NEXTSTEP utility software, Aurora Software is dedicated to improving user effciency and productivity. Aurora Software is headquartered at 16 North Allen Street, Madison, WI 53705. LoadEye is a trademark of Aurora Software. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: JOB: Pencom Seeks 23 NeXTSTEP Object-Oriented Engineers & Managers (CA, TX, NE) Message-ID: <1993Jul23.184619.3556@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 18:46:19 GMT For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson - Manager, NeXT/OOP Recruiting Pencom 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Fax: 512-346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com Pencom Seeks 23 NeXT/OOP Engineers for Internal and External Projects for our distinguished list of clients. AUSTIN, TEXAS - July 23, 1993 - Pencom Software's team of NeXT engineers are dedicated to providing services to developers and end user organizations equipped with workstations and software from NeXT Incorporated. A NeXT-authorized systems integrator as well as a registered NeXT software developer, Pencom provides a full range of services to support users and vendors in adopting this revolutionary technology. Pencom continues to be the leader in NeXT/OO software development and consulting services, and has the largest staff of NeXT engineers outside of NeXT themselves. Pencom Software is a division of Pencom Systems Incorporated, a New York-based firm providing software engineering and manpower resources to Fortune 500 companies and leading computer firms since 1973. Currently the largest recruiting firm specializing in the UNIX/Open Systems market, Pencom employs over 500 people and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 80 NeXT machines. The following permanent and contract positions require NO LESS than 2 years industry experience, and permanent positions require permanent residence. Thank you for your cooperation. If you are interested in being kept informed about positions but are not actively seeking employment, please email contract information in confidence to clint@pencom.com. CALIFORNIA 3 - NeXT System Administrator * NeXT/UNIX/HP system administration experience * Network Management background * Objective C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment a must 6 - NeXT Software Engineers * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NEXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder experience * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT environment * Ability to work in a dynamic team environment * Strong Objective C or C++ programming experience * Ability to transfer NeXT technology to engineers * 5 to 6 years experience 2 - Director of Software Engineering * 8-10 years industry experience * Strong management skills * Hands on development UNIX/NeXT/OOP * Project scheduling, planning, budgeting * Product development * RDBMS or DBKIT 1 - Director of Support * 8-10 years industry experience * Strong customer support experience * Strong management experience * Director level experience * 4 management reports * 37 indirect reports 1 - Manager of Support * 7-9 years industry experience * Strong management skills * Account management * Contract negotiation, proposals, P&L * UNIX/NeXT environment * 8 direct reports 1 - Senior Database Specialist * 5+ years database design and database applications development experience * 3 years application development experience in a UNIX environment * 2 years DBMS experience using an SQL-based DBMS * 1+ year applications experience in the NEXTSTEP environment * Experience with AppKit, DBKit, NEXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, C++, Objective C TEXAS 2 - OOP Software Engineers * NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk programming * Relational database design and database applications development (DBKit/ORACLE/SYBASE preferred) * 2 years UNIX/C application development * 2 years RDBMS experience using an SQL-based RDBMS * Interface Builder, VisualWorks * Technology transfer * Willing to travel 1 - NeXT Software Engineers * Strong NEXTSTEP applications development * Strong UNIX, Objective-C, C++ * AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit required * Strong RDBMS * Transfer of NeXT technology * Software training or teaching experience * 4 to 6 years experience NORTHEAST 3 - Systems Engineers * 4+ years industry experience * 2+ years OOP (NeXT/C++) * RDBMS (ORACLE/SYBASE/DBKit) * Applications development * Sales/Marketing experience * Strong interpersonal skills * Willing to travel 2 - OOP Software Engineers * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C,Smalltalk) * 2+ years Object Oriented analysis/design * 1+ years NEXTSTEP applications development * Strong RDBMS, ORACLE, SYBASE, DBKit * 3-4 years industry experience 1 - NeXT System Administrator * NeXT/UNIX/HP system administration experience * Network Management background * Objective C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment a must For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson - Manager, NeXT/OOP Recruiting Pencom 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Fax: 512-346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com More positions soon...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Michele Giardini <michi@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it> Subject: Italian NEXTSTEP User Group announces "Objectware Workshop" Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 22:51:36 GMT Message-ID: <22pq0o$1lq@digifix.digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com NeXT2YOU - The Italian NEXTSTEP User Group announces Objectware Workshop The aim of this workshop is to show the power of NEXTSTEP developing environment (or, as someone says, the "Advantage of objects"). During the workshop, we'll show the main features of the available objects and palettes, and how to build an application using third party objects and palettes writing less code as possible. If you are interested in showing the objects & palettes you built or you are working on, please send us a demo (or "time-bombed") version and we will use it during the workshop. The deadline is September, 15th, 1993. The workshop will be held by the end of September, at the Computer Science Department of the University of Milan (Italy) and the people that will attend the workshop will be developers, users, professors, students and business men from various companies. We can receive the files via NeXTMail (object@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it) or via FTP (cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it: /object/). For more information, please feel free to contact us via NeXTmail. Michele Giardini <michi@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it> Gianfranco Pocecai <gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it> -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: rjp@netcom.com (Richard Plevin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: consultant's time tracking and billing app Date: 24 Jul 1993 03:02:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <22qmpo$1af@digifix.digifix.com> "Stopwatch" is a time tracking and invoice generation application currently in use by a number of NEXTSTEP consultants to automate their client billing. It should be of interest to anyone who bills hourly for their time. Stopwatch allows you to track time and expenses by entering them manually, and to automatically track time spent on the computer, by simply clicking a start/stop button. Invoice generation is remarkably simple. You create RTF "template" files for invoice detail, expenses and overall invoice, using simple pre-defined keywords, such as [rate] and [hours]. New RTF files are generated by passing the information from the time and expense database through these templates. Sample templates are provided. In inspector window allows you to define client information (e.g. contact name, address, billing rate) and to view and edit data on working sessions or expenses. On-line help is provided. The app is available in source from via anonymous ftp from cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/submissions/Stopwatch2.3.tar.Z. Please send bugs reports / comments / suggestions to stopwatch@plevin.com. Enjoy, Rich Plevin rich@plevin.com
From: yackd@oregon.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PacMan 3.0 is available Date: 24 Jul 1993 18:54:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <22sejl$9c@digifix.digifix.com> News The new PacMan 3.0 is available Contact: Don Yacktman (801) 221-0344 Don_Yacktman@byu.edu 19 July 1993, Provo, UT--Version 3.0 of Don Yacktman's PacMan game is now available for public consumption. This new version is completely updated to take advantage of NEXTSTEP 3.0 features and will run on both Intel and Motorola architectures. Some enhancements include NEXTSTEP Help, network high scores, bug fixes, and sound support. This version of PacMan is available from cs.orst.edu as: pub/next/submissions/PacMan.app.3.0.tar.gz and from ftp.byu.edu (alaska.et.byu.edu) as: pub/next/PacMan.app.3.0.tar.gz It is not currently available from sonata.cc.purdue.edu because the site is refusing to cooperate. A user who wishes to make use of the network high score server will need to install a server on their network. The necessary files are available in the above locations as HighScoreServer.tar.gz and are also available on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. People interested in obtaining the source code for this version of PacMan will need to obtain it as part of the GameKit, which is available in pub/next on ftp.byu.edu (alaska.et.byu.edu). Don Yacktman is a freelance NeXT programmer and graduate student of electrical and computer engineering at Brigham Young University. He maintains the ftp.byu.edu ftp server, amongst other things. You might find it worth while poking through some of his projects in progress, the latest versions of which are always available in the pub/next directory. WARNING: The ftp.byu.edu site is being moved to another machine. If you have troubles logging in anonymously, try "alaska.et.byu.edu" which is the machine you actually connect to. Eventually the alias "ftp.byu.edu" will point to alaska, but campus network services is sometimes slow to make these adjustments.
From: <zac@dolphin.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Dolphin Announces NeXTSTEP Training & Support Date: 25 Jul 1993 13:19:16 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <22ufai$23t@digifix.digifix.com> Dolphin Technologies Inc. Announces Training & Support Program Contact: Norman B. Furlong Dolphin Technologies Inc. 10329 Viretta Lane Beverly Glen, CA 90077-2723 July 23, 1993 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA--Dolphin Technologies Inc. today announced the rollout of its training and support programs. The company offers a complete suite of services for the design of coursework, training classes and user documentation, as well as on-site and off-site support programs. A variety of training courses for the NeXTSTEP and Mach environments are also available. "A product is only as good as your user's knowledge of how to employ it. Dolphin Technologies offers a complete solution, from coursework design through training. Professional documentation and well-structured classes will maximize the success of your custom application," said Norman B. Furlong, Principal, Dolphin Technologies Inc. "Our program is designed to deliver the highest quality documentation and training materials. We focus on training the client, and delivering quality product documentation and coursework, so that future training can be done by the client," said Zacharias J. Beckman, Principal, Dolphin Technologies Inc. The training programs include courses in NeXTSTEP, both for developers and users of the environment, system administration, backup and recovery topics. Custom courses are designed hand-in-hand with the client, and coursework materials are available to the client so that training can continue in-house. In addition to training, complete technical and user documentation services are available. Dolphin Technologies will produce high quality user documentation for custom solutions as either part of the training program or outside of it. The documentation services include product image consultation and production of the final documentation. Dolphin Technologies is also offering dedicated NeXTSTEP and custom solution support programs for both on-site and off-site clients. The programs offer a variety of services ranging from toll-free telephone support to full-time on-site support. Products covered by the support programs include NeXTSTEP system administration, hardware configuration management, network management, custom software maintenance, and a number of other services. Dolphin Technologies Inc. and Dolphin Software are headquartered in Beverly Glen, California. The company performs systems engineering, mission critical development, and object oriented consulting services. For additional information contact Norman B. Furlong at 800-843-0328; electronic mail can be directed to info@dolphin.com.
From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Press Release: DiskMaker Demo available at cs.orst.edu Date: 26 Jul 1993 23:33:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2327ml$b8@digifix.digifix.com> DiskMaker (v1.5) DiskMaker is the fastest disk duplication solution for NEXTSTEP. DiskMaker supports industry standard 720K, 1.4MB and 2.8MB disk densities. DiskMaker's powerful verification technology insures that defective disks are not distributed to customers. Disk duplication takes under one minute regardless of file sizes or disk densities. DiskMaker will save you hours! A demo version is on cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/DiskMakerDemo.tar.gz A demo version of the product has been uploaded to cs.orst.edu (contact SmartSoft for introductory pricing) Product Availability Motorola-based NEXTSTEP: Shipping now Intel-based NEXTSTEP: Shipping August 1993 Price Information Licenses: US$115 (first copy) US$125 (first copy) Licenses for outside U.S. Heavy discounts on multiple license purchases. Ordering Information - To purchase a license for any of our products call us at (800) 424-8864. About SmartSoft SmartSoft, Inc., is a Wisconsin corporation dedicated to producing software for NEXTSTEP. We are currently working on a breakthrough technology that will revolutionize the way you work. Keep an eye on us!! SmartSoft, Inc., 2220 East Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211 Phone: 414/964-8864, Fax: 414/964-4672 Email: smartsoft@parsec.mixcom.com Rocks!, DiskMaker, (NIST) Synchronicity are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Rocks 1.8 (fat) is available - special offer Date: 26 Jul 1993 23:34:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2327n9$be@digifix.digifix.com> For immediate release: Rocks 1.8 (fat) is shipping now Rocks! (v1.8) Rocks is the mother of all space games. Your mission is to clear bothersome asteroids to enable warp travel through the sector. Beware of natural and not-so-natural phenomena. Space is dangerous, especially when on the fringe. Excellent graphics. Restful hours at the computer will never be the same! cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Rocks_1.8fat.tar nova.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Rocks_1.8fat.tar If you don't have access to ftp please give us a call we will arrange for you to get one! Rocks is now available for NEXTSTEP INTEL! Introductory price $25. (includes DotFiles 2.0) Introductory package $40 (includes Rocks, DotFiles and Synchronicity) These offers expire August 1, 1993. Price Information Licenses: US$35/ea (US$45/ea - Licenses for outside U.S.) Ordering Information - To purchase a license for any of our products call us at (800) 424-8864. About SmartSoft SmartSoft, Inc., is a Wisconsin corporation dedicated to producing software for NEXTSTEP. We are currently working on a breakthrough technology that will revolutionize the way you work. Keep an eye on us!! SmartSoft, Inc., 2220 East Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211 Phone: 414/964-8864, Fax: 414/964-4672 Email: smartsoft@parsec.mixcom.com Rocks!, DiskMaker, (NIST) Synchronicity are trademarks of SmartSoft, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT EXTENDS SPECIAL $299 NEXTSTEP PROMOTION Date: 27 Jul 1993 22:05:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <234msv$5qj@digifix.digifix.com> News: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865 NeXT EXTENDS SPECIAL $299 NEXTSTEP PROMOTION DEADLINE TO SEPTEMBER 30 REDWOOD CITY, CA - July 26, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. has extended the deadline on its invitation to companies to experience the benefits of building client/server applications using NEXTSTEP's object-oriented technology. Until September 30, a NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit, containing both the User and Developer versions of NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors will be available for $299. The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit includes: - NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel Processors which includes the full NEXTSTEP User product and documentation; - NEXTSTEP Developer CD ROM which includes NEXTSTEP's visual application construction tools and reusable object kits, as well as a 50% off coupon to purchase full technical documentation; - The NEXTSTEP Advantage Kit which includes a booklet, a video cassette and a diskette with sample software to introduce users to the benefits of application development with NEXTSTEP; - NEXTSTEP Programming, a book by Garfinkel & Mahoney, which provides users a thorough explanation of NEXTSTEP application development using a tutorial approach. For business situations and enterprise use The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit contains complete NEXTSTEP products. With the Kit, customers can experience the full benefits of NEXTSTEP for developing real client/server applications. "We are extending the promotion deadline from July 31 to September 30 to enable more developers to take advantage of the opportunity to develop using NEXTSTEP and to experience two to five times the productivity gains," said Rick Jackson, director of developer product marketing at NeXT. "We are encouraged by the response we have received already and look forward to having new developers join the growing ranks of object-oriented believers." Pricing and Availability The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit is available immediately worldwide. In the U.S., it costs $299 and can be ordered by calling 1-800-TRY-NEXT in North America. The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit offer does not include free upgrades to Release 3.2. The Kit is limited, one copy per customer. Regularly priced copies of NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors and NEXTSTEP Developer, which include an upgrade to Release 3.2 and full documentation for both versions, retail in the U.S. for $795 and $1,995, respectively. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: alex@oolesson.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Programming book release: 2nd edition Date: 27 Jul 1993 22:06:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <234mua$5qp@digifix.digifix.com> News For more information, contact: Alex Duong Nghiem Object Lesson, Inc. Phone: (817) 473-3093 Fax: (817) 472-0225 Email: alex@oolesson.com (NeXTMail) -or- 75040.3647@compuserve.com (no NeXTMail here please) Object Lesson and Prentice Hall Announce New NEXTSTEP Programming Book: 2nd Edition Due to outstanding demand, we have sold out our first print run far faster than planned. We have just released an updated edition which corrected minor mistakes in the first edition. Object Lesson, Inc. and Prentice Hall are proud to announce the updated release of NEXTSTEP Programming: Concepts and Applications (ISBN 0-13-605916-3), a 600+ pages programming textbook specifically aimed at programmers who wish to write object-oriented applications in NEXTSTEP 3.0. This up-to-date text introduces object-oriented design along with Objective-C, the AppKit, InterfaceBuilder, ProjectBuilder, HeaderViewer, and other new features of NEXTSTEP 3.0. Other topics include: * object-oriented design tools including CRC cards, message diagrams, etc. * porting applications to NEXTSTEP/Intel * debugging techniques using Gdb * an extensive list of resources including addresses and contacts for user groups around the world, archive sites, newsgroups, etc. * and much much more! This book is classroom tested and is being adopted by major universities in North America and Europe. On a recent UUNET poll, the book was recently voted as the best reference for getting started in NeXTSTEP development. Other praise for the book include: =================================================================== "A great introduction to developers interested in object-oriented programming, object-oriented design, and the NEXTSTEP development environment. If you want to start writing applications for NEXTSTEP, get this book." Ali Ozer, Application Kit Software Engineer NeXT Inc. "NEXTSTEP Programming: Concepts and Applications is well-written, meticulously organized and easy to follow. It provides a great introduction to NEXTSTEP programming, and I can recommend it without reservation to developers just getting started with the NEXTSTEP environment." Bruce F. Webster (author of The NeXT Book) Chief Technical Officer, Pages Software Inc "Finally, some useful and readable documentation for NEXTSTEP! Every NEXTSTEP programmer needs this book." Glenn Reid, co-author of PasteUp RightBrain Software, Inc. "...one of the best, complete and up-to-date programming tutorials for NEXTSTEP...a veritable treasure-house for the budding NEXTSTEP developer. Alex has packed it full of nuggets of information and insights that usually takes NEXTSTEP developers years to acquire." Jiro Nakamura, Publisher NeXTWatch Magazine ==================================================================== The source code is available from sonata@cc.purdue.edu under submissions as AlexNeXTSTEPSource.tar.Z. To order the book, please visit your local bookstore or contact Prentice Hall at (800) 922-0579 (phone) or (515) 284-6719 (fax). For corporate accounts, please contact Ann Aciafano at (201) 461-8441. ****************************************************************** Object Lesson is a Dallas-based firm that specializes in mentoring and reengineering. We provide a host of services including a class based on our best-selling book, NeXTSTEP Programming: Concepts and Applications. Please e-mail us for a free brochure. ******************************************************************
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 30 - 1993 Date: 27 Jul 1993 22:53:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <234pmv$61q@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 30). Tuesday July 21 through Tuesday July 27 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 29 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups MEETING: BCS NeXT User Group Meeting: August 3 - 7:00pm NeXT Announces New VP and CFO: Dominique Trempont PRESS RELEASE: Cub'x Systemes announces Cub'X-Window for NS/FIP SUBMISSION: Metrosoft Announces MetroSuction 1.1 PRESS RELEASE: Announcing the WetPaint FilterKit SUBMISSION: New Instructional Software for Image and Signal Processing PRESS RELEASE: Tesseract v0.95a now available. PRESS RELEASE: Aurora Software Announces LoadEye 1.1 JOB: Pencom Seeks 23 NeXTSTEP Object-Oriented Engineers & Managers (CA, TX, NE) Italian NEXTSTEP User Group announces "Objectware Workshop" SUBMISSION: consultant's time tracking and billing app SUBMISSION: PacMan 3.0 is available PRESS RELEASE: Dolphin Announces NeXTSTEP Training & Support Press Release: DiskMaker Demo available at cs.orst.edu PRESS RELEASE: Rocks 1.8 (fat) is available - special offer NeXT EXTENDS SPECIAL $299 NEXTSTEP PROMOTION PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Programming book release: 2nd edition If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier. As always feedback is welcome. Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 27 Jul 1993 22:53:36 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <234png$620@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 27 Jul 1993 22:53:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <234pnv$626@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish
From: <jaeger@watershed.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: GraphRight 1.01 Release Date: 28 Jul 1993 19:19:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2371ij$ep@digifix.digifix.com> Press Release Contact: Dirk Fromhein (508)460-9612 For Immediate Release Watershed Technologies Announces GraphRight 1.01 for NeXTStep (Motorola and Intel) Marlboro, MA - July 28, 1993 - Watershed Technologies, Inc. today announced the updated NeXTStep release of GraphRight, its presentation graphing application for business and financial users. The new release features a Distributed Object API, allowing programmers to easily add advanced data visualization capability into their custom applications. Using the API's objects to shuttle data and commands to GraphRight, you can allow users to create professional graphs without ever leaving your application. The API also allows data (such as a stock feed) to be imported in real-time. In addition, GraphRight can be seamlessly integrated with popular spreadsheets to enhance your graphing power. Utilizing dynamic object linking, graphs in GraphRight can be linked into any word processor or presentation package that supports the LinkManager. This feature eliminates the need to repeatedly copy and paste a graph when it is changed. Once a graph is linked into another application, any future changes you make in GraphRight are automatically reflected in that application. Linking into GraphRight is also possible. For example, equations can be typeset in an equation editor and linked into GraphRight as labels. Each time the equation is changed GraphRight will automatically update the labels. GraphRight features a wide selection of business and financial graph types. Included is a full featured drawing package and full support for the dragging and dropping of files, images, and colors, allowing you to produce stunning and effective presentations with ease. A full rich text word processor complete with spell checking in every language NeXTStep supports is also integrated into the package. Using these tools, graphs can be comprehensively and easily annotated. GraphRight can import data from ASCII files or from spreadsheets via the SYLK file format. Finally, GraphRight features a simple table-based data editor for easy data entry and modification. For more information, contact: Watershed Technologies, Inc. 13 Tremont St. Suite 3F Marlboro, MA 01752 graphright@watershed.com (508)-460-9612 #### Watershed Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company with headquarters in Marlboro, MA. Its founders started as defense contractors doing research in computational fluid dynamics before changing to commercial software for NeXTStep. They have since helped in the creation of one of the most successful NeXTStep applications to date. Watershed Technologies will continue to support NeXTStep on any platform on which it is released. GraphRight is a trademark of Watershed Technologies, Inc. NeXT and NeXTStep are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other mentioned products are trademarks of their respective companies.
From: schlangm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ManOpen.compressed Date: 28 Jul 1993 22:54:43 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <237e3k$14i@digifix.digifix.com> Please send comments, suggestions, donations and your useful changes to schlangm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de. This program is provided ``AS IS'' and without any warranty. Nobody is allowed to request any money for this program. ManOpen is available at: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:pub/next/Tools/workspace Some points: ManOpen will open manual pages written in troff (nroff) syntax and is especially useful when browsing through source directories. ManOpen includes a cat2rtf converter which may also be used standalone. (Invoke with option -h to get help) cat2rtf was tested with output of both nroff as provided with NS3.0 and with gnroff (which generates nicer output). Formatting is somewhat nicer than that seen in Librarian. cat2rtf is implemented using a flex scanner description (cat2rtf.l). It should work with lex too. Anyway, flex output cat2rtf.c.flex is included with the ManOpen package. ManOpen registers the extension .man only. Other useful extensions (like .1) are used for other purposes too often (version numbers like TeXmenu4.1 for example ;-) ). Nevertheless any file selected in the WorkSpace may conveniently be opened using Service ``Open in ManOpen''. Please use Preferences.app to select a shortcut for this Service. Hope it will be of use for you - Harald Schlangmann. --- Harald Schlangmann voice: +49 89 535510 address: Tumblingerstrasse 17 Rgb., 80337 Muenchen, F.R.G. e-mail : schlangm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de, NeXTmail OK Try TeXmenu 4.0 for computers running NeXTSTEP: ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/next/Text/tex
From: Conrad Geiger <Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Millennium Software Announces Newsgrazer Pro for NEXTSTEP Date: 29 Jul 1993 01:50:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <237oem$di@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Jayson Adams, CEO Scott Love, President Millennium Software Labs 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300 Menlo Park, CA, 94025 Phone: (415) 321-3720 Fax: (415) 321-3650 Email: info@millennium.com Millennium Software Labs Announces Newsgrazer Pro(TM) for NEXTSTEP NEXTSTEP application to allow users to read Usenet and corporate news groups MENLO PARK, California, July 28, 1993 - Millennium Software Labs announced today that it will introduce Newsgrazer Pro, a software product for browsing articles and message threads from the numerous Usenet news groups. Usenet news groups have become a significant source of technology, event, and general interest information, and are growing in popularity among industry and business users. Newsgrazer Pro will provide both novice an expert users with a powerful interface for navigating this vast information resource. Jayson Adams, Millennium's CEO, said in an interview today, "We have received a lot of customer requests that Millennium release a net news reader for NEXTSTEP. Our expertise in developing information management applications makes us the ideal company for creating a commercial-quality product for this category. Newsgrazer Pro's introduction later this year will provide NEXTSTEP users with a simple and elegant application for accessing the Usenet." "Information processing and management is the most important application category of this decade, and Millennium is focused exclusively on providing NEXTSTEP solutions for this category. Newsgrazer Pro fits perfectly into our award-winning product line, which includes NoteBook and Engage! Desktop," said Scott Love, Millennium's President. Newsgrazer Pro for NEXTSTEP will have a suggested retail price of $199.95. The product will ship during the fourth quarter of 1993 in multiple architecture binary (MAB) format, capable of running on both Motorola- and Intel-based NEXTSTEP computers. Millennium Software Labs, Inc. is a privately-held start-up founded by Jayson Adams and Scott Love, former employees of NeXT Computer, Inc. Millennium develops and markets personal productivity software for NEXTSTEP-based computer systems. The company's mission is to develop state-of-the-art applications for information management. Product design and architecture are based entirely on NEXTSTEP, the most advanced object-oriented software technology available today. For more information about this press release, contact Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President. Millennium Software Labs is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. (415) 321-3720, (415) 321-3650 Fax, info@millennium.com. Keywords: computers, technology, software, Millennium Software Labs, Newsgrazer Pro, NeXT, NEXTSTEP, news reader, Usenet (C) 1993 Millennium Software Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Newsgrazer Pro and Engage! Desktop are trademarks of Millennium Software Labs, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc, in the U.S. and other countries.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP MiniExamples now available from NeXT archive server! Date: 29 Jul 1993 02:19:51 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <237q66$k4@digifix.digifix.com> Hello, Great news for all NEXTSTEP Developers and Programmers interested in the following NEXTSTEP source code examples for NEXTSTEP 3.x: NETINFOKIT MINIEXAMPLES APPKIT MINIEXAMPLES INDEXINGKIT MINIEXAMPLES DATABASEKIT MINIEXAMPLES Conrad Geiger NeXT _________________________________________________________________ Anonymous ftp for the NEXTSTEP example code is now available via archive server: ftp.next.com. The MiniExamples for APPKIT, DATABASEKIT, INDEXINGKIT and NETINFOKIT are located in: /pub/NeXTanswers/Documents/Software_&_Tools/MiniExamples Each folder contains an ascii README file describing all available examples. Here is the master list: [ This ReadMe file describes the MiniExamples available in the AppKit, DatabaseKit, IndexingKit and NetInfoKit directories. Each MiniExample is stored as a separate ".compressed" file. The MiniExamples are only available via anonymous ftp or email (and only if you can receive NeXTmail). Since ".compressed" is a binary format, remember to switch to binary mode (type "bin" at command line) when fetching via ftp.] APPKIT MINIEXAMPLES AtYourService example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) This example illustrates how applications can export "Services" to other applications (they will appear in other applications' Services menu). BananaSplit example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) A simple NXSplitView sizing example. CellScrollView example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) A simple example that installs a matrix of custom cells in a subclass of ScrollView. This forms a basis for a user interface that allows the user to add and delete objects from a list. ConvertXYtoChar example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) How to convert from an X,Y coordinate location in the Text object to the nearest character position in that object. Grabber example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) How to create a TIFF image by reading the bits from a rectangular region from the screen. NormalBrowser example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) A very simple straightforward example of an NXBrowser object. PaginationLab example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) An example of breaking up a large view into pages for printing. ScrollViewDeluxe palette (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) An enhanced subclass of ScrollView which includes support for adding controls to the scrollers, automatic support for rulers and support for synchronizing other views. StringList palette (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) Two objects used for generating and maintaining lists of strings and filenames: StringList includes methods for adding, inserting, sorting and searching strings as well as built-in browser support so that it can be a browser delegate. FilenameList is a subclass of StringList that specializes in filenames. Both objects can be initialized inside of InterfaceBuilder. TextORama example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) How to create a TextField which supports restricting text length, autojumping to another TextField and interpreting a carriage return literally. This example also illustrates how to implement emacs key binding support for the Text object. ThumbWheel palette (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) The ThumbWheel object includes the functionality of a Slider plus the features you would expect from a real thumbwheel. TIFFandEPS example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) How to open TIFF or EPS images, how to convert from one format to the other, and how to save them out. TTools palette (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) This example is an advanced IB Palette primer. Demonstrated features include: how to write a custom connection inspector and custom connector objects; how to palettize Matrix without restricting its prototype cell class; how to add a library target to your palette project so that applications can link in the palette code. WhatsUpDoc example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) A skeletal example of how you might manage multiple documents in an application. Save, SaveAs, SaveTo, SaveAll and Revert are implemented. Winfo example (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) Winfo provides information about NEXTSTEP window memory usage. It's useful for finding windows which unnecessarily allocate alpha or color planes and waste large amounts of memory. ZooView application (NEXTSTEP 3.x Release compliant) An example of a horizontal SplitView. DATABASEKIT MINIEXAMPLES AddressBook example In order to run this example, you need to have a SYBASE server with a pubs database installed. [The pubs database is a sample database provided with the SYBASE limited server package.] After you are properly connected to the Sybase server, you can perform operations such as Select, Insert, Update or Delete. AssociationExample example The current version of DBKit does not provide a way to filter the records fetched by a detail FetchGroup. DBKit does not allow a qualifier to be built into a relationship, nor does it allow a qualifier to be permanently attached to a FetchGroup. The Association example provides a way to do filtering of detail records by using a subclass of DBAssociation that replaces the default association which exists between the master FetchGroup and the detail FetchGroup. BarChart palette This palette demonstrates how to use your custom UI objects with the DBKit. It illustrates in particular the DBCustomAssociation protocol which allows you to retrieve or set values to your database via a custom view objects. BooleanFormatter example This example shows how to substitute the default display format in the TableView to your own format by subclassing the DBFormatter class. In order to run this example you need to have an ORACLE server with a demo database installed. DateFormatter example This example shows how to create a formatter for a DBTableView that uses a subclass of TextFieldCell to validate the user's input. The formatter forces the user to type in values of the form xx/xx/xx. In order to run this example, you need to have an adaptor, a model and a data source. DocumentPalette palette (3.1 only) This palette is a subclass of Control. It shows how to conveniently store files into the database using their absolute pathnames, instead of the data associated with them, and let the WorkSpace do the work for opening or reading the files. You can also drop a file into the document well, and double-click to open it for reading. OrderByTest example This example shows you how to change the sort order every time the columns in the tableview are rearranged. In order to run this example, you need to have an ORACLE server with a demo database installed. RadioAssociation source code These two files allow you to make a matrix of radio buttons sychronize with the boolean data type of your database. TableView example This example shows how you can define a DBTableView and a DBModule programmatically instead of using the corresponding IB objects. It also shows how you can change the sort order every time the columns in the tableview are rearranged. INDEXINGKIT MINIEXAMPLES LanguageReader/ReaderDomain example (3.1 only) This simple program shows how to generate a .domain file programmatically. You should also read the SimpleReader MiniExample (in LanguageReader, below) which shows how to build a customized reader by subclassing IXLanguageReader. LanguageReader/SimpleReader example (3.1 only) This example shows how to build a customized language reader. The reader is organized as a bundle, so that it can be dynamically loaded by the Indexing Kit, if you are using NEXTSTEP applications such as Digital Librarian. RecordManager example (3.1 only) This example demonstrates usage of the Indexing Kit at the IXRecordManager level. At start-up, a new database .data will be created in your home directory. You can then enter records into that database which is managed by IXRecordManager and performs searches based on the record attributes. NETINFOKIT MINIEXAMPLES NILoginPanelTest example This example shows how to bring up a login panel, and do password authentication. The example uses specifically the NetInfoKit classes NILoginPanel and NIDomain. [ moderators note...] for those without ftp access, you can send mail to nextanswers@next.com for example to get AddressBook as NextMail to this mail nextanswers@next.com Subject:1245 you can leave the body of the message blank [1245]AddressBook [1246]AssociationExample [1238]BarChart [1239]BooleanFormatter [1240]DatabaseKit [1241]DateFormatter [1242]DocumentPalette [1244]OrderByTest [1247]RadioAssociation [1243]TableView [1262]AppKit [1263]AtYourService [1248]BananaSplit [1249]CellScrollView [1250]ConvertXYtoChar [1251]Grabber [1252]NormalBrowser [1253]PaginationLab [1264]ScrollViewDeluxe [1254]StringList [1259]TextORama [1257]ThumbWheel [1255]TIFFandEPS [1256]TTools [1258]WhatsUpDoc [1260]Winfo [1261]ZooView [1265]NetInfoKit [1266]NILoginPanelTest [1268]IndexingKit [1269]LanguageReader [1267]RecordManager
From: tracy@athena.com (Tracy Kugelman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Mesa 1.5 Announcement Date: 29 Jul 1993 15:21:58 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23980l$5cl@digifix.digifix.com> **** Athena Design Announces Mesa 1.5 with Palettized Objects ***** Athena Design is pleased to announce that Mesa version 1.5 is now available. Mesa 1.5 ships as a Multi-architecture ("fat") binary for both NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors as well as NeXT computers running NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher. Mesa was recently given a "Best of Breed" Award at the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO. Mesa's objects have been palettized to assist custom programmers integrating Mesa into mission critical custom applications. Other new features included in Mesa 1.5: The Query Inspector is new and radically improved. It allows update, insert, delete and "raw SQL". Added support for drag & drop tabular text type for interoperability with DataPhile. Mesa now supports underlining within cells within the Cell Style Inspector. Mesa now supports a database server adaptor. This will allow the creation of addins that will link to SQL servers other than Sybase (the built-in default). For Sale: Mesa's price remains unchanged $499 suggested retail for the commercial package, and $99 suggested retail for educational version. Please contact your software reseller for purchases. Mesa is available with a floating manager based on the number of concurrent users. Upgrades: In keeping with Athena Design's policy of one year of upgrades for Mesa, upgrades are available via anonymous ftp from the following archives: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/demos/spreadsheets ftp.cica.indiana.edu (directory unknown) athena.com:/pub/Mesa peanuts.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/next/Demos (please note that this machine is in Germany) Documentation in PostScript format is available from athena.com:/pub/Mesa. The upgrade on floppy disks is $10.00 US, and the manual set (the User's Guide plus the Programmer's Guide) is also $10.00 US. We cannot accept credit cards. Please send a check or money order in US dollars to: Athena Design Attn. Upgrades 17 St. Mary's Court Boston, MA 02146 USA If you have any questions please contact: Tracy Kugelman, Director tel. 1.617.734.MESA (6372) Sales and Marketing fax 1.617.734.1130 NeXT Mail Welcome tracy@athena.com Thank you for making Mesa the number one selling spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP! Athena Design was founded in 1989 by David Pollak to provide a fulfilling and enriching work environment through the creation, sales and support of high quality software for the NEXTSTEP operating environment. In 1991 Athena Design released CultureShock, an addictive game played all over the world. CultureShock is also available for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors and is available free from selected archive sites. For more information about Mesa please contact us at 1.617.734.6372 or info@athena.com. - 30 - NeXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. Lotus 1-2-3 is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp. Excel and SYLK are registered trademarks of MicroSoft. 20/20 is a registered trademark of Computer Associates. Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase Inc.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Abbott Maestro for NEXTSTEP to Improve Laboratory Workflow Date: 30 Jul 1993 02:12:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23ae5a$1p6@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: Tracy Lumbert (708) 938-3895 Elissa Whiteman (312) 649-6907 Abbott Laboratories Introduces Abbott Maestro: Intelligent Workstation Designed to Improve Laboratory Workflow Abbott Park, IL, July 12, 1993 -- Abbott Laboratories today introduced the Abbott Maestro, a new intelligent workstation designed to improve workflow and productivity in the clinical laboratory. Abbott Maestro will be previewed, along with Abbott's new third generation Immunoassay analyzer, AxSYM, at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting in New York City. Laboratory Productivity Improvements As laboratory managers seek to cut labor costs, they have often focused on automating the testing process. Yet other aspects of the laboratory operation are equally deserving of attention. The portion of the labor costs devoted to data recording and reporting (17 percent) is only slightly less than the time devoted to testing (21 percent). The need for productivity improvement in data recording and reporting has been widely recognized in the laboratory field. According to a survey of clinical laboratorians, the primary product of the laboratory is the accurate reporting of test results. The potential role of the intelligent workstation has also been recognized. Laboratorians surveyed believe that an intelligent workstation is needed to supplement the laboratory information system (LIS) and satellite labs, providing additional power and flexibility. By placing an intelligent terminal or personal computer between the analyzer and the LIS, laboratory data management is simplified. Withe the introduction of the Abbott Maestro, an "Intelligent Workstation" which manages information between laboratory instruments and the Laboratory Information System, Abbott Laboratories has brought automation and simplicity to data recording and reporting. "Abbott Maestro was designed using the most advanced software technologies, "said Miles White, vice president, diagnostic systems and operations. "These technologies will reduce the time laboratorians spend on recording, reporting and sending reports to physicians by reducing the time and effort required from the moment samples are received to the time results are reported back to the physician." Frequently, results must be transcribed by hand, then transferred manually either to the LIS or to the final report. With the Abbott Maestro, this step is completely eliminated. Abbott Maestro will improve the collection and handling of information by interfacing up to eight Abbott analyzers which can transmit their output directly to the workstation. Reports in any format desired can then be generated directly by Abbott Maestro. Alternatively, the date can be transferred to the LIS and combined with data from other types of instruments to be generated into a single laboratory report. "Abbott Maestro will provide laboratories with the capability to make important decisions faster by providing them with easy access to real-time quality control, patient demographics and patient history," added White. "By allowing the Integration of up to eight analyzers including AxSYM, IMx, TDx, TDxFLx, CELL DYN 3000 and Abbott Spectrum to one system, Abbott Maestro offers laboratories a total system approach to testing and reporting patient results." Abbott Maestro's capabilities will be expanded in the future with additional interfaces, including other manufacturers' clinical chemistry instruments. Abbott Maestro also assists in regulatory compliance by eliminating the need for archiving information that currently exists only on paper. All the required data is stored electronically by Abbott Maestro. In addition, Abbott Maestro incorporates a modem that further enhances laboratory workflow by allowing data and instructions to be transmitted over telephone lines to and from remote sites. Wherever satellite laboratories are located, their results are instantly available to the main laboratory. Similarly, main laboratory results can be printed out at remote sites, including satellite laboratories, emergency rooms and intensive care units. This eliminates the need to messenger or telephone results to remote users. Abbott Laboratories is a worldwide manufacturer of health care products employing 49,000 people. In 1992, company sales and net earnings were $7.9 billion and $1.2 billion respectively, with earnings per share of $1.47.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Solitaire-1.01 Date: 29 Jul 1993 22:16:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <23a0a7$9kg@digifix.digifix.com> Solitaire is a snazzy NeXTSTEP implementation of the classic game of Solitaire. It has been previously released as version 1.0 and remains unchanged but for multi-architecture support of both 680x0 and i486 hardware. For those who have asked about the CardSet objects, they've never gotten the attention they deserved but are now freely available in their current state as a part of the Solitaire-1.01-Source.tar.Z package. (In case you pick them up and are wondering, they're designed to be edited using Helvetica). I fully intend to colorize the cards, provide an option for smaller cards for those with resolutions under 1024 x 768 and clean up the source quite a bit for 1.1. Blake Stone bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/Solitaire-1.01-MAB.tar.Z /pub/next/submissions/Solitaire-1.01-README /pub/next/submissions/Solitaire-1.01-Source.tar.Z
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Sentinel screensaver/locker Date: 29 Jul 1993 22:17:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <23a0cb$9km@digifix.digifix.com> Sentinel is a simple screen saver whose major features are that it launches instantaneously and that it ties up next to no CPU time when the screen saver is active. It provides for password locking of the system and a "supervisor" password for use in larger office environments. Version 1.3 is provided in multi-architecture format for both 680x0 and i486 hardware. Blake Stone bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/Sentinel-1.3-MAB.tar.Z /pub/next/submissions/Sentinel-1.3-README /pub/next/submissions/Sentinel-1.3-Source.tar.Z
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Uptime Announces NEXTSTEP Drivers for HP-LaserJet Printer Date: 30 Jul 1993 01:12:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23aakm$180@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Martin Elmer Uptime Object Factory Inc Baumackerstrasse 46 8050 Zurich Phone +41 1 313 06 07 Fax +41 1 313 07 55 NeXTmail info@uptime.ch NEXTSTEP Drivers for HP-LaserJet Uptime Inc announced today TCPprd, their printerdriver for HP LaserJet printers with JetDirect-interface. From any NEXTSTEP machine, Intel or NeXT hardware, all the laserprinters on the network are accessible via TCP/IP. "Integration of existing laserprinters is really easy", says Marcel Waldvogel, Director of Internetworking. "Printers can be placed where ever they are needed and users can see the hp Printers in the standard NEXTSTEP printpanel." TCPprd manages automatic fontdownloading and reports messages from the printer on a specific machine on the network. TCPprd is available now. Call +41 1 313 06 07 or write to info@uptime.ch. Uptime Object Factory Inc is a software company located in Zurich, Switzerland. Uptime Inc is focused fully on NEXTSTEPi development and provides services ranging from network integration to custom application development.
From: Conrad Geiger <Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: workstation ag Announces NeXTplan Project: Project Management Date: 30 Jul 1993 12:51:14 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23bji1$2eu@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: workstation ag Rohrstrasse 36/38 8152 Glattbrugg Switzerland Phone: (41) 1 828 95 55 Fax: (41) 1 828 95 70 E-mail reh@wag.ch workstation ag Announces NeXTplan Project: Project Management Tool for NEXTSTEP workstation ag is announcing the availability of NeXTplan for the NeXT 68K as well as Under NEXTSTEP for Intel. These new product further position workstation ag as the leading supplier of highly available, easy to administer project-management environments. With this project management we also laid the foundation of a software that will offer enhanced performance and lower costs to our customers. The workstation ag NeXTplan Project NEXTPlanProject is a handy window-based project management system which permits to plan rapidly from most simple to most complex projects. The central chart displays the project's schedule (PERT representation) where the project's tasks and the tasks' dependencies can be graphically defined with the mouse. NEXTPlan of course provides all the typical project management system's standard features as resources and resources' calendars definition, automatic leveling, hierarchical project's structuration, actual versus planned data, budget and timing analysis. An interactive mouse-driven resource leveling was also developed to let the user solve the resources' conflicts in a rapid, optimal, precise and straightforward way. Through making a great use of mouse interaction with the graphics, special care was taken to offer the user a comfortable, flexible and intuitive interface to define, display and modify his data. Finally the chart views and customized reports accessing all NEXTPlanProject's data fields can be printed with a minimum of time and project's information, making NEXTPlanProject a pratical and powerful tool for managers. Information and contact: workstation ag Rohrstrasse 36/38 8152 Glattbrugg Switzerland Phone: (41) 1 828 95 55 Fax: (41) 1 828 95 70 E-mail reh@wag.ch
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: workstation ag is shipping IBM, Unisys and DEC Emulators on NEXTSTEP Date: 30 Jul 1993 12:51:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23bjil$2f4@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: workstation ag Rohrstrasse 36/38 8152 Glattbrugg Switzerland Phone: (41) 1 828 95 55 Fax: (41) 1 828 95 70 E-mail reh@wag.ch workstation ag is shipping IBM, Unisys and DEC Emulators for NEXTSTEP workstation ag is announcing the availability of 3 emulators on Multiplatforms running Unix. These new products further position workstation ag as the leading supplier of highly available, easy to administer Terminal-Emulators to Unix workstation environments. With this emulators we also laid the foundation of a series products of host-connectivity and that will offer enhanced performance, better reliability and lower costs to our customers. Workstation AG IBM 3270 "WE-I3179c / WE-I3179g" Terminal emulation family WE-I3179 is one of the most complete multiplatform 3270 emulation family you can buy today. It is available on X11 based stations like SUN4 (4.1.x and Solaris 2.x), IBM-RS6000 (AIX 3.2x), HP-700/800 (hpux 8.x, 9.x), DEC-5000 (ultrix 4.2) as well as on NEXTSTEP (NeXT 68k and Intel 486/586). A character only (WE-I3179c) and a 3179g graphic version (WE-I3179g) of the terminal are available. A 3287 printer (LU type 1) is implemented. All provides graphic utilities for keyboard mapping, macro definitions, color editing and parameters. IND$FILE, Script and API are provided. Both printer output and screen hardcopies are converted either to ASCII or Postscript and can be routed to a printer, spooler or data file. The resizable emulation window can be surrounded with buttons whose function's and label's are free definable. The companion WE-COMD server emulates the 3174 controller and allows connections to occur through TCP/IP, TokenRing (LLC), X25 (QLLC) and Coax (DFT) links. Workstation AG UNISYS UTS "WE-UTSc / WE-UTSg" Terminal emulation family WE-UTS is one of the most complete multiplatform UTS emulation family you can buy today. It is available on X11 based stations like SUN4 (4.1.x and Solaris 2.x), IBM-RS6000 (AIX 3.2x), HP-700/800 (hpux 8.x, 9.x), DEC-5000 (ultrix 4.2) as well as on NEXTSTEP (NeXT 68k and Intel 486/586). WE-UTSc emulates all character terminals from the Uniscope to the SVT in 132 column mode. WE-UTSg adds the UTS60 color graphics to the above features. Both provides graphic utilities for keyboard mapping, macro definitions, color editing and parameters. Both printer output and screen hardcopies are converted either to ASCII or Postscript and can be routed to a printer, spooler or data file. The resizable emulation window can be surrounded with buttons whose function's and label's are free definable. The companion WE-COMD server emulates the communication protocols needed to connect to UNISYS via TCP/IP (Telnet and OSI/TP0), X25 and UDLC links. Workstation AG DEC VT-320 "WE-D320" Terminal emulation WE-D320 is one of the most complete multiplatform VT320 emulation you can buy today. It is available on X11 based stations like SUN4 (4.1.x and Solaris 2.x), IBM-RS6000 (AIX 3.2x), HP-700/800 (hpux 8.x, 9.x), DEC-5000 (ultrix 4.2) as well as on NEXTSTEP (NeXT 68k and Intel 486/586). WE-D320 implements all DEC Vt100/ Vt220 and Vt-320 terminal commands, including oversized characters and foreign fonts. Graphic utilities are provided for keyboard mapping, macro definitions, color editing and parameters. Both printer output and screen hardcopies are converted either to ASCII or Postscript and can be routed to a printer, spooler or data file. The resizable emulation window can be surrounded with buttons whose function's and label's are free definable. WE-D320 is used as a front end to communication protocols provided on your station. Inside it, you may start any process like shell, rlogin, tip, pad,... to get access to an application needing a Vt-320 terminal. Information and contact: workstation ag Rohrstrasse 36/38 8152 Glattbrugg Switzerland Phone: (41) 1 828 95 55 Fax: (41) 1 828 95 70 E-mail reh@wag.ch
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Mid-Willamette - Oregon NeXT User Group Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes Date: 30 Jul 1993 22:23:18 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23cl2k$4uh@digifix.digifix.com> Mid-Willamette - Oregon NeXT User Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes NEXTSTEP Programming Series - Part 1 of 4 When: Thursday 5 Aug 1993 at 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Where: Computer Science - West Room 103 Oregon State University Corvallis, OR Phone: (503) 737-2270 (It's on Campus Way near 26th Street) Mid-Willamette NeXT Users Group is presenting four classes on entry-level NEXTSTEP Software Development every Thursday at 5pm during the month of August for user group members and interested developers. The classes are: August 5: Introduction to NEXTSTEP's Interface Builder and the AppKit. August 12: Advanced AppKit Development and Design. August 19: Database Kit (DBKit) Development and Design. August 26: Graphics Programming (Postscript, X-Windows, and Renderman). At the classes will be a NEXTSTEP computer (Intel and/or Motorola machine) available to demonstrate programming examples. If there is an subject or example you are most interested in, please let us know. These classes are meant to bring amateur programmers up to speed in Interface Builder, Project Builder, Edit, Librarian, and Compilers while showing the power of palettes, object classes, and Object-Oriented Design. These classes will be of an interest to those programmers interested in Object-Oriented Programming, NEXTSTEP Application Development, or Prototyping Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). Of course, non-programmers are welcome, too! For more information or to register for the courses, please send e-mail to John Sechrest at <sechrest@frisby.cs.orst.edu> or to Tim Pugh at <tpugh@oce.orst.edu> or call me at (503) 737-2270.
From: bruce@pdh.com (Bruce McKenzie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Programming Jobs in San Jose Date: 30 Jul 1993 22:26:07 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23cl7t$4v2@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP Programming Jobs in San Jose, California (US Citizens only) Position: Software Design Engineer Starts: August-September 1993 Location: San Jose, California Qualifications: Required: *** US CITIZENSHIP **** - BS in Computer Science or related field, with at 2 years experience with the NeXT development environment. - Experience in the following: - Independent design and development - Database design and development - GUI design and development - Object Oriented Methodology, OOD and OOP - UNIX - NeXTStep and Interface Builder - Objective-C, C++ - Willingness to travel within USA Desired: - MS in computer related field - Familiarity with product Integration and Test (I&T) - Familiarity with DBKit, Sybase, Oracle - Client-Server architectures - Management of small development projects Duties: Software design engineers participate in all stages of the product life-cycle: proposal, design, implementation, testing, and documentation. Environment: PDH, Inc. is a small software development company specializing in systems solutions using NeXT computers. You will work on internal projects as well as contract work for customers. Current contracts involve systems engineering for a 3000+ workstation networked architecture, a document management system, and two programs to access relational data bases for tracking information. This is an excellent opportunity to impact the direction of a company. You will be able to work closely with customers as well as with the team on internal projects. PDH provides excellent vacation, health, 401K and disability benefits. Also, an entrepreneurial work environment with a lot of fun in a casual work atmosphere. PDH, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Contact: Personnel Department Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599 E-mail: personnel@pdh.com (NeXT Mail welcome)
From: Scott R Violet <xepo@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Japanese-English dictionary available on orst Date: 31 Jul 1993 18:24:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23erfa$52o@digifix.digifix.com> For all those interested in Japanese I just completed a Japanese-English dictionary that is a front-end to both EDict and kanji16.bdf and is available on cs.orst.edu. NXJisho allows the user to enter either Romaji in English get it converted to Hiragana and then a corresponding deffintion (if there is one), or enter in JIS codes, minus the escape sequences and get a deffinition. Since NXJisho relies heavily on the Indexing kit is recommended that you use 3.1, but I have been told that it seems to work fine under 3.0 (occasionaly crashing though). Send all comments/criticisms/bugs to me at xepo@miller.cs.uwm.edu. -Scott Violet (xepo@csd4.csd.uwm.edu)
From: gchan@nx28.mik.uky.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: XMon1.02 is available Date: 31 Jul 1993 18:25:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23erh3$530@digifix.digifix.com> Dear XMon users, NeXT lovers: I have uploaded a new version of my XMon application at the sonata ftp site as pub/next/submissions/XMon1.02.tar.Z. You all are welcomed to use it in your hacking binary files. Changes in the new version: - Fix bugs so that can be runned under NeXTstep 3.0 - Works for turbo station. What is XMon? XMon is a cute editor for NeXT stations (maybe latter for PCs when I will have NS486). It allows you to modify binaries files by editing in Hexadecimal or in ASCII. Regards, Georges Chan. sonata.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/submissions/XMon1.02.tar.Z
From: dmitri@physics.stanford.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: InstantTeX 3.0 FREE Date: 1 Aug 1993 18:27:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23hg0d$9b@digifix.digifix.com> Press Release. Contact: Dmitri Linde at dmitri@StarConn.com For Immediate Release PALO ALTO, CA - July 28, 1993 - InstantTeX today announced the release of InstantTeX 3.0 software for NeXT computers which will be distributed for free. InstantTeX is a front-end to TeX which makes TeXing a much easier process. InstantTeX's numerous features include: TeXing your file automatically as you are writing it, TeXPalette and Mouse Based Equation Input for writing equations, smart spell checker, and various useful editing features. "We believe that InstantTeX 3.0 makes NeXT the best computer for writing documents in TeX, and we are proud of this gift to the NeXT community." said Dmitri Linde, InstantTeX's President. InstantTeX 3.0 is available absolutely free of charge. You can either anonymously ftp it from cs.orst.edu:pub/next/submissions/InstantTeX.tar or pub/next/binaries/editors/InstantTeX.tar or request a copy to be sent by NeXTMail from dmitri@StarConn.com. InstantTeX 3.0 will run only under NeXTSTEP 3.0 or later. Who said something about the nonexistence of free lunch? For more information, contact InstantTeX 744 Mayfield Stanford, CA 94305 Email: dmitri@StarConn.com
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OBJECT: Math, an Object-Oriented Math System for NEXTSTEP Date: 2 Aug 1993 23:14:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23kl6e$5p8@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, please contact: Andre Angelantoni M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. 389 Leslie St., Unit 2 Toronto, Canada M4M 3E3 Phone: 416-462-3954 Email: ask-oa@plexus.guild.org M. ONYSCHUK AND ASSOCIATES INC. INTRODUCES OBJECT:MATH AN OBJECT-ORIENTED MATH SYSTEM TORONTO CANADA, Aug. 1 1993 - P M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OBJECT:Math, a comprehensive set of tools and 22 Objective C classes used to add extensible math and string handling to custom and commercial applications. Objects which make up the OBJECT:Math kit include: 1. OACompiler - an OBJECT:Math compiler which converts math and string expressions (as might be typed into a spreadsheet cell, plotting package, etc.) into Objective C objects. 2. OAUnbundler - an object which allows end-users to extend their OBJECT:Math applications with dynamically loaded custom-built or third-party OBJECT:Math functions. 3. User Interface Objects - OBJECT:Math comes complete with a Lotus Improv (TM) style function panel, a variable editor, and objects used to display OBJECT:Math expression trees and other tree structures. BRINGING MISSION-CRITICAL CUSTOMIZATION TO SHRINKWRAPPED SOFTWARE The most exciting thing OBJECT:Math brings the NEXTSTEP community is the power of mission-critical customization to shrinkwrapped software... - best suit an industry or installation. - an OBJECT:Math report generator which associates OBJECT:Math expressions with phases in the report generation sequence allows programmers to write functions which bring up panels and query users before a report is printed. THE OBJECT:MATH MAILING LIST "OBJECT:Math was designed for use in our own commercial applications," says Mark Onyschuk, M. Onyschuk and Associates president. "Now that others can use the OBJECT:Math system too, we'd like to work with them to ensure that OBJECT:Math functions are portable across applications." The OBJECT:Math mailing list brings users the latest information about OBJECT:Math and how other developers are using it in their applications. Its aim is to promote the creation of standards which will allow OBJECT:Math functions written for one application to be used in others without modification. To subscribe to the OBJECT:Math mailing list, send a message to om-request@plexus.guild.org. OBJECT:Math may be licensed directly from M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. for $149.95, or $599.95 with complete product source. For more information about OBJECT:Math, a free OBJECT:Math demo, or for special promotional and higher ed. pricing information, send mail to ask-oa@plexus.guild.org or call 416-462-3954. M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is a Toronto-based developer of custom and commercial NEXTSTEP software. OBJECT:Math is a trademark of M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: info@bmd.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TIFFany Animation Creation Contest (extended) Date: 2 Aug 1993 23:18:12 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23kldi$5r3@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: benchMark Developments, Inc. 2040 Regency Rd. Suite C Lexington KY, 40503 Kevin Solie, (606) 276-3983 info@bmd.com TIFFany Animation Creation Contest LEXINGTON, KY - August 1, 1993 - benchMark Developments (bMD) would like to see your favorite morphing animations by holding a contest. Here is your chance to have a great time morphing objects, and receiving a little reward for your hard work and efforts, not to mention your creative talent. Who may enter the contest? All users of TIFFany may enter the contest. If you do not currently have a TIFFany license, contact the bMD office for order information. Please have your computer's hostid ready when calling the office. Staff members of bMD, Caffeine Software and judges are ineligible to enter the contest. Animation submissions? To enter the contest, submit your favorite animation sequence using TIFFany to bMD by September 1, 1993. Due to the large size of some animations, submissions may be mailed to the bMD office on diskette . Submissions media will be returned. All animations become the property of benchMark Developments. Animation judges? Animations will be judged by staff members from benchMark Developments, Inc., Caffeine Software, Paget Press, Objective Technologies Inc., and Whetstone Inc. What is in the prize? The winner of the animation contest will win a free licensed copy of TIFFany II, scheduled for release this fall at a theater near you. Where can you get the winning animations? The top animations will be featured in an upcoming Paget Press Electronic App Wrapper. Subscribe now! TIFFany brings the power of PhotoShopä to NEXTSTEPä by offering users of NEXTSTEP a suite of mathematic algorithms for digital imaging. Images may be enhanced and manipulated using various tools for color correction, noise reduction, resizing, image composition, morphing, and filters for: burn in, edge detection, edge enhancement, color separation, embossing, image noise reduction, and correction, relief, shake, smear, smooth, sobel, and others. Manual image editing functions include: pen drawing, airbrush, and adjustable transparency capabilities. TIFFany is currently NEXTSTEP 3.x and Intel compatible. TIFFany's suggested commercial price is $395, with academic pricing available at $145. Interested in ordering TIFFany? Contact bMD at 1-800-872-3131. Users with ftp access may find a demo versions of TIFFany at sonata.cc.purdue.edu, Purdue, cs.orst.edu, Oregon State, and f.ms.uky.edu, University of Kentucky. Founded in early 1991 by Stan Jirman and Ralf Brunner, Caffeine Software currently develops professional imaging software for NEXTSTEP. Founded in 1992, benchMark Developments develops software for the Health Care and Thoroughbred Racing Industry The TIFFany logo is a trademark of Caffeine Software, the bMD logo is a trademark of benchMark Developments, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
From: info@bmd.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TIFFany II's Manual Cover Contest Extention Date: 2 Aug 1993 23:19:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23klfm$5r9@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: benchMark Developments, Inc. 2040 Regency Rd. Suite C Lexington KY, 40503 Kevin Solie, (606) 276-3983 info@bmd.com TIFFany II's Manual Cover Contest Extention LEXINGTON, KY - August 1, 1993 - benchMark Developments, Inc. (bMD) extends the due date for manual cover contest. Who may enter the contest? All users of TIFFany may enter the contest. If you do not currently have a TIFFany license, contact the bMD office for order information. Please have your computer's hostid ready when calling the office. Staff members of bMD, Caffeine Software and judges are ineligible to enter the contest. Image submissions? To enter the contest, submit your image, created with TIFFany, to bMD by September 1, 1993. Due to the large size of some images, submissions may be mailed to the bMD office on diskette . Submissions media will be returned. All images become the property of benchMark Developments, Inc. Image judges? Images will be judged by staff members from benchMark Developments, Inc., Caffeine Software, Paget Press, Objective Technologies Inc. and Whetstone. What is in the prize? The winning image will be featured as the cover art for the upcoming TIFFany II User Manual. The winner will, also, receive a free licensed copy of TIFFany II, scheduled for release this fall. TIFFany brings the power of PhotoShopä to NEXTSTEPä by offering users of NEXTSTEP a suite of mathematic algorithms for digital imaging. Images may be enhanced and manipulated using various tools for color correction, noise reduction, resizing, image composition, morphing, and filters for: burn in, edge detection, edge enhancement, color separation, embossing, image noise reduction, and correction, relief, shake, smear, smooth, sobel, and others. Manual image editing functions include: pen drawing, airbrush, and adjustable transparency capabilities. TIFFany is currently NEXTSTEP 3.x and Intel compatible. TIFFany's suggested commercial price is $395, with academic pricing available at $145. Interested in ordering TIFFany? Contact bMD at 1-800-872-3131. Users with ftp access may find a demo versions of TIFFany at sonata.cc.purdue.edu, Purdue, cs.orst.edu, Oregon State, and f.ms.uky.edu, University of Kentucky. Founded in early 1991 by Stan Jirman and Ralf Brunner, Caffeine Software currently develops professional imaging software for NEXTSTEP. Founded in 1992, benchMark Developments develops software for the Health Care and Thoroughbred Racing Industry The TIFFany logo is a trademark of Caffeine Software, the bMD logo is a trademark of benchMark Developments, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design ships Reality 1.4 for NEXTSTEP Date: 2 Aug 1993 19:37:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23k8gl$4mp@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information, write info@stone.com or call Carla Kay Barlow at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF 3D REALITY VERSION 1.4 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, August 2, 1993 - Stone Design, maker of the 3D modelling and rendering package 3D Reality, released a maintenance upgrade to the program today for NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP Intel. 3D Reality 1.4, which provides a number of bug fixes and kicks off a multiphase revamp of the program's lighting implementation, is available to registered users via FTP at no charge, or for $25 on floppies; and is available at normal cost to others. "We've gotten an incredible amount of feedback since the release of Reality last Halloween," said Andrew Stone, CEO of the Albuquerque, NM-based software company. "We were the first to hit the market with a modeller/renderer for NEXTSTEP, and our experience there has paid off in the form of a better offering with this release." Reality 1.4 gives users the first glimpse of a full-scale rewrite in the works for the program's Lights UI. With one intuitive, logical method of adding lights to a scene, the user can now more easily create and define Light sources, either associated with a particular shape in the shape hierarchy, or as global entities that impact all shapes in the 3D document. "We're looking toward a truly _reality-based' method of working with lights-for example, updating a light shader's aim per translation of the Light shape to which it's applied," said Carla Kay Barlow, who heads up Stone's technical support for Reality users. Among the features that users can expect in version 1.4: * NSFIP compatibility - Reality 1.4 offers full compatibility with NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors and NeXT-qualified Intel-based hardware configurations. * Standard axis colors - XYZ axes' colors are now RGB (red, green and blue, respectively, per industry convention). * Help link for dynamically loaded bundles - User-created bundles now support NEXTSTEP Help. * New Lights UI - New Lights UI simplifies addition and definition of light sources. * Dynamic loading - External menu allows dynamic loading of external, custom bundles. * Additional Help files - Several new help files cover requested topics such as Composite Solid Geometries. "Our testers really deserve huge thanks from us; they've been a constant source of great ideas and astute bug reports," Barlow said. Among the bugs fixed in version 1.4: * Operations continue at normal pace with 20+ shapes in one document. * Operations continue after click on Constraints Pie with no document open. * Save command is always available. * Color well in Shaders inspector is not cleared by application of new shader. * nextText connections function properly in the Lights inspector. Like all Stone Design products, Reality is available directly from the company and at the ftp sites orst.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and ftp.cs.unm.edu. Students who ftp the package and submit proof of current student status can purchase Reality at a special rate. No technical support is provided with this purchase option, but easy entry for students is a firm commitment of Stone Design. Call or write for more information about Stone's Student Discount program and for regular prices. Trade-ups to Intel versions of all Stone software purchased between February 12, 1993 and May 21, 1993 are available free of charge to end users. ## Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of business productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. DataPhile is a trademark of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: loki@goat.geo.arizona.edu (M.L Demsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Water 2.0 Date: 2 Aug 1993 19:38:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23k8ht$4mv@digifix.digifix.com> Water. written in NeXTStep. (anonymous ftp from nova.cc.purdue.edu) A program to calculate dependent state, thermodynamic, transport, and electrostatic properties of liquid and vapor in the H2O-System as a function of user-specified state conditions and unit and triple point conventions. Covers a range in temperature from circa -20 to 2250 C, and pressure circa 0.01 to 30000 bars; at temperatures less than about 220 bars the phases of ice I through VII bound the retrieval region. Water permits the curious user to the explore temperature, pressure and density space and retrieve corresponding property values or obtain incremental values of user selected properties. NXYPLOT by Jesperson and Pulliam provides support through Services for plotting. This equation of state has a critical point at P=220 bars and T = 374.15 C; a region where vigourous acitivity occurs within the earth's crust. Water 2.0 features the ability to examine H2-O characteristics through multiple parameter increments. Output formats can be user specified and include NXYPlot friendly, NeXTContour friendly, and verbose output. Water 2.0 reports data correctly over the 2-phase surface and provides an elaborate help section. Water 2.0 is compiled under NSOS3.0. The computing engine was written in C by M. Loki Demsey; it was optimized and rewritten from an original FORTRAN engine. James Johnson and Dr. Denis Norton wrote the code and added pieces of pre-written code from, Haar,Gallagher,Kell; NBS/NRC Steam Tables, Hemisphere Publishing Corp,1984, and Levelt, Sengers, et al., 1983. This code and its basis are documented in: Johnson; Subroutine H2O88, Theoretical Geochemistry Software Library, 1988 and in Johnson, and Norton; Critical Phenomena in Hydrothermal..., American Journal of Science,June 1991 Version 2.0, Freeware 1993. Demsey, Norton, Johnson. denis norton University of Arizona , Geology Department denis@quartz.tucson.az.us or nort@goat.geo.arizona.edu (NeXT mail ) m loki demsey (Quaeler Software) loki@goat.geo.arizona.edu
From: Eric Bloom <bacchus!eric@uu9.psi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: BACCHUS ships MAB versions of Pixel Magician and Image Agent Date: 2 Aug 1993 19:37:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23k8eq$4mj@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Bacchus, Inc. Mieke Erdtsieck Tel: 310/820-9145 Fax: 310/820-5930 E-mail: info@bacchus.com BACCHUS SHIPS MULTI-ARCHITECTURE VERSIONS OF PIXEL MAGICIAN AND IMAGE AGENT Santa Monica, California - August 2, 1993 - Bacchus, Inc. ships Pixel Magician 1.4 and Image Agent 1.2, Intel/Motorola versions of their popular image conversion applications for NEXTSTEP. Pixel Magician and Image Agent allow NEXTSTEP users to share, access, import and export a wide variety of images from many different computer platforms. Images from other platforms can be easily integrated into page layout, drawing and imaging applications. With Image Agent users can drag and drop non-native image files directly into NEXTSTEP applications, such as Diagram! 2, Concurrence, WetPaint, and Pages, and have the images instantly appear. Image Agent performs the image conversion as if part of the actual application in use. For those requiring more image conversion options, Bacchus offers Pixel Magician, its advanced image conversion application. Pixel Magician provides mass image conversion, image viewing, color quantization and dithering, PostScript to raster, precise scaling and rotating, variable image resolutions, alpha channel support, thumbnail views and flexible output options. Supported image formats include: TIFF, GIF, PICT, PCX, JPEG, TARGA, FAX, PS, EPS, Windows BMP, Sun Raster, IFF, PNM, XBM, XWD and others. In addition to many enhancements and optimizations, version 1.4 adds Kodak Photo CD support ( Base resolution only 512 x 768 ) and a complete online manual using the NEXTSTEP 3.x Hypertext style help system. A detailed revision history file is available on request. Bacchus offers network floating node versions of Pixel Magician and Image Agent. Heterogeneous licensing is supported, e.g., network licenses can float between NEXTSTEP Intel based machines and NEXTSTEP Motorola based machines. Pixel Magician has a suggested retail price of $299. Image Agent is included free with Pixel Magician or can be purchased separately for $99. Network and site license pricing is available on request. Both products are available directly from Bacchus and through authorized distributors, VAR's and dealers. Registered users can upgrade for $25.00/user. Bacchus, Inc., founded in 1985 and based in Santa Monica, CA, specializes in the development of graphics and communications software for UNIX Workstations. *** Pixel Magician and Image Agent are trademarks of Bacchus, Inc. All other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 31 - 1993 Date: 3 Aug 1993 00:14:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <23kon1$6ce@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 31). Tuesday July 27 through Tuesday August 3 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 30 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: GraphRight 1.01 Release SUBMISSION: ManOpen.compressed PRESS RELEASE: Millennium Software Announces Newsgrazer Pro for NEXTSTEP NEXTSTEP MiniExamples now available from NeXT archive server! PRESS RELEASE: Mesa 1.5 Announcement SUBMISSION: Solitaire-1.01 SUBMISSION: Sentinel screensaver/locker PRESS RELEASE: Uptime Announces NEXTSTEP Drivers for HP-LaserJet Printer PRESS RELEASE: Abbott Maestro for NEXTSTEP to Improve Laboratory Workflow PRESS RELEASE: workstation ag Announces NeXTplan Project: Project Management PRESS RELEASE: workstation ag is shipping IBM, Unisys and DEC Emulators on NEXTSTEP PRESS RELEASE: Mid-Willamette - Oregon NeXT User Group Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes JOB: NEXTSTEP Programming Jobs in San Jose SUBMISSION: Japanese-English dictionary available on orst SUBMISSION: XMon1.02 is available PRESS RELEASE: InstantTeX 3.0 FREE PRESS RELEASE: BACCHUS ships MAB versions of Pixel Magician and Image Agent PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design ships Reality 1.4 for NEXTSTEP SUBMISSION: Water 2.0 PRESS RELEASE: OBJECT: Math, an Object-Oriented Math System for NEXTSTEP PRESS RELEASE: TIFFany Animation Creation Contest (extended) PRESS RELEASE: TIFFany II's Manual Cover Contest Extention If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier. As always feedback is welcome. Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 3 Aug 1993 00:14:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <23konu$6ck@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 3 Aug 1993 00:17:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <23kose$6dq@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Firstsoft Announces Availability of ScriptWriter for NEXTSTEP Date: 3 Aug 1993 16:03:31 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23mgah$3rp@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alexandra Shattuck Firstsoft, Inc. P.O. Box 1252 Los Alamos, NM 87544 Phone: (505)662-7176 FAX: (505)662-9944 e-mail: info@firstsoft.com (NeXT Mail) Firstsoft, Inc. Announces Availability of ScriptWriter LOS ALAMOS, NM, July 27, 1993 - Firstsoft, Inc., announced today availability of ScriptWriter, the revolutionary graphical UNIX manipulation and execution utility. ScriptWriter is the first graphical UNIX application for NEXTSTEP designed specifically for building and executing UNIX scripts in a totally graphical environment. ScriptWriter version .98b began shipping today. It is the first version of the product for sale, and is available in both Motorola and Intel versions. "ScriptWriter was designed to be a totally graphical method of building and executing C shell scripts", says Firstsoft Inc.'s president William J Edney. "We see two types of people using ScriptWriter: those who dislike having to invoke utilities from the command line in Terminal and those who are beginner C shell script programmers. We developed ScriptWriter because we believed that the difference between Workspace Manager and Terminal was too great. We wanted something in between." ScriptWriter has two main features: the ability to execute C shell scripts without having to launch the Terminal application and a complete graphical editing environment for C shell script generation. The C shell script execution capability allows users to run a script by clicking a button, by dropping files or folders on a button, or by using the Services menu. The C shell editing environment has the following features: - Completely graphical, drag and drop environment - A complete set of 470 UNIX commands, preparsed and assigned icons, available for use in scripts - Support for piping, input/output redirection and all C shell control structures - The ability to parse in custom UNIX commands and assign them icons for use in scripts - The ability to write out a ScriptWriter script in standard text format for use on non-NEXTSTEP machines running C shell Firstsoft Inc. also announces ScriptPaks to be available early in Q4, 1993. ScriptPaks are prepackaged ScriptWriter scripts that perform common tasks that, until now, had to be invoked from the command line in Terminal. ScriptPaks under development include the following: printing multiple files without having to open each one, backing up files to removable media, installing font files by dropping them on a script button, polling UUCP connections and exporting directories to the network without having to use NFS Manager. A demonstration version of ScriptWriter (consisting of ScriptWriter.98b.README, ScriptWriter.pkg and SWGroups.pkg), along with a demonstration key making the product fully functional through August 31, 1993, is available from the FTP archive site at Oregon State (cs.orst.edu) or from Firstsoft Inc. directly. Firstsoft Inc., of Los Alamos, New Mexico, is a developer of NEXTSTEP shrinkwrap and custom software. ScriptWriter and ScriptPaks are trademarks of Firstsoft, Inc. NeXT, and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ###
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Paget Press's NEXTSTEP Catalog featured in Catalog Age Date: 3 Aug 1993 16:04:22 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23mgc5$3s2@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Paget Press Email: info@paget.com (206) 448-0845 (phone) (206) 448-2350 (fax) Paget Press's NEXTSTEP Catalog featured in Catalog Age (Electronic AppWrapper was the winner of the 1993 NeXTWORLD Magazine's Best of Breed Award for Content/Information) NEXTSTEP received international publicity in the August, 1993 edition of Catalog Age, the trade journal of record for companies in the mail order catalog business. Catering to huge businesses such as Harry & David, Williams-Sonoma, Lillian Vernon and Eddie Bauer as well as legions of smaller catalogers, the magazine takes pride in its ability to keep its readers up-to-date on technology advancements. Paget Press's electronic catalog, the Electronic AppWrapper, was featured in the Update section. The article, titled "What's Next? Paget Press's CD-ROM catalog", outlined the process by which Paget sells software to NEXTSTEP users: "Software cataloger Paget Press has taken high-tech direct marketing to a new level, delivering both its catalog and many of its software products on the same compact disk. . .`It's like pulling the product out of the picture in a paper catalog.'" The article also described NeXT's move out of hardware and onto the Intel platform. The Electronic AppWrapper has doubled the number of product entries with each issue and is now sells more products for NEXTSTEP than any other source. There are over 250 products for sale, with product paragraphs, screen shots, demonstration applications and brochures--all right on-line. To purchase a product, the subscriber simply clicks the "Order Form" button and sends the order by email, fax or mail. An annual subscription to the Electronic AppWrapper (four quarterly issues) costs $36 in North America and $60 outside North America. The Electronic AppWrapper was the winner of NeXTWORLD Magazine's Best of Breed Award for Content / Information in May, 1993. Paget Press can be reached at info@paget.com, (206) 448-0845 (phone) or (206) 448-2350 (fax.)
From: begonia@abstractsoft.com (Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WSI-Fonts Professional Collection Date: 3 Aug 1993 13:11:22 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23m67p$37u@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush or Sean Lamont Abstract Software P.O. Box 25045 Seattle, WA 98125 206/361-5080 info@abstractsoft.com Abstract Software announces that the WSI-Fonts Professional Collection (which has been available for NeXT for 6 months) is now available for NeXTSTEP/Intel. In tandem with this announcement a multi-architecture demo previewing the fonts is now available at cs.orst.edu via anonymous ftp in the following directories: cs.orst.edu: pub/next/demos/fonts/WSI-Fonts-Demo36-Fat.tar pub/next/demos/fonts/WSI-Fonts-Demo64-Fat.tar [The "36" and "64" refer to the screen point size which the demo previews the fonts.] The WSI-Fonts Professional Collection is a cost-effective collection of professional quality fonts for NeXTSTEP. This collection contains 123 text, script, decorative, headline, and specialty fonts derived from the most popular type designs. Each font is carefully designed with pair kerning and hinting, so that they look good whether you're reading them at 92 or 2400 dpi. In addition, most fonts have full support for the complete international character set for working in French, Italian, German, Spanish, etc. The "FAT" demo will also be available on the next edition of the ``Electronic App- Wrapper'' published by Paget Press. If you do not have anonymous ftp capability, send e-mail to info@abstractsoft.com requesting a copy of the demo. (Please specify "36 point", approximately .9MB, or "64 point", approximately 1.5MB.) Printed samples are also available through the U.S. Mail. The WSI-Fonts Professional Collection Retails for $149. Student discounts, user-group discounts, and site licenses are available. E-mail info@abstractsoft.com or call 206/361-5080 for more information. Abstract Software was founded in 1992 and is a company dedicated to the development, publishing, and marketing of quality, affordable software for NeXTSTEP. NeXT, NeXTSTEP, and NeXTSTEP/Intel are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
From: Nick Christopher <nwc@ny.shl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: GOTHAM USERS OF NeXT(GUN) Aug 11 Date: 3 Aug 1993 21:58:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23n549$58q@digifix.digifix.com> GOTHAM USERS OF NeXT Wednesday, August 11th I. Q&A - 1830 Questions. Answers. News. II. Virtuoso - 1900 Altsys, developers of award-winning Fontographer and Aldus FreeHand, will present Virtuoso their professional drawing, design and production program. Virtuoso offers powerful drawing capabilities as well as color separation guaranteeing that you get the colors you want! III. The NoteBook - 2000 We will have a Compaq Lite LTE 4/25e notebook on hand running NEXTSTEP! Get a feeling for what NEXSTEP on the road is all about. IV. Raffle The last two issues of the Electronic AppWrapper up for grabs! Electronic Directions 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 503 212-213-6500 Questions to GUN at 718-260-9848 or info@gun.com
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: August Minnesota NeXT User Group Meeting: August 9 Date: 3 Aug 1993 21:59:14 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23n55h$592@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing August Minnesota NeXT User Group Meeting: August 9 WHERE: Univ. of Minnesota, Geometry Center (see directions below) WHEN: 7pm on Tuesday Aug. 9th EVENTS: 1. Special Auction event! 2. Lisa Minogue on Mayo Clinic NEXTSTEP development projects Our speaker for the August meeting will be Lisa Minogue from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. She will be talking about the custom NEXTSTEP software development projects that are under way at the Mayo Clinic. The meeting will be held at 7pm on Tuesday Aug. 9th at the Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota. Parking is still free. We will also be auctioning off a 57K baud Intel SatisFAXtion Modem/400 V.32bis/V.42bis internal FAX modem donated by Intel. Dan McCreary President Integrity Solutions, Inc. 23 Empire Drive St. Paul, MN 55103 office:(612) 223-8475 voice mail: (612) 220-3648 FAX: (612) 223-8481 Email: dan@is.com DIRECTIONS The Center is in Suite 500 of the "Old FMC building" (now clearly marked University of Minnesota) which 6 stories tall, has red stripes, and is located at 1300 South Second Street. The building is just north and east of the Minnesota Supercomputer Center which is in the northwest corner of the intersection of Washington Avenue and I35W. I35W southbound: take the Washington Avenue exit, turn right at the stoplight, go 1 block, turn right, go 1 block, turn left, go 1/2 block and you will find the building on your right. I94 eastbound: exit onto 35W northbound, immediately take UofM exit as in I35 northbound. I35W northbound: take UofM exit, specifically the 3rd Street branch, turn left at the stoplight, go 2 blocks, turn right, go 1 block, turn right, go 1 block, turn left and you will find the building on your right. I94 westbound: take the Riverside Avenue exit, turn right, go to Cedar Avenue, turn right, follow Cedar as it curves to the left and turns into Washington Avenue. Cross the bridge and make the first right, go 1 block, turn right, go 1 block, turn left and the building will be on your right. Once you reach the building, pull into the driveway, and drive to the visitor lot, mention that you are "visiting the Geometry Center" an the guard should open the gate and let you in. Come into the building, ride an elevator to the 5th floor, turn right, go through the glass double doors, turn left through the next set of glass double doors, walk down the hall until you can turn sharp right into the classroom where we'll be meeting. Call Scott Bertelson at 626-8303 if there are any questions about the facility.
From: Alberto Ricart <alberto@parsec.mixcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Rocks 1.81 MAB Date: 3 Aug 1993 23:33:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23namo$5rl@digifix.digifix.com> For immediate release: Rocks 1.81 (fat) is shipping now Rocks! (v1.81) Rocks is the mother of all space games. Your mission is to clear bothersome asteroids to enable warp travel through the sector. Beware of natural and not-so-natural phenomena. Space is dangerous, especially when on the fringe. Excellent graphics. Restful hours at the computer will never be the same! Rocks_1.81fat.tar is available by ftp in the submission directory of cs.orst.edu (It will eventually move to the more appropriate location on cs.orst.edu: "/pub/next/demos/games/"). If you don't have access to ftp please give us a call we will arrange for you to get one! Rocks is now available for NEXTSTEP INTEL! This version corrects installation problems experienced by 3.0 users. This version is shipped fat, but will run on 3.0 and 3.1 systems. Alberto Ricart SmartSoft, Inc. 2220 E. Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211 alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
From: Chris Walters <walters@goldberg.rdr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: RDR Training Schedule & Overview Date: 4 Aug 1993 00:23:26 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23ndjs$69q@digifix.digifix.com> In late 1992, RDR was selected by NeXT from a number of competing bidders to become a full NeXTedge (NeXT's Training and Support Division) partner in the Washington Metropolitan area and offer training services to the local NEXTSTEP user community. Since then, RDR's Advanced Technology Solutions Group (ATSG) has provided a full spectrum of NEXTSTEP training classes to nearly end users and programmers under a comprehensive curriculum called RDR UNIVERSITY. RDR University is designed to offer "Undergraduate" classes for both users and developers as well as "Graduate" courses to meet the needs of all experience levels. The Undergraduate curriculum consists of some basic courses such as Objective C (for programmers), UNIX (for system administrators), End User Orientation and the popular Developer Class 101 for learning to program in NEXTSTEP. The Graduate curriculum, geared for the more experience users, offers NeXT System Administration, DBKit, NeXT in a Mixed UNIX Environment and a more advanced programmer's class called Developer Class 201. Students may take the courses individually or design their own sequence of classes as a migration path to becoming a proficient NEXTSTEP user. COURSE NAME DATES UNIX for System Administrators September 1 - 3 October 13 - 15 Objective C and Object-Oriented Concepts August 10 -12 October 5 - 7 November 30 - December 2 NEXTSTEP Developer Class 101 August 16 - 20 October 18 - 22 December 6 - 10 Programming with DBKit August 4 - 5 September 15 - 16 November 3 - 4 NeXT System Administration July 27 - 29 September 8 - 10 October 26 - 28 NeXT in a Mixed UNIX Environment September 29 - 30 November 9 - 10 NEXTSTEP Developer 201 August 24 - 27 November 16 - 19 End User Orientation to NEXTSTEP Scheduled as required Since selection as a NeXTedge partner, ATSG has held over 20 classes and trained over 100 students from both government and commercial organizations, rapidly becoming the premiere provider of NEXTSTEP training on the East Coast. NEXTSTEP users from the Air Force, Navy and other government agencies look upon ATSG as their primary training partner as do companies like Martin Marietta, Trident Data Systems, SAIC, MRJ and TASC. Training can be provided either on-site or in ATSG's Fairfax, VA Training Center, a newly renovated facility where each student is assigned his/her own workstation. (ATSG will soon be investing in a classroom of Intel platforms to give students the full exposure to NEXTSTEP Intel.) ATSG instructors, all NEXTSTEP programmers themselves, bring a vast amount of practical experience and real-life examples to the classroom. Here is what a few students have said about their experience... "The class was extremely well taught. (The instructor) is both knowledgeable and patient, something that was greatly appreciated... I thought the course material was well organized and well presented..." " What I liked about this course was how it was tailored to reflect the type of application we will be writing; very accommodating." "A very enjoyable class. The instructor was very knowledgeable and covered topics precisely...(The teacher) was an excellent instructor and I will definitely take classes with RDR in the future." "Excellent! (The instructor) adapted to our needs, added problems which made us think through and understand. Provided a special C++ problem to help us understand how to handle our requirement to integrate C++. Excellent white board graphics to illustrate." "This was an excellent course. It provided me with a comprehensive overview of the object-oriented programming concepts as employed by the NEXTSTEP development environment. Particularly beneficial was the combination of lectures and Project Builder/Interface Builder programming assignments...I strongly endorse this course and would not hesitate to recommend it to those who are seriously considering programming in the NEXTSTEP environment." Because each course is tailored by the instructor to meet individual needs, students are virtually guaranteed to learn the material and meet the course objectives. To ensure that each student successfully applies the learned concepts outside the classroom, ATSG goes one step further to offer Post-Training HotLine support. Students may call ATSG with questions regarding anything in the course material during the month following the class. To receive RDR's complete training catalog with course descriptions, please contact Denise Britti (dbritti@rdr.com) at RDR at 703/591-9651 or email train@rdr.com and provide name, mailing address and phone number. ATSG looks forward to having you in class! RDR is a registered commercial and federal systems integrator in the NeXT community providing software development and other consulting services for a number of government, city and commercial clients. RDR has also developed a family of NeXTSTEP interface development objects called PowerPalettes (commercially available) which has helped hundreds of programmers save application development time and cost. ATSG has already announced and will soon be shipping its first end user presentation graphics package called @image. @image combines powerful drawing tools along with a number of unique speaker aids to create dynamic and memorable on-line or hard copy presentations. For more information about these products, please call ATSG at 703/591-8713.
From: bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION:Solitaire 1.01/Sentinel 1.31 Date: 4 Aug 1993 03:12:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23nngq$8na@digifix.digifix.com> Exciting News for Immediate Release: The following are both available via anonymous FTP from cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/submissions: Solitaire 1.01 (in both binary and source form): Solitaire is a snazzy NeXTSTEP implementation of the classic game of Solitaire. It has been previously released as version 1.0 and remains unchanged but for multi-architecture support of both 680x0 and i486 hardware. Sentinel 1.31 (in both binary and source form): Sentinel is a simple screen saver whose major features are that it launches instantaneously and that it ties up next to no CPU time when the screen saver is active. It provides for password locking of the system and a "supervisor" password for use in larger office environments. (It also fixes a quirk in the 1.3 version uploaded last week with no fanfare. If you've got 1.3, please pick up 1.31). The software is free, as some software should be! Enjoy. Blake W. Stone Chief Technical Officer bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Newsgrazer Pro for NEXTSTEP: Questions and Answers Date: 4 Aug 1993 07:34:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23o6rj$9te@digifix.digifix.com> Newsgrazer Pro for NEXTSTEP: Questions and Answers Q. When will Newsgrazer Pro ship? A. Newsgrazer Pro is scheduled for a mid- to late-October, 1993 release. Q. What is the price? A. Newsgrazer Pro has a suggested retail price of $199.99. Q. Where can I purchase Newsgrazer Pro? A. Millennium products are sold through authorized resellers, VADs and VARs. You can order products directly from Millennium at discount by calling 800 732-9009. Q. Is there a special educational discount price? A. We have not finalized our pricing. We'll have more information when we're closer to shipping. Q. Will it be a "fat binary?" A. Yes, Newsgrazer Pro will ship in multiple architecture binary format, allowing it to run on both Motorola and Intel NEXTSTEP computers. Q. Is Newsgrazer Pro compatible with or related to the original NewsGrazer? A. Newsgrazer Pro is a completely new product, written entirely from scratch. As such, it is not based upon the original NewsGrazer source code. There should not be any compatibility issues between Newsgrazer Pro and NewsGrazer. Q. What new features will Newsgrazer Pro have that NewsGrazer doesn't have today? A. We'll have more information about the feature set once we're closer to shipping. Q. Does the price include customer support and service? A. Yes, purchasing Newsgrazer Pro entitles you to support and service for the product. Q. Do you offer special network or file server versions? What about corporate pricing? A. Yes, you can purchase Newsgrazer Pro's license server manager to administer network licenses. Volume pricing will also be available. Q. Can I use Newsgrazer Pro at home to access the UseNet? How do I do this? A. Yes, you can use Newsgrazer Pro at home to read news. Newsgrazer Pro does not create or manage the UUCP or SLIP link required to access news groups, however. Ask your service provider for help in configuring this dial-up connection to your home or office system. Q. Can I place an advance order and purchase a beta copy before the final release product ships? A. We'll have more information about this in September. Q. What other products do you offer? A. Our product line today consists of NoteBook Release 1.2 and Engage! Desktop Release 2.0. Both products are shipping in multiple architecture binary format, allowing them to run on both Motorola and Intel NEXTSTEP computers. For more information, contact: Millennium Software Labs Email: info@millennium.com
From: Conrad Geiger <Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Announcing Serial Port Communication Objects for NEXTSTEP Date: 4 Aug 1993 07:34:37 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23o6sb$9tk@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For additional information, contact: Mike Gobbi Looking Glass Design Phone: (604) 451-7461 FAX: (604) 451-7490 Email: mike_gobbi@looking-glass.com (NeXT Mail) Looking Glass Design, Inc. Announces Serial Port Communication Objects for NEXTSTEP VANCOUVER, BC - Looking Glass Design, Inc. (LGD) today announced the pre-release of the LGDCommunicationKit, a serial communications library for NEXTSTEP. LGDSerialPort is an appkit-independant object used to connect to serial devices, suitable for use in command-line executables and daemons. The class supports full uucp-style device locking, as well as a wide range of port configuration options. LGDAppSerialPort extends the functionality of the basic serial device for use in NEXTSTEP GUI applications. The kit includes a palette, allowing the programmer to specify target and action from within Interface Builder. The specified message will be sent whenever data becomes available at the device, allowing applications to deal with serial port input in an event-driven manner just as they do the keyboard and mouse input. "I believe that third-party objects should be as easy to use as objects developed at NeXT. By providing complete class and kit documentation in familiar styles, and by making palettes and example programs a standard feature of any kit released, Looking Glass Design demonstrates its commitment to seamless integration into the development environment." Scott Thomas, president. A pre-release of the LGDCommunicationKit is available for free via anonymous ftp from cs.orst.edu. ####### LGDCommunicationKit, LGDSerialPort, LGDAppSerialPort, and LGDChat are trademarks of Looking Glass Design, Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and Interface Builder are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group Meeting: Thursday, August 5 Date: 4 Aug 1993 07:35:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23o6t4$9tq@digifix.digifix.com> Ottawa NeXT User Group Meeting on Thursday August 5th Where: computerActive 112-21 Antares Drive, Nepean Phone: (613) 225-4824 When: 7:00pm, Thursday August 5th Agenda: New audio box combined phone/sound source to your NeXT PC. New sample CD. New Weekly Nugget news from NeXT. Gossip. Everybody welcome! Hayward Lam email:hlam@bnr.ca
From: Ralph Zazula <zazula@pri.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Beta shippment of Pinnacle Transfer and introductory pricing Date: 4 Aug 1993 17:41:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23paf4$ecq@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Tortorici Pinnacle Research, Inc. 4725 E. Sunrise Dr., #435 Tucson, AZ 85718 Phone: (602)529-1135 FAX: (602)299-9133 e-mail: info@pri.com (NeXT Mail) Beta Shipment of Pinnacle Transfer for NeXTmail Remote Access Initiates Introductory Pricing TUCSON, AZ, August 4, 1993 - Pinnacle Research, Inc., the NEXTSTEP Utility Lab, announced beta-testing at selected sites of Pinnacle Transfer - dubbed by Pinnacle as the "E-mail Anywhere, Anytime!" application. Pinnacle also announced a limited-time introductory price of $125 for the package which normally sells for $249. Pinnacle Transfer is a NEXTSTEP remote access application, solving the common problem of accessing electronic mail, files, and data using a remote machine, such as a laptop or home computer. Transfer gives users access to NeXTmail and UNIX mail, stored on an office machine, using the ease and elegance of the highly acclaimed NEXTSTEP user interface. Before Transfer, remote access to NeXTmail required users to use generic file transfer software and to then decode the messages into NeXTmail by hand. Transfer's modular client-server based design provides users with modules for Email, drag-and-drop file transfer, and remote command execution: Incoming Mail - Select which messages to transfer based on message size, subject, or sender for reading with NeXTmail's Mail.app application. Outgoing Mail - Send outgoing messages composed on or off-line with the local machine. Command Execution - Execute UNIX commands on the office server and receive the output. Remote File Browser - Browse the remote filesystem using a "Workspace-like" file browser. Copy files to and from the remote server simply by dragging the file icons from the Transfer browser to the Workspace Manager file browser. The remote server portion of Transfer is architecture independent. This allows client modules to interface with applications running on UNIX systems other than NEXTSTEP. Pinnacle Transfer's modular architecture is designed to be extended using custom modules to meet specific business requirements. These custom modules can be used to provide NEXTSTEP user-interface based connections to mission-critical NeXT and non-NeXT applications residing on a remote server. Pinnacle Research, Inc. is offering consulting services to design custom modules for Transfer. Pinnacle Transfer is scheduled to ship in early September. Introductory pricing valid until September 30, 1993. Pinnacle Research Inc., of Tucson, Arizona, is a leading developer of NEXTSTEP utilities. Utilities designed to bridge the gaps between user's work requirements and NEXTSTEP applications. Pinnacle Research, the Pinnacle logo, Pinnacle Transfer, and Email: Anywhere, Anytime! are trademarks of Pinnacle Research, Inc. NeXT, and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ###
From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Relaunch of UK NeXTstep Mailing List Date: 5 Aug 1993 01:25:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23q5ki$gcq@digifix.digifix.com> The UK NeXT Users Mailing List started over 2 years ago and has been a useful lowish volume mailing list of particular use and interest to UK people using NeXTs We have now moved home to the UK MAILBASE system which provides many additional features (and automates the admin - for which I am very glad!). As part of the move we have also chnaged name and emphasis - we are now the "UK NeXTSTEP Users Mailing List" with no architectual or colour (of box) prejudices evident! The intention is to provide a service linking the UK NeXT Community, and to provide an additional service to the many NeXT information resources already available. Hence we don't rehash any of the existing mailing lists. Although non-UK people are welcome, we need to keep international numbers down (the MAILBASE charter is to serve mainly UK groups), and we do wish to keep our strange and perculiar UK output on life :-) To join, send a message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk containing join uk-nextstep-users first-name last-name in the message body [it helps to put your own first/last name in place of the placeholders!] You will be sent an introduction to the group, and (if it is your first time on MAILBASE), a user guide to MAILBASE. Old articles can be retreived (the docs sent to you tell you how), as well as any other files we put on line. There is also a gopher interface to MAILBASE - point your gopher at mailbase.ac.uk - this allows you to look over all the lists on the system, read old articles etc.... We look forward to seeing some of you... Nigel. -- # Nigel Metheringham -- (NeXT) EMail: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk # # System Administrator, Electronics Dept, University of York # # York YO1 5DD. Phone: +44 904 432374, Fax: +44 904 432335 #
From: david_spitzler@NeXT.COM (David Spitzler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Wolfram Research Announces Mathematica for NEXTSTEP for Intel Date: 5 Aug 1993 01:26:26 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23q5m1$gd0@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Wolfram Research Announces Mathematica for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors Champaign, Illinois -- August 4, 1993 -- Wolfram Research, Inc. today announced that Mathematica 2.2, the world's leading software for numeric, symbolic and graphical computation, will soon be available under NEXTSTEP for Intel processors, NeXT's object-oriented software for Intel-486 and Pentium-based computers. "Mathematica running on NEXTSTEP has achieved tremendous success in the academic and financial markets, and we are committed to working with NeXT to expand these markets further," explained Prem Chawla, chief operating officer, Wolfram Research. "It seems clear to us that NEXTSTEP for Intel processors is an outstanding operating system that will be well-accepted in the academic, government and commercial markets." NeXT users have come to rely on Mathematica notebooks, interactive documents that combine live computations, plots, animated graphics, and text to create technical reports, class courseware, even publication-quality books. Now, both NeXT users and the entire PC community can benefit from the notebook interface. "We're very pleased that Mathematica will be available on NEXTSTEP for Intel processors," said Ronald Weissman, director of corporate marketing at NeXT, Inc. "Mathematica is a unique and compelling product, and its architecture allows it to integrate well with NEXTSTEP custom software development. Wolfram Research has been one of NeXT's key partners since the introduction of NEXTSTEP, and we're looking forward to continuing our close relationship. It will only benefit our mutual customers." Price and Availability Mathematica under NEXTSTEP for Intel processors will sell for $1295 and will be available early this fall. Academic pricing starts at $995. Volume discounts and academic site licenses are available. About Mathematica and Wolfram Research, Inc. Mathematica, the leading software for numeric, symbolic, and graphical computation, is used internationally by technical professionals in almost every area of scientific and technical computing. Its underlying, high-level programming language is becoming the language of choice for programming among technical professionals and students. Mathematica is available on more than 20 systems, including NeXT, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and UNIX. Wolfram Research distributes Mathematica worldwide directly as well as through a variety of channels, including resellers, distributors, retail outlets and hardware vendors. Wolfram Research Europe Ltd., based in the United Kingdom, handles distribution in Europe. For further information on Mathematica, contact Wolfram Research at 1-800-441-MATH or 217-398-0700. # # # Mathematica is a registered trademark of Wolfram Research, Inc. All other product names mentioned are trademarks of their producers. -- David Spitzler Developer Advocate NeXT, Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 USA david_spitzler@next.com
From: Timothy Reed <treed@friday.bmt.gun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Connect It! ships!!! Date: 5 Aug 1993 03:03:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23qbb5$gp2@digifix.digifix.com> Connect It! - Black Market Technologies Ships Complete E-mail and UUCP Setup for NEXTSTEP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3rd, 1993 Contact: Timothy Reed Phone: 718 522-5090 Fax: 718 852-4249 E-mail: info@bmt.gun.com Black Market Technologies Ships Complete E-mail and UUCP Setup and Administration Software for NEXTSTEP BROOKLYN, NY - Black Market Technologies announced first shipments of Connect It!, a new software application for setting up modems, UUCP, and e-mail for NEXTSTEP computers. Connect It! offers an easy to use, high-level, point-and-click administrative interface for technical and non-technical users that initializes new modems and configures operating system software to exchange e-mail with other NEXTSTEP and UNIX computers. Users may configure their own systems by setting a small number of options, including modem type, speed, and port, or accepting the default setup selected for their particular modem and system requirements. Remote e-mail connections are administered in a similar easy-to-use window; users set remote system name, time to call, remote dial-in and other information. Once a computer is configured, e-mail may be automatically exchanged with any number of remote systems. Connect It! currently supports the following modems: Telebit 1500 Telebit Trailblazer+ Telebit 2500 Telebit Worldblazer Zyxel U-1496E USR Sportster Dove Fax (in non-fax mode only) Some 100% Hayes-compatible modems The HSD and Supra modems will be officially supported shortly. Connect It! is also compatible with NXFax from Black and White Software, Inc., and requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or 3.1 on NeXT or Intel computers. Connect It! supports UUCP over a network connection, including SLIP, PPP, or standard TCP/IP. Connect It! works with most commercial e-mail service providers, including Netcom and UUNET. PSI/Net support is in beta test and will be included in a subsequent release on August 15th, 1993. Connect It! for NEXTSTEP is available at a special introductory price of $99 per computer. After August 30th, 1993, Connect It! will cost $145 per computer. Students and university staff with proof of current university affiliation may purchase Connect It! directly from Black Market Technologies for $45 per computer. Those paying with credit card may purchase Connect It! from MacAdam Computers (Phone: 800-697-5696) and Alpine Computers (Phone: 801-268-8877). Black Market Technologies is a privately held consulting and development firm located in Brooklyn, NY, that designs, integrates, and supports fault-resistant trading systems and other large systems, and develops administrative tools for technical and non-technical NEXTSTEP users. Connect It! is a trademark of Black Market Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
From: Conrad Geiger <Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NetWatch: First SNMP Network Monitor for NEXTSTEP Date: 5 Aug 1993 03:03:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23qbc4$gp8@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Errol Ginsberg Telephone: 310/456-6094 Fax: 310/456-9715 E-mail: info@ridgeback.com or zulu!info@uu4.psi.com NetWatch - The First SNMP Network Monitor for NEXTSTEP: Now Available in Multi-Architecture Binary Form Los Angeles, CA - August 3,1993 - Ridgeback Solutions announces the availability of the Multi-architecture ("fat") binary versions (for Motorola and Intel) of NetWatch and AGeNT. NetWatch is the first SNMP management solution for NEXTSTEP. It allows a network administrator running NEXTSTEP to easily monitor any SNMP MIB-I or MIB-II device such as bridges, routers and hubs. An SNMP agent for NEXTSTEP, AGeNT, enables users to integrate their NEXTSTEP computers into any SNMP network management environment. Good network management is essential to keeping LANs operating smoothly and minimizing the time required for a network manager to find and fix problems. NetWatch for NEXTSTEP NetWatch runs on NEXTSTEP and allows the user to monitor any SNMP MIB-I or MIB-II device. Support is provided for setting up unlimited topology maps with background graphics that may be linked in a hierarchical and/or logical fashion. Alarms may be set for any MIB-II variable thereby allowing automatic monitoring of key network devices. NetWatch can send email, dial a pager, flash the node alarming and run a user program as a result of an alarm occurring. Alarms common to several devices may be set up simultaneously thereby easing configuration. All alarms are written to an alarm log and may be viewed by the user in a format similar to the NeXT Mail application. Judicious use of graphics in the alarm set up application greatly eases alarm management. For each alarm occurrence, alarm details are written to a log with the IP Address, Hostname, Time and Date. The user may scroll through the Alarm Log to review all the alarms. Thresholds may be set by the network manager to monitor these critical parameters automatically and be alerted when there is a problem. By choosing the threshold values carefully, the network manager can be alerted to potential problems, and fix them before the end-user is even aware that there was a problem on his machine. Once a device is selected in a topology map, it may be queried using the Query Application to build queries of one or more of each group that makes up MIB-II. Each query can have its own poll time allowing the user to selectively request groups of variables more frequently than others. Each MIB query occurs in it's own window so that the user may selectively hide some queries while viewing others. NetWatch support for computers running NEXTSTEP and Sun OS 4.1.x Ridgeback provides an SNMP agent, AGeNT(TM), for NEXTSTEP and Sun OS 4.1. When AGeNT is installed on workstations, the user may easily monitor and generate alarms such as Swap File Size greater than a user-specified Threshold, Free Disk Space less than a user-specified Threshold, Loss of Communication to a workstation, a Login or Logout on a user-specified workstation and SNMP Authentication errors. The SNMP agent, AGeNT for NEXTSTEP and Sun OS 4.1 The SNMP agent is a complete implementation of the MIB-I and MIB-II specifications and makes use of standards such as the Internet Protocol (IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Ridgeback Solutions took advantage of the Private Extension capability supported by the SNMP standards to define and add its own Private Extensions for NEXTSTEP and SunOS. These extensive enhancements to MIB-II allow the monitoring via SNMP of Swap File size, Disk Space Available, Disk Space Used, Applications running, Memory Status, User Login Information and CPU utilization. HP Openview(TM), IBM Netview6000(TM) and SunNet Manager(TM) AGeNT's private extensions have been successfully compiled and tested with Hewlett Packard's Openview(TM) 3.0 Network Manager, IBM Netview6000(TM) and Sun's SunNet Manager(TM). Network Management applications such as Openview(TM) or SunNet Manager(TM) and the Ridgeback Solutions SNMP agent allow network managers to easily integrate NEXTSTEP computers into their overall network management framework. Pricing NetWatch is priced at $1995 and includes 10 SNMP agents for computers running NEXTSTEP. Additional SNMP agents for may be purchased separately. A discount schedule is available for the purchase of 10 or more copies of AGeNT. Company Background Ridgeback Solutions, founded in 1991 and based in Malibu, CA, specializes in the development of network management and communications applications for UNIX workstations. The company was founded by Errol Ginsberg, who was previously vice president of engineering for Fibermux, a $50 Million manufacturer of LAN hubs and multiplexors. Ridgeback Solutions is privately held and funded. ****
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Rocky Mountain NeXT User Group - Aug 11 Date: 5 Aug 1993 14:35:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23rjt1$9q@digifix.digifix.com> AUGUST, 1993 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NeXT USER GROUP MEETING When: Wed, Aug 11, 7pm Where: CU Computing Center Seminar Room Marine Street, Boulder CO (Directions: at end of this message) Agenda: NoteBook Demo by Aaron Gordon For more information, contact: Tim Miller rmNUG (Rocky Mountain NeXT User Group) Phone: (303)447-1005 If you want to know more about NoteBook for NEXTSTEP from Millennium, come to the Rocky Mountain NeXT User Group meeting and find out. Aaron Gordon will be demonstrating NeXTWORLDS's Best of Breed winner for the Most Innovative Product, NoteBook. "On a new computer platform, it is not enough to product a solid, functional product that is similar to successful products on other platforms. A breakthrough product must take advantage of the special characteristics of the platform to provide an entirely new experience available nowhere else. NoteBook qualifies on that score by combining various existing ideas in a wholly original format that raises user productivity and group interaction to a new level. It is in our judgement, the third party product that embodies the freshest ideas and gives users compelling reason to choose NEXTSTEP over something systems." Dan Ruby For those that don't know, NoteBook is an application to clip and save unstructured information from any source. With tools for organizing, searching, and reassembling information. * * * SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT SEPTEMBER MEETING * * * In September, rmNUG will be sponsoring "NT vs NeXTstep" with a local PC user group. We need your support and ideas. You can contact Tim Miller directly, 447-1005, or come to the August meeting where we will review our plans. The September rmNUG meeting will NOT be at a regular rmNUG place and time. Tentatively it is scheduled for Friday, Sept 24, around 7pm, in the CU-Boulder Business School - the reglar meeting time/location of the PC group. Please put this on your calendar and encourage all the DOS/NT heads you know to attend. IF (big if) an rmNUG meeting happens at the regular second Wednesday in Sept, it will be a planning meeting for the "NT vs NeXTstep" meeting. Hope to see you there. ________________________________________________________ Directions: From Denver: Take I-25 north and then Hwy 36 toward Boulder which becomes 28th Street after the Baseline exit. Continue with generic directions below. >From Golden: Take Hwy 93 north which becomes Broadway. Turn right on 27th Street (across from NIST and 2nd light after Table Mesa Dr). Turn right on Baseline. Turn left at 30th Street which is the 2nd light after the underpass. Continue with generic directions below: Generic: Turn right on Arapahoe from 28th or 30th approaching from the south. Turn right on Marine Street. Marine Street immediately curves the the right. Park on the outside of the curve. The Computing Center is on the inside of the curve. You can't miss the Seminar room.
From: bdbeal@indirect.com (Barry Beal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group Date: 5 Aug 1993 18:35:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23s1um$11c@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting: The next meeting of the Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group will be Thursday, Aug 12 at Mesa Community College. We are going to have GEC Computers of Mesa come and demonstrate their line of NeXT certified 486 computers running NeXTSTEP. This is a great opportunity to get your questions answered about this new technology and to try these machines for yourself. Doors open at 7:00, come early and get acquainted with the other members. The meeting will start promptly at 7:30. Agenda: * Announcements * Q & A - a chance to ask your NeXT related questions * Demo of GEC computers running NeXTSTEP * Try it yourself Location: Thursday, Aug 12, 7:30 PM Mesa Community College Kerr Student Center (the clock tower building) Kiva Room on the lower level 1833 W. Southern Ave, Mesa For more info: Barry Beal (602)834-3262 bdbeal@indirect.com
From: Darcy Brockbank <samurai@amber.solutions.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Hackers.app MAB Date: 5 Aug 1993 18:35:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23s1vk$11i@digifix.digifix.com> MAB support for Hackers.app. Hackers.app is a digital dictionary that we have built around the Internet Jargon file, and have made available free of charge. You can ftp the fat Hackers.app from: solutions.ca:/pub/Dictionaries/Hackers.MAB.tar This MAB requires NEXTSTEP 3.1, and will NOT run on 3.0 machines due to incompatibilities in NeXT's IXKit introduced by NeXT in order to fix some 3.0 bugs. There is no warrantee of any kind on Hackers.app, and it is provided to you for your pleasure only!!! - darcy (darcy@solutions.ca)
From: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Athena Design wants User Interface Deity Date: 6 Aug 1993 15:10:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23uaab$596@digifix.digifix.com> User Interface Deity Needed Athena Design produces Mesa, the best selling and most powerful spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP computers. Mesa includes features such as real time data feeds, SQL database access, an object library, and more. We are undertaking the design and building of Mesa 2. Mesa 2 will be the best and most powerful spreadsheet in the world. We are looking for a User Interface Deity to design and write the NEXTSTEP user interface for Mesa 2. If you are interested, send an example of your creativity, style, ability, and personhood to: dpp@athena.com - or - David Pollak 17 Saint Mary's Court Boston, MA 02146 Background on Athena Design: Mission: To provide a fulfilling and enriching work environment through the creation, sales, and support of quality computer software. Athena Design is a collection of caring, dedicated people who achieve personal satisfaction by doing great things. We seek diversity in our employees in order to enhance our environment and offerings with the spice of the individual who make up the organization. Benefits include full health coverage, free MBTA passes, flexible work scheduling, and the opportunity to positively influence the world. Founded in 1989, shipped Mesa on August 4, 1992. Privately held.
From: blake015@mc.duke.edu (Denise Blakeley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Opener.app for 3.1 MAB! Date: 7 Aug 1993 23:26:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <241rpo$47f@digifix.digifix.com> Folks-- I have just placed version 3.1 of Opener.app at cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/submissions. There you'll find: Opener_3.1.app.README Opener_3.1.app.tar.Z Eventually these should migrate to /pub/next/binaries/util. I was unable to successfully ftp these to sonata.cc.purdue.edu, but I hope to be able to sometime next week. The differences from Opener 3.0, are as follows: - Added .gz file type (files compressed via GNU gzip/gunzip utility) - Added .arj file type (extraction only) - Included latest versions of (pk)zip and (pk)unzip - Reconciled app, sources, etc. to NeXTSTEP 3.1 - Made Opener and all included compression/decompression utilities FAT. Since the original author, Michael Hawley, is swamped with his PhD dissertation at MIT right now, this release is brought to you by myself (Denise Blakeley, blake015@mc.duke.edu) and Subrata Sircar (ssircar@canon.com). So if you have questions or problems with it, you might want to ask one of us first rather than Michael--despite what it says in the documentation. IMPORTANT NOTE: for those of you who have expressed concern about the "automatic mailing" feature of Opener (which notified Michael the first time you used Opener), we did NOT remove this. OUR DOING SO WOULD HAVE VIOLATED MICHAEL'S COPYRIGHT ON THE APP. On the positive side, realize that once you've used Opener that first time it never sends another automatic mail message, because the event is recorded in your defaults database. (Do a "dread -o Opener" to see what I mean.) So as long as you don't wipe out your defaults database, even installing a new version of Opener will not generate more behind-the-scenes mail. Hope you enjoy the new version-- Denise Blakeley blake015@mc.duke.edu
From: Alberto Ricart <alberto@parsec.mixcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NIST Synchronicity available at cs.orst.edu Date: 9 Aug 1993 13:50:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2462po$e0u@digifix.digifix.com> NIST Synchronicity is a Preferences module for synchronizing the computer's internal clock with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's cesium clocks via a modem. The service is free, save the long distance charges incurred during the call. Synchronicity's functionality can be invoked through the Preferences application, a cron script or the command line. In demo mode Synchronicity does not allow command line or cron script use. NEW for 2.1: Synchronization of the computer's clock can be immediate, or the clock may be slowly corrected without ever 'skipping' time. Time correction adjustment is useful in cases where changing the computer's time may cause important automated tasks to be skipped or missed. Synchronicity also offers a limited control over NTP synchronization. Synchronicity retails for $30 per license. To order please contact SmartSoft at (800) 424-8864. SmartSoft 2220 East Linnwood Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 For additional information, please contact SmartSoft at: (414) 964-8864 or (414) 964-4672 fax
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces MAB DATAPHILE Date: 9 Aug 1993 13:53:43 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2462v5$e14@digifix.digifix.com> For more information: email: info@stone.com Elena Settanni, (505) 345-4800 *** STONE DESIGN ANNOUNCES MULTIPLE-ARCHITECTURE DATAPHILE *** ALBUQUERQUE, NM, August 9, 1993 1 Stone Design has announced that it will release version 2.0 of its award-winning* flatfile database program, DataPhile, on September 1. This release represents the successful completion of Stone's efforts to port DataPhile to NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors (NSFIP). DataPhile 2.0 requires NEXTSTEP (NS) 3.1 and is available in multiple-architecture binary form. Multiple-architecture, or fat, binary software runs on both Motorola-based NeXT hardware and qualified Intel-based systems. DataPhile 2.0 can run on NEXTSTEP networks that mix Motorola and Intel hardware. In addition to NSFIP compatibility, this upgrade of DataPhile introduces several features that make the program more powerful and easier to use than ever: * Data Well - This NEXTSTEP-style well, available while you're entering and viewing data, contains a draggable text version of your data that you can drop into another app-for example, into a mail message. * Modify All Records in View - This new command updates a field thoughout your records according to your edits of that field in the current record. * Delete All Records in View - This much-requested command deletes all records in the key view, for example, a found subset of outdated records. * Unlimited Undo - You can instruct DataPhile to remember any number of edits that you make to a view design, allowing you to undo consecutive edits as necessary. * Rebuild Indexes - This command automates the indexing cleanup procedure that is sometimes necessary to correct index-related problems in a database. * Copy Address - This command adds compatibility with RightBrain Software's ExactlyWrite word-processor. * Easier Options access - Double-click a field's name to assign it a default value or other entry option. * Export Field Types - Optionally include field types when exporting data; imports will automatically choose the correct field type. * On-line Help - Extensive hypertext help lets you click any UI component to see related information; use the Help panel's Find feature to get help by topic instantly. * Colorized UI - Ted Turner would be proud. This upgrade also greatly improves DataPhile's stability and fixes several bugs, including but not limited to the following. * Spellcheck/Spelling Panel loads quietly (NS) * Modified entry lists and default values update properly * Graphics in headers/footers orient correctly (NS) * Icons delete properly from file fields * Field background colors print and preview (NS) * /tmp clears unsaved databases A much-requested addition to DataPhile, multiuser write access, has slipped to a future release. DataPhile supports multiuser read access in that the first user to open a particular database has write permissions (assuming the file's Unix permissions are set accordingly). "We felt that the immediate need was for a fat-binary version of DataPhile, so that's where we put the effort for this release," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "There's an entirely new market for our software, and we're adapting our development and support efforts accordingly," Stone added. DataPhile is available directly from Stone Design and at the ftp sites orst.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and ftp.cs.unm.edu. Students who ftp the package and submit proof of current student status can purchase DataPhile at a special rate. No manual or support is provided with this purchase option, but easy entry for students is a firm commitment of Stone Design. Call or write for more information about Stone's Student Discount program and for regular prices. Trade-ups to Intel versions of all Stone software purchased between February 12, 1993 and May 21, 1993 are available free of charge to end users. *DataPhile was named the "The Best DataBase product of 1992" by a Usenet survey. Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of business productivity applications for NEXTSTEP software. DataPhile is a trademark of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Sales Through Ingram Micro Exceed Expectations Date: 9 Aug 1993 13:54:22 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24630d$e1a@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 - or - Kirsten Kappos Ingram Micro Inc. 714/566-1000 ext. 2727 NEXTSTEP SALES THROUGH INGRAM MICRO EXCEED EXPECTATIONS REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - August 9, 1993-NeXT Computer, Inc. and its master distributor Ingram Micro announce NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, has greatly exceeded both companies sales expectations. Ingram Micro is a master distributor of NEXTSTEP fulfilling demand from VARs and resellers in North America. As part of the relationship, NeXT will provide Ingram Micro with training and education and the two companies will engage in joint marketing and selling efforts surrounding NEXTSTEP. Additionally the companies say Ingram Micro will be an authorized support center providing first level NEXTSTEP support to VARS and resellers. "NEXTSTEP has been a very successful new product launch for Ingram Micro when compared to other new vendor offerings," said Amy Hoffman, senior director of the technical products division at Ingram Micro. "Sales have been exceptionally strong, momentum is building and we expect NEXTSTEP sales to continue to rise." Object-oriented productivity for the enterprise NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors is NeXT's object-oriented software that runs on industry-standard Inteli 486- and Pentiumi-based PCs. NEXTSTEP Developer provides visual application construction tools and reusable application objects for the development of NEXTSTEP applications. NEXTSTEP has received customer and industry accolades for dramatically speeding the development of custom applications. "Working together with partners such as Ingram Micro, NeXT provides the software that allows our customers to rightsize their business applications to a client/server environment, while gaining five to ten times the productivity of other approaches," said Warren Weiss, vice president of sales and marketing at NeXT. NEXTSTEP is the most advanced object-oriented software available today and is used to develop and deploy custom applications comprising custom and off-the-self software. Its integrated user interface allows all applications to seamlessly interoperate and share a common graphical user interface. It also enables corporate customers to continue to take advantage of their existing applications and data while simultaneously gaining all the productivity and technical benefits of custom NEXTSTEP applications. Pricing and Availability NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors is available immediately, worldwide through distributors such as Ingram Micro, as well as OEMs and VARS. It comes bundled with the user interface in six languages and retails in the U.S. for $795. It includes the NEXTSTEP graphical user interface, NeXTmail electronic mail, a suite of productivity applications and bundled database and network connectivity. NEXTSTEP Developer includes all of the tools and reusable objects needed to develop NEXTSTEP applications and is also available immediately. It retails in the U.S. for $1,995 and requires NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors. Pricing for each version varies in other countries, as well as for higher education and registered developers. Until September 30, the NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit, containing both the User and Developer versions of NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors will be available for $299 to VARS and resellers through Ingram Micro. The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit includes: - NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel Processors which includes the full NEXTSTEP User product and documentation; - NEXTSTEP Developer CD ROM which includes NEXTSTEP's visual application construction tools and reusable object kits, as well as a 50% off coupon to purchase full technical documentation; - The NEXTSTEP Advantage Kit which includes a booklet, a video cassette and a diskette with sample software to introduce users to the benefits of application development with NEXTSTEP; - NEXTSTEP Programming, a book by Garfinkel & Mahoney, which provides users a thorough explanation of NEXTSTEP application development using a tutorial approach. About NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: August 1993 NEXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide Date: 9 Aug 1993 23:15:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2473su$fvq@digifix.digifix.com> Below is the recently updated hardware compatibility guide for those interested in NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS: PC compatibles, portables and laptops from the following vendors are now supported: ALR ALTIMA AST COMPAQ DATA GENERAL DEC EPSON GATEWAY HEWLETT PACKARD IBM INTEL LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR NCR NEC TOSHIBA UNISYS ZENITH CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS GEC COMPUTERS Conrad Geiger NeXT ______________________________________________________________ NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide August 10, 1993 For easy readability of this Hardware Guide: If you are reading this with Mail.app, be sure to set your font preference for this message to a smaller proportional font (Ohlfs 10 point font). This document describes in general terms, the types of PC-compatible hardware that is supported by NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 for Intel Processors. Although may different vendors' systems will work with NEXTSTEP, the systems listed here have been tested and found to be compatible with NEXTSTEP. For any hardware specification or purchase, please contact NeXT for the latest update to this guide. Driver updates: Information on device driver updates may be obtained by sending email to NeXTanswers@next.com with the subject of "INDEX HELP". You will receive the master index for NeXTanswers. NeXT and third parties are constantly developing and enhancing drivers for NEXTSTEP. Updates to existing drivers, or new drivers can be downloaded from the Internet via email or ftp. NeXTanswers provides an easy method to obtain drivers by e-mail as described above. (Note: you must be able to receive NeXTMail in order to be able to receive drivers via email.) To obtain drivers via ftp: use ftp to access ftp.next.com and login as anonymous with any password and "cd" to /pub. Drivers can be downloaded from the NeXTanswers directory. ** TABLE OF CONTENTS ** -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems General Requirements for Desktop Systems: CPU - i486 based or Pentium based PC Compatible Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2 or Pentium. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - ISA or EISA expansion bus. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition. NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - Ram requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter. GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - See "NEXTSTEP for INTEL PROCESSORS GRAPHICS" in this Guide for details on graphics support. DISK INTERFACES - IDE and several SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. NOTE: a SCSI adaptor and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial and bus mice. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Desktop Systems PC MANUFACTURERS Below appear the following graphics configurations for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors compatible hardware: I. 16 Bit Color Systems II 8 Bit Grayscale Systems III. 2 Bit Grayscale Systems I. 16 Bit Color Systems ALR Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For ALR: 1MB VRAM is required for 800x600 For ALR: 2MB VRAM is required for 1024x768 (Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-BUS AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For AST Power Premium: see Add-On Graphics adapter chart 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card (Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 33 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DATA GENERAL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX DG Dasher LE2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 4 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For 450DE/2 DGX: 2MB of VRAM - 16 bit color resolution is 1120 x 832 For Dell ME, L, M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 486DX2 Dell 450DE/2 DGX EISA 50 Mhz Localbus JAWS 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 EPSON Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Epson Progression NX: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 1MB VRAM Version supports 800x600 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1120x832 (Driver update available for Progression, 1120x832) 486DX, 486DX2 Epson Progression NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine GATEWAY Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Gateway: requires 2MB VRAM for the 1024x768 16 bit color; requires 1MB VRAM for the 800x600 16 bit color 486DX. 486DX2 Gateway Series V ISA 33 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 50 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 66 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 16 bit color [HP Vectra XM series: driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 16 bit - 800x600 resolution (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: Driver Update required for all IBM systems) 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS INTEL Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Intel: 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX2 Intel GX/Pro EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ATI 68800 LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR Vendor name Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Lucky Goldstar: 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: requires Compaq QVision 1024/E for 800x600 or ATI Graphics Ultra Pro EISA with 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card UNISYS Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For UNISYS: requires high resolution RAMDAC for NEXTSTEP support. On-board SCSI & LAN not yet supported. UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 1MB VRAM for 800x600 UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX2 UNISYS U6000 DT2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA HARDWARE SYSTEM INTEGRATORS 16 bit Color Systems CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS Integrator Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Continental computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC COMPUTERS Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For GEC computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 II. 8 Bit Grayscale COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell ME Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI: requires 1 MB VRAM for 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1280x1024 [HP Vectra XM series: driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: Driver Update required for all IBM systems) For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 8 bit- 1023x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: Select add-on EISA Graphics adapter 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA III. 2 Bit Grayscale AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 640x480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 - 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP: Built-in VGA supports 640-480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 1024x768 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC I-series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX 486DX2 NEC Image 466 ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000W32 Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems OVERVIEW CPU - i486 based PC Compatible Portable Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - AC powered portables require at least one ISA or EISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from CD-ROM. BATTERY-POWERED PORTABLES AND DOCKING STATIONS - Battery powered portables require a docking station with at least one ISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from a CD-ROM. Once NEXTSTEP is installed, the portable may be used away from the docking station. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition: NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - RAM requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter: GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes(+) Note: Since 16 bit color and 8 bit color grayscale support require LocalBus, VL-Bus, PCI, or EISA graphics adapters, only AC-powered portables with EISA slots can support 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. (+) - NeXT recommends a minimum of 12MB or RAM for acceptable performance on portables. GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - Current display panel technology in popular PC-compatibles is limited to 640x480 resolution and cannot yet display 16 bit color. These systems do not yet support the linear buffer NEXTSTEP requires for 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. Therefore, NEXTSTEP supports these systems with 2-bit grayscale at 640x480. Active matrix or plasma panels are recommended for better cursor tracking response. ISA systems (AC-powered or through a docking station) can support add-on, high resolution 2-bit grayscale graphics adapters and EISA-based AC-powered portables can support 16-bit color or 8-bit grayscale graphics with an add-on EISA graphics adapter. DISK INTERFACES - Both built-in IDE and add-on SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. Battery powered portables require a docking station to install a SCSI hard disk interface card. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft and Logitec compatible PS/2 and serial mice are supported. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a networking adapter. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a sound card. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Portable Systems PC MANUFACTURERS I. Built-in Panel Portables ALTIMA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX ALTIMA 433D Battery Passive 33 Mhz ISA 200/20 Matrix Mono Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on pointer support for Altima 433D. AST Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SL AST Power- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Color KMM 4SL or Mono MS AST Power- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Matrix KMM 4SL Mono MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem COMPAQ Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color 486SL COMPAQ LTE Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/20 Lite Matrix KMM 4/25c Color MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for 486/C and 486/M) NEC Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SX NEC Pro- AC Active 20 Mhz 200/20 Speed Matrix 486C Color 486SL NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for ProSpeed 486C) Built-in expansion: PCMCIA for Ultralite Versa C & M models ProSpeed 486C requires floating point upgrade. Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on built-in trackball support for LTE Lite 4/25c. TOSHIBA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 33 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 50 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 33 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 50 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color 486SX TOSHIBA T4400SX Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Mono or MS Plasma KMM TOSHIBA T4400 Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 SXC Matrix MS Color KMM 486DX TOSHIBA T4400C Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Matrix MS Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (ISA expansion for T6400DX and T6400DXC models) T4400SX and T4400SXC require floating point upgrades. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters OVERVIEW NEXTSTEP GRAPHICS SYSTEM NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors' Display Postscript graphic system supports such advanced capabilities as scalable fonts, unified imaging model for both screen display and printing, image transparency (also known as alpha channel), Pantone color matching, and Pixar Interactive Renderman 3D imaging. NEXTSTEP's window server composites multiple layers of images, and allows the user to work with images of any quality with any supported imaging model, in other words users can work with a 32 bit color image even on a 2-bit grayscale system! In order to provide these sophisticated capabilities NEXTSTEP requires a "workstation"-style linear frame buffer graphics system and a high performance 32-bit data path to the frame buffer. The number of colors or shades of gray, depth of transparency, etc., varies depending on the image model supported. ** TABLE FOR NEXTSTEP IMAGING ** Imaging Model Colors or Transparency Window Server Support Shades of (alpha channel) for Renderman 3D Gray Graphics _____________________________________________________________________ 32-bit color 24-bit - 8-bit (256 YES 16 million levels) colors 16-bit color 12-bit - 4-bit (16 YES 4096 colors levels) 32-BIT COLOR 2-bit color support on Intel-based PCs is planned for a future release of NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. 16-BIT COLOR Graphics Architectures Supported - Intel JAWS (such as DELL Processor-Direct Graphics), Chips and Technologies Wingine, ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 16-bit color, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data path, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 16-bit color. Future support is planned for the Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 800x600, 1024x768, 1120x832. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 8-BIT GRAYSCALE Graphics Architectures Supported - S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 8-bit grayscale, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 8-bit color. Future support is planned for the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 2-BIT GRAYSCALE NeXT has devoted a special driver that simulates the linear frame buffer required by NEXTSTEP's graphics system on segmented frame buffer graphics adapters such as standard VGA and Super VGA cards. This allows NEXTSTEP to support most standard VGA cards as well as certain Super VGA cards. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Graphics Architectures Supported - Standard VGA compatible and certain Super VGA graphics adapters using the Tseng Labs ET-4000AX or Cirrus Logic GD 542X. These graphics adapters can be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-BUS), PCI, EISA or ISA. Supported Resolutions: 640x480 (Standard VGA) or 1024x769 (Super VGA). _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors Graphics MANUFACTURERS OF GRAPHICS ADAPTERS ATI 68800 Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVISION Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1024/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1280/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2 MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 CIRRUS LOGIC GD542X Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ STB Horizon ISA Cirrus 2 bit grayscale: Logic .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 GD542X JAWS Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ DELL 450DE/2 Local- DELL 16 bit color: DGX bus JAWS 2 MB VRAM supports 1120x832 DGX Note: Upgrade for Dell 450DE only. TSENG LABS ET-4000AX Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ISA Tseng 2 bit grayscale: Labs .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ET4000 STANDARD VGA Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions _____________________________________________________________________ various various ISA VGA 2 bit grayscale Adapter 640x480 resolution (default) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters NEXTSTEP supports a variety of additional devices and add-on adapters: DISK INTERFACES Both IDE and several SCSI hard disk interfaces are supported. POINTING DEVICES Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial, and bus mice. PRINTERS Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. ADDITIONAL DEVICES Other popular PC peripherals such as FAX/Modems will be supported. DRIVERKIT NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors incorporates a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture called DriverKit. DriverKit allows the quick development of device drivers for new peripherals and add-on cards for Intel-based PCs running NEXTSTEP. DriverKit's architecture allows drivers to be loaded at run-time, thereby allowing users to add additional cards or devices to their systems without re-installing the main operating system. Loadable device drivers also allow NeXT and third parties to easily distribute additional drivers as they become available. NeXT is actively working with hardware manufacturers and third parties to provide additional drivers for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. Developers interested in the DriverKit should contact Developer Support (1-800-848-6398) and join the registered developer program. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors ADDITIONAL DEVICE SUPPORT PRODUCTS FLOPPY DISK Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ 3.5 inch Floppy Disk 1.44MB floppy Controller IDE HARD DISK INTERFACE Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ IDE IDE Disk Controller SCSI HARD DISK INTERFACE Note on Adaptec 1542c & 1742, DPT 2011/95 & 2012/95: built-in floppy disk interface not supported Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Adaptec 1540B ISA Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter Adaptec 1540C ISA Adaptec 1542B Built-in floppy disk SCSI adapter not supported Adaptec 1740 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Adaptec 1742 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Bus 542B ISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter Bus 747S EISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter DPT 2012/90 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2012/95 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) DPT 2011/90 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 DPT 2011/95 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 (Built-in floppy not supported) SCSI TAPE Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ SCSI SCSI tape Driver update tape driver available PARALLEL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Parallel Port Parallel port SERIAL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Supports COM1 & COM2 Serial Ports serial ports LOCAL AREA NETWORK ADAPTERS Note on Intel Etherlink: support of TP port requires Driver update Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3COM Ethernet coax or (3C509) Etherlink III twisted pair ethernet adapter SMC Etherlink 16 ISA SMC Ethernet coax or (8013) Elite 16 twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL EtherExpress 16 ISA Intel Ether- Ethernet coax or (TP, Coax or Combo) Express twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL TokenExpress ISA Intel Token- Token ring Express ISA Token Ring POINTING DEVICES Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ Microsoft MS mouse serial mouse serial mouse Microsoft MS mouse PS/2 mouse port PS/2 mouse Logitec Mouse Man serial mouse serial mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man PS/2 mouse PS/2 mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man Bus Bus mouse Bus mouse adapter AUDIO DEVICES NOTE: Driver updates required for Intel and Compaq audio devices Vendor Model Bus Driver Features _____________________________________________________________________ Media ProAudio ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Spectrum 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Media Pro ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Studio 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Intel GX/Professional CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Compaq Business Audio CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Compaq Standard PC CPU System beep System audio alerts speaker support board driver only Microsoft Sound System ISA Up to CD quality Microsoft Standard PC speaker CPU System beep System audio alerts board driver only PRINTERS Vendor Model Bus Interface _____________________________________________________________________ NeXT Color Printer SCSI Standard Adobe Postscript Serial or parallel Printers (Postscipt Level II recommended for proper color support.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ August 10, 1993 NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide - end -
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Announcing Tailor: Postscript Editing Tool for NEXTSTEP Date: 10 Aug 1993 14:31:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <248pia$360@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tammy Phillips Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail: info@alembic.com MAKE GRAPHIC CHANGES TO ANY POSTSCRIPT DOCUMENT (PS or EPS) FROM ANY PLATFORM, FROM ANY APPLICATION! TAILOR PS and EPS editing software takes advantage of the NEXTSTEP Environment. Englewood Colorado, August 5, 1993 - PostScript is a type of format widely used to transfer information between applications and platforms in many publishing environments. However, by using this universal format, one looses the ability to make any changes to the imported information, apart from sizing and positioning. Now, for all NEXTSTEP users, Tailor eliminates this important restriction! Tailor enables you to graphically edit any PostScript document, including multi-page PostScript files imported from MS Windows or Macintosh platforms. You can move, reshape, or delete all types of graphic objects, such as line art, text and pixel images. You can re-color, modify or add line art. You can alter typefaces, modify or add text, and regroup text lines into paragraphs for more flexible editing. And you can save the results back in a PostScript file or use the standard copy and paste functions to place them in any NEXTSTEP application. Some of the attributes offered through TAILOR are: Multi-page support o open multi-page PostScript documents o randomly browse through their pages o extract any part of any page for pasting in another application o edit any part of any page and save or paste the result separately o save and print multi-page documents PostScript input & reconstruction o retain embedded font definitions as line-work where appropriate o retain named colors and separation colors o reconstruct more text paragraph features better o optimize input of PostScript from widely used applications Editing o undo capability o create and edit paths, including the bezier control points o enter numeric position and size o retain structuring information (grouping) in the saved document Alembic Systems International Ltd. is an international distributor of North American and European software for the NEXTSTEP Operating Environment. Services cover the development of custom applications, software training courses for a variety of existing packages, and system integration of NEXTSTEP for Intel coupled with Auspex File Servers. -30-
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 32 - 1993 Date: 10 Aug 1993 15:16:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <248s5m$3bg@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 32). Tuesday August 3 through Tuesday August 10 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 31 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: WSI-Fonts Professional Collection PRESS RELEASE: Firstsoft Announces Availability of ScriptWriter for NEXTSTEP Paget Press's NEXTSTEP Catalog featured in Catalog Age MEETING: GOTHAM USERS OF NeXT(GUN) Aug 11 MEETING: August Minnesota NeXT User Group Meeting: August 9 SUBMISSION: Rocks 1.81 MAB PRESS RELEASE: RDR Training Schedule & Overview SUBMISSION:Solitaire 1.01/Sentinel 1.31 Newsgrazer Pro for NEXTSTEP: Questions and Answers PRESS RELEASE: Announcing Serial Port Communication Objects for NEXTSTEP MEETING: Ottawa NeXT User Group Meeting: Thursday, August 5 PRESS RELEASE: Beta shippment of Pinnacle Transfer and introductory pricing ANNOUNCEMENT: Relaunch of UK NeXTstep Mailing List PRESS RELEASE: Wolfram Research Announces Mathematica for NEXTSTEP for Intel PRESS RELEASE: Connect It! ships!!! PRESS RELEASE: NetWatch: First SNMP Network Monitor for NEXTSTEP MEETING: Rocky Mountain NeXT User Group - Aug 11 MEETING: Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group SUBMISSION: Hackers.app MAB JOB: Athena Design wants User Interface Deity SUBMISSION: Opener.app for 3.1 MAB! MEETING: Calgary NEXTSTEP User Group Meeting: Monday, August 16 SUBMISSION: NIST Synchronicity available at cs.orst.edu PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces MAB DATAPHILE NEXTSTEP Sales Through Ingram Micro Exceed Expectations August 1993 NEXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide PRESS RELEASE: Announcing Tailor: Postscript Editing Tool for NEXTSTEP If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be moving to Monday as of next week ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 10 Aug 1993 15:17:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <248s8c$3bn@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 10 Aug 1993 15:18:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <248s9o$3bt@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: comp.sys.next.announce archives now on cs.orst.edu Date: 10 Aug 1993 15:42:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <248tnk$3fa@digifix.digifix.com> I've finally gotten all the archives since I started moderating comp.sys.next.announce gziped and uploaded to cs.orst.edu and ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de.... (there is still no room at the nova/sonata site.) ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/next/submissions.. [ although they will probably move VERY quickly on this site ] cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.XX.tar.gz.README cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.19.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.20.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.21.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.22.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.23.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.24.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.25.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.26.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.27.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.28.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.29.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.30.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.31.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.32.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/csna.1993.32.tar.gz.README They are in a consistant format, with all messages as seperate files in the format csna.$week.$number and each also contains the summary from that weeks postings. If you can't FTP, let me know and I will NeXTmail the files to you that you need. Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WhiteLight Announces Business Modeling Software for NEXTSTEP Date: 11 Aug 1993 03:18:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24a6fm$9d@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Norman Goldfarb Whitelight Palo Alto, CA Email: norman@whitelight.com WhiteLight Systems Announces WhiteLight/Engineer 1.1 "Object-oriented business modeling software for financial planning, analysis and control" PALO ALTO, CA, July 30, 1993 --- WhiteLight Systems, Inc. today announced the release of WhiteLight/Engineer 1.1. Major new functionality includes object linking, scripting, and savable workspaces, as well as 71 other enhancements. Release 1.1 runs on NeXT, Inc.'s NEXTSTEP operating environment for Intel and Motorola processors. WhiteLight/Engineer addresses a fundamental problem shared by every large company: The complexity and dynamics of the business have outgrown the ability of current technology to deliver instantly the information that management needs to run the business. WhiteLight/Engineer is the first software product that enables a company's management and staff to build a shared model of the business from a common library of business objects and their computational relationships. The resulting business model is clear and unambiguous. Because it is as complex and dynamic as the business requires, the model is ready to partition and deploy as the company's financial planning, analysis and control applications. No matter how complex these applications become, they maintain the flexibility and continuity of the shared business model. This integration of business model with applications is unique to WhiteLight/Engineer. As a result, WhiteLight/Engineer customers achieve dramatic management and application development efficiencies. By reusing business objects, these applications enable users to instantly access and manipulate the unique information they require, in the format they require, while assuring information accuracy, consistency and integrity throughout the organization. Customers use WhiteLight/Engineer to build and operate applications such as financial consolidation and reporting, budgeting, sales forecasting, business planning, strategic planning, transfer pricing and portfolio analysis. Fortune 500 customers are in the telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, financial services, and public accounting industries. According to Ronald Weissman, director of corporate marketing for NeXT, Inc., "WhiteLight/Engineer is a superb implementation of object-oriented technology. It is the first tool that allows managers to actually model and manage their business using objects -- all without programming. Using objects to model your business is what the object-oriented revolution is ultimately all about, and WhiteLight offers a truly unique and compelling approach." According to Chip Goodman, WhiteLight president, "Companies are overwhelmed with data. But what they don't have is accurate, specific and conclusive information at their fingertips. With WhiteLight/Engineer, they get the information they need to run the business when they want it, often in seconds." "WhiteLight/Engineer is a fast and flexible reporting tool, but what really excites me is being able to perform sophisticated decision support analysis right in the application. End-users never before have been able to answer `what if' and goal-seeking questions with such a complete model of the business. A 7-dimensional business model might incorporate multiple allocations, eliminations, currency translation adjustments, non-linear functions and simultaneous equations," continued Mr. Goodman. WhiteLight supplies seven libraries of 1200 "intelligent business objects" that are common to many businesses, in categories such as finance, organization, region, time, and currency. These objects are intelligent in that they "know" how they computationally relate to other objects. For example, "1993" knows that it is the sum of "January" through "December". "Shareholders' Equity" knows that it is "Assets" minus "Liabilities". Customers easily customize these libraries and add other libraries specific to their business, such as product and customer lists. Users create applications by mixing and matching objects from their libraries. They use a "point and click" methodology; there is no procedural code (e.g., macros) in WhiteLight/Engineer. Further, because objects know how they computationally relate to other objects, applications mostly build themselves. Creating reports is similarly straightforward, since the "Income Statement" object knows which financial objects to present. Small end-user/developer teams design and deploy fully-operational applications, tailored to business requirements, within weeks of licensing the software. By reusing common business objects, end-users handle many of their own maintenance updates and generate their own reports, in minutes. End-users can also build small applications in days. WhiteLight/Engineer builds on NEXTSTEP's object-oriented environment. Business users realize the power of object-oriented programming without becoming programmers. The software hides powerful but arcane object-oriented concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism under a graphical interface that speaks the language of the business user. Combined with WhiteLight's libraries of business objects, the result is a development and user environment that is exceptionally productive. WhiteLight/Engineer applications are not like other applications. First, they are extremely flexible because users can add, modify and delete business objects at will. Second, they handle complexity with ease, because the complexity problem is delegated to the business objects. Third, they provide clear and unambiguous information because the values, sources and uses of every business object are always available in the users' own terminology. "The benefits accelerate when you start adapting and reusing entire applications across the business. Simply by swapping a few business objects, you can re-engineer an application for a new use or a new set of users. For example, by swapping "budget" for "actual", you can begin to turn a financial reporting application into a budgeting application. By swapping months for years, you can also turn it into a strategic planning application," said Mr. Goodman. "We can build a prototype application from a company's data in one day. We just need their data, samples of their reports, and two hours of their time. The prototype will include their numbers, their account names, and their business structures. It will include up to 50,000 values, of which 80% may be calculated," said Mr. Goodman. "One customer built a complete budget system for their international business sector in six weeks. They tell us that, for the first time, they can understand the multi-dimensional impact of their decisions. A consolidation and reporting process that took six people eight weeks last year, one person did in four days this year," Mr. Goodman continued. "Customers often use WhiteLight/Engineer to replace large-scale spreadsheet applications. Spreadsheets are versatile personal productivity tools, but impractical at scale. Large-scale spreadsheet applications are inefficient, illogical, prone to error, expensive to maintain, dangerous to build on, and prone to collapse under stress," said Mr. Goodman. "Customers also replace budgeting, consolidation and other packaged applications that do not have WhiteLight/Engineer's ability to keep up with the customer's always changing requirements for immediate, accurate and specific information." According to the Patricia Seybold Group, "It is clear that using objects to model your business is a concept whose time has come... Of fundamental importance is business process redesign, collaboration and the need for a shared vocabulary about the business... Companies are increasingly taking advantage of the ability of object-oriented development approaches to make complex relationships available to all applications... They ask the very basic questions that... make their own business practices and assumptions explicit so they can reexamine those assumptions." WhiteLight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Epitome Announces Updated Redmark Software for NEXTSTEP Date: 11 Aug 1993 12:57:12 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24b8d6$185@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact Marketing Communications Epitome Incorporated 716 Summit Lake Court, Suite 100 Knoxville, TN 37922-3156 (615) 675-0910 voice (615) 966-2558 fax Email: 72677.1034@compuserve.com Epitome Updates Redmark Software for NEXTSTEP Knoxville, TN - July 19, 1993 - Epitome Incorporated announced today the release and shipment of version 1.2 of their Redmark on-screen document markup software for NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 on Intel- and Motorola-based computers. Redmark is Epitome's innovative software package that provides on-screen markup for all types of documents. With Redmark, users can mark up all types of documents including word processing, page layouts, illustrations, and spreadsheets, using one application. Other applications provide annotation tools that work only with their own documents. Redmark is as simple to use as marking on paper with a red pencil. It enables users to mark up documents by creating a "print image" PostScript file of the document being reviewed. Reviewers place comments into transparent overlays using sticky Post-it-style notes, voice recordings, text annotations, standard proofreading symbols, and drawn or imported graphics. With Redmark, a completely paperless document review cycle is now possible. "Redmark is an example of a good productivity tool that can be added to any suite of productivity applications running on NEXTSTEP," said Warren Weiss, vice president of sales and marketing at NeXT. "It is useful for any office setting." The newly released version 1.2 of Redmark runs under NEXTSTEP 3.1 on Intel-based computers as well as under NEXTSTEP 3.0 and 3.1 for Motorola-based NeXT computers. Redmark 1.2 is distributed as a "fat binary," meaning the same application will run on both types of computers. Documents are completely interchangeable, regardless of the processor type on which they were produced. Redmark 1.2 is also upward compatible with all documents produced by previous versions. Redmark 1.2 is being sent free to all registered users. The list price of the new version is $285, with discounts for educational institutions and multi-user site licenses. Epitome Incorporated is a software developer specializing in innovative productivity tools for the NEXTSTEP environment. For more information, contact Marketing Communications Epitome Incorporated 716 Summit Lake Court, Suite 100 Knoxville, TN 37922-3156 (615) 675-0910 voice (615) 966-2558 fax 72677.1034@compuserve.com Redmark is a trademark of Epitome Incorporated. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Post-it is a trademark of 3M Corporation.
From: schlangm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TeXmenu Version 4.1 on the archives Date: 11 Aug 1993 12:59:12 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24b8gv$18f@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Harald Schlangmann Tumblingerstrasse 17 Rgb. 80337 Muenchen, F. R. G. e-mail: schlangm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (NeXTMail ok) TeXmenu SUMMARY: TeXmenu provides a unified NeXTSTEP front end for Donald Knuth's famous typesetting system TeX. TeXmenu integrates all the tools needed to use TeX in one application, i.e. you are no longer forced to handle various tools like the editor, the previewer, utilities such as spell checkers, and TeX itself from different applications. TeXmenu offers a powerful project management, including structure recognition, file handling and project search, thus providing a convenient way of handling larger multi-file documents. TeXmenu is designed as an ``open'' application, i.e. it does not depend on any version specific features of TeX, viewers, editors (and friends) and is widely customizable. TeXmenu offers services so the user can keep in touch with it from any other application, get help on LaTeX, translate his/her current project, any file or even screen selections. When running TeX in the background TeXmenu alerts the user when an error occurs and offers a convenient way to jump between the error message and location of the error, as well as letting the user continue the translation afterwards! Distribution is done shareware-like (i.e. you are allowed to copy a unregistered version provided you're running it in demo-mode) but TeXmenu will have some annoying ``features'' until you register your copy of it. Similarly, TeXmenu comes ``shareware priced''. For those who want a good TeX front end without paying anything for it, TeXmenu version 2.2 (black hardware only) remains in the public domain (although ``donations'' are still accepted). LIST OF SOME NEW FEATURES IN TeXmenu 4.1: o Multi architecture binary, both Motorola and Intel architectures are supported. o Added page numbers to the Watcher's output making it easy to find over/underfull boxes in TeX's output. o Several bug fixes. o Template Inspector. Edit your templates from within TeXmenu. Each template may now have a default Project Group and a default folder. This means extremely convenient creation of new projects! o Files included using \verbatimfile are recognized. TeXmenu PRICING: TeXmenu 4.1 is a free update for all registered TeXmenu 3.x and 4.0 users! Individual 4.1 license: US$ 50 / DM 60 Individual 4.1 license for students: US$ 25 / DM 30 For further information, site license pricing, group discounts, and information relating to payment see Licence.rtf in the demo distribution or send mail to the address above. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT (BLACK&WHITE): NeXTSTEP for Intel Processors is supported in this release. Further upgrades are planed. Black hardware will be supported at least as long as NeXT does with its OS. GIVE IT A TRY! o Versions that require NeXTSTEP Release 3.0 or later: TeXmenu4.1-English-mab.tar (v4.1, English) TeXmenu4.1-German-mab.tar (v4.1, German) TeXmenu4.1-mab.tar (v4.1, English and German) o Versions that require NeXTSTEP Release 2.0: TeXmenu3.0-2.1.tar (v3.0, English and German) TeXmenu2.2b.tar (v2.2, English and German, free) TeXmenu 4.1 is available via anonymous ftp, mail server, or from the address above: o Anonymous ftp: ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/next/Text/tex ***first address cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/NeXT/demos o Mail server: Currently not available. Munich (August 11 1993) -- Harald Schlangmann All trademarks are used for identification purposes only and are the rights of their respective holders. SUMMARY: TeXmenu version 4.1, available August 11 1993, shareware priced
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Mid-Willamette NeXT User Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes (Part 2 of 4) TONIGHT Date: 12 Aug 1993 01:27:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24ckbn$4kk@digifix.digifix.com> Mid-Willamette NeXT User Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes NEXTSTEP Programming Series - Part 2 of 4 When: Thursday 12 Aug 1993 at 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Where: Computer Science - West Room 103 Oregon State University Corvallis, OR; Phone: (503) 737-2270 It's on Campus Way near 26th Street Mid-Willamette NeXT Users Group is presenting four classes on entry-level NEXTSTEP Software Development every Thursday at 5pm during the month of August for user group members and interested developers. The classes are: August 5: Introduction to NEXTSTEP's Interface Builder and the AppKit. August 12: AppKit Development and Design. August 19: Database Kit (DBKit) Development and Design. August 26: Graphics Programming (Postscript, X-Windows, and Renderman). At the classes will be a NEXTSTEP computer (Intel and/or Motorola machine) available to demonstrate programming examples. If there is an subject or example you are most interested in, please let us know. These classes are meant to bring amateur programmers up to speed in Interface Builder, Project Builder, Edit, Librarian, and Compilers while showing the power of palettes, object classes, and Object-Oriented Design. These classes will be of an interest to those programmers interested in Object-Oriented Programming, NEXTSTEP Application Development, or Prototyping Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). Of course, non-programmers are welcome, too! For more information or to register for the courses, please send e-mail to John Sechrest at <sechrest@frisby.cs.orst.edu> or to Tim Pugh at <tpugh@oce.orst.edu> or call me at (503) 737-2270.
From: Alberto Ricart <alberto@parsec.mixcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: WANTED: Beta Testers for Personal Productivity Software Date: 12 Aug 1993 01:31:25 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24ckjc$4m7@digifix.digifix.com> We are looking for a few brave souls to beta test our personal productivity software. If you are interested, please send email to smartsoft@parsec.mixcom.com. Of special interest are testers using NEXTSTEP INTEL. You MUST be able to receive NeXTMAIL in order to participate. All replies must be received before 8/15/93. You must include your name, occupation, place of employment. Please tell us why we should consider you as one of our testers. If your application is accepted, you will receive a non-disclosure agreement, that you must return to us by email or fax. Alberto Ricart SmartSoft, Inc. 2220 E. Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211 alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
From: Andreas R. Glocker <glocker@SIRIUS.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CheckSum Demo 1.1 financial management software for NEXTSTEP Date: 12 Aug 1993 02:19:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24cne4$4v0@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSIONS: CheckSum Demo 1.1 financial management software for NEXTSTEP (8/11/93) CONTACT: Andreas Glocker Sirius Solutions, Inc. 340 Townsend St. Ste. 540 San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 957-1921 fax (415) 957-9044 e-mail: checksum@sirius.com CheckSum is a NEXTSTEP MAB (i486 & NeXT) program for the single user or small business owner who has basic accounting needs. CheckSum tracks expenses, income, property and cash, and provides Income Statements and Balance Sheets. CheckSum balances your checkbook and prints checks. CheckSum provides the user with a system for managing all their various accounts (such as cash, checking, savings, credit card, property, equipment, etc.) and the ability to consolidate them into a complete financial picture, either as a Balance Sheet or a period sensitive Income Statement. Furthermore, CheckSum provides the ability to create multiple layers of categories through which one can analyze expenditures for tax or budgeting purposes. NEW FEATURES IN 1.1 o Memorize Transactions: Memorize split's & automatic Lexical ordering. o Transaction Reports: Sort by Date *or* by Payee; Group by Category Group by Account; Group by Period; Or any combination. o Income Report: Drag Categories to the desired location. o Find Transactions: As promised in CheckSum 1.1 you are now able to search for any transactions within CheckSum Accounts and Reports. o Categories Window: New 'Split View' implementation allows you to resize the window to view all categories at once. o Other Maintenance Updates: Account window remain visible after deactivation. New "Recover" functions allows to rebuild a corrupted account. Etc. Upgrades to *registered* users will be mailed end of August. A demo program is posted on the following anonymous ftp server : POSTED ON: cs.orst.edu Directory: /pub/next/submissions (or later: demos/spreadsheet ) Program: CheckSumDemo1_1.pkg.tar Sirius Solutions, Inc. is a privatly held software development and consulting firm. Sirius Solutions focuses on business productivity and financial management software.
From: wisdom@geom.umn.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Geomview available for NeXTSTEP Date: 14 Aug 1993 15:17:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24jdos$4sn@digifix.digifix.com> Geomview for NeXTSEP now available for anonymous ftp from geom.umn.edu:/pub/geomview/geomview-next.tar The initial release of geomview for NeXTSTEP is now available for anonymous ftp from geom.umn.edu. The file is located at /pub/geomview/geomview-next.tar. It is the first version to run on NeXT workstations running NeXTSTEP 3.0. A NeXTSTEP 3.1 version will soon be available in multi-architecture binary form for both NeXT hardware and Intel hardware. Geomview represents the current state of an ongoing effort at the Geometry Center to provide interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, geomview can display objects in hyperbolic and spherical space as well as Euclidean space. Geomview allows multiple independently controllable objects and cameras. It provides interactive control for motion, appearances (including lighting, shading, and materials), picking on an object, edge or vertex level, snapshots in RenderMan RIB format, and adding or deleting objects is provided through direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts. External programs can drive desired aspects of the viewer (such as continually loading changing geometry or controlling the motion of certain objects) while allowing interactive control of everything else. Geomview can display Mathematica 3D graphics output; for information on this see the file OOGL.m.doc in the "doc" subdirectory. Geomview supports the following simple data types: polyhedra with shared vertices (.off), quadrilaterals, rectangular meshes, vectors, and Bezier surface patches of arbitrary degree including rational patches. Object hierarchies can be constructed with lists of objects and instances of object(s) transformed by one or many 4x4 matrices. Arbitrary portions of changing hierarchies may be transmitted by creating named references. Geomview for NeXTSTEP is distributed as a tar file containing this README file and an Installer package. Extracting Geomview.pkg will install the Geomview application tree, including executables, some utility programs and application modules, sample data files, and manual pages. If you use geomview please send an email note to geomview-users-request@geom.umn.edu requesting to be added to the geomview-users mailing list; this list is for announcements regarding geomview and for geomview users to communicate with each other.
From: Denise Blakeley <blake015@bullnext.mc.duke.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Opener 3.1.1 available from archive sites Date: 16 Aug 1993 00:11:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24n1cn$bpf@digifix.digifix.com> I just submitted Opener v3.1.1 to the sonata and orst archives. sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions Opener_3.1.1.app.README Opener_3.1.1.app.tar.Z Note that this version supersedes Opener v3.1 which was just submitted to the archives last week and may still also reside in /pub/next/submissions. Be sure to download Opener v3.1.1 instead! Eventually the new version should replace the really old version in /pub/next/binaries/util. Opener v3.1.1 is a Multi-Architecture Binary (i.e., fat). It runs on machines running NeXTSTEP 3.0 or later. Differences from Opener 3.1: - new color icons (thanks to Joe Reiss) - fixed case-insensitivity problem for archive file creation - fixed bug where app incorrectly recognized .ps and .eps extensions - fixed bug where app didn't properly prepare .PS and .EPS for Preview (this was an ancient one--apparently nobody uses this capability...) If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions for future updates, please contact one of us: Michael Hawley (mike@media-lab.mit.edu) original author Denise Blakeley (blake015@mc.duke.edu) \__ collaborators on v3.1.x Subrata Sircar (ssircar@canon.com) / Hope you enjoy it! Denise
From: Alastair Thomson <alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ScanMaker.app - Scanning with Microtek scanners Date: 16 Aug 1993 00:35:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24n2r3$c5q@digifix.digifix.com> ScanMaker.app is a beta release of a NeXT application for controlling the Microtek range of scanners. It provides facilities for scanning in colour and black and white, and for saving images in either TIFF or JFIF formats. ScanMaker.app has been tested on both Motorola and Intel hardware with the ScanMaker 600ZS scanner, but should work happily with any of the flat-bed type SCSI scanners. It may even work with the transparency scanners. Alastair Thomson alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/ScanMaker.app.tar.Z cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/ScanMaker.app.tar.Z.README.rtf
From: cgeiger@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Update: NEXTSTEP 3.2 Developer Release Date: 13 Aug 1993 23:04:25 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24hknm$134@digifix.digifix.com> This arrived in my personal mailbox today, and I thought that it would be of interest to all. Hello NEXTSTEP advocates and User Group leaders, I have two important new items for you today... => 1. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 Feature Set => 2. NEXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide (August 10, 1993) [this was already posted to announce on August 9th ] [Message-ID: <2473su$fvq@digifix.digifix.com> ] Please feel free to save these documents for future reference and also distribute these to NEXTSTEP interested individuals in your community. Conrad Geiger NeXT Email: Conrad_Geiger@next.com _________________________________________________________________ => 1. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 Feature Set Retail Price: $1995 Product Includes software on CD-ROM, and full hardcopy technical library. Upgrade Pricing: FREE to those 3.1 customers that register BEFORE 10/31/93 Otherwise, $495. Price is the same for Intel and NeXT Computer versions. New Feature List: HeaderViewer Application Modifications - Update Menu Item - This feature allows the developer to reload precompiled headers into the application, if a new version has been created. Previously, developers had to quit the application and then relaunch it to get a newer version. This feature is useful for developers using HeaderViewer to work with their own object libraries, that are dynamically changing. - Kit Filter Preference - A new preference setting has been added to the application to allow more control over the contents being browsed by the developer. This feature enables object classes to be filtered out that are referenced by other object kits that the developer is browsing, providing the developer with more concise information. For example, a developer may want to only view the DBKit object classes, and not see the AppKit object classes in the browser, even though DBKit includes appkit.h in its definition. The default behavior for HeaderViewer is to italicize the objects in the browser that are included as opposed to being a part of the actual kit. - On-Line Documentation - In addition to the application's online Help facility, full documentation for the application has been added to the online library of technical documentation. ProjectBuilder.app Modifications - Finder Mode - This is a new view option in the ProjectBuilder main window, to allow a developer to find all instances of words/strings inside of the files that live in the different project categories. For example, a developer could search for a particular word or string in the object header and implementation files within the project. The developer can choose whether the search mechanism uses grep syntax for wildcard searches, or the standard UNIX cshell wildcarding. - Improved Bundle Attribute Support - More support for modifying the attributes of bundle projects has been added. For example, the developer is no longer limited to the .bundle extension, but can create an extension unique to their needs. - Object-Server Support - A new project type has been added to ProjectBuilder, called Tools. This project builds applications that are not dependent on the NEXTSTEP GUI, and therefore do not have the standard AppKit event loop processing, etc. The primary goal of this feature is to allow developers to build object services that run in a network, and can be accessed through DO/PDO via NEXTSTEP client applications. This project type also supports the building of standard UNIX command-line programs that do not interact with the NEXTSTEP Window Server. - Initial PDO Support - ProjectBuilder has always been able to build objects/applications remotely over the network, on another NEXTSTEP machine. Changes have been added to allow ProjectBuilder to now communicate via Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) to a non-NEXTSTEP machine, and build objects/applications in the target environment. This will allow PDO developers to build their object services for their servers from a NEXTSTEP client utilizing the same ProjectBuilder facilities they use for NEXTSTEP applications. FileMerge.app - FileMerge is a new application being added as a demo this release, with the intent of making it a fully supported and documented application in the next release. FileMerge is used to compare 2 directories, and show which files are added, deleted, or modified. For a pair of files that are different, the application will show them side-by-side in a view that marks all differences in a very graphical manner. The developer can choose to create a third file, which is viewed below the 2 files being compared, and then selectively merge the two files by choosing which of the above files the changes should come from, for each set of differences. Using this tool, a developer can quickly tell what changed, and quickly merge changes from different source branches with a few mouse clicks. This application will also support an open protocol to allow other tools, such as a Software Configuration Management System, to access and utilize it. Gdb Debugger - Data Breakpoints - Data breakpoints was a feature that existed in NEXTSTEP Release 3.0, but was taken out in Release 3.1 because of its platform dependent implementation. A new platform independent implementation has been added, that is actually more accurate than previous implementations. C++ Support - libg++ - The GNU libg++, v2.3, C++ class libraries are being added to the release. On-line documentation for the library is being added as well. - ld++ Command Wrapper - This wrapper will prevent C++ developers from having to look at mangled names when there is a link error. The errors will be expressed in the native C++ names. GNU Sources - A new package, GNUSource.pkg, is being added to the NEXTSTEP Developer product. This includes all the standard GNU sources that NeXT is required to make available to the public. The package will install the sources in the directory /NextDeveloper/Source/GNU/ by default. In addition to these new features, 3.2 includes both bug fixes and performance enhancements.
From: steve@ion.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MolViewer 0.91 Date: 16 Aug 1993 16:02:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24op3t$fv5@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing MolViewer 0.91 (still for NeXTStep only) ------------------------- Well, I decided to put out another interim release of MolViewer. The new release has several bug fixes and some new features mostly relating to protein chemistry. As a relatively minor release, I did not have anyone beta test it, so there may still be a few bugs lurking around. This is a binary only release. I don't have 3.1 yet, so it will only run on black hardware. It should only require recompilation to work on the Intel version of NS, so if anyone is interested, I can send them the new source to recompile ... As always, MV can be obtained from ion.rice.edu, and I will upload to sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu. Here's a partial list of the changes in this version: The protein tool has been substantially improved for viewing long protein sequences. It is now possible to select a subset of the full sequence for the helical wheel diagram and molecule generation. PLEASE READ THE DOCS BEFORE TRYING TO USE THIS! The amino acid inspector now contains buttons for several standard protein conformations. Molecules can now be saved as .HIN files (Hypechem). This feature is not fully supported yet. It is sufficient to transfer basic molecular structures to hyperchem. The color selection in the preferences inspector is now done with a standard color well instead of entering RGB values. Fixed a bug that caused occasional crashes and improper atom selection when the "make one" button is pressed. THR residues are now recognized correctly. As always, comments and suggestions are more than welcome! Steve Ludtke steve@ion.rice.edu ludtke@physics.rice.edu stevel@alumni.caltech.edu
From: Pete Clark <milo!pclark@ucdavis.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MAB CNews.pkg Date: 16 Aug 1993 16:03:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24op6q$fvc@digifix.digifix.com> I'd like to announce the availability of the CNews installation package for NEXTSTEP. Most of the work is already done - you simply need to install the package (as root), set up a few site-specific files, optionally set up NNTP, turn on your modem, and launch NewsGrazer. This is very similar to an older CNews package distributed on the BANG CD, but it: a) is MAB - intel binaries included. b) includes NNTP c) is the latest release of CNews (the 20 Feb 1993 Performance Release) It does not include any newsreaders, but NewsGrazer and other NEXTSTEP-based newsreaders are freely available. It is in the submissions directory on cs.orst.edu. Contact: Pete Clark pclark@is.com
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces Create Version 2.0 Date: 16 Aug 1993 17:16:31 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24otfd$g91@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Carla Kay Barlow at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF CREATE 2.0 -------------------------------------------- ALBUQUERQUE, NM, August 16, 1993 - Stone Design has announced that it will release a major upgrade to its full-color drawing program, Create, on October 1. Create 2.0 will include many of the features that Stone announced earlier this year as planned for Create version 3.0. According to Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design, "The 2.0 release adds major functionality to Create, while meeting the demand for Create on NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. User Patterns, multiple pages, and object linking are but a few of the new features and bug fixes." New Features for 2.0: * NSFIP compatibility - Create 2.0 offers full compatibility with NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors on NeXT-qualified Intel-based hardware configurations and Motorola-based NeXT hardware. * Hot links to and from Create - Include link buttons, icons and linked files in any Create document for automatic and manual updating; link to Create files from any other NEXTSTEP app that supports hot links. * Filter support - Create supports Bacchus' ImageAgent image filters; e.g. drag and drop GIFs into Create. * Unlimited Patterns - Create stunning patterns with unlimited variety. Share with friends. * Multiple Pages - Add, duplicate and rearrange as many pages in a document as you like. * Animate - Allows you to animate your pages with any delay. * Text into Editable Curves - Take any Super Text and turn into editable shapes. Create your own wild type! * Unlimited Undo - Tell Create how many edit actions to remember, then Undo to your heart's content. * On-line Help - Create 2.0 includes extensive on-line help based on the NEXTSTEP standard. Create 2.0 is offered in multiple-architecture binary form, making it compatible with both NeXT and Intel-based hardware running NEXTSTEP version 3.1 or later. In addition, Stone said, "This version of Create inherits a recent fix that we issued for NEXTSTEP 3.1 users, in the form of Create 1.2. If you're running 3.1, you definitely want this upgrade because it addresses changes to NEXTSTEP that impact certain Create documents." Create 2.0 can be shared on a network comprising both NeXT and Intel hardware; documents created on either machine can be opened on any other machine running the same version of Create. Like all Stone Design products, Create is available directly from the company and at the ftp sites orst.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and ftp.cs.unm.edu. Students who ftp the package and submit proof of current student status can purchase Create at a special rate. No technical support is provided with this purchase option, but easy entry for students is a firm commitment of Stone Design. Create 2.0, which is available to registered users for $99, lists for $495. Trade-ups to Intel versions of all Stone software purchased between February 12, 1993 and May 21, 1993 are available free of charge to end users. ## Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. Create is a trademark of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 33 - 1993 Date: 16 Aug 1993 17:33:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <24oufq$gc8@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 33). Tuesday August 10 through Monday August 16 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 32 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups SUBMISSION: comp.sys.next.announce archives now on cs.orst.edu PRESS RELEASE: WhiteLight Announces Business Modeling Software for NEXTSTEP PRESS RELEASE: Epitome Announces Updated Redmark Software for NEXTSTEP SUBMISSION: TeXmenu Version 4.1 on the archives MEETING: Mid-Willamette NeXT User Announces NEXTSTEP Programming Classes (Part 2 of 4) TONIGHT WANTED: Beta Testers for Personal Productivity Software SUBMISSION: CheckSum Demo 1.1 financial management software for NEXTSTEP SUBMISSION: Best Fortress UPS monitoring program Update: NEXTSTEP 3.2 Developer Release SUBMISSION: Geomview available for NeXTSTEP SUBMISSION: Opener 3.1.1 available from archive sites SUBMISSION: ScanMaker.app - Scanning with Microtek scanners SUBMISSION: MolViewer 0.91 SUBMISSION: MAB CNews.pkg PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces Create Version 2.0 If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 16 Aug 1993 17:36:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <24ouka$gdc@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 16 Aug 1993 17:36:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <24oulc$gdi@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish
From: Shinichirou Sugou <shin@osushi.esug.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: DataBag is released. Date: 16 Aug 1993 17:44:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24ov2v$ge6@digifix.digifix.com> We, SGPT, happily announces that we have started to deliver Databag. About DataBag ============= Using NeXT computer for the daily work, you often come across information/data which you want to save for later use. In such a case, use DataBag instead of the ordinal NeXTSTEP SavePanel. DataBag is a Personal Data Archiver application, which has the following aspects: (1) DataBag manages your valuable data for you. With DataBag, you can collect data in one place. Collecting them in one place generates many merits. (2) What you have to do is only one thing. Transfer data to DataBag using NeXTSTEP data input operation like Cut&Paste, file dragging, or Services Menu etc.. And DataBag takes care of the somewhat tedious settlement which is commonly associated with data management. For example, you need not to worry about the file name for data, nor about the key definition for later data search. (3) With DataBag, you can save all the data types which NeXTSTEP officially offers. Saving Emacs buffer/region content is also possible. (4) For data search, DataBag uses Librarian. The filter service program, with which Librarian can recognize DataBag data-format, is included. Because Librarian has powerful indexing function, it enables incredible fast search even if the data storage becomes large quantities. (5) You can launch data resided on the DataBag window by double clicking. This feature reduces the necessity of WorkSpace. Requirement =========== DataBag requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or more. NEXTSTEP 2.* is unsuitable. We are delivering Black hardware version, but if you request, White hardware (Intel) version is also available now. Price ===== US$100.00. We don't provide the educational price. How to Get DataBag Demo Version =============================== We will place DataBag demo version in some ftp-site in a week or so. Besides ftp, we can send it by e-mail(NeXTMail). The e-mail size is about 700Kbyte. If you prefer snail mail to e-mail, sending it by a floppy is also available. Please let us know your address in the latter case. The demo version can save maximum 50 data. Because 50 data is somewhat large quantities for a normal NeXT user, we think that you can experience DataBag thoroughly. Complete on-line manual is included in the demo version. Our Address =========== SGTP Nishi-Shinjuku 3-111-4 Hasuda city, Saitama pref. Japan 349-01 voice: 81-48-769-9560 (We can't speak English. Japanese only!) fax: 81-48-769-5154 e-mail: info@esug.co.jp Any questions/requests are welcome. Thank you.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SCaN meeting Wed. Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at CSULB Date: 18 Aug 1993 12:20:54 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24tkt4$qes@digifix.digifix.com> Southern California NEXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting Wednesday 1 September 1993 6:30 p.m. California State University, Long Beach Room: Engineering 2, Room 200 (holds over 100 people) Meeting: The planned events are as follows: - See NEXTSTEP running on a fast INTEL GX computer from Intel - See a demo of the IN-FOCUS flat panel display (1024x768) - Several third party apps will be demonstrated If you have any additional ideas for the meeting, please respond to scan@csulb.edu There will be a social at 6:30 with a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Further information and directions will follow in a week or so. Contacts: Mike Mahoney, SCaN President and CSULB Professor (310) 985-1550, e-mail: mahoney@csulb.edu Bob Desharnais, SCaN Vice-Pres. and CSULA Professor (213) 343-2056, e-mail: bob@biol1next.calstatela.edu
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BuzzNUG (Georgia Tech NeXT User Group) August 19th Meeting Announcement Date: 18 Aug 1993 14:26:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24ts84$qqu@digifix.digifix.com> It's almost the third Thursday of the month, time for the NeXT users meeting in Atlanta: When: 7:30pm, August 19th Where: Information Management's conference room (4th floor Suite 430) see directions below Agenda: Jon Buffington will present a technical talk on database programming How to get to Information Management office located at 150 E. Ponce de Leon Ave. (located between Church St. and Clairmont Rd. in Decatur; parking is available in a parking deck behind the offices; the parking deck is accessible from a sideroad that runs between Church and Clairmont; to receive a map via FAX, call me at 381-2464) Hope to see you there!
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Introducing QUESTOR: NEXTSTEP Spreadsheet Application Date: 18 Aug 1993 21:56:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24umjp$sd9@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tyler Janisch Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 (800) 452-7608 Email: info@alembic.com A SUCCESSOR TO IMPROV! Introducing QUESTOR, the serious NEXTSTEP spreadsheet application. Englewood Colorado, August 10, 1993 - Alembic Systems International unveils the long awaited spreadsheet application QUESTOR, as a major software contribution to the NEXTSTEP Operating Environment. The backbone of QUESTOR is a conventional matrix-based spreadsheet application that can easily be used by anybody that has once used spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel, Lotus 123, Lotus Improv, or Wingz. QUESTOR is a spreadsheet specifically designed to take advantage of the graphically rich NEXTSTEP environment, with some inherently powerful features: - A structured scripting language - QScript with an "intelligent" editor including automatic "pretty-printing" and programming support. QScript allows you to customize your worksheet to perform very specific tasks. QScript is an extended version of Xanthus Common Language (XCL), a uniform scripting language used in all Xanthus software products with scripting capabilities. XCL gives you a uniform scripting syntax and a common set of basic functions. In addition, XCL allows you to write extended functions in XCL or Objective-C that can be used by any XCL-based application from Xanthus. - Input controller buttons, text-fields and sliders can be "dragged-and-dropped" anywhere on a worksheet and connected to QScript code or directly to cells by control-dragging. - Output objects like graphs and gauges can be dragged-and-dropped anywhere on a worksheet and connected to cell areas by control-dragging for continuous updating. - Many graph types are supported, including bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (x-y plot) and pie. - Hot-links to the business graphics application Graphity from Xanthus (like Improv and Presentation Builder from Lotus.) Graphity is a business graphics application from Xanthus that supports 3-D graphs. - Seamless connection to SQL databases like Oracle and Sybase using the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP. - Timers that can trigger complex calculations, database queries or any other event at regular intervals. - A powerful double-directed API that allows Questor to easily control and send data to other applications. The API also makes it easy for other applications to control Questor and to feed data into worksheets. - A ToolBox that includes object palettes and a number of other tools that remove the need for modal panels for filling, searching and sorting data. The ToolBox also includes complete scripting support. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized graphs, graphics and control objects. - Drawing tools that allow you to draw directly on the worksheet. - Images and sound can be dragged-and-dropped anywhere on a worksheet to create stunning documents with graphics and sound effects. - Reads the WKS, WK1 and SYLK file formats, which enables you to import worksheets from Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Writes the WK1 file format, which enables you to export worksheets to Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Full support for Lotus 1-2-3 bracket macros. - Multi-level undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - Powerful report layout functions that give you total control over the layout of your document, including direct manipulation and drawing tools. - Full support of object linking. Graphs, cell areas and graphics can be copied and linked into other documents for continuous updating. - The Questor QScript Debugger which allows QScript functions to be debugged in a seamless manner. - Support for multi-user access. Several users can look at the same document but only one can open it in read/write mode. Users with a document opened in read-only mode are notified as soon as the disk version of the document changes. Alembic Systems International Ltd. is an international distributor of North American and European software for the NEXTSTEP Operating Environment. Services also cover the development of custom applications, software training courses for a variety of existing packages, and system integration of NEXTSTEP for Intel coupled with Auspex File Servers. Questor is a registered trademark of Xanthus Software. Improv is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp. All rights reserved. -30-
From: Scott R Violet <xepo@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NXJisho 1.5 on cs.orst.edu Date: 19 Aug 1993 00:44:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <24v0fr$c8@digifix.digifix.com> There is a new version the Japanese-English dictionary called NXJisho on cs.orst.edu. cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/NXJisho1.5.tar.gz The new version fixs a couple of bugs, adds services, adds a front-end to kanjidic, and a few other minor things. NXJisho is a Japanese-English dictionary that is a front-end to kanji16.bdf, kanjidic, and edict, all of which are freely distributable. Comments and criticisms can be mailed to me at xepo@miller.cs.uwm.edu. Scott Violet
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Media Quotes (May-August, 1993) Date: 19 Aug 1993 15:16:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <250jhd$3d1@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings, Below are some great recent media quotes regarding NEXTSTEP. This is something that you might want to keep around for future reference and pass along to others considering NEXTSTEP! There are short positive NEXTSTEP comments from the following publications: UNIX World InfoWorld BYTE The New York Times SF Examiner Oakland Tribune Computers in Physics Global Investment Technology Open Systems Today Computerworld PC Week Network Computing Fortune Magazine PC Magazine Computer Shopper Waters Magazine Santa Cruz Sentinel Conrad Geiger NeXT __________________________________________________________________ NEXTSTEP MEDIA QUOTES (from articles appearing May 26 through August 18, 1993) THE HP DEAL "The H-P alliance put a 'seal of approval' on NeXT's software, which uses a new technology called object orientation that makes it easier to create customized computer applications." --- Dataquest analyst Paul Cubbage for the SF Examiner,May 26, 1993 "I think this could be a big hit for NeXT. It will be some months before we see working systems, but H-P is as good as anyone at bringing technology to market." --- Dataquest analyst Paul Cubbage for the SF Examiner,May 26, 1993 "NeXT has done a lot better than anyone else in using (object oriented programming) to make applications development easier." --- Dataquest analyst Paul Cubbage for the SF Examiner,May 26, 1993 "His [Steve Jobs'] position's greatly improved. There is a focused strategy that goes with the HP-NeXT deal." --- Dataquest analyst Lisa Thorell for Oakland Tribune,May 26, 1993 "NeXT scores key software deal with HP" -- Oakland Tribune, May 26. 1993 "Alliance with HP gives Next marketing muscle, credibility" -- InfoWorld, May 31, 1993 "HP is very good for Next. It's a very rigorous company." -- William Young, senior systems engineer for Trident Data Systems of Los Angeles for InfoWorld, May 31, 1993 "The partnership of H-P and NeXT gives CRT, 'the best of both worlds. You have the best rapid development environment and superior power both on the server and on the desktop, along with a new commitment from NeXT to interoperability with DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) and OpenView (H-P's network and system management environment) support. Plus, we have the service organization from H-P that we've really grown to depend on.'" -- John Keazirian, CRT's Executive Vice President of Technology for Global Investment Technology, June 28, 1993 PORTABLE DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS (PDO) "The PDO software announced here helps fix one of the major problems for Next users: the lack of powerful servers capable of running objects created with NextStep. With PDO, users could offload processor-intensive tasks to a shared Unix RISC server, for instance. -- Open Systems Today, June 7, 1993 "PDO is a leading-edge technology that larger vendors are likely to emulate." --Rikki Kirzner, principal analyst at Dataquest for Computerworld, June 28, 1993 "It [PDO] once again shows that the innovative thinking and advanced features from NeXT could push the industry forward. They're still a leading-edge player, but I think that the technology will be copied in one form or another." -- Rikki Kirzner, principal analyst at Dataquest for Computerworld, June 28, 1993 NEXTSTEP 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS GENERAL COMMENTS "NEXTSTEP/Intel raises bar for X86-based Unix" -- PC Week, June 28, 1993 "NeXT Inc.'s NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors 3.1 is not your Dad's Operating System. It combines an arresting interface with excellent connectivity, multitasking muscle and a powerful object-oriented development environment." -- PC Week, June 28, 1993 "NEXTSTEP is the most approachable and full-featured of the Unix systems available on the Intel Corp. platform." -- PC Week, June 28, 1993 "The steep hardware requirements may not make it the Volkswagen of operating systems, but there's always a market for a Mercedes." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "There are many nice things to be said for NeXTSTEP v3.1. It has a pretty good interface, supports several network architectures out-of-the-box and has an incredible set of development tools." -- Network Computing, June 1993 "Overall, we rank NeXTSTEP v3.1 as a good buy, especially for sites that need to develop, distribute and manage corporate applications." -- Network Computing, June 1993 "NextStep. When Steve Jobs introduced this software as the operating system for his Next computers in 1988, he claimed it was years ahead of its time. He was right." -- Fortune Magazine, June 14, 1993 "Using NextStep, corporate customers can readily assemble software modules to fit their business needs and modi operandi. They can program more quickly and economically than with traditional methods and thereafter update their applications with ease." -- Fortune Magazine, June 14, 1993 "NextStep 3.1 for Intel: Users say it sizzles on 486 machines and is the best OOP Platform." -- Computerworld, June 14. 1993 "Evaluators said Next, Inc's NextStep for Intel is a robust implementation of the operating system and development environment. They were surprised that performance on the Intel platform exceeded that of Next's proprietary hardware." -- Computerworld, June 14. 1993 "We foresee NeXTStep taking a place similar to that of the Macintosh: an operating system that's not for everyone, but extraordinarily powerful and easy to use for those willing to travel a path away from the mainstream." -- PC Magazine, August 1993 "Do keep your eyes open for NeXTSTEP, NeXT's evolutionary--and in some ways revolutionary--operating environment for 486 or higher PC's..." -- Computer Shopper, July 1993 "Next's shift from workstation manufacturer to software vendor was a smart move: NextStep for Intel Processors is a nice system." -- BYTE, August 1993 "...the move to a platform where even high-end hardware can get real cheap real fast will help to ensure this elegant operating system's future." -- BYTE, August 1993 "Nextstep for Intel brings exceptional graphics, a powerful object environment, and UNIX interoperability to the PC." -- UNIX World, September 1993 "Nextstep 3.1 shows that Next has made an effort to be a "good neighbor" to other desktop systems." -- UNIX World, September 1993 VERSUS THE COMPETITION "Against Solaris and SCO Unix, NextStep is comparable in performance an superior in its user interface." -- BYTE, August 1993 "How about Windows NT? It, too, is a microkernel-based 32-bit multitasking system for networking environments and requires top-of-the-line hardware. But NextStep is more complete, already established by users and VARs and it is easier to develop applications for NextStep than for NT. NT's interface is Windows, which is already familiar to millions of users. NextStep's interface is better, in my opinion, but it does not come with a large supply of pretrained users." -- BYTE, August 1993 "Many computer industry executives consider NEXTSTEP to be more advanced than object-oriented software from Microsoft, Apple and I.B.M." -- The New York Times, May 26. 1993 DEVELOPER PRODUCT "For developers of corporate information systems and custom applications, NEXTSTEP provided an integrated object-oriented programming environment and access to databases." -- PC Week, June 28, 1993 "...as a platform for building and distributing corporate applications, NeXTSTEP v3.1 brings more to the party than any other operating system." -- Network Computing, June 1993 "NeXTSTEP v3.1's greatest strength is in its development tools. Since so much code is reusable, industrial-strength applications can be built in no time, and they will be of professional quality. And there is a huge variety of third-party tools for everything from add-on database access libraries to telephony-based tools." -- Network Computing, June 1993 "The NeXTSTEP development environment is arguably one of the most significant software engineering accomplishments of the past decade." -- Computers in Physics, May/June 1993 "The relative shortfall of commercial applications for NextStep is of continuing concern. But the evaluators claimed the NextStep development environment outweighs this issue." -- Computerworld, June 14. 1993 "From a developer perspective...NextStep for Intel has no peer. Starting with the complement of developer tools such as Interface Builder and extending to the enhanced and simplified Unix utility programs, NextStep has few rivals as an operating environment." -- Computerworld, June 14. 1993 "Still, in testing, NeXTStep worked like a fine Swiss watch both in standalone mode and concurrently as a node on NetWare and TCP/IP networks. And adventurous programmers will be delighted with NextStep's development environment." -- PC Magazine, August 1993 "...developers, once they've played with NeXTSTEP, are completely hooked." -- Computer Shopper, July 1993 "Its designers favored elegance and simplicity and ignored existing conventions that they didn't feel made sense. This is important to users, but it's even more important to developers. -- Computer Shopper, July 1993 ON OBJECTS "NeXT has rigorously adhered to the object-oriented paradigm in NeXTStep." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "Object-Orientation has become a way of life for McCaw Cellular" -- Open Systems Today, June 7, 1993 "NeXTStep brings objectivity to operating systems" -- PC Magazine, August 1993 "With the arrival of NeXTStep, object-oriented operating systems are no longer the stuff of science fiction for PC users. It is just this design approach that makes NeXTStep an extraordinary development platform ready for corporate America." -- PC Magazine, August 1993 "NeXTStep hides its Unix-based core with a great object-oriented interface." -- PC Magazine, August 1993 "Next no longer makes computers. But it continues to do what it has always done best-developing and delivering system software that offers many of the benefits of object orientation that Taligent and Cairo still only promise. Unlike these others, NextStep provides easily customized and easily linked functional modules today, as it has for over four years." -- BYTE, August 1993 GUI AND GRAPHICS "NeXTStep's real-time graphics amaze and delight." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "NeXTStep gives you eye-popping true-color visual images that move with incredible fluidity on-screen." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "NeXTStep for PCs is as beautiful and awe-inspiring to look at as its picture on the company's sleek black boxes." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "Its easy-to-use-object-oriented interface makes it stand apart from the other 32-bit operating systems." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "NeXTStep for Intel Processors has a user Interface that's nothing short of breathtaking." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "With 24-bit graphics support, NeXTStep offers true-color images that move with incredible fluidity on-screen." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "Users who are familiar with GUIs will feel right at home in NeXTSTEP; they need not be concerned with Unix at all." -- Computers in Physics, May/June 1993 "Other than built-in networking, multimedia e-mail, true multitasking, and support for 24-bit true color graphics, what does NeXTStep deliver? First and foremost is a breathtaking interface-the Workspace Manager-that rivals and even surpasses that of the Macintosh." -- PC Magazine, August 1993 "In effect, [NEXTSTEP] is a GUI and an application framework rolled into one." -- Computer Shopper, July 1993 "It isn't just the object-oriented design and the Mach-based operating system that have made NextStep so popular with its users and developers; it is also the visual design, the graphical elements that come with the system, and the ease of use that these elements provide the user." -- BYTE, August 1993 "When it comes to applications, Nextstep's graphics shine." -- UNIX World, September 1993 SYSTEM, INSTALLATION, SETUP "Based on a variant of the Unix operating system called Mach, NextStep is a stable and reliable platform." -- Computerworld, June 14. 1993 "While multiple operations still leave Windows 3.1 floundering, NeXTStep (thanks to its enhanced Mach operating kernel) never skips a stitch while running half a dozen operations at once." -- PC Magazine, June 15, 1993 "Installing the operating system was simplicity itself." -- PC Week, June 28, 1993 "Setting up a network was easy." -- PC Week, June 28, 1993 "NEXTSTEP and UnixWare stand out among the Unix-on-Intel operating systems in their truly transparent NetWare access." -- PC Week, June 28, 1993 "Tasks that take much time and knowledge on other platforms just work out of the box." -- Computers in Physics, May/June 1993 "Once NeXTSTEP has been set up and is running, it requires less software administration work and is far more functional, than single-user operating systems." -- Computers in Physics, May/June 1993 "NextStep also provides a standard software installer and many other common utilities. By providing commonality among the applications and utilities, Next has made its operating system very easy to learn-despite its Unix underpinnings." -- BYTE, August 1993 "An important benefits to Next's move to Intel machines is the opportunity that the Pentium offers-multiprocessor multitasking." -- BYTE, August 1993 "Nextstep supports tremendous functionality and integration." -- UNIX World, September 1993 APPLICATIONS "All the typical office-based applications, such as word processors and spreadsheets, are available for the NeXTSTEP environment. And since application developers can reuse application objects in their programs, the applications are all highly consistent." -- Network Computing, June 1993 "... the available applications are some of the best around. Indeed, many features now being introduced on other platforms have been available under NeXTSTEP for years." -- Network Computing, June 1993 "NeXTStep isn't high and dry on the application side either. Word Perfect, Mesa (a spreadsheet) and Gupta SQLBase Server are now available, to name a few. NeXT includes a catalog of apps along with a sampler CD-ROM in NeXTStep. It also comes richly endowed with its own apps..." -- PC Magazine, August 1993 "Conspicuously absent among developers' clever schemes was the notion of special-purpose or custom "applets" offered to artists from the desktop through linking mechanisms such as OLE or Publish and Subscribe. Perhaps the only GUI up to the task of enabling this approach of application integration from the desktop is NeXTstep. Steve Jobs may yet hit his second homer as NeXTstep goes mainstream with its arrival on Intel processors." -- Computer Artist, June/July 1993 "NextStep applications have the same high level of consistency that you find in Mac applications." -- BYTE, August 1993 IN EDUCATION "NEXTSTEP has lived up to its promise in an educational environment." --- Computers in Physics, May/June 1993 CUSTOMER COMMENTS "As for choosing the object-oriented environment: Until next-generation products like Microsoft's Cairo and the Apple/IBM Taligent appear, SmallTalk and NextStep seemed to be the only available full-fledged object systems" -- Ingvar Petursson of McCaw Cellular for Open Systems Today, June 7, 1993 "NextStep provided integrated tools and a set of objects that cut down the amount of development staff needed to do. It also had the multimedia support that's key to some of the applications that McCaw is developing, like the customer service software that displays phone images and plays the sound that indicate network problems." -- Wayne Yerigan, Axys technical architect, of McCaw Cellular for Open Systems Today, June 7, 1993 "I've never experienced a failure on NextStep, mostly because it's a Unix operating system." -- Telecom firm for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "We're doing things with NextStep that it doesn't normally support by extending the development environment." -- Integrator for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "I was surprised at how seamlessly everything came together." -- Developer for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "It's plug and play. You load it and it goes." -- Telecom firm for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "We were able to turn out a new [NextStep-ready] system in an hour." -- Integrator for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "NextStep is giving us a 100-to 1 magnification over conventional programming environments." -- Developer for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "It is 'the best environment known to mankind for object-oriented software development. It's not worth talking about because no one will believe you.'" --Telecom firm for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "Everything a person could think of is in Unix, and Next has packaged those [Unix] commands into good user interface objects." -- Developer for Computerworld, June 14, 1993 "One of the great things about [NEXTSTEP] is its iconic graphic visualization. You get quite visual in the NeXT world and I think that's really how people connect." -- Duncan Wilcox of Nicholas-Applegate for Waters Magazine, Summer 1993 "I believe in it [NEXTSTEP for Intel] firmly and will definitely go in that direction because it gives us a lot of flexibility and allows us to preserve some of the hardware investment that we've already made." -- Duncan Wilcox of Nicholas-Applegate for Waters Magazine, Summer 1993 "I just think it's the best face UNIX has ever put on. I've been playing with all kinds of different X Windows tools to try and examine alternatives. We've had Reuters Advanced Trader Workstation, FD's Xtrade, a lot of X Windows-based packages, and it's just not the same." -- Duncan Wilcox of Nicholas-Applegate for Waters Magazine, Summer 1993 "One of NeXT's greatest advantages is if you learn how to print a document from one application, it's the same functionality on every other application. Whereas if you print in Excel or in Microsoft Word or in Paradox, it's all different." -- Duncan Wilcox of Nicholas-Applegate for Waters Magazine, Summer 1993 "I say: 'I think it just takes us to put on a solid face that we're committed and we'll get other people on board.' My new phrase is: 'If we build it, they will come.'" -- Duncan Wilcox of Nicholas-Applegate for Waters Magazine, Summer 1993 "Next has a fully developed product. It was the only product on the market that was mature. Nextstep will allow programmers to quickly develop new applications. -- Gary Roberts, Skyway's vice president of information systems for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 8, 1993 "Skyway looked at six companies, including Sun Microsystems, NCR and Pyramid Technology before selecting NeXT." -- Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 8, 1993 --end--
From: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary Chang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SLIPCommander.3.21.MAB Date: 19 Aug 1993 15:18:58 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <250jn0$3e5@digifix.digifix.com> This is currently under /pub/next/submission and may be moved to pub/next/binaries/comm after a while. cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/SLIPCommander3.21.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/SLIPCommander3.21.README Welcome to SLIPCommander3.21. ============================ This is a maintenance upgrade to the previous SLIPCommander 3.2. SLIPCommander contains lots of great ideas that you would ever think of doing over your SLIP connection. Check this out if you are a serious SLIPper. CheckSums ========= nextbaby> ls -l SLIPCommander3.21.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 garyc 524466 Aug 19 11:35 SLIPCommander3.21.tar.gz nextbaby> sum SLIPCommander3.21.tar.gz 35864 513 Version 3.21 Improvements & bug fixed ===================================== * SLIPCommander is now FAT, in MAB format for both NeXT Black hardware and Intel boxes. (not sure about whether it will still be compatible with SLIP/Intel or not! But worth a try anyway) * Yes, you may send out NeXT-Mails off-line to save connection cost. SLIPCommander now automatically flushes the mail queue where your outgoing mails are stored while SLIP was inactive. * A bug in BackUp Plan that caused incomplete Plain Directory backup has been fixed. * Change the default button in the disconnecting alert panel to be <Disconnect> instead of <Cancel>. * Added a <cmd-M> for GetMail short-key. ================= From About.rtfd ============================================ SLIPCommander.app is a NeXTStep Interface to the SLIP commands provided in the TransSys DialUpIP SLIP package by Louis A. Mamakos. Installation of the latest SLIP_v1.pkg version 920904 is highly recommended. SLIPCommander simplifies the SLIP connection/disconnection process as well as 'rlogin' and retrieving mails from multiple remote sites. A set of very informative panel buttons are used to provide a NeXTStep looks & feels Interface. All the features are further enhanced by a built-in CRON that can be set to download mails and news while you are away from your NeXT. And the Backup Plan creates a Mirroring disk of your local NeXT on your SLIP connected remote account. Multiple sites mail retrieval and rlogin are no longer a hassle. Plus the TimeSync with remote host via your SLIP connection. If you use SLIP connection a lot, you will find SLIPCommander a very sexy companion along with your NeXT. So, don't SLIP out without SLIPCommander. What's in the SLIPCommander? ============================ * TimeSync with remote time keeper. * Toggle SLIP with connection/disconnection button. * NeXTMails are always just a 'click' away. * Auto-redial within time-out on a busy phone line . * Monitoring your SLIP connection status. * Toll-Saver clock showing the total connection time. * Retrieving Mails from multiple accounts on remote sites. * Need more dock space? Automatically 'rlogin' into remote sites using Stuart. * Backup plan for remote to/from local storage backups (Disk Mirroring). * CRON clock, a silent worker, which wakes up at a specific time to do things such as retrieving mails, downloading news, ftp, backups, synchronize system clock,...,etc. garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (NeXT-Mail O.K)
From: Clifford T. Matthews <iclone!ctm@cs.unm.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Executor 1.2.2g on archives Date: 19 Aug 1993 15:20:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <250jpa$3eb@digifix.digifix.com> Executor 1.2.2g is available via from: ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/ardi/Executor_122g.tar cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Executor_122g.tar nova.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Executor_122g.tar Executor is a commercial Macintosh emulator that runs on NEXTSTEP versions 3.0 and greater, on both Motorola and Intel platforms. There are a wide variety of limitations in Executor still, but since the current sale price expires on September 1, if you think you might want Executor, then you might want to buy now. More information can be found in the README file: ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/ardi/Executor/README cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Executor_122g.README nova.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Executor_122g.README Questions answered at: questions@ardi.com ARDI Suite 101 1650 University Blvd., NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 Phone: +1 505 766 9115 FAX: +1 505 247 1899 Price: Academic Non-Academic Before Sept. 1 $99+shipping $149+shipping After Sept. 1 $249* $499* *After Sept. 1 Shipping is free within U.S.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Pencom Seeks 37 NEXTSTEP/OOP Engineers (CA, TX, Northeast, Midwest US) Date: 20 Aug 1993 02:20:54 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <251qg4$5pb@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson Manager, Advanced Technologies Recruiting Pencom 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Fax: 512-346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com Pencom seeks 37 NEXTSTEP/OOP Engineers for internal and external projects for our distinguished list of clients. AUSTIN, TEXAS - August 20, 1993 - Pencom Software's team of NEXTSTEP engineers are dedicated to providing services to developers and end user organizations equipped with workstations and software from NeXT Incorporated. A NeXT-authorized systems integrator as well as a registered NEXTSTEP software developer, Pencom provides a full range of services to support users and vendors in adopting this revolutionary technology. Pencom continues to be the leader in NEXTSTEP/OO software development and consulting services, and has the largest staff of NEXTSTEP engineers outside of NeXT themselves. Pencom Software is a division of Pencom Systems Incorporated, a New York-based firm providing software engineering and manpower resources to Fortune 500 companies and leading computer firms since 1973. Currently the largest recruiting firm specializing in the UNIX/Open Systems market, Pencom employs over 500 people and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 80 NeXT machines. NOTE: The following permanent and contract positions require NO LESS than 2 years industry experience, and permanent positions require permanent residence. THANK YOU for your cooperation. If you are interested in being kept informed about positions but are not actively seeking employment, please email contact information in confidence to clint@pencom.com. CALIFORNIA 1 - NEXTSTEP System Administrator * NEXTSTEP/UNIX/HP system administration experience * Network Management background * Objective-C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment 1 - NEXTSTEP Network Administrator * NEXTSTEP/UNIX/HP system administration experience * Network Management background * TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, Communications protocols * Objective-C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment 4 - NEXTSTEP Software Engineers * NEXTSTEP/UNIX application software development * Strong NEXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder experience * High level design, rapid prototyping in NEXTSTEP environment * Ability to work in a dynamic team environment * Strong Objective-C or C++ programming experience * Ability to transfer NEXTSTEP technology to engineers * 5 to 6 years experience 1- Director of Software Engineering * 8-10 years industry experience * Strong management skills * Hands on development UNIX/NEXTSTEP/OOP * Project scheduling, planning, budgeting * Product development * RDBMS or Database KIT 1 - Director of Support * 8-10 years industry experience * Strong customer support experience * Strong management experience * Director level experience * 4 management reports * 37 indirect reports 1 - Manager of Support * 7-9 years industry experience * Strong management skills * Account management * Contract negotiation, proposals, P&L * UNIX/NeXT environment * 8 direct reports 2 - Systems Engineers * 4+ years industry experience * 2+ years OOP (NEXTSTEP/C++) * RDBMS (ORACLE/SYBASE/Database Kit) * Applications development * Sales/Marketing experience * Strong interpersonal skills * Willing to travel 1 - Systems Engineering Manager * 7-10+ years industry experience * 2+ years OOP (NEXTSTEP/C++) * RDBMS (ORACLE/SYBASE/Database Kit) * Sales/Marketing/Management experience * Strong interpersonal skills * Willing to travel 1 - Senior Sybase Database Developer * 5+ years database design and database applications development experience * 3 years application development experience UNIX * 2 years Sybase experience * 1+ year applications experience in NEXTSTEP or OOP 1 - NEXTSTEP/UNIX Trading Applications Developer * 5-7 years UNIX/C/C++ * Financial applications, Equity trading systems * Sybase/RDBMS/Database Kit * OOP/C++/Objective-C * Sun workstation 1- NEXTSTEP Programmer (CONTRACT 4-6 months) * Objective-C ,OOP, GUI, RDBMS, i486 * Strong NEXTSTEP applications development.. * 2+ years NEXTSTEP, 5+ years industry experience TEXAS 1 - Senior Sybase Database Developer (CONTRACT 12 months) * 5+ years database design and database applications development experience * 3 years application development experience UNIX * 2+ years Sybase applications experience * 1+ year applications experience in NEXTSTEP or OOP 1 - NEXTSTEP Software Engineers * Strong NEXTSTEP applications development * Strong UNIX, Objective-C, C++ * AppKit, Interface Builder, Database Kit * Strong RDBMS * Transfer of NEXTSTEP technology * Software training or teaching experience * 4 to 6 years industry experience NORTHEAST 3 - Systems Engineers * 4+ years industry experience * 2+ years OOP (NEXTSTEP/C++) * RDBMS (ORACLE/SYBASE/Database Kit) * Applications development * Strong interpersonal skills * Willing to travel 2 - OOP Software Engineers * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C,Smalltalk) * 2+ years Object Oriented analysis/design * 1+ years NEXTSTEP applications development * Strong RDBMS, ORACLE, SYBASE, Database Kit * 3-4 years industry experience 1 - NEXTSTEP/SUN System Administrator * NEXTSTEP/SUN system administration experience * Network Management background * Objective-C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment a must 4 - NEXTSTEP/UNIX Trading Applications Developers (CONTRACTS 4-6 months) * 5-7 years UNIX/C/C++ * Financial applications, Equity/Derivatives trading systems * Sybase/RDBMS/Database Kit plus * OOP/C++/Objective-C plus * Sun workstations MID-WEST 2 - NEXTSTEP/UNIX Trading Applications Developer * 5-7 years UNIX/C/C++ * Financial applications, Equity trading systems * Sybase/RDBMS/Database Kit * OOP/C++/Objective-C * Sun workstations 1 - NEXTSTEP Customer Support Representative * Customer support rep. to handle day-to-day support issues * Professional phone experience. * 50% phone support, 15% travel, 15% testing * 20% pre/post sales (reactive and pro-active) * High energy level, self starter * Some sadm exp. helpful * Experience w/NEXTSTEP, OOP, UNIX/C/C++ 1 - SQA Engineer * Highly organized, debugging/test/sqa exp. * Build database for testing * Collect and organize bug fixes, reporting bugs * 50% testing, 50% organizing * Back-up sysadm/support engineers 2 - CDI (compact disc interactive) software engineer * NEXTSTEP/C/C++ experience with CDI * OS/9, image compression/audio/CAD, 2-D graphics 2 - CD-ROM Software Engineers * Strong C programmer with multimedia exp. including viewing/emulation * Take multimedia presentations to CD-ROM environment * Disc mastering, video/audio/frame 2 - NEXTSTEP Programmers * Objective-C ,OOP, GUI, RDBMS, i486 * Strong NEXTSTEP applications development.. * 2+ years NEXTSTEP, 5+ years industry experience More positions soon...
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SchemaE NEXTSTEP DB Application Now Works with Oracle & Sybase Databases Date: 20 Aug 1993 21:09:06 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <253sjg$9r6@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Redwood City, California August 20th, 1993 Contact: Lowell Schneider, President, Schema Research Corporation 2603 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 415/368-8477 Email: Products@LSC.com SchemaE NEXTSTEP DB Application Now Works with Oracle & Sybase Databases Schema Research Corporation announced today that it will show an early version of SchemaE(tm) 1.2 that does for Oracle(r) database designs what it now does for Sybase(r). Schema Research will show SchemaE working with Oracle on the NeXT booth at the Oracle International User Group meeting in Orlando, Florida September 27th through October 1st, 1993. The Oracle capabilities and many other new features will be included in SchemaE version 1.2 scheduled for release in February, 1994. SchemaE is a NEXTSTEP(r) CASE database design and management tool that integrates with the NEXTSTEP object-oriented software development tools InterfaceBuilder(r) and Database Kit(r) (DB Kit) for building client/server systems quickly and without extensive programming. SchemaE creates or modifies the database and creates the "model" file needed by DB Kit. DB Kit and Interface Builder provide the tools for creating the applications that use the database. "By automatically generating a DB Kit model, SchemaE helps application developers quickly build custom database applications for NEXTSTEP" says Margaret Chan, Manager of Software Product Marketing at NeXT Computer. SchemaE speeds development and improves the design process by eliminating the need for SQL scripts or programming to update database designs. SchemaE reverse engineers the database every work session, presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the database schema. Changes such as creating tables, adding columns, or changing data types are simple graphical changes to the schema diagram. One command updates the database. Documentation added in SchemaE is stored with the database in special extensions that can be accessed by other tools. "We think SchemaE is a tremendous tool. What we appreciate most is that it directly manipulates the database and then generates the scripts to produce other databases. That is what has saved us so much time. Other tools require more steps to accomplish this" says Wayne Lund of McCaw Cellular, Kirkland, Washington. By dramatically reducing the time and effort invested in each design cycle, SchemaE allows more cycles and therefore encourages greater overall quality of design. "We are redefining CASE to eliminate the distinction between design and implementation by integrating SchemaE tightly with the database." said Lowell Schneider, president of Schema Research Corp. "SchemaE dynamically updates your database and preserves all documentation and design components in the same data dictionary with all implementation components." Bruce McKenzie of PDH, Inc. in San Jose says that "virtually every schema manipulation action can be performed through SchemaE, and the support for DBModels has almost freed us from ever using DBModeler. We no longer worry about getting data from one schema into another. It's as though the data weren't there, it's so easy. SchemaE gave us the confidence to make schema changes that would have been too expensive (in labor hours) before. We estimate that SchemaE gave us a 10-to-1 speedup in the database design and maintenance phases of our projects." Schema Research Corporation provides database expertise in tools, education, and consulting. Please call 415/368-8477 for more information.
From: "Paul F. Kunz" <Paul_Kunz@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HippoDraw 2.0 Date: 21 Aug 1993 00:05:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2546ur$bic@digifix.digifix.com> HippoDraw 2.0 is now available from the following anonymous ftp hosts... sonata.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next/submissions cs.orst.edu in pub/next/submissions ftp.slac.stanford.edu in pub/sources The following extract from the Hippo2.0.README file describes what HippoDraw and what are the various files related to it... HippoDraw is an application to view data that is the form of n-tuples. A n-tuple is a table of data with a fixed number of columns and a (perhaps large) number of rows. HippoDraw can create histograms and plots which are projections of the n-tuple's columns. In HippoDraw you can also do some analysis on your data. For example, you can plot data only if data in some column fits with in range, i.e. a cut. Any number of cuts can be applied to plot, and a given cut can be applied to any number of plots. You can also add new columns to your data interactively. This is done via a dynamically loaded C function. HippoDraw provides you with a template for this function. With HippoDraw, one can also plot functions over histograms and x-y displays. There's also a built in minimization program, Minuit, to get the best fit function to the data. You can dynamically link in your own custom plot functions. HippoDraw is also a drawing program. The plots are just drawing objects. The drawing code was taken from /NextDeveloper/Examples/Draw. Everything in HippoDraw is controlled via the GUI; there are no commands and no scripts. The drawing document contains the analysis, so there's no need for command scripts. HippoDraw contains built-in help, so there is no separate users manual. HippoDraw uses the Hippoplotamus package (or Hippo for short ) for managing the n-tuple data and creating the plots. This package is written in ANSI C, thus is portable. It also writes its binary files to files using SUN's XDR format, so the data is portable as well. That is, the binary file can be read either Motorola or Intel based machines. A plain text format exists as well (see help). Its display package has support for X-Windows, PostScript, and Unix Plot as well as Display PostScript. All but the main program and the main application nib file are contained in an Interface Builder bundle. Thus HippoDraw can be incorporated into other applications that perhaps generate or use the n-tuple data. Contact the authors if you are interested in this. Files HippoDraw2.0.tar.Z is the application with Motorola-only binaries for NeXTSTEP 3.0 or later. HippoDraw2.0.mab.tar.Z is the application with Multiple Architecture Binaries (FAT) for NeXTSTEP 3.1 or later (for Intel and Motorola). hippoplotaumus2.0.tar.Z is the Hippo package in source code including its own documentation. It has been tested on most UNIX platforms, DEC VAX/VMS, and IBM VM/CMS. HippoDraw for X/Motif UNIX platforms will be available Q3 1993.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Cub'x Announces Special Academic Pricing for Cub'X-Window v4.0 for NEXTSTEP Date: 21 Aug 1993 01:03:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <254aaa$c0v@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release Contact : Cub'x Systemes Immeuble Sedgwick 7, Rue Peugeot 92563 Rueil Malmaison Cedex France +33 1 47 08 74 40 +33 1 47 08 74 41fax academic@cubx.com Paris, France, Friday August 20th, 1993. - Cub'x Systemes announces a special Academic pricing policy for Cub'X-Window v4.0 for NEXTSTEP. Cub'X-Window v4.0 is now available for NeXT hardware and Intel based platforms, and provides the fastest X11R5 solution for computers under NEXTSTEP, with an amazing range of X display options and numerous exciting functionalities. Cub'x Systemes has decided to offer academic institutions and students a special pricing policy allowing them to access today the highest quality X Window system for NEXTSTEP. "We want everyone in the educational community to be able to run their legacy X applications on their NEXTSTEP computers. NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle offers educational users a unique object oriented environment at a terrific pricing. We want them to get a high quality X11R5 solution for NEXTSTEP computers at a very affordable price, much in the line of NS/FIP pricing policy." says Gerard Laurent, Cub'x Systemes General Manager. "Cub'X-Window provides this solution today. It is the fastest, it offers the widest range of features and X display options, and is the least expensive of all X Window commercial products for NEXTSTEP." Both sets of packages for NeXT hardware and Intel based computers are provided in the new Cub'X-Window CD-ROM, allowing the user to install X Window on any computer under NEXTSTEP. Cub'X-Window allows you to run X applications locally on your NEXTSTEP computer, or display X applications running on other X Window workstations of your network. You can also develop or port X applications on your NEXTSTEP computer with Cub'X-Window Development Tools module. Moreover Cub'X-Window v4.0 for NS/FIP proposes on CD-ROM the complete X11R5 sources and some contributions as provided by the MIT. Cub'X-Window supports Tab Window Manager (twm), OSF/Motif 1.2 is available. For more information and order, please contact : Cub'x Systemes Immeuble Sedgwick 7, Rue E. & A. Peugeot 92563 Rueil Malmaison Cedex France Tel : +33 1 47 08 74 40 Fax : +33 1 47 08 74 41 academic@cubx.com Academic pricing - Cub'X-Window North American unit price Cub'X-Window CD-ROM US$ 100 OSF Motif 1.2 US$ 120 Site licenses available, please contact us. Cub'X-Window v4.0 CD-ROM includes Cub'X-Window Runtime and Development tools for NeXT hardware and Intel based computers. OSF Motif 1.2 module includes Motif Window Manager, Motif development libraries and includes, as well manual pages.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 34 - 1993 Date: 23 Aug 1993 14:32:37 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <25b2g4$sup@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 34). Monday August 16 through Monday August 23 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 33 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: DataBag is released. MEETING: SCaN meeting Wed. Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at CSULB MEETING: BuzzNUG (Georgia Tech NeXT User Group) August 19th Meeting Announcement PRESS RELEASE: Introducing QUESTOR: NEXTSTEP Spreadsheet Application SUBMISSION: NXJisho 1.5 on cs.orst.edu NEXTSTEP Media Quotes (May-August, 1993) SUBMISSION: SLIPCommander.3.21.MAB SUBMISSION: Executor 1.2.2g on archives JOB: Pencom Seeks 37 NEXTSTEP/OOP Engineers (CA, TX, Northeast, Midwest US) PRESS RELEASE: SchemaE NEXTSTEP DB Application Now Works with Oracle & Sybase Databases SUBMISSION: HippoDraw 2.0 Cub'x Announces Special Academic Pricing for Cub'X-Window v4.0 for NEXTSTEP SUBMISSION: Play3401 v1.0 released If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 23 Aug 1993 14:34:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <25b2j0$suv@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 23 Aug 1993 14:34:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <25b2k4$sv5@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish
From: loki@goat.geo.arizona.edu (M.L Demsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: QuaelMail.app.compressed Date: 24 Aug 1993 01:26:57 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25c8qv$29f@digifix.digifix.com> New WhatEverWhere from Quaeler Software: QuaelMail. QuaelMail lets the user with a NeXT not on the internet receive NeXTMail on a remote machine and put it in their local machine mailbox for viewing. QM is compiled under OS3.0 and available via anonymous ftp from nova.cc.purdue.edu under /pub/next/submissions (later under /pub/next/3.0/bin). Take care, Loki loki@Goat.Geo.Arizona.EDU
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Southern California NEXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) September Meeting Date: 24 Aug 1993 01:27:25 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25c8rr$29m@digifix.digifix.com> Southern California NEXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting WHEN: Wednesday, 1 September 1993, 6:30 p.m. WHERE: California State University, Long Beach Room: Engineering 2, Room 200 (holds over 100 people) AGENDA (The planned events are as follows:) - See NEXTSTEP running on a fast INTEL GX computer from Intel - See a demo of the InFocus LCD flat panel display (1024x768) - Demo of QuickBase database products and other third party apps There will be a social at 6:30 with a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Directions: Take the San Diego (405) freeway to Long Beach and get off at Palo Verde. Go toward the beach on Palo Verde past two lights (Stearns and Atherton). Parking: Free parking is available on Palo Verde, but it may be difficult to find a spot. You can also park for $1.50 in Lot C (off Palo Verde). Get a permit from one of the yellow machines. Engineering-2 is the building behind ECS. For further info, contact: Mike Mahoney SCaN President and CSULB Professor (310) 985-1550 Email: mahoney@csulb.edu Walt Duflock SCaN Program Director (714) 730-8057 Email: walt@cerf.net
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT and Continental to Market NEXTSTEP on Continental Computers Date: 24 Aug 1993 01:41:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25c9ll$2dt@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Joe Bacher Continental Computer Systems 800-776-1229 NeXT AND CONTINENTAL TO MARKET NEXTSTEP SOFTWARE ON CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS REDWOOD CITY, CALIF., August 24, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. and Continental Computer Systems today announced plans for Continental to resell NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, with Continental's Intel-based personal computers. Continental will offer NEXTSTEP on selected products to meet customer demands for developing and deploying client/server applications. Continental Computer Systems, headquartered in Newington, CT, is a supplier of networked computer systems, software and services. Continental will resell and pre-install NEXTSTEP on selected Intel 486 and Pentium-based platforms. "By offering NEXTSTEP as a choice of operating systems on Continental PCs, we will meet customers' specific demands for state-of-the-art development environments on high-performance, Continental PC platforms." said Chris Lukas, president of Continental Computer Systems." "Customers will benefit from NEXTSTEP's availability on high-performance PCs such as Continental's, because they will receive an integrated hardware/software solution to develop and deploy mission-critical client/server applications," said Warren Weiss, vice president of sales and marketing at NeXT. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is used by customers to develop and deploy client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped productivity software. NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, CA., 94063. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT auf der GUUG '93 [Ausstellung, Vortrag, Workshop] Date: 24 Aug 1993 17:27:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25e13h$5ti@digifix.digifix.com> ============================= NeXT auf der GUUG '93 ============================= Die NeXT Computer Deutschland GmbH ist auch in diesem Jahr wieder auf der GUUG '93 - der Jahrestagung der German UNIX User Group - in Wiesbaden vom 14. - 16.09.1993 vertreten. Sie finden unseren Ausstellungsstand in Halle 9, B.917 - B.920 Am ersten Konferenztag (Dienstag, 14. Sept. 1993, 10.30 - 11.30 Uhr) wird Steven P. Jobs, Gruender und CEO von NeXT, den Eroeffnungsvortrag zum Thema "Advantages of Object-Oriented Programming based on NEXTSTEP" halten. Darueber hinaus veranstalten wir am 15. September 1993 einen kostenlosen "Take the NEXTSTEP" Workshop, zu dem alle Ausstellungsbesucher herzlich eingeladen sind. -------------------------------------------------------------------- NeXT Computer Deutschland GmbH - Oskar-Messter-Str. 24, 85737 Ismaning, Germany InterNet: de_info@NeXT.com UUCP: de_info%NeXT.com@Germany.EU.net FAX: +49 - 89 -961 23 92 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================= "Take the NEXTSTEP" Workshop ============================= anlaesslich der GUUG '93 - Jahrestagung der German UNIX User Group in Wiesbaden Wann: 15. September 1993, 10.00 - 17.00 Uhr Wo: Wiesbaden, Rhein-Main-Hallen, Saal 1a -- Sektion 4 Was: 10.00 - 10.45 NEXTSTEP User UNIX von seiner schoensten Seite 10.45 - 11.15 NEXTSTEP im Netzwerk Integration auf allen Ebenen 11.30 - 12.30 NEXTSTEP Developer Die innovative objekt-orientierte Entwicklungsumgebung 13.30 - 14.30 Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) Distributed Objects Now and Everywhere (DONE) 15.00 - 16.00 NetInfo -- Mehr als "Gelbe Seiten" Zentrale Netzwerk- und Systemverwaltung leicht gemacht 16.15 - 17.00 Object*Enterprise -- Die NeXT & HP Kooperation Objekt-orientierte Client/Server-Architektur unternehmensweit ============================ THE OBJECT IS THE ADVANTAGE. ============================ Auszug aus dem Workshop-Inhalt: =============================== NEXTSTEP User Workspace Manager (Drag & Drop, Cut & Paste, ObjectLinking), Display PostScript Level II, Pixar Renderman, Online Help, Integrierte Faxsoftware, Inter-Application Communication, Dateisysteme (UNIX, Mac, DOS, CD) und -formate (PostScript, Microsoft-RTF, TIFF, u.v.a.m.), UNIX BSD 4.3. NEXTSTEP im Netzwerk TCP/IP, Network File System (NFS), Novell Netware (IPX, SPX), AppleShare, SNMP, NeXTMail (SMTP, UUCP), Berkeley Remote Services, Remote Display PostScript. NEXTSTEP Developer Werkzeuge (InterfaceBuilder, ProjectBuilder, Debugger, ...), Compiler (C, C++, Objective-C), Toolkits (Application Kit, Database Kit, Indexing Kit, Driver Kit u.v.a.m.), Distributed Objects, ObjectWare, POSIX, Multi-Architecture Binaries. Downsizing-Beispiel: Client/Server-Programmierung mit Database Kit. Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) Objekt-orientiertes, netzwerk-verteiltes Computing in einer heterogenen Umgebung (z.B. Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC HP/UX, Data General Aviion UNIX V.4): OMG konform, Integration in CORBA. NetInfo Grundlagen, Master- und Clone-Server, zentrale objekt-orientierte NetInfo-DB, Werkzeuge (Simple Network Starter, NFSManager, HostManager, UserManager, ...), NetInfo Kit, NetInfo fuer SPARC, HP/UX, RS-6000, OSF/1 u.a., sowie Zusammenspiel mit NIS/"Yellow Pages" und DNS/BIND. Object*Enterprise Object*Enterprise kombiniert Loesungen von Hewlett-Packard und NeXT, die zu-sammen eine unternehmensweite, vollstaendig objekt-orientierte Client/Server-Programm-Entwicklungs-Plattform ergeben. NEXTSTEP-Produktfamilie (NEXTSTEP, Portable Distributed Objects, NetInfo) auf HP PA-RISC 700 Workstations und Serie 800 Servern sowie HP Vectra PCs. Integration der Standards: OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) und Distributed Management Environment (DME).
From: Anthony Berno <godel!aberno@netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TESTERS: Beta testers wanted for graphing program Date: 26 Aug 1993 17:36:07 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25jac6$h6i@digifix.digifix.com> My company, Saltwater City Software, is developing a graphing program, called OtterGraph, that offers a new approach to the creation of two-dimensional graphs and charts. It is due to be ready for market in a few months, so I'm looking for some beta-testers that would be interested in trying out versions and offering feedback. In order to participate in the beta program, you should have a working knowledge of Nextstep applications, be able to figure out most apps without documentation, and have experience with the creation of information graphics. You must also have NextMail. OtterGraph will run under NEXTSTEP 3.0 or later. Both M68K and Intel will be supported, but if you are running Intel you may have to wait a few weeks to receive your first beta copy. If you are interested, please send mail to aberno@saltwater.com. Anthony Berno Saltwater City Software, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.062953.953@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:29:53 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Compatibility-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ A1. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of X-Windows? A2. Can I run DOS software on NEXTSTEP? A3. Can I run Macintosh Programs on my NeXT? A4. Can I run tcsh, zsh or bash on NEXTSTEP? A5. Can sound files be used on Sun OS and NEXTSTEP interchangeably? A6. Why does talk not work between NEXTSTEP and SUN OS? A7. How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? A8. How do I view/convert GIF/TIF/jpeg images? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A1. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of X-Windows? [Douglas Scott <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>] A new version of the public-domain monochrome and color "Mouse-X" X server binaries is now available on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu as ~ftp/pub/X11R5-MouseX.tar.Z. This tarfile contains the binaries for the two servers, a README file, and a new version of the front end App. The new server version will now work on NeXTs with the new ADB keyboard, as well as NeXTs with the original keyboards. As before, these servers will also run on Turbos and non-Turbos. The new front end App allows you to toggle between machine configurations (but you must restart the server to have them take effect). For those who have not used the "Mouse-X" X servers and are interested, read the README.FIRST file in the same directory as the above file for more information about what you will need. ***** For those who are waiting for the MIT X source patch: ***** I should have this ready by the end of the week, and I will be placing it in the submissions directories on orst and sonata as X11R5-source.patch.tar.Z. Pencom Software of Austin, TX is distributing co-Xist, an X11R4 color server that supports all hardware platforms and runs under NEXTSTEP 2.0 or higher. The rootless version of co-Xist allows you to use not only Motif but also NEXTSTEP as a window manager ie. X-windows are opened on the WorkSpace screen and act completely like NEXTSTEP windows. The Motif Window Manager, development libraries and online Digital Librarian documentation are available as options. A demo is available on sonata.cc.purdue.edu For more information: Pencom Software email: co-Xist_info@pencom.com Voice: 1-800-PENCOM4 or Cub'X in Puteaux, France has a commercial X server. Cub'X-Window's new version 3.01 is now available. Its most important improvement resides in a new option permitting to run X-Window inside NeXTstep. For more information: Claire Normand Cub'x SystÜmes Tour CBC, Cedex 71, 92043 Paris La DÝfense, France tel: +33-1-46-93-29-25 Fax: +33-1-46-93-29-21 claire@cubx.oleane.com MIT maintains a ftp server for X distribution: export.lcs.mit.edu It currently does not have any NeXT specific servers. If you compile software make sure the libraries are install in the ld path, and that you use the X provided C pre-processor. There is another commercial X product called eXodus. White Pine Software 603-866-9050. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A2. Can I run DOS software on NEXTSTEP? NEXTSTEP systems are able to read, write, and format DOS diskettes in addition to UNIX filesystems. Consult the User Manual. There is a product called Soft-PC available for NEXTSTEP. For more information: Insignia Solutions, Inc. Voice: 408 694 7600 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A3. Can I run Macintosh Programs on my NeXT? NEXTSTEP systems are able to read, write, and format Mac diskettes in addition to UNIX filesystems. Consult the User Manual. Abacus R&D, Inc. offers products called Executor and HFS_XFer that allow some Mac functionality. Executor is a program that allows you to run programs originally written for the Macintosh, on your NeXT computer. Currently the two major applications that we support are Microsoft Word (versions 4.0E, 5.0 and 5.1) and Microsoft Excel (versions 3.0A and 4.0). You must own a copy of these applications in order to use them; Microsoft software does not come with Executor. Executor is actually a full-blown Macintosh emulator, except we have prioritized the bug fixing and fixed all the bugs pertaining to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel so that we can sell this version now to people who want it. Executor works nicely in the NeXT environment, allowing the use of services and cut and paste of ASCII and Rich Text between Executor and other NEXTSTEP applications. Word 5 can read and print .eps and .tiff files. Reverse engineering the Macintosh is a difficult task. There are some pieces of the software yet to do. Consequently, Executor 1.x has the following limitations: No Color, No Sound, No System 7, No AppleTalk, No Script Manage (i.e. no non-US localizations) and limited Desk Accessory support. HFS_XFer is a Desk Accessory that allows you to transfer files between HFS (Hierarchical FileSystem) Macintosh disks and the NeXT, where they're stored in Apple Double format. This allows you to copy files to the NeXT and later back to a Macintosh floppy without having to worry about reassembling the "resource fork". Naturally HFS_XFer and Executor work well together. HFS_XFer is what you use to load your copy of Microsoft Word onto your NeXT in the first place, but it's good for much more than that because you can use it to transfer any information on a Macintosh disk to your NeXT, and vice-versa. The extensions to HFS that were introduced with System 7 are not supported, and files are transferred over directly without any translation in between. HFS_XFer reads and writes Mac floppies and reads Mac hard drives and CD-ROMs. HFS_XFer is limited to disks that the hardware can read, so you can not read 800k disks unless you have special hardware such as the CubeFloppy Plus from DIT. A complete (multi-architecture-binary), time-limited, release of Executor is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.unm.edu for evaluation. ARDI Suite 101 1650 University Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 PHONE: +1 505 766 9115 FAX: +1 505 247 1899 Email: questions@ardi.com Digital Instrumentation Technology vends software called FloppyWorks which can read and write Macintosh diskettes. DIT also offers an external floppy drive called CubeFloppy Plus that can format, read, and write 400 and 800 KB Mac disks. For more information: Digital Instrumentation Technology email: sales@dit.com Voice: 505 662 1459 Fax: 505 662 0897 Bill Roth has written a program called MacinDisk ToshBrowser which read 1.4 Meg Mac disks. A demo version is available on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. For more information: Impact Software email: impact@impact.shaman.com voice: 1-800-822-3385. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] There is also a program on sonata/orst/compuserve called ResDump.tar.Z that will let you snarf individual resources from Macintosh disks under 3.x. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A4. Can I run tcsh, zsh or bash on NEXTSTEP? If you are simply looking for emacs-like command editing you can do this with the csh distributed by NeXT by typing: set editmode=emacs or set editmode=vi Note that file completion will conflict with vi's use of esc to leave insert mode, so you may want to map file completion to tab by adding the following to your ~/.bindings: bind-to-key FilenameExpansion "\^I" In addition it is possible to bind control keys to commands with a .bindings file. Users should seek the csh(1) man page for more information. People have ported tcsh and bash to NEXTSTEP. bash is available from prep.ai.mit.edu, the current version 1.12.1 makes correctly on NEXTSTEP. tcsh binaries for all kinds of machines are available on tesla.ee.cornell.edu, possibly including binaries for NeXT machines. In addition zsh is also available. Zsh has interactive features very similar to but more extensive than those of tcsh. In addition zsh is based on sh/ksh, not on csh - something which very many even casual shell programmers will consider a great asset. A complete pre-compiled zsh package including documentation is available from the purdue archives. If you install your own shell on NEXTSTEP, you need to add it to the file /etc/shells so that FTP will work. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A5. Can sound files be used on Sun OS and NEXTSTEP interchangeably? Sun OS 4.0.3 stored only raw mulaw files without any extensions. This format is obsolete; however to convert it to a NEXTSTEP snd format you can: sndconvert -o nextified.snd -f 1 -s 8012.8210513 -c 1 -r sun-sound Starting with Sun OS release 4.1 they adopted a file format like NEXTSTEP's: A comparison of <multimedia/audio_filehdr.h> on the Sun and <sound/soundstruct.h> on NEXTSTEP shows the formats to be compatible-- just rename *.au to *.snd for the NeXT. Sun only implements a subset of NEXTSTEP's sound file formats. Currently these seven are interchangeable: SND_FORMAT_MULAW_8 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_8 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_16 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_24 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_32 SND_FORMAT_FLOAT SND_FORMAT_DOUBLE While they are all _meaningful_ to the Sun, the standard SPARCstation hardware only directly supports 8-bit mu-Law at the CODEC sampling rate. If you have raw soundfiles (e.g. from SunOS 4.0.3 systems, or converted from the Macintosh), you can use raw2audio on the Sun or sndconvert -r on the NEXTSTEP system to add a sound header. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A6. Why does talk not work between NEXTSTEP and SUN OS? Sun OS may run an archaic version of talk; install a new version. [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Or try installing 'ytalk' available from sonata and orst. It offers many enhancements over talk among which is compatibility with at least some Sun workstation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A7. How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? [This is for people who use a terminal app that does vt100 keyboard emulation - pasc] First, add these lines to your ".cshrc" (preferably between the if and endif): set editmode=emacs set macrofiles=.macros Then create a file called ".bindings" and put in it: bind-to-key ExecuteNamedMacro '\e[' And, next, you need to make a file called ".macros" however, this one you need to enter some control characters into, because the csh STILL cannot write a macro file (And I'm using 2.1). Into this file put: A^@^@^@^A^P B^@^@^@^A^N C^@^@^@^A^F D^@^@^@^A^B where ^@ means Control-@ and ^A means Control-A, etc. Also, don't put in the leading spaces. This will set up the left and right arrows to move back and forth on the line, and the up and down arrows will cycle through your history. Then source .cshrc and the changes should take effect. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A8. How do I view/convert GIF/TIF/jpeg images? Use ImageViewer by Lennart Lovstrand at Xerox EuroPARC. It can convert between many different image formats. It is available on the archive servers. [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Instead of using the version of the jpeg files shipped with ImageViewer instead use the latest version always to be found on ftp.uu.net in /graphics/jpeg. The latest version compiles easily and is more twice as fast and less memory hungry than the one shipped with ImageViewer (and with jpeg files this makes a big difference). pbmplus tools does most conversions through filters. Another package to look into is The Image Conversion Tools from: sdsc.edu sdscpub.dir/next.dir/graphics.dir.JPEG software en/decoder has been uploaded to the Purdue archives: pub/next/2.0-release/source/jpeg.tar.Z. A commercial application,PixelMagician, is available from Bachus Inc. For more information: 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 330 Santa Monica, CA 90403 Voice: 310 820 9145 Fax: 310 820 5930 Email: info@bacchus.com, bacchus!info@uu2.psi.com Jef Poskanzers portable bitmap tools are also available pre-compiled from the purdue archives. In addition there is ViewGif2 (also available from the purdue archives) which is about 40% faster and less memory-hungry than ImageViewer but only displays gifs. [From: Robert Wong <wrob@unixg.ubc.ca>] ViewGIF3 (version 3.01) is available now. It requires NS 3.0 There is also GraphicsWorkshop (also from purdue) which is a front end to a set of graphic converter objects that allow you to load, save, and view images in gif, jpg, tiff, pbm, pgm, ppm, and xbm formats. It will also allow you to do some basic image conversions like color to black and white or color to one bit. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063001.1012@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:30:01 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ B0. Where can I find additional questions and answers regarding the NeXT computer? B1. Are there NeXT and NEXTSTEP specific magazines? B2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? B3. If I am not on the internet, how can I get to the ftp sites via email? B4. What are some good references on Objective C? B5. Where can I communicate to others interested in doing music on the NeXT? B6. What special interest groups exist? B7. How may I let the NeXT user community know of an upcoming NeXT-related event? B8. What are the guidelines for posting to comp.sys.next.announce? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B0. Where can I find additional questions and answers regarding the NeXT computer? Every NeXT machine owner has access to manuals to a degree. Network and System Administration (NSA), for example contains answers to many of the questions asked to comp.sys.next. Some of the important man pages are reproduced in the NSA as appendices. User manuals were shipped with every NeXT. Additional copies available from NeXT (N6002/N6003/N6014/N6026) $25. NeXT Technical documentation. (How to program in the NextStep environment) Order from Addison-Wesley (1-800-447-2226) 0-201-63248-9 NeXTSTEP General Reference CANCELED (split into 2) 0-201-62220 NeXTSTEP General Reference Vol I (date not known) 0-201-62221 NeXTSTEP General Reference Vol II date not known) 0-201-63249-7 NeXTSTEP Development Tools (1 NOV) 0-201-63250-0 NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines (1 NOV) 0-201-63251-9 NeXTSTEP OOP and the Objective-C Lng (1 NOV) 0-201-63252-7 NeXTSTEP Operating System Software (3 OCT) 0-201-63253-5 NeXTSTEP Programming Interface Summary (1 NOV) 0-201-63254-3 NeXTSTEP Network and System Admin 3 (OCT) These are packaged ten volumes in two slipcases; the whole stack is 8-1/2 inches high. They look just like the other documents that come with the machine, 8.5x11", perfect-bound paperbacks. Operating System Software NeXTstep Concepts NeXTstep Reference, v. 1 NeXTstep Reference, v. 2 Development Tools Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Concepts Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Reference Writing Loadable Kernel Servers Technical Summaries Supplemental Documentation Get NeXT's Concepts and Tutorial sections electronically from the ftp archives. This is perhaps the single most important reference for people wishing to develop software for the NeXT. Unix man pages, which are included in the online docs. BSD unix documentation (MISC, PS1, PS2, SMM, USD). Available from to USENIX site members. A lot of this has been integrated into the NeXT documentation. Some of this is sorely missing. The SMM Unix System Manager's Manual is really useful! USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 USA +1 510 528 8649 fax +1 510 548 5738 office@usenix.org PS1 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 PS2 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 SMM = System Manager's Manual USD = User's Supplementary Documents [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: The SMM and the rest of the berkeley documentation are also available directly and for free via anon ftp e.g. from ftp.uu.net /packages/bsd-sources/share/doc. To format them properly for viewing and printing on the NeXT use nroff with the package indicated by the file suffix (e.g. to format the documentation file 0.t use 'nroff -mt 0.t'). Adobe documentation. Available machine-readable by e-mail from ps-file-server@adobe.com. Hardcopy available from Adobe Developer Support Line +1 415 961-4111 for a nominal charge. NeXT last shipped these as part of the 1.0a release; hardcopies appeared in 0.9 Technical Documentation, were omitted in 1.0, and have returned in updated form in _Supplemental Documentation_ of the 2.0 Tech Docs (which is not available on-line). Get NextAnswers for Digital Librarian from NeXT. The current versions are actually on ftp.next.com or available via the mailserver at nextanswers@next.com Get NeXT _Support Bulletin_ from the archives. It is meant for support centers. Another good source of information is the archives of previously posted notes from the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups. Note that since the split of comp.sys.next, it is unclear if anyone is maintaining an archive of all the groups. NeXTstep Advantage book is available electronically from the archive servers: cs.orst.edu: pub/next/documents/NeXT/ sonata.cc.purdue.edu: ? etlport.etl.go.jp: pub/NeXT/documents/NeXTstepAdvantage/ ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de /pub/NeXT/documents/next The file name is NeXTstepAdvantage.tar.Z; (its compressed size is 1.3 megabytes; uncompressed, it's 9.5 megabytes). It is a good introduction to the NeXT programming environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B1. Are there NeXT and NEXTSTEP specific magazines? Yes. There are also many NeXT specific newsletters, many of which are available via ftp from the NeXT specific ftp sites (look in pub/next/newsletters on cs.orst.edu and pub/next/Newsletters on sonata.cc.purdue.edu - purdue seems to carry more newsletters on line than orst.). Some cost money, others don't. Available from purdue: SCaNeWS - Southern California NeXT Users Group Newsletter, first issue came out January 1991. Edited by Mike Mahoney (manhoney@beach.csulb.edu) BaNG - Bay Area NeXT Users Group, one item on-line on Purdue. Edited by Joe Barello (Joe_Barello@bang.org) rmNUG NeWS - Rocky Mountain NeXT Users Group Newsletter, latest issue May 1991 (monthly). Edited by David Bowdish (73340.2146@compuserve.com). VNUS Newsletter - Vancouver NeXT Users Group The last issue was in Nov 91. Edited by three people, including the Chairman of VNUS, Lawrence Clarke (lclarke@next1.wimsey.bc.ca). NeXT Users' Journal, latest issue December/January 1990-1. Edited by Erica Liebman (erica@kong.gatech.edu). Hardcopy: NeXTworld. Published monthly with monthly ad-free newsletters ($23.95). NeXTWORLD, 501 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 415 978 3182 (phone), 415 978 3196 (fax) NeXTworld email address: ddinucci@nextworld.com NeXUS. Published bi-monthly for $36/year. Contact Alfonso Guerra at {emory|gatech}!nanovx!nexus. What's NeXT? The Boston Computer Society NeXT User group produces a NeXT newsletter called "What's NeXT?" edited by Michael Burress (pro-angmar!michaelb@alfalfa.com) and Eric Celeste (efc@athena.mit.edu). The Boston Computer Society, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139-1562 Phone 617-252-0600, M-F 9:30-5:30 Bulletin - Gotham Users of NeXT, Inc., latest issue May, 1992 (monthly). Edited by Robb Allan (Robb_Allan@gun.com) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. NeXT: cs.orst.edu nova.cc.purdue.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu umd5.umd.edu ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B3. If I am not on the internet, how can I get to the ftp sites via email? cc.purdue.edu is configured as an email archive server. This means you can upload and download files via email. Send mail to: archive-server@cc.purdue.edu mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de with the subject line help and you will get a complete description of this service. Submissions: Mail should be sent to archive-server@cc.purdue.edu with the subject of 'submission' (no ticks) if a person is submitting material to the archives. They need to include a 1-2 sentence description of the submission, the OS release the product runs on, and if it is source, binary, newsletter, etc. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B4. What are some good references on Objective C? Objective-C and other useful Object-oriented programming references: Budd, Timothy, _An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming_ (Addison-Wesley) [It discusses Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++ _and_ Objective-C] Cox, Brad J., _Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach_ ISBN 0-201-10393-1. (Addison-Wesley) [Note: 2nd edition - ISBN# is 0-201-54834-8 and has coauthor A.J. Novobilski] Huizenga, Gerrit, "Slides from a short course on Objective-C" available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next/docs/ObjC.frame.Z, ObjC.ps.Z, or OldObjC.wn.tar.Z Meyer, Bertrand, _Object-Oriented Software Construction_ (Prentice-Hall). NeXT Technical Documentation Pinson and Weiner, _Objective-C: Object-Oriented Programming Techniques_ (Addison-Wesley). 350 pages, ISBN 0 201 50828 1, paperback. User Reference Manual for Objective-C which is available from Stepstone Corporation. (203)426-1875. Note: There are some differences between Stepstone's Objective-C and NeXT's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B5. Where can I communicate to others interested in doing music on the NeXT? Since NeXT has become for now the platform of choice for much of the computer music composition and research community, the newsgroup comp.music is one good place to find people with information and interest in music on the NeXT. There is also a mailing list specifically for NeXT music: NeXT Music SIG (nextmusic@wri.com) To subscribe, send email to: nextmusic-request@wri.com ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B6. What special interest groups exist? Adobe Illustrator NeXT SIG To join, email: jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca AFS NeXT SIG To join, email: info-afs-next-request@transarc.com Berkeley Mathematics Software Group Email: nb@cs.stanford.edu Classroom: NeXT Courseware SIG (next-classroom@gac.edu) To subscribe: send the following text message to MAILSERV@gac.edu --"Subscribe next-classroom <your name>" Communications/TeleCommunications SIG (nextcomm@marble.com) To subscribe: send email to nextcomm-request@marble.com Data GROUP NeXT SIG To join, email: data_group@dazzl.com Create Users To join email: Create-request@mcs.anl.gov DataPhile Users To join email: DataPhile-request@mcs.anl.gov Executor SIG To join, email: executor-request@ictv.com Finnish: FUNeXT (Finnish Users of NeXT) To join, send email to: mailserver@lists.funet.fi and write in body text: HELP LIST SUB FUNeXT Frame: FUN (Frame Users Network) To join, email: framers-request@drd.com Frame User Network - New England (FUNNE) To join, email: funne@srbci.mv.com GIS(Geographical Information Services)SIG (next-gis@deltos.com) To subscribe: send email to next-gis-request@deltos.com Lotus Improv Email User Group To join, email: improv-request@bmt.gun.com Mathematica:Special Interest Group To join. email: mathgroup-request@yoda.physics.unc.edu Medical: NeXTMed SIG (NeXTMed@ulnar.biostr.washington.edu) To subscribe: send email to NeXTMed-request@ulnar.biostr.washington.edu Music: NeXT Music SIG (nextmusic@silvertone.Princeton.edu) To subscribe: send email to nextmusic-request@silvertone.Princeton.edu NeXT Icon Enthusiasts: next-icon@bmt.gun.com To subscribe: send e-mail to next-icon-request@bmt.gun.com NexLAW: Legal NeXT User Group To join, email: NexLAW-request@techlaw.com NeXTManagers (quick & technical answers) (next-managers@stolaf.edu) To subscribe: send email to next-managers-request@stolaf.edu NeXT Q&A's To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE NEXT-L <your> <name>" to LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Network & Security Management for Labs & Large Installations (next-lab@cs.ubc.ca) To subscribe: send email to next-lab-request@cs.ubc.ca Programmers: NeXT Programmers SIG (next-prog@cpac.washington.edu) To subscribe: send email to next-prog-request@cpac.washington.edu Publishing Interest Group To join, email: publish-request@chron.com Japanese: Kanji and Japanese on the NeXT To join - Email: next-nihongo-request@pinoko.berkeley.edu SCIENCE NeXT User Group (SNUG) To join, email: snug-requests@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu United Kingdom SIG To join, email: uk-next-users-request@ohm.york.ac.uk and next-uk-usergroups-request@asmec.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B7. How may I let the NeXT user community know of an upcoming NeXT-related event? Please send any announcements of upcoming NeXT-related events to announce@digifix.com These events will be posted to comp.sys.next.announce. Be sure to send your announcement in plenty of time to have it posted prior to the event. One to two weeks in advance would be a good idea. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B8. What are the guidelines for posting to comp.sys.next.announce? Submissions can be sent to announce@digifix.com. Since postings will be carried across many networks, commercial announcements may be edited down to reflect network usage policies. Look for current guidelines posted weekly in the newsgroup. ____________________________________________________________________________ NeXT-FAQ Editor: Nathan Janette nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063038.1070@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:30:38 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ C1. What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? C2. What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? C3. How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? C4. What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? C5. Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? C6. How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? C7. Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? C8. How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? C9. When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? C10. What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? C11. What are the general requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? C12. If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? C13. How is NEXTSTEP/Intel be installed? C14. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? C15. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? C16. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? C17. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? C18. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? C19. Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? C20. How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? C21. Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? C22. Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? C23. Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? C24. Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? C25. Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C1. What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? The first production version, 3.1, has been released. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C2. What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? NeXT, Inc. now operates an automatic email responce system. Send email to "nextanswers@next.com" with the subject "ascii help index" to start. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C3. How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? It doesn't. NEXTSTEP/Intel is a complete port of the NEXTSTEP 3.1 software environment to Intel-based Computers. NEXTSTEP/Intel has the same User Interface, Development Environment, Applications, Networking (NFS, Novell, Appleshare), State of the Art Color, Mach UNIX, Display Postscript, 3D Renderman etc, etc. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C4. What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? NeXT computers offer additional hardware support not commonly available for Intel systems. This includes the DSP. The DSP in a NeXT Computer is used for a variety of functions including ISDN support and real-time audio compression/de-compression. ISDN support for NEXTSTEP/Intel will be provided via an add-on PC card and ISDN adapter. Real-time audio compression/de-compression support is currently under investigation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C5. Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? Of course! NEXTSTEP/Intel is design to plug and play with existing NeXT installations. NeXT has addressed interoperability between NEXTSTEP systems in the following ways: * NEXTSTEP systems share identical networking capabilities. * NEXTSTEP systems share the same Distributed Objects. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same system and network administration services. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same mass storage format. Yes, you can take a external SCSI drive, removable media (ie Bernoulli etc) or floppy disk and use it interchangeably between NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel systems. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C6. How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? Simply. NEXTSTEP 3.1 includes a new feature called Multi-Architecture Binaries (so called "Fat" binaries). This capability allows developers to compile NEXTSTEP applications on multiple system architectures, and combine them into a single package. When an application is run, NEXTSTEP will extract the appropriate instructions for the local system, and run the application. This operation is completely transparent to the user, it just works! Most of the NEXTSTEP applications in the future will be delivered as Multi-Architecture Binaries. Tools are also provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a one architecture environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C7. Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? No. Most applications consist of one or more executable programs (with architecture dependent machine instructions) and a lot of text and data. This machine independent data is typically data files used by the application, help files, examples, internationalization etc. Since only the actual machine dependent portion of the application is duplicated, a two architecture application typically takes only about 20%-30% more disk space than a single architecture application. If disk space is tight, tools are provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a single architecture environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C8. How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? Very easy. Most programs will simply recompile and run, or require few changes. We believe that any application that uses the standard development environment and Object kits provided by NeXT should simply compile and run. Only applications that use architecture specific features or data formats, will require additional time to port. Several developers have already ported applications to NEXTSTEP/Intel. Appsoft Draw simply recompiled and ran, Lighthouse Concurrence took 3 hours, other programs took 1/2 a day to 2 days, and this was all on a very early release of NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.1! ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C9. When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? Yes. As stated above, any applications that use the standard tools provided by the NEXTSTEP development environment, should just recompile and work. To make sure developers are aware of portability issues, NeXT is producing a guide to address source code portability between different architectures running NEXTSTEP. This guide should be available in November. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C10. What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? The NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment consists of the entire NEXTSTEP 3.1 environment, minus the developer tools. The Developer Environment includes the developer tools such Interface builder, Project Builder, C compilers, Object Kits, example source code and developer documentation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C11. What are the general requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? A specific NEXTSTEP/Intel Hardware Compatibility Guide is available from the NeXTanswers service, and as a separate FAQ file. [Eric Hermanson <24gdbq$8hb@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>] I am posting this to clear up the confusion surrounding NEXTSTEP hardware requirements. There have been many incorrect postings as to the requirements for NEXTSTEP. There have also been many people inquiring about the requirements. These are the correct numbers, source: NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR NEXTSTEP 3.1 (Intel and Motorola) NEXTSTEP *Requires* 8 MB Memory for 2-bit Greyscale NEXTSTEP *Requires* 12 MB Memory for 8-bit Greyscale NEXTSTEP *Requires* 16 MB Memory for 16-bit Color NeXT *Recommends* 12 MB Memory for 2-bit Greyscale NeXT *Recommends* 16 MB Memory for 8-bit Greyscale NeXT *Recommends* 24 MB Memory for 16-bit Color *SUMMARY* of NEXTSTEP Hard Drive Space *Requirements*: NEXTSTEP *Requires* 120 MB for User Environment NEXTSTEP *Requires* 330 MB for User Environment + Developer Tools NeXT *Recommends* 200 MB For User Environment (full install) NeXT *Recommends* 400 MB For User Environment + Developer Tools (full install) Full User Environment: 136 MB (NeXT *Recommends* 200 MB for User) Compressed User Environment: 109 MB Bare User Environment: 50 MB All Developer Tools: 100 MB (These numbers are the dev TOOLS only) Compressed Dev. Tools: 78 MB Bare Developer Tools: 66 MB FULL USER + DEVELOPER: **236 MB (NeXT *Recommends* 400 MB for User+Dev) Compressed USER + DEV: 187 MB Bare USER + DEVELOPER: 116 MB THE ENTIRE USER+DEVELOPER RELEASE OF NEXTSTEP TAKES UP APPROXIMATELY 236 MB. *Detailed* Hard Drive Requirements: NEXTSTEP consists of a number of independent packages, some of which can be optionally installed. USER ENVIRONMENT: ** INDICATES OPTIONAL PACKAGE NEXTSTEP Essentials This is the required software, including user environment, UNIX, Renderman, NeXT Software (network stuff, NeXT Mail, etc), root & me accounts. Installed Size 47.1 MB Languages Users can install up to six languages on the system, each one takes up 3 MB English, Italian, Sweedish, German, French, Spanish **DigitalWebster.pkg This package contains the Digital Webster application, the electronic edition of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. InstalledSize 18.8 MB CompressedSize 16.3 MB **Literature.pkg This package contains the complete works of Shakespeare, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and the pictures for Digital Webster. InstalledSize 40.7 MB CompressedSize 29.9 MB **Documentation.pkg This package contains the NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration manual and the UNIX manual pages. It also contains the complete set of PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files. InstalledSize 18 MB CompressedSize 8 MB **NeXTTeX.pkg This is a full implementation of TeX (LaTeX) and METAFONT. InstalledSize 8.1 MB CompressedSize 4.5 MB ============================================================================= TOTAL USER ENVIRONMENT: 136 MB Full Install 109 MB Compressed Optional Stuff 50 MB No Optional Software Installed DEVELOPER TOOLS: ** INDICATES OPTIONAL PACKAGE DeveloperTools.pkg This package contains applications and files you need for NEXTSTEP development. InstalledSize 36.4 MB CompressedSize 18.6 MB DeveloperLibs.pkg This package contains software libraries you need to develop NEXTSTEP software. InstalledSize 30 MB CompressedSize 14.5 MB **DeveloperDoc.pkg This package contains the on-line edition of the NEXTSTEP Developer's Library. InstalledSize 30 MB CompressedSize 10 MB **Demonstrations.pkg This package contains demonstration applications and images. InstalledSize 3 MB CompressedSize 2 MB ============================================================================= TOTAL DEVELOPER TOOLS: 100 MB Size of All Developer Tools 78 MB Size with Optional Stuff Compressed 66 MB Size with no Optional Software Installed ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C12. If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture that brings the benefits of object-orientation all the way down to the I/O card driver level. Complete documentation for this new "Driver Kit" architecture will be available later this year. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C13. How is NEXTSTEP/Intel be installed? NEXTSTEP/Intel will come with a boot floppy and a CDROM. To install NEXTSTEP/Intel, the system boots from the floppy, and then installs the minimum NEXTSTEP environment from the CDROM (SCSI CDROM drive). The user may then chose from several optional packages depending on the available disk space and user requirements. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C14. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any true 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C15. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? No. The Cyrix chip not a true 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C16. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will not only support them, but will take advantage of any performance enhancements available with future Intel CPU's, just as NeXT has taken advantage of the 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C17. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? Yes. Many portables and notebooks with 486 CPU's and sufficient system resources (8+MB RAM and 120+MB hard disk space) are available. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel will support 640x480 VGA displays in grayscale, NEXTSTEP 486 can run on these systems. Do be aware that NEXTSTEP's user interface and applications were not designed for low-resolution screens, and consequently will impose limitations on the use of some applications. Also, typical battery management systems do not work with multi-tasking operating systems. Future versions of NEXTSTEP/Intel will provide driver support for portable-oriented peripherals such as pocket Ethernet, SCSI and Sound adapters and PC/MCIA cards. We expect additional device drivers for portable peripherals to be available in Q3-Q4 1993. Until drivers are available for portable SCSI adapters, NEXTSTEP/Intel can be installed on portables by using a docking station with SCSI adapter and CDROM. The docking station can then be used for a local area network card. NeXT is investigating future Intel microprocessors that may provide battery management support for advanced operating systems such as NEXTSTEP. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C18. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support a DOS and Windows compatibility package. This software will allow DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 programs to run within a NEXTSTEP window. Support will include DOS "Protected" mode and Windows 3.1 "Standard" mode (Win-16). Support for Win-32 applications is planned for the second half of 1993. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C19. Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? A 60-day demo of SoftPC will be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.2. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C20. How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? Very well. The DOS/Windows compatibility package for NEXTSTEP/Intel takes full advantage of the 486 microprocessor. Depending on system hardware configuration and type of DOS/Windows application, performance should vary between 386 and 486 native DOS/Windows performance. In addition, to enhance the performance of Windows applications, a MS Windows specific Graphics Device Interface (GDI) driver which maps Microsoft Windows calls directly to the NEXTSTEP window server will be part of the system. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C21. Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? Yes. You can set the Windows session to any size you wish up to the maximum screen size available to the NEXTSTEP/Intel system you are using. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C22. Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? Yes. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel is a multi-tasking, virtual memory operating environment, several DOS/Windows sessions can be run at once. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C23. Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? Yes. You can cut and paste text and graphics between DOS/Windows and NEXTSTEP applications. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C24. Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support multiple operating systems on the same local hard disk. When the system boots, the user can chose to boot another operating system (such as DOS) or NEXTSTEP. If the local partition contains DOS, NEXTSTEP/Intel will be able to access the local DOS partition and read/write files to it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C25. Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? Yes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063050.1128@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:30:50 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. 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If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ D1. What are the specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: D1. What are the specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? NEXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide (August 10, 1993) NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide August 10, 1993 For easy readability of this Hardware Guide: If you are reading this with Mail.app, be sure to set your font preference for this message to a smaller fixed-width font (Ohlfs 10 point font). This document describes in general terms, the types of PC-compatible hardware that is supported by NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 for Intel Processors. Although may different vendors' systems will work with NEXTSTEP, the systems listed here have been tested and found to be compatible with NEXTSTEP. For any hardware specification or purchase, please contact NeXT for the latest update to this guide. PC compatibles, portables and laptops from the following vendors are now supported: ALR ALTIMA AST COMPAQ DATA GENERAL DEC DELL EPSON GATEWAY HEWLETT PACKARD IBM INTEL LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR NCR NEC TOSHIBA UNISYS ZENITH CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS GEC COMPUTERS Driver updates: Information on device driver updates may be obtained by sending email to NeXTanswers@next.com with the subject of "INDEX HELP". You will receive the master index for NeXTanswers. NeXT and third parties are constantly developing and enhancing drivers for NEXTSTEP. Updates to existing drivers, or new drivers can be downloaded from the Internet via email or ftp. NeXTanswers provides an easy method to obtain drivers by e-mail as described above. (Note: you must be able to receive NeXTMail in order to be able to receive drivers via email.) To obtain drivers via ftp: use ftp to access ftp.next.com and login as anonymous with any password and "cd" to /pub. Drivers can be downloaded from the NeXTanswers directory. ** TABLE OF CONTENTS ** -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems General Requirements for Desktop Systems: CPU - i486 based or Pentium based PC Compatible Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2 or Pentium. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - ISA or EISA expansion bus. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition. NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - Ram requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter. GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - See "NEXTSTEP for INTEL PROCESSORS GRAPHICS" in this Guide for details on graphics support. DISK INTERFACES - IDE and several SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. NOTE: a SCSI adaptor and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial and bus mice. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Desktop Systems PC MANUFACTURERS Below appear the following graphics configurations for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors compatible hardware: I. 16 Bit Color Systems II 8 Bit Grayscale Systems III. 2 Bit Grayscale Systems I. 16 Bit Color Systems ALR Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For ALR: 1MB VRAM is required for 800x600 For ALR: 2MB VRAM is required for 1024x768 (Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-BUS AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For AST Power Premium: see Add-On Graphics adapter chart 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card (Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 33 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DATA GENERAL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX DG Dasher LE2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 4 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For 450DE/2 DGX: 2MB of VRAM - 16 bit color resolution is 1120 x 832 For Dell ME, L, M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 486DX2 Dell 450DE/2 DGX EISA 50 Mhz Localbus JAWS 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 EPSON Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Epson Progression NX: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 1MB VRAM Version supports 800x600 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1120x832 (Driver update available for Progression, 1120x832) 486DX, 486DX2 Epson Progression NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine GATEWAY Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Gateway: requires 2MB VRAM for the 1024x768 16 bit color; requires 1MB VRAM for the 800x600 16 bit color 486DX. 486DX2 Gateway Series V ISA 33 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 50 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 66 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 16 bit color [HP Vectra XM series: driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 16 bit - 800x600 resolution (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: Driver Update required for all IBM systems) 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS INTEL Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Intel: 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX2 Intel GX/Pro EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ATI 68800 LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR Vendor name Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Lucky Goldstar: 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: requires Compaq QVision 1024/E for 800x600 or ATI Graphics Ultra Pro EISA with 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card UNISYS Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For UNISYS: requires high resolution RAMDAC for NEXTSTEP support. On-board SCSI & LAN not yet supported. UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 1MB VRAM for 800x600 UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX2 UNISYS U6000 DT2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA HARDWARE SYSTEM INTEGRATORS 16 bit Color Systems CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS Integrator Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Continental computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC COMPUTERS Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For GEC computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 II. 8 Bit Grayscale COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell ME Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI: requires 1 MB VRAM for 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1280x1024 [HP Vectra XM series: driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: Driver Update required for all IBM systems) For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 8 bit- 1023x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: Select add-on EISA Graphics adapter 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA III. 2 Bit Grayscale AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 640x480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 - 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP: Built-in VGA supports 640-480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 1024x768 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC I-series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX 486DX2 NEC Image 466 ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000W32 Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems OVERVIEW CPU - i486 based PC Compatible Portable Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - AC powered portables require at least one ISA or EISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from CD-ROM. BATTERY-POWERED PORTABLES AND DOCKING STATIONS - Battery powered portables require a docking station with at least one ISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from a CD-ROM. Once NEXTSTEP is installed, the portable may be used away from the docking station. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition: NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - RAM requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter: GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes(+) Note: Since 16 bit color and 8 bit color grayscale support require LocalBus, VL-Bus, PCI, or EISA graphics adapters, only AC-powered portables with EISA slots can support 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. (+) - NeXT recommends a minimum of 12MB or RAM for acceptable performance on portables. GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - Current display panel technology in popular PC-compatibles is limited to 640x480 resolution and cannot yet display 16 bit color. These systems do not yet support the linear buffer NEXTSTEP requires for 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. Therefore, NEXTSTEP supports these systems with 2-bit grayscale at 640x480. Active matrix or plasma panels are recommended for better cursor tracking response. ISA systems (AC-powered or through a docking station) can support add-on, high resolution 2-bit grayscale graphics adapters and EISA-based AC-powered portables can support 16-bit color or 8-bit grayscale graphics with an add-on EISA graphics adapter. DISK INTERFACES - Both built-in IDE and add-on SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. Battery powered portables require a docking station to install a SCSI hard disk interface card. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft and Logitec compatible PS/2 and serial mice are supported. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a networking adapter. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a sound card. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Portable Systems PC MANUFACTURERS I. Built-in Panel Portables ALTIMA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX ALTIMA 433D Battery Passive 33 Mhz ISA 200/20 Matrix Mono Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on pointer support for Altima 433D. AST Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SL AST Power- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Color KMM 4SL or Mono MS AST Power- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Matrix KMM 4SL Mono MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem COMPAQ Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color 486SL COMPAQ LTE Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/20 Lite Matrix KMM 4/25c Color MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for 486/C and 486/M) NEC Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SX NEC Pro- AC Active 20 Mhz 200/20 Speed Matrix 486C Color 486SL NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for ProSpeed 486C) Built-in expansion: PCMCIA for Ultralite Versa C & M models ProSpeed 486C requires floating point upgrade. Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on built-in trackball support for LTE Lite 4/25c. TOSHIBA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 33 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 50 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 33 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 50 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color 486SX TOSHIBA T4400SX Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Mono or MS Plasma KMM TOSHIBA T4400 Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 SXC Matrix MS Color KMM 486DX TOSHIBA T4400C Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Matrix MS Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (ISA expansion for T6400DX and T6400DXC models) T4400SX and T4400SXC require floating point upgrades. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters OVERVIEW NEXTSTEP GRAPHICS SYSTEM NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors' Display Postscript graphic system supports such advanced capabilities as scalable fonts, unified imaging model for both screen display and printing, image transparency (also known as alpha channel), Pantone color matching, and Pixar Interactive Renderman 3D imaging. NEXTSTEP's window server composites multiple layers of images, and allows the user to work with images of any quality with any supported imaging model, in other words users can work with a 32 bit color image even on a 2-bit grayscale system! In order to provide these sophisticated capabilities NEXTSTEP requires a "workstation"-style linear frame buffer graphics system and a high performance 32-bit data path to the frame buffer. The number of colors or shades of gray, depth of transparency, etc., varies depending on the image model supported. ** TABLE FOR NEXTSTEP IMAGING ** Imaging Model Colors or Transparency Window Server Support Shades of (alpha channel) for Renderman 3D Gray Graphics _____________________________________________________________________ 32-bit color 24-bit - 8-bit (256 YES 16 million levels) colors 16-bit color 12-bit - 4-bit (16 YES 4096 colors levels) 32-BIT COLOR 2-bit color support on Intel-based PCs is planned for a future release of NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. 16-BIT COLOR Graphics Architectures Supported - Intel JAWS (such as DELL Processor-Direct Graphics), Chips and Technologies Wingine, ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 16-bit color, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data path, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 16-bit color. Future support is planned for the Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 800x600, 1024x768, 1120x832. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 8-BIT GRAYSCALE Graphics Architectures Supported - S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 8-bit grayscale, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 8-bit color. Future support is planned for the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 2-BIT GRAYSCALE NeXT has devoted a special driver that simulates the linear frame buffer required by NEXTSTEP's graphics system on segmented frame buffer graphics adapters such as standard VGA and Super VGA cards. This allows NEXTSTEP to support most standard VGA cards as well as certain Super VGA cards. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Graphics Architectures Supported - Standard VGA compatible and certain Super VGA graphics adapters using the Tseng Labs ET-4000AX or Cirrus Logic GD 542X. These graphics adapters can be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-BUS), PCI, EISA or ISA. Supported Resolutions: 640x480 (Standard VGA) or 1024x769 (Super VGA). _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors Graphics MANUFACTURERS OF GRAPHICS ADAPTERS ATI 68800 Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVISION Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1024/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1280/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2 MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 CIRRUS LOGIC GD542X Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ STB Horizon ISA Cirrus 2 bit grayscale: Logic .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 GD542X JAWS Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ DELL 450DE/2 Local- DELL 16 bit color: DGX bus JAWS 2 MB VRAM supports 1120x832 DGX Note: Upgrade for Dell 450DE only. TSENG LABS ET-4000AX Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ISA Tseng 2 bit grayscale: Labs .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ET4000 STANDARD VGA Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions _____________________________________________________________________ various various ISA VGA 2 bit grayscale Adapter 640x480 resolution (default) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters NEXTSTEP supports a variety of additional devices and add-on adapters: DISK INTERFACES Both IDE and several SCSI hard disk interfaces are supported. POINTING DEVICES Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial, and bus mice. PRINTERS Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. ADDITIONAL DEVICES Other popular PC peripherals such as FAX/Modems will be supported. DRIVERKIT NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors incorporates a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture called DriverKit. DriverKit allows the quick development of device drivers for new peripherals and add-on cards for Intel-based PCs running NEXTSTEP. DriverKit's architecture allows drivers to be loaded at run-time, thereby allowing users to add additional cards or devices to their systems without re-installing the main operating system. Loadable device drivers also allow NeXT and third parties to easily distribute additional drivers as they become available. NeXT is actively working with hardware manufacturers and third parties to provide additional drivers for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. Developers interested in the DriverKit should contact Developer Support (1-800-848-6398) and join the registered developer program. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors ADDITIONAL DEVICE SUPPORT PRODUCTS FLOPPY DISK Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ 3.5 inch Floppy Disk 1.44MB floppy Controller IDE HARD DISK INTERFACE Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ IDE IDE Disk Controller SCSI HARD DISK INTERFACE Note on Adaptec 1542c & 1742, DPT 2011/95 & 2012/95: built-in floppy disk interface not supported Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Adaptec 1540B ISA Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter Adaptec 1540C ISA Adaptec 1542B Built-in floppy disk SCSI adapter not supported Adaptec 1740 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Adaptec 1742 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Bus 542B ISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter Bus 747S EISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter DPT 2012/90 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2012/95 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) DPT 2011/90 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 DPT 2011/95 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 (Built-in floppy not supported) SCSI TAPE Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ SCSI SCSI tape Driver update tape driver available PARALLEL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Parallel Port Parallel port SERIAL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Supports COM1 & COM2 Serial Ports serial ports LOCAL AREA NETWORK ADAPTERS Note on Intel Etherlink: support of TP port requires Driver update Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3COM Ethernet coax or (3C509) Etherlink III twisted pair ethernet adapter SMC Etherlink 16 ISA SMC Ethernet coax or (8013) Elite 16 twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL EtherExpress 16 ISA Intel Ether- Ethernet coax or (TP, Coax or Combo) Express twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL TokenExpress ISA Intel Token- Token ring Express ISA Token Ring POINTING DEVICES Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ Microsoft MS mouse serial mouse serial mouse Microsoft MS mouse PS/2 mouse port PS/2 mouse Logitec Mouse Man serial mouse serial mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man PS/2 mouse PS/2 mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man Bus Bus mouse Bus mouse adapter AUDIO DEVICES NOTE: Driver updates required for Intel and Compaq audio devices Vendor Model Bus Driver Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard PC CPU System beep System audio alerts speaker board driver only support Media ProAudio ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Spectrum 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Media Pro ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Studio 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Intel GX/Professional CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Compaq Business Audio CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Microsoft Sound System ISA Up to CD quality PRINTERS Vendor Model Bus Interface _____________________________________________________________________ NeXT Color Printer SCSI Standard Adobe Postscript Serial or parallel Printers (Postscipt Level II recommended for proper color support.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ August 10, 1993 NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:30:59 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ E1. What Fortran compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E2. What Lisps are there for NEXTSTEP? E3. What Pascal compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E4. What should I know about c++ shipped with NEXTSTEP? E5. What Ada compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E6. Is Perl available for NEXTSTEP? E7. Where can I get gawk? E8. Where can I get Eiffel? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E1. What Fortran compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? There is a fortran to c translator called f2c available via anonymous ftp from the archives. Check the sources directory. Absoft FORTRAN 77 Object Oriented FORTRAN compiler; fully compatible w/ NEXTSTEP's Interface Builder toolkit, allows programmers to add a GUI to any FORTRAN program. They have a screen oriented source level debugger designed by and for FORTRAN programmers, and IMSL FORTRAN Libraries. They have versions for NEXTSTEP/m68k and NEXTSTEP/FIP. 313-853-0050 Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) FORTRAN 90 for NeXT Modern Fortran fully compliant with ISO/IEC 1539:1991 and ANSI X3.198-1991 standards. (708) 971-2337 OASYS OASYS Native Compilers, OASYS Optimizing 680x0 Cross Compilers, OASYS Optimizing 88000 Cross Compilers (C, C++, Fortran, Pascal available for each) Highly optimized Fortran, Pascal., C and C++ compilers and cross compilers. 617-862-2002. Diab Data (415) 571-1700 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E2. What Lisps are there for NEXTSTEP? Scheme is available from: altdorf.ai.mit.edu. Schematik is a front-end to MIT Scheme for NEXTSTEP; it comes complete with MIT Scheme, so that installing it is in fact also the simplest way to install MIT Scheme. It is available from: ftp.gac.edu ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (European users). There is also a commercial Scheme implementation that supposedly conforms to an IEEE Scheme standard. Cadence Research Systems 812-333-9269 Xlisp is available from bikini.cis.ufl.edu. Changes To make it work with NEXTSTEP: in unixstuf.c: #define BSD in function init_tty: declare extern char xltoplevel() in function read_keybd: change char buf[1] to char buf[100] change sizeof(buf) to sizeof(char) AKCL is available from: sonata.cc.purdue.edu. [bvrotney@ads.com (Bill Vrotney)] adds: But you can actually get a later version from: rascal.ics.utexas.edu pub/NeXT-akcl-1-615.tar.Z Scheme->C Compiler is available from sonata.cc.purdue.edu and gatekeeper.dec.com. ACL (allegro common lisp) used to be bundled with 1.0, now it is available directly from: Franz Inc. 1995 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Voice: (510) 548-3600, FAX: (510) 548-8252 email info@franz.com. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E3. What Pascal compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? uvapc/NeXT is an ISO standard Pascal compiler developed by the University of Virginia's Academic Computing Center and the Department of Computer Science. uvapc/NeXT passes the ISO standard Pascal validation suite. The compiler is written in C and has been ported to several other Unix platforms. uvapc/NeXT can generate the necessary information so that the GNU source-level symbolic debugger, gdb, can be used (see Caveats below). It also supports obtaining gprof type profiles. Contact is: Mr. Jack Davidson University of Virginia Department of Computer Science, Thornton Hall Charlottesville CA 22903 (804) 982-2209 (804) 982-2214 FAX jwd@virginia.edu [From: sanguish@digifix.com] I'm pretty sure that this pascal was dropped when 3.0 came onto the scene. Definately when hardware was dropped. I have sent e-mail to the contact, but no answer as yet. p2c, David Gillespie's Pascal to C translator, can be obtained from: csvax.cs.caltech.edu: pub/p2c-1.20.tar.Z. It translates many dialects of Pascal including Turbo, VAX, Sun/Berkeley. But there is a very serious problem in that %g and %lg are used to read reals in the translated code, and these formats are not supported by NeXT in scanf. Gillespie maintains that this is a bug in NeXT's compiler. A fix is to make the following change in funcs.c: [Old code] case TK_REAL: if (var->val.type == tp_longreal) ex = makeexpr_string("%lg"); else ex = makeexpr_string("%g"); break; [New code] case TK_REAL: if (var->val.type == tp_longreal) ex = makeexpr_string("%lf"); else ex = makeexpr_string("%f"); break; Here is a very disturbing example. %lg gives garbage, and %lf even gives garbage when it follows %lg: ariel% more test.c main() { double x, y, z; scanf("%lf%lg%lf%*[^\n]", &x, &y, &z); getchar(); printf("% .5E % .5E % .5E\n", x, y, z); } ariel% cc test.c ariel% a.out 3.14 3.14 3.14 3.14000E+00 6.36599E-314 1.40000E-01 ariel% ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E4. What should I know about c++ shipped with NEXTSTEP? Two things to note about the cc++ on NeXT. Any C include files have to be specified as below: extern "C" { #include <libc.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> } This tells that the code is C, so you won't have problems with the standard libraries thinking your program is Objective C. Also the /usr/include/stdio.h in line 75 has a variable "new" that conflicts with a g++ keyword. You can redefine it using #define new __new__ #include "stdio.h" #undef new After the above two fixes, g++ programs that do not use the g++ class library (and therefore do not need libg++ to be available) work. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] The currently available lib g++ is on ftp.next.com [From: Magnus Nordborg <magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU>] The cc++ shipped with NEXTSTEP 3.0 is a modified version of gcc-1.93. As shipped, 3.0 does not have the standard C++ headers and library functions (like iostream.h). It is therefore of no use as a C++ compiler (unless you want to write your own i/o routines, etc). There are basically two things you can do to remedy the situation. 1.) Get libg++-1.39.0 and build it using cc++ (some patches are needed, see below). 2.) Get the latest version of gcc and libg++ and build them. They (gcc-2.3.3 and libg++-2.3 that is) compile without problems (you need GNU make and bison, plus at least 40 MB of disk space to build gcc). The second alternative is clearly preferable in that you get a more stable C++ compiler that support "recent" additions to C++. This makes it much more likely that you will be able to use packages from other sources, etc There are two disadvantages: gcc takes up more than 10 MB of disk space, and the version of gdb that comes with 3.0 works less well with it. You should probably not get rid of cc even if you get gcc as the support for NeXT's Objective-C in gcc is not reliable. Here are the instructions for getting libg++-1.39.0: Create a folder, say /me/tmp. % mkdir tmp % cd tmp Get libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu from the directory pub/gnu. % ftp prep.ai.mit.edu ... Get NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from next242.ece.orst.edu from the directory pub. % ftp next242.ece.orst.edu ... Unpack the gnu stuff, and cd to the newly created directory. % zcat libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z | tar xf - % cd libg++-1.39.0 Unpack the mods file while in the newly created libg++-1.39.0 folder. % zcat ../NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z | tar xf - Create /usr/gnu, and /usr/gnu/lib (writable by whoever is doing this). % mkdir /usr/gnu % mkdir /usr/gnu/lib Change Makefile line 32 to "PWD=/me/tmp/libg++-1.39.0" ^^^^^^^ may need changing Then % make src (takes a while--ignore the warnings) % make install-lib" (puts libg++.a in /usr/gnu/lib) % make install-include-files" (this puts the include files in /usr/gnu/lib/g++-include) % make tests" (this takes rather a lot of disk space). There are differences from the expected output, most likely due to finite precision effects. Make a test program, x.cc, containing: #include <stream.h> main() { cout << " Hello world!\n"; } Compile it. % cc++ -I/usr/gnu/lib/g++-include -O x.cc -L/usr/gnu/lib -lg++ Run it. % a.out It should print Hello world! ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E5. What Ada compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? Meridian Software offers a NEXTSTEP Ada compiler. Meridian Software Voice: (800)221-2522 FAX: (714)727-3583 Get adaed. It works like a real ada, with libraries, etc. Gopher/archie gives four pages of locations, but cs.nyu.edu is home base. There seem to be pc and amiga versions as well as unix. cs.nyu.edu:/pub/adaed/Adaed-1.11.0a.tar.Z ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E6. Is Perl available for NEXTSTEP? Take most of the features of C, csh, awk, and add a sprinkling from sed, and you get Perl. Practical Extraction & Reporting Language. Perl is very much of a kitchen sink language, in that it has almost all the features of everything. This results in it being easy to write programs in perl (because all your favorite constructs are there) but difficult to read perl. (Because other people have used their favorite constructs, not yours) Perl's strength is in scripting. Anything that would take more than 20 lines in a csh script is a candidate. Anything that isn't a straight pass through, chew on each line, program for awk is a candidate. Current version: 4.036 Perl is available from: jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.148.1.143) tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60) uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2) While Perl does come with a 70 page man-book, an easier way to learn the language is from "Programming Perl" Larry Wall & Randal Schwartz. O'Reilly & Associates 632 Petaluma Ave Sebastopol CA 95472 Voice: 800-338-6887 Voice: (707) 829-0515 uunet!ora!nuts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E7. Where can I get gawk? Gawk, as with all FSF GNU software is available in source form from: prep.ai.mit.edu Gawk is the Gnu version of Awk. Like most of the other GNU programs Gawk has more features than does awk. Further unlike the wretched man page for awk that comes with NEXTSTEP, Gawk comes with a 140 page manual/tutorial. Gawk is a text processing language. In this respect it is similar to sed. However Gawk adds to sed conditional execution (if) subroutines, and the ability to execute a block of instructions before and after the file itself is processed. gawk is not the only public-code awk. Mawk version 1.1, published through comp.sources.reviewed in February, 1992, by Mike Brennan <brennan@boeing.com>, should be mentioned as an alternative. References for Gawk/awk: Sed & Awk, Dale Dougherty, O'Reilly & Associates The Awk Programming Language Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, & Peter J. Weinberger Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. ISBN 0-201-07981-X ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E8. Where can I get Eiffel? A port of the Eiffel language and development environment is available for NEXTSTEP. The company is: Interactive Software Engineering, Inc. Voice: (805)685-1006 FAX: (805)685-6869 eiffel@eiffel.com The port is for Eiffel version 2.3 and includes their standard class libraries as well as some additional NeXT-specific classes and facilities for integration with the Interface Builder. A free eiffel-like language called Sather is available via ftp from icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:31:37 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ F1. Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? F2. Can I put both a 68030 and a 68040 system board in a single NeXT cube? F3. Where is libc.a under 2.0? F4. How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? F5. How do I access the "help" facilities in Mathematica 1.0? F6. How do I find out what are the defaults for a NeXT application? F7. How do I run NextApps remotely? F8. Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? F9. How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? F10. How do I remap the \ and | keys on my keyboard? F11. Why doesn't email registration to Mathematica work? F12. How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding\ ^Ms onto the end of lines? F13. Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? F14. What default affects menu location? F15. How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? F16. What dwrites affect the loginwindow? F17: How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages? F18: Can I automatically have my ~/.signature file appended to mail I send with Mail.app? F19: How can I quickly find a file if I don't know it's directory? F20: Mail.app suddenly stopped working. When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? F21: For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recyler no longer works? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F1. Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? There is no way of changing the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x; in 3.0 there is. Check Preferences (Title Bar): set CustomTitle, type in the title, and hit CR (or Set Window) and voila! [andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] adds: Actually, there is a way to change the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x (at least in 2.1 which is what I am using). It is somewhat limited but it might be useful to some. The trick is to make a symbolic link between /bin/csh (or whichever shell one wishes to use) and a file in / named "Whatever_you_want_to_appear_in_the_title_bar". Then select this new "shell" in the terminal preference and, voila!, you'll have your terminal window with /Whatever_you..... in the title bar. You can edit Stuart's titlebar interactively from the "Window..." Inspector (Command-3). Stuart provides emulation of certain Operating System Command (OSC) sequences which can be used to modify the titlebar under subprocess control. Stuart can change the title of the current window from the command line. In Stuart is possible to get more descriptive titles by linking /usr/ucb/rsh to /usr/hosts/<hostname>. Then by adding /usr/hosts to your Stuart ShellPath you can then get the hostname into the title bar: $ dwrite StuartShellPaths <various dirs>:/usr/hosts You should then type in the hostname as the shell to invoke (disable the "Shell reads .login file" for this. You can also add hosts to your .Stuartrc file: Shell=golem.ps.uci.edu SourceDotLogin=NO WinLocX=545 WinLocY=563 Lines=24 | WinLocX=76 WinLocY=833 For the localhost, link /bin/csh to /usr/hosts/<name>, or even better /usr/local/bin/tcsh instead of using rsh. [Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>] adds: For what it's worth, I do this with a script called "telnet_to" and a (bash) function called "telnet_window". The function simply does a local soil_pars="-Lines 32 -Keypad YES -Reverse YES -Strict YES -TestExit YES"; soil -Shell "telnet_to $1" $soil_pars and the script is just: #!bin/sh /usr/ucb/telnet $* echo ' ' echo ' --> telnet exited, press enter to close window.' read -r Waste_Var exit 0 This has a number of advantages, not the least of which being that I can pop up a "telnet_window" to anywhere. I don't have to create links for each host (though I do create aliases for the most common hosts), and I can type "telnet_window" (or, e.g., "tel_aix") as a unix command. Also, if I lose the connection suddenly then the window stays around until I get a chance to see what happened. I use telnet instead of rsh because I generally connect to hosts which won't accept rsh's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F2. Can I put both a 68030 and a 68040 system board in a single NeXT cube? There is a company which plans to offer hardware (extra CPU boards) and software support solutions for the OD with Turbo NeXTcubes. For more information: Sam Goldberger Spherical Solutions smg@sphersys.net.netcom.com 415-383-7512 [Note that we have no first hand experience with this problem, we have compiled what we consider to be an accurate report. We acknowledge conflicting reports where appropriate.] In general Mach may be configured as a multiprocessor operating system; however, the NeXT kernel is only configured to deal with one processor. This configuration can not be changed without access to the kernel sources. [hopefully NeXT will offer a multiprocessor version of the NeXT operating system at some future date] Some have asked about the possibility of installing the 030 board for use as a printserver or other CPU-intensive task server. In this hypothetical setup, each CPU would run its own copy of the operating system (essentially two different computers sharing the same cube). This might be workable except for the fact that even if the NBIC (NextBus Interface Chip) chip is removed, the CPU board probes the bus for slot ID [**a conflicting report comes from Richard Dib who heard that someone ran a cube with the CPU in another slot]. You could do hardware modification to the 68030 board which would isolate it enough to use only the cube as a power supply, however you can not run two monochrome monitor heads off the cube power supply. In this case you would probably want to first boot the 68030 with a display head, set the boot prom to boot off ttya, and attach an ascii terminal to that serial port. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F3. Where is libc.a under 2.0? From the developer's release notes concerning the 2.0 NeXT Operating System Software available on-line with 2.0 extended: /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/OperatingSystem.rtf - libc.a is not shipped with release 2.0. All routines contained in libc.a are also contained in the shared library libsys.a which should be used instead of libc.a. libc.a is not shipped because as a normal archive it is impossible for improvements and system interface changes made to library routines to be applicable to existing applications without those applications being relinked. Applications referencing shared libraries, because they are bound at runtime, always access the most recent release. Release 1.0 applications linked against libc.a may not be compatible with release 2.0 until they are relinked with libsys.a. Subject: F4. How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? Mail.app: In /LocalLibrary/Images/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person@remote.site.domain.tiff (all lowercase). In /LocalLibrary/Images/People/passwd add an entry for the person: person@remote.site.domain:*:-2:-2::/nodir:/noshell (person and sitename need to be all lowercase as well)... In the future anytime you get mail from the person their picture should appear. You can include an "aliases" file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People too. This allows you to use the same picture for somebody that might send you mail from accounts on many different sites, or for those people whose letters use several different routings. To do this, you include entries in this local aliases file like so: bkohler@ucrac1.ucr.edu:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.uucp:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu There should then be a .tiff file called bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu.tiff. There can be no CAPITAL LETTERS in this file. So even if the address in the From: field looks like gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.UUCP, keep the letters lowercase in the aliases file. As always, you have to restart Mail.app before these changes take effect. NewsGrazer: In /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person.remote.site.domain (all lowercase). This is a different naming convention from what Mail.app uses. There is a large archive of some 4000 or 5000 pictures prepared for this purpose. The name of this archive is Faces3.tar.Z and it is about 4.1 MBytes large. Currently it is available from several anon ftp sites (e.g. sonata.cc.purdue.edu) in: /pub/next/graphics/Images/icons/people. That image archive also contains a script which automatically creates proper alias and passwd files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F5. How do I access the "help" facilities in Mathematica 1.0? While the help dialog doesn't show anything, you can get the help info by clicking on the place where the slider bar should be. This tidbit doesn't seem to work on all systems though, and will be irrelevant once the new version of Mathematica comes out. [Which it has]. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F6. How do I find out what are the defaults for a NeXT application? A command line utility for examining defaults is available from: sutro.sfsu.edu:/pub/wmdefaults1.0.tar.Z. A PD App, DefaultMgr.app, is available on the NeXT ftp archives. A more brute approach (done by DefaultMgr.app): Start the application under gdb, and then try the following sequence of commands: break *0x500976a commands 1 silent printf "%s: ", *$a2 output {char *}(4+$a2) echo \n cont end run [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: DefaultMgr.app doesn't any longer work properly under 3.0. It still is able to manipulate defaults but can't any longer "investigate" apps to find out which defaults they use. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F7. How do I run NextApps remotely? On the local machine make sure you have public window server access, this is set from the Preferences application. On the foreign NeXT machine run the application from a terminal window with the -NXHost <local_machine_name>. Both machines should be running the same version of NeXTstep. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F8. Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? What is happening is that the remote machine is waiting for you to end your login or password by typing a "Return" (aka ^M or CR or CARRIAGE RETURN). UUCP ends a line by sending a LineFeed (aka ^J or LF). Since UUCP doesn't send the CR, the login sequence is never completed, and you will usually get one of two error messages: wanted "password:" (means that username needs to end with a CR) imsg waiting for SYNC< (means that password needs to end with CR) So how do you get UUCP to send CR, instead of LF? End the send string with the sequence \n\c. For instance this line in L.sys will send a LF after login, but a CR after password. myfeed Any DIR 9600 cub "" ATTD19095551212 9600 \ "" ogin:--ogin: Unext ssword: secret\n\c ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F9. How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? Get Jiro Nakamura's define program from the archiver servers: define.tar.Z. This will allow you to access the database from the command line. [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: 'define' breaks under 3.0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F10. How do I remap the \ and | keys on my keyboard? NeXT introduced a new keyboard configuration with the 040 products. The \| keys which had been located on the main keyboard was moved to the numeric keypad. Many users have since complained about it, and a work around is to remap these keys using the demo application Keyboard (/NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard), Mike Carlton's keyboardfix program: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/sources/next-interface/keyboardfix.tar.Z ...which lets you put these keys on shift-return or shift-delete. One can hope that there will be a choice of keyboards in the future. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F11. Why doesn't email registration to Mathematica work? There is a bug with this option where the mail instead of being sent to Wolfram is stored in /tmp/email.message. This file seems to be suitable for mailing to register@wri.com ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F12. How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding\ ^Ms onto the end of lines? In /etc/sendmail.cf make this change: [old code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, [new code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n, [From: sanguish@digifix.com] This has been fixed in 3.1, and the default mailhost sendmail is UUCP oriented. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F13. Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? Sprayon Paint Omni-Packblend 4Next-Black (icon black) LAV-16 25216 Call 1-800-777-2966 for the name of a dealer near you. It's nominally $2.75/16 oz. can. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F14. What default affects menu location? dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX <value> dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuY <value> ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F15. How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? Login as root, or get root privileges running 'su', and execute the following five commands: mkdirs /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel/NeXT cd /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel ln -s uuuuu/Mathematica.app/Kernel/Display Utilities cd NeXT ln -s vvvvv/math mathexe where uuuuu is the directory where Mathematica.app was placed (typically, /LocalApps) and vvvvv is the directory where the executable 'math' was placed (typically, /usr/local/bin) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F16. What dwrites affect the loginwindow? [Jess Anderson writes:] Here, I hope, is the quasi-definitive story on dwrites that affect the loginwindow. I'm indebted to several people, notably Art Isbell, Kristian Koehntopp, Dan Danz, Louie Mamakos, John Kheit, Felix Lugo, and Paul Sears, for some of the information presented here. Remember that dwrites are not supported by NeXT; they may change with any subsequent system release. These I've checked out using 3.0; some or all may work with earlier releases, but I can't vouch for most of them. All these dwrites must be done as root. You can also run as root and use DefaultMgr to set them (which is a whole lot more convenient if you're intending to fiddle with some of them). After setting the things you want, restart the WindowServer by logging out of the current session and typing exit <cr> on the login panel. OK, here's what we know (or think we do :-): dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser <login-name> Most new machines have <login_name> set to me. This dwrite logs in user <login_name> automatically. User <login_name> must not have a password set, hence *don't* use this in a networked environment! dwrite loginwindow HostName "<host_name>" dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost These cause your host name to appear on the login panel. You need quote marks only if there's a space in the name. The first form hard-codes the name into root's defaults database. The second form uses whatever name has been set as localhost in NetInfo, which is convenient for networked machines. The font, size, color, and position of the printed string are not accessible (drat!). dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path/to/a/suitable.tiff> This uses the tiff image pointed to instead of the standard one (in /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj/nextlogin.tiff, <language>.lproj as appropriate for your main language) as the login panel. Be sure you get the pointer right, though, or you'll have to boot single-user to fix it. In practical terms, the image is constrained in various ways I won't detail here. dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <integer_number> No relation to the dim time set by Preferences. The units are odd, I think. Felix reported them as 1/34 second. However, when I changed it to 1020, I got 15 seconds to dimming, and 680 gives 10 seconds, that I'm sure of. So I think the units are 1/68 second. Maybe Felix just thought it was too damn long! We all know it *seems* longer when you're not having fun waiting. :-) Whatever, the login screen dims to about half after this length of time. dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES This causes the panel to move around approximately in Backspace bouncing-off-the-walls-tiff fashion. The point is to avoid burning the screen phosphors, as a static image would tend to do. The animation is controlled by the next couple dwrites. dwrite loginwindow MovementTimeout <real_number> The units are seconds. The panel starts moving (assuming the preceding is set to YES) after this time. If you set it to be less than the TimeToDim time, the movement starts before the dimming occurs. I did not try zero. I can't stand waiting around for things to happen, so I use 10 seconds for both times. The default appears to be 5 minutes. dwrite loginwindow MovementScale <integer_number> No movement occurs if this is set to 1. But it looks like the units might be approximately pixels for each change of position (the frequency of which is controlled by the next dwrite). If you put a big number here, say 200, the image moves in big jumps, but I don't know if the 200 is divided up somehow between change in x- and y-coordinates. I wouldn't worry about it much, just set it to something you like. Since my image contains readable text, I want it to scroll smoothly around, so I use the apparently minimum value, 2. The default appears to be 10. dwrite loginwindow MovementRate <real_number> The units are seconds. The image jumps by the amount above every this many seconds. The default is 0.0666 seconds. Bigger numbers mean slower motion. Since I don't like things being too jumpy or zooming around, I set this to 0.1 seconds. This makes my image ooze at a pace befitting an elderly person like me. dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES This makes it a little harder to turn the machine off; you have to use the monitor or the minimonitor (<right-command>-~) if it's set, rather than the <power> key. dwrite loginwindow LoginHook <path/to/loginhook/executable> dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook <path/to/logouthook/executable> Pointers to the login and logout hooks, if used. It should be pointed out that some of these things (login/logout hooks, for example) are maybe more logically set where the loginwindow is invoked by the WindowServer, namely /etc/ttys. There are yet others. Here's the full list (thanks, Art): NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DebugHook") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DryRun") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "WindowServerTimeout") => 0x0 NXRegisterDefaults("loginwindow", 0x16024) KeyMapPath: 0x12d97 "~/Library/Keyboards:/LocalLibrary/Keyboards:/NextLibrary/Keyboards" Keymap: 0x12de1 "/NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA" SwappedKeymap: 0x12e0a "No" LoginHook: 0x0 LogoutHook: 0x0 HostName: 0x0 ImageFile: 0x0 DefaultUser: 0x12e41 "me" PowerOffDisabled: 0x0 TimeToDim: 0x12e69 "2040" MoveWhenIdle: 0x12e0a "No" MovementTimeout: 0x12e8b "300.0" MovementRate: 0x12e9e "0.06666" MovementScale: 0x12eb4 "10" [Christopher J. Kane kane@cs.purdue.edu] Under NeXTSTEP 3.1, the login window has two buttons labeled "Reboot" and "Power" that allow a user to reboot and power down from the login window. In a public lab, this feature may be undesirable. The PowerOffDisabled default can be used to disable the buttons, but they are still shown in the window and push in when clicked (a bad user interface decision, IMHO). The program below patches the loginwindow.app to eradicate the restart and power buttons. It makes the loginwindow.app's LoginButton class instance method initWithImage:altImage:andString: a no-op (just return nil). This patch has been applied to the machines in the NeXT lab at Purdue (like sonata.cc.purdue.edu for instance), and no adverse effects have been noted. This program must be run as root, since it writes to the file /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow. An archive with a compiled executable has been submitted to sonata.cc.purdue.edu. -----cut here----------cut here----------cut here----- /* * Patches the loginwindow.app to eradicate the restart and power * buttons from the login window. * * Christopher J. Kane (kane@cs.purdue.edu) * Released into public domain; August 13, 1993. */ #include <libc.h> #include <errno.h> void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned char patch[8] = {0x0, 0x0, 0x42, 0x80, 0x4e, 0x5e, 0x4e, 0x75}; int file = open("/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow", O_WRONLY); if (-1==file) goto error; if (-1==lseek(file, 21170, SEEK_SET)) goto error; if (-1==write(file, patch, 8)) goto error; if (-1==close(file)) goto error; exit(0); error: fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(errno)); exit(1); } ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F17: How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages? M17 is only applicable to NeXTStep 2.x. Beyond looking in the man pages under ixBuild, etc., what you want to do is put a few files (contents listed below file name) the .index directory: .roffArgs: -man displayCommand: tbl %s | nroff -man ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8ln] -V Other options that people suggested for ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8] -V /usr/local/man -fman -Nwhatis -V /usr/local/man/man* I don't think you need to explicitly name the directory in the first alternative, but you do in the second unless you want the cat* directories indexed as well. Note: Do NOT leave a trailing return after the line in ixBuildOptions; DL will barf. (I think someone said that, as shipped, the standard man .index/ ixBuildOptions had this problem.) [From: Eric D. Engstrom <eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com>] Can anyone tell me what the command line for this might be under NS 3.0? Short answer: RTM on ixbuild(1) - specifically the parameter "-g". In addition, I'd like to inform the newsgroup of a simple hack I setup on my own machine to create a unified DL target for all UN*X Manual pages (including system, local, gnu, whatever). This was easier under 2.x because IXBuild (pre IXKit) had more hacks in it... Basically, you need to setup a directory with sym-links to the various man-page directories; For example: (397)basilisk% pwd /LocalLibrary/Documentation/ManPages (398)basilisk% ls -alg total 728 drwxrwxr-x 2 eric wheel 1024 Mar 28 18:03 ./ drwxrwxr-x 11 root wheel 1024 Mar 27 00:41 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 370 Feb 27 22:01 .README -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 872 Feb 27 17:11 .dir.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 20 Feb 27 17:11 .displayCommand -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 47 Feb 27 17:10 .index.iname -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 6 Feb 27 17:10 .index.itype -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 729088 Mar 28 18:44 .index.store -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 5 Feb 27 17:11 .roffArgs lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 18 Feb 27 17:53 gnu -> /usr/local/gnu/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 14 Feb 27 17:53 local -> /usr/local/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 9 Feb 27 17:53 news -> /news/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 35 Feb 27 17:53 system -> /usr/man/@ (399)basilisk% Notice that I also copied all the ".[a-z]*" files from the /usr/man/ directory as well. Then, use ixbuild -gl to (re)build the index. If your any of the links point to directories on other devices, add "d" to "-gl". "-v" will give you verbose output (like my writing style ;-). RTM under ixbuild(1) for more info. Unfortunantly, once the index is built, I've never successfully gotten DL to update it correctly. Instead I have to do it by hand using "ixbuild -ogldvc" (actualy, I setup a cron job to reindex weekly.) If you have troubles, try removing the .index.store file and rebuilding the entire database. I've had intermittent problems with ixbuild under 3.0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F18: Can I automatically have my ~/.signature file appended to mail I send with Mail.app? I want to automatically add additional header lines to mail going out from Mail.app (such as Reply-To or X-faces headers). Can this be done? [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Yes, on both counts. First create a simple text file the following content: #!/bin/sh { if test -r ${HOME}/.add-header; then cat ${HOME}/.add-header; fi cat - if test -r ${HOME}/.signature; then echo "--"; cat ${HOME}/.signature; fi }| /usr/lib/sendmail "$@" A good name for this file would be "sendmail-addheader". If you want to and can install it for system-wide use put this file in e.g. /usr/lib. Otherwise your private ~/Unix/bin directory is also fine. Make certain that this file has execute permission. To set that, use e.g. "chmod 755 /usr/lib/sendmail-addheader". Next, open up the preferences panel in Mail.app. Switch to the expert options. Change the Mailer option from "/usr/lib/sendmail" (which it should originally be) to "/usr/lib/sendmail-addheader" (or whatever the name of the file you created is). OK this and you should be set. From now on your ~/.signature file should always be appended to all mail sent out with Mail.app. In addition if you have a file called add-header in your home-directory it should automatically be prepended to your outgoing mail. To implement a reply-to line, you would simply give it the following content: Reply-to: My Real Human Name <name@my.real.address> IMPORTANT: Make certain that you have one and exactly one newline at the end of ~/.add-header. Anything might break outgoing mail. Beware ! BUG: The ~/.signature file is not added properly for NeXT mail containing attachments. The headers will still be added properly. This could be fixed but probably is more of a hassle than it is worth. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F19: How can I quickly find a file if I don't know it's directory? The Unix 'find' command on the NeXT has the capability of quickly searching a database of all the files. This database is located in /etc/find.codes and has to be generated periodically. You can automatically generate this database, say twice a week at 3:15 a.m., by adding this line to your file /etc/crontab.local (you might have to create this file). 15 03 * * 2,5 root /usr/lib/find/updatedb > /usr/adm/updatedb.err After this has run, you can quickly find any file from a terminal by typing find pattern where pattern is a part of the file name you want (it is case-sensitive). [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Find still works under 3.0, but 'pattern' now has to match the entire filename (including the path) for a match to be recognized i.e. where under 2.x you would have: % find foobar Under 3.0 you: % find '*foobar*' (The "'" are neccessary to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards itself). [From: sanguish@digifix.com] There is also a Find panel in 3.1 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F20: Mail.app suddenly stopped working. When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Usually the problem is caused by Mail.app being terminated with extreme prejudice such as by a power outage or 'kill -9'. Under those circumstances Mail.app may leave a lock file in your active mailbox. Due to a bug 3.0 Mail.app doesn't ask for permission to override this lock when started up again but just dies. Open a shell and look in ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox. If this directory contains a file called .lock you have found the culprit. You can safely remove this file. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F21: For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recyler no longer works? [From: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com (Eric D. Engstrom)] Basically, when you dump a file in the recycler, the workspace manager (attempts) to move it to one of the following locations: (note: no order implied here, 'cause I'm unsure of the actual order used) - $HOME/.NeXT/.NextTrash (Should always exist; unsure what happens if it doesn't) - /tmp/.NextTrash_$USER Automatically created if non-existent) - $MNT-POINT/.NextTrash/$USER (.NextTrash NOT automatically created if non-existent) Also, the workspace requires that the trash directory into which it puts the to-be-deleted file be on the same disk partition that the file originally came from (for speed, I assume). Also, an example of the permissions for the external disk .NextTrash directory (which is not automatically created) should be : (52)basilisk% ls -aldg /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash drwxrwxrwt 3 root 1024 Dec 5 09:36 /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash/ Notes: - /private/mnt2/local is the mount point. - do "chmod 1777 .NextTrash" to get the permissions right. Thus, if you moved your home directory from one partition to another, the one you left may not have a "recycler-repository" to use. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063146.1302@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:31:46 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ G1. What information is there about NEXTSTEP/FIP (For Intel Processors)? G2. Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? G3. Can I delete /odmach or /sdmach and save 700K? G4. NEXTSTEP 2.0 systems report an error on the console: "loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory." Is this a problem? G5. Under NEXTSTEP 2.0 running UUCP and other incoming connections hangs the modem serial line: what can I do? G6. Applications installed in /LocalApps are not being found on my NEXTSTEP 2.0 system. G7. Why can't root login onto client machines? G8. How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? G9. How to make swapfile shrink to the "normal" size? G10. Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.n and 3.n? G11. Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? G12. How to limit coredump sizes? G13. Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.0? G14. What happens to the OD drive in NeXTcubes under NEXTSTEP 3.0? G15. What equipment do I need to load 3.0? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G1. What information is there about NEXTSTEP/FIP (For Intel Processors)? See the separate FAQ files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G2. Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? Release 1.0 contains a bug that can corrupt the kernel /odmach if a user attempts to launch /odmach from the browser. The solution is to copy a clean /odmach from another NeXT system. Be sure to change the permissions of the newly installed /odmach to remove execute permissions to prevent future occurrences of the same problem. Release 1.0a and beyond do not have this problem. It is possible for the sdmach to get corrupted in the same way. Boot from the OD, copy an uncorrupted version of the kernel to the hard disk, and remove the execute bits from sdmach. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G3. Can I delete /odmach or /sdmach and save 700K? Go ahead and delete it if you want. However, you might as well leave it there since sdmach and odmach are links to the same file (i.e. you won't save much space by deleting it). Better to look for random core files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G4. NEXTSTEP 2.0 systems report an error on the console: "loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory." Is this a problem? The netinfo problem is because the /keyboard directory is missing. It's benign... [EPS adds] "But annoying. niutil -create . /keyboard" Fixed in 2.1. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G5. Under NEXTSTEP 2.0 running UUCP and other incoming connections hangs the modem serial line: what can I do? There is a bug in the serial driver which causes getty to get stuck. The situation arises after a successful uucico connection, subsequent connections via modem will get a connection with the modem, but no login prompt. This is caused by getty hanging. A simple work around is to have a process run in cron to reset the getty every 15 minutes: #! /bin/sh -u PIDS=`ps -ax | bm getty | grep -v bm | awk '{print $1}'` kill -TERM $PIDS Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release. This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G6. Applications installed in /LocalApps are not being found on my NEXTSTEP 2.0 system. Workspace has its own internal application path. In 2.0 /LocalApps was omitted. Improv needs to have /LocalApps in the Workspace path if you have Improve installed in /LocalApps. The work around in 2.0 only is: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos (one continuous line! - pasc) This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G7. Why can't root login onto client machines? A number of people have complained about the situation where root can log onto the configuration server, but not its clients. Login proceeds normally, then a window with "Workspace error Internal error (signal 10)" pops up. Other users are not affected. This scenario occurs with NetBooted clients that are not permitted root access to / via the server's /etc/exports file, either via an explicit root= option or [the most heinous] anon=0. For security reasons many sites will NOT want to permit such access. Note that what you're up against is only a Workspace Manager misfeature; there's no problem logging in as root on the real UNIX console, or logging in as a non-root user and then using "su" to obtain root privileges. Root access is needed to: - Log in a root Workspace. - Perform BuildDisk on a client. - Run the GuidedTour demo for the first time subsequent invocations will not autologin, but they will run just fine if you log in as NextTour (no password). It is not required to perform updates on the local NetInfo database, for any normal user operations, nor to run programs requiring root access on the server using -NXHost. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G8. How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? bsd(1,0,0) -a which will then ask you for the drive to use as the root disk, or still easier, bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: In the boot command the name of the bootfile can be replaced by '-'. This is very useful as the length of the bootcommand which can be stored in the permanent memory is very limited. So the only way to eg. increase the number of buffers permanently to 128 in the boot command is to use the following boot command: sd- nbu=128 (sdsdmach nbu=128 would have been too long). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G9. How to make swapfile shrink to the "normal" size? The swapfile is located in /private/vm. The only current way to make it shrink is to reboot the machine. Putting a space after the comma in /etc/swaptab (lowat=###,hiwat=###) makes swapon ignore the hiwat entry. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G10. Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.n and 3.n? Yes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G11. Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? You need an entry in /etc/fstab so the disk will be mounted at boot time, rather than being "automounted" when somebody logs in. Automounted disks are owned by whoever logged in, fstab-mounted disks are owned by root. Something like this: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 (assuming the external disk is to be mounted as /Disk) fstab should be niloaded into the Netinfo database. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G12. How to limit coredump sizes? [dylan@midiline.la.ca.us (Comrade D)]: This will work for apps running from a shell. limit coredumpsize 0 If your dock or workspace apps are dumping core, there's also: dwrite Workspace CoreLimit 0 [or whatever byte limit you want] ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G13. Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.0? Yes, but note that NeXTstep 3.0 will be optimized for the 68040 CPUs. NeXTstep 1.0 and 2.x were optimized for the 68030 CPU, 68882 FPU machines. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G14. What happens to the OD drive in NeXTcubes under NEXTSTEP 3.0? Release 3.0 will work fine with the OD that you have. You cannot buy release 3.0 on optical disk (you can only get it on CD-ROM. Release 3.0 will not require that you drop the optical, but if you want to upgrade to the latest 68040 board (the 33-MHz Turbo), then you lose hardware support for the optical. There is a company which offers hardware (extra CPU boards) and software support solutions for the OD with Turbo NeXTcubes. For more information: Sam Goldberger Spherical Solutions smg@sphersys.net.netcom.com 415-383-7512 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G15. What equipment do I need to load 3.0? A CDrom drive and a means of getting an upgrade-prep app onto your disk. This means having your own floppy drive, being on the net, having someone with a floppy drive put it onto OD, kermitting it over with a serial line... you get the idea. You do not need a special boot ROM for 3.0. [From: Jimmie_Quan@NeXT.COM (Jimmie Quan)] There's actually 3 levels of upgrades. a) For early NeXT Computers, you'll need an external Floppy drive (PLI) and the upgrade-prep floppy disk. b) For 040 machines with ROMs v58-v66, you'll need the upgrade-prep floppy. c) For all 040's with v70-v74 ROM. The CD ROM is directly bootable. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063156.1362@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:31:56 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ H1. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? H2. What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? H3. How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? H4. How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. H5. How do I get banner pages on my printer output? H6. How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? H7. What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? H8. What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? H9. How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? H10. /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? H11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? H12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H1. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? Adding supported postscript printers is rather simple: 1. Get a serial cable (e.g., Macintosh to LaserWriter Plus), but check whether that works with your printer 2. Configure using Print Manager 3. Configure printer communication according to manufacturer's recommendations. (9600 baud software flow control). A sample printcap entry needs to be loaded into the netinfo database. You can use either "niload printcap . < myprintcap", or use NetInfoManager to change the br and lp properties of your LaserJet. Using the default baud rate and /dev/ttya will also work, for most print jobs. LaserJet_III: \ :note=LaserJet_III:ty=HP LaserJet III PostScript: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserJet_III:lp=/dev/ttyfa: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:af=/usr/adm/lp.acct:br=19200:rw:fc#0000374: \ :fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sb:if=/usr/lib/transcript/psif: \ :of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:gf=/usr/lib/transcript/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:tf=/usr/lib/transcript/pstf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/transcript/psrf:vf=/usr/lib/transcript/psvf: \ :cf=/usr/lib/transcript/pscf:df=/usr/lib/transcript/psdf: HP printer configuration: auto cont = off (doesn't matter) I/O = serial serial=rs-232 (for LJ III only) baud rate = 19200 (or whatever baud rate you have in ni database/printcap) robust xon = on (doesn't matter) dtr polarity = hi startpage = off (doesn't matter) language=english ret = med (you choose for LJ III only) Note that if you modify the printcap this way you cannot reconfigure this particular printer entry with PrintManager. If you are using NEXTSTEP 2.0 and you use remote non-next printers, there is a bug that can be simply corrected by doing "dwrite system PrinterResolution 1" for each user trying to access non-next printers on the network. This not a problem in later NEXTSTEP versions. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H2. What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? Properly packaged Type 1 or 3 PostScript fonts will work with NEXTSTEP, but certain conversions may be necessary to get them to work. Freeware and shareware fonts are available on various ftp archives. There are utilities with NEXTSTEP to download fonts into postscript printers. Freeware and shareware Type 1 and 3 fonts in files Fonts-1.0-free.tar.Z and Fonts-2.0-sw.tar.Z. Each file unpacks into it's own directory. Within each directory is a ReadMe.rtf and a Makefile. See the ReadMe.rtf for more font descriptions and installation instructions. (You may also find comments in the Makefile of interest.) These packages were prepared by Doug Brenner <dbrenner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>. The same directory contains fonts Shalom (Hebrew and Yiddish in Old Style, Stick and Script typefaces, by Jonathan Brecher, shareware) and CyrillicGothic (san serif, by Jay Sekora). These were packaged by Jacob Gore <jacob@gore.com> to work with the Installer application. WSI-Fonts for NEXTSTEP #1 Abstract Software POB 25045 Seattle, WA 98125-1945 Voice: 206 361 5080 info@abstractsoft.com Fonts may be purchased from Adobe (800 USA FONTS) or from The Font Hotline, a new division of RightBrain Software. For more information: RightBrain/The Font Hotline Voice: 415 326 2974 Some fonts in Type 1 format for NEXTSTEP are also available from Y&Y: Y&Y, 106 Indian Hill, Carlisle MA 01741 USA Voice: 800 742 4059 Voice: 508 371 3286 Fax: 508 371 2004 71172,524 on CompuServe 71172.524@compuserve.com from InterNet ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H3. How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? Select PRINT from the main menu, then select SAVE from the resulting print panel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H4. How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. We must recommend against re-using laser printed paper in your printers. The reason is that the toner which is used is not very robust, in that when heated again (which happens when you print) it can come off the other side of the paper. This causes a mess to accumulate in your printer, and probably some pretty rude things to happen. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] psutils from comp.sources.misc is a much better solution, and includes alot more capabilities, plus it is being updated constantly. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H5. How do I get banner pages on my printer output? There is a sample banner prologue file in /usr/lib/NextPrinter that is sent to the printer before or after the print job depending on what printer attributes are set in NetInfo. Sounds gross, but it isn't. Start up NetInfo on your printer machine. Go to the printer directory, and open up your local printer by double clicking it. Select the append property from Directory menu. Replace the name with BannerAfter (or BannerBefore if you want the banner page printed first). The select the New Value option, and put in the name of the banner prologue file. If you do not wish to do fancy customization of the file, simply put the path to the NeXT sample banner file: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/banner.pro Save out the netinfo modifications. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H6. How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? If you are printing to a non-NeXT printer from NeXT TeX using dvips, make sure you specify the correct resolution (300 dpi, usually), either on the command line with -D300, or in the /usr/lib/tex/config.ps file with a line that looks like : D 300 If you are printing from within TeXView, you will have to choose CustomResolution and enter the correct number (300, usually) because of the way DefaultResolution defaults to 0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H7. What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? Many PostScript fonts port to NEXTSTEP with little effort. The easiest case is a font generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above (a comment near the top of the file should say which program generated the font). This version of Fontographer can generate fonts "for NEXTSTEP". This means that no hacking of the font is needed, but you may need to make some adjustments to make it appear in your font panel. Suppose you were porting the font family Shalom, which consists of three faces: Old Style, Stick and Script. Here is the procedure to follow: 1. In a working folder of yours, create folders called: Shalom-OldStyle.font Shalom-Script.font Shalom-Stick.font Note that the font family name is to the left of the hyphen ("-"), and the typeface name is to the right and with no spaces in it. 2. Copy the outline font file for each typeface from wherever it is into its folder, and give it the name of the folder minus the ".font". For example, if you are doing this in a Terminal window: cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.NeXT Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.NeXT Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.NeXT Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick If you are working in Workspace Manager's File Viewer, double-click on the big fat F icon to open the font directory as a folder, then you'll be able to rename files in it. 3. Do the same thing with the font metric files, but make the suffix ".afm": cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.AFM Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.AFM Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.AFM Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick.afm 4. If there is a "read me" file with the font, or any other documentation, copy it into the .font folder too. For example, each of the Shalom font folders contains files ReadMe, CheatSheet.wn and Sample.wn specific to the typeface. 5. Edit the outline and font metric files to make them fit the NeXT AppKit's Font Panel, which is what most NextStep applications use to let you choose your font. a. Editing the outline file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle: The original used "ShalomOldStyle" as the font's name, full name, and family name. We want the name to be "Shalom-OldStyle", the full name "Shalom Old Style", and family name just "Shalom". First, find the lines: /FullName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def /FamilyName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def and change them to /FullName (Shalom Old Style) readonly def /FamilyName (Shalom) readonly def Then, replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". b. Editing the AFM file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm. Find the lines: FullName ShalomOldStyle FamilyName ShalomOldStyle and change them to FullName Shalom Old Style FamilyName Shalom Replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". Repeat this procedure for the remaining typefaces. 6. You now have a font family ready to be installed. If the font family is to be used by your account only, place it in ~/Library/Fonts (creating it if necessary): mkdirs ~/Library/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font ~/Library/Fonts buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts If everybody on your system should have access to this font family, place it (as superuser) in /LocalLibary/Fonts: su mkdirs /LocalLibrary/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font /LocalLibrary/Fonts buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts exit That's all you need to do for fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above. This will work with all applications that use AppKit's FontPanel. FrameMaker does not, so other changes may need to be done to keep FrameMaker happy [does anybody have something to add here?]. Fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or below don't work in Display PostScript as they are, because they use a memory management trick that screws everything up in a multitasking environment like DPS. However, there is a simple, though kludgy, way to make them work. The problematic trick uses a dictionary with a name like "Fog3.1" ("Casa1" in Casady & Green's fonts) in which most of the font resides. The problem is that Fontographer puts that whole dictionary into dictionary 'userdict' and expects it to stay there. DPS, however, clears out 'userdict' between tasks, including the task that loads the font and the task that uses it. This makes the font useless on the screen, and printable only by prepending the outline font file to the file you want to print and sending the result to print in one task. The fix is to move the troublesome dictionary from 'userdict' into the font dictionary itself (unlike 'userdict', the font dictionary does stick around between tasks). Perform the following changes in the outline font file (the font CyrillicGothic is used as the example): 1. Find the line "%%EndProlog". It will be followed by the line like this: /$CyrillicGothic 23 dict def $CyrillicGothic begin Write down the number before 'dict' (in this case, 23). You will need it in the following step. Delete the dict definition, making the line look like this: $CyrillicGothic begin 2. Go back to the beginning of the file. near the top of the font program, find the following lines: userdict/Fog3.1 known{{currentfile( )readstring {(%%%)eq{exit}if}{pop exit}ifelse}loop}if userdict begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin and replace them with these: /$CyrillicGothic 24 dict def $CyrillicGothic begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin The number before 'dict' (in this case, 24) is one greater than the number you wrote down in the previous step. 3. Find the line that defines procedure BuildChar: /BuildChar{Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec}def and change it as follows: /BuildChar{1 index begin Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec end}def 4. Go to the end of the file. The last line looks like this: /CyrillicGothic findfont/EFN get Fog3.1 begin{RF}forall end Delete it (or comment it out by placing one or more "%" in the beginning of it). The AFM file requires one adjustment. Change the line EncodingScheme AppleStandard to EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding This concludes conversion of a font generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or lower to work with NEXTSTEP. You may still need to make the changes described for version 3.2 and above, to make the font fit the NEXTSTEP font panel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H8. What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? The (no longer sold) NeXT/Canon SCSI color printer, of course! [heinz.in-berlin.de]: With Dots Color, the HP DeskJet 500C can print in color *today*, under NEXTSTEP 2.1, and it costs significantly less than $1000 (in Germany at least). You can get more information from d'ART Software GmbH Virchowstr. 17-19 W-2000 Hamburg 50 Germany Voice: +49 40 380 23 0 Fax: +49 40 380 23 290 software@dart.de ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H9. How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? Add "NXPaperType A4" in the "GLOBAL" preferences. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H10. /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? [Richard Tilley writes:] Using lpr -t, or lpr -d causes this problem. eg: [...] cat /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf [...] Christopher Lane <lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> has pointed out 3 (three!) errors in the distributed NEXTSTEP 3.0 lpd.comm file The last change is my own. It worked for the 1 (one!) dvi file I tried. tilley%diff lpd.comm.DIST lpd.comm 11,12c11,12 < while "x$1" != x do < case "$1" in --- > while test $# != 0 > do case "$1" in 16c16 < -h) HOST=$"; shift;; --- > -h) HOST=$2; shift;; 17a18 > esac 21c22 < PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p $PRINTER -n $USER -h HOST -f -" --- > PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p $PRINTER -n $USER -h $HOST -f -" 27c28 < psdf) psbad $FILTER $PRINTER $USER $HOST | $PRSERVER;; --- > psdf) dvips -f -D 400 -r | $PRSERVER ;; ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? [From: Dr. T. L. Marchioro II <tlm@tantalus.scl.ameslab.gov>] If you upgrade to a 600 dpi laserwriter then the version of TeX that ships with NEXTSTEP (either 2.X or 3.0) does not know about 600 dpi fonts, i.e. does not know how to make them and will instead use scaled 400 dpi ones (which look significantly worse at 600 dpi than they do at 400 dpi). Some simple modifications to a few Metafont files and rebuilding the metafont bases are all that is needed. What to do to get the 600 dpi stuff working is as follows: 1. Edit /usr/lib/mf/inputs/next.mf and add a laserjetIV mode. Simply copy the entire imagen mode, change the name to laserjetIV, and change the pixels_per_inch to 600. Save the changed file. 2. Build a new mf.base file by executing the following commands: inimf "plain; input next; dump" (as superuser): cp plain.base /usr/lib/mf/bases/mf.base 3. Edit /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps and change the `D 400' line to `D 600' (you may have `D 300' or something else if you've set up a different printer.) 4. Edit /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK (as superuser), adding the lines elif test $BDPI = 600 then MODE=laserjetIV right before the second `else' in the file. That should do it! You might have to (depending on how you configure NEXTSTEP for the LaserJet IV) select `custom resolution' and set the gadget to 600 in the TeXview print panel, and save Preferences. These instructions are written for an HP Laserjet IV, but they should also work for a QMS printer just fine. Finally, if you have one of these printers and work in a "mixed" environment with perhaps 400 dpi and/or 300 dpi printers that you also print to on a regular basis then you might want to consider getting Type 1 PS version of the Computer Modern fonts instead. They obviate the need for the instructions above, and the savings in disc space will be considerable since having printer fonts for several printers takes lots of room, and the file sizes for 600 dpi are quite large (the files grow roughly as D logD, where D is the resolution). These fonts are made by Blue Sky Research, and work beautifully. Y & Y software is a reseller for BSR and sells a "NEXTSTEP specific" version of them which comes with appropriate instructions and installation scripts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? [From: peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis)] Adobe has a mail server and ftp site where you can get .PPD files. They are: ps-file-server@adobe.com (put "send help" in the mail body) and ftp.mv.us.adobe.com respectively. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063205.1420@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:32:05 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ I1. Where can I obtain the most recent version of Kermit? I2. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of SLIP or PPP? I3. Where can I obtain a version of Larry Wall's patch for NEXTSTEP? I4. Where can I get a NEXTSTEP Usenet reader? I5. Where can I get plotting software? I6. Where can I get objective-c mode for emacs? I7. Is there a backup utility for multi-volume dumps (gnu tar)? I8. What are these ".z" files which appear all over the archives ? Should I just rename them to ".Z" so that compress can uncompress them ? I9. How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? I10. How do I change the Workspace compression app? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I1. Where can I obtain the most recent version of Kermit? The source for the latest version is available via ftp from: cs.dartmouth.edu kermit/sw. Get the file ckaaaa.hlp to get started and see what files are required. Note that this version of Kermit does have a NEXTSTEP specific compile option. Kermit can also be found on... The Purdue archive: pub/next/2.0-release/source/ pub/next/2.0-release/binaries/ The Oregon archive: pub/next/sources/comm/ pub/next/binaries/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I2. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of SLIP or PPP? The free version of SLIP available from purdue was written by Louis Mamakos and is an excellent implementation. Basic SLIP is free, but VJ TCP header compression requires a license which is available inexpensively from Mr Mamakos. Morning Star Technologies offers a commercial version. For more information: email: marketing@morningstar.com ftp: ftp.morningstar.com (anonymous FTP archive of docs & literature) phone: +1 614 451 1883, +1 800 558 7827. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Louis is not currently shipping an Intel version, although hopefully soon. Morningstar PPP is now available for Intel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I3. Where can I obtain a version of Larry Wall's patch for NEXTSTEP? Patch is a utility that allows people to distribute updates to sources without resending the whole packages. This is done by detecting changes between the last release and the new one and creating a file of differences to each source file in the release. Patches need to be applied sequentially. The distribution can be found on the Purdue NeXT archives. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I4. Where can I get a NEXTSTEP Usenet reader? By far the most versatile NEXTSTEP-specific newsreader application is NewsGrazer by Jayson Adams, formerly of NeXT. It is on the archive servers. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] NewsGrazer is not available as an MAB. NewsGrazer Pro will be released this fall as a commercial product. Many non-NEXTSTEP-specific newsreaders have been ported to the NEXTSTEP environment providing the flexibility and familiarity existing on other platforms. Most of these may be obtained via anonymouse ftp: ftp.uu.net:~ftp/news ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I5. Where can I get plotting software? nxyplot by Tom Pulliam is available from cs.orst.edu graph is available in source form from 4.3BSD systems. It is useful for dealing with pairs of numbers that need to be viewed. psplot comes with NEXTSTEP, it takes the output of the graph program and generates a .ps file that can be previewed with Preview or Yap. gnuplot is available from prep.ai.mit.edu. Very useful patches for gnuplot are available from Purdue which allow it to open NEXTSTEP windows and output its graphs on them. jsplot clone of graph that generates ps files directly. plplot is a library of c routines that generate 2D, 3D and contour plots. It is available on purdue archive, plplot.tar.Z contains the source, and NXplplot.tar.Z contains the library, example programs and documentation. Mathematica The ReadList command will bring in files containing sample values and produces a plot on the fly. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I6. Where can I get objective-c mode for emacs? You can get ObjC mode for Emacs, by Douglas Worthington and Kenneth Persson from cs.orst.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I7. Is there a backup utility for multi-volume dumps (gnu tar)? GNU tar has a number of features not found in the tar delivered with NEXTSTEP, and in some cases it may be a better choice for backups than rdump and rrestore. The NEXTSTEP supplied rdump/rrestore don't work when using multiple volumes to non-NEXTSTEP systems (see the man page for rdump/rrestore). GNU tar will also allow a dump of a portion of a file system as well as an entire file system. Other useful features of GNU tar include: incremental dump capability like BSD dump/restore, scripts for backing up heterogeneous workstations across the network automatically, multivolume tape and floppy disk support (it can't do multivolume compressed unfortunately), long filename support, and scripts for integrating floppy disks into a three level backup scheme. Source and binary for NEXTSTEP is available on the purdue and orst archives in tar-1.10.tar.Z. [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] GNU tar 1.10 (which lacks many bugs which 1.11 introduced) is also shipped with NEXTSTEP 3.0. Just look in /usr/bin/gnutar. An inexpensive commercial application for backup to DAT and SCSI tape is available from Impact Software publishing. The app automatically configures your tape drive and gives a NEXTSTEP browser interface for selecting files to save or restore. The program is distributed electronically, and a demo version can be obtained from nova.cc.purdue.edu or sonata.cc.purdue.edu under the pathname: /pub/next/2.0-release/demos/enTar1.4.tar.Z [From: sanguish@digifix.com] SafetyNet. It is commerical, but an excellent app. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I8. What are these ".z" files which appear all over the archives ? Should I just rename them to ".Z" so that compress can uncompress them ? [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] These files were created with GNU gzip. Gzip is a replacement for compress which achieves about 30% better compression rates and uncompresses faster. Gzip can also uncompress ".Z" file. Unfortunately compress can not uncompress ".z" files, so you will have to get and compile gzip on your machine before you can read any ".z" files. Gzip is available via anon ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu and should configure, compile and install without problem on any NEXTSTEP system. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Needs to be updated to address the .gz file change. There are also precompiled MAB versions of gzip available on cs.orst.edu. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I9. How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? [From: sanguish@digifix.com] .compressed files have been compressed in the Workspace Manager. Basically, they are just .tar.Z files. Even single files are tarred as well as compressed. There are several methods of decompressing these files. -They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and Selecting uncompress from the file menu. -They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and bringing up the Workspace Inspector. (You can double click to get there faster) -You can rename them to be .tar.Z and handle them the way you do them. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I10. How do I change the Workspace compression app? [Stephen Peters <SPETERS.93Aug23144549@samsun.us.oracle.com>] You can change the tools that the Workspace uses to create and read its .compressed files by using, for example: Workspace compress /usr/bin/gzip Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip Workspace AlwaysTarForCompress YES ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063302.1478@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:33:02 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ J0. How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? J1. How do I start an official NeXT User Group? J2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? J3. Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J0. How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? NeXT, Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Voice: 800-848-NeXT (Redwood City #) Voice: (415)-366-0900 NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: 81-44-549-5295 Fax: 81-44-549-5462 NeXT Europe Stockholm: 46-7-068-8930 Netherlands: 31-20-653-0333 Denmark: 45-45-41-2200 London: 44-81-565-0005 Italy/Milan: 39-2-95302510 Munich: 49-89-996-5310 Paris: (331) 46-45-1414 Japan: 81-44-549-5555 Note: numbers abroad are listed with the country codes first. You will need to dial the international access number of your long distance carrier before proceeding to dialing the country code, area code and phone number. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J1. How do I start an official NeXT User Group? To start a user group, just send email to "user_groups@next.com". ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. NEXTSTEP: cs.orst.edu nova.cc.purdue.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu umd5.umd.edu ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J3. Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? NeXT T-shirts Classic NeXT logo on front $6.95 each (S-XL) 3.1 NEXTSTEP logo on front $7.95 each (M-XXL) NeXT Pencils $20.30 box of 100 NeXT Cross Pen $21.15 each NeXT Decals $75.00 box of 100 NeXT T-shirt $ 5.65 each - sizes S, M, L, XL (pre-shrunk) Turtle Neck $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Glass Mug $ 1.70 each Leather Folder $54.50 each NeXT Sweatshirt $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Tote-bag $ 6.25 each NeXT Mouse pad $ 9.67 each Orders can be taken 24 hours a day for domestic and overseas orders Contact: Hermann Marketing 1400 North Price Road St. Louis, MO 63132-2308 Phone: 1 800 972 1331, 314 432 1800 Fax: 314 432 1818 Method of payment: Purchase order, check, money order, or credit card ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: Nathan Janette nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063338.1536@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:33:38 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ K0. Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? K1. Where to obtain hardware service? K2. What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K0. Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? NeXT discontinued manufacturing hardware in Feb, 1993. Used systems are often advertized in comp.sys.next.marketplace. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K1. Where to obtain hardware service? [Jeff Hite jeffh@ludwig.cc.uoregon.edu] USA hardware service has been purchased by Bell Atlantic. They will be supporting the Authorized Service Centers and are selling extended warranty contracts. Bell Atlantic Computing Technology Services Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K2. What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? There are two packagings: a cube, and a station. NeXTcube systems: 1. 68030-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXT Computer) 2. 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube) 3. 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube Turbo) 4. NeXTdimension board adds 32-bit color (i860) to any of above systems Cube systems can use any of the boards. With hacks, multiple independent CPU boards can run in one cube. NeXT Computer systems have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive(s) in either position. NeXTcube systems also have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive in the lower position, but have additional mounting holes for 1/2-height devices, and have a floppy slot at the top position. NeXTstation systems: 1. 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation) 2. 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation Turbo) 1. 68040-25 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color) 2. 68040-33 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color Turbo) NeXTstation systems have room for two 1/2-height 3.5" devices, with a floppy slot at the side. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:34:15 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ L1. What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? L2. Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? L3. Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? L4. How many colors can NeXT machines display? L5. Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? L6. Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? L7. Where to obtain extra batteries? L8. How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L1. What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? The fan on older 030 NeXTs cubes sucks air out of the back of the cube which means that it draws unfiltered air in through the optical disk on the front of the cube. This causes optical disks to succumb to dust must sooner than cubes with the new-style fan which turns in the opposite direction. NeXT has apparently reversed their decision regarding fan reversal in the case of machines that have been upgraded to 040 processor boards. It is now considered okay to reverse the direction of fans in these machines. If you have many third-party cards installed in your cube or an older processor board, you may wish to consider not reversing fan direction (overheating could become a problem). In any case, do not reverse the fan's polarity, only reverse the fan assembly itself. Perhaps the best solution is obtain the cleaning kit and OD filter from NeXT. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L2. Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? The SONY MPX-111N internal 2.88 MB floppy drive which was shipped with all the 68040 NeXT machines is *not* a SCSI device, therefore there is no way of connecting that particular drive internally on a 68030 system. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L3. Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? A big problem with the Canon optical drives is that air flows through the drive to cool it. Dust accumulates inside the drive causing it to fail with the continuous spin-up spin-down syndrome. NeXT as part of it's 040 upgrades provided a dust filter to prevent this. If your drive has this problem it usually can be fixed simply by cleaning out dust from the drive. NeXT sold a cleaning kit for both the drives and the optical disks. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L4. How many colors can NeXT machines display? The monochrome machines can display 4 gray levels. You can use color apps on a monochrome machine, they will converted into monochrome images and dithered accordingly. Color NeXTstations can combine 4 bits of red, green and blue primaries for a total of 4096 "pure" colors. The imaging functions dither the image to produce intermediate colors. NeXTdimension can combine 8 bits of red, green and blue for 16,777,216. There are not 16 million points on the display so all can not be displayed at once. Further display technology limits the usable color space. None of the NeXT products support color look up tables where the user can define their own color palette on a per window basis. This feature is useful for displaying images which have adaptive lookup tables, and display pure grayscale images on the color NeXTstation. On the NeXTdimension images can be converted to full 24 bit representation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L5. Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? There is a bug with the window system in which if you select the monochrome display as your primary display the server will be much much slower. The solution for those wishing to use both displays is to select the color (NeXTdimension) display as the primary display. The most optimal configuration at present with the NeXTdimension is to run only the color display. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L6. Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? [jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu] For those who have need of a new button in their mouse, and don't want to pay for the whole mouse when it is only the button that has gone bad, we have recently discovered a satisfactory replacement for the Omron switch. It is in the Digikey catalog, # 931, Jan-Feb 1993, page 141, under Cherry switches D4, DG, and DH series. Digikey part # CH164-ND, Cherry part # DG1C-B1AA. We ordered one of these, and just received it today. Tried it out, and it sems to be working flawlessly so far. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L7. Where to obtain extra batteries? Battery part number: BR 2/3A 3V Lithium Battery (Panasonic) Source: Engineered Assemblies & Components Corporation 5204 Green's Dairy Road Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: 919-790-9700 (ask for Debra) Price: $16.71 for 2 batteries incl. shipping & C.O.D. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L8. How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? [From: Brad_Sime@NeXT.COM (Brad Sime)] If ADB equipment are used with older NeXT systems they won't work properly. Here are the ADB requiments: a) A Turbo computer. b) CPU eprom version 74. c) New revision computer to soundbox/monitor cable. The part number is molded at both ends of the connector: Cable NEW OLD (Non ADB) NeXTcube 4534 150 NeXTstation 4535 1532 NeXTstation color 4536 2286 d) New revision monitor which uses a vertical scan rate of 72hz instead of 68hz, except on NeXTdimension systems color monitor stays 68hz. Monitor NEW (72hz) OLD (68hz) 17" mono ACX (N4000b) AAA (N4000a & N4000) 17" color ADF (N4006) ABG (N4001) 21" color ADB (N4005a) ABH (N4005) e) ADB soundbox for color sytems. S/N prefix ADD instead of ABN. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063427.1665@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:34:27 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ M1. What disk drives will work with the NeXT? M2. How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? M3. How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? M4. Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? M5. How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? M6. What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? M7. How do mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? M8. What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? M9. What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? M10. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? M11. What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? M12. What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? M13. How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? M15. What fax modems will work with the NeXT? M16. How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? M17. What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? M18. How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? M19. What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? M20. Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? M21. How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? M22. Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? M23. How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? M24. How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? M25. My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M1. What disk drives will work with the NeXT? Most SCSI disk drives will work without modifying /etc/disktab. There are problems with the installation of boot blocks and badly formed fstab generated by BuildDisk of NEXTSTEP 2.0. A disk connected to the NeXT will need to have a NeXT specific label written to it before it can be properly recognized by the system. If you get an error message "Invalid Label..." this indicates that the drive was successfully seen by the NeXT machine but it does not have the proper label, to install a label use the /usr/etc/disk program on the raw disk device that the system assigned to the device and use the label command to write the label onto the disk. [how the NeXT assigns disk devices is explained in the N&SA manual] NEXTSTEP releases 2.0 and up provide a low level disk formatter, sdform, which does not offer much flexibility, but gets the job done. Most drives are already formatted at the factory. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M2. How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? The BuildDisk application is extremely limited in terms of the types of disks configuration it knows how to build. Essentially it "knows" about swapdisks, optical disks, 330 and 660 MB SCSI disks. If you wish to do custom configurations you should look at existing BLD script files in /etc/BLD.* There is a script which you can use to specify which BLD script you are using, which disktab entry, and other useful parameters in /usr/etc/builddisk Some things to note: - the fstab installed on the target disk is specified in the newclient command in the BLD script. standard fstabs are extracted from /usr/template/client/fstab.* - the BLD scripts do not put down a new boot block on the scsi disk, you may want to install one by hand using the /usr/etc/disk program. - some disks boot fine but NeXTstep comes up with a blank window and no login window. This is due sometimes to forgetting to install an accessible /NextLibrary/{Fonts,Sounds} In general you need quite a lot of things to make a bootable disk. Mike Carlton adds - you can build a minimally usable bootable floppy (for crash recovery purposes). There is a modified version of builddisk (to make it support building floppies, a minimal change) and a BLD script to build the boot floppy available at cs.orst.edu in next/sources/Bootfloppy.tar.Z. (I put this together in response to several requests.) A newer version of Bootfloppy for 2.1 is on the archives as next/sources/util/Bootfloppy2.1.tar.Z [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Also available from the archives is BootFloopy 3.0 (for -- you guessed it -- NEXTSTEP 3.0). I might also add that one can improve on disk usage while enhancing functionality. BuildDisk (which is used by the various BootFloppy scripts) just copies the standard binaries for ls, mv, cp aso. from /bin. These binaries are statically linked as shipped by NeXT which makes them huge. (e.g. /bin/ls is 106496 bytes large. /usr/local/bin/gls with more features is just 16268 bytes). If you replace these binaries by the BSD or GNU equivalents you can save several hundred kBytes on your boot floppy. This extra diskspace can be used for tar, dump and more tools which makes the boot floppy actually usable. Tested. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M3. How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? [From: Rex Pruess (rpruess@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu)] Let's assume you bought a disk drive advertised with 400 MB unformatted capacity. Vendors are not consistent with the MB definition. You may have much less space less than you think you have. Which of the following did you buy? 400 * 1000 * 1000 = 400,000,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1000 = 409,600,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1024 = 419,430,400 bytes The disk must be formatted. This is often done by the vendor, but occasionally by the user. Formatting maps the disk into sectors. Space is reserved for the disk geometry and bad sectors. Formatting can take 10-20% of the capacity depending on the sector size. Common sector sizes are 512 and 1024. Generally, bigger sectors mean less waste. Once formatted, the UNIX file system must be created. On the NeXT, this is one of the steps performed by the BuildDisk application. It invokes the mkfs command to make a file system. This reserves space for the UNIX file system (e.g., superblocks, inode tables). This overhead can take another 2-3% of the available disk space. If you issue the df command, you may be surprised to see another 10% the available disk space has disappeared. The df command shows the total, used, and available disk space. The df units are in kbytes (1024 bytes). The sum of the used and available numbers will generally be about 10% less than the total kbytes. This space is reserved to allow the UNIX file system to be efficient in its storage allocation. If your disk fills up, only the superuser can store files in the remaining 10%. To complete the picture, here's a snapshot of what may occur: Capacity Lost/Used/Reserved Reason (in bytes) (in bytes) 419,430,000 19,430,000 Marketing hype (~5%) 400,000,000 60,000,000 Formatting (~15%) 340,000,000 6,800,000 UNIX file system (~2%) 333,200,000 33,320,000 Efficiency & superuser (~10%) 299,880,000 For more information, refer to the df and mkfs man pages. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M4. Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? Quick answer is: No. The reason is that the NeXT does not support synchronous transfers from the SCSI bus. It does support SCSI-2 disks running in asynchronous mode, which all SCSI-2 disks must do. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M5. How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? It has been reported that HP drives fail to autoboot on power on or while other devices are on the scsi bus. The problem seems to be with drives configured to spin-up automatically on power on do not get recognized at boot time. To remedy this problem reliably with HP 660Mb (HP97548) and 1Gbyte (HP 97549) drives remove the auto spinup jumper on the back of the drive. Looking at the disk from the back with the power connector on the lower left, it is the sixth jumper. [From: Jimmie_Quan@NeXT.COM (Jimmie Quan)] The offical fix was an EPROM change to the HP drive from HP. The HP drives took too long to wait up, so the system wasn't happy with the other drives coming ready first especially when the HP was suppose to be the boot device. (The EPROM is no longer available from NeXT). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M6. What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? See Izumi Ohzawa's note in /pub/next/docs/fujitsu.recipe available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M7. How do mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? If you can't automount an OD, and you can't fix it, you can still manually mount it. Log in as root. Type "/usr/etc/mount /dev/od0a /FoO". It will ask you to insert the disk. Insert it. It is mounted. This method WILL mount a corrupted OD so you can read its contents. Since it is corrupted, it is not recommended to write to it. You should copy the important files to something else, then reformat it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M8. What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? A USENET survey summary: Apple CD-150 PLI 1035N for NeXT SUN CD-ROM drive (Sony CDU-8012, Rev. 3.1a) NEC 73M and 74 (transfer rates > of 300 KB/sec.) Apple CD-SC (Sony 541-22 mechanism) Chinon CDS-431 (with new drivers) Eclipse CD-ROM from Microtech Toshiba 3201 Toshiba 3301 Toshiba 3401 Toshiba TXM3301E1 Toshiba XM-2200A external DENON DRD-253 external (data only, no music) HP's LaserROM drive (Toshiba XM-3301TA drive in HP's box) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M9. What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? The toner cartridge is a standard EP-S cartridge, the same that fits the HP LaserJet III and some other printers. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Any HP LaserJet II or III will fit. HPLJ4mSI cartridges do NOT fit. Any HP LJII or LJIII paper tray will fit. IIISI and 4 trays will not. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M10. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? If you plan to connect an HP LaserJet (II, IIP, III, etc.) you need to make a special cable in order for the NeXT 040 and HP to get the hardware handshaking correct. This is true for whatever version of the OS you are running. NeXT 68040 to HP LaserJet III Cable (not a Null-modem cable): Mini-Din HP DB-25 1 (DTR) nc 2 (DCD) 4 (RTS) 3 (TXD) 3 (RXD) 4 (GND) 7 (GND) 5 (RXD) 2 (TXD) 6 (RTS) 5 (CTS) 7 (RTXC) nc 8 (CTS) 20 (DTR) You may want to use hardware flow control for reliability (ie /dev/ttyfa). If you have problems with other printers, check the cable pinouts in the printer's manual against the one recommended in the zs man-page! Refer to Chapter 13 in Network and System Administration. See the FAQ-NEXTSTEP-Printing for software config FAQs. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M11. What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? The NeXT 400dpi printer powers up every time you boot up when the print daemon is started (/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd in /etc/rc). Apart from not running the daemon at boot time (commenting it out and having to run it by hand later), you can add the following lines to /etc/rc.local: if [ -f /usr/etc/nppower ]; then sleep 3 /usr/etc/nppower off (echo 'powering off NeXTprinter') >/dev/console fi Once you queue a print job the printer daemon will automatically power up the NeXT printer for you. The printer daemon will not automatically power off the machine after a print job, you will need to turn off the printer by typing /usr/etc/nppower off. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M12. What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? Some NeXT owners use the RadioShack (Realistic) Tie Clip Microphone ($19.95) cat 33-1052. NeXT Computer, Inc. uses the "Sony Electret Condenser Microphone ECM-K7" in-house (available for ~$60). Some use Sony Tie-Clip microphone, #ECM-144, which costs around $40. Others have successfully used a WalMart brand microphone (available for ~$6). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M13. How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? Previously, we suggested that people use Mac modem cables; however, it has come to our attention that there is no one standard Mac modem cable. Since correct modem operation on a NeXT depends upon a correctly wired modem cable, buying a Mac cable is not a good idea. Some Mac cables do not allow dial-in and no Mac cable allows the use of hardware flow control. For these reasons, we are recommending that only cables that meet NeXT specifications be used. [however, if you have a Mac modem cable lying around and don't care about dial-in or hardware flow control, then by all means....] These cables are available commercially from NextConnection, and from Computer Cables and Devices, or can be custom built. Note that no off- the-shelf Mac cable will allow hardware flow control. It is however possible to make a such a cable from an Imagewriter II cable by replacing one of the mini-8 ends with a DB-25 connector. Hardware flow control is absolutely essential for all serial port connections with speeds of 9600 bps and above. Make certain that you cable supports it, your modem is configured to use it and you are using the hardware flowcontrol devices /dev/cuf[ab], /dev/ttydf[ab] and /dev/ttyf[ab], respectively. Most people use tip or kermit to control the modem. SLIP and/or UUCP may also be used (but are more complicated to set up and require the remote machine to also have SLIP and/or UUCP (respectively)). The 2.0 Network and System Administration Manual, which is available in hard-copy (shipped with each machine) contains an extensive description of how to use modems with the NeXT machine. Additionally NeXT in their TechSupportNotes series called SerialPortDoc.wn and UUCP for 1.0/1.0a systems . This document is available from most FTP sites that carry NextAnswers. Also, try to obtain the about.modem.Z file by Mark Adler in the pub/next/lore directory on sonata.cc.purdue.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? Yes. This cable is the same as the one used by Sun SparcStations and DecStation 5000's (but not DecStation 3100's which use 68-pin micro rather than the 50pin micro connector used on NeXT 040, Suns and DecStation 5000). [Carl Lowenstein adds] The implication that a Sun SparcStation cable can be used with NeXT peripherals is generally false. NeXT themselves, and DEC, and nearly everyone else who makes SCSI peripherals, puts Telco-50 (centronics) connectors on their devices. Sun in their infinite wisdom uses DD50 which are quite different. Telco-50 is an approved connector type in the SCSI spec. Probably the original point was that the 50-pin microSCSI on the NeXT and Sun and some DecStations was different from the 68-pin microSCSI on the DecStation 5000. But this does not address the other end of the cable. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M15. What fax modems will work with the NeXT? The following fax modems are currently available for the NeXT Computer: Manufacturer, Model Supplier, Phone Avail. Type ---------------------------------------------------------------- DoveFax for NeXT, Dove Computer, ??? Now Class 1 HSD FaxMaster, HSD Microcomputer, 800-828-5522 Now Class 2* mix fax, i·link GmbH, +49 30 216 20 48 Now Class 2** [From: Robert Wong <wrob@unixg.ubc.ca>] SupraFAXModem V.32bis, Supra Corp., 1-800-727-3564, Now, Class 2 (requires DFax driver or NXFax driver) ZyXEL U-1496E/E+/S/S+, ZyXEL USA, 1-800-255-4101, Now, Class 2 (requires NXFax driver) Telebit T3000 with fax option / Telebit WorldBlazer with fax option (requires NXFax driver) Neuron 1414 / 1414+ with ZyXEL ROM upgrade (requires NXFax driver) (Neuron 1414 and Neuron 1414+ modems are relabelled ZyXEL modems. Contact ZyXEL USA for ROM upgrades. Neuron modems with 512K ROMs should upgrade their ROMs and ROM sockets to 1 Mb ROMs. People with 1Mb ROMs should just order the new ROMs.) (*)Note that the Class 2 is not yet approved; it is still out for ballot, after having failed in an October 1990 round. The Abaton InterFax 24/96 NX driver supports Class 2 as it was in that draft; there are expected to be very few changes prior to approval. (**)Note that mix fax works with both the October 1990 and October 1991 draft versions of Class 2, especially with the NeXT supplied Class 2 modem driver. Upgrading to an approved version of Class 2 would be a matter of just a software update (holds true for any forthcoming (class 3?) standard, for that matter). In order to use a fax modem with the NeXT Computer, a NeXT compatible fax driver must be available to operate the modem. Modem control procedures may be proprietary or conform to one of the following EIA/TIA standards: Class 1: CCITT T.30 session management and CCITT T.4 image data handling are controlled by the driver. Class 2*: CCITT T.30 session management and image data transport are handled by the modem. CCITT T.4 image data preparation and interpretation are controlled by the driver. Release 2.0 of the NeXT system software includes a Class 2 modem driver which will work with any fax modem which meets the EIA/TIA Asynchronous Facsimile Control standard. Other fax modems must supply a NeXT compatible driver. The following are notes by Alan Marcum of NeXT Tech Support concerning the Class 2 modem driver: Note that there's a small bug in 2.0 (fixed in 2.1): a symbolic link is missing for the file Class2_Fax_Modem_Driver in /usr/lib/NextPrinter. The simple fix: create the link; it should reference Interfax_Fax_Modem_Driver, also in the /usr/lib/NextPrinter directory. An alternative workaround for Class 2, especially useful for novices: just use InterFax as the modem type in PrintManager, rather than Class 2*. After installing a fax modem using PrintManager one must repeat setting things in the Fax Options panel in order for them to be stored correctly. In particular, these include the Rings to Answer and Number of Times to Retry. This affects all fax modems being installed. If one uses illegal characters in the Modems Number field in the Fax Options when configuring an InterFax modem then the modem will not answer the phone. Legal characters are digits, spaces, and plus signs (+). This does not affect the Dove modem. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M16. How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? TTYDSP From Yrrid converts the DSP port into an additional serial port. Yrrid Incorporated 507 Monroe St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Voice: 919-968-7858 Fax: 919-968-7856 Email: yrrid@world.std.com Unitnet has a device, the SLAT-1, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Perhipherals, Inc. Voice: 714-546-1100 sales@cpd.com [Jacob Gore adds:] Also, one can use an IP terminal server. In a non-Internet environment, inexpensive terminal servers, which don't control access to the network securely, can be used. If your network is an Internet subnet, you must use a terminal server that controls either: (1) who can log into the terminal server, or (2) which machines the terminal server will access. These tend to be more expensive (around $250/port, but in 8-port increments), but it may be quite economical means of sharing ports among many NeXTs (or other computers) on the network. [Eric P. Scott adds:] Particularly if one has a NeXT network, an Ethernet terminal server may be the way to go. One that supports Linemode Telnet (such as the Xylogics Annex III) will offer the best performance. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M17. What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? There are many possible solutions. For example, here are three: 1) The University of Waterloo [Audio Research Group] uses an old door-stop PC XT clone with two Western Digital cards (WD8003E Ethercard Plus, $250 CDN each; you should be able to get them for under $200 (US$)) running Vance Morrison's PCRoute (available from accuvax.nwu.edu). You will also need a thickwire transceiver and a drop cable (about $300). In addition, you will need Internet addresses for the NeXT and both PC Ethernet cards (and a subnet address). The documentation for PCRoute contains quite a bit of information on the performance of this setup. This solution requires two subnets. There is another program called PCbridge that allows the machines on the thin and thick wires to be part of the same subnet. This product also does packet filtering, so that packets destined to machines on the same side of the net do not cross over. 2) Cabletron sells a MR-2000C Singleport Repeater for $695 that does exactly what you need minus drop cable and transceiver. Their number is (408) 441-9900. 3) The march 1992 INMAC networking and connectivity products catalog lists thicknet to thinnet convertors. Product number Z903071 price $445. Claims full ieee 802.3 comaptibility and diagnostic LED's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M18. How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? A company that is selling both hardware and software to allow you to do this: SES Computing 13206 Jenner Lane Austin, Texas 78729 Voice: (512) 219-9468 (Demo system number) i.link, a european company, has a combined data/fax modem and telephone answering machine. It uses the DSP port and is implemented mainly in software on the DSP with a little bit of hardware to interface to the phone line. i.link GmbH Nollendorfstrasse 11-12 D-1000 Berlin 30 Germany Tel: +49 30 216 20 48 Fax: +49 30 215 82 74 Email: info@ilink.de [From: sanguish@digifix.com] I think Alembec is handling ilink over here. Last it tried the SES number it was disconnected. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M19. What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? The important specs for the color monitor are: Horz Scan Rate: 61 KHz Vertical Scan Rate: 68 Hz Resolution: 1280x1024 (NeXT uses 1120x832) NON-INTERLACED Displays may require alignment to adjust for the scan rate of NeXT machines. Sony GDM-1601 were demonstrated with the NeXT color products. NeXT is not shipping these monitors. Sony no longer makes them, however there is a replacement GDM-1606. The Nanao T560i 17" color display has been used with NeXTstation Color machines, and seems to work well. Some larger NEC displays have also worked. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M20. Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? From NeXT/Bell Atlantic(?): part number S4025. NuData in New Jersey carries 13W3 female to 4 BNC male connectors. The price is about $100. NuData Voice: 908-842-5757 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M21. How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? Uninet has devices, the SLAT-2 and the SLAT-DRV11, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Peripherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 zardoz!sales@ics.uci.edu or uunet!ucivax!zardoz!sales ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M22. Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? Perhaps you've got a (probably fairly long) unshielded serial cable attached to it, with either nothing at the other end or a powered-off device at the other end. EE's call this an antenna. it's probably picking up most of the radio stations in your area, which the serial chip is interpreting as a continuous stream of garbage bytes, which it feeds to getty, which tries to interpret them as login attempts. How do you avoid this problem? - leave the device at the other end switched on (even when it's not transmitting, it will assert a voltage that overrides the noise) - unplug the cable from the next when you're not using it - use 'kill -STOP' & 'kill -CONT' to stop & resume the getty process as needed - buy an adequately shielded serial cable ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M23. How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? [From: Charles William Swiger <infidel@cmu.edu>] I have adjusted several monitors with no problems, but make sure you know what you are doing before opening anything. I expressly disclaim responsibility for any ill results that may occur. In order to adjust NeXT's MegaPixel display (called 'the monitor' hereafter), you'll need (a) the NeXTtool (or a 3mm Allen wrench), (b) a plastic adjustment tool (preferred) or a thin bladed screwdriver, and possibly (c) a Phillips-head screwdriver. (NB: A similar procedure will work for color monitors, but you should either know what you're doing or you'll probably be better off letting a pro deal with it.) Turn off the computer. Disconnect all cables to the monitor. Look at the back of the monitor. There will be 4 screws there; use the NeXTtool (or Allen wrench) to remove them. Remove the plastic back of the monitor and put it out of your way. Reconnect the cables and turn the computer back on. As the machine powers up, examine the back of the monitor. You'll see a metallic box (usually silver, though some are black) surrounding the monitor's vitals. This protects you against the dangerous voltages inside, and also insulates the monitor from electromagnetic noise. On the back of this box are several holes for performing adjustments. There are two focus controls (labeled 'focus' and 'dynamic focus'), a brightness control (labeled 'brightness' or possibly 'black level') and several others that adjust various things like screen size and position. Depending on the exact placement of the controls on the circuit board of your specific monitor, some of these controls may be difficult (or impossible) to adjust from the back. If this is the case, I will describe what's necessary below. Otherwise, adjust the appropriate controls using either an adjustment tool or a screwdriver. Be warned that a screwdriver probably will cause some interesting video effects when it enters the case. Ignore this the best you can, or find a plastic adjustment tool, which is what you *really* should be using anyway. Using a flashlight will help you see into the hole so that you can align the business end of the tool correctly. Focus and position controls are fairly obvious. Adjust them slowly until you're happy with the results. Don't muck with anything you don't need to; the factory settings are usually pretty decent. To correctly adjust the brightness, follow this procedure: Turn the brightness of the monitor all the way down using the keyboard. Adjust the brightness control on the back of the monitor until a barely noticeable picture forms. Then turn the brightness down a little so this picture disappears completely. Check that you can get adequate brightness by using the keyboard to brighten the screen. If the display isn't bright enough, adjust the brightness control on the rear of the monitor high enough so that the monitor display is adequate. Note that you won't be able to dim the screen completely from the keyboard...sorry. Once you're finished, shut down the computer, take off the cables, reattach the back of the monitor, and reconnect the cables. You're done. If the control you need to adjust proves to be difficult, you may need to enter the metal case. This happened on one monitor's focus control and another's brightness. WARNING: THE VOLTAGES INSIDE THE MONITOR'S CASE ARE VERY DANGEROUS, EVEN WHEN THE MONITOR IS OFF. BE VERY CAREFUL, OR YOU CAN SERIOUSLY INJURE OR EVEN KILL YOURSELF. Do not perform the next instructions unless you are confident that you know what you are doing. You'll have to power off the computer again, and disconnect the cables. Looking at the monitor from the back, notice a section of metallic shielding on the right side of the metal box that extends to the picture tube. This is where the flyback transformer is connected. It shields a wire that is charged to about 25,000 V. DO NOT TOUCH THIS WIRE, IT CAN SHOCK YOU THROUGH ITS INSULATION. Being very careful of this, remove the metal case by unscrewing the Philip's head screws that hold the case on. Don't touch the screws that hold the picture tube into the front of the monitor's case. Once you've gotten the metal box off, reconnect the cables. Figure out what control you're going to adjust, and make sure that you can do so without touching anything else inside. Again, *watch out* for the wire that connects to the picture tube on the right side. Power up the computer. I recommend that you use only one hand to make the adjustment, and that your other hand be placed in your pocket (or similar equivalent, if you're wearing clothes lacking pockets). This precaution reduces the chances that you'll make a short circuit between one hand, your heart, and the other hand-- a good idea. Perform the necessary adjustment(s), being very careful not to touch anything inside. Then shut down and reassemble the monitor, following the directions given above. Hopefully, these instructions will prove useful. Once again, please be very careful...I don't want your death and/or injury on my conscience (or a lawsuit, for that matter, either :-) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M24. How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? [Samuel M. Goldberger smg@orb.com] I solved the problem by building a serial cable based upon the pinouts supplied by HP in their manual. Please note that the LJIII cable *does not work*. In particular, pin 1 from the DIN plug must be connected to pin 6 of the DB25. I used 38500 bps on both sides, and the 600 dpi ppd. Emulex offers the NETJet network interface which speaks lpd protocol, unlike the HP unit. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M25. My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? [From: stubbs@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Jerry Stubbs)] It's a small 14 tooth gear in the fuser assembly. I got the part numbers straight and they are :RS1-0132, RS1-0116; $2.31 ea. The first part number is the one we needed, Chenesko recommended the second one as insurance against future failure. The price is right, so why not. I get to the fuser by first removing the three screws under the lid, removing the lid, removing the back door and the outer main case cover. Then remove the fuser assy', remove the covers from the end of the fuser. The gears should now be visible. Remove the clips holding the gear(s)on the shaft. Replace the gear and reassemble everything. The hardest parts to reassemble (for me) were the covers on the end of the fuser. I had a second printer to refer to for the reassembly, if you don't just try to lay things out carefully as you remove them, make notes if neccessary, and try to get the parts ahead of time so you can reassemble the printer the same day. Chenesko Phone: 800 221 3516 ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT, NeXT-Hardware, and NEXTSTEP FAQs Message-ID: <1993Aug27.063436.1723@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:34:36 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ N1. What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? N2. What is the NeXT SIMM tool? N3. Where can I purchase memory for a NeXT? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N1. What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? References: NeXTanswers' hardware.620, 92_spring_bulletin "Announcing NeXTstation Turbo and NeXTcube Turbo" NeXT Computer (68030-25MHz/68040-25MHz), NeXTcube (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 16 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin low profile SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 64 MB The low-profile vertically mounted 4 MB SIMMs are easier to install in the NeXTcube than the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs because of the small height clearance above the SIMM slots. It is possible to install the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs, but you will be required to slide the CPU board and the center tower in simultaneously. Parity (9-bit) SIMMs can be used in both 68030 and 68040 NeXT machines, but should not be mixed with non-parity SIMMs. Only 68040 boards with ROM levels of 2.2 (v63) and higher can use the parity memory to detect parity errors. [One user adds the following unverified claims:] It is OK to mix parity and non-parity memory, but the system will not boot unattended. Cubes with early boot ROMs will not work with 4 Mb parity ram, unless at least 3 banks are used. The system gives an exception error on power up. The fix is to get a new boot rom from Next. You can pay $30, or you may be able to squawk and get one for free. I have found Next to be pretty responsive, once I find the right person. [Jimmie Quan, NeXT Hardware Service, adds:] The correct version is v66 which was the last or final rev for this series of 040 boards. This version also fixed the problem in the second paragraph. NeXTdimension boards (i860): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) NeXT didn't officially bless the use of 8 MB SIMMs, but they seem to fit and work. NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers below ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 32 MB Faster SIMMS (80 ns) don't make the memory system work any faster than the 100 ns units. NeXTstation Color (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 32 MB NeXTcube Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Color Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers above ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 4 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 70/100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 ,8, 16, 32 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 128 MB For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs: SIMMs rated at 80 or 100 ns will be detected upon powerup and the memory system clock slowed to 100 ns. NeXT manufacturing introduced the new 25 MHz NeXTstation CPU board into production in late June '92. To verify which SIMM type your machine uses, check the system's memory configuration. You can do this by using the ROM monitor©s print memory configuration command m. Start with your machine powered down. Press the Power key to power on. As soon as the message ªTesting system...º disappears, press command-command-tilde (~ on the numeric keyboard). Under these circumstances, this will access the ROM monitor. In the ROM monitor, type m and press return. Turbo-designed boardsÐincluding new 25 MHz NeXTstations and all Turbo systemsÐwill return messages reporting the memory configuration contained in four sockets (sockets 0 -3); old 25 MHz boards will return messages for more than four sockets (usually 8). You can tell a Turbo-designed board, and the accompanying 72 pin, 70 nanosecond SIMMs, by the fact it only reports information for only four sockets. [John Graves, Hardware Engineering, NeXT Computer, Inc. adds] The memory system has programmable memory timing such that the number of processor clocks needed to access a given amount of data can be tailored to the speed of the memory installed. 70 ns memory is just enough faster than 80 ns memory to allow the cpu to access the data with fewer clock cycles. This improves memory system performance. "70 ns" memory is faster than "80 ns" memory in many parameters other than just RAS access time. The faster CAS access time in particular allows the memory system to respond quicker to burst (16 bytes) bus transfers. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N2. What is the NeXT SIMM tool? The tool came with 68040 upgrade kits for NeXTcubes. It really makes removing SIMMs easy. It looks like a dental tool: about six inches long with a 1/2" long head offset at 90 degrees. To remove SIMMs, you slip the head into the hole on one side of the SIMM, rest the head on the SIMM socket next to the SIMM you are pulling, and pivot the tool back, using the simple fulcrum to gently pry the SIMM up about 1/8" from the socket on that side. Repeat on the other side, and the SIMM can be then removed by hand. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N3. Where can I purchase memory for a NeXT? This list contains only a few vendors; prices listed may change and are provided as examples only. There is significant day-to-day fluctuation in prices, especially since the destruction of a factory in Japan in July that manufactured resin used in chips. Prices are currently very high. First Tech Stratum Technologies Austin, TX 800-533-1744 512-258-3570 512-258-3689 (fax) [Prices current as of 11-Jun-93] [A sad reminder of how cheap prices were before the current prices] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 30 4x8-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 127 1x9-80ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 37.50 4x9-80ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 147 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 129 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 260 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 555 1x36-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 147.50 2x36-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 285 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 640 Lifetime Warranty. Marco International 800-621-4668 (Within US/Canada) 303-449-9191 800 447 8448 (CT Office) [Prices current as of 6-May-93] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-80ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 30 4x8-80ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 125 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 135 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 255 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 540 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 580 -70ns 32 Mb SIMM $2300 (no parity) Parity available for some sizes. Lifetime Warranty, toll-free support, 24hr RMA. "NeXT certified". Chip Merchant 9541 Ridgehaven Court San Diego, CA 92123 (800) 426-6375 South Coast Electronics Tustin, CA (800) 289-8801 714-669-9503 Impediment (617) 837-8877 ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Compatibility-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.064910.1965@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:49:10 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Compatibility-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ A1. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of X-Windows? A2. Can I run DOS software on NEXTSTEP? A3. Can I run Macintosh Programs on my NeXT? A4. Can I run tcsh, zsh or bash on NEXTSTEP? A5. Can sound files be used on Sun OS and NEXTSTEP interchangeably? A6. Why does talk not work between NEXTSTEP and SUN OS? A7. How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? A8. How do I view/convert GIF/TIF/jpeg images? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A1. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of X-Windows? [Douglas Scott <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>] A new version of the public-domain monochrome and color "Mouse-X" X server binaries is now available on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu as ~ftp/pub/X11R5-MouseX.tar.Z. This tarfile contains the binaries for the two servers, a README file, and a new version of the front end App. The new server version will now work on NeXTs with the new ADB keyboard, as well as NeXTs with the original keyboards. As before, these servers will also run on Turbos and non-Turbos. The new front end App allows you to toggle between machine configurations (but you must restart the server to have them take effect). For those who have not used the "Mouse-X" X servers and are interested, read the README.FIRST file in the same directory as the above file for more information about what you will need. ***** For those who are waiting for the MIT X source patch: ***** I should have this ready by the end of the week, and I will be placing it in the submissions directories on orst and sonata as X11R5-source.patch.tar.Z. Pencom Software of Austin, TX is distributing co-Xist, an X11R4 color server that supports all hardware platforms and runs under NEXTSTEP 2.0 or higher. The rootless version of co-Xist allows you to use not only Motif but also NEXTSTEP as a window manager ie. X-windows are opened on the WorkSpace screen and act completely like NEXTSTEP windows. The Motif Window Manager, development libraries and online Digital Librarian documentation are available as options. A demo is available on sonata.cc.purdue.edu For more information: Pencom Software email: co-Xist_info@pencom.com Voice: 1-800-PENCOM4 or Cub'X in Puteaux, France has a commercial X server. Cub'X-Window's new version 3.01 is now available. Its most important improvement resides in a new option permitting to run X-Window inside NeXTstep. For more information: Claire Normand Cub'x SystÜmes Tour CBC, Cedex 71, 92043 Paris La DÝfense, France tel: +33-1-46-93-29-25 Fax: +33-1-46-93-29-21 claire@cubx.oleane.com MIT maintains a ftp server for X distribution: export.lcs.mit.edu It currently does not have any NeXT specific servers. If you compile software make sure the libraries are install in the ld path, and that you use the X provided C pre-processor. There is another commercial X product called eXodus. White Pine Software 603-866-9050. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A2. Can I run DOS software on NEXTSTEP? NEXTSTEP systems are able to read, write, and format DOS diskettes in addition to UNIX filesystems. Consult the User Manual. There is a product called Soft-PC available for NEXTSTEP. For more information: Insignia Solutions, Inc. Voice: 408 694 7600 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A3. Can I run Macintosh Programs on my NeXT? NEXTSTEP systems are able to read, write, and format Mac diskettes in addition to UNIX filesystems. Consult the User Manual. Abacus R&D, Inc. offers products called Executor and HFS_XFer that allow some Mac functionality. Executor is a program that allows you to run programs originally written for the Macintosh, on your NeXT computer. Currently the two major applications that we support are Microsoft Word (versions 4.0E, 5.0 and 5.1) and Microsoft Excel (versions 3.0A and 4.0). You must own a copy of these applications in order to use them; Microsoft software does not come with Executor. Executor is actually a full-blown Macintosh emulator, except we have prioritized the bug fixing and fixed all the bugs pertaining to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel so that we can sell this version now to people who want it. Executor works nicely in the NeXT environment, allowing the use of services and cut and paste of ASCII and Rich Text between Executor and other NEXTSTEP applications. Word 5 can read and print .eps and .tiff files. Reverse engineering the Macintosh is a difficult task. There are some pieces of the software yet to do. Consequently, Executor 1.x has the following limitations: No Color, No Sound, No System 7, No AppleTalk, No Script Manage (i.e. no non-US localizations) and limited Desk Accessory support. HFS_XFer is a Desk Accessory that allows you to transfer files between HFS (Hierarchical FileSystem) Macintosh disks and the NeXT, where they're stored in Apple Double format. This allows you to copy files to the NeXT and later back to a Macintosh floppy without having to worry about reassembling the "resource fork". Naturally HFS_XFer and Executor work well together. HFS_XFer is what you use to load your copy of Microsoft Word onto your NeXT in the first place, but it's good for much more than that because you can use it to transfer any information on a Macintosh disk to your NeXT, and vice-versa. The extensions to HFS that were introduced with System 7 are not supported, and files are transferred over directly without any translation in between. HFS_XFer reads and writes Mac floppies and reads Mac hard drives and CD-ROMs. HFS_XFer is limited to disks that the hardware can read, so you can not read 800k disks unless you have special hardware such as the CubeFloppy Plus from DIT. A complete (multi-architecture-binary), time-limited, release of Executor is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.unm.edu for evaluation. ARDI Suite 101 1650 University Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 PHONE: +1 505 766 9115 FAX: +1 505 247 1899 Email: questions@ardi.com Digital Instrumentation Technology vends software called FloppyWorks which can read and write Macintosh diskettes. DIT also offers an external floppy drive called CubeFloppy Plus that can format, read, and write 400 and 800 KB Mac disks. For more information: Digital Instrumentation Technology email: sales@dit.com Voice: 505 662 1459 Fax: 505 662 0897 Bill Roth has written a program called MacinDisk ToshBrowser which read 1.4 Meg Mac disks. A demo version is available on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. For more information: Impact Software email: impact@impact.shaman.com voice: 1-800-822-3385. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] There is also a program on sonata/orst/compuserve called ResDump.tar.Z that will let you snarf individual resources from Macintosh disks under 3.x. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A4. Can I run tcsh, zsh or bash on NEXTSTEP? If you are simply looking for emacs-like command editing you can do this with the csh distributed by NeXT by typing: set editmode=emacs or set editmode=vi Note that file completion will conflict with vi's use of esc to leave insert mode, so you may want to map file completion to tab by adding the following to your ~/.bindings: bind-to-key FilenameExpansion "\^I" In addition it is possible to bind control keys to commands with a .bindings file. Users should seek the csh(1) man page for more information. People have ported tcsh and bash to NEXTSTEP. bash is available from prep.ai.mit.edu, the current version 1.12.1 makes correctly on NEXTSTEP. tcsh binaries for all kinds of machines are available on tesla.ee.cornell.edu, possibly including binaries for NeXT machines. In addition zsh is also available. Zsh has interactive features very similar to but more extensive than those of tcsh. In addition zsh is based on sh/ksh, not on csh - something which very many even casual shell programmers will consider a great asset. A complete pre-compiled zsh package including documentation is available from the purdue archives. If you install your own shell on NEXTSTEP, you need to add it to the file /etc/shells so that FTP will work. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A5. Can sound files be used on Sun OS and NEXTSTEP interchangeably? Sun OS 4.0.3 stored only raw mulaw files without any extensions. This format is obsolete; however to convert it to a NEXTSTEP snd format you can: sndconvert -o nextified.snd -f 1 -s 8012.8210513 -c 1 -r sun-sound Starting with Sun OS release 4.1 they adopted a file format like NEXTSTEP's: A comparison of <multimedia/audio_filehdr.h> on the Sun and <sound/soundstruct.h> on NEXTSTEP shows the formats to be compatible-- just rename *.au to *.snd for the NeXT. Sun only implements a subset of NEXTSTEP's sound file formats. Currently these seven are interchangeable: SND_FORMAT_MULAW_8 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_8 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_16 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_24 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_32 SND_FORMAT_FLOAT SND_FORMAT_DOUBLE While they are all _meaningful_ to the Sun, the standard SPARCstation hardware only directly supports 8-bit mu-Law at the CODEC sampling rate. If you have raw soundfiles (e.g. from SunOS 4.0.3 systems, or converted from the Macintosh), you can use raw2audio on the Sun or sndconvert -r on the NEXTSTEP system to add a sound header. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A6. Why does talk not work between NEXTSTEP and SUN OS? Sun OS may run an archaic version of talk; install a new version. [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Or try installing 'ytalk' available from sonata and orst. It offers many enhancements over talk among which is compatibility with at least some Sun workstation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A7. How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? [This is for people who use a terminal app that does vt100 keyboard emulation - pasc] First, add these lines to your ".cshrc" (preferably between the if and endif): set editmode=emacs set macrofiles=.macros Then create a file called ".bindings" and put in it: bind-to-key ExecuteNamedMacro '\e[' And, next, you need to make a file called ".macros" however, this one you need to enter some control characters into, because the csh STILL cannot write a macro file (And I'm using 2.1). Into this file put: A^@^@^@^A^P B^@^@^@^A^N C^@^@^@^A^F D^@^@^@^A^B where ^@ means Control-@ and ^A means Control-A, etc. Also, don't put in the leading spaces. This will set up the left and right arrows to move back and forth on the line, and the up and down arrows will cycle through your history. Then source .cshrc and the changes should take effect. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A8. How do I view/convert GIF/TIF/jpeg images? Use ImageViewer by Lennart Lovstrand at Xerox EuroPARC. It can convert between many different image formats. It is available on the archive servers. [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Instead of using the version of the jpeg files shipped with ImageViewer instead use the latest version always to be found on ftp.uu.net in /graphics/jpeg. The latest version compiles easily and is more twice as fast and less memory hungry than the one shipped with ImageViewer (and with jpeg files this makes a big difference). pbmplus tools does most conversions through filters. Another package to look into is The Image Conversion Tools from: sdsc.edu sdscpub.dir/next.dir/graphics.dir.JPEG software en/decoder has been uploaded to the Purdue archives: pub/next/2.0-release/source/jpeg.tar.Z. A commercial application,PixelMagician, is available from Bachus Inc. For more information: 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 330 Santa Monica, CA 90403 Voice: 310 820 9145 Fax: 310 820 5930 Email: info@bacchus.com, bacchus!info@uu2.psi.com Jef Poskanzers portable bitmap tools are also available pre-compiled from the purdue archives. In addition there is ViewGif2 (also available from the purdue archives) which is about 40% faster and less memory-hungry than ImageViewer but only displays gifs. [From: Robert Wong <wrob@unixg.ubc.ca>] ViewGIF3 (version 3.01) is available now. It requires NS 3.0 There is also GraphicsWorkshop (also from purdue) which is a front end to a set of graphic converter objects that allow you to load, save, and view images in gif, jpg, tiff, pbm, pgm, ppm, and xbm formats. It will also allow you to do some basic image conversions like color to black and white or color to one bit. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.064919.2023@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:49:19 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ B0. Where can I find additional questions and answers regarding the NeXT computer? B1. Are there NeXT and NEXTSTEP specific magazines? B2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? B3. If I am not on the internet, how can I get to the ftp sites via email? B4. What are some good references on Objective C? B5. Where can I communicate to others interested in doing music on the NeXT? B6. What special interest groups exist? B7. How may I let the NeXT user community know of an upcoming NeXT-related event? B8. What are the guidelines for posting to comp.sys.next.announce? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B0. Where can I find additional questions and answers regarding the NeXT computer? Every NeXT machine owner has access to manuals to a degree. Network and System Administration (NSA), for example contains answers to many of the questions asked to comp.sys.next. Some of the important man pages are reproduced in the NSA as appendices. User manuals were shipped with every NeXT. Additional copies available from NeXT (N6002/N6003/N6014/N6026) $25. NeXT Technical documentation. (How to program in the NextStep environment) Order from Addison-Wesley (1-800-447-2226) 0-201-63248-9 NeXTSTEP General Reference CANCELED (split into 2) 0-201-62220 NeXTSTEP General Reference Vol I (date not known) 0-201-62221 NeXTSTEP General Reference Vol II date not known) 0-201-63249-7 NeXTSTEP Development Tools (1 NOV) 0-201-63250-0 NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines (1 NOV) 0-201-63251-9 NeXTSTEP OOP and the Objective-C Lng (1 NOV) 0-201-63252-7 NeXTSTEP Operating System Software (3 OCT) 0-201-63253-5 NeXTSTEP Programming Interface Summary (1 NOV) 0-201-63254-3 NeXTSTEP Network and System Admin 3 (OCT) These are packaged ten volumes in two slipcases; the whole stack is 8-1/2 inches high. They look just like the other documents that come with the machine, 8.5x11", perfect-bound paperbacks. Operating System Software NeXTstep Concepts NeXTstep Reference, v. 1 NeXTstep Reference, v. 2 Development Tools Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Concepts Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Reference Writing Loadable Kernel Servers Technical Summaries Supplemental Documentation Get NeXT's Concepts and Tutorial sections electronically from the ftp archives. This is perhaps the single most important reference for people wishing to develop software for the NeXT. Unix man pages, which are included in the online docs. BSD unix documentation (MISC, PS1, PS2, SMM, USD). Available from to USENIX site members. A lot of this has been integrated into the NeXT documentation. Some of this is sorely missing. The SMM Unix System Manager's Manual is really useful! USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 USA +1 510 528 8649 fax +1 510 548 5738 office@usenix.org PS1 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 PS2 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 SMM = System Manager's Manual USD = User's Supplementary Documents [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: The SMM and the rest of the berkeley documentation are also available directly and for free via anon ftp e.g. from ftp.uu.net /packages/bsd-sources/share/doc. To format them properly for viewing and printing on the NeXT use nroff with the package indicated by the file suffix (e.g. to format the documentation file 0.t use 'nroff -mt 0.t'). Adobe documentation. Available machine-readable by e-mail from ps-file-server@adobe.com. Hardcopy available from Adobe Developer Support Line +1 415 961-4111 for a nominal charge. NeXT last shipped these as part of the 1.0a release; hardcopies appeared in 0.9 Technical Documentation, were omitted in 1.0, and have returned in updated form in _Supplemental Documentation_ of the 2.0 Tech Docs (which is not available on-line). Get NextAnswers for Digital Librarian from NeXT. The current versions are actually on ftp.next.com or available via the mailserver at nextanswers@next.com Get NeXT _Support Bulletin_ from the archives. It is meant for support centers. Another good source of information is the archives of previously posted notes from the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups. Note that since the split of comp.sys.next, it is unclear if anyone is maintaining an archive of all the groups. NeXTstep Advantage book is available electronically from the archive servers: cs.orst.edu: pub/next/documents/NeXT/ sonata.cc.purdue.edu: ? etlport.etl.go.jp: pub/NeXT/documents/NeXTstepAdvantage/ ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de /pub/NeXT/documents/next The file name is NeXTstepAdvantage.tar.Z; (its compressed size is 1.3 megabytes; uncompressed, it's 9.5 megabytes). It is a good introduction to the NeXT programming environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B1. Are there NeXT and NEXTSTEP specific magazines? Yes. There are also many NeXT specific newsletters, many of which are available via ftp from the NeXT specific ftp sites (look in pub/next/newsletters on cs.orst.edu and pub/next/Newsletters on sonata.cc.purdue.edu - purdue seems to carry more newsletters on line than orst.). Some cost money, others don't. Available from purdue: SCaNeWS - Southern California NeXT Users Group Newsletter, first issue came out January 1991. Edited by Mike Mahoney (manhoney@beach.csulb.edu) BaNG - Bay Area NeXT Users Group, one item on-line on Purdue. Edited by Joe Barello (Joe_Barello@bang.org) rmNUG NeWS - Rocky Mountain NeXT Users Group Newsletter, latest issue May 1991 (monthly). Edited by David Bowdish (73340.2146@compuserve.com). VNUS Newsletter - Vancouver NeXT Users Group The last issue was in Nov 91. Edited by three people, including the Chairman of VNUS, Lawrence Clarke (lclarke@next1.wimsey.bc.ca). NeXT Users' Journal, latest issue December/January 1990-1. Edited by Erica Liebman (erica@kong.gatech.edu). Hardcopy: NeXTworld. Published monthly with monthly ad-free newsletters ($23.95). NeXTWORLD, 501 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 415 978 3182 (phone), 415 978 3196 (fax) NeXTworld email address: ddinucci@nextworld.com NeXUS. Published bi-monthly for $36/year. Contact Alfonso Guerra at {emory|gatech}!nanovx!nexus. What's NeXT? The Boston Computer Society NeXT User group produces a NeXT newsletter called "What's NeXT?" edited by Michael Burress (pro-angmar!michaelb@alfalfa.com) and Eric Celeste (efc@athena.mit.edu). The Boston Computer Society, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139-1562 Phone 617-252-0600, M-F 9:30-5:30 Bulletin - Gotham Users of NeXT, Inc., latest issue May, 1992 (monthly). Edited by Robb Allan (Robb_Allan@gun.com) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. NeXT: cs.orst.edu nova.cc.purdue.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu umd5.umd.edu ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B3. If I am not on the internet, how can I get to the ftp sites via email? cc.purdue.edu is configured as an email archive server. This means you can upload and download files via email. Send mail to: archive-server@cc.purdue.edu mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de with the subject line help and you will get a complete description of this service. Submissions: Mail should be sent to archive-server@cc.purdue.edu with the subject of 'submission' (no ticks) if a person is submitting material to the archives. They need to include a 1-2 sentence description of the submission, the OS release the product runs on, and if it is source, binary, newsletter, etc. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B4. What are some good references on Objective C? Objective-C and other useful Object-oriented programming references: Budd, Timothy, _An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming_ (Addison-Wesley) [It discusses Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++ _and_ Objective-C] Cox, Brad J., _Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach_ ISBN 0-201-10393-1. (Addison-Wesley) [Note: 2nd edition - ISBN# is 0-201-54834-8 and has coauthor A.J. Novobilski] Huizenga, Gerrit, "Slides from a short course on Objective-C" available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next/docs/ObjC.frame.Z, ObjC.ps.Z, or OldObjC.wn.tar.Z Meyer, Bertrand, _Object-Oriented Software Construction_ (Prentice-Hall). NeXT Technical Documentation Pinson and Weiner, _Objective-C: Object-Oriented Programming Techniques_ (Addison-Wesley). 350 pages, ISBN 0 201 50828 1, paperback. User Reference Manual for Objective-C which is available from Stepstone Corporation. (203)426-1875. Note: There are some differences between Stepstone's Objective-C and NeXT's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B5. Where can I communicate to others interested in doing music on the NeXT? Since NeXT has become for now the platform of choice for much of the computer music composition and research community, the newsgroup comp.music is one good place to find people with information and interest in music on the NeXT. There is also a mailing list specifically for NeXT music: NeXT Music SIG (nextmusic@wri.com) To subscribe, send email to: nextmusic-request@wri.com ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B6. What special interest groups exist? Adobe Illustrator NeXT SIG To join, email: jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca AFS NeXT SIG To join, email: info-afs-next-request@transarc.com Berkeley Mathematics Software Group Email: nb@cs.stanford.edu Classroom: NeXT Courseware SIG (next-classroom@gac.edu) To subscribe: send the following text message to MAILSERV@gac.edu --"Subscribe next-classroom <your name>" Communications/TeleCommunications SIG (nextcomm@marble.com) To subscribe: send email to nextcomm-request@marble.com Data GROUP NeXT SIG To join, email: data_group@dazzl.com Create Users To join email: Create-request@mcs.anl.gov DataPhile Users To join email: DataPhile-request@mcs.anl.gov Executor SIG To join, email: executor-request@ictv.com Finnish: FUNeXT (Finnish Users of NeXT) To join, send email to: mailserver@lists.funet.fi and write in body text: HELP LIST SUB FUNeXT Frame: FUN (Frame Users Network) To join, email: framers-request@drd.com Frame User Network - New England (FUNNE) To join, email: funne@srbci.mv.com GIS(Geographical Information Services)SIG (next-gis@deltos.com) To subscribe: send email to next-gis-request@deltos.com Lotus Improv Email User Group To join, email: improv-request@bmt.gun.com Mathematica:Special Interest Group To join. email: mathgroup-request@yoda.physics.unc.edu Medical: NeXTMed SIG (NeXTMed@ulnar.biostr.washington.edu) To subscribe: send email to NeXTMed-request@ulnar.biostr.washington.edu Music: NeXT Music SIG (nextmusic@silvertone.Princeton.edu) To subscribe: send email to nextmusic-request@silvertone.Princeton.edu NeXT Icon Enthusiasts: next-icon@bmt.gun.com To subscribe: send e-mail to next-icon-request@bmt.gun.com NexLAW: Legal NeXT User Group To join, email: NexLAW-request@techlaw.com NeXTManagers (quick & technical answers) (next-managers@stolaf.edu) To subscribe: send email to next-managers-request@stolaf.edu NeXT Q&A's To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE NEXT-L <your> <name>" to LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Network & Security Management for Labs & Large Installations (next-lab@cs.ubc.ca) To subscribe: send email to next-lab-request@cs.ubc.ca Programmers: NeXT Programmers SIG (next-prog@cpac.washington.edu) To subscribe: send email to next-prog-request@cpac.washington.edu Publishing Interest Group To join, email: publish-request@chron.com Japanese: Kanji and Japanese on the NeXT To join - Email: next-nihongo-request@pinoko.berkeley.edu SCIENCE NeXT User Group (SNUG) To join, email: snug-requests@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu United Kingdom SIG To join, email: uk-next-users-request@ohm.york.ac.uk and next-uk-usergroups-request@asmec.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B7. How may I let the NeXT user community know of an upcoming NeXT-related event? Please send any announcements of upcoming NeXT-related events to announce@digifix.com These events will be posted to comp.sys.next.announce. Be sure to send your announcement in plenty of time to have it posted prior to the event. One to two weeks in advance would be a good idea. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B8. What are the guidelines for posting to comp.sys.next.announce? Submissions can be sent to announce@digifix.com. Since postings will be carried across many networks, commercial announcements may be edited down to reflect network usage policies. Look for current guidelines posted weekly in the newsgroup. ____________________________________________________________________________ NeXT-FAQ Editor: Nathan Janette nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.064954.2081@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:49:54 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ C1. What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? C2. What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? C3. How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? C4. What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? C5. Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? C6. How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? C7. Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? C8. How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? C9. When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? C10. What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? C11. What are the general requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? C12. If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? C13. How is NEXTSTEP/Intel be installed? C14. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? C15. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? C16. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? C17. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? C18. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? C19. Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? C20. How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? C21. Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? C22. Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? C23. Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? C24. Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? C25. Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C1. What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? The first production version, 3.1, has been released. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C2. What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? NeXT, Inc. now operates an automatic email responce system. Send email to "nextanswers@next.com" with the subject "ascii help index" to start. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C3. How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? It doesn't. NEXTSTEP/Intel is a complete port of the NEXTSTEP 3.1 software environment to Intel-based Computers. NEXTSTEP/Intel has the same User Interface, Development Environment, Applications, Networking (NFS, Novell, Appleshare), State of the Art Color, Mach UNIX, Display Postscript, 3D Renderman etc, etc. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C4. What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? NeXT computers offer additional hardware support not commonly available for Intel systems. This includes the DSP. The DSP in a NeXT Computer is used for a variety of functions including ISDN support and real-time audio compression/de-compression. ISDN support for NEXTSTEP/Intel will be provided via an add-on PC card and ISDN adapter. Real-time audio compression/de-compression support is currently under investigation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C5. Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? Of course! NEXTSTEP/Intel is design to plug and play with existing NeXT installations. NeXT has addressed interoperability between NEXTSTEP systems in the following ways: * NEXTSTEP systems share identical networking capabilities. * NEXTSTEP systems share the same Distributed Objects. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same system and network administration services. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same mass storage format. Yes, you can take a external SCSI drive, removable media (ie Bernoulli etc) or floppy disk and use it interchangeably between NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel systems. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C6. How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? Simply. NEXTSTEP 3.1 includes a new feature called Multi-Architecture Binaries (so called "Fat" binaries). This capability allows developers to compile NEXTSTEP applications on multiple system architectures, and combine them into a single package. When an application is run, NEXTSTEP will extract the appropriate instructions for the local system, and run the application. This operation is completely transparent to the user, it just works! Most of the NEXTSTEP applications in the future will be delivered as Multi-Architecture Binaries. Tools are also provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a one architecture environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C7. Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? No. Most applications consist of one or more executable programs (with architecture dependent machine instructions) and a lot of text and data. This machine independent data is typically data files used by the application, help files, examples, internationalization etc. Since only the actual machine dependent portion of the application is duplicated, a two architecture application typically takes only about 20%-30% more disk space than a single architecture application. If disk space is tight, tools are provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a single architecture environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C8. How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? Very easy. Most programs will simply recompile and run, or require few changes. We believe that any application that uses the standard development environment and Object kits provided by NeXT should simply compile and run. Only applications that use architecture specific features or data formats, will require additional time to port. Several developers have already ported applications to NEXTSTEP/Intel. Appsoft Draw simply recompiled and ran, Lighthouse Concurrence took 3 hours, other programs took 1/2 a day to 2 days, and this was all on a very early release of NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.1! ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C9. When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? Yes. As stated above, any applications that use the standard tools provided by the NEXTSTEP development environment, should just recompile and work. To make sure developers are aware of portability issues, NeXT is producing a guide to address source code portability between different architectures running NEXTSTEP. This guide should be available in November. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C10. What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? The NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment consists of the entire NEXTSTEP 3.1 environment, minus the developer tools. The Developer Environment includes the developer tools such Interface builder, Project Builder, C compilers, Object Kits, example source code and developer documentation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C11. What are the general requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? A specific NEXTSTEP/Intel Hardware Compatibility Guide is available from the NeXTanswers service, and as a separate FAQ file. [Eric Hermanson <24gdbq$8hb@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>] I am posting this to clear up the confusion surrounding NEXTSTEP hardware requirements. There have been many incorrect postings as to the requirements for NEXTSTEP. There have also been many people inquiring about the requirements. These are the correct numbers, source: NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR NEXTSTEP 3.1 (Intel and Motorola) NEXTSTEP *Requires* 8 MB Memory for 2-bit Greyscale NEXTSTEP *Requires* 12 MB Memory for 8-bit Greyscale NEXTSTEP *Requires* 16 MB Memory for 16-bit Color NeXT *Recommends* 12 MB Memory for 2-bit Greyscale NeXT *Recommends* 16 MB Memory for 8-bit Greyscale NeXT *Recommends* 24 MB Memory for 16-bit Color *SUMMARY* of NEXTSTEP Hard Drive Space *Requirements*: NEXTSTEP *Requires* 120 MB for User Environment NEXTSTEP *Requires* 330 MB for User Environment + Developer Tools NeXT *Recommends* 200 MB For User Environment (full install) NeXT *Recommends* 400 MB For User Environment + Developer Tools (full install) Full User Environment: 136 MB (NeXT *Recommends* 200 MB for User) Compressed User Environment: 109 MB Bare User Environment: 50 MB All Developer Tools: 100 MB (These numbers are the dev TOOLS only) Compressed Dev. Tools: 78 MB Bare Developer Tools: 66 MB FULL USER + DEVELOPER: **236 MB (NeXT *Recommends* 400 MB for User+Dev) Compressed USER + DEV: 187 MB Bare USER + DEVELOPER: 116 MB THE ENTIRE USER+DEVELOPER RELEASE OF NEXTSTEP TAKES UP APPROXIMATELY 236 MB. *Detailed* Hard Drive Requirements: NEXTSTEP consists of a number of independent packages, some of which can be optionally installed. USER ENVIRONMENT: ** INDICATES OPTIONAL PACKAGE NEXTSTEP Essentials This is the required software, including user environment, UNIX, Renderman, NeXT Software (network stuff, NeXT Mail, etc), root & me accounts. Installed Size 47.1 MB Languages Users can install up to six languages on the system, each one takes up 3 MB English, Italian, Sweedish, German, French, Spanish **DigitalWebster.pkg This package contains the Digital Webster application, the electronic edition of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. InstalledSize 18.8 MB CompressedSize 16.3 MB **Literature.pkg This package contains the complete works of Shakespeare, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and the pictures for Digital Webster. InstalledSize 40.7 MB CompressedSize 29.9 MB **Documentation.pkg This package contains the NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration manual and the UNIX manual pages. It also contains the complete set of PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files. InstalledSize 18 MB CompressedSize 8 MB **NeXTTeX.pkg This is a full implementation of TeX (LaTeX) and METAFONT. InstalledSize 8.1 MB CompressedSize 4.5 MB ============================================================================= TOTAL USER ENVIRONMENT: 136 MB Full Install 109 MB Compressed Optional Stuff 50 MB No Optional Software Installed DEVELOPER TOOLS: ** INDICATES OPTIONAL PACKAGE DeveloperTools.pkg This package contains applications and files you need for NEXTSTEP development. InstalledSize 36.4 MB CompressedSize 18.6 MB DeveloperLibs.pkg This package contains software libraries you need to develop NEXTSTEP software. InstalledSize 30 MB CompressedSize 14.5 MB **DeveloperDoc.pkg This package contains the on-line edition of the NEXTSTEP Developer's Library. InstalledSize 30 MB CompressedSize 10 MB **Demonstrations.pkg This package contains demonstration applications and images. InstalledSize 3 MB CompressedSize 2 MB ============================================================================= TOTAL DEVELOPER TOOLS: 100 MB Size of All Developer Tools 78 MB Size with Optional Stuff Compressed 66 MB Size with no Optional Software Installed ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C12. If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture that brings the benefits of object-orientation all the way down to the I/O card driver level. Complete documentation for this new "Driver Kit" architecture will be available later this year. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C13. How is NEXTSTEP/Intel be installed? NEXTSTEP/Intel will come with a boot floppy and a CDROM. To install NEXTSTEP/Intel, the system boots from the floppy, and then installs the minimum NEXTSTEP environment from the CDROM (SCSI CDROM drive). The user may then chose from several optional packages depending on the available disk space and user requirements. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C14. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any true 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C15. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? No. The Cyrix chip not a true 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C16. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will not only support them, but will take advantage of any performance enhancements available with future Intel CPU's, just as NeXT has taken advantage of the 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C17. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? Yes. Many portables and notebooks with 486 CPU's and sufficient system resources (8+MB RAM and 120+MB hard disk space) are available. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel will support 640x480 VGA displays in grayscale, NEXTSTEP 486 can run on these systems. Do be aware that NEXTSTEP's user interface and applications were not designed for low-resolution screens, and consequently will impose limitations on the use of some applications. Also, typical battery management systems do not work with multi-tasking operating systems. Future versions of NEXTSTEP/Intel will provide driver support for portable-oriented peripherals such as pocket Ethernet, SCSI and Sound adapters and PC/MCIA cards. We expect additional device drivers for portable peripherals to be available in Q3-Q4 1993. Until drivers are available for portable SCSI adapters, NEXTSTEP/Intel can be installed on portables by using a docking station with SCSI adapter and CDROM. The docking station can then be used for a local area network card. NeXT is investigating future Intel microprocessors that may provide battery management support for advanced operating systems such as NEXTSTEP. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C18. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support a DOS and Windows compatibility package. This software will allow DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 programs to run within a NEXTSTEP window. Support will include DOS "Protected" mode and Windows 3.1 "Standard" mode (Win-16). Support for Win-32 applications is planned for the second half of 1993. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C19. Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? A 60-day demo of SoftPC will be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.2. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C20. How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? Very well. The DOS/Windows compatibility package for NEXTSTEP/Intel takes full advantage of the 486 microprocessor. Depending on system hardware configuration and type of DOS/Windows application, performance should vary between 386 and 486 native DOS/Windows performance. In addition, to enhance the performance of Windows applications, a MS Windows specific Graphics Device Interface (GDI) driver which maps Microsoft Windows calls directly to the NEXTSTEP window server will be part of the system. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C21. Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? Yes. You can set the Windows session to any size you wish up to the maximum screen size available to the NEXTSTEP/Intel system you are using. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C22. Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? Yes. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel is a multi-tasking, virtual memory operating environment, several DOS/Windows sessions can be run at once. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C23. Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? Yes. You can cut and paste text and graphics between DOS/Windows and NEXTSTEP applications. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C24. Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support multiple operating systems on the same local hard disk. When the system boots, the user can chose to boot another operating system (such as DOS) or NEXTSTEP. If the local partition contains DOS, NEXTSTEP/Intel will be able to access the local DOS partition and read/write files to it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C25. Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? Yes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065035.2139@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:50:35 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ D1. What are the specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: D1. What are the specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? NEXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide (August 10, 1993) NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide August 10, 1993 For easy readability of this Hardware Guide: If you are reading this with Mail.app, be sure to set your font preference for this message to a smaller fixed-width font (Ohlfs 10 point font). This document describes in general terms, the types of PC-compatible hardware that is supported by NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 for Intel Processors. Although may different vendors' systems will work with NEXTSTEP, the systems listed here have been tested and found to be compatible with NEXTSTEP. For any hardware specification or purchase, please contact NeXT for the latest update to this guide. PC compatibles, portables and laptops from the following vendors are now supported: ALR ALTIMA AST COMPAQ DATA GENERAL DEC DELL EPSON GATEWAY HEWLETT PACKARD IBM INTEL LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR NCR NEC TOSHIBA UNISYS ZENITH CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS GEC COMPUTERS Driver updates: Information on device driver updates may be obtained by sending email to NeXTanswers@next.com with the subject of "INDEX HELP". You will receive the master index for NeXTanswers. NeXT and third parties are constantly developing and enhancing drivers for NEXTSTEP. Updates to existing drivers, or new drivers can be downloaded from the Internet via email or ftp. NeXTanswers provides an easy method to obtain drivers by e-mail as described above. (Note: you must be able to receive NeXTMail in order to be able to receive drivers via email.) To obtain drivers via ftp: use ftp to access ftp.next.com and login as anonymous with any password and "cd" to /pub. Drivers can be downloaded from the NeXTanswers directory. ** TABLE OF CONTENTS ** -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems General Requirements for Desktop Systems: CPU - i486 based or Pentium based PC Compatible Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2 or Pentium. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - ISA or EISA expansion bus. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition. NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - Ram requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter. GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - See "NEXTSTEP for INTEL PROCESSORS GRAPHICS" in this Guide for details on graphics support. DISK INTERFACES - IDE and several SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. NOTE: a SCSI adaptor and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial and bus mice. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Desktop Systems PC MANUFACTURERS Below appear the following graphics configurations for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors compatible hardware: I. 16 Bit Color Systems II 8 Bit Grayscale Systems III. 2 Bit Grayscale Systems I. 16 Bit Color Systems ALR Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For ALR: 1MB VRAM is required for 800x600 For ALR: 2MB VRAM is required for 1024x768 (Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-BUS AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For AST Power Premium: see Add-On Graphics adapter chart 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card (Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 33 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DATA GENERAL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX DG Dasher LE2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 4 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For 450DE/2 DGX: 2MB of VRAM - 16 bit color resolution is 1120 x 832 For Dell ME, L, M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 486DX2 Dell 450DE/2 DGX EISA 50 Mhz Localbus JAWS 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 EPSON Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Epson Progression NX: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 1MB VRAM Version supports 800x600 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1120x832 (Driver update available for Progression, 1120x832) 486DX, 486DX2 Epson Progression NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine GATEWAY Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Gateway: requires 2MB VRAM for the 1024x768 16 bit color; requires 1MB VRAM for the 800x600 16 bit color 486DX. 486DX2 Gateway Series V ISA 33 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 50 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 66 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 16 bit color [HP Vectra XM series: driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 16 bit - 800x600 resolution (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: Driver Update required for all IBM systems) 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS INTEL Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Intel: 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX2 Intel GX/Pro EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ATI 68800 LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR Vendor name Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Lucky Goldstar: 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: requires Compaq QVision 1024/E for 800x600 or ATI Graphics Ultra Pro EISA with 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card UNISYS Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For UNISYS: requires high resolution RAMDAC for NEXTSTEP support. On-board SCSI & LAN not yet supported. UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 1MB VRAM for 800x600 UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX2 UNISYS U6000 DT2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA HARDWARE SYSTEM INTEGRATORS 16 bit Color Systems CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS Integrator Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Continental computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC COMPUTERS Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For GEC computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 II. 8 Bit Grayscale COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell ME Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI: requires 1 MB VRAM for 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1280x1024 [HP Vectra XM series: driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: Driver Update required for all IBM systems) For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 8 bit- 1023x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: Select add-on EISA Graphics adapter 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA III. 2 Bit Grayscale AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 640x480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 - 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP: Built-in VGA supports 640-480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 1024x768 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC I-series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX 486DX2 NEC Image 466 ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000W32 Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems OVERVIEW CPU - i486 based PC Compatible Portable Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - AC powered portables require at least one ISA or EISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from CD-ROM. BATTERY-POWERED PORTABLES AND DOCKING STATIONS - Battery powered portables require a docking station with at least one ISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from a CD-ROM. Once NEXTSTEP is installed, the portable may be used away from the docking station. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition: NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - RAM requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter: GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes(+) Note: Since 16 bit color and 8 bit color grayscale support require LocalBus, VL-Bus, PCI, or EISA graphics adapters, only AC-powered portables with EISA slots can support 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. (+) - NeXT recommends a minimum of 12MB or RAM for acceptable performance on portables. GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - Current display panel technology in popular PC-compatibles is limited to 640x480 resolution and cannot yet display 16 bit color. These systems do not yet support the linear buffer NEXTSTEP requires for 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. Therefore, NEXTSTEP supports these systems with 2-bit grayscale at 640x480. Active matrix or plasma panels are recommended for better cursor tracking response. ISA systems (AC-powered or through a docking station) can support add-on, high resolution 2-bit grayscale graphics adapters and EISA-based AC-powered portables can support 16-bit color or 8-bit grayscale graphics with an add-on EISA graphics adapter. DISK INTERFACES - Both built-in IDE and add-on SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. Battery powered portables require a docking station to install a SCSI hard disk interface card. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft and Logitec compatible PS/2 and serial mice are supported. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a networking adapter. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a sound card. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Portable Systems PC MANUFACTURERS I. Built-in Panel Portables ALTIMA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX ALTIMA 433D Battery Passive 33 Mhz ISA 200/20 Matrix Mono Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on pointer support for Altima 433D. AST Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SL AST Power- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Color KMM 4SL or Mono MS AST Power- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Matrix KMM 4SL Mono MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem COMPAQ Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color 486SL COMPAQ LTE Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/20 Lite Matrix KMM 4/25c Color MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for 486/C and 486/M) NEC Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SX NEC Pro- AC Active 20 Mhz 200/20 Speed Matrix 486C Color 486SL NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for ProSpeed 486C) Built-in expansion: PCMCIA for Ultralite Versa C & M models ProSpeed 486C requires floating point upgrade. Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on built-in trackball support for LTE Lite 4/25c. TOSHIBA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 33 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 50 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 33 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 50 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color 486SX TOSHIBA T4400SX Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Mono or MS Plasma KMM TOSHIBA T4400 Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 SXC Matrix MS Color KMM 486DX TOSHIBA T4400C Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Matrix MS Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (ISA expansion for T6400DX and T6400DXC models) T4400SX and T4400SXC require floating point upgrades. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters OVERVIEW NEXTSTEP GRAPHICS SYSTEM NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors' Display Postscript graphic system supports such advanced capabilities as scalable fonts, unified imaging model for both screen display and printing, image transparency (also known as alpha channel), Pantone color matching, and Pixar Interactive Renderman 3D imaging. NEXTSTEP's window server composites multiple layers of images, and allows the user to work with images of any quality with any supported imaging model, in other words users can work with a 32 bit color image even on a 2-bit grayscale system! In order to provide these sophisticated capabilities NEXTSTEP requires a "workstation"-style linear frame buffer graphics system and a high performance 32-bit data path to the frame buffer. The number of colors or shades of gray, depth of transparency, etc., varies depending on the image model supported. ** TABLE FOR NEXTSTEP IMAGING ** Imaging Model Colors or Transparency Window Server Support Shades of (alpha channel) for Renderman 3D Gray Graphics _____________________________________________________________________ 32-bit color 24-bit - 8-bit (256 YES 16 million levels) colors 16-bit color 12-bit - 4-bit (16 YES 4096 colors levels) 32-BIT COLOR 2-bit color support on Intel-based PCs is planned for a future release of NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. 16-BIT COLOR Graphics Architectures Supported - Intel JAWS (such as DELL Processor-Direct Graphics), Chips and Technologies Wingine, ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 16-bit color, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data path, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 16-bit color. Future support is planned for the Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 800x600, 1024x768, 1120x832. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 8-BIT GRAYSCALE Graphics Architectures Supported - S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 8-bit grayscale, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 8-bit color. Future support is planned for the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 2-BIT GRAYSCALE NeXT has devoted a special driver that simulates the linear frame buffer required by NEXTSTEP's graphics system on segmented frame buffer graphics adapters such as standard VGA and Super VGA cards. This allows NEXTSTEP to support most standard VGA cards as well as certain Super VGA cards. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Graphics Architectures Supported - Standard VGA compatible and certain Super VGA graphics adapters using the Tseng Labs ET-4000AX or Cirrus Logic GD 542X. These graphics adapters can be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-BUS), PCI, EISA or ISA. Supported Resolutions: 640x480 (Standard VGA) or 1024x769 (Super VGA). _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors Graphics MANUFACTURERS OF GRAPHICS ADAPTERS ATI 68800 Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVISION Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1024/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1280/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2 MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 CIRRUS LOGIC GD542X Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ STB Horizon ISA Cirrus 2 bit grayscale: Logic .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 GD542X JAWS Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ DELL 450DE/2 Local- DELL 16 bit color: DGX bus JAWS 2 MB VRAM supports 1120x832 DGX Note: Upgrade for Dell 450DE only. TSENG LABS ET-4000AX Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ISA Tseng 2 bit grayscale: Labs .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ET4000 STANDARD VGA Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions _____________________________________________________________________ various various ISA VGA 2 bit grayscale Adapter 640x480 resolution (default) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters NEXTSTEP supports a variety of additional devices and add-on adapters: DISK INTERFACES Both IDE and several SCSI hard disk interfaces are supported. POINTING DEVICES Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial, and bus mice. PRINTERS Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. ADDITIONAL DEVICES Other popular PC peripherals such as FAX/Modems will be supported. DRIVERKIT NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors incorporates a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture called DriverKit. DriverKit allows the quick development of device drivers for new peripherals and add-on cards for Intel-based PCs running NEXTSTEP. DriverKit's architecture allows drivers to be loaded at run-time, thereby allowing users to add additional cards or devices to their systems without re-installing the main operating system. Loadable device drivers also allow NeXT and third parties to easily distribute additional drivers as they become available. NeXT is actively working with hardware manufacturers and third parties to provide additional drivers for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. Developers interested in the DriverKit should contact Developer Support (1-800-848-6398) and join the registered developer program. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors ADDITIONAL DEVICE SUPPORT PRODUCTS FLOPPY DISK Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ 3.5 inch Floppy Disk 1.44MB floppy Controller IDE HARD DISK INTERFACE Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ IDE IDE Disk Controller SCSI HARD DISK INTERFACE Note on Adaptec 1542c & 1742, DPT 2011/95 & 2012/95: built-in floppy disk interface not supported Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Adaptec 1540B ISA Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter Adaptec 1540C ISA Adaptec 1542B Built-in floppy disk SCSI adapter not supported Adaptec 1740 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Adaptec 1742 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Bus 542B ISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter Bus 747S EISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter DPT 2012/90 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2012/95 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) DPT 2011/90 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 DPT 2011/95 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 (Built-in floppy not supported) SCSI TAPE Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ SCSI SCSI tape Driver update tape driver available PARALLEL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Parallel Port Parallel port SERIAL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Supports COM1 & COM2 Serial Ports serial ports LOCAL AREA NETWORK ADAPTERS Note on Intel Etherlink: support of TP port requires Driver update Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3COM Ethernet coax or (3C509) Etherlink III twisted pair ethernet adapter SMC Etherlink 16 ISA SMC Ethernet coax or (8013) Elite 16 twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL EtherExpress 16 ISA Intel Ether- Ethernet coax or (TP, Coax or Combo) Express twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL TokenExpress ISA Intel Token- Token ring Express ISA Token Ring POINTING DEVICES Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ Microsoft MS mouse serial mouse serial mouse Microsoft MS mouse PS/2 mouse port PS/2 mouse Logitec Mouse Man serial mouse serial mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man PS/2 mouse PS/2 mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man Bus Bus mouse Bus mouse adapter AUDIO DEVICES NOTE: Driver updates required for Intel and Compaq audio devices Vendor Model Bus Driver Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard PC CPU System beep System audio alerts speaker board driver only support Media ProAudio ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Spectrum 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Media Pro ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Studio 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Intel GX/Professional CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Compaq Business Audio CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Microsoft Sound System ISA Up to CD quality PRINTERS Vendor Model Bus Interface _____________________________________________________________________ NeXT Color Printer SCSI Standard Adobe Postscript Serial or parallel Printers (Postscipt Level II recommended for proper color support.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ August 10, 1993 NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065043.2197@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:50:43 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ E1. What Fortran compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E2. What Lisps are there for NEXTSTEP? E3. What Pascal compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E4. What should I know about c++ shipped with NEXTSTEP? E5. What Ada compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E6. Is Perl available for NEXTSTEP? E7. Where can I get gawk? E8. Where can I get Eiffel? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E1. What Fortran compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? There is a fortran to c translator called f2c available via anonymous ftp from the archives. Check the sources directory. Absoft FORTRAN 77 Object Oriented FORTRAN compiler; fully compatible w/ NEXTSTEP's Interface Builder toolkit, allows programmers to add a GUI to any FORTRAN program. They have a screen oriented source level debugger designed by and for FORTRAN programmers, and IMSL FORTRAN Libraries. They have versions for NEXTSTEP/m68k and NEXTSTEP/FIP. 313-853-0050 Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) FORTRAN 90 for NeXT Modern Fortran fully compliant with ISO/IEC 1539:1991 and ANSI X3.198-1991 standards. (708) 971-2337 OASYS OASYS Native Compilers, OASYS Optimizing 680x0 Cross Compilers, OASYS Optimizing 88000 Cross Compilers (C, C++, Fortran, Pascal available for each) Highly optimized Fortran, Pascal., C and C++ compilers and cross compilers. 617-862-2002. Diab Data (415) 571-1700 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E2. What Lisps are there for NEXTSTEP? Scheme is available from: altdorf.ai.mit.edu. Schematik is a front-end to MIT Scheme for NEXTSTEP; it comes complete with MIT Scheme, so that installing it is in fact also the simplest way to install MIT Scheme. It is available from: ftp.gac.edu ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (European users). There is also a commercial Scheme implementation that supposedly conforms to an IEEE Scheme standard. Cadence Research Systems 812-333-9269 Xlisp is available from bikini.cis.ufl.edu. Changes To make it work with NEXTSTEP: in unixstuf.c: #define BSD in function init_tty: declare extern char xltoplevel() in function read_keybd: change char buf[1] to char buf[100] change sizeof(buf) to sizeof(char) AKCL is available from: sonata.cc.purdue.edu. [bvrotney@ads.com (Bill Vrotney)] adds: But you can actually get a later version from: rascal.ics.utexas.edu pub/NeXT-akcl-1-615.tar.Z Scheme->C Compiler is available from sonata.cc.purdue.edu and gatekeeper.dec.com. ACL (allegro common lisp) used to be bundled with 1.0, now it is available directly from: Franz Inc. 1995 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Voice: (510) 548-3600, FAX: (510) 548-8252 email info@franz.com. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E3. What Pascal compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? uvapc/NeXT is an ISO standard Pascal compiler developed by the University of Virginia's Academic Computing Center and the Department of Computer Science. uvapc/NeXT passes the ISO standard Pascal validation suite. The compiler is written in C and has been ported to several other Unix platforms. uvapc/NeXT can generate the necessary information so that the GNU source-level symbolic debugger, gdb, can be used (see Caveats below). It also supports obtaining gprof type profiles. Contact is: Mr. Jack Davidson University of Virginia Department of Computer Science, Thornton Hall Charlottesville CA 22903 (804) 982-2209 (804) 982-2214 FAX jwd@virginia.edu [From: sanguish@digifix.com] I'm pretty sure that this pascal was dropped when 3.0 came onto the scene. Definately when hardware was dropped. I have sent e-mail to the contact, but no answer as yet. p2c, David Gillespie's Pascal to C translator, can be obtained from: csvax.cs.caltech.edu: pub/p2c-1.20.tar.Z. It translates many dialects of Pascal including Turbo, VAX, Sun/Berkeley. But there is a very serious problem in that %g and %lg are used to read reals in the translated code, and these formats are not supported by NeXT in scanf. Gillespie maintains that this is a bug in NeXT's compiler. A fix is to make the following change in funcs.c: [Old code] case TK_REAL: if (var->val.type == tp_longreal) ex = makeexpr_string("%lg"); else ex = makeexpr_string("%g"); break; [New code] case TK_REAL: if (var->val.type == tp_longreal) ex = makeexpr_string("%lf"); else ex = makeexpr_string("%f"); break; Here is a very disturbing example. %lg gives garbage, and %lf even gives garbage when it follows %lg: ariel% more test.c main() { double x, y, z; scanf("%lf%lg%lf%*[^\n]", &x, &y, &z); getchar(); printf("% .5E % .5E % .5E\n", x, y, z); } ariel% cc test.c ariel% a.out 3.14 3.14 3.14 3.14000E+00 6.36599E-314 1.40000E-01 ariel% ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E4. What should I know about c++ shipped with NEXTSTEP? Two things to note about the cc++ on NeXT. Any C include files have to be specified as below: extern "C" { #include <libc.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> } This tells that the code is C, so you won't have problems with the standard libraries thinking your program is Objective C. Also the /usr/include/stdio.h in line 75 has a variable "new" that conflicts with a g++ keyword. You can redefine it using #define new __new__ #include "stdio.h" #undef new After the above two fixes, g++ programs that do not use the g++ class library (and therefore do not need libg++ to be available) work. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] The currently available lib g++ is on ftp.next.com [From: Magnus Nordborg <magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU>] The cc++ shipped with NEXTSTEP 3.0 is a modified version of gcc-1.93. As shipped, 3.0 does not have the standard C++ headers and library functions (like iostream.h). It is therefore of no use as a C++ compiler (unless you want to write your own i/o routines, etc). There are basically two things you can do to remedy the situation. 1.) Get libg++-1.39.0 and build it using cc++ (some patches are needed, see below). 2.) Get the latest version of gcc and libg++ and build them. They (gcc-2.3.3 and libg++-2.3 that is) compile without problems (you need GNU make and bison, plus at least 40 MB of disk space to build gcc). The second alternative is clearly preferable in that you get a more stable C++ compiler that support "recent" additions to C++. This makes it much more likely that you will be able to use packages from other sources, etc There are two disadvantages: gcc takes up more than 10 MB of disk space, and the version of gdb that comes with 3.0 works less well with it. You should probably not get rid of cc even if you get gcc as the support for NeXT's Objective-C in gcc is not reliable. Here are the instructions for getting libg++-1.39.0: Create a folder, say /me/tmp. % mkdir tmp % cd tmp Get libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu from the directory pub/gnu. % ftp prep.ai.mit.edu ... Get NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from next242.ece.orst.edu from the directory pub. % ftp next242.ece.orst.edu ... Unpack the gnu stuff, and cd to the newly created directory. % zcat libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z | tar xf - % cd libg++-1.39.0 Unpack the mods file while in the newly created libg++-1.39.0 folder. % zcat ../NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z | tar xf - Create /usr/gnu, and /usr/gnu/lib (writable by whoever is doing this). % mkdir /usr/gnu % mkdir /usr/gnu/lib Change Makefile line 32 to "PWD=/me/tmp/libg++-1.39.0" ^^^^^^^ may need changing Then % make src (takes a while--ignore the warnings) % make install-lib" (puts libg++.a in /usr/gnu/lib) % make install-include-files" (this puts the include files in /usr/gnu/lib/g++-include) % make tests" (this takes rather a lot of disk space). There are differences from the expected output, most likely due to finite precision effects. Make a test program, x.cc, containing: #include <stream.h> main() { cout << " Hello world!\n"; } Compile it. % cc++ -I/usr/gnu/lib/g++-include -O x.cc -L/usr/gnu/lib -lg++ Run it. % a.out It should print Hello world! ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E5. What Ada compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? Meridian Software offers a NEXTSTEP Ada compiler. Meridian Software Voice: (800)221-2522 FAX: (714)727-3583 Get adaed. It works like a real ada, with libraries, etc. Gopher/archie gives four pages of locations, but cs.nyu.edu is home base. There seem to be pc and amiga versions as well as unix. cs.nyu.edu:/pub/adaed/Adaed-1.11.0a.tar.Z ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E6. Is Perl available for NEXTSTEP? Take most of the features of C, csh, awk, and add a sprinkling from sed, and you get Perl. Practical Extraction & Reporting Language. Perl is very much of a kitchen sink language, in that it has almost all the features of everything. This results in it being easy to write programs in perl (because all your favorite constructs are there) but difficult to read perl. (Because other people have used their favorite constructs, not yours) Perl's strength is in scripting. Anything that would take more than 20 lines in a csh script is a candidate. Anything that isn't a straight pass through, chew on each line, program for awk is a candidate. Current version: 4.036 Perl is available from: jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.148.1.143) tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60) uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2) While Perl does come with a 70 page man-book, an easier way to learn the language is from "Programming Perl" Larry Wall & Randal Schwartz. O'Reilly & Associates 632 Petaluma Ave Sebastopol CA 95472 Voice: 800-338-6887 Voice: (707) 829-0515 uunet!ora!nuts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E7. Where can I get gawk? Gawk, as with all FSF GNU software is available in source form from: prep.ai.mit.edu Gawk is the Gnu version of Awk. Like most of the other GNU programs Gawk has more features than does awk. Further unlike the wretched man page for awk that comes with NEXTSTEP, Gawk comes with a 140 page manual/tutorial. Gawk is a text processing language. In this respect it is similar to sed. However Gawk adds to sed conditional execution (if) subroutines, and the ability to execute a block of instructions before and after the file itself is processed. gawk is not the only public-code awk. Mawk version 1.1, published through comp.sources.reviewed in February, 1992, by Mike Brennan <brennan@boeing.com>, should be mentioned as an alternative. References for Gawk/awk: Sed & Awk, Dale Dougherty, O'Reilly & Associates The Awk Programming Language Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, & Peter J. Weinberger Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. ISBN 0-201-07981-X ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E8. Where can I get Eiffel? A port of the Eiffel language and development environment is available for NEXTSTEP. The company is: Interactive Software Engineering, Inc. Voice: (805)685-1006 FAX: (805)685-6869 eiffel@eiffel.com The port is for Eiffel version 2.3 and includes their standard class libraries as well as some additional NeXT-specific classes and facilities for integration with the Interface Builder. A free eiffel-like language called Sather is available via ftp from icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065052.2255@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:50:52 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ F1. Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? F2. Can I put both a 68030 and a 68040 system board in a single NeXT cube? F3. Where is libc.a under 2.0? F4. How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? F5. How do I access the "help" facilities in Mathematica 1.0? F6. How do I find out what are the defaults for a NeXT application? F7. How do I run NextApps remotely? F8. Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? F9. How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? F10. How do I remap the \ and | keys on my keyboard? F11. Why doesn't email registration to Mathematica work? F12. How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding\ ^Ms onto the end of lines? F13. Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? F14. What default affects menu location? F15. How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? F16. What dwrites affect the loginwindow? F17: How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages? F18: Can I automatically have my ~/.signature file appended to mail I send with Mail.app? F19: How can I quickly find a file if I don't know it's directory? F20: Mail.app suddenly stopped working. When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? F21: For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recyler no longer works? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F1. Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? There is no way of changing the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x; in 3.0 there is. Check Preferences (Title Bar): set CustomTitle, type in the title, and hit CR (or Set Window) and voila! [andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] adds: Actually, there is a way to change the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x (at least in 2.1 which is what I am using). It is somewhat limited but it might be useful to some. The trick is to make a symbolic link between /bin/csh (or whichever shell one wishes to use) and a file in / named "Whatever_you_want_to_appear_in_the_title_bar". Then select this new "shell" in the terminal preference and, voila!, you'll have your terminal window with /Whatever_you..... in the title bar. You can edit Stuart's titlebar interactively from the "Window..." Inspector (Command-3). Stuart provides emulation of certain Operating System Command (OSC) sequences which can be used to modify the titlebar under subprocess control. Stuart can change the title of the current window from the command line. In Stuart is possible to get more descriptive titles by linking /usr/ucb/rsh to /usr/hosts/<hostname>. Then by adding /usr/hosts to your Stuart ShellPath you can then get the hostname into the title bar: $ dwrite StuartShellPaths <various dirs>:/usr/hosts You should then type in the hostname as the shell to invoke (disable the "Shell reads .login file" for this. You can also add hosts to your .Stuartrc file: Shell=golem.ps.uci.edu SourceDotLogin=NO WinLocX=545 WinLocY=563 Lines=24 | WinLocX=76 WinLocY=833 For the localhost, link /bin/csh to /usr/hosts/<name>, or even better /usr/local/bin/tcsh instead of using rsh. [Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>] adds: For what it's worth, I do this with a script called "telnet_to" and a (bash) function called "telnet_window". The function simply does a local soil_pars="-Lines 32 -Keypad YES -Reverse YES -Strict YES -TestExit YES"; soil -Shell "telnet_to $1" $soil_pars and the script is just: #!bin/sh /usr/ucb/telnet $* echo ' ' echo ' --> telnet exited, press enter to close window.' read -r Waste_Var exit 0 This has a number of advantages, not the least of which being that I can pop up a "telnet_window" to anywhere. I don't have to create links for each host (though I do create aliases for the most common hosts), and I can type "telnet_window" (or, e.g., "tel_aix") as a unix command. Also, if I lose the connection suddenly then the window stays around until I get a chance to see what happened. I use telnet instead of rsh because I generally connect to hosts which won't accept rsh's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F2. Can I put both a 68030 and a 68040 system board in a single NeXT cube? There is a company which plans to offer hardware (extra CPU boards) and software support solutions for the OD with Turbo NeXTcubes. For more information: Sam Goldberger Spherical Solutions smg@sphersys.net.netcom.com 415-383-7512 [Note that we have no first hand experience with this problem, we have compiled what we consider to be an accurate report. We acknowledge conflicting reports where appropriate.] In general Mach may be configured as a multiprocessor operating system; however, the NeXT kernel is only configured to deal with one processor. This configuration can not be changed without access to the kernel sources. [hopefully NeXT will offer a multiprocessor version of the NeXT operating system at some future date] Some have asked about the possibility of installing the 030 board for use as a printserver or other CPU-intensive task server. In this hypothetical setup, each CPU would run its own copy of the operating system (essentially two different computers sharing the same cube). This might be workable except for the fact that even if the NBIC (NextBus Interface Chip) chip is removed, the CPU board probes the bus for slot ID [**a conflicting report comes from Richard Dib who heard that someone ran a cube with the CPU in another slot]. You could do hardware modification to the 68030 board which would isolate it enough to use only the cube as a power supply, however you can not run two monochrome monitor heads off the cube power supply. In this case you would probably want to first boot the 68030 with a display head, set the boot prom to boot off ttya, and attach an ascii terminal to that serial port. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F3. Where is libc.a under 2.0? From the developer's release notes concerning the 2.0 NeXT Operating System Software available on-line with 2.0 extended: /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/OperatingSystem.rtf - libc.a is not shipped with release 2.0. All routines contained in libc.a are also contained in the shared library libsys.a which should be used instead of libc.a. libc.a is not shipped because as a normal archive it is impossible for improvements and system interface changes made to library routines to be applicable to existing applications without those applications being relinked. Applications referencing shared libraries, because they are bound at runtime, always access the most recent release. Release 1.0 applications linked against libc.a may not be compatible with release 2.0 until they are relinked with libsys.a. Subject: F4. How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? Mail.app: In /LocalLibrary/Images/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person@remote.site.domain.tiff (all lowercase). In /LocalLibrary/Images/People/passwd add an entry for the person: person@remote.site.domain:*:-2:-2::/nodir:/noshell (person and sitename need to be all lowercase as well)... In the future anytime you get mail from the person their picture should appear. You can include an "aliases" file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People too. This allows you to use the same picture for somebody that might send you mail from accounts on many different sites, or for those people whose letters use several different routings. To do this, you include entries in this local aliases file like so: bkohler@ucrac1.ucr.edu:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.uucp:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu There should then be a .tiff file called bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu.tiff. There can be no CAPITAL LETTERS in this file. So even if the address in the From: field looks like gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.UUCP, keep the letters lowercase in the aliases file. As always, you have to restart Mail.app before these changes take effect. NewsGrazer: In /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person.remote.site.domain (all lowercase). This is a different naming convention from what Mail.app uses. There is a large archive of some 4000 or 5000 pictures prepared for this purpose. The name of this archive is Faces3.tar.Z and it is about 4.1 MBytes large. Currently it is available from several anon ftp sites (e.g. sonata.cc.purdue.edu) in: /pub/next/graphics/Images/icons/people. That image archive also contains a script which automatically creates proper alias and passwd files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F5. How do I access the "help" facilities in Mathematica 1.0? While the help dialog doesn't show anything, you can get the help info by clicking on the place where the slider bar should be. This tidbit doesn't seem to work on all systems though, and will be irrelevant once the new version of Mathematica comes out. [Which it has]. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F6. How do I find out what are the defaults for a NeXT application? A command line utility for examining defaults is available from: sutro.sfsu.edu:/pub/wmdefaults1.0.tar.Z. A PD App, DefaultMgr.app, is available on the NeXT ftp archives. A more brute approach (done by DefaultMgr.app): Start the application under gdb, and then try the following sequence of commands: break *0x500976a commands 1 silent printf "%s: ", *$a2 output {char *}(4+$a2) echo \n cont end run [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: DefaultMgr.app doesn't any longer work properly under 3.0. It still is able to manipulate defaults but can't any longer "investigate" apps to find out which defaults they use. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F7. How do I run NextApps remotely? On the local machine make sure you have public window server access, this is set from the Preferences application. On the foreign NeXT machine run the application from a terminal window with the -NXHost <local_machine_name>. Both machines should be running the same version of NeXTstep. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F8. Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? What is happening is that the remote machine is waiting for you to end your login or password by typing a "Return" (aka ^M or CR or CARRIAGE RETURN). UUCP ends a line by sending a LineFeed (aka ^J or LF). Since UUCP doesn't send the CR, the login sequence is never completed, and you will usually get one of two error messages: wanted "password:" (means that username needs to end with a CR) imsg waiting for SYNC< (means that password needs to end with CR) So how do you get UUCP to send CR, instead of LF? End the send string with the sequence \n\c. For instance this line in L.sys will send a LF after login, but a CR after password. myfeed Any DIR 9600 cub "" ATTD19095551212 9600 \ "" ogin:--ogin: Unext ssword: secret\n\c ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F9. How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? Get Jiro Nakamura's define program from the archiver servers: define.tar.Z. This will allow you to access the database from the command line. [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: 'define' breaks under 3.0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F10. How do I remap the \ and | keys on my keyboard? NeXT introduced a new keyboard configuration with the 040 products. The \| keys which had been located on the main keyboard was moved to the numeric keypad. Many users have since complained about it, and a work around is to remap these keys using the demo application Keyboard (/NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard), Mike Carlton's keyboardfix program: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/sources/next-interface/keyboardfix.tar.Z ...which lets you put these keys on shift-return or shift-delete. One can hope that there will be a choice of keyboards in the future. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F11. Why doesn't email registration to Mathematica work? There is a bug with this option where the mail instead of being sent to Wolfram is stored in /tmp/email.message. This file seems to be suitable for mailing to register@wri.com ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F12. How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding\ ^Ms onto the end of lines? In /etc/sendmail.cf make this change: [old code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, [new code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n, [From: sanguish@digifix.com] This has been fixed in 3.1, and the default mailhost sendmail is UUCP oriented. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F13. Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? Sprayon Paint Omni-Packblend 4Next-Black (icon black) LAV-16 25216 Call 1-800-777-2966 for the name of a dealer near you. It's nominally $2.75/16 oz. can. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F14. What default affects menu location? dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX <value> dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuY <value> ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F15. How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? Login as root, or get root privileges running 'su', and execute the following five commands: mkdirs /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel/NeXT cd /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel ln -s uuuuu/Mathematica.app/Kernel/Display Utilities cd NeXT ln -s vvvvv/math mathexe where uuuuu is the directory where Mathematica.app was placed (typically, /LocalApps) and vvvvv is the directory where the executable 'math' was placed (typically, /usr/local/bin) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F16. What dwrites affect the loginwindow? [Jess Anderson writes:] Here, I hope, is the quasi-definitive story on dwrites that affect the loginwindow. I'm indebted to several people, notably Art Isbell, Kristian Koehntopp, Dan Danz, Louie Mamakos, John Kheit, Felix Lugo, and Paul Sears, for some of the information presented here. Remember that dwrites are not supported by NeXT; they may change with any subsequent system release. These I've checked out using 3.0; some or all may work with earlier releases, but I can't vouch for most of them. All these dwrites must be done as root. You can also run as root and use DefaultMgr to set them (which is a whole lot more convenient if you're intending to fiddle with some of them). After setting the things you want, restart the WindowServer by logging out of the current session and typing exit <cr> on the login panel. OK, here's what we know (or think we do :-): dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser <login-name> Most new machines have <login_name> set to me. This dwrite logs in user <login_name> automatically. User <login_name> must not have a password set, hence *don't* use this in a networked environment! dwrite loginwindow HostName "<host_name>" dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost These cause your host name to appear on the login panel. You need quote marks only if there's a space in the name. The first form hard-codes the name into root's defaults database. The second form uses whatever name has been set as localhost in NetInfo, which is convenient for networked machines. The font, size, color, and position of the printed string are not accessible (drat!). dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path/to/a/suitable.tiff> This uses the tiff image pointed to instead of the standard one (in /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj/nextlogin.tiff, <language>.lproj as appropriate for your main language) as the login panel. Be sure you get the pointer right, though, or you'll have to boot single-user to fix it. In practical terms, the image is constrained in various ways I won't detail here. dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <integer_number> No relation to the dim time set by Preferences. The units are odd, I think. Felix reported them as 1/34 second. However, when I changed it to 1020, I got 15 seconds to dimming, and 680 gives 10 seconds, that I'm sure of. So I think the units are 1/68 second. Maybe Felix just thought it was too damn long! We all know it *seems* longer when you're not having fun waiting. :-) Whatever, the login screen dims to about half after this length of time. dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES This causes the panel to move around approximately in Backspace bouncing-off-the-walls-tiff fashion. The point is to avoid burning the screen phosphors, as a static image would tend to do. The animation is controlled by the next couple dwrites. dwrite loginwindow MovementTimeout <real_number> The units are seconds. The panel starts moving (assuming the preceding is set to YES) after this time. If you set it to be less than the TimeToDim time, the movement starts before the dimming occurs. I did not try zero. I can't stand waiting around for things to happen, so I use 10 seconds for both times. The default appears to be 5 minutes. dwrite loginwindow MovementScale <integer_number> No movement occurs if this is set to 1. But it looks like the units might be approximately pixels for each change of position (the frequency of which is controlled by the next dwrite). If you put a big number here, say 200, the image moves in big jumps, but I don't know if the 200 is divided up somehow between change in x- and y-coordinates. I wouldn't worry about it much, just set it to something you like. Since my image contains readable text, I want it to scroll smoothly around, so I use the apparently minimum value, 2. The default appears to be 10. dwrite loginwindow MovementRate <real_number> The units are seconds. The image jumps by the amount above every this many seconds. The default is 0.0666 seconds. Bigger numbers mean slower motion. Since I don't like things being too jumpy or zooming around, I set this to 0.1 seconds. This makes my image ooze at a pace befitting an elderly person like me. dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES This makes it a little harder to turn the machine off; you have to use the monitor or the minimonitor (<right-command>-~) if it's set, rather than the <power> key. dwrite loginwindow LoginHook <path/to/loginhook/executable> dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook <path/to/logouthook/executable> Pointers to the login and logout hooks, if used. It should be pointed out that some of these things (login/logout hooks, for example) are maybe more logically set where the loginwindow is invoked by the WindowServer, namely /etc/ttys. There are yet others. Here's the full list (thanks, Art): NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DebugHook") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DryRun") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "WindowServerTimeout") => 0x0 NXRegisterDefaults("loginwindow", 0x16024) KeyMapPath: 0x12d97 "~/Library/Keyboards:/LocalLibrary/Keyboards:/NextLibrary/Keyboards" Keymap: 0x12de1 "/NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA" SwappedKeymap: 0x12e0a "No" LoginHook: 0x0 LogoutHook: 0x0 HostName: 0x0 ImageFile: 0x0 DefaultUser: 0x12e41 "me" PowerOffDisabled: 0x0 TimeToDim: 0x12e69 "2040" MoveWhenIdle: 0x12e0a "No" MovementTimeout: 0x12e8b "300.0" MovementRate: 0x12e9e "0.06666" MovementScale: 0x12eb4 "10" [Christopher J. Kane kane@cs.purdue.edu] Under NeXTSTEP 3.1, the login window has two buttons labeled "Reboot" and "Power" that allow a user to reboot and power down from the login window. In a public lab, this feature may be undesirable. The PowerOffDisabled default can be used to disable the buttons, but they are still shown in the window and push in when clicked (a bad user interface decision, IMHO). The program below patches the loginwindow.app to eradicate the restart and power buttons. It makes the loginwindow.app's LoginButton class instance method initWithImage:altImage:andString: a no-op (just return nil). This patch has been applied to the machines in the NeXT lab at Purdue (like sonata.cc.purdue.edu for instance), and no adverse effects have been noted. This program must be run as root, since it writes to the file /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow. An archive with a compiled executable has been submitted to sonata.cc.purdue.edu. -----cut here----------cut here----------cut here----- /* * Patches the loginwindow.app to eradicate the restart and power * buttons from the login window. * * Christopher J. Kane (kane@cs.purdue.edu) * Released into public domain; August 13, 1993. */ #include <libc.h> #include <errno.h> void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned char patch[8] = {0x0, 0x0, 0x42, 0x80, 0x4e, 0x5e, 0x4e, 0x75}; int file = open("/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow", O_WRONLY); if (-1==file) goto error; if (-1==lseek(file, 21170, SEEK_SET)) goto error; if (-1==write(file, patch, 8)) goto error; if (-1==close(file)) goto error; exit(0); error: fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(errno)); exit(1); } ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F17: How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages? M17 is only applicable to NeXTStep 2.x. Beyond looking in the man pages under ixBuild, etc., what you want to do is put a few files (contents listed below file name) the .index directory: .roffArgs: -man displayCommand: tbl %s | nroff -man ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8ln] -V Other options that people suggested for ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8] -V /usr/local/man -fman -Nwhatis -V /usr/local/man/man* I don't think you need to explicitly name the directory in the first alternative, but you do in the second unless you want the cat* directories indexed as well. Note: Do NOT leave a trailing return after the line in ixBuildOptions; DL will barf. (I think someone said that, as shipped, the standard man .index/ ixBuildOptions had this problem.) [From: Eric D. Engstrom <eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com>] Can anyone tell me what the command line for this might be under NS 3.0? Short answer: RTM on ixbuild(1) - specifically the parameter "-g". In addition, I'd like to inform the newsgroup of a simple hack I setup on my own machine to create a unified DL target for all UN*X Manual pages (including system, local, gnu, whatever). This was easier under 2.x because IXBuild (pre IXKit) had more hacks in it... Basically, you need to setup a directory with sym-links to the various man-page directories; For example: (397)basilisk% pwd /LocalLibrary/Documentation/ManPages (398)basilisk% ls -alg total 728 drwxrwxr-x 2 eric wheel 1024 Mar 28 18:03 ./ drwxrwxr-x 11 root wheel 1024 Mar 27 00:41 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 370 Feb 27 22:01 .README -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 872 Feb 27 17:11 .dir.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 20 Feb 27 17:11 .displayCommand -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 47 Feb 27 17:10 .index.iname -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 6 Feb 27 17:10 .index.itype -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 729088 Mar 28 18:44 .index.store -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 5 Feb 27 17:11 .roffArgs lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 18 Feb 27 17:53 gnu -> /usr/local/gnu/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 14 Feb 27 17:53 local -> /usr/local/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 9 Feb 27 17:53 news -> /news/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 35 Feb 27 17:53 system -> /usr/man/@ (399)basilisk% Notice that I also copied all the ".[a-z]*" files from the /usr/man/ directory as well. Then, use ixbuild -gl to (re)build the index. If your any of the links point to directories on other devices, add "d" to "-gl". "-v" will give you verbose output (like my writing style ;-). RTM under ixbuild(1) for more info. Unfortunantly, once the index is built, I've never successfully gotten DL to update it correctly. Instead I have to do it by hand using "ixbuild -ogldvc" (actualy, I setup a cron job to reindex weekly.) If you have troubles, try removing the .index.store file and rebuilding the entire database. I've had intermittent problems with ixbuild under 3.0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F18: Can I automatically have my ~/.signature file appended to mail I send with Mail.app? I want to automatically add additional header lines to mail going out from Mail.app (such as Reply-To or X-faces headers). Can this be done? [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Yes, on both counts. First create a simple text file the following content: #!/bin/sh { if test -r ${HOME}/.add-header; then cat ${HOME}/.add-header; fi cat - if test -r ${HOME}/.signature; then echo "--"; cat ${HOME}/.signature; fi }| /usr/lib/sendmail "$@" A good name for this file would be "sendmail-addheader". If you want to and can install it for system-wide use put this file in e.g. /usr/lib. Otherwise your private ~/Unix/bin directory is also fine. Make certain that this file has execute permission. To set that, use e.g. "chmod 755 /usr/lib/sendmail-addheader". Next, open up the preferences panel in Mail.app. Switch to the expert options. Change the Mailer option from "/usr/lib/sendmail" (which it should originally be) to "/usr/lib/sendmail-addheader" (or whatever the name of the file you created is). OK this and you should be set. From now on your ~/.signature file should always be appended to all mail sent out with Mail.app. In addition if you have a file called add-header in your home-directory it should automatically be prepended to your outgoing mail. To implement a reply-to line, you would simply give it the following content: Reply-to: My Real Human Name <name@my.real.address> IMPORTANT: Make certain that you have one and exactly one newline at the end of ~/.add-header. Anything might break outgoing mail. Beware ! BUG: The ~/.signature file is not added properly for NeXT mail containing attachments. The headers will still be added properly. This could be fixed but probably is more of a hassle than it is worth. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F19: How can I quickly find a file if I don't know it's directory? The Unix 'find' command on the NeXT has the capability of quickly searching a database of all the files. This database is located in /etc/find.codes and has to be generated periodically. You can automatically generate this database, say twice a week at 3:15 a.m., by adding this line to your file /etc/crontab.local (you might have to create this file). 15 03 * * 2,5 root /usr/lib/find/updatedb > /usr/adm/updatedb.err After this has run, you can quickly find any file from a terminal by typing find pattern where pattern is a part of the file name you want (it is case-sensitive). [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Find still works under 3.0, but 'pattern' now has to match the entire filename (including the path) for a match to be recognized i.e. where under 2.x you would have: % find foobar Under 3.0 you: % find '*foobar*' (The "'" are neccessary to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards itself). [From: sanguish@digifix.com] There is also a Find panel in 3.1 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F20: Mail.app suddenly stopped working. When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Usually the problem is caused by Mail.app being terminated with extreme prejudice such as by a power outage or 'kill -9'. Under those circumstances Mail.app may leave a lock file in your active mailbox. Due to a bug 3.0 Mail.app doesn't ask for permission to override this lock when started up again but just dies. Open a shell and look in ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox. If this directory contains a file called .lock you have found the culprit. You can safely remove this file. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F21: For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recyler no longer works? [From: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com (Eric D. Engstrom)] Basically, when you dump a file in the recycler, the workspace manager (attempts) to move it to one of the following locations: (note: no order implied here, 'cause I'm unsure of the actual order used) - $HOME/.NeXT/.NextTrash (Should always exist; unsure what happens if it doesn't) - /tmp/.NextTrash_$USER Automatically created if non-existent) - $MNT-POINT/.NextTrash/$USER (.NextTrash NOT automatically created if non-existent) Also, the workspace requires that the trash directory into which it puts the to-be-deleted file be on the same disk partition that the file originally came from (for speed, I assume). Also, an example of the permissions for the external disk .NextTrash directory (which is not automatically created) should be : (52)basilisk% ls -aldg /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash drwxrwxrwt 3 root 1024 Dec 5 09:36 /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash/ Notes: - /private/mnt2/local is the mount point. - do "chmod 1777 .NextTrash" to get the permissions right. Thus, if you moved your home directory from one partition to another, the one you left may not have a "recycler-repository" to use. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065101.2313@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:51:01 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ G1. What information is there about NEXTSTEP/FIP (For Intel Processors)? G2. Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? G3. Can I delete /odmach or /sdmach and save 700K? G4. NEXTSTEP 2.0 systems report an error on the console: "loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory." Is this a problem? G5. Under NEXTSTEP 2.0 running UUCP and other incoming connections hangs the modem serial line: what can I do? G6. Applications installed in /LocalApps are not being found on my NEXTSTEP 2.0 system. G7. Why can't root login onto client machines? G8. How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? G9. How to make swapfile shrink to the "normal" size? G10. Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.n and 3.n? G11. Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? G12. How to limit coredump sizes? G13. Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.0? G14. What happens to the OD drive in NeXTcubes under NEXTSTEP 3.0? G15. What equipment do I need to load 3.0? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G1. What information is there about NEXTSTEP/FIP (For Intel Processors)? See the separate FAQ files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G2. Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? Release 1.0 contains a bug that can corrupt the kernel /odmach if a user attempts to launch /odmach from the browser. The solution is to copy a clean /odmach from another NeXT system. Be sure to change the permissions of the newly installed /odmach to remove execute permissions to prevent future occurrences of the same problem. Release 1.0a and beyond do not have this problem. It is possible for the sdmach to get corrupted in the same way. Boot from the OD, copy an uncorrupted version of the kernel to the hard disk, and remove the execute bits from sdmach. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G3. Can I delete /odmach or /sdmach and save 700K? Go ahead and delete it if you want. However, you might as well leave it there since sdmach and odmach are links to the same file (i.e. you won't save much space by deleting it). Better to look for random core files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G4. NEXTSTEP 2.0 systems report an error on the console: "loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory." Is this a problem? The netinfo problem is because the /keyboard directory is missing. It's benign... [EPS adds] "But annoying. niutil -create . /keyboard" Fixed in 2.1. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G5. Under NEXTSTEP 2.0 running UUCP and other incoming connections hangs the modem serial line: what can I do? There is a bug in the serial driver which causes getty to get stuck. The situation arises after a successful uucico connection, subsequent connections via modem will get a connection with the modem, but no login prompt. This is caused by getty hanging. A simple work around is to have a process run in cron to reset the getty every 15 minutes: #! /bin/sh -u PIDS=`ps -ax | bm getty | grep -v bm | awk '{print $1}'` kill -TERM $PIDS Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release. This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G6. Applications installed in /LocalApps are not being found on my NEXTSTEP 2.0 system. Workspace has its own internal application path. In 2.0 /LocalApps was omitted. Improv needs to have /LocalApps in the Workspace path if you have Improve installed in /LocalApps. The work around in 2.0 only is: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos (one continuous line! - pasc) This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G7. Why can't root login onto client machines? A number of people have complained about the situation where root can log onto the configuration server, but not its clients. Login proceeds normally, then a window with "Workspace error Internal error (signal 10)" pops up. Other users are not affected. This scenario occurs with NetBooted clients that are not permitted root access to / via the server's /etc/exports file, either via an explicit root= option or [the most heinous] anon=0. For security reasons many sites will NOT want to permit such access. Note that what you're up against is only a Workspace Manager misfeature; there's no problem logging in as root on the real UNIX console, or logging in as a non-root user and then using "su" to obtain root privileges. Root access is needed to: - Log in a root Workspace. - Perform BuildDisk on a client. - Run the GuidedTour demo for the first time subsequent invocations will not autologin, but they will run just fine if you log in as NextTour (no password). It is not required to perform updates on the local NetInfo database, for any normal user operations, nor to run programs requiring root access on the server using -NXHost. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G8. How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? bsd(1,0,0) -a which will then ask you for the drive to use as the root disk, or still easier, bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: In the boot command the name of the bootfile can be replaced by '-'. This is very useful as the length of the bootcommand which can be stored in the permanent memory is very limited. So the only way to eg. increase the number of buffers permanently to 128 in the boot command is to use the following boot command: sd- nbu=128 (sdsdmach nbu=128 would have been too long). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G9. How to make swapfile shrink to the "normal" size? The swapfile is located in /private/vm. The only current way to make it shrink is to reboot the machine. Putting a space after the comma in /etc/swaptab (lowat=###,hiwat=###) makes swapon ignore the hiwat entry. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G10. Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.n and 3.n? Yes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G11. Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? You need an entry in /etc/fstab so the disk will be mounted at boot time, rather than being "automounted" when somebody logs in. Automounted disks are owned by whoever logged in, fstab-mounted disks are owned by root. Something like this: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 (assuming the external disk is to be mounted as /Disk) fstab should be niloaded into the Netinfo database. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G12. How to limit coredump sizes? [dylan@midiline.la.ca.us (Comrade D)]: This will work for apps running from a shell. limit coredumpsize 0 If your dock or workspace apps are dumping core, there's also: dwrite Workspace CoreLimit 0 [or whatever byte limit you want] ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G13. Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.0? Yes, but note that NeXTstep 3.0 will be optimized for the 68040 CPUs. NeXTstep 1.0 and 2.x were optimized for the 68030 CPU, 68882 FPU machines. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G14. What happens to the OD drive in NeXTcubes under NEXTSTEP 3.0? Release 3.0 will work fine with the OD that you have. You cannot buy release 3.0 on optical disk (you can only get it on CD-ROM. Release 3.0 will not require that you drop the optical, but if you want to upgrade to the latest 68040 board (the 33-MHz Turbo), then you lose hardware support for the optical. There is a company which offers hardware (extra CPU boards) and software support solutions for the OD with Turbo NeXTcubes. For more information: Sam Goldberger Spherical Solutions smg@sphersys.net.netcom.com 415-383-7512 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G15. What equipment do I need to load 3.0? A CDrom drive and a means of getting an upgrade-prep app onto your disk. This means having your own floppy drive, being on the net, having someone with a floppy drive put it onto OD, kermitting it over with a serial line... you get the idea. You do not need a special boot ROM for 3.0. [From: Jimmie_Quan@NeXT.COM (Jimmie Quan)] There's actually 3 levels of upgrades. a) For early NeXT Computers, you'll need an external Floppy drive (PLI) and the upgrade-prep floppy disk. b) For 040 machines with ROMs v58-v66, you'll need the upgrade-prep floppy. c) For all 040's with v70-v74 ROM. The CD ROM is directly bootable. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065112.2371@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:51:12 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ H1. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? H2. What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? H3. How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? H4. How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. H5. How do I get banner pages on my printer output? H6. How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? H7. What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? H8. What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? H9. How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? H10. /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? H11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? H12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H1. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? Adding supported postscript printers is rather simple: 1. Get a serial cable (e.g., Macintosh to LaserWriter Plus), but check whether that works with your printer 2. Configure using Print Manager 3. Configure printer communication according to manufacturer's recommendations. (9600 baud software flow control). A sample printcap entry needs to be loaded into the netinfo database. You can use either "niload printcap . < myprintcap", or use NetInfoManager to change the br and lp properties of your LaserJet. Using the default baud rate and /dev/ttya will also work, for most print jobs. LaserJet_III: \ :note=LaserJet_III:ty=HP LaserJet III PostScript: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserJet_III:lp=/dev/ttyfa: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:af=/usr/adm/lp.acct:br=19200:rw:fc#0000374: \ :fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sb:if=/usr/lib/transcript/psif: \ :of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:gf=/usr/lib/transcript/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:tf=/usr/lib/transcript/pstf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/transcript/psrf:vf=/usr/lib/transcript/psvf: \ :cf=/usr/lib/transcript/pscf:df=/usr/lib/transcript/psdf: HP printer configuration: auto cont = off (doesn't matter) I/O = serial serial=rs-232 (for LJ III only) baud rate = 19200 (or whatever baud rate you have in ni database/printcap) robust xon = on (doesn't matter) dtr polarity = hi startpage = off (doesn't matter) language=english ret = med (you choose for LJ III only) Note that if you modify the printcap this way you cannot reconfigure this particular printer entry with PrintManager. If you are using NEXTSTEP 2.0 and you use remote non-next printers, there is a bug that can be simply corrected by doing "dwrite system PrinterResolution 1" for each user trying to access non-next printers on the network. This not a problem in later NEXTSTEP versions. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H2. What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? Properly packaged Type 1 or 3 PostScript fonts will work with NEXTSTEP, but certain conversions may be necessary to get them to work. Freeware and shareware fonts are available on various ftp archives. There are utilities with NEXTSTEP to download fonts into postscript printers. Freeware and shareware Type 1 and 3 fonts in files Fonts-1.0-free.tar.Z and Fonts-2.0-sw.tar.Z. Each file unpacks into it's own directory. Within each directory is a ReadMe.rtf and a Makefile. See the ReadMe.rtf for more font descriptions and installation instructions. (You may also find comments in the Makefile of interest.) These packages were prepared by Doug Brenner <dbrenner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>. The same directory contains fonts Shalom (Hebrew and Yiddish in Old Style, Stick and Script typefaces, by Jonathan Brecher, shareware) and CyrillicGothic (san serif, by Jay Sekora). These were packaged by Jacob Gore <jacob@gore.com> to work with the Installer application. WSI-Fonts for NEXTSTEP #1 Abstract Software POB 25045 Seattle, WA 98125-1945 Voice: 206 361 5080 info@abstractsoft.com Fonts may be purchased from Adobe (800 USA FONTS) or from The Font Hotline, a new division of RightBrain Software. For more information: RightBrain/The Font Hotline Voice: 415 326 2974 Some fonts in Type 1 format for NEXTSTEP are also available from Y&Y: Y&Y, 106 Indian Hill, Carlisle MA 01741 USA Voice: 800 742 4059 Voice: 508 371 3286 Fax: 508 371 2004 71172,524 on CompuServe 71172.524@compuserve.com from InterNet ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H3. How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? Select PRINT from the main menu, then select SAVE from the resulting print panel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H4. How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. We must recommend against re-using laser printed paper in your printers. The reason is that the toner which is used is not very robust, in that when heated again (which happens when you print) it can come off the other side of the paper. This causes a mess to accumulate in your printer, and probably some pretty rude things to happen. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] psutils from comp.sources.misc is a much better solution, and includes alot more capabilities, plus it is being updated constantly. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H5. How do I get banner pages on my printer output? There is a sample banner prologue file in /usr/lib/NextPrinter that is sent to the printer before or after the print job depending on what printer attributes are set in NetInfo. Sounds gross, but it isn't. Start up NetInfo on your printer machine. Go to the printer directory, and open up your local printer by double clicking it. Select the append property from Directory menu. Replace the name with BannerAfter (or BannerBefore if you want the banner page printed first). The select the New Value option, and put in the name of the banner prologue file. If you do not wish to do fancy customization of the file, simply put the path to the NeXT sample banner file: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/banner.pro Save out the netinfo modifications. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H6. How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? If you are printing to a non-NeXT printer from NeXT TeX using dvips, make sure you specify the correct resolution (300 dpi, usually), either on the command line with -D300, or in the /usr/lib/tex/config.ps file with a line that looks like : D 300 If you are printing from within TeXView, you will have to choose CustomResolution and enter the correct number (300, usually) because of the way DefaultResolution defaults to 0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H7. What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? Many PostScript fonts port to NEXTSTEP with little effort. The easiest case is a font generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above (a comment near the top of the file should say which program generated the font). This version of Fontographer can generate fonts "for NEXTSTEP". This means that no hacking of the font is needed, but you may need to make some adjustments to make it appear in your font panel. Suppose you were porting the font family Shalom, which consists of three faces: Old Style, Stick and Script. Here is the procedure to follow: 1. In a working folder of yours, create folders called: Shalom-OldStyle.font Shalom-Script.font Shalom-Stick.font Note that the font family name is to the left of the hyphen ("-"), and the typeface name is to the right and with no spaces in it. 2. Copy the outline font file for each typeface from wherever it is into its folder, and give it the name of the folder minus the ".font". For example, if you are doing this in a Terminal window: cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.NeXT Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.NeXT Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.NeXT Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick If you are working in Workspace Manager's File Viewer, double-click on the big fat F icon to open the font directory as a folder, then you'll be able to rename files in it. 3. Do the same thing with the font metric files, but make the suffix ".afm": cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.AFM Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.AFM Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.AFM Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick.afm 4. If there is a "read me" file with the font, or any other documentation, copy it into the .font folder too. For example, each of the Shalom font folders contains files ReadMe, CheatSheet.wn and Sample.wn specific to the typeface. 5. Edit the outline and font metric files to make them fit the NeXT AppKit's Font Panel, which is what most NextStep applications use to let you choose your font. a. Editing the outline file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle: The original used "ShalomOldStyle" as the font's name, full name, and family name. We want the name to be "Shalom-OldStyle", the full name "Shalom Old Style", and family name just "Shalom". First, find the lines: /FullName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def /FamilyName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def and change them to /FullName (Shalom Old Style) readonly def /FamilyName (Shalom) readonly def Then, replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". b. Editing the AFM file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm. Find the lines: FullName ShalomOldStyle FamilyName ShalomOldStyle and change them to FullName Shalom Old Style FamilyName Shalom Replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". Repeat this procedure for the remaining typefaces. 6. You now have a font family ready to be installed. If the font family is to be used by your account only, place it in ~/Library/Fonts (creating it if necessary): mkdirs ~/Library/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font ~/Library/Fonts buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts If everybody on your system should have access to this font family, place it (as superuser) in /LocalLibary/Fonts: su mkdirs /LocalLibrary/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font /LocalLibrary/Fonts buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts exit That's all you need to do for fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above. This will work with all applications that use AppKit's FontPanel. FrameMaker does not, so other changes may need to be done to keep FrameMaker happy [does anybody have something to add here?]. Fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or below don't work in Display PostScript as they are, because they use a memory management trick that screws everything up in a multitasking environment like DPS. However, there is a simple, though kludgy, way to make them work. The problematic trick uses a dictionary with a name like "Fog3.1" ("Casa1" in Casady & Green's fonts) in which most of the font resides. The problem is that Fontographer puts that whole dictionary into dictionary 'userdict' and expects it to stay there. DPS, however, clears out 'userdict' between tasks, including the task that loads the font and the task that uses it. This makes the font useless on the screen, and printable only by prepending the outline font file to the file you want to print and sending the result to print in one task. The fix is to move the troublesome dictionary from 'userdict' into the font dictionary itself (unlike 'userdict', the font dictionary does stick around between tasks). Perform the following changes in the outline font file (the font CyrillicGothic is used as the example): 1. Find the line "%%EndProlog". It will be followed by the line like this: /$CyrillicGothic 23 dict def $CyrillicGothic begin Write down the number before 'dict' (in this case, 23). You will need it in the following step. Delete the dict definition, making the line look like this: $CyrillicGothic begin 2. Go back to the beginning of the file. near the top of the font program, find the following lines: userdict/Fog3.1 known{{currentfile( )readstring {(%%%)eq{exit}if}{pop exit}ifelse}loop}if userdict begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin and replace them with these: /$CyrillicGothic 24 dict def $CyrillicGothic begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin The number before 'dict' (in this case, 24) is one greater than the number you wrote down in the previous step. 3. Find the line that defines procedure BuildChar: /BuildChar{Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec}def and change it as follows: /BuildChar{1 index begin Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec end}def 4. Go to the end of the file. The last line looks like this: /CyrillicGothic findfont/EFN get Fog3.1 begin{RF}forall end Delete it (or comment it out by placing one or more "%" in the beginning of it). The AFM file requires one adjustment. Change the line EncodingScheme AppleStandard to EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding This concludes conversion of a font generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or lower to work with NEXTSTEP. You may still need to make the changes described for version 3.2 and above, to make the font fit the NEXTSTEP font panel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H8. What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? The (no longer sold) NeXT/Canon SCSI color printer, of course! [heinz.in-berlin.de]: With Dots Color, the HP DeskJet 500C can print in color *today*, under NEXTSTEP 2.1, and it costs significantly less than $1000 (in Germany at least). You can get more information from d'ART Software GmbH Virchowstr. 17-19 W-2000 Hamburg 50 Germany Voice: +49 40 380 23 0 Fax: +49 40 380 23 290 software@dart.de ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H9. How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? Add "NXPaperType A4" in the "GLOBAL" preferences. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H10. /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? [Richard Tilley writes:] Using lpr -t, or lpr -d causes this problem. eg: [...] cat /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf [...] Christopher Lane <lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> has pointed out 3 (three!) errors in the distributed NEXTSTEP 3.0 lpd.comm file The last change is my own. It worked for the 1 (one!) dvi file I tried. tilley%diff lpd.comm.DIST lpd.comm 11,12c11,12 < while "x$1" != x do < case "$1" in --- > while test $# != 0 > do case "$1" in 16c16 < -h) HOST=$"; shift;; --- > -h) HOST=$2; shift;; 17a18 > esac 21c22 < PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p $PRINTER -n $USER -h HOST -f -" --- > PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p $PRINTER -n $USER -h $HOST -f -" 27c28 < psdf) psbad $FILTER $PRINTER $USER $HOST | $PRSERVER;; --- > psdf) dvips -f -D 400 -r | $PRSERVER ;; ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? [From: Dr. T. L. Marchioro II <tlm@tantalus.scl.ameslab.gov>] If you upgrade to a 600 dpi laserwriter then the version of TeX that ships with NEXTSTEP (either 2.X or 3.0) does not know about 600 dpi fonts, i.e. does not know how to make them and will instead use scaled 400 dpi ones (which look significantly worse at 600 dpi than they do at 400 dpi). Some simple modifications to a few Metafont files and rebuilding the metafont bases are all that is needed. What to do to get the 600 dpi stuff working is as follows: 1. Edit /usr/lib/mf/inputs/next.mf and add a laserjetIV mode. Simply copy the entire imagen mode, change the name to laserjetIV, and change the pixels_per_inch to 600. Save the changed file. 2. Build a new mf.base file by executing the following commands: inimf "plain; input next; dump" (as superuser): cp plain.base /usr/lib/mf/bases/mf.base 3. Edit /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps and change the `D 400' line to `D 600' (you may have `D 300' or something else if you've set up a different printer.) 4. Edit /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK (as superuser), adding the lines elif test $BDPI = 600 then MODE=laserjetIV right before the second `else' in the file. That should do it! You might have to (depending on how you configure NEXTSTEP for the LaserJet IV) select `custom resolution' and set the gadget to 600 in the TeXview print panel, and save Preferences. These instructions are written for an HP Laserjet IV, but they should also work for a QMS printer just fine. Finally, if you have one of these printers and work in a "mixed" environment with perhaps 400 dpi and/or 300 dpi printers that you also print to on a regular basis then you might want to consider getting Type 1 PS version of the Computer Modern fonts instead. They obviate the need for the instructions above, and the savings in disc space will be considerable since having printer fonts for several printers takes lots of room, and the file sizes for 600 dpi are quite large (the files grow roughly as D logD, where D is the resolution). These fonts are made by Blue Sky Research, and work beautifully. Y & Y software is a reseller for BSR and sells a "NEXTSTEP specific" version of them which comes with appropriate instructions and installation scripts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? [From: peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis)] Adobe has a mail server and ftp site where you can get .PPD files. They are: ps-file-server@adobe.com (put "send help" in the mail body) and ftp.mv.us.adobe.com respectively. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065123.2430@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:51:23 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ I1. Where can I obtain the most recent version of Kermit? I2. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of SLIP or PPP? I3. Where can I obtain a version of Larry Wall's patch for NEXTSTEP? I4. Where can I get a NEXTSTEP Usenet reader? I5. Where can I get plotting software? I6. Where can I get objective-c mode for emacs? I7. Is there a backup utility for multi-volume dumps (gnu tar)? I8. What are these ".z" files which appear all over the archives ? Should I just rename them to ".Z" so that compress can uncompress them ? I9. How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? I10. How do I change the Workspace compression app? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I1. Where can I obtain the most recent version of Kermit? The source for the latest version is available via ftp from: cs.dartmouth.edu kermit/sw. Get the file ckaaaa.hlp to get started and see what files are required. Note that this version of Kermit does have a NEXTSTEP specific compile option. Kermit can also be found on... The Purdue archive: pub/next/2.0-release/source/ pub/next/2.0-release/binaries/ The Oregon archive: pub/next/sources/comm/ pub/next/binaries/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I2. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of SLIP or PPP? The free version of SLIP available from purdue was written by Louis Mamakos and is an excellent implementation. Basic SLIP is free, but VJ TCP header compression requires a license which is available inexpensively from Mr Mamakos. Morning Star Technologies offers a commercial version. For more information: email: marketing@morningstar.com ftp: ftp.morningstar.com (anonymous FTP archive of docs & literature) phone: +1 614 451 1883, +1 800 558 7827. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Louis is not currently shipping an Intel version, although hopefully soon. Morningstar PPP is now available for Intel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I3. Where can I obtain a version of Larry Wall's patch for NEXTSTEP? Patch is a utility that allows people to distribute updates to sources without resending the whole packages. This is done by detecting changes between the last release and the new one and creating a file of differences to each source file in the release. Patches need to be applied sequentially. The distribution can be found on the Purdue NeXT archives. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I4. Where can I get a NEXTSTEP Usenet reader? By far the most versatile NEXTSTEP-specific newsreader application is NewsGrazer by Jayson Adams, formerly of NeXT. It is on the archive servers. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] NewsGrazer is not available as an MAB. NewsGrazer Pro will be released this fall as a commercial product. Many non-NEXTSTEP-specific newsreaders have been ported to the NEXTSTEP environment providing the flexibility and familiarity existing on other platforms. Most of these may be obtained via anonymouse ftp: ftp.uu.net:~ftp/news ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I5. Where can I get plotting software? nxyplot by Tom Pulliam is available from cs.orst.edu graph is available in source form from 4.3BSD systems. It is useful for dealing with pairs of numbers that need to be viewed. psplot comes with NEXTSTEP, it takes the output of the graph program and generates a .ps file that can be previewed with Preview or Yap. gnuplot is available from prep.ai.mit.edu. Very useful patches for gnuplot are available from Purdue which allow it to open NEXTSTEP windows and output its graphs on them. jsplot clone of graph that generates ps files directly. plplot is a library of c routines that generate 2D, 3D and contour plots. It is available on purdue archive, plplot.tar.Z contains the source, and NXplplot.tar.Z contains the library, example programs and documentation. Mathematica The ReadList command will bring in files containing sample values and produces a plot on the fly. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I6. Where can I get objective-c mode for emacs? You can get ObjC mode for Emacs, by Douglas Worthington and Kenneth Persson from cs.orst.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I7. Is there a backup utility for multi-volume dumps (gnu tar)? GNU tar has a number of features not found in the tar delivered with NEXTSTEP, and in some cases it may be a better choice for backups than rdump and rrestore. The NEXTSTEP supplied rdump/rrestore don't work when using multiple volumes to non-NEXTSTEP systems (see the man page for rdump/rrestore). GNU tar will also allow a dump of a portion of a file system as well as an entire file system. Other useful features of GNU tar include: incremental dump capability like BSD dump/restore, scripts for backing up heterogeneous workstations across the network automatically, multivolume tape and floppy disk support (it can't do multivolume compressed unfortunately), long filename support, and scripts for integrating floppy disks into a three level backup scheme. Source and binary for NEXTSTEP is available on the purdue and orst archives in tar-1.10.tar.Z. [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] GNU tar 1.10 (which lacks many bugs which 1.11 introduced) is also shipped with NEXTSTEP 3.0. Just look in /usr/bin/gnutar. An inexpensive commercial application for backup to DAT and SCSI tape is available from Impact Software publishing. The app automatically configures your tape drive and gives a NEXTSTEP browser interface for selecting files to save or restore. The program is distributed electronically, and a demo version can be obtained from nova.cc.purdue.edu or sonata.cc.purdue.edu under the pathname: /pub/next/2.0-release/demos/enTar1.4.tar.Z [From: sanguish@digifix.com] SafetyNet. It is commerical, but an excellent app. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I8. What are these ".z" files which appear all over the archives ? Should I just rename them to ".Z" so that compress can uncompress them ? [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] These files were created with GNU gzip. Gzip is a replacement for compress which achieves about 30% better compression rates and uncompresses faster. Gzip can also uncompress ".Z" file. Unfortunately compress can not uncompress ".z" files, so you will have to get and compile gzip on your machine before you can read any ".z" files. Gzip is available via anon ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu and should configure, compile and install without problem on any NEXTSTEP system. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Needs to be updated to address the .gz file change. There are also precompiled MAB versions of gzip available on cs.orst.edu. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I9. How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? [From: sanguish@digifix.com] .compressed files have been compressed in the Workspace Manager. Basically, they are just .tar.Z files. Even single files are tarred as well as compressed. There are several methods of decompressing these files. -They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and Selecting uncompress from the file menu. -They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and bringing up the Workspace Inspector. (You can double click to get there faster) -You can rename them to be .tar.Z and handle them the way you do them. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I10. How do I change the Workspace compression app? [Stephen Peters <SPETERS.93Aug23144549@samsun.us.oracle.com>] You can change the tools that the Workspace uses to create and read its .compressed files by using, for example: Workspace compress /usr/bin/gzip Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip Workspace AlwaysTarForCompress YES ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065130.2488@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:51:30 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ J0. How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? J1. How do I start an official NeXT User Group? J2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? J3. Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J0. How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? NeXT, Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Voice: 800-848-NeXT (Redwood City #) Voice: (415)-366-0900 NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: 81-44-549-5295 Fax: 81-44-549-5462 NeXT Europe Stockholm: 46-7-068-8930 Netherlands: 31-20-653-0333 Denmark: 45-45-41-2200 London: 44-81-565-0005 Italy/Milan: 39-2-95302510 Munich: 49-89-996-5310 Paris: (331) 46-45-1414 Japan: 81-44-549-5555 Note: numbers abroad are listed with the country codes first. You will need to dial the international access number of your long distance carrier before proceeding to dialing the country code, area code and phone number. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J1. How do I start an official NeXT User Group? To start a user group, just send email to "user_groups@next.com". ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. NEXTSTEP: cs.orst.edu nova.cc.purdue.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu umd5.umd.edu ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J3. Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? NeXT T-shirts Classic NeXT logo on front $6.95 each (S-XL) 3.1 NEXTSTEP logo on front $7.95 each (M-XXL) NeXT Pencils $20.30 box of 100 NeXT Cross Pen $21.15 each NeXT Decals $75.00 box of 100 NeXT T-shirt $ 5.65 each - sizes S, M, L, XL (pre-shrunk) Turtle Neck $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Glass Mug $ 1.70 each Leather Folder $54.50 each NeXT Sweatshirt $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Tote-bag $ 6.25 each NeXT Mouse pad $ 9.67 each Orders can be taken 24 hours a day for domestic and overseas orders Contact: Hermann Marketing 1400 North Price Road St. Louis, MO 63132-2308 Phone: 1 800 972 1331, 314 432 1800 Fax: 314 432 1818 Method of payment: Purchase order, check, money order, or credit card ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: Nathan Janette nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065204.2558@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:52:04 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ K0. Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? K1. Where to obtain hardware service? K2. What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K0. Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? NeXT discontinued manufacturing hardware in Feb, 1993. Used systems are often advertized in comp.sys.next.marketplace. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K1. Where to obtain hardware service? [Jeff Hite jeffh@ludwig.cc.uoregon.edu] USA hardware service has been purchased by Bell Atlantic. They will be supporting the Authorized Service Centers and are selling extended warranty contracts. Bell Atlantic Computing Technology Services Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K2. What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? There are two packagings: a cube, and a station. NeXTcube systems: 1. 68030-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXT Computer) 2. 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube) 3. 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube Turbo) 4. NeXTdimension board adds 32-bit color (i860) to any of above systems Cube systems can use any of the boards. With hacks, multiple independent CPU boards can run in one cube. NeXT Computer systems have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive(s) in either position. NeXTcube systems also have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive in the lower position, but have additional mounting holes for 1/2-height devices, and have a floppy slot at the top position. NeXTstation systems: 1. 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation) 2. 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation Turbo) 1. 68040-25 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color) 2. 68040-33 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color Turbo) NeXTstation systems have room for two 1/2-height 3.5" devices, with a floppy slot at the side. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065239.2617@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:52:39 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ L1. What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? L2. Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? L3. Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? L4. How many colors can NeXT machines display? L5. Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? L6. Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? L7. Where to obtain extra batteries? L8. How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L1. What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? The fan on older 030 NeXTs cubes sucks air out of the back of the cube which means that it draws unfiltered air in through the optical disk on the front of the cube. This causes optical disks to succumb to dust must sooner than cubes with the new-style fan which turns in the opposite direction. NeXT has apparently reversed their decision regarding fan reversal in the case of machines that have been upgraded to 040 processor boards. It is now considered okay to reverse the direction of fans in these machines. If you have many third-party cards installed in your cube or an older processor board, you may wish to consider not reversing fan direction (overheating could become a problem). In any case, do not reverse the fan's polarity, only reverse the fan assembly itself. Perhaps the best solution is obtain the cleaning kit and OD filter from NeXT. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L2. Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? The SONY MPX-111N internal 2.88 MB floppy drive which was shipped with all the 68040 NeXT machines is *not* a SCSI device, therefore there is no way of connecting that particular drive internally on a 68030 system. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L3. Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? A big problem with the Canon optical drives is that air flows through the drive to cool it. Dust accumulates inside the drive causing it to fail with the continuous spin-up spin-down syndrome. NeXT as part of it's 040 upgrades provided a dust filter to prevent this. If your drive has this problem it usually can be fixed simply by cleaning out dust from the drive. NeXT sold a cleaning kit for both the drives and the optical disks. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L4. How many colors can NeXT machines display? The monochrome machines can display 4 gray levels. You can use color apps on a monochrome machine, they will converted into monochrome images and dithered accordingly. Color NeXTstations can combine 4 bits of red, green and blue primaries for a total of 4096 "pure" colors. The imaging functions dither the image to produce intermediate colors. NeXTdimension can combine 8 bits of red, green and blue for 16,777,216. There are not 16 million points on the display so all can not be displayed at once. Further display technology limits the usable color space. None of the NeXT products support color look up tables where the user can define their own color palette on a per window basis. This feature is useful for displaying images which have adaptive lookup tables, and display pure grayscale images on the color NeXTstation. On the NeXTdimension images can be converted to full 24 bit representation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L5. Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? There is a bug with the window system in which if you select the monochrome display as your primary display the server will be much much slower. The solution for those wishing to use both displays is to select the color (NeXTdimension) display as the primary display. The most optimal configuration at present with the NeXTdimension is to run only the color display. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L6. Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? [jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu] For those who have need of a new button in their mouse, and don't want to pay for the whole mouse when it is only the button that has gone bad, we have recently discovered a satisfactory replacement for the Omron switch. It is in the Digikey catalog, # 931, Jan-Feb 1993, page 141, under Cherry switches D4, DG, and DH series. Digikey part # CH164-ND, Cherry part # DG1C-B1AA. We ordered one of these, and just received it today. Tried it out, and it sems to be working flawlessly so far. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L7. Where to obtain extra batteries? Battery part number: BR 2/3A 3V Lithium Battery (Panasonic) Source: Engineered Assemblies & Components Corporation 5204 Green's Dairy Road Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: 919-790-9700 (ask for Debra) Price: $16.71 for 2 batteries incl. shipping & C.O.D. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L8. How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? [From: Brad_Sime@NeXT.COM (Brad Sime)] If ADB equipment are used with older NeXT systems they won't work properly. Here are the ADB requiments: a) A Turbo computer. b) CPU eprom version 74. c) New revision computer to soundbox/monitor cable. The part number is molded at both ends of the connector: Cable NEW OLD (Non ADB) NeXTcube 4534 150 NeXTstation 4535 1532 NeXTstation color 4536 2286 d) New revision monitor which uses a vertical scan rate of 72hz instead of 68hz, except on NeXTdimension systems color monitor stays 68hz. Monitor NEW (72hz) OLD (68hz) 17" mono ACX (N4000b) AAA (N4000a & N4000) 17" color ADF (N4006) ABG (N4001) 21" color ADB (N4005a) ABH (N4005) e) ADB soundbox for color sytems. S/N prefix ADD instead of ABN. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065317.2675@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:53:17 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ M1. What disk drives will work with the NeXT? M2. How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? M3. How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? M4. Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? M5. How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? M6. What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? M7. How do mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? M8. What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? M9. What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? M10. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? M11. What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? M12. What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? M13. How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? M15. What fax modems will work with the NeXT? M16. How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? M17. What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? M18. How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? M19. What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? M20. Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? M21. How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? M22. Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? M23. How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? M24. How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? M25. My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M1. What disk drives will work with the NeXT? Most SCSI disk drives will work without modifying /etc/disktab. There are problems with the installation of boot blocks and badly formed fstab generated by BuildDisk of NEXTSTEP 2.0. A disk connected to the NeXT will need to have a NeXT specific label written to it before it can be properly recognized by the system. If you get an error message "Invalid Label..." this indicates that the drive was successfully seen by the NeXT machine but it does not have the proper label, to install a label use the /usr/etc/disk program on the raw disk device that the system assigned to the device and use the label command to write the label onto the disk. [how the NeXT assigns disk devices is explained in the N&SA manual] NEXTSTEP releases 2.0 and up provide a low level disk formatter, sdform, which does not offer much flexibility, but gets the job done. Most drives are already formatted at the factory. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M2. How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? The BuildDisk application is extremely limited in terms of the types of disks configuration it knows how to build. Essentially it "knows" about swapdisks, optical disks, 330 and 660 MB SCSI disks. If you wish to do custom configurations you should look at existing BLD script files in /etc/BLD.* There is a script which you can use to specify which BLD script you are using, which disktab entry, and other useful parameters in /usr/etc/builddisk Some things to note: - the fstab installed on the target disk is specified in the newclient command in the BLD script. standard fstabs are extracted from /usr/template/client/fstab.* - the BLD scripts do not put down a new boot block on the scsi disk, you may want to install one by hand using the /usr/etc/disk program. - some disks boot fine but NeXTstep comes up with a blank window and no login window. This is due sometimes to forgetting to install an accessible /NextLibrary/{Fonts,Sounds} In general you need quite a lot of things to make a bootable disk. Mike Carlton adds - you can build a minimally usable bootable floppy (for crash recovery purposes). There is a modified version of builddisk (to make it support building floppies, a minimal change) and a BLD script to build the boot floppy available at cs.orst.edu in next/sources/Bootfloppy.tar.Z. (I put this together in response to several requests.) A newer version of Bootfloppy for 2.1 is on the archives as next/sources/util/Bootfloppy2.1.tar.Z [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Also available from the archives is BootFloopy 3.0 (for -- you guessed it -- NEXTSTEP 3.0). I might also add that one can improve on disk usage while enhancing functionality. BuildDisk (which is used by the various BootFloppy scripts) just copies the standard binaries for ls, mv, cp aso. from /bin. These binaries are statically linked as shipped by NeXT which makes them huge. (e.g. /bin/ls is 106496 bytes large. /usr/local/bin/gls with more features is just 16268 bytes). If you replace these binaries by the BSD or GNU equivalents you can save several hundred kBytes on your boot floppy. This extra diskspace can be used for tar, dump and more tools which makes the boot floppy actually usable. Tested. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M3. How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? [From: Rex Pruess (rpruess@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu)] Let's assume you bought a disk drive advertised with 400 MB unformatted capacity. Vendors are not consistent with the MB definition. You may have much less space less than you think you have. Which of the following did you buy? 400 * 1000 * 1000 = 400,000,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1000 = 409,600,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1024 = 419,430,400 bytes The disk must be formatted. This is often done by the vendor, but occasionally by the user. Formatting maps the disk into sectors. Space is reserved for the disk geometry and bad sectors. Formatting can take 10-20% of the capacity depending on the sector size. Common sector sizes are 512 and 1024. Generally, bigger sectors mean less waste. Once formatted, the UNIX file system must be created. On the NeXT, this is one of the steps performed by the BuildDisk application. It invokes the mkfs command to make a file system. This reserves space for the UNIX file system (e.g., superblocks, inode tables). This overhead can take another 2-3% of the available disk space. If you issue the df command, you may be surprised to see another 10% the available disk space has disappeared. The df command shows the total, used, and available disk space. The df units are in kbytes (1024 bytes). The sum of the used and available numbers will generally be about 10% less than the total kbytes. This space is reserved to allow the UNIX file system to be efficient in its storage allocation. If your disk fills up, only the superuser can store files in the remaining 10%. To complete the picture, here's a snapshot of what may occur: Capacity Lost/Used/Reserved Reason (in bytes) (in bytes) 419,430,000 19,430,000 Marketing hype (~5%) 400,000,000 60,000,000 Formatting (~15%) 340,000,000 6,800,000 UNIX file system (~2%) 333,200,000 33,320,000 Efficiency & superuser (~10%) 299,880,000 For more information, refer to the df and mkfs man pages. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M4. Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? Quick answer is: No. The reason is that the NeXT does not support synchronous transfers from the SCSI bus. It does support SCSI-2 disks running in asynchronous mode, which all SCSI-2 disks must do. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M5. How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? It has been reported that HP drives fail to autoboot on power on or while other devices are on the scsi bus. The problem seems to be with drives configured to spin-up automatically on power on do not get recognized at boot time. To remedy this problem reliably with HP 660Mb (HP97548) and 1Gbyte (HP 97549) drives remove the auto spinup jumper on the back of the drive. Looking at the disk from the back with the power connector on the lower left, it is the sixth jumper. [From: Jimmie_Quan@NeXT.COM (Jimmie Quan)] The offical fix was an EPROM change to the HP drive from HP. The HP drives took too long to wait up, so the system wasn't happy with the other drives coming ready first especially when the HP was suppose to be the boot device. (The EPROM is no longer available from NeXT). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M6. What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? See Izumi Ohzawa's note in /pub/next/docs/fujitsu.recipe available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M7. How do mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? If you can't automount an OD, and you can't fix it, you can still manually mount it. Log in as root. Type "/usr/etc/mount /dev/od0a /FoO". It will ask you to insert the disk. Insert it. It is mounted. This method WILL mount a corrupted OD so you can read its contents. Since it is corrupted, it is not recommended to write to it. You should copy the important files to something else, then reformat it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M8. What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? A USENET survey summary: Apple CD-150 PLI 1035N for NeXT SUN CD-ROM drive (Sony CDU-8012, Rev. 3.1a) NEC 73M and 74 (transfer rates > of 300 KB/sec.) Apple CD-SC (Sony 541-22 mechanism) Chinon CDS-431 (with new drivers) Eclipse CD-ROM from Microtech Toshiba 3201 Toshiba 3301 Toshiba 3401 Toshiba TXM3301E1 Toshiba XM-2200A external DENON DRD-253 external (data only, no music) HP's LaserROM drive (Toshiba XM-3301TA drive in HP's box) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M9. What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? The toner cartridge is a standard EP-S cartridge, the same that fits the HP LaserJet III and some other printers. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Any HP LaserJet II or III will fit. HPLJ4mSI cartridges do NOT fit. Any HP LJII or LJIII paper tray will fit. IIISI and 4 trays will not. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M10. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? If you plan to connect an HP LaserJet (II, IIP, III, etc.) you need to make a special cable in order for the NeXT 040 and HP to get the hardware handshaking correct. This is true for whatever version of the OS you are running. NeXT 68040 to HP LaserJet III Cable (not a Null-modem cable): Mini-Din HP DB-25 1 (DTR) nc 2 (DCD) 4 (RTS) 3 (TXD) 3 (RXD) 4 (GND) 7 (GND) 5 (RXD) 2 (TXD) 6 (RTS) 5 (CTS) 7 (RTXC) nc 8 (CTS) 20 (DTR) You may want to use hardware flow control for reliability (ie /dev/ttyfa). If you have problems with other printers, check the cable pinouts in the printer's manual against the one recommended in the zs man-page! Refer to Chapter 13 in Network and System Administration. See the FAQ-NEXTSTEP-Printing for software config FAQs. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M11. What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? The NeXT 400dpi printer powers up every time you boot up when the print daemon is started (/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd in /etc/rc). Apart from not running the daemon at boot time (commenting it out and having to run it by hand later), you can add the following lines to /etc/rc.local: if [ -f /usr/etc/nppower ]; then sleep 3 /usr/etc/nppower off (echo 'powering off NeXTprinter') >/dev/console fi Once you queue a print job the printer daemon will automatically power up the NeXT printer for you. The printer daemon will not automatically power off the machine after a print job, you will need to turn off the printer by typing /usr/etc/nppower off. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M12. What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? Some NeXT owners use the RadioShack (Realistic) Tie Clip Microphone ($19.95) cat 33-1052. NeXT Computer, Inc. uses the "Sony Electret Condenser Microphone ECM-K7" in-house (available for ~$60). Some use Sony Tie-Clip microphone, #ECM-144, which costs around $40. Others have successfully used a WalMart brand microphone (available for ~$6). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M13. How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? Previously, we suggested that people use Mac modem cables; however, it has come to our attention that there is no one standard Mac modem cable. Since correct modem operation on a NeXT depends upon a correctly wired modem cable, buying a Mac cable is not a good idea. Some Mac cables do not allow dial-in and no Mac cable allows the use of hardware flow control. For these reasons, we are recommending that only cables that meet NeXT specifications be used. [however, if you have a Mac modem cable lying around and don't care about dial-in or hardware flow control, then by all means....] These cables are available commercially from NextConnection, and from Computer Cables and Devices, or can be custom built. Note that no off- the-shelf Mac cable will allow hardware flow control. It is however possible to make a such a cable from an Imagewriter II cable by replacing one of the mini-8 ends with a DB-25 connector. Hardware flow control is absolutely essential for all serial port connections with speeds of 9600 bps and above. Make certain that you cable supports it, your modem is configured to use it and you are using the hardware flowcontrol devices /dev/cuf[ab], /dev/ttydf[ab] and /dev/ttyf[ab], respectively. Most people use tip or kermit to control the modem. SLIP and/or UUCP may also be used (but are more complicated to set up and require the remote machine to also have SLIP and/or UUCP (respectively)). The 2.0 Network and System Administration Manual, which is available in hard-copy (shipped with each machine) contains an extensive description of how to use modems with the NeXT machine. Additionally NeXT in their TechSupportNotes series called SerialPortDoc.wn and UUCP for 1.0/1.0a systems . This document is available from most FTP sites that carry NextAnswers. Also, try to obtain the about.modem.Z file by Mark Adler in the pub/next/lore directory on sonata.cc.purdue.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? Yes. This cable is the same as the one used by Sun SparcStations and DecStation 5000's (but not DecStation 3100's which use 68-pin micro rather than the 50pin micro connector used on NeXT 040, Suns and DecStation 5000). [Carl Lowenstein adds] The implication that a Sun SparcStation cable can be used with NeXT peripherals is generally false. NeXT themselves, and DEC, and nearly everyone else who makes SCSI peripherals, puts Telco-50 (centronics) connectors on their devices. Sun in their infinite wisdom uses DD50 which are quite different. Telco-50 is an approved connector type in the SCSI spec. Probably the original point was that the 50-pin microSCSI on the NeXT and Sun and some DecStations was different from the 68-pin microSCSI on the DecStation 5000. But this does not address the other end of the cable. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M15. What fax modems will work with the NeXT? The following fax modems are currently available for the NeXT Computer: Manufacturer, Model Supplier, Phone Avail. Type ---------------------------------------------------------------- DoveFax for NeXT, Dove Computer, ??? Now Class 1 HSD FaxMaster, HSD Microcomputer, 800-828-5522 Now Class 2* mix fax, i·link GmbH, +49 30 216 20 48 Now Class 2** [From: Robert Wong <wrob@unixg.ubc.ca>] SupraFAXModem V.32bis, Supra Corp., 1-800-727-3564, Now, Class 2 (requires DFax driver or NXFax driver) ZyXEL U-1496E/E+/S/S+, ZyXEL USA, 1-800-255-4101, Now, Class 2 (requires NXFax driver) Telebit T3000 with fax option / Telebit WorldBlazer with fax option (requires NXFax driver) Neuron 1414 / 1414+ with ZyXEL ROM upgrade (requires NXFax driver) (Neuron 1414 and Neuron 1414+ modems are relabelled ZyXEL modems. Contact ZyXEL USA for ROM upgrades. Neuron modems with 512K ROMs should upgrade their ROMs and ROM sockets to 1 Mb ROMs. People with 1Mb ROMs should just order the new ROMs.) (*)Note that the Class 2 is not yet approved; it is still out for ballot, after having failed in an October 1990 round. The Abaton InterFax 24/96 NX driver supports Class 2 as it was in that draft; there are expected to be very few changes prior to approval. (**)Note that mix fax works with both the October 1990 and October 1991 draft versions of Class 2, especially with the NeXT supplied Class 2 modem driver. Upgrading to an approved version of Class 2 would be a matter of just a software update (holds true for any forthcoming (class 3?) standard, for that matter). In order to use a fax modem with the NeXT Computer, a NeXT compatible fax driver must be available to operate the modem. Modem control procedures may be proprietary or conform to one of the following EIA/TIA standards: Class 1: CCITT T.30 session management and CCITT T.4 image data handling are controlled by the driver. Class 2*: CCITT T.30 session management and image data transport are handled by the modem. CCITT T.4 image data preparation and interpretation are controlled by the driver. Release 2.0 of the NeXT system software includes a Class 2 modem driver which will work with any fax modem which meets the EIA/TIA Asynchronous Facsimile Control standard. Other fax modems must supply a NeXT compatible driver. The following are notes by Alan Marcum of NeXT Tech Support concerning the Class 2 modem driver: Note that there's a small bug in 2.0 (fixed in 2.1): a symbolic link is missing for the file Class2_Fax_Modem_Driver in /usr/lib/NextPrinter. The simple fix: create the link; it should reference Interfax_Fax_Modem_Driver, also in the /usr/lib/NextPrinter directory. An alternative workaround for Class 2, especially useful for novices: just use InterFax as the modem type in PrintManager, rather than Class 2*. After installing a fax modem using PrintManager one must repeat setting things in the Fax Options panel in order for them to be stored correctly. In particular, these include the Rings to Answer and Number of Times to Retry. This affects all fax modems being installed. If one uses illegal characters in the Modems Number field in the Fax Options when configuring an InterFax modem then the modem will not answer the phone. Legal characters are digits, spaces, and plus signs (+). This does not affect the Dove modem. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M16. How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? TTYDSP From Yrrid converts the DSP port into an additional serial port. Yrrid Incorporated 507 Monroe St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Voice: 919-968-7858 Fax: 919-968-7856 Email: yrrid@world.std.com Unitnet has a device, the SLAT-1, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Perhipherals, Inc. Voice: 714-546-1100 sales@cpd.com [Jacob Gore adds:] Also, one can use an IP terminal server. In a non-Internet environment, inexpensive terminal servers, which don't control access to the network securely, can be used. If your network is an Internet subnet, you must use a terminal server that controls either: (1) who can log into the terminal server, or (2) which machines the terminal server will access. These tend to be more expensive (around $250/port, but in 8-port increments), but it may be quite economical means of sharing ports among many NeXTs (or other computers) on the network. [Eric P. Scott adds:] Particularly if one has a NeXT network, an Ethernet terminal server may be the way to go. One that supports Linemode Telnet (such as the Xylogics Annex III) will offer the best performance. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M17. What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? There are many possible solutions. For example, here are three: 1) The University of Waterloo [Audio Research Group] uses an old door-stop PC XT clone with two Western Digital cards (WD8003E Ethercard Plus, $250 CDN each; you should be able to get them for under $200 (US$)) running Vance Morrison's PCRoute (available from accuvax.nwu.edu). You will also need a thickwire transceiver and a drop cable (about $300). In addition, you will need Internet addresses for the NeXT and both PC Ethernet cards (and a subnet address). The documentation for PCRoute contains quite a bit of information on the performance of this setup. This solution requires two subnets. There is another program called PCbridge that allows the machines on the thin and thick wires to be part of the same subnet. This product also does packet filtering, so that packets destined to machines on the same side of the net do not cross over. 2) Cabletron sells a MR-2000C Singleport Repeater for $695 that does exactly what you need minus drop cable and transceiver. Their number is (408) 441-9900. 3) The march 1992 INMAC networking and connectivity products catalog lists thicknet to thinnet convertors. Product number Z903071 price $445. Claims full ieee 802.3 comaptibility and diagnostic LED's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M18. How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? A company that is selling both hardware and software to allow you to do this: SES Computing 13206 Jenner Lane Austin, Texas 78729 Voice: (512) 219-9468 (Demo system number) i.link, a european company, has a combined data/fax modem and telephone answering machine. It uses the DSP port and is implemented mainly in software on the DSP with a little bit of hardware to interface to the phone line. i.link GmbH Nollendorfstrasse 11-12 D-1000 Berlin 30 Germany Tel: +49 30 216 20 48 Fax: +49 30 215 82 74 Email: info@ilink.de [From: sanguish@digifix.com] I think Alembec is handling ilink over here. Last it tried the SES number it was disconnected. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M19. What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? The important specs for the color monitor are: Horz Scan Rate: 61 KHz Vertical Scan Rate: 68 Hz Resolution: 1280x1024 (NeXT uses 1120x832) NON-INTERLACED Displays may require alignment to adjust for the scan rate of NeXT machines. Sony GDM-1601 were demonstrated with the NeXT color products. NeXT is not shipping these monitors. Sony no longer makes them, however there is a replacement GDM-1606. The Nanao T560i 17" color display has been used with NeXTstation Color machines, and seems to work well. Some larger NEC displays have also worked. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M20. Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? From NeXT/Bell Atlantic(?): part number S4025. NuData in New Jersey carries 13W3 female to 4 BNC male connectors. The price is about $100. NuData Voice: 908-842-5757 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M21. How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? Uninet has devices, the SLAT-2 and the SLAT-DRV11, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Peripherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 zardoz!sales@ics.uci.edu or uunet!ucivax!zardoz!sales ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M22. Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? Perhaps you've got a (probably fairly long) unshielded serial cable attached to it, with either nothing at the other end or a powered-off device at the other end. EE's call this an antenna. it's probably picking up most of the radio stations in your area, which the serial chip is interpreting as a continuous stream of garbage bytes, which it feeds to getty, which tries to interpret them as login attempts. How do you avoid this problem? - leave the device at the other end switched on (even when it's not transmitting, it will assert a voltage that overrides the noise) - unplug the cable from the next when you're not using it - use 'kill -STOP' & 'kill -CONT' to stop & resume the getty process as needed - buy an adequately shielded serial cable ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M23. How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? [From: Charles William Swiger <infidel@cmu.edu>] I have adjusted several monitors with no problems, but make sure you know what you are doing before opening anything. I expressly disclaim responsibility for any ill results that may occur. In order to adjust NeXT's MegaPixel display (called 'the monitor' hereafter), you'll need (a) the NeXTtool (or a 3mm Allen wrench), (b) a plastic adjustment tool (preferred) or a thin bladed screwdriver, and possibly (c) a Phillips-head screwdriver. (NB: A similar procedure will work for color monitors, but you should either know what you're doing or you'll probably be better off letting a pro deal with it.) Turn off the computer. Disconnect all cables to the monitor. Look at the back of the monitor. There will be 4 screws there; use the NeXTtool (or Allen wrench) to remove them. Remove the plastic back of the monitor and put it out of your way. Reconnect the cables and turn the computer back on. As the machine powers up, examine the back of the monitor. You'll see a metallic box (usually silver, though some are black) surrounding the monitor's vitals. This protects you against the dangerous voltages inside, and also insulates the monitor from electromagnetic noise. On the back of this box are several holes for performing adjustments. There are two focus controls (labeled 'focus' and 'dynamic focus'), a brightness control (labeled 'brightness' or possibly 'black level') and several others that adjust various things like screen size and position. Depending on the exact placement of the controls on the circuit board of your specific monitor, some of these controls may be difficult (or impossible) to adjust from the back. If this is the case, I will describe what's necessary below. Otherwise, adjust the appropriate controls using either an adjustment tool or a screwdriver. Be warned that a screwdriver probably will cause some interesting video effects when it enters the case. Ignore this the best you can, or find a plastic adjustment tool, which is what you *really* should be using anyway. Using a flashlight will help you see into the hole so that you can align the business end of the tool correctly. Focus and position controls are fairly obvious. Adjust them slowly until you're happy with the results. Don't muck with anything you don't need to; the factory settings are usually pretty decent. To correctly adjust the brightness, follow this procedure: Turn the brightness of the monitor all the way down using the keyboard. Adjust the brightness control on the back of the monitor until a barely noticeable picture forms. Then turn the brightness down a little so this picture disappears completely. Check that you can get adequate brightness by using the keyboard to brighten the screen. If the display isn't bright enough, adjust the brightness control on the rear of the monitor high enough so that the monitor display is adequate. Note that you won't be able to dim the screen completely from the keyboard...sorry. Once you're finished, shut down the computer, take off the cables, reattach the back of the monitor, and reconnect the cables. You're done. If the control you need to adjust proves to be difficult, you may need to enter the metal case. This happened on one monitor's focus control and another's brightness. WARNING: THE VOLTAGES INSIDE THE MONITOR'S CASE ARE VERY DANGEROUS, EVEN WHEN THE MONITOR IS OFF. BE VERY CAREFUL, OR YOU CAN SERIOUSLY INJURE OR EVEN KILL YOURSELF. Do not perform the next instructions unless you are confident that you know what you are doing. You'll have to power off the computer again, and disconnect the cables. Looking at the monitor from the back, notice a section of metallic shielding on the right side of the metal box that extends to the picture tube. This is where the flyback transformer is connected. It shields a wire that is charged to about 25,000 V. DO NOT TOUCH THIS WIRE, IT CAN SHOCK YOU THROUGH ITS INSULATION. Being very careful of this, remove the metal case by unscrewing the Philip's head screws that hold the case on. Don't touch the screws that hold the picture tube into the front of the monitor's case. Once you've gotten the metal box off, reconnect the cables. Figure out what control you're going to adjust, and make sure that you can do so without touching anything else inside. Again, *watch out* for the wire that connects to the picture tube on the right side. Power up the computer. I recommend that you use only one hand to make the adjustment, and that your other hand be placed in your pocket (or similar equivalent, if you're wearing clothes lacking pockets). This precaution reduces the chances that you'll make a short circuit between one hand, your heart, and the other hand-- a good idea. Perform the necessary adjustment(s), being very careful not to touch anything inside. Then shut down and reassemble the monitor, following the directions given above. Hopefully, these instructions will prove useful. Once again, please be very careful...I don't want your death and/or injury on my conscience (or a lawsuit, for that matter, either :-) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M24. How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? [Samuel M. Goldberger smg@orb.com] I solved the problem by building a serial cable based upon the pinouts supplied by HP in their manual. Please note that the LJIII cable *does not work*. In particular, pin 1 from the DIN plug must be connected to pin 6 of the DB25. I used 38500 bps on both sides, and the 600 dpi ppd. Emulex offers the NETJet network interface which speaks lpd protocol, unlike the HP unit. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M25. My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? [From: stubbs@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Jerry Stubbs)] It's a small 14 tooth gear in the fuser assembly. I got the part numbers straight and they are :RS1-0132, RS1-0116; $2.31 ea. The first part number is the one we needed, Chenesko recommended the second one as insurance against future failure. The price is right, so why not. I get to the fuser by first removing the three screws under the lid, removing the lid, removing the back door and the outer main case cover. Then remove the fuser assy', remove the covers from the end of the fuser. The gears should now be visible. Remove the clips holding the gear(s)on the shaft. Replace the gear and reassemble everything. The hardest parts to reassemble (for me) were the covers on the end of the fuser. I had a second printer to refer to for the reassembly, if you don't just try to lay things out carefully as you remove them, make notes if neccessary, and try to get the parts ahead of time so you can reassemble the printer the same day. Chenesko Phone: 800 221 3516 ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Aug27.065351.2733@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:53:51 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Aug 27 01:27:51 EDT 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ N1. What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? N2. What is the NeXT SIMM tool? N3. Where can I purchase memory for a NeXT? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N1. What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? References: NeXTanswers' hardware.620, 92_spring_bulletin "Announcing NeXTstation Turbo and NeXTcube Turbo" NeXT Computer (68030-25MHz/68040-25MHz), NeXTcube (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 16 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin low profile SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 64 MB The low-profile vertically mounted 4 MB SIMMs are easier to install in the NeXTcube than the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs because of the small height clearance above the SIMM slots. It is possible to install the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs, but you will be required to slide the CPU board and the center tower in simultaneously. Parity (9-bit) SIMMs can be used in both 68030 and 68040 NeXT machines, but should not be mixed with non-parity SIMMs. Only 68040 boards with ROM levels of 2.2 (v63) and higher can use the parity memory to detect parity errors. [One user adds the following unverified claims:] It is OK to mix parity and non-parity memory, but the system will not boot unattended. Cubes with early boot ROMs will not work with 4 Mb parity ram, unless at least 3 banks are used. The system gives an exception error on power up. The fix is to get a new boot rom from Next. You can pay $30, or you may be able to squawk and get one for free. I have found Next to be pretty responsive, once I find the right person. [Jimmie Quan, NeXT Hardware Service, adds:] The correct version is v66 which was the last or final rev for this series of 040 boards. This version also fixed the problem in the second paragraph. NeXTdimension boards (i860): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) NeXT didn't officially bless the use of 8 MB SIMMs, but they seem to fit and work. NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers below ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 32 MB Faster SIMMS (80 ns) don't make the memory system work any faster than the 100 ns units. NeXTstation Color (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 32 MB NeXTcube Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Color Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers above ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 4 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 70/100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 ,8, 16, 32 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 128 MB For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs: SIMMs rated at 80 or 100 ns will be detected upon powerup and the memory system clock slowed to 100 ns. NeXT manufacturing introduced the new 25 MHz NeXTstation CPU board into production in late June '92. To verify which SIMM type your machine uses, check the system's memory configuration. You can do this by using the ROM monitor©s print memory configuration command m. Start with your machine powered down. Press the Power key to power on. As soon as the message ªTesting system...º disappears, press command-command-tilde (~ on the numeric keyboard). Under these circumstances, this will access the ROM monitor. In the ROM monitor, type m and press return. Turbo-designed boardsÐincluding new 25 MHz NeXTstations and all Turbo systemsÐwill return messages reporting the memory configuration contained in four sockets (sockets 0 -3); old 25 MHz boards will return messages for more than four sockets (usually 8). You can tell a Turbo-designed board, and the accompanying 72 pin, 70 nanosecond SIMMs, by the fact it only reports information for only four sockets. [John Graves, Hardware Engineering, NeXT Computer, Inc. adds] The memory system has programmable memory timing such that the number of processor clocks needed to access a given amount of data can be tailored to the speed of the memory installed. 70 ns memory is just enough faster than 80 ns memory to allow the cpu to access the data with fewer clock cycles. This improves memory system performance. "70 ns" memory is faster than "80 ns" memory in many parameters other than just RAS access time. The faster CAS access time in particular allows the memory system to respond quicker to burst (16 bytes) bus transfers. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N2. What is the NeXT SIMM tool? The tool came with 68040 upgrade kits for NeXTcubes. It really makes removing SIMMs easy. It looks like a dental tool: about six inches long with a 1/2" long head offset at 90 degrees. To remove SIMMs, you slip the head into the hole on one side of the SIMM, rest the head on the SIMM socket next to the SIMM you are pulling, and pivot the tool back, using the simple fulcrum to gently pry the SIMM up about 1/8" from the socket on that side. Repeat on the other side, and the SIMM can be then removed by hand. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N3. Where can I purchase memory for a NeXT? This list contains only a few vendors; prices listed may change and are provided as examples only. There is significant day-to-day fluctuation in prices, especially since the destruction of a factory in Japan in July that manufactured resin used in chips. Prices are currently very high. First Tech Stratum Technologies Austin, TX 800-533-1744 512-258-3570 512-258-3689 (fax) [Prices current as of 11-Jun-93] [A sad reminder of how cheap prices were before the current prices] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 30 4x8-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 127 1x9-80ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 37.50 4x9-80ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 147 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 129 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 260 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 555 1x36-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 147.50 2x36-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 285 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 640 Lifetime Warranty. Marco International 800-621-4668 (Within US/Canada) 303-449-9191 800 447 8448 (CT Office) [Prices current as of 6-May-93] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-80ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 30 4x8-80ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 125 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 135 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 255 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 540 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 580 -70ns 32 Mb SIMM $2300 (no parity) Parity available for some sizes. Lifetime Warranty, toll-free support, 24hr RMA. "NeXT certified". Chip Merchant 9541 Ridgehaven Court San Diego, CA 92123 (800) 426-6375 South Coast Electronics Tustin, CA (800) 289-8801 714-669-9503 Impediment (617) 837-8877 ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
From: elitman@wam.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: UNIX/NeXTSTEP Sysadmin Opening in Baltimore, MD Date: 27 Aug 1993 17:36:28 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25luor$me7@digifix.digifix.com> Progressive Baltimore Investment Firm is looking for a full-time Network & System Administrator. We have a network of predominately NeXTSTEP machines, and a few other UNIX-based systems. Qualified candidates will have experience in (preferably BSD flavored) UNIX Systems Administration and TCP/IP networking. NetInfo, NeXTSTEP, and ORACLE experience are a definite plus. Salaries are commensurate with experience, and are competetive.
From: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Athena founder files petition in Lotus v. Borland Case Date: 27 Aug 1993 17:46:56 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25lvcd$mgg@digifix.digifix.com> David Pollak files Petition for Writ of Mandamas in the Lotus v. Borland Case BOSTON - Today, David Pollak filed a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus in the Lotus Development Company v. Borland International case. Mr. Pollak claims that the latest decision by Judge Keeton grants monopoly control to Lotus over the Lotus Macro Language. This is the first time a court has granted monopoly control over any language to anyone. Pollak claims that this abrogates his rights to free expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. Granting monopoly control over a language or system of communication is like granting Webster's Dictionary the rights to words in the English language and having to pay royalties to Merriam- Webster, Inc. each time those words are used. If the rights to American Sign Language were owned by its creator, he or she could charge each deaf person to use that language. Pollak states, "I use many languages to express myself. Some of these are computer languages. I am frightened by Judge Keeton's decision granting Lotus ownership of a language that I and many others use to express ourselves. That is why I have filed this petition. As we continue moving into the technical age this decision will affect everybody by granting monopolies over the methods that we use to communicate and express ourselves." A writ of Mandamus is an order from a higher court for a lower court to perform or refrain from performing an action. The motion filed seeks to have the District Court review the decision that does not conflict with the First Amendment. David Pollak is an attorney licensed to practice in Rhode Island. He founded Athena Design, Inc. in 1989. Athena Design produces best selling software for computers that run the NEXTSTEP operating system. - 30 -
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Announcing MIX (Multimedia Information Exchange) for NEXTSTEP Date: 27 Aug 1993 20:18:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25m88s$n04@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tyler Janisch Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail: info@alembic.com MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION EXCHANGE (mix) offers complete and seamless integration of NEXTSTEP E-MAIL, TELEPHONE, MODEM, FAX MACHINE and VOICE MAIL on the DSP! NEXTSTEP Intel versions available with DSP card! Englewood Colorado, August 10, 1993 - Introducing a universal telecommunication package for NEXTSTEP over an standard telephone line. Mix software enhances a simple telephone with comfort functions, serves as a freely programmable telephone answering machine with digital recording of announcements and incoming messages, implements a complex tele-information system with acoustic menus, sends and receives fax pages directly from the computer, and exchanges data files with other computers. Mix emulates a comfort telephone, answering machine, fax and data modem while exceeding the possibilities of a combination of standard equipment at the same time. mix operates these communication tools with a combination of hardware and software. The hardware connects mix to the telephone line, thus fulfilling the basic requirements of the different telecommunication services. The functionality of mix is not built into the hardware, rather it is a function of the software within the NeXT computer. The DSP56001 does the necessary signal processing in exchanging audio, fax, and modem data. Tightly integrated into the NeXT system environment, this software closely works together with an advanced user interface, that avoids cryptic key combinations in operation of phone, answering machine, fax machine or modem. THE COMPONENTS OF mix: MIXBOX - the universal telephone connection, connects the DSP port of the NeXT computer to the telephone line, thus setting up the basic requirements for the different functions of the following software modules. MIXPHONE - emulates the dial functions of a regular phone with an intelligent redialling mechanism and the inclusion of a telecommunication notebook. mixphone allows direct dialing out of the mix address book, the NeXT services allow direct dialing from within any other program. MIXCALL - is more than just an answering machine. It is programmable in a graphical way and its functionality adapts effortlessly to the requirements of the user. Functions ranging from a simple telephone answering machine up to a voice mailbox or a menu driven tele-information system can be implemented fast and easily. MIXFAX - is integrated seamlessly into the NeXT system environment as a powerful fax modem. It can send and receive arbitrary documents with high speed directly from the computer in exchange with any group III fax machine worldwide. MIXDATA - the flexible software modem serves as the foundation of the mix modem line. mixdata is compatible to the standard AT command set and may be enhanced in its performance step by step by means of future software updates. Alembic Systems International Ltd. is an international distributor of North American and European software for the NEXTSTEP Operating Environment. Services also available for the development of custom applications, software training courses for a variety of existing packages, and system integration of NEXTSTEP for Intel coupled with Auspex File Servers. -30-
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NCR's Teradata Adaptor for the NEXTSTEP Database Kit Date: 28 Aug 1993 07:59:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25nhab$29k@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Juan Hernandez, NCR Phone: (310) 524-7473 FAX: (310) 524-0020 Email: Juan.Hernandez@ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM NCR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIVISION ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF THE TERADATA ADAPTOR FOR THE NEXT DATABASE KIT EL SEGUNDO, Calif., August 20, 1993 -- NCR Professional Services Division is pleased to announce the latest version of the Database Kit Adaptor for the NEXTSTEP Object-Oriented development environment. With the Teradata Adaptor for the NeXT Database Kit, NEXTSTEP users gain access to the Teradata relational database management system and to the hundreds of gigabytes of data that can be stored in it. The Teradata Adaptor works in conjunction with the NeXT Database Kit, a graphical object-oriented facility that allows the creation and execution of database queries via a "point and click" interface. The adaptor translates data source-independent queries into the specific query function calls for the Terdata Database, submits them, and packages the results into data source-independent objects. Through the use of the adaptor, NEXTSTEP users with no knowledge of the Teradata Database or its syntax requirements can develop object-oriented database applications complete with an easy to use graphical user interface(GUI). The Teradata Adaptor requires an NCR DBC/1012 computer with a LAN connection or an NCR System 3600 computer with Teradata Database support. In addition to the Teradata Adaptor, a suite of lower-level query tools and libraries are included. BTEQ, a command-line oriented SQL query tool is provided to allow sophisticated database users access to the "guts" of a query to perform tuning and administration functions not directly available through the DBKit interface. The FastLoad facility provides a tool for rapidly loading large amounts of data from the NeXT workstation into the Teradata Database, fully utilizing the capability of the Teradata Database engine to distribute work across all the processors in the database server. Also, to allow for more conventional application development, a Call-Level Interface (CLI) library of C subroutine calls is also provided. The Teradata Adaptor for the NeXT Database Kit is available immediately for both the NeXT Motorola-based environment, and for NEXTSTEP running on Intel-based 80486 and Pentium computers. Both single and multiple license packages along with a demo version of the adaptor are available. For more information contact: Juan Hernandez Phone: (310) 524-7473 FAX: (310) 524-0020 Email: Juan.Hernandez@ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM # # # NCR, DBC/1012, System 3600, and Teradata are registered trademarks of NCR Corporation. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark, and NeXT and Database Kit are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Motorola is a registered trademark of Motorola, Inc.
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: INFORMATION: *STONE DESIGN: change of Address* Date: 28 Aug 1993 21:38:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25p1b7$if@digifix.digifix.com> Hey Folks, We've grown, and had to move to a bigger facility; please update your dataPhiles and sbooks accordingly: Stone Design 3725 Rio Grande NW Albuquerque, NM 87107-3041 Phone: (505) 345 4800 Fax : (505) 345 3424 Email: Information: info@stone.com File server: file-server@stone.com Bugs: bugs@stone.com me: andrew@stone.com ftp: ftp.cs.unm.edu in pub/stone
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: R&A SHIPS SysVIPC: SYSTEM V SHARED MEMORY & SEMAPHORE EMULATION FOR NEXTSTEP Date: 29 Aug 1993 21:48:43 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25rm9p$7cf@digifix.digifix.com> R&A SHIPS SysVIPC: SYSTEM V SHARED MEMORY & SEMAPHORE EMULATION FOR NEXTSTEP R&A is in the process of porting the University POSTGRES database system to NEXTSTEP (an announcement will be made within a couple of weeks). In the process of porting POSTGRES to NEXTSTEP we have written a System V shared memory and semaphore emulation. The emulation is not complete (due to system limitations), but we use this emulation succesfully for POSTGRES for example, and most uses will be without problems. SysVIPC has been compiled and tested under NEXTSTEP 3.x. It comes with a set of UNIX man pages. We offer three different licensing possibilities: A 1 CPU MAB license $50 A >1 CPU MAB (site) license $75 A source license $500 If there is much demand for a complete version, we will write a complete implementation. People who buy the current implementation get a free upgrade to a complete implementation if it is written. (Of course, source license owners can try to add the functionality themselves). For more information you can mail to gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl or call/fax to +31 70 3230851. Due to ongoing reconstruction activities, this fax is operational on weekdays only from 9.00 CDT until 21.00 CDT. That is approximately from 3:00 EDT until 15:00 EDT and 0:00 PDT until 12:00 PDT. You can also write to: R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands We prefer e-mail. NeXTmail welcome. gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix and NEXTSTEP.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063436.1723@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194022.10946@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:40:22 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194031.11005@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:40:31 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194041.11063@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:40:41 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063146.1302@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194053.11121@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:40:53 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063156.1362@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194247.11198@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:42:47 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063205.1420@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194356.11274@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:43:56 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063302.1478@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194500.11345@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:45:00 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063338.1536@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194514.11404@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:45:14 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194524.11462@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:45:24 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063427.1665@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194605.11522@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:46:05 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.062953.953@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194644.11644@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:46:44 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063001.1012@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194657.11702@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:46:57 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063038.1070@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194706.11760@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:47:06 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cancel <1993Aug27.063050.1128@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.194717.11819@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:47:17 GMT -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Object Oriented Programmer/Database Specialist Opportunities at SHL (various US locations) Date: 30 Aug 1993 16:45:41 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25totj$chr@digifix.digifix.com> For more information about these exciting opportunities, call or send your resume to: Steve Green - Manager, Human Resources SHL Systemhouse Inc. 885 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York, U.S.A. 10022-4834 Fax: 212-303-5595 E-Mail: Steve_Green@ny.shl.com Systemhouse, a $800 million Systems Integration firm, is recognized as the industry leader in client/server technology. Systemhouse employs over 4,000 people worldwide and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 100 NeXT machines. We are putting together the best NEXTSTEP expertise available. Since November '92 we have hired a core group in New York and Boulder, Colorado. We are executing concepts that others are still only talking about - Reusable Object Library - Standard Certification of Objects - Distributed Development Furthermore we have established an Object Technology Center(OTC) for applied Object Oriented methodologies and development techniques. The OTC in Boulder, is a research and development facility exploring the cutting edge of the relatively new object technology. The charter of the Center is two-fold: to explore and understand all hardware and software related to the object-oriented development industry; and to establish itself as a focal point where companies in diverse verticals markets can join together to leverage OTC's research and experience. The following opportunities exist in various U.S. locations: - Object Oriented Programmers - (Position C201) * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C/SmallTalk) * 2+ years database design and database applications * 5 years UNIX/C application development * 2+ years RDBMS (SYBASE preferred) * 1+ years NeXTSTEP applications development * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD * GUI and Porting experience - Senior Applications Development Engineers - (Position C202) * 5-7 years UNIX/C applications development * Financial trading applications * 1+ years NeXT/NeXTSTEP/AppKit/DBKit/Objective C * Sun, SYBASE/C++ a plus - Software Engineers - (Position C203) * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NeXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT * Strong Objective C or C++ * 3 to 5 years experience - Database Specialists - (Position C204) * 3+ years database design and database applications development (ORACLE/SYBASE preferred) * 3 years UNIX/C application development * 3 years RDBMS experience using an SQL-based RDBMS * 1+ year NeXTSTEP applications a plus * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, Objective C a plus We need bright, enthusiastic experienced people!!! For more information about these exciting opportunities, call or send your resume to: Steve Green - Manager, Human Resources SHL Systemhouse Inc. 885 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York, U.S.A. 10022-4834 Fax: 212-303-5595 E-Mail: Steve_Green@ny.shl.com Please correspond with the proper position number. Systemhouse will only respond to qualified candidates.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: WaNUG Meeting (Washington, D.C. area NeXT User Group - September 8, 1993) Date: 30 Aug 1993 16:46:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25toub$cir@digifix.digifix.com> September 8, 1993 WaNUG Meeting announcement (Washington, D.C. area NeXT User Group) The Wednesday, September 8 WaNUG meeting will be held at LOCATION: MITRE Corp 1820 Dolly Madison Blvd McLean, VA TIME: The meeting begins at 7pm. Hosted by Mike O'Neill. He can be reached at:703-883-7528 or via email at: emo@mitre.org PRESENTATION: TAG, a computer reseller in Virginia, will show NeXTSTEP running on an Intel Express computer with a Pentium processor. Hugh O'Neill President Washington Area NeXTSTEP Users Group (WaNUG) Reply to: honeill@nextsrv1.andi.org (NeXTmail accepted) ANDI Charter Member 571 Coover Road Annapolis, MD 21401 telephone (410) 224-3116
From: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Athena Design Announces Mesa 1.5A Date: 30 Aug 1993 16:47:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25tp0d$cj5@digifix.digifix.com> Boston - Today, Athena Design announced Mesa 1.5A. Mesa 1.5A is Mesa 1.5 with a series of minor bug fixes, but without the ability to execute macros written in the Lotus (r) 1-2-3 (r) Macro Language. Mesa 1.5A is the only officially supported version of Mesa and Athena Design urges all users to upgrade to Mesa 1.5A as soon as possible. The upgrade is free to all Mesa users. Copies of Mesa 1.5A will be available on the archives at cs.orst.edu, ftp.cica.indiana.edu, and athena.com. Users that do not have ftp access can receive Mesa 1.5A via e-mail or by surface mail. Athena Design will mail a set of 1.5A disks to any registered Mesa user who requests them. David Pollak, President, stated, "We reviewed the Lotus v. Borland case with our attorneys. Based on our analysis of the case, Lotus may or may not have a claim against us. We decided to take the safe road and remove the macro compatibility from Mesa." In a separate action, Pollak filed a petition for a Writ of Mandamus in the Lotus v. Borland decision claiming the judge granted Lotus monopoly control over the Lotus Macro Language and that this infringed on Pollak's First Amendment right to freedom of expression. If Pollak prevails, the judge in the case will have to review the decision such that it does not infringe on Pollak's First Amendment Rights. Other Mesa 1.5A changes: A number of minor bugs are fixed More responsive to key-based cursor movement Many new MScript functions Enhanced spreadsheet linking Better control over the Query Inspector Based on customer feedback, the new floating license manager will access license numbers from all prior versions of Mesa, and even accept single user license numbers to allow the creation of single user floating versions of Mesa for small organizations who share one or two copies of Mesa. For more information on obtaining your free upgrade, please send mail to feedback@athena.com. Thanks for your continued support and for making Mesa the best selling NEXTSTEP spreadsheet. -------------------- Lotus and 1-2-3 are registered trademarks of the Lotus Development Corporation.
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Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063436.1723@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063436.1723@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.222929.14453@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:29:29 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063436.1723@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223057.14512@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:30:57 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223116.14569@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:31:16 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063156.1362@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063156.1362@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223241.14641@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:32:41 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063156.1362@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063205.1420@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063205.1420@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223305.14698@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:33:05 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063205.1420@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063302.1478@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063302.1478@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223348.14755@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:33:48 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063302.1478@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063338.1536@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063338.1536@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223400.14812@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:34:00 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063338.1536@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223410.14870@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:34:10 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063038.1070@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063038.1070@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223703.15049@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:37:03 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063038.1070@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063050.1128@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063050.1128@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.223725.15114@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:37:25 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063050.1128@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.224432.15287@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:44:32 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.224448.15352@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 22:44:48 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063415.1607@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194644.11644@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194644.11644@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230442.15559@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:04:42 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194644.11644@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194053.11121@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194053.11121@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230610.15650@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:06:10 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194053.11121@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194247.11198@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194247.11198@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230735.15719@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:07:35 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194247.11198@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194356.11274@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194356.11274@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230749.15776@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:07:49 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194356.11274@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194500.11345@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194500.11345@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230800.15840@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:08:00 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194500.11345@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194514.11404@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194514.11404@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230814.15897@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:08:14 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194514.11404@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194524.11462@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194524.11462@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230824.15954@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:08:24 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194524.11462@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194605.11522@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194605.11522@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230835.16011@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:08:35 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194605.11522@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194022.10946@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194022.10946@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230845.16068@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:08:45 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194022.10946@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194706.11760@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194706.11760@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.230957.16182@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:09:57 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194706.11760@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.231022.16296@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:10:22 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063059.1186@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug30.231032.16354@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:10:32 GMT cancel <1993Aug27.063137.1244@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: DragBook for NEXTSTEP Date: 30 Aug 1993 22:32:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25ud7d$edt@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jason Anthony President, Digital Expressions Inc. 2142 Lynnwood Drive Schenectady, N.Y. 12309-2514 U.S.A. +1 518 347-2463 Voice/Fax Email: DigitalExpressions@andi.org (NeXTmail) Announcing "DragBook" from Digital Expressions Inc. Schenectady New York, August 30, 1993 -- Digital Expressions Inc. is pleased to announce the release of "DragBook", a Workspace utility for NEXTSTEP. DragBook is a scrapbook-like utility which collects all of a user's NEXTSTEP resources such as documents, applications, images, and fonts. Resources are grouped into a series of "palettes", and are accessed in a manner similar to InterfaceBuilder's palette system: by dragging elements out of DragBook's window to their destination. Destinations include other applications which support drag-and-drop, and a special "Pasteboard Well", which copies the resource into the NEXTSTEP pasteboard. "By collecting heterogeneous resources in any manner that the user finds convenient, and allowing them to be accessed with the highly-intuitive drag-and-drop paradigm, DragBook can become the center of your NEXTSTEP experience," says Jason Anthony, President of Digital Expressions Inc. "DragBook resulted from our need for a general-purpose resource organizer which fit in well with the NEXTSTEP environment." DragBook "elements" may be EPS or TIFF images, files, plain-text, rich-text, fonts, ruler-definitions, or sounds. "One of the palettes we use, for example, is for creating company documents. It contains our company logo, our company-font, a Virtuoso template for correspondence, and a text element with our company address. Whenever we need one of these elements, we simply drag-and-drop!" commented Anthony. "Another palette we use is for programming. It contains `text' elements which have templates for classes, methods, comments and documentation files." DragBook is also excellent for laptop and crowded screens. DragBook has an "auto-hide" facility, which makes DragBook automatically hide its window when the user drops or picks up an element. For example, with the "Hide on Grab" option enabled, when the user clicks on an element, the window immediately hides, and the element may be dropped into a window which was underneath DragBook's window. "When we are using NEXTSTEP on a VGA screen, we collapse the dock, hide the Workspace Manager, and access 90% of our resources using DragBook," Anthony noted. "It provides a very efficient use of screen real-estate." DragBook ships as a multiple-architecture-binary with support for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP for Intel. NEXTSTEP 3.0 or greater required. To try out DragBook, a demonstration version may be obtained via ftp at: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/DragBook.tar.Z sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions/DragBook.tar.Z Or, contact "DigitalExpressions@andi.org" to have a demonstration copy NeXTmail'ed to you (approximately 720K). The demonstration version may be fully enabled with a license key, which may be purchased over the phone with a VISA or Mastercard. DragBook has an introductory price of $79. A special student discount of $39 is also available. Site-license and quantity discounts are available. Contact Digital Expressions for more information or to order. Look for DragBook on the next issue of the Paget Press AppWrapper! # # # Digital Expressions Inc., located in upstate New York, develops shrink-wrapped software and offers computer training. "DragBook", a resource organizer, is the first of a number of applications being developed for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Digital Expressions Inc. also offers end-user training for the Macintosh and Windows, and software-development courses for NEXTSTEP. DragBook is a trademark of Digital Expressions Inc. and copyright (c) 1993 Digital Expressions Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Inc. All rights reserved. -30-
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Chicago NEXTSTEP Users Group (LoopGroup) August 31 Meeting Date: 31 Aug 1993 01:12:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25umjf$f7n@digifix.digifix.com> AUGUST LOOPGROUP: The Chicago NEXTSTEP users group When: Tuesday, August 31, 1993 Where: 30 South Wacker Drive -- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Mezzanine level - auditorium Agenda: Mark Chamberlain of Xexos will be on hand to present their data feed integration and delivery product named ALICE. Also, Mark will be discussing the current state of the NEXTSTEP market in the U.K. and in Europe in general. Refreshments will be served Free copies of the latest issue of "Object-Based Computing" will be available. Please come and join in welcoming Xexos to Chicago!
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Appoints Distributor for the Middle East Date: 31 Aug 1993 01:33:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25unqn$ffk@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Selim Edde The Open Solutions Inc. 514/849-7364 NeXT Appoints Distributor for the Middle East REDWOOD CITY, CA.- August 31, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. announced today its move into the Middle Eastern market by appointing The Open Solutions Corporation (TOPS) as NeXT strategic partner and Value Added Distributor, for the Middle East and North Africa region. NeXT develops and markets the industry acclaimed NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is used by medium and large organizations to develop and deploy client/server applications, using both custom and shrink wrapped productivity software. "TOPS_ mandate is to establish proper distribution channels for NEXTSTEP and its associated derivative products and services throughout the Middle East and North Africa", declared Bernhard Woebker, vice president at NeXT. TOPS, based in Montreal, Canada, is an international solutions provider in the Information Technology field. The company has extensive expertise in selling and building distribution channels for North American products in the Middle East, as well as a thorough knowledge of the region's specific requirements. TOPS is a leading expert in Arabization technology. "Our intent is to develop the Middle Eastern market for this innovative product, NEXTSTEP, by appointing committed and effective VARs who will target specific end-user markets", said Waleed Ghafari, TOP_s President. Object-oriented productivity for the enterprise NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors is NeXT's object-oriented software that runs on industry-standard Intel 486- and Pentium-based PCs. NEXTSTEP Developer provides visual application construction tools and reusable application objects for the development of NEXTSTEP applications. NEXTSTEP has received customer and industry accolades for dramatically speeding the development of custom applications. "With its advanced object-oriented capabilities, NEXTSTEP will have a definite impact on the development of mission critical applications in the major market sectors of the Middle East, mainly oil and petrochemical, banking and financial services, health care and education," said Selim Edde of TOPS. "NEXTSTEP which enables users to store and retrieve voice annotations and images from standard servers, running databases such as ORACLE, SYBASE or INFORMIX will optimize the client-server model that many corporations in the Middle East are trying to implement. Finally, enterprises will be able to effectively manage their existing resources and increase their productivity significantly." About NeXT NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194031.11005@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194031.11005@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug31.164841.25552@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 16:48:41 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194031.11005@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Control: cancel <1993Aug30.194041.11063@cs.yale.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Aug30.194041.11063@cs.yale.edu> Message-ID: <1993Aug31.170839.25731@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 17:08:39 GMT cancel <1993Aug30.194041.11063@cs.yale.edu> -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP User Release 3.2 Features Date: 31 Aug 1993 15:37:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26099h$ja3@digifix.digifix.com> Hello, Recently I posted the NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 features. Below are some of the features included in the NEXTSTEP User Release 3.2 scheduled for early-mid Fall, including: - Third party Boot Drivers support - Third party Sound Drivers support - 32 bit Color support - Enhanced Pentium support - Additional Graphic and Sound Drivers support - Bundled SoftPC demo included - Network Install - Startup and Shutdown Graphics mode - Configuration cleanup - Additional On-line help - and of course, Bug Fixes Conrad Geiger NeXT ________________________________________________________________ Features of NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 Suggested Retail Price: $795 Product Includes software on CD-ROM, Installation floppy disk, and hard-copy documentation such as Release 3 User's Guide, Installing and configuring NEXTSTEP Release 3 for Intel Processors, and Here's How. Upgrade Pricing: FREE to 3.1 customers who send in their registration BEFORE 10/31/93. $195 for all other existing "non-3.1" NEXTSTEP customers. Price is the same for Intel and NeXT Computer versions. Please note the upgrade package does not include the Release 3 User's Guide and Here's How. Release 3.2 Objectives: * Enhance support for the Intel platform * Continue to improve NEXTSTEP's quality * Bundled SoftPC demo Intel platform support enhancements: * Third-parties Boot Drivers support Release 3.2 has been enhanced to enable the dynamic loading of boot drivers for devices such as SCSI drives and CD-ROM drives. This feature will greatly increase the number of configurations NEXTSTEP can support. * Third-parties Sound Drivers support A new set of public API's has been added to the SoundKit to enable developers to develop sound drivers that can be dynamically loaded into NEXTSTEP at run time. * 32 bit Color support The WindowServer has been enhanced to support third-party 32 bit graphics drivers. * Enhanced Pentium support Release 3.2 has been enhanced to take advantage of the Pentium processor for better graphics performance. * Additional Graphic Drivers support The ATI Graphics Ultra Pro and S3 805 drivers have been enhanced to provide support for additional RAM DAC and resolutions. In addition, S3 928 support has been added to Release 3.2. * Additional Sound Drivers support Support for Compaq Business Audio, Microsoft Sound System, and Intel GX Professional on-board sound system has been added to Release 3.2. BUNDLED SoftPC DEMO * SoftPC A demo version of SoftPC will be bundled with Release 3.2. To unlock this demo version into a full working copy, users can simply call Insignia and purchase a license number to unlock it into a full working copy. NeXT has been working closely with Insignia to develop the best solution possible to run DOS/Windows applications under NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. In order to optimize the performance of SoftPC, NeXT has enhanced NEXTSTEP's window server to dramatically improve the performance of Microsoft Windows applications in a NEXTSTEP window while providing full cut/paste graphics and text integration with your NEXTSTEP applications. In addition SoftPC will support a full screen mode to allow DOS/Windows applications direct access to the PC's graphics system. Other NEXTSTEP Enhancements * Network Install To simplify the installation of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors at large sites, the core technology for network installation have been added to this Release. NeXT will ship some additional tools after 3.2 ships which will enable users and system administrators to install NEXTSTEP with a boot floppy and a network server. * Startup and Shutdown Graphics mode To improve the consistency of NEXTSTEP's "look and feel", the startup and shutdown of NEXTSTEP will be displayed with a graphical user interface. * Configuration cleanup The configuration application has been refined to improve "ease of use" and enhanced to support additional configurations. * Additional On-line help On-line help has been added to the Edit (in developer mode) and PrintManager application. * Bug fixing Over 500 bug fixes have been made based on customer feedback.
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: 3DReality 1.4 now in permanent ftp home Date: 31 Aug 1993 15:38:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2609c5$jaa@digifix.digifix.com> Folks, You can download the MAB version of 3DReality [You'll need 3.1 or greater of NEXTSTEP, or be handy with the liposuction tool] from: site: file: ================== ========================== nova.cc.purdue.edu pub/next/3.0/com/Reality1.4.tar ftp.cs.unm.edu pub/stone/3DReality/Reality_1.4.tar 3672 -rw-r--r-- 1 stone 3751936 Aug 4 03:16 Reality_1.4.tar 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 stone 1575 Aug 4 03:18 Reality_1.4.tar.README sum Reality_1.4.tar 52259 3664 It's also still in submissions on cs.orst.edu as Reality_1.4.tar. For more information on student pricing, developer discounts, licensing, etc, write info@stone.com or call (505) 345 4800 andrew
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: **Stone Design Ships DataPhile 2.0 MAB, on time** Date: 1 Sep 1993 00:53:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2619sd$lbm@digifix.digifix.com> News For Immediate Release For more information, write info@stone.com or call Elena Settanni, (505) 345-4800 *** STONE DESIGN SHIPS MULTIPLE-ARCHITECTURE DATAPHILE *** ALBUQUERQUE, NM, Sept. 1, 1993 -- Stone Design is now shipping version 2.0 of its award-winning* flatfile database program, DataPhile. This release represents the successful port of DataPhile to NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors (NSFIP). DataPhile 2.0 requires NEXTSTEP (NS) 3.1 and is shipped in multiple-architecture binary form. Multiple-architecture binary software runs on both Motorola-based NeXT hardware and qualified Intel-based systems. DataPhile 2.0 can run on NEXTSTEP networks that mix Motorola and Intel hardware. In addition to NSFIP compatibility, this upgrade of DataPhile introduces several features that make the program more powerful and easier to use than ever: * Data Well - This NEXTSTEP-style well, available while you're entering and viewing data, contains a draggable text version of your data that you can drop into another app-for example, into a mail message. * Modify All Records in View - This new command updates a field thoughout your records according to your edits of that field in the current record. * Delete All Records in View - This much-requested command deletes all records in the key view, for example, a found subset of outdated records. * Unlimited Undo - You can instruct DataPhile to remember any number of edits that you make to a view design, allowing you to undo consecutive edits as necessary. * Rebuild Indexes - This command automates the indexing cleanup procedure that is sometimes necessary to correct index-related problems in a database. * Copy Address - This command adds compatibility with RightBrain Software's ExactlyWrite word-processor. * Easier Options access - Double-click a field's name to assign it a default value or other entry option. * Export Field Types - Optionally include field types when exporting data; imports will automatically choose the correct field type. * On-line Help - Extensive hypertext help lets you click any UI component to see related information; use the Help panel's Find feature to get help by topic instantly. * Colorized UI - Ted Turner would be proud. This upgrade also greatly improves DataPhile's stability and fixes several bugs, including but not limited to the following. * Spellcheck/Spelling Panel loads quietly (NS) * Modified entry lists and default values update properly * Graphics in headers/footers orient correctly (NS) * Icons delete properly from file fields * Field background colors print and preview (NS) * /tmp clears unsaved databases A much-requested addition to DataPhile, multiuser write access, has slipped to a future release. DataPhile supports multiuser read access in that the first user to open a particular database has write permissions (assuming the file's Unix permissions are set accordingly). "We felt that the immediate need was for a fat-binary version of DataPhile, so that's where we put the effort for this release," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "There's an entirely new market for our software, and we're adapting our development and support efforts accordingly," Stone added. DataPhile is available directly from Stone Design and at the ftp sites orst.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and ftp.cs.unm.edu. Students who ftp the package and submit proof of current student status can purchase DataPhile at a special rate. No manual or support is provided with this purchase option, but easy entry for students is a firm commitment of Stone Design. Call or write for more information about Stone's Student Discount program and for regular prices. Trade-ups to Intel versions of all Stone software purchased between February 12, 1993 and May 21, 1993 are available free of charge to end users. *DataPhile was named the "The Best DataBase product of 1992" by a Usenet survey. Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of business productivity applications for NEXTSTEP software. DataPhile is a trademark of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Southern California NEXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting Sept. 1 Date: 1 Sep 1993 01:12:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <261b08$lks@digifix.digifix.com> Southern California NEXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting When: Today, Wednesday, September 1, 1993 6:30 P.M. Where: California State University, Long Beach ECS-105 (new lecture hall room) Agenda: The planned events are as follows: - See NEXTSTEP running on a fast INTEL GX computer from Intel - Demo of the InFocus LCD flat panel display (1024x768) - Demo of QuickBase database products - Demo of NoteBook and Paste-Up There will be a social at 6:30 with a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Directions: Take the San Diego (405) freeway to Long Beach and get off at Palo Verde. Go toward the beach on Palo Verde past two lights (Stearns and Atherton). Look for a very large parking lot on the right hand-side. Parking: Free parking is available on Palo Verde, but it may be difficult to find a spot. You can also park for $1.50 in Lot C (off Palo Verde). Get a permit from one of the yellow machines. ECS is the nearest large (6-story) building to the parking lot. For further info, contact: Mike Mahoney, SCaN President and CSULB Professor Phone: (310) 985-1550 Email: mahoney@csulb.edu Walt Duflock, SCaN Program Director Phone: (714) 730-8057 Email: walt@cerf.net
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Metrosoft aquires SimonSays Date: 1 Sep 1993 16:21:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26308m$p8m@digifix.digifix.com> Metrosoft is now the owner of the ever-popular program SimonSays. Simon now runs on NEXTSTEP 3.1 (on NeXT computers only, Intel support will follow this Fall). Control your computer by voice commands! Trainable to your voice, no matter what your language, dialect or accent. One voice command can execute a sequence of actions. For example, just say "Mail Jane" and have Simon open Mail, address a letter to Jane and sign it for you. Simon retails for $295. At this time Metrosoft would like to extend a special pre-official shipping version at a price of $195. Documentation will be provided on disk only and this version will be shipped without formal packaging. For ordering information: Metrosoft 740 13th Street, Suite 503 San Diego, Ca 92101 619.488.9411, fax: 619.488.3045 info@metrosoft.com
From: liz@sarrus.com (Liz Statmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Pencil Me In ans SBook ship MAB Date: 1 Sep 1993 16:24:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2630ef$p8t@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS ________________________________________________________________ Contact: Liz Statmore, Vice President of Marketing Sarrus Software (415) 345-8950 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 Ship on NEXTSTEP for Intel Free Upgrades for Current Customers FOSTER CITY, Calif., September 1, 1993 Ð Sarrus Software, Inc. today announced that enhanced versions of its scheduling and contact management products, Pencil Me In and SBook, are now shipping on NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors and NEXTSTEP for NeXT computers. In addition, Sarrus announced that it will offer free upgrades of the two products to current customers. Besides running on NEXTSTEP networks that mix both Intel-based and NeXT-manufactured hardware, the two productivity packages now work together more effectively, helping users better integrate their scheduling, to-do lists and contact management. ªAs a leader in groupware solutions for the NEXTSTEP platform, Sarrus places a priority on supporting the way customers really work," said Andrew K. Turk, president of Sarrus. "Most NEXTSTEP customers will have heterogeneous networks of both Intel-based and Motorola-based computers. The new versions of Pencil Me In and SBook let users share calendar and contact files transparently without worrying about which kind of computer their co-workers are using.º "The inherent groupware capabilities of NEXTSTEP have freed companies like Sarrus to focus on raising the standard of groupware applications instead of compensating for deficiencies in other environments," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Products such as Pencil Me In and SBook are helping NEXTSTEP enterprise customers to achieve operational productivity gains they could only have imagined on other platforms." Pencil Me In, the leading group scheduling application for NEXTSTEP computers, combines a powerful, scalable, network-ready architecture with an easy, intuitive calendar interface. It enables users to integrate personal and group scheduling in enterprise computing environments. For example, users can schedule one-time or repeating appointments, track action items, share calendars over a network and use group calendars to schedule meetings in a single operation. SBook is a flexible, intelligent personal contact management tool for business professionals that allows users to store and use contact information in any way they like. Its built-in intelligence automatically recognizes phone numbers, postal addresses and e-mail addresses as they are typed in, and it allows users to keep a log of each phone call, fax and letter sent. SBook can also distinguish between fax and voice numbers, so users can send faxes or place phone calls with a single click of the mouse. The program can print the contents of a contact database onto standard mailing labels or individual envelopes, complete with postal barcodes for faster delivery. What's New in Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 Enhanced drag-and-drop integration between Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 allows users to drag contact information out of SBook files and drop it directly into Pencil Me In calendars or action lists. The enhanced integration also lets users look up contact information in their SBook files from within a Pencil Me In calendar or any other NEXTSTEP application via the Services menu. Pencil Me In 1.1 includes new data export capabilities for using scheduling data and notes outside of Pencil Me In calendar files. Users can export calendar data into time-and-billing programs or produce calendar reports from appointment data using WordPerfect word processing, Mesa spreadsheet, DataPhile database and other popular programs. Pencil Me In 1.1 also allows users to print out a quick listing of events within a specified range of dates. Pencil Me In 1.1 makes it easier for users to select multiple events, and SBook 3.1 features enhanced envelope printing capabilities. In addition, both products now support standard NEXTSTEP 3.0 online help. They are fully indexed and include a Table of Contents along with links to specific topics of interest. System Requirements Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 run on NEXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel Processors and NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher for NeXT computers. The same version runs unmodified on either system. Price and Availability Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 are both available now directly from Sarrus. Suggested retail prices are $299 per user for Pencil Me In 1.1 and $199 per user for SBook 3.1. Sarrus also offers educational discounts for students and universities. Contact the company for information. Upgrade Program Through November 30, 1993, current owners of Pencil Me In or SBook can upgrade to the new version at no charge, apart from $7.50 for shipping and handling. For more information about the Customer Upgrade Program, current customers can call Sarrus at (800) 995-1963, or send e-mail to info@sarrus.com. Customers outside the U.S. can reach Sarrus at (415) 345-8950 or via e-mail. About Sarrus Founded in 1991, Sarrus Software, Inc. is a privately held company with the mission of empowering groups of people to share information in the office environment with integrated, easy-to-use Group Information Management (GIM) software. Sarrus is the leading provider of GIM software on NEXTSTEP computers, with products that include group scheduling and integrated contact management. -30- Pencil Me In and SBook are trademarks of Sarrus Software, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other products and brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: pck@vnp.com (Paul King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Announces DevMan Date: 1 Sep 1993 17:50:22 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2635es$q1c@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Ronald V. Simmons VNP Software, Inc. Phone: (802) 496-7799 Fax: (802) 496-7790 Email: DevMan_Info@vnp.com Cambridge, MA - September 1, 1993 - VNP Software today announced availability of DevMan, a low cost tool for synchronizing multi-programmer/ multi-project software development. DevMan provides source code control and configuration management support for projects of any size to expedite the development process. DevMan's user interface provides programmers with much easier, more reliable access to source code control functions, e.g., those available from RCS or SCCS. Daily tasks, such as checking files in and out or synchronizing your work area with other developers' work, can be performed directly from the Workspace Manager's "Services" menu. Additional consistency features extend the usefulness of source-code control - identifying newly added or modified files during the check-in process, and automatically removing files that others have deleted from the repository. DevMan also transparently handles NeXT file packages such as .nib and .dbmodel directories. Central to DevMan's design is the concept of "development branches," which allows parallel independent development in the same directory. For example, development branches allow developers to apply emergency fixes to a protected production branch within a source-code repository - allowing an easy merge of production fixes with the active development branch when appropriate. DevMan uses development branches in conjunction with "configuration maps" to designate static or dynamic configurations of any set of source files. This key feature allows all of the files and directories for any project to be grouped, maintained, released and recovered as a single unit, using very simple commands. DevMan also offers a security layer that lets you control access to operations at both the configuration management and source code control levels. "DevMan gives us sophisticated configuration management and source-code control at a fraction of the cost of competing products," said Jim Loree, Senior Software Analyst, Chrysler Financial Corporation. "Our developers rely on DevMan's synchronization features to coordinate their work, and the configuration management features are essential for managing our systems across the development, test and production phases." DevMan is priced at $395 per seat and is available immediately. A demo version of DevMan is available via anonymous ftp at vnp.com in the /pub directory. A demo version may also be obtained via NeXTMail (large) by sending mail to DevMan_Demo@vnp.com. VNP Software (Cambridge, MA) offers development tools and consulting expertise to the NEXTSTEP community. Other VNP Software products include the AccessKit, for class-based database access; the UIBinder Palette, for binding object information to the user interface; and the IXAdaptor, the DBKit adaptor for NeXT's Indexing Kit.
From: Olivier Aubin <iansolo@cubx.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: CUB'X SYSTEMES SHIPS intuitiv'3d Date: 1 Sep 1993 22:34:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <263m3s$quk@digifix.digifix.com> News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --------------------- For more information contact: Olivier Aubin Phone: ++ 33 1 4708 7440 Fax: ++ 33 1 4708 7441 Email: intuitiv@cubx.com C U B' X S Y S T E M E S S H I P S i n t u i t i v' 3 d PARIS, France, August 12, 1993 - Cub'x Systemes, developer of Cub'X-Window, announced today the shipment of intuitiv'3d, the ultimate 3d creation environment for NEXTSTEP Motorola and Intel. intuitiv'3d is a professional 3d modeler and renderer which exploits all the power of RenderMan to create astounding photo-realistic images. "intuitiv'3d ships in its first version after two years of development and beta testing and already competes in functionalities, completion and pricing with the leading 3d programs in the Macintosh and PC markets," said Gerard Laurent, Cub'x Systemes General Manager. "Because intuitiv'3d was developed under NEXTSTEP, we were able to apply the object-oriented paradigm to 3d modeling in a way it was never done before. intuitiv'3d is also designed to expand and grow with the user needs: as a modular environment it can be extended progressively with the Modeler, ZZVolume and Mathematica modules and will be soon complemented with the Motion capability. Cub'x Systemes has decided to offer academic institutions and students a special pricing policy allowing them to access today the highest quality 3d environment for NEXTSTEP." - intuitiv'3d provides all the features required for a professional 3d solution: Real-time smooth 3d perspective view. Virtual camera offering Swing, Zoom, Move and Pan modes. Orthographic views with constraints and grid. Direct manipulation or numerical entries for precise editing. Distribution of shapes along lines, circles, squares or any 3d mathematical function. Import of RIB files as editable and reusable models. 25 Surface and Volume primitives including Fractals, Mathematical patches and real-life Mirrors. Innate 2d drawing tools with rulers and grids to create precise contours, cross-sections and paths as with existing 2d illustration tools like Illustrator or Virtuoso. Unlimited Undo/Redo to navigate into the creative process. PostScript fonts can be turned into editable outlines. Interactive Lathe, freeform Sweep and multi-sections Loft to sculpt smooth shapes. Unlimited number of lights with automated shadows. Generic light objects for special effects like slide projector. Storable sets of lights. Atmospherical effects like fog and depthcue. Convert any tiff or eps files for use as texture, bump, transparency or specular maps. Maps can be accurately positionned onto objects with the Texture coordinates tool. Automated antialiazing, reflexions, mirrors, refraction. Just specify which objects are mirror or refractive and intuitiv'3d will handle everything for you ... automatically. Snapshot renderings displayed in real-time at screen to instantly monitor shading effects. Render part or the whole scene, locally or on the network, at any resolution to obtain full 32 bit photo-realistic images. - The power of NEXTSTEP and object-orientation makes it intuitive and fast, to stimulate creativity: "The way objects are easily manipulated and stored has no equivalent in the 3d graphics industry, even on the leading systems," said Vincent Courtois from Austral Design. "The Metashader concept is the most effective interface over RenderMan shaders I've ever seen. Working with visual libraries of shapes and materials is invaluable and intuitiv'3d can access all the existing libraries from PIXAR or The Valis Group." All intuitiv'3d objects icons can be dragged and dropped in the Camera views, World browser, Library and Scrapbook: shapes, groups, lights, shaders, display settings, shaders, Metashaders, light sets, functions, rendering settings. The World browser allows to select, name, group, and move shapes as with files in the Workspace Manager browser. Library sections can be created by the user to store, organize and retrieve frequently used design elements including 3d shapes, lighing sets, materials, camera views, display or rendering settings. The objects icons can be generated with the Icon panel for easy visual retrieval. Cub'x provides ready-made libraries of shapes and materials. The Metashader object revolutionize Renderman shaders management. A Metashader can be dropped on shapes to affect all its shading parameters at a move: color, transparency, texture mapping, bumpiness, area lighing, atmosphere, rendering speed and interpolation, texture coordinates. Each individual shader can be fine tuned in the Shader panel. The user can simply create its own Metashaders. intuitiv'3d comes with a library of more than 80 predefined Metashaders (including 17 new original shaders from PIXAR). - intuitiv'3d is a modular 3d environment: intuitiv'3d engine is a stand-alone solution for those who prefer exploring intuitiv'3d large libraries of 3d clip art. The Modeler module gives the user the power of building Lathe, Sweep and Loft smooth shapes. For scientists, the Mathematica Data link allows to connect to the Mathematica server to capitalize Mathematica models with intuitiv'3d shading, lighting and virtual camera features. For architects, ZZVolume creative tools can be combinated with intuitiv'3d rendering capabilities. --------------- A demonstration version of intuitiv'3d is available on archive site: cs.orst.edu (in the directory /pub/next/submissions or /pub/next/demos/graphics ). intuitiv'3d + Modeler is available directly from Cub'x Systemes for $695. EDUCATIONAL BUNDLE: Students who ftp the package and submit proof of current student status can purchase intuitiv'3d + Modeler & Mathematica modules at $150. A free API is available on ftp or at cost of the media and shipping. Cub'x Systemes, Paris, France, develops highly efficient solutions for NEXTSTEP. Phone: ++ 33 1 4708 7440 Fax: ++ 33 1 4708 7441 Email: intuitiv@cubx.com # # # intuitiv'3d is a trademark of Cub'x Systemes. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. --
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Driver for HP LaserJet 4 Date: 2 Sep 1993 01:28:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26409d$rj9@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Martin Elmer Uptime Object Factory Inc Baumackerstrasse 46 8050 Zurich Phone +41 1 313 06 07 Fax +41 1 313 07 55 Email: info@uptime.ch NEXTSTEP Driver for HP LaserJet4 Uptime Inc announced today TCPprd, their printer driver for the HP LaserJet4 pinter with JetDirect-interface card and Postscript option. It is now available on the archive sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu in the demos directory. The uploaded binary is a fully functional evaluation version of TCPprd. From any NEXTSTEP machine, Intel or NeXT hardware, all the LaserJet4 printers on the network are accessible via TCP/IP. "We did this step for our customers", says Thomas Roettig, Director of Marketing. "Now you have the possibility to test TCPprd and try it out to see if it fits your needs." TCPprd manages automatic fontdownloading and reports messages from the printer on a specific machine on the network. TCPprd is available now for CHF 90 (~DM 100, ~US$ 60). Call +41 1 313 06 07 or send email to info@uptime.ch. Uptime Object Factory Inc is a software company located in Zurich, Switzerland. Uptime Inc is focused fully on NEXTSTEP development and provides services ranging from network integration to custom application development.
From: david_spitzler@NeXT.COM (David Spitzler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TELOS Publishes Complete Guide to NEXTSTEP Date: 2 Sep 1993 13:01:36 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2658te$2or@digifix.digifix.com> News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: TELOS, The Electronic Library of Science 3600 Pruneridge Avenue, Suite 200 Santa Clara, CA 95051 Phone: (408) 249-9314 Fax: (408) 249-2595 Email: c.peterson@applelink.apple.com TELOS Publishes Complete Guide to NEXTSTEP Santa Clara, California, September 3, 1993 - TELOS (The Electronic Library of Science) announces the release of "The Complete Guide to the NEXTSTEP User Environment" (ISBN 0-387-97956-5) by Michael B. Shebanek, a book/diskette package describing the advanced, object-oriented NEXTSTEP User Environment for NeXT and Intel-based computers. Priced at $42.95, this product contains a 480 page softbound book with over 275 illustrations, plus a NEXTSTEP diskette containing popular public domain NEXTSTEP applications, fonts, sample sounds and images so you can immediately practice what you learn in the book. This resource is useful for those who are considering the puchase of NEXTSTEP, but want to learn more about how it works beore making an invenstment. Those who already have NEXTSTEP will find it useful as it goes beyond the NeXT reference manual by including new topics such as using the Internet and the use of UNIX (user) commands not provided in NeXT's own reference. ABOUT THE BOOK This is not just a "getting started" manual, but a book that describes how to make NEXTSTEP work for you. It provides numerous tips and tricks, shortcuts and commentary, and is written to make you feel as if you are sitting next to a veteran who can guide you through the NEXTSTEP user environment and steer you away from common pitfalls. Inside you not only learn about the NEXTSTEP user environment, but also about the many applications bundled with it such as Draw, Edit, PrintManager, FaxReader, Digital Librarian, and more! There's even descriptions of popular public domain and shareware applications and how to find hidden treasures buried within NEXTSTEP that most users overlook. Some of the more advanced topics discussed include: o How to take advantage of networked resources o How to use UNIX(r) commands within NEXTSTEP o How to recover from application and system crashes o How to customize NEXTSTEP to meet your needs o How to find related NEXTSTEP information ABOUT THE DISKETTE The 3.5" NEXTSTEP diskette included with the book contains over 2.5 MB of compressed NEXTSTEP applications, fonts, sample sounds and images to quickly speed you on your way to understanding and making great use of the most elegant system software available today. An electronic version of the popular public domain document, "Incomplete Guide to the Internet" (over 280 pages!), is also included. The diskette is formatted for NEXTSTEP, and works with both NeXT and Intel-based computer systems. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Shebanek is a computing consultant in the department of Computing and Communications at the University of California, Riverside. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from California State University, Fullerton and is President of the UC Riverside Macintosh User Group and Vice-President of the UC Riverside NeXT User Group. Mike's years of experience in instructional computing include instruction, consulting, support assistance, network planning and installation, and equipment maintenance. ABOUT TELOS TELOS is an imprint of Springer-Verlag New York, with publishing facilities at 3600 Pruneridge Avenue, Suite 200, Santa Clara, Calif. 95051. Its publishing program encompasses the natural and physical sciences, computer science, economics, mathematics, and engineering. TELOS strives to wed the traditional print medium with the emerging electronic media to provide the reader with a truly interactive multimedia information environment. All TELOS publications delivered on paper come with an associated electronic component. HOW TO GET THIS BOOK/DISKETTE To order this product, please visit your local bookstore or contact Springer-Verlag directly at (800) 777-4643 (in NJ, call 201-348-4033). Fax orders to (201) 348-4505. International customers should contact their nearest Springer-Verlag office. For information on corporate sales, please contact Marc Puma at (800)777-4643 ext. 675. For 30-day examination copies for course adoption, please call (800)777-4643 ext. 660. For book review copies, please contact TELOS directly at (408) 249-9314. -30-
From: Timothy Reed <treed@friday.bmt.gun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Black Market Releases Connect It! Demonstration Version Date: 2 Sep 1993 15:45:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <265ihb$3ad@digifix.digifix.com> Black Market Releases Connect It! Demonstration Version September 2nd, 1993 Contact: Timothy Reed Phone: 718 522-5090 Fax: 718 852-4249 E-mail: info@bmt.gun.com The demonstration version of Connect It!, the new modem, UUCP, and e-mail administration tool for non-technical NEXTSTEP users is available via e-mail or on popular Internet archive servers. Internet users may download the demo version of Connect It! from the following locations: Server Location cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Connect_It_Demo.tar.Z secundus.opt-sci.arizona.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Connect_It_Demo.tar.Z Interested users without direct Internet access who can receive large NeXTmail messages may also send e-mail to info@bmt.gun.com to receive the demo version of Connect It!. The demo version of Connect It! is intended to give users a feel for how the application sets up and manages dial up e-mail connections, but will not make any configuration changes. Connect It! currently supports the following modems: Telebit 1500 Telebit Trailblazer+ Telebit 2500 Telebit Worldblazer Zyxel U-1496E USR Sportster Dove Fax (in non-fax mode only) Supra HSD/Abaton Some 100% Hayes-compatible modems Practical Peripherals and NEC Versa high-speed internal modems will be supported shortly. Connect It! works with most commercial e-mail service providers, including Netcom, UUNET, and most PSI/Net service areas. Special introductory pricing of $99 per copy of Connect It! for NEXTSTEP has been extended until September 30th, 1993. Students and university staff with proof of current university affiliation may purchase Connect It! directly from Black Market Technologies for $45 per computer. Credit card customers may purchase Connect It! from Hal Fox Palmer at MacAdam Computers (Phone: 800-697-5696 or 415-863-6222) and Alpine Computers (Phone: 801-268-8877). Connect It! is a trademark of Black Market Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
From: Barry Beal <bdbeal@indirect.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group Meeting Date: 2 Sep 1993 22:56:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <266bnu$4lu@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting: The next meeting of the Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group will be Thursday, Sept 9 at Mesa Community College. We are going to have Ken Costello of Mesa Community College demonstrate some of the Educational NeXTSTEP Applications that he has developed. If you have never seen programs running under NeXTSTEP, this is an incredible demo. If you are a regular user of NeXTSTEP, I think you will still be impressed at how NeXTSTEP can be used to present educational concepts at a remarkably effective level. Ken has also agreed to demonstrate how to build a simple NeXTSTEP application. For new developers or people who are interested in becoming developers, this is a great opportunity to get an introduction to development. And for anyone who has not gotten their fill of white hardware, Ken will bring along an Epson 486 computer, to demo and to show how to cross compile applications for both Motorola and Intel architectures. Doors open at 7:00, come early and get acquainted with the other members. The meeting will start promptly at 7:30. Agenda: * Announcements * Q & A - a chance to ask your NeXT related questions * Ken Costello - demo of NeXTSTEP educational applications * Demo of Epson running NeXTSTEP Location: Thursday, Sept 9, 7:30 PM Mesa Community College Kirk Student Center (the clock tower building) Kiva Room on the lower level 1833 W. Southern Ave, Mesa For more information about the meeting or the User Group, please call Barry Beal at (602)834-3262.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: cmsg cancel <266kog$6fp@digifix.digifix.com> Control: cancel <266kog$6fp@digifix.digifix.com> Date: 3 Sep 1993 01:33:24 -0400 Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <266kv4$6ha@digifix.digifix.com> cancel <266kog$6fp@digifix.digifix.com> -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NGService 2.0 MAB and Source Date: 3 Sep 1993 01:36:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <266l51$6id@digifix.digifix.com> Welcome to NGService... a service provider to help those who don't or can't use NewsGrazer to read NewsGrazer RTF articles. This version is being made available specifically because there is no NewsGrazer for NEXTSTEP Intel, and there will not be one. Where can I get it? ------------------- NGService 2.0 MAB and its source is currently available from cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/NGService-2.0-MAB.app.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/NGService-2.0-MAB.README cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/NGService-Source.tar.gz Purpose and instructions ------------------------ NGService allows you to select the NewsGrazer portion of a posting and view it as you would in NewsGrazer! Select the lines from ... -- NewsGlazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C%<9G-W:7-S($AE;'9E=&EC83M<9C!< M9FUO9&5R;B!#;W5R:65R.WT*7&UA<F=L,3(P"EQM87)G<C$R,`I[7&-O;&]R down to ... M("`@("`@"0E.95A4;6%I;#H@9VQE;FY`<FEG:'1B<F%I;BYC;VU<"B!2:6=H M=$)R86EN(%-O9G1W87)E"30Q-2TS,C8M,CDW-"`H3F585&9A>"`S,C8M,CDW ?-RE<"B!086QO($%L=&\L($-A;&EF;W)N:6%<"@I]"F58 ` and select the NGService->Read option from the services menu. NGService will launch, and bring up a window that will show you the contents. Scott Anguish Digital Fix Development 589 Beechwood Drive, Unit 30 Waterloo, Ontario N2T 2K9 519 886-0885 519 886-5047 (fax) sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail of course!) [ I had to repost this because NewsGrazer saw the NewsGrazer header and decided to say that it was a NewsGrazer file! The original article was cancelled, but not all sites are currently honoring cancels due to the rash of improper cancel messages sent by some thugs. apologies!]
From: jamie@teflon.ftp.com (Jamie O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: BCS NeXT Group Meeting Date: 3 Sep 1993 14:56:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <268411$9hj@digifix.digifix.com> What: Boston Computer Society NeXT Group Meeting Where: Rm 1-190 at the MIT Campus When: Tuesday, September 7th at 7PM Continental Computer will be showing of an Intel GX computer running NeXTstep 3.1. They will will talk about their role as a NeXT Object Channel Partner and the systems integration work they have done with companies in the local area. NeXT representatives will be on hand to answer questions. We will also have Rumor of the Month, Q & A and a brief talk by the new Director of the BCS NeXT Group. see you there! jamie
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SofDesign announces QuickBase 3.3 for NEXTSTEP Date: 3 Sep 1993 15:34:07 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26867d$9p2@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release SofDesign Solutions, Corp. 47 Arch Street Greenwich, CT 06830 USA Phone: (203) 629-0970 Email: sdc@gun.com Greenwich, Connecticut, Aug 24, 1993 - SofDesign Solutions Corporation announces version 3.3 of its QuickBase SQL server for NEXTSTEP platforms. SofDesign Solutions Corporation, a database technology firm, today announced shipment of QuickBase-SQL version 3.3 for NeXTSTEP Intel and Motorola platforms. The version supports aggregate functions, the ability to perform operations on groups of data, and a selection of international date, time, and money formats. "QuickBase makes it easy to build mission critical applications" said Scott Keith, President of SofDesign Solutions, "Our customers like QuickBase because it is a turn-key database that won't give them any trouble. QuickBase helps developers spend more time developing." Software Services and Solutions, Inc., is using QuickBase's enhanced functionality for their PublicSafetySoftware line of policing software. "QuickBase is the most cost effective alternative to expensive server technology" said Robert L. Masterson, the company's Vice President, "QuickBase's advanced features, such as true huge multi-media storage and application notification, enable us to create powerful enterprise solutions." Software Services and Solutions, Inc., employs QuickBase extensively in their development projects. QuickBase is completely platform independent and allows developers to build applications for other back-end servers using the DBKit. QuickBase licenses are sold in three connection increments for $695. Contact SofDesign Solutions for more information about QuickBase and related products.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 36 - 1993 Date: 6 Sep 1993 21:14:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <26gn8n$1em@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 36). Monday August 30 through Monday September 6 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 35 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups JOB: NEXTSTEP Object Oriented Programmer/Database Specialist Opportunities at SHL (various US locations) MEETING: WaNUG Meeting (Washington, D.C. area NeXT User Group - September 8, 1993) PRESS RELEASE: Athena Design Announces Mesa 1.5A PRESS RELEASE: DragBook for NEXTSTEP MEETING: Chicago NEXTSTEP Users Group (LoopGroup) August 31 Meeting NeXT Appoints Distributor for the Middle East NEXTSTEP User Release 3.2 Features SUBMISSION: 3DReality 1.4 now in permanent ftp home BETA TESTERS: WatchMe Beta Testers needed PRESS RELEASE: **Stone Design Ships DataPhile 2.0 MAB, on time** MEETING: Southern California NEXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting Sept. 1 PRESS RELEASE: Metrosoft aquires SimonSays PRESS RELEASE: Pencil Me In ans SBook ship MAB PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Announces DevMan PRESS RELEASE: CUB'X SYSTEMES SHIPS intuitiv'3d PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Driver for HP LaserJet 4 PRESS RELEASE: TELOS Publishes Complete Guide to NEXTSTEP PRESS RELEASE: Black Market Releases Connect It! Demonstration Version MEETING: Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group Meeting SUBMISSION: NGService 2.0 MAB and Source MEETING: BCS NeXT Group Meeting PRESS RELEASE: SofDesign announces QuickBase 3.3 for NEXTSTEP If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 6 Sep 1993 21:14:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <26gn9h$1es@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 6 Sep 1993 21:14:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <26gnag$1f2@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish Additions from: Greg Anderson (greg@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (michael@afs.com)
From: mary@metrosoft.com (Mary Donnelly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Metrosoft Aquires Squash Date: 6 Sep 1993 22:17:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26gqut$1r5@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mary Donnelly (619) 488-9411 Fax: (619) 488-3045 E-mail: info@metrosoft.com San Diego, September 5, 1993 - Metrosoft Announces that it has agreed to take over support and development of the popular archival utility program, Squash and that a fat version of UnsquashOnly will be available as freeware. "It made a lot of sense that Metrosoft was asked to take over the popular program" said Ron Miller, V.P. Development, Metrosoft, "Many users were left 'crushed' when they couldn't 'unsquash' their files due to Squash not porting to NEXTSTEP 3.1. Metrosoft can help out the NEXTSTEP community, while adding a great addition to our product line." Our current plans for upgrades are as follows: 1. In the immediate future (the next 2-4 weeks), we will upgrade the decompression utility, UnSquashOnly, to run on white hardware. This will be made available as freeware on the usual ftp archive sites. We feel that this will get the current users of Squash out of the immediate bind of trying to recover their archived data on white hardware. 2. In the near future, we will release an upgrade to Squash, which will allow it to run under NEXTSTEP 3.1 and white hardware. There will not be any significant changes to it's feature set other than it being "fat". This will be made available to current users of Squash for free (a nominal fee of $10 will charged for materials, shipping and handling). 3. Longer term, we plan to come out with Squash Deluxe, which will among other things provide support for multiple archive file types including: arc, zip, gzip, tar, and compress formats. It will also include an enhanced interface and feature set. The release date will be in Q4 1993. Contact Metrosoft directly for new orders and upgrades. For product information, you can e-mail info@metrosoft.com. Metrosoft is a San Diego based company specializing in the development and publishing of NEXTSTEP applications such as MetroTools, MetroKeys, SimonSays. -30-
From: pck@vnp.com (Paul King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Announces the UIBinder Palette Date: 7 Sep 1993 15:32:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26ink9$6v7@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Linda Rosen or Paul King VNP Software, Inc. Phone: (802) 496-7799 Fax: (802) 496-7790 Email: UIBinder_Info@vnp.com Cambridge, MA - September 7, 1993 - VNP Software today announced availability of the UIBinder palette, a graphical tool that automates the display and editing of object information within the NEXTSTEP environment. The UIBinder palette lets programmers use InterfaceBuilder's connection facilities to bind their information to the user interface, eliminating the need for interface code and significantly streamlining custom application development. Within InterfaceBuilder, the UIBinder palette lets programmers establish connections between object attributes and familiar user interface components, such as DBTableVectors, TextFields and Matrices. This graphical binding approach is similar to the technique employed by the DBKit palette with one key advantage - the UIBinder palette is not restricted to database properties. Instead, the UIBinder palette works with the common "Object Model," which allows attributes of any Objective-C class to be bound to the user interface. The UIBinder palette also allows parent-child connections to be established between UIBinder objects, providing full support for information that contains master-detail relationships. Using the connection and relationship information established within InterfaceBuilder, UIBinder automates and synchronizes data viewing and editing tasks at run-time. To accommodate the special needs of custom application development, UIBinder also provides a rich programmatic interface, which allows programmers to work with UIBinder objects and exercise the appropriate degree of control over the display and editing process. UIBinder's features offer advanced functionality that can significantly enhance any NEXTSTEP application: - UI Transactions, analogous to their database counterparts, enable all UI changes that take place within a transaction's scope to undergo a commit or rollback as a single unit. - Validation Registration allows validation methods to be registered and associated with one or more attributes. The appropriate validations are automatically invoked when a UIBinder detects changes to an attribute. - Attribute Sensitivities allow UIBinders to trigger updates to attribute values that are sensitive to changes in other attribute values. To ensure compatibility, UIBinders manage the user interface without interrupting any of the delegate relationships, guaranteeing that delegate and textDelegate objects will always receive the appropriate notification messages. "The UIBinder palette accelerates our application development and eliminates the need to write code dealing with DBTableViews, TextFields or any other UI objects,"said Jim Loree, Senior Software Analyst, Chrysler Financial Corporation. "Developers just drag UI objects off the palette, connect them and UIBinder takes care of the rest." Said Dan Crimmins, Assistant Vice-President, First National Bank of Chicago: " UIBinder is well designed to meet the unique demands of custom application development. Its ability to automate the display and editing of our business objects has allowed us to significantly boost productivity. " The UIBinder palette, priced at $795 per seat, is available immediately. A demo version of the UIBinder package is available via anonymous ftp at vnp.com in the /pub directory. A demo version of the palette only may also be obtained via NeXTMail by sending mail to UIBinder_Demo@vnp.com. VNP Software (Cambridge, MA) offers development tools and consulting expertise to the NEXTSTEP community. Other VNP Software products include the AccessKit, for class-based database access; DevMan, a source code control and configuration management tool; and IXAdaptor, the DBKit adaptor for NeXT's Indexing Kit.
From: Nick Christopher <nwc@piglet.ny.shl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Gotham Users of NeXT - September 15th Date: 7 Sep 1993 15:33:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26inlv$6vd@digifix.digifix.com> Gotham Users of NeXT Wednesday, September 15th I. Q&A - 1830 Questions. Answers. News. II. Review of Pages - 1900 >From NeXTWORLD's four cube review: "Pages is a new idea in document creation that frees users from the details of page layout by putting the experience of professional designers into the software." Come and se Pages in action. III. A Luggable Looking for a portable that can really handle full born NEXTSTEP? Well it probably doesn't exist yet - but there is a luggable that does! Plenty of disk, extra slots, SCSI controller, real SVGA tube! While it really needs the new drivers coming with NS3.2 to shine it works fine with NS3.1. IV. Raffle An Adobe Type Library - Helvetica Neue 1 - includes Ultra Light, Ultra Light Italic, Black and Black Italic. Electronic Directions 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 503 212-213-6500 Questions to GUN at 718-260-9848 or info@gun.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Intel Updated Serial Drivers on ftp.next.com Date: 7 Sep 1993 16:27:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <26iqqr$76r@digifix.digifix.com> From NextAnswers - 1001_Master_Index * SerialPortDriver.22106.1 93-09-07 1327 SerialPortDriver.pkg 93-09-07 1326 SerialPortDriver.ReadMe 93-09-07 to retrieve these files by ftp ftp.next.com:/pub/NextAnswers/ByNumber/1327.compressed ftp.next.com:/pub/NextAnswers/ByNumber/1326.compressed to have them e-mailed to you send email to NextAnswers@next.com with a subject containing 1327 1326 They will be returned via NextMail. [note .compressed files are simply .tar.Z files]
From: Jason Fosback <jfosback@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: FAT version of NewsBase on archives Date: 7 Sep 1993 20:25:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26j8qb$8jk@digifix.digifix.com> Due to the overwhelming need for a NeXTSTEP '486 graphical newsreader, I have placed a FAT version of NewsBase on the archives. It's called NewsBase302.FAT.compressed and it's located on: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/next/submissions This distribution contains modified source code to make it compile (somewhat) cleanly, as well as the binaries. NeXTSTEP 3.0 or higher is required. If you have any problems, feel free to contact me at: Jason Fosback Internet: jfosback@oregon.uoregon.edu NeXTmail: jfosback@darkwing.uoregon.edu -30-
From: adenison@NeXT.COM (Allen Denison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXT FRONTLINE Support Tech. Date: 7 Sep 1993 20:26:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26j8qr$8k0@digifix.digifix.com> The following is to start immediately or ASAP. Title: FRONTLINE Support Technician Department: FRONTLINE Support Team Supervisor: Allen Denison This person will work on the FRONTLINE Support Team within the NeXT Support group. The position is located in Redwood City. This job is a good starting point for anyone interested in moving into a technical support or software engineering career. Job responsibilities include: Provide first-contact telephone and e-mail technical support to NeXT customers on our 800-number. Verify these customers against our database of support contracts or establish a per-incident paying method. Help customers with simple post-sales technical problems and questions. Specifically, this person will help customers install and configure systems to run NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. This person will also use on-line documentation and NeXTanswers to answer questions over the phone. Help customers in tracking down known problems or bugs in NEXTSTEP. Using our bug-tracking application, the FRONTLINE Technician will work with software engineering to report and update bug information. This step is often critical in determining whether the customer should pay for support. Set customers' expectation level regarding support. This includes explaining our support policies and helping to sell support contracts. It also includes determining to what extent support is complimentary. Use our support problem-tracking application to log support calls that require greater expertise in system and developer issues. This person will gather as much information as the customer can provide about the question/problem. Support the Telesales team in answering some of the technical pre-sales questions received. Help the support team document common customer questions/answers to be integrated into our NeXTanswers system. Skills and background required include: Bachelor's degree. (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) Fundamental technical understanding of NEXTSTEP and its market. Ability to work well both independently and as a team member. Excellent oral and written communications skills, especially in communicating technical information. Good problem-solving skills. Experience with technical support preferred. NeXT provides equal opportunity in employment to all employees and applicants for employment. No person will be discriminated against because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, marital status, medical condition, disability or veteran status. Please forward all inquiries and resumes via e-mail (NeXTmail) to Allen_Denison@NeXT.COM, call direct at (415) 780-2747, or send mail to 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, CA 94063 c/o Allen Denison.
From: Luis Arias <luis@elysia.fdn.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Elysia Announces Support For the Fujitsu ScanPartner10 in its ScanKit ObjectWare Date: 8 Sep 1993 02:57:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26jvp7$aul@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, please contact: Luis Arias Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon 92500 Rueil-Malmaison France [33] (1) 47 49 61 96 [33] (1) 47 14 99 08 fax luis@elysia.fdn.org luis@elysia.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ELYSIA ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR THE FUJITSU SCANPARTNER10 IN ITS SCANKIT OBJECTWARE Paris, France, SEPTEMBER 7, 1993 -- Elysia is pleased to announce support for the Fujitsu ScanPartner10 in its ScanKit ObjectWare package. The Fujitsu ScanPartner10 is a 10 page per minute, A4 scsi scanner which can handle up to 256 gray levels with resolutions of up to 300 dots per inch. The ScanPartner incorporates a 50 sheet automatic document feeder. The ScanKit also currently supports the Ricoh RS632 (A4) and the Fujitsu M3096 (A3) scanners. Elysia wrote the ScanKit to allow developers to easily access image scanners from their NEXTSTEP custom application. Our customers have successfully integrated the ScanKit in their custom application code in a matter of minutes. A scan daemon drives scanner hardware in a background processes leaving the application free for other tasks. A ScanStylePanel provides for modifying scanner settings and assigning them a name. The ScanPanel allows the user to start a scan job, which may later be paused, resumed or aborted. Scanned image data is sent to the application as an NXImage object. Sound signals various conditions, such as an empty paper tray. The ScanKit is currently shipping for NEXTSTEP/Motorola and will be available for NEXTSTEP For Intel Processors by the end of the year. ScanKit Developer comes with sample code, on-line developer documentation, and everything you need to build and develop your ScanKit-based application including all currently supported scanner drivers. A demo version of the ScanKit is available upon request. The ScanKit Developer license is priced at $995. ScanKit Run-Time licenses for the Ricoh RS632 and the Fujitsu ScanPartner10 are priced at $349. The ScanKit Run-Time license for the Fujitsu M3096 scanner is priced at $439. VISA or Mastercard accepted. Elysia is a NeXT VAR specializing in the design and implementation of automatic forms management software for NEXTSTEP. ScanKit is a registered trademark of Elysia, Inc. ScanPartner is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Limited. NEXTSTEP and ObjectWare are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks are registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: KPMG Peat Marwick Becomes NeXT Systems Integrator Date: 8 Sep 1993 15:14:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26laud$dgp@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 -or- Rod McGary KPMG Peat Marwick 415/473-3312 KPMG PEAT MARWICK BECOMES NeXT SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR KPMG to build reusable NEXTSTEP objects for key markets Palo Alto, Calif., September 8, 1993 - KPMG Peat Marwick announced today that the Firm would provide a broad range of systems integration services focusing on NEXTSTEP, NeXT Computer, Inc.'s object-oriented software. KPMG has announced plans to develop reusable object libraries. Currently, more than one hundred firms are shipping ObjectWare, reusable objects for NEXTSTEP. KPMG will be one of the first companies to focus on specialized object kits for vertical markets. This technology will provide a great opportunity for KPMG's systems integrators and consultants to develop custom software and services. KPMG will be developing object libraries for customers in three principal markets: telecommunications, healthcare and financial services. For the initial phase of the KPMG/NeXT relationship, KPMG will begin training engineers on NEXTSTEP starting in September. "Object-oriented development is changing the way leading systems consulting firms will develop software for their key customers. It allows developers to build reusable applications and reusable vertical market components. We believe that NEXTSTEP provides us with an excellent opportunity to provide our customers with the benefits of object-orientation," said Roger Siboni, KPMG's National Director of Information and Communications. "KPMG Peat Marwick has been a leader in the use of object-orientation to deliver advanced software solutions to its worldwide customer base. We are extremely pleased that KPMG is adopting NEXTSTEP as a key tool for its '90's consulting practice," said Warren Weiss, NeXT's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. About KPMG Peat Marwick KPMG Peat Marwick offers an unparalleled combination of service and technology. KPMG's professionals are dedicated to providing the most comprehensive international business advice and services. As the world's largest professional services firm-backed by over 100 years of service and upwards of $6 billion in revenues, KPMG has more than 800 offices in 125 countries, and contracts with 460 of the Fortune 1000. About NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # #
From: "Robert L. Masterson" <Robert_Masterson@sss.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Continental to Bundle Software from SSS on NEXTSTEP Systems Date: 8 Sep 1993 15:15:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26lb0k$dhb@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Joe Bacher Continental Computer Systems, Inc. (800) 776-1229 or Robert Masterson Software Services and Solutions, Inc. (203) 630-2000 email rlm@sss.com CONTINENTAL TO BUNDLE SOFTWARE FROM SOFTWARE SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS ON CONTINENTAL NEXTSTEP SYSTEMS NEWINGTON, CONNECTICUT, September 7, 1993 - Continental Computer Systems, Inc., and Software Services and Solutions, Inc., today announced an agreement for Continental to bundle SS&S Networking Tools, SS&S CASE Tools, SS&S ObjectWare, and SofDesign's QuickBase-SQL server with Continental's computers running NEXTSTEP. The bundled products are part of Continental's CONNECT Kit, an enhanced NEXTSTEP configuration that is part of all Continental NEXTSTEP systems. Software Services and Solutions, Inc., is a nationwide information technology consulting firm specializing in open systems technology, object-oriented software design and development, and networking. "The software in our CONNECT Kit complements the NEXTSTEP environment by providing enhanced information management, connectivity, and development tools. If you are impressed by the rapid development cycle under NEXTSTEP, you will be amazed at how fast mission-critical applications come together on a CONNECT Kit-configured system." said Rodney A. Bouchard, Director of Business Development at Continental Computer Systems. "With our DRCS system, ObjectWare, and SofDesign's QuickBase bundled with Continental's high-performance NEXTSTEP systems, customers can manage information ranging from document revision histories to all their business contacts as soon as they unpack their PC." said Robert L. Masterson, Vice President of Software Services and Solutions. Continental Computer Systems, headquartered in Newington, CT, is a supplier of networked computer systems, software and services. Continental sells Intel 486 and Pentium-based platforms with NEXTSTEP and the CONNECT Kit pre-installed. --------------- CONNECT Kit is a trademark of Continental Computer Systems, Inc. SS&S Networking Tools, SS&S CASE Tools, and SS&S ObjectWare are trademarks of Software Services and Solutions, Inc. QuickBase is a trademark of SofDesign Solutions Corp.
From: Luis Arias <luis@elysia.fdn.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Elysia Announces Support For the Fujitsu ScanPartner10 in its ScanKit ObjectWare Date: 8 Sep 1993 15:18:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26lb5n$djd@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, please contact: Luis Arias Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon 92500 Rueil-Malmaison France [33] (1) 47 49 61 96 [33] (1) 47 14 99 08 fax luis@elysia.fdn.org luis@elysia.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ELYSIA ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR THE FUJITSU SCANPARTNER10 IN ITS SCANKIT OBJECTWARE Paris, France, SEPTEMBER 7, 1993 -- Elysia is pleased to announce support for the Fujitsu ScanPartner10 in its ScanKit ObjectWare package. The Fujitsu ScanPartner10 is a 10 page per minute, A4 scsi scanner which can handle up to 256 gray levels with resolutions of up to 300 dots per inch. The ScanPartner incorporates a 50 sheet automatic document feeder. The ScanKit also currently supports the Ricoh RS632 (A4) and the Fujitsu M3096 (A3) scanners. Elysia wrote the ScanKit to allow developers to easily access image scanners from their NEXTSTEP custom application. Our customers have successfully integrated the ScanKit in their custom application code in a matter of minutes. A scan daemon drives scanner hardware in a background processes leaving the application free for other tasks. A ScanStylePanel provides for modifying scanner settings and assigning them a name. The ScanPanel allows the user to start a scan job, which may later be paused, resumed or aborted. Scanned image data is sent to the application as an NXImage object. Sound signals various conditions, such as an empty paper tray. The ScanKit is currently shipping for NEXTSTEP/Motorola and will be available for NEXTSTEP For Intel Processors by the end of the year. ScanKit Developer comes with sample code, on-line developer documentation, and everything you need to build and develop your ScanKit-based application including all currently supported scanner drivers. A demo version of the ScanKit is available upon request. The ScanKit Developer license is priced at $995. ScanKit Run-Time licenses for the Ricoh RS632 and the Fujitsu ScanPartner10 are priced at $349. The ScanKit Run-Time license for the Fujitsu M3096 scanner is priced at $439. VISA or Mastercard accepted. Elysia is a NeXT VAR specializing in the design and implementation of automatic forms management software for NEXTSTEP. ScanKit is a registered trademark of Elysia, Inc. ScanPartner is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Limited. NEXTSTEP and ObjectWare are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks are registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: liz@sarrus.com (Liz Statmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Sarrus Ships MAB Pencil Me In and SBook - Upgrades for Customers Date: 8 Sep 1993 16:51:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26lgjv$e4t@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS ________________________________________________________________ Contact: Liz Statmore, Vice President of Marketing Sarrus Software (415) 345-8950 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 Ship on NEXTSTEP for Intel Free Upgrades for Current Customers FOSTER CITY, Calif., September 1, 1993 P Sarrus Software, Inc. today announced that enhanced versions of its scheduling and contact management products, Pencil Me In<<TM>> and SBook<<TM>>, are now shipping on NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors and NEXTSTEP for NeXT computers. In addition, Sarrus announced that it will offer free upgrades of the two products to current customers. Besides running on NEXTSTEP networks that mix both Intel-based and NeXT-manufactured hardware, the two productivity packages now work together more effectively, helping users better integrate their scheduling, to-do lists and contact management. *As a leader in groupware solutions for the NEXTSTEP platform, Sarrus places a priority on supporting the way customers really work," said Andrew K. Turk, president of Sarrus. "Most NEXTSTEP customers will have heterogeneous networks of both Intel-based and Motorola-based computers. The new versions of Pencil Me In and SBook let users share calendar and contact files transparently without worrying about which kind of computer their co-workers are using.: "The inherent groupware capabilities of NEXTSTEP have freed companies like Sarrus to focus on raising the standard of groupware applications instead of compensating for deficiencies in other environments," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Products such as Pencil Me In and SBook are helping NEXTSTEP enterprise customers to achieve operational productivity gains they could only have imagined on other platforms." Pencil Me In, the leading group scheduling application for NEXTSTEP computers, combines a powerful, scalable, network-ready architecture with an easy, intuitive calendar interface. It enables users to integrate personal and groupscheduling in enterprise computing environments. For example, users can schedule one-time or repeating appointments, track action items, share calendars over a network and use group calendars to schedule meetings in a single operation. SBook is a flexible, intelligent personal contact management tool for business professionals that allows users to store and use contact information in any way they like. Its built-in intelligence automatically recognizes phone numbers, postal addresses and e-mail addresses as they are typed in, and it allows users to keep a log of each phone call, fax and letter sent. SBook can also distinguish between fax and voice numbers, so users can send faxes or place phone calls with a single click of the mouse. The program can print the contents of a contact database onto standard mailing labels or individual envelopes, complete with postal barcodes for faster delivery. What's New in Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 Enhanced drag-and-drop integration between Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 allows users to drag contact information out of SBook files and drop it directly into Pencil Me In calendars or action lists. The enhanced integration also lets users look up contact information in their SBook files from within a Pencil Me In calendar or any other NEXTSTEP application via the Services menu. Pencil Me In 1.1 includes new data export capabilities for using scheduling data and notes outside of Pencil Me In calendar files. Users can export calendar data into time-and-billing programs or produce calendar reports from appointment data using WordPerfect word processing, Mesa spreadsheet, DataPhile database and other popular programs. Pencil Me In 1.1 also allows users to print out a quick listing of events within a specified range of dates. Pencil Me In 1.1 makes it easier for users to select multiple events, and SBook 3.1 features enhanced envelope printing capabilities. In addition, both products now support standard NEXTSTEP 3.0 online help. They are fully indexed and include a Table of Contents along with links to specific topics of interest. System Requirements Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 run on NEXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel Processors and NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher for NeXT computers. The same version runs unmodified on either system. Price and Availability Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 are both available now directly from Sarrus. Suggested retail prices are $299 per user for Pencil Me In 1.1 and $199 per user for SBook 3.1. Sarrus also offers educational discounts for students and universities. Contact the company for information. Upgrade Program Through November 30, 1993, current owners of Pencil Me In or SBook can upgrade to the new version at no charge, apart from $7.50 for shipping and handling. For more information about the Customer Upgrade Program, current customers can call Sarrus at (800) 995-1963, or send e-mail to info@sarrus.com. Customers outside the U.S. can reach Sarrus at (415) 345-8950 or via e-mail. About Sarrus Founded in 1991, Sarrus Software, Inc. is a privately held company with the mission of empowering groups of people to share information in the office environment with integrated, easy-to-use Group Information Management (GIM) software. Sarrus is the leading provider of GIM software on NEXTSTEP computers, with products that include group scheduling and integrated contact management. -30- Pencil Me In and SBook are trademarks of Sarrus Software, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other products and brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: elitman@wam.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP Developer/Sysadmin Positions in Washington, DC Date: 8 Sep 1993 22:38:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26m4u9$f87@digifix.digifix.com> Proxima, Inc. is pleased to anounce the following positions in our Tyson's Corner, VA offices. (1) NeXTSTEP Developer o NeXTSTEP systems development o DBKit/Oracle experience o Ability to work independantly or under direction o Full or Part-time availability (1) System Administrator o NeXTSTEP/NetInfo experience a *must* o BSD UNIX experience o TCP/IP local and wide-area networking knowledge o Excellent communications skills o Ability to travel Please respond via email to elitman@nxstep.com, or fax your resume in care of Eric Litman to 703.524.9204. _______________ Proxima, Inc. is a Maryland company providing systems integration, application development, and local and wide-area networking solutions to both commercial and federal government clients. Proxima prides itself on maintaining a stimulating work environment, and is an equal opportunity employer. _______________ --- Eric A. Litman elitman@nxstep.com Systems Engineer Proxima, Inc. Rosslyn, VA 703.524.8700
From: Peter Kron <pkron@corona.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SkyView 1.0 Date: 9 Sep 1993 16:00:30 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26o20s$j5u@digifix.digifix.com> SkyView 1.0 has been placed on cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/submissions/SkyView-1.0.compressed. SkyView performs many of the functions of a planetarium. It allows you to see the appearance of the sky from any specified location on the earth. See the README on the archive. Skyview is freeware and FAT. It was ported from the Windows freeware app of the same name by Corona Design, Inc., which provides NEXTSTEP consulting and custom programming. Contact: info@corona.com (206)524-8447
From: Don_Yacktman@byu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: MiscKit mailing list - community developed Kit! Date: 9 Sep 1993 17:04:48 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26o5pe$jkr@digifix.digifix.com> News Contact: Don Yacktman (801) 221-0344 Don_Yacktman@byu.edu 9 Sep 1993, Provo, UT--Don Yacktman, author of the free DAYMiscKit is now opening up the kit so that others may contribute objects to this library of useful Objective C classes. As part of this change in policy, a new mail alias has been set up. If you wish to be on this mailing list, send mail to one of the following addresses, requesting that you be added to the list and clearly stating the e-mail address at which you wish to receive mail: Don_Yacktman@byu.edu misckit-request@byu.edu If you have already sent mail to Don Yacktman about this list, you should already be on it. (If you are unsure, send another request to make sure you end up on the list.) On Monday, an initial message will be sent to all subscribers; if you do not get this message then you know there was a problem, and should send a query to one of the above addresses. Beginning Monday, September 13, 1993, you will be able to send messages to the mailing list using this address: misckit@byu.edu This mailing list will be used to discuss any important details about the MiscKit, including: * Finding a new prefix, since "DAY" is no longer truly applicable. Several suggestions have already been made; those on the list will get to vote on them, or suggest some new ones. * Finalizing the software license which will be used. The current license allows free use of the software, for any purpose, but attempts to keep free of the restrictions which make GNU code undesireable for use by many commercial programmers. * Discussion of what new objects to add to the kit. Several offers have already been made; no useful object will be turned down. * And, of course, anything else of interest will pop up, including announcements of new releases, etc. Although this list is intended for use by those wishing to contribute to the MiscKit, anyone is welcome to join the list. Suggestions and bug reports sent in by users of the kit will always be welcome. The DAYMiscKit was originally created to house useful objects that would tend to be included in just about any project one might put together. Rather than include all the files in each project, a library was created. The library was made public as a way to help prevent people from having to duplicate this effort. A special non-GNU freeware license was applied to allow commercial programmers to use the kit without fear of legal difficulties. The kit has now been opened up for public submissions because of a high level of interest amongst readers of comp.sys.next.programmer, many of whom have expressed interest in contributing to the kit. The current code in the kit has been written by Don Yacktman, Carl Lindberg, and Scott Anguish. It includes objects to handle strings, time, log files, and lock files. If you have any questions or desire further information, contact Don Yacktman at Don_Yacktman@byu.edu. Don Yacktman is a freelance NeXT programmer and graduate student of electrical and computer engineering at Brigham Young University. He maintains the ftp.byu.edu ftp server, amongst other things. You might find it worth while poking through some of his projects in progress, the latest versions of which are always available in the pub/next directory.
From: bp@cs.washington.edu (Brian Pinkerton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MonsterShelf MAB and Source Date: 10 Sep 1993 01:04:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26p1sp$lsm@digifix.digifix.com> I've placed MonsterShelf, in binary and source form, on cs.orst.edu, in /pub/next/submissions/ 597 Sep 10 00:41 MonsterShelf.README 28239 Sep 10 00:41 MonsterShelf_3.0.tar.Z 34122 Sep 10 00:41 MonsterShelf_FAT.tar.z 21686 Sep 10 00:41 MonsterShelf_Source.tar.z MonsterShelf extends your Workspace shelf to the entire desktop. You drag files out of the viewer, and they stick to the desktop. Just as with the shelf, you can copy, move, or link files and directories. When you click on an icon in MonsterShelf, that file is selected in the Workspace. If you double click on the icon, MonsterShelf will open it using the appropriate application. MonsterShelf is in the public domain. Feel free to use it, send it to your friends, and extend it. If you'd like to send me feedback, bug fixes, or cool new features, you can reach me at bp@cs.washington.edu. Enjoy! Brian Pinkerton 9/9/93 [moderators note: the .z files are gzip]
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: September Minnesota NeXT User Group Meeting [Sept. 14th] Date: 10 Sep 1993 23:06:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26rfcd$12f@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing the September meeting of the Minnesota NeXT User Group: Date: Tuesday evening, September 14th Time: 7pm to 10pm Location: 23 Empire Drive, Conference Room B St. Paul, MN 55103 Speaker: Keith Willard University of Minnesota Health Informatics Food: Cookies & drink will be provided Keith Willard will speak about using NEXTSTEP/Sybase database development. SchemaE -- a tool for creating and maintaining and documenting a Sybase schema including the database schema, rules, defaults, stored procedures and permissions. All in a NEXTSTEP environment including the ability to produce dbmodels for dbkit. sybperl -- a free perl extension that allows perler's to attach to a Sybase server in the perl way. An outstandingly excellent tool for Sybase data maintenance. As long as you don't want a user interface this is the easiest way by far to manipulate data in your server. Directions from Minneapolis: Take I 94 West to downtown St. Paul. Take I 35E north and take the 1st exit which is Pennsylvania. Take a left under the bridge and take the Jefferson exit. Go straight through the stop sign and our building will be on the right hand side. I can email you a map or if you don't have NEXTMAIL you can call me at (612) 223-8475 if you want me to FAX you a map. See you on Tuesday! Dan McCreary For further information, contact: Dan McCreary President Integrity Solutions, Inc. 23 Empire Drive St. Paul, MN 55103 office:(612) 223-8475 voice mail: (612) 220-3648 FAX: (612) 223-8481 Email: dan@is.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 37 - 1993 Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:11:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <272nmg$gvg@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 37). Monday August 6 through Monday September 13 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 36 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: Metrosoft Aquires Squash PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Announces the UIBinder Palette MEETING: Gotham Users of NeXT - September 15th NEXTSTEP Intel Updated Serial Drivers on ftp.next.com SUBMISSION: FAT version of NewsBase on archives JOB: NeXT FRONTLINE Support Tech. PRESS RELEASE: KPMG Peat Marwick Becomes NeXT Systems Integrator PRESS RELEASE: Continental to Bundle Software from SSS on NEXTSTEP Systems PRESS RELEASE: Elysia Announces Support For the Fujitsu ScanPartner10 in its ScanKit ObjectWare PRESS RELEASE: Sarrus Ships MAB Pencil Me In and SBook - Upgrades for Customers JOB: NeXTSTEP Developer/Sysadmin Positions in Washington, DC SUBMISSION: SkyView 1.0 ANNOUNCEMENT: MiscKit mailing list - community developed Kit! SUBMISSION: MonsterShelf MAB and Source MEETING: September Minnesota NeXT User Group Meeting [Sept. 14th] If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:11:54 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <272nmo$gvm@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:11:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <272nmu$gvs@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The comp.sys.next FAQs can be found here. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The comp.sys.next.programmer FAQs can be found here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: Mark R Onyschuk <g1markus@cdf.toronto.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OBJECT: Math 1.11 and OBJECT:Math Function Kits Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:13:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <272npn$h03@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Andre Angelantoni M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. 389 Leslie St., Unit 2 Toronto, Canada M4M 3E3 phone: 416-462-3954 e-mail: ask-oa@plexus.guild.org M. ONYSCHUK AND ASSOCIATES INC. INTRODUCES OBJECT:MATH 1.11 AND OBJECT:MATH FUNCTION KITS. TORONTO CANADA, September 13 1993 - M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OBJECT:Math 1.11, the latest version of its comprehensive set of tools and 22 Objective-C classes used to add extensible math and string handling to NEXTSTEP applications. Classes shipped with the OBJECT:Math kit include: 1. a value class which encapsulates standard Objective-C data types, and which can easily be subclassed to support custom types such as vectors, matrices, or dates and times. 2. a compiler which converts math and string expressions as might be typed into a spreadsheet cell or plotting package, into Objective-C objects. 3. an unbundler which allows end-users to extend OBJECT:Math applications with dynamically loaded custom-built or third-party OBJECT:Math function kits. 4. a collection of UI elements including a Lotus Improv (TM) style function picker, variable browser, and objects used to display OBJECT:Math expression trees. OBJECT:Math also ships ready to run a collection of pre-fabricated function kits available from M. Onyschuk and Associates as well as from third parties. Kits include MathBundle and StringBundle which ship with every copy of OBJECT:Math, and Fuzzy Logic Bundle, a kit which allows users to implement functions which map collections of fuzzy, or vague, inputs to a fuzzy output. Fuzzy Logic Bundle makes OBJECT:Math an invaluable tool for applications involving process control. OBJECT:MATH IN COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: ``Today's commercial NEXTSTEP software faces stiff competition from DOS and Windows work-alikes,'' says Andre Angelantoni, M. Onyschuk and Associates' programmer and head of technical publications. ``When we set out to develop our DatabaseKit-based report writer product, we aimed to create an application which could do things Windows and OS/2 report writers just couldn't! Today, users can customize our report writer with their own function kits and support for custom data types. They can even build functions to connect to live data sources, or gather information through panels and other UI elements at different stages of the report generation process. This is why we developed OBJECT:Math.'' ``OBJECT:Math was designed for use in our own products,'' says Mark Onyschuk, M. Onyschuk and Associates president, ``but we soon realized that we and other NEXTSTEP developers stood to gain even more if we offered OBJECT:Math as a lingua franca for extensible NEXTSTEP software. The product architecture is flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of applications, from database server products, to presentation graphics packages, to spreadsheets; and we're interested in working with other developers to make this happen.'' WHO, WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW MUCH: OBJECT:Math ships ready to run on both NS/M68K and NS/Intel systems, and may be licensed directly from M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. for $249.95, or $599.95 with complete product source. University and college staff and students can license OBJECT:Math for as little as $49.95, or $249.95 with product source. For more information about OBJECT:Math, OBJECT:Math function kits, or a free OBJECT:Math demo, contact M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. at ask-oa@plexus.guild.org, or look for ObjectMathDemo1.11.tar.gz, posted to cs.orst.edu and currently located in the submissions folder. --- M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is a Toronto-based developer of custom and commercial NEXTSTEP software. OBJECT:Math, MathBundle, StringBundle, and Fuzzy Logic Bundle are trademarks of M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Mark R Onyschuk <g1markus@cdf.toronto.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: OBJECT: Math Service on cs.orst.edu Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:14:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <272nr5$h0e@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Andre Angelantoni M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. 389 Leslie St., Unit 2 Toronto, Canada M4M 3E3 phone: 416-462-3954 e-mail: ask-oa@plexus.guild.org M. ONYSCHUK AND ASSOCIATES INC. INTRODUCES OBJECT MATH SERVICE - MAB APPLICATION AND FUNCTION BUNDLES AVAILABLE ON CS.ORST.EDU TORONTO CANADA, September 13 1993 - M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Object Math Service, a NEXTSTEP service provider which allows users to evaluate math and text expressions inside other applications, using OBJECT:Math. To use the service, place ObjectMathService.app into your ~/Apps folder, and place your collection of OBJECT:Math functions kits into ~/Library/ObjectMath or ~/Library/ObjectMathService. Highlight a math or text expression in any NEXTSTEP application and select `Evaluate using OBJECT:Math' from the services menu to calculate the result. ObjectMathService ships with MathBundle and StringBundle, a collection of common math and string handling functions, and a tutorial for developing your own custom OBJECT:Math function kits. ObjectMathService.app is available via anonymous ftp from cs.orst.edu as ObjectMathService1.02.tar.gz, and is currently located in the submissions folder. For more information about OBJECT:Math, OBJECT:Math function kits, or a free OBJECT:Math demo, contact M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. at ask-oa@plexus.guild.org, or look for ObjectMathDemo1.11.tar.gz, posted to cs.orst.edu .
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Val Verde Unified School District Continues Reinventing Schools Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:24:56 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <272of6$h2u@digifix.digifix.com> For further information please contact: Darrell Lynn, Director Information Technology 975 E. Morgan Road Perris, CA 92571 909-940-6100 ext. 239 Email: darrell_lynn@valverde.edu NeXTmail is supported VAL VERDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CONTINUES REINVENTING SCHOOLS Val Verde prepares to open schools on Monday with three additional revolutionary learning and management environments. Rancho Verde High School, El Potrero Elementary, and Tomas Rivera Middle School open with powerful NeXT workstations running NeXTstep on every teacher, administrator, and support staff desktops. Each is connected to the District's fast ethernet network of fiber optic and the Internet. All users have the ability to log onto the network from any workstation within the District. Rancho Verde High School currently has 83 workstations on all teacher desktops connected over a fiber optic backbone. The site has installed over 4.5 miles of fiber and copper cable. This advanced technology environment is coupled with the overall design of the campus as it won the state architectural school design award last year. Currently students use Mathematic notebooks at all mathematic levels to produce highly motivated students interested in advanced college math study. El Potrero Elementary opens with a NeXT workstation on every teacher desktop which students have constant access to. Each classroom has capabilities for a workstation on every desktop, as do all schools with the network to the classroom. As new systems are purchased all that is needed is for the workstation to be configured and added to the network. El Potrero, as with all campuses in the District, has a fiber optic backbone with fiber also brought into each classroom, administrative offices and library. Tomas Rivera Middle School is newly constructed and draws upon the same rich technology design as other District sites. It too has a NeXT workstation on every teacher desktop running NeXTstep. The library has numerous workstations for students to use during class and independent visits. The Interpersonal Computing Lab has 35 Epson PCs running NeXTstep. Students will be using the Internet and Local Digital Libraries to promote higher order thinking and research and collaboration within several disciplines. Val Verde Unified School District has twelve sites all connected together in one seamless WAN. The last three sites will have their classrooms connected during this school year. Several agencies have commented that the infrastructure in the District is as well thought out and constructed to rival any corporate or federal installation. The network conforms to IEEE 802.3 specifications and all components are running SNMP for network administration. The District is reinventing how it does business by eliminating paper memorandums, work-orders, purchase-orders, etc and instead use the network to improve upon these traditional methods. Students are using these tools to communicate with their teachers, adminstrators for the purpose of developing group collaboration & communication skills. Students are working with other students across the District in cross-age tutoring and research & development. Additionally students are engaged in collaborative learning projects with students as far way as Japan and New Zealand. Custom applications will be developed by the students using Interface Builder and C programming language. The applications will not only improve the students understanding of how to design and build applications but provide additional applications for others to use and extend into their own learning environment. Val Verde Unified is located in Riverside County California. The Superintendent is Dr. Leona Williams. There are approximately 7600 students attending the District's schools. For further information please contact: Darrell Lynn, Director Information Technology 975 E. Morgan Road Perris, CA 92571 909-940-6100 ext. 239 darrell_lynn@valverde.edu NeXTmail is supported
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide: September 13, 1993 Edition Date: 13 Sep 1993 19:04:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <272u98$hjq@digifix.digifix.com> Note.. there are PostScript versions of this document available from ftp.next.com. NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide September 13, 1993 For easy readability of this Hardware Guide: If you are reading this with Mail.app, be sure to set your font preference for this message to a smaller fixed-pitch font (recommended: Ohlfs 10 point font). This document describes in general terms, the types of PC-compatible hardware that is supported by NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 for Intel Processors. Although may different vendors' systems will work with NEXTSTEP, the systems listed here have been tested and found to be compatible with NEXTSTEP. For any hardware specification or purchase, please contact NeXT for the latest update to this guide. PC compatibles, portables and laptops from the following vendors are now supported: ALR ALTIMA AST COMPAQ DATA GENERAL DEC DELL EPSON GATEWAY HEWLETT PACKARD IBM INTEL LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR NCR NEC TOSHIBA UNISYS ZENITH CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS GEC COMPUTERS Driver updates: Information on device driver updates may be obtained by sending email to NeXTanswers@next.com with the subject of "INDEX HELP". You will receive the master index for NeXTanswers. NeXT and third parties are constantly developing and enhancing drivers for NEXTSTEP. Updates to existing drivers, or new drivers can be downloaded from the Internet via email or ftp. NeXTanswers provides an easy method to obtain drivers by e-mail as described above. (Note: you must be able to receive NeXTMail in order to be able to receive drivers via email.) To obtain drivers via ftp: use ftp to access ftp.next.com and login as anonymous with any password and "cd" to /pub. Drivers can be downloaded from the NeXTanswers directory. ** TABLE OF CONTENTS ** -> CHANGES SINCE AUGUST 10 Hardware Guide -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> CHANGES SINCE AUGUST 10 Hardware Guide The following changes/additions were made to the August 10, 1993 version of this Hardware Compatibility Guide: -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems A docking station, SCSI adapter and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters Specific Firmware version required for all DPT SCSI Hard disk interface products. See NeXTanswers for details. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. Add-on parallel cards not supported. Please note additions and changes to LAN Adapter section. (Among others, 3COM's EISA board is now supported. ) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Desktop Systems General Requirements for Desktop Systems: CPU - i486 based or Pentium based PC Compatible Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2 or Pentium. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - ISA or EISA expansion bus. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition. NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - Ram requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter. GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - See "NEXTSTEP for INTEL PROCESSORS GRAPHICS" in this Guide for details on graphics support. DISK INTERFACES - IDE and several SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. NOTE: a SCSI adaptor and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial and bus mice. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Desktop Systems PC MANUFACTURERS Below appear the following graphics configurations for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors compatible hardware: I. 16 Bit Color Systems II 8 Bit Grayscale Systems III. 2 Bit Grayscale Systems Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. I. 16 Bit Color Systems ALR Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For ALR: 1MB VRAM is required for 800x600 For ALR: 2MB VRAM is required for 1024x768 (ATI Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 VL-BUS AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For AST Power Premium: see Add-On Graphics adapter chart 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card (ATI Driver Update required) 486DX, 486DX2 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 33 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DATA GENERAL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX DG Dasher LE2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 4 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (S3 Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (S3 Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For 450DE/2 DGX: 2MB of VRAM - 16 bit color resolution is 1120 x 832 For Dell ME, L, M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 486DX2 Dell 450DE/2 DGX EISA 50 Mhz Localbus JAWS 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 EPSON Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Epson Progression NX: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1024x768 For Epson Progression: 1MB VRAM Version supports 800x600 For Epson Progression: 2MB VRAM Version supports 1120x832 (Wingine Driver update available for Progression, 1120x832) 486DX, 486DX2 Epson Progression NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Epson Progression ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine GATEWAY Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Gateway: requires 2MB VRAM for the 1024x768 16 bit color; requires 1MB VRAM for the 800x600 16 bit color 486DX. 486DX2 Gateway Series V ISA 33 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 50 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus Gateway Series V ISA 66 Mhz VL-bus ATI 68800 VL-Bus HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 16 bit color For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 16 bit color [HP Vectra XM series: S3 driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card Packard U Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 16 bit - 800x600 resolution (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: S3 Driver Update required for all IBM systems) 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS INTEL Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Intel: 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX2 Intel GX/Pro EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ATI 68800 LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR Vendor name Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Lucky Goldstar: 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 33 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine Logisys/Lucky VL-Bus Goldstar LG 486NX ISA 66 Mhz Localbus C&T Wingine NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: requires Compaq QVision 1024/E for 800x600 or ATI Graphics Ultra Pro EISA with 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card UNISYS Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For UNISYS: requires high resolution RAMDAC for NEXTSTEP support. On-board SCSI & LAN not yet supported. UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 1MB VRAM for 800x600 UNISYS U6000 DT2: Requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 486DX2 UNISYS U6000 DT2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus ATI 68800 ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA HARDWARE SYSTEM INTEGRATORS 16 bit Color Systems CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS Integrator Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Continental computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC COMPUTERS Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For GEC computers: 1MB VRAM for 800x600 16 bit color; 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 16 bit color 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 ISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 ISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 486DX, 486DX2 GEC Jet F86 EISA 33 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 50 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 66 Mhz VL-Bus ATI 68800 Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. II. 8 Bit Grayscale COMPAQ Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart 486DX Compaq Deskpro L EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision 486DX, 486DX2 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 33 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 50 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision Pentium Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 60 Mhz EISA QVision Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA 66 Mhz EISA QVision DEC Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ LocalbusS3-928 486 DX2 (S3 Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 486 DX2 (S3 Driver Update required) DEC MTE-d2 EISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell ME Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 Dell ME Series EISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell ME Series EISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX, 486DX2 Dell M Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP N and NI: requires 1 MB VRAM for 8 bit - 1024x768 resolution For HP Vectra XM series: 1 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1024x768 For HP Vectra XM series: 2 MB VRAM supports 8 bit - 1280x1024 [HP Vectra XM series: S3 driver update required.] [Vectra NI and XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard N Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 Packard NI Hewlett Vectra ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 50 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM Hewlett Vectra ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-928 Packard XM IBM Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) (For NEXTSTEP 3.1: S3 Driver Update required for all IBM systems) For IBM Value Point systems: 1MB VRAM for 8 bit- 1023x768 resolution 486DX, 486DX2 IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 33 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 66 Mhz Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS NCR Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX2 ISA NCR 3333 VL-Bus 66 Mhz VL-Bus graphics adapter NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For NEC: Select add-on EISA Graphics adapter 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA card NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA card ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Add-on EISA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Add-on EISA Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. III. 2 Bit Grayscale AST Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ 640x480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 AST Power Premium EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA AST Power Premium EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA DELL Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell L Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 - 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Dell L Series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) Dell L Series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus S3-805 (ET4000W32) HEWLETT PACKARD Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ For HP: Built-in VGA supports 640-480 2 bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 Hewlett Vectra EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U Hewlett Vectra EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA Packard U NEC Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 1024x768 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC I-series ISA 33 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 50 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX NEC I-series ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000AX 486DX2 NEC Image 466 ISA 66 Mhz LocalBus ET4000W32 Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Architecture _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale 486DX, 486DX2 ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 33 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 50 Mhz Built-in VGA ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 66 Mhz Built-in VGA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP-COMPATIBLE Portable Systems OVERVIEW CPU - i486 based PC Compatible Portable Computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - AC powered portables require at least one ISA or EISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from CD-ROM. BATTERY-POWERED PORTABLES AND DOCKING STATIONS - Battery powered portables require a docking station with at least one ISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from a CD-ROM. Once NEXTSTEP is installed, the portable may be used away from the docking station. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition: NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - RAM requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter: GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes(+) Note: Since 16 bit color and 8 bit color grayscale support require LocalBus, VL-Bus, PCI, or EISA graphics adapters, only AC-powered portables with EISA slots can support 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. (+) - NeXT recommends a minimum of 12MB or RAM for acceptable performance on portables. GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - Current display panel technology in popular PC-compatibles is limited to 640x480 resolution and cannot yet display 16 bit color. These systems do not yet support the linear buffer NEXTSTEP requires for 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. Therefore, NEXTSTEP supports these systems with 2-bit grayscale at 640x480. Active matrix or plasma panels are recommended for better cursor tracking response. ISA systems (AC-powered or through a docking station) can support add-on, high resolution 2-bit grayscale graphics adapters and EISA-based AC-powered portables can support 16-bit color or 8-bit grayscale graphics with an add-on EISA graphics adapter. DISK INTERFACES - Both built-in IDE and add-on SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. Battery powered portables require a docking station to install a SCSI hard disk interface card. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft and Logitec compatible PS/2 and serial mice are supported. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a networking adapter. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a sound card. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-Compatible Portable Systems PC MANUFACTURERS Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. 3. A docking station, SCSI adapter and SCSI CDROM are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. I. Built-in Panel Portables ALTIMA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX ALTIMA 433D Battery Passive 33 Mhz ISA 200/20 Matrix Mono Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on pointer support for Altima 433D. AST Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SL AST Power- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Color KMM 4SL or Mono MS AST Power- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/32 Exec Matrix KMM 4SL Mono MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem COMPAQ Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 25 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 33 Mhz 525/32 Port. Matrix Color 486SL COMPAQ LTE Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 200/20 Lite Matrix KMM 4/25c Color MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for 486/C and 486/M) NEC Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486SX NEC Pro- AC Active 20 Mhz 200/20 Speed Matrix 486C Color 486SL NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 20 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM NEC Ultra- Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 180/12 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for ProSpeed 486C) Built-in expansion: PCMCIA for Ultralite Versa C & M models ProSpeed 486C requires floating point upgrade. Send email to nextanswers@next.com for update on built-in trackball support for LTE Lite 4/25c. TOSHIBA Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Speed Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ 486DX, 486DX2 TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 33 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 50 Mhz 200/32 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 33 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color TOSHIBA T6400 AC Active 50 Mhz 200/32 DXC Matrix Color 486SX TOSHIBA T4400SX Battery Passive 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Mono or MS Plasma KMM TOSHIBA T4400 Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 SXC Matrix MS Color KMM 486DX TOSHIBA T4400C Battery Active 25 Mhz ISA 120/20 Matrix MS Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (ISA expansion for T6400DX and T6400DXC models) T4400SX and T4400SXC require floating point upgrades. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters OVERVIEW NEXTSTEP GRAPHICS SYSTEM NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors' Display Postscript graphic system supports such advanced capabilities as scalable fonts, unified imaging model for both screen display and printing, image transparency (also known as alpha channel), Pantone color matching, and Pixar Interactive Renderman 3D imaging. NEXTSTEP's window server composites multiple layers of images, and allows the user to work with images of any quality with any supported imaging model, in other words users can work with a 32 bit color image even on a 2-bit grayscale system! In order to provide these sophisticated capabilities NEXTSTEP requires a "workstation"-style linear frame buffer graphics system and a high performance 32-bit data path to the frame buffer. The number of colors or shades of gray, depth of transparency, etc., varies depending on the image model supported. ** TABLE FOR NEXTSTEP IMAGING ** Imaging Model Colors or Transparency Window Server Support Shades of (alpha channel) for Renderman 3D Gray Graphics _____________________________________________________________________ 32-bit color 24-bit - 8-bit (256 YES 16 million levels) colors 16-bit color 12-bit - 4-bit (16 YES 4096 colors levels) 32-BIT COLOR 2-bit color support on Intel-based PCs is planned for a future release of NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. 16-BIT COLOR Graphics Architectures Supported - Intel JAWS (such as DELL Processor-Direct Graphics), Chips and Technologies Wingine, ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 16-bit color, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data path, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 16-bit color. Future support is planned for the Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 800x600, 1024x768, 1120x832. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 8-BIT GRAYSCALE Graphics Architectures Supported - S3-805 and Compaq QVision. Due to the performance requirements of 8-bit grayscale, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 8-bit color. Future support is planned for the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (68800), Tseng Labs ET-4000W32i and S3-928. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Supported Resolutions: 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Specific support varies by graphics adapter and graphics frame buffer size. 2-BIT GRAYSCALE NeXT has devoted a special driver that simulates the linear frame buffer required by NEXTSTEP's graphics system on segmented frame buffer graphics adapters such as standard VGA and Super VGA cards. This allows NEXTSTEP to support most standard VGA cards as well as certain Super VGA cards. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. Graphics Architectures Supported - Standard VGA compatible and certain Super VGA graphics adapters using the Tseng Labs ET-4000AX or Cirrus Logic GD 542X. These graphics adapters can be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-BUS), PCI, EISA or ISA. Supported Resolutions: 640x480 (Standard VGA) or 1024x769 (Super VGA). _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors Graphics MANUFACTURERS OF GRAPHICS ADAPTERS ATI 68800 Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- VL-BUS ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ATI Ultra- EISA ATI 16 bit color: Pro Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVISION Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1024/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1280/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2 MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 CIRRUS LOGIC GD542X Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ STB Horizon ISA Cirrus 2 bit grayscale: Logic .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 GD542X JAWS Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ DELL 450DE/2 Local- DELL 16 bit color: DGX bus JAWS 2 MB VRAM supports 1120x832 DGX Note: Upgrade for Dell 450DE only. TSENG LABS ET-4000AX Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ ISA Tseng 2 bit grayscale: Labs .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ET4000 STANDARD VGA Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions _____________________________________________________________________ various various ISA VGA 2 bit grayscale Adapter 640x480 resolution (default) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters NEXTSTEP supports a variety of additional devices and add-on adapters: DISK INTERFACES Both IDE and several SCSI hard disk interfaces are supported. POINTING DEVICES Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial, and bus mice. PRINTERS Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. ADDITIONAL DEVICES Other popular PC peripherals such as FAX/Modems will be supported. DRIVERKIT NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors incorporates a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture called DriverKit. DriverKit allows the quick development of device drivers for new peripherals and add-on cards for Intel-based PCs running NEXTSTEP. DriverKit's architecture allows drivers to be loaded at run-time, thereby allowing users to add additional cards or devices to their systems without re-installing the main operating system. Loadable device drivers also allow NeXT and third parties to easily distribute additional drivers as they become available. NeXT is actively working with hardware manufacturers and third parties to provide additional drivers for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. Developers interested in the DriverKit should contact Developer Support (1-800-848-6398) and join the registered developer program. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors ADDITIONAL DEVICE SUPPORT PRODUCTS Note: When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. FLOPPY DISK Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ 3.5 inch Floppy Disk 1.44MB floppy Controller IDE HARD DISK INTERFACE Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ IDE IDE Disk Controller SCSI HARD DISK INTERFACE Note on Adaptec 1542c & 1742, DPT 2011/95 & 2012/95: built-in floppy disk interface not supported Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Adaptec 1540B ISA Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter Adaptec 1540C ISA Adaptec 1542B Built-in floppy disk SCSI adapter not supported Adaptec 1740 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Adaptec 1742 EISA Planned for 3.2 release of NEXTSTEP Bus 542B ISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter Bus 747S EISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter Specific Firmware version required for all DPT SCSI Hard disk interface products. See NeXTanswers for details. DPT 2012/90 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2012/95 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) DPT 2011/90 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 DPT 2011/95 ISA 512K-16.5MB cache upgradable planned for 3.2 (Built-in floppy not supported) SCSI TAPE Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ SCSI SCSI tape Driver update tape driver available PARALLEL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Add-on parallel cards Parallel Port Parallel port not supported. SERIAL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Supports COM1 & COM2 Serial Ports serial ports LOCAL AREA NETWORK ADAPTERS Note on Intel Etherlink: support of TP port requires Driver update Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3COM Ethernet coax (3C509) Etherlink III (twisted pair - ethernet adapt. not supported) 3COM Etherlink III EISA 3COM Ethernet coax (3C579) Etherlink III (twisted pair - ethernet adapt. not supported) SMC EtherCard Plus ISA SMC 16 Ethernet coax or Elite 16(8013) ethernet twisted pair adapter INTEL EtherExpress 16 ISA Intel Ether- Ethernet coax or (TP, Coax or Combo) Express twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL TokenExpress ISA Intel Token- Token ring ISA/16s Express ISA Token Ring POINTING DEVICES Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ Microsoft MS mouse serial mouse serial mouse Microsoft MS mouse PS/2 mouse port PS/2 mouse Logitec Mouse Man serial mouse serial mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man PS/2 mouse PS/2 mouse (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man Bus Bus mouse Bus mouse adapter AUDIO DEVICES Vendor Model Bus Driver Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard PC CPU System beep System audio alerts speaker board driver only support Media ProAudio ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Spectrum 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Media Pro ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Studio 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play GX Driver updates required for Intel audio devices. Intel GX/Professional CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Driver updates required for Compaq audio devices. Compaq Business Audio CPU planned for Up to CD quality board NEXTSTEP 3.2 stereo record & play Microsoft Sound System ISA Up to CD quality PRINTERS Vendor Model Bus Interface _____________________________________________________________________ NeXT Color Printer SCSI Standard Adobe Postscript Serial or parallel Printers (Postscipt Level II recommended for proper color support.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ September 13, 1993 NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide - end -
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OTI Announces Impress (DBKit Report Writer) for NEXTSTEP Date: 14 Sep 1993 14:43:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2753c7$7rk@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Eric Bergerson, Managing Director Objective Technologies, Inc. 7 Dey St., Suite 1502 NY, NY 10007 Phone: 212 227 6767 OTI Announces Impress (DBKit Report Writer) for NEXTSTEP NEW YORK -- Objective Technologies, Inc. (OTI) one of the leading suppliers of software for NEXTSTEP announced today that it will begin its pre-release program for Impress, the revolutionary DBKit report-writer on September 30th, 1993. Objective Technologies is now accepting applications and purchase orders for the pre-release program. The pre-release program offers users a chance to: 1) Purchase a license for Impress for only $700. The release price is expected to be $850. 2) Start enjoying the power of Impress immediately using a pre-release version. 3) Receive a free upgrade to the release version when it is shipped on January 15th, 1994. WHAT IS IMPRESS? Impress is a DBKit report-writer. It brings the power of desk top publishing to report-writing chores. It combines free-form layout with graphical data access and mathematical calculations. It has an intuitive graphical query interface for retrieving the data from any DBKit data source. The data is analyzed with familiar formula structures and then presented with a drag-and-drop document layout system. The result is a professional report in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take. A powerful API allows developers to make it the report engine for custom applications. Alex Cone, President says, "We are extremely happy with the response to Impress. When we demonstrated it at NeXTWorld Expo in May, we received extremely high praise from everyone who saw it. We even had people tell us that they would consider a NEXTSTEP solution because of Impress. Offering Impress in a pre-release program is a way for us to allow people to get started with Impress right away and to save some money." AVAILABILITY The pre-release version will be available on September 30th, 1993. Impress will be released January 15th, 1994. All purchase orders will be filled in the order in which they are received. The Pre-Release version of Impress requires NEXTSTEP version 3.1 running on either NeXT or Intel hardware. Objective Technologies, Inc., founded in 1990, produces a number of other software products for NEXTSTEP including, SmartFieldPalette(TM), a winner of the 1993 Best of Breed award. The company also provides consulting services and custom software to a wide range of prestigious clients. Objective Technologies, Inc. markets its products worldwide through distributors and directly to end-users. The privately held company is headquartered in New York.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Developer Training Position Open at NeXT (Redwood City, CA) Date: 14 Sep 1993 14:53:36 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2753ve$7tk@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Scott Weiner NEXTSTEP Mentorship Program Manager Phone: (415)780-3806 Email: Scott_Weiner@next.com Developer Training Position Open at NeXT (Redwood City, CA) NeXT Computer Inc. is seeking a highly-skilled and energetic person to join the Developer Training team. The role of the Developer Trainer is to deliver and develop courses on programming NeXT computer systems. The Developer Trainer will participate in evaluating the effectiveness of training and course materials, and help evolve the curriculum and programs to meet the needs of NeXT's customers, and track new NeXT software and hardware products. The skills required to fill this position successfully include: + Excellent written and verbal communication skills + Ability to deliver classroom training + Knowledge of object-oriented programming and Objective-C + Knowledge of UNIX and MACH operating systems + Knowledge of PostScript + Knowledge of NEXTSTEP + Ability to develop and design course curriculum The experience to fill this position successfully includes: + Technical computing, commercial software development, corporate custom application development + Public presentation or training experience. In addition, experience in program and user interface design, hardware troubleshooting, and administering NeXT computers are all desirable. This position requires a person who cares about people, and thrives in a team-oriented environment. Some travel is required.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Windows NT vs. NEXTSTEP Shoot-Out in Colorado Date: 15 Sep 1993 14:39:57 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <277nhs$f47@digifix.digifix.com> WINDOWS NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOT-OUT IN COLORADO WHEN: September 24, 1993, 7 PM WHERE: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder College of Business, Room 224 SPECIAL: Door prizes including copy of NEXTSTEP For more information call Tim Miller at 303-292-2495. Rocky Mountain NeXT Users Group, in cooperation with the PC Users Group of Colorado, will be sponsoring a "Windows NT vs. NEXTSTEP shoot-out." We hope to provide a concise overview of these competing technologies with side by side demonstrations of both. Tim Carlin (formerly of NeXT Inc.) of Spatial Technologies will demonstrate NEXTSTEP. John Stoddard (co-author of the new book "Inside Windows NT") of Micro Decisionware will demonstrate Microsoft's Windows NT. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. What's comparable to NEXTSTEP? "How about Windows NT? It, too, is a microkernel-based 32-bit multitasking system for networking environments and requires top-of-the-line hardware. But NEXTSTEP is more complete, already established by users and VARs and it is easier to develop applications for NEXTSTEP than for NT. NT's interface is Windows, which is already familiar to millions of users. NEXTSTEP's interface is better, in my opinion, but it does not come with a large supply of pretrained users." -- BYTE, August 1993 *** Door PRIZES include a FREE copy of NeXTSTEP Evaluation Kit *** The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit includes: - NeXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel Processors which includes the full NEXTSTEP User product and documentation; - NEXTSTEP Developer CD ROM which includes NeXTSTEP's visual application construction tools and reusable object kits, as well as a 50% off coupon to purchase full technical documentation; - The NEXTSTEP Advantage Kit which includes a booklet, a video cassette and a diskette with sample software to introduce users to the benefits of application development with NEXTSTEP; - NEXTSTEP Programming, a book by Garfinkel & Mahoney, which provides users a thorough explanation of NEXTSTEP application development using a tutorial approach. Location/Directions: University of Colorado, Boulder, College of Business room 224. The College of Business is the second building south of the corner of Colorado and Regent drive on the CU-Boulder campus. >From Hwy. 36: after the Baseline exit, turn left at the first traffic light which is Colorado. Turn left again on Regent. Park on the left side of Regent and the Business school is across the street to the left. The room is located in the middle of the building. There will be signs from all entrances. For more information call Tim Miller at 303-292-2495.
From: E. Michael O'Neill <emo@pawpaw.mitre.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MailHelper_1.3 on cs.orst.edu Date: 15 Sep 1993 17:26:57 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2781av$gmf@digifix.digifix.com> I've placed MailHelper_1.3, in binary and source form, on cs.orst.edu, in /pub/next/submissions/ 5222 Sep 15 16:14 MailHelper_1.3.README 26728 Sep 15 16:15 MailHelper_1.3.source.compressed 27656 Sep 15 17:16 MailHelper_1.3_stripped.compressed 40284 Sep 15 17:16 MailHelper_1.3_MAB_stripped.compressed MailHelper is a service provider for NeXTMail originally by Izumi Ohzawa, and Manuel Alberto Ricart. Version 1.3 by Mike O'Neill (emo@mitre.org) adds support for RTFD signatures, RTF quoting and a colorized icon and is distributed in source, 3.0 and 3.1 FAT forms Version 1.3 Requires OS Release 3.0 or later ----- FROM THE README ----- This application has been written to correct deficiencies with the current NeXT Mail application, especially in the non-NeXT mail mode. MailHelper corrects these problems and provides some additional enhancements via the "Services" menu of the Mail application. It adds the following four features: [1] Text Reformatting It reformats pasted/forwarded text in a send window so that the text fits into about 60 column width. Without reformatting, pasted-in text often appears ugly with alternating long and short lines due to inflexible line wrapping in the non-NeXT mail mode. Paragraph boundaries defined by two consecutive newline characters will be preserved. As of Version 1.2 MailHelper reformats Japanese text. [2] Quoting Text by Prefixed String. It adds "> " to the left of each text line of pasted text to indicate that it is quoted text. [3] Quoting RTF Text by Graying String. [4] Signature Insertion It inserts the content of a signature file (ASCII, RTF, or RTFD) E. Michael O'Neill emo@mitre.org (NeXTmail) (NOTE - I undertook this update as an exercise in learning to write a Service. I do not intend to undertake further enhancements. If anyone wishes to continue this work please feel free! -emo)
From: Kelly Thompson <kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Calgary Users' Group Meeting - September 20 Date: 15 Sep 1993 18:25:30 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2784oo$h79@digifix.digifix.com> Calgary NeXT Users' Group Meeting When: Monday, September 20, 1993 5:45pm Where: DKW System Suite 1060, 736-8th Ave. SW Calgary, AB, Canada Topics: Demo of NeXTSTEP for Intel, running on serveral different PC platforms for people to see, touch, and compare. A look at Tailer, the new PS and EPS editor. The lastest developments in NeXTland. And a few other goodies, if we can swing 'em 8-) Contact:Blake Stone or Kelly Thompson bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca kthompso@acs.uclagary.ca
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Fat 3.1 compatible version of LiftOff shareware dock extender Date: 15 Sep 1993 11:49:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <277dia$eh8@digifix.digifix.com> SUBMISSION cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/LiftOff.app.tar.Z This is LiftOff version 2.1 which works on NEXTSTEP 3.1 (probably 3.0 too). Its fat so should work with black and white hardware. LiftOff is a simple but useful dock extender. Its low cost shareware. It doesnt have the bells and whistles of the more commercial dock extenders, but doesnt have their price tag either. from the on line help ... What is LiftOff? LiftOff allows you to extend the functionality of the Application Dock and allows you to keep many more of your favorite applications at your `fingertips'. LiftOff is made available on the try before you buy basis. You are free to use LiftOff on a trial basis for a period of ten (10) days. After this time, you must either purchase LiftOff at the price of $10 US funds or destroy all copies of LiftOff in your possession. ------- note to previous users ------------------- Note that there are a few changes in the interface for adding files to the LiftOff panel because NeXT has usurped all dragging into app icons. I'm sure there's some way around this but I have not had time to investigate this. Enjoy, Clark_Archer@dtc.com
From: janthony@nextsrv1.andi.org (Jay Anthony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: DragBook Educational Pricing Available Date: 15 Sep 1993 11:53:58 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <277dqk$ei9@digifix.digifix.com> DragBook Special Student Offer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jason Anthony President Digital Expressions Inc. 2142 Lynnwood Drive Schenectady, N.Y. 12309-2514 U.S.A. +1 518 347-2463 Voice/Fax Email: DigitalExpressions@andi.org (NeXTmail) Schenectady New York, September 14, 1993 -- Digital Expressions Inc. is pleased to announce limited-time student pricing for their recently released product, "DragBook". DragBook is a scrapbook-like utility which collects all of a user's NEXTSTEP resources such as documents, applications, images, and fonts. Resources are grouped into a series of "palettes", and are accessed in a manner similar to InterfaceBuilder's palette system: by dragging elements out of DragBook's window to their destination. Destinations include other applications which support drag-and-drop, and a special "Pasteboard Well", which copies the resource into the NEXTSTEP pasteboard. DragBook "elements" may be EPS or TIFF images, files, plain-text, rich-text, fonts, ruler-definitions, or sounds. "One of the palettes we use, for example, is for creating company documents. It contains our company logo, our company-font, a Virtuoso template for correspondence, and a text element with our company address. Whenever we need one of these elements, we simply drag-and-drop!" commented Jason Anthony, President of Digital Expressions. "Another palette we use is for programming. It contains `text' elements which have templates for classes, methods, comments and documentation files." Until October 31, 1993, students may purchase DragBook for the discounted price of $29. Contact Digital Expressions for more information. DragBook ships as a multiple-architecture-binary with support for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP for Intel. NEXTSTEP 3.0 or greater required. To try out DragBook, a demonstration version may be obtained via ftp at: cs.orst.edu: /pub/next/submissions/DragBook.tar.Z sonata.cc.purdue.edu: /pub/next/submissions/DragBook.tar.Z Or, contact "DigitalExpressions@andi.org" to have a demonstration copy NeXTmail'ed to you (approximately 720K). The demonstration version may be fully enabled with a license key, which may be purchased over the phone with a VISA or Mastercard. DragBook ships on a NEXTSTEP 1.44MB 3.5" disk. Look for DragBook on the next issue of the Paget Press AppWrapper! # # # Digital Expressions Inc., located in upstate New York, develops shrink-wrapped software and offers computer training. "DragBook", a resource organizer, is the first of a number of applications being developed for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Digital Expressions Inc. also offers end-user training for the Macintosh and Windows, and software-development courses for NEXTSTEP. DragBook is a trademark of Digital Expressions Inc. and copyright (c) 1993 Digital Expressions Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Inc. All rights reserved. -30-
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: R&A ships POSTGRES 4.1 for NEXTSTEP Date: 16 Sep 1993 16:02:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27ago7$of6@digifix.digifix.com> R&A SHIPS University POSTGRES v4.1 R&A has ported the University POSTGRES database system (a fully object-oriented database from the group that spawned INGRES) to NEXTSTEP 3.x. POSTGRES is a research effort into the realm of future database systems. It has time-travel, abstract data types (objects!) and so on. The POSTGRES sources are available from the university of California at Berkeley for free. But porting is not trivial and has taken quite some time. This has to do with dependencies in the POSTGRES code on several both interface and implementation of the native OS it runs on. We share our code changes with the POSTGRES group at Berkeley so with future releases of POSTGRES and future releases of NEXTSTEP porting will become less an issue. People that want it now, can either port themselves, or buy our package. POSTGRES is not a stable, commercial environment (even if it is used as such here and there) but its key aspects make it popular in research and other advanced environments. We sell binary installer packages for POSTGRES on NEXTSTEP 3.x for both i386 and m68k architecture. The price is low (since we sell only the porting effort and not POSTGRES itself): $175 1 CPU 1 architecture $275 >1 CPU 1 architecture (site license) We have ported everything of the 4.1 release, including the dynamic loader. POSTGRES comes on a set of two floppies, one with the postgres programs, initial data and one with the documentation and the library. The library is MAB, so you can compile on another architecture and connect to the server on your architecture of choice. MAB on request (we do not offer MAB standard because of the limitations in NEXTSTEP installer packages with respect to multiple floppies). For sites that need source control: we offer source licenses for our System V shared memory and semaphore software. For more information you can mail to gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl or call/fax to +31 70 3230851. Due to ongoing reconstruction activities, this fax is operational on weekdays only from 9.00 CDT until 21.00 CDT. That is approximately from 3:00 EDT until 15:00 EDT and 0:00 PDT until 12:00 PDT. You can also write to: R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands We prefer e-mail. NeXTmail welcome. R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix and NEXTSTEP. All trademarks belong to their owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NEXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Announcing 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference Date: 16 Sep 1993 22:41:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27b84q$q9l@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings, I have great news for NEXTSTEP Developers on the east coast of the US and in Europe and also for others interested in becoming NEXTSTEP developers: Announcing... Event: 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference Date: January 24 - 26, 1994 Hotel: Sheraton Washington City: Washington D.C. Agenda: Keynotes, Technical sessions, Panel discussions, Training classes Those interested can register today by calling: 1-800-767-2336 or 508-470-3880. See the full details below. There is a discount for early registration. Conrad Geiger NeXT __________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Todd Keefe Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI) 508/470-3870 NeXT ANNOUNCES 1994 EAST COAST DEVELOPER CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON D.C. IN JANUARY, 1994 REDWOOD CITY, CA - September 16, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. and Digital Consulting, Inc. today announced they will host the 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference, January 24 - 26 at the Sheraton Washington in Washington D.C. The conference agenda will compliment the West Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference to be held in June concurrently with NeXTWORLD EXPO. Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT, will be the Conference's first day keynote speaker. Software developers, information systems management, system integrators and independent software vendors who want to learn more about object technology are invited to attend two days of sessions and one full day of courses focusing on NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software. NEXTSTEP integrates a system-wide object architecture with the industry standard UNIX operating system, providing the industry's most complete object-oriented operating environment. NEXTSTEP Developer provides visual application construction environment and frameworks of reusable objects for the development of client/server applications. "Everyone is talking about object-oriented technology, but only NeXT delivers a complete object solution to client/server computing today." said Jobs. "NEXTSTEP is for those developers who are not willing to wait two or more years for the benefits of object-orientation expected to be delivered by other vendors such as Microsoft." DEVELOPER CONFERENCE SESSIONS and NEXTSTEP COURSES Developers are invited to see how object-oriented design allows for the creation of more flexible and robust objects, applications and systems in a client/server environment. The conference also includes general sessions which cover debugging and performance tuning as they relate to NEXTSTEP. A lab offers developers one-on-one time with members of NeXT's technical staff. The Conference is divided into four tracks to best meet developers' needs: * "NeXT in the Marketplace" is designed to give managers an overview of the technical services and development opportunities offered with NEXTSTEP. * "The Art of Design" focuses on how object-oriented design can create more flexible and robust objects, applications and systems. * "A Closer Look" features sessions focusing on NEXTSTEP's object kits and distributed objects. * "Hardware is Inevitable" focuses on hardware platforms, system administration and configuration issues for systems engineers. * NEXTSTEP Courses Conference attendees also have the option of enrolling in four in-depth, half-day NEXTSTEP Courses. Two of the Courses are intended for those new to NEXTSTEP as they feature an introduction to both the NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP Developer products. More advanced Courses focus on object-oriented design and Portable Distributed Objects, as well as provide an introduction to NEXTSTEP's Database Kit. Conference Pricing & Registration The cost for the 2-day East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference is $545 for those who register before December 3, and $595 for those who register on-site. NEXTSTEP Courses are $160 (each course) for those who register before December 3, and $200 (each course) for those who register on-site. Those interested can register by calling: 1-800-767-2336 or 508-470-3880. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI) Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI), with headquarters in Andover, MA, is America's leading computer industry seminar, conference and exposition company. DCI currently sponsors more than 75 computer-related events held throughout the world, including NeXTWORLD EXPO, CASEWORLD, OBJEX, DATABASE WORLD & CLIENT/SERVER WORLD, MOBILE WORLD and SOFTWARE WORLD. DCI also manages user and developer conferences for Digital Equipment, IBM and Sybase. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OCR Express from Visus (OmniPage for NEXTSTEP) Date: 17 Sep 1993 11:47:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27cm5l$302@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Visus Understanding Systems, Inc. Email: info@visus.com Call: (800)36 VISUS or (412)488-3600 Announcing "OmniPage for NEXTSTEP" - OCR Express from Visus Pittsburgh, Pa. - Visual Understanding Systems, Inc. with offices in Pittsburgh and Atlanta; developer of the NeXT FaxDaemon, PaperSight, TouchSight and Pittsburgh Project Manager for NEXTSTEP announced today the introduction of its latest innovative product: OCR Express! 1.0. OCR Express! is the exclusive implementation of Caere Corporation's popular OCR software, OmniPage on NEXTSTEP. OCR Express! is shipping in three forms for various user's needs: 1. OCR Express! Object Provides an API into Caere OmniPage for other application designers to incorporate superior Intelligent Character Recognition into their Applications. Developer's Price: $795.00 for development site license. 2. OCR Express! Will be a stand alone application utilizing Caere OmniPage for users who wish to convert images received from other applications to text. List Price: $499.00 (educational & reseller pricing available). 3. OCR Express! with Caere OmniPage Will be embedded in PaperSight, VISUS' popular image management and personal productivity enhancing software. List Price for OCR Option: $399 plus PaperSight on Intel: $499 (educational and reseller pricing available). By combining the Caere Corporation's OmniPage OCR engine and VISUS' NEXTSTEP imaging technology, OCR Express! is an incredibly powerful tool for converting image files to machine readable text. The software is fast, powerful, and is able to function in a number of languages for international adaptability. For more information on OCR Express! contact info@visus.com or call (800)36 VISUS or (412)488-3600.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Announcing NEXTSTEP Registered Developer and Consultant Programs Date: 17 Sep 1993 11:47:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27cm6e$308@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. Phone: 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations Phone: 212/536-8865 NeXT'S REGISTERED DEVELOPER AND CONSULTANT PROGRAMS POSITIVELY RECEIVED REDWOOD CITY, CA. - September 16, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced new NEXTSTEP Registered Developer and NEXTSTEP Registered Consultant programs for third-party developers and independent consultants in the NEXTSTEP community. Even before the official announcement, the company received more than 3,000 inquiries about the programs. The programs are aimed at facilitating the success of third-party developers and consultants by providing technical support, communications and co-marketing opportunities. NEXTSTEP is the industry-acclaimed object-oriented software available from NeXT. "NEXTSTEP already has a large third-party community with hundreds of products shipping on NEXTSTEP for Intel processors. We believe proactive technical communication and better co-marketing opportunities are clearly the areas that best enhance a commercial developers' experience with NEXTSTEP," said Julie Saffren, manager of developer relations at NeXT. "We also have gone one step further in offering this new support to another important constituency - NEXTSTEP consultants." The NeXT Registered Developer Program (NRDP) Members of the registered developer program receive discounted pricing on NEXTSTEP software, support and education, technical support, as well as direct communications, marketing and co-marketing opportunities from and with NeXT. Individuals or organizations developing and distributing commercially available, third-party NEXTSTEP products are eligible for this program. The cost is $250 annually. The NeXT Registered Consultants Program (NRCP) Like registered developers, members of the registered consultant program receive discounted pricing on NEXTSTEP software, support and education, technical support, as well as direct communications, marketing and co-marketing opportunities from and with NeXT. Individuals or organizations providing custom application development services, training or system administration services to NEXTSTEP customers are eligible for this program. The cost is $250 annually. Applying To The Programs NeXT is currently accepting applications from qualified developer and consultant organizations. For more information, or to receive an information packet and application form, please call 1-800-TRY-NeXT. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta (Atlanta NEXTSTEP User Group) Date: 17 Sep 1993 22:45:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27dsnk$54r@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing NEXTSTEP:atlanta (Atlanta NEXTSTEP User Group) September 23rd Meeting Date: September 23rd Time: 7:30pm Place: Information Management's conference room 4th floor Suite 430, Georgia Tech Agenda: Jon Bennett will demo the 3270Toolkit from Conextions (MIS) Mike Simmons will demo Virtuoso from Altsys (drawing) Discussion: October's mini-Developer-Camp (Tentative - demo of Pages by Pages (page layout)) How to get to Information Management located at 150 E. Ponce de Leon Ave. (located between Church St. and Clairmont Rd. in Decatur; parking is available in a parking deck behind the offices; the parking deck is accessible from a sideroad that runs between Church and Clairmont; to receive a map via FAX, please call Tod at 404-381-2464) Hope to see you there! Contact: Tod Rieger NEXTSTEP:atlanta Email: prie@methusla.cc.gatech.edu Phone: 404-381-2464
From: Paul A. Griffin <pgriffin@gluon.phys.ufl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: BackSpaceDuo on orst and informatik Date: 19 Sep 1993 03:08:39 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27h0hm$apj@digifix.digifix.com> September 18, 1993 I made some minor changes to BackSpace so that different modules can be used for backgrounds and for screen savers. It seems to me that not all good backgrounds make good screen savers, and visa-versa. BackSpaceDuo.tar.Z and BackSpaceDuo.README are now in pub/next/submissions of cs.orst.edu, and pub/comp/next/submissions of ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de . The source included with this distribution encodes the changes I made to the version of BackSpace distributed with the 3.1 developer cd-rom. For those of you who might be unable or unwilling to replace the original files with these modified ones and then compile, I have also included a BackSpace.app binary that should run on both NeXT and Intel hardware. --Paul Griffin pgriffin@phys.ufl.edu Enjoy!
From: Olivier Aubin <iansolo@cubx.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: CUB'X SYSTEMES ANNOUNCES intuitiv'3d API Date: 19 Sep 1993 12:22:39 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27i10e$cp8@digifix.digifix.com> News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --------------------- For more information contact: Olivier Aubin Phone: ++ 33 1 4708 7440 Fax: ++ 33 1 4708 7441 Email: intuitiv_api@cubx.com *** CUB'X SYSTEMES ANNOUNCES intuitiv'3d API *** >PARIS, France, September 16, 1993 - Cub'x Systemes, developer of >Cub'X-Window and intuitiv'3d, announced today the availability of >intuitiv'3d API. > >intuitiv'3d is an object oriented environment for 3d modeling and >rendering which exploits all the power of RenderMan to create >astounding models and photo-realistic images on NEXTSTEP Motorola >and Intel. > >The Application Programming Interface (API) allows programmers >involved in 3d data modelization to add their own classes to >intuitiv'3d environment. As intuitiv'3d provides all the necessary >basic features (drag and drop interface, 3d primitives, hierarchy >browser, cameras, shaders, lights, user extensible library, test >and final rendering...) one can rapidly concentrate and experiment >custom development in 3d. Q -- WHAT CAN I DO WITH intuitiv'3d API? >The intuitiv'3d API can be used to create 3d modelling systems, >complex automated shaders and lights, 3d groups with inspectors >and more! As an example, intuitiv'3d main modules (the Modeler >and the Mathematica Data Link) were written with the API. >intuitiv'3d supports the advanced concept of pre-rendering. Any >object developed with the API automatically inherits the >shadow-mapping, surface-mapping and environmental-mapping capabilities >of intuitiv'3d. >intuitiv'3d API is composed of the necessary documentation to >write a new module, example source code for two intuitiv'3d modules, >Objective-C headers to compile new classes, template files so that >you won't have to begin from scratch everytime you write a new >module. The API also includes extra intuitiv'3d objects. Q -- HOW CAN I GET intuitiv'3d and intuitiv'3d's API? >Cub'x Systemes offers academic institutions and students a special >pricing policy allowing them to access today the highest quality >3d environment for NEXTSTEP. Students who ftp the package and >submit proof of current student status can purchase intuitiv'3d >+ Modeler & Mathematica modules at $150. The API is free. intuitiv'3d educational bundle and API can be downloaded from archive site cs.orst.edu (/pub/next/submissions or /pub/next/binaries/Graphics). >"We are very interested by your work with intuitiv'3d's API," said >Gerard Laurent, General Manager . "A dedicated e-mail address >(intuitiv_api@cubx.com) has been created to allow you to speak >with us about your projects. You can also submit technical questions >about intuitiv'3d's API to this address. Keep in mind that Cub'x >Systemes could be interested in the commercialization of your >project." >Cub'x Systemes, Paris, France, develops highly efficient solutions >for NEXTSTEP. Phone: ++ 33 1 4708 7440 Fax: ++ 33 1 4708 7441 Email commercial: intuitiv@cubx.com Email technical: intuitiv_api@cubx.com # # # intuitiv'3d is a trademark of Cub'x Systemes. >All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered >trademarks of their respective owners. --
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Beavus & Butthead on cs.orst.edu Date: 19 Sep 1993 21:06:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27ivna$e66@digifix.digifix.com> Since I had a bunch of people ask me for my Beavus & Butthead beep sound I decided it would be easier to post it to cs.orst.edu anonymous FTP. Actually there are two sounds, one B&B laugh, and another GROOVY sound. Both sounds were sampled by Pat Hester (of Pencom) , Mr. Cool Sound himself :) Both sounds are stereo 22khz, uncompressed and PAS 16 safe (since the sounds are under a second in length each). Later, HuhHehHuhHeh, John
From: Barry Beal <bdbeal@indirect.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group - Pages Demo Date: 19 Sep 1993 21:07:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27ivob$e6c@digifix.digifix.com> Special Meeting: Demo of Pages - Sept 22 We are going to have a special interim meeting this month. Pages, maker of Pages, the revolutionary new Desktop Publishing Software for NeXTSTEP will demo its product for us on Sept 22, at 7:30 in the Papago room at the Student Center of Mesa Community College. >From NeXTWORLD's four cube review: "Pages is a new idea in document creation that frees users from the details of page layout by putting the experience of professional designers into the software." (See June/July issue for beta review) Since this is a special meeting, we will do away with the regular meeting agenda and just have the presentation of Pages. If you have any questions, please call Barry Beal at 834-3262. Agenda: * Demo of Pages Location: Wednesday, Sept 22, 7:30 PM Mesa Community College Kirk Student Center (the clock tower building) Papago Room on the lower level 1833 W. Southern Ave, Mesa
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PC Root Icons on cs.orst.edu Date: 19 Sep 1993 23:58:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27j9q1$f8c@digifix.digifix.com> Even though I think the NeXTstation is much better looking than my NSi, It just seemed wrong to have the wrong icons in the shelf. Sooo, I whipped up a couple of PC icons that you can put in your root "/" directory. MiniTower - Decent, hacked from a NeXTcube Icon Tower - Decent, Ditto Cube - GREAT (Since it was made by NeXT), just cleaned it up a little...also added the .open.dir.tiff file PC - Good (also hacked from NeXT artwork), bit more work to get this looking good since I had to work from chopped icons... Anyway they are all pretty clean, and have proper alpha stuff. All you have to do to use them is rename them to .dir.tiff and .opendir.tiff then dump them into your root directory (or anywhere for that matter) and your set :) Hope this makes some one smile :) You can find it via anonymous FTP at: cs.orst.edu Later, John
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Announcing DatabasePassword for NEXTSTEP and Sybase/Oracle Servers Date: 20 Sep 1993 13:43:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27kq35$ibh@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, please contact: Martin Elmer Uptime Object Factory Inc Baumackerstrasse 46 8050 Zurich Switzerland Phone +41 1 313 06 07 Fax +41 1 313 07 55 NeXTmail info@uptime.ch Announcing DatabasePassword for NEXTSTEP and Sybase/Oracle Servers Zurich, Switzerland, September 20, 1993 - Uptime Inc today announced the shipping of DatabasePassword, their preferences bundle that allows users to change their database passwords on Oracle and Sybase servers. DatabasePassword is now available on the archive cs.orst.edu (pub/next/demos/util/DBPassword.compressed). The uploaded binary is a fully functional evaluation version of DatabasePassword. It requires NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher and runs on both intel and Motorola based machines. "Thanks to its modularity DatabasePassword will support other popular databases like QuickBase and RoseBase in the future" says Matthias Heubi, Director Object Design. DatabasePassword is localized to English and German. DatabasePassword is available now for CHF 90 (~DM 100, ~US$ 60). Volume discounts and site licenses are also available. Call +41 1 313 06 07 or send email to info@uptime.ch. _____________________ Uptime Object Factory Inc is a software company located in Zurich, Switzerland. Uptime Inc is focused fully on NEXTSTEP development and provides full services ranging from network integration to custom application development. Uptime Object Factory Inc makes no express or implied warranty or representation of any kind with respect to this software, including any warranty that this software is errorfree. ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS HEREBY DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT WILL UPTIME OBJECT FACTORY INC BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS DOCUMENT. Uptime Inc is under no obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.
From: nv90-mwe@nada.kth.se Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Morph MAB on cs.orst.edu Date: 20 Sep 1993 14:20:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27ksa5$ikk@digifix.digifix.com> What is morphing ----------------- Transformations between images. Run the examples *.xmovie with Motion.app or Xanthus Craftman and you will get the picture:)... Features: --------- - Morphing between still images only. - Output: .xmovie movies. (Really just a catalog with tiffs) - Multihost rendering. - Several input formats (TIFF, EPS, RIB...) - Online help. How does it work? ----------------- You draw some lines in the first of the two source images, move the lines to the corresponding place in the second. For instance, if you are doing a morph between two faces you might draw lines along the cheek, eyes and noose in the first image and the move the lines in the second to the cheek, eyes and noose in that image. Morph then interpolates between the two and saves the interpolated frames as a movie. Legal issues ------------ Morph is copyrighted by me, Martin Wennerberg. Morph is free and may be freely copied and used at own risk. It may however not be sold, hired or in any other commercial way be distributed without permission by me. If images produced with Morph are used for commercial purposes or in publications it must be stated that Morph by Martin Wennerberg has been used. How to contact me: email: nv90-mwe@nada.kth.se snailmail: Martin Wennerberg Ektorpsv. 41 131 47 Nacka, SWEDEN phone: [SWEDEN]+8 716 06 30 I'd like to hear your opinions about the program so do contact me.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Sarrus Announces Special Promotion for International NEXTSTEP User Groups Date: 20 Sep 1993 22:51:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27lq89$ke0@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tammy Sorg Sarrus Software Phone: (415) 345-8950 E-mail: info@sarrus.com Sarrus Announces Promotion for International NEXTSTEP User Group Members: Offer to Run through October 31, 1993 FOSTER CITY, Calif., September 20, 1993 - Sarrus Software, Inc. today announced a special offer for International NEXTSTEP User Group members. Through October 31, 1993, NEXTSTEP User Group members can participate in the User Group Promotional Offer and purchase Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 bundled together at a one-time promotional price of $249, plus shipping and handling. "The International NEXTSTEP User Groups have played an important role in helping newcomers to NEXTSTEP take advantage of the rich object-based environment and next-generation applications," said Andrew K. Turk, president of Sarrus. "We wanted to thank the User Group community for their continued support by offering them a really terrific deal." ** The User Group Promotional Offer ** The User Group Promotional Offer includes both of Sarrus' Group Information Management products, Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1. Pencil Me In 1.1 is the leading group scheduling application for NEXTSTEP computers. It combines a powerful, scalable, network-ready architecture with an easy, intuitive calendar interface, enabling users to integrate personal and group scheduling in enterprise computing environments. SBook 3.1 is a flexible, intelligent personal contact management tool for business professionals that allows users to store and use contact information in any way they like. Its built-in intelligence automatically recognizes phone numbers, postal addresses and e-mail addresses as they are typed in, and it allows users to keep a log of each phone call, fax and letter sent. SBook can distinguish between fax and voice numbers, so users can send faxes or place phone calls with a single click of the mouse. The program can print the contents of a contact database onto standard mailing labels or individual envelopes, complete with postal barcodes for faster delivery. The two products work together to help users integrate their scheduling, to-do lists and contact management. ** How to Purchase the User Group Promotional Bundle ** NEXTSTEP User Group Members can order the bundle directly from Sarrus. All orders must be prepaid by check, money order, VISA or MasterCard, and must be received no later than October 31, 1993. There is a limit of one User Group Promotional bundle per User Group Member. Customers in the U.S. and Canada can reach Sarrus by phone at (800) 995-1963, by fax at (415) 345-9365, or by sending e-mail to info@sarrus.com. Customers outside the U.S. can reach Sarrus at (415) 345-8950. System Requirements Pencil Me In 1.1 and SBook 3.1 run on NEXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel Processors and NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher for NeXT computers. The same version runs unmodified on either system. About Sarrus Founded in 1991, Sarrus Software, Inc. is a privately held company with the mission of empowering groups of people to share information in the office environment with integrated, easy-to-use Group Information Management (GIM) software. Sarrus is the leading provider of GIM software on NEXTSTEP computers, with products that include group scheduling and integrated contact management. -30- Pencil Me In and SBook are trademarks of Sarrus Software, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other products and brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 20 Sep 1993 23:04:43 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <27lr0a$kh5@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 38 - 1993 Date: 20 Sep 1993 23:02:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <27lqs9$kgt@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 38). Monday September 13 through Monday September 20 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 37 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: OBJECT: Math 1.11 and OBJECT:Math Function Kits SUBMISSION: OBJECT: Math Service on cs.orst.edu Val Verde Unified School District Continues Reinventing Schools NeXTSTEP Hardware Compatibility Guide: September 13, 1993 Edition PRESS RELEASE: OTI Announces Impress (DBKit Report Writer) for NEXTSTEP JOB: Developer Training Position Open at NeXT (Redwood City, CA) SUBMISSION: Fat 3.1 compatible version of LiftOff shareware dock extender PRESS RELEASE: DragBook Educational Pricing Available MEETING: Windows NT vs. NEXTSTEP Shoot-Out in Colorado SUBMISSION: MailHelper_1.3 on cs.orst.edu MEETING: Calgary Users' Group Meeting - September 20 PRESS RELEASE: R&A ships POSTGRES 4.1 for NEXTSTEP Announcing 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference PRESS RELEASE: OCR Express from Visus (OmniPage for NEXTSTEP) Announcing NEXTSTEP Registered Developer and Consultant Programs MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta (Atlanta NEXTSTEP User Group) SUBMISSION: BackSpaceDuo on orst and informatik PRESS RELEASE: CUB'X SYSTEMES ANNOUNCES intuitiv'3d API SUBMISSION: Beavus & Butthead on cs.orst.edu MEETING: Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group - Pages Demo SUBMISSION: PC Root Icons on cs.orst.edu PRESS RELEASE: Announcing DatabasePassword for NEXTSTEP and Sybase/Oracle Servers SUBMISSION: Morph MAB on cs.orst.edu PRESS RELEASE: Sarrus Announces Special Promotion for International NEXTSTEP User Groups If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 20 Sep 1993 23:04:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <27lr0p$khb@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: joe@FreemanSoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TESTERS: FreemanSoft looking for Beta test sites for FSGreyboard Date: 21 Sep 1993 14:02:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27nfjm$oep@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Joe Freeman FreemanSoft Inc. Phone: (919) 783-7033 E-mail: info@freemansoft.com FreemanSoft Inc. is looking for beta test sites FSGreyBoard, a multi user drawing program. Beta testers will also receive several other smaller applications based on the same server The beta test period will begin in early October 1993. FSGreyBoard supports the sharing of a single marker board by multiple users and across multiple hardware architectures. The FSGreyBoard application supports several graphical primitives, as well as embedded graphics and NeXT Links. NeXT Link allows a user to link a view from some other application into the conference so that all users can see and mark on the information. Conferences are run in a moderated format where the conference leader determines who has the "maker". FSGreyBoard relies on the FreemanSoft FacilitiesManager, a generic Distributed Object based groupware server. .Parties interested in writing their own distributed applications may contact FreemanSoft for information on available API and libraries. FreemanSoft Inc. is a NEXTSTEP software and consulting services company based outside Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. FSGreyBoard is a trademark of FreemanSoft Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are reigstered trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Demonstrates Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) on HP 9000 Servers at UNIX EXPO Date: 21 Sep 1993 14:11:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27ng49$ogi@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865 NeXT DEMONSTRATES PORTABLE DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS (PDO) ON HP 9000 SERVERS AT UNIX EXPO Customers receive greater reusability of objects in a heterogenous networked environment NEW YORK - September 21, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced it is demonstrating a beta version of Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) on Hewlett-Packard Company's HP 9000 servers at Unix Expo. With PDO, customers can take objects developed in NEXTSTEP, deploy them in a heterogenous server environment and share them throughout an enterprise-wide network. The benefit: PDO gives customers greater access to the largely untapped processing power available throughout their networks. "PDO allows us to make client-server computing easier. Customers will find they have greater reusability of code because applications share common objects throughout a heterogenous enterprise-wide network," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT. "PDO also makes the complexity of networks transparent to developers and end users and allows customers to deploy more sophisticated custom applications with greater flexibility, and in less time than ever before." With PDO, customers dynamically off-load compute intensive processes to the computer best suited for the task. For example, organizations can use PDO to build complex financial, customer service and network management solutions in an environment where servers provide specialized services to applications. A financial system could include a custom analytic object running on the fastest server on the network, enabling traders with NEXTSTEP client systems to improve their ability to make real-time investment decisions. With PDO, the location of the custom analytic object is independent of the application design and deployment. Object-oriented productivity for enterprise computing Since PDO extends the object-oriented programming paradigm to distributed computing, developers creating applications in this environment enjoy all of the benefits of object-oriented programming, such as fewer lines of code in development, higher reusability of software and greater maintainability and reliability of software systems. "PDO brings us the best of both worlds for servers," according to John Keazirian, executive vice president at CRT/NationsBank. "It allows us to extend the rapid development environment beyond the NEXTSTEP client and lets server machines continue to offer the high range of availability, data integrity, network management tools, process controls and security capabilities that our business requires." Developing products to meet industry standards Currently, NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, runs on industry-standard Intel 486- and Pentium-based PCs and delivers support for distributed, object-oriented programming across networks of NEXTSTEP-based computers. With NEXTSTEP's object technology, objects transparently send messages to other objects running within the same application. NEXTSTEP's distributed object technology allows the same transparent messaging to occur between objects resident in different applications, whether the applications are running on the same machine or across the network. This messaging allows greater reusability of objects, by providing a framework for applications to share common objects within a networked environment. PDO provides even greater reusability of software, by allowing these objects to exist in non-NEXTSTEP environments, such as an HP 9000 series 800 server running the HP-UX operating system. Today, PDO provides interoperability between NEXTSTEP clients and server environments. One of the major design goals of the PDO product is openness and adherence to existing and emerging industry computing standards, such as OMG's CORBA (Common Object Request Broker) and DCE (Distributed Computing Environment), so that interoperability between NEXTSTEP and emerging distributed computing standards will be possible. "As part of the NeXT/HP Object*Enterprise initiative to bring object-orientation to enterprise computing, we plan to work together to define a strategy for interoperability at the object level with products such as NEXTSTEP's PDO and HP's DOMF," said Jobs. "The recent announcements by HP and IBM regarding the sharing of distributed object technology is good news for NeXT because PDO will complement their efforts, providing developers interoperability with these industry offerings." The final release of PDO is expected to be available for HP servers as part of the Object*Enterprise suite of solutions in Q4 1993. Pricing to be announced at a later date. About NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. About HP Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Hewlett-Packard Company is the third-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer revenue in excess of $12 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. Hewlett-Packard is an international manufacturer of measurement and computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and support. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 100 countries. HP has 94,900 employees and had a revenue of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. HP-UX is based on and is compatible with USL's UNIX operating system. It also complies with X/Open's XPG3, POSIX 1003.1, FIPS 151-1 and SVID2 interface specifications.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: S3 Driver is available from NeXTanswers Date: 21 Sep 1993 15:10:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27njjj$oqj@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP Device Driver Information The onboard S3 driver is available from NeXTanswers. Information on device driver updates may be obtained by sending email to NeXTanswers@next.com with the subject of "INDEX HELP". You will receive the master index for NeXTanswers. To obtain drivers via ftp: use ftp to access ftp.next.com and login as anonymous with any password and "cd" to /pub. Drivers can be downloaded from the NeXTanswers directory. Conrad Geiger NeXT
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: LoopGroup (Downtown Chicago NEXTSTEP User Group): September 28th Date: 22 Sep 1993 01:21:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27onc7$rfm@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing LoopGroup (Chicago NEXTSTEP) September 28th Meeting Date: Tuesday, September 28th 1993 Time: 6:30pm Place: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 30 S. Wacker Drive Auditorium, Mezzanine Level (2nd floor) Agenda: Presentation/Demonstration of Perennial Document Librarian Perennial Document Librarian (PDL) is a system for managing and sharing electronic documents among networks of of NEXTSTEP users. It is a full-featured system for organizing and accessing existing electronic documents as well as tracking the creation of new documents. PDL is fully integrated with NEXTSTEP and provides workgroups with seamless access to shared PDL libraries of multimedia documents, thereby maximizing workgroup efficiency "Workgroup solutions like Perennial Document Librarian fill a very important requirement for NeXT's legal and medical customers, who have a strong need to organize and manage their electronic business information," said Ron Weissman, director of corporate marketing for NeXT Computer, Inc. "PDL provides these customers with a document management program that takes full advantage of NEXTSTEP's ease of use, powerful networking and electronic mail." The presentation will be given by Eric Wespestad of Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Contact: Ted Shelton /or/ Eric Wespestad LoopGroup: Downtown Chicago NEXTSTEP User Group c/o Information Technology Solutions, Inc. 400 W. Erie, Suite 301 Chicago, Illinois 60610 Email: loopgroup@its.com Phone: 312-587-2000
From: E. Michael O'Neill <emo@pawpaw.mitre.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: PhoneSlip on cs.orst.edu Date: 22 Sep 1993 16:01:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27qatt$1do@digifix.digifix.com> I've placed PhoneSlip, in binary and source form, on cs.orst.edu, in /pub/next/submissions/ 1224 Sep 22 15:08 PhoneSlip.README 35360 Sep 22 15:08 PhoneSlip.compressed 39335 Sep 22 15:08 PhoneSlip_3.1_source.compressed 49145 Sep 22 15:08 PhoneSlip_MAB.compressed (the binaries ARE stripped) PhoneSlip is a simple NEXTSTEP app which allows a telephone receptionist or other user to rapidly send simple mail messages to recipients of phone (or other) messages and to (optionally) log and print these messages. The application displays a "Pink Phone Slip" style form and an addressee list. The application generates a normal SMTP E-mail message which may be sent to NeXTMail or non-NeXT addressees. The received message will look like: ---------------PHONE MESSAGE-------------- FROM: Mr.Jobs OF: NeXT, Inc. NUMBER: 555-5555 TELEPHONED WILL CALL AGAIN Just Kidding! SIGNED: A. Receptionist ---------------PHONE MESSAGE-------------- I developed PhoneSlip as an exercise but designed it to meet a local need for distribution of phone messages to a department which was dispersed throughout a fairly large building. We have used PhoneSlip for about 18 months and having had requests from some who have seen it I am now distributing it to the net. --- * * MIKE * (E. Michael O'Neill) <emo@mitre.org> * CENTER FOR ADVANCED AVIATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT * Operated for the Federal Aviation Administration by: * The MITRE Corp., MCLEAN VA, Tel (703)883-7528 (FAX -6308) * always * NeXTMail ^ Encouraged!
From: burchard@geom.umn.edu (Paul Burchard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: The holomorphic experience, aka CRSolver 4.0.0 (MAB) Date: 23 Sep 1993 11:58:19 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27sh2q$6vt@digifix.digifix.com> CRSolver is a fun and highly interactive program that makes lets even beginners enjoy the fascinating world of complex analysis. Topics that can be explored using version 4.0.0 include * conformal mappings * complex analytic functions * meromorphic sections of line bundles * Teichmuller space of genus one Riemann surfaces The MAB (multi-architecture binary) runs on Motorola and Intel. It requires at least NeXTSTEP 3.0 (Motorola) or 3.1 (Intel). The program was written and designed by Paul Burchard, Sang Hoon Chin, David Ben-zvi, and Eugenio Durand, at The Geometry Center. FTP sites: HOST CURRENT LOCATION cs.orst.edu pub/next/submissions/CRSolver-4.0.0.tar.Z geom.umn.edu pub/CRSolver-4.0.0.tar.Z For more information contact Paul Burchard <burchard@geom.umn.edu> The Geometry Center 1300 S. 2nd St., Suite 500 Minneapolis MN 55454
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: September 30 is Last Day to Order $299 NEXTSTEP 3.1 User Environment Promotion Date: 24 Sep 1993 01:08:05 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27tvbk$al0@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865 SEPTEMBER 30 IS THE LAST DAY OF SPECIAL $299 NEXTSTEP PROMOTION REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - September 23, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today reminds developers and users that the NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit promotion ends September 30. The promotional package, which allows companies to experience the benefits of building client/server applications using NEXTSTEP's object-oriented technology, contains both the User and Developer versions of NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors for $299. The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit includes: - NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel Processors which includes the full NEXTSTEP User product and documentation; - NEXTSTEP Developer CD ROM which includes NEXTSTEP's visual application construction tools and reusable object kits, as well as a 50% off coupon to purchase full technical documentation; - The NEXTSTEP Advantage Kit which includes a booklet, a video cassette and a diskette with sample software to introduce users to the benefits of application development with NEXTSTEP; - NEXTSTEP Programming, a book by Garfinkel & Mahoney, which provides users a thorough explanation of NEXTSTEP application development using a tutorial approach. For business situations and enterprise use The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit contains complete NEXTSTEP products. With the Kit, customers can experience the full benefits of NEXTSTEP for developing real client/server applications. "The promotion enables developers to take advantage of the opportunity to develop using NEXTSTEP and to experience two to five times the productivity gains," said Rick Jackson, director of developer product marketing at NeXT. "We are encouraged by the response we have received and look forward to having new developers join the growing ranks of object-oriented believers." Pricing and Availability In the U.S., the NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit costs $299 and can be ordered by calling 1-800-TRY-NEXT. The NEXTSTEP Evaluation Kit offer does not include free upgrades to Release 3.2. Regularly priced copies of NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors and NEXTSTEP Developer, which include an upgrade to Release 3.2 and full documentation for both versions, retail in the U.S. for $795 and $1,995, respectively. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 Upgrade Price Changes (Effective October 1, 1993) Date: 24 Sep 1993 01:09:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27tve5$al7@digifix.digifix.com> NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 Upgrade Price Changes are to take effect in 7 days on 10/1/93. Upgrading to 3.1 and registering before 10/31/93 includes a free upgrade to NEXTSTEP 3.2. Below are the suggested retail prices of NEXTSTEP products in both North America and Europe today and after September 30, 1993. Release 3.1 upgrades for NeXT hardware are available to end-users direct from NeXT at the prices listed below. Customers may order by calling... 1-800-677-NEXT or 1-800-848-NeXT and pressing option #3. __________________________________________________________________ Effective October 1, 1993, Pricing will be as follows: Part# Product Description _____ ___________________ N5542 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, English (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $75 N5553 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, French (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $75 N5554 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, German (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $75 N5541 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, RTU (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $50 N5549 NEXTSTEP Developer upgrade for NeXT computers (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now N/A* $99 *NOTE: N5549 will no longer be available as of October 1993 any developers who want to upgrade their development environment can purchase N5551 at $495. N5551 NEXTSTEP Developer upgrade for NeXT computers Price: 10/1/93 Now $495 $495
From: Alberto Ricart <alberto@parsec.mixcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: InTouch for NEXTSTEP by SmartSoft Date: 25 Sep 1993 12:31:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <281ror$31r@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: SmartSoft,Inc Email: smartsoft@parsec.mixcom.com Call: (800)424-8864 or (414)964-8864 Announcing "InTouch for NEXTSTEP" - The electronic address book from SmarSoft. Milwaukee, WI. - SmartSoft, Inc; developer of Rocks!, DotFiles, NIST Synchronicity and DiskMaker for NEXTSTEP announced today the introduction of their latest product: InTouch 1.0 InTouch is a sophisticated electronic address book that provides you with powerful features for managing people and their mailing addresses, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and the correspondence you send them; the information you need to keep in touch. Some of InTouch Features Include: Complete integration with Workspace addresses format. Fax numbers available in the fax panel without need to export. Flexible envelope printing and formatting (with tiff, eps and rib files). Label printing. Record grouping - All operations performed to a group, extended to each of the members (mass email, mass printing, mass faxing, etc.). Mail merge exporting to WriteNow and WordPerfect. Flexible record exporting to a variety of character delimited formats. Record linking across address books. Imports SBook ascii format. Phone dialing via a modem or computer speaker. Fax memos. Group fax memos. Email (via Mail.app). Group email. Export group email addresses for use with Mail.app. Correspondence management - You can drop file and folders into an InTouch card. When you look up a record not only do you get contact information, but also immediate access to files related to that person. Email and address search services available from any application that supports text. Complete drag and drop of records across applications. Address book files can be inspected by the Workspace manager, even by users that don't yet use InTouch. Emacs key bindings. A key feature of InTouch is its ability to work with groups. With InTouch you can group a series of cards together and perform tasks such as sending mass email or fax messages to printing envelopes or labels. All by dealing with one card. A demo copy of the application was submitted to cs.orst.edu. The demo is fully licensable. The InTouch package supports NEXTSTEP Help to guide you through its many features. InTouch_1.0.tar.gz and InTouch_1.0.tar.gz_README The software is extremely fast. Currently InTouch is only available in English. Localized versions of InTouch will be available by 10/20/93 for French and German. The software is available today for NeXT computers and NEXTSTEP INTEL. Introductory pricing: Single User $99 5 License Packs $400 10 License Packs $750 We offer large discounts on large volume purchases. Special upgrade pricing available for competitors product users. Educational and reseller pricing is available. ------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on InTouch contact smartsoft@parsec.mixcom.com or call (800)424-8864 or (414)964-4672.
From: Pedja Bogdanovich <luka!pedja@umiacs.UMD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TipTop telecommunications program on cs.orst.edu Date: 26 Sep 1993 00:15:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28350g$4t0@digifix.digifix.com> I have placed TipTop_0.9 on cs.orst.edu, in /pub/next/submissions/: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 1143 Sep 25 16:03 TipTop_0.9.README -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 167300 Sep 25 16:03 TipTop_0.9.compressed TipTop is a telecommunication program. TipTop version 0.9 works on black NeXTSTEP 3.1 (probably 3.0 too). FAT TipTop will be released soon. TipTop is shareware. You are welcome to download it and try it. If you use it you should register yourself. License fee is $25. For more info see the License section in Info->Help. Send your questions and comments to Pedja Bogdanovich at: pedja%luka@umiacs.umd.edu Features ======== - VT102 terminal emulation. - Terminal window features scrollback buffer, find panel, changeable fonts (font panel), copy/paste, etc. I.e., everything that you expect from a NeXT app (including resizable terminal window)! - A simple PhoneBook. - Transfer: ZMODEM send and receive, and ASCII capture. - TipTop uses UUCP locking protocol. Installation ============ 1. Copy TipTop.app into your favorite application directory (e.g., /LocalApps). 2. su to root and: chown uucp.daemon /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop chmod u+s,g+s /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop (Replace /LocalApps by the the actual directory path in which you installed the program.) 3. Run the program.
From: Randy Adams <randy@laburnum.appsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: AppSoft closes NEXTSTEP Operations - Offers Inventory Clearance Date: 27 Sep 1993 00:18:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <285pic$a0v@digifix.digifix.com> APPSOFT TO CLOSE DOWN NEXTSTEP OPERATIONS ANNOUNCES 90% OFF INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE September 27, 1993 Appsoft Inc. announced today that it plans to cease sales and support of all of its NEXTSTEP products including WriteNow, Appsoft Write, Appsoft Draw, Appsoft Solution and Appsoft Image by October 15, 1993. In an effort to clear out inventory, prices have been reduced up to 90% on WriteNow, Draw and Image. Pricing and ordering information can be obtained by contacting Appsoft sales at 1-800-428-2777 or 1-415-802-2900. After two years of selling NEXTSTEP software, Appsoft's decision to abandon the NeXT platform was based on its inability to maintain profitable operations developing and selling shrink wrap applications to run under NEXTSTEP. The company will remain in business, but no future plans have been announced at this time. For further information, please contact info@appsoft.com.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 39 - 1993 Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:25:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <287i8l$do3@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 39). Monday September 20 through Monday September 27 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 38 - 1993 SUBMISSION: PhoneSlip on cs.orst.edu September 30 is Last Day to Order $299 NEXTSTEP 3.1 User Environment Promotion PRESS RELEASE: AppSoft closes NEXTSTEP Operations - Offers Inventory Clearance SUBMISSION: TipTop telecommunications program on cs.orst.edu Submission Guidelines SUBMISSION: The holomorphic experience, aka CRSolver 4.0.0 (MAB) NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 Upgrade Price Changes (Effective October 1, 1993) PRESS RELEASE: InTouch for NEXTSTEP by SmartSoft S3 Driver is available from NeXTanswers BETA TESTERS: FreemanSoft looking for Beta test sites for FSGreyboard Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups MEETING: LoopGroup (Downtown Chicago NEXTSTEP User Group): September 28th NeXT Demonstrates Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) on HP 9000 Servers at UNIX EXPO If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:26:26 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <287i9g$do9@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:26:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <287i9t$dof@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: aw@paget.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: AppWrapper Volume 3 Ships Date: 28 Sep 1993 17:40:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28ab0h$lti@digifix.digifix.com> The third edition of the Electronic AppWrapper contains over 230 NEXTSTEP products, global resource and user group directories, and a full listing of nearly 500 products available to NEXTSTEP users. ªIt's the most comprehensive source of products and information available anywhere in this community,º said Richard Carey, Paget's Business Manager. ªWhere else can you find 120 software demos in one place?º ªWe are very pleased to be able to sell so many new products. Along with our established Motorola versions, we've added over 100 new Intel versions of existing products in this edition of the AppWrapper,º said Peggy Thompson, president of Paget. ªOur customers know that the AppWrapper is the fastest, easiest, most economical way to shop for NEXTSTEP products, and this edition certainly reinforces that.º Paget's Electronic AppWrapper was named a finalist in the highly competitive InVision Multimedia '93 awards in January, 1993; the only NEXTSTEP entry so honored. It won the Best of Breed award for Content and Information at NeXTWORLD Expo in May, 1993. Annual subscriptions to the Electronic AppWrapper are available through Paget Press (four quarterly issues for $48 in North America; international subscriptions $60.) Paget Press, Inc., headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is a software publisher, registered NEXTSTEP developer and authorized value added dealer for NeXT products. Paget also publishes the Electronic AppWrapper, a combination hardcopy catalog and CD-ROM of goods and services for the NEXTSTEP user, distributed worldwide. Paget, Paget Press, the Electronic AppWrapper and the Paget logo are trademarks of Paget Press, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Paget Press, Inc. 2125 Western Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98121 Phone:(206)-448.0845 Fax:(206)-448.2350
Control: cancel <28ab0h$lti@digifix.digifix.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: aw@paget.com Subject: cmsg cancel <28ab0h$lti@digifix.digifix.com> Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 22:07:31 GMT Message-ID: <CE344K.I4p@nic.hookup.net> Sender: digifix@nic.hookup.net (Scott Anguish) cancel <28ab0h$lti@digifix.digifix.com> Cancelled by moderator sanguish@digifix.com
From: aw@paget.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: AppWrapper Volume1 Issue 3 Ships Date: 28 Sep 1993 18:03:16 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28acb2$m25@digifix.digifix.com> The third edition of the Electronic AppWrapper contains over 230 NEXTSTEP products, global resource and user group directories, and a full listing of nearly 500 products available to NEXTSTEP users. ªIt's the most comprehensive source of products and information available anywhere in this community,º said Richard Carey, Paget's Business Manager. ªWhere else can you find 120 software demos in one place?º ªWe are very pleased to be able to sell so many new products. Along with our established Motorola versions, we've added over 100 new Intel versions of existing products in this edition of the AppWrapper,º said Peggy Thompson, president of Paget. ªOur customers know that the AppWrapper is the fastest, easiest, most economical way to shop for NEXTSTEP products, and this edition certainly reinforces that.º Paget's Electronic AppWrapper was named a finalist in the highly competitive InVision Multimedia '93 awards in January, 1993; the only NEXTSTEP entry so honored. It won the Best of Breed award for Content and Information at NeXTWORLD Expo in May, 1993. Annual subscriptions to the Electronic AppWrapper are available through Paget Press (four quarterly issues for $48 in North America; international subscriptions $60.) Paget Press, Inc., headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is a software publisher, registered NEXTSTEP developer and authorized value added dealer for NeXT products. Paget also publishes the Electronic AppWrapper, a combination hardcopy catalog and CD-ROM of goods and services for the NEXTSTEP user, distributed worldwide. Paget, Paget Press, the Electronic AppWrapper and the Paget logo are trademarks of Paget Press, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Paget Press, Inc. 2125 Western Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98121 Phone:(206)-448.0845 Fax:(206)-448.2350 [sorry, I messed up the title the first time]
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Treffen Berliner Next User (4.10.93) Date: 28 Sep 1993 23:00:22 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28ato4$n0f@digifix.digifix.com> Die Berliner NeXT User Group trifft sich zu ihrem naechsten Treffen, wie immer jeden ersten Montag im Monat, am 4. Oktober 1993 um 20.00 Uhr im Institut fuer Energietechnik der TU Marchstrasse 18 10587 Berlin Raum 7 Thema wird diesmal die Konfiguration und Betrieb von NEXTSTEP/Intel auf low-cost Hardware sein. Erfahrungsaustausch, Kaffeesatzlesen und die Gruechtekueche duerfen natuerlich auch nicht zu kurz kommen. Henrik Hempelmann marsu@palumbia.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) marsu@cs.tu-berlin.de
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SS&S CASE Tools for NEXTSTEP Date: 28 Sep 1993 23:02:37 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28atsb$n1n@digifix.digifix.com> For more information on our products and services, contact one of the following SS&S sales offices: Main Office 94 Murray Street Meriden, Connecticut 06450 Phone: (203) 630-2000 Fax: (203) 630-2020 Email: sss@sss.com Pacific Northwest Regional Office 1222 East Crockett Street Seattle, Washington 98102 Phone: (206) 860-9295 Fax: (206) 860-6896 Email: sss@pnw.sss.com DRCS is primarily for revision control of all types of files and directories, and CodeReviewer is for software analysis and project tracking of software projects, whether or not they use revision control. DRCS does handle binary files of all types, including eps and tiff files, as well as directories of all types, including English.lproj, *.dbmodel, and others. Revision control with DRCS is exactly like using the Workspace Manager's FileViewer. Drag from an archive in a DRCS Viewer to check a file or directory out, and drop into an archive in a DRCS Viewer to check it in. Panels to control the action in more detail are available through the DRCS Viewer. In other respects, the DRCS Viewer behaves like the FileViewer. CodeReviewer is primarily a project management and programmer's tool that works very well with various revision control systems, but CodeReviewer does not attempt to do code version control itself - it concentrates on analysis and tracking of file/project metric histories, which it stores in a relational database, in spreadsheet files, or in flat files. Availability of demos: We have not been distributing demo versions of DRCS, due to the difficulty in showing off the product in less than a fully enabled version. We continue to work on that problem, and I hope to have a demo version for wide distribution by October. We have a demonstration version of CodeReviewer, which shows off much of the tool. The production versions of both products are available now for both NeXT and Intel NEXTSTEP. Further information on SS&S CASE Tools: SS&S CASE Tools All SS&S CASE Tools are provided with under a floating license for maximum convenience to the user. All SS&S CASE Tools are shipping now for both NeXT and Intel hardware. Where noted, SS&S CASE Tools are shipping for other platforms as well. SS&S provides project methodology and life cycle consulting services as well as the following tools. Contact our Main Office for details. DRCS(TM) DRCS allows NEXTSTEP and Unix users, whether they're developers or not, to enjoy full version management and revision control of everything from .rtfd files to entire filesystems. Anyone who can use NEXTSTEP can learn how to use the DRCS Graphical User Interface in a matter of minutes. DRCS provides project lifetime tracking and revision control for entire directories as well as files. Users can freely access the contents of a directory revision archive or treat the entire archive as a single unit. DRCS directory archives maintain a history of their previous contents, even if files have been renamed or deleted. Users can call DRCS shell commands directly from a terminal window or access the full power of the system through the DRCS Graphical User Interface. The DRCS Graphical User Interface allows the user to open an arbitrary number of Workspace Manager-like File Viewers rooted at different locations in the file system. Revision control is provided transparently through standard mouse operations. For example, the user can select a group of files in the Workspace Manager File Viewer and drag them into a project revision control directory in a DRCS File Viewer - the revision histories are automatically updated. Inspector Panels allow the user to select revision control options and make log entries, and a Preferences panel provides a full range of default settings. DRCS provides full compatibility with existing RCS revision archives ("RCS" directories). The DRCS shell commands support 100% of the command-line options of the corresponding RCS commands, while extending those commands to operate on directories as well as files. In addition, DRCS offers advanced features like automated file renaming and whole-project revision histories. Platforms: The DRCS command line interface is available now for most Unix platforms, including NEXTSTEP on NeXT, 486, and Pentium, Sun/Solaris, Hewlett Packard/HP-UX, Digital/Ultrix and OSF/1, SGI/Irix, IBM/AIX, SCO UNIX, and Unixware. The DRCS Graphical User Interface is available now under NEXTSTEP for both NeXT and Intel hardware, and it will be available under Motif and generic X windows for Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and other platforms in October, 1993. Price: $195.00 for a single user floating license. Multi-user and site licenses are available at discounts. Contact SS&S for details. CodeReviewer(TM) CodeReviewer helps track and manage changes to objects and other code in multi-person development efforts. CodeReviewer allows project managers and developers to analyze versions of code visually and formally, according to industry-standard software metrics. Visual analysis is supported for any type of code, while software metrics can be computed, compared, and graphed for C, C++, Objective-C, and YACC code. With CodeReviewer, project managers can gain control of changes to code and avoid the morass of object incompatibilities that can plague large object-oriented development efforts. Progress on goals can be tracked down to the level of changes in methods and functions in an individual source file. Development can proceed with greater efficiency toward its goals with CodeReviewer. Developers can use CodeReviewer to quickly appraise the state of legacy code and the work that has been done on it in the past. The complexity analysis functions of CodeReviewer can point developers to problem spots in code before they become bugs or maintenance headaches. Also, CodeReviewer can get developers up to speed on an unfamiliar project in a fraction of the time it would take them without it. CodeReviewer is fully integrated with NEXTSTEP, and its user interface is immediately familiar to users of standard NEXTSTEP applications. CodeReviewer provides its analysis capabilities via services, as well, to allow easy integration with the current development environment. CodeReviewer is capable of reading projects created by SS&S's DRCS graphical revision control system, as well as RCS directories. Platforms: CodeReviewer is available now under NEXTSTEP for both NeXT and Intel hardware, and it will be available under Motif and generic X windows for Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and other platforms in October, 1993. Price: $495.00 for a single user floating license. Multi-user and site licenses are available at discounts. Contact SS&S for details. For more information on our products and services, contact one of the following SS&S sales offices: Main Office 94 Murray Street Meriden, Connecticut 06450 Phone: (203) 630-2000 Fax: (203) 630-2020 Email: sss@sss.com Pacific Northwest Regional Office 1222 East Crockett Street Seattle, Washington 98102 Phone: (206) 860-9295 Fax: (206) 860-6896 Email: sss@pnw.sss.com Additional information on DRCS: DRCS(TM) Directory Revision Control System It's a simple concept, but one which seems to have eluded creators of revision management systems until now 1 make a powerful revision control system that will work for all kinds of files and directories, but is simple enough to use right away and flexible enough to provide a basis for many different project management strategies. Tap the power of comprehensive revision control with DRCS from Software Services and Solutions, Inc. - the directory-capable revision control application that makes everything from recovering old versions of reports to managing large multi-user development projects as easy as using the NEXTSTEP Workspace Manager's File Viewer. DRCS is a comprehensive revision control system, not to be confused with simple scripts or systems that cannot handle directories or binary files. DRCS incorporates and builds on an enhanced version on the popular RCS revision control system, and DRCS provides all the functionality of RCS, along with full backward compatibility with existing RCS archives. In addition to standard RCS features, DRCS offers: o Complete revision control of directory structures and their contents. o Full compatibility with all types of NEXTSTEP "files", including binary files, .rtfd documents and word processor documents, .nib files and other files that are actually directories. o Project-based revision control and version labeling. o Simplified multi-user project management in distributed and client-server environments. o Availability, compatibility, and standard feature set across a wide range of Unix platforms, including Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and NEXTSTEP. o Integration with NEXTSTEP ProjectBuilder. o Easy-to-use Graphical User Interface under NEXTSTEP. o Automated file and revision archive renaming. o Integration with other Software Services and Solutions, Inc., CASE Tools, such as CodeReviewerTM.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Best Products Nomination for Higher Education Date: 28 Sep 1993 23:03:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28attq$n1t@digifix.digifix.com> Hello, Please take 5 - 10 minutes and fill in this Best Products Nomination for a US based magazine that is taking a survey of what products and software users are currently employing or would recommend. This is one way to increase awareness of NEXTSTEP in the media, and since it only your opinion of best products for higher education, then YOU NEED NOT be actually attending a university or technical college to participate. Nicole Kaiyan Australian NeXT User Group (OZNeXT) Conrad Geiger NeXT ____________________________________________________________________ HEPC magazine is interested in getting responses to the attached questionnaire, by October 1, 1993. We are would like to receive your responses, and please route to any interested individuals or groups you may identify. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Send Us Your Nominations for Best Products for Higher Education The December issue of HEPC will feature the best products for higher education. Join your peers in selecting the products that you think are the most beneficial to your work and we will feature them in our special "Best Products" issue. Fill out this brief questionnaire and send the completed copy to: e-mail: syllabus.edt@applelink.apple.com fax: (international) +408-746-2711 (editorial offices) post: HEPC "Best Products" Nominations 1307 S. Mary Ave. Ste. 218 Sunnyvale CA 94087 USA Please limit your response to one answer per product type. Please nominate only those products in categories that you are familiar with. Please fill out the necessary product information regarding vendor, manufacturer or brand name, and version or model number. What is your primary use of technology? (check only one) o Administrative o Instructional o Personal Productivity What personal computer systems do you nominate? Desktop (ie; Dell 466/T, i486 DX2 66MHz) Product_____________________________________________________ Manufacturer_________________ Laptop or Portable (ie: Macintosh PowerBook 165c) Product_____________________________________________________ Manufacturer_________________ Workstations (ie: Sun SPARCStation) Product_____________________________________________________ Manufacturer_________________ Which of the following operating systems/environments do you nominate? o DOS version ________ o Macintosh OS System 7.x o DOS _____ with Windows version _______ o OS/2 version _______ o Macintosh OS (prior to System 7) ________ o UNIX version _______ o NeXTSTEP version _______ o Windows NT o Other OS or environment Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Which of the following types of multimedia products do you nominate? Animation and rendering software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Authoring systems for courseware/multimedia Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ CD-ROM drives Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ CD-ROM discs (content) Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Digital audio cards Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Digital video cards Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Scanners Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Other multimedia products Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Which of the following display devices do you nominate? Color monitor Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Monochrome monitor Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Projection systems Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ LCD panels Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Video accelerators/24-bit color cards Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Which of the following video presentation devices do you nominate? Videodisc player Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Videotape player Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Video camera Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Video projector/monitor Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Slide projector Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Which of the following peripherals do you nominate? Laser printer Product__________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Dot matrix/inkjet printer Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Plotters Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Hard drives Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Backup/Archive units Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Optical drives Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Interface products (keypads, mice, pens, voice recorders) Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Which of the following types of networking and communications products do you nominate? Local Area Network software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Local Area Network hardware Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ E-mail system Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Modems Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Communications software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Remote access software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Which of the following types of educational products do you nominate? Collaborative learning Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ ESL (English as a second language) Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Adult literacy software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Biological science or medical curriculum software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Physical science software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Business or economics curriculum software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Engineering curriculum software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Mathematical curriculum software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Arts and humanities curriculum software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Social sciences curriculum software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Foreign language curriculum software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Instructional videodiscs Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Which of the following types of applications software do you nominate? Accounting or financial Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Administrative modules (student info/admissions/etc.) Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ CAD/CAM/CAE Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Databases Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Desktop publishing Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Disk utilities/Data retrieval software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Draw/paint/illustration software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Library systems Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Mathematical packages Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Outline/idea processors Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Presentation software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Programming languages Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Simulation/modeling software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Spreadsheets Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Statistical/Data analysis packages Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Utilities Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Visualization software Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________ Word processing Product___________________________________ Manufacturer____________________________________
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Newsgroup Digests Are Back! Date: 28 Sep 1993 23:04:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28atvl$n23@digifix.digifix.com> Would you like to have NEXTSTEP newsgroup digested information emailed to you? There is good news. The NeXT Usenet Digest lists have been revived! Below is a message from Michael Ross of Antigone on how to subscribe to this free service for the NeXT community. Conrad Geiger NeXT __________________________________________________________________ I (Michael Ross) have reestablished some digesting capabilities at Antigone and am starting up the Usenet digest lists again. The new software is called DIGESTif and its sole purpose is to gather Usenet articles, send them out once a day and take requests for subscriptions. The organization of the digests is a bit different. There is now one digest per Usenet group: next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe Please subscribe to as many as you wish! As this is new software, your indulgence is appreciated! Cheers, Michael Ross NEXT-L owner.
From: cgeiger@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Final Reminder: NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 Upgrade Price Changes (Effective 10/1/93) Date: 28 Sep 1993 23:05:26 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28au1k$n29@digifix.digifix.com> [I don't want anyone to miss out on this and then be upset when the price goes up, so.... Scott] Below is one final reminder for all NEXTSTEP users currently not using release 3.1 and wishing to take advantage of the special free upgrade offer to NEXTSTEP release 3.2. Please relay this message to other NEXTSTEP users in your community. NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 Upgrade Price Changes are to take effect in a couple of days on 10/1/93. Upgrading to 3.1 (and returning your registration card before 10/31/93) includes a FREE UPGRADE to NEXTSTEP 3.2. At the end of this message are the suggested retail prices of NEXTSTEP products for both North America and Europe today and the increased prices after September 30, 1993. Release 3.1 upgrades for NeXT hardware are available to end-users direct from NeXT at the prices listed below. North American customers may order upgrades by calling... 1-800-677-NEXT or 1-800-848-NeXT and pressing option #3. If you are in Europe, you may call your local distributor: Sweden: Upnod Network AB KarlsbodavYgen 9-11 Box 20 161 S-161 02 Bromma Tel.: +46 8 635 3000 Fax: +46 8 987 067 Italy: Intersoft Via Prarostino, 16 I-10143 Torino Tel.: +39 11 77 14 888 Fax: +39 11 77 14 108 Switzerland: Andes Informatique SA Cntes de Montbenon 8 CH - 1003 Lausanne Tel.: +41 21 311 5757 Fax: +41 21 312 9195 Workstation ag Rohrstrasse 36/38 CH-8152 Glattbrugg Tel: +41 1 828 9555 Fax: +41 1 828 9570 France: TERRA NOVA Technologies La Bastide Verte - BP 345 ZI Toulon Est F-83077 Toulon Cedex 9 Tel.: +33 94 758 383 Fax: +33 94 081 538 SOLENT Immeuble Le Strat\ge Z.A. du Mill\naire F-34000 Montpellier Tel.: +33 67 697 414 Fax: +33 67 697 491 Cub'x Syst\mes S.A. 7, rue E. & A. Peugeot F-92563 Rueil Malmaison Cedex Tel.: +33 1 47 08 7440 Fax: +33 1 47 08 7441 Germany: dBArt Computer GmbH Virchowstr. 17-19 D-22767 Hamburg Tel.: +49 40 380 230 Fax: +49 40 380 23290 Computer 2000 Deutschland GmbH Baierbrunner Str. 31 D-81379 Muenchen Tel.: +49 89 724900 Fax: +49 89 72490200 UK: Penny and Evans Limited 6-10 Askew Crescent Workshops 2A Askew Crescent London W12 9DP Tel.: +44 81 746 1146 Fax: +44 81 746 1169 Bytech Systems Limited 5 the sterling Centre Eastern Road Bracknell Berks RG12 2PW Tel.: +44 344 55 333 Fax: +44 344 86 7270 Lucky Goldstar International Logix Technology (Europe) Ltd. C P House 97-107 Uxbridge Rd Ealing, London W5 5TL Tel.: +44 81 579 8877 Fax: +44 81 840 1658 Netherlands: Interpersonal Computing Group Rijnzathe 7 3454 PV De Meern Tel.: +31 3406 21225 Fax: +31 3406 21145 Belgium: AMCCS 21, boucle des Metiers B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Tel.: +32 10 455491 Fax: +32 10 455077 Middle East: The Open Solutions Company 1010 rue Sherbrooke ouest, Suite 2200 Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2R7 Tel.: (514) 849-7364 Fax: (514) 849-6183 All other International Orders should be directed to Jo Jackson at (415)780-3771 or faxed to (415)780-3977. Conrad Geiger NeXT __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Effective October 1, 1993, Pricing ($US) will be as follows: Part# Product Description _____ ___________________ N5542 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, English (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $75 N5553 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, French (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $75 N5554 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, German (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $75 N5541 Release 3.1 upgrade for NeXT computers, RTU (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now $195 $50 N5549 NEXTSTEP Developer upgrade for NeXT computers (from 3.0) Price: 10/1/93 Now N/A* $99 *NOTE: N5549 will no longer be available as of October 1993 any developers who want to upgrade their development environment can purchase N5551 at $495. N5551 NEXTSTEP Developer upgrade for NeXT computers Price: 10/1/93 Now $495 $495 __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: New Biology Apps from Allegheny College Date: 29 Sep 1993 02:24:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28b9n6$e5@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings from Allegheny College, Two new NEXTSTEP biology applications (multi-binary) are available from our ftp site ftp.alleg.edu. The applications deal with electrophoresis and centrifugation. You can find them in [M68K only] ftp.alleg.edu:/pub/ESDG/Biology/m68k/CellFractionation3.1.app.compressed ftp.alleg.edu:/pub/ESDG/Biology/m68k/DiffusionAndOsmosis3.1.app.compressed and [MAB versions] ftp.alleg.edu:/pub/ESDG/Biology/m68k_i386/CellFractionation3.1.app.compressed ftp.alleg.edu:/pub/ESDG/Biology/m68k_i386/DiffusionAndOsmosis3.1.app.compressed Regards, Chuck Fleming cfleming@alleg.EDU
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: New ATI Drivers at ftp.next.com Date: 29 Sep 1993 02:55:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <28bbgt$1dp@digifix.digifix.com> There is an updated set of drivers for the ATI Graphics card These drivers are used by the following displays ATI Graphics Ultra Pro - EISA ATI Graphics Ultra Pro - VESA Intel GX/Professional Data General Dasher AST Premmia 4D It is available from ftp.next.com in ftp.next.com:/pub/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/1340.compressed ftp.next.com:/pub/NeXTanswers/ByNumber/1341.compressed You can also recieve these files via the Nextanswers mail server by sending mail to "Nextanswers@next.com" with the Subject "1340 1341" to recieve an index of all available Nextanswer files send mail to "Nextanswers@next.com" with the Subject "index help"
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Dallas area NEXTSTEP User Group September Meeting Date: 29 Sep 1993 23:56:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28dlch$61c@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing Dallas area NEXTSTEP User Group Meeting - September 29 Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1993 Time: 7 PM Where: Temberlain McClain (Bozell) 301 E. Carpenter Freeway 3rd floor auditorium The Dallas Area NeXT Group meeting will be held at 7pm at the offices of Temberlain McClain (Bozell) at 301 E. Carpenter Frwy. in the third floor auditorium. This month there will be a tutorial on Display PostScript and NEXTSTEP with an emphasis on why PostScript is central to rendering in NEXTSTEP. For further info, call Steven Staton at 214 529 2301 or Chris Bradley at 214-830-2273.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: eXTRASLIDE for NEXTSTEP: Adding Slidemaking to the Network Date: 30 Sep 1993 01:36:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28dr91$6lk@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: Josef Bresler Marketing Mgr. GS Corporation Voice: 415.257.4700 Fax: 415.257.4707 Email: joe@goldleaf.com eXTRASLIDE Brings Fast, Network Compatible Slidemaking to the Desktop eXTRASLIDE's Advanced Features Made Possible by the NEXTSTEP Operating System Kentfield, CA, September 23, 1993 - Today, GS Corporation began shipping eXTRASLIDE, their highly advanced software for imaging presentation graphics using the Polaroid CI-5000S Digital Palette Film Recorder. eXTRASLIDE, like its sister products, eXTRASET and eXTRAPRINT, represents a new level of output device driver integration only possible through the NEXTSTEP operating system. eXTRASLIDE can be used as a stand-alone application or as a standard NEXTSTEP printing device. Any NEXTSTEP application that prints, can print directly to the Polaroid CI-5000S film recorder using eXTRASLIDE. Just select the resolution (up to 4000 lines) and film type, and eXTRASLIDE rasterizes the image and sends it directly to your film recorder. eXTRASLIDE integrates seamlessly with NEXTSTEP and allows for easy printing over a network. Those working in mixed computing environments can use Partner (printing and networking software from IPT, Inc.) to print directly from their Macintosh slide-making software to eXTRASLIDE - no need to transfer the files to the NEXTSTEP server. As a stand-alone application, eXTRASLIDE incorporates a number of features which are only possible with NEXTSTEP, NeXT, Inc.'s object oriented operating system and development environment. For example, you can queue up files for processing by choosing them from the NEXTSTEP Workspace File Viewer and either selecting "Open in eXTRASLIDE" from the Services Menu, or by just "dragging-and-dropping" them onto eXTRASLIDE's Image Framing panel. Click on a filename to activate it, and eXTRASLIDE previews the image in the Preview Panel. Scale and position the image in real-time, and set the slide's background color (using the standard NEXTSTEP Color Picker). Choose "Expose," and eXTRASLIDE performs on-the-fly color correction for your selected film type and images the film in as little as two minutes per file (depending on complexity). The Polaroid CI-5000S film recorder has a built-in 640K image buffer which helps produce exposures quickly. Interchangeable camera backs (sold separately) will output the images on over 20 different types of film from 35 mm up to 4" x 5" format. GS Corporation also offers a number of accessory packages for eXTRASLIDE, including automatic film processors, slide mounters, overhead viewers, camera backs, and starter film packs. eXTRASLIDE is a Multiple Architecture Binary (MAB) application which comes with the Polaroid CI-5000S film recorder and a 35 mm camera back. The suggested list price for this complete package is $5995. The software alone carries a list price of $995. Either way, eXTRASLIDE is available from GS Corporation directly, or through one of GS Corp.'s GOLD Resellers. Privately held GS Corporation develops and distributes software and system solutions for client/server computing. The Goldleaf Systems division markets NEXTSTEP-based hardware and software solutions for technical publishing and the graphic arts. The Collaggi Software division develops and distributes object-oriented database publishing products. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. eXTRASLIDE is a trademark of GS Corporation. Polaroid CI-5000S is a registered trademark of the Polaroid Corporation. Partner is a trademark of IPT, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Now Shipping! Goldleaf's OCR Product for NEXTSTEP: eXTRAREAD Date: 30 Sep 1993 01:38:06 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28drbs$6lt@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: Josef Bresler Marketing Mgr. GS Corporation Voice: 415.257.4700 Fax: 415.257.4707 Email: joe@goldleaf.com eXTRAREAD Provides High Quality Optical Character Recognition with an Easy-to-use Interface Version 1.0 Began Shipping Today Kentfield, CA, September 23, 1993 - eXTRAREAD, GS Corporation's high quality, low-cost Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software began shipping today. Separate versions are available for NeXT computers and NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. eXTRAREAD is based on the award-winning Recognition Toolkit from ExperVision, Inc. eXTRAREAD greatly increases the productivity of anyone who needs to perform OCR on complex documents. eXTRAREAD can be used as a stand-alone application or from the Services Menu. eXTRAREAD Version 1.0 integrates fully with scanning software, like GS Corporation's eXTRASCAN. Just scan your document and save the image as a monochrome TIFF file. eXTRAREAD then takes that document and translates it into a fully formatted Rich Text (RTF) file. If eXTRAREAD finds characters that it can't recognize, it automatically tags them to draw your attention. Tabs, underlines, bolds and italics remain intact. If eXTRAREAD comes across an unfamiliar font, it remaps it to the nearest available typeface in the system. eXTRAREAD is smart enough to take multiple column documents and string together the text to maintain the integrity of your original copy. Check for errors by using NEXTSTEP's Preview application to view the original scanned image and compare that to the recognized text in eXTRAREAD's Preview Window. When finished, save your recognized text to a file, or copy it to the Pasteboard and paste it directly into your word processing or page layout application. "We had such a great response to eXTRAREAD at NeXTWORLD EXPO last May that we speeded up our development process and are able to release Version 1.0 ahead of schedule," comments John Fox, Vice President of Technology. "We are committed to having the best OCR solution available on any platform. We feel confident that the current version will hold its own against other OCR applications available today. We are already working on Version 2.0, which will have direct scanning support for EPSON scanners, image straightening, batch processing, support for foreign language dictionaries, and many other features. We expect to ship Version 2.0 as a Fat-binary application in December, 1993." eXTRAREAD version 1.0 costs $299 and is available now. Those who purchase the current version of eXTRAREAD will be able to upgrade to version 2.0 (available late fourth quarter, 1993) for approximately $199. The suggested list price of version 2.0 will be $695. eXTRAREAD is available from GS Corporation directly, or through one of GS Corp.'s GOLD Resellers. Privately held GS Corporation develops and distributes software and system solutions for client/server computing. The Goldleaf Systems division markets NEXTSTEP-based hardware and software solutions for technical publishing and the graphic arts. The Collaggi Software division develops and distributes object-oriented database publishing products. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. eXTRAREAD is a trademark of GS Corporation. EPSON is a trademark of the Seiko Epson Corporation. Recognition Toolkit/Fax Recognition Toolkit is a trademark of ExperVision, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle Product Price Change (effective November 1, 1993) Date: 27 Sep 1993 23:01:59 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2889f5$fc7@digifix.digifix.com> Price change on NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle effective November 1, 1993 Effective November 1, 1993 the suggested retail price of the NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle will increase from $249 to $299. This will coincide with the shipment of Release 3.2. The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle continues to be available through campus bookstores and academic computing centers. The NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle includes both the User and Developer releases of NEXTSTEP. NeXT, Inc.
From: Jamie O'Keefe <jamie@gladstone.ftp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Date: 30 Sep 1993 12:59:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28f3a0$9ld@digifix.digifix.com> Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting Tuesday, October 5th, 7 PM MIT Room 1-190 An evening with Watershed Technologies. Watershed Technologies will be showing off their GraphRight graphics application. Dirk Fronhein will be there to answer questions about GraphRight and Watershed Technologies. We will also have our Rumor of the Month contest, Q&A, and the usual updates on what is new in the NeXT community. For more info, contact Jamie O'Keefe at jamie@ftp.com, or by phone at 508-659-6829. See you there!
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: RightBrain Software calls it quits Date: 30 Sep 1993 17:59:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28fks3$b8r@digifix.digifix.com> RightBrain Software Ceases NeXTSTEP Operations, Announces Transition Plan September 30, 1993, WOODSIDE, CA -- RightBrain Software today announced that it has ceased its operations developing and marketing software for NEXTSTEP, effective October 1, 1993. "I have been in this market since 1989, when I first joined NeXT, and have been running RightBrain Software since 1990. It is with great sadness that we withdraw from this market," said Glenn Reid, president and founder of RightBrain Software. "RightBrain's several shipping products have all found new homes," said Reid, "and we're in the process of helping those products make the transition smoothly." PasteUp, RightBrain's flagship page layout program, will be acquired by Anderson Financial Systems Inc. of Springhouse, PA, who will continue to develop and support the product as of October 1. AFS will contact existing customers to announce their support and upgrade plans. Portfolio and Rulers, two of RightBrain's utility products for publishing, will be acquired by Trilithon Software of Portola Valley, CA. LockScreen will revert back to its original author, and LaunchPad will be contributed to the public domain. ExactlyWrite, RightBrain's word processor under development, will be acquired by Information Technology Solutions of Chicago, IL. Previously announced negotiations with Adobe Systems Incorporated, of Mountain View, CA, to acquire the engineering and marketing rights to Adobe Illustrator and Adobe TouchType were never fully realized, and those products remain with Adobe Systems, as does the Adobe Type Library. "We have worked hard to make this transition as painless as possible for our business partners and customers, and we're pleased that the products will continue to be developed and supported," said Reid. RightBrain has not announced future directions as this time, although it is rumored that RightBrain's founder, Glenn Reid, may get into the lucrative termite inspection and repair business in California. Reid said: "I've gotten to be very good at finding bugs in software, and last weekend I found a lot of them in my house, as well. It seems like a natural transition."
From: greg@afs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Acquires PasteUp(tm) Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:01:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g30q$bvb@digifix.digifix.com> Anderson Financial Systems Inc. 909 Sumneytown Pike, Suite 207 Springhouse, PA 19477 215 653 0911 215 653 0711 fax Contact: Greg Anderson 215 653 0911 Greg_Anderson@afs.com For Immediate Release ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ACQUIRES RIGHTBRAIN SOFTWARE'S PASTEUP(tm) APPLICATION, ANNOUNCES UPGRADE STRATEGY SPRINGHOUSE, PA, September 30, 1993 -- Software developer Anderson Financial Systems Inc. (AFS) today announced that it will acquire PasteUp(tm), a desktop publishing application for the NEXTSTEP operating system, from RightBrain Software of Palo Alto, California, effective October 1. *PasteUp is a great application that we are proud to add to our product line,: said Gregory H. Anderson, Chairman and CEO of AFS. *We have succeeded using NEXTSTEP to build custom trading systems for our Wall Street clients, and we hope to extend that success into the shrink-wrapped market.: *We're proud of PasteUp, and I'm extremely pleased that Anderson Financial will continue its development. AFS brings a great deal of expertise to the table, and I'm confident they'll add incredible value to the product,: said Glenn Reid, President and founder of RightBrain Software. *Traditional desktop publishing applications are targeted only at design professionals,: said Anderson, *but PasteUp has the potential for much broader appeal. It can be difficult and time-consuming to generate business reports with sophisticated PostScript output. We intend to enhance PasteUp with an inter-application programming interface and markup language that will make it the rendering engine of choice for custom NEXTSTEP applications.: PRICING AND UPGRADE STRATEGY PasteUp 2.0 is now available as a multi-architecture binary (MAB) for both Motorola and Intel processors. Registered users of version 1.0 can upgrade to version 2.0 for $25. New users can purchase version 2.0 directly from AFS for $495 ($249 academic). All orders placed by December 1, 1993, will include a free copy of WriteUp(tm), a word processor derived from PasteUp that is scheduled for shipment by the end of 1993. PasteUp 3.0, scheduled for release at the 1994 NeXTWORLD Expo, will include a programming API, an enhanced markup language, additional document import formats, and numerous other improvements. If Frame Technology does not announce a NEXTSTEP upgrade for Frame 4.0 in early October, PasteUp will be extended to manage long-form documents and import native Frame data formats. In addition to the complete product, PasteUp 3.0 will be available as a low cost rendering engine, similar to the NeXT-supplied Preview.app. With this engine, users of custom applications will be able to print and save--but not alter--documents. ABOUT ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS Anderson Financial Systems Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Springhouse, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). Founded in 1982, the company's primary business has been designing customized trading software for more than 60 Wall Street firms on IBM PCs and NeXT workstations. Representative clients include Citicorp, First National Bank of Chicago, PaineWebber, American Capital Management, Delaware Management Company, Oppenheimer Management Corp. and Texas Commerce Bank. Since adding NeXT to its roster in 1991, AFS has made a substantial commitment to building applications that leverage the unique capabilities of the NEXTSTEP operating environment. ###
From: greg@afs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Announces WriteUp(tm), Low Cost NEXTSTEP Word Processor Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:02:31 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g33l$c0b@digifix.digifix.com> Anderson Financial Systems Inc. 909 Sumneytown Pike, Suite 207 Springhouse, PA 19477 215 653 0911 215 653 0711 fax Contact: Greg Anderson 215 653 0911 Greg_Anderson@afs.com For Immediate Release ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES WriteUp(tm), LOW COST WORD PROCESSOR FOR NEXTSTEP SPRINGHOUSE, PA, September 30, 1993 -- Software developer Anderson Financial Systems Inc. (AFS) today announced that it will ship WriteUp(tm), a low cost word processor for the NEXTSTEP operating system, by the end of the year. "NEXTSTEP users have been asking, begging, pleading for a low cost alternative to WordPerfect," said Gregory H. Anderson, Chairman and CEO of AFS. "In the process of evaluating PasteUp(tm), we realized there was a great word processor buried inside all that functionality. We're going to unleash it." WriteUp will be derived from PasteUp, but will simplify operations and terminology. Publishing-specific operations, such as color separations, will be removed entirely. The result will be a fast, clean, capable word processor. Primary features include: - Full typographic text object with on-screen pagination - Headers and footers - Text and graphics integration - Simultaneous multiple views onto the same document - Import plain ASCII, RTF, WriteNow, WordPerfect, TIFF and EPS documents. WriteUp has a suggested retail price of $199 ($99 academic). Five-user license packs cost $795 (no special academic pricing). Site licenses for over 100 seats are available at negotiated prices. The beta test period for WriteUp will begin in late November. Because it is based on a shipping application, AFS expects testing time and problems to be minimal. Preorders are being accepted now with a unique guarantee: If the product does not ship by December 31, all orders placed by December 1 will receive a $1 per day credit until it does. ABOUT ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS Anderson Financial Systems Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Springhouse, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). Founded in 1982, the company's primary business has been designing customized trading software for more than 60 Wall Street firms on IBM PCs and NeXT workstations. Representative clients include Citicorp, First National Bank of Chicago, PaineWebber, American Capital Management, Delaware Management Company, Oppenheimer Management Corp. and Texas Commerce Bank. Since adding NeXT to its roster in 1991, AFS has made a substantial commitment to building applications that leverage the unique capabilities of the NEXTSTEP operating environment. ###
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN ships Create 2.0 Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:04:16 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g36u$c0i@digifix.digifix.com> ___________________________________________________________ News for immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or call Carla Kay Barlow at (505) 345-4800 STONE DESIGN SHIPS MULTIPLE-ARCHITECTURE CREATE 2.0 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, Oct. 1, 1993 --Stone Design has begun shipping a major upgrade to its full-color drawing program, Create. Create 2.0 includes most of the features that Stone announced earlier this year as planned for Create version 3.0. According to Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design, "This release adds major functionality to Create, while meeting the demand for Create on NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. User Patterns, multiple pages, and object linking are but a few of the new features; we also wiped out a number of bugs." New Features for 2.0: - NSFIP compatibility --Create 2.0 offers full compatibility with NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors on NeXT-qualified Intel-based hardware configurations and NeXT Motorola-based hardware. - Hot links to and from Create --Include link buttons, icons and linked files in any Create document for automatic and manual updating; link to Create files from any other NEXTSTEP app that supports hot links. - Filter support --Create supports Bacchus' ImageAgent image filters; e.g. drag and drop GIFs into Create. - Unlimited Custom Patterns --Create stunning patterns with unlimited variety. Share with friends. - Multiple Pages --Add, duplicate and rearrange as many pages in a document as you like. - Animate --Allows you to animate your pages with any delay. - Text into Editable Curves --Take any Super Text and turn into editable shapes. Create your own wild type! - Paintbrush Tool --Drag out a swath of color, smear a pattern and edit individual points along the outline. - Unlimited Undo --Tell Create how many edit actions to remember, then Undo to your heart's content; free up memory using the new Free Undo Buffers command. - Fixed/Dynamic Date Markers and Auto Page Numbers --You can add an automatically updating or fixed date marker to any document, and can place smart page markers in any document. - On-line Help --Create 2.0 includes extensive on-line help based on the NEXTSTEP standard. Create 2.0 is offered in multiple-architecture binary form, making it compatible with both NeXT and Intel-based hardware running NEXTSTEP version 3.1 or later. In addition, Stone said, "This version of Create inherits a recent fix that we issued for NEXTSTEP 3.1 users, in the form of Create 1.2. If you're running 3.1, you definitely want this upgrade because it addresses changes to NEXTSTEP that impact certain Create documents." Create 2.0 can be shared on a network comprising both NeXT and Intel hardware; documents created on either machine can be opened on any other machine running the same version of Create. Like all Stone Design products, Create is available directly from the company and at the ftp sites orst.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu and ftp.cs.unm.edu. Students who ftp the package and submit proof of current student status can purchase Create at a special rate. No technical support is provided with this purchase option, but easy entry for students is a firm commitment of Stone Design. Create 2.0, which is available to registered users for $99, lists for $495. In keeping with a special offer that ran between February 12, 1993 and May 21, 1993, trade-ups to Intel versions of Stone software are available free of charge to end users who purchased during that time. ## Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. Create is a trademark of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces trade-up program for AppSoft Draw users** Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:05:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g38e$c0o@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or Stone Design Corp. 3725 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 or call Elena Settanni at (505) 345-4800 Subject: Stone Design Offers Draw Users Special Trade-Up ALBUQUERQUE, NM, October 1, 1993 - Stone Design has announced a special trade-in price on the latest version of its drawing program, Create 2.0, for users of Appsoft Draw. The announcement follows on the heels of Appsoft's announcement this week that it is discontinuing its NEXTSTEP business, which includes development and support of Draw. Stone Design shipped Create version 2.0 today, a feature-packed upgrade to the company's tremendously popular drawing application. Version 2.0, which ships in multiple-architecture binary form and introduces full compatibility with NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors, offers a multitude of other new features: hot links to and from images and documents in other applications; support for Bacchus' ImageAgent image filtering service; unlimited custom pattern creation including easy drag-and-drop storage and reuse; a dual-mode paintbrush tool; multiple pages per document, plus a simple reordering mechanism; presentation-style display of pages; conversion of text objects into editable curves; dynamic or fixed date markers and smart page-number markers; user-specified number of undos; and extensive on-line Help based on the NEXTSTEP standard. "We want to offer Draw users a great package with a long life ahead of it, plus full documentation and unlimited technical support, at a price that reflects their investment in Draw," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "Deals like this are usually leveled against live competitors as a way of eroding a rival's customer base. But we're making this offer to Appsoft customers because we think it's the right thing to do in the NEXTSTEP market," Stone said. Draw users who purchased that application at regular or standard discount prices are eligible to purchase Create, Stone's full-featured and easy-to-use drawing program, for a special trade-in price of $249 along with proof of purchase of Draw. The proof of purchase must show date of purchase before 9-27-93 and/or a purchase price that reflects pre-close-out purchase. Users who purchase Draw under Appsoft's close-out offer of 90 percent off regular price are not eligible for Stone's trade-in offer. This offer expires on October 31, 1993; interested Draw users should contact Stone Design for additional details. Registered users of Create are entitled to the upgrade to Create version 2.0 for a price of $99, and should contact Stone Design for details.
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships Create 2.0 (attached PostScript) Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:43:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g5fr$c69@digifix.digifix.com> Andrew has submitted the Create 2.0 package to the following sites ftp.cs.unm.edu pub/stone/Create/Create_2.0.tar cs.orst.edu pub/next/submissions/Create_2.0.tar sum Create_2.0.tar 59361 2832 [Moderators Note:Create is a graphic package, and so I am bending the rules and posting the attached .ps file. 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From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Einladung zum Treffen des NeXT Klub Stuttgart (NeKSt) am 4. Oktober 1993 Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:56:08 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g686$c9g@digifix.digifix.com> Kontakt: Matthias Boehringer Stuttgart Tel. privat: (07031) 387178 Tel. gesch.: (0711) 685-4103 Email: Matthias.Boehringer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de (no NeXTmail) Einladung zum Treffen des NeXT Klub Stuttgart (NeKSt) am 4. Oktober 1993 Fuer alle NeXTstep User und solche, die es werden wollen, findet jeden ersten Montag im Monat um 20.00 Uhr ein Treffen in den Raeumen der CuBE GmbH im Technologiezentrum Stuttgart (Uni Vaihingen), Nobelstr. 15 statt. Im monatlichen Rahmen wollen wir Vortraege halten, Anwendungen vorstellen, Erfahrungen austauschen, Probleme besprechen, Public Domain Software bereitstellen und vieles mehr. Thema dieses Treffens: - Tailor - GUUG-Bericht Tailor ist ein neuartiges und ausserordentlich maechtiges PostScript-Werkzeug. Tailor erlaubt naemlich die nachtraegliche Bearbeitung beliebiger(!) PostScript-Dateien, wobei z.B. Gruppierungen erhalten bleiben! Zum Thema GUUG: was gab's neues von NeXT zu hoeren/sehen auf der GUUG? Kontakt: Matthias Boehringer Stuttgart Tel. privat: (07031) 387178 Tel. gesch.: (0711) 685-4103 Email: Matthias.Boehringer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de (no NeXTmail)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Registration for 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference (January 26-28, 1993) Date: 1 Oct 1993 02:04:25 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28gh97$dsf@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings, Below is an invitation letter from Steven Jobs and registration form for individuals interested in attending the first East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference to be held January 24-26, 1994. Conrad Geiger NeXT ________________________________________________________________ Dear Computing Professional, Since we've had so many requests for an East Coast-based NEXTSTEP Developer Conference, we're pleased to announce the 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference. The Conference takes place from January 24-26, 1994 at the Sheraton Washington in Washington, DC and is designed to complement the West Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference that runs concurrently with NEXTWORLD EXPO in June, 1994. This Developer Conference will offer a broad range of sessions for IS managers, corporate developers, system integrators and independent software vendors who want to learn more about object-oriented technology. Both in-depth NEXTSTEP tutorials, for those new to NEXTSTEP, and more advanced tutorials for the seasoned NEXTSTEP developer, will be offered. Several NEXTSTEP partners will be participating at the Conference showcasing their newest NEXTSTEP solutions. To register early for the Conference, simply complete and return the Express Registration Form below. If you would rather register by phone or would like more information, please call (800)767-2336 in the U.S. and Canada or (508)470-3880 elsewhere. Please mention your preferred customer code 00K3ER when calling. This conference will be the premier East Coast event in 1994 to learn about real-world object-oriented technology and applications. If objects are in your future, you will want to be there. See you at the Conference. Steven P. Jobs Chairman and CEO __________________________________________________________________ 1994 EAST COAST NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM __________________________________________________________________ Registration code: 00K3ER EXPRESS REGISTRATION FORM 1994 EAST COAST NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER CONFERENCE Washington, DC, January 24-26, 1994 ** CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ** __ 4076 Please register me for the NEXTSTEP Developer Conference, January 25-26, 1994 ($545.00 if you register by December 3, 1993) ($595.00 if you register after December 3, 1993) Also, please register me for the following half day NEXTSTEP Tutorials on January 24, 1994: ** TUTORIAL REGISTRATION ** __ 1234 - Intro to NEXTSTEP User Environment, 9:30am - 12:30pm __ 2345 - Intro to NEXTSTEP Development Environment, 1:30pm-4:30pm __ 1234 - Object-Oriented Design, 9:30am - 12:30pm __ 2345 - Introduction to DataBase Kit, 1:30pm-4:30pm Special Discounts for Conference Attendees: $160.00 per tutorial if you register by December 3, 1993. $200.00 per tutorial after December 3, 1993. Fee for Non-Conference Attendees: $300.00 per tutorial __________________________________________________________________ Signature Phone Fax ** Method of Payment ** __ Please bill me at my address __________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __ Check Enclosed __ Please Charge my credit card __ Visa# _______________________________ Exp Date:_________________ __ MasterCard# _________________________ Exp Date:_________________ ** Hotel Reservations at Special Conference Rates ** Sheraton Washington 2660 Woodley Road at Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008, USA (800)767-2755 or (508)470-3933 Arrival Date: _________________ Departure Date: _________________ Indicate Room Preference ___ $130.00 Single ___ $150.00 Double __ VISA # ____________________________ Exp Date: _________________ __ MasterCard # ______________________ Exp Date: _________________ Please mail or fax this form to: NEXTSTEP Developer Conference c/o DCI 204 Andover Street Andover, MA 01810-5641 FAX number: (508)470-0526 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: (800)767-2336 (US & Canada) or (508)470-3880 from overseas CUSTOMER REGISTRATION CODE: 00K3ER
From: market@nextsrv1.andi.org (Marketing Director) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Call for Papers for NEXTSTEP Dev Conf Date: 1 Oct 1993 14:52:56 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28hua6$gk3@digifix.digifix.com> ANDI, the Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International, Inc. is making a "call for papers" to the NeXTSTEP community. We are looking for people to present NeXTSTEP relevant topics at the January, 1994 conference scheduled for Washington, DC. Any topic will be considered. Time is of the essence in submitting topics to us for inclusion in the program brochure which is scheduled to be mailed in the near future. Depending upon the response we receive, we plan to run several tracks simultaneously, each of which will run between 60 and ninety minutes. These sessions are scheduled for Sunday, January 23, 1994 and possibly Monday, January 24, 1994. Each submission should include the following: Presenter(s) name, address, phone,fax, email numbers Proposed title Brief summary of topic to be included in program (75-100 words) Level of topic: beginner, intermediate, advanced, all Please submit via email if possible in ASCII text to: marketing@andi.org Submissions may also be faxed to: 301-681-0616 Send them: Attention Marketing For inclusion in the preliminary program we must receive submissions by Wednesday, October 6. For further information, call:301-681-0613 or via email: marketing@andi.org or by mail: ANDI 9921 Woodburn Road Silver Spring, MD 20901-2730 USA
From: market@nextsrv1.andi.org (Marketing Director) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Call for Technology Demonstrations at East Coast NeXTSTEP Developers Conference Date: 1 Oct 1993 14:53:06 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28huah$gk9@digifix.digifix.com> ANDI, the Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International, Inc. is making a "call for technology demonstrations" to the NeXTSTEP community. We are looking for people to showcase NeXTSTEP technology at the January, 1994 East Coast NeXTSTEP Developers Conference scheduled for Washington, DC. Any NeXTSTEP related technology will be considered. Interested parties must be willing to make a definite commitment immediately for inclusion in the program brochure which is scheduled to be mailed in the near futur e. The technology demonstrations are scheduled for Tuesday, January 25, 1994, Wednesday, January 26, and possibly Monday, January 24, 1994. Approximate participation cost is likely to be $1200 to $1600 per "space", depending on the number of participants. If interested, please contact us via email if possible at: marketing@andi.org Or via fax at: 301-681-0616 Send them: Attention Marketing For inclusion in the preliminary program we must receive a commitment by Wednesday, October 6. For further information, call:301-681-0613 or via email: marketing@andi.org or by mail: ANDI 9921 Woodburn Road Silver Spring, MD 20901-2730 USA
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Washington, D.C area NEXTSTEP Users Group Meeting: October 13 Date: 1 Oct 1993 15:52:07 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28i1p5$gu8@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing WaNUG October Meeting Event: Washington, D.C area NEXTSTEP Users Group Meeting When: Wednesday, October 13, 7:00 P.M. Where: Pioneer Technologies Group 9100 Gaithers Road Gaithersburg, MD PRESENTATION John Griebling from MFS-Datanet, Inc. will present Interconnecting Technology & Services which enable businesses and institutions to connect LANS in a single metropolitan area or across the nation as easily as if they were in the same building. John will discuss the role MFS plays providing enhanced internet performance. Included will be short video tape. DIRECTIONS: Take I-270 north to Shady Grove Exit. Bear to the right. Turn left at second traffic light on to Gaither Road. Pioneer is on the left (West) side of the road. or Take Rockville Pike (355) North to Shady Grove Road. Turn Left. Turn right on Gaither Road. (approximately two lights from Rockville Pike). or Take the Red Line north to Shady Grove Stop. (approximately one mile from Pioneer.) __________________________ Hugh O'Neill President Washington Area NeXTSTEP Users Group (WaNUG) reply to: honeill@nextsrv1.andi.org (NeXTmail accepted) ANDI Charter Member 571 Coover Road Annapolis, MD 21401 telephone (410) 224-3116
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Announcing Single File of All NeXTanswers (available through FTP access) Date: 1 Oct 1993 22:08:43 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28inr9$i82@digifix.digifix.com> Here is a great tool for NEXTSTEP users/developers that is available now via FTP (file transfer protocol): All of NeXTanswers (complete with a Digital Librarian index) is now available as a single .compressed file from the NeXT ftp archive site: ftp.next.com. The file: "NA.compressed" is located in the following directory: pub/NeXTanswers (The file "NA.compressed" is approximately 9 megabytes.) ** NA.compressed always contain the ** ** current version of NeXTanswers. ** ...Another service from the NeXTanswers team
From: ericw@its.com (Eric Wespestad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: RightBrain's ExactlyWrite Acquired by Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Date: 4 Oct 1993 13:00:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28pkqg$1r3@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Eric Wespestad Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Chicago, IL 60610 312-587-2000 312-587-2012 FAX ExactlyWrite@its.com RightBrain's ExactlyWrite Acquired by Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Chicago, October 1, 1993 - Information Technology Solutions, Inc, today announced it has acquired all rights to RightBrain's ExactlyWrite. ITS will complete the development of this NEXTSTEP word processing application, and anticipates shipping in early 1994 - both as a shrink-wrap application and as an object suitable for integration into other applications. This, and other soon to be announced software acquisitions, are part of a strategic new direction for ITS--focusing on the commercial development of office automation and groupware solutions for NEXTSTEP, while continuing to provide a full range of consulting services. ITS currently provides custom programming, systems engineering management; network installation, support; and training for a wide variety of mid-western and international clients--especially in the Financial Services Industry. "I'm very pleased we were able to acquire ExactlyWrite from RightBrain," said Ted Shelton, President of ITS. "NEXTSTEP users need this application and there is a growing demand from developers for a full-featured word processing object. The established services side of our business puts us in a strong position to expand and diversify in the emerging NEXTSTEP marketplace." "I'm very pleased that all our products have found good homes", said Glenn Reid, Founder and President of RightBrain Software. "ITS is the perfect place for ExactlyWrite - I believe they will turn it into what we planned - the best meat-and-potatoes NEXTSTEP word processor. I will be working with them to ensure a smooth transition of the product." RightBrain recently announced that it would be ceasing its operations developing and marketing software for NEXTSTEP, effective October 1, 1993.
From: pck@vnp.com (Paul King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Ships AccessKit 2.0 Date: 4 Oct 1993 16:43:28 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28q1tf$12c@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Linda Rosen or Ronald Simmons VNP Software, Inc. Phone: (802) 496-7799 Fax: (802) 496-7790 Email: AccessKit_Info@vnp.com AccessKit Enhanced to Support Oracle, NEXTSTEP/FIP New Version Used at Major NeXT Sites for Business Library Development Cambridge, MA - October 4, 1993 - VNP Software today announced that the AccessKit(tm), a toolkit providing complete object-oriented access to database information, now offers support for Oracle(tm) and NEXTSTEP/FIP(tm). The AccessKit Version 2.0 allows programmers to access and modify database information transparently through custom Objective-C classes, optimizing NeXT's DBKit(tm) environment for vertical business library development. The AccessKit is used by many of the most advanced development sites within the NEXTSTEP community for building business libraries. Dan Crimmins, Vice President, First National Bank of Chicago, said: "The AccessKit is the best solution for database access. We've used it to model our trading business with reusable object libraries, giving our systems development a major competitive advantage." And according to Jim Loree, Senior Software Analyst, Chrysler Financial Corporation: "The AccessKit gives us the benefits of binding our business logic directly to our database information and greatly reduces our database programming efforts." The AccessKit provides developers with a mapping process that elevates traditional database operations into object-oriented methods, shortening development time and promoting code reusability. The VNPConfigure tool allows users to build and maintain mapping information, letting programmers graphically bind the attributes of a class to the associated database properties. This process is fast, easy to use and does not impose any schema restrictions on new or existing databases. Once mapping information is established, the AccessKit automatically provides database capabilities to mapped classes through an access library. All of the essential database operations can be invoked using a straightforward protocol. Any object modifications (insert, update, delete) can be performed on a database by sending the object the appropriate "save" or "delete" message. For retrievals, the AccessKit accommodates qualified and ordered queries, with the query results packaged in Objective-C instances of the requested class. These capabilities give NeXT developers the flexibility of object-oriented databases - without forcing them to abandon the stability of SQL platforms. Major enhancements to the AccessKit include: support for the Oracle DBKit adaptor, support for VNP's forthcoming IndexingKit(tm) adaptor, Sybase(tm) stored procedure support and the introduction of binding categories. Binding categories allow named subsets of class information to be retrieved from the database, allowing query performance to be optimized. The AccessKit's Sybase stored procedure support is comprehensive, handling both input and output parameters and binding output results directly to Objective-C classes. The AccessKit, priced at $1995 per seat, is available immediately. A demo version of the AccessKit package is available immediately via anonymous ftp at vnp.com in the /pub directory. A demo version of the AccessKit may also be obtained via NeXTMail. Send mail to AccessKit_Info@vnp.com for more details. VNP Software (Cambridge, MA) offers development tools and consulting expertise to the NEXTSTEP community. Other VNP Software products include the UIBinder Palette(tm), for binding object information to the UI; DevMan(tm), a source code control and configuration management tool; and IXAdaptor(tm), the DBKit adaptor for NeXT's Indexing Kit. Send mail to info@vnp.com for more details.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 40 - 1993 Date: 5 Oct 1993 00:00:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <28qrh8$2o0@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 40). Monday September 27 through Monday October 4 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 39 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups NEXTSTEP Academic Bundle Product Price Change (effective November 1, 1993) PRESS RELEASE: NIST 2.2 for NEXTSTEP by SmartSoft PRESS RELEASE: InTouch for NEXTSTEP by SmartSoft - IMPORTANT SUBMISSION: Transfer.app Demo on cs.orst.edu PRESS RELEASE: AppWrapper Volume1 Issue 3 Ships MEETING: Treffen Berliner Next User (4.10.93) PRESS RELEASE: SS&S CASE Tools for NEXTSTEP Best Products Nomination for Higher Education NEXTSTEP Newsgroup Digests Are Back! Final Reminder: NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 Upgrade Price Changes (Effective 10/1/93) SUBMISSION: New Biology Apps from Allegheny College New ATI Drivers at ftp.next.com MEETING: Dallas area NEXTSTEP User Group September Meeting PRESS RELEASE: eXTRASLIDE for NEXTSTEP: Adding Slidemaking to the Network PRESS RELEASE: Now Shipping! Goldleaf's OCR Product for NEXTSTEP: eXTRAREAD MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group PRESS RELEASE: RightBrain Software calls it quits PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Acquires PasteUp(tm) PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Announces WriteUp(tm), Low Cost NEXTSTEP Word Processor PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN ships Create 2.0 PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces trade-up program for AppSoft Draw users** Stone Design Offers Draw Users Special Trade-Up PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN Ships Create 2.0 (attached PostScript) MEETING: Einladung zum Treffen des NeXT Klub Stuttgart (NeKSt) am 4. Oktober 1993 Registration for 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference (January 26-28, 1993) PRESS RELEASE: Call for Papers for NEXTSTEP Dev Conf PRESS RELEASE: Call for Technology Demonstrations at East Coast NeXTSTEP Developers Conference MEETING: Washington, D.C area NEXTSTEP Users Group Meeting: October 13 Announcing Single File of All NeXTanswers (available through FTP access) PRESS RELEASE: RightBrain's ExactlyWrite Acquired by Information Technology Solutions, Inc. PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Ships AccessKit 2.0 If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** BTW, this is the six month mark for me! My first announce posting went out on April 29! Do I win something? Is there anything you would like to see changed? Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 5 Oct 1993 00:01:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <28qri4$2pt@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 5 Oct 1993 00:01:26 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <28qrik$2q5@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: October Meeting of the Minnesota NeXTSTEP User Group Date: 5 Oct 1993 00:17:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28qsgs$2tg@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing the October meeting of the Minnesota NeXTSTEP User Group: Date: Tuesday Evening, October 12th Time: 7pm - 10pm Location: Geometry Center University of Minnesota Topic: "Getting Started With DriverKit." Speaker: Peter Eisch U of Minnesota and Etude Engineering Food: Cookies and Drink will be provided AGENDA: Terry Trover of Tech Components will be demoing an Elographics Intellitouch touch-screen monitor. Peter Eisch will discuss what the new NEXTSTEP documentation tries to convey and then present psuedo-code that describes how an interrupt driver can handle the interrupt and do I/O with the board. DIRECTIONS The Center is in Suite 500 of the "Old FMC building" (now clearly marked University of Minnesota) which 6 stories tall, has red stripes, and is located at 1300 South Second Street. The building is just north and east of the Minnesota Supercomputer Center which is in the northwest corner of the intersection of Washington Avenue and I35W. I35W southbound: take the Washington Avenue exit, turn right at the stoplight, go 1 block, turn right, go 1 block, turn left, go 1/2 block and you will find the building on your right. I94 eastbound: exit onto 35W northbound, immediately take UofM exit as in I35 northbound. I35W northbound: take UofM exit, specifically the 3rd Street branch, turn left at the stoplight, go 2 blocks, turn right, go 1 block, turn right, go 1 block, turn left and you will find the building on your right. I94 westbound: take the Riverside Avenue exit, turn right, go to Cedar Avenue, turn right, follow Cedar as it curves to the left and turns into Washington Avenue. Cross the bridge and make the first right, go 1 block, turn right, go 1 block, turn left and the building will be on your right. Once you reach the building, pull into the driveway, and drive to the visitor lot, mention that you are "visiting the Geometry Center" an the guard should open the gate and let you in. Come into the building, ride an elevator to the 5th floor, turn right, go through the glass double doors, turn left through the next set of glass double doors, walk down the hall until you can turn sharp right into the classroom where we'll be meeting. Call Scott Bertelson at 626-8303 if there are any questions about the facility.
From: phayes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick W Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Central Indiana NeXT Users Group Meeting -- Oct. 13th Date: 5 Oct 1993 11:46:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28s4rp$2as@digifix.digifix.com> Hello NeXT Advocates!!! October Central Indiana NeXT Users Group Meeting Demonstration of Pages by Pages (20 minutes) - Dave Goodman DBKit (Database) Overview and Demonstration (up to 1 hour) - NeXTSTEP Specialist Open Discussion - Question and Answers - Topics of interest for next meeting (Indexing Kit) Where: Single Source Systems, 4911 e. 56th St. Indianapolis, IN 46220 When: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 13 Directions: Take I-465 to 56th St. on east side. Take West and go through 4 stop lights. Go through the 4th which will be Emerson. Single Source is located 2 buildings on the left, next door to the Hardee's. From the West, take 37 to 56th St. Take East, first light will be Emerson. We are second building on right, next door to Hardee's. Please R.S.V.P. A.S.A.P. to Greg Duwe (duwe@singlesrc.com) or phone: 317-253-0665 / Fax: 317-253-0385
From: Nick Christopher <nwc@piglet.ny.shl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Gotham Users of NeXT (GUN) Wednesday, October 13th Date: 5 Oct 1993 21:45:30 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28t7vo$4mc@digifix.digifix.com> GOTHAM USERS OF NeXT Wednesday, October 13th I. Q&A - 18:30 Questions. Answers. News. II. NEXTSTEP & 3D Focus on Architecture - 19:00 Doug Muir, a GUN member, will discuss where his quest to do architectural drawing on NEXTSTEP has led him. He will cover the various packages he has used: 3D Reality, zzVolume, and others. He'll compare the strengths and weaknesses of these packages. Also, he's bringing along a few of the resulting drawings - some really striking work! III. Raffle - End of Meeting More CDROMS! NeXT's own Demo CDROM and their Educational Sample as well. Electronic Directions 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 503 212-213-6500 Questions to GUN at 718-260-9848 or info@gun.com
From: Ralph Zazula <zazula@pri.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Pinnacle Transfer Ships! Introductory Offer Extended Date: 5 Oct 1993 21:46:46 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28t824$4ob@digifix.digifix.com> Pinnacle Research, Inc. THE NEXTSTEP UTILITY LAB 4725 E. Sunrise Dr. #435 Tucson, AZ 85718 Contact: Ralph Zazula e-mail: info@pri.com voice: (602)529-1135 fax: (602)529-0117 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shipment of Pinnacle Transfer for Remote Access to NeXTmail and Mission Critical Business Information - Introductory Pricing Extended TUCSON, AZ, October 4, 1993 - Pinnacle Research, Inc., the NEXTSTEP Utility Lab, announced shipment of Pinnacle Transfer for remote access to NeXTmail, files, and programs via modem. Pinnacle also announced that the introductory pricing on Transfer has been extended. Until October 31, 1993, Transfer can be purchased for $125 50% off the $249 list price. Pinnacle Transfer is a NEXTSTEP application incorporating an architecture designed for remote access to mission critical business information. Transfer has been designed to be extended, for example, to provide businesses with solutions for remote database queries or as a method to maintain concurrency of business data at remote field locations. Beta testers have been enthusiastic about the ease-of-use, setup, and functionality of Transfer: "The most elegant way to get mail, especially NeXTmail, I've ever known. With the FileBrowser and RemoteShell, Transfer kicks open the barn door of mobile computing possibilities." Michael Crawford, nesteggs, Houston Texas. "Transfer has perfectly filled the need for NeXTmail and file transfer anywhere. I use it for getting email and files from the home office to my field office and from my field office to my portable when I am travelling. It is simple to setup and use and 'it just works'." - David W. Fahrney, Alembic Systems International. Transfer's client-server design uses an architecture independent remote server. This allows client tools to interface with applications running on standard UNIX and NEXTSTEP computers. Transfer ships with tools for Email, drag-and-drop file transfer, and remote command execution: Incoming Mail - Select new messages or messages from any of the users mailboxes for transfer. To read the messages simply use the NeXT Mail.app application. Outgoing Mail - Send outgoing messages composed on or off-line from the local machine. Remote File Browser - Browse the remote filesystem using a "Workspace-like" file browser. Copy files from the remote server simply by dragging file icons from the Transfer browser. Command Execution - Display output of UNIX commands executed on the office server. Pinnacle Transfer's modular architecture is designed to be extended using custom modules to meet specific business requirements. These custom modules can be used to provide NEXTSTEP user-interface based connections to mission-critical NeXT and non-NeXT applications residing on a remote server. Contact Pinnacle Research, Inc. regarding development of custom modules for Transfer. Pinnacle Research Inc., of Tucson, Arizona, is a leading developer of NEXTSTEP utilities. Utilities designed to bridge the gaps between user's work requirements and NEXTSTEP applications. Pinnacle Research, the Pinnacle logo, Pinnacle Transfer, and Email: Anywhere, Anytime! are trademarks of Pinnacle Research, Inc. NeXT, and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. ###
From: gibber@sfu.ca (Rory Gibson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. - Career Opportunity Date: 6 Oct 1993 17:18:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28vcma$9gi@digifix.digifix.com> PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd., PanCanadian Plaza, P.O. Box 2850, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2P 2S5. PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. - Career Opportunity: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PanCanadian is a fast moving, forward looking company committed to developing a competitive advantage based on Object Oriented Technology. Our current environment consists of almost 200 NeXTSTEP machines with a planned growth to 1000+ machines within 3 to 5 years. Information system's Application Delivery Group is looking for individuals with a strong commitment to object oriented programming and design methodologies to join our development team. The successful candidate would fit the following criteria: - 2+ years experience in OO Analysis, OO Design and OO Development. - Experience with NeXTSTEP Development a definite plus. - Willingness to relocate to Calgary. All inquiries should be forwarded to Raj Sinha, (403) 290-2573. Deadline for applications is Oct. 30th, 1993. About PanCanadian: ================= PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd, a Calgary, Alberta based company, is engaged in the exploration and production of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids. Since it incorporation in 1971, PanCanadian has undergone steady expansion and is now the second largest hydrocarbon producer in Canada.
From: Chuck Fleming <cfleming@alleg.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Workbench v3.0.2 Date: 6 Oct 1993 17:43:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28ve5b$9ko@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings from Allegheny College, The latest version of Workbench(v3.0.2), our extensible data analysis and symbolic manipulation program is now available via anonymous ftp from ftp.alleg.edu. Currently Workbench uses MathConnector.wbResource to communicate with Mathematica (via MathLink) and ImprovConnector.wbResource to communicate with Improv. The lastest version of MathConnector.wbResource will work with both Mathematica 2.1 and 2.2. Both of these resources are on ftp.alleg.edu. This version runs under NEXTSTEP 3.1 (m68k only). One use of Workbench is as a general purpose front-end to Mathematica. The following sample Workbench tools are available on ftp.alleg.edu. AlgebraicConversions Command ContourPlot DerivativeData FormatConverter Fourier Histogram ImprovDataFetcher Integrator ListPlot NumericalEvaluator Table These tools can be loaded (dynamically) into Workbench (by dragging) much as specialized paint tools and filters can be loaded into IconBuilder, or tools and shapes can be loaded into 3DReality. Each tool has its own help file and inspector. For programmers, the latest version of ToolBuilder, our application for building Workbench tools is also on ftp.alleg.edu. Workbench.app, ToolBuilder.app, README (quick instructions) and ToolBuildingInstructions can be found in /pub/ESDG/Multidisciplinary/Workbench. MathConnector.wbResource and Improv.wbResourse are in /pub/ESDG/Multidisciplinary/Workbench/Resources. Workbench tools are in /pub/ESDG/Multidisciplinary/Workbench/Tools. Regards, Chuck cfleming@alleg.edu
From: Pedja Bogdanovich <luka!pedja@umiacs.UMD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TipTop v0.93 on cs.orst.edu Date: 7 Oct 1993 02:06:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <290bk8$bs0@digifix.digifix.com> I have placed TipTop_0.93 and TipTop goodies on cs.orst.edu, in /pub/next/submissions/: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 855559 Oct 7 01:52 TipTop-goodies-src.tar.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 356989 Oct 7 01:52 TipTop-goodies.compressed -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 2062 Oct 7 01:53 TipTop_0.93.README -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 200403 Oct 7 01:53 TipTop_0.93.compressed TipTop is a telecommunication program. TipTop version 0.93 works on black NeXTSTEP 3.1. Please send me a note if you would like to have an Intel version. TipTop is shareware. You are welcome to download it and try it. If you use it you should register yourself. Educational license fee is $25. Non-educational license fee is $35. Until you register, TipTop will quit after 15 minutes of usage. For more info see the License section in Info->Help. You may also want to fetch TipTop-goodies.compressed package which contains executable code for term, term clients, NcFTP, Expect, and associated documentation. Send your questions and comments to Pedja Bogdanovich at: pedja%luka@umiacs.umd.edu Features ======== - VT102 terminal emulation. - Terminal window features scrollback buffer, find panel, changeable fonts (font panel), copy/paste, etc. I.e., everything that you expect from a NeXT app (including resizable terminal window)! - A simple PhoneBook. - Transfer: ZMODEM send and receive, and ASCII capture. - TipTop uses UUCP locking protocol. - TipTop can run external programs such as sx/sb/sz/rx/rb/rz, term, expect, etc. + Running term in TipTop lets you run a SLIP-like connection to a remote site. You can have several terminal sessions connected to a remote site, while transfering files, and executing remote commands at the same time. (You can even run remote X-window clients connected to your local X-server.) Installation ============ 1. Copy TipTop.app into your favorite application directory (e.g., /LocalApps). 2. su to root and: chown uucp.daemon /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop chmod u+s,g+s /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop (Replace /LocalApps by the the actual directory path in which you installed the program.) 3. Run the program. If you don't want to run TipTop as set-uid uucp.daemon, you can change the permissions for the cu port(s) directly. Instead of step 2 above do the following: 2'. su to root and: chmod ugo+rw /dev/cu*
From: Denise Blakeley <blake015@bullnext.mc.duke.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: TUNG (NeXT users, Research Triangle, NC) Date: 8 Oct 1993 15:19:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <294eg2$3f3@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings, NeXT enthusiasts! The next TUNG meeting will be held next Wednesday, October 13 at 7:00pm at Duke Medical Center in the First Union Building (same location as last month's meeting). Directions are at the end of this message. Following a short business meeting, we will have a couple of folks demo Virtuoso and Notebook. Virtuoso is a highly-evolved drawing and page layout app. Notebook is a productivity tool especially good for outlining notes, and was the winner of not one but TWO Best-of-Breed awards from NeXTWorld this year. This meeting notice will be posted to the Usenet newsgroups triangle.general and comp.sys.next.announce. Please pass on this notice to any interested people who might want to come. See you there-- Denise Blakeley blake015@mc.duke.edu (919) 286-6468 Directions: Duke Medical Center Information Systems (MCIS) is in Suite 450, First Union Building, 2200 W. Main (i.e., Erwin Square), Durham. 1) From westbound Durham Freeway, take the Swift Ave. exit and turn right. 2) Immediately get in the left turn lane and turn at the first stoplight (Main St.) 3) Stay on Main St. through the next stoplight (9th St.) until there's a solitary 11-story building in front of you (<1 block). That's First Union. 4) Go in the main entrance and tell the guard you're there for the TUNG meeting (he may have you sign in). 5) When you get off the elevators at the 4th floor, the conference room is right there (glass walls).
From: market@nextsrv1.andi.org (Marketing Director) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Opportunity to showcase NeXTSTEP products at PC Expo with ANDI Date: 8 Oct 1993 15:25:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <294erd$3g3@digifix.digifix.com> ANDI, the Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International, Inc. will be showcasing NeXTSTEP and NeXTSTEP products at PC Expo in Chicago, October 19-21. Attendance is expected to peak at over 30,000 people based on last years numbers. The Midwest is a growing NeXTSTEP market with a major commitment to NeXTSTEP and especially for NeXTSTEP for Intel and soon NeXTSTEP for HP PA-RISC. If you are interested in exhibiting or would like to have your literature distributed we would like to hear from you. In addition, ANDI offers prospect lists from shows we have done in the past. ANDI is the only organization that offers you a chance to get the word out to the expanding NeXTSTEP community about your product or service. We are committed to making sure that your investment in NeXTSTEP survives and flourishes. We need to hear from you by Friday, October 15. Information on participation costs are available from the ANDI InfoServer. You may contact us directly or send email to: info@andi.org In the subject field: send Tradeshows_Conferences_Seminars Tradeshows.ps Do not place any message in your email as the InfoServer discards it. For an index of all information available on the InfoServer: In the subject field: index We have about 100 free passes to the show. Please contact us directly by any of the means listed below. For further information, call:301-681-0613 or via email: marketing@andi.org Via fax at: 301-681-0616 or by mail: ANDI Attention Marketing 9921 Woodburn Road Silver Spring, MD 20901-2730 USA
From: neil@bMD.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TIFFany Upgrade Offer Available to Image Owners Date: 10 Oct 1993 00:32:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29838q$fq0@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: benchMark Developments, Inc. 2040 Regency Rd. Suite C Lexington KY, 40503 Kevin Solie (606) 231-6599 Phone / (606) 254-4864 Fax info@bMD.com TIFFany Upgrade Offer Available to Image Owners (Available NOW as MAB) LEXINGTON, KY - October 10, 1993 - benchMark Developments (bMD) announced continued support for AppSoft customers interested in upgrading licensed copies of AppSoft Image to TIFFany. This offer is valid through November 15, 1993. Image users, prior to the Appsoft close-out offer, are eligible to purchase TIFFany at the special price of $99/educational and $195/commercial. Please include proof of purchase when applying for this offer. Image owners upgrading to TIFFany will be eligible for the standard TIFFany upgrade path starting with TIFFany II, currently in beta. TIFFany allows digital artist and graphic designers to manipulate and enhance digital images through the power of NEXTSTEP. Images may be enhanced and manipulated using various tools for color correction, noise reduction, resizing, image composition, morphing, and filters for: burn in, edge detection, edge enhancement, color separation, embossing, image noise reduction, and correction, relief, shake, smear, smooth, sobel, and others. Manual image editing functions include: pen drawing, airbrush, and adjustable transparency capabilities. TIFFany's suggested commercial price is $395, with academic pricing available at $145. Demo copies of TIFFany may be requested by sending mail to Info@bMD.com or from your local NeXT archive.
From: Pedja Bogdanovich <luka!pedja@umiacs.UMD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TipTop 0.93 for NS3.0 and NS/FIP Date: 10 Oct 1993 17:00:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <299t5b$jj0@digifix.digifix.com> I have placed TipTop_0.93 on cs.orst.edu, in /pub/next/submissions/: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 174288 Oct 10 11:37 TipTop_0.93_for_3.0.compressed TipTop for NS/FIP is also available. Here is the README file: =================================================================== TipTop is a telecommunication program. TipTop version 0.93 works on black NeXTSTEP 3.1 and 3.0. If you want to run TipTop under NS3.0, you need to get `TipTop_0.93_for_3.0.compressed' package. Intel version is also available! If you want to get a copy of TipTop for NS/FIP please send me a note. TipTop is shareware. You are welcome to download it and try it. If you use it you should register yourself. Educational license fee is $25. Non-educational license fee is $35. Until you register, TipTop will quit after 15 minutes of usage. For more info see the License section in Info->Help. You may also want to fetch TipTop-goodies.compressed package which contains executable code for term, term clients, NcFTP, Expect, and associated documentation. Send your questions and comments to Pedja Bogdanovich at: pedja%luka@umiacs.umd.edu Features ======== - VT102 terminal emulation. - Terminal window features scrollback buffer, find panel, changeable fonts (font panel), copy/paste, etc. I.e., everything that you expect from a NeXT app (including resizable terminal window)! - A simple PhoneBook. - Transfer: ZMODEM send and receive, and ASCII capture. - TipTop uses UUCP locking protocol. - TipTop can run external programs such as sx/sb/sz/rx/rb/rz, term, expect, etc. + Running term in TipTop lets you run a SLIP-like connection to a remote site. You can have several terminal sessions connected to a remote site, while transfering files, and executing remote commands at the same time. (You can even run remote X-window clients connected to your local X-server.) Installation ============ 1. Copy TipTop.app into your favorite application directory (e.g., /LocalApps). 2. su to root and: chown uucp.daemon /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop chmod u+s,g+s /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop (Replace /LocalApps by the the actual directory path in which you installed the program.) 3. Run the program. If you don't want to run TipTop as set-uid uucp.daemon, you can change the permissions for the cu port(s) directly. Instead of step 2 above do the following: 2'. su to root and: chmod ugo+rw /dev/cu*
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: OSU NUG (Corvallis, Oregon) Meeting on Thursday, October 14th @ 7pm Date: 11 Oct 1993 22:48:40 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29d5u6$jl@digifix.digifix.com> OSU's MWNUG Meeting on Thursday October 14th at 7pm Demonstration of Multi-Media Catalog/Magazine called Electronic AppWrapper and More Talk About Running NEXTSTEP on Intel PC's When: Thursday October 14, 1993 at 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Where: Computer Science - West Room 103 (It's on Campus Way near 26th Street) Oregon State University Corvallis, OR Phone: (503) 737-2270 On any computer platform, hardware without software is worthless. So, the first question is what software is available? And the second question is where can I purchase the software? The Electronic AppWrapper is excellent for providing software product information and pricing. Better yet, the Electronic AppWrapper provides demonstration software. Test drive the software before you buy. But that's not all that's on this CD-ROM...there's more, and it's impressive! There are many Intel Inside PC's on the market. Do you know which ones are best to run NEXTSTEP? or what hardware is required? Many people will be purchasing PC's to run NEXTSTEP from the OSU BookStore's ComputerBase, but which one should you buy. Come to the meeting to find out which PC's are OK, and which PC's are to be avoided! We will be handing out our first MWNUG Newsletter at this meeting. Inside are articles on status of the CS.ORST.EDU Archive, submission to the archive for the month of September, public domain software reviews, and articles by VIP guests. Don't miss it! We'll also be organizing the activities and events for future meeting so if there is some software or hardware product, or demonstration, or classes that you are interested in seeing, please come and speak to us or if you can not make it, drop us a note. For more information, contact Tim Pugh, (503) 737-2270 or tpugh@oce.orst.edu Tim Pugh College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University tpugh@oce.orst.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 41 - 1993 Date: 12 Oct 1993 00:30:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <29dbsr$1p0@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 41). Monday October 4 through Monday October 12 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 40 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups MEETING: October Meeting of the Minnesota NeXTSTEP User Group MEETING: Central Indiana NeXT Users Group Meeting -- Oct. 13th MEETING: Gotham Users of NeXT (GUN) Wednesday, October 13th PRESS RELEASE: Pinnacle Transfer Ships! Introductory Offer Extended JOB: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. - Career Opportunity SUBMISSION: Workbench v3.0.2 SUBMISSION: TipTop v0.93 on cs.orst.edu MEETING: Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group MEETING: TUNG (NeXT users, Research Triangle, NC) PRESS RELEASE: Opportunity to showcase NeXTSTEP products at PC Expo with ANDI SUBMISSION: TIFFany Upgrade Offer Available to Image Owners SUBMISSION: TipTop 0.93 for NS3.0 and NS/FIP MEETING: OSU NUG (Corvallis, Oregon) Meeting on Thursday, October 14th @ 7pm If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 12 Oct 1993 00:30:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <29dbtq$1p6@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 12 Oct 1993 00:34:31 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <29dc4k$1qd@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Graphity 1.0 beta available on public archive... Date: 12 Oct 1993 15:59:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29f2ap$5iu@digifix.digifix.com> ****** Beta version of Graphity 1.0 business graphics ****** application now available on public archive Stockholm, October 12, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced that a beta version of its business graphics application Graphity 1.0 is available on a public archive. The beta is available as fat binaries for both NeXT and Intel hardware, and will run on NEXTSTEP 3.1 and higher. The Graphity 1.0 beta can be found on the following archive: sics.se:/pub/next/beta_fat The beta version can be run in demo mode for 10 minutes with full functionality. If you want to participate in the beta programme, please send a mail to Xanthus at graphity@xanthus.se to get a valid registration number. Graphity 1.0 will be distributed in North America by Alembic Systems International Ltd, email: info@alembic.com Retail price will be $395. Please contact Xanthus for academic and volume discounts. ---------------------------------- Graphity from Xanthus is a brand new business graphics application for the NEXTSTEP environment that can be used as a stand-alone application or together with the Questor spreadsheet application from Xanthus. Graphity includes a number of powerful features: - A state-of-the-art user interface for easy access to all features. - Multi-level undo. All operations can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - Full support for object linking. Graphs and graphics can be copied and linked into other documents for continuous updating. Graphs can also be linked to data in text-files or Questor worksheets. - 3D graphs based on Renderman. - A powerful API that allows other applications to easily control and send data to Graphity. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized graphs and graphics. - Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on a graph document. - Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on a graph document to create stunning documents, including external graphics and sound effects. - The following 2D graph types are supported: bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. - The following 3D graph types are supported: bar, area, scatter (xyz-plot) and pie. - Multiple light-sources for 3D graphs that can be positioned individually. - User defined shaders and textures for 3D graphs.
From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Questor 2.0 beta available on public archive... Date: 12 Oct 1993 16:00:18 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29f2ch$5je@digifix.digifix.com> ****** Beta version of Questor 2.0 spreadsheet application ****** now available on public archive Stockholm, October 12, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced that a beta version of its spreadsheet application Questor 2.0 is available on a public archive. The beta is available as fat binaries for both NeXT and Intel hardware, and will run on NEXTSTEP 3.1 and higher. The Questor 2.0 beta can be found on the following archive: sics.se:/pub/next/beta_fat The beta version can be run in demo mode for 10 minutes with full functionality. If you want to participate in the beta programme, please send a mail to Xanthus at questor@xanthus.se to get a valid registration number. Questor 2.0 will be distributed in North America by Alembic Systems International Ltd, email: info@alembic.com Retail price will be $595. Please contact Xanthus for academic and volume discounts. ---------------------------------- Questor 2.0 from Xanthus is the most powerful and user-friendly spreadsheet application for the NEXTSTEP environment. Questor combines the intuitive metaphor of "matrix-based" spreadsheet program with a number of unique features and a true NEXTSTEP user interface. The backbone of Questor 2.0 is a conventional matrix-based spreadsheet that can easily be used by anybody that have once used spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 or Wingz. Questor 2.0 is the second release of the Questor spreadsheet application. Questor 1.0 was released in May 1993. **** New in Questor 2.0: - Significantly improved performance regarding worksheet recalculation and file access. - Excel file importing. - Improved database access, including automatic datatype conversion and easy-to-use DBModel queries and powerful SQL queries. Questor uses the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP for transparent database communication. Custom-made database queries can easily be created and shared among several users on the network. - Cell styles for easier worksheet layout. - Cell range dragging for faster worksheet design. **** Standard Questor features: - A state-of-the-art user interface for easy access to all features, including a ToolBox with object palettes and a number of other tools that removes the need of modal panels for filling, searching and sorting data. - Multi-level undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - A powerful structured scripting language - QScript with an "intelligent" editor, including automatic pretty-printing and programming support. QScript allows you to customize your worksheet to perform very specific tasks. - Input controllers like buttons, text-fields and sliders can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet, and connected to QScript code or directly to cells by control-dragging. - Output objects like graphs and gauges can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet, and be connected to cell areas by control-dragging for continuous updating. - Many graph types are supported, including bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. The components of a graph can be edited separately. - Hot-links to Graphity (like Lotus Improv and Presentation Builder). Graphity is a business graphics application from Xanthus that supports 3D graphs based on Renderman. - Seamless connections to relational databases like Oracle and Sybase using the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP. - Timers that can trigger complex calculations, database queries or any other event at regular intervals. - A powerful double-directed API that allows Questor to easily control and send data to other applications. The API also makes it easy for other applications to control Questor and to feed data into worksheets. - External functions can be written in C or in QScript and be loaded into Questor for easy extensibility. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized graphs, graphics and control objects. - Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on the worksheet. - Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet to create stunning documents including graphics and sound effects. - Reads the BIFF2-4, WKS, WK1 and SYLK file-formats, which enables you to import worksheets from Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Writes the WK1 file-format, which enables you to export worksheets to Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Full support for Lotus 1-2-3 bracket-macros. - Powerful report layout functions that allows total control over the layout of your documents, including direct manipulation and drawing tools. - Full support for object linking. Graphs, cell areas and graphics can be copied and linked into other documents for continuous updating.
From: dmitri@cco.caltech.edu (Dmitri Linde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Announcing Software.app Date: 12 Oct 1993 16:09:22 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29f2th$5ma@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Dmitri Linde e-mail: dmitri@cco.caltech.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Software.app is designed to collect and index information about all public domain, freeware, shareware, and commercial software for NEXTSTEP. It allows users to find out about software which does a particular task. Moreover, if the user already knows the name of the software then he/she can use Software.app to find out how to obtain a copy and/or contact the developers. If you wrote some software, spend a few minutes and let other users know about it thru Software.app. Submitting information is easy! Unfortunately, you must be connected to Internet to use Software.app. Software.app currently supports only NeXT hardware running NEXTSTEP3.0 or later. You can anonymously ftp it from physics.stanford.edu. Its also available from cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Software.tar.Z
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Announcing the NEXTSTEP: Object Advantage Seminar Series Date: 12 Oct 1993 18:32:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29fb99$7br@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing the NEXTSTEP: Object Advantage Seminar Series In May of 1993, NeXT introduced its object-oriented NEXTSTEP software product for the Intel 486/Pentium platforms. During the Fall months of 1993, NeXT will be conducting free seminars throughout the United States and Canada to introduce NEXTSTEP to those unfamiliar with the advantages of NEXTSTEP. At these free seminars, you can see why the advantages of object oriented programming is now being realized by the Fortune 500 business community. Topics for the NEXTSTEP events include: - rapid prototyping - reengineering vs. migration (how to manage the process) - object oriented technologies - case studies This seminar series will tour 14 cities in New York, Michigan, Washington, D.C., Texas, Washington, Massachusetts, Georgia, New Jersey, California, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado and Canada. To find the seminar nearest to you to register today, see the locations listed below. To register today for this Free Seminar, call 1-800-879-6398. _________________________________________________________________ 1993 NEXTSTEP: Object Advantage Seminar Series Locations: October 19 Washington, D.C. October 21 Boston, MA October 22 Calgary, Canada October 27 San Francisco, CA October 28 Dallas, TX November 2 St. Louis, MO November 3 Detriot, MI November 4 Los Angeles, CA November 9 Chicago, IL November 11 Denver, CO November 16 New York, NY November 17 Boston, MA November 30 Washington, DC December 2 Atlanta, GA December 7 Seattle, WA December 9 New Jersey
From: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: InStep Introduces DISPATCHER at ITLA Show Date: 12 Oct 1993 22:41:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29fpt4$89t@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Thomas B. Touhey InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Vancouver, BC CANADA (604) 872-7116 (604) 872-7125 fax or Mary Connolly InStep Mobile Communications Inc. San Francisco, CA (415) 775-6260 INSTEP INTRODUCES DISPATCHER AT ITLA SHOW Computerized Taxi Dispatch System Hits the Market NEW ORLEANS, LA - October 7, 1993; InStep Mobile Communications debuts its computerized taxi dispatching solution at the International Taxi and Livery Association (ITLA) Show today. The DISPATCHER system is unprecedented in its ease of use, flexibility and power. It enables a taxi company to automate its dispatching operations; reduce its operating expenses; increase the utilization of each taxi vehicle; and improve service to its customers. The InStep DISPATCHER Solution comprises the DISPATCHER Software System Release 2.0 running on NEXTSTEP for Intel 486 and Pentium processors communicating with wireless mobile data terminals installed in the taxi vehicles. DISPATCHER was first introduced in Vancouver, BC in Spring 1993, and was installed, running on NEXTSTEP 3.0 and NeXTstation computers, at Bonny's Taxi and Queen City Taxi in June 1993. "We are ecstatic about the system. Our staff was trained to run it in less than a day, and the drivers (were trained) in a couple of hours. We've reduced our personnel requirements and are providing better service to our customers. Our operation have never run so efficiently." -- Kal Gill, systems manager for Bonny's Taxi Ltd. North Shore Taxi of North Vancouver, BC, signed up last week for a 90 vehicle system to be installed with Mentor EXPRESS mobile terminals, and NEXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel processors running on Intel 486 based computers. "We reviewed every available system and chose InStep's DISPATCHER because of its versatility; its ability to easily interface to our existing accounting systems; and the options it provides for future growth. InStep has been very responsive and help us solve a number of mobile radio issues. They really have our confidence," said Subag Singh, general manager of North Shore Taxi. According to President and founder, Thomas Touhey, "The design objective of DISPATCHER was to develop a cost effective system which would provide the ease of use, flexibility and power necessary for the taxi industry. Older systems are all based on central processing. This limited growth; made changes difficult; and did not provide an upgrade path. DISPATCHER is based on distributed processing which enables us to easily and inexpensively add features and take advantage of new hardware advances." DISPATCHER interfaces with a variety of mobile data terminals. It was demonstrated at the ITLA Show running NEXTSTEP on an EPSON NX computer, and with the compact EXPRESS mobile terminal manufactured by Mentor Engineering (Calgary, AB), and the Motorola 7031 Taxi Terminal. InStep Mobile Communications Inc. InStep is a privately held mobile communications application development company. InStep Mobile Communicaions was founded in 1989 by professionals with over 10 years experience designing, installing and maintaining computerized taxi dispatching systems around the world. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, with a sales and marketing office located in San Francisco, CA, InStep Mobile Communications serves taxi companies with complete computerized taxi dispatching systems. ####
From: Mike Ferris <mike@lorax.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MOKit Version 0.9 Release 1 available Date: 12 Oct 1993 23:48:26 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29ftq8$99m@digifix.digifix.com> I have just uploaded the first release of a kit of objects called MOKit (for Mike's Object Kit) to cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It should be in pub/next/submissions at both sites until the moderators migrate them elsewhere. MOKit was developed on NextStep 3.1. It should work on 3.0 too. MOKit is a source only distribution. Here is some info from the ReadMe file: ------------Begin README--------------- MOKit Version 0.9, release 1 ---------------------------- Welcome to the first release of MOKit! What is MOKit? -------------- MOKit is a set of objects which I have written. I am making it available for use by whoever wants to use it. Full source is provided for all the classes, palettes, and examples. The following notice appears in each header file in the kit. // ABOUT MOKit // // MOKit is a collection of useful and general objects. Permission is // granted by the author to use MOKit in your own programs in any way // you see fit. All other rights to the kit are reserved by the author // including the right to sell these objects as part of a LIBRARY or as // SOURCE CODE. In plain English, I wish to retain rights to these // objects as objects, but allow the use of the objects as pieces in a // fully functional program. NO WARRANTY is expressed or implied. The author // will under no circumstances be held responsible for ANY consequences to // you from the use of these objects. Since you don't have to pay for // them, and full source is provided, I think this is perfectly fair. As outlined above, anyone is free to use these objects in their own applications. There is NO WARRANTY express or implied. Now on to more interesting details. What classes are in MOKit? -------------------------- MOKit currently contains 7 classes, one palette, and one example app. There is full Next-style class documentation for each class. Here's a brief description of each class included in this release: MOString - yet another string class. This class basically provides a wrapper for a c-style null-terminated string. The class knows about Next-style unique strings as well. Many methods for accessing and modifying the string are provided including a fairly complete set of covers for the regular ANSI string library functions. MOSybaseString - a subclass of MOString which adds a few methods for dealing with string's that will be used to build qualifiers for Sybase. Primarily the class provides a way to make a given string case-insensitive SQL-style (eg. changing "a" to "[aA]"). It also provides a method for converting unix style wildcard characters into their SQL equivalents. MORegexFormCell - a subclass of FormCell which adds input validation via regular expression pattern matching. Each cell can have a list of regular expressions associated with it. When the user tabs out of the field, the entry is checked against the regular expressions. The entry must match at least one of the cell's expressions or it is not accepted and the field does not allow editing to end. It is possible to check a wide variety of input formats via regular expressions. MORegexTextCell - a subclass of TextFieldCell which is to TextFieldCell what MORegexFormCell is to FormCell. MODateFormCell - a subclass of MORegexFormCell specifically set up to check dates. Dates cannot be checked completely by regular expression matching, so this class lets regular expressions do what they can and then finishes validating the date. The class also allows customizable reformatting of entered dates via a printf style format string. MODateTextCell - a subclass of MORegexTextCell similar to MODateFormCell except that it is a TextFieldCell by ancestry. MOMatrix - a subclass of Matrix that allows variably sized rows and columns. What else is in MOKit? ---------------------- As well as the class sources, headers, and documentation, MOKit contains several other peices. There is one palette which has several Forms with preconfigured MORegexFormCells in them, several Matrix's with preconfigured MORegexTextCells in them, one Form with a MODateFormCell in it, and one Matrix with a MORegexDateCell in it. The palette provides attribute inspectors for each of the four cell classes. There is an example program which demonstrates the use of MOMatrix. There are separate bundles for each class in the library. The bundles are not for use in normal apps. They are useful for apps that will do a lot of dynamic loading and for IB palettes. See the REDAME file in the Bundle directory for more info. How do I install it? -------------------- There is a master Makefile in the top-level MOKit directory (the directory where this README file was). The default install location is various directories under /LocalDeveloper. If you want to change this, edit the first few lines of the master Makefile. Once the installation locations are set up like you want, cd into the MOKit directory and type make install. This will build all the necessary binaries and install everything (library, headers, documentation, and palettes). How do I uninstall it? ---------------------- cd into the top-level MOKit directory and do a make uninstall. How do I clean out the object code and binaries and such? --------------------------------------------------------- cd into the top-level MOKit directory and do a make distclean. What else can the top-level Makefile do? ---------------------------------------- These are the supported targets... lib: builds the optimized library bundles: builds the individual class bundles examples: builds the example apps (depends on lib) palettes: builds the IB palettes (depends on bundles) all: build the lib, bundles, examples, and palettes targets install: installs the library, docs, headers, and palettes (depends on lib and palettes) uninstall: removes all traces of MOKit from the installation area distclean: removes all derived and backup files from the MOKit distribution directory More specialized control over building can be accomplished by using the Makefiles in the individual directories. Specifically, debug and profile versions of the library can be made. The top-level install target will install any versions of the library that exist when it is called. It will only create the optimized version, though. So if you want to install all three, first make the debug and profile versions using the Source directory Makefile, then use the install target at the top level. Future Directions ----------------- I plan to keep adding objects to this kit. I have several in the works now that didn't quite make it into this release. This release is number 0.9 because it will be the first release to be used by people besides me. When I have had some comments and bug reports, I will create a 1.0 version. For now, consider this a beta release. I have also considered merging this project with the MiscKit effort currently being organised by Dan Yacktman. I want to wait until their policy and such settles down, thoug h, and I didn't want to delay letting people at these objects, so here they are. Let me know what you think! Well, that's all for now. Please let me know if you use the kit. Bugs, comments, and suggestions can be sent to: Mike Ferris mike@lorax.com Happy hacking -Mike ------------End README---------------
From: Ralph Zazula <zazula@pri.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WetPaint upgrade offer for AppSoft Image owners Date: 13 Oct 1993 18:07:52 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29hu7l$ete@digifix.digifix.com> Pinnacle Research, Inc. THE NEXTSTEP UTILITY LAB 4725 E. Sunrise Dr. #435 Tucson, AZ 85718 Contact: Ralph Zazula e-mail: info@pri.com voice: (602)529-1135 fax: (602)529-0117 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WetPaint upgrade offer for AppSoft Image owners TUCSON, AZ, October 12, 1993 - Pinnacle Research, Inc., the NEXTSTEP Utility Lab, announced that it is offering special pricing on WetPaint for current AppSoft Image owners. AppSoft Image owners can obtain Pinnacle's WetPaint image painting and filtering application, along with the "Inspected by: Pinnacle" series of Workspace Manager file inspectors at a special price. WetPaint -------- WetPaint is a full featured image editing, painting and processing application for NEXTSTEP and is the ideal tool for creating or retouching icons and images. WetPaint's design includes mouse-driven tools for painting an image area and filters to process an image selection. WetPaint currently includes 21 image filters that work in RGB, CMYK, and HSB color models and include: Ripple, Wave, Matrix, Warp, and Median. "I love to incorporate scanned images into presentations... With other image editing tools, this has been a process involving hair loss, consumption of large quantities of coffee, and the use of profanity. WetPaint has changed all of that. Now I'm just drinking too much coffee." - Wiley Hodges, Lighthouse Design "At last! Finally someone has effectively objectized image editing! No bugs, all your favorite features, lots of new features and extendable to boot! A must have for anyone who is serious about their graphical user interface design." - Alex Cone, Objective Technologies, Inc. "I have a choice of using many tools available to me on the variety of platforms I use (NeXT's, Mac's, and Indigo's) to create interactive digital media. I often find myself launching WetPaint because It's the right tool for that late night pixel session." - Wayne Goodrich, iMW "WetPaint is the first paint program for the NeXT that's actually fun to work with. I've used paint programs on a wide variety of platforms including the Mac, the Amiga and the SGI and the only thing that comes close is Adobe Photoshop on the Mac. With a NeXT, a color scanner and WetPaint, I could conquer the Universe. Well, maybe Texas..." - Tony Johnson, WilTel, Inc. "Inspected by: Pinnacle" ------------------------ Inspected by: Pinnacle is a suite of objects that plug into the NEXTSTEP Workspace Manager. Simply select a file in the Workspace Manager's File Viewer and access the inspector with the Workspace Manager's Contents Inspector. Included in the inspectors bundle is a TIFF image inspector which allows users to compress and decompress TIFF files, preview images with user selectable magnification and vertical and horizontal scrolling - a perfect compliment to WetPaint. Valued at $350 when purchased separately, the combination of WetPaint and "Inspected by: Pinnacle" is available to AppSoft Image owners for $149, through November 30, 1993. Proof of purchase of AppSoft Image, along with $5 Shipping/Handling must be included with all orders. --- Pinnacle Research Inc., of Tucson, Arizona, is a leading developer of NEXTSTEP utilities. Utilities designed to bridge the gaps between user's work requirements and NEXTSTEP applications. Pinnacle Research, the Pinnacle logo, WetPaint, "Works Great! Costs Less!" and "Inspected by: Pinnacle" are trademarks of Pinnacle Research, Inc. NeXT, Workspace Manager and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Image is a trademark of AppSoft. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. ###
From: tjt@dtw.com (Terrence Talbot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: EquationBuilder is Available for NEXTSTEP/INTEL Date: 13 Oct 1993 18:08:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29hu88$etv@digifix.digifix.com> News For more information, contact: Terrence Talbot Digital Tool Works Email: info@dtw.com Phone: (617) 742-4057 Digital Tool Works Ships Multi-Architecture EquationBuilder for NEXTSTEP BOSTON, Sept., 1993 - Digital Tool Works(TM) announced availibility of EquationBuilder(TM) 3.1, a multi-architecture version of its technical publishing software for NEXTSTEP(TM). This release represents the successful port of EquationBuilder to NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. EquationBuilder 3.1 requires NEXTSTEP 3.1 and is shipped in multiple-architecture binary form. Multiple-architecture binary software runs on both Motorola-based NeXT hardware and qualified Intel-based systems. EquationBuilder 3.1 can therefore run on NEXTSTEP networks that mix Intel and Motorola hardware. EquationBuilder remains the first and only fully WYSIWYG technical equation editor for all hardware platforms that support NEXTSTEP. EquationBuilder is available from several NEXTSTEP resellers, including NeXTConnection (800-800-6398 or 603-446-7711) and Paget Press (eaw@paget.com). Educational discounts are available. For information regarding large network licenses, e-mail Digital Tool Works directly. A fully functional, fully documented demonstration version is available at the ftp sites cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu. An update from previous versions of EquationBuilder to EquationBuilder 3.1 is available to all registered EquationBuilder owners. Please contact Digital Tool Works directly regarding updates. Digital Tool Works is a privately funded software start-up dedicated to the development of productivity and authoring tools running under NeXTSTEP. All trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: burton@pion.cat.cis.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: RTF etext for public distribution! Date: 13 Oct 1993 18:28:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29hvek$f07@digifix.digifix.com> I have just uploaded 48 MB of public-domain electonic texts to ftp.byu.edu, where they now reside in /pub/next/Literature and are available for download. These texts are very nearly a superset of everything now available from the Gutenberg Project, the Internet Wiretap, the Online Book Initiative, and the anon-FTPable part of the Oxford Text Archive. In short, there are very few PD etexts on the Internet (to my knowledge---I'd love to be proved SPECTACULARLY wrong!) that are not here. There are NONE missing that I want and have been able to find, as of early October. In addition to the convenience of one-stop shopping, this collection offers a further advantage to the NeXTstep user, or to anyone who can take advantage of Rich Text Format and Digital Librarian style indexing. I have been collecting texts for about two years now, purely for my own enjoyment, and have developed a set of automated tools and by-hand heuristics for quickly turning book-size chunks of flatfile ASCII into chapter-sized chunks of RTF, with left- and right-quotes properly distinguished, em-dashes instead of multiple hyphens, italics instead of _emphasis_ or CAPS, and all the high-bit characters, small-type footnotes, bold headings, and so on that make a text pleasurable to read. Now, please note: I have NOT given the full treatment to every text. ALL of them are better than I found them, by at least a chapter breakup and a quick spell-check. Many are much better than that (especially the ones that came with markup formats that lent themselves to easy RTF conversion), and I have actually read some of them from end to end on line, allowing me to add flourishes beyond what an automated script can handle. I have also included several homebrew icons for various books, and a detailed guide to making good RTF out of flat ASCII. (At least I think my choices are good---and if you dislike the format, I've tailored it for very easy and consistent revision.) I am hoping that others will take over where I have left off, and make sure that the collection of RTF literature grows in parallel with the overall supply of PD etext on the Internet. Please thank Don Yacktman for finding space for this collection on his server, and for promptly moving the files into an accessible directory. I've also tried to upload them to the Oregon State and Purdue servers (Purdue seems to be full up at the moment), and have offered a full copy to a site at MIT as well. I don't mind spreading more copies around---provided that they are kept in the public domain, in line with the various licenses under which I got them---but I can't leave them on this machine for more than a day or two at most, so if you want the whole mess please download it from BYU instead of asking me to upload it to you. Hearty thanks are also due to Michael Larsen, who has done an enormous amount of proofreading on the modified text (not to mention typing a book in by hand!), and to Ayelet Lindenstrauss, whose icons (easily the best in the collection) have been generously offerd up into the public domain. I don't think that what I have done violates any of the texts' PD licenses, but if someone knows differently please let me know AT ONCE, so I can have the offending text taken off the net. While I have `improved' the formats, and fixed some obvious typos, I have not tampered with the text, and I have tried to make as few irreversible changes as possible. Oh, two more things. (Sorry about the length of this post---I hope that the topic is of sufficient interest to justify the bandwidth.) First, I don't promise to maintain, improve, or do anything further with these texts; I improved them for my own amusement, working hardest on those I cherished, and I may continue to do so or I may decide to have nothing more to do with them. They're being offered as is, but with no further obligation. Second, I can _not_ honor private requests for particular texts; this has taken too much time away from my physics research already. I've set them free---go catch them yourself! Here's the current list, for the curious: Almanac: a Latin grammar, the CIA World Fact Book (divided by countries), the 1990 census (ditto), State Dept. travel advisories for 170+ countries, the Big Book of Mischief, and world area code, US zipcode, and world airport code lists. Children: Aladdin, several Dr. Seuss books (these might not be PD, so I'll delete them if the archiver says so), Flatland, Grimm's Tales, Alice, Looking Glass, Snark, Peter Pan, and the Wizard of Oz. Classics: Aesop's Fables, the Oath of Hippocrates, Plato's Republic, the three Theban plays of Sophocles, and Vergil's Aeneid, all in English. Essays: Daedalus, by Haldane, two lectures by Einstein, Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, Descartes' Discourse on the Method, Fred Douglass's autobiography, Darwin's Origin of Species and Beagle log, Thoreau's Civil Disobedience plus extracts from Walden, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, some snips from the Kama Sutra, and 16 assorted essays by Twain, all from his last decade. Government: Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Mayflower Compact, Federalist Papers, 16 assorted great speeches, the Communist Manifesto, the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the PLO Covenant, the Magna Carta, the UN Charter, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Hacker Jargon: both the current 3.0.0 file and the venerable 1.0 JARGON. Novels: Christmas_Carol and two stories by Dickens, Stoker's Dracula, E.R.Burrough's Gods_of_Mars, Princess_Of_Mars, and Tarzan, H.G.Wells's Invisible_Man, Time_Machine, and War_of_the_Worlds, London's Call_of_ the_Wild, Sea-Wolf, and White_Fang, Austen's Pride_&_Prejudice and Sense_&_Sensibility, Verne's two moon books, Kipling's Jungle_Book, Conrad's Heart_of_Darkness, Lord_Jim, and Secret_Sharer, Hardy's Far_ From_the_Madding_Crowd, Twain's Connecticut_Yankee, Huck_Finn, Tom_ Sawyer, and Tom_Sawyer_Abroad, Melville's Moby_Dick (a clean edition from the Oxford Text Archive, not the piece of scanned-in crap that I put on the archive in '91!), Hawthorne's Scarlet_Letter and House_ of_7_Gables, Bunyan's Pilgrim's_Progress, Crane's Red_Badge_of_Courage, Stevenson's Jekyll_&_Hyde and Kidnapped, Orczy's Scarlet_Pimpernel, Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, plus the Canongate and Keepsake tales, Emily Bronte's Wuthering_Heights, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Recipes: a 1.4 MB archive, in a man-pageish format that the Digital Librarian can read. Scripture: The King James, the Qur'an, and the Book of Mormon. Tales: The complete Sherlock Holmes, 28 of Poe's best short stories, the Gift of the Magi, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and 23 Jack London stories, about equally divided between Klondike and South Pacific. Verse: complete Sandburg and Crane, lots of Dickinson, Robinson, and Millay, Hiawatha and three more by Longfellow, a few each by Poe, Frost, Auden, and Whitman, the complete Bob Dylan lyrics; from across the lake, Beowulf in the Dryden translation, the Canterbury Tales, Marlowe's Faustus, Milton's Paradise Lost and Regained, complete Marvell, Keats, and Yeats, the Rubaiyat, Prufrock, five by Kipling, and a few each by Housman, Tennyson, Shelley, Sassoon, Blake, Wordsworth and Wilfred Owen. Some modern verse as well. Enjoy the books. Please send me some more when you find them.... `You can pay farmers not to grow crops, +-------------------------------------+ but you cannot pay authors not to write | Joshua W. Burton (401)435-6370 | books. Yet something must be done....' | burton@het.brown.edu | -- Anatole France +-------------------------------------+
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: AFS Announces Feature Set for WriteUp Word Processor Date: 14 Oct 1993 15:42:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29ka3b$3jb@digifix.digifix.com> Anderson Financial Systems Inc. 909 Sumneytown Pike, Suite 207 Springhouse, PA 19477 215 653 0911 215 653 0711 fax Contact: Michael Pizolato Voice: 215 653 0911 Michael_Pizolato@afs.com For Immediate Release ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES FEATURE SET FOR WRITEUP(tm) WORD PROCESSOR SPRINGHOUSE, PA, October 14, 1993 -- Anderson Financial Systems today released the feature set for WriteUp(tm) V1.0, its recently announced low-cost NEXTSTEP word processor. According to Michael Pizolato, Chief Technical Officer of AFS, "The response to our October 1st announcement has been much stronger than expected. Just like our hometown Phillies, AFS is going to surprise a lot of people with how well a bunch of scrappy veterans can produce." The following features will be included in WriteUp V1.0: Text Processing Fonts: multiple faces and sizes Attributes: bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, small caps Justification: left, center, right, full Line spacing: preset or variable Hypenation: automatic Color: drag-and-drop from standard color panel Style sheets: global and document-specific Case change operations (lower, upper, capitalize) Date/time codes Inline graphics, with baseline support Emacs keybindings, including forward delete and transpose operations Graphics Processing Drag-and-drop scalable graphics Automatic text overlay or runaround Document Processing Full WYSIWYG display, including headers, footers, and graphics Page navigator: thumbnail view for easy maneuvering through documents Multiple document views: different pages and/or zoom factors Margins: document and paragraph-specific Floating Rulers: tab, margin, and indentation settings Headers/Footers: single or odd/even pages, option to exclude first page Zoom in/out: 10% to 1600% WYSIWYG placement, sizing, and editing of all document elements Automatic page numbering, Roman or Arabic style Manual page breaks Document Management/Other Standard file handling: new, open, save, save as, revert to saved, etc. Template documents: load/save Import formats: ASCII, RTF, WordPerfect, WriteNow, TIFF, EPS Spell checking On-line help Internationalization Dictionaries and hyphenation for numerous languages (call for details) All program messages in easily modified string tables User interface (nib) files available for editing User-selectable decimal align character WriteUp 1.0 will carry a list price of $199 ($99 academic). Five-user license packs will cost $795. From now until December 1, all preorders will receive a unique guarantee: If the product fails to ship by December 31, AFS will rebate $1 per day until it does. Preorders must be accompanied by a check or credit card number. This is a no-risk offer, because all payments received will be held until shipment. Through December 1, all new orders for PasteUp, AFS's flagship desktop publishing product, will include a free copy of WriteUp. The NS/Intel version of PasteUp 2.1 is currently shipping at a price of $495 ($249 academic). As a custom software developer, AFS has always included its customers in every step of the design and production process, to ensure that its products meet their needs as closely as possible. In that spirit, we look forward to feedback regarding the WriteUp feature set through the channels listed above. ABOUT ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS Anderson Financial Systems Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Springhouse, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). Founded in 1982, the company's primary business has been designing customized trading software for more than 60 Wall Street firms on IBM PCs and NeXT workstations. Representative clients include Citicorp, First National Bank of Chicago, PaineWebber, American Capital Management, Delaware Management Company, Oppenheimer Management Corp. and Texas Commerce Bank. Since adding NeXT to its roster in 1991, AFS has made a substantial commitment to building applications that leverage the unique capabilities of the NEXTSTEP operating environment. ###
From: David_Spitzler@NeXT.COM (David Spitzler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Hotscan 1.0 Date: 14 Oct 1993 15:45:19 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29ka8d$3k4@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Night Owl Software and Digital Direct would like to announce version 1.0 of Hotscan, Night Owl Software's new NEXTSTEP application for Nikon's Coolscan film scanner. Coolscan is a 35mm film scanner that can scan slides and negatives at resolutions up to 2700 dots per inch. Coolscan attaches to your SCSI bus and provides accurate scanning in both black and white and 24-bit color. Hotscan provides a very intuitive and powerful interface to Coolscan under NEXTSTEP. Features include film previewing, easy selection of target regions, LZW image compression, scanner focusing, automatic control of exposure setting, and adjustments for exposure, contrast, and brightness. Hotscan runs under NEXTSTEP 3.1 on NeXT computers and on NeXT-approved Intel-based computers. Hotscan can be purchased from Digital Direct for $299 ($249 for academic users). Digital Direct is bundling Hotscan with the Coolscan scanner (external version) for $2296 ($2246 for academic users). For more information, contact: Digital Direct 1316 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 (800)993-4485 or (215)735-1026 (215)735-7051 fax
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Windows NT vs. NeXTSTEP Shootout Results Date: 14 Oct 1993 22:55:43 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29l3fd$52h@digifix.digifix.com> Hello, Everyone has been asking how the recent NT vs. NeXTSTEP user group meeting went recently. Below are what some of the attendees (both PC User Group and NeXT User Group members) said about the Windows NT vs. NEXTSTEP Shootout that occurred at the Rocky Mountain NeXT User Group (Denver/Boulder, Colorado) meeting in late September. Every seat was taken for the event even though it was held on a Friday night! Conrad Geiger International NEXTSTEP User Group Program P.S. I would like to offer a special thanks to the Rocky Mountain NeXT User Group and to Timothy Miller of that group for helping to organize the event! ________________________________________________________________ Unedited PC User Group comments as recorded by the PC user group president Russ Louie: "We finally got to see visually what we've been hearing about in the media." "Very visually-oriented interfaces." "Looks like it (NeXT) is easy to program." "Beautiful development (NeXT) environment." "Disappointed that NeXT not portable to NT." "I like the tool bar down the side." "...from the presentation, it looks like NeXT is a development environment while NT is more a network environment. I don't see much overlap." "Didn't like NeXT's display of files. I like to see the hierarchy. I like the graphical look of Windows better." "It seems operating systems are looking more and more alike. One can learn one operating system and then apply 25-50% of that learned knowledge towards another." "Many thanks to the NeXT Users Group and John Stoddard for a look into the future of operating systems. Although the casual user is still trying to learn DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1, it is obvious that one day they will need to learn NeXTSTEP, Windows NT or some hybrid of the two." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Comments from rmNUG (Rocky Mountain NeXT User Group) members: Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 08:33:11 -0600 From: "Barbara L. Dijker" <barb.dijker@labyrinth.com> Subject: Re: Feedback on NT vs. NEXTSTEP Shootout We had about 100 attendees. Guesses put the spread at 50/50 or 60/40 PC to NeXT folks. They were very receptive. Anyway, I think it was a great success. The PC group was very attentive and seemed open minded. I think many of them had _never_ seen NeXTSTEP before and were surprised that it appears to be a much easier to use (more intuitive) interface with features they never even dreamed of - like the seamless drag-dropping. The icing on the cake was the notion that the 16-bit Windows emulation on the NT is the _same_ code as SoftPC on NeXTSTEP. If Chris [Huston, rmnug-er who spoon fed questions to highlight areas not mentioned in the demo, like MABs] hadn't monopolized the questions, maybe we could have heard more of their real concerns - other than third-party apps. I hope you can also collect some feedback from the PC folks as well. I talked to their pres and he was quite happy with the turnout and how the program went. Unlike rmnug, their group is very non-technical ... Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 00:21:29 -0600 From: jamie@schmendrick.rmnug.org (Jamie Krutz) Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT ...Billed as an NT vs. NEXTSTEP shootout, the evening was more of a love fest where strengths and weaknesses of each were calmly discussed. Due to limited time, only a quick view was given of each, with NEXTSTEP getting a somewhat more comprehensive overview. NT was revealed to be essentially MicroSoft's breakaway version of OS/2, rather than having much at all to do with MSWindows (not NT) beyond a similar look to the GUI. It was noted that both NT and NEXTSTEP use software emulation, from the same supplier, to run MSDOS/MSWindows applications. NEXTSTEP's interface and development strengths were highlighted, and NT's suitability for servers was discussed. Unlike NEXTSTEP, NT apps will have to be recompiled torun on different CPU architectures, but NT will initially support more CPUs. The presentation was well received by the IBM-PC clone user group, who are facing interesting OS choices these days. In passing, MSWindows (not NT) did not get much respect from anyone. Begin forward message Date: Sat, 2 Oct 93 16:36:48 -0600 From: Chris Huston <earth2!chris@rmnug.org> Subject: Re: Feedback on NT vs. NEXTSTEP Shootout ...I would like to see a more combative fire and brimstone presentations from both sides. Begin forward message Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 00:35:59 -0600 From: rlove@raptor.rmnug.org (Robert B. Love ) Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT There were plenty of "Oohs" and "Ahs" when the Interface Builder was demoed.... Begin forward message Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 10:08:54 -0700 From: perkins@spot.Colorado.EDU (Tyler Perkins) Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT Windows NT has a LONG way to go to compete with the friendliness and functionality of NEXTSTEP. Although some nice features were demonstrated regarding configuration and security, it seemed that much of NT has to do with solving problems that simply don't exist for the NEXTSTEP user. Clearly, NEXTSTEP is much better thought-out, being so well integrated from the ground up. NT on the other hand, has had many more constraints placed on its design. In the arenas of development and user-interface, of course, there is no contest -- NEXTSTEP! Begin forward message Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 10:37:46 -0600 From: leif@pattern.rmnug.org (Leif Smith) Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT Thanks for organizing the NS/NT show. I was amazed at the number of people who showed up. Seems like there is a lot of interest in high-end OS. Patrick Howlett, head of WhizBang Communications in Denver is about to start building NS capable PCs. He's building machines for OS/2 now but would like to concentrate on NS. He kept saying "phenomenal" to things shown in the NS demo. Begin forward message Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 11:26:06 -0600 From: Aaron Gordon <aaron@ouray.Mines.Colorado.EDU> Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT It seems like the event needed to be longer for both presentations. It would have been nice to highlight what each does better than the other. My overall impression (coming from the NeXTSTEP camp) is that NT is halfway there (DOS is not there at all and NeXTSTEP is almost all the way there). Begin forward message Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 14:44:46 -0600 From: "David R. File" <david@alembic.com> Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT My 2 CeNT's... ... NT is a very powerful product - if they would totally revamp the GUI, make it object-oriented & give it a real UN*X kernel - I just might consider using it. NT is geared for a different market than NS/FIP. Most Windows users will want to wait until Windows 4 (Chicago?). ... NT is great if you are an efficient Windows programmer, absolutely need 32-bit apps and have a Sequent server with multiple i486 chips. The only reason a typical Windows user would want to upgrade to NT: to stop the crashing. Begin forward message Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 08:37:05 -0700 From: karl@khaos.com (Karl Hanzel) Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT It really didn't come across as a "shootout"... no bullets were fired. If either gang came out looking better, it was probably NeXTStep with Brent as the gang leader, not just because he gave a really excellent demo, but also because the "opposition" gave us some great plugs/endorsements, both in their presentation as well as through the Q&A session that ensued. I would highly recommend that other NUG's consider staging a similar event... we may well win some favor! Begin forward message Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 00:27:24 -0700 From: jbuske@mountain.rmnug.org (Jeff Buske) Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT I would first like to say Job Well done!! I was very pleased with the attendance, your advertising paid off. Due to the very nature of Next Step One is hard pressed to cover any thing in a few minutes. I did feel that too much time was spent with programming, considering the audience. A box with sound would have been very help full. Considering the screen has a bit hard to see. Time spent showing off basic ease of use and consistent interface would have worked well. All and All the a good number were covered (taste). The NT chap got too deep into the guts of the machine for my taste. I work with the stuff all day I could care less what IRQ line the serial port is connected to. This is handy for figuring out how things are configured. The infinite number of cheap (un or poorly documented ) cards is the a major curse of the PC world. And will be a major source of trouble for NEXT and MS. With MS going after the server market, I'm not sure what this does for Joe computer user. Considering the user interface I'm not user MIS people will like to use it. The user interface of NT was in my opinion ugly, considering the number of good interfaces they had to study. The use of command,alternate and control keys that are not clearly documented and come from folk lore. Makes things very unintuitive, requires a memory of an elephant. I think both the PC and NeXT group benefited from the interchange. Well Done... Begin forward message Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT Reply-To: Karl.Sierka@Labyrinth.COM Return-Receipt-To: Karl.Sierka@Labyrinth.COM Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 07:37:51 -0600 It was off to late start, about 15 minutes late, mainly because I was late in getting there with the food. People were milling about and arriving late, too, and grabbing something to eat, such as cookies, water, or candy, on the way in the door. The PC users seemed very quite, almost subdued and were not mingling very much. The NeXT people were all over the place, talking about things, like they normally do. The room was packed. There were no seats left, and some people who arrived after the lights went down just sat along the aisle. The guy from Colorado Springs, Troy, sat next to me in the aisle, since I was sitting in a seat right on the aisle. The intro was from Tim Miller, the rmNUG club Treasurer, since he was mostly responsible for coming up with the idea, organizing and setting up the meeting. He talked about his work as an Open Systems Consultant, and gave us all a quick tour through some of the terminology used in the industry to describe what Open Systems are about. Then, the NeXT guy stepped in. This was the first I had ever heard of him, so I did not go up to him and say hi. I thought Tim Carlin was going to be there to do the NeXT side. His presentation went through some of the nice GUI and Multi-Media features of NeXTSTEP, demoed some of the Apps, talked about the seamless integration afforded by the consistent use of the AppKit by all applications, and then finished up with a short demo of the Interface Builder. Then, the NT guy stepped up to the plate. He mainly wanted to just answer questions, since he had no tour map in mind before he began speaking. He just sort of went into the GUI, we all saw how ugly it was, and then he started talking about the Systems Administration tools. Several questions came up concerning integration with other Unix machines, and the speaker threw in that it would integrate wonderfully and be compatible with everything that is out there in Microsoft land now, except that he did not mention Macintoshes. He said there were lots of 3'rd party programs that would be ported to it, including Interface Builders and such. He talked about some security issues, and mentioned that NT was certified C2 secure, and was pushing for the C1 rating. He said every software object inside it had Access Control Lists, and you could easily create groups and ACL's that would not allow anyone to look at anything. He said the NT was basically the same thing as NeXTSTEP, a 32 bit multi-tasking, object-oriented, message passing, micro kernel, with built-in support for linear, symmetric multi-processing. He said the kernel was the same thing, but it started from sources created by Microsoft, not Carnegie Mellon University. Ie, it did not come from a MACH 2.5 heritage, like NeXTSTEP and others. He said that Microsoft was trying to leverage NT into the server markets first, and I pointed out a rumor that they had just dropped the price of NT about 17 times for a 1000 machine license. I also pointed out that that sounded an awful lot like dumping to me. (I thought that was illegal in this country?) Several other questions were asked, including a question from me concerning the ease with which ISV's could write software that could be used in a networked environment, without having it be pirated. The implication of that question was asking whether NT would allow a network based, floating licensing to be implemented. The speaker was not sure what the answer was. He did mention that NT was a single-user operating system out-of-the-box, but that a third party had already found a way to implement remote logins via telnet to an NT machine. If it really was a single-user machine, then that would pretty much take care of the licensing issues, since the ISV's would know that their software could not be used by multiple users on the same machine, since each machine is a single user machine, just like a PC. A nice round of applause was handed to both speakers. After the talks, I asked the NT guy if the NT machine was doing Display Postscript on the screen, and he said it was not. Then, just before adjournment, we raffled off a NeXTSTEP developer evaluation kit for NT486, with the Book, CD, and everything.... It was very good meeting. Begin forward message Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 09:00:50 -0700 From: Wayne P. Rogers <rogers@togo.Colorado.EDU> Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT Thanks for setting up the NT-NEXTSTEP shootout. At least on a small local scale, it helped to inform PC users about NEXTSTEP. After seeing the demonstration of NT and listening to the somewhat cynical remarks by the NT speaker, the event made me much more optimistic about the future of NEXT.... Begin forward message Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 20:59:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Troy Weingart <troyw@csn> Subject: Re: NT vs. NEXTSTEP SHOOTOUT Great job! I really enjoyed the presentations. My overall feeling is that NeXT need not worry about MicroSoft. NT appears to have a good core (kernel), but the interface is still ugly and a kludge.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Sirius Solutions Announces CheckSum Upgrade Date: 14 Oct 1993 22:56:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29l3g0$52n@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release: For more info contact: Andreas Glocker Sirius Solutions, Inc. 340 Townsend St. Ste. 540 San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 957-1921 fax (415) 957-9044 e-mail: checksum@sirius.com San Francisco, CA, October 8, 1993 - Sirius Solutions announced today the CheckSum 1.1 is being shipped and introduced new educational pricing of $75.- and fixes the commercial price at $95.- for each new CheckSum license. CheckSum is a NEXTSTEP (i486 & NeXT) accounting program for the single user or small business owner. CheckSum tracks expenses, income, property and cash, and provides Income Statements and Balance Sheets. CheckSum balances your checkbook and prints checks. Features: Context sensitive help, Automatic transfers between accounts, import, export, cut & past reporting, and fast-key category input. New Features: Find transaction panel, memorized split transactions, exporting of tab delimited information, alphanumeric sorting of reports, group by categories report, and customizable transaction and income reports. Posted on: cs.orst.edu Directory: /pub/next/demos/spreadsheets/ Program: CheckSumDemo1_1.pkg.tar Sirius Solutions' reporting technology is incorporated in to CheckSum and is also available true it's *Consulting service*. The reporting module allows for multiple rich text formatted columns and rows with automatic pagination. The rows can be displayed in a table of contend style and automatically sub-totaled. Sirius Solutions, Inc. is a software development and consulting firm whose focus is on business productivity and financial management software. CheckSum is a trademark of Sirius Solutions, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: Randy Adams <randy@laburnum.appsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Appsoft to continue Sales and Support if Appsoft Image until New Publisher is Found Date: 15 Oct 1993 16:16:07 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29n0e5$991@digifix.digifix.com> APPSOFT TO CONTINUE SALES AND SUPPORT OF APPSOFT IMAGE UNTIL NEW PUBLISHER IS FOUND. October 15, 1993 Appsoft announced today that the company would continue to actively market, distribute and support its flagship image editing product, Appsoft Image, until it is able to assign publishing rights to another NEXTSTEP publisher. "We are committed to providing support to Image owners and will continue to offer the product at a 90% discount off the suggested retail price via our 1-800-428-2777 sales lines", said Randy Adams, Appsoft president. "We will also mail out free upgrades (Version 1.1) to all registered Image owners next week and will continue to provide support by FAX at (415) 321-9309 or email to image@appsoft.com", said Adams. Appsoft, who owns the exclusive publishing rights to Appsoft Image, is currently in negotiations with several NEXTSTEP publishers regarding the acquisition of Image. For further information, please contact Appsoft at info@appsoft.com. ###
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta October 21st Meeting Date: 15 Oct 1993 16:16:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29n0f0$99a@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing NEXTSTEP:atlanta October 21st Meeting Date: October 21st Time: 7:00pm Place: NEXTSTEP/Mathematica Lab Skiles 157 Georgia Tech Atlanta, Georgia Agenda: NEXTSTEP Programming Seminar topic: using the AppKit with Objective-C instructors: Jon Bennett (Information Management, Inc.) Willi Berger (IMI) Jeff Russell of DCA, Inc. There will be several books from Springer-Verlag on display (as well as catalogs and order forms) You may wish to bring disks for taking home sample code. Contact: Tod Rieger NEXTSTEP:atlanta Email: prie@methusla.cc.gatech.edu Phone: 404-381-2464 Directions to NEXTSTEP/Mathematica Lab, Skiles Hall (Georgia Tech) I75/85 to 10th street (West) 10th to Atlantic (left (south)) (before traffic light at 10th and State) Continue on Atlantic, going through traffic light. The College of Computing is the second building on the left after this light. (This is where we have had several meetings.) Continue in this direction to get to Skiles Hall, room 157. We need to have temporary accounts on the system for the attendees. If you are fairly certain that you will attend the seminar, please let me know so that there will be enough accounts set up. Hope to see you there! Contact: Tod Rieger NEXTSTEP:atlanta Email: prie@methusla.cc.gatech.edu Phone: 404-381-2464
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING LoopGroup (Chicago NEXTSTEP User Group) October 26th Meeting Date: 15 Oct 1993 17:23:44 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29n4cu$9lj@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing LoopGroup October 26th Meeting Date: Tuesday, October 26th 1993 Time: 6:30pm Place: Chicago Mercantile Exchange 30 S. Wacker Drive Agenda: Representatives of NeXT, Inc. * Presentation of NEXTSTEP 3.2 * Presentation of SOFT PC Dan Ruby, Editor in Chief, NeXTWORLD Magazine * The NEW NeXTWORLD outlook * NEXTSTEP Marketplace viewpoints *** RSVP by EMail only, to loopgroup@its.com *** Because of the topics of this months presentations we are anticipating a much larger attendance. Please let us know if you plan to attend so that extra seating can be provided. *** If you plan to attend, RSVP by *** *** EMail only, to loopgroup@its.com *** Contact: Ted Shelton /or/ Eric Wespestad LoopGroup: Downtown Chicago NEXTSTEP User Group c/o Information Technology Solutions, Inc. 400 W. Erie, Suite 301 Chicago, Illinois 60610 Email: loopgroup@its.com Phone: 312-587-2000
From: brian@systemix.com (Brian Cuthie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SafetyNet 2.0 (MAB) Ships from Systemix Software Date: 16 Oct 1993 18:54:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29pu3c$erf@digifix.digifix.com> PRESS RELEASE Contact: Brian Cuthie, President Systemix Software, Inc. PO Box 2457 Columbia, MD 21045 +1.410.290.8813 / +1.410.290.8934 FAX E-mail: Brian_Cuthie@Systemix.COM October 15, 1993, Columbia, Maryland USA -- Systemix Software, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of its award winning SafetyNet(tm) network file system backup utility. Currently shipping, SafetyNet 2.0 includes support for all NEXTSTEP(tm) platforms(*). Among the many feature and performance enhancements new to 2.0 are: * Multi-Architecture Binary -- SafetyNet is now compatible with Motorola and Intel NEXTSTEP platforms. * Drag-and-Drop Scheduling -- A new scheduling tool allows backups to be scheduled directly from within SafetyNet. * Compressed On-line Archives -- Compression increases the capacity of on-line archives by as much as four times. * 3.0 Help -- a new help subsystem allows help on any control or panel to be immediately obtained by help-clicking on any object in a SafetyNet window. * Enhanced Restore Options -- a new "Replace if Newer" restore option allows recent disk files to be protected during restore operations. Winner of NeXTWORLD Magazine's 1993 Best of Breed award, SafetyNet is the premier file system backup utility for computers running NEXTSTEP. Systemix is so confident that a test drive of SafetyNet will make you dump your old backup software, that we'll give it to you free(**) for 30 days. SafetyNet can be purchased from many NEXTSTEP dealers and is included as an option from leading tape drive vendors. SafetyNet may also be ordered directly from Systemix Software. A limited functionality SafetyNet demo is available on the internet archive server CS.ORST.EDU. ## Systemix Software, Inc. is based in Columbia, Maryland a suburb of Washington, D.C. and has a long term commitment to developing quality NEXTSTEP applications. SafetyNet is a trademark of Systemix Software, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. * SafetyNet 2.0 requires NEXTSTEP release 3.1 or higher. ** A free full functionality 30-day SafetyNet demo is available. Call for details.
From: dave@einstein.andi.org (David Scheck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Fulltime NeXTSTEP Positions in DC Area Date: 16 Oct 1993 18:55:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29pu4k$ern@digifix.digifix.com> Martin Marietta seeks NeXTSTEP developers for fulltime employment in the Washington, DC area. Anyone interested should contact David Scheck for more information: David Scheck (703) 264-6739 (Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00 EST) Resumes can be faxed or emailed to David. Fax: 301-294-4985 (Available Any Day 9:00am-10pm EST) Email: dscheck@andi.org
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: MACtoPFA Font Converter for NEXTSTEP Intel and 68K Date: 17 Oct 1993 22:56:09 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29t0k7$m81@digifix.digifix.com> MACTOPFA FOR INTEL AND MOTOROLA FROM TRILITHON SOFTWARE ======== === ===== === ======== ==== ========= ======== Trilithon Software are pleased to announce that MacToPfa (our Macintosh to NEXTSTEP font converter and installer) is now available for NEXTSTEP in MAB (Multi-Architecture Binary) form for both Intel and Motorola architecture processors. MacToPfa is a Macintosh to NEXTSTEP font converter and installer. MacToPfa: o converts Macintosh storage format to NEXTSTEP PFA format. o understands Macintosh file systems, o understands Type 4 POST resources, o understands MacBinary storage format, o understands Macintosh font files on DOS file systems. o converts and sanitises the AFM file (is there is one). o converts and creates a correct AFM file, o fills in missing fields (such as FullName and FamilyName), o generates an AFM file (if there isn't one). o installs the font for you. o $69 regular/$39 educational o Available Now for Motorola Hardware o Available Now for Intel Hardware Write To: Trilithon Software, Two Ohlone, Portola Valley, California 94028. Telephone: (415) 325-0767 E-mail: info@trilithon.com
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: SCaN: Los Angeles NEXTSTEP User Group: October 26 Date: 18 Oct 1993 15:10:19 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29upmp$qnt@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing the 26 October 1993... SCaN (So. Cal. NEXTSTEP Users Group) meeting (co-sponsored by CaJUN, the Caltech and JPL NEXTSTEP User's Group) are as follows: When: Tuesday 26 October 1993 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. social (junk food and drinks) 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. meeting Where: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena Beckman Institute #134 (North Wing) Demos: Pentium ALR Evolution V running NEXTSTEP. Sarrus Software's PencilMeIn and SBook (contact management). Caltech's eText multimedia hypertext project. Checksum (accounting program) by creator Andreas Glocker. (There will also be auctions, sales, and rumors.) Dues: $2.00 Contact: Michael K. Mahoney, SCaN President Computer Engineering and Computer Sci. Dept. mahoney@csulb.edu, (310) 985-1550 California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840 or: Walt Duflock, SCaN Program Director (714) 730-8057 walt@nic.cerf.net or: Ernie Prabhakar, CaJUN President (818) 395-8379 Caltech Physics Department ernest@cco.caltech.edu or: Rohit Khare, CaJUN Vice-President (818) 792-9114 Caltech Computer Science Department khare@cco.caltech.edu DIRECTIONS to Caltech Meeting 1) If you are taking the 210 (Foothill) Freeway West, or the 134 (Ventura) Freeway East: Take the Lake Avenue exit South. (Left if you're going West, Right if you're going East) Keep going for several lights in quick succession, for about a mile, until you get to Del Mar Ave. Turn Left. Go past Mentor and Catalina. The first light is Wilson, at which point you will be at Caltech. Turn Right (south). 2) If you are taking the 110 (Pasadena) Freeway North: Keep going all the way until the freeway ends. Keep going straight ahead; you are now on Arroyo Parkway. The second major street is California. Turn Right. After a dozen or so blocks, you will get to Lake Ave. Go past Mentor and Catalina. The next light after that is Wilson, at which point you will be at Caltech. Turn Left (North). Go past the Stop Sign on San Pasqual. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you are on Wilson, going North or South: Park in the lot just south of Lura, to the East of Wilson. Beckman Institute is the large, classical building fronted by a huge expanse of rolling lawns. It has a large internal courtyard surrounding a fountain. It is opposite the Parking Structure. The meeting will be in Beckman Institute #134 which is the North Wing. Refreshments will be served in the courtyard. [Note that this building is Beckman Institute, not to be confused with a half-dozen other buildings also named Beckman.] Any questions, call Ernie Prabhakar, Home: (818) 568-9168, ernest@cco.caltech.edu Work: (818) 395-8379
From: Legvold@edb.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SlipServer.ps document available on sonata. Date: 18 Oct 1993 15:11:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29upo5$qo3@digifix.digifix.com> >From the README: SlipServer.ps.Z A PostScript version of an article discussing installation, configuration, and maintenance of a SLIP or PPP interface on NeXT's as well as other computers. The focus of the article is getting the server side of things to function properly. Should go in /pub/next/docs or similar. Regards, Thor Legvold NorNeXT User Group leader University of Bergen NORWAY
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Introduces the Object Channel Date: 18 Oct 1993 15:11:29 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29upov$qo9@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 - or - Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865 NeXT INTRODUCES THE OBJECT CHANNEL With new program, customers and Systems Integrators gain competitive edge REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - October 18, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today introduced the Object Channel, a program designed specifically for Systems Integrators who want to gain a competitive edge and offer their customers the most advanced enterprise-wide, client/server systems and custom software solutions. Object Channel members will help customers solve business problems using NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software. Members of the Object Channel will benefit from more rapid prototyping, code reuse from project to project, quicker turnaround on projects and fixed-price contracts at a lower cost which can lead to increased margins for their businesses. They also will have the advantage of joint selling with NeXT, as well as a dedicated Object Channel representative assigned to make them successful. "The Object Channel is a win-win situation for customers and Systems Integators because both realize the benefits of object-oriented software development using NEXTSTEP," said Bill Wesemann, vice president of North American sales at NeXT. "Customers benefit from decreased time-to-market of their custom applications and Systems Integrators benefit from reusable code and the ability to take on more projects and increase revenues." As part of the Object Channel, Systems Integrators will receive two copies of NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors and NEXTSTEP Developer and one free upgrade; one engineer scholarship to Object University; discounts for product resale, significant discounts for additional copies of NEXTSTEP and training; and one year free hotline support. For a limited time, those Systems Integrators who are interested in joining the Object Channel are invited to send one engineer to a two-day Object University class at no cost. Today, Systems Integrators are helping customers adopt open systems technology. According to Frank King, president of Pencom Software and member of the Object Channel, "The things we bring to the table are our expertise, our people, our brains that understand object-oriented technology, graphical user interfaces, client/server and relational databases. To us, these are a standard set of new technologies, but to companies that are facing transition, these are formidable new things. We're in the business to help people make the transition and we do it often with NEXTSTEP because it's the best way to do it." Object Channel part of NeXT's U.S. distribution strategy The Object Channel for Systems Integrators is part of NeXT's U.S. distribution strategy, which also includes a newly formed telesales team based in Redwood City, Calif., a direct sales force, master distributor Ingram Micro, original equipment manufacturers and value added resellers. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: Kristopher Magnusson <cusa!magnusson!kris@uplherc.upl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Alpine Computing Seeking Relational Database Salesperson Date: 18 Oct 1993 23:20:49 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29vmef$s7t@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Kristopher Magnusson 801.268.8877 Cliff Butler 801.268.8877 ALPINE COMPUTING SEEKING RELATIONAL DATABASE SALESPERSON Alpine Computing seeks a full-time relational database salesperson with experience in NEXTSTEP and Unix environments. Candidates should contact Kristopher Magnusson or Cliff Butler at Alpine Computing MicroAge in Salt Lake City, Utah, at 801/268-8877. Candidates may fax or mail resumes to: Relational Database Position Alpine Computing MicroAge 6066 South State Street Salt Lake City, UT 84107 801/268-9096 (24 hr. fax)
From: Justin Morgan <jmorgan@pencom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Austin NEXTSTEP User Group Meeting 10/26 Date: 18 Oct 1993 23:20:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29vme1$s7n@digifix.digifix.com> **** AUSTIN NEXTSTEP USER GROUP **** At our next meeting we will demo an Intel-based machine connected to the Internet and will show Archie, Gopher, and other software running under NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. Since our demo unit will be connected to the Internet, downloads of the latest demo software, Intel drivers, etc. will be available. We will also hold a contest for the best t-shirt design, so bring a sketch of your best ANUG design (the winner gets a free shirt with the winning design!). Many suggestions for programs, speakers, events, and demos have been fielded in recent months, so come and help plan our events for 1994! Time: Tuesday, October 26 at 7:00 pm Location: PENCOM Training Room (first floor) Great Hills Corporate Center, Building 3 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Call 512-343-6666 and ask for Clint if you need further directions Topic Summary: Demo of Gopher, Archie, and other connectivity and Internet utility programs (and see it demo'ed on NEXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel Processors!) Planning of programs, speakers, events, demos and dues for 94 NOTE: November meeting is November 16; there will be no December meeting BONUS: Bring a 1.44 MB floppy disk and receive the latest and greatest from the NEXTSTEP archives! Enter a design for the official ANUG t-shirt at this meeting and you'll have a chance to win a free shirt with the winning design! Free refreshments will be provided! Don't forget to bring at least one other person to the meeting this month!
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 42 - 1993 Date: 19 Oct 1993 00:33:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <29vqnd$slc@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 42). Monday October 12 through Monday October 19 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 41 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups SUBMISSION: Graphity 1.0 beta available on public archive... SUBMISSION: Questor 2.0 beta available on public archive... SUBMISSION: Announcing Software.app Announcing the NEXTSTEP: Object Advantage Seminar Series PRESS RELEASE: InStep Introduces DISPATCHER at ITLA Show SUBMISSION: MOKit Version 0.9 Release 1 available PRESS RELEASE: WetPaint upgrade offer for AppSoft Image owners PRESS RELEASE: EquationBuilder is Available for NEXTSTEP/INTEL SUBMISSION: RTF etext for public distribution! PRESS RELEASE: AFS Announces Feature Set for WriteUp Word Processor PRESS RELEASE: Hotscan 1.0 Windows NT vs. NeXTSTEP Shootout Results PRESS RELEASE: Sirius Solutions Announces CheckSum Upgrade PRESS RELEASE: Transfer Servers for SunOS and ULTIRX systems SUBMISSION: MPEG Player 2.6 is FAT! PRESS RELEASE: Alpine Computing announces NEXTSTEP configurations PRESS RELEASE: Appsoft to continue Sales and Support if Appsoft Image until New Publisher is Found MEETING: NEXTSTEP:atlanta October 21st Meeting MEETING LoopGroup (Chicago NEXTSTEP User Group) October 26th Meeting PRESS RELEASE: SafetyNet 2.0 (MAB) Ships from Systemix Software JOB: Fulltime NeXTSTEP Positions in DC Area PRESS RELEASE: MACtoPFA Font Converter for NEXTSTEP Intel and 68K MEETING: SCaN: Los Angeles NEXTSTEP User Group: October 26 SUBMISSION: SlipServer.ps document available on sonata. NeXT Introduces the Object Channel MEETING: Austin NEXTSTEP User Group Meeting 10/26 JOB: Alpine Computing Seeking Relational Database Salesperson If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 19 Oct 1993 00:34:23 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <29vqoe$sli@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 19 Oct 1993 00:34:34 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <29vqoo$slo@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Announces New Releases of NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP Developer Date: 19 Oct 1993 17:58:06 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2a1ntc$447@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 -or- Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865 NeXT ANNOUNCES NEW RELEASES OF NEXTSTEP AND NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER BOSTON- Oct. 19, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced it will ship NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 for Intel processors and NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 the first week in November. The new releases extend NeXT's object advantage and enable customers developing and deploying mission-critical custom applications using NEXTSTEP to gain DOS/Windows compatibility. It also offers support for a wider variety of hardware platforms. Bundled with NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 for Intel processors is a complete version of SoftPC for NEXTSTEP for Intel processors from Insignia Solutions of Mountain View, Calif. SoftPC for NEXTSTEP offers customers interoperability and compatibility with Microsoft DOS/Windows environments. The product comes with Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.0 pre-installed. After 30 days, customers can instantly unlock a full SoftPC license from Insignia Solutions to continue to take full advantage of their existing applications while simultaneously gaining all of the benefits of a full object-oriented operating environment. "The MS-DOS/Windows capability for NEXTSTEP for Intel processors is exceptional. Insignia has established a strategic relationship with Microsoft to license the Windows source code. Insignia has developed new technology and optimized Windows 3.1 under NEXTSTEP," said Marc Munford, product manager at Insignia Solutions Inc. NeXT is the first platform to ship a product using Insignia Solutions' new Microsoft technology. "The result is fast, 100% compatible, DOS and Windows performance. With SoftPC for NEXTSTEP, customers can be guaranteed they are always up-to-date with Microsoft's latest release of MS-DOS and Windows, and that they can continue to develop custom applications on NEXTSTEP without being concerned about compatibility with the latest DOS and Windows applications," Munford said. Customers benefit from enhanced technology With SoftPC for NEXTSTEP, customers can realize the benefits of object-oriented NEXTSTEP applications while continuing to run their legacy DOS/Windows applications in a full-screen or in-a-window mode. For example, customers can copy and paste between DOS/Windows and NEXTSTEP documents and share files between their Windows and NEXTSTEP environments because of NEXTSTEP's ability to read and write DOS files. Additionally, customers can take advantage of technology that NeXT provided to Insignia Solutions for enhanced Windows graphics performance. SoftPC for NEXTSTEP includes networking support for DOS/Windows applications that require network access thru SoftNode which supports Novell Netware (SPX/IPX) and Novell LAN Workplace (TCP/IP). Pre-release site customers praise new products "Our initial evaluations show that the pre-release of NEXTSTEP 3.2 is excellent. NeXT's investment in quality assurance has definitely paid off," said Dwight Koop Executive Director, Information Technology at Swiss Bank Corporation. "We are especially pleased with the improvements NeXT and Insignia have made with SoftPC and are excited about being able to release NEXTSTEP 3.2 and SoftPC within Swiss Bank Corporation." Release 3.2 provides support for more hardware platforms Specifically, NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 for Intel processors includes additional driver support which greatly increases the number of hardware configurations NEXTSTEP can support. New to Release 3.2 is DriverKit, an object-oriented framework that enables developers to write device drivers in less time with significantly less code than traditional methods of writing UNIX drivers. DriverKit is another example of how NeXT is extending the object advantage deeper into the system software, providing greater leverage for developers. In the area of drivers, NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 now includes public APIs allowing sound, SCSI, graphics and local area network devices to be supported by dynamically loadable drivers. NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 also includes support for a variety of new graphics adaptors and for the first time, full support for 32-bit color graphics. Developer product enhancements improve support for custom objects Specifically, NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 includes a new FileMerge application and modifications to the ProjectBuilder and HeaderViewer applications. For C++ developers, NeXT added the GNU libg++ class libraries. FileMerge is used to compare two directories and to show which files are added, deleted or modified. For a pair of files that are different, the application will show them side-by-side in a view that marks all differences in a graphical manner. The developer can choose to create a third file, which is viewed below the two files being compared and then selectively merge the two files by choosing which of the above files the changes should come from for each set of differences. Using this tool, a developer can quickly tell what changed and quickly merge changes from different source branches with a few mouse clicks. NEXTSTEP Developer 3.2 includes initial support for Portable Distributed Objects (PDO). ProjectBuilder has always been able to build objects/applications remotely over the network on another NEXTSTEP machine. Changes have been added to allow ProjectBuilder to now communicate via PDO to a non-NEXTSTEP machine and build objects/applications in the target environment. This will allow PDO developers to build their object services for their servers from a NEXTSTEP client utilizing the same ProjectBuilder facilities they use for NEXTSTEP applications. Availability and Pricing NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 and NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 will be available the first week of November. Pricing for NEXTSTEP for Intel processors and NEXTSTEP Developer is $795 and $1,995 respectively. Pricing for upgrades to NEXTSTEP for NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP Developer for NeXT Computers is $195 and $495 respectively. Customers who purchase the full version of NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 (excludes evaluation or promotional copies) and return the registration card before October 31, 1993 will receive NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 free. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. >From Marc Munford: NeXT is the first platform to ship a product using Insignia Solutions' new Microsoft technology. For NEXTSTEP customers, the benefit is optimal performance while maintaining full Windows compatibility.
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: PFBtoPFA Font Utility now shipping MAB Date: 19 Oct 1993 23:03:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2a29pu$51u@digifix.digifix.com> PFBTOPFA FOR INTEL AND MOTOROLA FROM TRILITHON SOFTWARE ======== === ===== === ======== ==== ========= ======== Trilithon Software are pleased to announce that PfbToPfa (our PC (PFB) to NEXTSTEP font converter and installer) is now available for NEXTSTEP in MAB (Multi-Architecture Binary) form for both Intel and Motorola architecture processors. PfbToPfa -- a PC to NeXT font converter and installer. PfbToPfa: o converts PC storage format to NeXT PFA format. o converts and sanitises the AFM file (is there is one). o converts PFM (if there is one) to AFM. o generates AFM file (if neither AFM nor PFM exist). o installs the font for you. o $69 regular/$39 educational o Available Now for Motorola Hardware o Available Now for Intel Hardware Write To: Trilithon Software, Two Ohlone, Portola Valley, California 94028. Telephone: (415) 325-0767 E-mail: info@trilithon.com
From: Claire Normand <claire@cubx.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Intuitive Technologies - New name of OF CUB'X SYSTEMES Date: 20 Oct 1993 15:38:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2a443s$9rn@digifix.digifix.com> Intuitive Technologies Tel +33 1 47 08 74 40 Fax +33 1 47 08 74 41 info@cubx.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INTUITIVE TECHNOLOGIES - NEW NAME OF CUB'X SYSTEMES Paris, Mon Oct 18th, 1993 - Cub'x Systemes has changed its name! Under the new name of Intuitive Technologies, the efficient team of developers, sales and technical people goes ahead with its strategy of NEXTSTEP promotion through advanced quality activities. Intuitive Technologies is a rising NEXTSTEP software editor with 2 high-quality products for NEXTSTEP, intuitiv'3d and Cub'X-Window. Intuitive Technologies is also the most important Value Added Distributor of NEXTSTEP in France and provides complete NEXTSTEP solutions, services and training. Intuitive Technologies has developed Cub'X-Window and intuitiv'3d : * Cub'X-Window, the fastest X11R5 solution for NEXTSTEP on NeXT hardware and Intel based platforms. Cub'X-Window permits users to run X apps locally on their computers under NEXTSTEP, or to display X applications running on other systems in the network. Demo versions are available on cs.orst.edu, in directory /pub/next/xnext. For more information : info@cubx.com, academic@cubx.com * intuitiv'3d, a professional modeler and renderer in three dimensions for NEXTSTEP which exploits all the power of RenderMan to create astounding photo-realistic 3D images. Demo versions are available on cs.orst.edu, in directory /pub/next/demos/graphics. For more information : intuitiv@cubx.com, intuitiv_api@cubx.com For more information please contact : Intuitive Technologies Immeuble Sedgwick 7, Rue E. & A. Peugeot 92563 Rueil Malmaison Cedex France Tel +33 1 47 08 74 40 Fax +33 1 47 08 74 41 info@cubx.com NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT, Inc. RenderMan is a trademark of Pixar.
From: wsmith@wixer.bga.com (Wesley C. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TESTERS: Beta test for MIME/NeXTmail program Date: 21 Oct 1993 23:45:39 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2a7l0v$8kq@digifix.digifix.com> Take Three is requesting beta testers for its new e-mail program, Eloquent(TM). Eloquent sends and receives mail messages in both NeXTMail and MIME formats. With MIME, the Internet standard for multimedia e-mail, messages containing files, sound and images can be sent to non-NeXT users. Eloquent also allows the option of using a local mailer (such as sendmail) or SMTP for mail delivery. Incoming mail can be received from a file (/usr/spool/mail/user or other) or from an IMAP mail server. Incoming mail messages can be automatically sorted to different mailboxes based on information in any of the header fields. Eloquent makes document creation convenient, with additions like signature insertion and quoting. Unfinished messages can be saved for later editing and delivery. The test version of Eloquent is available for NeXT computers or PCs, and requires NEXTSTEP version 3.1 or higher. If you are interested in receiving a beta test version, please respond to eloquent_beta@arissoft.com. If you are not interested in the beta version, but may want to buy the finished product, send a message to Eloquent_info@arissoft.com. We'll happily send you all the marketing hype when the product is released. Take Three (512) 837-9784 (512) 837-8102 fax eloquent_beta@arissoft.com (MIME and NeXTmail ok) Eloquent is a trademark of Take Three. NeXT, NeXTSTEP and NextMail are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: Chris Bradley <cbradley@pandora.bozell.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Dallas Area NeXT Group - October Meeting Date: 22 Oct 1993 02:00:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2a7suc$bc1@digifix.digifix.com> -= Meeting Announcement =- D a l l a s A r e a N e X T G r o u p THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28th, 1993 7:00pm to 9:00pm The October monthly meeting of the Dallas Area NeXT Group features look at personal information management (PIM) tools! This month, DaNG presents: PencilMeIn, scheduling and calendaring software from Sarrus Software, Inc. InTouch, a PIM from Manuel Alberto Ricart SBook, a PIM by Simson Garfinkel, distributed through Sarrus This will be a fun evening! Don't miss it - Admission is FREE to everyone! If this is your first DaNG meeting, or the first you will have attended in a while, this meeting will be a great way to acquaint yourself with the "most respected piece of software on the planet," and a sample of PIM software for NEXTSTEP. Dallas Area NeXT Group MEETING LOCATION Offices of Temerlin McClain 201 East Carpenter Freeway (114) LAS COLINAS >From Downtown Dallas: Take I-35 west to 183, then to 114 westbound (at Texas Stadium split). Exit Wingren Rd. and follow map to Temerlin McClain garage. >From North Dallas: Take I-635 (LBJ frwy) west. Exit Valley View Lane (turn left under 635 overpass) and make first left onto O'Connor. Cross Northwest Highway (Spur 348) and continue into Las Colinas. Pass Williams Square (with horse fountain). Make left on Las Colinas Blvd, then first right on Mandalay. Right again on 114 West feeder road and follow map to Temerlin McClain garage. >From Fort Worth: Drive to D/FW Airport, North Entrance. Take 114 eastbound to O'Connor exit. Cross O'Connor on eastbound service road and turn left at Wingren Rd., then left again at the 114 westbound service road. Follow map to Temerlin McClain garage. FOR MORE INFORMATION Chris Bradley (214) 830-2273 (M-F, 9-5 CDT)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Pencom Seeks 31 NEXTSTEP/OOP Engineers and Managers (CA, TX, NE, Midwest) Date: 22 Oct 1993 16:03:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2a9eb2$ean@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson Manager, Advanced Technologies Recruiting Pencom 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Fax: 512-346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com Pencom Seeks 31 NEXTSTEP/OOP Engineers for Internal and External Projects for our Distinguished List of Clients in California, Texas, the Northeast and Midwest U.S. AUSTIN, TEXAS - October 21, 1993 - Pencom Software's team of NEXTSTEP engineers are dedicated to providing services to developers and end user organizations equipped with workstations and software from NeXT Incorporated. A NeXT-authorized systems integrator as well as a registered NEXTSTEP software developer, Pencom provides a full range of services to support users and vendors in adopting this revolutionary technology. Pencom continues to be the leader in NEXTSTEP/OO software development and consulting services, and has the largest staff of NEXTSTEP engineers outside of NeXT themselves. Pencom Software is a division of Pencom Systems Incorporated, a New York-based firm providing software engineering and manpower resources to Fortune 500 companies and leading computer firms since 1973. Currently the largest recruiting firm specializing in the UNIX/Open Systems market, Pencom employs over 500 people and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 80 NeXT machines. ** The following permanent and contract positions require NO LESS than 2 years industry experience, and permanent positions require permanent residence. THANK YOU for your cooperation. If you are interested in being kept informed about positions but are not actively seeking employment, please email contact information in confidence to clint@pencom.com. CALIFORNIA 4 - NEXTSTEP Software Engineering Managers * NEXTSTEP/UNIX application software development * Strong NEXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder experience * High level design, rapid prototyping in NEXTSTEP environment * Ability to work in a dynamic team environment * Ability to transfer NEXTSTEP technology to engineers * Strong management and interpersonal skills * 5 to 6 years industry experience 1 - Manager of Support * 7-9 years industry experience * Strong management skills * Account management * Contract negotiation, proposals, P&L * UNIX/NeXT environment * 8 direct reports 1 - Senior NEXTSTEP GUI Developer * 3+ years OOA and OOD * 2+ years NEXTSTEP GUI development * AppKit, Datebase Kit, Interface Builder * 5-7 years GUI industry experience 1 - NEXTSTEP System Administrator * NEXTSTEP/UNIX/HP system administration experience * Objective-C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment * 5-8 years system administration 1 - Systems Engineers * 4+ years industry experience * 2+ years OOP (NEXTSTEP/C++) * RDBMS (ORACLE/SYBASE/Database Kit) * Applications development * Sales/Marketing experience * Strong interpersonal skills * Willing to travel 1 - Senior Sybase Database Developer * 6+ years database design and database applications development experience * 3 years application development experience UNIX * 2+ years Sybase experience * 1+ year applications experience in NEXTSTEP or OOP 3 - NEXTSTEP Applications Programmers * Objective-C, OOP, GUI, RDBMS, i486 * Strong NEXTSTEP applications development.. * 2+ years NEXTSTEP, 5+ years industry experience 1 - Senior NEXTSTEP Consultant (12 months) * 3-5 years NEXTSTEP product development * project level management * 6-10 years industry experience TEXAS 1- Senior GUI Developer (CONTRACT 12 months) * 3+ years OOA and OOD * 2+ years NEXTSTEP GUI development * AppKit, Datebase Kit, Interface Builder * 5-7 years GUI industry experience 1 - NEXTSTEP Software Engineers * Strong NEXTSTEP applications development * Strong UNIX, Objective-C, C++ * AppKit, Interface Builder, Database Kit * 4 to 6 years industry experience 1 - Director of Software Engineering * 8-12 years industry experience * Strong management skills * Hands on development UNIX/NEXTSTEP/OOP * Project scheduling, planning, budgeting * Product development * Team oriented manager * OO methodologies experience 1 - Senior Database Developer * 5+ years RDBMS design and development experience * 2+ years Sybase/RDBMS applications experience * 2+ years applications experience in NEXTSTEP or OOP * 2+ years OOA/OOD * SNMP NORTHEAST 2 - NEXTSTEP/UNIX Trading Applications Developers * 5-7 years UNIX/C/C++ * Financial applications, Equity/Derivatives trading systems * Sybase/RDBMS/Database Kit plus * OOP/C++/Objective-C plus * Sun workstations 1 - Systems Engineers * 4+ years industry experience * 2+ years OOP (NEXTSTEP/C++) * RDBMS (ORACLE/SYBASE/Database Kit) * Applications development * Sales/Marketing experience * Strong interpersonal skills * Willing to travel 2 - OOP Software Engineers * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective-C, Smalltalk) * 2+ years Object Oriented analysis/design * 2+ years NEXTSTEP/Smalltalk applications development * Strong RDBMS, ORACLE, SYBASE, Database Kit * 3-4 years industry experience 1 - NEXTSTEP/SUN System Administrator * NEXTSTEP/SUN system administration experience * Objective-C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment a must * 2-5 years industry experience MIDWEST 3 - NEXTSTEP/UNIX Trading Applications Developers * 5-7 years UNIX/C/C++ * Financial applications, Equity trading systems * Sybase/RDBMS/Database Kit * OOP/C++/Objective-C * Sun workstations 2 - CDROM/MPC Software Engineers * Strong C programmer with multimedia exp. including viewing/emulation * Take multimedia presentations to CD-ROM environment * Disc mastering, video/audio/frame 2 - NEXTSTEP Applications Programmers * Objective-C ,OOP, GUI, RDBMS, i486 * Strong NEXTSTEP applications development.. * 2+ years NEXTSTEP, 5+ years industry experience 1 - Test/Development Engineer, Consultant (3+ months) * applications test, system support/test * test tools development * NEXTSTEP applications development experience * 2+ years OOP/Objective-C For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson Manager, Advanced Technologies Recruiting Pencom 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Fax: 512-346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com More positions soon...
From: Thomas Funke <thf@zelator.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Sys-V compat. curses package submitted Date: 24 Oct 1993 22:40:55 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2afebl$1r6@digifix.digifix.com> A dream comes true: NOW, you can forget all those fancy windowservers. Stop programming NeXTSTEP or X-Windows ! Use the industry standard ! Expensive database tools come with vt100 tools. So why not follow them ? Drag and drop, point and click, etc. etc.: Who needs this ? The IBM world still consists of green terminals ... But to be able to do real tty-programming, you need 'curses'. No, not this dumb old BSD-curses which NeXT stole from Berkley. You need System-V curses: Available on almost all Unix-machines, but not on NeXT - until now. It has many advantages over BSD-curses: Several screens, many colors and other modes, input-functions: \e[A will be a cursor-key, not a silly escape sequence as it is in BSD. Now you can have it. For FREE !! I have submitted 'ncurses-18.tar.gz' to sonata.cc.purdue.edu (pub/next/submissions) and also cs.orst.edu I hacked it from a recent copy for Linux. Of course you get all sources. Typing 'make' is still left as an exercise to the reader. AND: Read the README's. BTW: A good book about curses is published by O'Reilly. So no need to ask me questions like "My screen doesn't refresh, what can I do?" BTW2: If someone has a script to transform termcap->terminfo, please tell me. It's probably an easy awk-hack ...
From: Chuck Fleming <cfleming@alleg.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: LazyDebugger Palette and new Biology Applications Date: 25 Oct 1993 23:38:00 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ai62n$72h@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings from Allegheny College, There are some new items of possible interest on ftp.alleg.edu. Our LazyDebugger palette is for anyone too lazy to run their apps from a shell or peek at the console. It's for those times when you just want to click the Run button in ProjectBuilder and look at the contents of some variables. Just add the library liblazydebugger.a to your project, drag a LazyDebugger window from the palette into your interface, and use print (instead of printf) in your code. The LazyDebugger palette can be found in /pub/ESDG/Palettes/m68k_i386. There are also two new educational biology applications. Electrophoresis and Mitosis can be found in /pub/ESDG/Biology in m68k and m68k_i386. Regards, Chuck
From: hbu@wag.ch (Hans Burkard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Terminal Emulator Family announced by workstation ag Date: 25 Oct 1993 23:39:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ai64t$72n@digifix.digifix.com> workstation ag Rohrstr. 36/38 CH-8152 Glattbrugg Switzerland Voice: +41 1 828 95 55 Fax: +41 1 828 95 70 E-Mail: info@wag.ch For Immediate Release workstation ag ANNOUNCES TERMINAL EMULATOR FAMILY FOR UNIX WORKSTATIONS Glattbrugg, Switzerland, October 25, 1993 -- workstation ag today released a family of terminal emulators for UNIX workstations: - WE-UTS: UNISYS terminal emulator (U100, U200, UTS400, UTS30, UTS40) - WE-D320: DEC terminal emulator (VT100, VT200, VT320) - WE-I3179: IBM 3270 terminal emulator WE-UTS, WE-D320 and WE-I3179 terminal emulators by workstation ag present all of your mainframe applications right on the screen of your workstation. Using the latest techniques in software development our products run on UNIX workstations by HP, DEC, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Sun, NeXT and even Intel 486 with X11 or NeXTStep. All terminal emulators are fully integrated in their respective window systems. The advantages are striking: - All control and status indicators of the original terminal can be set in parameter windows. - "Cut and paste" is possible between emulator windows and others. - Context sensitive help for all keys and parameters is fully provided. Printer output as well as screen hardcopies are converted to ASCII or PostScript and can be routed to a printer, spooler or data file. All functions of the terminal keyboard are implemented in the keyboard of your workstation or are displayed as buttons around the terminal windows. All keyboards can be individually configured with an interactive mapper utility. A graphic representation of an original terminal keyboard can be displayed on the screen and used with the mouse. Up to 12 macros can be separately defined for each terminal window. An unlimited number of simultaneous terminal session on a single workstation is possible. WE-UTS ====== The WE-UTS product line allows the integration of mainframe applications written for U100, U200, UTS 400, UTS 40, UTS 60 color graphics (WE-UTS only) and SVT UNISYS terminals into a workstation environment. The WE-COMD communication protocol server is installed on a UNIX processor which may perform as a protocol server for the entire network. WE-UTSc is a complete character only terminal emulation while WE-UTSg terminal emulator additionally supports graphics. The gateway may be shared by any number of workstations each running any number of WE-UTS terminal windows. The terminal emulators isolates the communication protocol support to their respective gateways and spares the workstation from additional overhead caused by DCA Ethernet (DCP), TPO Ethernet (HLC), UDLC or X.25 protocols. The processes of the emulator talk to the gateway using TCP/IP which provides flexible and high-performance distribution of the WE-UTS terminal sessions. WE-D320 ======= The WE-D320 terminal emulator supports applications written for DEC VT100, VT200 and VT320 terminal families without modifying the existing software on the mainframe. The resizable emulation window can be surrounded by buttons. Functions and labels are entirely definable. WE-D320 is used as a front end to communication protocols provided by every workstation. Any process (such as shell, rlogin, tip , pad etc.) can be started to connect to an application requiring a VT320 terminal. It uses standard communication facilities such as TCP/IP, asynchronous serial ports or X.25 PAD. WE-I3179 ======== The WE-I3179 product line allows workstations to communicate to IBM mainframes over TCP/IP Ethernet links (TELNET connections), SDLC or X.25 public or private networks. WE-I3179 consists of the communication protocol server WE-COMD and the actual terminal emulator. While WE-I3179g does support graphics WE-I3179c represents the complete character only terminal emulator. The WE-COMD gateway installs a UNIX process that can be used as a protocol server for the entire network. The gateway may be shared by any number of workstations each running any number of WE-I3179 terminal windows. PRICES ====== The prices are dependent on the product and the number of simultaneously allowed sessions on a workstation. Note there is also floating license available for TCP/IP-networks. Please request detail price information. For evaluation purposes workstation ag provides a demo package for US$99. The package includes: - complete product running in demo mode (time and data transfer limit). - complete installation and software documentation. - the product will turn into a fully functional software by entering a valid license. - shipping cost. ABOUT workstation ag ==================== workstation ag is a privately held company based in Glattbrugg (Switzerland) with branch offices in Montreux (Switzerland) and Adolzfurt (Stuttgart, Germany). Founded in 1989, the company acts as an universal system integrator on unix workstation market. workstation ag offers a complete range of services for customers: hardware and software sales, consultancies, software development, training and support. One of the most successful business areas has been the development and introduction of technically high level products such as the terminal emulator family, project management tool, document imaging and archiving systems.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 43 - 1993 Date: 25 Oct 1993 23:53:13 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2ai6v7$77r@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 43). Monday October 19 through Monday October 25 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 42 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups NeXT Announces New Releases of NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP Developer PRESS RELEASE: PFBtoPFA Font Utility now shipping MAB PRESS RELEASE: Intuitive Technologies - New name of OF CUB'X SYSTEMES BETA TESTERS: Beta test for MIME/NeXTmail program MEETING: Dallas Area NeXT Group - October Meeting JOB: Pencom Seeks 31 NEXTSTEP/OOP Engineers and Managers (CA, TX, NE, Midwest) SUBMISSION: Sys-V compat. curses package submitted SUBMISSION: LazyDebugger Palette and new Biology Applications PRESS RELEASE: Terminal Emulator Family announced by workstation ag If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 25 Oct 1993 23:53:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2ai706$781@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 25 Oct 1993 23:54:01 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2ai70m$787@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: weira@gb.swissbank.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Swiss Bank Corporation (London) seeking NeXTStep programmers Date: 27 Oct 1993 00:41:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2aku61$io@digifix.digifix.com> Swiss Bank Corporation (London) seeking NeXTStep programmers ------------------------------------------------------------ Swiss Bank Corporation is looking for NeXTStep programmers with at least six months development experience to join its team in London. We are currently engaged in a substantial expansion of our NeXT based applications development team to enable us to deliver a variety of systems to our 350+ NeXT users in London. Systems development will encompass construction of reusable objects and palettes, real-time data delivery and analysis, financial risk management, client-server systems using PDOs and SYBASE report generation tools. As one of the leading Investment and Retail Banks in the world, and one of the largest financial users of NeXT technology, we understand the benefits that the best NeXTStep developers bring to our business and are able to offer outstanding remuneration to outstanding individuals. Applicants should send a resume and covering letter to: Andrew Weir, Swiss Bank Corporation, 1 High Timber Street, London EC4V 3SB, United Kingdom. or E-mail (NeXT mail OK) to : weira@gb.swissbank.com
From: todd@alembic.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Special Next User Group offer from Alembic Systems Date: 27 Oct 1993 17:39:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ampq6$4nb@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sales Division Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail: info@alembic.com Englewood Colorado, October 25, 1993 - ALEMBIC ANNOUNCES 10% DISCOUNT TO NEXT USER GROUP MEMBERS ON THE TAILOR POSTSCRIPT EDITOR, MIX VOICE-MAIL SYSTEM, SCREEN MACHINE II VIDEO DIGITIZER, AND OTHER ALEMBIC PRODUCTS LISTED BELOW. CALL FOR DEALER PRICING. *solidThinking MODELER The advanced 3D modeler. Winner of "Best of Breed" award from NEXTWORLD Magazine. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $1400 *solidThinking ANIMATOR solidThinking ANIMATOR is a professional animator for video production.Direct control on video recorders for real time preview or final photorealistic recording. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $1400 *PhotoRIB (free with modeler) PhotoRIB is an utility that allows you to load, edit, display, convert from MacIntosh and render any RIB file. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $79 *CIC Compose In Color Answers the demand for powerful image editing and composition on NEXTSTEP. A high-end image editing tool, CIC provides a complete solution for designers and prepress technicians alike. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $1295 *BlackBox A high-end hardware SCSI accelerator designed for use by computation-intensive applications like Compose in Color. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $5,295 to $199,957 *Dots A generic printer driver that allows you to connect different printers to your NEXTSTEP computer. Printers connected with Dots are available throughout the network. Numerous printers supported including most HP models. Availability: Motorola now Intel Now price $149 to $1495 *ZZ Volume ZZVolume is the first architectural CAD program available on NeXTSTEP. As a powerful presentation tool, ZZVolume enables you to quickly create 3-dimensional spaces-including entire buildings and virtually tour the spaces. 040 and Intel versions available: pricing $1995 *mix-call A universal telecommunication machine for the telephone line. mixcall features customizable voice-mail and fax-back services under NEXTSTEP at a fraction of the price charged by phone companies and other providers. Availability: Motorola Now Intel NS 3.2 price - please call *mixphone complements the dial functions of a regular phone with an intelligent redialing mechanism and the inclusion of a telecommunication notebook. Availability: Motorola Now Intel NS 3.2 price - please call *mixfax is integrated seamlessly into the NeXT system environment as a powerful fax modem. Availability: Motorola Now Intel NS 3.2 price - please call *mixdata the flexible software modem serves as the foundation of the mix modem line. Availability: Motorola Now Intel NS 3.2 price - please call *VarioData VarioData is a powerful flexible flat-file database capable of managing text, numbers, dates, images, sounds, files, and key words for fast efficient retrieval and management. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $749 Other Products available with VarioData Assistant-$299 Assistant Plus-$395 *Tailor Open any postscript document (PS or EPS) from any platform; from any application and make necessary changes. Save back as PS/EPS or drop in other applications Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $495 *CraftMan CraftMan gives you full control over all the multimedia features of NeXTSTEP. Graphics, sound, animation and video can be drag-and-dropped right into your application. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $995 *Questor Spreadsheet application designed specifically for NEXTSTEP. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $995 *Screen Machine II Screen Machine II is a real-time video digitizer, that digitizes images in true color or gray scale. Screen Machine is also a multimedia board that is capable of displaying live video, in any size, on your VGA monitor. Comes with an array of software additions. Availability: Intel Now price $1850 *Screen Machine Developer Kit Kit for creating video applications for the Screen Machine II multimedia board. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price $998 *NetInfo NetInfo is a new generation systems administration tool, designed with the requirements of large networks in mind. Availability: SPARC, Auspex, HP/UX, RS/6000, DEC, OSF/1 price-call *VIVA! Viva from d'art is a business management and information system. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price: $4,995 for 5-user license *Splitbuilder An application for splitting large files to be sent via e-mail. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price: $149 *Laserman Controller application that allows control of laser disc players via the serial port. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Feb. 1994 price $295 *Frequentphrases Frequently used phrase library for NEXTSTEP. Availability: Motorola Now Intel Now price: $149 All trademarks are property of their respective owners. -30-
From: jamie@ftp.com (Jamie O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Date: 27 Oct 1993 16:48:03 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ammq1$4hj@digifix.digifix.com> Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting Tuesday, November 2nd, 7 PM MIT Room 1-190 Exploring MindShare with Pangea Peter Park from Pangea will be showing off their groupware product, MindShare. MindShare is a collaboration system for sharing, discussing and tracking information. MindShare helps you organize communication within your organization so that it is easier and more efficient. With MindShare you can organize projects between groups across the room or the world. We will also have our Rumor of the Month contest, Q&A, and the usual updates on what is new in the NeXT community. For more info, contact Jamie O'Keefe at jamie@ftp.com, or by phone at 508-659-6829. See you there!
From: editor@nextsrv1.andi.org (The ANDI Editorial Staff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ANDI Publication schedule - invitation to participate Date: 27 Oct 1993 22:52:47 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2anc5u$5p0@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings NeXTSTEPPERS: ANDI, the Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International, Inc. is ramping up our publications program now that other projects such as the InfoServer, new email system, and archive program are in place. We are looking for people to write articles and provide feedback. ANDI has three publications: breakpoint - a bimonthly publication with programming tips for developers FocalPoint - a monthly publication focusing on the NeXTSTEP community, featuring the following subjects: In Focus - Editors comments In the Can - New Products Just Shipping Under Development - New Products Under Development Viewpoint - Guest Editorials Top Pics - Biased must have list as voted on by ANDI members Contrasts - Comparisons of similar products available for NeXTSTEP, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 and APPLE OS for Macintosh or PowerPC Exposures - NeXTSTEP in the news, at shows, or not ???TBD - Discussion of computers, peripherals, etc. The Gallery - Classified Advertising Objectivitie - A quarterly publication focusing on one subject in depth. The first four issues are as follows: Databases and relates tools/issues. How to sell NeXTSTEP as a tool when moving to client/server environment and comparison against other competing solutions The medical/healthcare market - what is is and how to reach it The financial market - what is is and how to reach it NeXTSTEP programming tools including discussion on the relative merits or Objective-C as versus C++, Smalltalk, and Eiffel Karl Kraft with Ensuing Technology, and an ANDI board member is Editor of breakpoint. Bill Strehl is Editor both FocalPoint and Objectivitie, The first issue of FocalPoint will be out by about November 7 to coincide with the official release of 3.2. The first issue of Objectivitie is due out in time for the East Coast Developers Conference scheduled for January 24-26, 1994. We are soliciting your articles for one and all publications and advertising for FocalPoint. To submit articles, comments for a specific publication, reply to: FocalPoint@nextsrv1.andi.org or breakpoint@nextsrv1.andi.org or Objectivitie@nextsrv1.andi.org For general contact with the editorial staff at ANDI, reply to: editor@nextsrv1.andi.org You may also mail your submissions/comments on 3 1/2 inch diskette to: ANDI 9921 Woodburn Road Silver Spring, MD 20901-2730 USA For information on how to subscribe (there is a cost), reply to: membership@nextsrv1.andi.org If you wish to call us, we may be reached at: 301-681-0613
From: Pedja Bogdanovich <sava!pedja@cs.UMD.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Civilized Software announces MLAB for NeXTSTEP Date: 28 Oct 1993 16:08:30 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ap8rs$b1v@digifix.digifix.com> Civilized Software announces MLAB for NeXTSTEP. MLAB: An Advanced System for Mathematical and Statistical Modeling =================================================================== MLAB, (for Modeling LABoratory), is a program for interactive mathematical modeling. MLAB was originally developed at the National Institutes of Health. It includes curve-fitting, differential equations, statistics and graphics as some of its major capabilities. MLAB provides more than thirty command types and more than four hundred built-in functions from the areas of elementary mathematics, transcendental functions, probability and statistics, linear algebra, optimization, cluster analysis, combinatorics, numeric input/output, and graphics. The usual low-level functions, e.g., sine, cosine, log, etc., are present, as well as functions performing more complex analyses, such as singular value decomposition, discrete Fourier transforms, solution of differential equation systems, and constrained non-linear optimization, among many others. A substantial collection of statistically-oriented functions, such as most common distribution functions and their inverses, are included. MLAB is an ideal tool for solving simulation and modeling problems such as chemical kinetics, pharmocological compartmental models, multiple site ligand binding, and ultracentrifuge models, to name just a few. For more information about MLAB send email to csi%sava@cs.umd.edu with the subject line "send info", or contact: Civilized Software, Inc. 7735 Old Georgetown Rd. #410 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 652-4714 (301) 656-1069 fax email: csi%sava@cs.umd.edu
From: David Moffett <bear!dmoffett@nextsrv1.andi.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: CB experimental real time communications Date: 28 Oct 1993 22:32:10 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2apvb8$c9b@digifix.digifix.com> A new version of CB has been put on the cs.orst.edu archive in the /pub/next/submissions directory. I tried to put the program on sonata but with no luck. CB is an experimental program to attemp near real time voice communications between two NeXT computers. As of 27th Oct 93 I have no idea if this program will work on intel hardware. That is one of the reasons I am releasing this version of the program. I am hoping someone will download and test this program on intel hardware and then send some me email telling the results. So if you have some intel hardware with a sound card please consider sending me some results. Also if you can get the program to connect over the internet I would sure like to hear about that. So far no one has been able to get the program to work over the internet for one reason or another. I have made some changes and it may work this time. I have no way of testing this program between more than two people so if you are using more than two copies at one time I would like to hear about your experiences/problems. Some of CB's features: 1. Share a pasteboard between users. 2. Near real time voice communications. 3. Send files to one or more users. 4. Multi-user talk window ( Bulletin Board ). There are no real changes from the earlier version other than the following: 1. The program will only run under 3.1. 2. CB is fat. 3. Some bug fixes. a. Some connection problems resolved. b. Remote connection bug fix. c. General clean up of code. 4. As requested by a number of users I have merged the Connections window and the Control window into one window. Anyway let me know if how you like the program. There has already been some pretty cool uses of the program and I would sure like to hear of some more. David B. Moffett dmoffett@andi.org
From: Tom A. Nawara <nirvana@boss.math.uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Call for volunteers - PRSA Conference Date: 28 Oct 1993 22:39:32 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2apvp2$cb9@digifix.digifix.com> To all former NeXT Campus Consultants, current user group members, and others interested in fostering NEXTSTEP interest in the Public Relations arena: This is a call for volunteers! RFC Holdings is searching for volunteers to help staff and run our NEXTSTEP "Integrated Office" exhibit at the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Conference in Orlando, Florida. The dates of the conference are Sunday, November 14 through Tuesday, November 16, 1993. Responsibilities will include demonstration of NEXTSTEP and applications such as those listed in the press release below, and general organizational work. RFC Holdings is offering drastically discounted hotel rates to the first 5 volunteers to reply to the contact below. This is a chance to showcase NEXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP third-party applications in a viable but unproven arena. If you will be in the Orlando area - or if you are willing to travel - please volunteer your time. Thank you. Please contact: Paul Kuzma orange@boss.math.uic.edu 312.404.0185 OR Carmi Weinzweig majortom@boss.math.uic.edu 708.677.9190 Following is the press release for the event: ******************************************************************************* "World-Class Technology Solutions" at the PRSA Conference - Orlando, FL. (Nov. 14-16,1993) Visit the "Integrated Office." RFC Holdings, Inc., an Illinois-based technology solutions firm, presents an innovative and practical demonstration featuring integrated technology systems for the public relations environment. Learn how computer-supported communication can increase group productivity, while providing telecommuting and worldwide office connections. Observe immediate on-line media access, PC generated VNR development, and several other campaign process improvements. Featured products include NEXTSTEP, an award winning, advanced object-oriented operating environment from NeXT Computer, Inc.; NoteBook, Millennium Software Labs' advanced information storage and retrieval tool; Pages Software Inc.'s Pages by Pages, an object based document processing system; and many others. Come view tomorrow's technology applied in our "Office" today! *******************************************************************************
From: wiley@lighthouse.com (Wiley Hodges) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Ships MAB Versions of Diagram! and Concurrence Date: 29 Oct 1993 15:23:33 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2arqjk$ig7@digifix.digifix.com> _________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Wiley Hodges 415/570-7736 Lighthouse Design Ships Multiple Architecture Binary Versions of Diagram! and Concurrence. SAN MATEO, Calif., October 25, 1993 - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today announced the availability of multiple architecture binary (MAB) versions of Diagram!, NEXTSTEP's, best-selling drawing program, and Concurrence, NEXTSTEP's best-selling presentation program. Such `fat' versions allow Diagram! and Concurrence to run unmodified on Intel 486 and other compatible hardware supporting NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors as well as on NeXT computers based on Motorola processors. "Customer interest in NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors has been consistently building," said Wiley Hodges, Manager of Marketing Operations at Lighthouse Design. "Consequently, we're seeing solid demand for 'fat' versions of our products, from customers new to NEXTSTEP as well as users who have been with us for a number of years." With the release of its Diagram! drawing program in 1990, Lighthouse Design introduced its first productivity application for NEXTSTEP. Diagram!'s intelligent drawing features quickly won favor with business and technical users, automating many of the more mundane tasks associated with "information illustration." Diagram! has since grown to be one of the most widely used applications in the NEXTSTEP environment. Lighthouse Design followed in 1992 with the release of Concurrence, its presentation and outlining application. Concurrence has seen similar success, and is currently that market's best-selling presentation tool. In April, Lighthouse Design released Diagram! version 2.0 to critical acclaim, receiving four and a half of five cubes in its NeXTWORLD Magazine review, and winning NeXTWORLD's annual Best of Breed award in the business graphics category. Diagram! 2's features were culled from thousands of suggestions received through an electronic mail Suggestion Panel incorporated in Diagram! 1.0. Intelligent drawing and drag and drop simplicity have made Diagram! 2 a hit with NEXTSTEP's business and technical users. Concurrence similarly received four cubes, and was nominated against Diagram! 2 for the Best of Breed award. First introduced in 1992, Concurrence stands up to the demands of a wide range of applications, with integrated multi-media presentation features ideal for on-line presentations delivered via electronic mail, 35mm slide output, laptop handouts or stand-up presentations delivered to concert hall crowds. The new versions of Diagram! and Concurrence (Diagram! 2.1, and Concurrence 1.2) require NEXTSTEP version 3.1 or later. In addition to support for Intel Processors, Diagram! 2.1 includes minor feature enhancements, including drag and drop color and text underlining. Fat binary versions of Diagram! 2 and Concurrence are available through NeXTConnection? and other NEXTSTEP resellers worldwide. Corporate purchasers seeking network or site licenses should contact Lighthouse Design, Ltd. directly at 1-800-366-2279 or 1-415-570-7736. For current owners of Diagram! 2 and Concurrence, upgrades are available through NeXTConnection (1-800-800-6398 or 1-603-446-3383) for a nominal media fee. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. Lighthouse Design is a privately-held software firm based in San Mateo, California, dedicated since 1989 to providing innovative and useful productivity applications for object-oriented environments. -30- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., Diagram!, and Concurrence are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: wiley@lighthouse.com (Wiley Hodges) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design, Ltd. Ships TaskMaster Project Management Software Date: 29 Oct 1993 15:23:42 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2arqjs$igd@digifix.digifix.com> ___________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact Wiley Hodges 415/570-7736 Lighthouse Design Broadens NEXTSTEP Product Line with TaskMaster Project Management Software. Provides Filters to Read Microsoft Project & Claris MacProject SAN MATEO, Calif., October 31, 1993 - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today shipped TaskMaster version 1.5, an integrated project management application for the NEXTSTEP environment. TaskMaster provides sophisticated project planning and analysis capabilities to professional project managers. Filters shipped with TaskMaster provide data compatibility with Microsoft''s Project, Claris Corporation's MacProject, and data exported in the "mpx" (Microsoft Project Exchange) format by UNIX project management applications These filters drastically simplify the transition to NEXTSTEP from Windows, Macintosh and many workstation environments. "TaskMaster is the first tool that allows me to manage project planning details as quickly as our object oriented (OO) development moves," remarked Mark Thomsen, TRW Project Manager for the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's Personnel Performance Index. "Before switching to TaskMaster, we tried a variety of project planning tools, including Microsoft Project. We were especially impressed with how many things TaskMaster does well-we rarely find sophisticated packages done right on the first try." TaskMaster provides an innovative decomposition approach to the discipline of project management. Integrated outlines and spreadsheets are used to describe task and resource information, joining two user interface elements familiar to novice and expert users alike. Graphical "drag and drop" motions are used to assign resources to tasks and describe task dependencies (the order in which tasks must be completed), building on interface technology proven in Lighthouse Design's earlier Diagram! and Concurrence applications. This interface drastically reduces training and education costs by making the product's features more accessible to everyday users. "Project management has become a necessity for businesses and technical organizations striving for greater efficiency," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Lighthouse Design. "In environments as diverse as telecommunications and financial services, NEXTSTEP's momentum in the PC marketplace has created a demand for native solutions to a broad range of project management problems. TaskMaster takes advantage of the NEXTSTEP environment to provide a complete and accessible project management solution, while the filters for Microsoft Project and MacProject address the transition requirements faced by many of our new PC customers." TaskMaster represents the third product in Lighthouse Design's line of NEXTSTEP productivity applications, which now includes Diagram!, an innovative "information graphics" program, and Concurrence, a multi-media presentation program. TaskMaster's integration with Diagram! allows it to display projects as work flow diagrams, known as PERT charts. TaskMaster documents opened in Diagram! display task information graphically, accompanied by resource assignments, start and end date information, and critical path coloration. Project flows are drawn using Diagram!'s rubberbanding lines, allowing tasks and groups to be moved without disturbing the graphical network of task dependencies. TaskMaster's extensive features include: - Task Outliner for fast project decomposition - Drag-and-drop task dependency creation - User configurable Gantt charts - "Critical path" calculation and color display - Hierarchical or departmental resource breakdown - Individualized and inherited resource calendars - Drag-and-drop resource assignments - Priority based resource levelling - Auto-assignment from resource "pools" or departments - Expense tracking by task, resource and assignment - Eight constraint/target date types - Unlimited number of project "scenarios" - Import compatibility with Microsoft Project, MacProject and ".mpx" formats - Export compatibility with spreadsheets, word processors - PERT graphics generated through Diagram! NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. Lighthouse Design is a privately-held software firm based in San Mateo, California, dedicated since 1989 to providing innovative and useful productivity applications for object-oriented environments. -30- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., TaskMaster, Diagram!, and Concurrence are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the exclusive property of their respective owners.
From: wiley@lighthouse.com (Wiley Hodges) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Ships Foundation Classes version 2.1 Date: 29 Oct 1993 15:23:50 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2arqk5$igj@digifix.digifix.com> _________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact Wiley Hodges 415/570-7736 Lighthouse Design Ships Foundation Classes 2.1 Extends NEXTSTEP Product Reach with Reusable ObjectWare. SAN MATEO, Calif., October 31, 1993 - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today shipped its Foundation Classes, a library of reuseable Objective-C classes designed to complement NEXTSTEP's ApplicationKit. The Foundation Classes provide NEXTSTEP developers with a suite of proven software components to accelerate development of mission critical applications, while serving as a solid cornerstone for in-house object repositories. "The Foundation Classes made the development of our Pencil Me In scheduling software much easier," said Andrew K. Turk, president of Sarrus Software, Inc. "Because the Foundation Classes had already been thoroughly tested, we could reuse the code in our own development, saving Sarrus time and money. But the real leverage we got was the freedom to focus on solving customers' enterprise scheduling problems rather than on reinventing the wheel." The Foundation Classes provide NEXTSTEP developers with a basic suite of object oriented building blocks on which to base their own application development. The library includes components to handle character strings, flexible collections like lists, sets, stacks and queues, along with separate classes to automate error handling and reporting. Together, these components are found at the heart of most business and technical applications. "The Foundation Classes are an integral part of Lighthouse's NEXTSTEP development," said Kevin Steele, Lighthouse Design's director of engineering. "The Foundation Classes are at the core of our shrink-wrapped productivity applications, so commercializing this technology offers the same quality and time-savings to our customers as our engineers are able to achieve internally." The Foundation Classes provide unparalleled convenience and security to NEXTSTEP developers. The Classes were used throughout the development of Diagram!, an information graphics program, Concurrence, a multi-media presentation program, and Lighthouse Design's newest TaskMaster project management application. As a result of such heavy usage on tens of thousands of customer desktops, the Foundation Classes are among the safest and most widely-deployed ObjectWare available for any platform. To developers transitioning from mainframes or Microsoft Windows to object oriented development, the Foundation Classes provide a thoroughly tested and documented foundation on which to base in-house object repositories. As developers continue and expand their development, such an internal object repository provides a library from which code can be safely reused. True reusability of software components is one of the primary benefits of object-oriented development, and the NEXTSTEP environment. "The commercial release of The Foundation Classes represents a significant extension of our product line and commitment to the NEXTSTEP environment," said Jonathan Schwartz, president of Lighthouse Design. "Demand for NEXTSTEP on the Intel x86 platform has been consistently growing. By moving into the technical arena with The Foundation Classes and future applications geared toward corporate developers, we intend to provide high-quality Lighthouse Design products from development through deployment." NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. Lighthouse Design is a privately-held software firm based in San Mateo, California, dedicated since 1989 to providing innovative and useful productivity applications for object-oriented environments. Other NEXTSTEP products from Lighthouse Design include Concurrence, an outlining and presentation product; Diagram!, an innovative drawing program; and TaskMaster, a comprehensive project management application. -30- Lighthouse Design, Diagram!, Concurrence, TaskMaster, and Lighthouse Design's Foundation Classes are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. AppKit and ObjectWare are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: slugg jello <mouthers!slugg@nwnexus.wa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Mouthing Flowers Ships Multi-Architecture TimeFlies for NEXTSTEP Date: 29 Oct 1993 23:12:45 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2asm3b$jvn@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release: For more info contact: Douglas Kent Mouthing Flowers, Inc. 152 20th Ave. #1 Seattle WA. 98122 USA 206 / 325-7870 206 / 325-0093 (fax) email: timebugs@mouthers.wa.com Mouthing Flowers Ships Multi-Architecture TimeFlies for NEXTSTEP Seattle, WA, October 28, 1993 - Mouthing Flowers announced today that it is now shipping its popular time management application TimeFlies in multiple-architecture binary form. That means that TimeFlies runs on both Motorola-based NeXT hardware, qualified Intel-based systems, or on NEXTSTEP networks that mix Intel and Motorola hardware. This latest release of TimeFlies is version 2.2. It requires NEXTSTEP 3.1 or greater. The upgrade for current users is free. TimeFlies requires no fussing with crontab files as do some other programs that do chimes as recently discussed on the Internet. TimeFlies offers the following full feature set: Alarm Clocks: * Create, modify and delete alarms. * Set alarms to go off at a: - specific time of day, - day of the week, - date of the month, - specific month, - or any combination of the above. * Set alarms to: - issue sounds, - send email, - display a message panel on your screen, - or any combination of the above. * Set an alarm to delete itself when it goes off. Chimes: * Set chime to go off at any quarter hour. * Set a chime so that when it goes off it will play a sound or tell you in a soothing female voice what time it is. * On the hour, repeat a chime the same number of times as the hour, like a cuckoo clock. TimeFlies has a stopwatch feature which enables you to time interesting events like phone calls, time spent on a project, or time spent calculating a spreadsheet. TimeFlies is available on Internet archive servers (sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu) as a demo that runs for one hour at a time. You may enable the TimeFlies demo by obtaining a registration number from Mouthing Flowers for $45 or $24 for full-time students, seniors, and handicapped (prices subject to change). Multi-user network rates are available. TimeFlies also is available on Paget Press's AppWrapper CD-ROM. Mouthing Flowers, Inc. is a Pacific Northwest software development and consulting firm which provides expertise in NEXTSTEP and Microsoft Windows software environments. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Dealer Hits Inc. 500 Date: 2 Nov 1993 03:31:35 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b55t7$93f@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: Greg Duwe Single Source Systems, Inc. 317/253-0665 SINGLE SOURCE SYSTEMS, INC. RANKED 248 ON INC. MAGAZINE'S LIST OF 500 FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATELY HELD COMPANIES IN AMERICA Indianapolis, IN - The October issue of Inc. Magazine contains the 1993 Inc. 500, which ranks this country's top 500 fastest-growing privately held companies. Single Source Systems, Inc. of Indianapolis, IN is ranked 248 on the 12th annual list. Single Source Systems is a systems integration and software development firm. The firm specializes in business process re-engineering, client/server, and object oriented project development. The firm also provides Unix and Novell network integration. Single Source president Tony Petrucciani commented, "Much of the firms growth can be attributed to the mounting popularity of NeXT Inc.'s NeXTSTEP systems environment for application development." Single Source has been an Authorized NeXT Dealer for two years. Their NEXTSTEP staff consists of 7 consultants which provide project management and development services for the commercial, manufacturing, distribution, and health care markets. To be eligible for the 1993 Inc. 500, a company must be independent and privately held. The rankings are based on the percentage increase in sales from 1988 through 1992. Companies had to show at least $100,000 but no more that $25 million in sales for 1988 and had to register a sales increase between 1991 and 1992. Regulated banks and utilities are not eligible. Single Source Systems is headquartered at 4911 E. 56th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46220 -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu (Mike Mezzino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: GatorFTP Version 1.4 Date: 2 Nov 1993 03:31:48 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b55tk$93h@digifix.digifix.com> Hello GatorFTP Users: GatorFTP_1.4 contains four new features resulting from sugestions by various individuals. The new version can be found on our new archive site uhoop.egr.uh.edu under /pub/misc as GatorFTP_NS3.0_1.4.app.tar.Z (NeXTstep version 3.0) GatorFTP_NS486_1.4.app.tar.Z (NeXTstep 486 fat binary) NEW FEATURES: 1) Each site now includes a comment window. You may display the window with a menu item or a Command-d. If displayed, the window will remain open until you close it or logon to a site. In addition, GatorFTP also keeps track of the last time you logged-on to that site. 2) GatorFTP now recognizes Windows NT servers and displays the directories and transfers files in the "correct" way. 3) Two new VMS options have been added to Preferences. Prior to storing the file on your computer, you may strip the revision and you may lowercase the filename. 4) For those who like to hide GatorFTP during long file receives, the app icon is now animated with the percent-of-transfer dial to reflect the current state of the fetch. Regards, Mike Mezzino mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Gil Rivlis <gil@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: The Game of Life Date: 2 Nov 1993 03:31:57 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b55tt$93j@digifix.digifix.com> I have submitted my implementation of the Game of Life to the archives. It is free under the FSF license. You should be able to find it in the /pub/next/submissions on cs.orst.edu and on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. There are two distributions, a binary MAB version: Life.10.MAB.tar.gz and a source code version: Life.10.src.tar.gz. I guess it will migrate to a games directory in the future. It runs on NS3.1. (I don't know about 3.0 or less, but I haven't used anything new. NS/I was not tested.) I can be reached at Gil Rivlis 361 Cliffside Dr. #B Columbus, OH 43202 E-mail: gil@atlantic.mps.ohio-state.edu -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: DEMO Tailor PS/EPS Editor available via FTP Date: 2 Nov 1993 03:32:04 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b55u4$93l@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Alembic Systems International, LTD. 14 Inverness Drive Suite G-228 Englewood, CO 80112 303.799.6223 phone 303.799.1435 fax info@alembic.com Postscript editor: Tailor for NEXTSTEP is now available via file transfer protocol (ftp). The demonstration version of Tailor 1.0c for NEXTSTEP is now available at the following ftp sites: Archive Server Name Pathname ------------------- -------- cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/Tailor_1.0_MAB.compressed nova.cc.purdue.edu /pub/next/submissions/Tailor_1.0_MAB.compressed The PostScript format is widely used to transfer information between applications, platforms and printers in most office environments. However, by using this universal format, one looses the ability to make any changes to the imported postscript file, apart from sizing and positioning. Now, for all NEXTSTEP users, Tailor eliminates this important restriction! Tailor enables you to graphically edit any PostScript document, including multi-page PostScript files imported from MicroSoft Windows, Macintosh or any platform capable of outputing PostScript. You can move, reshape, or delete all types of graphic objects, such as line art, text and pixel images. You can recolor, modify or add line art. You can alter typefaces, modify or add text, and regroup text lines into paragraphs for more flexible editing. And you save the results back in a PostScript file, or use the standard copy and paste functions to place them in any NEXTSTEP application. -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: November 10, 1993 WaNUG announcement Date: 2 Nov 1993 03:32:23 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b55un$93p@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Hugh O'Neill President Washington Area NeXTSTEP Users Group (WaNUG) reply to: honeill@nextsrv1.andi.org (NeXTmail accepted) The Wednesday, November 10 meeting will be held at MITRE Corp, 1820 Dolly Madison Blvd, McLean, VA. The meeting begins at 7pm. Hosted by Mike O'Neill. He can be reached at:703-883-7528 or via email at: emo@mitre.org PRESENTATIONS and *** SPECIAL GIVEAWAY *** David Sokolower from Intel will discuss the future direction of micoprocessor technology. Tony Rennier from Blacksmith will give a demonstration of Chartsmith, a Business Productivity tool for charting and graphics. Information on two new products (with the possiblity of a demo of each) will be available at the meeting. These are Hypersense from Thoughtful Software and Censusplus from Siegeltuch and Associates. ** SPECIAL GIVEAWAY ** Anyone who attends the November 10 WaNUG meeting at Mitre is eligible for bidding on an Intel Overdrive Processor which will allow you to upgrade a 486DX 33mhz machine to a 486 DX/2 66mhz machine. This is approximately a $500 value. Highest bidder takes it. Bidders must be present to tender an offer. Any offer accepted. Also... Lighthouse Design has donated two copies each of Concurrence (version 1.2) and Diagram! (version 2.1), which are upgradable. We are auctioning them of to the highest bidder(s). Since these are both great programs we are asking a minimum bid of $75 each. You may respond to us via email or call Bill Strehl at 301-681-0613 with your bid. Bidding closes on Tuesday, November 30. Xedox has donated a copy of their port of the Netinfo software which runs on a variety of platforms. This is a retail value of $2500. Highest bidder takes it. Opening bids begin at $200. Bidding closes on Tuesday, November 30. Hugh O'Neill President Washington Area NeXTSTEP Users Group (WaNUG) reply to: honeill@nextsrv1.andi.org (NeXTmail accepted) ANDI Charter Member 571 Coover Road Annapolis, MD 21401 telephone (410) 224-3116 -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Invites You to Their Booth at COMDEX: November 15-19 in Las Vegas Date: 2 Nov 1993 18:48:52 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b6rl4$cm4@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT COMPUTER, INC. AT COMDEX/FALL '93 It's COMDEX time again! As you begin to schedule appointments and plan your week at COMDEX/Fall '93 in Las Vegas, we'd like to invite you to the NeXT booth to see why corporate organizations are adopting NEXTSTEP as their solution for mission-critical custom application development and their desktop productivity. Last year over 150,000 people attended the computer products event. At NeXT's booth (Sands Expo & Convention Center in Booth S-344), you will see NEXTSTEP 3.2 for Intel processors -- the object-oriented, client/server user and development environment solution for greater productivity across the enterprise. NEXTSTEP is here, it's shipping, and it can also run your MS-DOS and Windows applications. You will also see NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) new technology that allows customers to take objects developed in NEXTSTEP and deploy them in a heterogeneous server environment, sharing them throughout an enterprise-wide network -- the industry's only client/server architecture based on a single and simple object model. Visit NeXT at COMDEX and see why BYTE magazine claims NEXTSTEP is "...probably the most respected piece of software on the planet." Below is all the information you'll need to find NeXT and NEXTSTEP at COMDEX. See you in Las Vegas! WHERE ...YOU WILL FIND NeXT COMPUTER, INC. Sands Expo & Convention Center Booth S-344 WHEN ...TO FIND NeXT AT ITS BOOTH - COMDEX/FALL '93 SCHEDULE Schedule: Monday, November 15 through Friday, November 19 Monday 9am - 6pm Tuesday 8:30am - 6pm Wednesday 8:30am - 6pm Thursday 8:30am - 6pm Friday 8:30am - 4pm WHAT ...YOU WILL FIND AT THE NeXT BOOTH - "Introduction to NEXTSTEP" presentations by NeXT engineers every half hour - Demonstrations of NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 for Intel Processors and NEXTSTEP Developer - NEXTSTEP third-party software solutions - NEXTSTEP running MS-DOS and Windows applications with Insignia Solution's SoftPC 3.1 for NEXTSTEP - Demonstrations of Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) WHAT ELSE ...YOU WILL FIND AT THE NeXT BOOTH Brand New Emulation Technology from Insignia Solutions. NeXT will feature the release of SoftPC 3.1 for NEXTSTEP from Insignia Solutions for running DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. SoftPC supports native CPU for optimum performance; no CPU emulation is required. Innovative NEXTSTEP Applications. To give COMDEX attendees a sense of the power and variety of NEXTSTEP software, NEXTSTEP developers will demonstrate these products: 1. ATHENA DESIGN Mesa, a traditional spreadsheet and an extraordinary API 2. BLUEROSE SYSTEMS RoseBase, a relational database server 3. GS Corp. eXTRAREAD and eXTRASCAN, OCR and scan software 4. LIGHTHOUSE DESIGN, LTD. Diagram!, Concurrence, and TaskMaster; drawing & charting, presentation and project management software 5. LOGIBEC/PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE Espresso!, a flexible 4GL programming language and development suite 6. PAGES SOFTWARE Pages, an intelligent yet flexible document processor 7. RDR @Image, a presentation package; and a variety of ObjectWare for building custom applications VISIT PC VENDORS THAT WILL BE SHOWING NEXTSTEP NeXT will also demonstrate NEXTSTEP in several of its PC partners' booths. We encourage you to visit our partners and let them know how important it is that they are a part of the growing NEXTSTEP community. VENDOR BOOTH NUMBER ______ ____________ Data General H-224 (Las Vegas Hilton Hotel) Digital Equipment Corp. L-6416, L-6616, L-6804 (Las Vegas Conv. Center) Dell Computer L-1214 (Las Vegas Convention Center) Epson L-2092 (Las Vegas Convention Center) Hewlett-Packard L-1460 (Las Vegas Convention Center) S3 -- A-537 (South Annex) ABOUT NeXT COMPUTER, INC. NeXT Computer, Inc. develops and markets the industry-acclaimed NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures such as the Intel 486 and Pentium. NEXTSTEP is used by corporate customers to develop and deploy client/server applications, using both custom applications and commercial productivity software. NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, Calif., 94063. For more information on NEXTSTEP, please call toll-free: 1-800-TRY-NEXT -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Van_Simmons@vnp.com (Ronald V. Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: IXAdaptor a DBKit Adaptor for Indexing Kit Files Date: 2 Nov 1993 18:53:03 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b6rsv$cmf@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: Linda Rosen or Ronald V. Simmons VNP Software, Inc. Phone: (802) 496-7799 Fax: (802) 496-7790 Email: IXAdaptor_Info@vnp.com VNP Software Brings Low Cost Relational Database to NEXTSTEP Cambridge, MA - November 1, 1993 - VNP Software today announced the immediate availability of IXAdaptor, a DBKit adaptor that stores data in IndexingKit files. Combined with Indexing Kit files and the DBModeler, IXAdaptor serves as a low cost single-user relational database for NEXTSTEP - giving users the power of NeXT's Database Kit without the high cost of other RDBMS solutions. IXAdaptor supports all of the features of the DBKit, including: a subset of standard ANSI-SQL with statements like SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE; transactions; inner and outer joins; binding custom objects to database attributes; and blob (object) storage. For fast joins and quick updates, IXAdaptor automatically builds an index for any attributes designated as a primary key or specified in a relationship. Data may be exported and imported using "flat" files, allowing easy conversion to and from oth er data sources. Schema building is managed graphically using the DBModeler application, combining several administrative tasks into one easy step. IXAdaptor also works flawlessly in InterfaceBuilder test mode, allowing rapid prototyping of database applications in a platform independent manner. Programmers can develop full-featured DBKit applications using IXAdaptor - then easily move to a more expensive, multi-user RDBMS as their needs change. In addition, IXAdaptor is bundled with all copies of VNP's AccessKit, offering developers complete object-oriented access to relational data using their own custom objects. IXAdaptor is priced at $245 per seat and is available immediately. A demo version of IXAdaptor is available via anonymous ftp at vnp.com in the /pub directory. A demo version may also be obtained via NeXTMail by sending mail to IXAdaptor_Demo@vnp.com. IXAdaptor and AccessKit are trademarks of VNP Software, Inc. VNP Software (Cambridge, MA) offers development tools and consulting expertise to the NEXTSTEP community. Other VNP Software products include the AccessKit, for class-based database access; the UIBinder Palette, for binding object information to the user interface; and DevMan, a software configuration management tool for NEXTSTEP. -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NetInfo Administration Tools for Auspex, HP, IBM, DEC, and SPARC Servers Now Available Date: 2 Nov 1993 18:52:57 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2b6rsp$cmd@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail:info@alembic.com Englewood Colorado, October 27, 1993 - ALEMBIC OFFERS XEDOC's NetInfo NETWORKING ADMINISTRATION TOOLS FOR AUSPEX, HP, IBM, DEC, AND SPARC SERVERS. Alembic Systems International announced today that it is shipping the Award-winning NetInfo System Administration tools for UNIX-based servers. NetInfo is highly regarded for its ability to easily manage complex networks via a powerful NEXTSTEP graphical user interface. NetInfo requires no modifications to current software configurations and will not disrupt current operations. It is extremely easy to install and maintain, and offers the ability to store information locally, departmentally or throughout the organization - wherever it's needed most. Administration of this information can be done from ANY workstation on the network or remotely. The value of NetInfo is clear. It works off of the graphical administration tools of NEXTSTEP to manage ALL the UNIX workstations on the network. It is currently available for SPARC, Auspex, HP/UX, RS/6000 and OSF/1*, and will allow file and compute servers to act as NetInfo servers for the entire network. In this way, NetInfo provides flexibility for storing and distributing general, as well as custom information to appropriate departments (i.e. internal phone lists, e-mail). If your system administration tools lack a graphical user interface or don't work seamlessly throughout your heterogeneous systems, you need NetInfo. Call Alembic to find out how. * Xedoc is committed to the promotion if NetInfo as a standard. Current developments with NeXT Inc., Auspex Systems Inc., Solbourne Computers and other major vendors, will provide versions of NetInfo for future UNIX implementations. (ASI)Alembic, is a registered trademark of Alembic Systems International Ltd., All trademarks herein are property of their respective owners. -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: David J. Ferrero <david@zion.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TeleComm terminal program Date: 5 Nov 1993 00:38:17 -0500 Organization: comp.sys.next.announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bcos9$ni8@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: David Ferrero Zion Software & Consulting. 56D Nanel Drive Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA 203 / 659-4257 email: info@zion.com Price: $89.00 + shipping Full-time students: $45.00 + shipping. ****** AVAILABLE NOW ****** _______________________________________________________ Zion Software & Consulting Ships MAB TeleComm 1.0b Affordable/Flexible Telecommunications has arrived for NEXTSTEP! Glastonbury, Conn., November 4, 1993 - Zion Software & Consulting announced the release of TeleComm: a telecommunications NeXTSTEP application for both Motorola and Intel based NEXTSTEP computers running version 3.1. "We have designed TeleComm with price and flexibility in mind." said David Ferrero, President at Zion. "The Terminal Emulation API and File Transfer API open up unlimited possibilities for serial communications and custom apps communicating over serial connections." "The user also benefits. With simple straight forward setup and dialing and a low price, anyone can connect to remote systems for BBS access, file transfer, and information browsing offered by many online service providers." PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS * Easy to use NeXTSTEP Graphical User Interface for serial/Modem communications and file transfer. * File Transfer using XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM. * VT100 terminal emulation. * IBMPC terminal emulation. * ANSI color support. * Terminal Emulation API (for custom data handling). * File Transfer API (for custom data handling). * Scrollback buffer. * Copy/Paste/Find support. * Font Panel support. * User Preferences. * Phone Directory with stored configurations. * Online Help. * More... AVAILABILITY: TeleComm is available on Internet archive servers (sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu) as a demo that runs for 10 minutes at a time. You may enable the TeleComm demo by obtaining a registration number from Zion Software & Consulting for $89 or $45 for full-time students with valid ID. TeleComm is also available directly from Zion Software & Consulting, or on Paget Press's AppWrapper CD-ROM due out for the Holiday edition. Zion Software & Consulting is based in Connecticut, and specializes in custom software development and consulting with NEXTSTEP. TeleComm is a trademark of Zion Software & Consulting. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: 35mm Slide Imaging Service for NEXTSTEP from LightPrinting Date: 7 Nov 1993 22:37:38 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bketv$873@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Daniel Wasserman Light Printing Co., Inc. Voice: (212)-226-5003 Fax: (212)-226-2777 NeXTmail: LightPrinting@gun.com or lpmazda!dan@uunet.uu.net Light Printing Co. Now Offers a 35mm Slide Imaging Service, Expanding its NeXT based High Resolution PostScript Service Bureau. New York - October 15, 1993 - Light Printing Co., Inc. today went on line with GS Corporation eXTRASLIDE/Polaroid Digital Palette system. This system allows for 35mm slide imaging from Concurrence, other NeXTstep third party applications, ps, eps and tiff files. Like the NeXT laser printer, this system has no PostScript interpreter. Unlike other slide imaging systems, files can be created in the Display PostScript environment. Files can be built with Alpha channel information. Additionally, JPEGed tiff files can be imaged, color can be added to areas surrounding an image, or images can be scaled to best fit a slide. NeXT mail has enabled Light Printing to offer its NeXT based PostScript service for offset quality film negatives to a nation-wide clientele. Light's package of free offset negative film in conjunction with printing, bindery and mailing services results in a one-stop printing plant only a modem call away. Consultation services are available for slide or printing preparation.
From: Max Tardiveau <max@descartes.infospan.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION : Informer 1.1 available Date: 8 Nov 1993 14:40:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bm7ak$bl1@digifix.digifix.com> Now available in : ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/NeXT/tools Informer_1.1.README Instructions Informer_1.1.bin.gnutar.gz Binary for Motorola Informer_1.1.source.gnutar.gz Source cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions Informer_1.1.README Instructions Informer_1.1.bin.gnutar.Z Binary for Motorola Informer_1.1.source.gnutar.Z Source This is the first release of Informer for NEXTSTEP 3.1. As such, it has not been thoroughly tested. This distribution is available in source form and in binary form for Motorola only (I don't have NEXTSTEP for Intel, and this program is system-dependant enough that a number of modules will probably break on Intel). To use Informer, you pretty much have to be logged in as root. Informer accesses a lot of data that is not readable by regular users. If you are not root, a number of modules will simply not work, in particular the processor set/task hierarchy. What is Informer ? Informer is a system browser. It is designed to explore your NeXT computer easily. It is a read-only tool : you can not change anything using Informer. This means it should not break anything (there is at least one minor exception, though, read on). Basically, I wanted to write a tool that would allow me to see the guts of the machine. In the current version, it allows you to inspect the following aspects of your machine : 7 System info - general info - kernel info - virtual memory stats - virtual memory graphs - shutdown log - kernel I/O statistics (like in iostat) - boot services 7 Users - login info - login stats 7 Groups - general info 7 Network stats - IP - TCP - ICMP - UDP - routing - memory 7 Network interfaces - general info - addresses 7 Processor sets - general info - activity graphs 7 Processors : type and state 7 Tasks - general info - memory graphs 7 Threads - general info - activity graphs 7 VM regions - general info - contents in hex or ASCII 7 Disks : - mount information - label - geometry. 7 Window server - general info - error messages - font cache - usage graphs 7 Screens : general info 7 Windows : general info 7 Postscript contexts - general info - windows 7 Postscript dictionaries : contents 7 Processes - usage - children usage - signal handling - resource limits 7 Kernel loader servers - general info - ports Each of these is done by a different module. I can't give a complete description of each module, but I find the following modules particularly useful and/or fun : - the PostScript dictionary browser allows you to navigate in the hierarchy of PostScript dictionaries and examin the values of all variables. - the shutdown log shows you how long your machine has been on and off. - the VM region browser allows you to see the contents of the memory of any task. - the network stats show you all stats for all TCP/IP protocols, and they are easier to read than the output from netstat(1). There are 45 modules. Just explore them. I believe one of the best features of Informer is how easy it is to use. Most modules have on-line help. Who can use Informer ? Anyone (who has root access) can use it, but not everyone will benefit the same way from it. It will be most useful to technically-oriented people, such as programmers and system administrators. Installation Informer is kind of big : 1.7 megabyte. Unfortunately, there is no way around it. The program can not be stripped because it uses dynamic linking rather extensively. Ditto for the modules. You can just copy Informer.app into any place you want, and you should be in business. Informer is freely distributable, but not public-domain : I retain a copyright so that no one can sell it. -- Max Tardiveau ------------------------------------------------------------------- Infospan Corp. (612) 939-0088 Fax (612) 939-0380 5700 Smetana Drive - Minneapolis, MN 55343-9686 This is a shared account. Reply to infospan@infospan.com and specify the intended recipient of the message (i.e. Attn : Jane Doe).
From: Brendan P. Madden <bmadden@tomsawyer.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Graph Layout Toolkit - Release 1.09 generally available Date: 8 Nov 1993 14:40:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bm7c4$bl7@digifix.digifix.com> Graph Layout Toolkit - Release 1.09 generally available ------------------------------------------------------- Tom Sawyer's Graph Layout Toolkit is a family of portable libraries that deliver an immediate face-lift to graphics applications with their sophisticated layout algorithms. The Graph Layout Toolkit libraries' logical representation of objects and connections allow end users to more easily see underlying relationships within complicated data. The libraries also work in real time, rarely requiring more than a few seconds to produce quality output even for large graphs with several hundred nodes. Three extensible C++ class libraries that include ANSI C APIs make up the Graph Layout Toolkit family: the Hierarchical, Circular and Symmetric Layout Libraries. All libraries share a common foundation. Features -------- > Sophisticated multiple-graph support: many graphs may be nested in the same plane. > Intergraph navigation support. > Extensive crossing minimization. > Flexible spacing between and around nodes. > Support for variably sized nodes. > Full support for multigraphs. > Divide-and-conquer: layout of disconnected subgraphs. > Subgraph position balancing. The Hierarchical Library is ideal for the layout of directed graphs. For example, it is excellent for drawing complicated function call graphs and for layout of nested outline PERT charts used in project management applications. Other applications for the Hierarchical Layout Library: > Single and multiple-inheritance class hierarchies. > Hypertext. > Workflow. The Hierarchical Library features: > Support for cyclic directed graphs. > Support for reflexive edges. > Control of graph orientation. The Circular Library is ideal for rendering complicated ring and star topologies. For example, this library may be used to layout complicated IP networks where devices on the same Class A, Class B or Class C network or devices on the same subnet are placed around the same circle. It is also excellent at relating geographic site based information within the framework of a logical layout product. It functions by partitioning nodes into logical groups based on a number of flexible node grouping models. Each group of nodes is placed on radiating circles based on the interconnection of these groups. Other applications for the Circular Layout Library: > Support can be easily added for other network protocols such as: SNA Subarea networking and Appletalk networking. The Circular Library features: > Support for undirected graphs. > Detection and radiated placement of nested subsites. > Clustering models based on administrative information. > Clustering models for IP networking. > Default clustering models. The Symmetric Library exposes the natural symmetry inherent in many graph structures. For instance, this library is superb at rendering arbitrary enterprise-wide computer networks or mesh networks. Other applications for the Symmetric Layout Library: > Semantic networks. > Dataflow diagrams. > Database schema. > APPN and ATM networking. The Symmetric Library features: > Support for directed and undirected graphs. > Near-congruent drawings of isomorphic graphs. > Uniform distribution of nodes. > Support for reflexive edges. > Relatively few edge crossings. Supported environments ---------------------- The Graph Layout Toolkit libraries run on most major operating systems and compilers. Support is also provided for the ANSI C compiler designed to work with these C++ compilers listed below. DOS: Borland C++ OS/2 2.x: Borland C++ and and IBM C Set++ Microsoft Windows: Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Symantec C++, MetaWare C++ Microsoft Windows NT: Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Symantec C++ Macintosh: Symantec C++, Apple MPW C++ and Think C Sun SPARCstation: SunOS 4.1.x: Sun C++ and GNU C++ Solaris 2.x: Sun C++ and GNU C++ HP 9000: HP C++ SGI Iris: SGI C++ IBM RS/6000: IBM C++ NeXT: NeXT C++ For More Information -------------------- Tom Sawyer Software 1824B Fourth Street Berkeley, CA 94710-1911 tel: 510.848.0853 fax: 510.848.0854 email: info@TomSawyer.com Tom Sawyer Software Corporation ------------------------------- Tom Sawyer Software specializes in developing automated layout solutions for application software. Tom Sawyer is also developing a complete line of network management applications under the Network Layout Assistant family name. The Network Layout Assistant for SunNet Manager 2.0 and 2.1 is available now for $1195.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 45 - 1993 Date: 8 Nov 1993 14:55:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2bm875$bpn@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 45). Monday November 1 through Monday November 8 NEXTSTEP Dealer Hits Inc. 500 SUBMISSION: GatorFTP Version 1.4 SUBMISSION: The Game of Life SUBMISSION: DEMO Tailor PS/EPS Editor available via FTP MEETING: November 10, 1993 WaNUG announcement NeXT Invites You to Their Booth at COMDEX: November 15-19 in Las Vegas PRESS RELEASE: NetInfo Administration Tools for Auspex, HP, IBM, DEC, and SPARC Servers Now Available PRESS RELEASE: IXAdaptor a DBKit Adaptor for Indexing Kit Files SUBMISSION: 4.0-beta Music Kit available PRESS RELEASE: NEXTSTEP Project Management Tool W-Plan Shipping by workstation ag NeXT Announces New Director of Professional Services PRESS RELEASE: TeleComm terminal program PRESS RELEASE: 35mm Slide Imaging Service for NEXTSTEP from LightPrinting SUBMISSION : Informer 1.1 available PRESS RELEASE: Graph Layout Toolkit - Release 1.09 generally available If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 8 Nov 1993 14:55:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2bm87m$bpt@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 8 Nov 1993 14:55:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2bm88d$bq3@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ADMIN: comp.sys.next.announce should be back to normal now Date: 8 Nov 1993 15:01:09 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2bm8i4$brf@digifix.digifix.com> Hi all Well the trip started later than it was supposed to, and ended later too, but I think the only casualty to the announce group has been the previous week's summary, and that should be out in just a couple of minutes. If by chance your announcement to comp.sys.next.announce didn't get posted, please let me know. It is possible that one or two of them got misplaced in the shuffle. This shouldn't happen again for quite a while! :-) Thanks Scott
From: David John Burrowes <davidjohn@kira.net.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: New release of Macintosh file conversion utilities Date: 9 Nov 1993 01:14:45 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bncgj$f73@digifix.digifix.com> New versions of: Convert PICT (version 1.2) Convert RTF (version 1.1) Convert TEXT (version 1.1) Convert FONT (version 1.1) Convert MacPaint (version 1.1) are now available. Additionally, all source code for these applications is now available as well. WHAT ARE THEY? These applications allow one to convert certain types of Macintosh files to formats that can be easily manipulated under NeXTSTEP. Briefly: - Convert PICT converts Macintosh PICT files to eps files. - Convert RTF converts Macintosh RTF files to NeXT rtf files, resolving things like font names, and `special' characters. (with Convert PICT, it will also translate embedded PICT images in the text) - Convert TEXT merely converts text files between the Mac and NeXT character sets, and fixes carriage return/line feed problems. - Convert FONT translates Mac bitmap fonts into Type 3 PS fonts. - Convert MacPaint translates MacPaint files into eps files COMPATIBILITY These will run on both `black' (Motorola) and Intel based hardware (they are fat binaries) They are usable with NeXTSTEP version 3.x (most testing has been done on 3.1) CHANGES SINCE 1.0 All applications have been made 'fat', have added NeXTSTEP help, and are now distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Additionally, some bugs and minor enhancements have been made to some of these. See the online help or README files. LOCATION INFORMATION All applications and source are available via anonymous ftp from: cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions Convert_FONT.README Convert_FONT.compressed Convert_MacPaint.README Convert_MacPaint.compressed Convert_PICT.README Convert_PICT.compressed Convert_RTF.README Convert_RTF.compressed Convert_SOURCE.README Convert_SOURCE.compressed Convert_TEXT.README Convert_TEXT.compressed NOTE: These are likely to move to /pub/next/macintosh! As usual, poor sonata seems tight on disk space or something, so I could not put them there. CONTACT INFO Author: David John Burrowes Internet email address: davidjohn@kira.net.netcom.com THANKS I'd like to thank several of the folks that did beta testing of these applications: Tim Cushing, Sean Elfstrom, Peter Kron, Alex Levine, Donald Voet, and particularly Dick Koch. I could not have released these versions without their assistance.
From: market@nextsrv1.andi.org (Marketing Director) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: URGENT: Chance to have your product/literature shown at COMDEX Date: 9 Nov 1993 22:54:26 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bpolg$jlv@digifix.digifix.com> There is a very high probability that ANDI will be at COMDEX. This means that if you are a software developer, you have a chance to have your product literature distributed. We will know for sure tomorrow, but we wanted to let you know right now. COMDEX is the largest computer tradeshow in the United States. In addition, if you have a working copy of your app we would be happy to showcase it. Let us know immediately if you are interested. We would be looking for approximately 500-1000 pieces of literature if you have it. We have made arrangements to have you send it directly to Las Vegas. ANDI will also send out an announcement of our booth number and the names of the organizations we will be representing to help generate leads for your product. This offer is limited to software developers. --- Bill Strehl Executive Director ANDI - Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International, Inc.
From: Alberto Ricart <alberto@parsec.SmartSoft.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: StayInTouch 1.25 demo submitted to cs.orst.edu Date: 9 Nov 1993 22:55:22 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bpon7$jm7@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing "StayInTouch for NEXTSTEP" - The electronic address book from SmarSoft. Milwaukee, WI. - SmartSoft, Inc., developer of Rocks!, DotFiles, NIST Synchronicity and DiskMaker for NEXTSTEP announced today the release of version 1.25 of StayInTouch (Previously known as InTouch) StayInTouch is a sophisticated electronic address book that provides you with powerful features for managing people and their mailing addresses, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and the correspondence you send them; the information you need to keep in touch. Some of InTouch Features Include: * Complete integration with Workspace addresses format. * Fax numbers available in the fax panel without need to export. * Flexible envelope printing and formatting (with tiff, eps and rib files). * Label printing. * Record grouping - All operations performed to a group, extended to * each of the members (mass email, mass printing, mass faxing, etc.). * Mail merge exporting to WriteNow and WordPerfect. * Flexible record exporting to a variety of character delimited formats. * Record linking across address books. * Imports SBook ascii format. * Phone dialing via a modem or computer speaker. * Fax memos. * Group fax memos. * Email (via Mail.app). * Group email. * Export group email addresses for use with Mail.app. * Correspondence management - You can drop file and folders into an InTouch card. When you look up a record not only do you get contact information, but also immediate access to files related to that person. * Email and address search services available from any application that supports text. * Complete drag and drop of records across applications. * Address book files can be inspected by the Workspace manager, even by users that don't yet use InTouch. * Emacs key bindings. A key feature of InTouch is its ability to work with groups. With InTouch you can group a series of cards together and perform tasks such as sending mass email or fax messages to printing envelopes or labels. All by dealing with one card. A demo copy of the application is fully licensable. The InTouch package supports NEXTSTEP Help to guide you through its many features. This interim release of StayInTouch 1.25 (previously known as InTouch) offers the following new enhancements: + Importing from anywhere. + Correct parsing of UK and Canadian addresses (may work with other European addresses as well) + Dialing intelligence - InTouch is able to figure out how to dial a number depending on where you are (this works for our international customers as well). + Auto save and backup options for Addresses files. + Display user images, if available in /LocalLibrary/People/Images or /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People. + We now preserve the location of the Group window. + We now archive fax memos in ~/InTouchFaxes (preference controlled) + Modem port locks + Service to print envelope - selected text is grabbed and printed according to prefs + Service to dial a phone from a selection. + Bug fixes + Flexible exporting. You can specify which fields are exported and the order they are exported in. + Many small enhancements + It has a reasonable 10 minute demo. If you need a longer demonstration license. Please contact us! A demonstration copy of the software can be ftp'ed from cs.orst.edu in the pub/next/submissions/InTouch_1.25.pkg.tar host> sum InTouch_1.25.pkg.tar 17050 1000 For more information, contact: SmartSoft,Inc Email: Info@SmartSoft.COM Call: (800)424-8864 or (414)964-8864 The software is available today for NeXT computers and NEXTSTEP INTEL. Introductory price is $99 per license ($50 student licenses). We offer large discounts on large volume purchases. Special upgrade pricing available for competitors product users. Reseller pricing is available. For more information on InTouch contact Info@SmartSoft.COM or call (800)424-8864 or (414)964-8864 or fax (414) 964-4672
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NeXT Resources available in the Southern & Southwestern United States Date: 9 Nov 1993 22:56:03 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bpooh$jmd@digifix.digifix.com> NEWS For Immediate Release: For more info contact: Wes Spears Michael Crawford The Weston Group nesteggs 8524 Highway 6, North 420 Westmoreland Houston, TX 77095 Houston, TX 77006 (713) 827-2650 (713) 522-9899 (voice & fax) (713) 856-7851 (fax) email: jspears@weston.com info@nesteggs.com NeXT Resources available in the Southern & Southwestern United States Houston, TX, November 8, 1993 - The Weston Group and nesteggs are both positioned to help developers, resellers, integrators, or other entities who perform NeXT related work to make their clients as successful as possible. "Many companies that do NeXT work, especially development, do not have the short term resources to handle some requests. We can help with the initial setup, handholding, and care & feeding of a client so that the developers' resources are free to build great custom apps," said Wes Spea rs. In addition, in many cases it is not profitable to send a person from the home office out for several days to fix small problems. In these cases, using nesteggs and The Weston Group can be very cost effective. "We are ourselves like objects; you pull us off the shelf, plug us in, send us messages, and we employ our methods on your behalf," said Michael Crawford. About the organizations: The Weston Group is a consulting firm based in Houston. Areas of particular specialty are integration, and email connectivity across many platforms. nesteggs has provided service to the NeXT community since 1989. Specialties include systems integration and administration, and work with NeXT systems in graphics, medicine & other creative disciplines.
From: next@jana.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NeXTStep Related Software on CD-ROM Date: 9 Nov 1993 22:57:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bpoqv$jmj@digifix.digifix.com> NeXTStep Related Software on CD-ROM, LOW COST We at JANA Publishing have a some NeXT related CD-ROM's for sale. These CD-ROM contain mostly 040 related software, but there are some X86 related software too. We have 2 CD's. 1) Expo Edition : This CD was done for the NeXTWorld Expo and contain about 500 Megs of software. Almost all the Public domain and Shareware software available for NeXT. About 80 - 90% of them are for 040. 2) New Edition : This CD contains all the new software that was available since the Expo, There are about 80 Megs of them. Most of them are in FAT Binary format. The total cost of both the CD's are only $19.95 ( Less then $10 a CD ) for 2 CD's plus S/H. If you live in USA the S/H is $2.95, If you live in Canada the S/H is C$2.95 and if you live outside of USA or Canada then the S/H is 4.95. If you would like to order these CD's then please E-Mail us (next@jana.com ) your shipping address and we will put the disk on mail for you. Once the disk arrives, you can pay for the disk if you like the CD's or if you don't like it send the CD's back. :-). If you would like to buy more then 10 sets (20 CD's ) of CD's then E-Mail jay@jana.com for resell pricing. We have only about 125 sets of disk in stock, so if you like to order one for you then do it fast, send your orders to next@jana.com (no NeXT Mails please ). If your mail bounce, then it means we are sold out. This is a must have collection for every NeXT owner so get them while you can. I do not have any plans for making these CD's again. Jay Note : If you already subscribe to CD-ROM NeWS then don't order these disks, you will get them as part of your subscription. Oh by the way I have mailed the latest CD about 3 days ago (This is the CD that contain 80 MB of NeXT software. ).
From: Joe@FreemanSoft.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: send_attach - send NeXTmail from command line Date: 9 Nov 1993 23:01:09 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bpp22$jo7@digifix.digifix.com> send_attach has been uploaded to cs.orst.edu. It currently resides in pub/next/submissions and will eventually migrate to some util directory. sum send_attach 14248 88 __________________ send_attach README This is a command line program, in FAT (MAB) format, that allows a user to send files via NeXT attachment email to another user. The command line format is: send_attach [-s subject] [-cc user] [-bcc user] recipient file [ more files ] The following options are required recipient user or list of users to whom the mail is sent. multiple users should be quoted in a single string. file a file or multiple files that should be sent. any number of files can be list individually. The following options are optional -s subject a quoted text string that will be the email subject The next two options can be included multiple times. Or, multiple users may be listed in a quoted string. -cc user a user that will be copied on this email. -bcc user a user that will blind copied on this email. Joe Freeman FreemanSoft Inc. A NEXTSTEP software and consulting services company. Electronic Mail: Joe@FreemanSoft.com (NeXT Mail) Voice: 919.783.7033
From: Vince DeMarco <vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Babble.app - facial expression modeller Date: 9 Nov 1993 23:02:03 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bpp3o$jog@digifix.digifix.com> I thought i might post something here to let everyone know about a Neat (I think its neat) demo program I posted to cs.orst.edu. The program is called Babble.app, and is a parameter driven model of the human face. There are several sliders that can be adjusted to control the expression and conformation of the face. As it sits now it really is a program to show off the 3DKit, but if got some interest in it (commercial) id be willing to do some more work with it. The program is on cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/Babble.tar.gz and /pub/next/submissions/Babble.README For further info i can be reached at: vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca Thanks vince
From: Eric Bloom <bacchus!eric@uu9.psi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Pixel Magician 1.4b and Image Agent 1.2b MAB demos. Date: 10 Nov 1993 00:49:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bpvde$l21@digifix.digifix.com> Latest MAB demo versions of Pixel Magician 1.4b and Image Agent 1.2b now available. Location: cs.orst.edu:pub/next/demos/graphics Files: PixelMagician1.4b.MAB.compressed ImageAgent1.2b.MAB.compressed *** Pixel Magician: Pixel Magician converts to and from all the popular image file formats: TIFF, GIF, PICT, PCX, Photo CD, DCX, RIB, JPEG, TARGA, PS, EPS, Windows BMP, Sun Raster, FAX, IFF/ILBM, MacPaint, XBM, XWD and MTV. Use the automated capabilities of the convert window to view, scale, rotate, quantize and convert an entire directory of image files with a single mouse click. Features: Mass image conversion, Image viewing, PostScript to Raster, Color Quantization, Error Diffusion Dithering, paletted formats, Precise scaling and rotating, variable aspect ratios and image resolutions, alpha channel support, image aliases, thumbnail views and flexible output options. *** Image Agent: With Image Agent users can simply drag and drop non-native image files directly into NEXTSTEP applications, such as Diagram! 2, TIFFany, WetPaint, Create, Pages, and have the images instantly appear. Image Agent transparently performs the image conversion as if it were part of the actual application in use. Supported image formats include: TIFF, GIF, PS, EPS, TARGA, PICT, MacPaint, PCX, DCX, Windows BMP, MTV, IFF/ILBM, Sun Raster, JPEG (JFIF), XWD, XBM and others. Image Agent is included free with our Pixel Magician application. *** To current Pixel Magician/Image Agent users: If you are currently using Pixel Magician/Image Agent, and would like to obtain information on the latest versions, please feel free to contact us and we will send you the latest revision history files. These files detail all the changes, additions and bug fixes since the first production releases. Please direct all inquires or questions to: Bacchus, Inc. 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 330 Santa Monica, CA 90403-5784 info@bacchus.com ( NeXTMail ) 310 820-9145 (voice) 310 820-5930 (fax)
From: ksteele@NeXT.COM (Karen Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Conrad Geiger's Departure Date: 10 Nov 1993 23:02:33 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bsdgn$plf@digifix.digifix.com> A number of you in the NeXT community have expressed serious concern about Conrad Geiger's impending departure from NeXT. Much of this communication has come via the Internet. Unfortunately, we are not able to respond to each of you individually. Instead, we'd like to give you some information so you understand what we are doing to ensure that you continue to receive news and information from NeXT in the future. Several of you have asked why NeXT is cutting off the distribution of timely news and information and whether or not we see this as an important function. We assure you that NeXT values this function. The role of disseminating information to the NeXT community and acting as a conduit for feedback into NeXT is vital and we are in no way abandoning this function. The difference: we are committing to the delivery of NeXT information from the source -- NeXT headquarters in Redwood City. We feel it is essential to integrate this function with our sales and marketing teams to ensure more leveraged and effective communications. Although we would have liked for Conrad to relocate to Redwood City, he has decided to remain in Seattle. We are in the process of hiring a full-time communications specialist who will continue to provide timely news and valuable information on an on-going basis. Conrad is working closely with us to fill this important position and transition his responsibilities and knowledge. Conrad Geiger has been an invaluable source of information about and for NeXT to our domestic and international NeXT user groups, NeXT partners and significant customers. He has done an outstanding job disseminating information and acting as an advocate for NeXT's interests around the world. We are indebted to him for his contributions. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Thanks for your patience and support. Karen Steele Director, Marketing Communications
From: Alberto Ricart <alberto@parsec.SmartSoft.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: NIST Synchronicity 2.3 demo on cs.orst.edu Date: 11 Nov 1993 23:22:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bv31d$1rq@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing "NIST Synchronicity 2.3 for NEXTSTEP" - The Time Maintenance Software for NEXTSTEP from SmarSoft. Milwaukee, WI. - SmartSoft, Inc; developer of Rocks!(tm), DotFiles(tm), StayInTouch(tm) and DiskMaker(tm) for NEXTSTEP(tm) announced today the release of NIST Synchronicity 2.3. NIST Synchronicity(tm) is a Preferences module for synchronizing your computer's internal clock with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) cesium clocks via a modem. The service is free, save the long distance charges you may incur during the call. Synchronicity can be invoked thru the Preferences application, a cron script or the command line. Synchronicity Features Works with all Hayes compatible modems Synchronization of the computer's clock can be immediate, or the clock can be slowly corrected without ever 'skipping' time. Time correction adjustment may be useful in cases where changing the computer's time may cause important automated tasks to be skipped. Synchronicity also provides a front-end to ntp. Allowing you to synchronize your computers clock to a host running ntp time server. Standalone Synchronicity licenses are $30. Network Licenses are $65 A demonstration version of the software is available for ftp at cs.orst.edu from the pub/next/submissions directory. For more information, call 800.424.8864 or 414.964.8864 or write SmartSoft, Inc. 2220 East Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211 USA by email: Info@SmartSoft.COM c1993 SmartSoft, Inc. All Rights reserved. SmartSoft, Rocks!, DotFiles, StayInTouch, DiskMaker and NIST Synchronicity are a trademark of SmartSoft, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT, Inc.
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Dallas Area NeXT Group October Meeting Date: 11 Nov 1993 23:22:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2bv31r$1s0@digifix.digifix.com> -= Meeting Announcement =- D a l l a s A r e a N e X T G r o u p THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18th, 1993 7:00pm to 9:00pm The November meeting of the Dallas Area NeXT Group features a special operating system presentation. This month, DaNG presents: o NEXTSTEP For Intel Processors Release 3.2 o SoftPC for NEXTSTEP This will be a fun evening! Don't miss it - Admission is FREE to everyone! If this is your first DaNG meeting, or the first you will have attended in a while, this meeting will be a great way to acquaint yourself with the "most respected piece of software on the planet - NeXTSTEP" and a sample of the future in operating-system software. Dallas Area NeXT Group MEETING LOCATION Offices of Temerlin McClain 201 East Carpenter Freeway (114) LAS COLINAS >From Downtown Dallas: Take I-35 west to 183, then to 114 westbound (at Texas Stadium split). Exit Wingren Rd. and follow map to Temerlin McClain garage. >From North Dallas: Take I-635 (LBJ frwy) west. Exit Valley View Lane (turn left under 635 overpass) and make first left onto O'Connor. Cross Northwest Highway (Spur 348) and continue into Las Colinas. Pass Williams Square (with horse fountain). Make left on Las Colinas Blvd, then first right on Mandalay. Right again on 114 West feeder road and follow map to Temerlin McClain garage. >From Fort Worth: Drive to D/FW Airport, North Entrance. Take 114 eastbound to O'Connor exit. Cross O'Connor on eastbound service road and turn left at Wingren Rd., then left again at the 114 westbound service road. Follow map to Temerlin McClain garage. FOR MORE INFORMATION Chris Bradley (214) 830-2273 (M-F, 9-5 CDT) -- Chris Bradley | cbradley@bozell.com Techno-Slave, with Many Masters | +1 214 830 2273 vox Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc. | +1 214 830 2687 fax Advertising and Public Relations | "Born ready"
From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Ships Questor 2.0 Spreadsheet Application Date: 12 Nov 1993 11:53:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c0f25$56l@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Jesper Lundh Sales Xanthus International Alembic Systems Ltd. phone: +46-8-635 30 62 phone: 1-800-452-7608 fax: +46-8-98 70 67 fax: 303-799-1435 email: questor@xanthus.se email: info@alembic.com Xanthus International AB Ships Questor 2.0 Spreadsheet Application ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, November 12, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced that they ship version 2.0 of Questor, its spreadsheet application for the NEXTSTEP computing environment. Questor 2.0 is distributed in North America by Alembic Systems International Ltd. Retail price is $595. Please contact Xanthus or Alembic for academic and volume discounts. During November 1993, there is a $199 introductory price on Questor 2.0 (1-user licenses only). Registered users of Questor 1.0 will automatically get a free upgrade to version 2.0. Questor 2.0 is delivered as 'fat' (MAB) binaries for Motorola and Intel processors. _________________________________________ Questor 2.0 is the most powerful and user-friendly spreadsheet application for NEXTSTEP. It combines the intuitive metaphor of "matrix-based" spreadsheet programs with a number of unique features and a true NEXTSTEP user interface. The backbone of Questor 2.0 is a conventional matrix-based spreadsheet that can easily be used by anybody who has once used spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 or Wingz. To this backbone is added a number of unique features, including easy-to-use SQL database access, a powerful scripting language, multi-level undo and a versatile API. Questor 2.0 is designed to be extremely easy to integrate with SQL databases and custom-made applications on NEXTSTEP. Questor 2.0 is the second release of the application. Questor 1.0 was released in May 1993. --- Significant news in Questor 2.0: - Significantly improved performance regarding worksheet recalculation and file access. - Microsoft Excel file importing. - Improved database access, including easy-to-use DBModel queries, powerful SQL queries and automatic datatype conversion. Questor uses the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP for transparent database communication. Custom-made database queries can easily be created and shared among several users on the network. - Cell styles for easier worksheet layout. - Cell range dragging for faster worksheet design. --- Standard Questor features: - A state-of-the-art user interface for easy access to all features, including a ToolBox with object palettes and a number of other tools that removes the need of modal panels for filling, searching and sorting data. - Multi-level undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - A powerful structured scripting language - QScript with an "intelligent" editor, including automatic pretty-printing and programming support. QScript allows you to customize your worksheet to perform very specific tasks. - Input controllers like buttons, text-fields and sliders can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet, and connected to QScript code or directly to cells by control-dragging. - Output objects like graphs and gauges can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet, and be connected to cell areas by control-dragging for continuous updating. - Many graph types are supported, including bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. The components of a graph can be edited separately. - Hot-links to Graphity (like Lotus Improv and Presentation Builder). Graphity is a business graphics application from Xanthus that supports 3D graphs based on Renderman. - Seamless connections to relational databases like Oracle and Sybase using the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP. - Timers that can trigger complex calculations, database queries or any other event at regular intervals. - A powerful double-directed API that allows Questor to easily control and send data to other applications. The API also makes it easy for other applications to control Questor and to feed data into worksheets. - External functions can be written in C or in QScript and be loaded into Questor for easy extensibility. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized graphs, graphics and control objects. - Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on the worksheet. - Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet to create stunning documents including graphics and sound effects. - Reads the BIFF2-4, WKS, WK1 and SYLK file-formats, which enables you to import worksheets from Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Writes the WK1 file-format, which enables you to export worksheets to Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Full support for Lotus 1-2-3 bracket-macros. - Powerful report layout functions that allows total control over the layout of your documents, including direct manipulation and drawing tools. - Full support for object linking. Graphs, cell areas and graphics can be copied and linked into other documents for continuous updating.
From: Eric Bloom <bacchus!eric@uu9.psi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: CORRECTION: Pixel Magician 1.4b and Image Agent 1.2b MAB demo locations. Date: 12 Nov 1993 23:22:45 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c1nej$77m@digifix.digifix.com> Our demo submissions were accidentally moved to another location. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The demo submissions are now back in the location specified below. Latest MAB demo versions of Pixel Magician 1.4b and Image Agent 1.2b now available. Location: cs.orst.edu:pub/next/demos/graphics Files: PixelMagician1.4b.MAB.compressed ImageAgent1.2b.MAB.compressed *** Pixel Magician: Pixel Magician converts to and from all the popular image file formats: TIFF, GIF, PICT, PCX, Photo CD, DCX, RIB, JPEG, TARGA, PS, EPS, Windows BMP, Sun Raster, FAX, IFF/ILBM, MacPaint, XBM, XWD and MTV. Use the automated capabilities of the convert window to view, scale, rotate, quantize and convert an entire directory of image files with a single mouse click. Features: Mass image conversion, Image viewing, PostScript to Raster, Color Quantization, Error Diffusion Dithering, paletted formats, Precise scaling and rotating, variable aspect ratios and image resolutions, alpha channel support, image aliases, thumbnail views and flexible output options. *** Image Agent: With Image Agent users can simply drag and drop non-native image files directly into NEXTSTEP applications, such as Diagram! 2, TIFFany, WetPaint, Create, Pages, and have the images instantly appear. Image Agent transparently performs the image conversion as if it were part of the actual application in use. Supported image formats include: TIFF, GIF, PS, EPS, TARGA, PICT, MacPaint, PCX, DCX, Windows BMP, MTV, IFF/ILBM, Sun Raster, JPEG (JFIF), XWD, XBM and others. Image Agent is included free with our Pixel Magician application. *** To current Pixel Magician/Image Agent users: If you are currently using Pixel Magician/Image Agent, and would like to obtain information on the latest versions, please feel free to contact us and we will send you the latest revision history files. These files detail all the changes, additions and bug fixes since the first production releases. Please direct all inquires or questions to: Bacchus, Inc. 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 330 Santa Monica, CA 90403-5784 info@bacchus.com ( NeXTMail ) 310 820-9145 (voice) 310 820-5930 (fax)
From: Todd Steigerwald <todd@alembic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: New "Best of Breed" applications distributed by ASI*Ltd. Date: 12 Nov 1993 23:23:39 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c1nga$787@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sales Division Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail:info@alembic.com (NeXT Mail accepted) Englewood Colorado, November 12, 1993 - Alembic Systems International Ltd. (ASI*Ltd.) today announced their distribution agreement with Millennium Software Labs, Inc. a key NEXTSTEP developer of "NoteBook", the overall winner of NeXTWORLD magazine's 1993 "Best of Breed" software awards at NeXTWORLD Expo and Engage! Desktop, runner-up for Best of Breed utility application. As the largest NEXTSTEP software distributor in the United States, ASI*Ltd is expanding its service to include a full staff tele-sales division, and highly knowledgeable customer support of the NEXTSTEP OS. ASI*Ltd is committed to address the U.S. and European one-stop-shopping needs of the NEXTSTEP community. Please contact ASI*Ltd for a full listing of products and ASI*Ltd resellers in your area. ____________________________ NOTEBOOK FROM MILLENNIUM SOFTWARE LABS Winner of Best of Breed Award for Most Innovative Product and Best Information Management product! NoteBook, information processing for NEXTSTEPi computers, is for anyone and everyone seeking a convenient way to manage the everyday flow of information and ideas. It's a revolutionary application whose power comes from two breakthroughs. First, NoteBook uniquely combines an outline processor for creating lists of information with a visual "notebook" metaphor for managing these lists. Together, they make storing and organizing information simple and elegant. Second, NoteBook employs Dynamic Index Views tec hnology (Patent Pending 1992), allowing you to instantly view "cross-sections" of your information. It's like having the power of a sophisticated database query system without the complexity. NoteBook's simplicity and flexibility make it applicable to a wide range of information processing tasks. Users can create intelligent notepads for jotting notes and ideas; clip and store important electronic mail messages for fast retrieval; or even organize fax documents, news clippings, project tasks, agenda outlines, to-do lists, meeting notes and diagrams. Whenever users start a new project or plan, chances are they'll use NoteBook to help manage their information flow. NoteBook is truly a productivit y application for individuals. Personal * Clip and store important electronic mail messages for fast retrieval * Create an intelligent notepads for jotting notes and ideas * Organize fax documents, news clippings, diagrams, project tasks and agenda outlines * Maintain personal to-do lists for daily planning * Manage research projects and notes Interpersonal * Create electronic libraries of images, charts and graphs * Construct and publish briefing books for presentations * Create telephone directories and company policy handbooks Whether you're an individual or an enterprise-wide team, NoteBook will dramatically improve the way you use and access information. Both NoteBook and Engage! Desktop are shipped on single program disks as fat binary format versions; enabling users to install run Millennium's software on both Motorola and Intel running NEXTSTEP. Notebook, Engage Desktop! and Dynamic Index Views are trademarks of Millennium Software Labs, Inc. ASI*Ltd. is a registered trademark of Alembic Systems International Ltd.
From: market@nextsrv1.andi.org (Marketing Director) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NeXTSTEP Products to be shown at COMDEX Date: 13 Nov 1993 22:59:16 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c4aei$bh3@digifix.digifix.com> ANDI - the Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International is pleased to announce that we will be showcasing NeXTSTEP applications for Intel processors at the COMDEX show in Las Vegas next week for the following companies: Ensuing Technologies Stone Design BlackSmith Thoughtful Software NorthStar Technologies Visual Understanding Systems Stediwatt Objective Technologies ISE Eiffel 3 The products shown provide outstanding solutions for the business community. You will have a chance to see why NeXTSTEP is the right step for you. ANDI will be at the Sands Convention Center, booth S647 with JC Information Systems. The Association promises to have more NeXTSTEP applications up and running than any other booth in the show. booth, S647. --- Bill Strehl Executive Director ANDI - Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International, Inc. 9921 Woodburn Road Silver Spring, MD 20901-2730 phone:301-681-0613
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: USER GROUP NOTES: 3.2, big screens and fast machines... Date: 13 Nov 1993 22:59:52 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c4afn$bh9@digifix.digifix.com> Highlights of the UK NEXTSTEP-User group meeting, 12 November 1993. 3.2, big screens and fast machines... UK-manufacturer Elonex did us proud by turning up with a Pentium system with a BIG screen, and a 486-based system running NEXTSTEP 3.2. A 486 system from Fremont-based manufacturers eCesys was also on display, and Paul Armitage gave us a demonstration of the system he has developed for a client. 3.2 --- Despite cynicism from a small but vocal part of the user-community, NEXTSTEP 3.2 *is* here, and it works! Apart from a number of bug-fixes (especially to SNS...), the main highlights are increased driver support, DriverKit, graphical start-up and shut-down, and FileMerge.app. The increased range of drivers will doubtless be welcomed by the community: what should attract greater attention is DriverKit, which will allow third parties to develop far more drivers than NeXT would have been able to themselves. I suspect many will be pleasantly surprised when they look in the contents of /NextDeveloper/Examples/DriverKit... (I hope this is OK Manny?!), and I look forward to hearing of a number of student projects of the form "Write a NEXTSTEP driver for the xxxx card"... :-) On the subject of drivers, it is rumoured that PCI support is coded in, and there are uncorroborated reports that it works. Any further news would be welcome! Those who yearn for the old days when you never had to know that NEXTSTEP ran on UNIX (hmm! ;-) and you never saw a trace of the nasty stuff that happens on startup will be pleased to know that the graphical startup is now available for PCs! In case you think it's not working when you install 3.2, however, note that *any* intervention will cause the startup to drop into verbose mode. This includes typing <Control>c to start without a network connection... ah well! :-) The final main item of interest is FileMerge.app. Although only officially a demo at the moment, this looks like a delightful application which seems, after only a quick play, to do everything you wish diff would do graphically. ... and, just to answer Nick Kline (and others!)'s question, "Why don't they get the computability guide out?" -- apparently this is because there are now so many systems/configurations etc. supported it's a *big* job: it is further compounded by the fact that the manufacturers themselves keep changing their own systems... NeXT are testing, but it's taking longer than they thought. Elonex's systems and mi'ro's cards... ------------------------------------- Peter Ware from Elonex brought along two systems: a desktop 486-based (DX2-66) system running 3.2, and a 66 (yes sixty-six) MHz Pentium system (running 3.1 for reasons I'll explain in a moment). The desktop system seemed solid and entirely competent, and is aggressively priced for a quality product with good after-sales support and warranty. Elonex also appear to have a good appreciation of what the VA part of VAR means, realising that the NEXTSTEP market is very different to the DOS/Windows arena. Elonex can be contacted at: Elonex PLC 2 Apsley Way LONDON NW2 7LF Vox: 081 452 2444 Fax: 081 452 7444 they appear to be a company well worth watching. On the subject of watching, the real eye-catcher was the Pentium tower c/w 20" (or was it 21"?) screen. The machine was certainly *very* fast, but what was instantly arresting was the number of icons in the dock. At first I thought it must have been using MetroTools, but I was wrong: the system was using a card from mi'ro giving 1408x1024 resolution. Yup, 1408x1024. Those of you who attended the User-Group session at the Expo may remember Bob Lawton's response to a question as to when a 2Kx2K screen might be available. He replied that he had heard of such things, but they tended to be expensive... say around $70,000, which presented you with an interesting choice: "House, or NEXTSTEP." Well, if you can settle for 1408x1024, mi'ro have a three options which you could probably exchange for a fully-equipped garden shed. The *lowest* spec card has the following characteristics: resolution max colours refresh rates 1408x1024 65 536 70Hz 1280x1024 65 536 75Hz 1152x864 65 536 90Hz 1024x768 1.67 million 75/100Hz The release 3.2 driver is being shown first at Comdex, which is why Elonex's system was running 3.1. Many thanks to Ray Thomas for attending and telling us more about the cards and about mi'ro. mi'ro can be contacted: miro computer Sheriton House Castle Park Cambridge CB3 0AX Vox: 0223 301102 Fax: 0223 66944 3160 De La Cruz Blvd. Suite 200 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Vox: (408) 727 1558 Fax: (408) 988 2515 Carl-Miele-Str. 4 D-38112 Braunschweig Vox: (0531) 2113-100 Fax: (0531) 2113-99 eCesys ------ If Elonex's Pentium was noticeable for the huge screen, the eCesys minitower system was remarkable for its sleek, professional, and in particular black presentation. eCesys only make machines to run NEXTSTEP, and they do it very well indeed. I must in fairness admit a personal interest here, but IMHO the eCesys is the closest I've yet seen to a replacement for NeXT's own hardware. The bonus is that it's a lot faster! It uses the Wingine graphics chip and is finely tuned throughout its design for optimum performance. I gather that a sound system as tightly integrated as the graphics is due in the not-too-distant-future. Contact: Marty Fossum Vox: 800 732 3797 ECESYS@delphi.com Jackie Mackay The Business 24 Torbay Road London NW6 7DY Vox: 071 329 2501 Fax: 071 328 7555 Email - Jackie Mackay <mackay@cognito.demon.co.uk> Trimac ------ Last, but certainly not least [although I'm afraid I am getting a bit tired of typing -- the judge who said RSI doesn't exist wants taking out and shooting, several times :-( ] the main demonstration was given by Paul Armitage who showed an application which Trimac had developed for a client. In many respects the app is a straightforward database and order-processing system, although it's very neatly put together with a number of cunning features :-) . What made it especially significant is that it showed more clearly clearly than any hardware the NEXTSTEP advantage: that it was developed for a client in a very short time and tailored for their specific requirements. We all hear from the marketing department that NEXTSTEP facilitates custom development. What it is important to show is that *it works in real life*, and that people are using it, to advantage. [As an aside, this also explains why Trimac is the longest-serving NeXT VAR in the UK: they "know their stuff" to the extent that they can even offer custom development for customers.] Many thanks again to Paul and to Steve for hosting the event: Trimac Technology Limited Sheffield Science Park Arundel Street Sheffield S1 2NS. Vox: 0742 724127 Fax: 0742 720379 Email - Paul Armitage <parmit@uk.co.demon.trimac> I'm of for a rest now... Have fun, mmalcolm.
From: daj@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (David Jaffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SynthBuilder Date: 13 Nov 1993 23:00:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c4ah7$bhp@digifix.digifix.com> *** Announcing SynthBuilder *** SynthBuilder is a new graphic application for designing DSP sound-synthesis and sound-processing algorithms on NeXT Computers and hearing the results instantaneously. It was written by Nick Porcaro, based on the original "GraSP" application of Eric Jordan. Release 0.9 is now available FREE from ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu as "pub/SynthBuilder.tar.Z". * SynthBuilder allows you to graphically construct synthesis and processing instruments, connect them to MIDI input or virtual keyboards or graphic sliders, then hear the result immediately without writing a single line of code. * It includes facilities for mapping incoming MIDI messages, slider values and virtual keyboard notes to unit generator messages. Thus, it is more than a simple patch builder--it also lets you create event-processing networks of "NoteFilters". * It includes extensive help text and is well-integrated with the Music Kit documentation using NeXTstep's Help facility. It comes with a set of examples and a tutorial. * Because SynthBuilder is a Music Kit application, it can do real-time synthesis with no compile-link cycle. However, it can also automatically generate Music Kit Objective-C code that represents the instrument (called a "SynthPatch"). This code can then be compiled and used in any Music Kit program. * For those familiar with GraSP, SynthBuilder differs as follows: + Completely overhauled + Supports MIDI control + Code generation much more robust + Greatly improved user interface + Graphic editor for envelopes, lookup tables, etc. + Comes with a tutorial + More examples + Support for real-time sound I/O via the DSP serial port For questions, comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc. write to Nick Porcaro: nick@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: Yan Fang <Yan.Fang@m.cc.utah.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Lexar Demonstrates NEXTSTEP PC at Comdex Date: 14 Nov 1993 23:41:39 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c71a1$gqh@digifix.digifix.com> Lexar Open Systems 6A South Gold Drive Robbinsville, NJ 08691 609-890-9000 609-890-3179 FAX Contact: Paige Douglass 609-890-9000, ext. 12 For Immediate Release LEXAR OPEN SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATES NEXTSTEP PC at COMDEX/Fall '93, FEATURING VTLS's InfoStation and ALPINE NXstation BY LEXAR Drop by Lexar Open System's booth at COMDEX/Fall '93 (#H1234 at the Las Vegas Hilton) to see a demonstration of Lexar's NEXTSTEP-compatible computer. Lexar is pleased to announce support for NeXT Computer, Inc.'s NEXTSTEP operating environment. Lexar Open Systems, based in the Princeton, NJ area, manufactures a unique upgradeable-bus Intel-based computer, in which VESA, Opti, and PCI Local Bus architectures are interchangeable. "I'd like to see the Lexar become the choice system for running NEXTSTEP for Intel," said Glenn Paul, founder and President of Lexar Open Systems. "Our upgradeable-bus computers are targeted to both the end-user who needs a flexible standalone system, running shrink-wrapped applications, as well as the developer who needs a cost-effective approach to deploy a custom application. Lexar's performance, as client systems, in Princeton University Libraries' ambitious project to convert its card catalog into the world's largest image database shows that Lexar's NEXTSTEP-compatible PC can satisfy the most demanding needs of a client/server mission critical application." Lexar's NEXTSTEP-compatible system, at COMDEX, will feature VTLS' InfoStation, a multimedia on-line public access system front end with hypermedia links and annotations. VTLS Inc., of Blacksburg, Virginia, was the first library systems company to install a multimedia online catalog. VTLS is a Lexar reseller to the library systems community. "We are very proud to be working with VTLS to serve the NEXTSTEP market," said Paige Douglass, Lexar's Director of Marketing. "The systems we put together for VTLS were our first effort to configure a complete NEXTSTEP computer, with support for sound, networking, and SCSI devices. NEXTSTEP is a high-end operating environment, which is exactly where we target the Lexar computers. NEXTSTEP users are savvy and sophisticated--just the kind of users we like to work with." Through a joint marketing effort, the Lexar computer, with NEXTSTEP pre-installed, is available from Alpine Computing, a retailer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Alpine Computing has a long-standing history of support for the NEXTSTEP community. "Last month, we were proud to announce the Alpine NXstation by Lexar," said Kris Magnusson, Alpine Computing's NEXTSTEP and UNIX Specialist. "With a VESA bus upgradeable to PCI and Opti through the easy switch of a simple riser card, and a ZIF socket for Pentium upgrades, Alpine's NXstation by Lexar offers expandability well into the future. Our NXstation configurations feature all NEXTSTEP-compatible peripherals, including an implementation of the S3-928 chipset, for superior video performance." At Comdex, Lexar plans to show some of the features that were new in NEXTSTEP 3.1, including NeXT's support for Kodak's PhotoCD standard. "We're excited to showcase NEXTSTEP's elegant interface in our booth and to help introduce NeXT products to the PC community," said Paige Douglass. "And, we also hope the earlier generation of NEXTSTEP developers and end-users will drop by to talk to us about their special needs and to help us learn more about this great operating environment." According to Glenn Paul, COMDEX/Fall '93 will be Lexar's formal introduction to a long term relationship with the NEXTSTEP community. Mr. Paul expressed high hopes for Lexar's participation in this market: "Through Clancy Paul, the computer retailer I co-founded in 1980, we used to sell the most Apple computers in New Jersey. With Lexar, I'm happy to renew my business alliance with Steve Jobs, in his latest venture. NEXTSTEP is a generation ahead of the field of 32 bit operating systems. By building the finest NEXTSTEP-compatible PC, and by providing the best support for our hardware, I hope to sell the most NEXTSTEP computers in the country." ABOUT LEXAR OPEN SYSTEMS Lexar Open Systems is the reseller OEM for Anybus technology, the patented technology that allows you to change the bus in an Intel 80486 and Pentium computer. Lexar is more than a licenser of technology, though: the company was founded by people with a background in reseller sales, and has unique ideas about how computers should be delivered through resellers. Lexar was founded by Glenn Paul, a successful entrepreneur who sold his computer reselling chain to ValCom in 1988 and later became its Vice President for Product Strategy. The company is adequately financed for the foreseeable future and has no debt. Mr. Paul has served as President of ABCD: The Microcomuter Industry Association; he is a 1979 graduate of Princeton University. ABOUT ALPINE COMPUTING MICROAGE Alpine Computing MicroAge is a NeXT VAD based in Logan, Utah, that specializes in NEXTSTEP products for corporate clients, developers, and end users. Alpine Computing MicroAge is currently expanding its national NEXTSTEP sales operations with added staff and a full-time connection to the Internet. To place orders for Alpine NXstation by Lexar please call toll-free: (800) 748-4558. For technical questions or to receive information about Alpine Computing MicroAge please call toll-free: (800) 748-4355 Alpine Computing MicroAge may be reached at 6066 South State Street, SLC, UT 84107. FAX: 801-268-9096. ABOUT VTLS INC.'s InfoStation, VERSION 3.2 Major Features: Graphical user interface with windows, menu, and voice alerts; Networking via TCP/IP, multiple and distributed multimedia database connectivity/access via NFS, Novell NetWare, and FTP; Authoring and retrieval of full-text, TIFF, and Postscript images, CD-quality digitized sound, Kodak PCD and full-motion video support; Hypermedia links among documents of full text and images; Annotations using text and graphics note pads on documents of full text and images; Animation using sound/image synchronization; Recital of full text/text-to-speech conversion; Integration with VTLS library automation systems; Integration with word processors, electronic dictionaries, image scanners, OCR, and other software programs installed on the computer; Support for Z39.50 protocol in Q4, 1993; Runs on NeXT and Intel 486 machines. For more information, contact: VTLS Inc. 1800 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA. Tel: 703-231-3605. FAX: 703-231-3648. Email: somaiyas@vtls.com. ABOUT NeXT COMPUTER, INC. NeXT Computer, Inc. develops and markets the industry-acclaimed NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures such as the Intel 486 and Pentium. NEXTSTEP is used by corporate customers to develop and deploy client/server applications, using both custom applications and commercial productivity software. NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, Calif., 94063. For more information on NEXTSTEP, please call toll-free: 1-800-TRY-NEXT NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. ####
From: Edward Van Vliet <vanvliet@azalea.lscpe.psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VVI releases Object Library for Graph Layout Date: 16 Nov 1993 00:16:11 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c9nmo$4fg@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: VVI, Inc. 311 Adams Ave. State College, PA 16803 814-234-9613 814-234-9614 Fax VVI, Inc. introduces a 50 object library for custom graph layout and data display. This library delivers professional interactive, animated, and programmable objects for data control, acquisition, display, and graph document layout. It is used for trading-systems, forecasting, engineering and scientific data display, and any process where quality custom data presentation and control software for production or interactive data needs are required. This library enhances your projects by providing: - Reliable, powerful, and optimized performance. - Substantial savings in development time and quality assurance. - Access to your data in a quality and interactive format. - Substantial user interface, data importing/exporting, and general graphic features and effects. Graphs and figures are effortlessly constructed without extensions. Animation and user selection are built in, producing an implementation responsive to changing data and your changing requirements. For ordering and product information please contact VVI at 814-234-9613.
From: gt8855a@prism.gatech.edu (Bert Lindgren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Atlanta Meeting/Developer Seminar Date: 16 Nov 1993 00:16:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c9no6$4fp@digifix.digifix.com> Date: November 18th Time: 7:00pm Place: NEXTSTEP Lab (Skiles 157) Georgia Tech (Atlanta, USA) Agenda: NEXTSTEP Programming Seminar, #2 topic: using the AppKit with Objective-C instructors: Jon Bennett (Information Management, Inc.) Willie Berger (IMI) Jeff Russell (Digital Communications Associates, Inc.) there will be several books from Springer-Verlag on display (as well as catalogs and order forms) you may wish to bring disks for taking home sample code Directions to NEXTSTEP Lab, Skiles Hall (Georgia Tech) I75/85 to 10th Street exit 10th west to Atlantic (on the left, before traffic light at 10th and State) Continue on Atlantic, going through traffic light (at Ferst; the College of Computing (CoC) is the second building on the left after this light; this is where we have had several meetings). Continue in this direction to get to Skiles Hall, which is adjacent to the Library. Skiles <--- (NEXTSTEP Lab, room 157) L i Pkng b Lot . ---------------\ | parking | EE |A MiRC |t CoC |l |a --Ferst---------|n--------|S |t |t |i |a |c |t --10th----------+---------|e There are 25 seats. If you are fairly certain that you will attend the seminar, please contact us to reserve one for you. Hope to see you there! Contact: Bert Lindgren Tod Rieger Phone: 404-841-6220 Phone: 404-381-2464 Email: bert@cc.gatech.edu Email: prie@methusla.cc.gatech.edu
From: Joe Freeman <jfreeman@FreemanSoft.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: FSGroupWare demonstration on cs.orst.edu Date: 16 Nov 1993 00:17:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c9nor$4fv@digifix.digifix.com> A demonstration version of the FSGroupWare set of collaborative application programs is now available on archive servers. * FSGroupware is a set of applications that allow users to share real-time information based on NeXT Distributed Objects. All information that is made available to the conference is immediately made visible to all attendees. The application set is made up of several simple programs that add up to something powerful. * FSGreyBoard is a multi-user concurrent drawing program that allows a group of people to share a common drawing space. This application follows a moderated discussion model with one user allocating the control of the markup resources. Each user's face appears in the conference along with a set of indicators,showing those wishing to use the marker, and the user currently holding the marker. FSGreyBoard supports the full NEXTSTEP feature set including the ability to Object Link graphics into the confere nce. * FSVote is a simple conference voting application. This application gives attendees in a conference the ability to rate different areas of the current presentation, from presentation style to content to the level of agreement. FSVote continually monitors all users opinions and displays running summaries of all the voting categories. * FSShareSheet is a simple shared grid, similar to a spreadsheet, that is shared among users. This application supplies a little more structured drawing surface than the free form FSGreyBoard. It also has the ability to run in either a moderated or unmoderated format. * FSMessage is a "chat" message board. FSMessage gives displays a time sorted Rich Text listing of a conversation. This listing is also retained by the server so that any "late joiners" can get a full transcript. Users can enter both text and graphics at any time they want. * FacilitiesManager is a Distributed Object based conference server. The server is capable of supporting different types of conferences. This application has built in support for many common conference features as well as the ability to dynamically load any conference specific code that may be required. FacilitiesManager has configuration settings that let the system administrator pick which conferences to run as well as conference names. FacilitisManager also has the ability to start new conferen ces "on the fly". * FSGroupware conferencing demonstration package available as on cs.orst.edu archive server. The files are pub/next/submissions/FSGroupWare.tar-2 and pub/next/submissions/FSGroupWare.README.rtf-2. The FSGroupWare.tar-2 file while unpack into a installer package that includes FAT binaries of all the applications. These applications run on Motorola and Intel processors and require 3.1 or later to run. (Actually, we don't know if they run under 3.2 since 3.2 hasn't made it here yet.) The application and R EADME may be moved to a binaries directory by the time of this announcement. FreemanSoft can be reached via Email at info@FreemanSoft.com or by phone at 919-783-7033. (11/15/93) NEXTSTEP is a treadmark of NeXT Inc.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: 3.2 Hardware Compatiblity Guide available from ftp.next.com Date: 16 Nov 1993 00:24:52 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2c9o72$4gh@digifix.digifix.com> The 3.2 hardware compatiblity guide is now available from ftp.next.com via FTP, or from the NextAnswers email server... From NextAnswers - 1001_Master_Index 1002 3.2 Hardware Compatibility Guide 367k 93-11-15 Currently there is only a Postscript version available. to retrieve this file by ftp ftp.next.com:/pub/NextAnswers/ByNumber/1002.compressed to have them e-mailed to you send email to NextAnswers@next.com with a subject containing 1002 They will be returned via NextMail. [note .compressed files are .tar.Z files]
From: Joseph W Reiss <jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Updated Emacs.app and MonsterShelf on cs.orst.edu Date: 16 Nov 1993 00:33:23 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2c9on1$4i2@digifix.digifix.com> There are new versions of Emacs.app and MonsterShelf.app available from cs.orst.edu. These improvements were made by Scott Byer (byer@mv.us.adobe.com). The new MonsterShelf provides an option to display the little square AppTile behind icons you drop onto the desktop now. The new Emacs adds support for two-way services and Project Builder messages. Note that the vt100 keypad patches and the elisp patch to keep Emacs from asking if you want to kill the event-server subprocess have NOT been applied to this code.
From: Gary Ritchie <gary@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Weather.app updated Date: 17 Nov 1993 00:14:13 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ccbv3$92i@digifix.digifix.com> Version 1.1 of Weather.app (an interface to weather information) is available from cs.orst.edu. 1.1 upgrade by Gary Ritchie (gary@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca). NEXT interface by: Michael Hawley (mike@media-lab.mit.edu). Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993 MIT Media Laboratory. ----- Changes include: - cleanup as needed to compile under NS 3.0/3.1 - update scripts to handle changes in remote weather sites Files on ftp site are the complete source code: /pub/next/submissions/Weather-1.1-SRC.tar.gz /pub/next/submissions/Weather-1.1-SRC.tar.gz.README and the Intel binary: /pub/next/submissions/Weather-1.1-486.tar.gz /pub/next/submissions/Weather-1.1-486.tar.gz.README If someone could compile and submit a fat binary, I would appreciate it. I can't do it at the present time. Files should eventually move to /pub/next/sources/wide-area-info.
From: Willers Moritz <WILLERS@ITP.unibe.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: international spellserver connecting to ispell Date: 17 Nov 1993 00:16:11 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ccc2q$943@digifix.digifix.com> On cs.orst.edu in /pub/next/submissions is internationalspell.tar.gz available. It is a spellserver invoking ispell as spell engine. You need to have ispell-3.0.9b installed to use it. It isn't bulletproof in any way but all the people missing a german, french, italian, dutch, swedish, ... spellchecker might find it useful. You can reach me via e-mail at willers@itp.unibe.ch for bug reports or enhancements of my code. Yet I'm not sure how much time i will find to support it. Moritz Willers Phone: ++41 (0)31 631 86 27 Institute for Theoretical Internet: willers@itp.unibe.ch Physics Bern Switzerland
From: neil@bMD.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TESTERS: TIFFany II - Request for Beta Testers Date: 17 Nov 1993 23:13:28 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cesp7$fls@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Contact: benchMark Developments, Inc. 2040 Regency Road, Suite C Lexington, KY 40503 Phone: 606-231-6599 Fax: 606-254-4864 Email: TIFFany-Beta-Request@bMD.com TIFFany II - Request for Beta Testers Lexington, KY - Nov 17 - TIFFany II, image enhancement software for NEXTSTEP, has been in Beta Release for the past month. (See: NeXTWORLD Magazine Review, November issue, p. 36) In order to assure the next release of TIFFany is another quality product for NEXTSTEP, bMD would like to extend a special offer to those individuals currently testing the product and to those new members interested in becoming a beta tester. If you, or anyone you know, have a particular interest and skill with image processing, would like to beta test TIFFany II, contact benchMark Developments by sending email to TIFFany-Beta-Request@bMD.com. Please include a short description stating why you would like to test TIFFany II and how you may assist in its final stages of development. We are only looking for serious beta testers with imaging skills, this is in no way to be taken as an easy solution to receive the product prior to its availabilit y. As a bonus, bMD would like to offer a single user licensed copy of TIFFany II to the top ten beta testers assisting with new bug reports. Please, only new bug reports, no missing features and repeat bugs. To be eligible for this offer, you need only be highly interested, have access to NeXTMail and a desire to put TIFFany through its final testing phase. Availability is limited, so contact bMD quickly if you meet the criteria. TIFFany I, currently shipping in MAB, is available from benchMark Developments at a retail price of $395, with educational pricing at $145/license. For additional information, contact Info@bMD.com, for sales, contact Sales@bMD.com. TIFFany II, available in January, will retail for $695 with educational discounts available at $245. Floating license and site pricing available. For information on becoming a TIFFany Reseller, please contact bMD.
From: Tammy Phillips <tammy@alembic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Tailor PS and EPS editing software Date: 17 Nov 1993 23:14:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cesqc$fmd@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sales Division Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail: info@alembic.com MAKE CHANGES TO ANY POSTSCRIPT DOCUMENT (PS or EPS) FROM ANY PLATFORM, FROM ANY APPLICATION! Tailor PS and EPS editing software takes advantage of the NEXTSTEP Environment. Englewood Colorado, November 5, 1993 - TAILOR is an essential application for publishing and page layout tasks. TAILOR can edit any Postscript document, including multi-page Postscript files imported from MS Windows or Macintosh platforms. TAILOR can move, reshape, or delete all types of graphic objects, such as line art, text and pixel images. It can recolor, modify or add line art; alter typefaces; add or modify text; and regroup text lines into paragraphs for more flexible editing. TAILOR can then save the results back into a Postscript file or use the standard copy and paste functions to place them in any NEXTSTEP application. Unlike other "universal" document management systems, which require you to "convert" your documents into a file type only viewable, and changeable with yet another application, TAILOR allows you to open and edit your existing postscript files, while preserving their use with many current postscript applications. Even if your application doesn't export Postscript directly, most platforms will allow you to generate Postscript by printing/saving to disk. Word processors, spreadsheet and database files can all be viewed and edited in this manner. Additional programs are not required to take advantage of opening so many different files across a shared network, from any platform, from any application. MULTI-PAGE SUPPORT o open multi-page PostScript documents o browse through their pages o extract any part of any page for pasting in another application o edit any part of any page and save or paste the result separately o save and print multi-page documents POSTSCRIPT INPUT AND CONSTRUCTION o retain embedded font definitions as line-work where appropriate o retain named colors and separation colors o reconstruct text paragraph features o optimize input of PostScript from widely used applications EDITING o undo capability o create and edit paths, including bezier control points o enter numeric position and size o retain structuring information (grouping) in the saved document A demonstration version of Tailor 1.0c is now available at the following ftp sites: Archive Server Name Pathname ------------------- -------- cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/Tailor_1.0_MAB.compressed nova.cc.purdue.edu /pub/next/submissions/Tailor_1.0_MAB.compressed Alembic Systems International Ltd. is an international distributor of North American and European software for the NEXTSTEP Operating Environment. Services cover the development of custom applications, software training courses for a variety of existing packages, and system integration of NEXTSTEP for Intel coupled with Auspex File Servers.
From: Zippytech <ztech@well.sf.ca.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Zippytech relocates to Seattle Date: 17 Nov 1993 23:15:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cessn$fmp@digifix.digifix.com> This is to announce that Zippytech has moved from Pittsburgh to Seattle, where the coffee is much better and it rains so much that the cube is starting to grow moss. We're a small company that develops objects for TCP/IP networking. We're currently shipping the InetObjects Base Collection which provides objects for TCP and UDP sessions. These objects look like any other AppKit object; instead of dealing with the quirky sockets interface, you just instantiate an object and register a delegate. The Base Collection is shipping now for white and black hardware. It's available direct from Zippytech and it's on the latest Electronic AppWrapper. We will have some higher level protocols like Telnet and FTP shipping "soon." I hope to have a completed Telnet object out to beta sites before the end of the year. For more information: Chris Maeda Zippytech 4505 University Way NE #601 Seattle WA 98105 (206) 726-3072 ztech@well.sf.ca.us
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Offers Discounts on DataPhile 1.1 and Create 1.2 Date: 17 Nov 1993 23:12:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cesn1$flm@digifix.digifix.com> News For immediate release For more information, write info@stone.com or 3725 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 or call Elena Settanni at (505) 345-4800 Subject: Stone Design Offers Discounts on DataPhile 1.1 and Create 1.2 ALBUQUERQUE, NM, November 15, 1993 - Stone Design has announced discounts on the company's Motorola-only versions of DataPhile and Create, which run on NEXTSTEP 2.1 or greater, while inventories last. Stone recently upgraded DataPhile, its award-winning flat-file database program, and Create, an easy-to-use full-color drawing package, to multiple-architecture binary (MAB) versions. By definition, these MAB versions run on both Motorola- and Intel-based machines, but also require NEXTSTEP operating system version 3.1 or later. The special offer on each product's previous version, 1.1, makes the products more affordable for users of NeXT-produced Motorola hardware who have not yet upgraded to NEXTSTEP ver sion 3.1. The discounted price of DataPhile 1.1 is $380, representing a 45 percent discount; Create 1.2 is available during this sale for $296, which represents a 40 percent discount. "We realize that many NEXTSTEP users on black hardware can't upgrade, or have not yet chosen to upgrade, to NS3.1. We're not going to force them to," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "We wanted to give those users who haven't yet upgraded a chance to save on compatible software with full upgrade paths." Software purchased under this offer can be upgraded to version 2 and beyond for the applicable upgrade price, which is subject to change from one version to the next. Stone will sell DataPhile 1.1 and Create 1.2 at these discounts while supplies last. ***** Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of business productivity applications for NEXTSTEP software. DataPhile and Create are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 46 - 1993 Date: 18 Nov 1993 01:50:02 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2cf5uo$fk@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 46). Monday November 8 through Wednesday November 17 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 45 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ADMIN: comp.sys.next.announce should be back to normal now SUBMISSION: New release of Macintosh file conversion utilities URGENT: Chance to have your product/literature shown at COMDEX SUBMISSION: StayInTouch 1.25 demo submitted to cs.orst.edu PRESS RELEASE: NeXT Resources available in the Southern & Southwestern United States PRESS RELEASE: NeXTStep Related Software on CD-ROM SUBMISSION: send_attach - send NeXTmail from command line SUBMISSION: Babble.app - facial expression modeller SUBMISSION: Pixel Magician 1.4b and Image Agent 1.2b MAB demos. PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Announces WriteUp/WP Document Interchange Bundle Conrad Geiger's Departure SUBMISSION: NIST Synchronicity 2.3 demo on cs.orst.edu MEETING: Dallas Area NeXT Group October Meeting PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Ships Questor 2.0 Spreadsheet Application CORRECTION: Pixel Magician 1.4b and Image Agent 1.2b MAB demo locations. PRESS RELEASE: New "Best of Breed" applications distributed by ASI*Ltd. PRESS RELEASE: NeXTSTEP Products to be shown at COMDEX USER GROUP NOTES: 3.2, big screens and fast machines... SUBMISSION: SynthBuilder PRESS RELEASE: Lexar Demonstrates NEXTSTEP PC at Comdex PRESS RELEASE: VVI releases Object Library for Graph Layout MEETING: Atlanta Meeting/Developer Seminar SUBMISSION: FSGroupWare demonstration on cs.orst.edu 3.2 Hardware Compatiblity Guide available from ftp.next.com SUBMISSION: Updated Emacs.app and MonsterShelf on cs.orst.edu SUBMISSION: Weather.app updated SUBMISSION: international spellserver connecting to ispell PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Offers Discounts on DataPhile 1.1 and Create 1.2 Stone Design Offers Discounts on DataPhile 1.1 and Create 1.2 BETA TESTERS: TIFFany II - Request for Beta Testers PRESS RELEASE: Tailor PS and EPS editing software PRESS RELEASE: Zippytech relocates to Seattle If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. ******************************** Side Note! ******************************** Sorry for the lateness on this summary. My week away showing off our NEXTSTEP application was interesting, and it was well recieved It would appear that the winter blahs have taken effect early this year, and I'm not spending as much time at the computer has I was. I'm having a real problem getting adjusted to being back in the confines of my office, in the gloomy grey-north! I HOPE that this will change, something needs to and soon! Right now its almost impossible to pull me away from the lathe to work at any computer! Need more lux. I guess this is just to let you all know that I'm around, and doing the best I can at the moment. If you have interesting NEXTSTEP stuff, send it over, and help me stay at the computer more! Right now I have more damn bowls and round things than I'm ever going to need! ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 18 Nov 1993 01:53:03 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2cf64d$hb@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 18 Nov 1993 01:53:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2cf653$hl@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: Todd Steigerwald <todd@alembic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Questor 2.0 Spreadsheet App.- improved speed and shipping NOW Date: 18 Nov 1993 23:12:28 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2chh3b$4oj@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sales Division Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail:info@alembic.com Englewood Colorado, November 18, 1993 - (ASI) Alembic Systems Intl. Ltd. announced today that it is shipping Questor 2.0, the state-of-the-art spreadsheet application from Xanthus International. As a introductory offer, Questor 2.0 is available to general users for $199 and to Educational users for $99. (effective until November 30, 1993) ASI*Ltd., the largest NEXTSTEP software distributor in the United States, has expanded its service to offer one-stop-shopping needs to the NEXTSTEP community. Please contact a sales representative for a full listing of products available from ASI*Ltd. _________________________________________________ QUESTOR V2.0 SPREADSHEET APPLICATION NOW SHIPPING- THE MOST POWERFUL SPREADSHEET AVAILABLE FOR NEXTSTEP. (Users of 1.0 receive free upgrades) Questor combines the the intuitive metaphor of "matrix-based" spreadsheet programs with a number of unique features and a true NEXTSTEP user interface. The backbone of Questor 2.0 is a conventional matrix-based spreadsheet that can easily be used by anybody who is used to Excel(tm), Lotus 1-2-3(tm), or Wingz(tm). Added to this backbone is a number of unique features including SQL database access, a powerful scripting language, multi-level undo and a versatile API. All of them combine together to provide extremely easy integration with SQL databases and custom-made applications on NEXTSTEP. 2.0 ADDED FEATURES * Significantly improved speed. * Microsoft Excel(tm) file importing. * Improved database access, including easy-to-use DBModel queries, powerful SQL queries and automatic datatype conversion. Questor uses the DBKit in NEXTSTEP for transparent database communication. Custom-made database queries can easily be created and shared among several users on the network. * Cell styles for easier worksheet layout. * Cell range dragging for faster worksheet design. STANDARD QUESTOR FEATURES * NEXTSTEP user interface for easy access to ALL features, including a toolbox with object palettes that eliminate the need of modal panels for filing, searching and sorting data. * Multi-level undos. The number of undos are user defined. * A powerful scripting language (QScript) that allows for customization of the spreadsheet down to the numerous minute details. * Drag and Drop buttons, text-fields, and sliders anywhere on the worksheet, that easily connect to relevant information. * Drag and Drop graphs, gauges, etc, and connect to cell areas for continuous updating. VERSATILITY * Graph types include bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. The components of a graph can be edited separately. * Hot-links to Graphity(tm) for 3D graphics on the Renderman engine. * Full support of object linking to other documents for continuous updating. * Timers that can trigger complex calculations, database queries, etc, at regular intervals. * A powerful double directed API that allows Questor to easily control and send data to other applications. The API also makes it easy for other applications to control Questor and to feed data into the worksheets. * External functions can be written in C or in QScript and be loaded into Questor for easy extensibility. * Drawing tools that allow you to draw directly on the worksheet. * Images and sound can be drag-and dropped anywhere on the worksheet to create stunning graphics and sound effects. COMPATIBILITY * Questor reads BIFF2-4, WKS, WK1 and SYLK file-formats, which enables the user to import worksheets from Lotus 1-2-3(tm), Lotus Improv(tm), Microsoft Excel(tm) and Wingz(tm). * Questor writes the WK1 file format, which exports for Lotus 1-2-3(tm), Lotus Improv(tm), Microsoft Excel(tm), and Wingz(tm). * Full support of Lotus 1-2-3(tm) bracket-macros. Questor is a registered trademark of Xanthus International, NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Inc., 1-2-3- and Improv are registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corp., Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp., Wingz is a registered trademark of Informix Corp. ASI is a registered trademark of Alembic Systems International Ltd.
From: Mark Doucet <mark@ccc1.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ACADEMY CAD dmeo on archives orst Date: 18 Nov 1993 23:14:04 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2chh6a$4p4@digifix.digifix.com> ACADEMY - CAD on NEXTSTEP is now located on the archives at cs.orst.edu in the pub/next/demos/drawing directory. The files include a MAB version that will run on Motorola and Intel hardware along with example drawings and a tutorial. PRESS RELEASE ACADEMY is a 2D CAD program which through its open and flexible structure, extends across many business fields, from mechanical and electrical engineering to architecture. The graphics engine, already in use on other hardware platforms, was combined with NEXTSTEP to make ACADEMY powerful, yet easy and logical to use. You won't find cryptic commands, endless parameter lists and time wasting dialogs or complex menu structures. However, the well designed usage concept still allows for precise numerical inpu ts, calculation of geometry and construction data as well as exact placement. ACADEMY offers features which are rarely found in the world of CAD - FAST movement within the drawing, enlargement and reduction with a simple mouse click, plus several views per drawing. In addition, isometry and elaborate control of layers frees users from difficult and time consuming tasks. The integrated symbol palette allows quick and easy access to the many pre-defined objects. With ACADEMY you don't have to worry about mistakes because its Undo/Redo function can manage up to 100 operations. ACADEMY uses all of NEXTSTEP's features which have made this operating environment the most user friendly in the world: Inspector panels, tool panels, drag and drop, cut and paste between programs, a powerful color management feature, and special features that makes use of the integrated Postscript technology. And don't worry about being stuck with just standard fonts! ACADEMY offers access to the huge family of PostScript fonts for use in text and labeling. Daily work is made easier because there are no p roblems with font combinations, or continuous scaling and rotation of text. ACADEMY gives you access to all of the drawing functions right from the tool panel! Browsing in sub-menus is no longer necessary. ACADEMY has basic geometric shapes like lines, rectangles, circles, ellipses, etc. with many different styles. There are functions to calculate intersection points, tangent points and perpendicular drop points, which help exact placement of objects at characteristic points. ACADEMY also offers many transformation tools for individual objects or entire drawings. ACADEMY is able to import and export the .DXF format which is the interface to the PC world and the output of the postscript format, builds the bridge to the DTP world, making technical documentation and the creation of catalogs quick and easy. The unified Postscript imaging model allows true WYSIWYG while still allowing output to Non-Postscript devices such as those using HPGL. Feature List Object Inspector: Full numeric control over all objects Layer Inspector: All layers available at a glance. Grid Inspector: Includes the ability to set the grid on any angle. Hatching Inspector: Lines, walls, parquet, grey cast iron... Axes Inspector: More help for Isometric drawings. Symbol Inspector: Efficient working through reuse of symbols. Standard NeXT Panels: Color and Font Panels etc. Other functions include: Double line drawing for wall construction. Trimming, smoothing, rotating, scaling, mirroring, etc. Postscript fonts with rotation, compression and extension. Varied types of dimensioning. Measuring for distances, angles, and surfaces. Import DXF, (IGES in 1.1 release) Export DXF, (IGES, and Adobe Illustrator in 1.1 release) Output to Postscript and HPGL. Much more... PRICE and AVAILABILITY ACADEMY will be available in October, 1993 directly from Dominion Technologies, Ltd. A single user license will have a suggested retail price of $1395.00 with an introductory price of $1195.00 through March 1994. Educational price is $695.00 Multiple licenses 1st copy $1395.00 - introductory $1195.00 additional 2-5 $837.00 additional 6-10 $695.00 additional 11-20 $558.00 additional >20 $418.00 Educational Multiple licenses 1st copy $695.00 additional 2-5 $495.00 additional 6-10 $395.00 additional >10 $295.00 SUPPORT and TRAINING ACADEMY is so easy to use you will probably never need help, but Dominion Technologies, Ltd. will provide free technical support by phone, or email, for 90 days from date of purchase. On-site training for ACADEMY will also be available anywhere in North America. Call for pricing. European Distribution Cube Infosysteme GmbH +49 711 13 10170 +49 711 6788672 fax info@cube.de North American Distribution Dominion Technologies, Ltd. (409) 696-1578 (409) 862-2496 fax academy@dtl.tamu.edu ACADEMY is a trademark of Cube Software.
From: Mark Doucet <mark@ccc1.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Avant Vector - Autotracing for NEXTSTEP! Date: 18 Nov 1993 23:14:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2chh7c$4pl@digifix.digifix.com> For Immediate Release Dominion Technologies, Ltd. has announced that it will handle the North American distribution and support for the Premier autotracing software for NEXTSTEP, Avant Vector by Cube Software. AvantVector is a professional autotracer software that converts complex color TIFF bitmaps to high quality EPS files. Features of the pixel editor are recognizing main colors, Tolerant Fill, color dragging and drawing. The artwork can be copied from or pasted to Adobe Illustrator and Altsys Virtuoso and remains editable! Powerful tools like Perspective, Intersection Points, Outline and Join (contour of intersecting objects) are provided. Pixel Representation In order to vectorize complex bitmaps effectively Avant Vector creates an intermediate pixel representation (template). Pixel representations can be modified in both color and form as desired through the use of numerous transformation parameters. Of course, it's also possible to save the image as a TIFF file. In this way Avant Vector is an image processing tool offering special retouching possibilities. Bitmap Tools Direct manipulation of pixel images is done by using special bitmap tools. Changes of color with the drag & drop, smoothing of structured surfaces, automatic removal of extraneous pixels plus pencils support detailed work on sections of the picture. Autotracing Parameters The autotracing parameters are the heart of Avant Vector. They allow you to control the vectorization process as you desire. Jagged or smoothed contours, many or few contour segments, precise or rough transformations. Proven parameters can be stored and retrieved with a single mouse click. Creative Modification In addition to the simple process of vectorization, Avant Vector supports the development of creative solutions. Suitable choices of vectorization parameters result in picturesque illustrations. By reworking a picture with Avant Vector's drawing tools you can turn a plain picture into a startling presentation. Exacting Results Avant Vector is capable of exact vectorization of blueprints, line drawings, maps, application forms, etc. Because you have control over angles and radii you are able to vectorize even poor quality images with good results. Avant Vector recognizes objects as areas, allowing you to delete and move them individually. Complete Set of Drawing Tools Avant Vector offers the user a large palette of drawing tools, more than many other graphics programs! Bezier curves are completely adjustable, objects can be grouped and individually layered. Object transparency, circles and polygons with unlimited number of sides plus exact transformations (stretching, scaling, skewing, etc.) are only a few examples of the variety of powerful tools offered. Coloration with Drag & Drop Many programs adorn themselves with a fast and easy method of drag & drop. But only a few of these programs use this method as consistently and comfortably for color changes as Avant Vector. The coloration of surfaces and lines proceeds without annoying dialog boxes - this allows you to make numerous changes with breath taking speed. Perspectives Avant Vector offers a tool which allows you to create perspective distortion, a feature that is rarely found in other graphics programs. Now, you can have a 3D effect for objects without a detour over a second 3D modelling program. This feature gives you a wide design space that would otherwise be a considerable extra expense. Compounding and Joining An indispensable tool for the creation of cut plotter models is available through compounding and later joining the shapes of multiple objects. This function is essential for the creation of technical and architectural drawings. This is just one more reason why Avant Vector is superior when compared with most professional drawing programs. Outlining You can produce other impressive effects with Avant Vector's outlining tool. All lines can be outlined with an adjustable offset. Intersection points A very useful feature from the CAD world can be found in a tool which calculates intersection points. You will find an instrument at your disposal that increases your effectivity when developing technical drawings or uncommon illustrative effects. Teamwork Avant Vector is the ideal complement to the widely used drawing programs Altsys Virtuoso and Adobe Illustrator. Direct transfer in both directions, preserving full editability, does not technically limit your creativity. EPS and TIFF files can easliy be loaded and saved. Real multitasking under NEXTSTEP enables the user to work on with Avant Vector during time consuming operations in the background or switch to other programs. Layering System All process modes are clearly arranged in different drawing layers. The combination of layers makes fast and precise reworking easy. For working on highly complex vector graphics you will also find a line mode. PRICE and AVAILABILITY Avant Vector will be available directly from Dominion Technologies, Ltd. A single user license will have a suggested retail price of $595.00 with an introductory price of $550.00 through March 1994. Educational price is $395.00 SUPPORT and TRAINING Avant Vector is so easy to use you will probably never need help, but Dominion Technologies, Ltd. will provide free technical support by phone, or email, for 90 days from date of purchase. European Distribution Cube Infosysteme GmbH +49 711 13 10170 +49 711 6788672 fax info@cube.de North American Distribution Dominion Technologies, Ltd. (409) 696-1578 (409) 862-2496 fax academy@dtl.tamu.edu Virtuoso is a trademark of Altsys. Adobe Illustrator is a trademark of Adobe. Avant Vector is a trademark of Cube Software.
From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <Louis_Mamakos@TransSys.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TransSys PNI-beta software release available (SLIP for Moto, Intel) Date: 18 Nov 1993 23:34:25 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2chicd$514@digifix.digifix.com> TransSys PNI - the first beta release TransSys announces the availability of early intrim release of the TransSys PNI Software package. TransSys PNI is a very flexible and configurable networking product for Motorola- and Intel-based NeXTSTEP platforms. TransSys PNI is intended to be run on Release 3.1 and 3.2 NeXTSTEP systems. TransSys PNI will allow your NeXTSTEP system to communicate with remote systems using SLIP (Serial Line IP) over serial ports and other virtual devices. It has sophisticated packet filtering abilities as well to control access to various services on your system. Due to the high demand for a product to implement SLIP on Intel-based NeXTSTEP systems, TransSys has decided to make an early, intrim release of a product still under development. Some functions are only partially implemented, and the documentation provided is certainly incomplete and not well organized. The software, does however, substantially work and work very well for those features which have been implemented (and somewhat incompletely) documented. The product has been in use in-house since June 1993 with no significant problems. Due to the rather incomplete and non-polished state of the package, TransSys recommends that only those users that are already familair with SLIP and IP networking in general attempt to install and use the package. At this time, support is very limited and cannot include configuration or local issues. You should be willing to invest a little bit of time installing this software. The bright side is that it should be easier to install than TransSys DialUp-IP, so don't dispair completely! The intrim version of TransSys PNI is available free of charge, and will implement SLIP and CSLIP as well as IP packet filtering and IP tunnels. A license to use these features is included for 90 days. When the release version of this software is available, a base-SLIP only version will be free of charge, just like TransSys Dial-Up IP. Other capabilities (CSLIP, filtering, etc) will be licensed at an additional charge. Users of TransSys DialUp-IP who have purchased a license for the CSLIP version will have a free (or nominal cost if media is required) upgrade to TransSys PNI. Details on the mechanics of the upgrade process will follow with the first non-beta version. This is an early beta release of software. Rather than run a small, limited beta program, TransSys has decided to open it to anyone due to the great desire for some sort of SLIP solution for Intel platforms. Extensive support is just not available at this stage - there is still development to be done, and little time available to do it in. If you've never tried to install SLIP software before and are not sure what it even is, you probably don't want to find out using this beta-quality software at this early stage. Comments, suggestions and feature requests can be sent via email to pni-beta@TransSys.COM. TransSys PNI Beta can be obtained from the following sites: FTP.UU.NET:/tmp/TransSys-PNI-1.4-beta.tar.gz (for a short while) CS.ORST.EDU:/pub/next/submissions/TransSys-PNI-1.4-beta.tar.gz SONATA.CC.PURDUE.EDU:/pub/next/submissions/TransSys-PNI-1.4-beta.tar.gz (if ever space is available..) [NOTE: Do not archive or redistribute this software after February 1, 1994.] Louis Mamakos <louie@TransSys.COM> TransSys, Inc.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: IMPORTANT NEXTANSWER - Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 Date: 19 Nov 1993 23:18:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2ck5rh$ab2@digifix.digifix.com> I noticed this NextAnswer today, its brand new, and marked urgent. I can see why.. The original was in RTF, so this copy might be a little hacked up.. You might want to get NextAnswers 1468 1469 1470 from ftp.next.com. Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 Q: When I try to upgrade from Release 3.1 to 3.2, the Upgrade.app indicates the post-processing script failed. When I checked the upgrade log, I saw the following lines: There isn't enough space to install all the languages. ROOT: Undefined variable. What's going on? How do I get the upgrade to complete? Is the computer now unusable? Q: The Upgrade.app indicates the post-processing script failed, but then said the upgrade completed successfully. When I restart the computer, it panics with a "Can't mount root" error. What can I do? A: This happens when there isn't enough free space on the hard disk being upgraded to install the languages packages. The post-processing script fails due to a bug: the environment variable ROOT isn't assigned before it's referenced. If you are using an Intel based computer, it is unusable if it's restarted; the device driver upgrade isn't complete at this point. If you are using a NeXT computer, English help didn't get installed. However, you can complete the upgrade, and thus make the computer usabl e. Intel users who haven't rebooted, NeXT computer users before or after rebooting To complete the upgrade, type the following as the root user in a Terminal window (this assumes you're using the C-Shell as your login shell; if this isn't the case, adapt the following procedure, or start the C-Shell, /bin/csh). Note: This procedure assumes that the 3.2 upgrade CD-ROM is mounted on the directory /NEXTSTEP_3.2. If this is not the case, substitute the actual mount point of the 3.2 upgrade CD-ROM for /NEXTSTEP_3.2 throughout the following procedure. setenv ROOT /NEXTSTEP_3.2 /NEXTSTEP_3.2/Upgrader.app/Default.upgrade/PostProcess / /NEXTSTEP_3.2 Intel users who have rebooted If you have already rebooted, your computer panics with the "Can't mount root" error. To complete the upgrade at this point, do the following: 1. Insert the 3.1 floppy disk into the floppy disk drive. 2. Start up the computer. 3. At the boot: prompt, type: if you have a SCSI hard drive fd()mach_kernel -s rootdev=sd0a if you have an IDE hard drive fd()mach_kernel -s rootdev=hd0a 4. At the # prompt, type the following, pressing the Enter key at the end of each line: mount -o remount / if you have a SCSI hard drive mount -o ro /dev/sd1a /NEXTSTEP_3.2 if you have an IDE hard drive mount -o ro /dev/sd0a /NEXTSTEP_3.2 nmserver -nonet sh /etc/rc.net -h portmap nibindd csh setenv ROOT /NEXTSTEP_3.2 /NEXTSTEP_3.2/Upgrader.app/Default.upgrade/PostProcess / /NEXTSTEP_3.2 halt 5. Remove the floppy disk. 6. Restart the computer.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: IMPORTANT NEXTANSWER - Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 [RICH TEXT] Date: 19 Nov 1993 23:21:12 -0500 Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ck5vo$ab8@digifix.digifix.com> This was posted to NextAnswers today. Considering the potential for problems, I am posting it to comp.sys.next.announce immediately. This version is in NewsGrazer RichText. Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 Bug version 3NA Q: When I try to upgrade from Release 3.1 to 3.2, the Upgrade.app indicates the post-processing script failed. When I checked the upgrade log, I saw the following lines: There isn't enough space to install all the languages. ROOT: Undefined variable. What's going on? How do I get the upgrade to complete? Is the computer now unusable? Q: The Upgrade.app indicates the post-processing script failed, but then said the upgrade completed successfully. When I restart the computer, it panics with a "Can't mount root" error. What can I do? A: This happens when there isn't enough free space on the hard disk being upgraded to install the languages packages. The post-processing script fails due to a bug: the environment variable ROOT isn't assigned before it's referenced. If you are using an Intel based computer, it is unusable if it's restarted; the device driver upgrade isn't complete at this point. If you are using a NeXT computer, English help didn't get installed. However, you can complete the upgrade, and thus make the computer usable. Intel users who haven't rebooted, NeXT computer users before or after rebooting To complete the upgrade, type the following as the root user in a Terminal window (this assumes you're using the C-Shell as your login shell; if this isn't the case, adapt the following procedure, or start the C-Shell, /bin/csh). Note: This procedure assumes that the 3.2 upgrade CD-ROM is mounted on the directory /NEXTSTEP_3.2. If this is not the case, substitute the actual mount point of the 3.2 upgrade CD-ROM for /NEXTSTEP_3.2 throughout the following procedure. setenv ROOT /NEXTSTEP_3.2 /NEXTSTEP_3.2/Upgrader.app/Default.upgrade/PostProcess / /NEXTSTEP_3.2 Intel users who have rebooted If you have already rebooted, your computer panics with the "Can't mount root" error. To complete the upgrade at this point, do the following: 1. Insert the 3.1 floppy disk into the floppy disk drive. 2. Start up the computer. 3. At the boot: prompt, type: if you have a SCSI hard drive fd()mach_kernel -s rootdev=sd0a if you have an IDE hard drive fd()mach_kernel -s rootdev=hd0a 4. At the # prompt, type the following, pressing the Enter key at the end of each line: mount -o remount / if you have a SCSI hard drive mount -o ro /dev/sd1a /NEXTSTEP_3.2 if you have an IDE hard drive mount -o ro /dev/sd0a /NEXTSTEP_3.2 nmserver -nonet sh /etc/rc.net -h portmap nibindd csh setenv ROOT /NEXTSTEP_3.2 /NEXTSTEP_3.2/Upgrader.app/Default.upgrade/PostProcess / /NEXTSTEP_3.2 halt 5. Remove the floppy disk. 6. 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From: Michele Giardini <michi@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: NEXTSTEP European CD collection, call for software Date: 20 Nov 1993 00:34:21 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cka8r$ane@digifix.digifix.com> EUROPEAN NEXTSTEP CDROM - dont't miss it !!! Due to the growing interest in NEXTSTEP here in Europe, the Italian NEXTSTEP User Group has started some new activities. We're preparing an European CDROM (it'll be made and distributed in Europe, but we hope overseas too) and we're looking for any kind of software (Demos, Public Domain, Shareware, Palettes, Classes, Sources, ...). We're mirroring the ftp site at cs.orst.edu and most of the software will come from there. If your software is not there and you want it to be on our cdrom, please send it to us via email. We've only a few days left. Everything must be ready by November, 24th ... If you think that this is a good opportunity for you, don't miss it !! Send us your software ASAP !! You can send your software to: michi@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it or gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it If you need additional infos, feel free to contact us. Our telephone number is: +39 2 55006385 FAX number: +39 2 55006373 Thank you in advance for your support Ciao Michele Giardini & Gianfranco Pocecai PS: If your software is available via FTP, please let us know. We will get it.
From: rfschtkt@BANRUC60.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: KBNS 11.2 on cs.orst.edu Date: 22 Nov 1993 00:09:30 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cphi9$5s9@digifix.digifix.com> KBNS is a database of bugs with workarounds for NEXTSTEP. It is a private initiative by Raf Schietekat, and is not endorsed by NeXT. It is currently in /pub/next/submissions on cs.orst.edu Send Raf any reports about whatever is still missing (mostly stuff about DBKit), or a note about what you think of KBNS. Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@banruc60.bitnet, Flanders, Belgium RfSchtkt%banruc60.bitnet@uunet.uu.net or so if the above does not work for you (real, i.e., with triangle in the Deliver button) NeXTmail preferred I can't reach sites with ! or % in their address, or ending in .at or .uucp
From: Mike Ferris <mike@lorax.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: MOKit 0.9 Release 2 Date: 23 Nov 1993 01:39:32 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2csb72$d6k@digifix.digifix.com> Announcing MOKit Version 0.9 Release 2 -------------------------------------- This is to let anyone who's interested know that a new version of MOKit is available at cs.orst.edu. For those who missed the first version, MOKit is a collection of Objective-C objects which provide a variety of useful functions. They are available in source code form. Many of the objects are palettized for IB. Others have example programs which show their use. See the README file at cs.orst.edu for more details. The new release is version 0.9 Release 2. It adds two new objects, upgrades a few more, and has a lot of other minor changes and bug fixes. If you are using release 1, I urge you to use release 2 instead. cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/MOKit0.9Rel2.compressed Mike Ferris mike@lorax.com Rubicon Software (510) 652-2039
From: fl2a503@rznext01.rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Winfried Wille) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Square v.1.3 a shareware game Date: 23 Nov 1993 16:14:14 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ctuf4$ggi@digifix.digifix.com> For immediate release: Square v. 1.3 (fat) is shipping now Square v.1.3 SHAREWARE Square is a puzzle of 25 pieces with colored corners. Arrange the pieces until all adjacent corners are of the same color. Square is available by ftp in the submission directory of cs.orst.edu: /pub/next/submissions (It will eventually move to the more appropriate location on cs.orst.edu: "/pub/next/demos/games/"). The files to look for are: Square.README see below Square.pkg.tar Enjoy! Andrea Moeller ----------------------------------------------------------------- Square v. 1.3 Installation Just install the package on NEXTSTEP INTEL or MOTOROLA. The Game Square is a puzzle of 25 pieces with colored corners. Arrange the squares until all adjacent corners are of the same color. If you need help, Square shows you the correct place. There are two different modes: An easy one: The squares are randomly distributed, but not rotated. A more difficult one: The squares are movable and rotatable. You can set the desired mode and also determine fixed squares in the Square Preferences. Registration Worm Square land is shareware. Open the Info Panel and read the shareware conditions. If you like the game please send the registration fee to the given address. Correspondence is welcome. Let us know if you like the program.
From: market@nextsrv1.andi.org (Marketing Director) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Leverage the NeXT/SUN announcement at 4 industry events Date: 23 Nov 1993 16:14:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ctufr$ggo@digifix.digifix.com> ANDI offers you a special opportunity to have your literature distributed at 4 events in the next 60 days. In addition, you may also exhibit with us at very reduced rates at three of the events. With the announcement of the NeXT/SUN alliance you have a chance to use the press coverage to your advantage and get your products shown to those companies using SUN and Solaris. FedUNIX in Washington, DC is one of the best places to reach the government market, and ANDI will be there for our third year. SUN will also be there. Literature distribution cost is $114 for the 4 events. You may opt to not have your literature distributed at some of the events, however, the price will be the same. Exhibit prices are listed next to each event as well as the number of available exhibit slots. 1 person per slot. ANDI will be showcasing NeXTSTEP at the following events: November FedUNIX - Washington, DC - 11/30-12/1 (4 slots @ $700 each) Show date: 11/30-12/1 10am-4pm each day estimated attendance: 5000 December Meeting Planners Intl - Anaheim - 12/4-5 (4 slots @ $300 each) Show Dates 12/4-5 12pm-4pm and 8am-12pm estimated attendance: 1500 Washington Area NeXTSTEP Users Group - Washington, DC - 12/8 estimated attendance: 45 7-9pm January, 1994 International Association of Jazz Educators - Boston - 1/14-16 (4 slots @ $500 each) Show Dates 1/14-15 9am-5pm each day estimated attendance: 2500 If you are interested in having your products shown, want to exhibit, or have your literature distributed, let us know. Send literature (approximately 500 pieces) with a check made payable to ANDI at: ANDI 9921 Woodburn Road Silver Spring, MD 20901-2730 phone:301-681-0613 Please note that we need to receive payment and literature by 11/29 in order to include you in the FedUNIX Show.
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Opens NEXTSTEP, Publishes APIs Date: 23 Nov 1993 16:15:03 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ctugl$gh2@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 NeXT ANNOUNCES PLANS TO OPEN NEXTSTEP AND PUBLISH SPECIFICATION SunSoft First To Base Object Strategy On OpenStep SAN FRANCISCO, November 23, 1993 -- In a strategic move to promote NEXTSTEP as the standard for object-oriented computing environments, NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced it will "open up" NEXTSTEP, its award-winning object-oriented software. NeXT will define OpenStep, the open specification that defines the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of NEXTSTEP's application environment. NeXT will freely license OpenStep, and the OpenStep trademark to all independent implementations which pass an OpenStep test suite. In a show of support, SunSoft has licensed the NEXTSTEP application environment and will use this technology to develop an implementation of the OpenStep specification for use in its Solaris Distributed Object Environment (DOE). The OpenStep specification is operating system independent and allows applications which use its APIs to be portable across multiple implementations, regardless of the underlying operating system. The specification will be based on the object framework and user environment, namely the operating system independent layers, of NEXTSTEP Release 3.2, which NeXT is shipping today. OpenStep will include such items as the ApplicationKit, DatabaseKit, Distributed Objects, Adobe Display Postscript and the Objective C object-oriented language. The final specification for OpenStep will be available from NeXT by June 30, 1994. At that time, NeXT and SunSoft intend to work with appropriate standards organizations such as the Object Management Group (OMG) or X/Open to publish and promote the OpenStep interface specification. "As a software company, we recognize this is an open systems world. One of our models is Adobe which in the early '80s freely licensed the APIs for PostScript which became the industry standard page description language," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "We think the decision to open NEXTSTEP will fuel the adoption of OpenStep as the industry's standard for object-oriented application development." NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SunSoft and NeXT Partner to Drive Volume Object Standard Date: 23 Nov 1993 16:15:18 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ctuh4$gha@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Andre SunSoft 415-336-3890 or Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Emily Cohen Hi-Tech Communications 415-904-7000 SUNSOFT AND NeXT PARTNER TO DRIVE VOLUME OBJECT STANDARD NeXT to Publish Open Specification; SunSoft Licenses Implementation for Use in Solaris SAN FRANCISCO, November 23, 1993 To accelerate the standardization of object technology, SunSoft, the system software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., and NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced a series of agreements where NeXT will publish an open specification, called OpenStep, and SunSoft will license NEXTSTEP's application environment for use in its Solaris enterprise system software. NeXT will "open up" NEXTSTEP by freely licensing the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and the OpenStep trademark to all independent implementations which pass an OpenStep test suite. OpenStep is based on the operating system-independent layers of NEXTSTEP 3.2, which NeXT is shipping today. "I believe that object technology is one of the core technologies that will drive enterprise computing in the '90s," said Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We are pleased that we can now integrate NeXT's proven object technology with SunSoft's distributed computing environment. Sun is now in a great position to drive a volume object standard for the future." "Solaris is the highest volume UNIX-based operating system," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "SunSoft's choosing of NEXTSTEP parallels Apple's choosing of PostScript 10 years ago. We feel that this relationship will drive NEXTSTEP to become the object-oriented standard for open systems computing." The SunSoft/NeXT Agreement: NeXT will publish an interface specification, called OpenStep, which is based on the operating system independent layers of NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 APIs. This allows applications which only use these APIs to be portable across multiple OpenStep implementations regardless of the underlying operating system. The OpenStep specification will be published by June 30, 1994 and submitted to an appropriate standards organization, such as the OMG (Object Management Group) and X/Open, for adoption. SunSoft has licensed the NEXTSTEP application environment and will use this technology to develop an implementation of the OpenStep specification for use in its Solaris Distributed Object Environment (DOE). Sun Microsystems, Inc. will make a minority equity investment in NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT will port the native NEXTSTEP operating system to the SPARC architecture with marketing and technical assistance from Sun's SPARC Technology Business (a business unit of Sun Microsystems, Inc.). SunSoft has licensed to NeXT its implementations of networking and distributed object technologies, including CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), the Object Management Group's IDL (Interface Definition Language) and NFS (Network File System). Object programming is widely recognized as the next wave of software application development, greatly reducing the time it takes to construct applications, increasing their reliability and allowing the reuse and leverage of software components. According to Chris Stone, president of the Object Management Group (OMG), "Now that NeXT is opening up the NEXTSTEP API and Sun is teaming up with them to promote it, the OpenStep specification has a great chance to become the ubiquitous object interface for application developers." "SunSoft firmly believes it will have a distinct time-to-market advantage for a complete object-based, enterprise caliber operating environment as application developers and end users make the inevitable move to object technology," said Edward J. Zander, SunSoft president. "We evaluated all of the object-oriented alternatives and we chose NeXT because it offers the best technology for building object-oriented applications, and it is proven technology which has been shipping for years. This agreement brings together world-class technology from both vendors to allow SunSoft to offer a best-of-breed distributed software environment for enterprise-level computing." SunSoft, Inc. SunSoft headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup USA 1994. The company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions for SPARC and Intel 80386/486-based computers. The products are licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer manufacturers worldwide. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc., SunSoft and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other products or service names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
From: Karen_Logsdon@NeXT.COM (Karen Logsdon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUNSOFT AND NeXT PARTNER TO DRIVE VOLUME OBJECT STANDARD Date: 23 Nov 1993 23:28:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cunt1$hrn@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts Only: Karen Andre SunSoft 415-336-3890 or Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415-780-3786 or Emily Cohen Hi-Tech Communications 415-904-7000 SUNSOFT AND NeXT PARTNER TO DRIVE VOLUME OBJECT STANDARD NeXT to Publish Open Specification; SunSoft Licenses Implementation for Use in Solaris SAN FRANCISCO, November 23, 1993-To accelerate the standardization of object technology, SunSoft, the system software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., and NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced a series of agreements where NeXT will publish an open specification, called OpenStep, and SunSoft will license NEXTSTEP's application environment for use in its Solaris enterprise system software. NeXT will "open up" NEXTSTEP by freely licensing the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and the OpenStep trademark to all independent implementations which pass an OpenStep test suite. OpenStep is based on the operating system-independent layers of NEXTSTEP 3.2, which NeXT is shipping today. "I believe that object technology is one of the core technologies that will drive enterprise computing in the '90s," said Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We are pleased that we can now integrate NeXT's proven object technology with SunSoft's distributed computing environment. Sun is now in a great position to drive a volume object standard for the future." "Solaris is the highest volume UNIX-based operating system," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "SunSoft's choosing of NEXTSTEP parallels Apple's choosing of PostScript 10 years ago. We feel that this relationship will drive NEXTSTEP to become the object-oriented standard for open systems computing." The SunSoft/NeXT Agreement: * NeXT will publish an interface specification, called OpenStep, which is based on the operating system independent layers of NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 APIs. This allows applications which only use these APIs to be portable across multiple OpenStep implementations regardless of the underlying operating system. The OpenStep specification will be published by June 30, 1994 and submitted to an appropriate standards organization, such as the OMG (Object Management Group) and X/Open, for adoption. * SunSoft has licensed the NEXTSTEP application environment and will use this technology to develop an implementation of the OpenStep specification for use in its Solaris Distributed Object Environment (DOE). * Sun Microsystems, Inc. will make a minority equity investment in NeXT Computer, Inc. * NeXT will port the native NEXTSTEP operating system to the SPARC architecture with marketing and technical assistance from Sun's SPARC Technology Business (a business unit of Sun Microsystems, Inc.). * SunSoft has licensed to NeXT its implementations of networking and distributed object technologies, including CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), the Object Management Group's IDL (Interface Definition Language) and NFS (Network File System). Object programming is widely recognized as the next wave of software application development, greatly reducing the time it takes to construct applications, increasing their reliability and allowing the reuse and leverage of software components. According to Chris Stone, president of the Object Management Group (OMG), "Now that NeXT is opening up the NEXTSTEP API and Sun is teaming up with them to promote it, the OpenStep specification has a great chance to become the ubiquitous object interface for application developers." "SunSoft firmly believes it will have a distinct time-to-market advantage for a complete object-based, enterprise caliber operating environment as application developers and end users make the inevitable move to object technology," said Edward J. Zander, SunSoft president. "We evaluated all of the object-oriented alternatives and we chose NeXT because it offers the best technology for building object-oriented applications, and it is proven technology which has been shipping for years. This agreement br ings together world-class technology from both vendors to allow SunSoft to offer a best-of-breed distributed software environment for enterprise-level computing." SunSoft, Inc. SunSoft headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup USA 1994. The company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions for SPARC and Intel 80386/486-based computers. The products are licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer manufacturers worldwide. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc., SunSoft and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other products or service names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
From: tchuang <tchuang@cube.ep.nctu.edu.tw> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: the First Chinese system --CHINAware for NEXTSTEP/Intel Date: 23 Nov 1993 23:28:52 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cunu2$hs8@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, please contact: Jie-Fu Corp. Tel: 886-2-369-5121 Fax: 886-2-369-5120 Addr.: 10F-1, No.107, Sec. 2,Roosevelt Rd., Taipei,Taiwan, R.O.C. E-mail: idpt353@tpts1.seed.net.tw or tchuang@cube.ep.nctu.edu.tw Announce the First Chinese system -- CHINAware for NEXTSTEP/Intel and Looking for Distributors We are very glad to announce the birth of CHINAware --- the first Chinese system for NEXTSTEP/Intel. It is built on the top of NEXTSTEP 3.1 English version, fully compatible with your English environment. CHINAware includes : 1. CInput : A Chinese input module, most common used input methods such as Cang-jie, Phonetics, Simple, TeleCode, Internal Code methods are supported. CInput module could be called by the user's own programs. 2. CEdit : A NEXTSTEP-like mouse-based text editor. RTF and RTFD format are also supported. 3. CTerminal : A Chinese VT100 Terminal Emulator. 4. dw : A PEII-like character-based text editor, running on CTerminal. 5. CSearch : A Chinese and English text searching application. 6. Longman : A complete Longman English-Chinese dictionary. (As so far, Longman is restrictly sold within Taiwan only) 7. ChKit : A Chinese function call library. 8. ChIBKit : Includes the Chinese object palette and related library, the palette contains several most common used Chinese objects, such as ChText, ChTextField, and ChScrollView, etc. 9. Chinese PS Fonts : 5 PS fonts are built-in, 13053 characters per font, and more than other 30 fonts are optional. As so far, CHINAware supports Traditional Chinese character only (BIG5 code set), Simplified Chinese character (GB code set, used by Mainland China) version will be released soon. CHINAware includes a font data CD-ROM and 3 floppy disc's. It requires 66 MB free space to install the 5 PS fonts and applications. We also provide a less function version for the students. The student version includes item 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and one PS font only. It requires 22 MB free space. The End User price of CHINAware is USD 995, Promotion price is USD 795. The price of Student version is USD 395. CHINAware will begin to ship on mid-November, 1993. 2)Looking for Distributors CHINAware, originally developed by Diginfo Corp., had been licensed to the local CANON dealer in Taiwan for the past 18 months, , and had been sold more than 200 licenses on the black NeXTstation. But now we decided to create this new company which will be dedicated in developing, integrating, and selling CHINAware. Jie-Fu, authorized by Diginfo Corp. as the global distributor, is very interested in establishing relationships with international distributors. We are looking for companies which will provide a certain level of commitment to Jie-Fu, and in return Jie-Fu will provide levels of commitment to those distributors. Your commitment would include reseller strategy, and minimum stocking levels. In return, we are prepared to give you levels of exclusivity for distribution of CHINAware in your territories. If you d o not want to distribute, we will still consider you as a non-exclusive reseller with higher cost. We believe CHINAware will help you a lot in penetrating the Asia market. And do hope to have the chances to cooperate with you ! P.S. Jie-Fu is a Chinese pronounced name, however, we are going to change the name in Nov.. Best Regards
From: Todd Steigerwald <todd@alembic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Premier Object Kits for NEXTSTEP Date: 23 Nov 1993 23:29:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cunvj$hse@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sales Division Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail:info@alembic.com HOT TECHNOLOGIES - PREMIER OBJECT KITS FOR THE NEXTSTEP PLATFORM Englewood Colorado, November 15, 1993 - (ASI) Alembic Systems Intl. Ltd. today announced an agreement with Hot Technologies to distribute its suite of object kits for on the NEXTSTEP platform. Alembic now offers Hot Technologies' BarCodeKit for implementing bar code capabilities (Nominated for NeXTWORLD'S "Best ObjectWare" award) and the SerialPortKit for designing distributed serial communications. Bar-a-Coda bar code creation software, SerialPortServer, KeyboardServer, Wand-a-Bar, BarCodeBox, ManualBuil der, and the Electro power controller application are also available. As the largest NEXTSTEP software distributor in the United States, ASI7Ltd is expanding its service to address the one-stop-shopping needs of the NEXTSTEP community. Please contact a sales representative for a full listing of products ASI7Ltd. carries. ____________________________ * BarCodeKit(tm) - A comprehensive collection of object palettes for creating international standard barcodes BarCodeKit allows both developers and organizations to quickly add bar coding to custom NEXTSTEP applications. Developers can seamlessly add bar coding to an existing application in a matter of minutes by using any of the 35 pretested and reusable objects in the BarCodeKit library of palettes. The BarCodeKit features a full range of code symbologies including: 3 of 9, Code 39 Extended, UPC-A, UPC-E, HRI, NDC, EAN-8, EAN-13, JAN-8, JAN-13, ISBN, ISSN, SICI, SISAC, POSTNET, ABC, FIM, BRM, Interleaved Two of Five, MSI, Codabar, Code 11, Code 93, Code 128, Code 16K and Code 49. BarCodeKit compiles to international, national, military and commercial bar coding standards including EAN, JAN, CEN, ANSI, MIL, USS and HIBCC. Furthermore it provides developers with flexibility; bar codes created using the kit can be scaled and rotated to fit specific areas. ____________________________ * SerialPortKit(tm) - A fundamental object library and palette for distributed serial communications. SerialPortKit is a fundamental class library and palette that makes communication with serial peripherals easy to add into your custom applications without sacrificing quality. SerialPortKit communicates with serial peripherals such as modems, printers, terminals, audio/video equipment, bar code readers, magnetic stripe readers, controllers and data acquisition devices. ____________________________ * SerialPortServer(tm) - A multi-threaded server for distributed serial communications. SerialPortServer is a Portable Distributed Objects server that allows applications built with SerialPortKit to transparently access serial peripherals anywhere on a network. ____________________________ * Bar-a-Coda(tm) - An application for creating bar codes. Bar-a-Coda is great for adding ZIP codes on envelopes, UPC symbols on products, ISBN numbers on books and labeling just about anything. ____________________________ * KeyboardServer(tm) - A server for programmatic keyboard access. KeyboardServer is a server that allows applications such as Wand-a-Bar to programmatically enter keystrokes in any application. ____________________________ * Wand-a-Bar(tm) - For configuring bar code readers and scanning bar codes. Wand-a-Bar allows anything you scan to be entered as if it were typed at the keyboard. ____________________________ * BarCodeBox(tm) - Hardware interfaces for connecting bar code readers to any PC or NeXT computer. BarCodeBox connects code wands, scanners, and card readers to your computer for fast accurate and secure data entry. ____________________________ * Electro(tm) - An application for controlling power. Electro remotely turns on/off computers and other peripherals on the network. Also designed for energy management (air conditioning, lighting, etc..) and as part of a security system. Works great with Metrosoft's SimonSays(tm) application also available through Alembic. ____________________________ ASI is a registered trademark of Alembic Systems International Ltd. BarCodeKit, SerialPortKit, SerialPortServer, Bar-a-Coda, KeyboardServer, Wand-a-Bar, BarCodeBox, and Electro are registered trademarks of Hot Technologies. SimonSays is a registered trademark of MetroSoft Inc.
From: gdevine@well.sf.ca.us (Graeme Devine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Entertainment company seeking NEXTSTEP programmers Date: 23 Nov 1993 23:35:16 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2cuoa2$hu7@digifix.digifix.com> Trilobyte, an entertainment CD-ROM company in Southern Oregon, is looking for some new programming staff. Trilobyte designed and produced "The Seventh Guest", for the IBM PC & Macintosh platform. Since it's launch in April 1993, The Seventh Guest has remained at the #1 position in CD-ROM entertainment sales. It's sequel, XIth Hour will be released in February on the IBM/Macintosh/3DO platforms. Trilobyte is looking for people with the following interests and skills - Video Compression - Physical Dynamic Systems - Authoring Tools - Interest in the Gaming field - Experience programming in NEXTSTEP, DOS, Macintosh, Assembler, C - Relocation to Southern Oregon - can drink lots of coffee Please send resumes to: Trilobyte 517 W. 10th Street Medford OR. 97501 or fax: 503 857 0616 or gdevine@well.sf.ca.us
From: honeill@nextsrv1.andi.org (Hugh O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: December 8, 1993 WaNUG Meeting announcement Date: 24 Nov 1993 11:18:29 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2d01gj$2sj@digifix.digifix.com> The Wednesday, December 8 meeting will be held at MITRE Corp, 1820 Dolly Madison Blvd, McLean, VA. The meeting begins at 7pm. Hosted by Mike O'Neill. He can be reached at:703-883-7528 or via email at: emo@mitre.org PRESENTATIONS Chris Walters from NeXT, Inc. will demonstrate Portable Distributed Objects version 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0. Bill Strehl will demostrate Hypersense from Thoughtful Software and Censusplus from Siegeltuch and Associates. In addition, literature will be distributed on some of the latest NSFIP apps and Bill will recap his recent experiences at COMDEX and FedUNIX. --- Hugh O'Neill President Washington Area NeXTSTEP Users Group (WaNUG)
From: wwille@wwille.hanse.de (Winfried Wille) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Wormland v.1.0 a SHAREWARE game Date: 24 Nov 1993 11:18:58 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2d01hg$2sp@digifix.digifix.com> Wormland v.1.0 SHAREWARE The little worm has to run through the maze to find its food. But some passages are dangerous. Beware of the inhabitants of the maze, some are following you! And the worm becomes longer and longer. Duck in the holes - but where's the exit? Wormland comes with ten entertaining levels. The maze editor allows you to invent your own additional levels. Wormland.pkg is available by ftp in the submission directory of cs.orst.edu (It will eventually move to the more appropriate location on cs.orst.edu: "/pub/next/demos/games/"). The files to look for are: /pub/next/submissions: Wormland.README see below Wormland.pkg.tar Enjoy! Andrea M ller ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wormland v. 1.0 Installation Just install the package on NEXTSTEP INTEL or MOTOROLA. The Game Help the worm to find the way through the maze. To finish a level you have to find all food. The worm grows with each food. Some passages in the maze are dead ends, some are dangerous. Beware of the inhabitants of the maze. The coincidence is fatal. Some of them are following you! Duck in the holes - but where's the exit? Wormland comes with ten entertaining levels. The maze editor allows you to invent your own additional levels. Registration Wormland is shareware. Open the Info Panel and read the shareware conditions. If you like the game please send the registration fee to the given address. Correspondence is welcome. Let us know if you like the program.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 47 - 1993 Date: 25 Nov 1993 02:47:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2d1nun$81o@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 47). Monday November 17 through Wednesday November 25 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 46 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: Questor 2.0 Spreadsheet App.- improved speed and shipping NOW SUBMISSION: ACADEMY CAD dmeo on archives orst PRESS RELEASE: Avant Vector - Autotracing for NEXTSTEP! SUBMISSION: TransSys PNI-beta software release available (SLIP for Moto, Intel) IMPORTANT NEXTANSWER - Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 ANNOUNCEMENT: NEXTSTEP European CD collection, call for software SUBMISSION: KBNS 11.2 on cs.orst.edu SUBMISSION: MOKit 0.9 Release 2 SUBMISSION: Square v.1.3 a shareware game PRESS RELEASE: Leverage the NeXT/SUN announcement at 4 industry events NeXT Opens NEXTSTEP, Publishes APIs SunSoft and NeXT Partner to Drive Volume Object Standard SUNSOFT AND NeXT PARTNER TO DRIVE VOLUME OBJECT STANDARD PRESS RELEASE: the First Chinese system --CHINAware for NEXTSTEP/Intel PRESS RELEASE: Premier Object Kits for NEXTSTEP JOB: Entertainment company seeking NEXTSTEP programmers MEETING: December 8, 1993 WaNUG Meeting announcement SUBMISSION: Wormland v.1.0 a SHAREWARE game If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. ******************************** Side Note! ******************************** Sorry for the lateness on this summary. I've been twiddling with my Approval front end, and had every intention of having the summary part automated by Monday. I still haven't gotten around to getting it all done! I put it off until now, but I didn't want to wait any longer. So..... ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 25 Nov 1993 02:48:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2d1o0j$81u@digifix.digifix.com> [This really needs to be updated/changed, if you have any suggestions for a total rewrite of this, please let me know. Scott] Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 25 Nov 1993 02:48:50 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2d1o12$824@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Ships Graphity 1.0 Business Graphics Application Date: 25 Nov 1993 22:46:45 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2d3u75$blj@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Jesper Lundh Sales Xanthus International Alembic Systems Ltd. (US distributor) phone: +46-8-635 30 62 phone: 1-800-452-7608 fax: +46-8-98 70 67 fax: 303-799-1435 email: graphity@xanthus.se email: info@alembic.com Xanthus International AB Ships Graphity 1.0 Business Graphics Application STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 25, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced that they ship Graphity, its business graphics application for the NEXTSTEP computing environment. Graphity is distributed in North America by Alembic Systems Ltd. Retail price is $395. Please contact Xanthus or Alembic for academic and volume discounts. Graphity is delivered as 'fat' (MAB) binaries for Motorola and Intel processors. _________________________________________ Aimed at corporate and scientific users with a need to visualize data, Graphity is a tool both for novice and professional users to create graphs and diagrams from any type of data. Several graph types are supported, including powerful three dimensional graphs with surface shaders and light sources. Graphity is designed to work both as a stand-alone application, and integrated with the Questor spreadsheet application from Xanthus. In addition, custom applications can easily control and display data in Graphity through a powerful API. Graphity has an easy-to-use interface with inspector panels for all different graph types. The different components of a graph, like legend, titles etc, can be moved and resized individually. Colors and fonts can be set by the Color and Font panels in NEXTSTEP. Selected Graphity features: - 3D graphs based on RenderMan. - A powerful API that allows custom applications to easily control and send data to Graphity. - Hot-links to the spreadsheet application Questor from Xanthus. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized graphs and graphics. - Drawing tools that allow you to draw directly on a graph sheet. - Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on a graph sheet to create stunning documents with graphics and sound annotations. - Unlimited undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - Full support for the NEXTSTEP object linking mechanism. - The following 2D graph types are supported: bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. - The following 3D graph types are supported: bar, area, scatter (xyz-plot) and pie. - Multiple light-sources for 3D graphs that can be positioned individually. - User defined shaders and textures for 3D graphs. Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in the NEXTSTEP platform. Graphity is the latest in a series of general-purpose productivity tools for NEXTSTEP. In May 1992, Xanthus started to ship its first product: CraftMan, the award-winning multimedia programming tool for NEXTSTEP. In May 1993, Xanthus started to ship Questor, the most powerful spreadsheet application for NEXTSTEP. Xanthus International was founded in 1990.
From: vamparys@litsun.epfl.ch (Franck Vamparys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION : Reversi Master v1.0 Date: 26 Nov 1993 12:56:01 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2d5fvh$f0p@digifix.digifix.com> available by ftp in the submission directory ofPath: vamparys Reversi Master is a program which allows you to play at the reversi or othello game (MAB files). Reversi Master is a freeware and can be redistributed freely, this is the first release. ReversiMaster is available by ftp in the submission directory of cs.orst.edu (/pub/next/submissions). The files to look for are: ReversiMaster.compressed ReversiMaster.README With Reversi Master you can : - play several games at the same time. - choose between computer/computer human/human computer/human games. - differents levels (from 1mn to infiny time for a game). - computer can think when the other player must play. - open library with the names of the opening. - analysis mode (in analysis panel) with generation of a trace file. - two sizes of the board with animation of the discs. - open and save the game files. - take back last move, replay all the game with the retrospection panel. - show Reversi Master advice, show permitted moves. - show and save in a EPS file the figure with all the moves of a game. - modify the board to play a different game than the default othello. - support english and french languages. - help available (more details in the french help in particular on stategie). Enjoy! Franck VAMPARYS
From: Eric A. Litman <elitman@proxima.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB OFFERING: NeXTSTEP Developer in Washington, D.C. Area Date: 27 Nov 1993 23:03:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2d97u7$625@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact: Eric A. Litman Proxima, Inc. 7927 Jones Branch Dr., Suite 300 West McLean, VA 22102 703.506.1661 elitman@proxima.com Proxima, Inc. is pleased to anounce the following position in our Tyson's Corner, VA offices. The position is to be filled ASAP. Additional positions to be posted as needed. (1) NEXTSTEP Developer o NEXTSTEP systems development o Strong AppKit knowledge a must o DBKit/Oracle experience o Experience w/ VNP AccessKit a plus o Full or Part-time availability The position as announced is for Staff Programmer, to work on various corporate development projects. Immediate work will include financial systems, imaging systems, and rapid prototyping of customer requirements. Long-term projects may include extensive DBKit development, game development, and Internet applications development. Proxima provides competetive salary and benefits packages to all employees, including comprehensive medical coverage, tuition reimbursment, and direct and remote Internet access. Please respond via email to elitman@proxima.com, or fax your resume in care of Eric Litman to 703.848-0804. NeXT Mail accepted. _______________ Proxima, Inc. is a Maryland company providing systems integration, application development, and local and wide-area networking solutions to both commercial and federal government clients. Proxima is a NeXT Object Channel member, and an authorized Intel Business Partner. Proxima prides itself on maintaining a stimulating work environment, and is an equal opportunity employer. _______________
From: tony@blcksmth.com (Tony Rennier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: BLaCKSMITH ships CHaRTSMITH Graphics Application Date: 28 Nov 1993 23:27:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dbto9$auc@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Company Contact: Anthony Rennier BLaCKSMITH, Inc. 703-524-6147 Voice 703-524-7215 Fax Email: info@blcksmth.com Press Contact: Pam McGraw Grays Point Communications 703-222-2435 BLaCKSMITH SHIPS GRAPHICS APPLICATION CHaRTSMITH provides easy-to-use features Arlington, Va., November 29, 1993 -- BLaCKSMITH, Inc. today announced the general availability of CHaRTSMITH, a graphics package for NEXTSTEP. CHaRTSMITH is a presentation quality charting and graphing package that allows the novice or expert user to create business and scientific charts quickly and easily. CHaRTSMITH is available as a Multiple Architecture Binary (MAB) which allows it to run unmodified on Intel 486 and other compatible hardware supporting NEXTSTEP for Intel processors as well as on NeXT computers based on Motorola processors. "When we looked at the NEXTSTEP market, we saw the need for a charting and graphing package that would take advantage of all the powerful features offered by NEXTSTEP," said Anthony Rennier, President of BLaCKSMITH. "CHaRTSMITH combines an intuitive user interface and the power of Display PostScript to provide an easy-to-use application which creates presentation-quality, professional graphics." The focus of the CHaRTSMITH user interface is the Chart Window where charts and graphs are displayed and directly manipulated. A single Chart Window corresponds to a CHaRTSMITH document in which any number of charts can be stored. In coordination with the Chart Window is the Data Window, where the data, that is graphically represented in a chart, is entered and stored. From any given chart, a CHaRTSMITH template can be built, storing the attributes of a chart so that future charts can be identically for matted. "CHaRTSMITH is an easy-to-use application that produces quality results," said Dain Ehring, Lighthouse Design. "CHaRTSMITH's inspired graphics and well-constructed interface take full advantage of the assets of NEXTSTEP." "I don't think I've ever touched an app that tries harder to respond sensibly to the concrete actions users are likely to take," - Dave Grady. Product Details Chart Types -- CHaRTSMITH offers a variety of chart types: * Bar and stacked bar * Hi-low * 2D and 3D pie * Hi-low-open-close * Line * XY and scatter * Area * Compatible chart types * Stacked area may be mixed Easy-to-use features include: * Drag-n-drop color to chart graphics * Drag-n-drop images to bars, backgrounds and boxes * Drag-n-drop charts into other applications * Color preview areas before final color selection Graphic effects used to enhance charts: * Text, line, box, image and circle annotations * Gradient filling for chart graphics * Shadowed and color text * 3 dimensional and tilt effect * Transparency of images * Log and semi-log grid types Additional features include: * Templates - the attributes of any number of charts can be stored as templates and later used to format other charts. Attributes stored are selected from a list of chart components. Template files can then be applied to one or more charts via drag-n-drop. * Object link support - data can be linked to CHaRTSMITH from all applications which provide NEXTSTEP object link support. Likewise, CHaRTSMITH graphs can be linked to all applications which accept NEXTSTEP Object Links. Pricing -- CHaRTSMITH is available for $495; academic price is $99. Demonstration -- A demonstration of CHaRTSMITH is available from: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/demos/graphics > sum Chartsmith_1.0.tar.Z 44971 2098 Founded in 1992, BLaCKSMITH, Inc. develops and markets CHaRTSMITH, a business and scientific graphics application for NEXTSTEP. Additionally, the company provides consulting services for organizations seeking NEXTSTEP development expertise. ### NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. CHaRTSMITH is a trademark of BLaCKSMITH, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: preuss@netcom.com (Peter Preuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: AcChen 3.2 Date: 28 Nov 1993 23:28:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dbtpb$aui@digifix.digifix.com> I just posted the very latest version of AcChen, 3.2 (compiled under 3.2) onto cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions and ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen. Two files: -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 480 Nov 28 18:01 AcChen32.README -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 301 671744 Nov 28 18:01 AcChen32.tar The README: This is the latest release of AcChen, the find-the-matching-tile game appreciated by 43 people on this planet ;). It's color, it's FAT, and sports among other new features a LevelEditor allowing you to design your own Levels (no more complaints about being too tough and endangering your marriage, please!). Further $15 contributions, thoughts, and suggestions are welcome! Peter Preuss preuss@sutro.sfsu.edu 1883 43rd Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122 Peter.
From: jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Jolly alias Patrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: am.1.0 (Fax/Modem/Data for Zyxel) Date: 28 Nov 1993 23:29:13 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dbtqp$auo@digifix.digifix.com> You need Fax/Modem/Data at the same time ? -> read this ! What you need is a ZyXEL 1496 modem and a NeXT-Computer. What you get is a source for a prg. that handles incoming calls like no other prg. on NeXT-Computers. I detects if the caller is a fax-machine, a modem or a human. Faxes will be converted that they can be read with the FaxReader. Recorded messages will be converted that you are able to use the SoundPlayer. Modem calls just log in :) - Outgoing calls like SL/IP,tip,cu ...- no problemo. I uploaded am.1.00.0.tar.Z to : cs.orst.edu ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
From: jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Jolly alias Patrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: FastSokoban 1.00 Date: 28 Nov 1993 23:30:47 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dbttn$av9@digifix.digifix.com> FastSokoban is an addictive game of strategy. It is similar to Boxxle on the Nintendo GameBoy. Your objective is to push blocks onto marked dots in a maze. Tricky! FastSokoban Version 1.00.0 in Source and FAT-Binary to: cs.orst.edu ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
From: caro@mv.us.adobe.com (Perry A. Caro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: DPS Survey Available Date: 29 Nov 1993 00:11:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dc09o$b49@digifix.digifix.com> November 29, 1993 Adobe Systems Incorporated is sponsoring a market survey for our Display PostScript system products. This is your chance to help us plan for future development. We are eager to receive feedback from qualified software developers, software purchasing managers, researchers, university staff personnel, and consultants. If you are interested in participating in this survey, please send a message to our automated electronic mail response server, or pick up the survey form from our anonymous FTP site. Instructions for completing the survey are included in the survey form. Completed surveys must be returned no later than December 15, 1993. FTP: ftp.adobe.com (130.248.1.4) user: anonymous password: your user id or e-mail address cd pub/adobe/Documents get DPSSurvey.txt E-Mail: Internet: ps-file-server@adobe.com UUCP: {sun,decwrl,apple}!adobe!ps-file-server To: <the Internet address or a UUCP address> Subject: <None required> Put the following line in the body of the message: send documents DPSSurvey.txt Thanks, Display Products Group Adobe Systems Incorporated (If you have any questions or comments about this posting, please send them to caro@mv.us.adobe.com)
From: meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: JetPilot 1.1 Demo Date: 29 Nov 1993 16:34:41 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ddpth$erv@digifix.digifix.com> If you need printer support for Hewlett-Packard DeskJet or LaserJet series printers on NEXTSTEP 3.x, try out JetPilot. It works with either black or white hardware. It is the first third-party printer driver to be fully integrated into NEXTSTEP. This means that you can control options via the PrintPanel from within any application. I have uploaded the files: JetPilot_1.1.DEMO.README JetPilot_1.1.DEMO.tar.gz to "cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions" and "ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: /pub/next/Tools/printer". >From the README: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package contains the demo-version of JetPilot, a printer driver for HP-Deskjet and HP-Laserjet type printers. All printer options are fully supported, with the exception that the word Demo is printed diagonally over each page. With the purchase of the driver the customer will get a registration code which he can apply to the driver using the registration application. This will simply disable the demo-mode. You need NeXTSTEP 3.0 or NEXTSTEP 3.1 or NEXTSTEP 3.2 in order to use JetPilot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- cheers, Uwe Uwe Meyer-Gruhl Lehrstuhl Informatik IX Technische Universitaet Muenchen Orleansstr. 34, D-81667 Muenchen
From: erictremblay@genie.geis.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Nebula CD-ROM for NEXTSTEP/Intel Date: 29 Nov 1993 17:30:32 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ddt68$fd1@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Walnut Creek CDROM 1-800-786-9907 Nebula CDROM for NeXTSTEP Intel now available. Walnut Creek, Calif., November 1, 1993 - Walnut Creek CDROM is proud to announced the immediate availability of the Nebula CDROM for NeXTSTEP Intel Computers. This is the second NeXTSTEP product from Walnut Creek who also produces the Nova CDROM for NeXT Black hardware. Based on the success and feedback from the users of the Nova, Walnut Creek wanted to support NeXTSTEP for Intel. What will NeXTSTEP for Intel users find on this disc? They will find the largest collection of applications presently available with applications in such categories as utilities, games, general productivity. They will also find graphics in tiff, PostScript, gif and login panels. Also on the disc is a large collection fonts and sounds plus many other files. Programmers will be happy to note that almost all the applications on the disc comes with complete source code making the Nebula a valuable reference for NeXTSTEP programmers. Each directory on the disk contains an index listing filename, version, author and a short description of each file. A central index is also included which can be used with Digital Librarian to quickly locate the file your looking for. NeXTSTEP 3.1 or above for Intel processors is required to use this disc. Nebula is available immediately from Walnut Creek CDROM at a retail price of $59.95. For more information contact: Walnut Creek CDROM 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 1 800 786-9907 +1 510 947-5996 +1 510 947-1644 FAX info@cdrom.com or eric@cdrom.com (Electronic Mail) Walnut Creek CDROM markets a wide range of CDROM products for a variety of platforms such as NeXT, Sun, MS-DOS/Windows, Macintosh and Amiga. All trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners
From: John Carmack <johnc@idcube.idsoftware.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: BETA TESTERS: DOOM! Date: 29 Nov 1993 17:53:03 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ddugf$fhi@digifix.digifix.com> There is a BETA version of DOOM for NS intel available at: cs.orst.edu : /pub/next/submissions/Doom.app.compressed It expects a color system, but it MAY run under an 8 bit grey display. Performance is a LOT better if you have installed 3.2. There are no sound effects or music, and the colors are a bit off, but otherwise the game is exactly the same as the yet-to-be-released dos version (99% done). Let us know about any problems you find with the gameplay (not with the NeXT interface -- a later version will be more NeXTy and have better performance under NS). Email to shawng@idsoftware.com will be directed to the apropriate people. My hope in releasing the version is that a few dozen NeXT players will find a couple bugs that I can fix before releasing the dos version, which will spread to zillions of sites overnight. Don't gloat over any PC gamers you may know, or they may hunt me down and kill me. John Carmack Id Software
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 48 - 1993 Date: 30 Nov 1993 00:22:50 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2delba$h7e@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 48). Wednesday November 25 through Monday November 30 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 47 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: Xanthus Ships Graphity 1.0 Business Graphics Application SUBMISSION : Reversi Master v1.0 JOB OFFERING: NeXTSTEP Developer in Washington, D.C. Area PRESS RELEASE: BLaCKSMITH ships CHaRTSMITH Graphics Application SUBMISSION: AcChen 3.2 SUBMISSION: am.1.0 (Fax/Modem/Data for Zyxel) SUBMISSION: FastSokoban 1.00 SUBMISSION: DPS Survey Available SUBMISSION: JetPilot 1.1 Demo PRESS RELEASE: Nebula CD-ROM for NEXTSTEP/Intel BETA TESTERS: DOOM! If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. ***** NOTE: The summaries will be posted on Monday from now on ****** Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 30 Nov 1993 00:23:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2deldf$h7n@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 30 Nov 1993 00:24:04 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2deldk$h7t@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dolphin.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: NeXTSTEP Training Courses Date: 30 Nov 1993 12:42:30 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dg0m6$kud@digifix.digifix.com> Dolphin Technologies Inc. Announces Training & Support Program Contact: Jennifer C. Clark Dolphin Technologies Inc. 10329 Viretta Lane Beverly Glen, CA 90077-2723 November 1, 1993 LOS ANGELES, California--Dolphin Technologies Inc. today announced the rollout of its NeXTSTEP training and support programs. The company offers a full complement of developer, custom application, and third-party application training services, as well as a range of on- and off-site custom support programs. Developer training course offerings include beginning and advanced NeXTSTEP programming, programming with DBKit, Dolphin Kit, system administration, and backup and recovery. For clients designing custom applications, Dolphin Technologies Inc. works directly with you to assess training needs, and to develop courses and course materials. Third-party application training services are also available; Dolphin Technologies offers Introduction to NeXTSTEP and a selection of NeXTSTEP third-party application courses. "A product is only as good as your user's knowledge of how to employ it. Dolphin Technologies offers a complete solution from needs assessment to documentation, course design and classroom training," said Norman B. Furlong, Principal, Dolphin Technologies Inc. "Our program is designed to deliver the highest quality training materials and instruction so that future training can be done by the client," said Zacharias J. Beckman, Principal, Dolphin Technologies Inc. In addition to training, Dolphin Technologies produces high-quality user documentation for custom applications. The documentation services include product image consultation, project management, writing, editing, and production. Dolphin Technologies also offers dedicated NeXTSTEP and custom solution support programs. The programs offer a variety of services ranging from toll-free telephone support to full-time on-site support. Support program offerings include NeXTSTEP system administration, hardware configuration management, network management, custom software maintenance, and more. Dolphin Technologies Inc. and Dolphin Software are headquartered in Beverly Glen, California. The company performs systems engineering, mission critical development, and object oriented consulting services. For additional information contact Jennifer C. Clark at 800-843-0328 (or 310-441-9021 outside the US); electronic mail can be directed to <training@dolphin.com>. -- END -- NeXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer Inc.
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dolphin.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Dolphin Kit Developer Library 3.2 Ships Date: 30 Nov 1993 12:43:32 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dg0o4$kuj@digifix.digifix.com> Dolphin Technologies Inc. Announces Dolphin Kit Object Library Contact: Zacharias J. Beckman Dolphin Technologies Inc. 10329 Viretta Lane Beverly Glen, CA 90077 November 1, 1993--Dolphin Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the Dolphin Kit class library, version 3.2, for NeXTSTEP (both Intel and Motorola hardware). The kit consists of a set of classes which run in the NeXTSTEP environment and provide common functionality that many applications require. The classes expand upon the existing NeXTSTEP API and deliver a proven set of software components to accelerate both in-house and mission critical software development. Dolphin Kit provides NeXTSTEP developers with an essential suite of classes from which to build applications. Included in the kit are classes for string manipulation, complex string parsing and regular expression handling, encapsulation of files, multitasking and management of C Threads at an object oriented level, handling Mach processes, containers such as sorted lists, arrays and tree classes to directly generate and deliver NeXTMAIL, extended error handling, and encapsulation of NXStreams. Dolphin Kit has been carefully architectured to provide a maximum of reusability and integration with existing NeXTSTEP classes. For example, kit data stores, such as the DSArray class, integrate completely with the NeXTSTEP API by using the DBTableView class as a "front end" to display the container's contents. "In designing Dolphin Kit we made sure that the method names, parameter names and paradigms conformed to existing NeXTSTEP standards in the App Kit, Database Kit, and Indexing Kit," said Carlos Salinas, Senior Engineer, Dolphin Technologies Inc. "Dolphin heavily leverages the kit in-house, both for our shrink wrap product development and our mission critical contracts," said Zacharias J. Beckman, Principal, Dolphin Technologies Inc. "The classes provide us with a proven and robust suite of objects which speed our development cycle tremendously. This allows us to focus on the important aspects of the project, rather than on recreating frequently used software components." Dolphin Kit is an integral part of Dolphin Technologies' development efforts, having been used in Dolphin's shrink wrap products such as Tar Viewer, an extension to the File Viewer that makes it possible to browse a "tar" file, and Author! Author!, NeXTSTEP's first complete shrink wrap document management solution. Dolphin Technologies has also used the kit within its mission critical development contracts, such as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's PPI project, where the kit is used throughout the PPI applications. Dolphin Kit is available for a single-user license purchase price of $449.00 US (site licenses and source code licenses are available). For detailed information on the kit, send electronic mail to <info@dolphin.com> or contact Dolphin Technologies Inc. at 10329 Viretta Lane, Beverly Glen, CA 90077. Facsimile can be sent to 310-441-9041 and voice calls are accepted at 310-441-9021. Dolphin Technologies Inc. and Dolphin Software are headquartered in Beverly Glen, California. The company performs systems engineering, mission critical development, and object oriented consulting services, and develops shrink wrap NeXTSTEP applications. For additional information contact Norman B. Furlong at 800-843-0328. -- END -- Author! Author! is a trademark of Dolphin Technologies Inc. NeXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer Inc.
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dolphin.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Tar Viewer Utility for NeXTSTEP Date: 30 Nov 1993 12:43:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dg0oq$kup@digifix.digifix.com> Dolphin Technologies Inc. Announces Tar Viewer Utility Contact: Zacharias J. Beckman Dolphin Technologies Inc. 10329 Viretta Lane Beverly Glen, CA 90077 November 1, 1993 Dolphin Technologies Inc. announced the availability of Tar Viewer, version 1.0, for NeXTSTEP (both Intel and Motorola hardware). Tar Viewer is an extension to the Workspace Manager File Viewer which makes it possible to browse "tar" files as if they were directories. Tar Viewer extends the functionality of the Workspace Manager File Viewer so that it can read tar files. With Tar Viewer, double-clicking on a tar file opens a new File Viewer which can browse inside the tar file. Files and directories can be added, removed and extracted from the tar file by dragging the file or directory into or out of the tar file. Any file or document in the tar file can be launched directly from the File Viewer without having to unpack the tar file. "Tar Viewer makes working with tar files much easier. It's great being able to treat a tar file which I receive from the Internet as if it were simply a directory," said a recent user of the new application. Tar Viewer makes use of the technology developed for Author! Author!, Dolphin's premier document management product. The technology makes it possible to extend the Workspace Manager to display any hierarchical data store as though it were simply a directory. Tar Viewer is available for a single-user license purchase price of $79.95 US. For detailed information on the application, send electronic mail to <info@dolphin.com> or contact Dolphin Technologies Inc. at 10329 Viretta Lane, Beverly Glen, CA 90077. Facsimile can be sent to 310-441-9041 and voice calls are accepted at 310-441-9021. Dolphin Technologies Inc. and Dolphin Software are headquartered in Beverly Glen, California. The company performs systems engineering, mission critical development, and object oriented consulting services, and develops shrink wrap NeXTSTEP applications. For additional information contact Norman B. Furlong at 800-843-0328. -- END -- Author! Author! is a trademark of Dolphin Technologies Inc. Workspace Manager and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dolphin.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Author! Author! Document Management Date: 30 Nov 1993 12:44:43 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dg0qb$kuv@digifix.digifix.com> Dolphin Technologies Inc. Announces Document Management For NeXTSTEP Contact: Zacharias J. Beckman Dolphin Technologies Inc. 10329 Viretta Lane Beverly Glen, CA 90077 November 19, 1993 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA--Dolphin Technologies Inc. today announced the rollout of its comprehensive document management software for NeXTSTEP. Author! Author!, scheduled for release in early 1994, is the first shrink-wrap document management solution available on the platform. Author! Author! brings powerful document management to the desktop. The product, fully integrated with the NeXTSTEP File Viewer, makes document management nearly transparent. Author! Author! intercepts all file operations within the NeXTSTEP environment and fully automates the task of keeping revision and change histories on documents. Every document is archived and every change is recorded. Reviewing changes that were made to a document or finding the author of a change is easy. The product greatly enhances collaborative writing. Author! Author! prevents accidental erasure of someone else's work by assuring that only one user at a time can change a document. While any number of users can read and share a document, no two users can lock it for revision at the same time. Workgroup scheduling makes it possible to assign a specific list of authors, and have a document travel from one to another. Working with projects containing multiple documents is easy. Author! Author! manages arbitrary collections of documents as if they were a single document. Author! Author! uses high-speed indexing technology to search and retrieve documents. You can quickly search multiple, distributed databases for documents by name, description, content, keyword, document status, and author. The product works with an unlimited number of applications. Since it taps directly into the Workspace, it transparently manages any file, document, or image. Author! Author! meets the most stringent security requirements by providing a variety of flexible document access configuration options. Access permissions can be assigned according to database, user or by groups of users created by the document manager. Single user licenses of Author! Author! are available for $295 per user. The single user product includes revision control, document locking, advanced search and retrieval, document indexing, project management and audit features. Multiple user licenses which include single user capabilities as well as complete workgroup security, approval and workflow management are available for $995 per user. Dolphin Technologies Inc. and Dolphin Software are headquartered in Beverly Glen, California. The company performs systems engineering, mission critical development, and object oriented consulting services in addition to development of its shrink wrap product line. For additional information contact Zacharias J. Beckman at 800-843-0328 (or 310-441-9021 from outside the US); electronic mail can be directed to <info@dolphin.com>. -- END -- Author! Author! is a trademark of Dolphin Technologies Inc. NeXTSTEP and Workspace Manager are a trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.
From: Nick Christopher <nwc@piglet.ny.shl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: December GUN Meeting Date: 1 Dec 1993 00:13:09 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dh955$n5q@digifix.digifix.com> GOTHAM USERS OF NeXT Wednesday, December 15th I. Q&A - 18:30 Questions. Answers. News. II. Black Market Technologies - 19:00 Tim Reed, one of GUN's founders will talk about his company, Black Market Technologies, and its products. His focus will be on BMT's products 1 in particular Connect It! his UUCP management tool that won a four Cube review from NeXTWORLD magazine! Tim will also talk about being a small shop in NYC and what bringing a NEXTSTEP product to market is all about! III. Raffle - End of Meeting Joe Barello - a local NeXT/NeXTWORLD deity continues to cough up crazy NEXTSTEP memorabilia: NeXTWORLD EXPO developer docs, NEXTSTEP Installed placards 1 who knows what else... Electronic Directions 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 503 212-213-6500 Questions to GUN at 718-260-9848 or info@gun.com
From: David_Spitzler@NeXT.COM (David Spitzler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica for NEXTSTEP for Intel Date: 1 Dec 1993 23:02:18 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2djpca$ss5@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jane Rich Wolfram Research, Inc. 217-398-0700 WOLFRAM RESEARCH RELEASES MATHEMATICA UNDER NEXTSTEP FOR INTEL PROCESSORS CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, December 1, 1993 -- Wolfram Research, Inc. today announced the release of Mathematica 2.2, the world's leading software for numerical, symbolic, and graphical computation, under NEXTSTEP for Intel processors, NeXT's object-oriented software for Intel-486 and Pentium-based computers. "Mathematica running on NeXT has a large and strategically important user base in the academic and financial markets, and we expect our continuing commitment to NEXTSTEP will expand these markets further," explained Prem Chawla, chief operating officer, Wolfram Research. "We are pleased that NEXTSTEP for Intel processors continues to receive accolades for its superb functionality and is being well-accepted in the academic, government, and commercial markets." Most notably, the Mathematica front end incorporates a revolutionary notebook interface. NEXTSTEP users use Mathematica notebooks -- interactive documents in which the user combines live computations, plots, animated graphics, and text -- extensively in corporate environments, for research, and in classrooms with computer labs. They find Mathematica notebooks ideal for writing technical reports, class courseware, even entire books. "We're pleased that Mathematica is now available on NEXTSTEP for Intel processors," said Ronald Weissman, director of corporate marketing at NeXT Computer, Inc. "Mathematica is a unique product, with an architecture that allows superior integration with NEXTSTEP. Wolfram Research continues to be one of NeXT's key third-party vendors, and we're looking forward to continuing what is one of NeXT's oldest and strongest partnerships." * Price and Availability * Mathematica under NEXTSTEP for Intel processors will begin shipping in December and is priced at $1245. Academic pricing starts at $995. Volume discounts and academic site licenses are available. * About Mathematica and Wolfram Research, Inc. * Mathematica, the leading software for numeric, symbolic, and graphical computation, is used internationally by technical professionals in almost every area of scientific and technical computing. Its underlying, high-level programming language is becoming the language of choice for programming among technical professionals and students. Mathematica is available on more than 20 systems, including Unix, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, NEXTSTEP, and MS-DOS. Wolfram Research distributes Mathematica worldwide directly as well as through a variety of channels, including resellers, distributors, retail outlets and hardware vendors. Wolfram Research Europe Ltd., based in the United Kingdom, handles distribution in Europe. For further information on Mathematica, contact Wolfram Research at 1-800-441-MATH or 217-398-0700. Wolfram Research, Inc., the developer of Mathematica, is a privately held company based in Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Founded in 1987, the company currently has about 160 employees. # # # Mathematica is a registered trademark of Wolfram Research, Inc. All other product names mentioned are trademarks of their producers.
From: Charles Bennett <chuck@BenaTong.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: TimeSync DEMO Date: 1 Dec 1993 23:02:44 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2djpd4$ssb@digifix.digifix.com> A new MAB TimeSync demo is now on cs.orst.edu TimeSync is a command line program that will call either NIST or USNO and synchronize your system clocks. Features include: Adjust or Set for the time. TimeSync can either "jump" the clock or cause the clock to speed up or slow down until the correction has been made. Automatic drift calculation and correction. TimeSync can calculate a daily correction value to allow you call one a week, yet correct daily. Park on Port (TimeSync can wait till the specified port is free then execute so you never miss a time correction because the port was in use.) Alternate Service Dialing (If NIST is busy TimeSync will optionally call USNO and toggle between them until someone answers.) Mail notification TimeSync can send mail to you, informing you of the clock drift and correction. Price: $49.95 Requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or greater Location: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/TimeSync.README cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/TimeSync.pkg.compressed For more information contact info@benatong.com 614.276.7859 (voice and fax) Registered owners of TimeSync may upgrade for free by sending mail to timesync@benatong.com Chuck Bennett
From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Demo of Questor 2.0 spreadsheet app on sics.se:/pub/next/demos_fat Date: 1 Dec 1993 23:03:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2djpdr$ssn@digifix.digifix.com> A 'fat' (MAB) demo of the shipping version of the Questor 2.0 spreadsheet application from Xanthus is now available on the following archive: sics.se:/pub/next/demos_fat The demo runs with full functionality for 9 minutes. It can be restarted any number of times. _________________________________________ Questor 2.0 is the most powerful and user-friendly spreadsheet application for NEXTSTEP. It combines the intuitive metaphor of "matrix-based" spreadsheet programs with a number of unique features and a true NEXTSTEP user interface. The backbone of Questor 2.0 is a conventional matrix-based spreadsheet that can easily be used by anybody who has once used spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 or Wingz. To this backbone is added a number of unique features, including easy-to-use SQL database access, a powerful scripting language, multi-level undo and a versatile API. Questor 2.0 is designed to be extremely easy to integrate with SQL databases and custom-made applications on NEXTSTEP. Questor 2.0 is the second release of the application. Questor 1.0 was released in May 1993.
From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Demo of Graphity 1.0 business graphics app on sics.se:/pub/next/demos_fat Date: 1 Dec 1993 23:03:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2djpe7$sst@digifix.digifix.com> A 'fat' (MAB) demo of the shipping version of the Graphity 1.0 business graphics application from Xanthus is now available on the following archive: sics.se:/pub/next/demos_fat The demo runs with full functionality for 9 minutes. It can be restarted any number of times. _________________________________________ Graphity 1.0 is a tool both for novice and professional users to create graphs and diagrams from any type of data. Several graph types are supported, including powerful three dimensional graphs with surface shaders and light sources. Graphity is designed to work both as a stand-alone application, and integrated with the Questor spreadsheet application from Xanthus. In addition, custom applications can easily control and display data in Graphity through a powerful API. Graphity has an easy-to-use interface with inspector panels for all different graph types. The different components of a graph, like legend, titles etc, can be moved and resized individually. Colors and fonts can be set by the Color and Font panels in NEXTSTEP. Graphity supports multi-level undo of all commands.
From: kyriakid@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Reinhard Zierke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: XView 3.1 for NeXT Date: 2 Dec 1993 23:00:46 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dmdle$7q9@digifix.digifix.com> Finally released: XView v.3.1 NeXTrevision 1.4 (for black Hardware) XView v.3.1 NeXTrevision 1.4 SHAREWARE distribution This is a complete port of the XView v.3.1 distribution which has been done under Cub'X Window. Tests have been done by the time **only** under Cub'X Window, but (I'am optimistic) it should also work with co-Xist. XView is available by ftp in the submission directory of cs.orst.edu: /pub/next/submissions (It will eventually move to the more appropriate location on cs.orst.edu: "/pub/next/XNeXT"). It's also available in the /pub/.../next/X11 directory of the arcadia server in munich (ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de). The files to look for are: XViewNeXT.README - short info in ascii-format XViewNeXT.tar.gz - the XView stuff (5MB compressed, ~20 MB installed) XViewNeXT.report.ps.gz - a more detailed overview in ps-format Enjoy! Valentino Kyriakides ----------------------------------------------------------------- XView v.3.1 NeXTrevision 1.4 Installation ------------ Refer to the "InstallationGuide.rtf" file which is in the archive. What's in the archive --------------------- Client app binaries: olwm, olvwm, olwmslave, textedit, clock, cmdtool and dvitool. Libraries and headers: for xview and olgx. Contribution examples: all example programs. Online-help, images and bitmaps: everything from the orig. distribution Documentation: InstallationGuide, UserGuide, XViewNeXTreport, orig. Sun documentation and manual pages. Registration XViewNeXT is shareware. Read the License.rtf file or open the supplied RegistrationForm.app and read the shareware conditions. If you like this XView distribution please send the registration fee to the given address. Comments and sugestions are welcome.
From: Todd Steigerwald <todd@alembic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: John D. Pierce appointed President and COO of Alembic Systems Intl. Ltd. Date: 2 Dec 1993 23:01:29 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dmdmp$7rc@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOHN D. PIERCE APPOINTED PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER (COO) OF ALEMBIC SYSTEMS INTL. LTD.(ASI) ENGLEWOOD COLORADO, November 30,1993 - Alembic Systems International Ltd,(ASI) today announced the appointment of John D. Pierce as President and Chief Operating Officer. Pierce is moving Alembic forward as the premier single-source NeXTSTEP software distributor. Pierce has over 15 years of experience in the computer industry at Xerox, Apple, and NeXT. According to Mr. Pierce, "NeXTSTEP users expect a level of understanding about NeXTSTEP products and services that very few companies can provide. Alembic not only provides this type of service, but offers it on an global basis. Our employees have years of experience with NeXTSTEP, NeXTSTEP related products, and the user community." "John has been instrumental in helping ASI realize its goal of becoming a global distributor for the NEXTSTEP marketplace" observed Jim Pratt CEO and Chairman of ASI. "We have seen a sales increase of over 200% from last quarter, and have dramatically increased our line of NeXTSTEP-specific software products. Alembic has a distinct advantage by being the only single-source distributor available for NeXTSTEP users in the U.S. and Europe." According to Dale Pratt, VP of Planning and Development, the "recent announcements between NeXT, HP, and Sun Microsystems will provide an extremely large installed-base of NEXTSTEP customers. These customers want a one-stop shop for purchasing all the best software products available on NEXTSTEP. We are pleased that John Pierce is working with us to provide such a service." Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Drive East Bldg G P Suite 228 Englewood, CO 80112 Phone 1-800-452-7608 (303) 799-6223 Fax (303) 799-1709 e-mail: john@alembic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Compatibility-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194315.22577@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:43:15 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Compatibility-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ !A1. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of X-Windows? A2. Can I run DOS software on NEXTSTEP? A3. Can I run Macintosh Programs on my NeXT? A4. Can I run tcsh, zsh or bash on NEXTSTEP? A5. Can sound files be used on Sun OS and NEXTSTEP interchangeably? A6. Why does talk not work between NEXTSTEP and SUN OS? A7. How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? A8. How do I view/convert GIF/TIF/jpeg images? +A9. How to transfer data to/from Unix systems with floppy disks? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A1. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of X-Windows? [Douglas Scott <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>] A new version of the public-domain monochrome and color "Mouse-X" X server binaries is now available on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu as ~ftp/pub/X11R5-MouseX.tar.Z. This tarfile contains the binaries for the two servers, a README file, and a new version of the front end App. The new server version will now work on NeXTs with the new ADB keyboard, as well as NeXTs with the original keyboards. As before, these servers will also run on Turbos and non-Turbos. The new front end App allows you to toggle between machine configurations (but you must restart the server to have them take effect). For those who have not used the "Mouse-X" X servers and are interested, read the README.FIRST file in the same directory as the above file for more information about what you will need. ***** For those who are waiting for the MIT X source patch: ***** I should have this ready by the end of the week, and I will be placing it in the submissions directories on orst and sonata as X11R5-source.patch.tar.Z. Pencom Software of Austin, TX is distributing co-Xist, an X11R5 color server that supports all hardware platforms and runs under NEXTSTEP 2.0 or higher. The Motif Window Manager, development libraries and online Digital Librarian documentation are available as options. A demo is available on the archives. For more information: Pencom Software email: co-Xist_info@pencom.com Voice: 1-800-PENCOM4 or Cub'X in Puteaux, France has a commercial X server. A demo is available on the archives. For more information: Cub'x SystÜmes Immeuble Sedgwick 7, Rue E. & A. Peugeot 92563 Rueil Malmaison Cedex France Tel : +33 1 47 08 74 40 Fax : +33 1 47 08 74 41 academic@cubx.com MIT maintains a ftp server for X distribution: export.lcs.mit.edu It currently does not have any NeXT specific servers. If you compile software make sure the libraries are install in the ld path, and that you use the X provided C pre-processor. There is another commercial X product called eXodus. White Pine Software 603-866-9050. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A2. Can I run DOS software on NEXTSTEP? NEXTSTEP systems are able to read, write, and format DOS diskettes in addition to UNIX filesystems. Consult the User Manual. There is a product called Soft-PC available for NEXTSTEP. For more information: Insignia Solutions, Inc. Voice: 408 694 7600 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A3. Can I run Macintosh Programs on my NeXT? NEXTSTEP systems are able to read, write, and format Mac diskettes in addition to UNIX filesystems. Consult the User Manual. Abacus R&D, Inc. offers products called Executor and HFS_XFer that allow some Mac functionality. Executor is a program that allows you to run programs originally written for the Macintosh, on your NeXT computer. Currently the two major applications that we support are Microsoft Word (versions 4.0E, 5.0 and 5.1) and Microsoft Excel (versions 3.0A and 4.0). You must own a copy of these applications in order to use them; Microsoft software does not come with Executor. Executor is actually a full-blown Macintosh emulator, except we have prioritized the bug fixing and fixed all the bugs pertaining to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel so that we can sell this version now to people who want it. Executor works nicely in the NeXT environment, allowing the use of services and cut and paste of ASCII and Rich Text between Executor and other NEXTSTEP applications. Word 5 can read and print .eps and .tiff files. Reverse engineering the Macintosh is a difficult task. There are some pieces of the software yet to do. Consequently, Executor 1.x has the following limitations: No Color, No Sound, No System 7, No AppleTalk, No Script Manage (i.e. no non-US localizations) and limited Desk Accessory support. HFS_XFer is a Desk Accessory that allows you to transfer files between HFS (Hierarchical FileSystem) Macintosh disks and the NeXT, where they're stored in Apple Double format. This allows you to copy files to the NeXT and later back to a Macintosh floppy without having to worry about reassembling the "resource fork". Naturally HFS_XFer and Executor work well together. HFS_XFer is what you use to load your copy of Microsoft Word onto your NeXT in the first place, but it's good for much more than that because you can use it to transfer any information on a Macintosh disk to your NeXT, and vice-versa. The extensions to HFS that were introduced with System 7 are not supported, and files are transferred over directly without any translation in between. HFS_XFer reads and writes Mac floppies and reads Mac hard drives and CD-ROMs. HFS_XFer is limited to disks that the hardware can read, so you can not read 800k disks unless you have special hardware such as the CubeFloppy Plus from DIT. A complete (multi-architecture-binary), time-limited, release of Executor is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.unm.edu for evaluation. ARDI Suite 101 1650 University Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 PHONE: +1 505 766 9115 FAX: +1 505 247 1899 Email: questions@ardi.com Digital Instrumentation Technology vends software called FloppyWorks which can read and write Macintosh diskettes. DIT also offers an external floppy drive called CubeFloppy Plus that can format, read, and write 400 and 800 KB Mac disks. For more information: Digital Instrumentation Technology email: sales@dit.com Voice: 505 662 1459 Fax: 505 662 0897 Bill Roth has written a program called MacinDisk ToshBrowser which read 1.4 Meg Mac disks. A demo version is available on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. For more information: Impact Software email: impact@impact.shaman.com voice: 1-800-822-3385. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] There is also a program on sonata/orst/compuserve called ResDump.tar.Z that will let you snarf individual resources from Macintosh disks under 3.x. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A4. Can I run tcsh, zsh or bash on NEXTSTEP? If you are simply looking for emacs-like command editing you can do this with the csh distributed by NeXT by typing: set editmode=emacs or set editmode=vi Note that file completion will conflict with vi's use of esc to leave insert mode, so you may want to map file completion to tab by adding the following to your ~/.bindings: bind-to-key FilenameExpansion "\^I" In addition it is possible to bind control keys to commands with a .bindings file. Users should seek the csh(1) man page for more information. People have ported tcsh and bash to NEXTSTEP. bash is available from prep.ai.mit.edu, the current version 1.12.1 makes correctly on NEXTSTEP. tcsh binaries for all kinds of machines are available on tesla.ee.cornell.edu, possibly including binaries for NeXT machines. In addition zsh is also available. Zsh has interactive features very similar to but more extensive than those of tcsh. In addition zsh is based on sh/ksh, not on csh - something which very many even casual shell programmers will consider a great asset. A complete pre-compiled zsh package including documentation is available from the purdue archives. If you install your own shell on NEXTSTEP, you need to add it to the file /etc/shells so that FTP will work. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A5. Can sound files be used on Sun OS and NEXTSTEP interchangeably? Sun OS 4.0.3 stored only raw mulaw files without any extensions. This format is obsolete; however to convert it to a NEXTSTEP snd format you can: sndconvert -o nextified.snd -f 1 -s 8012.8210513 -c 1 -r sun-sound Starting with Sun OS release 4.1 they adopted a file format like NEXTSTEP's: A comparison of <multimedia/audio_filehdr.h> on the Sun and <sound/soundstruct.h> on NEXTSTEP shows the formats to be compatible-- just rename *.au to *.snd for the NeXT. Sun only implements a subset of NEXTSTEP's sound file formats. Currently these seven are interchangeable: SND_FORMAT_MULAW_8 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_8 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_16 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_24 SND_FORMAT_LINEAR_32 SND_FORMAT_FLOAT SND_FORMAT_DOUBLE While they are all _meaningful_ to the Sun, the standard SPARCstation hardware only directly supports 8-bit mu-Law at the CODEC sampling rate. If you have raw soundfiles (e.g. from SunOS 4.0.3 systems, or converted from the Macintosh), you can use raw2audio on the Sun or sndconvert -r on the NEXTSTEP system to add a sound header. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A6. Why does talk not work between NEXTSTEP and SUN OS? Sun OS may run an archaic version of talk; install a new version. [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Or try installing 'ytalk' available from sonata and orst. It offers many enhancements over talk among which is compatibility with at least some Sun workstation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A7. How do I get the arrow keys to work in csh? [This is for people who use a terminal app that does vt100 keyboard emulation - pasc] First, add these lines to your ".cshrc" (preferably between the if and endif): set editmode=emacs set macrofiles=.macros Then create a file called ".bindings" and put in it: bind-to-key ExecuteNamedMacro '\e[' And, next, you need to make a file called ".macros" however, this one you need to enter some control characters into, because the csh STILL cannot write a macro file (And I'm using 2.1). Into this file put: A^@^@^@^A^P B^@^@^@^A^N C^@^@^@^A^F D^@^@^@^A^B where ^@ means Control-@ and ^A means Control-A, etc. Also, don't put in the leading spaces. This will set up the left and right arrows to move back and forth on the line, and the up and down arrows will cycle through your history. Then source .cshrc and the changes should take effect. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A8. How do I view/convert GIF/TIF/jpeg images? Use ImageViewer by Lennart Lovstrand at Xerox EuroPARC. It can convert between many different image formats. It is available on the archive servers. [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Instead of using the version of the jpeg files shipped with ImageViewer instead use the latest version always to be found on ftp.uu.net in /graphics/jpeg. The latest version compiles easily and is more twice as fast and less memory hungry than the one shipped with ImageViewer (and with jpeg files this makes a big difference). pbmplus tools does most conversions through filters. Another package to look into is The Image Conversion Tools from: sdsc.edu sdscpub.dir/next.dir/graphics.dir.JPEG software en/decoder has been uploaded to the Purdue archives: pub/next/2.0-release/source/jpeg.tar.Z. A commercial application,PixelMagician, is available from Bachus Inc. For more information: 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 330 Santa Monica, CA 90403 Voice: 310 820 9145 Fax: 310 820 5930 Email: info@bacchus.com, bacchus!info@uu2.psi.com Jef Poskanzers portable bitmap tools are also available pre-compiled from the purdue archives. In addition there is ViewGif2 (also available from the purdue archives) which is about 40% faster and less memory-hungry than ImageViewer but only displays gifs. [From: Robert Wong <wrob@unixg.ubc.ca>] ViewGIF3 (version 3.0.1) is available now. It requires NS 3.0 There is also GraphicsWorkshop (also from purdue) which is a front end to a set of graphic converter objects that allow you to load, save, and view images in gif, jpg, tiff, pbm, pgm, ppm, and xbm formats. It will also allow you to do some basic image conversions like color to black and white or color to one bit. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: A9. How to transfer data to/from Unix systems with floppy disks? [winter 91 Support Bulletin] When no network connection is possible between workstations, you may want to use floppy disks to transfer data between computers. To transfer files between NeXT computers and other UNIX workstations, you must use an appropriate floppy disk, data format, and device driver. choosing a floppy disk Choose a floppy disk with a formatted density that is common to both platforms. The 2.88 MB floppy disk drive on NeXT computers allows you to use extended-density (ED) 2.88 MB floppy disks. The NeXT floppy disk drive also reads and writes to floppy disks formatted to a lower density, such as 1.44 MB floppy disks. These are called high-density (HD) disks. Since most UNIX workstations cannot yet read and write to ED disks, you may have to use HD disks as the common medium. formatting the floppy disk A floppy disk can be mounted as a UNIX file system only on platforms that have the same type of file system. Because NeXT uses file system type 4.3 and many other UNIX systems use type 4.2, you may not be able to mount a floppy as a file system on both platforms. In that case, you must use a floppy disk that has only been low-level formatted. Such a floppy disk lacks a file system and is called raw. On a NeXT computer, use the disk -F command for low-level formatting. Other UNIX workstations require similar commands, and the results should be the same on any system. Low-level formatting should not be confused with initializing. Low-level formatting refers to creating the low-level header and sector marks required for the device driver to find data blocks. Initialization normally refers to the creation of a file system on top of the low-level formatting. choosing a common data format To transfer files, you must use a data format that both platforms can read and write to. Some of the UNIX commands that use data formats common to file systems 4.2 and 4.3 are tar, dd, and cpio. The tar command will be used in the example procedure in this article because it's more commonly used than cpio and because it works recursively on directory trees (dd works on only one file at a time). choosing the correct device driver The NeXT software releases and other UNIX operating systems have different names for the device drivers used to access floppy disk drives. On most systems, you use a raw device driver to designate that a floppy disk lacks a file system and therefore cannot be mounted. This is similar to the way you copy files to a tape drive. The NeXT device drivers that you use to read or write to raw floppy disks that are (or are intended to be) compatible with other UNIX systems are /dev/rfd0b for an internal floppy disk drive and /dev/rsd1h for an external floppy disk drive connected to a SCSI port. Note that you may need to use different device numbers, depending on your hardware configuration; fd0 indicates the first internal floppy drive, and sd1 is the lowest number for an external SCSI device. The b and h in the driver names specify the "live" device, which will write to the disk without a label. The drivers /dev/rfd0a and /dev/rsd1a also work with a raw disk, but they write a file system label on the disk. You will get an error message such as "device error" or "no such device" when you try to use floppy disks that contain this label on other UNIX workstations. On most other UNIX workstations, /dev/rfd0b refers to the swap partition and can't be used for reading or writing data. In these cases, you can use either /dev/rfd0a or /dev/rfd0c. To access a device driver, you must have privileges to read and write to it. On NeXT computers, only root has these privileges by default. If you wish to access the devices as a user other than root, you'll need to add read and write privileges. transferring files from a NeXT computer to a Sun workstation [**********************************************************] Below is an example procedure for transferring files to a Sunb machine. If you want to transfer files from a Sun workstation, remember to use a different device driver on the Sun computer. If you need to format the floppy disk on the Sun machine, use the fdformat command. Before you transfer your own files, make sure all the files you want to copy will fit on a floppy disk. (Sun machines use 1.44 MB floppy disks.) If all your files won't fit on one floppy disk, copy the files to several disks by using tar (or whatever) repeatedly and specifying subdirectories or files that will fit on one disk each time. The directory copied in this example contains less than 1.44 MB of data. 1. Using the Terminal application on the NeXT computer, open a shell window and become root. 2. If the floppy disk hasn't already been formatted, format it now. Run the following command and then insert the floppy disk into the drive when you are prompted: disk -F /dev/rfd0b 3. Change to the directory that contains the files you want to copy to the floppy disk: cd /me/memos 4. Copy the files to the floppy disk. Don't leave out the period at the end of the command line: tar -cf /dev/rfd0b . 5. Eject the floppy disk from the drive: disk -e /dev/rfd0b 6. Now go to the Sun workstation and open a UNIX shell. 7. Insert the floppy disk into the drive and change to the directory to which you want to copy the files: cd /tmp 8. Extract the files: tar -xf /dev/fd0a 9. Eject the floppy disk: eject ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194429.22655@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:44:29 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ B0. Where can I find additional questions and answers regarding the NeXT computer? B1. Are there NeXT and NEXTSTEP specific magazines? B2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? B3. If I am not on the internet, how can I get to the ftp sites via email? B4. What are some good references on Objective C? !B5. Where can I communicate to others interested in doing music on the NeXT? B6. What special interest groups exist? B7. How may I let the NeXT user community know of an upcoming NeXT-related event? B8. What are the guidelines for posting to comp.sys.next.announce? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B0. Where can I find additional questions and answers regarding the NeXT computer? Every NeXT machine owner has access to manuals to a degree. Network and System Administration (NSA), for example contains answers to many of the questions asked to comp.sys.next. Some of the important man pages are reproduced in the NSA as appendices. User manuals were shipped with every NeXT. Additional copies available from NeXT (N6002/N6003/N6014/N6026) $25. NeXT Technical documentation. (How to program in the NextStep environment) Order from Addison-Wesley (1-800-447-2226) 0-201-63248-9 NeXTSTEP General Reference CANCELED (split into 2) 0-201-62220 NeXTSTEP General Reference Vol I (date not known) 0-201-62221 NeXTSTEP General Reference Vol II date not known) 0-201-63249-7 NeXTSTEP Development Tools (1 NOV) 0-201-63250-0 NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines (1 NOV) 0-201-63251-9 NeXTSTEP OOP and the Objective-C Lng (1 NOV) 0-201-63252-7 NeXTSTEP Operating System Software (3 OCT) 0-201-63253-5 NeXTSTEP Programming Interface Summary (1 NOV) 0-201-63254-3 NeXTSTEP Network and System Admin 3 (OCT) These are packaged ten volumes in two slipcases; the whole stack is 8-1/2 inches high. They look just like the other documents that come with the machine, 8.5x11", perfect-bound paperbacks. Operating System Software NeXTstep Concepts NeXTstep Reference, v. 1 NeXTstep Reference, v. 2 Development Tools Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Concepts Sound, Music, and Signal Processing: Reference Writing Loadable Kernel Servers Technical Summaries Supplemental Documentation Get NeXT's Concepts and Tutorial sections electronically from the ftp archives. This is perhaps the single most important reference for people wishing to develop software for the NeXT. Unix man pages, which are included in the online docs. BSD unix documentation (MISC, PS1, PS2, SMM, USD). Available from to USENIX site members. A lot of this has been integrated into the NeXT documentation. Some of this is sorely missing. The SMM Unix System Manager's Manual is really useful! USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 USA +1 510 528 8649 fax +1 510 548 5738 office@usenix.org PS1 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 PS2 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 SMM = System Manager's Manual USD = User's Supplementary Documents [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: The SMM and the rest of the berkeley documentation are also available directly and for free via anon ftp e.g. from ftp.uu.net /packages/bsd-sources/share/doc. To format them properly for viewing and printing on the NeXT use nroff with the package indicated by the file suffix (e.g. to format the documentation file 0.t use 'nroff -mt 0.t'). Adobe documentation. Available machine-readable by e-mail from ps-file-server@adobe.com. Hardcopy available from Adobe Developer Support Line +1 415 961-4111 for a nominal charge. NeXT last shipped these as part of the 1.0a release; hardcopies appeared in 0.9 Technical Documentation, were omitted in 1.0, and have returned in updated form in _Supplemental Documentation_ of the 2.0 Tech Docs (which is not available on-line). Get NextAnswers for Digital Librarian from NeXT. The current versions are actually on ftp.next.com or available via the mailserver at nextanswers@next.com Get NeXT _Support Bulletin_ from the archives. It is meant for support centers. Another good source of information is the archives of previously posted notes from the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups. Note that since the split of comp.sys.next, it is unclear if anyone is maintaining an archive of all the groups. NeXTstep Advantage book is available electronically from the archive servers: cs.orst.edu: pub/next/documents/NeXT/ sonata.cc.purdue.edu: ? etlport.etl.go.jp: pub/NeXT/documents/NeXTstepAdvantage/ ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de /pub/NeXT/documents/next The file name is NeXTstepAdvantage.tar.Z; (its compressed size is 1.3 megabytes; uncompressed, it's 9.5 megabytes). It is a good introduction to the NeXT programming environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B1. Are there NeXT and NEXTSTEP specific magazines? Yes. There are also many NeXT specific newsletters, many of which are available via ftp from the NeXT specific ftp sites (look in pub/next/newsletters on cs.orst.edu and pub/next/Newsletters on sonata.cc.purdue.edu - purdue seems to carry more newsletters on line than orst.). Some cost money, others don't. Available from purdue: SCaNeWS - Southern California NeXT Users Group Newsletter, first issue came out January 1991. Edited by Mike Mahoney (manhoney@beach.csulb.edu) BaNG - Bay Area NeXT Users Group, one item on-line on Purdue. Edited by Joe Barello (Joe_Barello@bang.org) rmNUG NeWS - Rocky Mountain NeXT Users Group Newsletter, latest issue May 1991 (monthly). Edited by David Bowdish (73340.2146@compuserve.com). VNUS Newsletter - Vancouver NeXT Users Group The last issue was in Nov 91. Edited by three people, including the Chairman of VNUS, Lawrence Clarke (lclarke@next1.wimsey.bc.ca). NeXT Users' Journal, latest issue December/January 1990-1. Edited by Erica Liebman (erica@kong.gatech.edu). Hardcopy: NeXTworld. Published monthly with monthly ad-free newsletters ($23.95). NeXTWORLD, 501 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 415 978 3182 (phone), 415 978 3196 (fax) NeXTworld email address: ddinucci@nextworld.com NeXUS. Published bi-monthly for $36/year. Contact Alfonso Guerra at {emory|gatech}!nanovx!nexus. What's NeXT? The Boston Computer Society NeXT User group produces a NeXT newsletter called "What's NeXT?" edited by Michael Burress (pro-angmar!michaelb@alfalfa.com) and Eric Celeste (efc@athena.mit.edu). The Boston Computer Society, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139-1562 Phone 617-252-0600, M-F 9:30-5:30 Bulletin - Gotham Users of NeXT, Inc., latest issue May, 1992 (monthly). Edited by Robb Allan (Robb_Allan@gun.com) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. NeXT: cs.orst.edu nova.cc.purdue.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu umd5.umd.edu ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B3. If I am not on the internet, how can I get to the ftp sites via email? cc.purdue.edu is configured as an email archive server. This means you can upload and download files via email. Send mail to: archive-server@cc.purdue.edu mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de with the subject line help and you will get a complete description of this service. Submissions: Mail should be sent to archive-server@cc.purdue.edu with the subject of 'submission' (no ticks) if a person is submitting material to the archives. They need to include a 1-2 sentence description of the submission, the OS release the product runs on, and if it is source, binary, newsletter, etc. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B4. What are some good references on Objective C? Objective-C and other useful Object-oriented programming references: Budd, Timothy, _An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming_ (Addison-Wesley) [It discusses Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++ _and_ Objective-C] Cox, Brad J., _Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach_ ISBN 0-201-10393-1. (Addison-Wesley) [Note: 2nd edition - ISBN# is 0-201-54834-8 and has coauthor A.J. Novobilski] Huizenga, Gerrit, "Slides from a short course on Objective-C" available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next/docs/ObjC.frame.Z, ObjC.ps.Z, or OldObjC.wn.tar.Z Meyer, Bertrand, _Object-Oriented Software Construction_ (Prentice-Hall). NeXT Technical Documentation Pinson and Weiner, _Objective-C: Object-Oriented Programming Techniques_ (Addison-Wesley). 350 pages, ISBN 0 201 50828 1, paperback. User Reference Manual for Objective-C which is available from Stepstone Corporation. (203)426-1875. Note: There are some differences between Stepstone's Objective-C and NeXT's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B5. Where can I communicate to others interested in doing music on the NeXT? Since NeXT has become for now the platform of choice for much of the computer music composition and research community, the newsgroup comp.music is one good place to find people with information and interest in music on the NeXT. There is also a mailing list specifically for NeXT music. For posting to the dist list: nextmusic@horowitz.eecs.umich.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change addresses, etc.: nextmusic-request@horowitz.eecs.umich.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B6. What special interest groups exist? Adobe Illustrator NeXT SIG To join, email: jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca AFS NeXT SIG To join, email: info-afs-next-request@transarc.com Berkeley Mathematics Software Group Email: nb@cs.stanford.edu Classroom: NeXT Courseware SIG (next-classroom@gac.edu) To subscribe: send the following text message to MAILSERV@gac.edu --"Subscribe next-classroom <your name>" Communications/TeleCommunications SIG (nextcomm@marble.com) To subscribe: send email to nextcomm-request@marble.com Data GROUP NeXT SIG To join, email: data_group@dazzl.com Create Users To join email: Create-request@mcs.anl.gov DataPhile Users To join email: DataPhile-request@mcs.anl.gov Executor SIG To join, email: executor-request@ictv.com Finnish: FUNeXT (Finnish Users of NeXT) To join, send email to: mailserver@lists.funet.fi and write in body text: HELP LIST SUB FUNeXT Frame: FUN (Frame Users Network) To join, email: framers-request@drd.com Frame User Network - New England (FUNNE) To join, email: funne@srbci.mv.com GIS(Geographical Information Services)SIG (next-gis@deltos.com) To subscribe: send email to next-gis-request@deltos.com Lotus Improv Email User Group To join, email: improv-request@bmt.gun.com Mathematica:Special Interest Group To join. email: mathgroup-request@yoda.physics.unc.edu Medical: NeXTMed SIG (NeXTMed@ulnar.biostr.washington.edu) To subscribe: send email to NeXTMed-request@ulnar.biostr.washington.edu Music: NeXT Music SIG (nextmusic@silvertone.Princeton.edu) To subscribe: send email to nextmusic-request@silvertone.Princeton.edu NeXT Icon Enthusiasts: next-icon@bmt.gun.com To subscribe: send e-mail to next-icon-request@bmt.gun.com NexLAW: Legal NeXT User Group To join, email: NexLAW-request@techlaw.com NeXTManagers (quick & technical answers) (next-managers@stolaf.edu) To subscribe: send email to next-managers-request@stolaf.edu NeXT Q&A's To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE NEXT-L <your> <name>" to LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Network & Security Management for Labs & Large Installations (next-lab@cs.ubc.ca) To subscribe: send email to next-lab-request@cs.ubc.ca Programmers: NeXT Programmers SIG (next-prog@cpac.washington.edu) To subscribe: send email to next-prog-request@cpac.washington.edu Publishing Interest Group To join, email: publish-request@chron.com Japanese: Kanji and Japanese on the NeXT To join - Email: next-nihongo-request@pinoko.berkeley.edu SCIENCE NeXT User Group (SNUG) To join, email: snug-requests@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu United Kingdom SIG To join, email: uk-next-users-request@ohm.york.ac.uk and next-uk-usergroups-request@asmec.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B7. How may I let the NeXT user community know of an upcoming NeXT-related event? Please send any announcements of upcoming NeXT-related events to next-announce@digifix.com These events will be posted to comp.sys.next.announce. Be sure to send your announcement in plenty of time to have it posted prior to the event. One to two weeks in advance would be a good idea. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: B8. What are the guidelines for posting to comp.sys.next.announce? Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Since postings will be carried across many networks, commercial announcements may be edited down to reflect network usage policies. Look for current guidelines posted weekly in the newsgroup. ____________________________________________________________________________ NeXT-FAQ Editor: Nathan Janette nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194439.22727@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:44:39 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ !C1. What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? C2. What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? C3. How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? C4. What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? C5. Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? C6. How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? C7. Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? C8. How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? C9. When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? C10. What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? C11. What are the general requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? C12. If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? !C13. How is NEXTSTEP/Intel installed? C14. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? !C15. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? C16. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? C17. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? C18. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? !C19. Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? C20. How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? C21. Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? C22. Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? C23. Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? C24. Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? C25. Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C1. What is the current status of NEXTSTEP/Intel? The second production version 3.2, has been released. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C2. What references are available for NEXTSTEP/Intel? NeXT, Inc. now operates an automatic email responce system. Send email to "nextanswers@next.com" with the subject "ascii help index" to start. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C3. How does NEXTSTEP/Intel differ from NEXTSTEP on NeXT Computers? It doesn't. NEXTSTEP/Intel is a complete port of the NEXTSTEP 3.1 software environment to Intel-based Computers. NEXTSTEP/Intel has the same User Interface, Development Environment, Applications, Networking (NFS, Novell, Appleshare), State of the Art Color, Mach UNIX, Display Postscript, 3D Renderman etc, etc. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C4. What about support for NeXT Computer specific hardware features such as the DSP? NeXT computers offer additional hardware support not commonly available for Intel systems. This includes the DSP. The DSP in a NeXT Computer is used for a variety of functions including ISDN support and real-time audio compression/de-compression. ISDN support for NEXTSTEP/Intel will be provided via an add-on PC card and ISDN adapter. Real-time audio compression/de-compression support is currently under investigation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C5. Can I use NEXTSTEP/Intel systems with my existing NeXT Computers? Of course! NEXTSTEP/Intel is design to plug and play with existing NeXT installations. NeXT has addressed interoperability between NEXTSTEP systems in the following ways: * NEXTSTEP systems share identical networking capabilities. * NEXTSTEP systems share the same Distributed Objects. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same system and network administration services. * NEXTSTEP systems use the same mass storage format. Yes, you can take a external SCSI drive, removable media (ie Bernoulli etc) or floppy disk and use it interchangeably between NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel systems. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C6. How do I use applications compiled for both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP/Intel on the same network? Simply. NEXTSTEP 3.1 includes a new feature called Multi-Architecture Binaries (so called "Fat" binaries). This capability allows developers to compile NEXTSTEP applications on multiple system architectures, and combine them into a single package. When an application is run, NEXTSTEP will extract the appropriate instructions for the local system, and run the application. This operation is completely transparent to the user, it just works! Most of the NEXTSTEP applications in the future will be delivered as Multi-Architecture Binaries. Tools are also provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a one architecture environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C7. Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space? No. Most applications consist of one or more executable programs (with architecture dependent machine instructions) and a lot of text and data. This machine independent data is typically data files used by the application, help files, examples, internationalization etc. Since only the actual machine dependent portion of the application is duplicated, a two architecture application typically takes only about 20%-30% more disk space than a single architecture application. If disk space is tight, tools are provided to "Slim" binaries for use in a single architecture environment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C8. How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel? Very easy. Most programs will simply recompile and run, or require few changes. We believe that any application that uses the standard development environment and Object kits provided by NeXT should simply compile and run. Only applications that use architecture specific features or data formats, will require additional time to port. Several developers have already ported applications to NEXTSTEP/Intel. Appsoft Draw simply recompiled and ran, Lighthouse Concurrence took 3 hours, other programs took 1/2 a day to 2 days, and this was all on a very early release of NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.1! ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C9. When developing programs, are there any portability issues I should be aware of? Yes. As stated above, any applications that use the standard tools provided by the NEXTSTEP development environment, should just recompile and work. To make sure developers are aware of portability issues, NeXT is producing a guide to address source code portability between different architectures running NEXTSTEP. This guide should be available in November. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C10. What is the difference between the NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment and Developer Environment? The NEXTSTEP/Intel User Environment consists of the entire NEXTSTEP 3.1 environment, minus the developer tools. The Developer Environment includes the developer tools such Interface builder, Project Builder, C compilers, Object Kits, example source code and developer documentation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C11. What are the general requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel on Intel-based Computers? A specific NEXTSTEP/Intel Hardware Compatibility Guide is available from the NeXTanswers service, and as a separate FAQ file. [Eric Hermanson <24gdbq$8hb@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>] I am posting this to clear up the confusion surrounding NEXTSTEP hardware requirements. There have been many incorrect postings as to the requirements for NEXTSTEP. There have also been many people inquiring about the requirements. These are the correct numbers, source: NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR NEXTSTEP 3.1 (Intel and Motorola) NEXTSTEP *Requires* 8 MB Memory for 2-bit Greyscale NEXTSTEP *Requires* 12 MB Memory for 8-bit Greyscale NEXTSTEP *Requires* 16 MB Memory for 16-bit Color NeXT *Recommends* 12 MB Memory for 2-bit Greyscale NeXT *Recommends* 16 MB Memory for 8-bit Greyscale NeXT *Recommends* 24 MB Memory for 16-bit Color *SUMMARY* of NEXTSTEP Hard Drive Space *Requirements*: NEXTSTEP *Requires* 120 MB for User Environment NEXTSTEP *Requires* 330 MB for User Environment + Developer Tools NeXT *Recommends* 200 MB For User Environment (full install) NeXT *Recommends* 400 MB For User Environment + Developer Tools (full install) Full User Environment: 136 MB (NeXT *Recommends* 200 MB for User) Compressed User Environment: 109 MB Bare User Environment: 50 MB All Developer Tools: 100 MB (These numbers are the dev TOOLS only) Compressed Dev. Tools: 78 MB Bare Developer Tools: 66 MB FULL USER + DEVELOPER: **236 MB (NeXT *Recommends* 400 MB for User+Dev) Compressed USER + DEV: 187 MB Bare USER + DEVELOPER: 116 MB THE ENTIRE USER+DEVELOPER RELEASE OF NEXTSTEP TAKES UP APPROXIMATELY 236 MB. *Detailed* Hard Drive Requirements: NEXTSTEP consists of a number of independent packages, some of which can be optionally installed. USER ENVIRONMENT: ** INDICATES OPTIONAL PACKAGE NEXTSTEP Essentials This is the required software, including user environment, UNIX, Renderman, NeXT Software (network stuff, NeXT Mail, etc), root & me accounts. Installed Size 47.1 MB Languages Users can install up to six languages on the system, each one takes up 3 MB English, Italian, Sweedish, German, French, Spanish **DigitalWebster.pkg This package contains the Digital Webster application, the electronic edition of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. InstalledSize 18.8 MB CompressedSize 16.3 MB **Literature.pkg This package contains the complete works of Shakespeare, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and the pictures for Digital Webster. InstalledSize 40.7 MB CompressedSize 29.9 MB **Documentation.pkg This package contains the NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration manual and the UNIX manual pages. It also contains the complete set of PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files. InstalledSize 18 MB CompressedSize 8 MB **NeXTTeX.pkg This is a full implementation of TeX (LaTeX) and METAFONT. InstalledSize 8.1 MB CompressedSize 4.5 MB ============================================================================= TOTAL USER ENVIRONMENT: 136 MB Full Install 109 MB Compressed Optional Stuff 50 MB No Optional Software Installed DEVELOPER TOOLS: ** INDICATES OPTIONAL PACKAGE DeveloperTools.pkg This package contains applications and files you need for NEXTSTEP development. InstalledSize 36.4 MB CompressedSize 18.6 MB DeveloperLibs.pkg This package contains software libraries you need to develop NEXTSTEP software. InstalledSize 30 MB CompressedSize 14.5 MB **DeveloperDoc.pkg This package contains the on-line edition of the NEXTSTEP Developer's Library. InstalledSize 30 MB CompressedSize 10 MB **Demonstrations.pkg This package contains demonstration applications and images. InstalledSize 3 MB CompressedSize 2 MB ============================================================================= TOTAL DEVELOPER TOOLS: 100 MB Size of All Developer Tools 78 MB Size with Optional Stuff Compressed 66 MB Size with no Optional Software Installed ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C12. If a specific I/O card is not supported by NeXT, can 3rd parties write drivers for NEXTSTEP/Intel? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture that brings the benefits of object-orientation all the way down to the I/O card driver level. Complete documentation for this new "Driver Kit" architecture will be available later this year. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C13. How is NEXTSTEP/Intel installed? NEXTSTEP/Intel will come with a boot floppy and a CDROM. To install NEXTSTEP/Intel, the system boots from the floppy, and then installs the minimum NEXTSTEP environment from the CDROM (SCSI CDROM drive). The user may then chose from several optional packages depending on the available disk space and user requirements. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C14. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on 386 machines? No. NEXTSTEP/Intel uses several 486 specific features that enhance the performance of NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support any true 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C15. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the Cyrix 486SLC? [NeXT states:] No. The Cyrix chip not a true 486. [several other users state:] Yes. Slow performance, though. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C16. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on the future Intel Microprocessors in the x86 family? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will not only support them, but will take advantage of any performance enhancements available with future Intel CPU's, just as NeXT has taken advantage of the 486. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C17. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel run on portable computers? Yes. Many portables and notebooks with 486 CPU's and sufficient system resources (8+MB RAM and 120+MB hard disk space) are available. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel will support 640x480 VGA displays in grayscale, NEXTSTEP 486 can run on these systems. Do be aware that NEXTSTEP's user interface and applications were not designed for low-resolution screens, and consequently will impose limitations on the use of some applications. Also, typical battery management systems do not work with multi-tasking operating systems. Future versions of NEXTSTEP/Intel will provide driver support for portable-oriented peripherals such as pocket Ethernet, SCSI and Sound adapters and PC/MCIA cards. We expect additional device drivers for portable peripherals to be available in Q3-Q4 1993. Until drivers are available for portable SCSI adapters, NEXTSTEP/Intel can be installed on portables by using a docking station with SCSI adapter and CDROM. The docking station can then be used for a local area network card. NeXT is investigating future Intel microprocessors that may provide battery management support for advanced operating systems such as NEXTSTEP. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C18. Will NEXTSTEP/Intel be able to run Microsoft DOS and Windows programs? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support a DOS and Windows compatibility package. This software will allow DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 programs to run within a NEXTSTEP window. Support will include DOS "Protected" mode and Windows 3.1 "Standard" mode (Win-16). Support for Win-32 applications is planned for the second half of 1993. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C19. Will DOS and Windows compatibility be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel? A demo of SoftPC will be included with NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.2. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C20. How will my DOS and Windows applications perform under NEXTSTEP/Intel? Very well. The DOS/Windows compatibility package for NEXTSTEP/Intel takes full advantage of the 486 microprocessor. Depending on system hardware configuration and type of DOS/Windows application, performance should vary between 386 and 486 native DOS/Windows performance. In addition, to enhance the performance of Windows applications, a MS Windows specific Graphics Device Interface (GDI) driver which maps Microsoft Windows calls directly to the NEXTSTEP window server will be part of the system. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C21. Is the window I use to run Microsoft Windows applications resizable? Yes. You can set the Windows session to any size you wish up to the maximum screen size available to the NEXTSTEP/Intel system you are using. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C22. Will this DOS/Windows compatibility system allow me to run several DOS programs at once? Yes. Since NEXTSTEP/Intel is a multi-tasking, virtual memory operating environment, several DOS/Windows sessions can be run at once. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C23. Can I cut and paste between DOS/Windows sessions and NEXTSTEP applications? Yes. You can cut and paste text and graphics between DOS/Windows and NEXTSTEP applications. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C24. Can I use both DOS and NEXTSTEP/Intel partitions on the same hard disk? Yes. NEXTSTEP/Intel will support multiple operating systems on the same local hard disk. When the system boots, the user can chose to boot another operating system (such as DOS) or NEXTSTEP. If the local partition contains DOS, NEXTSTEP/Intel will be able to access the local DOS partition and read/write files to it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: C25. Can NEXTSTEP/Intel read, write, and format DOS and Mac floppies? Yes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194458.22829@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:44:58 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Languages-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ E1. What Fortran compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E2. What Lisps are there for NEXTSTEP? E3. What Pascal compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E4. What should I know about c++ shipped with NEXTSTEP? E5. What Ada compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? E6. Is Perl available for NEXTSTEP? E7. Where can I get gawk? E8. Where can I get Eiffel? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E1. What Fortran compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? There is a fortran to c translator called f2c available via anonymous ftp from the archives. Check the sources directory. Absoft FORTRAN 77 Object Oriented FORTRAN compiler; fully compatible w/ NEXTSTEP's Interface Builder toolkit, allows programmers to add a GUI to any FORTRAN program. They have a screen oriented source level debugger designed by and for FORTRAN programmers, and IMSL FORTRAN Libraries. They have versions for NEXTSTEP/m68k and NEXTSTEP/FIP. 313-853-0050 Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) FORTRAN 90 for NeXT Modern Fortran fully compliant with ISO/IEC 1539:1991 and ANSI X3.198-1991 standards. (708) 971-2337 OASYS OASYS Native Compilers, OASYS Optimizing 680x0 Cross Compilers, OASYS Optimizing 88000 Cross Compilers (C, C++, Fortran, Pascal available for each) Highly optimized Fortran, Pascal., C and C++ compilers and cross compilers. 617-862-2002. Diab Data (415) 571-1700 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E2. What Lisps are there for NEXTSTEP? Scheme is available from: altdorf.ai.mit.edu. Schematik is a front-end to MIT Scheme for NEXTSTEP; it comes complete with MIT Scheme, so that installing it is in fact also the simplest way to install MIT Scheme. It is available from: ftp.gac.edu ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (European users). There is also a commercial Scheme implementation that supposedly conforms to an IEEE Scheme standard. Cadence Research Systems 812-333-9269 Xlisp is available from bikini.cis.ufl.edu. Changes To make it work with NEXTSTEP: in unixstuf.c: #define BSD in function init_tty: declare extern char xltoplevel() in function read_keybd: change char buf[1] to char buf[100] change sizeof(buf) to sizeof(char) AKCL is available from: sonata.cc.purdue.edu. [bvrotney@ads.com (Bill Vrotney)] adds: But you can actually get a later version from: rascal.ics.utexas.edu pub/NeXT-akcl-1-615.tar.Z Scheme->C Compiler is available from sonata.cc.purdue.edu and gatekeeper.dec.com. ACL (allegro common lisp) used to be bundled with 1.0, now it is available directly from: Franz Inc. 1995 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Voice: (510) 548-3600, FAX: (510) 548-8252 email info@franz.com. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E3. What Pascal compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? uvapc/NeXT is an ISO standard Pascal compiler developed by the University of Virginia's Academic Computing Center and the Department of Computer Science. uvapc/NeXT passes the ISO standard Pascal validation suite. The compiler is written in C and has been ported to several other Unix platforms. uvapc/NeXT can generate the necessary information so that the GNU source-level symbolic debugger, gdb, can be used (see Caveats below). It also supports obtaining gprof type profiles. Contact is: Mr. Jack Davidson University of Virginia Department of Computer Science, Thornton Hall Charlottesville CA 22903 (804) 982-2209 (804) 982-2214 FAX jwd@virginia.edu [From: sanguish@digifix.com] I'm pretty sure that this pascal was dropped when 3.0 came onto the scene. Definately when hardware was dropped. I have sent e-mail to the contact, but no answer as yet. p2c, David Gillespie's Pascal to C translator, can be obtained from: csvax.cs.caltech.edu: pub/p2c-1.20.tar.Z. It translates many dialects of Pascal including Turbo, VAX, Sun/Berkeley. But there is a very serious problem in that %g and %lg are used to read reals in the translated code, and these formats are not supported by NeXT in scanf. Gillespie maintains that this is a bug in NeXT's compiler. A fix is to make the following change in funcs.c: [Old code] case TK_REAL: if (var->val.type == tp_longreal) ex = makeexpr_string("%lg"); else ex = makeexpr_string("%g"); break; [New code] case TK_REAL: if (var->val.type == tp_longreal) ex = makeexpr_string("%lf"); else ex = makeexpr_string("%f"); break; Here is a very disturbing example. %lg gives garbage, and %lf even gives garbage when it follows %lg: ariel% more test.c main() { double x, y, z; scanf("%lf%lg%lf%*[^\n]", &x, &y, &z); getchar(); printf("% .5E % .5E % .5E\n", x, y, z); } ariel% cc test.c ariel% a.out 3.14 3.14 3.14 3.14000E+00 6.36599E-314 1.40000E-01 ariel% ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E4. What should I know about c++ shipped with NEXTSTEP? Two things to note about the cc++ on NeXT. Any C include files have to be specified as below: extern "C" { #include <libc.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> } This tells that the code is C, so you won't have problems with the standard libraries thinking your program is Objective C. Also the /usr/include/stdio.h in line 75 has a variable "new" that conflicts with a g++ keyword. You can redefine it using #define new __new__ #include "stdio.h" #undef new After the above two fixes, g++ programs that do not use the g++ class library (and therefore do not need libg++ to be available) work. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] The currently available lib g++ is on ftp.next.com [From: Magnus Nordborg <magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU>] The cc++ shipped with NEXTSTEP 3.0 is a modified version of gcc-1.93. As shipped, 3.0 does not have the standard C++ headers and library functions (like iostream.h). It is therefore of no use as a C++ compiler (unless you want to write your own i/o routines, etc). There are basically two things you can do to remedy the situation. 1.) Get libg++-1.39.0 and build it using cc++ (some patches are needed, see below). 2.) Get the latest version of gcc and libg++ and build them. They (gcc-2.3.3 and libg++-2.3 that is) compile without problems (you need GNU make and bison, plus at least 40 MB of disk space to build gcc). The second alternative is clearly preferable in that you get a more stable C++ compiler that support "recent" additions to C++. This makes it much more likely that you will be able to use packages from other sources, etc There are two disadvantages: gcc takes up more than 10 MB of disk space, and the version of gdb that comes with 3.0 works less well with it. You should probably not get rid of cc even if you get gcc as the support for NeXT's Objective-C in gcc is not reliable. Here are the instructions for getting libg++-1.39.0: Create a folder, say /me/tmp. % mkdir tmp % cd tmp Get libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu from the directory pub/gnu. % ftp prep.ai.mit.edu ... Get NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z via anonymous ftp from next242.ece.orst.edu from the directory pub. % ftp next242.ece.orst.edu ... Unpack the gnu stuff, and cd to the newly created directory. % zcat libg++-1.39.0.tar.Z | tar xf - % cd libg++-1.39.0 Unpack the mods file while in the newly created libg++-1.39.0 folder. % zcat ../NeXTmods-rls3.tar.Z | tar xf - Create /usr/gnu, and /usr/gnu/lib (writable by whoever is doing this). % mkdir /usr/gnu % mkdir /usr/gnu/lib Change Makefile line 32 to "PWD=/me/tmp/libg++-1.39.0" ^^^^^^^ may need changing Then % make src (takes a while--ignore the warnings) % make install-lib" (puts libg++.a in /usr/gnu/lib) % make install-include-files" (this puts the include files in /usr/gnu/lib/g++-include) % make tests" (this takes rather a lot of disk space). There are differences from the expected output, most likely due to finite precision effects. Make a test program, x.cc, containing: #include <stream.h> main() { cout << " Hello world!\n"; } Compile it. % cc++ -I/usr/gnu/lib/g++-include -O x.cc -L/usr/gnu/lib -lg++ Run it. % a.out It should print Hello world! ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E5. What Ada compilers are available for NEXTSTEP? Meridian Software offers a NEXTSTEP Ada compiler. Meridian Software Voice: (800)221-2522 FAX: (714)727-3583 Get adaed. It works like a real ada, with libraries, etc. Gopher/archie gives four pages of locations, but cs.nyu.edu is home base. There seem to be pc and amiga versions as well as unix. cs.nyu.edu:/pub/adaed/Adaed-1.11.0a.tar.Z ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E6. Is Perl available for NEXTSTEP? Take most of the features of C, csh, awk, and add a sprinkling from sed, and you get Perl. Practical Extraction & Reporting Language. Perl is very much of a kitchen sink language, in that it has almost all the features of everything. This results in it being easy to write programs in perl (because all your favorite constructs are there) but difficult to read perl. (Because other people have used their favorite constructs, not yours) Perl's strength is in scripting. Anything that would take more than 20 lines in a csh script is a candidate. Anything that isn't a straight pass through, chew on each line, program for awk is a candidate. Current version: 4.036 Perl is available from: jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.148.1.143) tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60) uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2) While Perl does come with a 70 page man-book, an easier way to learn the language is from "Programming Perl" Larry Wall & Randal Schwartz. O'Reilly & Associates 632 Petaluma Ave Sebastopol CA 95472 Voice: 800-338-6887 Voice: (707) 829-0515 uunet!ora!nuts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E7. Where can I get gawk? Gawk, as with all FSF GNU software is available in source form from: prep.ai.mit.edu Gawk is the Gnu version of Awk. Like most of the other GNU programs Gawk has more features than does awk. Further unlike the wretched man page for awk that comes with NEXTSTEP, Gawk comes with a 140 page manual/tutorial. Gawk is a text processing language. In this respect it is similar to sed. However Gawk adds to sed conditional execution (if) subroutines, and the ability to execute a block of instructions before and after the file itself is processed. gawk is not the only public-code awk. Mawk version 1.1, published through comp.sources.reviewed in February, 1992, by Mike Brennan <brennan@boeing.com>, should be mentioned as an alternative. References for Gawk/awk: Sed & Awk, Dale Dougherty, O'Reilly & Associates The Awk Programming Language Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, & Peter J. Weinberger Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. ISBN 0-201-07981-X ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: E8. Where can I get Eiffel? A port of the Eiffel language and development environment is available for NEXTSTEP. The company is: Interactive Software Engineering, Inc. Voice: (805)685-1006 FAX: (805)685-6869 eiffel@eiffel.com The port is for Eiffel version 2.3 and includes their standard class libraries as well as some additional NeXT-specific classes and facilities for integration with the Interface Builder. A free eiffel-like language called Sather is available via ftp from icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194534.22889@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:45:34 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Misc-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ F1. Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? !F2. Can I put both a 68030 and a 68040 system board in a single NeXT cube? F3. Where is libc.a under 2.0? F4. How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? F5. How do I access the "help" facilities in Mathematica 1.0? F6. How do I find out what are the defaults for a NeXT application? !F7. How do I run NextApps remotely? F8. Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? F9. How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? F10. How do I remap the \ and | keys on my keyboard? F11. Why doesn't email registration to Mathematica work? F12. How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding\ ^Ms onto the end of lines? F13. Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? F14. What default affects menu location? F15. How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? F16. What dwrites affect the loginwindow? F17: How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages? F18: Can I automatically have my ~/.signature file appended to mail I send with Mail.app? !F19: How can I quickly find a file if I don't know its directory? F20: Mail.app suddenly stopped working. When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? F21: For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recyler no longer works? +F22: How to hear sound from CDPlayer.app thought NEXTSTEP system? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F1. Is there any way to change the text in the title bar of a terminal window? There is no way of changing the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x; in 3.0 there is. Check Preferences (Title Bar): set CustomTitle, type in the title, and hit CR (or Set Window) and voila! [andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)] adds: Actually, there is a way to change the title bar of a Terminal.app window in 2.x (at least in 2.1 which is what I am using). It is somewhat limited but it might be useful to some. The trick is to make a symbolic link between /bin/csh (or whichever shell one wishes to use) and a file in / named "Whatever_you_want_to_appear_in_the_title_bar". Then select this new "shell" in the terminal preference and, voila!, you'll have your terminal window with /Whatever_you..... in the title bar. You can edit Stuart's titlebar interactively from the "Window..." Inspector (Command-3). Stuart provides emulation of certain Operating System Command (OSC) sequences which can be used to modify the titlebar under subprocess control. Stuart can change the title of the current window from the command line. In Stuart is possible to get more descriptive titles by linking /usr/ucb/rsh to /usr/hosts/<hostname>. Then by adding /usr/hosts to your Stuart ShellPath you can then get the hostname into the title bar: $ dwrite StuartShellPaths <various dirs>:/usr/hosts You should then type in the hostname as the shell to invoke (disable the "Shell reads .login file" for this. You can also add hosts to your .Stuartrc file: Shell=golem.ps.uci.edu SourceDotLogin=NO WinLocX=545 WinLocY=563 Lines=24 | WinLocX=76 WinLocY=833 For the localhost, link /bin/csh to /usr/hosts/<name>, or even better /usr/local/bin/tcsh instead of using rsh. [Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>] adds: For what it's worth, I do this with a script called "telnet_to" and a (bash) function called "telnet_window". The function simply does a local soil_pars="-Lines 32 -Keypad YES -Reverse YES -Strict YES -TestExit YES"; soil -Shell "telnet_to $1" $soil_pars and the script is just: #!bin/sh /usr/ucb/telnet $* echo ' ' echo ' --> telnet exited, press enter to close window.' read -r Waste_Var exit 0 This has a number of advantages, not the least of which being that I can pop up a "telnet_window" to anywhere. I don't have to create links for each host (though I do create aliases for the most common hosts), and I can type "telnet_window" (or, e.g., "tel_aix") as a unix command. Also, if I lose the connection suddenly then the window stays around until I get a chance to see what happened. I use telnet instead of rsh because I generally connect to hosts which won't accept rsh's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F2. Can I put both a 68030 and a 68040 system board in a single NeXT cube? See NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ. There is a company which offered hardware (extra CPU boards) and software support solutions for the OD with Turbo NeXTcubes. For more information: Sam Goldberger Spherical Solutions smg@sphersys.net.netcom.com 415-383-7512 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F3. Where is libc.a under 2.0? From the developer's release notes concerning the 2.0 NeXT Operating System Software available on-line with 2.0 extended: /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/OperatingSystem.rtf - libc.a is not shipped with release 2.0. All routines contained in libc.a are also contained in the shared library libsys.a which should be used instead of libc.a. libc.a is not shipped because as a normal archive it is impossible for improvements and system interface changes made to library routines to be applicable to existing applications without those applications being relinked. Applications referencing shared libraries, because they are bound at runtime, always access the most recent release. Release 1.0 applications linked against libc.a may not be compatible with release 2.0 until they are relinked with libsys.a. Subject: F4. How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer? Mail.app: In /LocalLibrary/Images/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person@remote.site.domain.tiff (all lowercase). In /LocalLibrary/Images/People/passwd add an entry for the person: person@remote.site.domain:*:-2:-2::/nodir:/noshell (person and sitename need to be all lowercase as well)... In the future anytime you get mail from the person their picture should appear. You can include an "aliases" file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People too. This allows you to use the same picture for somebody that might send you mail from accounts on many different sites, or for those people whose letters use several different routings. To do this, you include entries in this local aliases file like so: bkohler@ucrac1.ucr.edu:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.uucp:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu There should then be a .tiff file called bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu.tiff. There can be no CAPITAL LETTERS in this file. So even if the address in the From: field looks like gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.UUCP, keep the letters lowercase in the aliases file. As always, you have to restart Mail.app before these changes take effect. NewsGrazer: In /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person.remote.site.domain (all lowercase). This is a different naming convention from what Mail.app uses. There is a large archive of some 4000 or 5000 pictures prepared for this purpose. The name of this archive is Faces3.tar.Z and it is about 4.1 MBytes large. Currently it is available from several anon ftp sites (e.g. sonata.cc.purdue.edu) in: /pub/next/graphics/Images/icons/people. That image archive also contains a script which automatically creates proper alias and passwd files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F5. How do I access the "help" facilities in Mathematica 1.0? While the help dialog doesn't show anything, you can get the help info by clicking on the place where the slider bar should be. This tidbit doesn't seem to work on all systems though, and will be irrelevant once the new version of Mathematica comes out. [Which it has]. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F6. How do I find out what are the defaults for a NeXT application? A command line utility for examining defaults is available from: sutro.sfsu.edu:/pub/wmdefaults1.0.tar.Z. A PD App, DefaultMgr.app, is available on the NeXT ftp archives. A more brute approach (done by DefaultMgr.app): Start the application under gdb, and then try the following sequence of commands: break *0x500976a commands 1 silent printf "%s: ", *$a2 output {char *}(4+$a2) echo \n cont end run [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: DefaultMgr.app doesn't any longer work properly under 3.0. It still is able to manipulate defaults but can't any longer "investigate" apps to find out which defaults they use. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F7. How do I run NextApps remotely? On the local machine make sure you have public window server access, this is set from the Preferences application. On the foreign NeXT machine run the application from a terminal window with the -NXHost <local_machine_name>. Both machines should be running the same version of NeXTstep. [shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)] NeXTSTEP 3.1 includes a demo application called OpenSesame that simplifies this. You can select a program in Workspace and use Service > Open Sesame > Open on Another Host ...to launch a program on a remote machine. This is a way to run old, non-fat-binary software on new NeXTSTEP/Intel machines. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F8. Why does UUCP hangs on outgoing connections after sending the password, but other communications software do not have a problem with it? What is happening is that the remote machine is waiting for you to end your login or password by typing a "Return" (aka ^M or CR or CARRIAGE RETURN). UUCP ends a line by sending a LineFeed (aka ^J or LF). Since UUCP doesn't send the CR, the login sequence is never completed, and you will usually get one of two error messages: wanted "password:" (means that username needs to end with a CR) imsg waiting for SYNC< (means that password needs to end with CR) So how do you get UUCP to send CR, instead of LF? End the send string with the sequence \n\c. For instance this line in L.sys will send a LF after login, but a CR after password. myfeed Any DIR 9600 cub "" ATTD19095551212 9600 \ "" ogin:--ogin: Unext ssword: secret\n\c ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F9. How do I access the NeXT's Digital Websters Dictionary from a program? Get Jiro Nakamura's define program from the archiver servers: define.tar.Z. This will allow you to access the database from the command line. [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: 'define' breaks under 3.0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F10. How do I remap the \ and | keys on my keyboard? NeXT introduced a new keyboard configuration with the 040 products. The \| keys which had been located on the main keyboard was moved to the numeric keypad. Many users have since complained about it, and a work around is to remap these keys using the demo application Keyboard (/NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard), Mike Carlton's keyboardfix program: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/sources/next-interface/keyboardfix.tar.Z ...which lets you put these keys on shift-return or shift-delete. One can hope that there will be a choice of keyboards in the future. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F11. Why doesn't email registration to Mathematica work? There is a bug with this option where the mail instead of being sent to Wolfram is stored in /tmp/email.message. This file seems to be suitable for mailing to register@wri.com ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F12. How do I stop NeXTMail/Sendmail adding\ ^Ms onto the end of lines? In /etc/sendmail.cf make this change: [old code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, [new code] ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n, [From: sanguish@digifix.com] This has been fixed in 3.1, and the default mailhost sendmail is UUCP oriented. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F13. Where can I get black spray paint for my NeXT? Sprayon Paint Omni-Packblend 4Next-Black (icon black) LAV-16 25216 Call 1-800-777-2966 for the name of a dealer near you. It's nominally $2.75/16 oz. can. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F14. What default affects menu location? dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX <value> dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuY <value> ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F15. How to get Gourmet to boot up the Mathematica 2.0 kernel? Login as root, or get root privileges running 'su', and execute the following five commands: mkdirs /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel/NeXT cd /NextApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel ln -s uuuuu/Mathematica.app/Kernel/Display Utilities cd NeXT ln -s vvvvv/math mathexe where uuuuu is the directory where Mathematica.app was placed (typically, /LocalApps) and vvvvv is the directory where the executable 'math' was placed (typically, /usr/local/bin) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F16. What dwrites affect the loginwindow? [Jess Anderson writes:] Here, I hope, is the quasi-definitive story on dwrites that affect the loginwindow. I'm indebted to several people, notably Art Isbell, Kristian Koehntopp, Dan Danz, Louie Mamakos, John Kheit, Felix Lugo, and Paul Sears, for some of the information presented here. Remember that dwrites are not supported by NeXT; they may change with any subsequent system release. These I've checked out using 3.0; some or all may work with earlier releases, but I can't vouch for most of them. All these dwrites must be done as root. You can also run as root and use DefaultMgr to set them (which is a whole lot more convenient if you're intending to fiddle with some of them). After setting the things you want, restart the WindowServer by logging out of the current session and typing exit <cr> on the login panel. OK, here's what we know (or think we do :-): dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser <login-name> Most new machines have <login_name> set to me. This dwrite logs in user <login_name> automatically. User <login_name> must not have a password set, hence *don't* use this in a networked environment! dwrite loginwindow HostName "<host_name>" dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost These cause your host name to appear on the login panel. You need quote marks only if there's a space in the name. The first form hard-codes the name into root's defaults database. The second form uses whatever name has been set as localhost in NetInfo, which is convenient for networked machines. The font, size, color, and position of the printed string are not accessible (drat!). dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path/to/a/suitable.tiff> This uses the tiff image pointed to instead of the standard one (in /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj/nextlogin.tiff, <language>.lproj as appropriate for your main language) as the login panel. Be sure you get the pointer right, though, or you'll have to boot single-user to fix it. In practical terms, the image is constrained in various ways I won't detail here. dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <integer_number> No relation to the dim time set by Preferences. The units are odd, I think. Felix reported them as 1/34 second. However, when I changed it to 1020, I got 15 seconds to dimming, and 680 gives 10 seconds, that I'm sure of. So I think the units are 1/68 second. Maybe Felix just thought it was too damn long! We all know it *seems* longer when you're not having fun waiting. :-) Whatever, the login screen dims to about half after this length of time. dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES This causes the panel to move around approximately in Backspace bouncing-off-the-walls-tiff fashion. The point is to avoid burning the screen phosphors, as a static image would tend to do. The animation is controlled by the next couple dwrites. dwrite loginwindow MovementTimeout <real_number> The units are seconds. The panel starts moving (assuming the preceding is set to YES) after this time. If you set it to be less than the TimeToDim time, the movement starts before the dimming occurs. I did not try zero. I can't stand waiting around for things to happen, so I use 10 seconds for both times. The default appears to be 5 minutes. dwrite loginwindow MovementScale <integer_number> No movement occurs if this is set to 1. But it looks like the units might be approximately pixels for each change of position (the frequency of which is controlled by the next dwrite). If you put a big number here, say 200, the image moves in big jumps, but I don't know if the 200 is divided up somehow between change in x- and y-coordinates. I wouldn't worry about it much, just set it to something you like. Since my image contains readable text, I want it to scroll smoothly around, so I use the apparently minimum value, 2. The default appears to be 10. dwrite loginwindow MovementRate <real_number> The units are seconds. The image jumps by the amount above every this many seconds. The default is 0.0666 seconds. Bigger numbers mean slower motion. Since I don't like things being too jumpy or zooming around, I set this to 0.1 seconds. This makes my image ooze at a pace befitting an elderly person like me. dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES This makes it a little harder to turn the machine off; you have to use the monitor or the minimonitor (<right-command>-~) if it's set, rather than the <power> key. dwrite loginwindow LoginHook <path/to/loginhook/executable> dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook <path/to/logouthook/executable> Pointers to the login and logout hooks, if used. It should be pointed out that some of these things (login/logout hooks, for example) are maybe more logically set where the loginwindow is invoked by the WindowServer, namely /etc/ttys. There are yet others. Here's the full list (thanks, Art): NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DebugHook") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "DryRun") => 0x0 NXGetDefaultValue("loginwindow", "WindowServerTimeout") => 0x0 NXRegisterDefaults("loginwindow", 0x16024) KeyMapPath: 0x12d97 "~/Library/Keyboards:/LocalLibrary/Keyboards:/NextLibrary/Keyboards" Keymap: 0x12de1 "/NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA" SwappedKeymap: 0x12e0a "No" LoginHook: 0x0 LogoutHook: 0x0 HostName: 0x0 ImageFile: 0x0 DefaultUser: 0x12e41 "me" PowerOffDisabled: 0x0 TimeToDim: 0x12e69 "2040" MoveWhenIdle: 0x12e0a "No" MovementTimeout: 0x12e8b "300.0" MovementRate: 0x12e9e "0.06666" MovementScale: 0x12eb4 "10" [Christopher J. Kane kane@cs.purdue.edu] Under NeXTSTEP 3.1, the login window has two buttons labeled "Reboot" and "Power" that allow a user to reboot and power down from the login window. In a public lab, this feature may be undesirable. The PowerOffDisabled default can be used to disable the buttons, but they are still shown in the window and push in when clicked (a bad user interface decision, IMHO). The program below patches the loginwindow.app to eradicate the restart and power buttons. It makes the loginwindow.app's LoginButton class instance method initWithImage:altImage:andString: a no-op (just return nil). This patch has been applied to the machines in the NeXT lab at Purdue (like sonata.cc.purdue.edu for instance), and no adverse effects have been noted. This program must be run as root, since it writes to the file /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow. An archive with a compiled executable has been submitted to sonata.cc.purdue.edu. -----cut here----------cut here----------cut here----- /* * Patches the loginwindow.app to eradicate the restart and power * buttons from the login window. * * Christopher J. Kane (kane@cs.purdue.edu) * Released into public domain; August 13, 1993. */ #include <libc.h> #include <errno.h> void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { unsigned char patch[8] = {0x0, 0x0, 0x42, 0x80, 0x4e, 0x5e, 0x4e, 0x75}; int file = open("/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow", O_WRONLY); if (-1==file) goto error; if (-1==lseek(file, 21170, SEEK_SET)) goto error; if (-1==write(file, patch, 8)) goto error; if (-1==close(file)) goto error; exit(0); error: fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(errno)); exit(1); } ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F17: How does one set UNIX man pages to be viewed in nroff format with DL like the standard manual pages? M17 is only applicable to NeXTStep 2.x. Beyond looking in the man pages under ixBuild, etc., what you want to do is put a few files (contents listed below file name) the .index directory: .roffArgs: -man displayCommand: tbl %s | nroff -man ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8ln] -V Other options that people suggested for ixBuildOptions: -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat[1-8] -V /usr/local/man -fman -Nwhatis -V /usr/local/man/man* I don't think you need to explicitly name the directory in the first alternative, but you do in the second unless you want the cat* directories indexed as well. Note: Do NOT leave a trailing return after the line in ixBuildOptions; DL will barf. (I think someone said that, as shipped, the standard man .index/ ixBuildOptions had this problem.) [From: Eric D. Engstrom <eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com>] Can anyone tell me what the command line for this might be under NS 3.0? Short answer: RTM on ixbuild(1) - specifically the parameter "-g". In addition, I'd like to inform the newsgroup of a simple hack I setup on my own machine to create a unified DL target for all UN*X Manual pages (including system, local, gnu, whatever). This was easier under 2.x because IXBuild (pre IXKit) had more hacks in it... Basically, you need to setup a directory with sym-links to the various man-page directories; For example: (397)basilisk% pwd /LocalLibrary/Documentation/ManPages (398)basilisk% ls -alg total 728 drwxrwxr-x 2 eric wheel 1024 Mar 28 18:03 ./ drwxrwxr-x 11 root wheel 1024 Mar 27 00:41 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 370 Feb 27 22:01 .README -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 872 Feb 27 17:11 .dir.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 20 Feb 27 17:11 .displayCommand -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 47 Feb 27 17:10 .index.iname -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 6 Feb 27 17:10 .index.itype -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 729088 Mar 28 18:44 .index.store -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 5 Feb 27 17:11 .roffArgs lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 18 Feb 27 17:53 gnu -> /usr/local/gnu/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 14 Feb 27 17:53 local -> /usr/local/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 9 Feb 27 17:53 news -> /news/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 35 Feb 27 17:53 system -> /usr/man/@ (399)basilisk% Notice that I also copied all the ".[a-z]*" files from the /usr/man/ directory as well. Then, use ixbuild -gl to (re)build the index. If your any of the links point to directories on other devices, add "d" to "-gl". "-v" will give you verbose output (like my writing style ;-). RTM under ixbuild(1) for more info. Unfortunantly, once the index is built, I've never successfully gotten DL to update it correctly. Instead I have to do it by hand using "ixbuild -ogldvc" (actualy, I setup a cron job to reindex weekly.) If you have troubles, try removing the .index.store file and rebuilding the entire database. I've had intermittent problems with ixbuild under 3.0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F18: Can I automatically have my ~/.signature file appended to mail I send with Mail.app? I want to automatically add additional header lines to mail going out from Mail.app (such as Reply-To or X-faces headers). Can this be done? [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Yes, on both counts. First create a simple text file the following content: #!/bin/sh { if test -r ${HOME}/.add-header; then cat ${HOME}/.add-header; fi cat - if test -r ${HOME}/.signature; then echo "--"; cat ${HOME}/.signature; fi }| /usr/lib/sendmail "$@" A good name for this file would be "sendmail-addheader". If you want to and can install it for system-wide use put this file in e.g. /usr/lib. Otherwise your private ~/Unix/bin directory is also fine. Make certain that this file has execute permission. To set that, use e.g. "chmod 755 /usr/lib/sendmail-addheader". Next, open up the preferences panel in Mail.app. Switch to the expert options. Change the Mailer option from "/usr/lib/sendmail" (which it should originally be) to "/usr/lib/sendmail-addheader" (or whatever the name of the file you created is). OK this and you should be set. From now on your ~/.signature file should always be appended to all mail sent out with Mail.app. In addition if you have a file called add-header in your home-directory it should automatically be prepended to your outgoing mail. To implement a reply-to line, you would simply give it the following content: Reply-to: My Real Human Name <name@my.real.address> IMPORTANT: Make certain that you have one and exactly one newline at the end of ~/.add-header. Anything might break outgoing mail. Beware ! BUG: The ~/.signature file is not added properly for NeXT mail containing attachments. The headers will still be added properly. This could be fixed but probably is more of a hassle than it is worth. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F19: How can I quickly find a file if I don't know its directory? The Unix 'find' command on the NeXT has the capability of quickly searching a database of all the files. This database is located in /etc/find.codes and has to be generated periodically. You can automatically generate this database, say twice a week at 3:15 a.m., by adding this line to your file /etc/crontab.local (you might have to create this file). 15 03 * * 2,5 root /usr/lib/find/updatedb > /usr/adm/updatedb.err After this has run, you can quickly find any file from a terminal by typing find pattern where pattern is a part of the file name you want (it is case-sensitive). [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: Find still works under 3.0, but 'pattern' now has to match the entire filename (including the path) for a match to be recognized i.e. where under 2.x you would have: % find foobar Under 3.0 you: % find '*foobar*' (The "'" are neccessary to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcards itself). [From: sanguish@digifix.com] There is also a Find panel in 3.1 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F20: Mail.app suddenly stopped working. When I double-click the Mail.app icon it loads and seems to start but then just terminates. How can I fix this ? [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Usually the problem is caused by Mail.app being terminated with extreme prejudice such as by a power outage or 'kill -9'. Under those circumstances Mail.app may leave a lock file in your active mailbox. Due to a bug 3.0 Mail.app doesn't ask for permission to override this lock when started up again but just dies. Open a shell and look in ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox. If this directory contains a file called .lock you have found the culprit. You can safely remove this file. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F21: For some reason, after moving my home directory, my recyler no longer works? [From: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com (Eric D. Engstrom)] Basically, when you dump a file in the recycler, the workspace manager (attempts) to move it to one of the following locations: (note: no order implied here, 'cause I'm unsure of the actual order used) - $HOME/.NeXT/.NextTrash (Should always exist; unsure what happens if it doesn't) - /tmp/.NextTrash_$USER Automatically created if non-existent) - $MNT-POINT/.NextTrash/$USER (.NextTrash NOT automatically created if non-existent) Also, the workspace requires that the trash directory into which it puts the to-be-deleted file be on the same disk partition that the file originally came from (for speed, I assume). Also, an example of the permissions for the external disk .NextTrash directory (which is not automatically created) should be : (52)basilisk% ls -aldg /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash drwxrwxrwt 3 root 1024 Dec 5 09:36 /private/mnt2/local/.NextTrash/ Notes: - /private/mnt2/local is the mount point. - do "chmod 1777 .NextTrash" to get the permissions right. Thus, if you moved your home directory from one partition to another, the one you left may not have a "recycler-repository" to use. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: F22: How to hear sound from CDPlayer.app thought NEXTSTEP system? [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Hearing the sound directly on the NeXT can be done with the play3401 program from the archives if you have a Toshiba 3401 series drive. Theoretically this can also be done with NEC [78]4-1s and Apple CD 300s, though I know of no NeXT program which supports them. Most other drives (including the NeXT CD-ROM) just don't have the hardware to do it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194550.22947@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:45:50 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-OS-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ G1. What information is there about NEXTSTEP/FIP (For Intel Processors)? G2. Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? G3. Can I delete /odmach or /sdmach and save 700K? G4. NEXTSTEP 2.0 systems report an error on the console: "loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory." Is this a problem? G5. Under NEXTSTEP 2.0 running UUCP and other incoming connections hangs the modem serial line: what can I do? G6. Applications installed in /LocalApps are not being found on my NEXTSTEP 2.0 system. G7. Why can't root login onto client machines? G8. How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? G9. How to make swapfile shrink to the "normal" size? G10. Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.n and 3.n? !G11. Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? G12. How to limit coredump sizes? G13. Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.0? G14. What happens to the OD drive in NeXTcubes under NEXTSTEP 3.0? G15. What equipment do I need to load 3.0? +G16. What is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G1. What information is there about NEXTSTEP/FIP (For Intel Processors)? See the separate FAQ files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G2. Why does NEXTSTEP 1.0 hang a few seconds after attempting to boot? Release 1.0 contains a bug that can corrupt the kernel /odmach if a user attempts to launch /odmach from the browser. The solution is to copy a clean /odmach from another NeXT system. Be sure to change the permissions of the newly installed /odmach to remove execute permissions to prevent future occurrences of the same problem. Release 1.0a and beyond do not have this problem. It is possible for the sdmach to get corrupted in the same way. Boot from the OD, copy an uncorrupted version of the kernel to the hard disk, and remove the execute bits from sdmach. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G3. Can I delete /odmach or /sdmach and save 700K? Go ahead and delete it if you want. However, you might as well leave it there since sdmach and odmach are links to the same file (i.e. you won't save much space by deleting it). Better to look for random core files. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G4. NEXTSTEP 2.0 systems report an error on the console: "loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory." Is this a problem? The netinfo problem is because the /keyboard directory is missing. It's benign... [EPS adds] "But annoying. niutil -create . /keyboard" Fixed in 2.1. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G5. Under NEXTSTEP 2.0 running UUCP and other incoming connections hangs the modem serial line: what can I do? There is a bug in the serial driver which causes getty to get stuck. The situation arises after a successful uucico connection, subsequent connections via modem will get a connection with the modem, but no login prompt. This is caused by getty hanging. A simple work around is to have a process run in cron to reset the getty every 15 minutes: #! /bin/sh -u PIDS=`ps -ax | bm getty | grep -v bm | awk '{print $1}'` kill -TERM $PIDS Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release. This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G6. Applications installed in /LocalApps are not being found on my NEXTSTEP 2.0 system. Workspace has its own internal application path. In 2.0 /LocalApps was omitted. Improv needs to have /LocalApps in the Workspace path if you have Improve installed in /LocalApps. The work around in 2.0 only is: dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths "~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos (one continuous line! - pasc) This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G7. Why can't root login onto client machines? A number of people have complained about the situation where root can log onto the configuration server, but not its clients. Login proceeds normally, then a window with "Workspace error Internal error (signal 10)" pops up. Other users are not affected. This scenario occurs with NetBooted clients that are not permitted root access to / via the server's /etc/exports file, either via an explicit root= option or [the most heinous] anon=0. For security reasons many sites will NOT want to permit such access. Note that what you're up against is only a Workspace Manager misfeature; there's no problem logging in as root on the real UNIX console, or logging in as a non-root user and then using "su" to obtain root privileges. Root access is needed to: - Log in a root Workspace. - Perform BuildDisk on a client. - Run the GuidedTour demo for the first time subsequent invocations will not autologin, but they will run just fine if you log in as NextTour (no password). It is not required to perform updates on the local NetInfo database, for any normal user operations, nor to run programs requiring root access on the server using -NXHost. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G8. How to boot NEXTSTEP from the second (higher SCSI ID) HD? bsd(1,0,0) -a which will then ask you for the drive to use as the root disk, or still easier, bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: In the boot command the name of the bootfile can be replaced by '-'. This is very useful as the length of the bootcommand which can be stored in the permanent memory is very limited. So the only way to eg. increase the number of buffers permanently to 128 in the boot command is to use the following boot command: sd- nbu=128 (sdsdmach nbu=128 would have been too long). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G9. How to make swapfile shrink to the "normal" size? The swapfile is located in /private/vm. The only current way to make it shrink is to reboot the machine. Putting a space after the comma in /etc/swaptab (lowat=###,hiwat=###) makes swapon ignore the hiwat entry. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G10. Does netinfo work between machines running NEXTSTEP 2.n and 3.n? Yes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G11. Why does the console user "own" the external disk filesystem? You need an entry in /etc/fstab so the disk will be mounted at boot time, rather than being "automounted" when somebody logs in. Automounted disks are owned by whoever logged in, fstab-mounted disks are owned by root. Something like this: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 (assuming the external disk is to be mounted as /Disk) fstab should be niloaded into the Netinfo database if it contains any NFS mounts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G12. How to limit coredump sizes? [dylan@midiline.la.ca.us (Comrade D)]: This will work for apps running from a shell. limit coredumpsize 0 If your dock or workspace apps are dumping core, there's also: dwrite Workspace CoreLimit 0 [or whatever byte limit you want] ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G13. Will a 68030 NeXT Computer run NEXTSTEP 3.0? Yes, but note that NeXTstep 3.0 will be optimized for the 68040 CPUs. NeXTstep 1.0 and 2.x were optimized for the 68030 CPU, 68882 FPU machines. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G14. What happens to the OD drive in NeXTcubes under NEXTSTEP 3.0? Release 3.0 will work fine with the OD that you have. You cannot buy release 3.0 on optical disk (you can only get it on CD-ROM. Release 3.0 will not require that you drop the optical, but if you want to upgrade to the latest 68040 board (the 33-MHz Turbo), then you lose hardware support for the optical. There is a company which offers hardware (extra CPU boards) and software support solutions for the OD with Turbo NeXTcubes. For more information: Sam Goldberger Spherical Solutions smg@sphersys.net.netcom.com 415-383-7512 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G15. What equipment do I need to load 3.0? A CDrom drive and a means of getting an upgrade-prep app onto your disk. This means having your own floppy drive, being on the net, having someone with a floppy drive put it onto OD, kermitting it over with a serial line... you get the idea. You do not need a special boot ROM for 3.0. [From: Jimmie_Quan@NeXT.COM (Jimmie Quan)] There's actually 3 levels of upgrades. a) For early NeXT Computers, you'll need an external Floppy drive (PLI) and the upgrade-prep floppy disk. b) For 040 machines with ROMs v58-v66, you'll need the upgrade-prep floppy. c) For all 040's with v70-v74 ROM. The CD ROM is directly bootable. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: G16. What is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? I know the ROM monitor only allows twelve characters, but I use something like this: bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx Is there a way to make it default? [Charles William Swiger infidel@cmu.edu] Enter the hardware monitor. Hit 'p' to adjust the configuration parameters. It will respond "Boot command: <something>? " Enter "sd- nbu=xxx", where xxx is a number less than 256. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194601.23006@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:46:01 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Printing-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ H1. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? !H2. What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? H3. How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? H4. How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. H5. How do I get banner pages on my printer output? H6. How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? H7. What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? H8. What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? H9. How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? H10. /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? H11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? H12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H1. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? Adding supported postscript printers is rather simple: 1. Get a serial cable (e.g., Macintosh to LaserWriter Plus), but check whether that works with your printer 2. Configure using Print Manager 3. Configure printer communication according to manufacturer's recommendations. (9600 baud software flow control). A sample printcap entry needs to be loaded into the netinfo database. You can use either "niload printcap . < myprintcap", or use NetInfoManager to change the br and lp properties of your LaserJet. Using the default baud rate and /dev/ttya will also work, for most print jobs. LaserJet_III: \ :note=LaserJet_III:ty=HP LaserJet III PostScript: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserJet_III:lp=/dev/ttyfa: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:af=/usr/adm/lp.acct:br=19200:rw:fc#0000374: \ :fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sb:if=/usr/lib/transcript/psif: \ :of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:gf=/usr/lib/transcript/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:tf=/usr/lib/transcript/pstf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/transcript/psrf:vf=/usr/lib/transcript/psvf: \ :cf=/usr/lib/transcript/pscf:df=/usr/lib/transcript/psdf: HP printer configuration: auto cont = off (doesn't matter) I/O = serial serial=rs-232 (for LJ III only) baud rate = 19200 (or whatever baud rate you have in ni database/printcap) robust xon = on (doesn't matter) dtr polarity = hi startpage = off (doesn't matter) language=english ret = med (you choose for LJ III only) Note that if you modify the printcap this way you cannot reconfigure this particular printer entry with PrintManager. If you are using NEXTSTEP 2.0 and you use remote non-next printers, there is a bug that can be simply corrected by doing "dwrite system PrinterResolution 1" for each user trying to access non-next printers on the network. This not a problem in later NEXTSTEP versions. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H2. What fonts can I use with NEXTSTEP? Properly packaged Type 1 or 3 PostScript fonts will work with NEXTSTEP, but certain conversions may be necessary to get them to work. Freeware and shareware fonts are available on various ftp archives. There are utilities with NEXTSTEP to download fonts into postscript printers. Freeware and shareware Type 1 and 3 fonts in files Fonts-1.0-free.tar.Z and Fonts-2.0-sw.tar.Z. Each file unpacks into it's own directory. Within each directory is a ReadMe.rtf and a Makefile. See the ReadMe.rtf for more font descriptions and installation instructions. (You may also find comments in the Makefile of interest.) These packages were prepared by Doug Brenner <dbrenner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>. The same directory contains fonts Shalom (Hebrew and Yiddish in Old Style, Stick and Script typefaces, by Jonathan Brecher, shareware) and CyrillicGothic (san serif, by Jay Sekora). These were packaged by Jacob Gore <jacob@gore.com> to work with the Installer application. WSI-Fonts for NEXTSTEP #1 Abstract Software POB 25045 Seattle, WA 98125-1945 Voice: 206 361 5080 info@abstractsoft.com Fonts may be purchased from Adobe (800 USA FONTS) or from The Font Hotline, a new division of RightBrain Software. For more information: RightBrain/The Font Hotline Voice: 415 326 2974 Some fonts in Type 1 format for NEXTSTEP are also available from Y&Y: Y&Y, 106 Indian Hill, Carlisle MA 01741 USA Voice: 800 742 4059 Voice: 508 371 3286 Fax: 508 371 2004 71172,524 on CompuServe 71172.524@compuserve.com from InterNet [henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)] Trilithon Software supplies utilities to convert and install Macintosh or PC fonts to NEXTSTEP format. MacToPfa -- a Mac to NeXT font converter and installer. PfbToPfa -- a PC to NeXT font converter and installer. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H3. How can I save my printable documents to a postscript file? Select PRINT from the main menu, then select SAVE from the resulting print panel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H4. How can I print only the even or odd pages of a document? I wish print on both sides by feeding the paper through twice. We must recommend against re-using laser printed paper in your printers. The reason is that the toner which is used is not very robust, in that when heated again (which happens when you print) it can come off the other side of the paper. This causes a mess to accumulate in your printer, and probably some pretty rude things to happen. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] psutils from comp.sources.misc is a much better solution, and includes alot more capabilities, plus it is being updated constantly. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H5. How do I get banner pages on my printer output? There is a sample banner prologue file in /usr/lib/NextPrinter that is sent to the printer before or after the print job depending on what printer attributes are set in NetInfo. Sounds gross, but it isn't. Start up NetInfo on your printer machine. Go to the printer directory, and open up your local printer by double clicking it. Select the append property from Directory menu. Replace the name with BannerAfter (or BannerBefore if you want the banner page printed first). The select the New Value option, and put in the name of the banner prologue file. If you do not wish to do fancy customization of the file, simply put the path to the NeXT sample banner file: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/banner.pro Save out the netinfo modifications. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H6. How do I get [la]TeX files to print correctly on non-NeXT printers? If you are printing to a non-NeXT printer from NeXT TeX using dvips, make sure you specify the correct resolution (300 dpi, usually), either on the command line with -D300, or in the /usr/lib/tex/config.ps file with a line that looks like : D 300 If you are printing from within TeXView, you will have to choose CustomResolution and enter the correct number (300, usually) because of the way DefaultResolution defaults to 0. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H7. What if I have a PostScript font has not been ported to NEXTSTEP? Many PostScript fonts port to NEXTSTEP with little effort. The easiest case is a font generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above (a comment near the top of the file should say which program generated the font). This version of Fontographer can generate fonts "for NEXTSTEP". This means that no hacking of the font is needed, but you may need to make some adjustments to make it appear in your font panel. Suppose you were porting the font family Shalom, which consists of three faces: Old Style, Stick and Script. Here is the procedure to follow: 1. In a working folder of yours, create folders called: Shalom-OldStyle.font Shalom-Script.font Shalom-Stick.font Note that the font family name is to the left of the hyphen ("-"), and the typeface name is to the right and with no spaces in it. 2. Copy the outline font file for each typeface from wherever it is into its folder, and give it the name of the folder minus the ".font". For example, if you are doing this in a Terminal window: cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.NeXT Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.NeXT Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.NeXT Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick If you are working in Workspace Manager's File Viewer, double-click on the big fat F icon to open the font directory as a folder, then you'll be able to rename files in it. 3. Do the same thing with the font metric files, but make the suffix ".afm": cp /Floppy/ShalomOldStyle.AFM Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomScript.AFM Shalom-Script.font/Shalom-Script.afm cp /Floppy/ShalomStick.AFM Shalom-Stick.font/Shalom-Stick.afm 4. If there is a "read me" file with the font, or any other documentation, copy it into the .font folder too. For example, each of the Shalom font folders contains files ReadMe, CheatSheet.wn and Sample.wn specific to the typeface. 5. Edit the outline and font metric files to make them fit the NeXT AppKit's Font Panel, which is what most NextStep applications use to let you choose your font. a. Editing the outline file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle: The original used "ShalomOldStyle" as the font's name, full name, and family name. We want the name to be "Shalom-OldStyle", the full name "Shalom Old Style", and family name just "Shalom". First, find the lines: /FullName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def /FamilyName (ShalomOldStyle) readonly def and change them to /FullName (Shalom Old Style) readonly def /FamilyName (Shalom) readonly def Then, replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". b. Editing the AFM file, e.g., Shalom-OldStyle.font/Shalom-OldStyle.afm. Find the lines: FullName ShalomOldStyle FamilyName ShalomOldStyle and change them to FullName Shalom Old Style FamilyName Shalom Replace all remaining occurrences of the string "ShalomOldStyle" with "Shalom-OldStyle". Repeat this procedure for the remaining typefaces. 6. You now have a font family ready to be installed. If the font family is to be used by your account only, place it in ~/Library/Fonts (creating it if necessary): mkdirs ~/Library/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font ~/Library/Fonts buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts If everybody on your system should have access to this font family, place it (as superuser) in /LocalLibary/Fonts: su mkdirs /LocalLibrary/Fonts mv Shalom-*.font /LocalLibrary/Fonts buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts exit That's all you need to do for fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.2 or above. This will work with all applications that use AppKit's FontPanel. FrameMaker does not, so other changes may need to be done to keep FrameMaker happy [does anybody have something to add here?]. Fonts generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or below don't work in Display PostScript as they are, because they use a memory management trick that screws everything up in a multitasking environment like DPS. However, there is a simple, though kludgy, way to make them work. The problematic trick uses a dictionary with a name like "Fog3.1" ("Casa1" in Casady & Green's fonts) in which most of the font resides. The problem is that Fontographer puts that whole dictionary into dictionary 'userdict' and expects it to stay there. DPS, however, clears out 'userdict' between tasks, including the task that loads the font and the task that uses it. This makes the font useless on the screen, and printable only by prepending the outline font file to the file you want to print and sending the result to print in one task. The fix is to move the troublesome dictionary from 'userdict' into the font dictionary itself (unlike 'userdict', the font dictionary does stick around between tasks). Perform the following changes in the outline font file (the font CyrillicGothic is used as the example): 1. Find the line "%%EndProlog". It will be followed by the line like this: /$CyrillicGothic 23 dict def $CyrillicGothic begin Write down the number before 'dict' (in this case, 23). You will need it in the following step. Delete the dict definition, making the line look like this: $CyrillicGothic begin 2. Go back to the beginning of the file. near the top of the font program, find the following lines: userdict/Fog3.1 known{{currentfile( )readstring {(%%%)eq{exit}if}{pop exit}ifelse}loop}if userdict begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin and replace them with these: /$CyrillicGothic 24 dict def $CyrillicGothic begin/Fog3.1 45 dict def Fog3.1 begin The number before 'dict' (in this case, 24) is one greater than the number you wrote down in the previous step. 3. Find the line that defines procedure BuildChar: /BuildChar{Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec}def and change it as follows: /BuildChar{1 index begin Fog3.1/BuildChar get exec end}def 4. Go to the end of the file. The last line looks like this: /CyrillicGothic findfont/EFN get Fog3.1 begin{RF}forall end Delete it (or comment it out by placing one or more "%" in the beginning of it). The AFM file requires one adjustment. Change the line EncodingScheme AppleStandard to EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding This concludes conversion of a font generated by Fontographer version 3.1 or lower to work with NEXTSTEP. You may still need to make the changes described for version 3.2 and above, to make the font fit the NEXTSTEP font panel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H8. What color printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with NEXTSTEP? The (no longer sold) NeXT/Canon SCSI color printer, of course! [heinz.in-berlin.de]: With Dots Color, the HP DeskJet 500C can print in color *today*, under NEXTSTEP 2.1, and it costs significantly less than $1000 (in Germany at least). You can get more information from d'ART Software GmbH Virchowstr. 17-19 W-2000 Hamburg 50 Germany Voice: +49 40 380 23 0 Fax: +49 40 380 23 290 software@dart.de ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H9. How can I make the Page Layout default to A4 in all applications? Add "NXPaperType A4" in the "GLOBAL" preferences. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H10. /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: syntax error at line 31: `end of file' unexpected? [Richard Tilley writes:] Using lpr -t, or lpr -d causes this problem. eg: [...] cat /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf [...] Christopher Lane <lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> has pointed out 3 (three!) errors in the distributed NEXTSTEP 3.0 lpd.comm file The last change is my own. It worked for the 1 (one!) dvi file I tried. tilley%diff lpd.comm.DIST lpd.comm 11,12c11,12 < while "x$1" != x do < case "$1" in --- > while test $# != 0 > do case "$1" in 16c16 < -h) HOST=$"; shift;; --- > -h) HOST=$2; shift;; 17a18 > esac 21c22 < PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p $PRINTER -n $USER -h HOST -f -" --- > PRSERVER="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p $PRINTER -n $USER -h $HOST -f -" 27c28 < psdf) psbad $FILTER $PRINTER $USER $HOST | $PRSERVER;; --- > psdf) dvips -f -D 400 -r | $PRSERVER ;; ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? [From: Dr. T. L. Marchioro II <tlm@tantalus.scl.ameslab.gov>] If you upgrade to a 600 dpi laserwriter then the version of TeX that ships with NEXTSTEP (either 2.X or 3.0) does not know about 600 dpi fonts, i.e. does not know how to make them and will instead use scaled 400 dpi ones (which look significantly worse at 600 dpi than they do at 400 dpi). Some simple modifications to a few Metafont files and rebuilding the metafont bases are all that is needed. What to do to get the 600 dpi stuff working is as follows: 1. Edit /usr/lib/mf/inputs/next.mf and add a laserjetIV mode. Simply copy the entire imagen mode, change the name to laserjetIV, and change the pixels_per_inch to 600. Save the changed file. 2. Build a new mf.base file by executing the following commands: inimf "plain; input next; dump" (as superuser): cp plain.base /usr/lib/mf/bases/mf.base 3. Edit /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps and change the `D 400' line to `D 600' (you may have `D 300' or something else if you've set up a different printer.) 4. Edit /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK (as superuser), adding the lines elif test $BDPI = 600 then MODE=laserjetIV right before the second `else' in the file. That should do it! You might have to (depending on how you configure NEXTSTEP for the LaserJet IV) select `custom resolution' and set the gadget to 600 in the TeXview print panel, and save Preferences. These instructions are written for an HP Laserjet IV, but they should also work for a QMS printer just fine. Finally, if you have one of these printers and work in a "mixed" environment with perhaps 400 dpi and/or 300 dpi printers that you also print to on a regular basis then you might want to consider getting Type 1 PS version of the Computer Modern fonts instead. They obviate the need for the instructions above, and the savings in disc space will be considerable since having printer fonts for several printers takes lots of room, and the file sizes for 600 dpi are quite large (the files grow roughly as D logD, where D is the resolution). These fonts are made by Blue Sky Research, and work beautifully. Y & Y software is a reseller for BSR and sells a "NEXTSTEP specific" version of them which comes with appropriate instructions and installation scripts. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: H12 How to get printer description files (PPD)? [From: peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis)] Adobe has a mail server and ftp site where you can get .PPD files. They are: ps-file-server@adobe.com (put "send help" in the mail body) and ftp.mv.us.adobe.com respectively. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194610.23065@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:46:10 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Utilities-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ I1. Where can I obtain the most recent version of Kermit? I2. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of SLIP or PPP? I3. Where can I obtain a version of Larry Wall's patch for NEXTSTEP? I4. Where can I get a NEXTSTEP Usenet reader? I5. Where can I get plotting software? I6. Where can I get objective-c mode for emacs? I7. Is there a backup utility for multi-volume dumps (gnu tar)? !I8. What are these ".z" files which appear all over the archives ? Should I just rename them to ".Z" so that compress can uncompress them ? I9. How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? !I10. How do I change the Workspace compression app? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I1. Where can I obtain the most recent version of Kermit? The source for the latest version is available via ftp from: cs.dartmouth.edu kermit/sw. Get the file ckaaaa.hlp to get started and see what files are required. Note that this version of Kermit does have a NEXTSTEP specific compile option. Kermit can also be found on... The Purdue archive: pub/next/2.0-release/source/ pub/next/2.0-release/binaries/ The Oregon archive: pub/next/sources/comm/ pub/next/binaries/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I2. Where can I obtain a NEXTSTEP version of SLIP or PPP? The free version of SLIP available from purdue was written by Louis Mamakos and is an excellent implementation. Basic SLIP is free, but VJ TCP header compression requires a license which is available inexpensively from Mr Mamakos. Morning Star Technologies offers a commercial version. For more information: email: marketing@morningstar.com ftp: ftp.morningstar.com (anonymous FTP archive of docs & literature) phone: +1 614 451 1883, +1 800 558 7827. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Louis is not currently shipping an Intel version, although hopefully soon. Morningstar PPP is now available for Intel. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I3. Where can I obtain a version of Larry Wall's patch for NEXTSTEP? Patch is a utility that allows people to distribute updates to sources without resending the whole packages. This is done by detecting changes between the last release and the new one and creating a file of differences to each source file in the release. Patches need to be applied sequentially. The distribution can be found on the Purdue NeXT archives. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I4. Where can I get a NEXTSTEP Usenet reader? By far the most versatile NEXTSTEP-specific newsreader application is NewsGrazer by Jayson Adams, formerly of NeXT. It is on the archive servers. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] NewsGrazer is not available as an MAB. NewsGrazer Pro will be released this fall as a commercial product. Many non-NEXTSTEP-specific newsreaders have been ported to the NEXTSTEP environment providing the flexibility and familiarity existing on other platforms. Most of these may be obtained via anonymouse ftp: ftp.uu.net:~ftp/news ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I5. Where can I get plotting software? nxyplot by Tom Pulliam is available from cs.orst.edu graph is available in source form from 4.3BSD systems. It is useful for dealing with pairs of numbers that need to be viewed. psplot comes with NEXTSTEP, it takes the output of the graph program and generates a .ps file that can be previewed with Preview or Yap. gnuplot is available from prep.ai.mit.edu. Very useful patches for gnuplot are available from Purdue which allow it to open NEXTSTEP windows and output its graphs on them. jsplot clone of graph that generates ps files directly. plplot is a library of c routines that generate 2D, 3D and contour plots. It is available on purdue archive, plplot.tar.Z contains the source, and NXplplot.tar.Z contains the library, example programs and documentation. Mathematica The ReadList command will bring in files containing sample values and produces a plot on the fly. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I6. Where can I get objective-c mode for emacs? You can get ObjC mode for Emacs, by Douglas Worthington and Kenneth Persson from cs.orst.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I7. Is there a backup utility for multi-volume dumps (gnu tar)? GNU tar has a number of features not found in the tar delivered with NEXTSTEP, and in some cases it may be a better choice for backups than rdump and rrestore. The NEXTSTEP supplied rdump/rrestore don't work when using multiple volumes to non-NEXTSTEP systems (see the man page for rdump/rrestore). GNU tar will also allow a dump of a portion of a file system as well as an entire file system. Other useful features of GNU tar include: incremental dump capability like BSD dump/restore, scripts for backing up heterogeneous workstations across the network automatically, multivolume tape and floppy disk support (it can't do multivolume compressed unfortunately), long filename support, and scripts for integrating floppy disks into a three level backup scheme. Source and binary for NEXTSTEP is available on the purdue and orst archives in tar-1.10.tar.Z. [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] GNU tar 1.10 (which lacks many bugs which 1.11 introduced) is also shipped with NEXTSTEP 3.0. Just look in /usr/bin/gnutar. An inexpensive commercial application for backup to DAT and SCSI tape is available from Impact Software publishing. The app automatically configures your tape drive and gives a NEXTSTEP browser interface for selecting files to save or restore. The program is distributed electronically, and a demo version can be obtained from nova.cc.purdue.edu or sonata.cc.purdue.edu under the pathname: /pub/next/2.0-release/demos/enTar1.4.tar.Z [From: sanguish@digifix.com] SafetyNet. It is commerical, but an excellent app. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I8. What are these ".z" files which appear all over the archives ? Should I just rename them to ".Z" so that compress can uncompress them ? [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] These files were created with GNU gzip. Gzip is a replacement for compress which achieves about 30% better compression rates and uncompresses faster. Gzip can also uncompress ".Z" file. Unfortunately compress can not uncompress ".z" files, so you will have to get and compile gzip on your machine before you can read any ".z" files. Gzip is available via anon ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu and should configure, compile and install without problem on any NEXTSTEP system. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Needs to be updated to address the .gz file change. There are also precompiled MAB versions of gzip available on cs.orst.edu. [Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.uucp OR bill@bilver.oau.org] Be warned however that not all .z files are gzip. The .gz extension was adopted after someone discovered that the .z was used by the pack utility in Unix. The .Z is used by compress. However - gzip is nice in that it will extract pack, compress and gzip files. It's a universal decoder. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I9. How do I decompress a file with the extension .compressed? [From: sanguish@digifix.com] .compressed files have been compressed in the Workspace Manager. Basically, they are just .tar.Z files. Even single files are tarred as well as compressed. There are several methods of decompressing these files. -They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and Selecting uncompress from the file menu. -They can be decompressed by selecting them in the Workspace, and bringing up the Workspace Inspector. (You can double click to get there faster) -You can rename them to be .tar.Z and handle them the way you do them. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: I10. How do I change the Workspace compression app? [Stephen Peters <SPETERS.93Aug23144549@samsun.us.oracle.com>] You can change the tools that the Workspace uses to create and read its .compressed files by using, for example: Workspace compress /usr/bin/gzip Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip Workspace AlwaysTarForCompress YES [Reuven M. Lerner reuven@the-tech.mit.edu] This is generally a good thing, except that people might follow your advice and then try to send NeXTmail to someone who is still using compress/uncompress. Changing Workspace/uncompress to gunzip isn't a problem, since it uncompresses all sorts of files, but people should be very careful not to change Workspace/compress to gzip unless they will only be dealing with other gzip-equipped users. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194624.23175@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:46:24 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ J0. How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? J1. How do I start an official NeXT User Group? J2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? J3. Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J0. How may I contact NeXT, Inc.? NeXT, Inc. 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Voice: 800-848-NeXT (Redwood City #) Voice: (415)-366-0900 NeXT marketing div. of Canon - Japan Phone: 81-44-549-5295 Fax: 81-44-549-5462 NeXT Europe Stockholm: 46-7-068-8930 Netherlands: 31-20-653-0333 Denmark: 45-45-41-2200 London: 44-81-565-0005 Italy/Milan: 39-2-95302510 Munich: 49-89-996-5310 Paris: (331) 46-45-1414 Japan: 81-44-549-5555 Note: numbers abroad are listed with the country codes first. You will need to dial the international access number of your long distance carrier before proceeding to dialing the country code, area code and phone number. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J1. How do I start an official NeXT User Group? To start a user group, just send email to "user_groups@next.com". ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J2. What are the names of some of the ftp sites that have NeXT-related files? There are too many to list them all, so are here are just a few. NEXTSTEP: cs.orst.edu nova.cc.purdue.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu umd5.umd.edu ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de MIT GNU: aeneas.mit.edu MIT X: export.lcs.mit.edu music: princeton.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: J3. Where can I get NeXT paraphernalia? NeXT T-shirts Classic NeXT logo on front $6.95 each (S-XL) 3.1 NEXTSTEP logo on front $7.95 each (M-XXL) NeXT Pencils $20.30 box of 100 NeXT Cross Pen $21.15 each NeXT Decals $75.00 box of 100 NeXT T-shirt $ 5.65 each - sizes S, M, L, XL (pre-shrunk) Turtle Neck $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Glass Mug $ 1.70 each Leather Folder $54.50 each NeXT Sweatshirt $19.20 each - sizes S, M, L, XL NeXT Tote-bag $ 6.25 each NeXT Mouse pad $ 9.67 each Orders can be taken 24 hours a day for domestic and overseas orders Contact: Hermann Marketing 1400 North Price Road St. Louis, MO 63132-2308 Phone: 1 800 972 1331, 314 432 1800 Fax: 314 432 1818 Method of payment: Purchase order, check, money order, or credit card ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: Nathan Janette nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194635.23238@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:46:35 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-General-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ K0. Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? K1. Where to obtain hardware service? K2. What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K0. Where can I purchase a NeXT machine? NeXT discontinued manufacturing hardware in Feb, 1993. Used systems are often advertized in comp.sys.next.marketplace. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K1. Where to obtain hardware service? [Jeff Hite jeffh@ludwig.cc.uoregon.edu] USA hardware service has been purchased by Bell Atlantic. They will be supporting the Authorized Service Centers and are selling extended warranty contracts. Bell Atlantic Computing Technology Services Voice: 800 499 6398, or 800 848 NeXT Fax: 510 732 3078 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: K2. What types of NeXT machines were manufactured? There are two packagings: a cube, and a station. NeXTcube systems: 1. 68030-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXT Computer) 2. 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube) 3. 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTcube Turbo) 4. NeXTdimension board adds 32-bit color (i860) to any of above systems Cube systems can use any of the boards. With hacks, multiple independent CPU boards can run in one cube. NeXT Computer systems have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive(s) in either position. NeXTcube systems also have room for 2 full-height 5.25" internal devices with a wide slot for an Optical Disk drive in the lower position, but have additional mounting holes for 1/2-height devices, and have a floppy slot at the top position. NeXTstation systems: 1. 68040-25 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation) 2. 68040-33 2-bit grayscale (NeXTstation Turbo) 1. 68040-25 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color) 2. 68040-33 16-bit color (NeXTstation Color Turbo) NeXTstation systems have room for two 1/2-height 3.5" devices, with a floppy slot at the side. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194647.23297@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:46:47 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Internal-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ L1. What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? L2. Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? L3. Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? L4. How many colors can NeXT machines display? L5. Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? L6. Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? L7. Where to obtain extra batteries? L8. How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? +L9. How to put a 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L1. What can be done about older 030 NeXT cubes that have a fan that turns in the "wrong" direction? The fan on older 030 NeXTs cubes sucks air out of the back of the cube which means that it draws unfiltered air in through the optical disk on the front of the cube. This causes optical disks to succumb to dust must sooner than cubes with the new-style fan which turns in the opposite direction. NeXT has apparently reversed their decision regarding fan reversal in the case of machines that have been upgraded to 040 processor boards. It is now considered okay to reverse the direction of fans in these machines. If you have many third-party cards installed in your cube or an older processor board, you may wish to consider not reversing fan direction (overheating could become a problem). In any case, do not reverse the fan's polarity, only reverse the fan assembly itself. Perhaps the best solution is obtain the cleaning kit and OD filter from NeXT. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L2. Can I connect SONY MPX-111N to my 68030 NeXT Computer? The SONY MPX-111N internal 2.88 MB floppy drive which was shipped with all the 68040 NeXT machines is *not* a SCSI device, therefore there is no way of connecting that particular drive internally on a 68030 system. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L3. Why does the OD continually spin up and spin down? A big problem with the Canon optical drives is that air flows through the drive to cool it. Dust accumulates inside the drive causing it to fail with the continuous spin-up spin-down syndrome. NeXT as part of it's 040 upgrades provided a dust filter to prevent this. If your drive has this problem it usually can be fixed simply by cleaning out dust from the drive. NeXT sold a cleaning kit for both the drives and the optical disks. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L4. How many colors can NeXT machines display? The monochrome machines can display 4 gray levels. You can use color apps on a monochrome machine, they will converted into monochrome images and dithered accordingly. Color NeXTstations can combine 4 bits of red, green and blue primaries for a total of 4096 "pure" colors. The imaging functions dither the image to produce intermediate colors. NeXTdimension can combine 8 bits of red, green and blue for 16,777,216. There are not 16 million points on the display so all can not be displayed at once. Further display technology limits the usable color space. None of the NeXT products support color look up tables where the user can define their own color palette on a per window basis. This feature is useful for displaying images which have adaptive lookup tables, and display pure grayscale images on the color NeXTstation. On the NeXTdimension images can be converted to full 24 bit representation. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L5. Why is my machine so slow when I run the monochrome and NeXTdimension displays? There is a bug with the window system in which if you select the monochrome display as your primary display the server will be much much slower. The solution for those wishing to use both displays is to select the color (NeXTdimension) display as the primary display. The most optimal configuration at present with the NeXTdimension is to run only the color display. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L6. Where to obtain replacement mouse parts? [jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu] For those who have need of a new button in their mouse, and don't want to pay for the whole mouse when it is only the button that has gone bad, we have recently discovered a satisfactory replacement for the Omron switch. It is in the Digikey catalog, # 931, Jan-Feb 1993, page 141, under Cherry switches D4, DG, and DH series. Digikey part # CH164-ND, Cherry part # DG1C-B1AA. We ordered one of these, and just received it today. Tried it out, and it sems to be working flawlessly so far. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L7. Where to obtain extra batteries? Battery part number: BR 2/3A 3V Lithium Battery (Panasonic) Source: Engineered Assemblies & Components Corporation 5204 Green's Dairy Road Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: 919-790-9700 (ask for Debra) Price: $16.71 for 2 batteries incl. shipping & C.O.D. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L8. How to convert a Turbo system to use ADB? [From: Brad_Sime@NeXT.COM (Brad Sime)] If ADB equipment are used with older NeXT systems they won't work properly. Here are the ADB requiments: a) A Turbo computer. b) CPU eprom version 74. c) New revision computer to soundbox/monitor cable. The part number is molded at both ends of the connector: Cable NEW OLD (Non ADB) NeXTcube 4534 150 NeXTstation 4535 1532 NeXTstation color 4536 2286 d) New revision monitor which uses a vertical scan rate of 72hz instead of 68hz, except on NeXTdimension systems color monitor stays 68hz. Monitor NEW (72hz) OLD (68hz) 17" mono ACX (N4000b) AAA (N4000a & N4000) 17" color ADF (N4006) ABG (N4001) 21" color ADB (N4005a) ABH (N4005) e) ADB soundbox for color sytems. S/N prefix ADD instead of ABN. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: L9. How to put a 68030 board in the same NeXTcube as a 68040 board? [Felix_A_Lugo@ATT.COM] ********************** DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER ************************** The following procedure is not supported by NeXT, Inc. and will definitely void the warranty on your NeXT computer. Follow it at your own risk. I disclaim all responsibilities for damages caused by negligence in following the procedure. There is no guarantee that the procedure will work on all versions(?) of the NeXT cube hardware. All I know is that it worked on the NeXT cube I was working on!!!! SO BEWARE! ********************** DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER ************************** Here we go! I'll first provide a description of the hardware I was using and comment on what I accomplished and how I got the information on how to do it! The hardware included a NeXT cube with 660 MB drive, OD, etc., a 68040 upgrade board, and a 68030 motherboard. I successfully installed both the 68040 and 68030 boards on a SINGLE NeXT cube and linked them together through their ethernet ports. The 68040 was configured as a boot server and the 68030 was used as its client (booting off the network for lack of an additional hard drive). The procedure reconfigures slot #2 on the cube's back-plane as slot #0. This provides two slots configured as #0, required for booting the two motherboards. Once I determined what the slot pin-outs were (thanks to my good friend John Chmielewski), it was a matter of time before the two boards happily co-existed. The procedure: 1. First, follow the procedure on the NeXT User's Reference manual for removing the system board (Appendix C: Opening the Cube, page 291 of the 2.0 manual). 2. Using the NeXT supplied screwdriver, remove the two screws that attach the power-supply housing to the cube (the screws are located on the lower part of the housing) and gently pull the housing out. Set it aside in a safe place (away from kids and nosey friends!) 3. Remove the two plastic grooved plates (used to slide the system boards in) at each side of the inside bottom of the cube. (For each plate, lift the side closest to the rear opening and gently pull them out). Set them aside. 4. Using the NeXT tool, remove three screws holding the back-plane to the cube and then take the back-plane out of the cube. Let the cube rest for a while. Inspect the back-plane. You will see five bus slots (four vertical and one horizontal). The horizontal slot connects the back-plane to the power supply housing. We're only interested in the four vertical slots. From the factory these slots are configured as 6, 2, 0, and 4 (starting from the left and going right with the horizontal slot at the bottom). The system board connects to slot #0 (which you've probably noticed). Each slot contains three columns of 32 pins. Following is an ASCII representation of one of the slots: x y z C B A o-o o 32 . . . o-o o 31 . . . o-o o 30 . . . o-o o 29 . . . 28 . . . . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . ...where x, y, and z are labeled GND, SID, and VCC, respectively. The GND, SID, and VCC "holes" are used to configure the slot number using simple binary encoding, where GND is logical zero, VCC is logical one, and SID (for Slot-ID I guess) determines the current bit state (one or zero). Notice the four rows of GND, SID, VCC triads; each row is equivalent to one bit position in the slot number, the bottom row bit position 0, the top row bit position 3. This gives a total of four bit positions, or 16 possible slot numbers. To encode a slot number, you need to connect an SID row to its corresponding GND or VCC row. For example, the diagram below shows the configuration of the slots in my cube's back-plane (you'll have to look very closely to see the actual connections): SLOT #6 SLOT #2 SLOT #0 SLOT #4 BIT 3: o-o o o-o o o-o o o-o o BIT 2: o o-o o-o o o-o o o o-o BIT 1: o o-o * o o-o * o-o o o-o o BIT 0: o-o o o-o o o-o o o-o o ... Now on with the procedure: 5. To reconfigure slot #2 as slot #0, cut the trace between SID and VCC for bit position 1 (see * o o-o * above) and connect SID to GND on the same row. I used the SIMM removal tool supplied by NeXT in the 040 upgrade (talk about multi-purpose) to cut the trace! Very gently, scrape the solder off between the two holes. Take a paperclip, shape it to fit between the holes in SID and GND, and trim it down to an even 1/4 inch (perfect fit)! That's all there is to it. If for some reason you ever want to revert to slot #2, just remove the paperclip from GND-SID and reconnect it to SID-VCC. 6. Now put the cube back together. First, re-install the back-plane using its three connecting screws, then snap on the plastic plates, and finally insert the power-supply housing and secure with its two screws. At this point the cube is ready to take on the two system boards (it is up to you to determine where/how you want to use the two boards; I'll explain how I used mine) ... 7. I installed the 68040 in the original slot #0 and the 68030 in the reconfigured slot #0 (previously slot #2). The 68040 was used as the main processor board. I connected the 660 MB drive, the OD, and the monitor to it. NOTE: Before beginning the procedure, I went into the NeXT Monitor on the 68030 and disabled the Sound out, SCSI tests and verbose test mode and enabled serial port A as a console terminal. I also made "en" the default boot device. I setup the 68040 as a boot server and taught it about the 68030 (which took some time in getting it setup properly). 8. I connected the 68040 to the 68030 using a thin-ethernet cable and I booted. First thing I noticed was that the 030 timed-out a couple of times waiting for the 040 to tell it to boot. But after the 040 was up, the 030 booted nicely. That's all folks. Hope all this made some sense and people find it useful. Comments: - To power off the cube, I have to first shutdown the 030 (I run "halt -p" as root from a telnet connection and wait for the 030 to go down), and I then power-down the 040. If you shut down the 040 before the 030, you'll have to pull the power plug to turn the machine off. The cube will not power off if either of the two boards is providing a load to the power-supply. - Remember, I've only performed this procedure on one system. I do not know what will happen on your system. So make sure you plan ahead what your going to do and that you understand the procedure. - I don't know what problems may arise when you add a board that uses the NeXTbus, such as the NeXTdimension, or how it will behave. If someone is courageous enough to perform the procedure and intalls another board, please post your results to the net. - If you think this procedure has done any good for you, please feel free to send in donations. 8^) (think of it as "hardshare") ________________________ UPDATE TO PREVIOUS ARTICLE __________________________ To clear up some misunderstandings with the settings in the "p" command of the NeXT monitor (these settings are only required for the system board that doesn't have the NeXT display monitor connected): 1. Sound out test must be "no"; the boot process will not proceed if the monitor isn't connected to the board and this is set to "yes" (the sound out tests will fail, aborting the boot procedure). 2. SCSI tests should be "no" if you don't have SCSI devices attached to the board (SCSI tests will fail otherwise, aborting the boot procedure). 3. Verbose test mode must be "no" for booting from the network. If set to "yes", the boot process will timeout waiting for a BOOTP and you'll be left in the monitor with no means of restarting the board (except pulling the power plug)! This is probably true also for booting from an OD that hasn't been inserted (assuming the OD was attached to the board). 4. Allow serial port A as alternate console if you want to view the boot process (for problems and peace-of-mind). 5. Other settings were not modified from their factory defaults or had no effect on the procedure. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194658.23355@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:46:58 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-Peripherals-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ M1. What disk drives will work with the NeXT? M2. How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? M3. How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? M4. Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? M5. How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? M6. What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? M7. How do mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? !M8. What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? M9. What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? M10. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? M11. What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? M12. What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? M13. How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? M15. What fax modems will work with the NeXT? !M16. How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? M17. What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? M18. How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? M19. What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? M20. Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? M21. How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? M22. Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? M23. How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? M24. How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? !M25. My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M1. What disk drives will work with the NeXT? Most SCSI disk drives will work without modifying /etc/disktab. There are problems with the installation of boot blocks and badly formed fstab generated by BuildDisk of NEXTSTEP 2.0. A disk connected to the NeXT will need to have a NeXT specific label written to it before it can be properly recognized by the system. If you get an error message "Invalid Label..." this indicates that the drive was successfully seen by the NeXT machine but it does not have the proper label, to install a label use the /usr/etc/disk program on the raw disk device that the system assigned to the device and use the label command to write the label onto the disk. [how the NeXT assigns disk devices is explained in the N&SA manual] NEXTSTEP releases 2.0 and up provide a low level disk formatter, sdform, which does not offer much flexibility, but gets the job done. Most drives are already formatted at the factory. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M2. How do I customize BuildDisk to create a bootable disk of my own configuration? The BuildDisk application is extremely limited in terms of the types of disks configuration it knows how to build. Essentially it "knows" about swapdisks, optical disks, 330 and 660 MB SCSI disks. If you wish to do custom configurations you should look at existing BLD script files in /etc/BLD.* There is a script which you can use to specify which BLD script you are using, which disktab entry, and other useful parameters in /usr/etc/builddisk Some things to note: - the fstab installed on the target disk is specified in the newclient command in the BLD script. standard fstabs are extracted from /usr/template/client/fstab.* - the BLD scripts do not put down a new boot block on the scsi disk, you may want to install one by hand using the /usr/etc/disk program. - some disks boot fine but NeXTstep comes up with a blank window and no login window. This is due sometimes to forgetting to install an accessible /NextLibrary/{Fonts,Sounds} In general you need quite a lot of things to make a bootable disk. Mike Carlton adds - you can build a minimally usable bootable floppy (for crash recovery purposes). There is a modified version of builddisk (to make it support building floppies, a minimal change) and a BLD script to build the boot floppy available at cs.orst.edu in next/sources/Bootfloppy.tar.Z. (I put this together in response to several requests.) A newer version of Bootfloppy for 2.1 is on the archives as next/sources/util/Bootfloppy2.1.tar.Z [From: Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] Also available from the archives is BootFloopy 3.0 (for -- you guessed it -- NEXTSTEP 3.0). I might also add that one can improve on disk usage while enhancing functionality. BuildDisk (which is used by the various BootFloppy scripts) just copies the standard binaries for ls, mv, cp aso. from /bin. These binaries are statically linked as shipped by NeXT which makes them huge. (e.g. /bin/ls is 106496 bytes large. /usr/local/bin/gls with more features is just 16268 bytes). If you replace these binaries by the BSD or GNU equivalents you can save several hundred kBytes on your boot floppy. This extra diskspace can be used for tar, dump and more tools which makes the boot floppy actually usable. Tested. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M3. How much disk space is lost due to formatting and file system overhead? [From: Rex Pruess (rpruess@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu)] Let's assume you bought a disk drive advertised with 400 MB unformatted capacity. Vendors are not consistent with the MB definition. You may have much less space less than you think you have. Which of the following did you buy? 400 * 1000 * 1000 = 400,000,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1000 = 409,600,000 bytes 400 * 1024 * 1024 = 419,430,400 bytes The disk must be formatted. This is often done by the vendor, but occasionally by the user. Formatting maps the disk into sectors. Space is reserved for the disk geometry and bad sectors. Formatting can take 10-20% of the capacity depending on the sector size. Common sector sizes are 512 and 1024. Generally, bigger sectors mean less waste. Once formatted, the UNIX file system must be created. On the NeXT, this is one of the steps performed by the BuildDisk application. It invokes the mkfs command to make a file system. This reserves space for the UNIX file system (e.g., superblocks, inode tables). This overhead can take another 2-3% of the available disk space. If you issue the df command, you may be surprised to see another 10% the available disk space has disappeared. The df command shows the total, used, and available disk space. The df units are in kbytes (1024 bytes). The sum of the used and available numbers will generally be about 10% less than the total kbytes. This space is reserved to allow the UNIX file system to be efficient in its storage allocation. If your disk fills up, only the superuser can store files in the remaining 10%. To complete the picture, here's a snapshot of what may occur: Capacity Lost/Used/Reserved Reason (in bytes) (in bytes) 419,430,000 19,430,000 Marketing hype (~5%) 400,000,000 60,000,000 Formatting (~15%) 340,000,000 6,800,000 UNIX file system (~2%) 333,200,000 33,320,000 Efficiency & superuser (~10%) 299,880,000 For more information, refer to the df and mkfs man pages. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M4. Can I run my SCSI-2 disks in synchronous mode? Quick answer is: No. The reason is that the NeXT does not support synchronous transfers from the SCSI bus. It does support SCSI-2 disks running in asynchronous mode, which all SCSI-2 disks must do. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M5. How do I configure my HP 660 to boot properly? It has been reported that HP drives fail to autoboot on power on or while other devices are on the scsi bus. The problem seems to be with drives configured to spin-up automatically on power on do not get recognized at boot time. To remedy this problem reliably with HP 660Mb (HP97548) and 1Gbyte (HP 97549) drives remove the auto spinup jumper on the back of the drive. Looking at the disk from the back with the power connector on the lower left, it is the sixth jumper. [From: Jimmie_Quan@NeXT.COM (Jimmie Quan)] The offical fix was an EPROM change to the HP drive from HP. The HP drives took too long to wait up, so the system wasn't happy with the other drives coming ready first especially when the HP was suppose to be the boot device. (The EPROM is no longer available from NeXT). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M6. What is the procedure for installing a Fujitsu M2263SA/SB SCSI Disk as the NeXT Boot Disk? See Izumi Ohzawa's note in /pub/next/docs/fujitsu.recipe available via anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M7. How do mount a corrupted OD that won't automount? If you can't automount an OD, and you can't fix it, you can still manually mount it. Log in as root. Type "/usr/etc/mount /dev/od0a /FoO". It will ask you to insert the disk. Insert it. It is mounted. This method WILL mount a corrupted OD so you can read its contents. Since it is corrupted, it is not recommended to write to it. You should copy the important files to something else, then reformat it. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M8. What non-NeXT CD Players that work with a NeXT? A USENET survey summary: Apple CD-150 PLI 1035N for NeXT SUN CD-ROM drive (Sony CDU-8012, Rev. 3.1a) NEC 73M and 74 (transfer rates > of 300 KB/sec.) Apple CD-SC (Sony 541-22 mechanism) Chinon CDS-431 (with new drivers) Eclipse CD-ROM from Microtech Toshiba 3201 Toshiba 3301 Toshiba 3401 Toshiba TXM3301E1 Toshiba XM-2200A external DENON DRD-253 external (data only, no music) HP's LaserROM drive (Toshiba XM-3301TA drive in HP's box) Texel 3024 (required a firmware upgrade to version was 1.11) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M9. What are some other sources of toner cartridges and trays for the NeXT laser printer? The toner cartridge is a standard EP-S cartridge, the same that fits the HP LaserJet III and some other printers. [From: sanguish@digifix.com] Any HP LaserJet II or III will fit. HPLJ4mSI cartridges do NOT fit. Any HP LJII or LJIII paper tray will fit. IIISI and 4 trays will not. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M10. What printers (laser or otherwise) may be used with a NeXT? If you plan to connect an HP LaserJet (II, IIP, III, etc.) you need to make a special cable in order for the NeXT 040 and HP to get the hardware handshaking correct. This is true for whatever version of the OS you are running. NeXT 68040 to HP LaserJet III Cable (not a Null-modem cable): Mini-Din HP DB-25 1 (DTR) nc 2 (DCD) 4 (RTS) 3 (TXD) 3 (RXD) 4 (GND) 7 (GND) 5 (RXD) 2 (TXD) 6 (RTS) 5 (CTS) 7 (RTXC) nc 8 (CTS) 20 (DTR) You may want to use hardware flow control for reliability (ie /dev/ttyfa). If you have problems with other printers, check the cable pinouts in the printer's manual against the one recommended in the zs man-page! Refer to Chapter 13 in Network and System Administration. See the FAQ-NEXTSTEP-Printing for software config FAQs. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M11. What can I do to prevent my NeXT printer from running all the time? The NeXT 400dpi printer powers up every time you boot up when the print daemon is started (/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd in /etc/rc). Apart from not running the daemon at boot time (commenting it out and having to run it by hand later), you can add the following lines to /etc/rc.local: if [ -f /usr/etc/nppower ]; then sleep 3 /usr/etc/nppower off (echo 'powering off NeXTprinter') >/dev/console fi Once you queue a print job the printer daemon will automatically power up the NeXT printer for you. The printer daemon will not automatically power off the machine after a print job, you will need to turn off the printer by typing /usr/etc/nppower off. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M12. What type of microphones will work with the NeXT? Some NeXT owners use the RadioShack (Realistic) Tie Clip Microphone ($19.95) cat 33-1052. NeXT Computer, Inc. uses the "Sony Electret Condenser Microphone ECM-K7" in-house (available for ~$60). Some use Sony Tie-Clip microphone, #ECM-144, which costs around $40. Others have successfully used a WalMart brand microphone (available for ~$6). ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M13. How do I connect a modem to the NeXT? Previously, we suggested that people use Mac modem cables; however, it has come to our attention that there is no one standard Mac modem cable. Since correct modem operation on a NeXT depends upon a correctly wired modem cable, buying a Mac cable is not a good idea. Some Mac cables do not allow dial-in and no Mac cable allows the use of hardware flow control. For these reasons, we are recommending that only cables that meet NeXT specifications be used. [however, if you have a Mac modem cable lying around and don't care about dial-in or hardware flow control, then by all means....] These cables are available commercially from NextConnection, and from Computer Cables and Devices, or can be custom built. Note that no off- the-shelf Mac cable will allow hardware flow control. It is however possible to make a such a cable from an Imagewriter II cable by replacing one of the mini-8 ends with a DB-25 connector. Hardware flow control is absolutely essential for all serial port connections with speeds of 9600 bps and above. Make certain that you cable supports it, your modem is configured to use it and you are using the hardware flowcontrol devices /dev/cuf[ab], /dev/ttydf[ab] and /dev/ttyf[ab], respectively. Most people use tip or kermit to control the modem. SLIP and/or UUCP may also be used (but are more complicated to set up and require the remote machine to also have SLIP and/or UUCP (respectively)). The 2.0 Network and System Administration Manual, which is available in hard-copy (shipped with each machine) contains an extensive description of how to use modems with the NeXT machine. Additionally NeXT in their TechSupportNotes series called SerialPortDoc.wn and UUCP for 1.0/1.0a systems . This document is available from most FTP sites that carry NextAnswers. Also, try to obtain the about.modem.Z file by Mark Adler in the pub/next/lore directory on sonata.cc.purdue.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? Yes. This cable is the same as the one used by Sun SparcStations and DecStation 5000's (but not DecStation 3100's which use 68-pin micro rather than the 50pin micro connector used on NeXT 040, Suns and DecStation 5000). [Carl Lowenstein adds] The implication that a Sun SparcStation cable can be used with NeXT peripherals is generally false. NeXT themselves, and DEC, and nearly everyone else who makes SCSI peripherals, puts Telco-50 (centronics) connectors on their devices. Sun in their infinite wisdom uses DD50 which are quite different. Telco-50 is an approved connector type in the SCSI spec. Probably the original point was that the 50-pin microSCSI on the NeXT and Sun and some DecStations was different from the 68-pin microSCSI on the DecStation 5000. But this does not address the other end of the cable. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M15. What fax modems will work with the NeXT? The following fax modems are currently available for the NeXT Computer: Manufacturer, Model Supplier, Phone Avail. Type ---------------------------------------------------------------- DoveFax for NeXT, Dove Computer, ??? Now Class 1 HSD FaxMaster, HSD Microcomputer, 800-828-5522 Now Class 2* mix fax, i·link GmbH, +49 30 216 20 48 Now Class 2** [From: Robert Wong <wrob@unixg.ubc.ca>] SupraFAXModem V.32bis, Supra Corp., 1-800-727-3564, Now, Class 2 (requires DFax driver or NXFax driver) ZyXEL U-1496E/E+/S/S+, ZyXEL USA, 1-800-255-4101, Now, Class 2 (requires NXFax driver) Telebit T3000 with fax option / Telebit WorldBlazer with fax option (requires NXFax driver) Neuron 1414 / 1414+ with ZyXEL ROM upgrade (requires NXFax driver) (Neuron 1414 and Neuron 1414+ modems are relabelled ZyXEL modems. Contact ZyXEL USA for ROM upgrades. Neuron modems with 512K ROMs should upgrade their ROMs and ROM sockets to 1 Mb ROMs. People with 1Mb ROMs should just order the new ROMs.) (*)Note that the Class 2 is not yet approved; it is still out for ballot, after having failed in an October 1990 round. The Abaton InterFax 24/96 NX driver supports Class 2 as it was in that draft; there are expected to be very few changes prior to approval. (**)Note that mix fax works with both the October 1990 and October 1991 draft versions of Class 2, especially with the NeXT supplied Class 2 modem driver. Upgrading to an approved version of Class 2 would be a matter of just a software update (holds true for any forthcoming (class 3?) standard, for that matter). In order to use a fax modem with the NeXT Computer, a NeXT compatible fax driver must be available to operate the modem. Modem control procedures may be proprietary or conform to one of the following EIA/TIA standards: Class 1: CCITT T.30 session management and CCITT T.4 image data handling are controlled by the driver. Class 2*: CCITT T.30 session management and image data transport are handled by the modem. CCITT T.4 image data preparation and interpretation are controlled by the driver. Release 2.0 of the NeXT system software includes a Class 2 modem driver which will work with any fax modem which meets the EIA/TIA Asynchronous Facsimile Control standard. Other fax modems must supply a NeXT compatible driver. The following are notes by Alan Marcum of NeXT Tech Support concerning the Class 2 modem driver: Note that there's a small bug in 2.0 (fixed in 2.1): a symbolic link is missing for the file Class2_Fax_Modem_Driver in /usr/lib/NextPrinter. The simple fix: create the link; it should reference Interfax_Fax_Modem_Driver, also in the /usr/lib/NextPrinter directory. An alternative workaround for Class 2, especially useful for novices: just use InterFax as the modem type in PrintManager, rather than Class 2*. After installing a fax modem using PrintManager one must repeat setting things in the Fax Options panel in order for them to be stored correctly. In particular, these include the Rings to Answer and Number of Times to Retry. This affects all fax modems being installed. If one uses illegal characters in the Modems Number field in the Fax Options when configuring an InterFax modem then the modem will not answer the phone. Legal characters are digits, spaces, and plus signs (+). This does not affect the Dove modem. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M16. How may I attach more than two serial ports to the NeXT? TTYDSP From Yrrid converts the DSP port into an additional serial port. Yrrid Incorporated 507 Monroe St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Voice: 919-968-7858 Fax: 919-968-7856 Email: yrrid@world.std.com Unitnet has a device, the SLAT, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Perhipherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 [mike@cd.com (Mike Heins)] Central Data Corporation makes the scsiTerminal Server family of products. Drivers for NextStep 3.0 and 3.1 are available for both the 68K-based and Intel-based platforms. The products available for NeXT include: Product DESCRIPTION ST-1002+ 2 serial, 1 paralllel SP-1003 3 parallel ST-1008+ 8 serial, 1 parallel ST-1016 16 serial You can also mix and match multiple units. Phone: 217/359-8010 Toll-free: 800/482-0315 FAX: 217-359-6904 Email: info@cd.com support@cd.com sales@cd.com VISA, Master Card, and American Express orders are accepted, as well as purchase orders from accredited corporations and institutions. We are on a GSA schedule, and there is a 25% educational discount. [Jacob Gore adds:] Also, one can use an IP terminal server. In a non-Internet environment, inexpensive terminal servers, which don't control access to the network securely, can be used. If your network is an Internet subnet, you must use a terminal server that controls either: (1) who can log into the terminal server, or (2) which machines the terminal server will access. These tend to be more expensive (around $250/port, but in 8-port increments), but it may be quite economical means of sharing ports among many NeXTs (or other computers) on the network. [Eric P. Scott adds:] Particularly if one has a NeXT network, an Ethernet terminal server may be the way to go. One that supports Linemode Telnet (such as the Xylogics Annex III) will offer the best performance. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M17. What is the best and/or cheapest way to connect a NeXT to a thick Ethernet? There are many possible solutions. For example, here are three: 1) The University of Waterloo [Audio Research Group] uses an old door-stop PC XT clone with two Western Digital cards (WD8003E Ethercard Plus, $250 CDN each; you should be able to get them for under $200 (US$)) running Vance Morrison's PCRoute (available from accuvax.nwu.edu). You will also need a thickwire transceiver and a drop cable (about $300). In addition, you will need Internet addresses for the NeXT and both PC Ethernet cards (and a subnet address). The documentation for PCRoute contains quite a bit of information on the performance of this setup. This solution requires two subnets. There is another program called PCbridge that allows the machines on the thin and thick wires to be part of the same subnet. This product also does packet filtering, so that packets destined to machines on the same side of the net do not cross over. 2) Cabletron sells a MR-2000C Singleport Repeater for $695 that does exactly what you need minus drop cable and transceiver. Their number is (408) 441-9900. 3) The march 1992 INMAC networking and connectivity products catalog lists thicknet to thinnet convertors. Product number Z903071 price $445. Claims full ieee 802.3 comaptibility and diagnostic LED's. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M18. How can I connect my NeXT to the telephone line and use it like an answering Machine? A company that is selling both hardware and software to allow you to do this: SES Computing 13206 Jenner Lane Austin, Texas 78729 Voice: (512) 219-9468 (Demo system number) i.link, a european company, has a combined data/fax modem and telephone answering machine. It uses the DSP port and is implemented mainly in software on the DSP with a little bit of hardware to interface to the phone line. i.link GmbH Nollendorfstrasse 11-12 D-1000 Berlin 30 Germany Tel: +49 30 216 20 48 Fax: +49 30 215 82 74 Email: info@ilink.de [From: sanguish@digifix.com] I think Alembec is handling ilink over here. Last it tried the SES number it was disconnected. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M19. What color monitors can I use with the Color NeXT machines? The important specs for the color monitor are: Horz Scan Rate: 61 KHz Vertical Scan Rate: 68 Hz Resolution: 1280x1024 (NeXT uses 1120x832) NON-INTERLACED Displays may require alignment to adjust for the scan rate of NeXT machines. Sony GDM-1601 were demonstrated with the NeXT color products. NeXT is not shipping these monitors. Sony no longer makes them, however there is a replacement GDM-1606. The Nanao T560i 17" color display has been used with NeXTstation Color machines, and seems to work well. Some larger NEC displays have also worked. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M20. Where can I get 13W3 to BNC adapters to connect third party color monitors? From NeXT/Bell Atlantic(?): part number S4025. NuData in New Jersey carries 13W3 female to 4 BNC male connectors. The price is about $100. NuData Voice: 908-842-5757 ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M21. How may I attach Centronics or 16 bit wide parallel ports to the NeXT? Uninet has devices, the SLAT-2 and the SLAT-DRV11, that will connect to the scsi bus. Uninet Peripherals, Inc. Voice: 714-263-4222 Fax: 714-263-4299 zardoz!sales@ics.uci.edu or uunet!ucivax!zardoz!sales ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M22. Why does an unused serial port consume cpu? Perhaps you've got a (probably fairly long) unshielded serial cable attached to it, with either nothing at the other end or a powered-off device at the other end. EE's call this an antenna. it's probably picking up most of the radio stations in your area, which the serial chip is interpreting as a continuous stream of garbage bytes, which it feeds to getty, which tries to interpret them as login attempts. How do you avoid this problem? - leave the device at the other end switched on (even when it's not transmitting, it will assert a voltage that overrides the noise) - unplug the cable from the next when you're not using it - use 'kill -STOP' & 'kill -CONT' to stop & resume the getty process as needed - buy an adequately shielded serial cable ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M23. How to adjust MegaPixel Display brightness and focus? [From: Charles William Swiger <infidel@cmu.edu>] I have adjusted several monitors with no problems, but make sure you know what you are doing before opening anything. I expressly disclaim responsibility for any ill results that may occur. In order to adjust NeXT's MegaPixel display (called 'the monitor' hereafter), you'll need (a) the NeXTtool (or a 3mm Allen wrench), (b) a plastic adjustment tool (preferred) or a thin bladed screwdriver, and possibly (c) a Phillips-head screwdriver. (NB: A similar procedure will work for color monitors, but you should either know what you're doing or you'll probably be better off letting a pro deal with it.) Turn off the computer. Disconnect all cables to the monitor. Look at the back of the monitor. There will be 4 screws there; use the NeXTtool (or Allen wrench) to remove them. Remove the plastic back of the monitor and put it out of your way. Reconnect the cables and turn the computer back on. As the machine powers up, examine the back of the monitor. You'll see a metallic box (usually silver, though some are black) surrounding the monitor's vitals. This protects you against the dangerous voltages inside, and also insulates the monitor from electromagnetic noise. On the back of this box are several holes for performing adjustments. There are two focus controls (labeled 'focus' and 'dynamic focus'), a brightness control (labeled 'brightness' or possibly 'black level') and several others that adjust various things like screen size and position. Depending on the exact placement of the controls on the circuit board of your specific monitor, some of these controls may be difficult (or impossible) to adjust from the back. If this is the case, I will describe what's necessary below. Otherwise, adjust the appropriate controls using either an adjustment tool or a screwdriver. Be warned that a screwdriver probably will cause some interesting video effects when it enters the case. Ignore this the best you can, or find a plastic adjustment tool, which is what you *really* should be using anyway. Using a flashlight will help you see into the hole so that you can align the business end of the tool correctly. Focus and position controls are fairly obvious. Adjust them slowly until you're happy with the results. Don't muck with anything you don't need to; the factory settings are usually pretty decent. To correctly adjust the brightness, follow this procedure: Turn the brightness of the monitor all the way down using the keyboard. Adjust the brightness control on the back of the monitor until a barely noticeable picture forms. Then turn the brightness down a little so this picture disappears completely. Check that you can get adequate brightness by using the keyboard to brighten the screen. If the display isn't bright enough, adjust the brightness control on the rear of the monitor high enough so that the monitor display is adequate. Note that you won't be able to dim the screen completely from the keyboard...sorry. Once you're finished, shut down the computer, take off the cables, reattach the back of the monitor, and reconnect the cables. You're done. If the control you need to adjust proves to be difficult, you may need to enter the metal case. This happened on one monitor's focus control and another's brightness. WARNING: THE VOLTAGES INSIDE THE MONITOR'S CASE ARE VERY DANGEROUS, EVEN WHEN THE MONITOR IS OFF. BE VERY CAREFUL, OR YOU CAN SERIOUSLY INJURE OR EVEN KILL YOURSELF. Do not perform the next instructions unless you are confident that you know what you are doing. You'll have to power off the computer again, and disconnect the cables. Looking at the monitor from the back, notice a section of metallic shielding on the right side of the metal box that extends to the picture tube. This is where the flyback transformer is connected. It shields a wire that is charged to about 25,000 V. DO NOT TOUCH THIS WIRE, IT CAN SHOCK YOU THROUGH ITS INSULATION. Being very careful of this, remove the metal case by unscrewing the Philip's head screws that hold the case on. Don't touch the screws that hold the picture tube into the front of the monitor's case. Once you've gotten the metal box off, reconnect the cables. Figure out what control you're going to adjust, and make sure that you can do so without touching anything else inside. Again, *watch out* for the wire that connects to the picture tube on the right side. Power up the computer. I recommend that you use only one hand to make the adjustment, and that your other hand be placed in your pocket (or similar equivalent, if you're wearing clothes lacking pockets). This precaution reduces the chances that you'll make a short circuit between one hand, your heart, and the other hand-- a good idea. Perform the necessary adjustment(s), being very careful not to touch anything inside. Then shut down and reassemble the monitor, following the directions given above. Hopefully, these instructions will prove useful. Once again, please be very careful...I don't want your death and/or injury on my conscience (or a lawsuit, for that matter, either :-) ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M24. How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M? [Samuel M. Goldberger smg@orb.com] I solved the problem by building a serial cable based upon the pinouts supplied by HP in their manual. Please note that the LJIII cable *does not work*. In particular, pin 1 from the DIN plug must be connected to pin 6 of the DB25. I used 38500 bps on both sides, and the 600 dpi ppd. Emulex offers the NETJet network interface which speaks lpd protocol, unlike the HP unit. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: M25. My NeXT laser printer fails to fully eject the sheet - how to fix? [From: stubbs@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Jerry Stubbs)] If you continually get messages like, "sorry, the printer is jammed" and you have to pull each page out the last inch, you probably need to replace the 14 tooth gear in the output stage(fuser ass'y). You can see this gear before you disassemble the printer, so that is a good first step. Then read these instructions all the way through and see if you want to attempt it. Next recommends replacing the entire fuser assy ( big bucks) if the gear is damaged, but Chenesko, Inc., of Ronkonkoma, NY sells the gears for $2.31. The part number is RS1-0132. They recommended I also replace the 20 tooth gear, number RS1-0116, but I don't know if it is really necessary. Their phone number is 800-221-3516. To examine your gear, open the rear (delivery ) door and undo the screw attaching the strap that keeps the door from opening down all the way. The gear is on the side nearest the power input to the printer. THere are two gears on the part of the delivery ass'y that swings down. The suspect gear engages the top one, but is mounted on the fixed portion of the fuser. Ours had several teeth missing and/or damaged. To get the gear off you have to remove the fuser ass'y. TO remove the fuser you must open the printer lid fully, so it is straight up. To open the lid fully you must remove the case. To remove the case you must remove the plastic cover on the lid. Are you getting the idea now? THis will be a lot of fun, and take most of the afternoon. I hope you have a spacious, well-lit area, because there are a lot of screws, and a lot of them are painted black, so they are hard to see when you drop them, unless you drop them inside of the printer, where you might NEVER see them again. Fortunately, as with all computer equipment, they seem to put lots of extras in, so just make sure there aren't any where they might do damage, like short out the mega KILOVOLT corona power supply, or grind into the REGISTRATION rollers. You do want your printouts to be straight, don't you? So, if you're ready, here we go. PREPARATION Most mere mortals will want to power down everything and disconnect the cables, etc. Remove the cartridge and paper trays, etc. REMOVE THE LID COVER open the lid and remove 3 screws. They DO NOT have any red paint on them. REMOVE THE BACK DOOR there is one screw that holds the strap. When you can swing it clear down, you can squeeze the hinges together and remove the door. REMOVE THE CASE There are maybe seven screws that hold the case on. Four are right on top. Two are just inside the rear door area. Two are down inside where you store that green cleaning tool. 4 + 2 + 2 = 7, right? Say, who was the last guy that worked on this printer anyway? The case has to be convinced that you really need to remove it, even when it is loose and all the screws are out. REMOVE THE FUSER ASS'Y You will need a PHILLIPS screwdriver for this, as with the previous steps. But you will need a LONG one this time. Three of the screws are pretty easy to find. Just study the lower part of the fuser, as it is screwed onto the bottom case. Two of the screws are inside. One is under the lid next to the gears, the other near the green cleaning tool. On the outside, in back, there is one on each side. One is under the white wires that connect the fuser to the 10 AMP circuit breaker,which is pretty near that gear, and close to the power input. Unplug that cable. Then remove the small black screw that holds the black plastic gear cover so you will have better access to the last screw. Then you will have to wrestle the fuser out the back of the printer. Be careful with it. DISASSEMBLE THE FUSER There are several screws and a spring. It's not too hard to take apart. You can see the gear, so you just have to take off the covers on that end of the ass'y to get to it. I should caution you that I had trouble putting them back on, because they have funny shapes and don't make a lot of sense. Plus I was tired, so I went home, ate dinner, played with the dog, went to bed, got up and ate breakfast before I put it back together. You might want to label some parts, make some drawings, etc. to reassure yourself that you can put the parts back just like they were. REMOVE THE GEAR You can remove the gear pretty easily with a small screwdriver by unspringing the "E"-ring that holds it on the shaft. Try not to bend the e-ring. PUT EVERYTHING BACK TOGETHER Sorry, I can't help you with this part (HA HA!) I told you you should read the instructions first. Maybe you should buy a new printer, or try to attach some third party printer via the serial port! Well, if you got this far I hope you dropped little crumbs of bread so you can find your way back. I try to save all the little screws by putting them back in the holes they came from, or putting them in some small container. You might clean some of the gears or the paper path while you have it open. You can also install a new OZONE filter. Remember OZONE is hazardous to your health, so you don't want to inhale it. ***DISCLAIMER*** Be careful if you try this procedure. There are dangerous voltages present, and even if you are too chicken to work on it powered up, you could cut yourself, or drop the whole thing on your foot, thus voiding the warranty. Also, the printer won't work without the covers, because there are two secret switches that inform the NeXT cpu that someone "is fooling around with the printer again". Yet another update to reflect that Jacob Gore received gears for an Apple Laserwriter from Chenesko, which are similar enough to work, but with some modification.Also, if the original gear is in fair condition, it can be reversed on the shaft until a replacement is ordered. ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.194809.23474@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:48:09 GMT Archive-name: NeXT-Hardware-RAM-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ N1. !What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? N2. What is the NeXT SIMM tool? N3. !Where can I purchase memory for a NeXT? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N1. What type of memory may be installed in a NeXT? References: NeXTanswers' hardware.620, 92_spring_bulletin "Announcing NeXTstation Turbo and NeXTcube Turbo" NeXT Computer (68030-25MHz/68040-25MHz), NeXTcube (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 16 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin low profile SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 64 MB The low-profile vertically mounted 4 MB SIMMs are easier to install in the NeXTcube than the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs because of the small height clearance above the SIMM slots. It is possible to install the horizontally mounted 4 MB SIMMs, but you will be required to slide the CPU board and the center tower in simultaneously. Parity (9-bit) SIMMs can be used in both 68030 and 68040 NeXT machines, but should not be mixed with non-parity SIMMs. Only 68040 boards with ROM levels of 2.2 (v63) and higher can use the parity memory to detect parity errors. [One user adds the following unverified claims:] It is OK to mix parity and non-parity memory, but the system will not boot unattended. Cubes with early boot ROMs will not work with 4 Mb parity ram, unless at least 3 banks are used. The system gives an exception error on power up. The fix is to get a new boot rom from Next. You can pay $30, or you may be able to squawk and get one for free. I have found Next to be pretty responsive, once I find the right person. [Jimmie Quan, NeXT Hardware Service, adds:] The correct version is v66 which was the last or final rev for this series of 040 boards. This version also fixed the problem in the second paragraph. NeXTdimension boards (i860): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) NeXT didn't officially bless the use of 8 MB SIMMs, but they seem to fit and work. NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers below ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 32 MB Faster SIMMS (70/80 ns) don't make the memory system work any faster than the 100 ns units. NeXTstation Color (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 32 MB NeXTcube Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Color Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers above ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 4 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 70/100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 ,8, 16, 32 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 128 MB For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs: SIMMs rated at 80 or 100 ns will be detected upon powerup and the memory system clock slowed to 100 ns. NeXT manufacturing introduced the new 25 MHz NeXTstation CPU board into production in late June '92. To verify which SIMM type your machine uses, check the system's memory configuration. You can do this by using the ROM monitor©s print memory configuration command m. Start with your machine powered down. Press the Power key to power on. As soon as the message ªTesting system...º disappears, press command-command-tilde (~ on the numeric keyboard). Under these circumstances, this will access the ROM monitor. In the ROM monitor, type m and press return. Turbo-designed boardsÐincluding new 25 MHz NeXTstations and all Turbo systemsÐwill return messages reporting the memory configuration contained in four sockets (sockets 0 -3); old 25 MHz boards will return messages for more than four sockets (usually 8). You can tell a Turbo-designed board, and the accompanying 72 pin, 70 nanosecond SIMMs, by the fact it only reports information for only four sockets. [John Graves, Hardware Engineering, NeXT Computer, Inc. adds] The memory system has programmable memory timing such that the number of processor clocks needed to access a given amount of data can be tailored to the speed of the memory installed. 70 ns memory is just enough faster than 80 ns memory to allow the cpu to access the data with fewer clock cycles. This improves memory system performance. "70 ns" memory is faster than "80 ns" memory in many parameters other than just RAS access time. The faster CAS access time in particular allows the memory system to respond quicker to burst (16 bytes) bus transfers. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N2. What is the NeXT SIMM tool? The tool came with 68040 upgrade kits for NeXTcubes. It really makes removing SIMMs easy. It looks like a dental tool: about six inches long with a 1/2" long head offset at 90 degrees. To remove SIMMs, you slip the head into the hole on one side of the SIMM, rest the head on the SIMM socket next to the SIMM you are pulling, and pivot the tool back, using the simple fulcrum to gently pry the SIMM up about 1/8" from the socket on that side. Repeat on the other side, and the SIMM can be then removed by hand. ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: N3. Where can I purchase memory for a NeXT? This list contains only a few vendors; prices listed may change and are provided as examples only. There is significant day-to-day fluctuation in prices, especially since the destruction of a factory in Japan in July that manufactured resin used in chips. Prices are currently very high. First Tech Stratum Technologies Austin, TX 800-533-1744 512-258-3570 512-258-3689 (fax) [Prices current as of 12-Oct-93] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 49.50 4x8-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 136 1x9-80ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 54.50 4x9-80ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 153 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 163 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 320 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 570 1x36-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 178.50 2x36-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 357 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 643 Lifetime Warranty. Marco International 800-621-4668 (Within US/Canada) 303-449-9191 800 447 8448 (CT Office) [Prices current as of 12-Oct-93] 30 Pin SIMMs 1x8-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 53 4x8-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 129 1x9-70ns 1 Mb SIMM $ 57.50 4x9-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 157 72 Pin SIMMs 1x32-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 161 1x36-70ns 4 Mb SIMM $ 211 2x32-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 309 2x36-70ns 8 Mb SIMM $ 381 4x32-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 644 4x36-70ns 16 Mb SIMM $ 654 8x32-70ns 32 Mb SIMM $1655 (no parity) Lifetime Warranty, toll-free support, 24hr RMA. "NeXT certified". Chip Merchant 9541 Ridgehaven Court San Diego, CA 92123 (800) 426-6375 South Coast Electronics Tustin, CA (800) 289-8801 714-669-9503 Impediment (617) 837-8877 ____________________________________________________________________________ Editor: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Subject: NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ Message-ID: <1993Dec3.195158.23550@cs.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Summary: Frequently Asked Questions about NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Originator: nathan@jacobi Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 19:51:58 GMT Archive-name: NEXTSTEP-Intel-Hardware-FAQ Last-modified: Fri Dec 3 14:38:48 EST 1993 Version: 3.0 Every four weeks (depending on the phase of the moon) a number of postings are made to comp.sys.next.announce which are a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions in the comp.sys.next.* Usenet newsgroups. The FAQ list is broken into sections and posted separately. These sections focus on various aspects of NEXTSTEP and NeXT machines. Items that appear within sections are not in any particular order, and get added and removed over time. Posting the sections separately allows people to find the sections interesting to them quickly. Within each section each question will be preceded by a "Subject:" field, allowing news readers to break up the file into separate questions. Each question has its own unique number. The FAQ is kept on-line at several ftp sites, including: cs.orst.edu sonata.cc.purdue.edu srawgw.sra.co.jp [133.137.4.3] Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above. Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes since the last issue are marked by a "!". Submissions, corrections, comments, input, etc., should be directed to Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu>. Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in this posting. If you have any corrections, additions, questions, or answers to add to this list, please send email to: This compilation is meant primarily as a service to the comp.sys.next community. Newsletter editors wishing to excerpt from this work for publication should consider using local electronic bulletin boards to disseminate this information rather than preparing hardcopies. This allows for readers to access the most recent information, and perhaps save a couple of trees. We do not collect any royalties, charge any fees, or compensate anyone in connection with this endeavor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ------------------ !D1. What are the specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.2 on Intel-based Computers? ____________________________________________________________________________ Subject: D1. What are the specific hardware requirements to run NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.2 on Intel-based Computers? NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.2 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide November 17, 1993 For easy readability of this Hardware Guide: If you are reading this with Mail.app, be sure to set your font preference for this message to a smaller fixed-pitch font (recommended: Ohlfs 10 point font). This document describes in general terms, the types of PC-compatible hardware that is supported by NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.2 for Intel Processors. Although many different vendors' systems will work with NEXTSTEP, the systems listed here have been tested and found to be compatible with NEXTSTEP. For any hardware specification or purchase, please contact NeXT for the latest update to this guide. PC compatibles, portables and laptops from the following vendors are now supported: ADVANCED 2000 ALR AST CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS COMPAQ DATA GENERAL DEC DELL ECESYS EPSON GATEWAY GEC COMPUTERS HEWLETT PACKARD IBM INTEL LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR NCR NEC TOSHIBA UNISYS ZENITH Driver updates: Information on device driver updates may be obtained by sending email to NeXTanswers@next.com with the subject of "INDEX HELP". You will receive the master index for NeXTanswers. NeXT and third parties are constantly developing and enhancing drivers for NEXTSTEP. Updates to existing drivers, or new drivers can be downloaded from the Internet via email or ftp. NeXTanswers provides an easy method to obtain drivers by e-mail as described above. (Note: you must be able to receive NeXTMail in order to be able to receive drivers via email.) To obtain drivers via ftp: use ftp to access ftp.next.com and login as anonymous with any password and "cd" to /pub. Drivers can be downloaded from the NeXTanswers directory. ** TABLE OF CONTENTS ** -> NEXTSTEP Desktop Systems Requirements - CERTIFIED SYSTEMS - LISTED SYSTEMS -> NEXTSTEP Portable Systems Requirements - CERTIFIED SYSTEMS - LISTED SYSTEMS -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP- Desktop System Requirements General Requirements for Desktop Systems: CPU - i486 based or Pentium based PC compatible computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2 or Pentium. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. EXPANSION BUS - ISA or EISA, VL, or PCI Expansion Bus. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition. NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - Ram requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter. GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 32 bit color 24 Megabytes 32 Megabytes 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes A SCSI CD ROM DRIVE AND A SUPPORTED SCSI ADAPTER CARD ARE REQUIRED FOR INSTALLATION OF NEXTSTEP. See "NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters." GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - See "NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors - Graphics" in this Guide for details on graphics support. DISK INTERFACES - IDE and several SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. NOTE: a SCSI adaptor and SCSI CD ROM DRIVE are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial and bus mice. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-CERTIFIED Desktop Systems In order to ensure the highest level of compatibility and support, NeXT has developed a process to comprehensively test specific PC-Compatible system configurations with NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. - Each specific system configuration has been subjected to a suite of compatibility tests by the NeXT Quality Assurance group. - A detailed NeXTAnswer support document is available listing the specific configuration tested, and any setup information required to configure the system for NEXTSTEP. - Because of the detailed information available to customers and NeXT's Customer Support personnel, NeXT delivers the best technical support on certified configurations. - A system platform is loosely referred to as "Certified" if it has one or more certified configurations, but all the benefits of certification are available only to users of the specific certified configuration. - Only the manufacturing revisions of a system unit and its add-on cards listed in the NeXTAnswer are certified. Always refer to the latest version of this guide, and the associated NeXTAnswer to ensure the specific version of a system is fully certified by NeXT. - NeXT certification does not necessarily mean "error free." Certified systems may contain detected or undetected compatibility problems, please refer to NeXTanswers for the latest information. Below appear the following graphics configurations for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors compatible hardware: I. 32 Bit Color Systems II. 16 Bit Color Systems III. 8 Bit Grayscale Systems IV. 2 Bit Grayscale Systems Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. I. 32 Bit Color Systems COMPAQ (800) 345-1518 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# ____________________________________________________________________ Both 486 and Pentium systems require 2MB VRAM for 640 x 480 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 486 QVision 1280/E 1455 Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA Pentium QVision 1280/E 1456 DEC (800) 438-4316 Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 4 MB VRAM for 800 x 600 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 4 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 DEC MTE-d2 EISA 486 Localbus S3-928 1459 II. 16 Bit Color Systems COMPAQ (800) 345-1518 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# ____________________________________________________________________ Both 486 and Pentium systems require 1MB VRAM for 800 x 600 Both 486 and Pentium systems require 2MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 486 QVision 1280/E 1455 Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA Pentium QVision 1280/E 1456 DATA GENERAL (800) DATA-GEN Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Requires 1MB of VRAM for 800 x 600 Requires 2MB of VRAM for 1024 x 768 DG Dasher LE2 EISA 486 Localbus ATI 68800 1458 DEC (800) 438-4316 Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 4 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 EISA 486 Localbus S3-805 1459 DEC MTE-d2 EISA 486 Localbus S3-928 1459 DELL (800) 247-6821 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ For 450DE/2 DGX: 2MB of VRAM - 16 bit color resolution is 1120 x 832 For Dimension or OptiPlex requires 1 MB VRAM for 800 x 600 For Dimension or OptiPlex requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 Dell 450DE/2 DGX EISA 486 Localbus JAWS 1154 Dell Dimension EISA 486 LocalBus #9/GXE 1460 Dell OptiPlex/L ISA 486 LocalBus #9/GXE 1461 Dell OptiPlex/M ISA 486 LocalBus #9/GXE 1462 EPSON (800) BUY-EPSON Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Epson NX requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 or 1120 x 832 Epson NX ISA 486 Localbus C&T Wingine 1463 HEWLETT PACKARD (800) 752-0900 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Vectra XM series requires 1 MB VRAM for 800 x 600 Vectra XM series requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 [Vectra XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] HP Vectra XM ISA 486 Localbus S3-928 1464 NCR (800) 225 5627 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Requires 1 MB VRAM for 800 x 600 Requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 NCR 3333 ISA 486 ATI 68800 1465 NEC (800) 374-8000 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Image Series requires 1 MB VRAM for 800 x 600 Image Series requires 2 MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 Express Series requires 1 MB VRAM for 800 x 600 NEC Image 486es ISA 486 Local Bus ET4000 1466 W32i NEC Express II ST EISA 486 Local Bus ET4000 1467 W32 Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. II. 8 Bit Grayscale COMPAQ (800) 345-1518 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# ____________________________________________________________________ Both 486 and Pentium systems require 1MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 Compaq Deskpro M EISA 486 QVision 1280/E 1455 Compaq Deskpro 5M EISA Pentium QVision 1280/E 1456 DEC (800) 438-4316 Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-805 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 system: requires 2 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 w/ Localbus S3-928 DEC MTE-d2 EISA 486 Localbus S3-805 1459 DEC MTE-d2 EISA 486 Localbus S3-928 1459 DELL (800) 247-6821 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Dimension or OptiPlex requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 or 1024x768 Dimension or OptiPlex requires 2 MB VRAM for 1152x819 or 1280x1024 Dell Dimension EISA 486 LocalBus #9/GXE 1460 Dell OptiPlex/L ISA 486 LocalBus #9/GXE 1461 Dell OptiPlex/M ISA 486 LocalBus #9/GXE 1462 HEWLETT PACKARD (800) 752-0900 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Vectra XM series requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 Vectra XM series requires 2 MB VRAM for 1280x1024 [Vectra XM-Series: LAN adapter not yet supported.] HP Vectra XM ISA 486 Localbus S3-928 1464 NEC (800) 374-8000 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Image Series requires 1 MB VRAM for 800x600, or 1024x768, or 1120x832 Express Series requires 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 NEC Image 486es ISA 486 Local Bus ET4000 1466 W32i NEC Express II ST EISA 486 Local Bus ET4000 1467 W32 Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. III. 2 Bit Grayscale NCR (800) 225 5627 Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640 x 480 NCR 3333 ISA 486 ATI 68800 1465 Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --> NEXTSTEP Listed Desktop Systems The following systems are "Listed Desktop Systems". Listed systems are those whose NEXTSTEP Compatibility has been reported by a third-party, not determined by NeXT's Quality Assurance department. NeXT lists these systems for informational purposes only, as a convenience to our customers. NeXT does not warrant or monitor the accuracy or completeness of the information provided on Listed systems. II. 16 bit color ADVANCED 2000 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 for all systems 2000 NE 486-SUS ISA 486 Local Bus ATI 68800 2000 NE 486-SUS ISA 486 Metheus S3-928 2000 NE 486-LDS EISA 486 Local Bus ATI 68800 2000 NE 486-LDS EISA 486 Metheus S3-928 ALR (800) 257-1230 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ For ALR: 1MB VRAM is required for 800x600 For ALR: 2MB VRAM is required for 1024x768 ALR Evolution IV/e EISA 486 Local Bus ATI 68800 1363 AST (800) 876 4278 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ For AST Power Premium: see NEXTSTEP Graphics Adapter chart For Premmia 4/d requires 1MB VRAM for 800 x 600 AST Power Premium EISA 486 Add-on EISA card 1123 AST Premmia 4/d EISA 486 Localbus ATI 68800 COMPAQ (800) 345-1518 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# ____________________________________________________________________ For Compaq DeskPro/L: see NEXTSTEP Graphics Adapter chart Compaq Deskpro L EISA 486 Add-on EISA card DELL (800) 247-6821 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ For Dell ME, L, M Series: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Dell ME Series EISA 486 LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 486 LocalBus S3-805 Dell L Series ISA 486 LocalBus S3-805 ECESYS (800) 7-eCesys Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ For Ecesys 2MB VRAM required for 1024 x 768 eCesys 486 ISA 486 LocalBus C&T Wingine EPSON (800) BUY-EPSON Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ For Epson Progression: 1MB VRAM Version supports 800x600 Epson Progression ISA 486 Localbus C&T Wingine 1155 GATEWAY (800) 846-2059 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ V Series requires 1MB VRAM for 800x600 V Series requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 Gateway V Series ISA 486 VL-bus ATI 68800 1120 Note: Please make sure to read the NeXTAnswer about Gateway chipsets. HEWLETT PACKARD (800) 752-0900 Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ HP N and NI series require 1 MB VRAM for 800x600 [Vectra NI: LAN adapter not yet supported.] HP Vectra U EISA 486 Add-on EISA card 1121 HP Vectra N ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 HP Vectra NI ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 IBM (800) 426-2468 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ IBM Value Point systems require 1MB VRAM for 800x600 (Please contact NeXT for an application note on installation) IBM ValuePoint ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS INTEL (800) 628-8686 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Intel GX/Prof requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768. Intel GX/Prof EISA 486 LocalBus ATI 68800 LOGISYS/LUCKY GOLDSTAR (510) 657 2229 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Lucky Goldstar requires 2MB VRAM for 1024 x 768. Logisys LG 486NX ISA 486 Localbus C&T Wingine 1207 NEC (800) 374-8000 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ NEC requires either add on EISA Graphics card or requires 1 MB VRAM for 800 x600. NEC PowerMate Express DX/2 EISA 486 Add-on EISA card 1333 NEC Image 466 ISA 486 LocalBus ET 4000W32 UNISYS (800) 874-8647 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ UNISYS requires 1MB VRAM for 800x600 UNISYS requires 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 UNISYS U6000 DT2 EISA 486 Localbus ATI 68800 ZENITH (800) 888-3058 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Zenith systems require add-on EISA cards. ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 486 Add-on EISA CONTINENTAL COMPUTERS (800) 776-8649 Integrator Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Continental systems require 1MB VRAM for 800x600 Continental systems require 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT EISA EISA 486 VL-Bus ATI 68800 CONTINENTAL 3800 NeXT ISA ISA 486 VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC COMPUTERS (800) 486-1500 Vendor Model Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ GEC computers require 1MB VRAM for 800x600 GEC computers require 2MB VRAM for 1024x768 GEC Jet F86 ISA 486 VL-Bus ATI 68800 GEC Jet F86 EISA 486 VL-Bus ATI 68800 Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. III. 8 Bit Grayscale COMPAQ (800) 345-1518 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# ____________________________________________________________________ For all Compaq systems: see Graphics Adapter chart Compaq Deskpro L EISA 486 EISA QVision DELL (800) 247-6821 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Dell ME, M, and L Series require 1 MB VRAM for 1024x768 Dell ME Series EISA 486 LocalBus S3-805 Dell M Series ISA 486 LocalBus S3-805 Dell L Series ISA 486 LocalBus S3-805 HEWLETT PACKARD (800) 752-0900 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ HP N and NI systems require 1MB VRAM for 1024x768. HP U systems require add-on EISA graphics card. [Vectra NI : LAN adapter not yet supported.] HP Vectra U ISA 486 Add-on EISA card HP Vectra NI ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 HP Vectra N ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 IBM (800) 426-2468 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ All IBM Value Point systems require 1MB VRAM for 1024x768. IBM ValuePoint ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 466DX2/S VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 466DX2/D VL-BUS IBM ValuePoint ISA 486 Localbus S3-805 466DX2/T VL-BUS NEC (800) 374-8000 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ NEC systems require 1MB VRAM for 1024 x 768. NEC Image 466 EISA 486 LocalBus ET4000 W32 ZENITH (800) 888-3058 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Zenith systems require add-on EISA graphics adapter. ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 486 Add-on EISA Adapter Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. IV. 2 Bit Grayscale AST (800) 876 4278 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640x480. AST Power Premium EISA 486 Built-in VGA HEWLETT PACKARD (800) 752-0900 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640-480. HP Vectra U EISA 486 Built-in VGA NEC (800) 374-8000 Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640 x 480. NEC I series, and Image 466 require 1MB VRAM for 1024 x 768 NEC PowerMate ISA 486 Built-in VGA 1333 NEC I-series ISA 486 LocalBus ET4000AX NEC Image 466 ISA 486 LocalBus ET4000W32 ZENITH Vendor Model name Bus CPU Graphics Arch. NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Built-in VGA supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale ZENITH Z-station XEn EISA 486 Built-in VGA Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP Portable System Requirements OVERVIEW CPU - i486 based, or Pentium based PC compatible portable computer. This includes 486SX, 486SL, 486DX, 486DX/2. 486SX systems require a floating-point coprocessor, or upgrade to 486DX or DX2. AC-Powered Portables - AC powered portables require at least one ISA or EISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from CD-ROM. BATTERY-POWERED PORTABLES AND DOCKING STATIONS - Battery powered portables require a docking station with at least one ISA slot for a SCSI adapter to install NEXTSTEP from a SCSI CD-ROM. Once NEXTSTEP is installed, the portable may be used away from the docking station. AVAILABLE HARD DISK SPACE - NEXTSTEP supports multiple partitioned hard disks, allowing the user to install and boot several operating systems from the same local hard disk. Larger local disks are recommended for standalone systems or for systems with a local non-NEXTSTEP partition: NEXTSTEP User Environment - 120 MB (megabyte) partition minimum - 200 MB recommended for standalone systems NEXTSTEP User + Developer Environments - 330 MB partition minimum - 400 MB recommended RAM REQUIREMENTS - RAM requirements vary depending upon selection of graphics adapter: GRAPHICS MINIMUM RAM RECOMMENDED RAM 32 bit color 24 Megabytes 32 Megabytes 16 bit color 16 Megabytes 24 Megabytes 8 bit grayscale 12 Megabytes 16 Megabytes 2 bit grayscale 8 Megabytes 12 Megabytes(+) Note: Since 32 bit, 16 bit color and 8 bit color grayscale support require LocalBus, VL-Bus, PCI, or EISA graphics adapters, only AC-powered portables with EISA slots can support 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale. (+) - NeXT recommends a minimum of 12MB or RAM for acceptable performance on portables. GRAPHICS ADAPTERS - Current display panel technology in popular PC-compatibles does not yet support the linear buffer NEXTSTEP requires for 16 bit color or 8 bit grayscale.Therefore, NEXTSTEP supports these systems with 2-bit grayscale at 640x480. Active matrix or plasma panels are recommended for better cursor tracking response. ISA systems (AC-powered or through a docking station) can support add-on, high resolution 2-bit grayscale graphics adapters and EISA-based AC-powered portables can support 16-bit color or 8-bit grayscale graphics with an add-on EISA graphics adapter. DISK INTERFACES - Both built-in IDE and add-on SCSI Hard Disk Interfaces are supported. Battery powered portables require a docking station to install a SCSI hard disk interface card. POINTING DEVICES - Microsoft and Logitec compatible PS/2 and serial mice are supported. PRINTERS - Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING - Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a networking adapter. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND - NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. Battery-powered portables require a docking station to install a sound card. A Sound card is optional. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP-CERTIFIED Portable Systems In order to ensure the highest level of compatibility and support, NeXT has developed a process to comprehensively test specific PC-Compatible system configurations with NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. - Each specific system configuration has been subjected to a suite of compatibility tests by the NeXT Quality Assurance group. - A detailed NeXTAnswer support document is available listing the specific configuration tested, and any setup information required to configure the system for NEXTSTEP. - Because of the detailed information available to customers and NeXT's Customer Support personnel, NeXT delivers the best technical support on certified configurations. - A system platform is loosely referred to as "Certified" if it has one or more certified configurations, but all the benefits of certification are available only to users of the specific certified configuration. - Only the manufacturing revisions of a system unit and its add-on cards listed in the NeXTAnswer are certified. Always refer to the latest version of this guide, and the associated NeXTAnswer to ensure the specific version of a system is fully certified by NeXT. - NeXT certification does not necessarily mean "error free." Certified systems may contain detected or undetected compatibility problems, please refer to NeXTanswers for the latest information. Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. 3. A docking station, SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. COMPAQ (800) 345-1518 Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ COMPAQ LTE Battery Active 486 ISA 200/20 Lite Matrix KMM 4/25c Color MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale NEC (800) 374-8000 Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ NEC Ultra- Battery Active 486 ISA 340/20 lite Matrix MS Versa C Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: PCMCIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --> NEXTSTEP Listed Desktop Systems The following systems are "Listed Portable Systems". Listed systems are those whose NEXTSTEP Compatibility has been reported by a third-party, not determined by NeXT's Quality Assurance department. NeXT lists these systems for informational purposes only, as a convenience to our customers. NeXT does not warrant or monitor the accuracy or completeness of the information provided on Listed systems. Note: 1. When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. 2. A SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. 3. A docking station, SCSI adapter and SCSI CD ROM Drive are required for installation of NEXTSTEP. AST (800) 876 4278 Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ AST Power- Battery Passive 486SL ISA 200/32 Exec Color KMM 4SL or Mono MS AST Power- Battery Active 486SL ISA 200/32 Exec Matrix KMM 4SL Mono MS Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem COMPAQ (800) 345-1518 Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ COMPAQ 486/M AC Passive 486DX 525/32 Port. Matrix Mono COMPAQ 486/C AC Active 486DX 525/32 Port. Matrix Color Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for 486/C and 486/M) NEC (800) 374-8000 Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk Source type Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ NEC Pro- AC Active 486SX 200/20 Speed Port. Matrix 486C Color 486SL NEC Ultra- Battery Passive 486SL ISA 340/20 lite Matrix MS Versa M Mono KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (EISA expansion for ProSpeed 486C) Built-in expansion: PCMCIA for Ultralite Versa M models ProSpeed 486C requires floating point upgrade. TOSHIBA (800) 999-4273 Vendor Model Power Panel CPU Dock. Max disk NA# Source type Exp. /RAM _____________________________________________________________________ TOSHIBA T6400DX AC Passive 486DX 200/32 1116 Mono or Plasma TOSHIBA T6400DXC AC Active 486DX 200/32 1116 Matrix Color TOSHIBA T4400SX Battery Passive 486SX ISA 120/20 Mono or MS Plasma KMM TOSHIBA T4400 Battery Active 486SX ISA 120/20 SXC Matrix MS Color KMM TOSHIBA T4400C Battery Active 486DX ISA 200/20 Matrix MS Color KMM Built-in panel supports 640x480 2-bit grayscale Built-in expansion: Fax/modem (ISA expansion for T6400DX and T6400DXC models) T4400SX and T4400SXC require floating point upgrades. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Graphics Adapters NEXTSTEP GRAPHICS SYSTEM NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors' Display Postscript graphic system supports such advanced capabilities as scalable fonts, unified imaging model for both screen display and printing, image transparency (also known as alpha channel), Pantone color matching, and Pixar Interactive Renderman 3D imaging. NEXTSTEP's window server composites multiple layers of images, and allows the user to work with images of any quality with any supported imaging model, in other words users can work with a 32 bit color image even on a 2-bit grayscale system! In order to provide these sophisticated capabilities NEXTSTEP requires a "workstation"-style linear frame buffer graphics system and a high performance 32-bit data path to the frame buffer. The number of colors or shades of gray, depth of transparency, etc., varies depending on the image model supported. ** TABLE FOR NEXTSTEP IMAGING ** Imaging Model Colors or Transparency Shades of (alpha channel) Gray ______________________________________________________ 32-bit color 24-bit (16M colors) 8-bit (256 levels) 16-bit color 12-bit (4096 colors) 4-bit (16 levels) 8-bit gray 8-bit (256 grays) 8-bit (256 levels) 2-bit gray 2-bit (4 grays) 2-bit (4 levels) 32-BIT COLOR NEXTSTEP supports 32-bit color on a variety of graphics controller chips that support linear frame buffer access. Due to the performance requirements of 32-bit color, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data path, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 32-bit color. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. 16-BIT COLOR NEXTSTEP supports 32-bit color on a variety of graphics controller chips that support linear frame buffer access. Due to the performance requirements of 16-bit color, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data path, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 16-bit color. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. 8-BIT GRAYSCALE Due to the performance requirements of 8-bit grayscale, these graphics adapters must be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-Bus), PCI or EISA. The ISA expansion bus does not provide the 32-bit data, or adequate performance to support NEXTSTEP 8-bit color. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. 2-BIT GRAYSCALE NeXT has developed a special driver that simulates the linear frame buffer required by NEXTSTEP's graphics system on segmented frame buffer graphics adapters such as standard VGA and Super VGA cards. This allows NEXTSTEP to support most standard VGA cards as well as certain Super VGA cards. These graphics adapters can be connected via LocalBus, VESA LocalBus (VL-BUS), PCI, EISA or ISA. Refer to the Desktop Systems and Add-on Graphics Adapter charts for specific adapter support. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP - Other Devices and Adapters - Graphics ATI 68800 Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions NA# _____________________________________________________________________ ATI Ultra- EISA or ATI 16 bit color: 1122 Pro VL-Bus Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 Rev. 3 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2 MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 ATI Ultra- EISA or ATI 16 bit color: 1122 Pro VL-Bus Ultra- 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 Pro 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 Rev. 6 2 MB VRAM supports 1120x832 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2 MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 ATI 68800 PCI Planned Q1 1994 AX COMPAQ QVISION Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions NA# _____________________________________________________________________ COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 16 bit color: 1024/E QVision 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 COMPAQ QVision EISA Compaq 32 bit color: 1280/E QVision 2 MB VRAM supports 640x480 16 bit color: 1 MB VRAM supports 800x600 2 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 8 bit grayscale: 1 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2 MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 CIRRUS LOGIC GD542X Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ STB Horizon ISA Cirrus 2 bit grayscale: Logic .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 GD542X JAWS Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ DELL 450DE/2 Local- DELL 16 bit color: DGX bus JAWS 2 MB VRAM supports 1120x832 DGX Note: Upgrade for Dell 450DE only. TSENG LABS ET-4000AX Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ Several Several ISA Tseng 2 bit grayscale: Labs .5 MB VRAM supports 1024x768 ET4000 TSENG LABS ET-4000W32i Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions Supported _____________________________________________________________________ Several Several VL-Bus Planned Q1 1994 STANDARD VGA Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions _____________________________________________________________________ various various ISA VGA 2 bit grayscale Adapter 640x480 resolution (default) S3-928 Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Number GXE/VL VL-Bus #9GXE 16 bit color: Nine 1MB VRAM supports 800x600 2MB VRAM supports 1024x768 8 bit grayscale: 1MB VRAM supports 800x600 1MB VRAM supports 1024x768 2MB VRAM supports 1152x819 2MB VRAM supports 1280x1024 STB Pegasus VL-Bus Planned Q1 1994 Weitek Power 9000 Vendor Model Bus Driver Graphics Resolutions NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Diamond Viper VL-Bus Planned Q1 1994 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -> NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Other Devices and Adapters NEXTSTEP supports a variety of additional devices and add-on adapters: DISK INTERFACES Both IDE and several SCSI hard disk interfaces are supported. POINTING DEVICES Microsoft compatible PS/2 and serial mice. Logitec PS/2, serial, and bus mice. PRINTERS Any Postscript printer connected via a serial or parallel port, including the NeXT Color Printer (connected via a SCSI port). NeXT recommends color Postscript printers with Postscript Level II for proper color support. NETWORKING Several Ethernet and Token Ring networking adapters are supported. A networking adapter is optional. SOUND NEXTSTEP can support certain PC sound cards for both playback and recording. A Sound card is optional. ADDITIONAL DEVICES Other popular PC peripherals such as FAX/Modems will be supported. DRIVERKIT NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors incorporates a newly developed object-oriented driver architecture called DriverKit. DriverKit allows the quick development of device drivers for new peripherals and add-on cards for Intel-based PCs running NEXTSTEP. DriverKit's architecture allows drivers to be loaded at run-time, thereby allowing users to add additional cards or devices to their systems without re-installing the main operating system. Loadable device drivers also allow NeXT and third parties to easily distribute additional drivers as they become available. In order to promote the availability of drivers for NEXTSTEP, NeXT includes the DriverKit development tools, and source code examples of several drivers on the NEXTSTEP Developer CD ROM. NeXT is actively working with hardware manufacturers and third parties to provide additional drivers for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. Developers interested in becoming a registered driver developer should contact NeXT Developer Relations at (1-800-TRY-NEXT) and join the registered developer program. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors ADDITIONAL DEVICE SUPPORT PRODUCTS Note: When considering a complete system or add-on card, please refer to any available NeXTanswers before purchasing equipment. To contact NeXTanswers, see the fourth paragraph (page 1) of this document for instructions. FLOPPY DISK Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ 3.5 inch Floppy Disk 1.44MB floppy Controller IDE HARD DISK INTERFACE Vendor Model Bus Driver _____________________________________________________________________ IDE IDE Disk Controller SCSI HARD DISK INTERFACE Note on Adaptec 1542, 1742, & 2742 DPT 2012/95, 2022/95 & 2122/95: Built-in floppy disk interface is not supported. Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Adaptec 1540B, C, CF ISA Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter Adaptec 1542B, C, CF ISA Adaptec 1542B Built-in floppy disk SCSI adapter not supported Adaptec 1740 EISA Adaptec 1742 EISA Built-in floppy disk not supported Adaptec 2740 EISA Planned for Q1 1994 Adaptec 2742 EISA Planned for Q1 1994 Bus 542B ISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter Bus 747S EISA Adaptec 1542B Logic SCSI adapter Bus 445S VL-Bus Planned for Q4 1993 Logic DPT 2012/90 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2012/95 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) DPT 2021/90 ISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2021/95 ISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) DPT 2022/90 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2022/95 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) DPT 2122/90 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable DPT 2122/95 EISA DPT 2012B EISA 512K-16.5MB cache SCSI Adapter upgradable (Built-in floppy not supported) NeXTanswers: Adaptec B cards: 1107 Adaptec C cards: 1108 Bus Logic 542B : 1362 Bus Logic 747S : 1118 DPT 2012 series: 1358 DPT 2022 series: 1457 SCSI TAPE Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ SCSI SCSI tape tape driver PARALLEL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Add-on parallel cards Parallel Port Parallel port not supported. NeXTAnswer # 1330 SERIAL PORT Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features _____________________________________________________________________ Standard On-board Supports COM1 & COM2 Serial Ports serial ports NeXTAnswer # 1208 LOCAL AREA NETWORK ADAPTERS Note on Intel Etherlink: support of TP port requires Driver update Vendor Model Bus Driver Additional Features NA# __________________________________________________________________________ 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3COM Ethernet coax (3C509) Etherlink III (twisted pair - ethernet adapt. not supported) 3COM Etherlink III EISA 3COM Ethernet coax (3C579) Etherlink III (twisted pair - ethernet adapt. not supported) SMC EtherCard Plus ISA SMC 16 Ethernet coax or 1110 Elite 16(8013) ethernet twisted pair adapter INTEL EtherExpress 16 ISA Intel Ether- Ethernet coax or 1206 (TP, Coax or Combo) Express twisted pair ethernet adapter INTEL TokenExpress ISA Intel Token- Token ring ISA/16s Express ISA Token Ring IBM Token Ring ISA IBM 16/4 Token Ring 16/4 Adapter Adapter 16/4 Mbps 8 bit I/O 64k buffer Share RAM Note: IBM Driver planned for Q4 1993 POINTING DEVICES Vendor Model Bus Driver NA# _____________________________________________________________________ Microsoft MS mouse serial mouse serial mouse 1360 Microsoft MS mouse PS/2 mouse port PS/2 mouse Logitec Mouse Man serial mouse serial mouse 1360 (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man PS/2 mouse PS/2 mouse 1360 (Right or adapter Left) Logitec Mouse Man Bus Bus mouse Bus mouse 1360 adapter AUDIO DEVICES Vendor Model Bus Driver Features NA# _________________________________________________________________________ Standard PC CPU System beep System audio alerts speaker board driver only support Media ProAudio ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality 1158 Vision Spectrum 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Media Pro ISA ProAudio Up to CD quality Vision Studio 16 Spectrum 16 stereo record & play Intel GX/Professional CPU Up to CD quality board stereo record & play Compaq Business Audio CPU Up to CD quality board stereo record & play Microsoft Sound System ISA Up to CD quality PRINTERS Vendor Model Bus Interface _____________________________________________________________________ NeXT Color Printer SCSI Standard Adobe Postscript Serial or parallel Printers (Postscipt Level II recommended for proper color support.) CD ROM DRIVES Vendor Model Notes _____________________________________________________________________ NEC CDR - 74 External NeXT Sony 541 External TAPE BACKUPS Vendor Model Notes _____________________________________________________________________ Archive Viper 150 QIC, 512 byte blocks Archive Python DAT, 512 byte blocks _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ November 17, 1993 NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3.2 FOR INTEL PROCESSORS Hardware Compatibility Guide - end - -- Nathan Janette Voice: 203 432 5065 Systems Manager Fax: 203 432 3923 Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Yale Univ Dept MB&B/HHMI "I'm a NeXTstep Man, I'm a NeXTcube Guy"
From: Tim Pugh <tpugh@oce.orst.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: December Oregon State MW-NUG Date: 4 Dec 1993 00:00:34 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dp5hi$qk@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT USER GROUP MEETING: Thursday, December 9th at 7:30pm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce LeSourd of Software Services and Solutions, Inc. will be demonstrating UUCP Manager, SS&S ObjectWare and more for NEXTSTEP. When: Thursday Dec. 9th at 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Where: Electical & Computer Engineering (ECE) - Room 102 Oregon State University Corvallis, OR; Phone: (503) 737-2270 Near 15th and Monroe SS&S is demonstrating to how to easily setup UUCP get mail and Net News from the University or a commerical Internet service like PSI. In addition to networking, they'll demonstrate the power of Interface Builder for building application. If time permits, we'll also see other products of SS&S listed below. See you there. This will be good, so don't miss it! Here is a list of software available: * WANManage - open network management architecture UUCPManager - UUCP Management module WANConfigure - WAN configuration module * SS&S ObjectWare - NEXSTEP IB Palettes SSSInputFieldPalette - perform complex format and content validation SSSMultiViewPalette - manage window real estate SSSBarGraphViewPalette - display of data as bars SSSViewerPalette - FileViewer-like interface to applications SSSDBKit+Palette - integrated objects for DBKit programming SSSSPalette - graphical access to S (or S-PLUS) systems SSSEnclosureViewPalette - an enhanced Text-like object * DRCS - revision control system * CodeReviewer - CASE tool Software Services and Solutions, Inc., provides expert consulting services in information technology and software architecture and development for businesses and organizations worldwide. Their deep understanding of open systems, networking, project management, and object-oriented technology, earned in over thirteen years or development under Unix and other systems, enables them to give the client the competitive edge to succeed. Database Technology Software Services and Solutions, Inc., specializes in the rapid design and implementation of custom corporate information solutions in distributed environments. Networking Software Services and Solutions, Inc., networking expertise runs from NEXTSTEP kernel drivers for serial line Internet connectivity to custom network design for large, heterogeneous networks. Financial and Trading Systems Software Services and Solutions, Inc., concentrates its consulting on the financial and trading applications areas. Their ObjectWare and other technology has allowed them to construct custom enterprise-wide trading and analysis systems that outperform other systems costing an order of magnitude more. For more information, please contact Tim Pugh at 503-737-2270 or tpugh@oce.orst.edu
From: market@nextsrv1.andi.org (Marketing Director) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: The NEXTSTEP Resource Guide by ANDI Date: 4 Dec 1993 00:02:05 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dp5kd$rm@digifix.digifix.com> ANDI - The Association of NeXTSTEP (and soon Openstep) Developers International, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are producing a catalog for use at the tradeshows where we exhibit. It will be known at the NEXTSTEP Resource Guide by ANDI. The catalog grew from the need to supply people who are interested, but not currently using NEXTSTEP, up-to-date information. In order to keep buyers aware of new developments, we will be publishing the catalog 3 or 4 times a year to coincide with our tradeshow sche dule. In addition, we will put an electronic copy of the catalog on the ANDI InfoServer and distribute it freely to User Groups. Our goal is to produce a good looking, but low cost (for both ANDI and you) catalog in print that we can afford to give away by the 1,000's. We have found that people want to pick up something which will let them read about NEXTSTEP as well as what 3rd party Apps and NEXTSTEP related services are available. If you wish more information on this endevour, please contact --- Bill Strehl Executive Director ANDI 9921 Woodburn Road Silver Spring, MD 20901-2730 Phone: 301-681-0613 reply to:marketing@nextsrv1.andi.org
From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Demo of CraftMan 2.0 multimedia authoring tool on sics.se:/pub/next/demos_fat Date: 4 Dec 1993 00:04:33 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dp5p1$so@digifix.digifix.com> A 'fat' (MAB) demo of the shipping version of the CraftMan 2.0 multimedia authoring tool from Xanthus is now available on the following archive: sics.se:/pub/next/demos_fat The demo runs with full functionality for 9 minutes. It can be restarted any number of times. For more info, please contact: craftman@xanthus.se _________________________________________ CraftMan 2.0 is the award-winning multimedia authoring tool for NEXTSTEP. In May 1993, CraftMan was the winner of NeXTWORLD Magazine's "Best of Breed" awards in the category "Development & Authoring". Aimed at both commercial and in-house corporate developers as well as multimedia artists, CraftMan is a complete tool for building real multimedia applications for the NEXTSTEP platform. For example, CraftMan can be used to create impressive presentations and highly efficient computer-based training applications, as well as to build graphical interfaces to other applications. In addition, it is an ideal tool for rapid prototyping of applications with real functionality. CraftMan lets users design complete multimedia applications for the NEXTSTEP platform without having to program in Objective-C. Instead, users write the necessary program code in the built-in CraftScript language. As a complete tool, CraftMan includes all the building blocks needed to build multimedia applications: - user interface design tools - drawing tools - multimedia object types like image, sound, animation and video - a powerful and easy-to-use object-oriented scripting language - CraftScript - free runtime engine
From: jamie@ftp.com (Jamie O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting Date: 4 Dec 1993 00:04:54 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dp5pm$su@digifix.digifix.com> Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting Tuesday, December 7th, 7 PM MIT Room 1-190 A night with VNP Software Van Simmons from VNP Software will be showing off his line of Development products. The Access Kit helps you add SQL Database access into your applications. UI Binder aids in the development of the User Interface for NEXTSTEP applications. DevMan is a powerful tool to manage multiple user NEXTSTEP development projects. Finally, IX Adaptor is a DBKit adaptor to NeXT's Indexing Kit. We will also get our first sight of NEXTSTEP 3.2 and will talk about what is new in it. We will also gossip about the rumors comming out of the NeXT community, answer people's NEXTSTEP related questions and have a fun dinner after the meeting. For more info, contact Jamie O'Keefe at jamie@ftp.com, or by phone at 508-659-6829 (W) or 617-628-4136 (H). See you there! jamie -- Jamie O'Keefe Director Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group QA Group Leader FTP Software, Inc.
From: meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: JetPilot 1.1 Demo Date: 4 Dec 1993 00:05:19 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2dp5qf$t4@digifix.digifix.com> If you need printer support for Hewlett-Packard DeskJet or LaserJet series printers on NEXTSTEP 3.x, try out JetPilot. It works with either black or white hardware. It is a third-party printer driver that is fully integrated into NEXTSTEP. This means that you can control options via the PrintPanel from within any application, among other features like a _very_ good color printout quality and high speed. The files that I have uploaded a few days before were corrupted, therefore here are the new names: JetPilot_1.1a.DEMO.README JetPilot_1.1a.DEMO.tar.gz They are to be found at "cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions" and "ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: /pub/next/Tools/printer". Sorry for the inconvenience. >From the README: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package contains the demo-version of JetPilot, a printer driver for HP-Deskjet and HP-Laserjet type printers. All printer options are fully supported, with the exception that the word Demo is printed diagonally over each page. With the purchase of the driver the customer will get a registration code which he can apply to the driver using the registration application. This will simply disable the demo-mode. You need NeXTSTEP 3.0 or NEXTSTEP 3.1 or NEXTSTEP 3.2 in order to use JetPilot. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Dirk P. Fromhein <jaeger@watershed.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Watershed Technologies' GraphRight 1.1 Shipping Date: 6 Dec 1993 00:15:40 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2duf5s$4u4@digifix.digifix.com> Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: Dirk Fromhein (508)460-9612 graphright@watershed.com Watershed Technologies Announces GraphRight 1.1 for NEXTSTEP (Motorola and Intel) Marlboro, MA - Dec. 6, 1993 - Watershed Technologies today announced the release of GraphRight 1.1, the latest version of its advanced graphing application for business and scientific users. "Elegant data visualization techniques are only half the story in the new version of GraphRight. Behind the pretty pictures, you must have solid numerical tools. This release of GraphRight includes a greatly expanded Application Program Interface and several new statistical functions,"says Dirk Fromhein, President of Watershed Technologies. The new statistical functions include first order linear regressions as well as the calculations of error bars according to value, percent of value, standard error, a nd standard deviation. GraphRight's Application Program Interface (API) based on NEXTSTEP Distributed Objects has also been enhanced in Version 1.1. Additional methods and new, speed-optimized algorithms have been added to the API making it easier than ever to integrate GraphRight's data visualization capabilities into custom applications. Indeed, adding the full power of Presentation Builder to a custom application takes only a few lines of code! This saves man years of development time. GraphRight features dynamic object linking allowing data from an external source, such as a stock market ticker feed, or information from a database, to be linked into GraphRight's data table. When new data arrives from the external source, all graphs are updated automatically by GraphRight. Similarly, graphs generated by GraphRight can be linked into other programs, such as word processors or presentation packages. This feature eliminates the need to "copy and paste" a graph every time it is updated. GraphRight has been shipping since May of 1993 for both Intel and Motorola processors. In addition to the features mentioned above, GraphRight also includes: - A rich variety of business/financial and scientific graph types, including high low close, X Y charts, stacked column, bar graphs, pie-charts, etc... - A table-based data editor to simplify data entry and manipulation. - A full-featured drawing package for customizing graphs. - A Rich Text editor with spell-checking for adding annotations to graphs. - "Drag and drop" support for images, files, and colors. - Data import facilities from ASCII files or from spreadsheet files in SYLK format. - Compatibility with most major NEXTSTEP applications, including MESA and Mathematica. A Mathematica "MathLink" object is available directly from Watershed Technologies. Watershed Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company with headquarters in Marlboro, MA. Commercial software development for NeXTSTEP is the company's primary focus. Before founding Watershed, President Dirk Fromhein participated in the creation of MESA, the most successful NEXTSTEP application to date. For more information, contact: Watershed Technologies, Inc. 13 Tremont St. Suite 3F Marlboro, MA 01752 graphright@watershed.com (508) 460-9612 (508) 481-3955 Fax #### GraphRight is a trademark of Watershed Technologies, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT, Inc. MESA is a trademark of Athena Design, Inc. Mathematica is a trademark of Wolfram Research, Inc. Presentation Builder is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. All other mentioned products are trademarks of their respective companies.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: GraphBuilder Date: 6 Dec 1993 23:19:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2e108n$9kr@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: VVI, Inc. 311 Adams Ave. State College, PA 16803 814-234-9613 814-234-9614 Fax VVI, Inc. introduces the application GraphBuilder for graph layout, data display, and data control. For ordering and product information please contact VVI at 814-234-9613. Please read the notes below for further information. Happy holidays and good cheers from VVI. -- PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ---------------------------------------------- - Ship date for version 3.2: January 1994 - Free upgrade for licensed users of previous versions. - 100% compatible with previous document versions. - runs on NEXTSTEP 3.2 for Motorola or Intel. Price: Academic: $89.00 Other: $198.00 Volume discount available All copies include: - Full Support. - Documentation - extensive online manuals and online help. - All header files for programming GraphBuilder. About 10,000 method definitions and 50 Objective-C objects in the top level library and many more Objective-C objects and c++ objects in the lower level libraries. -- ABOUT VVI -------------------------------------------------- VVI delivers comprehensive solutions for data display and analysis with a full range of services and products which include: GraphBuilder3.2 - Reliable, powerful, optimized, and fully published programming interface. The VVI Graph Object Library - A comprehensive solution which gives immediate and reliable graphing power to any application. GraphBuilder, the application, is a few lines long - "The objects do all the work." On-site instruction, technical support, and service. We will explain how to use our libraries in a straightforward way. System Integration. We will integrate our software and NEXTSTEP into your operations. No programming on your part required. VVI has been in the business of developing NEXTSTEP applications since 1989. -- GRAPHBUILDER FEATURE LIST ---------------------------------- GraphBuilder has extensive features including: - Easy to Use and Fast. Point, click, drag, and paste. Inspector controls are efficiently refocused to deliver important information. - Data Graphics. Any number and combination of histogram, line, smoothed curve, areas, scatter, contours, and signals on multiple coordinate systems. Since graphics, such as arbitrary connected spline graphics, maintain their data attributes they can be used to display data appropriate to that format. - Axes. Rectangular, polar, and semi-log axes (Version 3.3). Just drag out axes like any other graphic, double click within the axes frame, and start dragging and pasting data, enter data using mouse point and click methods, or program calculations using the program module editor. All labels and titles can be altered using familiar mouse and inspector methods. - Error bars. Symmetric and non-symmetric error bars, lines with caps, or straight line error bar types. Attributes include thickness, width, and color. Create almost any data point marker by drag and copy/paste methods. - General Graphics. Bezier curves, lines, ellipses, ovals, parallelograms, polygons, rectangles, rtf, eps, images, wrapped text, groups are included. These graphics can undergo changes in attributes such as smoothness, shadows, interpolated fill, translation, scaling, skewing, rotation, line width, dash pattern, color, etc. - Extensive Documentation. Online help using NEXTSTEP online help facilities. Online manual using the digital librarian. Several example documents regarding general drawing, graphing, target/action control loops, and program generated animated data. - Data Entry. Data can be entered by drag/drop of file icons, palettes, pasteboard, program module hooks, or mouse editing. Program modules can be used for custom database and data acquisition server integration. Includes dragging from .eps, .tiff, .arrayData, and .matrixData type files. - Document System. Documents are stored as multi-level UNIX directories. Internal document file and program module links maintain relations for large data sets and relocatable object code. Source code, notes, and other information can be put into the documents and edited using standard applications. - Controllers. The graphics issue owner and target messages so your system can react to changes in graphic attributes and editing. For example graphics can be used to control auxiliary devices. - Palettes. Any graphic, and hence data or database interface, may be stored and retrieved from palettes. This includes entire graphs. - Point and Click. Every graphic implements a full complement of point and click mouse control. - Inspectors. Graphic attribute can be modified directly from inspectors. Inspector-Editors maintain inspector user interface controls and relations between the associated graphic attributes. Inspector-Editors are linked to the graphics and between each other in a general network by a set of inspector-editor links. - Program Modules. Control loops, animation, drawing and most other features can be controlled programmatically using relocatable object modules accessible through the program module editor which supports RTF formatted Objective-C, c++, postscript, and server source code as input. Almost any computation can be performed with program modules. - Optimized Drawing. Drawing is optimized and takes full advantage of the most advanced postscript optimization techniques as well as bitmap caching and minimum bound clipping. Plot 16,000 point (x-y pairs) contour plot (10 levels) in 3 seconds. Plot 1024 points a few times per second. - Standard Conversions. Conversion to eps, tiff, and ascii formats are included and supported in the pasteboard and file dragging mechanisms of NEXTSTEP. - NEXTSTEP Compliant. Standard NEXTSTEP utilities such as the color, font, print, and fax panel, services, save and open panels, and pasteboard are seamlessly incorporated and used to their full extent. - Geometric Transformations. All graphics, including data graphics, can be controlled through mouse and key commands. Rotation, translation, skewing, selecting, focusing, and point editing are but a few operations available. - Document Page Layout. Multiple plots per page, labels, titles, and overlapping plots or graphing areas may be arranged using familiar click and drag methods. - Document Notes. Notes regarding the document can be accessed by pressing Document/Notes... from the main menu or by selecting the appropriate inspector link. - Prototyping. The graphics, document, and control loops can be developed and tested using GraphBuilder. This methodology is similar to the NEXTSTEP Interface Builder. For use with the Graph Object Library. - Scaled Drawing. The cross hairs and inspectors give information which aid in lining up graphics and placing them at a particular coordinate. Coordinate information is retained for most operations. - Quick launch. Secondary resources are deferred until needed resulting in a launch time of 5 seconds (Motorola '040) or less.
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 49 - 1993 Date: 6 Dec 1993 23:20:42 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2e10aq$9l2@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 49). Thursday December 02 through Monday December 06 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 48 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups PRESS RELEASE: NeXTSTEP Training Courses PRESS RELEASE: Dolphin Kit Developer Library 3.2 Ships PRESS RELEASE: Tar Viewer Utility for NeXTSTEP PRESS RELEASE: Author! Author! Document Management MEETING: December GUN Meeting PRESS RELEASE: Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica for NEXTSTEP for Intel SUBMISSION: TimeSync DEMO SUBMISSION: Demo of Questor 2.0 spreadsheet app on sics.se SUBMISSION: Demo of Graphity 1.0 business graphics app on sics.se SUBMISSION: XView 3.1 for NeXT PRESS RELEASE: John D. Pierce appointed President and COO of Alembic Systems Intl. Ltd. MEETING: December Oregon State MW-NUG PRESS RELEASE: The NEXTSTEP Resource Guide by ANDI SUBMISSION: Demo of CraftMan 2.0 multimedia authoring tool on sics.se MEETING: Boston Computer Society NeXT User Group Meeting SUBMISSION: JetPilot 1.1 Demo PRESS RELEASE: Watershed Technologies' GraphRight 1.1 Shipping PRESS RELEASE: GraphBuilder If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 6 Dec 1993 23:23:04 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2e10f8$9le@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups Date: 6 Dec 1993 23:23:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2e10fl$9lk@digifix.digifix.com> The current menagerie: comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU Minor editing: Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: "So. Cal. NeXTSTEP Users Group" <scan@csulb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: OpenStep / NEXTSTEP SCaN meeting: Dec. 14 Date: 6 Dec 1993 23:24:18 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e10hi$9lq@digifix.digifix.com> Southern California NEXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting SCaN is a users' group for NEXTSTEP and OpenStep users in the Los Angeles & Orange County area. (NEXTSTEP is the operating environment used on all NeXT Computers and is also available for Pentium and 80486-based computers. OpenStep is the new proposed open standard being promoted by Sun Microsystems and NeXT.) All are welcome to come to the meetings and participate. Tuesday 14 December 1993, 6:30 p.m. California State University, Los Angeles Physical Sciences building, Room 158 (PS-158) There will be a social at 6:30 and meeting at 7:30. The planned events are as follows: - Presentation on the Sun/NeXT OpenStep/NEXTSTEP agreement by Walt Duflock - Demo of Tailor by Dave Fahrney of Alembic Systems - Demonstration of Intel GX hardware running NEXTSTEP with SoftPC with Windows by Tim Finnegan of Workstaton 2000 Dues: $2.00 For further information, contact: Mike Mahoney, SCaN President and CSULB Professor (310) 985-1550, e-mail: mahoney@csulb.edu Bob Desharnais, SCaN Vice-President and CSULA Professor (213) 343-2056, e-mail: bob@biol1next.calstatela.edu Walt Duflock, SCaN Program Director e-mail: walt@integrate.com
From: Barry Beal <bdbeal@indirect.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: December Meeting of Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group Date: 6 Dec 1993 23:24:46 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e10ie$9m0@digifix.digifix.com> Meeting: The next meeting of the Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group will be Thursday, Dec. 9th at Mesa Community College. We are going to have a very busy agenda. We will have a discussion of the new NeXT/SUN announcement and its implication to the NeXTSTEP community. There will be a short presentation by one of the local Internet service providers, Evergreen Communications. Also, we will have the newest release of NeXTSTEP, 3.2 running with SOFTPC. And finally, we are expecting to have Gary Deacon of Arrow Electronics give a demo of the Intel GX running NeXTSTEP for Intel. Doors open at 7:00, come early and get acquainted with the other members. The meeting will start promptly at 7:30. Location: Thursday, Dec 9 at 7:30 PM Mesa Community College Kirk Student Center (the clock tower building) Kiva Room on the lower level 1833 W. Southern Ave, Mesa Agenda: * Announcements. * Discussion of the new NeXT/SUN announcement. This is an extremely important subject for all of us. * Introduction to a local Internet Service Provider - Evergreen Communications. * Q & A - a chance to ask your NeXTSTEP related questions. * Demo of NeXTSTEP 3.2/SOFTPC * Gary Deacon of Arrow Electronics will demonstrate NeXTSTEP for Intel running on an Intel GX. This is one of the best machines available for running NeXTSTEP. For more information about the meeting or the User Group, please call Barry Beal at (602) 834-3262
From: Darren_Smith@NeXT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Developer Conference - Washington DC Date: 6 Dec 1993 23:25:53 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e10kh$9m8@digifix.digifix.com> There are only ten days remaining to sign up for the Conference at the discounted price! Representatives from Sun plan to join us to discuss how the recent announcement will affect developers. _______________________________ THE SUBJECT IS OBJECTS. NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference Washington D.C. January 24 - 26, 1994 The first annual NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference is your opportunity to experience object-oriented computing with NEXTSTEP, the product that Byte magazine has called, the most respected piece of software on the planet. The Conference spans three days combining two full days of technical sessions sessions with one day of NEXTSTEP Tutorials. Designed for software developers, information systems management, systems integrators, VARs, and independent software vendors, this is the premier East Coast event to learn more about object-oriented technology and the development of mission-critical custom applications with NEXTSTEP. This East Coast event is a natural complement to the West Coast Developer Conference, to be held concurrently with NeXTWORLD Expo in June. If objects are in your future, you wont want to miss this important event. We look forward to seeing you. CONFERENCE SESSIONS The Conferences four tracks focus on both business and technical aspects of NEXTSTEP application development. Each track provides a different perspective on understanding and working with NEXTSTEP. Take a closer look at object kits and distributed objects. Or follow the track designed specifically to give managers an overview of the technical services and development opportunities offered with NEXTSTEP. Another track focuses on hardware platforms, system administrationand configuration issues for the systems engineer. To benefit most from the breadth of topics offered at the Conference, we encourage you to review and attend sessions from several tracks. The mid-day break is reserved for informal Birds-of-a-Feather sessions about topics of special interest to developers or to visit with a variety of NEXTSTEP partners showcasing their products and solutions. Developers may reserve a time slot to conduct a Birds-of-a-Feather session of their choice by sending e-mail to bof@next.com with information about the topic and moderator. NEXTSTEP TUTORIALS The Conference opens with a day of optional tutorials to help attendees prepare for the Conference sessions. Attendees new to NEXTSTEP will want to take the one day introduction to the user and developer systems, covered in the NEXTSTEP Immersion track. Others who have already done some NEXTSTEP development might be interested in learning more about a different area of the system. Sessions in the second track, NEXTSTEP Developer, provide a chance to get a head start on two popular subjects Object-Oriented Design and the Database Kit. All tutorials are instructed by NeXT Training staff and are in lecture format. HANDS-ON WITH NEXTSTEP If you're new to NEXTSTEP, this is your chance to learn the basics. You can sign up to spend some time with an expert on the subject of your choice. Visit NeXT's hospitality suite and meet with NeXT's training staff who will provide instruction (one-on-one) for both end users and developers. User tutorials are scheduled throughout the two days of the Conference to introduce new users to NEXTSTEP and to provide guidance on navigating the workspace, working with applications, and using NEXTSTEP features. Developer tutorials provide two learning opportunities: hands-on instruction in boot camp issues as well as one-on-one time with a NeXT expert on specific development topics. CALL 800-767-2336 TO REGISTER KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Steve Jobs Chairman and CEO NeXT Computer, Inc. Steve Jobs will demonstrate how object-oriented NEXTSTEP can revolutionize the development of mission-critical custom applications today. Paul Strassmann Former Director of Defense Information, U.S. Government Paul Strassmann discusses the current transition of software creation, from a hand-crafted art form to a product assembled out of standard components. HOURS Monday, January 24 9:30a.m. - 4:30p.m. Tuesday, January 25 9:00a.m. - 6:00p.m. Wednesday, January 26 9:00a.m. - 6:00p.m. Nextstep DEVELOPER BUNDLE For just $995, Conference attendees are eligible to purchase a special developer bundle including: NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 User and Developer products One single-user license of Borland's InterBase SQL database server DBKit InterBase Adapter. This is a $5,000 savings. Limited to one per Conference attendee, must be present to receive bundle. NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference Washington D.C. January 24 - 26, 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS Developer Conference Co-Sponsors 4 Developer Conference Agenda 5 NEXTSTEP Tutorials Agenda 5 Developer Conference 6 Track and Session Descriptions NEXTSTEP Tutorials 9 Track and Session Descriptions Registration and Hotel Information 10 CREDITS DCI (Digital Consulting, Inc.) Mike Colby Chris De Salvo Mary Lou Gomes Diane Palmiero Laura Sannicandro Matthew Schmuck Cheryl Taylor Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI), co-sponsor of the NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference, is a high technology education and management consulting firm specializing in software conferences, tradeshows, and user group conferences. DCI offers a full range of services to help companies achieve maximum efficiency and productivity. For more information call 508/470-3880. NeXT Computer, Inc. Conrad Geiger Rick Jackson Ellen Leeb Patty McDonough Julie Saffren Kate Smith Karen Steele CO-Sponsors The NEXTSTEP Developer Conference is your opportunity to see the latest NEXTSTEP products and solutions showcased by participating co-sponsors. ANDI Association of NeXT Developers International NEXTSTEP puts you in control of your information flow and provides you with the tools to readily adapt to ever changing needs. See how you can integrate your custom application with shrinkwrap software in todays hetero-geneous computing environment. Visit our technology showcase to see why NEXTSTEP is the right step for you. Borland International, Inc. Scotts Valley, California For millions of software developers and end-users worldwide, Borland International, Inc. is the leader in application development software. A pioneer in the use of object-oriented technology, Borland is committed to offering the worlds best database management, programming languages, development tools, spreadsheets and applications software. Borland products include dBASE, Paradox, InterBase, Quattro Pro, Object Vision, Borland C++ and Borland Pascal with Objects. Founded in 1983 by Philippe Kahn, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. Hewlett Packard Company Palo Alto, California HP and NeXT have created an initiative known as Object Enterprise, which combines NeXT's object-oriented software with HP's leading edge RISC-based desktop computers and servers and Intel-based Vectra PCs. Object Enterprise will enable customers to develop and deploy custom object-oriented software applications across the enterprise, delivering state-of-the-art desktop to data center solutions. HP will demonstrate the enabling technologies including, Portable Distributed Objects and NetInfo on both the HP Series 700 and 800 HP-UX Server class systems and NEXTSTEP on the Vectra PC. Intel Corporation Santa Clara, California Intel Corporation is a proud co-sponsor of the NEXTSTEP Developer Conference in Washington, D.C. Thousands of NEXTSTEP user agree: high-performance, upgradable systems based on the Intel architecture are the best platforms for application development and execution. From the laptop to the server, Intel-based solutions provide the reliable, compatible performance required for object- oriented, graphics-intensive applications. Welcome to the conference! NCR Corporation Dayton, Ohio NCR Corporation, an AT&T Company, develops, manufactures, markets, supports, and services enterprise-wide information systems for worldwide markets. NCR offers products and services that meet customer requirements for total enterprise-wide computing solutions. NCRs System 3000 is a seven-level family of open, scalable, microprocessor-based computer systems, ranging from portables to desktops and servers, to massively parallel processing systems. NCRs hardware, software, and networking systems enable access to information throughout the enterprise. NEC Technologies Boxborough, Massachussets NEC Technologies, Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes a wide range of NEC computers and computer peripherals. These include desktop and notebook PCs, server and professional client computer systems, computer monitors, printers, CD-ROM hardware, disk drives, and Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems. Head- quartered in Boxborough, MA, NEC Technologies has marketing offices in Wood Dale, IL and Washington, D.C. and operates major manufacturing facilities in Northborough, MA and McDonough, GA. Sales efforts are coordinated through 22 field offices throughout North America. NeXT Computer, Inc. Redwood City, California NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. DEVELOPER CONFERENCE AGENDA Tuesday 9:00 - 10:30 10:45 - 11:45 11:45 - 1:00 1:00 - 2:00 2:15 - 3:15 3:30 - 4:30 4:45 - 6:00 TRACKS NeXT in the Market Place Keynote: Steve Jobs NeXT's Markets and Their Development Opportunities Mid-day Break Creating Success With NEXTSTEP What Is PDO, and How Can It Help Me? Distribution Options in North America and Europe Education and Support Services for the NEXTSTEP Professional A Closer Look Introduction to NEXTSTEP Programming Using Release 3 Application Kit Features Getting Started With Database Kit Programming With Distributed Objects Hardware Is Inevitable System Administration: Issues and Answers NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Q&A Learning More About: 3:30 Hewlett-Packard 4:00 NCR Wednesday 9:00 - 10:30 10:45 - 11:45 11:45 - 1:00 1:00 - 2:00 2:15 - 3:15 3:30 - 4:30 4:45 - 6:00 TRACKS The Art of Design Keynote: Paul Strassmann Objected-Oriented Client/Server Application Design Mid-day Break Building Better NEXTSTEP Applications Benefits on an Open API Writing Extensible Applications Building Reusable Objects A Closer Look Driver Kit for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors Repeat: Programming With Distributed Objects A Practical Approach to Database Kit Repeat: Getting Started With Database Kit Creating Interface Builder Palettes Borland's InterBase on NEXTSTEP Hardware Is Inevitable Learning More About: 1:00 NEC 1:30 TBD Nextstep TUTORIALS AGENDA MONDAY 9:30 - 12:30 1:30 - 4:30 TRACKS NEXTSTEP Immersion Introduction to NEXTSTEP User Environment Introduction to NEXTSTEP Developer Environment NEXTSTEP Developer Object-Oriented Design Introduction to Database Kit Developer CONFERENCE general sessions The general sessions are in-depth looks at broad, important programming topics debugging and performance tuning. These will be opportunities to learn skills that will immediately affect your development efforts and your results. The Zen of Debugging Julie Zelenski, Lecturer, Stanford University and Developer Support Engineer, NeXT This session was clearly the most popular and talked-about session from the 1993 Developer Conference. Julie shares her bag of tricks and hints for debugging in the NEXTSTEP development environment. This is the place to come to fill out your repertoire of debugging methods. Useful and little used features of GDB are exposed, an example of how to inspect the stack frame is shown, and a rundown of the runtime system is made, along with discussions of many other topics. You will definitely learn new techniques in this challenging and extremely informative session. Getting More Speed Out of Your Application Trey Matteson, Manager, Application Kit Group, NeXT This session discusses a wide range of methods for measuring and improving the performance of your application. Topics include memory allocation strategies, code reordering, Window Server memory usage, drawing speed, reducing launch times, and implications of NEXTSTEP's expanding hardware base. NeXT in the Marketplace This track addresses topics aimed at the business and marketing side of NEXTSTEP and of broad general interest to the third-party and corporate developer community. This track is on Tuesday, January 25, and is designed to give a manager an overview of the technical services and development opportunities offered by NeXT and NEXTSTEP. The sessions will include speakers from successful third-party and corporate NEXTSTEP developers and from NeXT's marketing department. No direct NEXTSTEP experience is required for the sessions in this track. NeXT's Markets and Their Development Opportunities This is a chance to hear about NeXT's targeted markets, the products customers are requesting, and the solutions that match market requirements. Opportunities for developers and consultants are discussed, and guidelines for creating products that align with NeXT and NEXTSTEP are given. Creating Success With NEXTSTEP Based on their real-world experiences, a panel of NEXTSTEP developers describe their paths to success in the NEXTSTEP marketplace. Creative marketing techniques, how to leverage the sales force, and product focus are debated and discussed. What Is PDO, and How Can It Help Me? NeXT's PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) provides the framework for distributed computing in a heterogeneous environment, by providing NEXTSTEP's Distributed Object technology on foreign operating systems. This panel of early adopters describe the current PDO product and its applicability in client/server environments and discuss the findings of their direct experience. Distribution Options in North America and Europe Join Ingram Micro and Alembic Systems for an in-depth discussion of software distribution. Topics cover the range of North American, European, and Worldwide channels. If you are a third-party developer and want to distribute your product indirectly, this is an information-packed session. If you are a corporate customer, you'll learn that acquiring NEXTSTEP is only the beginning; there are many third party applications and services available to you. Education and Support Services for the NEXTSTEP Professional Application development can be accelerated by the availability of object-oriented training alternatives and timely, accurate technical support. NeXT provides a wide variety of education and support services to meet the diverse needs of its NEXTSTEP developers. This session describes services, ranging from NeXTanswers, a free document retrieval system, to the Mentorship Program, that provides in-depth support essential at the start of a large development project. The Art of Design The sessions of the second track are held on Wednesday, January 26. This track is for engineers wishing to learn more about designing better Object-Oriented and NEXTSTEP applications. These sessions show professionals how object-oriented design can create more flexible and robust objects, applications, and systems. Speakers are from the third party community and NeXT's technical staff. Some sessions assume limited NEXTSTEP knowledge. Object-Oriented Client/Server Application Design This session explains the key issues of object-oriented client/server application design and layout, including programming tools and techniques to assist in this type of application development. It also discusses how the user interface (or lack of it) for server requester objects and server provider objects affects the efficiency of an application. Examples of client/server applications using PDO will be shown. Building Better NEXTSTEP Applications Proper use of NEXTSTEP significantly increases the power of your application; correspondingly, improper or partial use of NEXTSTEP can decrease your applications usability. An overview of specific topics user interface, portability, localization, and important kit features shows you how to build flexibility into your application. References to documentation and other resources are included. The Benefits of an Open API A panel of developers and users discuss both sides of the Application Programmers Interface (API) issue. Commercial third-party developers discuss why they have decided to provide an API for their shrink-wrap productivity applications. Corporate developers discuss why having an API to third party applications makes the development of in-house solutions easier and faster. Writing Extensible Applications This lecture explores techniques that add run-time flexibility to an application. Dynamic loading of objects adds much to the power of Interface Builder as a development tool and is mainly responsible for the runaway success of BackSpace. Find out how to add dynamic loading to your application while increasing its efficiency and maintainability. Building Reusable Objects Well-rounded classes don't just happen; they require careful planning and design to become flexible and robust. This session reviews some of the issues that you should consider before writing your first line of code. A Closer Look This track takes a closer look at several of the kits specific to NEXTSTEP. The Application Kit, Driver Kit, and Database Kit are examined with additional sessions on important features like Distributed Objects and Portable Distributed Objects. Speakers are engineers from NeXT's technical staff who are directly involved in designing and writing the software or in writing applications that use the software they discuss. Familiarity with NEXTSTEP is a plus for attendees of these sessions. Introduction to NEXTSTEP Programming If you're just encountering the world of object-oriented programming, this overview of NEXTSTEP features and object technology is extremely useful for understanding context and vocabulary. This session is a must for technical evaluators of the platform. Using NEXTSTEP Release 3 Application Kit Features This session reviews several NEXTSTEP Release 3 features, including dragging, Help, filter services, and using color. Use of these features is uncomplicated and can add considerably to the power and flexibility of your application (and popularity with your users). Getting Started With Database Kit Learn the basics of NEXTSTEP's newest kit with one of NeXT's trainers. Step through the decisions involved with building a simple Database Kit application and see how Database Kit can help reduce time and effort in developing a client/server custom application. Time is provided for questions and answers at the end of this session. (This session is repeated.) Programming With Distributed Objects This presentation details the steps you need to take to build a client/server application using distributed objects, one of NEXTSTEP's most powerful tools. Discussion includes invalidation notification and peer-to-peer architectures. (This session is repeated.) Driver Kit for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors A detailed presentation of device driver architecture within NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. The session includes review of several Driver Kit classes, design considerations, comparison with traditional UNIX drivers, and an opportunity for questions and answers. Previous knowledge of UNIX drivers and NEXTSTEP is recommended. A Practical Approach to Database Kit This session highlights common problems that developers have encountered in the Database Kit, and details how to solve them. Its very practical and all current Database Kit programmers are likely to learn new tricks. Creating Interface Builder Palettes Using Interface Builder Palettes can add custom functionality to your interfaces, save development time, and generate valuable reusable tools. This session shows how to build palettes that provide advanced functionality for many different sorts of objects. Borlands InterBase on NEXTSTEP The main subject matter will be the future technology direction of the InterBase SQL database server. An overview of how InterBase fits into Borlands overall client/server strategy will also be included. Hardware is Inevitable The final track brings the nuts and bolts to the conference. The sessions give software engineers a chance to compare the different hardware platforms, and provide a forum for questions and answers for system administration and configuration issues. Speakers are NeXT technical staff members familiar with the different configuration issues and speakers from hardware partners like Hewlett-Packard, NCR, and NEC. These sessions are for people who want to find out more about the various hardware options for NEXTSTEP and the inherent software issues. System Administration: Issues and Answers As NEXTSTEP computers proliferate in enterprise-wide information systems, the issues of installation and configuration and network management in a heterogeneous environment become increasingly critical. System administrators and system support engineers explore the tools and techniques available for creating and maintaining corporate networks. NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors: Questions and Answers NeXT and NEXTSTEP hardware partners answer questions on hardware configurations appropriate for development, supported third-party products and other issues related to NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. This session helps you understand the differences between various hardware configurations and how these might affect your application development efforts. Learning More About: 3:30 Hewlett-Packard 4:00 NCR NEXTSTEP hardware partners spend a half hour discussing their NEXTSTEP-compatible product offerings, optimal configurations, and more. Come learn more about what is available from these vendors! Learning More About: 1:00 NEC 1:30 TBD NEXTSTEP hardware partners spend a half hour discussing their NEXTSTEP-compatible product offerings, optimal configurations, and more. Come learn more about what is available from these vendors! NEXTSTEP Tutorials Introduction to Tutorials The conference begins with a series of tutorials on the first day to help attendees prepare for the conference sessions. Attendees new to NEXTSTEP will want to take the one day orientation in the user and developer systems, covered in the NEXTSTEP Immersion track. Others who have already done some NEXTSTEP development might be interested in learning more about a different area of the system. Two sessions in the second track, NEXTSTEP Developer, provide a chance to get a head start on two popular subjects: Object-Oriented Design and the Database Kit. Tutorials are in lecture format. See page 10 for registration information. NEXTSTEP Immersion The tutorials in this track give attendees an overview of NEXTSTEP user and developer software. They are a good starting point for the conference and build the framework needed to learn more from the sessions in the conference tracks. Introduction to NEXTSTEP User Environment This tutorial takes you on a guided tour of the NEXTSTEP user environment. When you leave it you should be familiar with many of the metaphors and common user interface techniques found in NEXTSTEP as well as some of the major applications provided by NeXT. Major topics include: core NEXTSTEP applications: Workspace, Edit, Librarian, etc. reading and sending multi-media mail using the NeXT mail application common menu items and panels taking advantage of inter-application services The tutorial includes demonstrations of popular third party productivity applications. To be prepared for this tutorial, one should be familiar with the idea of a graphical user interface. Introduction to NEXTSTEP Development Environment This tutorial walks attendees through the steps of building a simple NEXTSTEP application. Topics include: using Project Builder to manage your project using Interface Builder to create a user interface debugging your code with GDB, the gnu debugger Edit, as a developer's tool how Digital Librarian can help you search and read on-line technical documentation At the end of this tutorial, you should be able to identify the developer applications that are available, their features, how they work together, and how they help you create a NEXTSTEP application. The prerequisite for this tutorial is a simple understanding of the NEXTSTEP user environment, which you can get from the previous tutorial. NEXTSTEP Developer These two tutorials are for experienced NEXTSTEP programmers who are interested in an overview of a specific area. Object-Oriented Design This class covers some of the concepts needed to do analysis and design for object-oriented programming. This class does not focus on a particular methodology; rather it presents the basic concepts required by all analysts and designers. These concepts include: discovering the classes and objects needed in your application identifying relationships between classes and objects in your application designing applications that take advantage of NEXTSTEP designing cooperating applications based on the Distributed Objects technology extending the design metaphor to multiple processes and deployment in a heterogeneous environment After taking this class you will know the major steps needed to design a NEXTSTEP application. To be prepared for this class, you need to be able to create a simple NEXTSTEP application or have other experience with object-oriented programming. Introduction to Database Kit The Database Kit is one of the hottest features of the NEXTSTEP development environment. It allows developers access to enterprise-wide data while taking advantage of all the user interface tools in NEXTSTEP. This class covers the rudimentary topics for getting started with the Database Kit such as: data modeling and the DBModeler application creating Interface Builder applications with the Database Kit palette introduction to the Database Kit Architecture At the end of the class you will know the steps needed to build a simple database program without writing any code. To be prepared for this class, you need to be familiar with Interface Builder and have a general knowledge of relational databases. Advanced programming issues will be addressed at the end, based on participants questions and time permitting. REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION To Register Mail to: The NEXTSTEP Fax to: 508/470-0526: Call Toll-Free: 800/767-2336 International Registration East Coast Developer Conference 24 hours a day U.S. and Canada only Call 508/470-3880 DCI 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (est) 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (est) 204 Andover Street 24 hr. voice mail 24 hr. voice mail Andover, MA 01810 The NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference January 24-26, 1994 Sheraton Washington, Washington D.C. Conference Registration Fee (4076) January 25-26, 1994 $545 (before Dec. 17) $595 (after Dec. 17) Conference Registration Fee with Product Bundle (4076N) January 25-26, 1994 $1,540 (before Dec. 17) $1,590 (after Dec. 17) plus shipping and handling Product Bundle price includes Conference registration plus NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 User and Developer products, Borlands InterBase SQL database server, and the DBKit Adapter for InterBase $5,000 savings! Tutorial Registration Fee January 24, 1994 $160 per Tutorial (before Dec. 17) $300 per Tutorial (non-conference attendees) $200 per Tutorial (after Dec. 17) Please check off the Tutorials you would like to register for 9484Introduction to NEXTSTEP User Environment, 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. 9485Introduction to NEXTSTEP Development Environment, 1:30 p.m.4:30 p.m. 9486Object-Oriented Design, 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. 9487Introduction to Database Kit, 1:30 p.m.4:30 p.m. Registration Hours On-Site Tutorial Registration: Monday, January 24, 7:30 a.m. Conference Registration: Monday, January 24, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday, January 25, 7:30 a.m. Registrants Name Company Title Division Name Street Mail Stop Title City State/Zip Code Country Name Phone Number Title Fax Number Email Address Authorized Signature Date Method of Payment Check enclosed payable to The NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference VISA MasterCard Card# Expiration Date Cardholder Name Bill my firm. Attention of: Conference cancellation policy: Substitutions may be made at any time. Cancellations made by January 10, 1994 will be accepted, subject to a cancellation service charge of $100. Confirmed registrants who do not attend the conference or cancel after January 10, 1994 are liable for the entire registration fee. All cancellations must be made in writing. Hotel and Travel Information The NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference is pleased to offer you special discounted hotel overnight rooms and airfares. To receive discounted reservations or information on these special services, please call Conference and Travel Services (CATS) at 800/767-2755 or 508/470-3933 or fax your request to 508/470-2506. Host Hotel: A Credit Card Is Needed To Guarantee Your Reservation Sheraton Washington VISA MasterCard Am. Ex. 2660 Woodley Road at Connecticut Avenue, NW Diners Club Discover Washington, D.C. 20008 U.S.A. Personal Card Corporate Card Cardholders Name Arrival Departure Company Name Signature Card Number Business Phone Home Phone Expiration Date Fax Number DCI 204 Andover Street Andover, MA 01810 NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference Washington D.C. January 24 - 26, 1994
From: Chuck Fleming <cfleming@alleg.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: HotShapePalette Date: 7 Dec 1993 16:43:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e2tdb$f72@digifix.digifix.com> Greetings from Allegheny College, The latest version of our HotShape palette is now available via anonymous ftp from ftp.alleg.edu. The software can be found in /pub/ESDG/Palettes Everything you need to use the palette (HotShapePalette.palette, HotShape.h and libhotshape.a) are stored in HotShape.compressed. The source code is in HotShapeSource.compressed. A HotShape object is a basically a non-rectangular control. You can select the shape (hot region) of the control from its IB inspector. Shapes currently available are: rectangle, ellipse, triangle, star and octagon. The target & action, and tag of the HotShape can be set with the inspector. Unlike earlier versions of HotShapePalette, HotShapes can now be stacked. For those of you interested in education apps, there are several new biology apps in /pub/ESDG/Biology. Regards, Chuck cfleming@alleg.edu
From: software@geom.umn.edu (software) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Geomview 1.4.1: Free 3D viewer for NeXTStep Date: 7 Dec 1993 23:31:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e3lao$1bj@digifix.digifix.com> The staff of the Geometry Center announce the release of version 1.4.1 of Geomview, an interactive geometry viewing program. This version of Geomview runs on Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations, NeXT workstations, and 486 PCs running NeXTStep 3.x. The distribution includes source code and compiled binaries for these architectures. Geomview is available via anonymous ftp on the Internet from host geom.umn.edu (IP address 128.101.25.35). It's in the subdirectory `pub/software/geomview'. Get the file README in that directory for details. The main distribution files are: geomview-sgi.tar.Z: Compiled binaries for SGI workstations. geomview-next.tar: Compiled binaries for NeXTStep 3.x systems. geomview-src.tar.Z: Source code. We recommend that you get one of the compiled binary distributions unless you specifically want to look at the source code. This release contains many bug fixes and several new features and external modules. Another addition is a comprehensive user's manual. We are working on a version of Geomview for generic X windows; it should become available within the next few months. Geomview has been developed in the research environment of the Geometry Center where there is an emphasis on visualization of mathematical concepts. It can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry. Geomview was described in the ``Computers and Mathematics'' column of the October 1993 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. A brief overview of its capabilities is appended to the bottom of this message. The Geometry Center is an NSF-funded research center based at the University of Minnesota. Its mission is to support, develop, and promote the computation and visualization of geometric structures. The Geometry Center's official name is the "National Science and Technology Research Center for Computation and Visualization of Geometry Structures". We are very interested in getting feedback from people who use Geomview, so please let us hear from you! Send correspondence via email to software@geom.umn.edu, or via regular mail to Software Development Group Geometry Center 1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 500 Minneapolis, MN 55454 USA Thank you! The Geometry Center Software Development Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Overview of Geomview ******************** Geomview's main purpose is to display objects whose geometry is given, allowing interactive control over details such as point of view, speed of movement, appearance of surfaces and lines, and so on. Geomview can handle any number of objects and allows both separate and collective control over them. The simplest way to use Geomview is as a standalone viewer to see and manipulate objects. It can display objects described in a variety of file formats. It comes with a wide variety of example objects, and you can create your own objects. You can also use Geomview to handle the display of data coming from another program that is running simultaneously. As the other program changes the data, the Geomview image reflects the changes. Programs that generate objects and use Geomview to display them are called *external modules*. External modules can control almost all aspects of Geomview. The idea here is that many aspects of the display and interaction parts of geometry software are independent of the geometric content and can be collected together in a single piece of software that can be used in a wide variety of situations. The author of the external module can then concentrate on implementing the desired algorithms and leave the display aspects to Geomview. Geomview comes with a collection of sample external modules, and this manual describes how to write your own. Geomview represents the current state of an ongoing effort at the Geometry Center to provide interactive geometry software that is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, Geomview can display things in hyperbolic and spherical space as well as Euclidean space. Geomview allows multiple independently controllable objects and cameras. It provides interactive control for motion, appearances (including lighting, shading, and materials), picking on an object, edge or vertex level, snapshots in SGI image file or Renderman RIB format, and adding or deleting objects is provided through direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts. Geomview supports the following simple data types: polyhedra with shared vertices (.off), quadrilaterals, rectangular meshes, vectors, and Bezier surface patches of arbitrary degree including rational patches. Object hierarchies can be constructed with lists of objects and instances of object(s) transformed by one or many 4x4 matrices. Arbitrary portions of changing hierarchies may be transmitted by creating named references. Geomview can display Mathematica graphics output.
From: David J. Ferrero <david@zion.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: TeleComm 1.01 shipping! Date: 8 Dec 1993 23:17:43 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e68t7$6hi@digifix.digifix.com> _________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: David Ferrero Zion Software & Consulting. 56D Nanel Drive Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA 203 / 659-4257 email: info@zion.com Price: $89.00 + $3.00 s/h. Full-time students: $45.00 + $3.00 s/h (photocopy of VALID ID required). ****** AVAILABLE NOW ****** _______________________________________________________ TeleComm 1.01 shipping! Glastonbury, Conn., December 7, 1993 - Zion Software & Consulting announced the release of TeleComm version 1.01: a telecommunications NeXTSTEP application for both Motorola and Intel based NEXTSTEP computers running version 3.1 or greater. After user feedback from the initial release of TeleComm version 1.0, several improvements have been made including. 1. Support for the UUCP locking protocol. 2. Improved File Transfer Statistics including: Elapsed Time Est. Time Complete File Size Current Size Bytes/Sec 3. Minor Bug fixes TELECOMM PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS * Easy to use NeXTSTEP Graphical User Interface for serial/Modem communications and file transfer. * File Transfer using XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM with progress indicators. * VT100 terminal emulation. * IBMPC terminal emulation. * ANSI color support. * Terminal Emulation API (for custom data handling). * File Transfer API (for custom data handling). * Scrollback buffer. * Copy/Paste/Find support. * Font Panel support. * User Preferences. * Phone Directory with stored configurations. * Online Help. * UUCP LCK file support. * More... AVAILABILITY: TeleComm is available on Internet archive servers such as cs.orst.edu. and the demo will run for 10 minutes at a time. You may enable the TeleComm demo by obtaining a registration number from Zion Software & Consulting for $89 or $45 + $3 s/h for full-time students with valid ID. TeleComm is also available directly from Zion Software & Consulting, or on Paget Press's AppWrapper CD-ROM due out in time for Christmas. Send Check or Money Order to the above address. Group discounts can be negotiated with Zion directly. Zion Software & Consulting is based in Connecticut, and specializes in custom software development and consulting with NEXTSTEP. TeleComm is a trademark of Zion Software & Consulting. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
From: majka@NeXT.COM (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Trainer (NEXTSTEP System Administration) - Redwood City CA Date: 9 Dec 1993 23:40:01 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e8uj1$dmj@digifix.digifix.com> NeXT Computer Inc. has an immediate opening for a Trainer specializing in Network and System Administration. If you have: - Excellent training and public presentation skills. - An in-depth knowledge of UNIX and TCP/IP network administration. - Experience with NEXTSTEP system administration. - Good technical writing skills and you are willing to travel to teach classes in various locations, then mail your resume to Ellen Leeb, Manager NeXT Training 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City CA 94063 You may also FAX resumes to 415-780-4554 or send PostScript resumes to <Ellen_Leeb@NeXT.COM> No acknowledgement of receipt will be returned. We will contact qualified candidated for further information.
From: David Li <david@twnug.info.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: Taiwan NeXT User Group Meeting, Dec 29 Date: 9 Dec 1993 23:40:13 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e8ujd$dmp@digifix.digifix.com> Taiwan NeXT User Group Meeting, Wednesday, December 29 at 1:30 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------- Where: Computer Center Rm.110 National Chiao-Tung University Hsin-chu, Taiwan When: Wednesday, December 29 at 1:30 PM Part I. <System Discussion> PM 1:30 Part II. <Developer Discussion> PM 6:30 After the release of NeXTSTEP for Intel, the number of NeXTSTEP users in Taiwan has been increasing rapidly. A immediately raising question is that "Is there a Chinese system for NeXTSTEP?" In this meeting several major NeXTSTEP Chinese software firms will demonstrate their products. Jackson Ltd: a professional pre-press desktop publishing software firm will demonstrate "Paper," a Chinese DTP system for NeXTSTEP with features such as vertical writing and Chinese dictionary taht serve the special needs of the Chinese users. They will also show their 35 different Chinese PS fonts. ObjectRain: a newly founded Chinese NeXTSTEP software development firm. Their products include a Chinese Terminal, a Chinese Edit, a Chinese Librarian, a Chinese Kit, the LongMan English-Chinese dictionary, as well as a collection of 31 typeface of Chinese fonts. They will also announce a special offer on their Chinese system during the user meeting. In additional to the demo, William Wei, a NeRD and former software engineer of Imagine Multimedia, will discuss his experience with NeXTSTEP. Representatives from the recently founded Free Software Fundation in Taiwan will also attend in this meeting and announce their support for NeXTSTEP related freeware distribution through their BBS. For more information, please contact: Tony Guo <tony@formosa.dorm12.nctu.edu.tw> Mark Lin <mark@formosa.dorm12.nctu.edu.tw> David Li <david@twnug.info.com>
From: hhsu@impact.com (Henry Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SuperDebugger Version 3.7 Release Date: 9 Dec 1993 23:40:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e8ujv$dmv@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Henry Hsu Phone: (718) 472-0600 FAX: (718) 472-0160 E-mail: info@impact.com Long Island City, New York - December 10, 1993 - Impact Software Publishing, Inc. is pleased to announce Release 3.7 of its SuperDebugger product, a program which helps reduce application development time by providing a more powerful, easy-to-use, and faster debugging environment. ***SuperDebugger is reviewed in the December 1993 issue of NeXTWORLD (p38). SuperDebugger 3.7 features dynamic display of source-level execution, point and click setting of breakpoints, savable debugging environments, user-definable macros, a variable contents display, a dynamic local variables browser, a methods browser, a breakpoints browser, and much more. SuperDebugger is very easy to learn, and includes an extensive context-sensitive help facility. Previous purchasers of SuperDebugger are entitled to free upgrades to the latest version. A demo version of SuperDebugger 3.7 is currently available by FTP from: nova.cc.purdue.edu /pub/next/3.0/com/SuperDebugger3.7.tar /pub/next/submissions/SuperDebugger3.7.tar cs.orst.edu /pub/next/demos/tools/SuperDebugger3.7.tar /pub/next/submissions/SuperDebugger3.7.tar For users with NeXTmail, a demo copy of SuperDebugger 3.7 can be requested through info@impact.com. A free demo floppy of SuperDebugger 3.7 can also be requested by calling 1-800-822-3385. SuperDebugger 3.7 is priced very competitively and there are educational and site license discounts available. If you would like more information about SuperDebugger 3.7, please send your request to info@impact.com. *** SuperDebugger is a trademark of Impact Software Publishing, Inc. NeXTWORLD is a trademark of of NeXT and is used under license.
From: asc1002@Armstrong.EDU (-phillip bruce-) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Surf - white noise ocean surf simulator Date: 10 Dec 1993 00:15:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2e90lo$e0j@digifix.digifix.com> Now available for FTP at cs.orst.edu under /pub/next/submissions/surf.tar.Z is "Surf"-a white noise ocean surf simulator for the NeXT. It is available in Motorola binary ONLY as it makes use of the DSP. Tested only on 3.0, but should work on anything beyond 2.1.
From: mishelle@thoughtful.com (Mishelle Baun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Thoughtful Software Ships HyperSense for Intel Processors Date: 10 Dec 1993 23:40:03 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ebiv3$4ou@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Information contact: Mishelle McClure Baun 616 E. Locust Street Ft. Collins, CO 80526 303/221-4596 NeXTMAIL: info@thoughtful.com $299 + $10 s/h US, $15 Canada and Mexico, $25 all others Visa/MC accepted Thoughtful Software Ships HyperSense for Intel Processors Fort Collins, Colorado - December 1, 1993 - Thoughtful Software today announced a new version of its HyperSense multi-purpose authoring software for creating multimedia documents and applications, such as corporate training programs, medical imaging databases, interactive tutorials, and flexible personal databases. Highlights of this release include support for both Intel and Motorola versions of NEXTSTEP, new user interface objects, enhanced on-line documentation and a customizable tool palette. HyperSense is a versatile and easy-to-use tool featuring a rich document architecture and an easily understood scripting language. With HyperCard compatibility, users have the ability to import and modify "stackware" developed on the Macintosh. HyperSense goes beyond the capabilities of HyperCard and other authoring environments, offering many innovative new features. Multiple layers of objects on each page, drag-and-drop document construction, and direct support for accessing the serial ports are just a few of the advanced capabilities included in the program. HyperSense has been well received by early adopters, who have found its ease of use and powerful scripting capabilities make it well-suited to a variety of tasks. "I must say that of all the authoring packages we've looked at for the NeXT, HyperSense really comes out far ahead of the rest," commented Celia Duffy of Glasgow University Music Department. "We're really impressed with it." The SenseTalk scripting language gives users the ability to add interactivity to documents without learning a complex programming language. SenseTalk is very English like, making scripts easy to read and write. "I'm so glad to have a hypermedia application that I can use to develop without programming," said Dr. Judith Graves, who used HyperSense to developa multimedia database of nurse scholars for the International Library of Nursing. Advanced users and programmers will find SenseTalk to be a full-featured and powerful language, which can be extended with user-written commands and functions. HyperSense is currently shipping in a pre-release version, which is offered at an introductory price of $299. This price is good until version 1.0 ships, at which time the price will be $499. Purchasers of the pre-release version will receive HyperSense 1.0, complete with printed documentation when it ships, and are entitled to any other upgrades released within one year. Educational and quantity discounts are available. Thoughtful Software is a privately-held software firm based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Since 1989 Thoughtful Software has been dedicated to developing high-quality end-user productivity tools for NEXTSTEP users. -30- HyperSense is a registered trademark and SenseTalk is a trademark of Thoughtful Software. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. HyperCard and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer.
From: ciusa@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Ciusa announces beta release ofNoteAbilityTM for NeXTSTEPTM Date: 10 Dec 1993 23:41:29 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ebj1p$4pf@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gerard Schwarz 612-822-1604 ciusa@cup.portal.com Ciusa announces beta release ofNoteAbilityTM for NeXTSTEPTM MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, December 9, 1993 -- Ciusa, a leader in creative software for NEXTSTEP computers, today announced that it began shipping NoteAbility, a professional music notation application, in beta form at special introductory price. Users will receive a free upgrade when version 1.0 ships January 15, 1994. With NoteAbility, NEXTSTEP users with not only get the kind of power found in music notation applications on other platforms, but will get all the ease of use that NEXTSTEP provides. "NEXTSTEP is the perfect platform for music notation", said Gerard Schwarz, Ciusa's president. "With NoteAbility users will find that Display Postscript gives them the best WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. Music scores have never looked better." Features of NoteAbility are numerous but its top draw will be its ease of use and its rich display which prints the score exactly as it appears on the screen. NoteAbility lets users create professional quality music scores inputting notes via mouse with on-screen keyboard, mouse input, and step-time and real-time entry from a MIDI keyboard or device. NoteAbility accepts NeXT MIDI and score files as well as NoteWriter files, an Apple Macintosh-based music notation application. NoteAbility lets users enter lyrics that are automatically aligned underneath notes, create chords of unlimited notes, drag and drop TIFF and EPS images, and use drawing tools such as circles, squares, and lines. Users can add slurs, move notes, transpose notes, change key signatures, time signatures, and add text anywhere on the screen. NoteAbility uses an inspector panel so that users do not have to navigate through a slew of menus when he or she wants to change things such as note attributes, page numbers, articulations, and staff attributes. NoteAbility includes more than 250 pages of on-line hypertexted documentation that quickly lets the user find the answers they need. NoteAbility was created by Keith Hamel, author of the powerful NoteWriter for Macintosh computers. NoteAbility goes far beyond NoteWriter and many current music notation applications mainly because of the NEXTSTEP operating system. NoteAbility brings new flexibility and power to personal computer music notation. NoteAbility may user the Composer font from Abstract Software or the Sonata font from Adobe Systems. NoteAbility will have a suggested retail price of $499 and an educational price of $299. For a limited time NoteAbility will sell for $299 and $199 educational. Currently the product is only available in Motorola-based 68040 machines. The product will ship in January of 1994 in File Allocation Tables (FAT) format, allowing NoteAbility to run on NEXTSTEP for Motorola-based proprietary machines as well as Intel-based 486 and Pentium computers. NoteAbility requires NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher. A demonstration copy of NoteAbility will be available at various archive sites after December 16th. Ciusa, also known as Creative Imagineering America, is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is a privately held company that develops personal creativity and personal productivity software for NEXTSTEP-based computer systems. Trademarks: Ciusa, Creative Imagineering America, the Ciusa logo, and NoteAbility are trademarks of Ciusa. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Apple and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Postscript, Display Postscript, and Sonata are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. Motorola is a trademark of Motorola Corporation. Ciusa, 3208 W. Lake St. Suite 133, Minneapolis, MN 55416 (612)-822-1604 fax 612-922-4426 ciusa@cup.portal.com
From: aba@netcom.com (Alan Atlas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: Sarrus Software Date: 13 Dec 1993 00:12:57 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2egtkp$e13@digifix.digifix.com> Sarrus Software, a leading supplier of group-oriented software for NEXTSTEP, is seeking an Objective-C or C++ engineer with 3+ years experience to work on the next version of our market-leading group scheduling software. Located in Foster City, CA, Sarrus is a small startup company with expanding opportunities. Our teams are very small, we allow a lot of independent work and need someone who can manage themselves, plan projects, and meet dates. Your experience should include some or all of these (listed in order of importance): OOP SQL C++ or Objective C NEXTSTEP UNIX Windows Must be self-motivated, enjoy contact with customers, and have excellent oral and written communication skills. We are a small company and would prefer someone local to the Bay area, but we are not ruling out some kind of relocation assistance for a *really* outstanding candidate. For consideration, send ascii resume to this account: aba@netcom.com OR Send NEXTMail to alan@sarrus.com OR fax to (714)707-5720 OR snail mail to: Alan Atlas Sarrus Software 24331 Muirlands #4 Suite 424 Lake Forest, CA 92630 PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 50 - 1993 Date: 13 Dec 1993 00:13:33 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2egtlt$e1f@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 50). Monday December 06 through Monday December 13 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 49 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups MEETING: OpenStep / NEXTSTEP SCaN meeting: Dec. 14 MEETING: December Meeting of Phoenix NeXTSTEP User Group NEXTSTEP Developer Conference - Washington DC SUBMISSION: HotShapePalette SUBMISSION: Geomview 1.4.1: Free 3D viewer for NeXTStep SUBMISSION: Geomview 1.4.1: Free 3D viewer for NeXTStep PRESS RELEASE: TeleComm 1.01 shipping! JOB: Trainer (NEXTSTEP System Administration) - Redwood City CA MEETING: Taiwan NeXT User Group Meeting, Dec 29 PRESS RELEASE: SuperDebugger Version 3.7 Release SUBMISSION: Surf - white noise ocean surf simulator PRESS RELEASE: Thoughtful Software Ships HyperSense for Intel Processors PRESS RELEASE: Ciusa announces beta release ofNoteAbilityTM for NeXTSTEPTM JOB: Sarrus Software If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 13 Dec 1993 00:14:27 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2egtnj$e1l@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet Date: 13 Dec 1993 00:31:46 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2eguo2$e4c@digifix.digifix.com> This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information Topics include: comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers comp.sys.next.* newsgroups -------------------------- Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. Comp.Sys.Next.Announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. Comp.Sys.Next.Misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. Comp.Sys.Next.Software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups ------------------ Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. Comp.Lang.Objective-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. Comp.Object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News ------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ------------- cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ------------------------------------- From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by anonymous ftp. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO <your-address> If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: scan@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: OpenStep/NEXTSTEP SCaN meeting: TUESDAY 6:30 p.m. Date: 13 Dec 1993 23:50:13 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ejgm5$ivn@digifix.digifix.com> Come and find out about the deal between Sun Microsystems and NeXT! Southern California NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting SCaN is a users' group for OpenStep and NEXTSTEP users in the Los Angeles & Orange County area. (OpenStep is the new proposed open standard based on NEXTSTEP being promoted by Sun Microsystems and NeXT. NEXTSTEP is the operating environment used on all NeXT Computers and is also available for Pentium and 80486-based computers.) All are welcome to come to the meetings and participate. Tuesday 14 December 1993, 6:30 p.m. California State University, Los Angeles Physical Sciences building, Room 158 (PS-158) There will be a social at 6:30 and meeting at 7:30. The planned events are as follows: - Presentation on the Sun/NeXT OpenStep/NEXTSTEP agreement by Walt Duflock - Demo of Tailor by Dave Fahrney of Alembic Systems - Demonstration of Intel GX hardware running NEXTSTEP with SoftPC with Windows by Tim Finnegan of Workstaton 2000 - Demo of Emerald Image Tool by Mark Thomsen of Gemstone Dues: $2.00 For further information, contact: Mike Mahoney, SCaN President and CSULB Professor (310) 985-1550, e-mail: mahoney@csulb.edu Bob Desharnais, SCaN Vice-President and CSULA Professor (213) 343-2056, e-mail: bob@biol1next.calstatela.edu Walt Duflock, SCaN Program Director e-mail: walt@integrate.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Ships PDO for HP 9000 Servers Date: 13 Dec 1993 23:53:06 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2ejgri$j0l@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 NeXT SHIPS PDOÐPORTABLE DISTRIBUTED OBJECTSÐ FOR HP 9000 SERVERS Customers gain state-of-the-art desktop to data center solution LAS VEGASÐNovember 15, 1993ÐNeXT Computer, Inc. today announced it is shipping PDOÐPortable Distributed ObjectsÐfor Hewlett-Packard Company's HP 9000 servers. PDO is the first product to be released from the companies' recently announced Object · Enterprise relationship. Object · Enterprise combines NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, with the HP 9000 product family, providing a scalable solution for client/server development based on a common object-oriented framework. NeXT also announces that it plans to ship NetInfo for HP-UX in the coming month as the second product from Object · Enterprise. Developed by NeXT and Xedoc, the leading portable NetInfo consulting group, NetInfo for HP-UX is a flexible and extensible database system for distributed system and network administration. PDO is the first industry product to provide a heterogeneous client/server framework based on objects, and does so by extending the same seamless object model and messaging architecture that NEXTSTEP customers already use for local and distributed objects. NeXT's PDO for HP 9000 business servers running HP-UX 9.0 provides a framework for developing and deploying object-oriented applications across the enterprise, delivering state-of-the-art desktop to data center solutions. "NeXT continues to lead the industry in object-oriented solutions by extending its object model and object messaging architecture to server environments with PDO," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT. "We are building the foundation upon which customers can quickly and easily develop sophisticated client/server applications that scale to meet the needs of the enterprise, not just small workgroups. We believe providing a uniform and seamless object model in a networked environment is the key to unlocking the benefits of client/server computing." "PDO is a major step in enabling our customers to develop and deploy object-oriented, client-server applications across the enterprise," said Ruann Ernst, marketing director of HP's Financial Services Industry Group. "Customers, especially in the financial services industry, will benefit from the combination of NeXT's advanced object-oriented framework and HP's expertise in desktop to data center products and worldwide service and support." Customers attest to PDO's productivity for enterprise computing With PDO, The First National Bank of Chicago will be better able to take full advantage of their client/server architecture by off-loading compute intensive processes to the computers best suited for the task. "PDO allows us to run our object-oriented applications on the fastest systems available," said Matt Peron, officer at The First National Bank of Chicago. "Our processing demand is increasing rapidly, particularly in the derivatives area, and PDO will enable us to keep up with the demand." "Swiss Bank Corporation plans to use PDO to run theoretical models for trading, enabling traders with NEXTSTEP client systems to improve their ability to make real-time investment decisions. With PDO, the location of the custom analytic object is independent of the application design and deployment," said Dwight Koop, executive director, Swiss Bank Corporation. According to John Keazirian, executive vice president at NationsBanc-CRT, "PDO brings us the best of both worlds for servers because it allows us to extend the rapid development environment beyond the NEXTSTEP client and lets server machines continue to offer the high range of availability, data integrity, network management tools, process controls and security capabilities that our business requires." Since PDO extends the object-oriented programming paradigm to heterogeneous servers, developers creating applications in this environment enjoy all of the benefits of object-oriented programming, such as fewer lines of code in development, higher reusability of software and greater maintainability and reliability of software systems while tapping the performance, centrality of data, and other features of high powered enterprise servers. Developing products to meet industry standards Currently, NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, runs on industry-standard Intelâ 486- and Pentiumâ-based PCs and delivers support for distributed, object-oriented programming across networks of NEXTSTEP-based computers. With NEXTSTEP's object technology, objects transparently send messages to other objects running within the same application. NEXTSTEP's distributed object technology allows the same transparent messaging to occur between objects resident in different applications, whether the applications are running on the same machine or across the network. This messaging allows greater reusability of objects, by providing a framework for applications to share common objects within a networked environment. PDO provides even greater reusability of software, by allowing these objects to exist in non-NEXTSTEP environments, such as an HP 9000 series 800 server running the HP-UX operating system. Today, PDO provides interoperability between NEXTSTEP clients and server environments. In the future, PDO will allow interoperability between NEXTSTEP and emerging distributed computing standards, such as OMG's CORBA (Common Object Request Broker) and DCE (Distributed Computing Environment). "As part of the NeXT/HP Object · Enterprise initiative to bring object-orientation to enterprise computing, we plan to work together to define a strategy for interoperability at the object level," said Rick Jackson, director of product marketing at NeXT. Pricing and Availability PDO for HP servers as part of the Object·Enterprise suite of solutions is shipping. PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0 has tiered pricing based upon HP's server software pricing model. PDO for Departmental Servers is $2,500, for Branch Servers is $5,000 and for Corporate Servers is $10,000. Product Description Server Type List Price PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0 HP Workstation Server Model 715 or $2,500 Department Servers 725; Series 800 Models F or G Class Server. PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0 HP Workstation Server Model 735 or $5,000 Branch Servers 755; Series 800 Models H or I Class Server. PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0 HP 9000 Corporate Business Servers. $10,000 Corporate Servers About NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. About HP Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Hewlett-Packard Company is the third-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer revenue in excess of $12 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. Hewlett-Packard is an international manufacturer of measurement and computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and support. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP has 94,900 employees and had revenue of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO, Portable Distributed Objects and the PDO logo are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. HP-UX is based on and is compatible with USL's UNIX operating system. It also complies with X/Open's XPG4; POSIX 1003.1, 1003.2, 1003.2a; FIPS 151-1; and SVID2 interface specifications. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories Inc. in the US and other countries. X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Limited in the UK and other countries.
From: Michael McMahon <mcmahon@piglet.ny.shl.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NeXTSTEP Developers - Systemhouse - NY/CT/TX/CO Date: 13 Dec 1993 23:53:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2ejgsf$j0r@digifix.digifix.com> For more information, contact Michael McMahon SHL Systemhouse Inc. 885 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York, U.S.A. 10022-4834 Fax: 212-303-5595 E-Mail: Michael_McMahon@ny.shl.com (NeXTMail Accepted) Systemhouse seeks NEXTSTEP Developers and Database Specialists in NY/CT/TX/CO. Systemhouse, a $800 million Systems Integration firm, is recognized as the industry leader in client/server technology. Systemhouse employs over 4,000 people worldwide and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 100 NeXT machines. We are executing concepts that others are still only talking about - Reusable Object Library - Standard Certification of Objects - Distributed Development Furthermore we have established an Object Technology Group(OTG) for applied Object Oriented methodologies and development techniques. The OTG, is a research and development facility exploring the cutting edge of the relatively new object technology. The charter of the Center is two-fold: to explore and understand all hardware and software related to the object-oriented development industry; and to establish itself as a focal point where companies in diverse verticals markets can join together to leverage OTG's research and experience. We need bright, enthusiastic experienced people!!! The following opportunities exist in the New York Metro Area: - Object Oriented Programmers (Position C401) * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C/SmallTalk) * 2+ years database design and database applications * 5 years UNIX/C application development * 2+ years RDBMS (SYBASE preferred) * 1+ years NEXTSTEP applications development * AppKit, DBKit, NEXTSTEP 3.0, OOD * GUI and Porting experience - Senior Applications Development Engineers (Position C402) * 5-7 years UNIX/C applications development * Financial trading applications * 1+ years NeXT/NEXTSTEP/AppKit/DBKit/Objective C * Sun, SYBASE/C++ a plus - Software Engineers (Position C403) * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NEXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT * Strong Objective C or C++ * 3 to 5 years experience - Database Specialists (Position C404) * 3+ years database design and database applications development (ORACLE/SYBASE preferred) * 3 years UNIX/C application development * 3 years RDBMS experience using an SQL-based RDBMS * 1+ year NEXTSTEP applications a plus * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, Objective C a plus For more information about these exciting opportunities, send your resume to: Michael McMahon SHL Systemhouse Inc. 885 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York, U.S.A. 10022-4834 Fax: 212-303-5595 E-Mail: Michael_McMahon@ny.shl.com (NeXTMail Accepted) Please correspond with the proper position number. Systemhouse will respond to qualified candidates.
From: mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: MEETING: DaNG User Group Announcement Date: 15 Dec 1993 02:04:31 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2emctv$q7d@digifix.digifix.com> Dallas area NeXT Group (DaNG) Meeting Announcement ! Ladies and Gentlemen... Children of all ages... The Dallas area NeXT Group (DaNG) is pleased to announce that the December meeting will be held at the Temerlin-McClain building, this coming Thursday (December 16) at 6:30pm. The topic for this month's meeting will be NeXTStep on Laptops, presented by Mr. Bruce Walters. Mr. Walters is the System Manager for BJKE, Inc.. In his job he has evaluated several Portable PC's, and is an excellent judge of thier relative abilities to run NeXTStep. In addition to the main presentation, general software use and development issues will be discussed. And, with the recent announcement of the NeXTStep port for Sun, the rumor mill will be going crazy. Don't miss your oppurtunity to start all sorts of rumors! We would like to extend a special invitation to anyone who has not been to a DaNG meeting to attend. Whether your intrest lies in PC software, UNIX, or Software Development, all are welcome to attend. The meeting will be held in the 2nd floor Theatre of the Temerlin-McClain building (the usual place). Doors open at 6:30pm (the usual time). The Temerlin-McClain building is located at the corner of O'Conner Blvd. and SH 114 in Los Colinas. Coming from downtown Dallas, the quickest route is North on I35, follow the 183 exit West, follow the 114 exit NorthWest. From North Dallas, take I35 south to Loop12, continue SouthWest on Loop 12 until you find 114. Turn NorthWest on 114. From Ft. Worth, head East on 183, turn North on the O'Conner exit. Unfortunatly, I have no idea how to get here from Denton. The best place to park is in the covered parking garage behind the TM building. The entrance is on the NorthEast corner of the building (it's not well marked). Parking is free after 6pm, so don't worry when you have to take a ticket to get in. Enter the glass double doors, come down the stairs, and tell the security gaurd you're looking for the DaNG meeting. He should be able to direct you back to the theatre. For further directions or information, please contact me at the following phone numbers.... (W) (214)-830-2357 (H) (214)-319-6726
From: amir@avalon.unizh.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SoundBlaster Driver for NS/I Date: 16 Dec 1993 13:50:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2eqako$330@digifix.digifix.com> Now available for FTP at cs.orst.edu under /pub/next/submissions/SoundBlaster8_V1.00 is "SoundBlaster8.config" - A Sound Blaster driver for classic 8bit ISA Sound Blaster cards. * Supports classic 8 bit ISA SoundBlaster * Configurable for IRQ's 3, 5, and 7 * Only DMA channel 1 * Only Port 0x220 * Only NS FIP * Plays 4-23kHz * Records 4-12kHz * Supports only NX_SoundStreamDataEncoding_Linear8 sound encoding, so you will have to convert Linear16 or Mulaw8 files to Linear8 format, using the system build it snd* untilities. It is available in Intel binary ONLY as it makes use of the DriverKit. Tested only on 3.2.
From: ciusa@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Ciusa and Abstract Software announce agreement Date: 17 Dec 1993 11:50:39 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2eso0v$a6k@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gerard Schwarz Sean T. Lamont 612/822-1604 Abstract Software ciusa@cup.portal.com P.O. Box 25045 Seattle, WA 98125-1945 206/361-5080 lamont@abstractsoft.com Ciusa and Abstract Software announce agreement to include Composer font free with the purchase of NoteAbilityTM for NeXTSTEPTM MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, December 17, 1993 -- Ciusa, a leader in creative software for NEXTSTEP computers, today announced that it will include a free copy of the music font, Composer, published by Abstract Software, with each copy of NoteAbility sold. NoteAbility lets NEXTSTEP users get the kind of power found in music notation applications on other platforms, but will get all the ease of use that NEXTSTEP provides. Composer is a music font that NoteAbility uses to display and print music notation. "We are very pleased to have the NoteAbility and the Composer font bundle. It lets users who purchase NoteAbility a chance to start entering and playing their scores right out of the box." "The Composer font was designed by the same people who designed all of the fonts in our current WSI-Fonts collection, recently rated 3 cubes by NeXTWORLD magazine (June/July 1993). The Composer font is a fully scalable Type 1 font and is 99% compatible with Adobe's Sonata font," according to Sean T. Lamont, CEO of Abstract Software. NoteAbility lets users create professional quality music scores inputting notes via mouse with on-screen keyboard, mouse input, and step-time and real-time entry from a MIDI keyboard or input, and step-time and real-time entry from a MIDI keyboard or device. NoteAbility accepts NeXT MIDI and score files as well as NoteWriter files, an Apple Macintosh-based music notation application. Users can add slurs, move notes, transpose notes, change key signatures, time signatures, and add text anywhere on the screen. NoteAbility was created by Keith Hamel, author of the powerful NoteWriter for Macintosh computers. NoteAbility goes far beyond NoteWriter and many current music notation applications mainly because of the NEXTSTEP operating system. NoteAbility brings new flexibility and power to personal computer music notation. For a limited time every purchaser of NoteAbility will receive the Composer font free. Currently NoteAbility is only available in Motorola-based 68040 machines. The product will ship in January of 1994 in multi-architecture binary (MAB) format, allowing NoteAbility to run on NEXTSTEP for Motorola-based proprietary machines as well as Intel-based 486 and Pentium computers. Ciusa, also known as Creative Imagineering America, is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is a privately held company that develops personal creativity and personal productivity software for NEXTSTEP-based computer systems. Abstract Software, located in Seattle, Washington, develops application software and is the publisher of WSI-Fonts, a collection of professional quality fonts for the NEXTSTEP platform. Trademarks: Ciusa, Creative Imagineering America, the Ciusa logo, and NoteAbility are trademarks of Ciusa. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Apple and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Postscript and Display Postscript and Sonata font are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. Motorola is a trademark of Motorola Corporation. Composer font is a trademark of Weatherly Systems, Inc. 612/822-1604 ciusa@cup.portal.com
From: bbum@friday.com (Bill Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WhiteLight Systems announces release of Mission Critical Solitaire 1.0 Date: 17 Dec 1993 15:11:56 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2et3qc$b3m@digifix.digifix.com> WhiteLight Systems announces release of Mission Critical Solitaire 1.0 New era of popularity dawns for NEXTSTEP PALO ALTO, CA, December 10, 1993 --- WhiteLight Systems, Inc. today announced the release of Mission Critical Solitaire1.0, a long-awaited application in the NEXTSTEP community. The object-oriented design of the card game yields smooth play and an elegant look-and-feel. "NeXT is focusing on mission-critical custom apps. There are a number of excellent productivity apps out there. If NEXTSTEP is going to achieve broad popularity, what it really needs is a superb game of solitaire. This is the compelling advantage that NEXTSTEP has been waiting for," says Pat "Five Aces" Rowland, a spokesperson for the company and former professional card player. "Just look at Windows 3.1. We are hard-pressed to find a better explanation for the success of Windows 3.1 than the free copy of solitaire that is bundled with the Microsoft operating system." Until today, sophisticated corporate sites had a rationale for sticking with Windows. With the release of Mission Critical Solitaire, NEXTSTEP now does everything better than the Microsoft product. "Most people don't know that solitaire is the app most used on Windows. We kid ourselves about releasing an anti-productivity app, but government studies prove that widespread adoption of Mission Critical Solitaire would save in excess of $342.8 million per year in time lost due to slow and frustrating play of the Microsoft product," continued Mr. Rowland. "If you don't have time for a full-day NeXT seminar, five minutes with Mission Critical Solitaire will persuade you that you can't live without NEXTSTEP," concluded Mr. Rowland. Mission Critical Solitaire runs on version 3.x of NeXT, Inc.'s NEXTSTEP operating environment for Intel and Motorola processors. It is available from WhiteLight Systems at the above address. Single copy pricing is $35 prepaid, plus $12 shipping & handling and sales tax where applicable. There is no shipping & handling charge for orders sent by e-mail. In line with NeXT's ObjectWare strategy, Mission Critical Solitaire is also available in object library form for integration into currency trading, customer service, office automation, and other mission-critical custom applications. WhiteLight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, contact Marina Dellaporta at Whitelight Systems, Inc., 350 Cambridge Ave., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA, Email: info@whitelight.com, Tel: (415) 321-2183 Copyright 1993 WhiteLight Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The WhiteLight logo and Mission Critical Solitaire are trademarks of WhiteLight Systems, Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP and ObjectWare are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. Windows 3.1 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
From: bbum@friday.com (Bill Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: WhiteLight Systems announces release of CrashCatcher 1.0 Date: 17 Dec 1993 15:16:04 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2et424$b5f@digifix.digifix.com> WhiteLight Systems announces release of CrashCatcher 1.0 Debugging utility e-mails comprehensive report when production software crashes in the end-user's hands. Introductory offer is valid through January 15, 1993. PALO ALTO, CA, December 10, 1993 --- WhiteLight Systems, Inc. today announced the release of CrashCatcher 1.0, a non-intrusive runtime utility for Objective-C debugging. CrashCatcher not only generates comprehensive reports on crashes and non-fatal exceptions for software under development. It continues to watch for errors in beta-test and production software. When an error occurs, CrashCatcher automatically sends a comprehensive report to the user's console or to an e-mail address specified by the system administrator. Developers using CrashCatcher save most of the time and aggravation they now incur diagnosing crashes and other error conditions, such as Objective-C runtime errors, memory access exceptions, messages sent to freed objects, uncaught NXExceptions, bus errors, segmentation violations, floating point exceptions, IOT signals, EMT signals, trace trap signals, and bad arguments to system calls. CrashCatcher provides debugging information that is impractical to obtain with gdb. It also generates information that is simply not available, for example because of the lost frame bug in gdb. CrashCatcher is especially valuable in debugging errors in software that is in the hands of end-users. End-users often cannot reproduce or describe the specific events leading up to the error, or they cannot send the developer the problematic data because of its confidentiality. Because of these reasons, end-users currently report only a small fraction of the software errors they experience, a serious problem for developers committed to shipping high-quality products. CrashCatcher helps developers create a closed loop quality cycle with their end-users. CrashCatcher accelerates software development by reducing the time required to diagnose crashes and exception conditions. It also saves time by reducing the number of problems caused by a specific bug before it is diagnosed. In addition, it makes development more predictable by reducing the variability introduced by bug-fixing. It makes alpha and beta testing faster and more productive. Further, marketing programs and deployment can be committed in advance with more confidence. "Bug-fixing is the most troublesome part of software development. Beta-testing can be an exercise in frustration. Users often give up trying to communicate the errors they find to the developers. CrashCatcher closes the quality loop between developers and end-users," said Norman Goldfarb, WhiteLight Systems CEO. Based on industry statistics, the typical full-time Objective C developer experiences one crash per ten lines of finished code, at the rate of six to ten crashes per day. CrashCatcher users save, on average, at least one hour per day. At a cost per developer of $75,000 per year ($42 per hour), including overhead charges, CrashCatcher pays for itself in under a month. This analysis makes the worst-case assumption that better crash reports do not help reduce the number of crashes. It also does not value the advantages of bringing higher quality products to market faster and more reliably. CrashCatcher runs on version 3.x of NeXT, Inc.'s NEXTSTEP operating environment for Intel and Motorola processors. It is available in object code only. CrashCatcher is available through January 15, 1994 for an introductory price of $749 per developer seat. Licenses purchased during the introductory period receive accelerated volume discounts and incur no run-time fees. Pricing is also reduced for academic faculty, students and certain software companies without a shipping product. CrashCatcher comes with a 30-day money back guarantee. An optional support and maintenance program provides free upgrades, extensions to future NeXT platforms, and hot-line support, for a fee of 15% per year. The CrashCatcher Evaluation Kit is available from WhiteLight Systems at the above address. It includes a demonstration application (full of insidious bugs), a fully-functional library set to expire January 15, 1994, and full documentation. The Evaluation Kit is available through e-mail at no charge or by mail for $19.95 prepaid. WhiteLight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, contact Marina Dellaporta at Whitelight Systems, Inc., 350 Cambridge Ave., Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA, Email: info@whitelight.com, Tel: (415) 321-2183 Copyright 1993 WhiteLight Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The WhiteLight logo and CrashCatcher are trademarks of WhiteLight Systems, Inc. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc.
From: Darren_Smith@NeXT.COM (Darren Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Introducing Darren Smith Date: 17 Dec 1993 23:52:09 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2eu29p$cod@digifix.digifix.com> Hello! I want to take this opportunity to officially introduce myself. I am Darren Smith, Communications Specialist at NeXT. As some of you may already know, I will be taking over many of Conrad Geiger's responsibilities. I've been working at NeXT in Redwood City, Calif., for about a year and a half in the technical support department. My primary responsibility has been supporting customers with system administration issues on both the Motorola and Intel platform as well as additional projects. I am currently transitioning to the Communications Specialist job and will be officially in my new job as of January 1. I will focus on 3 primary areas: User Groups, net posting and communications to NeXT's direct sales force. One of my first priorities after the New Year is make sure that you are getting the type of information that you want from NeXT. I will be working on this over the next month or two. If you receive a message from me to your alias, please respond with your direct email address so that I can add you to the appropriate list. If you get more than one copy of a posting (and don't want more than one!), please email me back directly, and specify from which of the aliases you received the posting. Don't worry if you don't hear from me with this "administrative" communication, all it means is that I already have your direct address. You will continue to receive the postings as you do now. Feel free to contact me at Darren_Smith@NeXT.com (or dhsmith@next.com) or by phone at (415) 780-2754. I'm really looking forward to this new position, and I will make sure to keep the information flowing from NeXT! Happy Holidays! Darren Smith Communications Specialist Marketing Communications NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: Yves Arrouye <arrouye@petole.imag.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Virtual 1.95 Demo --- Virtual Screen Management, Demo Version Date: 18 Dec 1993 23:29:30 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f0lba$h6j@digifix.digifix.com> Virtual 1.95 Demonstration Version for NEXTSTEP Release 3 --------------------------------------------------------- Virtual is a virtual screen management package composed of VirtScreen, an extremly powerful virtual screen manager, and VirtStart, a utility to be used with VirtScreen. A companion package is VirtualIntro, containing english and french introduction files to the Virtual package. VirtualIntro Introduction Files for Virtual 1.95 ------------------------------------------------ This package contains introduction files about the Virtual virtual screen management package. The files are available in english and in french. VirtScreen 1.95 Demonstration Version for NEXTSTEP Release 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ VirtScreen is an extremely powerful virtual screen manager, with a lot of interesting unique features. Some features are: - User control of the size and scale of the virtual screen. - Applications names in the windows, with user-settable font. - Different defaults colors for different windows kinds. + Custom colors for the windows (with transparency enabled). - Sticky windows. + Protected windows. - True view of the windows. + Automatic scrolling of the virtual screen in eight directions. + User-settable grid, letting the user move on grid boundaries. + Panner letting the user move in various ways. + Easily movable virtual screen. - Real-time moves. + Automatic screen-switching when double-clicking an application tile. + Resources letting you specify where an application should be launched, if its windows must be stuck, what the windows color will be, and more; these resources are maintained at the VirtScreen level, the host level and the user level for ease of sharing. + Inheritance of windows properties (defaults, then per-application, per-context and per-window). + Touched windows that do not inherit anymore. + Fine control over what is displayed in the VirtScreen window. + Comprehensive set of preferences for the expert user, defaulting to intuitive values for the novice user. + And a lot more... The demonstration version is a full-featured version of VirtScreen; however, it is running only for a limited time and it does not read nor save resources or user preferences. The author releases only this demonstration version because he is looking for a firm that will be interested in a commercial distribution of the application. Please contact him if you are interested. The demonstration version is running on both Motorola and Intel processors, and has a comprehensive english on-line hypertext help. Feel free to copy and distribute this demonstration version. Get the VirtStart companion utility for VirtScreen, too. VirtStart 1.80 for NEXTSTEP Release 3 ------------------------------------- VirtStart is a utility intended to be used with VirtScreen. It can be run as a login hook in order to help VirtScreen know all applications names when it is run, and not only after it has been started. The application is running on both Motorola and Intel processors, and has a comprehensive english and french on-line hypertext help. Available files --------------- The following files for Virtual are available for downloading by anonymous FTP: VirtualDemo.README This file. (The other *.README files document the * packages.) VirtualIntro.pkg.compressed.README VirtualIntro.pkg.compressed English and french introduction files to the Virtual package. VirtScreenDemo.pkg.compressed.README VirtScreenDemo.pkg.compressed Motorola and Intel demo version of VirtScreen for NEXTSTEP 3.x. VirtStart.pkg.compressed.README VirtStart.pkg.compressed Motorola and Intel version of VirtStart for NEXTSTEP 3.x. The archive directories to which these files were submitted are: cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/ sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions/ Yves Arrouye (Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr --- NeXT Mail)
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: R&A Ships SysVIPC V3 Date: 20 Dec 1993 00:05:07 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f3bq3$nql@digifix.digifix.com> R&A SHIPS SysVIPC V3: SHARED MEMORY & SEMPAHORE EMULATION FOR NEXTSTEP Den Haag, 17-Dec-1993 R&A announces the shipping of the second release of SysVIPC: version 3. This version maximises the emulation completeness of the implementation within the constraints of security and speed. System V style IPC is used widely on SunOS, Ultrix and most System V Unix implementations for interprocess synchronisation and is not part of the NEXTSTEP developer libraries. Product description: SysVIPC offers NEXTSTEP programmers the possibility to use Unix System V style shared memory and semaphores in their code, thus enhancing portability on one side and easier porting of existing applications that use the Unix System V shared memory and semaphore API. Operating systems that include that API are (besides System V Unix implementations) for instance Digital Corporation's Ultrix 4.x and Sun Microsystem's SunOS 4.x BSD-style Unix implementations. R&A, for instance, used SysVIPC internally for the shared memory and semaphores when porting the University Postgres RDBMS (which is available as a separate product). The implementation does not need any change on the systems where programs created with SysVIPC are executed. Just installing on the developer system is enough. The following library calls are supported: semctl, semget, semop, shmctl, shmget, shmat, shmdt, ftok The following programs are included: ipcs, ipcrm The software license allows copies of the executables of icps and icprm to be shipped with your product. The implementation is as good as 100% complete (sometimes even more than complete). There are a few minor incompatibilities and some extra compatibilities beyond the API on the implementation level. These differences are (implementation level compatibilities are marked with '+', incompatibilities are marked with '1' and remarks are marked with 'o'): + Shmids and semids are system-wide unique -- as most System V-like implementations, including those of Ultrix and SunOS. This means that you can create, for instance, a semaphore set with semget() in one process, scribble the semid obtained by that down, and use it directly in another process to access that same semaphore set. This is important especially when porting programs that use this feature of the common implementations (which appear to be many). For a strict implementation of the API this is not necessary. Code from systems like SCO Unix (where the ids are on a per process basis) is not affected by the added functionality of system-wide id uniqueness. 1 You cannot give away a semaphore- or shared-memory id to another user unless you are the super user. A semid or shmid is owned by a single user at a time, just like a file. (on System V it can be owned by the creator and another user.) Not being able to give away has to do with the general possibility on System V to give away things to other users. On System V, for instance, you can give away files. This behaviour is neither part of Mach nor of BSD. Our implementation is not loaded in the kernel, but runs in user space. Therefore, we had to choose between API compatibility and security. We chose to implement the latter, since in most situation this behaviour is not used anyway. Semaphores: 1 all semop() and semctl() operations require READ + WRITE access to the semid, even those that according to the documentation only need READ access. This incompatibility is automatically lifted by our implementation for semaphores that are from the same owner. This incompatibility also has to do with our choice for security vs. completeness. In almost all cases developers will not be affected, since mostly semaphore operations are from one and the same user. Shared memory: + a single shmid can be attached multiple times by the same program (to different addresses) -- this is the behaviour of most System V implementations, including those of Ultrix and SunOS, but it is usually not clearly documented. Another beyond-the-API compatibility that is useful for porting existing code. o all shmids require at least READ access in order to be useful P this is also true of System V shmids, but again, is usually not clearly pointed out. 1 shmat() and shmdt() cannot update the shmid_ds control structure if the shmid is read-only. Another security vs. API conflict for a user-space implementation. 1 the emulation is not aware of processes that do not explicitly detach their shared memory segments before exiting. In short, the `shm_nattch' count may not reflect the actual number of segments attached. This would need some sort of server process, or a kernel implementation. Since we use a user-space implementation, we had to leave out the server for improved speed (and ease of use on the client side). o the shmctl() commands SHM_LOCK and SHM_UNLOCK are currently not implemented -- these are used in other implementations to lock/unlock the shared memory segment in physical memory, i.e., to avoid swapping (for performance?) The API defined behaviour is not affected by ignoring these. They are also impossible to implement in a user-space implementation. Also speed is not really affected by leaving these out. NB: We advise strongly against using the "beyond the API" parts of System V shared memory and semaphores when developing new code. The availablity of this behaviour is not guaranteed on other systems (e.g. SCO Unix), thus diminishing the portability of your code. You might wonder why we did not choose for a kernel-space implementation. Kernel loadable would have to be loaded on every machine that you run your software on. This implies heavy system administration and a big burden for anybody who wants to sell products that use our implementation. The user-space implementation does not have that disadvantage and is also inherently more safe to use. Any error in our implementation (of which we are not aware that there exists one) will not bring down the kernel, but me rely a user process. Price and ordering information 1st CPU binary license $99 2nd-5th CPU binary license $69/CPU 6th-50th CPU binary license $49/CPU 51th-100th CPU binary license $29/CPU all others $19/CPU Source licenses cost 10 times a binary license. There is no runtime fee (so in general, just a few licenses are enough for any organisation, just on the developer side, and source licenses are for sites who require source control over all parts of their product). Prices are without shipping, handling and VAT (Dutch VAT is 17.5%). Customers within the European Community (and outside The Netherlands) that send us their VAT registration number are not charged with VAT. Examples: a customer the UK pays for a 3 CPU license an amount of $99 + 2*$69 = $157. Another customer in the US pays for 1 CPU source license $990 + 17.5% VAT = $1164. Shipping and handling: The Netherlands: $10 Europe: $20 Rest of the world: $25 We offer progressive educational discounts (the larger the order, the bigger the discount). Special combinations of binary and source licenses are also available. Contact us for more information. Prices as of 17/12/93 (may change without notice). How to order Customers in the Netherlands may send a written order. A bill will be enclosed with the shipment. All other customers have to pre pay. No credit cards accepted. The best way to pay is to go to a bank that has access to SWIFT. Customer pays money transfer cost (which should normally lie around $8). Bank to send money to: ABM-AMRO Bank Kneuterdijk 8 The Hague The Netherlands Account: 40.16.84.016 R&A Information: what you purchase and where to send it. In general: give as much info as you can. Packaging SysVIPC comes in an installer package for NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher on a 3.5" HD floppy disk. The package includes full documentation in the form of Unix man pages, as well as the ipcs and ipcrm programs. Both library and programs are in MAB format for both i486 and m68k architectures. The source license comes with full sources for library, man pages and programs added to the mentioned binary installer package. Contact R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands Fax/answering: +31 70 3230851 Email: info@rna.indiv.nluug.nl We prefer e-mail. NeXTmail welcome. R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix, NEXTSTEP and portability. Our fax/answering service is only online from 9:00 CET-DST until 22:00 CET-DST due to reconstruction activities. This equals 3:00 EST-DST until 16:00 EST-DST and 0:00 PST-DST until 13:00 PST-DST. Acknowledgements Ultrix is a trademark of Digital, SunOS is a trademark of Sun, SCO is a trademark of the Santa Cruz Operation, Unix is a trademark of USL, NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NEXT. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. (A nicely formatted RTF version of this announcement is available. Please contact us for more information).
From: <gregd@camtwh.eric.on.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP Position available Date: 20 Dec 1993 00:05:38 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f3br2$nqr@digifix.digifix.com> Visible Genetics is a small rapidly growing company with offices in Toronto and Mississauga, Canada. Visible Genetics specializes in developing innovative new software for the biotech industry. Our clients include several multinational pharmaceutical companies. Our business is growing and we have immediate opportunities for high caliber software developers. We need bright, enthusiastic experienced people!!! Candidates should have some of the following experience: -UNIX/C applications software development -Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C) -NEXTSTEP, Appkit, Interface Builder -X/Motif -TCP/IP networking -image processing/signal processing/graphics/databases Candidates should also have either a computer science, engineering, or related degree. Members of the Visible Genetics team work with some of the most exciting technology available in a relaxed progressive environment. We provide competitive salaries and an excellent stock option plan. To apply send your resume to: Greg Dee Visible Genetics E.R.I.C 399 Bathurst St. Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8 Canada email - gregd@camtwh.eric.on.ca fax - (416) 369-5126
From: bbum@friday.com (Bill Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Mission Critical Solitaire demo Date: 20 Dec 1993 00:17:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f3cgc$nss@digifix.digifix.com> Mission Critical Solitaire demo submitted to ftp sites Mission Critical Solitaire (MCSolitaire) is now available at several NeXT oriented ftp sites. It is available as either a multi-architecture binary or 3.0-compatible binary. The tar file containing the multi-architecture binary is named "MCSolitaire_MAB-DEMO.pkg.tar". The tar file containing the 3.0-compatible package is named "MCSolitaire_MAB-THIN.pkg.tar". Below is a list of ftp sites with the path to the directory that contains the packages. Note that these paths will change as the files in the sub missions directories are processed. cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/ nova.cc.purdue.edu /pub/next/submissions/ ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de /pub/NeXT/incoming/
From: Darren_Smith@NeXT.COM (Darren Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP 3.2 Upgrade Issues Date: 20 Dec 1993 23:16:37 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f5tb5$sic@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NeXT Computer is fully aware of the issues surrounding the registration and shipment processing of the 3.2 Free Upgrade. We are currently addressing the issues with our fulfillment house. In the meantime, if you'd like to check the status of your Free 3.2 Upgrade, send an email message to: upgradestatus@next.com Please include the following information: -name -address -phone number -serial numbers of your 3.1 product (User & Developer)* and we will get back to you asap. Claude Kramer Director of Operations NeXT Computer, Inc. * The serial number is located underneath the CD on the inside back cover of the CD ROM case.
From: Yves Arrouye <arrouye@petole.imag.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: UNSUBMISSION: VirtScreen 1.95 Demo. DELETE YOUR COPIES Date: 20 Dec 1993 23:17:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f5tbs$sii@digifix.digifix.com> Dear folks, It appears that distributing the VirtScreen demonstration package that I posted on 12/18/93 would be in violation of both trademark infringement and copyright violation laws with VirtSpace (trademark of Pinnacle Research, Inc. and/or Cheapskate Software). Before doing more harm to the VirtSpace authors and the VirtSpace trademark/copyright owners, I have removed my submission from the cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu NeXT archives. IF YOU HAVE A COPY OF ONE OF THE SUBMITTED FILES, PLEASE DO NOT USE IT, AND DELETE IT. IF YOU UPLOADED IT SOMEWHERE, PLEASE DELETE IT TOO. THIS IS EXTREMLY IMPORTANT. I am sorry that I made such a mistake. I apologize. Yves Arrouye (Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr --- NeXT Mail)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 51 - 1993 Date: 21 Dec 1993 00:12:59 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2f60kr$sps@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 51). Monday December 13 through Tuesday December 21 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 50 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet MEETING: OpenStep/NEXTSTEP SCaN meeting: TUESDAY 6:30 p.m. NeXT Ships PDO for HP 9000 Servers JOB: NeXTSTEP Developers - Systemhouse - NY/CT/TX/CO SUBMISSION: C/Objective-C to RTF converter MEETING: DaNG User Group Announcement SUBMISSION: SoundBlaster Driver for NS/I PRESS RELEASE: Ciusa and Abstract Software announce agreement PRESS RELEASE: WhiteLight Systems announces release of Mission Critical Solitaire 1.0 PRESS RELEASE: WhiteLight Systems announces release of CrashCatcher 1.0 Introducing Darren Smith SUBMISSION: Virtual 1.95 Demo --- Virtual Screen Management, Demo Version PRESS RELEASE: R&A Ships SysVIPC V3 JOB: NEXTSTEP Position available SUBMISSION: Mission Critical Solitaire demo NEXTSTEP 3.2 Upgrade Issues UNSUBMISSION: VirtScreen 1.95 Demo. DELETE YOUR COPIES If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 21 Dec 1993 00:13:28 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2f60lo$sq2@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet Date: 21 Dec 1993 00:14:36 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2f60ns$sq8@digifix.digifix.com> * new additions Two new FTP sites on the other side of the planet. This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information Topics include: comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers comp.sys.next.* newsgroups -------------------------- Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. Comp.Sys.Next.Announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. Comp.Sys.Next.Misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. Comp.Sys.Next.Software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups ------------------ Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. Comp.Lang.Objective-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. Comp.Object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News ------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ------------- cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ------------------------------------- From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by anonymous ftp. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. 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To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO <your-address> If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: Todd Steigerwald <todd@alembic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Demo of DOTS (non postscript printing from NeXT) available Date: 21 Dec 1993 23:40:48 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f8j4g$48f@digifix.digifix.com> A demonstration version of Dots 3.4.2 is now available at the following ftp sites: Archive Server Name Pathname ------------------- -------- cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/Dots_3.4.2_MAB.tar sonata.cc.purdue.edu /pub/next/submissions/Dots_3.4.2_MAB.tar Dots 3.4.2 is a generic printer driver which allows you to connect various non-PostScript printers to your NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher (Motorola and Intel) computer. Dots supports ink-jet printers, non-PostScript laser printers, Canon CLC color laser copiers and dye diffusion thermal transfer printers like the Seiko PhotoMaker and Shinko CHC-S445. Printers that are connected with Dots 3.4.2 are available throughout the network. Dots 3.4.2 currently supports the following printers: * Ink-jet printers: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet Plus Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500C Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 550C Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 1200C Hewlett-Packard PaintJet XL Hewlett-Packard PaintJet XL300 Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 600 Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 650 * Laser printers: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II Hewlett-Packard LaserJet III Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IV * Dye sublimation printers: Seiko PhotoMaker Mitsubishi Shinko * Copiers: Canon CLC10 (CJ-10) Canon CLC300 Canon CLC500 Other printers may work as well, provided they are compatible to at least one printer from the above list. For more information, contact: Alembic Systems International, LTD. 14 Inverness Drive Suite G-228 Englewood, CO 80112 303.799.6223 phone 303.799.1435 fax info@alembic.com
From: abc@object.com (Alex Cone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Objective Technologies Ships OTStringKit for all NEXTSTEP platforms Date: 21 Dec 1993 23:41:35 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f8j5v$48l@digifix.digifix.com> Contact: Matt Jacobus, Product Manager Objective Technologies, Inc. Phone: (800) 3.OBJECT (326-5328) Outside New York area (212) 227-6767 International & New York area Fax: (212) 227-3567 Email: info@object.com U.S. mail: Objective Technologies, Inc. Attn: ObjectWare-OTStringKit 7 Dey St., Suite 1502 NY, NY 10007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Objective Technologies Ships OTStringKit for all NEXTSTEP platforms NEW YORK, December 22, 1993 -- Objective Technologies, Inc., the first commercial vendor of integrated object software for NEXTSTEP, announced today that it has begun shipping OTStringKit which is designed to assist software developers in manipulating strings. This is the tenth product released by Objective Technologies and its fifth development tool. "We believe that OTStringKit will give NEXTSTEP users the ability to quickly develop commercial-quality applications while significantly reducing the potential for errors," said Alex Cone, President of Objective Technologies. "This product is part of our continuing commitment to helping the NEXTSTEP community develop high-quality custom applications in dramatically reduced timeframes.," Cone said. The OTStringKit is a set of Objective-C classes, protocols and categories, C macros and constants which encapsulate a wide variety of character string related functions. This software allows programmers to manipulate strings, paths, regular expressions and data as objects, while significantly reducing memory allocation errors. The kit's categories for NeXT's AppKit objects allow interaction based on string objects instead of character buffers and eliminate the possibility of memory overruns. Objects in OTStringKit include: OTString class The OTString class provides an object oriented encapsulation of C (NULL terminated) strings. OTStrings support all of the basic C string operations (strcpy, strcmp, rindex, sprintf, scanf, etc..) in an object oriented manner. The OTString class also implements fully transparent memory management of C strings. OTRegex class The OTRegex class encapsulates the regular expression engine provided by the functions described in the Regex(3) man page. By providing an object oriented encapsulation, it is extremely easy to use regular expressions in conjunction with other OTStringKit classes to greatly simplify the coding involved in parsing relatively complex pieces of data. OTPath class Instances of the OTPath class are used to encapsulate a path to a file or directory. Among other path related operations, the OTPath class provides object oriented versions of the functionality provided by the C-shell "test" and path (:d:t:r:h) operators. OTDataString class The OTDataString class is designed to encapsulate instances of various different types of data. The OTDataString class supports simple data types such as strings, integers, booleans, floats, doubles and objects. It can also store, retrieve and manipulate times and dates in several different forms. OTParseString class The OTParseString class can be used for many simple parsing needs. OTParseString is designed to take a buffer of text and break it into a list of substrings (instances of OTString or any other class that responds to the OTStrings protocol) with the separator between substrings being either a single character or a regular expression. NeXT AppKit Extensions Included with the OTStringKit is a category to Object that acts as a temporary instance server. This server provides a more efficient method of obtaining scratch or short-term usage objects than alloc/init and free. As an added benefit, since all temporary instances are allocated from the same common zone in memory, the developer does not have to worry about short-term objects causing memory fragmentation. The OTStringKit also provides several convenient string object categories for NeXT's Text, NXBrowser and NXBundle objects. PRICING AND AVAILABILITY OTStringKit is available now from OTI directly or through resellers. The price is $649 for a single developer license. Educational customers receive a 50% discount, and site licenses are available. Objective Technologies, Inc., founded in 1990, is one of the leading suppliers of software for the NEXTSTEP platform. In addition to OTStringKit, OTI produces Impress, the DBKit report-writer, and OTPalettes, a collection of custom object palettes which include the award-winning SmartFieldPalette. Objective Technologies, Inc. markets its products worldwide through distributors and directly to end users. The privately held company is headquartered in New York. All prices and terms are for the U.S. Impress, OTStringKit and SmartFieldPalette are all trademarks of Objective Technologies, Inc. AppKit and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Objective-C is a trademark of Stepstone Corporation.
From: Dick Silbar <silbar@cantina.lanl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Updated, FAT version of Monitor.app Date: 22 Dec 1993 00:27:12 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2f8lrg$4fj@digifix.digifix.com> Back in 1989 Roy Mongiovi of Georgia Tech submitted a NeXTstep V1.0 application named "Monitor" to the NEXTSTEP archives. This program takes the place of the Sun's perfmon and perfmeter for the NeXT. It can display up to 30 different statistics and combinations of statistics in a window, plus one time-varying statistic in the icon in the dock. I have found this App to be very useful and, fortunately, it was always possible to run it for each new version of Motorola hardware. (I don't recall even having to recompile it, but that might be wrong.) Recently, however, I've switched over to Intel-based NEXTSTEP hardware and was wondering if I'd have to forgo the pleasure of a Monitor in my dock. Not so; Roy thoughtfully provided source code in his submission. I have updated Monitor and re-compiled it "FAT", i.e., for both Motorola and Intel architectures under NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher. With Roy's permission, I have submitted this version to the NEXTSTEP ftp archives, cs.orst.edu: /pub/next/submissions/Monitor_FAT.compressed (should eventually migrate to /pub/next/source/util) sonata.cc.purdue.edu: /pub/next/submissions/Monitor_FAT.compressed (should eventually migrate to /pub/next/3.0/src) Monitor, even though FAT, is almost three times smaller than KPerfMon, which is also available on sonata. Dick Silbar WhistleSoft, Inc. silbar@cantina.lanl.gov (505) 662-7309
From: amir@avalon.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: SoundBlaster Driver V1.04 for NS/I Date: 22 Dec 1993 23:53:28 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2fb888$9jg@digifix.digifix.com> Now available for FTP at cs.orst.edu under /pub/next/submissions/SoundBlaster8_V1.04.tar.gz It soon moves to /pub/next/binaries/drivers/SoundBlaster8_V1.04.tar.gz - A Sound Blaster driver for classic 8bit ISA Sound Blaster cards. New: Including a driver inspector for Configure.app and his source. * Supports classic 8 bit ISA SoundBlaster !! * Has a driver inspector to register & to set the debug flag !! * Included the driver inspector sources for free use by other developers * Configurable for IRQ's 3, 5, and 7 * Only DMA channel 1 * Only Port 0x220 * Only NS FIP 3.2 * Plays 4-23kHz * Records 4-12kHz * Supports only NX_SoundStreamDataEncoding_Linear8 sound encoding, so you will have to convert Linear16 or Mulaw8 files to Linear8 format, using the system built in snd* untilities. It is available in Intel binary ONLY as it makes use of the DriverKit. So it runs only on NS FIP 3.2. Contact me at : amir@avalon.unizh.ch or postal : Amir Guindehi, Am Guggenberg 4, 8053 Zuerich, Switzerland
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: R&A VAT Correction Date: 22 Dec 1993 23:54:05 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2fb89d$9jm@digifix.digifix.com> CORRECTION: PRICING/VAT INFORMATION FOR PRODUCTS FROM R&A (SysVIPC/Postgres) L.S. We have to apologize for sending out misinformation about VAT when ordering pproducts from R&A. We have been misonformed by the customs department (this misinformation was today overruled by information from the tax department). Customers outside the European Community do not have to pay VAT. Customers inside the EU do, except: when they send us their VAT registration number (which implies that they will pay local VAT). Customers inside The Netherlands do pay VAT at all times. Dutch VAT is 17.5% Our sincere apologies for the misinformation. Contact: R&A Gerben Wierda Goudriaanstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands Fax/answering: +31 70 3230851 info@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
From: Andrew Stone <droid!andrew@cs.unm.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: WARNING: NS 3.2 and DataPhile 2.0 incompatibilities & workarounds Date: 24 Dec 1993 23:45:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2fgggt$ivc@digifix.digifix.com> DataPhile 2.0 has serious problems running on NEXTSTEP 3.2. Since DataPhile 2.0 shipped before NS 3.2, this was totally unpredictable. Even the person who made the change to the IXKIT was unaware of its adverse effects on ALL applications dependent upon the indexing kit. Stone Design and Pangea have isolated the main problem that is responsible for corrupting databases and destroying views. Basically any view or text field or entry list larger than 8K in size will trigger the bug. NeXT is aware of the problem, knows that it is theirs, and we await their fix. In the meantime, we have made available a patch program, PatchDP, for DataPhile 2.0 that allows it to use the 3.1 shared libraries rather than the ones in 3.2. This circumvents most of the problems, but we would still encourage you to take precautions, such as exporting regularly and often, until DataPhile 2.1 is released Q1 94. If you decide to use DP2.0 unpatched on NS3.2, review your databases for the potential problem areas mentioned above before logging out. In particular, the large Cities entry list provided in your DataPhileAux.pkg should not be used. Also, follow the instructions for fixing finds in SEARCHING_DP. Basically, we recommend that you should either wait to upgrade to NS 3.2, or patch DP 2.0. The PatchDP program is available on the Internet at the following ftp site: ftp.cs.unm.edu, in directory pub/stone/DataPhile/NS_3.2-DataPhile_Workarounds.tar.Z sum NS_3.2-DataPhile_Workarounds.tar.Z 28557 65 If you cannot ftp, send email to info@stone.com with the subject "Send Patch - ASCII" or "Send Patch - NeXTMAIL" We are on holiday until January 3, 1994; but we will fill requests for the patch during the holidays. May '94 be Happy and Bug Free! Andrew Stone (505) 345-4800 andrew@stone.com Stone Design Corp
From: Darren Smith <Darren_Smith@NeXT.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP Developer Conference Update Date: 25 Dec 1993 00:25:12 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2fgiro$j51@digifix.digifix.com> For a brochure or information about specific sessions, please contact DCI at (800) 767-2336. Reference Priority Customer Number: AWCER00 ______________________________________________________ THE SUBJECT IS OBJECTS NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference Sheraton Washington, Washington D.C. January 24 - 26, 1994 The first annual NEXTSTEP East Coast Developer Conference is your opportunity to experience object-oriented computing with NEXTSTEP, the product that Byte magazine has called the most respected piece of software on the planet. The Conference spans three days combining two full days of technical sessions with one day of NEXTSTEP Tutorials. Designed for software developers, information systems management, systems integrators, VAR's, and independent software vendors, this is the premier East Coast event to learn more about object-oriented technology and the development of mission-critical custom applications with NEXTSTEP. This East Coast event is a natural complement to the West Coast Developer Conference, to be held concurrently with NeXTWORLD Expo in June. If objects are in your future, you won't want to miss this important event. We look forward to seeing you. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Steve Jobs Chairman and CEO NeXT Computer, Inc. Steve Jobs will demonstrate how object-oriented NEXTSTEP can revolutionize the development of mission-critical custom applications today. Paul Strassmann Former Director of Defense Information U.S. Government Paul Strassmann discusses the current transition of software creation, from a hand-crafted art form to a product assembled out of standard components. CONFERENCE SESSIONS The Conferences four tracks focus on both business and technical aspects of NEXTSTEP application development. Each track provides a different perspective on understanding and working with NEXTSTEP. Take a closer look at object kits and distributed objects. Or follow the track designed specifically to give managers an overview of the technical services and development opportunities offered with NEXTSTEP. Another track focuses on hardware platforms, system administration and configuration issues for the systems engineer. To benefit most from the breadth of topics offered at the Conference, we encourage you to review and attend sessions from several tracks. The mid-day break is reserved for informal Birds-of-a-Feather sessions about topics of special interest to developers or to visit with a variety of NEXTSTEP partners showcasing their products and solutions. Developers may reserve a time slot to conduct a Birds-of-a-Feather session of their choice by sending e-mail to bof@next.com with information about the topic and moderator. GENERAL SESSIONS The general sessions are in-depth looks at broad, important programming topics debugging and performance tuning. These will be opportunities to learn skills that will immediately affect your development efforts and your results. The Zen of Debugging Julie Zelenski, Lecturer, Stanford University and Developer Support Engineer, NeXT Computer, Inc. This session was clearly the most popular and talked-about session from the 1993 Developer Conference. Julie shares her bag of tricks and hints for debugging in the NEXTSTEP development environment. This is the place to come to fill out your repertoire of debugging methods. Useful and little used features of GDB are exposed, an example of how to inspect the stack frame is shown, and a rundown of the runtime system is made, along with discussions of many other topics. You will definitely learn new techniques in this challenging and extremely informative session. Getting More Speed Out of Your Application Trey Matteson, Manager, Application Kit Group NeXT Computer, Inc. This session discusses a wide range of methods for measuring and improving the performance of your application. Topics include memory allocation strategies, code reordering, Window Server memory usage, drawing speed, reducing launch times, and implications of NEXTSTEP's expanding hardware base. NEXTSTEP TUTORIALS The Conference opens with a day of optional tutorials to help attendees prepare for the Conference sessions. Attendees new to NEXTSTEP will want to take the one day introduction to the user and developer systems, covered in the NEXTSTEP Immersion track. Others who have already done some NEXTSTEP development might be interested in learning more about a different area of the system. Sessions in the second track, NEXTSTEP Developer, provide a chance to get a head start on two popular subjects Object-Oriented Design and the Database Kit. All tutorials are instructed by NeXT Training staff and are in lecture format. HANDS-ON WITH NEXTSTEP If you're new to NEXTSTEP, this is your chance to learn the basics. You can sign up to spend some time with an expert on the subject of your choice. Visit NeXT's hospitality suite and meet with NeXT's training staff who will provide instruction (one-on-one) for both end users and developers. User tutorials are scheduled throughout the two days of the Conference to introduce new users to NEXTSTEP and to provide guidance on navigating the workspace, working with applications, and using NEXTSTEP features. Developer tutorials provide two learning opportunities: hands-on instruction in boot camp issues as well as one-on-one time with a NeXT expert on specific development topics. NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER BUNDLE For just $995, Conference attendees are eligible to purchase a special developer bundle including: - NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 User (for Intel) and Developer products - One single-user license of Borland's InterBase SQL database server. - DBKit InterBase Adapter. This is a $5,000 savings. Limited to one per Conference attendee, must be present to receive bundle. REGISTRATION INFORMATION To Register: (Please reference Priority Customer Number AWCER00) Call 800-767-2336 24 hours a day (U.S. and Canada only) For International Registration Call 508/470-3880 DCI 204 Andover Street Andover, MA 01810 Conference Registration Fee (4076) $595 January 25-26, 1994 Conference Registration Fee with Product Bundle (4076N) $1,590 January 25-26, 1994 (plus shipping and handling) Product Bundle price includes Conference registration plus NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 User and Developer products, Borland's InterBase SQL database server, and the DBKit Adapter for InterBase, a $5,000 savings! Tutorial Registration Fee January 24, 1994 $200 per Tutorial $300 per Tutorial (non-conference attendees) CONFERENCE HOURS Monday, January 24 9:30a.m. - 4:30p.m. Tuesday, January 25 9:00a.m.- 6:00p.m. Wednesday, January 26 9:00a.m. - 6:00p.m. Hope to see you there!
From: "WSI Nationwide" <p00370@psilink.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: JOB: NEXTSTEP - 20 positions available -all levels,NYC/NJ/CT Date: 25 Dec 1993 23:20:00 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2fj3dg$n9n@digifix.digifix.com> I have been asked to find 20 independent consultants or employees with Nextstep experience for major development projects with one of the best teams in the North East. The contracts are long term at attractive rates/salaries with an industry leader, doubling it's current Next qouta to staff some of the largest Next projects worldwide as well as their own Nextstep development data center in NYC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All WSI projects are on-site at the location specified. Qualified candidates must have at least 3 years experience - after - graduation, with a company in the USA --- not a school --- working on business systems and must be a US citizen or not require sponsorship, thanks. If you know someone whose skills are close, Email an ascii resume here, fax to 212-534-3724 or call 212-410-1400. - Jay L. (To insure formatting & print quality, please also mail a copy to me at WSI, 1619 Third Avenue, Box #6415, NY, NY 10128-0004) When resumes are received, the candidate is contacted if there is a match, the situation is thoroughly described and the candidate tells us how they would like us to proceed. No information leaves our office without prior approval. (This makes for long term relationships, which we encourage) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WSI is a "specialty" recruiting organization with over twenty years experience and fees paid by our selected client companies, freeing our hands to find top level candidates for "better" projects all over the USA.
From: Thierry Charles <thierry@seldon.fdn.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: ReportBuilder/ReportEngine 0.91 DEMO Date: 27 Dec 1993 00:10:17 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2flqnp$st@digifix.digifix.com> ReportBuilder 0.91 and ReportEngine 0.91 in beta demo release submitted to those following ftp sites: cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/ nova.cc.purdue.edu /pub/next/submissions/ sonata.cc.purdue.edu /pub/next/submissions/ ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de /pub/NeXT/incoming/ The files are: RB-RE-0.91b-ReadMe RB-RE-0.91b.compressed ReportBuilder and ReportEngine are in MAB. These appplications are for developers and/or end-users. ReportBuilder is a graphic generator for client/server applications report printing. It can be either a developer tool, used to create reports that will be included in applications, or an end-user application used to generate reports and statistics on existing databases. End-user can also use ReportBuilder to customize standard delivered reports originally designed by software developers. Reports generated with ReportBuilder can be executed by a run-time: ReportEngine. ReportEngine can be launched by any application via a system call (command line). Parameters passed to ReportEngine allow a lot of modifications on report behaviour. You can modify database server, database login and password, you can specify which data will be printed, if a Print Panel must be displayed, if the report must be printed in reverse or normal order. You can also print reports from ReportBuilder for testing (automatically calling ReportEngine). These demonstrations apps will be on the European CD edition. For more informations: SNRI Soft Jean-Michel CAZAUX Zone EURO 2000 - Batiment C Avenue de la Vistrenque 30132 CAISSARGUES - FRANCE (33) 66 29 77 28 phone (33) 66 29 73 45 fax E-Mail/NeXT-Mail: infos@impala.seldon.fdn.org or WarpSoft (NeXT Registered Developer #2138) Thierry CHARLES 32 Rue de Porto - Cite Mion 34000 Montpellier - FRANCE (33) 67 22 48 66 phone (33) 67 22 47 29 fax E-Mail/NeXT-Mail: infos@seldon.fdn.org
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 52 - 1993 Date: 27 Dec 1993 00:11:14 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2flqpi$t9@digifix.digifix.com> Comp.sys.next.announce postings for the last week (week 52). Tuesday December 21 through Monday December 27 SUMMARY: csn.announce Week 51 - 1993 Submission Guidelines Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet SUBMISSION: Demo of DOTS (non postscript printing from NeXT) available PRESS RELEASE: Objective Technologies Ships OTStringKit for all NEXTSTEP platforms SUBMISSION: Updated, FAT version of Monitor.app SUBMISSION: SoundBlaster Driver V1.04 for NS/I PRESS RELEASE: R&A VAT Correction WARNING: NS 3.2 and DataPhile 2.0 incompatibilities & workarounds NEXTSTEP Developer Conference Update JOB: NEXTSTEP - 20 positions available -all levels,NYC/NJ/CT SUBMISSION: ReportBuilder/ReportEngine 0.91 DEMO If your submission is not listed above, please contact me at next-announce-request@digifix.com so we can see what happened. If you missed an announcement, I can next-mail it to you. I will also be packaging these up and uploading them to cs.orst.edu when I get a chance. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com Information/suggestions to next-announce-request@digifix.com Please send submissions as non-next mail. This makes the approval process much easier as much of it is done by a NEXTSTEP front end, and I don't want to have to reformat messages as I have in the past done them a dis-service. Scott Anguish
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: Submission Guidelines Date: 27 Dec 1993 00:13:11 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2flqt7$tf@digifix.digifix.com> Goal: To be the primary location for the release of all official information from Next, third party developers, user-groups and Next trade shows. This is a big job, and it will require the cooperation of submitters and readers alike. I will strive to post announcements within a 24 hour period of receiving them. There is an auto-reply daemon set up that will inform you of the receipt of your message. Guidelines Try to keep submissions short and concise (80-100 lines max). Include full instructions on contacting you (where applicable) All Postings e-mail address telephone (optional) Press Release toll-free voice phone toll-free fax voice phone fax phone mailing address info@blahblah.com retail price educational price availability Software available ftp site full path to file supported CPU's for binary distributions OS version requirements Meeting Announcements location of meeting time of meeting speakers expected .sig files will be deleted automatically, so please don't rely on your .sig for the contact information Please double check all information you are posting for accuracy. If you are announcing software available by FTP, make sure the copy on the archive site is good. Announcements of sales or specials not appropriate for comp.sys.next.announce. If you are unsure about a submission, ask. Press releases are more effective if there is more technical information and less marketing fluff. Many times an announcement should coincide with a specific date, for example the starting of NextWorld Expo. Unfortunately, that can be the worst time for you to get access to your internet connection to send the announcements to comp.sys.next.announce. In order to make comp.sys.next.announce as timely as possible, I will accept "post-dated" announcements for release on a specific future date. All information will be kept confidential until the requested release date, and NDAs will be signed where required to ensure this. Hopefully this will make these announcements arrive at users sites as quickly as if you posted them directly to comp.sys.next.whatever. Submissions can be sent to next-announce@digifix.com. Questions and comments to next-announce-request@digifix.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet Date: 27 Dec 1993 00:13:44 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2flqu8$tl@digifix.digifix.com> This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information Topics include: comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers comp.sys.next.* newsgroups -------------------------- Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. Comp.Sys.Next.Announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well. This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. Comp.Sys.Next.Misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. Comp.Sys.Next.Software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. related Newsgroups ------------------ Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. Comp.Lang.Objective-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. Comp.Object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News ------------------------------------------- Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep-d next-advocacy-d next-announce-d next-bugs-d next-hardware-d next-marketplace-d next-misc-d next-programmer-d next-software-d next-sysadmin-d (For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to <digestif@antigone.com>). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's. To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying: SUB Listname YourName Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe The ftp sites ------------- cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany. ftp.next.com: See the below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ------------------------------------- From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by anonymous ftp. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. 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If you have problems using this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com. Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: EnhancedYap.app (and source) on cs.orst.edu Date: 27 Dec 1993 00:58:20 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Message-ID: <2flths$17p@digifix.digifix.com> I love Yap. Besides its all I've got. I have gotten used to some of the Emacs bindings, and I'm always wanting to just execute some Postscript code without having to copy it, find Yap, launch it, paste it in... blah blah blah. The stock Yap doesn't allow this. Since the Yap source is available... I made some small changes... - added the EmacsText object from the MiniExample TextORama (available from ftp.next.com:/pub/NeXTanswers - added a Services command, so you can open the selection in another program in Yap easily - added some 'file types' to the attributes, so you have the option of .eps .ps or .font files opening in Yap instead of some other program. There is still lots I'd like to do, but this is how far I've gotten. Time is a very precious resource. - be able to print the YapOutput window - be able to save the YapOutput window as a TIFF file - step though the Postscript code one line at a time - display the stack, any output values from the Postscript - stick Izumi's BBFig changes into this version However, if you have done any of this, or want to do any of it, feel free to send me your changes! I'll include them with mine. cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/EnhancedYap.app.FAT.tar.gz cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/EnhancedYap.README cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/EnhancedYap.Source.tar.gz Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com Digital Fix Development
From: Todd Steigerwald <todd@alembic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: New NEXTSTEP Vendors added to Alembic Date: 27 Dec 1993 23:09:12 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2fobh8$56q@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sales Division Alembic Systems International Ltd. 14 Inverness Dr. East G-228 Englewood CO 80112 (303) 799-6223 (303) 799-1709 800 452-7608 e-mail:info@alembic.com NEW NEXTSTEP 3rd PARTY SOFTWARE VENDORS AND RESELLERS ADDED TO THE ALEMBIC TEAM. Englewood COLORADO, December 22, 1993 - (ASI) Alembic Systems Intl. Ltd. today announced their new NEXTSTEP 3rd party software additions for the month of December. Alembic currently distributes over 150 NEXTSTEP based software/hardware products worldwide directly as well as through a variety of channels, including resellers, and distributors. Alembic is based in the United States, with branch offices in the United Kingdom. ______________________________ NEW ALEMBIC RESELLERS We wish to welcome the most recent additions to the Alembic list of international partners: - Link'Age in Clermont, France. - Alpine Computing Inc. in Logan, UT. - DCS Systems Inc. in Calgary, Canada. - Officenest in Ipswich, MA. ______________________________ NEW SOFTWARE AT ALEMBIC (December) - Pixel Magician - Pixel Magician converts to and from all the popular image file formats TIFF, GIF, PICT, PCX, Photo CD, DCX, RIB, JPEG, TARGA, PS, EPS, Windows BMP, Sun Raster< Fax, IFF/ILBM, MacPaint, XBM, XWD and MTV. Use the automated capabilities of the convert window to view, scale, rotate, quantized and convert an entire directory of image files with a single mouse click. - Mathematica- is the premier equation modelling and 3D image builder used throughout higher education and scientific communities. Now available on 486 platforms. - Image Agent - An application that allows drag-and-drop non-native image files directly into NEXTSTEP applications. (Included with Pixel Magician) - AquaNet - Created specifically for the design, analysis and management of pressurized pipe networks. The software is capable of providing analysis and simulation of both the hydraulic and water quality aspects of a pipe network. - FTI SWMM - One of the best tools available for planning, design, analysis and management of urban storm-water runoff systems. FTISWMM simulates real storm events on the basis of rainfall and other meteorological inputs and systems characterizations (i.e. catchment, conveyance, storage and treatment) to predict outcomes in the form of quantity and quality values. - FTI DOE - Is one of the most comprehensive tools for performing the complex process of dynamic energy analysis. The software enables architects and engineers to perform a comprehensive analysis of dynamic heating and cooling loads, simulation of heating and cooling distribution systems, modeling of equipment supplying the required energy, and calculation of the life-cycle costs of owning and operating energy systems for buildings. - MetroTools- is the premier utilities package for NEXTSTEP computers. It includes the most requested utilities in one inexpensive and easy-to-use bundle. It will extend your dock, save and lock your screen, convert and install fonts and sounds. It will help you find your files and allow you to quickly compress, examine and decompress file archives. MetroTools works cooperatively with the Workspace Manager so that you can drag icons from the Workspace and drop them into the MetroTools well. - Wet Paint- WetPaint is an extensible image editing and processing application that was designed to present powerful features in an easy-to-use application and to be extensible. By including its tools and filters as NEXTSTEP "bundles," and using a feature of NEXTSTEP known as "dynamic loading," Wet Paint is a modular, extensible application. You can choose which tools or filters you wish to load (including Compose In Color filters) and can add new tools and filters simply by adding your bundles to Wet Paint. There is even a "Toolkit" that shows programmers how to create their own tools and filters. ________________________________________________ ASI and Alembic are registered trademarks of Alembic Systems International Ltd. All other names/trademarks are properties of their respectful owners.
From: mishelle@thoughtful.com (Mishelle Baun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: HyperSense Multi-Purpose Authoring Tool Demo available Date: 27 Dec 1993 23:29:16 -0500 Organization: Next Announcements Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2focms$58p@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Information contact: Mishelle McClure Baun 303/221-4596 fax: 303/221-0841 NeXTMAIL: info@thoughtful.com HyperSense Multi-Purpose Authoring Tool is Available by FTP Fort Collins, Colorado-December 27, 1993-Thoughtful Software announced today that a version of its HyperSense multi-purpose authoring software is now available via anonymous ftp. The unregistered software will run in demo mode, which provides full program functionality except for the ability to save documents. It may be registered by contacting Thoughtful Software. Two files have been submitted to the NeXT archive site at cs.orst.edu in the submissions directory: cs.orst.edu: /pub/next/submisions/HyperSense1.00B09b.tar cs.orst.edu: /pub/next/submisions/HyperSense1.00B09b.README.rtf HyperSense has many uses in both professional and personal settings. It is ideal for creating multimedia documents and applications, such as corporate training programs, medical imaging databases, interactive tutorials, and flexible personal databases. The package submitted to the archive site includes support for both Intel and Motorola versions of NEXTSTEP, on-line documentation and a variety of sample documents to illustrate some of the possible uses of the program. HyperSense is a versatile and easy-to-use tool featuring a rich document architecture and an easily understood English-like scripting language. With HyperCard compatibility, users have the ability to import and modify "stackware" developed on the Macintosh. HyperSense goes beyond the capabilities of HyperCard and other authoring environments, offering many innovative new features. Multiple layers of objects on each page, drag-and-drop document construction, and direct support for accessing the serial ports are just a few of the advanced capabilities included in the program. HyperSense has been well received by early adopters, who have found its ease of use and powerful scripting capabilities make it well-suited to a variety of tasks. "I must say that of all the authoring packages we've looked at for the NeXT, HyperSense really comes out far ahead of the rest," commented Celia Duffy of Glasgow University Music Department. "We're really impressed with it." The SenseTalk scripting language gives users the ability to add interactivity to documents without learning a complex programming language. SenseTalk is very English like, making scripts easy to read and write. "I'm so glad to have a hypermedia application that I can use to develop without programming," said Dr. Judith Graves, who used HyperSense for developing a multimedia "database" of nurse scholars for the International Library of Nursing. Advanced users and programmers will find SenseTalk to be a full-featured and powerful language, which can be extended with user-written commands and functions. HyperSense is currently shipping in a pre-release version, which is offered at an introductory price of $299. This price is good until version 1.0 ships, at which time the price will be $499. Purchasers of the pre-release version will receive HyperSense 1.0 when it ships, and are entitled to any other upgrades released within one year. Educational and quantity discounts are available. Thoughtful Software is a privately-held software firm based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Since 1989 Thoughtful Software has been dedicated to developing high-quality end-user productivity tools for NEXTSTEP users. -30- HyperSense is a registered trademark and SenseTalk is a trademark of Thoughtful Software. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. HyperCard and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.